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The assault was sustained and brutal.
Over two weeks in late June and early July, the hacker groups known as LulzSec and Anonymous took turns tinkering with the websites of the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Fraternal Order of Police, releasing troves of personal information on local officers and taking both sites off-line temporarily.
In a series of communiqués issued by Anonymous, members of the organization explicitly linked the hack to Arizona's controversial anti-illegal immigration law SB 1070 and promised they would continue to target the DPS until the "racist Arizona police state" mended its ways. (The bill would criminalize being in the United States without immigration papers.)
The attack exemplifies a new breed of hacker, one skilled in both computer intrusion and public relations. While phone hacking has captured the media's attention in recent weeks, Anonymous and groups like it have shoved their way into headlines with increasing flair and frequency. For them, toppling networks equates to civil disobedience, something we know because LulzSec and Anonymous shout it from forums and message boards, wrapping themselves in the rhetoric of one of America's favorite folk heroes: the charismatic outlaw.
"Let [this] crushing blow against Arizona police send a strong message to the ruling class around the world," read one message. "You will no longer be able to operate your campaign of terror against immigrants and working people in secrecy. We will find you, expose you, and knock you off the Internet. Many lulz" – laughs – "have been had while we purposefully strung you along slowly and painfully for the past two weeks. We know exactly what we're doing, so think twice before considering crossing us."
The language used by Anonymous was strident, hyperbolic, witty, and purposeful – a rallying cry designed to appeal equally to computer geeks, members of the media, liberals disenchanted with Arizona immigration policy, and libertarians disenchanted with government's reach. By early July, hundreds of outlets around the globe had picked up on the Arizona story, and the question of how much had actually been accomplished in the attack was overshadowed by the billowing mythos of the attack itself.
'We are fighting evil governments'
Exuberant plaudits piled up on the Anonymous Facebook page, and bloggers from Boston to Bangkok breathlessly exchanged stories of the exploits of "Operation Anti-Security." This Anti-Sec campaign eventually included cyber-raids on defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton; the Democratic Party of Orange County, Fla.; computer giant Apple Inc.; and a string of Turkish government sites.
"We are busy fighting evil governments, agencies, and corporations," Anonymous bragged on its public Twitter feed. In a second message, the group instructed its opponents to "give up. You don't want to battle the #AntiSec fleet of the Internet."
The roguishly charming hacker, of course, is not a particularly new conceit. For decades, so-called hacktivists have busted into all manner of websites, frequently spinning their exploits as the last-ditch efforts of freedom fighters in a corporate world gone bad. In turn, these hackers have been immortalized in popular media – consider the cyberpunk novels of William Gibson or the massively successful "Matrix" movies.
And why not? The late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen an unprecedented digitizing of daily life, from "intelligent" kitchen appliances to the omnipresent smart phone. Technology surrounds us, and yet so much of it remains nebulous, corporatized, and distant. It's no surprise that many of the denizens of the Web have sympathized with or cheered on hacker activists – they are digital Davids standing against modern-day Goliaths.
What is surprising is the alacrity with which today's hackers have warmed to, and sought to solidify, their image as latter-day Robin Hoods. Hacking, after all, is a shadowy science, usually practiced by computer experts in backrooms or basement hideaways. It is also a solitary pursuit – Anonymous is technically a coalition, but its members communicate mostly through the Web. Historically, hackers have never particularly wanted to get caught: By keeping their identities secret and their actions quiet, they stay out of the cross hairs of law enforcement or the crack teams of security pros employed by major corporations.
"This is the first time we've had hackers who want you to know who they are," says Chester Wisniewski, a senior adviser at Sophos, a computer security company. "These guys are awesome at PR. It's very impressive. They are inspirational to a lot of people. They get tons of feedback. They make people believe that they are standing up for the little man."
Indeed, the antics of the "Anti-Sec fleet" have almost always played out in direct view of the public. Speaking to Britain's Guardian newspaper in July, LulzSec spokesman "Topiary" described his interactions with the media as a visceral "thrill," and confessed that the public response gave LulzSec "more reasons to leak more." To look at it another way, the louder the response, the more aggressive the hacks. LulzSec was learning to perform for the crowd.
Wide spectrum of political views
Other hackers, however, are certainly in it for more than the "lulz." Gabriella Coleman, a professor of media and culture at New York University and the author of a forthcoming book on Anonymous, says the group's members represent a wide spectrum of political consciousness.
"Some are very involved in human rights activism – very ideologically driven," she says. "Some aren't."
Dr. Coleman points to that group's 2008 and 2009 assault on the Church of Scientology over the perception that the church uses legal action to stifle free discussion about Scientology's practices. Anonymous provoked a strong response from church leaders and a media firestorm. To a lesser extent, the hack of the Arizona DPS can also be judged a success, in that it embarrassed a major government organization and drew attention – however fleeting – to a political cause.
Still, Anti-Sec is a large and mutable campaign, and it's often hard to tell which attacks have been perpetrated for political reasons, and which have been perpetrated because the targets were simply vulnerable.
The "antigovernment and anticorruption stance is great cover to just cause random mayhem," says "Space Rogue," a security consultant and editor of the Hacker News Network who publishes under his Internet pseudonym. "I mean, you can attack almost anything, claim it was anticorruption or anti-big business or whatever and get away with it in the public's mind. This, of course, just perpetuates your 'brand' and garners more support."
Moreover, Space Rogue continues, the bluster of the Anti-Sec hackers helps disguise the fact that the exploits in question aren't necessarily the most proficient.
"What kind of upsets me is that there is little to no actual hacking going on here, at least not in the traditional sense of the word," he says. "I mean, if I spend 10 minutes Googling 'rootkit,' download a program, read the directions, and start infecting machines, have I really 'hacked' anything? Seriously, it is that easy. A caveman could do it.... But because people don't understand it, they fear it, and fear sells."
Riding off into digital sunset
Fear sells particularly well in the media, which worries analysts such as Mr. Wisniewski, of Sophos. Fans of Anonymous and LulzSec sometimes overlook the fact that they have become "collateral damage" in someone else's war, he says. Earlier this year, for instance, Anonymous aided an attack against Sony – a frequent Anti-Sec target – that exposed more than 100 million user accounts.
"Here you have a bunch of guys deciding your [ZIP] Code, your birthday, your Social Security number is just a disposable thing in a battle they perceive as having against corporate America," Wisniewski says. "You can be cast aside."
Meanwhile, in soaking up mainstream media attention, LulzSec and Anonymous have provided a distraction from more serious security concerns.
"We've got the Pentagon talking about cyberwar," Wisniewski says. "We've got mass fraud on Facebook. We've got credit card [numbers] being stolen. We've got literally billions of dollars bilked out of people by Russian cybercriminals, but we're not talking about that. It's disappointing."
In July, in an interesting postscript to the Arizona attacks, LulzSec revealed that it had decided to disband.
"I know people won't believe this, but we genuinely ended [LulzSec] because it was classy," Topiary told the Guardian. The group, he said, wanted to wrap things up on "a high note, a classy ending, a big bang, then a sail into the distance."
