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"Choose Cage-Free" CampaignFebruary 1st, 2013
Did you know that ninety-five percent of egg-laying hens in the US live their entire lives in small cages that they share with five or six other birds? These chickens—intelligent, social animals—cannot spread their wings or even turn around.
Gluten-Free CosmeticsFebruary 1st, 2013
Gluten has become a great concern for those with celiac disease. This autoimmune digestive disease interferes with an individual's ability to digest food and absorb nutrients. Without a known cure, the only effective treatment is a gluten-free lifestyle.
Five Tips to Protect Your Tips from the ColdFebruary 1st, 2013
1. Going outside without gloves on really hurts your nails. The quick change in temperature from warm inside to freezing outside causes your nails to become brittle and break, especially if they're being overexposed to water and detergents. Make sure you always leave with a pair of gloves!
Clearer Skin to Stronger Immune SystemFebruary 1st, 2013
With more than a third of Americans classified as obese, everyone from first lady Michelle Obama to TV news anchor Katie Couric is advocating exercise to maintain a healthy weight.The hidden benefits of exercise
Face Washing Ideas for Healthier-Looking SkinFebruary 1st, 2013
Washing your face is as simple as using soap and water, right? Not quite, say dermatologists. How you wash your face can make a difference in your appearance.
The Food Truck Community Goes to the DogsFebruary 1st, 2013
That's right—the food truck community has gone to the dogs. And that's a good thing. With 78.2 million dogs living as pets in the US, there simply aren't enough pet-friendly food trucks available to serve them. Chef Michael's is leading the charge to help food trucks serve up thoughtful meal experiences for dogs and their owners.
The Elderly and Their PetsFebruary 1st, 2013
It's easy to understand why elderly pet owners develop deep and meaningful relationships with their pets—pets provide essential elements of unconditional love and companionship for seniors. For these reasons, family members may choose to give a pet to their aging parents.
Stay Sane this Holiday SeasonJanuary 1st, 2013
From the end of November to the beginning of January, most of us rush around nonstop, trying to fit in dozens of events, activities, and responsibilities. But it's important to take care of yourself while you're taking care of everyone else.
Here are a few take-care-of-you ideas:
Vitamin C May Prevent Bone LossJanuary 1st, 2013
A recent study provides evidence that vitamin C, when ingested orally, can prevent bone loss and stimulate the formation of new bone.
Fight the Flu NaturallyJanuary 1st, 2013
Ed Lamadrid, DAOM, LAc, LMT, gives four suggestions in battling seasonal colds and flus:
Feed a Cold - Foods that are rich in antioxidants, such as berries, pomegranates, garlic, and leafy greens like spinach and kale, can help to fight free radicals in the body that can cause illness.


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A scholarship will be awarded at conclusion of the MMUN 54 conference to the author of the best essay on the following topic:
Many people have argued that the current make-up of the Security Council no longer reflects the realities of the current international arena. Representatives of several countries have proposed changing the current make-up to allow new permanent seats (perhaps not including the veto power), but recognizing new global realities.
1. Should the Security Council membership be reformed? Why or why not?
2. Assuming new members are added, which countries should be added and why?
Michael Steven Shower
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ooo, i really like this map...very simple and elegant, something i sometimes forget about in my work. This is basics at its best, bravo
Welcome to the guild, teknohippy. That's a very nice map that deserves some rep! Well done.
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ooo, i really like this map...very simple and elegant, something i sometimes forget about in my work. This is basics at its best, bravo
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My suggestions, (and I feel odd making any as I'm a noob too all this), are as follows:
1. Maybe use the circle inside a circle you're using for town locations for only large towns, and just a single black circle for the smaller towns.
2. Bring down the saturation of the whole thing some, it seems too bright.
3. Sometimes I add a color-burned edge around some things like those thicker continent lines to simulate ink bleeding some on the parchment. Parts of it seem to clean.
And I had a question for some of the more experienced map makers here. I see maps like this on rumpled parchment and think to my self, wouldn't the lines bend with the folds of the paper? Is there some way to simulate this without complex 3d rendering or hand drawing every grid line? Does it look worse to do that, even if it might be more "realistic"?
Great map though, makes me want to board a vessel and set sail.
Nice, I forgot about that filter. I tried it and liked it, but I had to make a bit of a blurry displacement map and adjust the levels or my lines got too jagged. Thanks for the suggestion.
Great maps. I like it a lot.
My one suggestion would be that the crinkeld paper texture underneath is a little sharp - I don't think paper would have quite that surface. Of course now you'll tell me that you scrunched up some paper, photographed it and used that
Great first post - repped and rated. Welcome to the guild.
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It'd have to be fairly thin paper to scrunch like that, about 50-60gsm or there abouts. (Sorry used to be a printer )
We use this as out campaign map, printed out A2 mounted onto 8mm foamex ( a kind of stiff foam board) and laminated.
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Definición de instance court en inglés:
instance courtSaltos de línea: in|stance court
1 old-fashioned term for court of first instance.
