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So! In foggy London town, people are wondering who is a Jew and who is not a Jew! Why can't we all be Jews? Because some Jews are more Jewy than other Jews, apparently. Are you? Find out! Question 1:
What did you have for breakfast this morning?
(A) A bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich.
(B) Eggs Benedict.
(C) A Christmas ham.
(D) A bagel, a blintz, lox, matzo brei, kreplach, shmear, whitefish, sable, a "nosh" of anything, or nothing, because you're getting bar/bat-mitzvah'd next weekend and your parents told you to watch your figure.
Question 2:
You think Larry David is
(A) Not funny.
(B) Who?
(C) Hysterical.
(D) Bad for the Jews.
Question 3:
Your parents are divorced, and they both want you to come home for the high holidays. You:
(A) Go home to wherever you still have a good weed hookup.
(B) Go wherever more singles will be.
(C) Split holidays; Ma gets Yom Kippur, Dad gets Rosh Hashana.
(D) Can we not talk about my mother for once, please?
Question 4:
You want to marry a Gentile man or Gentile woman. How's this gonna work?
(A) Our kids will be progressive, they'll get more presents, it'll be fine. Give your college roommate Aariz a ring, we'll ordain him as a Universal Life minister, turn this thing into a rockin' multicultural experience.
(B) Well, we've lied to Mom for this long. What's another 20 years?
(C) Honestly, who cares? We love each other and we haven't been subject to a New York Magazine profile yet, so this can't be that complicated.
(D) He/she'll convert! We've got a great Rabbi and he's so welcoming and this is gonna be easy; we'll just do it in the closest temple, and be done with it. My spouse has fully embraced my spirituality and culture believes what Jews believe so, you know, draw baby a Mikvah and let's get goin' here!
(E) You're converting in an Orthodox temple, with an Orthodox rabbi, under strictly Orthodox rules. Throw out those Manolos, by the way.
Question 5:
Your parents are:
(A) Awesome.
(B) Annoying.
(C) One's Jewish, one ain't.
(D) They're both Jewish, Mom converted in a conservative Judasim temple a long time ago, but now attends Orthodox services with Dad.
(E) They were both born, raised, and remain Orthodox. I have a sneaking suspicion that one of them converted, but if they did, it was definitely an Orthodox synagogue. Nothing less. If they ever found me with a Shalom Auslander book, they would kick the everloving shit out of me.
If you answered A, B, or C to any of the questions, give yourself -5, -3, and -1 points.
If you answered D to any of the questions, give yourself 0.01 points.
And if you answered E to any of the questions, give yourself 100 points.
0 to -25 Points: Goyim.
1 to 99 Points: Meh.
100+ Points: Mazel Tov! According to certain authorities, You're a Jew! This is the only circumstance under which the government-funded Jews' Free School in North London will admit your child. Congrats:
The case began when a 12-year-old boy, an observant Jew whose father is Jewish and whose mother is a Jewish convert, applied to the school, JFS. Founded in 1732 as the Jews' Free School, it is a centerpiece of North London's Jewish community. It has around 1,900 students, but it gets far more applicants than it accepts....Because M's mother converted in a progressive, not an Orthodox, synagogue, the school said, she was not a Jew - nor was her son. It turned down his application.
Mind you, this is the New York Times most emailed articled today for a reason. There are wide, wide gaps in some Jewish communities where, despite regularly attending services, embracing Jewish customs into one's family's lives, and practicing on a daily basis, you are still not considered Jewish. This isn't just in the Orthodox community. A good example came up in last night's comments about this very issue:
I'm a half-breed (Shiksa mother) and I vividly remember being told that I was not Jewish by a girl at summer camp. I cried for days and couldn't understand how I was Jewish enough for a Bat Mitzvah and Hebrew school but not Jewish enough for this little girl in my bunk.
In the great literature of our time, Harry Potter, people without two magical parents are considered by evil angry purebred magical people to be "Mudbloods." This is kind of like that. Am I suggesting the Orthodox community in question in the New York Times today are anything like J.K. Rowling's Death Eaters? Not at all.
But it's interesting to think that the Anti-Defamation League—a Jewish organization whose sole purpose is to "stop the defamation of the Jewish people, to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike," but has been criticized for its often elitist, extremist Zionist positioning—has yet to speak out on this one! Shocking. So: how antisemitic are some of these
people Jews?
Orthodox Jews, of course, sympathize with the school, saying that observance is no test of Jewishness, and that all that matters is whether one's mother is Jewish. So little does observance matter, in fact, that "having a ham sandwich on the afternoon of Yom Kippur doesn't make you less Jewish," Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the United Synagogue, said recently.
Damn. Looks like I'll have to re-arrange the next questionnaire.
Jew-on-Jew antisemitism is an actual problem. This thing's gonna strike a very loud chord with many, many people, in many, many places. The case in question has since been overturned on the basis that the school has taken it upon itself to administer an ethnic test and a verdict is expected in the coming months.


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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's government has temporarily given the military the authority to arrest civilians to help safeguard a constitutional referendum planned for Saturday, the official gazette said.
The order, gazetted late on Sunday, said the military would support police and liaise with them to protect "vital institutions" until the referendum result is declared.
The decree gave army officers the right to make arrests and transfer detainees to prosecutors.
Despite its limited nature, the edict will revive memories of Hosni Mubarak's emergency law, also introduced as a temporary expedient, under which military or state security courts tried thousands of political dissidents and Islamist militants.
But a military source stressed that the measure, introduced by a civilian government, would have a short shelf-life.
"The latest law giving the armed forces the right to arrest anyone involved in illegal actions such as burning buildings or damaging public sites is to ensure security during the referendum only," the military source said.
"The armed forces secured polling stations during previous elections when it was in charge of the country," the source said, referring to 16 months of army rule after Mubarak fell.
"Now the president is in charge. In order for the armed forces to be involved in securing the referendum, a law had to be issued saying so," the source added.
Presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said the committee overseeing the vote had requested the army's assistance.
"The armed forces will work within a legal framework to secure the referendum and will return (to barracks) as soon as the referendum is over," Ali said.
On Saturday, the military urged rival political forces to solve their disputes via dialogue and said the opposite would drag the country into a "dark tunnel", which it would not allow.
A statement issued by the military spokesman and read on state radio and television made no mention of President Mohamed Mursi, but said a solution to the political crisis should not contradict "legitimacy and the rules of democracy".
