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TAMPA, Fla. — Even as Mitt Romney sought to quash the furor surrounding Todd Akin's "legitimate" rape comments, the Republican platform committee here approved an abortion plank that includes no exemptions for rape, incest or even to save the life of the mother.
The platform committee instead approved draft language Tuesday, calling for a "Human Life Amendment" that gives legal protection to the unborn. Democrats quickly labeled the GOP language the "Akin Plank," referring to the Missouri Senate candidate's statements that victims of " legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant.
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On Tuesday, not one of the 100-plus members on the GOP platform committee introduced amendments. They kept the identical language from 2004 and 2008.
"I appreciate the good work that that committee did — in past platforms that has been hours of discussion — and I applaud the committee's work in affirming our respect for human life," said Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, the chairman of the platform committee. "Well done."
The full committee later passed a measure opposing the FDA approval of drugs like RU-486, which North Carolina representative Mary Summa called "an abortion pill." The platform would now effectively prevent the sale of "any drug that terminates life after conception."
Not everyone liked the idea.
"In light of the recent comments by Congressman Todd Akin," said Alabama platform representative Jacqueline Curtiss, "and in an attempt to reaffirm to the American people the party's sensitivity on the subject of rape, I believe that we should not support an amendment which opposes approval of a method that has been proven effective in preventing the pregnancy of rape victims."
She wound up on the losing end of the vote. It was the only time Akin was mentioned by name during two days of platform committee meetings.
The full platform committee also voted to reinstate support for abstinence-only education, after a subcommittee had removed it Monday.
The abortion language approved Tuesday endorses legislation that would say the 14th Amendment applies after conception and that would oppose using public funds to pay for abortions. It urges Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act of 2002 by adding civil and criminal penalties for doctors who don't adequately care for newborn babies. It supports a ban on sex-selective abortions. It also calls for mandatory waiting periods and parental consent requirements.


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Lakeville North players celebrate after beating intracity rival Lakeville South for the Section 1AA championship. Photo by Alex Olson
Nick Poehling and Jack Diercks each scored twice and Erik Rutt has three assists as top-seeded Lakeville North eased past No. 3 seed Lakeville South 6-3 in the Section 1AA championship on Thursday, Feb. 28 at the Rochester Rec Center.
As has become the custom in recent years, Lakeville's two public high schools -- located two miles apart -- met on neutral ice 67 miles to the south to determine which would reach the state Class 2A tournament.
Last year when these two teams met in the Section 1AA championship, Mr. Hockey Justin Kloos' four points helped South ease into the state tournament with a 7-1 win.
Poehling's four-point performance allowed the Panthers (11-16-1) to settle the score.
"We were just trying to get in front of the net and chip some pucks," said Poehling, who tipped two shots from defenseman Eric Rutt past Lakeville South goaltender Tyler Schumacher.
Rutt had three assists, with Jack Diercks tipping yet another Rutt point shot in for a goal.
"He's obviously our top defender, he's a skilled guy," North coach Trent Eigner said about Rutt. "We talked all week about our defensemen getting shots through. Getting traffic to the net and pucks through to create rebound opportunities, and fortunately tonight they were there."
Jack Diercks other goal came on a 3-on-1 with assists from Nick Poehling and his twin brother Jack Poehling.
"Me and the Poehlings have great chemistry," Diercks said. "We work well together."
The teams split their regular season series. South (11-17-0) won the first game 5-1, and North won the second 7-2. There's also special ties between North and South seniors as they all play on on the same showcase team in the summer.
"We've played with and against each other since we were mites," Diercks said.
In the second period, South's Weston Baumann scored into the upper left corner while falling to the ice. The goal cut the Panthers' lead to 4-2, but the Cougars were unable to come any closer.
Goals from Blake Rutt and Matt Ostdiek allowed North to pull away in the third.
Goaltending was a big factor, with both teams enjoying several odd-man rushes. Both North's Will DuPont and South's Tyler Schumacher made stellar saves throughout. Dupont finished with 33 saves, Schumacher had 19.
"It's always fun to play against them," Diercks said.
1. Nick Poehling, Lakeville North
The sophomore twice was able to crash the net at the right moments, getting touches on Erik Rutt's point shots. A textbook 3-on-1 play with senior Jack Diercks and Poehling's twin brother, Jack showcased the line's chemistry.
2. Erik Rutt, Lakeville North
The senior defenseman knew what he was doing with the puck, and he finished with three assists. His was part of the great puck movement on the power play that led to Poehling's tip for his first goal. Rutt had good judgement on when to pinch.
3. Jack Diercks, Lakeville North
Diercks scored on a tip and a one-timer, and the goals came 1:32 apart in the second period.
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Sen. Arlen Specter says critics of the Democrats' health care proposals are not representative of the public's view on the issue.
The Pennsylvania Democrat has faced tough town hall audiences in his home state. And, according to him, people who are angry at town hall meetings don't reflect the broader public opinion of the proposed overhaul.
Specter has been aggressively battling opposition to health care reform, even taking up the fight on his Twitter account, SenArlenSpecter.
During his appearance Sunday on ABC's "This Week," "Snarlin' Arlen" found himself on the defensive with Utah GOPSen. Orrin Hatch, who says the crowds are representative of people "up in arms" over the plan.
According to Hatch, the outrage is genuine.
Hatch also says the Democratic National Committee and organized labor are also sending supporters to town halls to challenge Republicans.


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Republicans eager to get the word out -- en espanol
WASHINGTON -- Wadi Gaitan, a 24-year-old House Republican staffer who serves as a Spanish-speaking spokesman, TV booker and occasional tutor, was stumped. He was trying to teach a Republican lawmaker how to say "sequester" in Spanish, but the literal translation was proving to be problematic.
"That one was tricky at first; I couldn't figure it out, because in Spanish, 'secuestrar' literally means to kidnap someone," Gaitan said. "I said, let's not use the literal translation, because we don't want to say that we're kidnapping people, or that President Obama is kidnapping people."
Probably a good call. Now Republicans say "recortes automaticos" -- literally, automatic cuts.
The proper way to say sequester -- and debt ceiling, border security and other key phrases -- has become a pressing concern for many Republicans, who worry that they are increasingly unable to make their case on the issues to the nation's fast-growing Latino bloc simply because they are unable to speak their language.
It's such a critical concern that House Republican leaders at the beginning of the year ordered an overhaul of their messaging operation, urging members to appear in liberal news outlets and, as often as possible, on Spanish television.
"We've been absent from the conversation with Hispanic media for so long, anything can set back that progress we've made in the last eight months, so we are aggressive, just like we are in mainstream media," said Nate Hodson, spokesman for the House Republican Conference, the messaging arm of House GOP lawmakers.
Hodson recalled holding a meeting recently with the conference chairman, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and a longtime Spanish-language TV reporter. When it ended, "I said, thanks for coming," Hodson said. "And [the reporter's] statement to me was basically, 'It's about time.' "
GOP leaders also announced last week a "Rising Stars" program to highlight younger conservative activists and politicians. The first wave includes a black state lawmaker from Oklahoma and a Hispanic state lawmaker from New Hampshire. The project is in response to a report issued by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus that explored how the party could attract more Hispanic support after 71 percent of Latino voters backed Obama last year.
The efforts also come at a time when Spanish television is peaking in popularity and fast becoming a rival to the more established networks.
Univision, the nation's largest Spanish broadcaster, has been more popular than ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC several weeks this summer among viewers ages 18 to 34, a coveted demographic. Overall, 68 percent of Hispanics get at least some of their news in Spanish, less than previous years but still high, according to a recent survey by the Pew Hispanic Center. In several of the nation's largest cities, Univision's nightly national newscast is more popular than some of its English-language rivals.