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- This section requires a judgment by the first instance court, here the Magistrate, as to the overall fairness, in all the circumstances, of admitting the evidence.
- It is difficult to see why the power given to the arbitral tribunal to continue proceedings should extend to an application to the first instance court but not beyond.
- In those circumstances it is more appropriately dealt with by a first instance court.
1.1 (Instance Court) (In the UK) a branch of the former Admiralty Court dealing with private maritime matters.
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Seven adults and five children on their way home from a field trip when they were injured in a crash involving their school bus and a box truck in Hendricks County Thursday afternoon.
The injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
Police say that the box truck made a lane change and struck the bus.
The bus rolled once and landed on its wheels in the median.
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Harley Davidson Street Glide
Introducing another new model Harley Davidson company. It is about the 2012 model year and is powered by engine type: Air-cooled Twin Cam 10 with Integrated Oil Cooler and displacement is 1.690 cc. Wheelbase is 1,625 mm, Weight, Running In Order368 kg and many more will see the below ………..
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The senior said that she has learned core leadership skills at Pacelli and plans on taking those with her to her new team.
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I am looking for a top notch BBL surgeon in the Philadelphia area. I care more about quality patient service & care than costs. I am looking to schedule procedure Jan/Feb 2013. My momma blessed me with a saggy rear and bearing 2 children didn't help any either. Looking to achieve a lift & roundness.. More natural than plump. I met with Dr. Gabay many years ago but did not continue w/procedure! Finally got the heart to proceed and looking to explore options.
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Still looking for other PS for BBL in Philadelphia.. Help ladies!
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Have consult with Dr. Benjamin in MD in a few weeks. Will keep yall posted. Still searching for the perfect doctor to give me the perfect shape!
Consultation with Dr. Dimario - Jenkintown
Hey ladies. It's been awhile. I had to fall back bc I found myself obsessing over this procedure so I needed to make sure that I wanted sx for the right reasons. with that being said I finally went ahead n had a consultation at Nubody. When I walked in the office was packed! I was glad to see ppl in the office bc they don't have many pictures on their website so I really cldnt get an idea of his work. but let me tell u the ladies were stacked ok! everyone was very friendly & I got to speak with patients who were there for post op care. Dr.Di is big on postop care n I think u get like 25 sessions included in your price which I think is amazing. I met with Janet who is a beauty n great to talk to. she is the consultant & she helped me make the decision to go with the bbl vs tummy tuck. she said the dr does not like to do bbl & tt simultaneously for health precautions n less fat is extracted that way. I. hate these abdominal stretch marks more than my flat behind... but after seein how flat other pts stomachs were with the liposculpting I decided to rock out with that. she was very informative & made me feel comfortable answered every question n provided feedback. soooo I'm shooting for May 2014. probably.b making my first payment soon. something else that she brought to my attn was the technique of Carboxytherapy as part of postop care. strongly suggest yall YouTube/google it as it like repairs stretchmarks. a pt told me that it's a lil painful post sx due to ur tissues still being sore.. but I'm for anything that reduces the appearance of these tiger stripes!
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Had my BBL in NY with Dr. Schulman. I lovemy results and he has a really good following for BBLs so may be worth checking out. Good Luck on your journey.
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Hey Dr. Benjamin will be doing my bbl surgery on 12/21. Also, I will be having my third pre op with him on Monday.
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Oh congrats & thank u! I will definitely follow your posts.. I'm very interested inhim!
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Hi Junk please give me an update of ur results. I'm in Philly and had a consult with Dr Gabay and am not sure if he is right for me. He didn't have many before and after photos to show and not many people on here talk much about him. I don't wanna travel out of state but I will if I have to. Good Luck and hope to hear from u soon. Nina
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Hi Nina.. Also checkout Dr. Carmen DiMario in Jenkintown.. Its a sis on here name Lady_Bootay she is singing his praises.
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Nike Roshe Run Trail – Dark Grey – Total Orange – Team Red
November 18th, 2012 by Aaron Hope | No comments
The Nike Roshe Run is the sleeper success story of the year, and in recent months, it's gone 'sleepy hollow' with a bunch of new midtop styles designed for running around in the woods. The latest Nike Roshe Run Trail was originally slated for September, a Dark Grey/black style with Team Red branding whose Total Orange midsole really glows beneath the otherwise relatively dark build. They've got the right look for fall with a pop that doesn't preclude very many clothing options, and you'll find this water-resistant style at select Nike Sportswear retailers shortly.
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It shouldn't be another 27 years before Canyon and Tascosa meet again.
In the first meeting between the two schools since 1987 on Thursday night at Happy State Bank Field at Kimbrough Memorial Stadium, it was so much fun nobody seemed to want it to end.
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More than 50% of this sign is factually accurate. And he's batting .667 on correct punctuation. I'm just following this guy's lead and stating the facts. View Image ›
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Learn the language of Teabaggers, as seen on real signs written by real 'mericans.
