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- About CSAIL
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UROP Research Opportunities
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) cultivates and supports research partnerships between MIT undergraduates and faculty. If you have any questions please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or take a look at the How to UROP at CSAIL document (pdf format).
This program is available to MIT students only.
Clinical Dataset Causal Inference Benchmarks- Summer 2016
Clinical Dataset Causal Inference Benchmarks
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Szolovits, CSAIL MEDG
Contact: Marzyeh Ghassemi, email@example.com
In this project, we will create a benchmark for state of the art causal inference methods. Datasets will be extracted from the public MIMICIII...Posted date: June 01, 2016
Simplified WiFi link layer implementation for Distributed Multi-User MIMO systems- Summer 2016
We would like to demonstrate our MegaMIMO setup with commodity devices like cell phones and laptops and show real-time measurements of the throughput gain. This project takes the first step which is to design a simplified WiFi MAC layer capable of connecting a single device (cell phone) to one of our MegaMIMO nodes and provide a stable internet connection for that device. We are looking for someone who has good experience in C/C++ and interested in wireless networks.
If interested please send your resume to Ezzeldin Hamed (firstname.lastname@example.com)...Posted date: April 15, 2016
Social Accountability- Summer 2016
Title: Social Accountability
We want to study and understand the changes (if any) in people's online behavior when they are accountable for all their actions (clicks) on social networks (Facebook) to their friends. As part of this project you will need to build a Chrome Extension to run a controlled social experiment to record people's invisible clicks on Facebook and to measure their behavioral changes. This project will be under the supervision of Daniel J. Weitzner, director of the internet privacy policy research initiative and Ilaria Liccardi.
...Posted date: April 13, 2016
Spoken Language Interface Development - Summer 2016
Spoken Language Interface Development
Members of the Spoken Language Systems Group are actively developing a
speech interface to help people log their food intake by voice (see
recent MIT News article). We have several opportunities for UROP
students to participate in this research. Someone with app devlopment
experience on iOS or Android and interests in human-computer
interaction could help create a mobile version of the web platform,
and potentially extend the system functionality as well (e.g.,
personalization...Posted date: April 07, 2016
Teaching a Computer to Understand Speech - Summer 2016
Teaching a Computer to Understand Speech
Members of the Spoken Language System Group are engaged in long term
research to enable a computer to learn a new language by seeing and
listening to people talk about images. We are looking for a UROP with
experience developing applications for iOS or Android who can help
develop an app that we can use for crowdsourcing data collection of
images and corresponding audio and gestures that we can use to train
our models.
Please contact: Jim...Posted date: April 07, 2016
Accessibility of Mobile Apps (or Mobile Apps for All) - Summer 2016
Accessibility of Mobile Apps (or Mobile Apps for All)
Handheld devices including mobile phones, tablets, and smart watches have replaced desktops and laptops as the primary communication and computation platform for many individuals. With almost one billion people with disabilities in the world, ensuring that apps for these handheld devices are accessible by people with disabilities is important and becomes highly critical during emergency situations, when dissemination of evacuation information and coordination of relief efforts are essential. Though mobile...Posted date: April 07, 2016
ALFA Group UROP Openings - Summer 2016
Project 1: "Machine Learning, CyberSecurity and Software Defined
Networks": Software defined networks are constantly growing in
popularity, but the security is still an issue. This project involves
applying machine learning to replicate how topology poisoning exploits
manage to escape detection.
Project 2: "Coding the Tax Code": AI techniques translate case law to
software, but rarely the Tax Code. In addition, when the law is
formalized in software, the correctness needs to be verified. This
project will...Posted date: April 07, 2016
GPU programming for brain imaging - Summer 2016
Project Title: GPU programming for brain imaging
Project Description: Our group in CSAIL is developing state-of-the-art methods for understanding the human brain using combined brain imaging techniques. The method requires lots of heavy computations. We are looking for someone who can think in parallel and implement neural algorithms on GPU (using Cuda/C++). No previous knowledge about the brain is needed.
Responsibilities: The commitment starts at 4-6 hours per week and scales from there. The selected candidate will...Posted date: April 07, 2016
Haystack group UROP Openings - Summer 2016
The Haystack group develops tools that help people manage their
information more effectively. We have created and deployed a number of
open source web applications that have seen significant adoption. I am
seeking UROPs with experience and interest in maintaining and extending
these projects. There are research opportunities available, as well as
engineering challenges in refactoring large systems, incorporating new
and better frameworks, reducing our custom code footprint by adopting
standard libraries, enhancing the design of web...Posted date: April 07, 2016
Modeling and 3D printing of echolocation rig components - Summer 2016
Project Title: Modeling and 3D printing of echolocation rig components
Project Description: This UROP position is part of an ongoing effort in the Computational Perception and Cognition group at CSAIL to prototype a wearable research tool and mobility aid based on ultrasonic sonar signals. Custom components to be fabricated fall into two main categories: (1) housings and other support structures for various components of the rig; and (2) critically, receivers for appropriate filtering of the ultrasonic echoes.
Responsibilities...Posted date: April 07, 2016
Next Generation Humanitarian Technology - Summer 2016
Next Generation Humanitarian Technology
Faculty Supervisor: Lalana Kagal
Are you interested in working with humanitarian organizations and using technology to create a positive social change as well as help with disaster management? Come work with researchers from MIT CSAIL and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and contribute to the next generation of humanitarian technology. Projects include using and extending APIs provided by the UN such as ReliefWeb and Humanitarian ID to develop...Posted date: April 07, 2016
Printable origami robots with integrated sensors and controllers - Summer 2016
Summer 2016
Faculty Supervisor: Daniela Rus
Project Title: Printable origami robots with integrated sensors and controllers
Project description:
In this project, we focus on automated design and fabrication of origami robots for miniature-scale operations. With the successful development of magnetically-controlled, self-folding, origami robots in our group, the goals of the project are (1) to advance the robot's design and control with integrated sensors, (2) to develop an idea for a...Posted date: April 07, 2016
The MIT App Inventor project - Summer 2016
The MIT App Inventor project, aims at making it possible for anyone to create mobile applications for smartphones and tablets, even school children and people who have never programmed. The MIT App Inventor platform lets people build mobile app using a drag-and-drop interface where they piece together program "blocks" to create applications that have the full power of mobile computing.
More than 300,000 people use our MIT App Inventor server to create apps each month. About half of these users are in schools. Overall, we hosts over 4 million people from almost...Posted date: April 07, 2016
Computational Perception and Cognition UROP
Project Description:
Our group in CSAIL is developing state-of-the-art methods for understanding the human brain using combined brain imaging techniques. The method requires lots of heavy computations. For an UROP position this semester, we are looking for someone who can think in parallel and implement neural algorithms on GPU. No previous knowledge about the brain is needed.