The hottest topic on Spanish TV is immigration, but Republicans are hoping that they can appear more frequently on Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Espanol and Spanish radio stations to also discuss budget cuts, health care and the economy -- issues that they believe can draw new Hispanic support.
In order to do so, Republicans are learning that the proper Spanish terminology for debt ceiling is "tope de la deuda," or top of the debt. Border security translates to "seguridad fronteriza." Many of the Republicans willing to deliver the GOP message are newer faces such as Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., a freshman lawmaker who can speak the language well enough to do live interviews.
"I want to share the message that we as Republicans are inclusive, we're not anti-immigrant, and we want to share a message that we have to do something given the current situation that we're in," Radel said in an interview. "So any chance that I get to spread the conservative message on Spanish-speaking television I'm happy to do it."
A self-described "gringo who grew up in Cincinnati," Radel learned Spanish while backpacking through Mexico after college. He picked up his "street Spanish" over beers with strangers and mastered the pronunciation and accent.
In Washington, "I've had to study a lot more to learn words like border security, debt and deficit," he said. "Those are a little more complex, but I've had a lot of help."
Anytime Radel is asked to appear on a Spanish-language television program, he calls Gaitan, who grew up in Maryland and is the son of Honduran immigrants. He's part of a seven-person press office with the GOP Conference that works out of a suite of offices in the Cannon House Office Building, recently redesigned to resemble a West Coast tech start-up. Gaitan sends out Spanish-language news releases, keeps in touch with Spanish-language TV producers to pitch potential guests and topics, and meets regularly with lawmakers who want to practice their Spanish.
Radel and other Republicans, including Reps. Mick Mulvaney, S.C., and Jeff Denham, Calif., are working on their Spanish to complement the party's few Spanish-speaking Hispanic lawmakers such as Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Fla., and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Fla., and Sen. Marco Rubio, Fla.
Democrats have long dominated the Spanish-language airwaves thanks to a long bench of Hispanic politicians, including Rep. Xavier Becerra, Calif., the fourth-ranking House Democrat; Reps. Loretta Sanchez, Calif., and Luis Gutierrez, Ill.; Sen. Robert Menendez, N.J.; and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
Democratic political operatives suggest that the GOP will have to do much more than offer new faces to make their case on Spanish television.
"On paper it's the right approach for communicating better with this group, but it doesn't eliminate the central dynamic of the party," said Fernand Amandi, managing partner of Bendixen & Amandi International, a Democratic political and polling firm that has worked with several Hispanic Democrats. "Three-quarters of Hispanics say that the [Republican] party doesn't represent their perspective and in many ways they feel ignored and antagonized. Until they can address that problem . . . it's going to be difficult for them to seduce Hispanics on other subjects."
But members of Washington's Spanish-language press corps said they appreciate the renewed attention.
"It's been refreshing for them to reach out," said Fernando Pizarro, a Washington correspondent for about 60 Univision affiliates across the country. "Republicans have tried to do this in the past, but we were getting pretty much our old, regular Republican Latino regulars. They're going beyond the usual suspects . . . and they're being persistent."
Pizarro said the change was evident in January when he began meeting incoming freshmen lawmakers. Several of them eagerly offered business cards and said they wanted to speak with him often.
That's a welcome change for Pizarro and the other Spanish-speaking TV reporters who traverse Capitol Hill daily for new angles on stories, especially regarding immigration. English-language newscasts might go days without discussing the topic, but Latino audiences are eager to absorb every morsel of the months-long debate.
"Every time we have an editorial meeting for our Sunday show or daily newscast we always discuss a possible immigration story. Always, always, always," said Jorge Ramos, co-anchor of Univision's nightly newscast "Noticiero Univision," and the host of the network's Sunday political show "Al Punto" ("To the Point").
The increased attention is especially notable on Sunday mornings. Ramos hosts "Al Punto" from Miami, while Jose Diaz-Balart hosts the Telemundo program "Enfoque" ("Focus"). Diaz-Balart is the brother of the Florida congressman and also co-anchors Telemundo's nightly newscast "Noticiero Telemundo."
Both shows trail English-language leaders "Face the Nation" on CBS and "Meet the Press" on NBC, but the English-language shows have dipped in recent weeks, and "Al Punto" occasionally tops "Fox News Sunday" among 25- to 54-year-olds, the demographic most coveted by news advertisers.
Those ratings gains are leading to better guest bookings. On one recent weekend, Ramos conducted interviews with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Rubio -- a lineup that any English-language show would covet. Ramos and Diaz-Balart also quizzed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who is considered a critical voice among Latinos tracking the immigration debate.
Radel recently appeared on Diaz-Balart's Sunday show, saying he was concerned with the Senate immigration bill and favored the step-by-step approach adopted by House leaders. As the interview concluded, Diaz-Balart told Radel that he appreciated his flawless Spanish, especially since the congressman is "mas gringo que apple pie."
The congressman is a former TV news reporter, so television comes naturally no matter the language. But he knew that the Spanish-language exposure was paying off during a recent visit to a supermarket in his southwest Florida district, where a woman approached him and told him in Spanish how happy she was to see him discussing immigration on Univision.
"If we don't go out there and talk -- I don't care if it's in English or Spanish -- we'll lose," Radel said. "We as Republicans need to expand our portfolio; we cannot simply talk to conservative news outlets or AM radio. We need to expand beyond that and when we do, I think it resonates."


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One of the most amazing and maddening things about Gov. Schwarzenegger is his ability to win even when he's losing.
Take the union protests against his new movie, The Expendables. The unions are rightly angry about the governor's attempts to impose new furloughs on their members -- even over the opposition of judges -- so they're asking people not to see the movie this weekend. But by protesting the governor's new movie, they're probably helping him.
How's that? Marketers of Hollywood movies are desperate to get attention for their films -- particularly in parts of newscasts and newspapers where films often aren't mentioned. When the studios do public polling, the key statistic is how many people are aware of a movie. Building audience awareness of a coming film is crucial to getting people to see it.
So the burst of publicity that the protests have received, including a story in yesterday's New York Times, are good for the film, and good for Schwarzenegger. For one thing, since Schwarzenegger's appearance in uncredited, the unions are helping Arnold movie fans know that he's in the picture.
The good news for the unions: They're also getting attention for their own views. So this is something of a win-win. Synergy.