Here's hoping that this brilliant new video from New Left Media represents the Teabaggers' last gasp of opposition to the inevitable health care reform bill. (Via Gotcha Media.) Watch Video ›
Matt Wilstein 4 years ago 31 responses
Because nothing says, "I'm a Christian" like yelling abuse at the sick. [Ed Note: Not to state the blindingly obvious here, but Teabaggers make the Baby Jesus cry. :( ] Watch Video ›
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Teabaggers may have their very own terrorist. Austin Pilot Joe Stack, the troubled individual who (apparently deliberately) flew his plane into an IRS building this morning, reportedly left a manifesto behind that was largely an anti-taxation rant. (Thanks to Lefty for the nickname.) Update: Although Joe Stack's political affiliations (assuming he has some) aren't fully known yet, there's already a kind of disturbing outpouring of support for him in the form of anti-tax Facebook groups. Will be interesting to see where this one leads. Read More ›
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Minnesota anti-immigration Teagbaggers have an unusual speaker. Robert Erickson speaks to the crowd about the evils of…European immigrants. The crowd cheers. Entire crowd now teabagged. Watch Video ›
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UPDATE: The missing person, Charlotte Seim, was located a short time ago by a family member at the K-Mart 1860 Central Avenue. Charlotte Seim was uninjured and is being brought back home. Thanks for your assistance.
COLONIE, N.Y. - The Colonie Police Department is asking for assistance in locating a 76-year-old female reported missing Wednesday afternoon.
Charlotte Seim is a resident of the Massry Center at the Daughters of Sarah Nursing Home, 1082 Washington Avenue Extension, and was dropped off at Colonie Center with other residents at 10:30 a.m. Charlotte failed to rejoin the group at 11:30 a.m., as planned, and efforts to locate her in the mall were unsuccessful.
Police say there are no suspicious circumstances in this incident and after a previous incident she was located in Guilderland.
Charlotte is described as 5'6", 170 pounds, grey hair, blue eyes, uses a metal cane. She was last seen wearing a brown coat with a hood. (In the photo, Charlotte Seim is wearing a blue dress and holding flowers.)
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David Ward, who has served for the last twelve years as the FIA Foundation's Director General, has resigned. His Deputy, Saul Billingsley, has been appointed Acting Director General pending recruitment of a permanent successor.
David Ward has issued the following explanatory statement: "After much careful thought I have decided to stand as a candidate in the 2013 FIA Presidential election. The election period begins in September and it will be necessary for me to approach FIA members to secure nominations. In these circumstances I think that the correct course of action is to resign. Election processes inevitably involve robust and lively debate, and whilst the Foundation is independent and there is no legal requirement for me to resign, I believe that it is in the best interests of the charity that I stand down now.
It has been a great privilege and words cannot express my gratitude to the trustees and staff for the support and loyalty I have been given since the Foundation was established in 2001. The Foundation has given me an extraordinary opportunity for professional fulfilment, building up the charity, creating a dedicated team, developing innovative activities that have reshaped the international agenda's approach to road safety and the environment. Very important to me has been the UN's launch of the Decade of Action for Road Safety, the Moscow Ministerial in 2009, and the global campaign that helped to bring them about. Also very gratifying has been the creation of the Global New Car Assessment Programme and its pioneering work with emerging consumer crash test programmes in Latin America and Asia. The Foundation's environmental work has been similarly successful, assisting in the UN Environment Programme's drive to complete the removal of lead in fuel, and the launch of the Global Fuel Economy Initiative. As a former amateur competitor I am also pleased that the Foundation has been able to contribute significantly to the promotion of motor sport safety through research funding and grants for training programmes managed by the FIA Institute.
The Foundation, and especially its superb staff, has been a wonderful organisation to lead and, naturally, that makes it very hard to leave. Nevertheless, I am sure now is the time for me to move on not least because the trustees and staff are more than capable of sustaining the Foundation's important work. I will, of course, also continue to strongly support the Foundation's objects through my role as Secretary General of the Global NCAP and as Executive Secretary to Lord Robertson's Commission for Global Road Safety and the Make Roads Safe campaign." Tim Keown, Chairman of the FIA Foundation, said:
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Categories > Celebrities > My Chemical Romance > Get up and (GO!)
Sing it like the kids that are mean to you...1 Reviews
This is my fanfic which I held auditions for! ENJOY! :D
"I NEED YOU!! GET THE FUCK UP, MOTHER FUCKER" She screamed again, falling to her knees beside her sisters limp, lifeless body.
"Careful, come here, we will get her back to camp" Said a kind, familiar voice, as she felt a hand placed firmly on her shoulder.
"SIS SIS SIS SIS SIS SIS SIS SIS" Giggled Broken Arrow, at her sister.
"WHAT?!" Shouted Poison Revolver to Arrow from the train bathroom.
"WE ARE ALLMOST THERE!!! OMFG OMFG OMFG" Arrow squealed excitedly.
"I know!" Poison said, opening to door, and exiting the bathroom.
Arrow grinned madly at her sister.
Poison ginned back.
"New school, new kids, no-one hates us..." Poison said, gazing out the train cariage window.
"...Yet..." Muttered Arrow.