Prerequisites or requirements for the position:
- skillful in GPU programming (Cuda/C++) and Matlab
Department: ...Posted date: February 26, 2016
UROP Project: Mobility Electronic Market for Optimized Travel (MeMOT)
MeMOT aims to influence travelers' trip making, mode, route, departure time choices and driving style toward system-wide optimal travel behavior and energy consumption. MeMOT is an app-based travel incentive tool designed to influence users' travel choices by offering them real-time information and rewards.
The project involves the development of a smartphone app that provides a trip menu of options to users, each associated with tokens that are the travel incentive mechanism. Users select specific option that corresponds to their desired transportation mode. The app then...Posted date: February 23, 2016
UROP: Global Health, Telemedicine, and Multi-Pronged Approach
Term: Spring 2016
Department/Lab/Center: IMES and CSAIL
Faculty Supervisor: Visiting Professor Amar Gupta
Project Title: Global Health, Telemedicine, and Multi-Pronged Approach
Project Description:
Telemedicine/telehealth is poised for double digit growth and widespread adoption within the next decade. The remote delivery of healthcare services, fueled by advances in communication and mobile health technologies, has been shown to provide improved outcomes and quality at a reduced per-capita...Posted date: January 25, 2016
Ray tracing visualization UROP
This project deals with lighting simulation and realistic graphics using ray tracing. The goal is to create visualization tools to illustrate the light paths sampled by a variety of algorithms from light source to the eye through multiple bounces off scene elements. We will use javascript, three.js, OpenGL, Embree, as well as new simulation software developed in our lab. Extension include the implementation of new lighting simulation and material appearance model.
Experience with javascript, OpenGL and ray tracing preferred. Available for credit or pay.
Contact...Posted date: October 27, 2015
Applying Machine-Learning Techniques to the Biopharmaceutical Industry
Faculty Supervisor: Andrew W. Lo
Project description: This project applies machine-learning techniques to evaluate the key factors driving biopharmaceutical companies. It will entail using a large database to extract data and helping a small team develop statistical models that can be trained using the features/response variables extracted from the database.
· Strong SQL skills
· Strong statistical inference/machine-learning skills; well-versed in supervised learning, predictive...Posted date: October 13, 2015
Design and Fabricate touch sensors for robot fingers
Project Description: We are working new tactile sensor called GelSight, which has resolution much higher than human skin. (Cite xxxx youtube video). The sensor is built with a clear elastomer covered with a special membrane along with an internal camera and light source. The sensor can capture detailed information about force, shape, texture, and other contact information, giving new capabilities to robots.Candidate role: The candidate for this project will improve the hardware, including modifying the design and building new prototypes. The...Posted date: September 23, 2015
Color Aesthetics
Project Description: We are building an online platform for color palette design and recommendation. Consider a scenario in which the user wishes to create or select a color palette for their visual design (poster, magazine cover, blog, webpage). We want to help the user to find good color palettes based on their design concept, principles of design, and preference. We have collections of the color palettes, and models for color recommendations. What we want you to help us with is implementing both the server-side...Posted date: September 18, 2015


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The Course for the Summer Epic 8 Hour, taking place on Saturday July 23 at Hardwood Ski & Bike, will be open to pre-ride as of this Saturday July 9th. This course is super fun and flowy and designed to appeal to all levels of riders. Overview map is available … Continue Reading

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Anyone who works with computers today, who seeks to look into the electronic future, can profit greatly from reading [this]. -- John McCarthy, Stanford University
Delightfully entertaining and most instructive! -- Raymond Smullyan, author of The Riddle of Scheherazade and First-Order Logic
Erudite, gripping and humane, Martin Davis shows the extraordinary individuals through whom the groundwork of the computer came into being. -- Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: The Enigma
Martin Davis speaks about logic with the love and touch of a sculptor speaking about stone. -- Dennis Shasha, New York University
[A]n elegant history of the search for the boundaries of logic and the machines that live within them. -- Wired, Peter Wayner, December 2000


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I'm using the responsive theme for one of my site and have used the built-in menu manager (wordpress platform), with everything appearing as should on web and iPhone devices.
However, on Blackberry it does not display the 'header-menu', where as all of the other menus - footer, top, etc are appearing fine.
Anyone know what could be going wrong?
FYI - Blackberry Curve 9320.


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I ran my first half marathon in 2007 and it mentally broke me. I am now more determined than ever to run a half marathon and enjoy it. I have made some specific changes to help me have a better run, however I was wondering if anyone has a training calendar that has worked and if you'd be willing to share. I am not looking for speed, just to finish. I finished my first half in 2:27 and I would like to finish my second at 2:15. I appreciate any direction that is provided.
You always get what you focus on...stay focused.
Im not sure if this would help you; but i have found if I train with people who are faster than me I train better. If you find someone who is running a faster pace than you try to see what their workout plan is than maybe you can run with them. Eventually this will make you faster. I ran cross country in high school; I know that worked for me. Though I am new to all this half marathon stuff.
I like Hal Higdon's program
I also have some from Bob Glover's books which are pretty similar.
I concur with Rogue, Hal Higdon's stuff is very practical and stood the test of time.
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Rain Or Shine, The Idea Of 'Earthquake Weather' Is Shaky Science With A Hint Of 'Maybe'The notion that certain kinds of weather can lead to increased seismic activity isn't new. But is there any scientific evidence to support it?
Bill Would Create California Quake Warning SystemCalifornia could join Japan, Mexico and other earthquake-prone countries that alert residents to the approach of powerful shaking under a bill awaiting approval from Gov. Jerry Brown.
California Earthquake Warning System Stymied By Budget ShortfallA system giving Californians warning of an impending earthquake may not be operational any time soon despite the success of similar programs in other countries.


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Chapter One
I can't do sex. Absolute truth. Believe me, I've been trying really hard, but it still won't come.
Oh, dear. That last sentence was a bit too Freudian even for me. Let me put it another way.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
No, no, no. Not the flesh. The flesh is as hard as an oiled-up Mr. Universe in full competition pose and has been that way for, what I've been told, way too long now. What I mean is the pen is weak. Or rather, the keyboard. Oh, damn--that's not what I mean, either. Let me explain.
The name's Pamela Flynn. Perhaps you've heard of me. Not to sound self-absorbed, but I do have three bestsellers under my belt in the Tanaka & Shields series. You know, the hot Philadelphia detective duo? All right, maybe they weren't quite chartbusters, but the last time out they did make the New York Times extended list, have a very loyal following, and my agent tells me a pretty prestigious production company is more than interested. But only under one condition.