A military source close to top officers said the statement "does not indicate any future intervention in politics".
A military council took over after a popular revolt ended Mubarak's 30 years of army-backed rule last year. It then handed power to Mursi, who became Egypt's first freely elected leader in June. The military has not intervened in the latest crisis.
The army statement said the military's duty was to protect national interests and secure vital state institutions.
"The armed forces affirm that dialogue is the best and only way to reach consensus," it added. "The opposite of that will bring us to a dark tunnel that will result in catastrophe and that is something we will not allow."
Hassan Abu Taleb of the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies said Saturday's army statement suggested the military wanted both sides to talk out their differences, but discounted the chance of direct military intervention.
"They realize that interfering again in a situation of civil combat will squeeze them between two rocks," he said.
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Intelligent Life is not a magazine about extraterrestrials but a publication from the brainy folks at The Economist. The current issue, for March/April 2012, features Oscar-winner Cate Blanchette on the cover, and the editor, Tim de Lisle, decided to leave her photograph unretouched. In his editor's letter, he explains:
When other magazines photograph actresses, they routinely end up running heavily Photoshopped images, with every last wrinkle expunged. Their skin is rendered so improbably smooth that, with the biggest stars, you wonder why the photographer didn't just do a shoot with their waxwork.
She looks like what she is… a woman of 42, spending her days in an office, her evenings on stage and the rest of her time looking after three young children.
And, of course, she happens to be stunningly beautiful. Putting a gorgeous woman on your cover isn't exactly a risk. Plus, this isn't a ladymag, where we've come to expect flawlessness. There's hard news here, which means readers can take the truth of a few wrinkles. But for some reason, if you are trying to shill your publication specifically to ladies, well, you know, we're too delicate to see pores! Bring on the airbrushing!
de Lisle is completely aware of the attention un-Photoshopped images generate, and he's both exploiting and questioning the situation:
We can't be too self-righteous about it, because, like anyone else who puts her on a cover, we are benefiting from her beauty and distinction. But the shot is at least trying to reflect real life. It's a curious sign of the times that this has become something to shout about.
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New coyote hunting season remains open through Feb. 28Harvest reporting required under new regulations
DOVER (Jan. 31, 2014) – The Division of Fish and Wildlife reminds hunters that Delaware's first coyote hunting season remains open through the end of February. The coyote hunting season opened on Jan. 11 with the adoption of new wildlife regulations that include a coyote hunting season from Sept. 1 through the last day of February. The regulations also established a coyote trapping season from Dec. 1 through March 10.
The division received its first report of a coyote harvested during the newly established hunting season, a male coyote taken in the Hockessin area by a deer hunter on Jan. 23. All coyotes harvested by hunting or trapping must be reported to the division within one business day of harvest to provide data on coyote abundance and distribution that will help further guide the division's scientific management of the coyote population.
The coyote is a non-native species that has recently expanded its natural range to Delaware. The state's new coyote hunting and trapping regulations are based on modern wildlife management science and designed to manage the coyote population at a biologically and social acceptable level. Coyotes, which are scattered throughout the state, can impact native wildlife species and domestic animals, with both positive and negative impacts on native wildlife populations possible. Coyote trapping is the most effective means of coyote population management, with hunting providing an additional population management method while also providing a new recreational hunting opportunity.
With proper management through the new regulations, coyotes are not expected to adversely affect populations of most wildlife species, including Delaware's white-tailed deer population due to the successful reproductive biology of Delaware's abundant deer herd; coyotes may indirectly benefit ground nesting birds such as wild turkey by displacing turkey predators. Coyotes also add biological diversity and may further provide ecological balance to the state's other wildlife populations by suppressing overabundant predators such as red fox and raccoons.
"Coyote hunting within our established hunting season framework is part of our science-based management of this non-native species," said David Saveikis, director of the Division of Fish and Wildlife. "Coyote hunting also provides a new recreational hunting opportunity, including late in the hunting season, and the required reporting of harvested coyotes will provide new data on coyote abundance and distribution to further enable the division to scientifically manage the coyote population. We encourage hunters to report harvested coyotes to help us manage this species."
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· Harvested coyotes must be reported to the division within one business day of their take by calling 302-735-3600.
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South Korea's president praises potential Trump-Kim meeting
Moon Jae-in declared it will be a "historical milestone" that will put the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula "really on track".
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump plan to meet in May for nuclear disarmament talks.
The whiplash development would put two leaders who have repeatedly insulted, threatened and dismissed each other in the same room, possibly in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
It would have been an unthinkable suggestion just a few months ago, when the insults were at their peak — Mr Trump was a "senile dotard" and Mr Kim was "Little Rocket Man".
Meanwhile the North was firing off regular weapons tests in a dogged march toward its goal of a viable nuclear arsenal that can threaten the US mainland.
Liberal South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who some believe has manoeuvred the two leaders to this position, reflected the hope and relief many in South Korea feel about the planned summit.
He declared on Friday that it will be a "historical milestone" that will put the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula "really on track".
But there is also considerable scepticism.
North Korea, after all, has made a habit of reaching out after raising fears during previous crises with offers of dialogue meant to win aid and concessions.
It has also, from the US point of view, repeatedly cheated on past nuclear deals.
Kim Jong Un talked about denuclearization with the South Korean Representatives, not just a freeze. Also, no missile testing by North Korea during this period of time. Great progress being made but sanctions will remain until an agreement is reached. Meeting being planned!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2018
And now the North has landed a face-to-face meeting with the leader of the world's most powerful country, a nation that Pyongyang has long sought to draw into talks.
It hopes to establish a peace treaty to end the technically still-active Korean War and drive out all US troops from the Korean Peninsula, removing what the North says is a hostile encirclement of its territory by Washington and Seoul.
"Great progress being made," Mr Trump tweeted after the South Korean national security director, Chung Eui-yong, emerged from a meeting with Mr Trump and announced the summit plans to reporters in a hastily-called appearance on a White House driveway.
That remains to be seen.
Some speculate that the North is trying to peel Washington away from its ally Seoul, weaken crippling sanctions, buy time for nuclear development and win aid by setting up a meeting with Mr Trump that will win it concessions.
North Korea still produces propaganda declaring its continuing dedication to the "treasured sword" of its nuclear program.