Poison saw the fear shoot through her sisters eyes, and put her arm round Arrow, protectively.
No-one could forget what happened at their old school.
It was horrifying.
"Theres no point thinking about that now... The trains slowing down!" Poison said, standing up and chucking her sister her bags, before grabbing their own.
The girls had just started the adventure of their new life.
After their mother was admitted into rehab, they had been carted off to live with their Auntie in Boston.
They girls got off the train, onto a small platform.
The looked around for the skinny, blonde woman that was supossidly their aunt Tierney.
They waited about 30 mins, watching the other pasangers meet their familys, girlfriends, boyfriends, wives, husbands, kids...
"No sign of Aunt Tierney..." Arrow muttered.
"Yeah... But she was never one to be on time..." Poison replied cheerfully, to her sister.
Just then, a short brunette woman shuffled round the corner, looking unconfortable.
She wandered over to the girls...
"Arrow? Poison?" She asked.
"Aunt... Tierney?" Arrow replied, looking bewildered.
"Oh hevens no! Im her secutary, Jenni" Replied the woman, looking a little relived.
"Ummm... Hi." Poison said, looking the lady up and down.
"Yes, Hello. Your aunt sent me to pick you girls up. She is busy with a client, right now..." Explained Jenni, ushering the girls into a taxi.
"Fairveiw ave, please" Jenni said to the taxi driver.
"Sure madam'" Replied the taxi driver.
The taxi lurched forwards.
After a while, the taxi sharply turned round a bend, and up a lane.
The girls found themselves parked outside a small, cute house.
Jenni paid the taxi driver, and everyone got out.
Suddenly the front door or the house flung open, and a woman with long, dark blonde hair, with the ends dyed bright blue, wearing a "Harley Davidson" hoodie, t-shirt and jeans, and Monroe pierceing, came running out.
"POISON, ARROW!! GUYS! I HAVEN'T SEEN Y'ALL IN AGES" Screamed the woman, as she ran towards them.
The girls looked a little bewildered... Then...
"AUNT TIERNEY?!" Arrow shouted back, grinning.
"OH MY GOSH, GUYS!" Tierney said, hugging them.
Poison looked up at the woman hugging her... She didn't look much older than her and Arrow...
She looked about 21, maybe 22.
"Come inside guys!" Tierney said, leading the girls up the garden path, too her pretty, white house.


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Crews work to prepare way for Kid's Creek. Below, project leaders pose for a photo.
Kid's Creek Project Continues on Schedule
Construction begins that will bring creek out of culverts to daylight in 2013
Munson Medical Center efforts to restore Kid's Creek north of Sixth Street in Traverse City are now under way with crews moving dirt for a new creek channel that will take the water out of culverts next fall.
Munson Medical Center Vice President of Facilities Steve Tongue said the creek restoration project that will eventually prepare the way for construction of a new cancer center is on schedule.
"We have received all of our necessary permits and are moving ahead with preparing for construction that will restore the channel for Kid's Creek," he said. "The construction will replace 900 feet of underground culvert and channelized ditches with an above-ground meandering channel. This project will eliminate 73,000 square feet of paved area and establish a 27,000-square-foot floodplain."
The creek restoration will also create a green buffer area between the hospital campus and surrounding neighborhoods, Tongue said.
Plans call for construction of the channel to continue through spring. Some road closures will be associated with the project along Beaumont Place and Sixth Street. Any closures will be done in conjunction with the city and will be minimized as much as possible.
In late August and September, buildings that once sat on the new creek course were removed. Sixth Street Drugs recently moved next door to its former location . Its former location has since been razed.
"After construction this winter and spring, we plan a late spring planting of native grasses, shrubs, and trees along the future creek bank," Tongue said. "We will be planting 72 deciduous canopy trees, 12 smaller understory trees, and 356 evergreen trees."
Plans call for the project to be completed next fall when the creek is opened into the new channel.
Part of the project is being funded through a $500,000 federal grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Watershed Center.
The hospital has provided updates on the project to area neighbors, and this fall plans to focus on a traffic study of the Munson Medical Center campus. As part of the creek project, some Munson employees have moved offsite to a location at Copper Ridge in Traverse City.


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Light and Shadow:
Quint crosses over into The Twilight Zone!
Episodes 1.7-1.9 reviewed!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the next Light and Shadow, my systematic and possibly suicidal attempt at going episode by episode through one of the best scripted shows to ever be beamed to idiot boxes, THE TWILIGHT ZONE. As I mentioned in my intro to the first installment of this article The Twilight Zone was on regular rerun rotation as a kid, but outside of an odd episode here or there as I flip through channels at 4am I haven't revisited the series since my childhood. Even then the reruns all seemed to be the same two dozen episodes. This is the first installment of Light & Shadow that covers an episode I know for sure I've seen before, that being the infamous TIME ENOUGH AT LAST starring the great Burgess Meredith. Oddly enough that episode also marks the first real gut-punch ending of the series, the ironic twist that makes you go "Oh, damn!" when watching. The series is kind of known for those twists, but up until that particular episode even the ironic twists still had some degree of optimism or hope to them. But we'll talk more about that when we get to that review. Here's what's on the slate for this report: This installment features episodes 1.7 ("The Lonely" starring Jack Warden and Jean Marsh), 1.8 ("Time Enough At Last" starring Burgess Meredith) and 1.9 ("Perchance to Dream" starring Richard Conte and Suzanne Lloyd). Enjoy!