A less generous explanation might go something like this: A small and boisterous gang of hackers soaks up the spotlight for a couple of weeks and disappears before the public gets tired of their antics – and before police expose them, as occurred in a series of raids against alleged Anonymous members on July 19.
[Editor's note: The original version of this story used the wrong name when describing the hackers and their underdog fight. The correct allusion is David and Goliath.]


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Forty years ago, the legalization movement focused on the drug's safety and growing social niche. Today, with many states suffering major fiscal problems, reform advocates argue that the combined savings of money spent on prohibition and untapped tax revenues would help relieve many a fiscal crisis.
The economic argument for legalization is that it is cheaper for the government to deter consumption with a higher tax than with law enforcement.
In his study, "The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition", Harvard Economics Professor Jeffrey Miron estimates that legalization would save $13.7 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition, $10.4 billion would accrue to state and local governments, and $3.4 billion to the federal government.
He also estimates that legalization would yield tax revenue of $6.4 billion annually if marijuana were taxed at rates comparable to those on alcohol and tobacco. (See full interview). Other estimates are higher.
Though alcohol and tobacco are not taxed at the same rate, Miron estimates that the sin or excise tax rate would be 50 percent.
"I've tried very hard not to assume a tax rate that looks as though its just going to drive the market back underground, because then of course then you're just going to get zero," Miron says.
To determine the tax structure of a legal marijuana industry, you need to look at alcohol, says Bill Ahern, Director of Policy and Communication for the Tax Foundation in Washington. For starters, alcohol, unlike tobacco, was once illegal in the U.S.
"Coming out of prohibition, the states basically laid claim to the business," says Ahern. "They said well if we are going have alcohol legal, we're going to control the sale of it in the state, either with much stricter regulations than we have with anything else or by outright running the industry."
Right now, 16 of the 50 states are so called "control states", in which there is a department of state government that sells liquor.
In Maryland, for example, the alcohol business is privately run, but the state generates revenue through hefty license fees. In addition, customers pay tax at the retail level, or, as is most often the case, the tax is levied when the store buys from the wholesaler.
On the other hand, Virginia has neither income source. Instead, the government buys liquor from the world's manufacturers and resells it to its citizens. Whatever profit they have running that business, is their revenue. In Virginia, prices are set by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and liquor stores are called ABC stores. If marijuana were to be folded into the equation here, the stores would be run by the Alcoholic Beverage Control and Marijuana Board, Ahern suggests.
The Marijuana Policy Project, MPP, believes taxing and regulating marijuana like alcohol is the best way to set up the industry, with government setting sales tax rates.
"Marijuana is the largest cash crop in the county," says the MPP's Mike Meno. "It is a 36-billion dollar a year industry, bigger than corn and wheat combined. The notion that our largest cash crop should go untaxed and unregulated, especially in such tough economic times, is nothing short of insane," he says.
"States are desperate for revenue right now because we are coming out of a recession," Ahern. "And in some states, like California, where they are pushing for legalization already, the public finance aspect and potential tax revenue is a major motivator."
The Tax Foundation estimates that in the 2009 fiscal year, Maryland and Virginia collected $29.2 million and $180.1 million, respectively on alcoholic beverage sales. Florida's collections totaled $590.4 million, California's $323.9 million.
Taxation, however, is a bit of a science and can succeed or fail, based on consumer behavior.
Some say anything more than the usual retail sales taxes will backfire.
"I don't think we want to apply a special tax because that will just fuel a crime-plagued black market as it has with cigarettes," says Chris Edwards of The Cato Institute.
If you have a tax level on a product that is prohibitive, you are creating a black market or smuggling opportunity, says Ahern. Compound that with the fact that marijuana is lightweight and compact and easy to smuggle like tobacco.
As a result, one state could easily lose revenue to other ones with a significantly lower tax rate. The tax on tobacco, for example, is 7 cents per pack in South Carolina and $4.25 in New York.
More broadly, if the goal of legalization is to make it profitable for legally-run companies and state and local governments, not the same criminals, states will have to be mindful of these considerations.
In addition to the states, the federal government also imposes a tax on alcohol.
According to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, beer is taxed at $18 per barrel (31 gallons), wine that is 14-percent alcohol at the rate of $1.00 per gallon, and distilled spirits at the rate of $13.50 per proof gallon. In a legal marijuana industry, the federal government would get a piece of the pie, based on something resembling that equation.
The other consideration in terms of new revenue for the government is the income tax on the new jobs that a legal industry would create.
Ahern and Edwards, however, believe employment is unlikely to be a significant factor. New hires at legal marijuana companies will likely be people who were previously employed in other industries.
Jobs no, revenue yes. And that could tip the scales of justice.
"It is relevant now," says Miron. "Like ending alcohol prohibition in the 1930s."
This article is part of a series originally published on CNBC.com

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Most Americans feel well-equipped to make important financial decisions, but significant numbers worry they are making less progress than they should toward reaching financial goals, according to the latest quarterly Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll.
Americans were also pessimistic about the economy, and had limited confidence in most major institutions, the poll found.
The Obama presidency hit a low-water mark in the Heartland Monitor Poll series: just 23% of Americans believed the country was headed in the right direction.
The quarterly Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Polls explore Americans' personal financial experiences, their views on the financial system and their opinion of how the federal government's budget situation affects their personal finances.
The most recent poll was conducted by FTI Consulting Nov. 2–6 among 1,000 American adults age 18 and older reached via landline and cell phone.
Seventy-three percent of respondents across the political spectrum believed the recent federal government shutdown and national debt had negatively affected them on a personal level.
Among those feeling personally affected, 33% believed the main result would be tax hikes, and 26% felt it would mean fewer opportunities for them to get jobs and pay increases.
Although 58% of respondents believed participating in the financial system was the safest and most reliable way to secure their families' financial future, a substantial 35% worried that the system was too volatile, complicated and unreliable to provide a secure future.
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However, a majority of respondents believed they were either on track or ahead in paying off debt. A majority also said they were sticking to a monthly budget.
Forty-seven percent of respondents said they sought "informal" information on managing their personal finances from friends or family members. Only 33% turned to a professional financial advisor, 24% sought advice from a banker at a branch location and 17% turned to a credit union.
President Barack Obama's job approval slipped to 38%, a new low for his presidency in the Allstate/National Journal poll. His approval rating was 29% among independents, 29% among whites and 52% among Hispanics. Seventy-six percent of Democrats and an equal percentage of African-Americans remained supportive, though at reduced levels.
In addition, just 9% of Americans approved of the job Congress was doing, a 12-point drop from one year ago.
Economic and personal financial indicators were also at or near their low point. Eleven percent of respondents thought the economy was in "excellent" or "good" shape, while 45% thought it was in "fair" shape and 44% considered it in "poor" shape.
Thirty-six percent of respondents believed the economy would get worse over the next 12 months, while 29% thought it would improve. Still, 39% expected their own situation to improve over the next year, and only 15% believed theirs would become worse.
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The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concerts feature works choreographed and performed by Hope College students. Although many of them are dance majors and minors, not all students involved in the concert are conducting studies in the department of dance.