Washington still remains publicly dedicated to annual war games with the South that the North claims are invasion rehearsal.
They are expected to resume next month, after being postponed during the Winter Olympics in the South.
DC is also dedicated to keeping 28,500 troops in the South and 50,000 in Japan, largely as a way to deter North Korean aggression.
Talks between Washington and Pyongyang have previously been overseen by lower-level experts, and have often bogged down, even when so-called "breakthroughs" have come, in the pesky details, such as allowing outsiders in to inspect North Korea's nuclear compliance, for instance.
Now, the talks will start at the top and there will be no time to settle all the problems that have scuttled previous negotiations.
It remains to be seen what Mr Trump and Mr Kim might decide in the highest-level meeting in what has been essentially a bloody, seven-decade standoff between their countries.
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Put your Herald Attack skill within easy finger-reach or bound to mouse button. At lower levels it can be useful to quickly move him around to keep monsters from hitting the squishier members of your team. Herald damage is very low. He is better as an expendable tank. If the herald dies, quickly switch-to/plant your Banner. For instance, all monsters quickly figure out if your fellowship has a healer. Any monster that is not strongly-drawn to attack a fellow will want to attack your healer. You can use your herald to occupy at least 1 of the monsters so it is less likely to go after your healer.
Revealing Mark is almost always better than Telling Mark. The healing can be a life-safer. Telling mark is great when you have 5 or more hunters and melee attackers hitting the same Mark. This will usually only happen in a large raid and if you are lucky you have two captains for both marks anyway.
Noble mark is very good at bringing a monster's attention to you. If Revealing Mark is not helping your team stay alive, and a squishy hunter or champion keeps getting himself killed, then use Noble mark to make yourself the tank. It will not pull the monster to you right away, which is usually a good thing as the incoming damage gets spread around a little which you can partially heal up with your first Rally Cry.
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MIDDLEBURY — The first time Amy Yuen, 34, looked for a house she was a graduate student in Atlanta. The housing bubble had yet to burst and houses moved fast, selling within a few months at most, in the city known for its sprawl.
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ADDISON COUNTY — The Rev. Andrew Nagy-Benson, pastor of the Middlebury Congregational Church, considers his profession one of the dwindling "generalist" vocations in an age when experts and wonks reign supreme.
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ATTENDEES AT THE third annual Midd Summer Festival at the Marble Works in Middlebury on Saturday take a break from sampling beers, wines and cheeses to enjoy some tunes from Brooklyn, N.Y., band Hollis Brown. Organizers said more than 1,600 people attended.
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WITH A TICKET to the Midd Fest, held at the Marble Works in Middlebury this past Saturday, each person received 10 tokens and a small glass to taste the wares of dozens of Vermont breweries, wineries, distilleries and cheesemakers, including Addison County's own Otter Creek Brewery, Woodchuck Hard Cider and WhistlePig Whiskey, among others.
MIDDLBURY — On Saturday afternoon in a lot adjacent to the Middlebury College Recycling Center, recent Middlebury graduate Cordelia Newbury led a group of students and townspeople into the poshly decorated central living space of a brand new, solar-powered house.
First, she pointed out the exposed steel frame that ran the length of the floor, wall and ceiling, which she called the house's "rib cage." On top of this rested the "skin" — reclaimed wood siding from a local, 150-year-old barn.
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FERRISBURGH — This past Saturday afternoon, shouting and applause rang out from dozens of people gathered at the Ferrisburgh Town Beach as Ceres, a 39-foot canal barge constructed by visionary farmer, baker and builder Erik Andrus approached the shore after completing its 1.25-mile maiden voyage.
MIDDLEBURY — Amy and Kyle Buxton enjoy spending time together. Sometimes they take it to the extreme.
For example, the Middlebury couple are training for an "extreme" sporting event — the New England Tough Mudder challenge — in which they will participate on Aug. 10. It will be the second year in a row that Amy, 36, and Kyle, 38, take on the challenging 10-12 mile obstacle course that is run up and down Mount Snow in West Dover.
LINCOLN — Alison Zimmer doesn't get much rest these days. Between her fulltime job as a physical therapist, raising her 10-year-old daughter, and competing nationally — and now globally — as an independent professional mountain biker her schedule does not leave much room for downtime.
"I don't ever rest in the sense of real rest, (like) sitting on the couch. But after a big weekend I definitely take two days where I don't go for a run, I don't go for a ride," the 33-year-old Lincoln resident said.
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The number of available full-time tech jobs has increased 46% in the past year, and contractors' hourly rates are rising as companies seek ways to overcome the ongoing IT skills shortage, according to a monthly report from Dice.
Dice, one of the largest tech recruitment sites, said the number of full-time positions advertised by its service rose from 29,101 on Oct. 1, 2009 to 42,502 on Oct. 1, 2010, a 46% increase.
Total tech jobs, including full-time, contract and part-time positions, rose from 51,439 to 70,798 in the 12 months ending Oct. 1. Next month's numbers are shaping up to be even more robust, with Dice already reporting 74,089 tech jobs on Thursday of this week.
"The economy has created nearly 400,000 temporary positions in just 12 months," Dice senior vice president Tom Silver wrote in his monthly report. "By comparison, it took more than three years to achieve that kind of growth during the last recovery. In tech, both full-time and contract hiring have been in lock-step with recruitment activity in both up about 50 percent since the lows in mid-2009."
Tech hiring has risen steadily throughout 2010. Dice reported 48,751 available tech jobs as of Jan. 4, including full-time, contract and part-time positions. That number was up to 68,901 by Sept. 1.
Other good signs: Silicon Valley posted its highest job count on Dice in two years, with 4,567 jobs, up 64% from a year ago. The Seattle region, home of Microsoft, Amazon, Nintendo and others, saw open tech positions double in the past year to 2,355.
Although having more jobs available is a good thing, Silver notes that hiring managers are, as usual, finding it difficult to locate skilled applicants, potentially making it difficult to fill open jobs.
Silver says Dice is "hearing anecdotal reports that contractors' hourly rates have begun creeping up across the board, a response to the age-old IT challenge: the skills shortage."
Java developers, database administrators, virtualization specialists and project managers are among the most in demand IT pros.
Although Dice numbers show substantial increases in the number of full-time positions, Silver indicates that the best post-recession opportunities may lie in contracting work.