1.7 – "The Lonely"
Directed by Jack Smight
Written by Rod Serling
Original Airdate: November 13nd, 1959
As you can tell from Rod's great intro this is a tale of loneliness as a man (Jack Warden), wrongly convicted of murder in the distant future, is isolated on an asteroid, which oddly looks like the deserts outside of Los Angeles. There are no bars on his windows, no guards at his door, but where would he go?
Four times a year he is visited by John Dehner's Allenby, the captain of a spaceship that carries supplies and information across the universe, but other than that sparse and brief interaction Warden is left to occupy his time with building odds and ends all by his lonesome.
Allenby takes pity on him when he has to deliver the news that Warden's appeal has been denied. So he delivers a large crate, telling his crew nothing about it and asking Warden to wait to open it until after they leave.
When Warden does crack the case he finds himself a girl. A robot girl. Or, as they constantly say in this episode, a ro-butt. I don't know why I find it so funny as it was obviously a common pronunciation back in the '50s... I've seen robots called ro-butts in many films and TV series of this era… but it does make me crack a smile every time I stumble across it.
This robot is played by a young Jean Marsh, who our UK friends will know from UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS and DR. WHO, but who will always remind me of two extremely creepy bad guys of '80s fantasy: Bavmoda in WILLOW and that fucking headless lady from RETURN TO OZ.
I can't deny that she's pretty hot here. There's a dark innocence to her in this episode… I wouldn't be surprised if Tim Burton watched this one as a kid and discovered a whole new world of sensations. Marsh's Alicia looks a bit like Sally in NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
Jack Warden is what keeps this episode afloat. The writing is fine, but the whole thing feels rushed, like they didn't have enough time to really tell this story. At first Warden can't see this robot, Alicia, as anything but a kitchen appliance with skin. He's a rude fucker, insulting this poor girl even though she seems to have all the same emotions as he does. She feels pain, rejection, thirst, hunger, loneliness just like he does.
The bulk of that rushed feeling comes from this middle section where Warden turns from rude asshole to caring companion within one scene and then we get the "11 months later" narration, not really getting any time to see how these two grow to love each other.
So when the captain returns, proclaiming that Warden's pardon has been granted, but they have to leave within 10 minutes and only have room for Warden I didn't feel the torture of that news as much as I wanted to. Don't get me wrong, that horrible decision is sold 100% by Warden. At first he doesn't understand, then denies and pleads, looking insane for saying that Alicia's a real person, there's a real soul in there, the machine parts be damned.
A lot of these episodes you have to fill in your own gaps, take some leaps you might not have had to take if there had been slightly more budget or time to develop these stories and I absolutely admit this is a well done episode, just one that I felt was done a disservice. If they had time for just one or two more scenes between Marsh and Warden I wouldn't be picking nits.
The actual ending of the episode I won't spoil, but it's a corker, even if I think the impact would have been greater if we had seen more of Marsh and Warden's relationship.
Witness if you will a dungeon, made out of mountains, salt flats and sand that stretch to infinity. The dungeon has an inmate: James A. Corry. And this is his residence: a metal shack. An old touring car that squats in the sun and goes nowhere, for there is nowhere to go. For the record let it be known that James A. Corry is a convicted criminal placed in solitary confinement. Confinement in this case stretches as far as the eye can see because this particular dungeon is on an asteroid nine million miles from the Earth. Now witness if you will a man's mind and body shriveling in the sun, a man dying of loneliness.
Witness if you will a dungeon, made out of mountains, salt flats and sand that stretch to infinity. The dungeon has an inmate: James A. Corry. And this is his residence: a metal shack. An old touring car that squats in the sun and goes nowhere, for there is nowhere to go. For the record let it be known that James A. Corry is a convicted criminal placed in solitary confinement. Confinement in this case stretches as far as the eye can see because this particular dungeon is on an asteroid nine million miles from the Earth. Now witness if you will a man's mind and body shriveling in the sun, a man dying of loneliness.
1.8 – "Time Enough At Last"
Directed by John Brahm
Written by Rod Serling, based on the short story by Lynn Venable
Original Airdate: November 20th, 1959
Now we're in to one of the all time classic episodes… not just of Twilight Zone but of any episodic TV ever broadcast. I remember watching this as a kid and it really having and impact on me because the whole damned episode is about gaining your trust and then punching you in the gut.
Seriously, rewatch this episode. Every moment is designed to make you sympathize with Burgess Meredith's bookwormy Henry Bemis. Every person he's around is a hateful douchebag, even his wife. Especially his wife.