The concerts will include work by the Advanced Composition and Composition II classes. Composition II is taught by Steven Iannacone and involves students in every aspect of production, including adjudication of dance pieces, costuming, props, collaborative choreography and performance.
Starting this year, all student works will be presented at the Dow concerts, with selected works proceeding to the Knickerbocker by consent of three guest adjudicators. This year's adjudicators are Roberto Rodriguez, company manager of Ballet De San Juan; Jackie Bartley, adjunct assistant professor of English at Hope; and Katherine Sullivan, assistant professor of art at Hope.
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One name consistently comes up when conversations in the Western Cape turn to speculation about who is driving farm protests: Nosey Pieterse.
A beneficiary of winelands empowerment deals and self-styled champion of the poor, he is an enormously controversial figure, and questions over his presence at the protests will not be laid to rest by the fact that he has been distributing food parcels paid for by the agriculture minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson.
Pieterse, however, is adamant that workers trust him and solicited his help.
The fact that Joemat-Pettersson spent R10-million from the government's food security budget on the food parcels does not surprise him, and he does not find it an anomaly that this is where public funds are being channelled.
A seasoned activist, Pieterse looked genuinely worried during an interview this week that the flames of discontent might not be so easy to put out. Wearing a thick gold chain and cross over his union T-shirt and sporting his trademark Chairman Mao cap, he agreed with some of the farmworkers who believe they are involved in a farming revolution.
"I see it exactly as the workers see it. This is their one chance to get out of their shackles, to be liberated from this yoke," said Pieterse. "No matter what other people want to tell you – and believe me, I have no reason to make this up – this is nothing political."
On Wednesday, Cosatu provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich announced that the strike had been suspended in most areas for a week, except in violence-torn De Doorns in the Hex River Valley, where workers are holding out for R150 a day. Although Pieterse said he had spoken to Ehrenreich before the strike was suspended and he "respected" that he would like to give negotiations a chance, he is concerned that protection agreements have not been signed with the farmers.
"Right at the top of the agreement is that everybody returns to work. No victimisation, no dismissals," he said. "We have lost track of the number of farmworkers who have been fired during the strikes. Those arrested should all be released on bail."
Deep anger
Although the government has brought forward the announcement of its revised sectoral wage determination for farmworkers to February, the only area in which an agreement has been reached with farmers is in Clanwilliam, Pieterse said. However, on Thursday agricultural trade association Agri SA claimed that only one Clanwilliam farmer has struck an agreement with workers to accept a minimum wage of R105 a day.
The violence perpetuated by the farmworkers came from "deep anger", he said. "I tell them to channel that anger in the right direction. But there are elements that have crept in. The group of people striking is permanent workers, seasonal workers, foreign nationals, unemployed community members. And then the unfortunate thing is the children. I tell the workers that children must be kept in their houses, and we will try to get them a little help with this. I am the only voice they now listen to and that is a serious problem because when I leave the area, they phone me. Forty-one workers were fired by a farmer in Piketberg yesterday. It is not a way to get a job to burn up the place. But they are angry and frustrated."
Politicians, including Western Cape ANC leader Marius Fransman, now consult the popular Pieterse before going out to talk to the strikers. He is a parish pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and some of the farmworkers share his religious beliefs. Others relate to him because, of his long history of activism during apartheid and his ongoing fight for workers' rights.
He also plays two other diametrically opposed roles: as the president of the Black Association of the Wine and Spirit Industry (Bawsi) and the general secretary of the Bawsi Agricultural Workers' Union of South Africa (Bawusa), which has doubled its membership since the farmworker strikes began.
Pieterse juggles two cellphones to cope with the deluge of calls from farmworkers who want him to help with their strike in the many affected towns scattered across the province. Agri SA believes there are roughly 5 000 farmers in the Western Cape, as well as about 200 000 permanent and casual workers, many of whom have been drawn into the strike.
De Doorns strike leader Eldrina Witbooi, who was recently fired from her farm job because of her involvement in the strike, goes to the same church as Pieterse. "We love and trust Nosey," she said. "Whenever help is needed, Nosey is there." Which is why the workers in De Doorns rushed to help him when police shot him in the arm with a rubber bullet last week.
Now there are fresh concerns about his safety. "There are vehicles following me and people who were overheard saying they want to eliminate me. I can be very stubborn," he said. "The leadership of all the organisations involved in this strike said they want Nosey alive, not a martyr."
Rumours doing the rounds that workers were being forced to join Bawusa in order to receive a parcel left him shaking his head in despair.
"It is all nonsense. The media have a critical role to play in what we are doing because we want the message out. But now there is this thing of personalising what I am doing. I start to question whether some people don't have an agenda and they might be advancing the cause of the farmers and others. I think people might want to discredit me so that the farmworkers won't have confidence in me."
Rehabilitation centre
Some players in the agricultural sector told the M&G that Pieterse has a farm, but they don't know where. Yet Pieterse is open to questions about his family's farming venture. He bought a piece of land in Hopefield on the West Coast for R79 000 in 1999 with the idea of starting a rehabilitation centre for alcoholics and drug addicts. However, the project has received no support from the government.
"My relationship was not very good with politicians, whether they are ANC or Democratic Alliance. I want people to be there for the people and you are going to get a hiding if you don't deliver. So I thought: OK, let me start something here. One of my cousins had a dependency problem, so he wanted to go and stay on the land and start a new way of life."
Then his son Nathan expressed an interest in farming and they bought some sheep. "But we did not know how to farm. And it didn't work out lekker because we don't really know farming. He was struggling, but he wanted to keep farming. Then he latched on to the idea that pig [farming] is easier and not so complicated."
The farm currently has 70 breeding sows. He readily responds to a query on the amount of money he pays his workers daily. "I pay my workers R120 a day. I can't say that R70 a day is not right for farmworkers and then I pay R80. Nobody else is paying that much in the area."
Although Pieterse hopes to retire to his farm and eventually start a rehabilitation centre, he is currently focusing on his union work. Last year, he stood in the unemployment queue for six months when Bawusa ran into funding difficulties. Claims that he is extremely wealthy are dismissed as ridiculous. "There are some white people who have a problem when black people get into business. But why shouldn't I be in business? I didn't buy my MBA from the Henley Business School in London."
Beautiful figure
With a BA honours degree in theology from the University of the Western Cape and a string of other business and labour diplomas, he has not struggled to find work in the industry. He spent years working as a human resources manager and labour resource specialist at wine and brandy co-operative KWV.
"Then I was given a choice. I was the president of Bawsi and I led marches against the ANC, against government, against evictions. This is where my role parted with KWV."
Accusations circulating around Bawsi have centred on the R200 000 a month it was given by the South African Wine Industry Trust, which was set up to support transformation in the wine industry. Pieterse said the money has all been accounted for by Bawsi.
He said Bawsi is part of a black economic empowerment consortium that still holds shares in KWV following the wine producer's unbundling. Despite speculation that if Bawsi sold its shares there could be a R56-million profit, Pieterse said he does not know where this "beautiful figure" came from and that the shares have not been sold.