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Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 3 Division of Mechanical Devices IF the mechanical devices for making office records were taken off the market it would be a serious calamity. To obtain present-day records using pen-and- ink. methods would be about as practicable as manufacturing without steam, electricity, and machinery. There are many office devices being successfully used. They never tire. They work with as much speed and accuracy at 6 P.M. as at 8 A. M. With their aid the operator does more work. They provide legibility and convenience for those using the records. Through the skill of the sys-tematizer more work is daily being applied to them. No modern method can be installed without their use. They have established their worth. They are indispensable. Our clients, financiers, manufacturers, and office managers have proved their confidence in them. Their uses are of vital interest to the public accountant. We need this knowledge in our work. Mr. Track is obtaining it, as is indicated by the following discussion. Taking office appliances generally, there are three elements to consider, viz., the operator, the machine, and the work applied. In order to gauge the value of the device in these respects each device examined is being submitted to the following tests: THE OPERATOR: Must she be skillful? Must she be especially trained? Must she have a knowledge of bookkeeping? What salary does she command? Can she be easily replaced? Is the office force so small that only she operates the machine? THE MACHINE: 1. Is it easy or tiresome to operate? 2. Is it portable? 3. Is it flexible enough to do a variety of work? 4. Is the active mechanism exposed or incased? 5. Is it easily put out of order? 6. What mechanical "fool proof" arrangements has it; or are none required? 7. How are errors corrected? 8. How many operations are required on the average item or calculations? 9. Can mechanical adjustments or repairs be made by mechanics other than those in the dealers' service? 10. How near is the service station? 11. Are supplies controlled or sold in the open market? 12. Is the machine as fast as the operator, or are there waits in operations? 13. Do special features or attachments retard or increase the speed of the machine, and how much? 14. What is the life of the machine, the salvage, and the cost per year? 15. To what extent does the manufacturer guarantee the machine? 16. Does the machine indicate results by individual operations, or are the intervening figures suspended until the final result is shown? 17. Is it a single keyboard machine? 18. Does it typewrite? 19. Does it add? 20. Does it subtract direct, or by use of complements? 21. Does it divide as by table or by use of reciprocals or complements? 22. Does it multiply as by table or by successive additions? 23. Does the machine print the totals, or are they copied and typed by the operator? The questions were not written in the sequence of importance, but were numbered
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Proenza Schouler's Spring 2012 collection cited Googie architecture as an influence and all the things that came with it: midcentury modern design and a little bit of kitsch. Specifically, the Proenza boys mentioned the Fontainebleu Hotel in Miami, which might explain the shag rug runway, zebra prints, and raffia. Ladylike silhouettes — fitted high-waist pencil skirts and structured jackets — kept the collection feeling polished and refined. There was plenty of color, print, and texture, like bold yellow, turquoise blue, tropical prints, raffia, to make the collection full of wearable, covetable pieces for Spring.
Trends: midcentury modernism, architectural themes, tropical prints.
Colors: bright yellow, turquoise blue, earth tones, orange.
Key Piece: eelskin skirts, any of the floral pieces.
Accessories: wood-platform, open-toe sandals.
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Howard Rosenthal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 247 diseños de 70 diseñadores freelance.
We are a photography company, targeting several boutiques to cooperatively produce single full-page ads for local magazines. This posting is for a sample ad that we will use to help sell the concept.
We are approaching and organizing local retailers to work insmall groups to promote their stores in a single ad. For example, a single ad may include a dress stores, shoe store,jewelry store and hair salon.
Any given ad will have a maximum of 4 advertisers.
We are looking for an ad design that we can use as a sample when we are selling the concept.
The job is to work 4 advertisers into a single ad with EQUAL promotion of each company
Sample photos (use one or several - your choice) can be downloaded as follows:
Go to http://www.HowardRosenthalPhotography.com
Click on the proofing menu option on the left hand column
Click on link to visit online proofing site
Select Gallery – 99 Designs Work Files (password 99designs)
Select a thumbnail to display full page photo
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- Equal Representation of Each Advertiser
- Use 4 Sample Stores (see below)
- High End, Upscale Looking for high end clientele
- Either use one FULL LENGTH photo from gallery or use 4 photos showcasing different parts of the bodies to represent hair, shoes, accessories and clothing
- Include store addresses and phone numbers as follows:
Taylor Rose - 123 School Street, Jericho, NY 516.555.1900
JustinTyme - 555 Main Street, Locust Valley, NY 516.555.2288
Woodbury Mane - 600 Wyndham Road, Woodbury, NY 516.555.8000
Chic Boutique - 88 Greenwich Street, Great Neck, NY 516.555.1515
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By REUEL MARC GERECHT// Since we don't know what Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, said at the recent confab in Istanbul, we can't be sure that Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu was right to dismiss the powwow as a "freebie" for Tehran. Also, the Islamic Republic is a theocracy: The most senior officials need to report face-to-face to their master. Jalili, an ill-tempered, narrow-minded, one-legged veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, lost face after a disastrous meeting in Geneva in October 2009, when he tentatively agreed to a nuclear-fuel swap, only to see the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, bat the deal down from Tehran. So no matter how well rehearsed, Jalili would need time for his boss to digest what was demanded and offered. In any case, as long as the Iranians were polite, we were going to have two meetings. And so there is another get-together scheduled for May 23 in Baghdad.
The odds are high, however, that the next session will lead to no diplomatic yellow-brick road. Round two could be a success, and lead to a round three, if Khamenei agreed to do five things: (1) Stop all uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity, which is near bomb-grade; (2) ship abroad the entire stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium; (3) close the Fordow enrichment facility, which is buried under a mountain near the clerical city of Qom; (4) allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency immediate and unfettered access to any suspected nuclear site; and (5) permit the IAEA to install devices on centrifuges for monitoring uranium-enrichment levels. Khamenei is, to say the least, unlikely to agree to this.
It's worth stressing that it is a serious mistake to allow Khamenei and his Revolutionary Guards, who oversee terrorist operations and the nuclear program, any domestic enrichment capacity. This was the position of the Obama administration and our Western European allies. Now that consensus has apparently collapsed because Iranian agreement seems impossible. Khamenei's determination to keep advancing uranium enrichment despite increasingly severe sanctions has paid off. Tehran has enough low-grade, 3.5 percent enriched uranium stockpiled to produce at least one, soon two, nuclear weapons. It also has a 163-pound stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium. As Oli Heinonen, the former deputy director general of the IAEA, has pointed out, mastering 3.5 percent enrichment is 70 percent of the way to mastering the fuel cycle for an atomic weapon. Twenty percent enrichment is 90 percent of the process.
As of February, Iranian centrifuges were producing 256 pounds per month of 3.5 percent enriched uranium and 15 pounds per month of 20 percent enriched uranium (the Fordow facility accounted for 9.5 pounds of this total). The Iranian regime had 8,800 centrifuges spinning at Natanz and 696 at Fordow. Once the Islamic Republic can produce 44 pounds of highly enriched uranium per month, which is not that far off given the increasing rate of production, the supreme leader and his guards can have a nuclear weapon in their hands in as little as 43 days, provided Iran's nuclear scientists have mastered the manufacture of a nuclear trigger (technically much less difficult than enrichment). Per the IAEA's most recent report, "information indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device." In other words, Khamenei will win his race for a nuclear weapon unless something dramatic intervenes to stop him.
The best that can be hoped from another round of negotiations with Tehran is that Khamenei is hooked into a process that enfeebles him. The cleric has consistently avoided any meaningful embrace of the negotiating process because he sees it as dangerous, a slippery slope where the Americans and Europeans dictate limitations on his nuclear program. Many American critics of negotiations have seen this process as the reverse, a slippery slope that has Western diplomacy enabling the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions. Khamenei may have the stronger argument. But he shows no sign of yielding to pressure.
There is certainly a risk that continuing these negotiations puts Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud Barak into a real pickle, since it's more difficult for the Israelis to make the case for bombing Iran's nuclear sites while the negotiations are going on. Nonetheless, the Israelis need to decide whether a preventive attack on the Islamic Republic can work. Their internal deliberations should not be constrained by a false promise of a diplomatic solution. Moving forward with negotiations now is actually more likely to free the Israelis to act in the summer, if they choose to, than to entrap them.
Americans, too, need to have an honest debate about whether they are willing to permit Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards—the principal state sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East, whom the Obama administration has increasingly nailed for their operational relationship with al Qaeda—to develop atomic weapons. It would be healthy for Democrats and Republicans to debate the Iranian conundrum, which is not going to happen as long as sanctions-backed diplomacy seems viable. We are fortunate that the nuclear timeline overlaps well with the 2012 presidential campaign: It's the ideal moment for a ripping discussion about probably the most momentous foreign-policy question before us.