"They gotta have sex," she told me just the other day.
A benign day, but to the uninformed, anything but. You see, I was still freaking, still hot to the touch, still so ragged around the edges, telling me I had to do sex was like telling me to speak Chinese. I just couldn't do it. I switched the phone to my other ear. "What're you talking about?"
"Holy cow, Pammy--were you home sick the day the teacher showed the video? I'm talking screw, sweetie, a bit of the in-and-out, making the beast with two backs, his love hammer in her velvet sheath, sweaty, heavy-breathing--"
"I got it, Renee, jeez." Something shiny under the sofacaught my eye; so that's where his glasses fell. I had to talk her out of this. "But don't you realize? If they screw, the sexual tension goes right out the window."
"Sweetie, listen to me, if things get any more tense, he's gonna have a full-throttle nervous breakdown. Let the man blow some steam already. I mean, he's from Japan, right? How about that scene in the warehouse? Throw in some hot tantric sex."
"Oh, that's realistic. A roomful of goons two feet away and he's looking for her 'G' spot? And by the way, he's from Seattle, don't you remember, and hardly--"
"He's a man, Pammy, a studly, healthy, woman-screwing man, and realistically, men like that have sex. And if you don't put it in, someone else will do it for you."
"They can't do that."
"You sell the rights, Pammy, they can do whatever they want. Do it now and you get it down your way."
"Which, in the end, will make all of us just a little bit richer, won't it, Pamela?" another voice cut in.
"Consuelo?" My editor. "A conference call, eh? Ganging up on me?"
"It's a gang-bang!" Renee whooped. "See? You've already started."
"Nevertheless," Consuelo said briskly, her cultured voice snapping, "in her own crudely descriptive way, Renee's absolutely right. It's essential for the protagonists to rise to the next level if we want to make this series more commercially viable. Frankly, Pamela, in addition to the movie interest, we've even been discussing franchise--product endorsements, video games, podcasts--the possibilities are endless. So it's absolutely to our benefit--to your benefit--that we take the creative initiative. Sex sells, Pamela, and you're ready to take off with this. This is your big chance. Run with it."
"Pammy, c'mon--it's just sex. What's the problem, anyway?"
Problem? His lenses caught the westing sun, shooting a shaft of light near-blinding. "I just don't know if they're ready for that yet."
"Then, Pamela, make them ready," said Consuelo most authoritatively. "Because if they can't be, then maybe we'll have to--"
"She'll do it, she'll do it," Renee assured my editor. "Won't you, Pammy?"
Suddenly I'm frozen, positively iced. "I--I don't--"
"Connie, she'll do it. Don't worry."
"Fine," said Consuelo, sounding unconvinced. "I'll expect the pages in a week."
"One week?" They had to be kidding.
"She'll have them," said Renee. "Don't worry. Right, Pammy? She's getting to work right now." And just like that, they both hung up. And hung me out to dry.
Great. Fine. Peachy. So here I sit, twenty-four hours later, out of patience and devoid of ideas, those glasses staring back at me like the painful reminder they were, a souvenir of that infamous afternoon, spectacles from the spectacle I had witnessed. I shifted in my chair, staring across to my opened bedroom door, gaping at me like I had shamelessly gaped myself.
The room wasn't the only thing that had been left wide open.
Was totally my fault, really. I shouldn't have ever let him move in. But Josh intrigued me, this slinky, urban version of the country innocent, attentive and fawning and aw-shucks self-deprecating, though underneath, I'd find out, every bit the snake. At the time I just felt sorry for the poor, struggling grad student, so for the past two months, as a trade-off for rent, I let him keep me sated, fed and focused while I wrote. He'd clean my apartment and wash my clothes, in between attending master's classes at the University of Pennsylvania and pouring drinks part time at a local bar two blocks over. Then one night, a week ago, after I had spent the day researching in Washington, I came home to the last thing in the world I wanted to see.
Karen and I have been friends since grade school, not as tight as when we were kids, but we still kept in touch. So when she called to say she was coming down from Pittsburgh for a wedding, I insisted she stay with me. And if I hadn't made prior arrangements to meet with Dr. Kettlebaum at the Smithsonian, I wouldn't have been gone the day in question. But Josh assured me he'd entertain her until he had to leave for work, and oh, boy, did that boy ever.
We'd planned on my getting home around eight, catching a meal at the diner, then meeting up with Josh at work for drinks. But I'd finished with Dr. Kettlebaum an hour early and the trains, miraculously, were running ahead of schedule, which got me to my door at a little past six thirty. And then I opened it.
Any writer can tell you what it's like to be deep in the zone of a good plot line. When the story is flowing out of you so like dictation, the Philharmonic could be right next to you blasting the cannons of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, and you wouldn't hear a damn thing. I'm using this analogy to explain what I saw when I walked into my living room that night in the only plausible way I know how. Because to think they planned it that way was just a little too kink for this Jersey girl, so properly stunned into disbelief she fell smack down into a chair directly opposite my opened bedroom door. Where, without the benefit of a keyhole, she then proceeded to watch the whole thing.


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Welcome to the Website of the Game Theory Society
GTS News(last updated on June 30, 2016)
Conference programfor GAMES 2016 - Fifth World Congress of the Game Theory Society, July 24 - 28, 2016, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Upcoming Conference Deadlines - see below
Elections of GTS Officers 2016(mailed to GTS members by Jean-Jacques Herings, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society, on 10 June 2016)
Dear Members of the Game Theory Society,
According to Bylaws of our Society, elections for the Officers of the Society have to be held every two years. The Officers (the President, the Past President, the Executive Vice-President, the Vice-President for Communications, and the Secretary/Treasurer) are responsible for the ongoing operations of the Society. New officers are elected by the members of the Council, upon a proposal drawn up by the Steering Committee, using the system of approval voting.
The elections took place recently, and we would like to inform you of the outcome.
In the election 20 Council members voted, and this is the result:
for President: Larry Samuelson (to succeed David Schmeidler)
for Executive Vice-President: Hervé Moulin (to succeed Larry Samuelson)
for Vice-President for Communications: Rakesh Vohra (to continue another term)
for Secretary and Treasurer: Jean-Jacques Herings (to continue another term)
The newly elected officers will take up their positions on August 1, 2016
Council Elections 2015(mailed to GTS members by Jean-Jacques Herings, Secretary-Treasurer of the Game Theory Society, on 30 March 2016)
Dear member of the Game Theory Society,
The elections for the replacement of 12 members of the GTS Council have taken place, and the following candidates have been elected:
Rabah AmirWe thank candidates and voters for their collaboration.