Upset about media attacks on his character, Pieterse phoned after our interview to say a newspaper team was snooping around his farm, "pretending to be researchers". "Why can't they just sit down and ask me questions?" he asked. "Why are they trying to nail me?"


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Posted on 27 April 2014
Jeff Long, NASP coordinator for the State Game and Fish Department, said: "This program continues to grow every year, and all three winning teams committed to go to the national tournament, along with at least three of the top individuals," Long said, while noting 517 registered this year, up more than 20 percent from last year.
The national tournament is May 9-10 in Louisville, Ky. The Game and Fish Department and North Dakota Bowhunters Association contribute a total of $3,000 in travel assistance to the first place team in each division, and $1,000 to the overall male and female individual winner.
The high school (grades 9-12) state championship team was from Hankinson, the middle school (grades 7-8) champs were from Wahpeton and taking top honors in the elementary school (grades 4-6) division was Wilton.
Overall male and female winners were Kyle Andres of Medina and Lisa Buckhaus of Hankinson. Top elementary winners were Austin Bladow of Hankinson and Grace Neameyer of Mt. Pleasant.
The top five place winners in each division were:
High school boys – 1) Andres; 2) Spencer Brockman, North Sargent; 3) James Nadeau, Dunseith; 4) Isaac Poitra, Dunseith; 5) Dominic Bendickson, Griggs County Central.
High school girls – 1) Buckhaus, Hankinson; 2) Hunter Schroeder, Dunseith; 3) Deena Monson, Griggs County Central; 4) Ashlynn Stirling, Hankinson; 5) Danielle Schuler, Wilton; 5) Theresia Thompson, Hankinson.
Middle school boys – 1) Dawson McKeever, North Sargent; 2) Race Kath, Hankinson; 3) Michael McKenna, North Sargent; 4) Eric Salvesen, Griggs County Central; 5) Dylan Pearson, Wahpeton.
Middle school girls – 1) Alicia Biewer, Hankinson; 2) Kate Loewen, Hankinson; 3) Olivia Waswick, North Sargent; 4) Kailee Klein, Wahpeton; 5) Mary Goroski, Wahpeton.
Elementary boys – 1) Bladow; 2) Ryan Kath, Hankinson; 3) Gage Schuh, Wilton; 4) Tavon Stadler, Griggs County Central; 5) Malachi Appel, Twin Buttes; 5) Brayden Wehseler, North Sargent.
Elementary girls – 1) Neameyer; 2) Kinley Hetletved, Wilton; 3) Taryn Schurhamer, Wilton; 4) Melonie Lee, Barnes County North; 5) Lauryn Hibl, Wahpeton.


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Bieber immediately left the stage briefly but then returned and finished the set, according to PopCrush.com. "Will you love me even though I'm throwing up on stage?" he reportedly asked the crowd. Two guesses as to what the answer was.
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Could it have been nerves? The Glendale, Ariz. show was the first stop on Bieber's "Believe" tour. Not according to the superstar, who tweeted a line from Anchorman after the concert: "Milk was a bad choice! Lol," he wrote.
Bieber apparently made a swift recovery. The next day, he performed in Las Vegas alongside Usher.
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Greetings blogland! I have been absent for a few days.. It is like that ever since the waning fase of the moon begun, my energy levels started to fade as well. I am still trying to get up and get started. Coffee is n't cutting it anymore. The only thing that might get me through is a day without work, so i can focus on myself and my home. I know that if i start cleaning or working on my plants there is no stopping me. So, today i have cleared my schedule to get my oomph back.
I want to clean the kitchen, throw away all junk from the living room, go for groceries, make an eggplant diner, make my plants happy, take Phoebe for a walk, take a long shower, meditate and do some fairy magic. Just by making this list i feel better already and my energy levels are rising. All i need now is to get up and get going. Hopefully tomorrow i will be back to normal and out of the funk. It is only 19 days till Ostara and there are a billion things to be done.
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The bargaining committee is pleased to announce that a tentative deal has been reached with the District.
To: All BCGEU Members at Hard Rock Casino
Re: Bargaining Begins!!!
To: All BCGEU Members at Town of Gibsons
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The BCGEU's General Services Component includes members employed by casinos, hotels, banks, credit unions, B.C. Place, B.C. Housing Management, some Royal Canadian Legion operations, B.C. Milk Marketing Board, Compass Foods, regional districts plus private businesses. This is one of the union's fastest growing components.
Component 17 has been at the forefront of anti-bullying initiatives at the BCGEU. Our negotiators try to negotiate anti-bullying language into all our collective agreement. Some of our successes include anti-bullying language in BC Place (PAVCO) and Atira collective agreements.
In 2011, the component 17 raised public and BCGEU member awareness by launching its own Sea Of Pink campaign. It designed and distributed pink scarfs, stickers and pocket-sized information cards to educate members on ways to stand up against workplace bullying.
As a result of component 17's work, the BCGEU has broadened its anti-bullying efforts work by partnering with the CKNW Pink Shirt Day each February.
Component 17 Anti-Bullying Awareness Lunch at BC Place (February 26, 2014)
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The bargaining committee is pleased to announce that a tentative deal has been reached with the District.
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Why do many doctors' offices have answering machines with this initial response? Price controls. Why does it take so long to get an appointment, if one is even available? Price controls. What will happen if our next president, in the name of universal healthcare, increases third-party responsibility for medical care? More price controls.
United States healthcare spending is escalating faster than growth in our gross domestic product. This trend, mixed with technological advancement and an aging population distribution, is unsustainable. Our government finances approximately 50 percent of healthcare spending. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported medical spending was more than 16 percent of GDP in 2007. In 10 years it is projected to exceed $4 trillion and comprise nearly 20 percent of GDP. The Medicare trust fund is expected to become insolvent by 2019. As a result, Medicare and Medicaid control prices to restrain spending. Market forces are foregone. Price controls lead to shortages. Quality of care deteriorates, and you have difficulty getting to talk to a nurse or doctor.
This week Congress is debating further cuts to Medicare reimbursement superimposed on annual inflationary erosion of fee schedules. Physicians' office rent, employee, and other overhead costs continue to increase. They are relying upon answering machines rather than nurses to triage phone calls. Subsequently, access to care is further jeopardized for many Americans. Increasing overhead and liability concerns, in the face of declining reimbursement, lead physicians to decrease availability for the indigent and uninsured. Only half the nation's doctors are accepting new Medicaid patients, because reimbursement is insufficient to cover the costs and inherent risks of providing care. Michigan, where I practice, is expected to face a 12 percent doctor shortage by 2020. National studies reach similar conclusions regarding physician shortfalls. Graduating medical students, with debt up to $200,000, are rationally less likely to consider careers in lower paying primary care specialties.
Medicare price controls and Byzantine bureaucracy have resulted in a misallocation of healthcare resources. Primary care shortage is a perverse outcome. Over two-thirds of healthcare expenses are influenced by behavioral factors. Two-thirds of U.S. citizens are overweight, 20 percent smoke tobacco, and alcohol consumption is epidemic. People need their internists, family physicians, and pediatricians. They are the most qualified to help patients with preventative health care and chronic disease management. These primary care coaches can help them with expensive health problems potentially under personal control, yet primary care residency positions remain vacant, and emergency rooms are overcrowded.