"Two years of recession meant two years of limited hiring, if hiring at all," Silver said. "Attrition, while dampened by the lack of opportunities, still left many IT organizations understaffed. But businesses continued to require technology upgrades, and the backlog of projects only grew at most companies, who now need contractors to step in. Apparently, enough of them are eager enough that they'll pay higher rates."
In the United States at large, the unemployment rate is 9.6% and 14.8 million Americans are unemployed, according to the Department of Labor.


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Americans have become increasingly reliant on the Internet and social media, using them for everything from helping connect with friends to helping with homework. Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, discussed our changing relationship with social networks at the inaugural Provost Speaker Series.
Rainie's talk, "The Networked Way," shared the project's latest findings about how people use the Internet, smartphones and social media like Facebook and Twitter to connect in an increasingly global world.
In Pew's first survey for the project in March 2000, 46 percent of American adults were internet users as were 73 percent of teenagers. Pew began asking about home high-speed internet access in 2001, finding that only 4 percent of Americans had broadband. Today, 85 percent of adults and 95 percent of teenagers are internet users and broadband access at home has skyrocketed to 66 percent.
Now, the more than two thirds of Americans who have invested in broadband at home have become content creators, and are able to share their stories, democratizing the Internet. According to Rainie, this "broadband revolution" was the first of three shifts that have changed our online behavior.
The second shift was the rise of mobile access, from 300,000 subscriptions in 1985 to 331,600,000 in 2011, more than the U.S. population.
"Lots of people are like you," said Rainie, citing the audience members' smartphones, tablets and laptops. "This speaks to how hyperconnected we are that we can reach each other with a variety of devices."
Rainie says this hyperconnectivity has led to the third shift: social networking.
"People have had friends since the tribes got together on the Euphrates River," said Rainie. "What's new about this environment is that now all of our networks are displayed online if we choose them to be."
While social media use was in the single digits for surveyed internet-using adults in 2005, now 59 percent are using networks like Facebook and Twitter. Rainie shared stories from his new book, "The Networked Way," that illustrate our shifting relationships in the social media age. He described an ill woman's husband who brought together thousands of her friends and even strangers to create a village of care like she might have had in earlier times.
Social Impacts on Education
The rise of social networking is impacting the way people learn about friends and share with them and affecting how information is shared in educational settings says Rainie. As more information becomes readily available through blogs and projects like Khan Academy, it is combined with new technology and altering the traditional classroom experience. Rainie, a former journalist who spoke of watching his industry's "tsunami" as it approached the Internet, is intrigued by how educators will respond. After his tour of the University, Rainie said that UMass Lowell is already adapting.
"You're amazingly innovative and creative in your response," Rainie said, referring to the smart classrooms and coursework he saw on campus.
The rise of social networking has also created a new area of job opportunities open to recent graduates and students. Rainie said that students interested in social media should add a few statistics courses to their schedules.
"We're entering the age of 'big data' where we all need to gather information and figure out what it means," said Rainie. "Being able to use analytics to tell a story is a precious skill in this field."
For the complete video of Rainie's talk, visit the Campus Voices website.


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Except that some countries over here dub everything. It's one of the reasons things get delayed so often, if they are brought over at all (we still don't have Abyss or Legendia, for example).
I hope the next Tales game comes out on the PS3. That way I can just import the US version. Bloody region coding, why don't they realize- *gets dragged off before going on another region code rant*
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Sounds like a repeat of what happened with Tales of Symphonia. It was first released on the GameCube, sold very well outside of Japan, but the Japanese kept whining for it to be released on the PS2. This made sense because the GameCube wasn't that popular in Japan.
But I don't get it this time. The Wii is very popular in Japan. The Xbox 360 isn't, which explains Tales of Vesperia's port to the PS3. But this? Weird.
At any rate, don't kid yourselves about Namco finding out where the US fan base supposedly is. They don't care.
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Awesome now i have to buy it a third time, hopefully non of them will be ported to the west.
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Didn't 360 Vesperia sell about the same as Wii Graces.. with what.. 1/50th less of a userbase?
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Yeah... They just keep on doing this, and see how long it takes for their Tales fanbase to abandon them. Anyways, waiting to see if any madman pop up like with TOV.
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|2010-07-28, 21:12
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Graces (Wii) - 200,000 Copies
Vesperia (360) - 204,000 Copies
Vesperia (PS3) - 350,000 Copies
Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk (Wii) - 210,000 Copies.
So all things considered Graces didn't do that great, and Vesperia PS3, despite being a port, trashed all the others. So this is, for once, a very smart move on Namco Bandai's part.
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If they're not going to localize Vesperia, they're probably not going to localize Graces for the PS3. Unless a miracle happens and it sells millions.
To be honest I really don't care about Tales of Graces, I am however very intrigued with that extra PS3 Tales game they announced. If the real game is anywhere near the concept art I'm sold.
PS: I'm also somewhat frustrated that I watched Tales of Vesperia First Strike to hype myself up for the game (because I thought it would be announced at E3...)....and now I'm not sure if I should just play the Japanese version and train my Japanese.
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I'm only pointing out that the Wii game sold 200,000 copies, by logic won't it sell EVEN LESS on the PS3?
It's different for Vesperia because the 360 and PS3 user base is more divided. The 360 having a super weak install base (in Japan), I thought it was natural to port it to the PS3 and have it perform better. The Wii however is everywhere in Japan if you were interested enough to buy Tales of Graces, I don't see why you would buy it again on the PS3. Only super hard-core Tales fans that really want the extra content would purchase it on the PS3 as well.
And there is also the quality of the game itself that you have to factor in. Tales of Symphonia 2 was a let down in my opinion and it deserved the poor sales, I never played Graces myself so I don't know. There is also a mentality that this is a Wii port not a 360 port. Wii is hardly considered a current-gen system in the first place. If the game was made for Wii already, wouldn't people suspect that the quality of the game might not be on par to a 360/PS3 game? (I'm not saying that it isn't, I'm just pointing out the first thing that would come to a person's mind)
I'm not an industrial analyst, I'm obviously amateur, but this is just what I see. If you think my logic is flawed you can just point it out and explain it to me. I'm sorry if I said something idiotic.
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One witness told the Townsville Bulletin he saw "two orange lights" with "no beam and no noise" moving north-west across the sky, which he didn't believe to come from a man-made earthly craft.