Tilman Börgers
Olivier Compte
Hülya Eraslan
Srihari Govindan
Noam Nisan
Georg Nöldeke
Akira Okada
Karl Schmedders
Chris Shannon
Rajiv Vohra
Leeat Yariv
In Memoriam: Lloyd S. Shapley (1924-2016)posted by Rakesh Vohra, 13 March 2016
The Nobel laureate Lloyd Shapley passed away on March 12, 2016. He was of the `heroic age' of Game Theory that gave us, among others, Gale, Nash, Scarf, and Kuhn. You will find his memorial among the many eponymous concepts, models and theorems that pave the subject: the Shapley value, the Shapley-Shubik assignment model, The Gale-Shapley algorithm, the Shapley-Folkman Theorem, the Bondareva-Shapley Theorem, Aumann-Shapley pricing and the Scarf-Shapley housing model. The list just enumerated is biased towards Shapley's contributions to co-operative games and matching. On the noncooperative side there is the introduction of stochastic games, the introduction (joint with Monderer) of Potential games and with Aumann a folk theorem for infinitely repeated games. Even until the onset of dementia some years ago, Shapley continued to `bang away' as it were, most recently with the von-Neumann Morgenstern solution. His breadth and fecundity are unrivaled. For this the Society honors him at each World Congress through the Shapley Lecture which is given by a distinguished game theorist aged 40 or under at the time of the Lecture.
Shapley was, until recently, a regular of the Society's meetings at Stony Brook as well as the World Congress. He was no wallflower and could be heard asking pointed questions, and directing others to his less well known work on, say, accessibility of fixed points.
Shapley also delighted in playing games, having invented (along with Nash, Hausner and Shubik) the game `so long sucker'. At conferences, Shapley would hold forth on how Kriegspiel (blindfold chess) is to be played rationally, though less enlightened souls reported he lost that way. He will be missed.
Upcoming Conference Deadlines(see GTS conference announcements)
July 29, 2016: Submission Deadline for
12th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2016) (December 11 - 14, 2016, Montreal, Canada)
July 31, 2016: Paper submission for
UECE Lisbon Meetings 2016: Game Theory and Applications (November 3 - 5, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal)
September 15, 2016: Extended Abstract
Submission Deadline for
2nd Lancaster Game Theory Conference (November 18 - 19, 2016, Lancaster, United Kingdom)
Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society - Elections(posted February 22, 2016)
The Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society elected Abraham Neyman as the President for the years 2016-2018, and elected Igal Milchtaich as the Executive Officer.


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For Better Or For Worse?
© 2010 Alex Baldwin
Game sequels should always be better than their predecessors. It's a rule and usually a certainty.
Films must rely on narrative and characterisation for success; two elements that can often be subjective in their effectiveness. If a film has already spent the time introducing the characters and filling in their backstories, a successful sequel can be a daunting task to provide the same intrigue and compelling plotlines.
Games have it a bit easier. Gameplay and usability are the major drawcards, and can be improved much more readily by seeking feedback from the prior game and simply taking out the bad and adding more of the good with some new features sprinkled on top. With each successive title we expect, nay demand, a better experience.
But does this really happen in execution? It's time to find out as we look at some of the notable games and sequels that have both existed in this generation, and choose our pick of which did it best.
#1: Crackdown vs Crackdown 2
The first game was one of the biggest surprise hits on its release. Initially gaining sales purely for the included Halo 3 beta code, many buyers were shocked to find one of the best games of the year accompanying their purchase.
It wasn't long before Crackdown became a cult hit for its superhero powers and sandbox gameplay that did away with unnecessary realism or complex narratives in favour of providing pure explosive mayhem. And it worked.
Most of the fun found in the game came from setting your own goals and challenging yourself to perform seemingly impossible tasks, not to mention finding all the orbs and achievements.
The slow drip-feed of ability upgrades ensured you never got bored, as that rooftop just out of reach or truck that's a bit too heavy to lift is only an upgrade away.
The addition of complete freedom in 4-player co-op provided some of the most memorable moments of multiplayer gaming I've experienced, and the unique spin on highly-textured cell-shaded graphics gave Crackdown its own style.
While the first was developed by Realtime Worlds, the sequel was handed off to Ruffian Games. Our first glimpse of Crackdown 2 showed a willingness to follow the current fad of mass mutants / zombies / infected people in sandbox environments, and combined with the over the top action of Crackdown it looked to be a winner. Unfortunately, for me at least, it did not turn out this way.
Crackdown 2 felt like a quite serious backwards step due mainly to a variety of poor design and usability issues. Melee combat was a lot messier and haphazard, the accidental deaths of Agency police or civilians from the explosive carnage resulted in you being punished and the mutants simply weren't fun to fight.
On top of this, the lack of guidance worked against the game as your ever-present voice-in-the-headset boss would berate you for things you weren't aware you'd done. It all felt like the game was in need of 6 more months of polish and testing, and the less-detailed and more difficult to traverse environments added to this feeling.
MY PICK: Crackdown
#2: Assassin's Creed vs Assassin's Creed II
There was no stopping the Assassin's Creed hype machine. Originally announced as 'Multiplatform title' through a early leaked Official Ubisoft Release List showing it's appearence on several platforms, then skewed towards being a PS3 exclusive before landing on 360 as well (and actually having a more stable framerate, surprisingly enough), the concept was a winner.
Taking the role of a modern everyday guy named Desmond Miles who is kidnapped by a mysterious organisation called Abstergo, you must relive the memories of your medieval assassin ancestor Altaïr ibn La-Ahad hidden in your DNA to uncover lost secrets.
What this meant was several moments of wandering around your cell followed by the smoothest movement mechanics yet seen in a game. Running across rooftops and alleyways of Jerusalem or Acre was a rush that made me wonder why no game had tried it before.
Sadly, the generic mission structure (sit on bench to complete mission, or perhaps hold the B button while walking behind someone) let the whole experience down while the key assassinations ended up being limited and repetitious.
It was a game that initially thrilled but quickly bored and as such was met with some very mixed review scores.
Luckily for us Ubisoft Montreal were listening and what we got last year was perhaps one of the most improved sequels in recent memory.
More open, varied environments with interesting characters and mission narratives pushed it well beyond the reach of the original, but what helped even more was the basic customisation of your character and town that gave it a much more personalised 'RPG' feel.
In the end Assassin's Creed II was awarded our Game of the Year award for 2009 and rightfully so.
MY PICK: Assassin's Creed II
#3: Halo 3 vs Halo 3 ODST
Halo 3 was the first foray of the mega-series into the current generation and final game in the Master Chief story arc. For many including myself, the campaign was a step up from the slight disappointment of Halo 2 by bringing back some of the larger battles and more freedom in vehicles. Not to mention having a proper ending.