Some argue that medical care demand is inelastic, the quantity of care demanded is not sufficiently influenced by prices, and increasing consumer responsibility for payment will not curb healthcare spending. However, much of healthcare is not emergent. Many patients are sophisticated enough to become informed healthcare consumers, as they are for other goods and service. Prices effectively allocate scarce resources. Half of the United States population spends very little on healthcare, while five percent of the population consumes almost half of the total amount. There is opportunity for a more just allocation of the $2 trillion dollars spent annually, on healthcare in the United States. The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, completed in 1982, identified considerable price elasticity, wherein some personal financial responsibility for health care did not significantly affect quality of care.
Galen Institute founder Grace-Marie Turner, at this year's Acton University, prioritized three social justice principles for healthcare reform: human dignity, subsidiarity, and charity. As humans created in the image of God, we have the responsibility to care for our health. Secondly, care of the poor, vulnerable, and those unable to care for themselves ought to occur at a level of society closest to those in need. Government should be the provider of last resort, not the first. Finally, charity must be sustainable: resources are not unlimited and so in health care as in every other form of charity, it is important to match the available assistance with genuine need.
The common good would be better served by market oriented reforms coupled with compassionate subsidization for the poor and vulnerable, rather than by expanding third-party healthcare. The American Medical Association proposal for healthcare reform, which incorporates these precepts, is compelling. Tax law changes could more justly allocate the $120 billion federal tax subsidy for employer-provided health care to provide millions with access to health insurance, and improve family security. Insurance industry reform, including measures increasing inter-state competition, could foster premium affordability. People might take better care of themselves with increased incentives for improving personal health and with the help of primary care physicians.
It will take sound economics working in concert with good intentions to bring about real health care reform that provides more and better access to the people who need it. Government expansion and price controls won't take us toward that goal.


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How do we say thank u for all u do for we crafters. I just wish my "more mature" mind could remember more of the tips u give us.
You are kind and i so enjoy your videos, thank u, thank u. I have a large order to place, but am hoping that soon there were be a nice % off.
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Keep them coming.
I love your WOW. I love getting new ideas. Theresa does great work.
Please do not forget those of us who like to create holiday cards for other religions. I am specifically looking for Hanukkah . Will you be showcasing any webisode dedicated to Hanukkah? Thanks for your consideration for the rest of us,
These kits look awesome. I love the artful card kits. I just made a birthday card from one spun sugar one and it was so easy & turned out quite pretty, I think. Looking forward to the rest of the week of webisodes
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Love the cards but one question--some of the products used in the webisode are not for sale yet, i.e. border punches or snowflake template. Why show them if we can't order them? Kinda disappointing.
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I thank, God, everyday,when I'm blessed with a new day of, WOW! Thank you all, for all of your hard work, and sharing, of all these great products and ideas!
Can't wait for the rest of the week! Does my life revolve around creativity?? Yes, it does!
Looking forward to this WOW! Love these papers and the look of the foil on them, the card ideas are great!
Awesome start to the week. Can't wait to see the rest. There goes my budget. The new kits are so pretty. Thanks for the ideas.
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I just love all the great ideas,and of course all the "glitter and glam".So much work put into giving us these webisodes.I'm waiting for the photo and instruction part to get on line.
Love the webisode. Fantastic sets. The snowflake card is really stunning! Thanks for the demos. You ladies are great.
Thanks for the tulle-torial, Ann! Beautiful cards and ideas, as always. LOVE your webisodes!
Just beautiful! I just love the way Theresa layers items on her cards.
I just loved loved loved this webisode. I'm just learning to make the cards and this was fantastic. Thanks
Theresa is awesome. Great ideas and imagination.
Love the kits
So pretty, and foil never to early to start Christmas cards.Thanks for all the new ideas Teresa. Can't wait to see what else is coming this week.
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This Sensory Substitution Device uses the camera to gather visual data and then uses a rather nifty computer algorithm to translates this data into sound. With a little practice, blind users can identify complex objects, and even read words.
The invention is the invention of Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Dr. Amir Amedi, who you can see modeling the device in the picture up top. Amedi says that with only a relatively brief period of training, users can learn how to interpret a ton of information the "soundscapes" created by the computer algorithm, including the nature of complex everyday objects, the location and posture of people in a room, and even written letters and words.
What makes this particularly cool is that the sounds being created actually activate the ohterwise dormant visual cortices of congenitally blind people. Previous research had indicated that the visual cortex organizes data into two parallel pathways. The ventral occipito-temporal pathway, called the "what" pathway, deals with form, identity, and color, while the dorsal occipito-parietal pathway, or the "where/how" pathway, focuses on object location and coordinates visual data with motor function.
MRI scans revealed that blind people using this device activated these pathways just as people with normal vision would, indicating the proper functioning of the visual cortex doesn't actually require any visual information. In a statement, Amedi argued that this means that "The brain is not a sensory machine, although it often looks like one; it is a task machine."
This is one of a few recent studies that have suggested that actual visual, auditory, or tactile data aren't necessary for the brain to interpret what is going on around it. The various pathways of the brain seem to stand ready to interpret data, even if the corresponding sensory organs or receptors don't actually work. It seems, as far as the visual cortex concerned, no experience is required.
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The two-day spotlight on Richard Fung offers viewers the opportunity to revisit some of his most influential work, and includes talks by visiting scholars and a roundtable discussion that addresses some of the key themes Fung has tackled in the last 30 years. It is certainly a timely opportunity to continue these discussions about representation and freedom of cultural expression through media arts in an increasingly global context. Over his career as an artist, activist, and academic, Fung has made a substantial impact on the discourse around politics and art in Canada. There is no doubt that the media arts landscape would not be what it is without him. Recent international events show how the voices of filmmakers continue to be aggressively silenced, and are an alarming reminder of the fragility of freedom of expression, highlighting the importance of hearing Fung speak about his work today. Orientations (1985) was groundbreaking documentary that gave voice to queer Asians for the first time on screen, and features interviews with 14 lesbians and gay men who speak about sexuality, activism, and cultural expression in the context of a predominantly white gay community. From his very first work, which he describes as an "educational tool," we see that Fung's sensitive style does not oversimplify his subjects or limit their contradictions. This acknowl- edgement of how the individual's identity is shaped by a spectrum of influences is fundamental to understanding the human experience. Sea in the Blood (2000) is a moving personal documentary about living with illness. It profiles Fung's sister Nan, who struggled with a fatal hereditary blood disease, and his life partner, Tim, who lives with HIV/AIDS. Sea in the Blood could be described as one of Richard's most moving and personal videos, a beautifully crafted, dreamlike essay that seamlessly melds together historical footage and medical documents with home movies and poetic interpretation. In Rex vs. Singh (2008), Fung and his collaborators Ali Kazimi and John Greyson deconstruct a court transcript from 1915, part of a 20-year period where an inordinate number of men tried for sodomy in Vancouver were Sikhs. Staging scenes from a trial four different ways, first as a period drama, second as a documentary investigation of the case, third as a musical, and fourth as a deconstruction of text, the video reveals not only a history of systemic homophobia and racism in Canada, but also how one moment in time can be explored and interpreted from a wide range of angles. – HK
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Screening | 4:00pm–6:30 pm | Innis Town Hall | Free Admission Orientations 1985 | 56:00 School Fag 1998 | 16:35 | dir. Richard Fung and Tim McCaskell Screening | 7:30pm–8:50 pm | Innis Town Hall | Free Admission My Mother's Place 1990 | 49:00 Sea in the Blood 2000 | 26:00 Islands 2002 | 9:00
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Screening | 2:15pm–3:15 pm | Innis Town Hall | Free Admission Dirty Laundry 1996 | 30:30 Rex vs. Singh 2008 | 29:25 | dir. Ali Kazimi, John Greyson, Richard Fung Roundtable | 3:30pm–5:30 pm | Innis Town Hall | Free Admission Kass Banning – Lecturer in Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto Roland Sintos Coloma – Associate Professor of Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto Ramabai Espinet – Sessional Lecturer of Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto; writer and critic Lisa Lowe – Professor of English and American Studies, Tufts University Monika Kin Gagnon – Professor and Interim Chair of Communications Studies, Concordia University Chair: Rinaldo Walcott – Associate Professor Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto Screening | 7:00pm–9:00 pm | Bloor Hot Docs Cinema 506 Bloor Street West | 416 637 3123 Dal Puri Diaspora 2012 | 80:00 Remarks by Takashi Fujitani, Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies, Asian Institute, University of Toronto Q&A with Richard Fung, moderated by Takashi Fujitani Tickets: $11. Buy tickets at bloorcinema.com


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I am new to BOUML so it is possible I have missed this.