Another couple reported seeing the unidentified lights on two nights and the Bulletin reported a witness as claiming he knew seven people who had seen the lights.
A video of the two lights moving side by side was provided to the media by one witness.
Ms Gottschall said in her 25 years experience with the UFO Research society, which meets monthly at the Kenmore Library, Queenslanders tended to report more sightings than in other Australian states.
"I do think we get more reports in Queensland, purely because, well in Western Australia it is a much bigger state, you are looking at population compared to size and there is more of the Australian population on the eastern coast," she said.
"So in Queensland and New South Wales, that is where you tend to get a lot of sightings from but it is here, in Queensland, where it seems to be that people report them. I don't hear of as many reports in other states as you do here in Queensland.
"At times, there have been a lot of reports from the Northern Territory, particularly from the central part of that area [as well]."
In terms of Queensland sightings, Ms Gottschall said it was not unusual for certain areas to become "hotspots".
"Those hotspots have been located in Gympie [north of the Sunshine Coast] and they've been located in the Brisbane Valley and up around the Tully [about 210 kilometres north of Townsville] area, there have been a lot of landing traces in the Tully area and there is documented evidence of that," she said.
"We don't know why they are hot spots, we don't know why it happens, it just does. Some locations just become very popular."
Those sightings tend to follow a familiar pattern – unidentified lights in the sky that are behaving in a way their viewers don't believe to be normal.
But it is the close sightings the group are particularly interested in, Ms Gottschall said, as those experiences which offer the most clues.
"People can give very good descriptions and then we can discern whether that is man-made or not," she said.
"And typically, we are looking for things in relation to the craft, whether there are any seams or not, which is something we do here on earth, but there are people who report craft that are seamless, or they can actually touch them in some cases and they won't feel like any sort of metal, they might seem like a living thing."
As for the Cardwell sightings, Ms Gottschall said she can only comment from what she has seen and heard in the media; but she wasn't ruling anything out.
"Just looking at the objects in the video clip, we just see two lights, moving along, seemingly silently and pacing each other. The could be two lights on one larger object or two separate lights," she said.
"I believe one of the witnesses I heard interviewed said the lights, as they went away, he could see that there was one on top of the other.
"So they could be anything. It is too hard to discern exactly what that was, but that doesn't discount the fact that they may have seen some extraterrestrial vehicle."


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The eight limbs of yoga are traditionally
presented as a hierarchical progression, but this linear progression toward an idealized goal tends only to reinforce the dualistic idea that yoga is something to "get." It may be more helpful to imagine the eight limbs as the arms and legs
of a body--connected to one another through the central body of yoga just as a
child's limbs grow in proportion to one another, whatever limb of practice we
focus upon inevitably causes the other limbs to grow as well. People who begin
yoga through the limb of meditation are often later drawn to practice more physical postures. Those who are drawn to vigorous physical practice later find themselves being drawn into the quieter, more meditative practices just as each limb is essential for the optimal functioning of your body, every limb of yoga practice is important. Growth in practice happens naturally when a person is sincere in her wish to grow.
The eight limbs emanating from a central core
consist of the following:
Yamas and Niyamas: Ten ethical precepts that allow us to be at peace with ourselves, our family, and our community.
Asanas: Dynarmic internal dances in the form of postures. These help to keep the body strong, flexible, and relaxed. Their practice strengthens the nervous system and refines our process of inner perception.
Pranayama: Roughly defined as breathing practices, and more
specifically defined as practices that help us to develop constancy in the
movement of prana, or life force.
Pratyahara: The drawing of one's attention
toward silence rather than toward things.
Dharana: Focusing attention and
cultivating inner perceptual awareness.
Dhyana: Sustaining awareness under all
Samadhi: The return of the mind into
original silence.


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Need for Speed Carbon – Exotic Class Walkthrough
PlayStation 3
Exotic Class Walkthrough by Sno Dragon
Version: 1.0 | Updated: 01/31/07
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Table of Contents
1) Back story
2) Cars
3) Race Types
4) Wingmen
5) General Tips
6) Walkthrough
6.1) Prologue
6.2) Bushido
6.3) 21st Street Crew
6.5) Stacked Deck
7) List of Races
8) Disclaimer
9) Final Word
* 1) Back story *
NSF: Carbon is the sequel to NSF: Most Wanted. After escaping Rockport, you
return to Palmont City in your BMW M3 GTR. Your return is not a happy one, as
it seems you were believed to have fled Palmont with a large sum of cash stolen
after a race that the cops broke up. However, you never stole the money.
Someone set you up. Now the city's broken up into territories, each controlled
by a different race crew. You have to conquered all four territories to win
the game.
* 2) Cars *
Cars are broken up into tiers and classes. Tier 1 is available at the
beginning of the game. Tier 2 is available after you conquer your first
territory. Tier 3 opens up after you unlock Silverton. Muscle cars have good
acceleration. Tuners have good handling. Exotics have good top speed. The
cars available in the game are as follows.
Tier 1
Mazda RX-8 (Tuner)
Chevrolet Camaro SS (Muscle)
Mazdaspeed 3 (Tuner)
Chrystler 300C (Muscle)
Alfa Romero Brera (Exotic)
Mercedes-Benz CLK 500 (Exotic)
Tier 2
Mitsubishi Eclipse GT (Tuner)
Volkswagon Golf R32 (Tuner)
Vauxhall Monaro VXR (Muscle)
Lotus Elise (Exotic)
Renault Clio v6 (Tuner)
Ford Mustang GT (Muscle)
Mazda RX-7 (Tuner)
Dodge Charger SRT (Muscle)
Porsche Cayman S (Exotic)
Dodge Charger R/T
Aston Martin DB9
Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG (Exotic)
Tier 3
Nissan 350Z (Tuner)
Subaru Impreza WRX-STI (Tuner)
Toyota Supra (Tuner)
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MR (Tuner)
Shelby Mustang GT 500 (Muscle)
Nissan Skyline R34 (Tuner)
Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda (Muscle)
Dodge Challenger Concept (Muscle)
Dodge Viper SRT/10 (Muscle)
Lamborghini Gallardo (Exotic)
Chevrolet Corvette Z06 (Muscle)
Ford GT (Exotic)
Lamborghini Murcielago (Exotic)
Porsche Carrera GT (Exotic)
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren (Exotic)
* 3) Race types *
- Circuit
Race around the track for two laps. Winner takes all.