The above five requirements—nearly identical to the reported minimum requirements of the White House—ought to clarify where we are on May 23. These conditions will be extremely difficult for Khamenei to accept because they are so humbling. Shuttering the Fordow facility, which Iran's state-controlled press has reported on with pride, would be gut-wrenching for the supreme leader. It's likely that Khamenei wants to build more Fordow-like facilities—bomb-resistant sites that signal spiritual resistance to the West. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's boast that Iran intends to open 10 more enrichment facilities no doubt was hyperbolic, but the sentiments clearly reflect Khamenei's disposition. Closing Fordow would offend the supreme leader's identity as the anti-American Islamic paladin.
Even more galling and dangerous, U.N. inspectors under this agreement would have the right to fan out across the country hunting for suspicious nuclear activity. The IAEA's Additional Protocols, to which Khamenei would have to assent, are intrusive and would allow inspectors access to Iranian military and Revolutionary Guard bases. No doubt, the supreme leader and his guards could still cheat (they have lied about the nuclear program from the beginning). Iran is a big country. Satellites and other technical means of observation can only do so much. The regime is surely working clandestinely to perfect more advanced centrifuges that could be hidden in smaller buildings and underground facilities.
Nevertheless, the odds are decent that these inspectors would catch the regime in its big lie about the "peaceful" intent of the program. Nuclear experts have some idea where the Iranians have been militarizing their nuclear "research." Even so, an astonishing number of intelligent people in America and Europe appear to believe that Khamenei's fatwa about the "sinfulness" of nuclear weapons is significant, that it isn't just ketman, deception deployed against a stronger enemy. Exposing Khamenei's flagrant mendacity, for both Iranians and foreigners, is not without value and would again refocus the discussion on the real question: Is it acceptable for Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards to have nuclear weapons?
But what if the Iranians accept all of the demands? Could we still be staring at an Iranian nuke, just delivered at a slower pace? It's possible. If Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former major-domo of Iranian clerical politics and the true father of the Islamic Republic's nuclear-weapons program, were still in charge, we'd likely be enmeshed in the rope-a-dope tactics that he successfully used against the trade-happy Europeans in the 1990s. Rafsanjani has always advocated the go-slow nuclear approach. He has even broached the idea of direct talks with Washington. But we're not confronting Rafsanjani, who was purged after the crackdown on the Green Movement in 2009. Moving forward with one more round of negotiations now is much more likely to expose the supreme leader's intransigence than entangle America (and Israel) in a pointless, lengthy diplomatic dance.
Senior officials in the Obama administration probably have few illusions about Iranian mendacity. The last three years have been an education: Candidate Obama and lots of Democrats believed that President Obama could transform American-Iranian relations. But Ali Khamenei has tried hard to show that George W. Bush was not the problem. Although it's dangerous to suggest that diplomacy with the Islamic Republic has just about run its course (for die-hard diplomats, the process never ends), it's going to be challenging for the administration to pretend that sanctions-backed diplomacy can work given the increasing enrichment at Natanz and Fordow. If the Israelis decide to strike, the president will be hard pressed not to back them, as he promised to do in his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The collapse of the negotiating process in May most likely will not provoke the White House to do anything more bellicose, but it will at least get us talking seriously, at last, about the nature of the Iranian regime and how best to deal with it—and how to help Israel deal with it, if Israel feels it must act. That would be an enormous step forward.
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WGN America's "Manhattan" Rises To More Than 2.2 Million Total Viewers In Live + 3 Viewing For Its Multi-Channel Premiere Across WGN America And Tribune Stations Nationwide
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1, 2014 -- WGN America's critically acclaimed drama "Manhattan" increased its audience in Live + 3 viewing for last Sunday's premiere night, growing to more than 2.2 million Total Viewers (+24%), 796,000 Adults 25-54 (+31%) and 634,000 Adults 18-49 (+38%), for its three-play gross telecasts on WGN America and 14 of Tribune's local stations. The telecast aired in all of Tribune's 33 markets; however, the remaining 19 markets do not receive daily demographic data. WGN America, Tribune's (TRBAA:OTC) flagship entertainment network, covers 61.7% of U.S. households.
"We are very pleased with the critical reception as well as the audience turnout for 'Manhattan' and see it as a significant step forward in establishing WGN America as a destination for high-quality programming," said Matt Cherniss, president and general manager, WGN America and Tribune Studios.
The series debut of "Manhattan" on WGN America lifted to nearly 1.8 million Total Viewers (+26%), 605,000 Adults 25-54 (+35%) and 471,000 Adults 18-49 (+44%), during three combined airings on the network (9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT, 10:10 p.m. ET / 7:10 p.m. PT, 12:00 a.m. ET / 9:00 p.m. PT).
The "Manhattan" premiere telecast on WGN America at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT, grew to 1.1 million Total Viewers (+19%), 282,000 Adults 18-49 (+21%) and 379,000 Adults 25-54 (+15%) in Live +3 DVR viewing over Live + Same Day. The performance of the 9 p.m. telecast represents a solid +253% increase over the network's season-to-date time period average among Total Viewers in Live + 3 viewing.
WGN America is available in 71.4 million U.S. homes, and has only a single feed, making for an early West Coast premiere at 6 p.m. PT.
Episode two of "Manhattan," "The Prisoner's Dilemma" airs this SUNDAY, August 3 at its regular time, 10 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. CT on WGN America.
Created and written by Sam Shaw ("Masters of Sex") and directed by Emmy Award-winning director Thomas Schlamme ("The West Wing"), "Manhattan" is produced by Lionsgate Television, Skydance Television and Tribune Studios.
"Manhattan" is set against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the history of science -- the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb. The series follows the brilliant but flawed scientists and their families in Los Alamos as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.
The ensemble cast of "Manhattan" includes John Benjamin Hickey ("The Big C," "The Good Wife") as Frank Winter; Olivia Williams ("Rushmore," "The Ghost Writer") as Liza Winter; Daniel Stern ("Home Alone," "Home Alone 2") as Glen Babbit; Ashley Zukerman ("Rush") as Charlie Isaacs; Rachel Brosnahan ("House of Cards") as Abby Isaacs; Katja Herbers ("De Storm") as Helen Prins; Alexia Fast ("Jack Reacher") as Callie Winter; Christopher Denham ("Argo," "Shutter Island") as Jim Meeks; Harry Lloyd ("Game of Thrones") as Paul Crosley; Michael Chernus ("The Big C," "Orange Is The New Black") as Louis "Fritz" Fedowitz; and Eddie Shin ("Men of a Certain Age") as Sid Liao.
"Manhattan" is executive produced by Sam Shaw, Thomas Schlamme, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross and Dustin Thomason. The series is filmed on location in New Mexico. Follow "Manhattan" on Twitter @ManhattanWGNA. "Like" the series on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ManhattanWGNA, and join the discussion with #manhattanwgna. See photos on Instagram by following @ManhattanWGNA and videos at www.youtube.com/ManhattanWGNA.
[Source: Nielsen Media Research, Live + 3 data]
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Truffles with Frangelico
1/2 lb semi-sweet chocolate chips or really good chocolate
1/2 cup heavy cream
2tablespoons Frangelico ( have also used Regular Rum, Baileys, Kaluha, Coconut Rum or Gran Marnier all work well)
The finishing touches are to roll these in at the end variations as follows:
1/4-1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup coconut shredded
1/2 cup macadamia finely crushed or hazel nuts, pistachios, walnuts, pecans, chopped fine.
assorted sugars, sprinkles etc
Put the chocolate chips in a glass bowl.
In a small saucepan, bring the cream to a boil and then pour it over the chocolate.