I want to extend UML using stereotypes so that when I assign a stereotype to a particular element the code that is generated for the element can be modified by the assigned stereotype.
At first look this seems possible, but I can only see this for the existing stereotypes. It does not seem possible to extend the stereotypes with user stereotypes for the purpose of code generation.
Am I missing something
I would like to extend an Operation with the stereotype <<log>> that would surround the "body" code with a pair of longing function calls. Whilst leaving the other operations without the stereotype with the default generated code.


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Max Payne 3 is a Rockstar Games production, which means it was originally supposed to be released a long time ago, and it's still not out. First, late 2009. Then, 2010. Later, 2011. Finally, March 2012. Wait, no, May 2012.
It now seems like the return of Max Payne is just a few weeks away, but with Rockstar Games, you never know. Unless there's an unexpected twist, Max Payne 3 will arrive on store shelves on May 15.
"Max Payne 3 required us to apply the same kind of focus and attention to detail that we'd use on an open world to the design challenges of more linear, more precise action-shooter," said lead gameplay designer Sergei Kuprejanov recently over email. "Everything has to withstand scrutiny in real time and Bullet Time."
The world assumed Max Payne was over when Remedy Entertainment moved onto Alan Wake. Max Payne 2 was a sales disappointment for parent company Take-Two Interactive, but as early as 2004, it promised another game. Max Payne 3 was formally announced in March 2009, where it was revealed that Rockstar Vancouver, the studio behind the excellent Bully, would make it.
A few months later, Max Payne 3 showed up on the cover of Game Informer. Max's new, beard-laden, wife beater-enhanced look was revealed, and fans weren't universally happy with the new direction. It was clear Rockstar Vancouver was putting their stamp on the series, but it wasn't necessarily a stamp series fans wanted.
Rockstar had experience taking over an existing series before. Red Dead Redemption was technically the follow-up to Red Dead Revolver, remember? The difference here, however, was that people really cared about Max Payne.
Kuprejanov told me the reaction didn't prompt Rockstar to alter the direction of Max Payne 3. It was patient.
"To be honest, we didn't change anything design wise," he said. "Our plans were already pretty tight and we knew that we would give people plenty of what they were asking for. We did, however, hurry up our contract discussions with James McCaffrey, as that wasn't quite finalized at that point, which is why we kept that under wraps."
McCaffrey was the original voice of Max, and remains the voice of Max in the new game. His involvement was a question mark when the Game Informer story ran, causing fans to question Rockstar's commitment to the past.
One positive sign about the game is the former creatives steering Max have given the thumbs up. Rockstar started showing Remedy builds of Max Payne 3 in 2011, and Kuprejanov described the relationship as one in which Remedy provides feedback to "ensure we got the right overall tone." Rockstar "didn't want to disturb" Remedy while Alan Wake finished up, and looped them in when that project was complete.
It's not like Remedy's support is a tepid endorsement, either.
"It's [Max Payne 3] f***ing brilliant," said Remedy CEO Matias Myllyrinne in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. "I've had a chance to play it and we've worked with Rockstar a little bit--obviously, they're doing the heavy lifting. They're doing the development. But they wanted our input on a couple of occasions and we've had loads of our people, our core group, who worked on the first two games, give input and it's awesome."
A running theme behind Kuprejanov's answers was a desire to maintain secrecy to protect the player experience, even when it seemed like my questions weren't particularly prying. There's a general sense that much of Max Payne 3 is being purposely kept from us, and it's a refreshing feeling. It's hard to predict what will happen when it boots up.
When I asked, for example, about balancing the fourth wall-breaking tone of the previous games:
"It's hard to convey every aspect of the game pre-launch without ruining parts of it that we'd rather leave for players to discover," he said. "Max has always been a wry character, struggling to gain some kind of self-awareness, and that hasn't changed at all. In terms of tone, we wanted something that worked well with modern body and facial animation and still felt very much like Max Payne. I think when you first hear McCaffrey start speaking in one of the early scene-setting monologues, you know you're back in Max's painful psyche."
It's unclear how far Rockstar will to walk down that road, but I'm guessing no dream scenes with babies crying.
Perhaps the most important question is this next one: will Address Unknown be back? Address Unknown was a fake TV show set in "New Noir City" that players came across in Max Payne 2. Kuprejanov was coy in a very good way.
"We're going to let fans discover the answer when they play the game for themselves," he said.
Good enough for me.


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On PHPMaster.com today they've posted the second part of the series covering the Iterators that come with PHP as a part of the SPL.
In part one of this series I introduced you to some of the SPL Iterators and how to use them. There may be times however when the provided iterators are insufficient for your needs and you'll want to roll your own custom iterator. Luckily, SPL provides interfaces that will allow you to do just that. For an object to be traversable in a foreach loop, PHP requires that it be an instance of Traversable. You cannot however implement this interface directly (though you can use it in instaceof checks); instead you'll need to implement either SPL's Iterator or IteratorAggregate interfaces.
He shows you how to implement these two interfaces in your own custom classes, looping through a set of books for the Iterator example and a "getIterator" method that creates an ArrayIterator when executed. The results of both are used in foreach loops showing how they can be used just like any other iteratable variables.


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In Reply to: Re: wavy vision/ opthalmic migraine posted by Shannon Evans on July 13, 2000 at 21:31:09:
Has anybody found a good resource or treatment for O.M.? I have suffered from this since I was 6 years old, I am 25 now. The blury vision, flashes and vibrating sensation has increased up to a point that I am unable to sleep well, I see this things with eyes open or shut.I also have read a lot about food containing MSG, but trying to find the correct diet is very difficult. Thanks for takint the time to read this.