Achieving almost universal critical acclaim upon release, new features such as Saved Films and Forge inevitably made their way into other games while the multiplayer continued its winning streak of being the most played game on Xbox Live, even years after its release.
But what about ODST? Can it be called a true sequel? Not really, but it still serves as a continuation of Halo 3 and therefore had the chance to build on the experience and address any complaints.
To some extent it was successful in its sidestep of Halo 3's all-out action into a more atmospheric, isolated experience in the open city and nightscapes. In other ways it was a step backwards.
One of the Halo series' strong points is the replayability from playing any level multiple times and still finding fun. ODST's more confined actual levels (the 'flashback' sequences) were not able to provide this to the same degree, making it a game to play through only once or twice.
The newly introduced Firefight mode was fantastic, but paired with Halo 3's exact multiplayer on a second disc the whole package gave the impression of being happy to stay in Halo 3's shadow until the next major release (Reach).
MY PICK: Halo 3
#4: Need for Speed: Most Wanted vs Carbon vs Undercover
The modern Need for Speeds would have to be the most blatant (non-sports) cash cow series of the current generation. Excluding the identity-crisis releases of ProStreet, Shift and World, the street racing NFS games of this generation have undoubtably sold by the bucketloads but also received their fair share of criticism.
Initially starting with Need For Speed: Underground 1 and 2 1st-gen Xbox, Most Wanted was the first to bring the racing out into the extremely bright daylight while maintaining the open world format the series had become known for.
Cars could be visually customised to be unrecognisable from their stock appearance while the world was rich in detail (and cops). Need For Speed: Most Wanted simply became the street racing game to beat in both the eyes of both critics and gamers.
Then came Carbon, which took the unusual step of returning the series back to night but otherwise did little to shake up the formula.
The only additions of note were the traps for pursuing police and the canyon races, but it was enough to make it a worthy purchase for any NFS fan. After all, it was nearly identical to Most Wanted and therefore maintained the high standard of quality.
After a strange misstep with Need For Speed: ProStreet, Undercover took the series back to the open city. That wasn't the only backstep however, as it seemed as if all the environment artists must have been out of practise with city design and we got one of the most bland, lifeless open environments yet seen in a game.
It was mostly empty, lacked detail and failed to provide the memorable layouts and landmarks of the previous game. Worse yet, the car handling had taken an extreme step in the karting direction with almost no sense of weight or power.
Undercover was a shell of the Need for Speed legacy, and the only thing it was speedy enough to beat its opponents at was its trip to the bargain bin.
It also didn't help that Rockstar had chosen that season to revive its Midnight Club series to much more success.
A bad show, and perhaps the reason the next iteration in the series was the much more series track-based Shift, while Criterion Games takes the Need For Speed reins for the extremely promising Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit we saw at E3 this year (and is looking fantastic).
MY PICK: Most Wanted if you like sunshine, Carbon if you like neon lights.
#5: Mass Effect vs Mass Effect 2
Bioware are masters of their craft, pure and simple. Jumping into the console spotlight with Knights of the Old Republic on the Xbox and proving they could weave a better Star Wars tale than old George, Bioware can be attributed with the popularity of morality meters in modern games. Combined with flawless writing, characterisation and a hybrid combat system it stomped all over the RPG genre that had begun to feel a little stale.
But what if they could be free from the (admittedly very comfortable) Star Wars license shackles? What if they could create their own sci-fi universe? It wasn't long before we got just that, with Mass Effect becoming one of the most anticipated Xbox 360 games by promising third-person ranged combat, driving sequences and a whole universe to explore.
Upon its release it was mostly successful with the morality and narrative as gripping as ever, as well as one of the most detailed and memorable game universes in recent memory. Unfortunately some technical issues hampered the combat, and the ambition to create a huge number of environments resulted in an extreme level of repetition for any non-plot-critical locations such as the unknown planets and side mission interiors.
Having already been informed of Bioware's intentions to continue Mass Effect as a trilogy with the ability to carry over your saved character between games it was only a matter of time until we would know if Bioware would be able to up the ante even more. Luckily we weren't disappointed.
In Mass Effects 2, the environments were far better designed, combat flowed much more fluidly (and I mean that in both design and framerate) while the story had even more of an impact. It's not every day you start a game with your character dying.
While the vehicle sections were gone and the surface mining replacement for unexplored planets being very debatable as an improvement, the game was much more solid and polished while creating the Empire Strikes Back / The Two Towers atmosphere for change, hopelessness and determination.
MY PICK: Mass Effect 2
But you should definitely play the first game before it for story and character purposes


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What more does he have to do?
2 more goals from Morrison tonight as Reserves go top. Pogba and Petrucci also stood out, but how can United hold this kid back, its so easy for him at this level.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
What he can do is 'make the difference'. Goodness me, we are talking about playing up to 90 minutes on a football field, not running the country. What is wrong with you people? Let him play.
United do rule United do rule Nov 18, 2011 19:32 Flag
I agree with everything you say devon, but my question is , how long is he going to be allowed 'protection' ? I don't mean play him every game, but a game here and there, to show us what he can do
Of course SAF knows better than us, given than he sees him most days/ everyday. But there is a risk of being overly cautious. Wilshere was in the papers for all the wrong reasons well before the half way point of last season. It didn't effect him - he still performed fantastically. Football seems to be this kid's muse. He seems the sort of character who benefits from it, and when he plays is in another world - one often hears stories of old school footballers as kids 'taking the ball everywhere, even to bed'. Morrison appears one of those. Throwing him in at the deep end may just sort him out, giving him a sense of responsibility, and within a controlled setting, which is more than Gascoigne got when he moved to Tottenham. With regards to hype, the very same thing has happened with Alex OC at Arsenal, and Wenger has endorsed it, while very cleverly pulling the kid back, thus dampening it. The same could be done with Morrison.
A Yahoo! User Nov 18, 2011 19:11 Flag
Morrison is 18 which should mean that he has something like 15 years or so of football ahead of him so why rush a player who may not yet be mature enough to handle the media pressure that will come his way. Why risk seeing him fall apart and throw away the rest of his career because it might provide a quick fix to utd`s midfield problems when waiting a few months may ensure that he reaches the heights we all hope he can. As for saying that Messi was playing at 18, so what - every player is different and just because one talented player is ready at 18 doesn`t mean that every talented player is. I would love to see Morrison in the 1st team but I can also see why SAF won`t risk him until he believes he can handle the pressure both on and off the pitch.
United do rule United do rule Nov 18, 2011 19:10 Flag
Sorry, I meant chris, not jim
Given that these megabucks club owners like the Arabs how do the get away with owning more than 1 club round Europe then? do you have any idea what the rules that held arsenal were?