If they made this episode today they would have made Meredith's character an uber-nerd, terribly withdrawn, socially awkward and pathetic and, in doing so, miss the point. Henry Bemis loves books because he can get lost in them without having to be talked down to, scolded or mocked. The feeling I get is that if he were in a better position, surrounded by better people he wouldn't be forced to escape into his reading the way he does here.
There's a giddy excitement when he thinks his cunty wife (I was going to say "bitchy" wife, but go watch the episode again… she steps way out of Bitch territory and firmly into Cunt County here) is actually engaging him. The character is starved for interaction and if he had other outlets he wouldn't turn to books as zealously as he does when we meet him.
But as it is, his wife is a miserable human being, his boss at the bank is a big dickhead and he has no other friends, so Meredith, with his coke bottle glasses, turns to whatever books he can sneak.
Of course I see a parallel between Mr. Bemis and myself. He has novels, I have DVDs. Fortunately for me, I don't work in a bank, sneaking peeks at Criterions on a portable DVD player as I go about my day to day duties. I get to talk about my passion every day, but like almost every other movie geek I know there was a time when I thought I was the only one out there.
And as any DVD/Blu-Ray hoarder will admit to when pressed there's a certain "end of the world" fantasy involved in stocking your own video store, essentially. Between movies and TV I myself have probably 10 months worth of unseen stories on my DVD shelves.
Of course, if the scenario that Henry Bemis finds himself in happened to me I'd be left with a few thousand shiny coasters since I doubt I'd have the electricity needed to play my media after the A-bomb drops.
Unlike my issues with The Lonely this episode feels perfectly paced. You spend just enough time with Meredith pre-bomb drop to get to know him and just enough time after to feel his complete isolation and loneliness.
Then that glimmer of hope as he stumbles across one of the few remaining structures in the post-apocalyptic wasteland: the public library. That represents Serling throwing a nice, cozy rug down for us to trod upon just so he can yank it out from under our feet leaving us with one of the most memorable finales ever, sold impeccably by Meredith's heart-breakingly pathetic murmurs of the words "It's not fair…"
Awesome episode, even better than I remember it being.
Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself, without anyone.
Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself, without anyone.
1.9 – "Perchance to Dream"
Directed by Robert Florey
Written by Charles Beaumont, based on his short story
Original Airdate: November 27th, 1959
This episode marks the first Twilight Zone not scripted by Rod Serling. Instead series collaborator Charles Beaumont adapts his own short story in a dreamscape tale that surely provided the groundwork for Wes Craven's A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET.
Basically you follow a young Richard Conte (from The Godfather and pretty much every knock-off of The Godfather until his death in 1975) as he goes to see a new shrink after suffering a series of recurring nightmares that are putting such a strain on his weak heart. He's certain he's going to die the next time he falls asleep.
This episode more than any other covered up to this point got under my skin. It's not even the big moments, but a simple story Conte is telling his shrink about how his imagination can sometimes make him see things. He describes reading about a woman being killed while driving by a murderer hiding in her backseat, so we see him nervously driving along shooting glances into his rearview mirror. All we see is blackness. The editing becomes more and more frantic and I realized I was clenching up a bit in anticipation of what was going to pop up.
Freddy Krueger isn't hunting Conte. Quite the opposite, actually. A beautiful woman haunts him. He dreams of being at a carnival and conversing with this woman, a dancer known as Maya, The Cat Woman, who has the devil in her eyes. She wants him dead, Conte is sure of it. Because he dreams in sequence he knows that the progressively bizarre and scary dreams are about to come to a head and is bound and determined to stay awake.
The dream sequences are filmed with Dutch angles and a Vaseline-smeared lens giving them a true nightmarish quality. In a technical respect this episode is years ahead of its time.
Conte is great here, really selling his torment as he spills all this to a sympathetic psychiatrist. You can probably spot the ending if you pay close attention to the beginning, but it's cleverly hidden.
It's a solid episode, not as iconic as the previous, but artistically well done and notable for playing with a conceit that would become a cornerstone of horror in the coming decades. I also have to love the throwback to the feel of the Val Lewton horror films, which all felt dreamlike as well.
There you have it. Another three down! I'll be attacking the next three this week, so stay tuned!
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May 11, 2010, 4:03 a.m. CST
Time enough at last is my fav TZ eppy
by djdark01
It's reeeeallly good. www.saveourseeker.com
May 11, 2010, 4:14 a.m. CST
All 3 of those episdoes
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
are absolutely terrific. Keep it up!
May 11, 2010, 4:59 a.m. CST
Episode 1.7 reminds me of Castaway and Wilson
by V'Shael
Humans can imbue great personality into something which isn't human, out of nothing but sheer lonliness.
May 11, 2010, 6:14 a.m. CST
High on the list of reasons ...
by The StarWolf
... why I can't be bothered with the Oscar ceremonies: Burgess Meredith never won one. And what does this say about their lack of taste?
May 11, 2010, 6:39 a.m. CST
Funny thing about "The Lonely"
by V'Shael
Just watched the ending of it again, because I hadn't seen it in years and I wanted to refresh my memory.