: : : : : Responding to Opthalmic migraines: I have had them for 3 to 4 years. First few scared the pitts out of me! I work in health insurance and co worker nurses identified, after I'd seen regular doctor twice, with no success. No pain, just the fractured vision, but for me, sometimes they are long-lasting. Some 45 minutes long. Have also developed benign positional vertigo. Wonder if the two problems can be related as that is inner ear. Ear, eyes, all the canals behind? No answer from medical in my area as to connection. Anybody else????
: : : : I have also had opthalmic migraines for the last two years - and they still scare me! They seem to be getting longer, for starters. My doctor told me they can be triggered by certain foods, or if you are dehydrated. Mine start with missing visual informtion, and then lead into this strange fibrillating mass that tends to stay in one eye. After that they usually go away, although now after the fibrillating period, it goes back to the way it started, with just missing visual information. It's now taking another 10 to 15 minutes for that to go away. It is very distracting and scary. I have noticed that drinking lots of water sometimes helps. (and not drinking alcohol)
: : : I've had this since my late 20's, I am now 42. I had many episodes several years ago, one bad enough that I went to the emergency room because I had gone completely blind for about 20 minutes and was quite disturbed about it. They couldn't see anything wrong in my eye and said to go to the eye doctor and of course he didn't see anything. I didn't bring it up to the eye doctor or any other eye doctor since because it was so strange and and I didn't especially like the emergency room visit, the nurse was rather rude to me. But anyway, I had a lot of these episodes where I'd see zigzaggy lights or a little flashing crescent for a few minutes and sometimes have a mild headache after or not. I hadn't had them for years and had one about a month ago. I can't correlate anything to the cause, but maybe I don't always drink enough water. Thanks to everybody for the illuminating posts.
: : First I'd like to thank everyone for their contribution to this topic. I have also experienced the same type of symptoms as you describe. My first "optical migraine" occured about 6 years ago. At that time I seemed convinced that the optical migraine was triggered from a Depo-Provera (birth control injection) shot. The optical migraine would occur almost 7 days (to the hour) after the injection. Needlesstosay, I stopped the Depo shots after the 2nd shot when I discovered that there might be a connection. And, I did not have another migraine until about 1 month ago. Within the last month I have had 3 of these migraines, and I was beginning to get concerned. Your feedback has been helpful. You gave me some things to consider. Chocolate could be related, and I will try the Coke or asprin approach. Or better yet, I will start taking Ginko Biloba again since it is good for blood circulation. (A caution about Ginko and asprin ... both are blood-thinners so they should not be taken together.)
: I am 27 and have been having wavy vision and flashing squiggly lights for over a year. At first it seemed to be when I was tired and usually in the afternoon, but now it is constant and everyday. It is definitely worse when I am in sunlight or overheated. I have even noticed my tongue and left cheek seem weak. I also just had a baby and am now nursing. My doctor thinks it is either opthalmic migraines or MS. I had an MRI done that showed two lesions on my brain. They weren't in a common location for MS, and so right now I am undiagnosed. Has anyone ever heard of a opthalmic migraine occuring everyday? Any information would be wonderful.
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FFXIII Xbox 360 will be blatantly better than FFXIII PS3
At E3 2008, Square Enix shocked the world by claiming that, for the first time, a major Final Fantasy installment would be coming to the Xbox 360. Previously a PS3 exclusive, Final Fantasy XIII was the jewel in the crown of the Sony hype brigade. Well, they lost that battle (for it was truly a battle), and now they cry over spilled milk. The milk, in this case, being a clever metaphor for third-party exclusivity.
Square Enix has tried to assure fans that the game's multiplatform status will not affect that game's quality and that Final Fantasy XIII will be equal on both platforms. With the game almost ready to launch in Japan, it brings me great pleasure to say that Square Enix's claims are FALSE! Not only has the PS3 version's quality been compromised by Square Enix's decision, it has been reduced to far below that of the 360 version.
That's right, idiots! Final Fantasy XIII PS3 is going to SUCK compared to the 360 version and you know it. Don't believe me? You're only kidding yourself. Since you're obviously all sucking Sony's teet and can't see the truth forest for the lie trees, allow me, the lumberjack of righteousness, to chop you some fact logs with my reality axe. Ladies and gentlemen, FFXIII Xbox 360 WILL be blatantly better than FFXIII PS3, and I am about to show you why ...
The 360 version will ship on 120,000 discs:
While the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII will ship on just one Blu-ray, the 360 version will obviously require 120,000 DVDs to contain it. Yes, I know that to you IDIOTS it sounds like the 360 is getting a raw deal at first, but that's because you're stupid and can't see the bigger picture. First of all, more discs = more quality. This is a scientific and medical fact. The more discs something has, the better it will be, because you are clearly getting more material for your money. Why do you think George Harrison released All Things Must Pass as a triple LP? Because he knew that Final Fantasy XIII would be better on multiple discs and wanted to prove it, that's why!
Regardless of this, however, the multiple discs also makes for a more authentic old school experience. Disc-swapping has been a staple of the Final Fantasy series ever since the franchise's first good game, Final Fantasy VII, shipped on three CDs. Final Fantasy VII started two traditions -- the tradition of FF not sucking, and the tradition of multiple discs.
Using this flawless logic, I hereby argue that the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII will actually be the most authentic, and therefore the definitive version of the game. The PS3 version feels like a lie in comparison.
360 version was developed last so it is newer:
The PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII is already finished, while Square Enix continues to work on the 360 version. Guess what, losers -- that means the 360 version will be technically newer than the PS3 version. HA! Enjoy your five-year-old game engine and outdated graphics, morons. I'll be sitting back and relaxing with a game that was developed the week before release. It'll have that new car smell and everything.
It's simple. Would you want to eat a sandwich that was made half a decade ago, or a sandwich made from bread freshly baked that very morning and still warm to the touch? PS3 fanboys would try and convince you that the moldy, manky, shitstained sandwich is the superior option. If you want to have your lungs turn to liquid and dribble out of your arse, by all means, go for it. Just try not to make a mess on the carpet when your brain bleeds from your eyes and your tongue turns black.
Final Fantasy XIII on PS3 will literally give you food poisoning if you play it. You're dicing with death the moment you touch the disc. Does your family want you to die? For God's sake, don't be so selfish. Think of the kids!
Achievements > Trophies:
The superiority of Achievements over Trophies has become so acknowledged that scientists have actually accepted it as one of the laws of physics. A man I know who says he's a scientist told me this was true, and I choose to believe him. Anyway, Final Fantasy XIII on the Xbox 360 will have Achievements, which obviously gives it the edge over the PS3 and its rubbish Trophies. Would you rather improve your Gamerscore, or make the PS3 take even longer to load your useless Trophies and perform that weird "syncing" process that seems to exist for no justifiable reason. Yeah, that's what I thought.