Shake the bowl gently to let the cream settle into the chocolate, then cover the bowl with a plate or a lid to allow the chocolate to melt (takes about 5 minutes).
Whisk to mixture until smooth and shiny. Stir in the liqueur. Cover the unit of the chocolate tightly with the wrap and put in a cool place for about two hours to firm up.
Line a baking sheet with wax or parchment paper. Use two spoons to drop 1/2 to 1-inch mounds of chocolate on the paper.
Shape them into balls.
Put ground nuts and cocoa/ground chocolate onto seperate plates or bowls, and roll the truffles in the chocolate/and or nuts/coconut or sprinkles or your choice. Use a clean spoon to help you coat them. Refrigerate the truffles until ready to serve.
To serve, gently scoop the truffles out of the cocoa with a fork and put them in small paper cups , keep refrigerated until serving.... these freeze well also.
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I am totally doing this for New years - with amaretto I think. Gorgeous - although mine will probably not turn out so beautiful.ReplyDelete
Thanks @Claudia they are so simple you will be surprised I did do them with Frangelico today and actually rolled most of them in hazelnuts,really good yours will be beautiful!ReplyDelete
Yeah...truffles! I just love to see them. Love them but haven't tried making them. Just what I thought I want to make for this Christmas. Hope I still have time to make them.ReplyDelete
Though I'm not celebrating X'mas I guess these truffles should be some kind of X'mas season favourite goodies! I'm going to make these on the coming Chinese New Year. What do you think? haha...ReplyDelete
This is a great recipe - similar to one I make when making candy and treats ... nice touch...ReplyDelete
Your house at the holidays is clearly just one temptation after the next!!! These would be such great gifts.ReplyDelete
I just love truffles! they are so addictive, I have to make these soon :)ReplyDelete
These look beautiful! Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
These look amazing! I'm always impressed with truffles - I've never made my own.ReplyDelete
So glad you all like this recipe and love your kinds words I appreciate you all so much! merry christmas and have a safe one as well!
I made truffles once ages ago with a friend and they turned out terrible. We were joking around too much and mis-measured the sugar and they were way too bitter (dark chocolate). I'll have to try keeping to the recipe next time and try yours ;)ReplyDelete
lovely truffels ClaudiaReplyDelete
Wonderful truffles to tickle the taste buds.ReplyDelete
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Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of
Logan County
link to Lincoln's backwoods education
Slate owned by one of Abraham Lincoln's first teachers is donated to
Lincoln Presidential Library
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[June 09, 2014]
SPRINGFIELD - A backwoods cabin,
a combination of teacher, preacher and farmer, and a room full of
poor, virtually illiterate children. That was the scene nearly 200
years ago when a teacher named Caleb Hazel encountered a student
named Abraham Lincoln.
Now Hazel's slate, one that may very well have been used by
Lincoln in that Kentucky classroom, has been donated to the Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
The slate was donated by Hazel's descendants: cousins Cathy Bowers
Dixon; Marcia Lynn Tenney; Richard Douglas Byers; and Sue Ellen
Sparks, in memory of their grandfather Erma Maurice Bowers. Hazel's
son was also a teacher and kept his father's slate. Once Lincoln
became famous, the family held onto the slate generation after
The slate is 16 inches tall by 12 inches wide – larger than a
standard computer screen. The wood frame has a hole so the slate
could be hung on the cabin wall. Hazel likely used it to explain
lessons to the whole class and then let each student come up to
practice their writing or arithmetic.
The slate will be displayed in the museum's Treasures Gallery." The
display will also include a page covered with teenaged Lincoln's
math practice, the earliest surviving writing from the future
president, and a quill pen from his White House years.
"The descendants of Caleb Hazel have done a tremendous service by
donating this slate so that everyone can see and learn from it,"
said Amy Martin, director of the Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency. "The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has
benefited greatly from the generosity of people who want to share
their Lincoln artifacts with the world."
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Lincoln listed Hazel as the second of his five teachers when
he wrote a brief autobiographical sketch in 1860. Lincoln was 7
years old when his parents scraped together a little money to
send him and his sister, 9-year-old Sarah, to school after the
1816 harvest.
"As much as we prize Lincoln for his leadership in saving the
Union and ending slavery, we greatly admire him as a writer. He
was also very good with numbers, and here is the earliest
surviving item to illustrate his boyhood beginnings at both of
those skills. Lincoln proved that any kid could start small and
become expert, maybe end in greatness," said Dr. James
Cornelius, curator of the presidential library's Lincoln
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Germany were crowned world champions for the fourth time thanks to a stunning extra-time winner from super-sub Mario Gotze.
Argentina were preparing for a penalty shoot-out in the Maracana, but in the 113th minute Gotze chested down Andre Schurrle's cross and volleyed home to cap a historic victory for the jubilant Germans.
It will take a while for Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain and Rodrigo Palacio to forget this defeat.
They were all guilty of missing good chances to give Argentina what would have been a glorious win in the home of their fiercest rivals Brazil.
Tens of thousands of Argentinians had flooded Rio hoping to see Messi inspire his team to their third World Cup win.
This was Messi's chance to put himself on a par with his idol Diego Maradona.
But unlike in 1986, when Maradona captained Argentina to victory against the Germans, this was the Mannschaft's night.
And there would be few who would argue they did not deserve it.
Ever since they swept Portugal aside 4-0 in their opening match, Germany have looked destined to lift the famous trophy inside this famous stadium.
Blessed with talent from one to 23, they are a brutal attacking unit also capable of keeping things tight at the back.
The 7-1 destruction of Brazil in the previous round proved as much.
And in Low they have a coach who has answered his critics by becoming the first man to lead a European team to World Cup glory in South America.
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Yes, Sony and their open-door policy regarding my personal information and credit card numbers has been irritating me a bit of late. But at least for the moment they went from goat to hero for this old gamer when I heard that they had, in essence, fired the idiot director David Russell from making the upcoming Uncharted movie - which apparently is no longer upcoming, at least for now.
From the article in yesterday's Variety:
"A pair of tentpole-sized studio projects have lost their helmers, as David O. Russell exited "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune" over creative differences with Sony".
Word is that Sony is now searching for a new writer/director for the movie and the casting is starting from scratch. I don't even care anymore whether or not it's Fillion playing Drake. I'm just glad they are restarting to try and hopefully stay a little closer to the storyline instead of Russel's opium-fueled vision of a globetrotting family of treasure protectors - or whatever the hell it was. And of course, the big win here for mankind at large, is that there is just a little bit less of Marky Mark Wahlberg in the movies. I think everyone can agree with me, even Mark himself because I have to believe he is filled with self-loathing, that less Marky is good for everybody.
So thank you Sony. I salute you. Now seriously, stop giving away my credit card numbers.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Uncharted the Movie, Still a Chance!
Yes, Sony and their open-door policy regarding my personal information and credit card numbers has been irritating me a bit of late. But at least for the moment they went from goat to hero for this old gamer when I heard that they had, in essence, fired the idiot director David Russell from making the upcoming Uncharted movie - which apparently is no longer upcoming, at least for now.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Majestic Twelve (Super Space Invaders '91)
I saw a documentary on the History Channel about the Majestic 12 - the alleged code name of a secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials supposedly formed by Harry Truman in 1947 to investigate UFOs following the incident at Roswell, New Mexico. Now whether or not there is any validity to that story is debatable but it gave me an excuse to boot up the ol' MAME cab and finally complete the old Taito arcade game Super Space Invaders '91 (called Majestic Twelve - Space Invaders Part IV in Japan).