United do rule United do rule Nov 18, 2011 18:43 Flag
True jim. But I think ity's time to find out what he's made of. He's 18. Messi was already playing for Barcelona at 18
Alan, can't do it, outside the rules as they stand. Arsenal tried it several years ago in Belgium and had to pull it.
Anyway, Morrison is so bloody good that all this doesn't apply. I think Fergie might be a bit worried about the subsequent hype, he probably realises that there will be quickly calls for him to go straight in the England team etc etc, He knows he has a nugget of gold and doesn't want to take any chances, but soon, very soon he will have to.
Le Professeur Le Professeur Nov 18, 2011 13:01 Flag
'But it doesn't, or shouldn't affect most in the workplace.'
It shouldn't, but it almost ALWAYS does.
United do rule United do rule Nov 18, 2011 12:56 Flag
I agree with Jim. Everyone, I think, has personal problems. But it doesn't, or shouldn't affect most in the workplace. Morrison is good enough. One of the problems, as with Pogba, is if United lose a game or two, will the fans turn on them ?
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- Working with image sequences
- Matching the 3D camera to video footage
- Lighting models in Maya
- Splitting a scene into multiple render passes
- Batch rendering
- Recombining render passes in an After Effects composition
- Setting up motion trackers
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We have spent some time working with the edge quality of the spaceship to make it better integrated, we also softened it slightly and then adjusted the color by just reducing the opacity. There is more room for color adjustment, however, to make it integrate even better. In fact, I am going to pick the spaceship layer and apply three new effects. First one is Color Balance, next one is Curves, and then we will add a new one we haven't used before which is Hue/Saturation. Let's start with Color Balance. Now, of course, the goal is to make it look like this was shot in the same scene as the actress.
So I think we have too much red and not enough blue even at this point. So what I can do is reduce the red for both the shadow midtone and highlight, maybe increase the blue for the Highlight. So let's enter -10 for the red, -15 for the red Midtone, -15 for the red Highlight. So it's -10 for the Shadow, -15 for the Midtone, -15 for the Highlight. Also, I am going to increase the blue of the highlight. So what that has done is reduced the overall amount of red and snuck up the blue.
So now, it feels a little bit better integrated into that sky. Now, it's still very saturated compared to the background. So what I can do is go down a little bit deeper to my Hue/Saturation and reduce the saturation through the Master Saturation control. When I put -40, you will see it becomes much less saturated and feels a little bit like there is additional haze in front of it which is good. Now, we still have the Curves tool right here in the center. I can go ahead and adjust that. I'd like to get this a little bit brighter because these are very brighter in that scene.
So I am going to click one time in the center and pull up the curve just to brighten it. Now, one thing to keep in mind as you're adjusting the colors to the curves or the Hue/Saturation or the Color Balance is the fact that you want the blacks and whites to match. Now in particular, the blacks are important here, you want the values in the black area on the spaceship to match the dark areas when the live action plate, like on the actress' hair. Now remember, you can check the Info Panel to see what the values are. So if I place my mouse over the spaceship here in the dark area, my values are in the mid 30s up to low 40s, with more blue, then green, and definitely less red.
If I check the hair, I have similar values, little less red, little more green and definitely more blue, all somewhere in the mid 30s to low 40s. So as you're adjusting those effects, keep that in mind you might want to test and see what your values are. So now that matches much better in terms of color. Let's move on to the next step. One thing we might want to do is reduce the intensity of the logos. Remember the logos are an incandescent layer by themselves. Let's go back to the Shot2Ship comp and adjust the incandescent layer.
I am going to expand that. One quick way to reduce the intensity is to reduce the opacity. So I am going to reduce this even further down to 60%. Now, I will fade out the logos a little bit more. Let's go back to comp 1. All right! So the ship is looking pretty good. Now, there is one additional thing we can do to make it look like the CG was shot in that video to start with. Now, video normally has compression artifacts and noise. The noise takes a form of shot noise which is 1 pixel variations of light intensity.
The compression artifacts are more blocky kind of compression artifacts that are necessary to store the video. Now, CG does not have any of that to start with. So if we want to add that, we have to use another effect. And one effect that's great for that is Match Grain. So I am going to go up to Effect > Noise & Grain > Match Grain. When I do this, I get a little preview box that's white. You can reposition that if you grab the center circle and move it. That just shows you what the grain is going to look like. Now, it's not functioning yet because what it needs is a source layer.
There is a Noise Source layer right here. We're going to change the menu to the footage where you're going to steal the grain and right now what has the grain is Shot2, and there is the grain. Now initially, that grain comes in very heavy. It basically exaggerates it. We don't want it to be that intense. So what we can do is go to Tweaking and reduce the Intensity, say 0.2. Now, it makes it very subtle but still in there. And what's great about this is the grain from the video and the compression artifacts from the video changes with each frame.
It's kind of like static on the TV. So the same motion is picked up by this effect Match Grain and applied to the spaceship. Now in order to get rid of the white box, I have to go to the Viewing mode, and set the final, Final Output. So now it places the grain over the entire spaceship. Again, it's fairly subtle with these settings, but it's going to add some more realism. Let's move on and deal with another problem which is the fact the spaceship gets cut off and the reason it gets cut off is we motion-tracked it, and we end up moving the ship to the right and left the gap here.
Quick way to fix that is to do another nesting. We're going to create a new comp or a new composition, make sure it has all the same resolution, frame rate and duration, and then nest Comp 1 inside Comp 2, so here is Comp 2 which is empty. Go back to the Project Tab and pull Comp 1 into it. Now initially, I am still going to have the same problem, it's cut off. But what I can do is scale up this nested comp to 105% and then position that nested composition so that we never see that gap.
So I need to move it pretty far to the left, so let's test that. So that's good, that's good, that's good. So I think we're safe there. So that prevents the clipping of the spaceship. Now, a small scale is not too bad. We're working with a pretty high resolution to start with, so scaling by 105% is not too bad. The same scale is not gong to degrade the quality too much. Let's apply the final step. Now, you notice that in the footage, the sun is right here, so it's making the haze very bright. In fact, the bright haze is traveling across the actress' hair and also in front of the building.
So it would be cool to get that over the spaceship also. So there is a quick trick for that. Let me go back to frame 0. What we can do is duplicate this nested comp, Edit > Duplicate and then make this layer brighter and apply a curve to do that, or Curves and make that brighter. Now of course everything gets brighter but what I can do then is create a mask that is circular in this area. So in order to create a mask, I can use one of the mask shapes we have up here. Now by default you will see the Rectangle tool. There is also the Ellipse tool. If I grab that and click-drag, it cuts out that layer in a circle.