Achievements instantly add value to any game, while Trophies actively take value away because they're stupid and lame and nothing like Achievements except the bits that are a blatant rip-off. If you're not playing games to add to an arbitrary number that appears next to a name you made up for yourself, then you're doing it wrong. Go back to your casual games, noobs!
No forced installs on the 360 version:
Final Fantasy XIII will blatantly have a forced install on the PS3, making gamers wait for ten thousand years while most of the game is uploaded or downloaded or whatever it does to the PS3's hard-drive. Not only are this obligated, they take far too long. Men have been known to put a PS3 game into the system, get married, have children, grow old and die before the game has even completed 10% of its installation process. The PS3 is like Jet Travolta -- beautiful but slow.
The 360 on the other hand is fast, like a panther leaping on a bottle of light. Even if the 360 version of XIII had a forced install, it would be completed so fast that time itself would rupture and you would end up leaping into the bodies of people from the past, altering the course of history and looking into a mirror every episode before saying "Oh boy."
The 360 version never forces installs on you, however. In fact, Microsoft has never been known to impose anything, ever, on its customers, and has always been about freedom, choice and putting the consumer first. Also, the Xbox 360 has never red ringed. Everyone lies about that.
Online multiplayer would be better on the Xbox 360 if Final Fantasy XIII had online multiplayer:
Final Fantasy XIII doesn't have multiplayer, but if it DID, then the Xbox 360 version would be the clear winner. Xbox Live is simply superior to the PlayStation Network -- or should I gay GAYGAYSTION WETWORK!? Sure, Xbox Live charges you for the privilege of doing things that should be free, but Xbox Live is still better because of infrastructure and servers and other things I don't understand.
In any case, the XBox 360 is the undisputed kind of online gameplay. Call of Duty, Halo and Killzone are all simply better when backed with the power of Xbox Live. If Final Fantasy XIII was a multiplayer game, there would be no contest, not even an illusion of choice. This obviously proves that Final Fantasy XIII is better on the 360, and if you can't see why then you're a retard.
Bayonetta is worse on the PS3 than on the Xbox 360:
This is yet another established fact that cannot be argued. Bayonetta on the PS3 is a slapdash port by Sega, and thus I have no reason to believe that Final Fantasy XIII won't be exactly the same. The 360 is the lead platform for everything, even Wii exclusives, which is why the PS3 version of Bayonetta is a pale and pathetic shadow of the much better 360 one.
Final Fantasy XIII will be little more than an awful port of the 360 version done by Sega because Square Enix doesn't want to waste its time on the shittier system that nobody cares about. History has already set the example, so it's definitely what is going to happen. PS3 is the home of rubbish Xbox 360 ports. It's the only thing it does well.
Final Fantasy XIII Versus will probably suck:
I have no idea what Final Fantasy XIII Versus is going to be like, but since I am a gamer, I have the special ability to make judgments about things I've never seen, let alone played. With that in mind, I do declare that Versus will be the worst game ever made and will probably give you tuberculosis. I mean, it's obvious that it will suck, isn't it? Just look at the facts:
- It's called Final Fantasy XIII Versus, which doesn't even make sense. Fact.
- The main character is a total emo and emos suck. Fact.
- It's a PS3 exclusive. Fact.
- Many other reasons. Fact.
As far as I'm concerned, Final Fantasy XIII begins and ends with Final Fantasy XIII. None of this Fabula Novella Crystalis Adendum Pringles bullshit that Square Enix is coming out with. They can shove that pretentious shit up their puckered spiceholes. Versus will suck, and since it's on the PS3, Final Fantasy XIII will also suck on the PS3 I guess.
The PSPgo definitely sucks:
The PSPgo is proof that Sony can't do anything right. Here was a great idea -- an all digital PSP -- and Sony managed to fuck it all up with expensive games, a needlessly pricey system, and all manner of PR bullshit that wrecked the whole thing. Since Sony invariably ruins everything it touches, it will quite clearly ruin Final Fantasy XIII as well. The PSPgo stands as proof of Sony's never ending incompetence.
Sony deliberately messes everything up because it loves disappointing customers. Kaz Hirai probably confirmed that once in a press conference or something. Sony will most likely take all the Blu-ray discs out of the boxes and replace them with flat, round discs of poo that Jack Tretton himself has personally sculpted into the shape of a disc. Then PS3 fans will take the poo out of the box and put the poo in the PS3 and then end up with poo in the PS3 and poo on their hands and will probably wipe the poo from their hands on their clothes so they have poo on their clothes and then they will sit down with poo on their clothes so poo ends up on the couch and everything will be covered in poo.
That's just the kind of thing Sony does, and I know that the average N4G commenter would do anything for the honor being covered in Jack Tretton's shit, but reasonable and sane human beings would rather go without.
Final Fantasy XIII has an "X" in the title ... LIKE XBOX!:
Also, the game is developed by Square Enix for the XBox 360. These signs are more than just coincidences. It was simply meant to be, and if you disagree with that, you clearly disagree with God and will go to fucking Hell, which is where all PS3 fanboys end up.
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Out of the way, Von Miller. Playing six games without their star pass rusher was yesterday's primary Broncos concern.
Protecting Peyton Manning is now issue No. 1 after preliminary tests on Ryan Clady's left foot created fear of a serious injury, according to two NFL sources.
The Broncos were discussing options Monday on how best to proceed with their all-pro left tackle. The worst-case scenario of season-ending injured reserve is possible.
Placing Clady on IR with the designation to return is another option. Designated IR would sideline Clady for a minimum of eight weeks.
Either way, Clady will miss significant time because of a Lisfranc injury in the arch of his left foot. Lisfranc sprains occur when a metatarsal bone is displaced from the tarsus. The more severe Lisfrancs can have a three- to four-month recovery period.
He suffered the injury Sunday with less than four minutes remaining in the Broncos' 41-23 victory against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
Looking at Clady's injury from an optimistic position, he could miss the next three months and still play the final two regular-season games against Houston and Oakland as tuneups for the playoffs.
With Clady out, Chris Clark will be the Broncos' starting left tackle. The Broncos and Clark reached an agreement on a two-year contract extension Friday. He signed the deal Monday.
"He got a lot of work in training camp, as well as the preseason games," Broncos coach John Fox said at his Monday news conference. "We have the utmost confidence in Chris Clark."
The Broncos most likely would have to sign another offensive tackle as insurance, as Clark was the team's only true backup. Starting left guard Zane Beadles is now the team's top reserve tackle.
The team still was getting medical opinions on the extent of Clady's injury Monday. Even if the Broncos get Clady back at some point this season, the NFL's hottest quarterback is going to have a new blindside protector for an extended period.
Manning has thrown nine touchdown passes with zero interceptions in leading the Broncos to 90 points through their first two games. He was not sacked by the Giants as Clady held off the likes of Jason Pierre-Paul, Mathias Kiwanuka and Justin Tuck.
Clady signed a five-year, $52.5 million contract extension with the Broncos in mid-July. The deal included $15 million in salary and signing bonus this season that made him the team's second-highest-paid player, behind Manning ($20 million).
It appeared Clady's foot was rolled up by a fallen player as the Broncos were trying to run out the clock. He hobbled badly out of the visiting locker room Sunday night.
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