Sprints are point A to point B races.
(>_<) Welcome to hell. Drifts are two lap circuit races where whoever has the
most points wins. The object of a drift race is to get your car sideways for
as long as you can while going around corners as fast as you can. You score
more points the longer you stay sideways and for linking drifts.
Speedtraps are point A to point B races. Either 5 or 6 speedtrap cameras will
be set up along the course, and the idea is to go through them as fast as you
can. Whoever has the highest combined speed at the end of the races wins. The
fun thing is, if you cross the finish line first, it drops everyone else's
score until they finish the race. Thus, you don't always have to have the
highest total when you finish. This also works vice versa, too.
Checkpoints are point A to B to C etcetera, etcetera races. You race alone and
only have a limited amount of time to pass through each checkpoint.
-Canyon Drift
Point A to B drift race done in one of the canyons.
-Canyon Sprint
Sprint race done in one of the canyons. You're on your own.
-Canyon Checkpoint
Checkpoint race that takes place in the canyon.
-Canyon Duel
These are the second part of all the crew chief duels. All canyon duels are
two part races. For the first part, you chase the crew chief and gain points
for how close you stay on their tail. For the second part, they chase you and
take your points based on how close they tail you. You win if you have points
left over after both stages, overtake the crew chief for 10 seconds in the
first stage, loss them for ten seconds in the second stage, or force the crew
chief off the cliff. You lose if the crew chief takes all your points in the
second stage, looses you for ten seconds in the first stage, passes you for
ten seconds in the second stage, or forces you off the cliff.
* 4. Wingmen *
Wingmen are members of you crew. You can have up to three on your race team.
Each have a special function both in race and out. Blockers ram other cars.
Scouts find the shortest route around the track. Drafters, uh... let you
draft them. Fabricators allow you to modify Autosculpt parts. Fixers modify
your heat levels and get you more money in races. Mechanics make your nitrous
more effective and get you discounts on parts and cars.
Neville (Blocker/Fixer)
In Race Bonus: Zone Heat doesn't increase.
Career Bonus: Extra $200 per win.
Joins: At the beginning of the game.
Colin (Drafter/Fabricator)
In Race Bonus: Larger Area for drafting.
Career Bonus: Unlocks Autosculpt wheels, spoilers, exhausts, and chop tops.
Joins: After you beat Wolf
Sal (Scout/Fabricator)
In Race Bonus: Winning races detracts attention from the police.
Career Bonus: Unlock Autosculpt body kits, hoods, and roof scoops.
Joins: After you control a coulpe section of Fortuna.
Sampson (Blocker/Fixer)
In Race Bonus: Extra 10% cash per win.
Career Bonus: Your zones get less attention from the police.
Joins: After you beat Angie.
Yumi (Scout/Mechanic)
In Race Bonus: 25% boost to nitrous.
Career Bonus: 10% discount on parts.
Joins: After you defeat Kenji.
Nikki (Drafter/Mechanic)
In Race Bonus: 50% boost to speedbreaker and nitrous.
Career Bonus: 10% discount on car purchases.
Joins: Before you take on Stacked Deck.
* 5) General Tips *
- Slow in, fast out
Basically, this means that you brake before going into a corner, then
accelerate as soon as you can while still turning.
- 90 degree turns
Before you go into a turn, smash the buttons for the brake, the handbrake,
and the direction you want to turn. The car should end up sideway facing the
direction you want to go. Now release all three and punch the throttle.
The Corvette makes this look goooood!
- Drafting is when you get as close as you can to another racer and stay inside
their slipstream. Let's say two cars are going 150 mph. The car in front of
the draft needs to hold the accelerator to the floor to maintain his speed.
The second driver only needs to hold his accelerator three quarters of the
way to the floor. Thus, the second driver has power "in reserve" that he can
use to slingshot around the first driver. Draft rival cars whenever you can.
- Not all shortcuts are a good idea. Some may actually take more time than
just staying on the main path.
- Likewise, a perfect launch is not always a perfect launch.
- With the exception of the races in T.F.K. and Stacked Deck's territory,
drift races don't unlock upgrades for your car. Unless you need the cash or
want the visuals, don't waste your time, breath, or sanity.
- As for wingmen, all have their drawbacks, but drafters are essentially
worthless. You can draft anything that moves.
- The following cars are worthless in this game: Anything made by Ford. =)
* 6) Walkthrough *
Palmont City has been divided into four territories, one controlled by each
race team. Your job is to take over all four territories and find out what
happened the night you left after that race went bad.
6.1) Prologue
A cutscene sets up the game. Your driving through one of the canyons, happy as
a lark, when an ominous black and white Corvette rams you from behind. Cross
is back, stripped of his badge after you escaped Rockport, and in a really bad
mood. You take over, and you're supposed to escape from Cross. You drive
into a construction zone, and end up totaling your Beemer. (And after all you
went through to get it back, too.) Cross is about to arrest you when Darius
comes to your aid. Cross leaves, and your ex, Nikki, shows up and she's not at
all pleased with you. Darius offers you a chance to drive for him in order to
clear your name, and you take it.
Nikki takes you to a car lot and gives you a choice of three cars. A Mazda
RX-8, an Alfa Romero Brera, and a Chevy Camero SS circa 1960s. Pick the
Alfa Romero and head out. Nikki then runs you through a tutorial on the
different kinds of wingmen. After that, she introduces you to Neville.
Neville will show you your safe house, then you two go out for a ride.
Unfortunately, the cops show up. Fortunately, they're clueless. Evade them
and get ready for the real game.
When I mention upgrades in the game, I use the following format: Txy-z
Tx is the car's tier, y is the level of upgrade, and z is the actual part.
i.e., T3R- Transmission is the Tier 3 Racing Transmission.
Also, I would strongly advise skipping drift races until you win Angie's
Crew Chief: Wolf
Wolf's Car: Aston Martin DB9
Class: Exotic
Territory Controlled: Fortuna
Crew Emblem: T.F.K written in white inside a blue circle.
Crew Car Markings: Silver with dark gray vinyls.
After the preliminaries, the game starts in Fortuna. Only one section is open
to you at the moment. Go run the sprint race (T1S- Nitrous and Tires) and
meet Wolf. Seems nice, don't he? Go win another race to take over your first
section and unlock Hills Borough and South Fortuna, as well as T1S- Turbo.