So now I can position that circle such a way that it starts to overlap the spaceship. Now, the overlap is very hard right now, if I click off of it, or Escape--in this case I have the transform handle, so I need to escape--and then click off of it and then hide the mask, you'll see a really hard edge. So what I can do is feather that mask, and that ellipse shows up as just the mask underneath your layer. So here is Mask 1. I can increase the Feather to 500 pixels and therefore soften it. So when I brighten this, that bright fake sun starts to bleed on to the spaceship.
Just play this whole thing back. So there you go! We have taken a CG Render of a spaceship from a Maya scene that did not even have an animated camera, we have applied motion tracking and some masking to make it look like it's actually in the scene with the same camera motion as the live action footage. We have also spent some time color- grading the spaceship, adjusting its edges and in general making it look like it's in the same lighting with the same atmospheric haze. That's pretty cool! You can apply these techniques we have talked about in this series of videos for this project and apply it to any CG Render where you need to make it look like that CG was in the real world to start with.


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Chase Receivables violates the Fair Credit Collection Act Napa California
*Consumer Comment: Credit Collection employees should not rebuttal
*Consumer Comment: Don't attorneys know how to write letters?
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It just so happens I am a CA lawyer. So I do some research to find out Chase Receivable's corp. status in CA is suspended. That means the owner is personally liable for any judgments. If you live in CA and have a valid case against Chase Receivables I recommend you contact a lawyer. Or better yet file a small claims case in your local community. You can get up to $7,500 in CA small claims. But be sure you have a valid case. Do not file a frivolous lawsuit.
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You only need to look this particular agency up under the Better Business Bureau to know they are bad news. They have a history of trying to recollect debts that were paid many years ago. I guess they hope the person no longer has the documentation or has forgotten. Reeks of desperation. They are also known offenders of the FTC especially when it comes to harassing phone calls. I recommend anyone with documented and legitimate complaints to file both online with FTC and the Better Business Bureau.
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Let me see if I understand this. You're receiving collection calls for someone you don't know so you "do some research" in an attempt to figure out how to stop the calls.
Here's an idea for you. Send them a LETTER! Hey, you're an attorney right? So, send them a letter on your letterhead informing them that they are calling the wrong number and demand they stop contacting you. Here's another suggestion; send the letter certified, return receipt requested. IF they are fool enough to call you after receiving your letter, you have them for violating the FDCPA and the California statute known as the Rosenthal FDCPA.
Problem solved. I'm surprised I need to suggest this to an "attorney" (sorry, but I don't believe you're an attorney.)
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All that being said, after I wash the diapers I can still smell the urine. It's not a strong smell by any means but just enough to make me know that the diapers can't possibly be totally clean and I have no idea why. Should I do a pre soak? Or is it because I have a HE machine
Help! Washing cloth diapers
Thanks ladies. I wish I didn't have this HE machine, we bought it used from my father in law when he moved in with his lady friend and he didn't need it anymore however it's a small machine because he was planning to put it in his RV before he decided to just buy a new RV.
Anyway, my HE doesn't have a pre-rinse cycle before the wash cycle and no way to change it, I also have no way to add in detergent in mid load or switch the temperature mid load to go from cold to hot. That being said I think I'll put it on light wash on a cold cycle with oxy clean to try to 'power clean' them then do a second wash on hot with my Natureclean detergent and I'll add more than I have been and hopefully this will solve it.
Also tlahti, I like the idea of spraying it. The inserts I use are only $14 for 200 but that's still about $20 a month just for the inserts. Do you use just a regular spray bottle like from the Dollar store (like one you would use for cleaners?) or is it something that sprays harder?
Thanks a bunch ladies, I'll let you know how it goes after I do a load later :).
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Due October 18th 2013 with a GIRL!
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A cold water cycle (every other wash I add bleach to this cycle)
A sanitize cycle with an oxiclean prewash, Purex detergent, and an extra rinse
A rinse/spin cycle
That is for my cloth liners. I have pocket diapers and I wash the pockets with one rinse/spin cycle and the. A warm water wash with oxiclean and Purex and then another rinse/spin cycle.
This is the only routine that helped get rid of the stink, and it keeps from having to strip diapers, which I was doing once a month before I figured all this out. The ladies at the cloth diapering board were amazing and helped me out a ton!
It sounds like I have a similar machine to yours. No rinse or soak options. However what has worked for me is adding a half bucket of hot water directly into the washer with the diapers to increase the amount of water being used to wash. I also use a wetpail instead of dry so the diapers also go in soaking wet. The extra water made a huge difference and saved me from having to run another cycle. Good luck!
I do 2 cold pre-rinses and then one hot wash and it works!
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Thanks ladies. After reading all the advice I did a cold light cycle wash with what seems to be Naturecleans version of Oxyclean I then did a hot wash and a cold rinse and turned the extra rinse on as well using 50% more detergant than I was and so far the diapers seem odor free. They are in the dryer now so I'll have to give them another wiff when they are dry but it seems to have acctually gotten them clean. YAY!
lellielong - I LOVE the idea of dumping water in with the diapers I will definitely have to try that tomorrow and see if that will cut it down so I only need to run the washer once. Also a wetpail.. never heard of that, google here I come.
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Skip to comments.Michelle Obama to kids: Tell grandparents they are 'wrong' for not voting for my husband
Posted on 04/03/2012 9:38:03 AM PDT by keypro
Michelle Obama is now stumping for children to convince their great-grandparents to vote for her husband.
Guilt trip stuff?
Ja! Und next they vill report on their Parent's activities.
"Challenge them, get in their faces..."
"I cant tell you in the last election how many grandparents I ran into who said, I wasnt going to vote for Barack Obama until my grandson talked to me"
Uh...you can't tell us because you're creepy and lying.
Their great grand parents need to convince the children that this is just more of the libtard indoctrination program of statist socialist propaganda.
If hating this radical liberal asshat is wrong then I don't want to be right...
Now THERE is something that just might be "unprecedented". Our children are off limits just like yours are Moose-shell. These people are constantly setting a new record for "low rent" behavior.
"Reprehensibile" and "contemptible" are about the most diplomatic terms I could apply. She and her evil twin husband deserve a lot worse. . . IMHO
The gummint school collective has your kids for 30 to 40 hours a week, indoctrinating them and convincing them that conservatives are thoughtless, heartless, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, racist, sexist, homophobic throwbacks.
I'll venture they don't even mention the contents of the Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, and US and State Constitutions.
The public school is BY FAR, the largest, most expensive, most subversive, and most destructive entitlement program in the country.
The public school is better understood as the government school collective.
It is silly to imagine that you can fix the public schools, because the very concept itself is communist.
Any child that comes out of the government school collective with their moral compass and common sense intact does so in spite of the government school indoctrination, not because of it.