 For some reason, my memory of the episode was different. (No doubt I saw it through different eyes when I was younger.)
 In my memory, once the other astronauts were there, she acted more robotic. And when she was shot, the robot didn't even look that human any more. So to me, it seemed that his lonliness contributed to him hallucinating a more human looking female. And her mannerisms were also a symptom of his unbalanced mental state.
 Watching it now, I have a different interpretation. One that, if anything, is even darker. Brilliant episode that.
May 11, 2010, 7:04 a.m. CST
by Nasty In The Pasty
Dr. Zoidberg...?
May 11, 2010, 7:48 a.m. CST
Yeah, "Ro-butt" is always funny
by BizarroJerry
You may notice that old Star Trek episodes toss in the pronunciation "Klin-gun", which is fun, too.
May 11, 2010, 7:52 a.m. CST
Saw 1st two recently on Syfy
by Powerring
The lonely was superb. There was a much more graphic science fiction story along those lines about a lonely guy aboard a deep space mission, and his graphic thoughts about violence. Burgess has to have one of the worst trade-off's of all time. Be careful what you wish for. Here is a suggestion: A la star trek: TOS re-cgi the old series to bring the effects up on par with the stories.
May 11, 2010, 7:58 a.m. CST
Even if Mr. Bemis had not broken his glasses
by Ingeld
he would have soon found himself in despair. As a book lover he was obviously fascinated by the lives and thoughts of humanity; he would have soon felt how empty this fascination would be without any real humans around.
May 11, 2010, 8:16 a.m. CST
That nightmare episode freaked me out too.
by Tacom
And it's true you can fall asleep for just a few seconds and the dream feels like it lasts an hour.
May 11, 2010, 9:28 a.m. CST
These mini reviews
by optimus122
Make me want to go out and buy all of these dvd's. V'Shael, when you rewatched The Lonely...what made it darker? And was he imagining her looking and being so human? I didn't see the episode but I want to know what happened lol.
May 11, 2010, 9:54 a.m. CST
@Optimus122 :
by V'Shael
He wasn't imagining her looking human. In the episode, she's definitely humanoid looking. And when she gets shot, her face is obliterated by the bullet, but the rest of her body still looks utterly human and feminine.

It was darker for me now, I suppose, because I've seen far more scifi where conscious thinking machines are still treated as little more than toasters by their human masters.

So it occurred to me that Alesia might have been deliberately not acting like a woman, to make it easier for Corry to leave.

On top of that, if we assume it wasn't all in his mind, and that the robot/android was as we saw her, then ... I found myself wondering if those guys were ever going to make it home. Because if you have a guy who has already served time for a crime he didn't commit, and then you shoot his woman and take him away... he might just not see the big deal in killing you.

As such, I took Corry's last lines as being almost like he was trying to reign himself in, while still being in shock.

Basically, my interpretation now includes a sentient robot who self-sacrifices out of love, and an innocent man finally driven to commit murder, and kill the only guy who showed him any kindness while he was in 'prison'. So, a little darker than my original "she was just a machine all along, and his lonliness made her seem more human than she was".

May 11, 2010, 11:05 a.m. CST
"So it occurred to me that Alesia might have been deliberately n
by Alientoast
I thought the same thing, too. I thought she did it on purpose, because she wanted him to go home and be happy. That's why these old Twilight Zone episodes are hard to top...they are just small nuggets of awesome storytelling you can eat by the handful.
May 11, 2010, 11:21 a.m. CST
The greatest series ever...
by Banshee7
May 11, 2010, 11:23 a.m. CST
and it was done 50 years ago.
by Banshee7
What does it say about our current filmmakers that nothing can touch this series?
May 11, 2010, 12:59 p.m. CST
by carlotta_valdes
...that's a beautiful thought, suggesting Alisha's sacrifice for Corry. I don't feel it plays out that way, but it's great that there's so much room in these stories for that kind of personal interpretation.In regard to Quints main issue with the storytelling in The Lonely (more relationship scenes to heighten the dramatic outcome), in the syndicated version there were even less. The star gazing scene was completely removed to make room for more commercial time! Until I bought this definitive set a couple of year's back I had never seen it. This is another great thing about these restored episodes, if you grew up watching the zone through reruns...there are about 5-6 minutes which are completely new to you per episode. One other thing that I really enjoy across the board with 50's shows is the limited scientific knowledge...makes for some very amusing explanations. Love the way the ship's crew is always in a rush to leave stating that if they wait too long they'll lose their 'orbital position' and never get home. If that were true, how could you continue to make multiple takeoffs and landings to deliver supplies? According to the logic of the episode, couldn't you just wait a little longer and leave then?...not knocking the show at all, these elements just add to the charm of it for me. Regarding Henry Bemis. Burgess Meredith's performance is the reason you feel such a heightened sense of tragedy even beyond the extinction of the entire human race when the 'gut punch' happens. He draws us into Bemis' passion for the written word extending beyond rational perspective. His joy becomes ours as does his crushing defeat. I also think it's the only time in the shows history where a sympathetic character gets punished for a fairly normal and innocent indulgence. I've never seen anything like it before or since on tv...classic. Sorry for the post length.