Now go to South Fortuna and win 2 races, including the checkpoint race
(T1S- Suspension). After taking over South Fortuna (T1S- Transmission), the
rest of Fortuna is unlocked.
Go run the following races to tune your car up;
In Ocean View, the sprint race (T1P- Brakes) and the speedtrap (T1P- Nitrous
and Tires). In Palmont University win the drift (T1P- Transmission), the
circuit (T1P- Suspension), and the checkpoint (T1R- Nitrous and Tires).
Controlling Palmont University will award you the T1P- Turbo. Winning Ocean
View will give you the Lotus Elise. GO BUY THIS CAR. It has the best handling
in its class, and arguably in the game. Now, take over the rest of sections
and go face Wolf.
First you have to take Wolf down in a circuit race. This'll be fun, because
your Brera is too underpowered to take on the DB9, and the Lotus is either not
purchased yet or a little too hard to control. Fortunately, there are three
shortcuts to help you along. The first is at the beginning of the race on the
left. The second is about halfway along the track on the left. Look for a
white brick walkway. (This is a major shortcut. It saves you from having to
go through the worst curves in the track.) The third is at the end on the left
by the underpass. Take these to win the first race. As for the canyon duel,
you'll have no chance to pass Wolf. Shadow him as close as you can in the
first stage and run like hell in the second. He'll go down soon enough.
Awww, Wolf let you win. What a pansy. For winning, you receive T1P- Engine
and unlock the Aston Martin DB9. Try and get Wolf's pink slip. You can sell
the car for cash. Colin wants to talk to you. Go find him at the University.
He'll revel more about the night you took off and join your crew.
6.3) 21st Street Crew
Crew Chief: Angie
Angie's Car: Dodge Charger R/T
Class: Muscle
Territory Controlled: Kempton
Crew Emblem: A 21st in a shield with wings
Crew Car Markings: Silver with orange/red vinyls.
After Wolf's defeat, it's time to tackle the 21st Street Crew. Go buy your
Lotus (if you haven't done so already) and head over to the circuit race in
Morgan Beach (T2S- Nitrous and Tires). Then run up to the Mason District
Downtown and win the circuit (T2S- Turbo). Two more sections in Kempton and
Downtown open up. Head back to Kempton and take over all three sections,
making sure you win the speedtrap in the Projects (T2S- Brakes) and the
speedtrap in Kempton Holdings (T2S- Suspension).
After winning a few races, a fourth section of Kempton will open. After you
control two sections, the last section of Kempton will open up. Soop up your
Lotus by winning the speedtrap (T2R- Nitrous) in Newport Industrial Park,
controlling Newport Industrial Park (T2P- Transmission), and controlling
Eskuri Plaza (T2S- Engine). Then take over the last section and it's time for
the showdown with Angie.
Before going into this race, I suggest tuning your turbo and transmission for
max acceleration (each slider all the way to the left) and the engine for
max horsepower (the slider all the way to the right). Also I strongly
recommend AGAINST tuning the suspension. It makes the car too unresponsive
in corners. Tires, good. Suspension bad. Okay, let's go.
Angie won't be a challenge. The first race against her is a circuit. Right
off the bat, there's a shortcut off to your right. Take it. Now just relax.
Her Charger is a monster on straights, but it can't corner at all. This
race'll be over before you know it. Angie's done for in the canyon. Your
Elise will pass her easy. Just draft Angie and wait for her to make a mistake.
Angie is thorouly disgusted by her loss. Poor baby. GET THE PINK SLIP FOR
ANGIE'S CAR! It makes a great drift car. You unlock the Dodge Charger R/T and
the T2P- Engine. Sampson would like a moment of your time. Head over to
Footy's Diner. After he tells you what he knows of the night you left, Sampson
will join your crew as well.
6.4) Bushido
Crew Chief: Kenji
Kenji's Car: Mazda RX-7
Class: Tuner
Territory Controlled: Downtown Palmont City
Crew Emblem: A pair of glaring eyes.
Crew Car Markings: Acid green paint with black vinyls and white Japanese
One last territory before you can take on Darius and Stacked Deck. This will
be hidiously short and sweet. All of Downtown is open to you. Go win the
speedtrap race in Billings District (T2P- Nitrous and Tires). Controlling
Billings District will give you the T2P- Brakes. Take over King's Park to
unlock the T2P- Suspension (Again, I would NOT recommend equipping this).
Then, simply conquer all the remaining sections and take on Kenji.
Kenji runs a very technically proficient race. Even so, he won't pose much of
a problem. In the circuit, just run clean and you'll win. Kenji's dead in the
canyon. You should be able to pass him going into the first turn. Just hold
on for the win.
Kenji's defeat completes your job of defeating the three lower bosses. For
your efforts, you'll unlock the T2P- Turbo and the Mazda RX-7. Don't worry
about getting the pink slip for Kenji's car. You'll be getting a Corvette
soon. Yumi wants in on your crew. Go meet her at the Plaza. She'll tell you
even more about the night you left, and you finally put it all together...
After Yumi joins your crew, Darius calls you and tells you to meet him at the
courthouse. Enjoy the cutscene. Daruis stole the cash, accused you of it, and
Cross helped. Nikki double crosses Darius and leaves Stacked Deck for your
crew. Angie, Kenji, and Wolf, embarrassed by their losses, disband their own
crews and join Stacked Deck. Let the fun and games begin.
6.5) Stacked Deck
Crew Chief: Darius
Darius' Car: Audi Le Mans Quattro
Class: Mixed
Territory Controlled: Silverton
Crew Emblem: A viper coiled around an ace of spades.
Crew Car Markings: Red with black vinyls.
When you get to Silverton, 3 sections will be unlocked. Head straight for the
Neon Mile and win both races (T3P- Nitrous and Tires, and T3S- Transmission).
Canmor Downs will open for you. Ignore it for now and head over to Diamond
Hills. Control this section and Infinity Park will open for you. Head to the
Starlight Strip and take it over. Shady Pine is finally unlocked. Time to go
get your Corvette.
In Shady Pine, win the circuit (T3R- Nitrous and Tires) and the sprint (T3R-
Turbo), then head over to the dealership to claim your brand new shiny
Corvette. The final section of Silverton opens up at last. To finish sooping
up your brand new play toy, win the drift (T3R- Transmission) and circuit (T3R-
Engine) in the Silverton Refinery, and the checkpoint in Infinity Park. Then,
take over all the sections and it's time for the final challenge.