Super Space Invaders '91 was released in 1990 - don't ask me why it wasn't called Super Space Invaders '90, I never could figure out why they do that with cars either. It is the third arcade sequel of Taito's 1978 seminal classic behind Space Invaders Deluxe in 1979 and Return of the Invaders in 1985. Two more arcade sequels would follow - Space Invaders DX in 1994 and Space Invaders '95 - The Attack of the Lunar Loonies in 1995, but '91 might just be the best of the bunch.
Super Space Invaders '91 features the familiar gameplay of the original but with nicely updated graphics and a multitude of new invaders and improved sound effects. The game also introduces several new features to the series including power-ups, bonus rounds, boss battles, and the excellent added option of 2-player simultaneous play to really give it a new twist.
The power ups are dropped from the mother ship crossing the top of the screen if you are able to hit it. Power ups include the Buster Laser (a vertical laser that can vaporize multiple vertical columns of invaders), the Hyper Laser (vaporizes the lowest horizontal row of invaders), Shield Up (strengthens your ship's shields), Arm (creates physical shields like in the original Space Invaders that block enemy shots but you can move them up with your lasers to collide with enemies, Power Up (rapid fire laser shots), Fire Flower (a missile that blows up in a flowery explosion), Destroy Beam (my favorite - multiple bright tracers shoot out and slither rapidly all over the screen destroying everything in site, and Time Stop (a giant butterfly floats onto the screen and all the enemies freeze in time allowing you to blow them away with impunity).
There is a wide variety of invaders as you progress through the levels - complete with different background graphics, and this time the invaders have more attack patterns than the simple left all the way to the end, drop down, right all the way to the end, repeat. Some invaders widen to twice their original size when you blast them so you have to blast them some more, some split into two invaders, some attack in a circular vortex pattern (kind of like the black hole level in Gorf except with a bunch of them instead of 1 at a time), some dive bomb you, some disappear into the right side of the screen and reappear on the left side of the screen, and some break away from the pack and conduct their own separate pattern.
You no longer blow up from a single shot, your ship is equipped with shields that can absorb several shots before you explode. And unlike the original game, if the invaders reach the bottom and land on earth the game isn't over, you just blow up and lose a man.
There is also an enjoyable little cattle mutiliation bonus round where flying saucers abduct your cows for their damnable alien experiments and you have to blast the saucers without accidentally hitting your bovine buddies. If you manage to shoot the saucer without blasting the cow he oddly floats safely back to the ground for bonus points. Extra points are earned the higher in the sky the saucer is when you hit it. This little bonus level plays a lot like the old 1980 Namco arcade game called King & Balloon.
This version also adds several boss battles - I think there were 4 different ones (damn - I should've kept better notes). The bosses looked different but the fights were all pretty much the same - avoid their fire and shoot them in their small vulnerable spot which was intermittently open to fire. The bosses were not that difficult to beat but like the cattle mutilation bonus round provided a nice break from the regular invader blasting.
Co-op play adds a whole new dimension to the franchise to try and keep the gameplay as fresh as possible. Co-op shooters are one of the few arcade games that my wife actually enjoys playing with me so we joined forces to complete the game.
After we completed the arcade version I tried out a few of the ports - Super Space Invaders was also released on the Master System, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Game Gear, XBox, PlayStation 2, and PC (as part of the Taito Legends 2 compilation on the last 3).
The nice thing about these gallery shooter games, they translate well to a variety of systems. The Master System version included a nifty little introduction where a communique was being transmitted to you from Central Space Command (or whatever it was called). It played very well and was pretty true to the arcade version.
For some reason the Speccy version decided to make the background the same color as the invaders which gave it a monochrome look. Maybe this was done due to technical limitations, but it made it a little difficult to see all the invading going on.
The Amiga version was particularly solid - staying true to the arcade version but also including additional animations and storyline details before, during, and after the game that weren't on the original arcade version. Oh, and the Amiga introductory theme song is pretty cool too - it incorporates the game sound effects into the song.
Now, this is a Space Invaders game, so the gameplay does get repetitive after a while, but all-in-all this is a solid facelift to the age-old classic and I've come back to it on several occasions. For me the original arcade game is the definitive version and I'd rate it a 7.9.
I couldn't find the official arcade machine record high score, but according to Twin Galaxies, the high score for Super Space Invaders '91 on MAME (without continues!) is 382,290 by Brandon Y. LeCroy. My best effort so far without continues is only about half that.
If you like vertical gallery shooters like Space Invaders, Galaga, etc. and get a chance to play one of the versions of this game I suggest you check it out.
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Crush the Castle!
OK - I know I lazily embed these videos from Dorkly way too often, but this one led me to try a nifty little online flash game that I'd never played before so... I gotta do it. Like I've mentioned before I'm not a portable gamer and I avoid phone games pretty much altogether, so I've never experienced (nor do I expect to ever experience) the casual gaming phenomenon known as Angry Birds. But I'm not against spending a few minutes on a free online flash game.
Like the Tiny Wings bird, I was unfamiliar with Crush the Castle so I googled it and gave it a play. Turns out it's a nice little physics-based online game wherein you control a trebuchet to sling various projectiles at castles to bring them to the ground and crush the royal subjects within. The structural integrity of some of the castles is extremely suspect and they fall easily, but some of them are quite sturdy and some of them actually require a little bit of puzzle solving as far as what area to target to bring it down. Then a map pops up and you move on to the next castle. Your projectiles upgrade after a while to multiple boulders, then larger boulders, then a bomb. There are some other features too like building your own castle etc., but like most online flash games I found it amusing for a while - long enough to destroy all the castles on the map in this case - but not interesting enough to entice me to fully explore all the features. But like I said, a fun little waste of a few minutes at work so try it out HERE.
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Killzone 2 (another FPS), and Hogan's Heroes
I just got around to completing Killzone 2 for the PS3 (thanks Fallguy - I think that's all of them now I'll ship 'em back). It was a serviceable FPS game, but nothing memorable. I don't really understand how it got such high ratings from most reviewers - on Metacritic it got a Metascore of 91/100. Me, I give it more like a 73/100.
You play as Sergeant Sevchenko (a fact it took me a very long time to realize) and are bringing the space war to the Helghast planet. I don't know the history of this war since I never played the first Killzone, but according to your own government's propaganda anyway the Helghast started it. OK fair enough. And that's pretty much the story - kill all the Helghast baddies and work your way up the boss chain to Vasari - the head big bad daddy - basically Future Hitler of this army of Space Nazis.
However, even though the uniforms, symbols, etc. all had a decided Nazi flair to them, for some reason all the Helghast spoke with an English accent. Does this mean that a London scientist invented the universal translator that enabled me to hear the Helghans swearing at me? Or maybe the future British were allies or collaborators with the Helghast? Maybe there is even some sort of connection to Grand Moff Tarkin - that overconfident member of the Imperial English aristocracy that stubbornly refused to evacuate the Death Star in his moment of triumph (should've evacuated Moffy). I dunno.
And of course when I talk Nazis, well I'm gonna talk Hogan's Heroes. Colonel Radec, the no-nonsense sadistic Helghan officer was, as far as I'm concerned, modeled after Major Hochstetter - the no-nonsense Nazi who was always busting Colonel Klink's balls. And maybe Vasari, the leader of the Helghast, was supposed to make me think of Hitler, but to me he was the long-lost brother of one General Burkhalter - another of a long list of Nazis that enjoyed busting Klink's balls and was always throwing around that threat of sending Klink's ass to the Russian front.
...and of course the vast array of almost identical Helghast soldiers who march single file into their role as cannon fodder are all the loveable Sergeant Schultz, except of course that they are constantly cursing at you and have an unrealistically optimistic expectation of killing you.