If you want to win the culture war, have lots of children (see my tagline) and homeschool them or form your own school cooperative with your church or synagogue and like-minded friends and relatives.
Nobody loves your children more than you do.
Nobody can teach your children like you can.
Your children would love nothing better than to be taught by you, if you start doing so before they are corrupted by the government school collective.
It is hypocritical for you to submit your children to an authority with whom you fundamentally disagree. And your children will know it.
If you have children, make whatever sacrifices you must to get them out of the public schools.
Especially not with your own children.
Mind Control Games.
Start them early.
She's a Winnie Mandela wanna-be who would delight in being able to 'necklace' her imagined 'enemies'. That's what's coming, folks.
"I ain't gonna bump no more with no big fat woman
Somebody take her, I don't want her
She done hurt my hip, she done knocked me down
Done hurt my hip, she done knocked me down
Somebody take her, I don't want her
Say, Leroy, you can have this one, dude
This big fat woman, dude
I don't want her..."
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The Wookie would love it. Her husband, 0h0m0, doesn't do women and certainly, no Wookies either.
I pity the dog.
Disney tried to warn us of this very kind of Nazism and indoctrination.
I thought Hussein already owns the geriatric vote.....
MO, your a money And power corrupted whore...
Secret service...yeps, I actually said that.
There is nothing worse than th truth... it is as it is, and you all know it... but osme work for the honor, not the bucks.
A couple of thoughts crossed my mind. First, this sounds like a political speech. If we, the taxpayers, are paying for it, I want reimbursed from the Obama campaign. Second, if it not a campaign statement, then who on the Republican side gets "equal" time to present an alternative side.
Inquiring minds want to know.
See tagline.
Not the ones without dementia.
"The camel-toe ... the camel-toe ... "
Because children are so much wiser than their grandparents, and the grandparents know it.
Kids to grandparents, "We saw Bigfoot, we saw Bigfoot!!"
I can't imagine what my grandfather would say if I came home from a school political rally with the message of who he is vote for.
It was a given that adults know more about all that than children and it would have been very disrespectful for me to talk down to him like that. A child telling an adult how to vote...
What a sick wookie bitch. Who in the hell does moo think she is undermine children`s respect for parents and grandparents?
The sooner Satan calls these two home the better.
Grandparents to kids, give me all your money because I said so.
uh-huh....more of that commie "teach your parents well" crap..
And kiss your Christmas and birthday presents goodbye, kids.
Especially kids if they are already dead.
Mmmmmm. Mmmmmm. Mmmmm.
She looks downright slutty. She dresses like this for our kids.
but of course you knew that.
You know what Mrs Obama?
Please keep your dirty politics away from my kids!
They're in school to learn things, not for you to try and politically indocrinate. You have as much business telling them to encourage their grandparents to vote for your husband as I do. And I don't get that chance like you do.
Geesh, what do you all think the media would do if Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan or Laura Bush asked children to get their relatives to vote for their husbands?
They'd have a cow is right!
She just wants a boatload more taxpayer funded vacations.
Here's how Obama and the Alinsky Communist Leftists govern:
#1. Class warfare- pit those who work for a living and save their money against the freeloading, bottom-feeding scum
#2. Religious warfare: Pit Catholics against other Catholics over trumped up issues like contraception. Get non-Catholics to hate Catholics
#3 Sexual attraction warfare: pit those with same-sex attraction against those with other sex attractioin
#4 Gender warfare: pit women against men
#5 Unionist warfare: pit those with membership in a union against those with no union membership.
#6. Education warfare: pit the academic elites against those not associated with academia
#7 Racial warfare: pit Blacks and Hispanics against whites.
#8 Regional warfare: pit those living in the Northeast and West coast against those liing in the South and Midwest.
I am surte the Left has concocted other categories of people that they pit against one another. So much for consensus building! Hypocrites.
Oh, of course the one that I forgot that is germane to this article....
#9 Generation warfare: Now pitting children against their grandparents.
"I cant imagine what my grandfather would say if I came home from a school political rally with the message of who he is vote for."
My Grandpa's richly profane response would begin with "you little whippersnapper, what makes you so d@mn smart?"
Anyway, what's next? Denounce your elders to the Thought Police, in return for a free Iphone?
For some historical perspective on `progressive' indoctrination of grandchildren, look up "Pavlik Morozov".
Let them tell their cousin Pookie and leave me and mine alone.
Yes it was whore night at the Kids choice Awards.
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By Ms. Gloria Montgomery (Army Medicine)September 21, 2012
Get off Facebook and Twitter, ignore political pundits and do your homework before voting, advised Capt. LaVeeta Springer during the Warrior Transition Brigade's August 28 Women's Equality Day celebration.
"Everyone has an agenda," said Springer who celebrated the 92nd anniversary of the 19th amendment to the United States Constition granting women the right to vote by challenging those in attendance to ignore political propaganda and instead, research issues and candidates before casting a vote in the November 6 election.
"Vote this way because so and so will do this. Vote this way and the world will end," she said of the hateful political climate bombarding media airwaves. "It's a shame that no one is even talking about the issues and the source of how it happened and the best way to fix it for everyone."
Springer, an Army nurse who previously was the brigade's nurse case manager supervisor and is now commander of the WTB's Headquarters and Headquarters Company Intake Company, said she was exposed to politics and elections at an early age because her parents worked the polls, attended city council meetings, handed out political fliers and participated in political rallies.
"My parents were always plugged into what the 'movers and shakers' were doing and what they stood for, as well as the impact it would have on our family, friends and neighbors," she said. "If there was something to be voted on, they were at the polls. My parents didn't believe in allowing the propaganda of the 'over-sensationalized' dictate how they felt about the candidates. They went out and did their homework."
Springer, who grew up in the south with family members scattered throughout Southern Tennessee and Northern Mississippi, said that the volatile nature of today's political landscape had even prompted her mother to quit watching television.
"I felt saddened to hear the despair in her voice," the former enlisted medic said. "She sounded whipped, which was a new sound for me because my mother had always demonstrated to me that right is right, and persistence and faithfulness will always win the day. She believes in our system and so do I."
Citing today's unemployment rate and other economical factors, the 38-year-old Springer said that it's easy to get discouraged and confused because "most Americans perceive that the state of our union is hanging in the balance."
"Never forget that your vote is your voice," stressed Springer, who said it's still hard to believe that in the 1870s women were considered property and were imprisoned and persecuted for exercising rights assumed to be guaranteed under the United States Constitution.
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Reflecting back on the conversation between daughter and mother on the nastiness and party bickering shown on television and in the media, Springer empowered those in attendance, especially the women, to celebrate Women's Equality Day by registering to vote and by going to the polls.
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