You finally control all of Palmont. Kenji, Angie, and Wolf send you a
challenge. They've got new rides, courtesy of Darius, and want to exact their
revenge. Kenji now drives a Mitsubishi Evo IX MR. Angie has a Dodge
Challenge Concept. Wolf runs with a Lamborghini Murcielago. Their race
tactics remain the same. Kenji runs a technical race and avoids making
mistakes. Angie runs bat-out-of-hell style. Wolf still looks for the
The first race is a canyon sprint. No problems. Wolf will give you the most
problems in the second race. His Murcielago handles a little better than the
Vette, but it has a lower top speed and much worse acceleration. In spite of
this, Wolf can be very hard to pass once he gets the lead. About all you can
hope for is for him to make a mistake, and that won't happen often. There's a
shortcut on your left after the start. Take it. Wolf does. When you hit the
freeway tunnel, make sure you're on the right hand side. Directly after the
tunnel, there's a sharp 90 degree turn. One last shortcut in the refinery
after the hairpin turn. Other than that, just make sure you run clean and
watch your map.
Now it's time for Darius. His driving style is all the best of the three
previous bosses. Rub some prayer beads. The first race is a circuit. About a
quarter of the way through, there's a shortcut on the right hand side. You'll
need to hit this both times. Look for other shortcuts, but don't kill yourself
trying to get them. Just run a sound race and you'll win. As for the canyon,
draft Darius until the first hairpin, then slingshot around him. Hang on for
ten seconds and he's done for.
Congratulations are in order. You've beat the game. Watch the final cutscene,
and then go out and play the game again with a different starting class.
* 7. Race List *
Here's a list of what each race and section unlocks.
Fortuna Heights (T1S- Turbo)
Circuit (Wheels- Package 1)
Sprint (T1S- Nitrous and Tires)
Checkpoint (Spoilers- Package 1)
South Fortuna (T1S- Transmission)
Sprint (Body Kits- Package 1)
Checkpoint (T1S- Suspension)
Circuit (Hoods- Package 1)
Ocean View (Lotus Elise)
Speedtrap (T1P- Nitrous and Tires)
Sprint (T1P- Brakes)
Boss Race (Wolf)
Palmont University (T1P- Turbo)
Checkpoint (T1R- Nitrous)
Drift- (T1P- Transmission)
Circuit (T1P- Suspension)
Hills Borough (T1S- Brakes)
Sprint (T1S- Engine)
Sprint (Flame Vinyls)
Drift (Metallic Paint)
Morgan Beach (Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG)
Checkpoint (Body Kits- Package 2)
Circuit (T2S- Nitrous and Tires)
Sprint (Stripe Vinyls)
Kempton Holdings (Ford Mustang GT)
Sprint (Chrome Paint)
Speedtrap (T2S- Suspension)
Boss Race (Angie)
Newport Industrial Park (T2P- Transmission)
Drift (Body Kits- Package 4)
Speedtrap (T2S- Nitrous)
Sprint (Hoods- Package 3)
Eskuri Plaza (T2S- Engine)
Drift (Wheels- Package 4)
Checkpoint (Candy Paint)
Speedtrap (Roof Scoops)
The Projects (Vauxhall Monaro VXR)
Circuit (Window Tint)
Sprint (Spoilers- Package 2)
Speedtrap (T2S- Brakes)
Downtown Palmont
Historic Chinatown (Renault Clio v6)
Circuit (T2S- Transmission)
Drift (Tribal Vinyls)
Sprint (Wheels- Package 2)
Old Quarter (Mitsubishi Eclipse GT)
Sprint (Matte Paint)
Checkpoint (Body Vinyls- Package 2)
Boss Race (Kenji)
Mason District (Porsche Cayman S)
Speedtrap (Body Vinyls- Package 1)
Circuit (T2S- Turbo)
Sprint (Hoods- Package 2)
Billings District (T2P- Brakes)
Drift (Wheels- Package 3)
Sprint (Body Kits- Package 3)
Speedtrap (T2P- Nitrous and Tires)
Kings Park (T2P- Suspension)
Drift (Spoilers- Package 3)
Sprint (Exhaust Tips)
Circuit (Iridescent Paint)
Canmor Downs (Porsche Carrera GT)
Speedtrap (T3P- Turbo)
Canyon Duel (Lamboghini Murceilago)
Checkpoint (Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda)
Neon Mile (Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren)
Speedtrap (T3P- Nitrous and Tires)
Checkpoint (T3S- Transmission)
Boss Race (Darius)
Diamond Hills (Lamborghini Gallardo)
Sprint (T3P- Transmission)
Sprint (T3S- Nitrous and Tires)
Circuit (T3S- Brakes and Suspension)
Starlight Strip (Ford GT)
Sprint (T3S- Turbo)
Circuit (Nissan 350Z)
Checkpoint (T3S- Engine)
Shady Pine (Chevrolet Corvette Z06)
Speedtrap (Dodge Viper SRT/10)
Circuit (T3R- Nitrous and Tires)
Sprint (T3R- Turbo)
Silverton Refinery (Subaru Impreza WRX-STI)
Drift (T3R- Transmission)
Canyon Duel (Dodge Challenger Concept)
Circuit (T3R- Engine)
Infinity Park (Toyota Supra)
Canyon Duel (Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MR)
Sprint (T3P- Engine)
Checkpoint (T3R- Brakes and Suspension)
* 8. Disclaimer/Legal *
Need For Speed Carbon and all characters mention in this FAQ are the property
of Electronic Arts. All cars are the property of their respective makers.
This FAQ is (c) 2007 Sno Dragon. Any plagiarism will result in, but is by no
means limited to, threatening e-mails, threatening phone calls, baseball bat
related violence, ninja attacks, pirate attacks, dinosaur attacks, flying
saucer invasions, and, in rare cases, death by kittens. Just don't steal from
me. =)
* 9. Final Word *
Thanks to:
- CJayC for having the time and sanity to not only create but also maintain
- You, for obvious reasons.
- Electronic Arts. They've brought the NFS series a long way. This game is
the best one yet.
- The car makers who allowed their cars to be used in this game. Except, of
course, for Ford. Learn how to build a car. Please?
Copyright 2007 "Sno Dragon"
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