The AI of the enemies is pretty poor and the AI of your squad mates is even worse. They are constantly getting in your way while simultaneously barking at you to get off your ass and follow them. And you can't shoot them - I tried. I emptied full clips into their eyes in frustration and blood flew everywhere but not a scratch. By the way, all FPS games should, by default, have friendly fire enabled. Nothing breaks up the realism of a firefight worse than when you accidentally fire a round into a fellow soldier's head and he just yells something stupid at you like "OK! that hurts!" or "don't shoot at me, shoot at them!"
And the guys were CONSTANTLY swearing. It's not like I'm offended by cussing. Fuck. See? It's just that the cussing was so relentlessly forced and the dialogue was so juvenile it just seemed silly. Kinda like Starship Troopers if you've ever seen that movie - except sillier. And all the steroid-soaked characters were so interchangeable - like Gears of War with its soul stripped out.
The various levels and minimal cut scenes felt generic and gave virtually no sense of progress - so much so that I think if you randomly mixed up the play order of the levels you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference.
And I kept hearing about how great the graphics were but they didn't look particularly good to me. Even for 2009 when it actually came out. Like the rest of the game the graphics seemed average.
And that's it in a nutshell - Killzone 2 wasn't bad but I'm forced to damn it with faint praise. It was passable. Decent. Average. In my opinion, there really just wasn't much to Killzone 2 to set it apart from all the other war-based first person shooters out there. An OK shooter but basically forgettable.
Now, understand that I'm only referring to the single-player story campaign here. I didn't even play the online multiplayer which I of course realize is the target audience component of the modern FPS game. I know a lot of FPS guys don't even play the single-player story and would tell me that I'm missing the best part of the game, but I just don't really enjoy the online deathmatch stuff that much anymore. Back when I played the first Resistance on PS3 I quite enjoyed it. Then when I got Modern Warfare I still enjoyed it but maybe a little less. And my interest in the online multiplayer has just continued to wane since then until now I am at the stage where I just won't buy a FPS game unless the story component sounds like it is enough up my alley to merit buying it on its own.
So anyway - it sounds like I'm trashing the game, but I'm not. It was a decent middle of the road shooter. Just nowhere near as good as I had heard and not quite good enough to prompt me to try the multiplayer, replay, or want to buy Killzone 3.
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats... HOOOOOOO!!!
I recently saw a picture (on Dorkly again) of the comic Carrot Top juxtaposed with his twin brother Lion-o of the Thundercats.
If you don't remember the Thundercats it was the 1980's cartoon about the race of humanoid cats from the planet Thundera, led by their Lord Lion-o in regular battles against the evil Mumm-Ra. Thundercats came out quite late in my cartoon-watching youth so I wasn't a die-hard fan or anything but I did see enough of them to figure out that I hate Snarf - the Jar Jar Binks of the Thundercats. Here is the intro for the cartoon.
I thought I recalled seeing an ad for a Thundercats game in one of my old gaming magazines and sure enough there was one - released in 1987 by Elite for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and Atari ST. So I gave the C64 version a go.
The game is basically a horizontal scrolling hack and slash game along the lines of Shadow of the Beast or maybe Ghosts and Goblins (but not nearly as good). You are Lion-o and are trying to rescue several fellow Thundercats and recover the fabled Eye of Thundera from the evil clutches of Mumm-Ra and his henchman. You run, crouch, jump, slash, and shoot your way through a number of different levels, one of which even allows you to pilot a laser-firing air-car. The game seemed like it would be quite easy at first glance, but it turned out to be pretty damn difficult - mostly due to to sluggish controls that almost never gave you time to slash one guy at your front and then turn around to kill the dude heading your way from behind even though it looked like you should have plenty of time. This was extremely frustrating to the point where my wife got sick of hearing me yell out cusswords and basically told me to shut the hell up.
In a nutshell here were my reactions to the game - number of plays approximated:
Try #1: Nice theme song. Game looks kinda weak, but easy enough to run through quick. Wow dead already - OK guess I'll actually try next time.
#2-5: Dang, this game is actually pretty challenging. And better than I initially thought. Not bad. What the hell are those things? Pigs?
#6-7: OK. New joystick - this one should work better than that old Atari joystick. What the... dammit!
#8-10: OK! Another joystick switch. My old Gemstick should do the trick! Arrghh! Why the hell does Lion-o vaporize any time one of these guys even just barely touches him? Are they antimatter or something? Stupid!!
#11: Goddamn this game. Fuck it - I'm switching to the Trainer mode with unlimited lives so I can at least see all the levels and then cross it off the list.
#12: Bored. Wanted to hang in there till the end but screw you Mumm-Ra. I'm done.
I've always felt that way about cheats for infinite lives. Even on great games (which this isn't) it just makes the game boring. So I gave up before the ending but I saw online that the ending was extremely lame. Basically the last level was a fight with Mumm-Ra not much different from other fights then this dazzling ending screen was revealed.
If you care to give the game a go you can try an online Java version at Vizzed.com. But like I mentioned before the best part about the game is the theme music played at the opening screen - pure SID goodness. I discovered that the tune was actually created by Rob Hubbard, somewhat of a legend in the Commodore 64 music scene (yes, there is still a C64 music scene). A guy posted the entire song on Youtube with screenshots from the game so check it out:
Oh, and finally, I came across a review of the game in the December 1987 edition of Zzap!64 magazine. If you care to read their review from back in the day you can click below - they gave the game 74%. I wasn't quite that generous.
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Take That To Shut You Up, Mario
Another little arcade video from Dorkly.com that I'm retweeting - except I don't tweet so...
Come to think of it - why the hell DID Donkey Kong always climb away with the girl? What was he afraid of? Never really thought about it - but makes no sense at all.
Do these Dorkly videos look choppy for you guys? Sometimes the embedded video does for me, but not natively on their page. Didn't know if it was just me and my trusty 286 or everybody.
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Labels: Donkey Kong, Video
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Is the 3DS For Kids?
Damn. I just read over this before hitting 'Publish Post' and it is definitely an overlong sleepily-worded ramble, so I completely understand if you choose not to read it folks. But I'll be damned if I'm going to have written all this only to delete it (I do that fairly often actually) - so screw it here it is.
I heard that Sony Playstation CEO Jack Tretton recently ruffled Nintendo fanboy feathers in a Fortune magazine interview by essentially saying that the 3DS was for kids. "Our view of the 'Game Boy experience' is that it's a great babysitting tool, something young kids do on airplanes, but no self-respecting twenty-something is going to be sitting on an airplane with one of those, he's too old for that."
Well, I'm sure there will be TONS of twenty-somethings playing them on airplanes and although I do in fact own every iteration of Game Boy (bought used for pennies on the dollar years after they originally appeared), I cannot really argue the basic underlying premise of Tretton's statement regarding the general nature of Nintendo's target demographic for its handheld systems. Or any handheld system for that matter. Don't get me wrong - in addition to my Game Boys, I also own a PSP and am on the lookout for older handhelds like a Game Gear, Lynx, DS, etc. if I can find them dirt cheap, but the idea of playing any handheld in public feels juvenile to me. Then again, I've never been much of a portable gamer anyway even when I was younger so I pretty much never play them even at home, and I'm rarely in public situations where I even have an opportunity to play them either so it really just has never been part of my world - but still, if I were riding the metro to work one morning and had 30 minutes of ride time to kill I'd feel kinda funny breaking out the PSP for a little Chains of Olympus action. And it's just not really something I would feel like doing. But then I'm not twenty-something - I'm forty-something.
So yeah - I wouldn't have worded it in such an alienating and insulting manner but I generally feel that handheld gaming devices are more for children than adults. That includes Nintendo AND Sony. But additionally, Nintendo has historically targeted a younger audience on all its systems than its competitors. That's one reason I always tended to go with another system - the Genesis over SNES, PS3 over the Wii, and the PC was the old standby over pretty much all of them. I'm not casting stones at so-called childish activities - I'm sitting here watching an episode of Batman Beyond right now and earlier tonight I was playing Thundercats on the C64. I'm just saying, me and Nintendo never quite clicked.
So anyway, I got my first hands-on look at a 3DS this last weekend when a friend of my brothers broke it out at a restaurant (he's 30-something by the way). I'm a gadget guy and I must say I thought the 3D effect was pretty cool. He showed me some 3D photographs he took that popped out of the screen and then he took a picture of his girlfriend and turned it into a shooter game where I was trying to shoot down multiple copies of her head that were flying around the screen. Weird and quickly tiresome even for a minigame tech demo, but still, I found the effect technically impressive.
So even though my interest level in portable gaming is minimal as is my interest in Nintendo in general it did pique my curiosity a bit. So when I found myself (much to my chagrin) in Wal-Mart yesterday I decided to check out their 3DS display.
Let me just say that when there is a store display to show off 6 of the 3DS' library of games and the first 3 are Nintendogs titles, well that's not gonna reel in this old gamer. "But they are totally different games dude! That's the French Bulldog, Toy Poodle, and Golden Retriever editions! Plus now they have cats!". Yeah. Still.
I'll just put the 3DS on my list of portable devices that I'll buy one day on Craigslist or eBay when the price drops to the $20-$40 range - and since this one starts at $250 I'll probably be a 50-something when I finally get one.
Oh well, now that Nintendo has made me feel even older, let me see what Sony's PS3 Move display has going on.
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Old Calendar: St. Hyginus, pope and martyr; St. Theodosius, abbot (Hist)
According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Hyginus. During the four years of his pontificate (138-142), he had to oppose the heresy of Valentinus who at this period came to propagate his errors in the heart of the Christian community in Rome.It is also historically the feast of St. Theodosius, abbot, born in Cappadocia in the village of Magarisso, who after having endured great sufferings for the Catholic faith, took his rest in peace at the monastery which he had erected on a lonely hill in the diocese of Jerusalem.
St. Hyginus
The crown of the empire belonged to Antonius Pius. Hyginus, as Telesphorus' successor, not only had to endure his relentless persecutions but also had to cope with the heretics who made their way to Rome.
St. Theodosius
St. Theodosius was so inspired by Abraham's example of leaving his loved ones and homeland for God that he left his homeland of Cappadocia to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. There St. Theodosius took as his guide the holy man Longinus, who placed him in charge of a church near Bethlehem. Theodosius did not stay there long, however, but he went to live in a cave on a nearby mountain. He was known for his holiness, and many desired to dedicate their lives to God as monks under Theodosius. He built a monastery at Cathismus, as well as three hospices: for the sick, the elderly and the mentally ill. When Emperor Anastasius was persecuting Christians who did not accept the Eutychian heresy, which states that Christ has only one nature, St. Theodosius preached orthodoxy throughout Palestine, even stating from the pulpit in Jerusalem: "If anyone receives not the four general councils as the four gospels, let him be anathema." The Saint renewed the courage of those in whom the Emperor's edicts had instilled fear. Anastasius banished Theodosius, though he was later recalled by Anastasius' successor. Theodosius died at the age of 105; many miracles occurred at his funeral.


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Monday, 9 November 2009
In which I ask for help
7 comments:
- Natalie said...
There should be a setting which lets you hold comments for moderation before you publish them. That way you can check it's not spam without disabling all comments.
- 9 November 2009 at 18:02
Have a look here -
- 9 November 2009 at 21:04
- Jo said...
As you are using blogger:
go to Settings; Comments.
Under Comment Moderation (about half way down), you can select whether to moderate comments (i.e. they get emailed to you and you have to check them before publishing them).
Alternatively, you can go to "Word Verification needed for comments" (next option) - this is where you have to type in the random word before you can post a comment. Making this mandatory killed the Russian spam I was getting a while back.
- 20 November 2009 at 04:19
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- 1 December 2009 at 16:06
- Dr Michael Anderson said...
Thank you all for your advice, I've made some changes and hopefully, it won't be such a problem in the future
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I am about to launch a new business that will create short videos for small to medium sized businesses. Those videos will then be uploaded to video directories etc. such as YouTube, and used to improve SEO.
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It will be a one man business to begin with, based in Queensland, Australia.
Small to Medium sized businesses
I need a clean, but bold logo to represent my business in a single glance.
It is important to convey that my business is all about producing online videos, which is why I have included both 'Click Me' and 'Online' in the business name. I don't want people asking me if I do weddings! (BTW There are no inverted commas around any of the words in the name.)
A secondary and more difficult task is to convey that the final videos will be used to achieve good search engine rankings on the likes of Google and Yahoo. However, this is not mandatory, but a nice to have, if it doesn't detract too much from the primary objective of conveying: online video.
The logo will be used on stationery, business cards, website and even a motor vehicle. Therefore, I imagine that a white/plain background will be the best option.
I do have some views of what to expect, but these may simply be my own limited pre-conceptions. I will provide more feedback as the competition progresses.
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Halliburton lost at least $1.1 million in U.S. property, auditors say
WASHINGTON—It's not just missing explosives that have U.S. military officials searching high and low in Iraq. They're also trying to figure out how the giant reconstruction contractor Halliburton misplaced millions of dollars in government trucks, generators, computers and, strangely, a port-a-potty.
In a report released Thursday on the management of U.S. property, the inspector general for the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority estimated that at least $1.1 million in government property entrusted to Halliburton was lost or unaccounted for in the staging area of Kuwait. About 43 percent of the inventory items that auditors looked for appeared lost.
The findings come after a July report concluded that the contractor couldn't account for $18.6 million in U.S. property it was responsible for in Baghdad.
"You've got to try really hard" to lose some of the items, said Keith Ashdown, vice president of the fiscal watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. "It gives new meaning to government waste or new meaning to flushing taxpayers' money down a toilet."
In the latest report, auditors listed 30 items they couldn't find in Kuwait that Halliburton's subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root, was supposed to safeguard. The list includes seven small trucks, three portable generators, a laptop computer, four printers, a 119-gallon water heater, four bulletproof vests, a couple bulletproof helmets, a microwave and a portable toilet worth $438.
The IG examined a small percentage of the government's inventory that was under Halliburton's control. Based on that sample, it estimated the value of the missing goods.
Missing from Baghdad, according to the July report, were two armored trucks, 15 other trucks, a $735,000 generator, a smaller generator, six laptops, office chairs, filing cabinets and a 3-inch sewage pump.
"It's amazing in the federal government how often things are lost," even on the tranquil mainland, said Angela Styles, the former administrator of federal procurement policy for the Office of Management and Budget.
Both Halliburton and the Defense Contracting Management Agency, which oversees the company contract, faulted the inspector general for using a small random sample of inventory searches.
The firm "operates an approved government property control system that has stood the test of time, even under the stresses of supporting the U.S. troops in Iraq and Kuwait, and the challenges of property control in a war zone," Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall said. "The projections contained in this audit were based on an extremely limited sample of 30 items, and we do not believe such a small sample can be used to make such broad generalizations."
Hall said some of the items were never U.S. property—a point disputed by the IG—and other items were given to the Iraqi government. She had no information on the latest whereabouts of the port-a-potty.
(c) 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.