May 11, 2010, 4:59 p.m. CST
"If they made this episode today they would
by hst666
have made Meredith's character an uber-nerd, terribly withdrawn, socially awkward and pathetic"

Seriously Quint, how could you not draw that conclusion from watching this episode. I thought that was the whole point. I am not sure how much of a Twilight Zone you are if you never saw the Homewood episode before, either.
May 11, 2010, 5:50 p.m. CST
Please spoil Quint!
by Amfpsych
I love hearing about these great episodes but I doubt I'll even actually watch the series. Please tell us the twists and endings of the episodes.
May 11, 2010, 7:46 p.m. CST
You seem to have a lot of free time on your hands
by Trazadone
Wow, I wish I had so little going on in my life that I could watch and review every episode of the Twilight Zone. Actually I wouldn't bother, anyone who goes to this site has already seen every episode of this show.
May 12, 2010, 3:35 a.m. CST
John Dehner in The Lonely
by knightrider
I had forgotten that John Dehner was in that. He was a great character actor, in absolutely everything during the 1950s and 1960s, and always excellent. I watched him just the other day in the Maverick episode "Shady Deal At Sunny Acres" - a great hour of classic TV that looks to have inspired The Sting.
May 12, 2010, 8:34 a.m. CST
Top 20 episodes
by kenyonnoble
Top 20 BEST Twilight Zone's ever 1) Number 12 looks just like you 2) Five Characters in search of an Exit 3) Time Enough at Last 4) The Silence 5) To Serve Man 6) The Howling Man 7) Stopover in a Quiet Town 8) Eye of the Beholder 9) Nick of Time 10) Will the real Martian please stand up. 11) Monsters are due on Maple Street 12) The Obsolete Man 13) People are Alike all over 14) Of late I think of Cliffordville 15) The Four of us are dying 16) A game of Pool 17) The Midnight Sun 18) The Masks 19) Kick the Can 20) Its a Good Life
May 12, 2010, 9:50 a.m. CST
John Dehner...
by carlotta_valdes
...great actor. Was he in more than 3 Zones? Can only think of 'Mr Denton on Doomsday', The Jungle and this. Any others?
May 12, 2010, 9:55 a.m. CST
by Alientoast
Another good episode was the one with the bomb shelter in the basement of that couple's house that was hosting a dinner party, when suddenly the radio alerts that a nuclear attack is on the way and it turns into an every-family-for-themselves fight for survival.
May 12, 2010, 1:27 p.m. CST
scratch 'Mr Denton on Doomsday'...
by carlotta_valdes
...I meant 'McGarrity and the Graves'.
May 12, 2010, 3:33 p.m. CST
by kenyonnoble
Agreed. There are a few that barely missed my list. The Shelter along with Alone in the Dark (Redford's debut), The Dummy, Nightmare at 20,000 ft & A Stop at Willoughby" are also classics.
May 12, 2010, 4:26 p.m. CST
kenyonnoble, no love for...
by carlotta_valdes
The After Hours, Long Live Walter Jameson, The Grave, The New Exhibit and On Thursday We Leave For Home?
May 12, 2010, 4:35 p.m. CST
Redford's debut...
by carlotta_valdes
...was a good three years previous. He had done a number of guest appearances on western tv shows as well as Perry Mason and Hitchcock Presents before TZ.
May 12, 2010, 5:20 p.m. CST
by kenyonnoble
On Thursday is a great one, one of the best hour longs, along with New Exhibit (ending always creeped me out). All of your choices are valid. There are so many episodes that could be a top 50 best.
May 12, 2010, 5:34 p.m. CST
Don't avoid the spoilers, man.
by HorrorFan81
The talkbackers can watch the episodes before reading the article. We have the technology. They can do it.
May 12, 2010, 5:35 p.m. CST
Top 50...
by carlotta_valdes
...sounds about right. I give you a lot of credit for even attempting a top 20. I couldn't do it. Of the 156 episodes there are probably 40-50 great, 60-70 very good with the rest being okay to poor. Just an incredible success ratio.
May 13, 2010, 7:09 a.m. CST
@Trazadone...Why do you care?
by brokemart
Why do you care how much free time the author has? And why do you care how he spends it? And why would you waste your obviously valuable time reading and responding to something you feel is such a waste of time? You make zero sense. Let the people who are interested in this column enjoy it and you can continue to carefully manage your precious time elsewhere.
May 13, 2010, 9:21 a.m. CST
Top Episodes
by knightrider
I couldn't put together a Top 10 list, but here's my picks of the best episodes for each season:
 Season 1:
 Walking Distance; The Lonely; Time Enough at Last; The Hitch-Hiker; The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street; People Are Alike All Over; A Stop At Willoughby
 Season 2:
 The Howling Man; Eye of the Beholder; Nick of Time; The Invaders; Shadow Play; Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?; The Obsolete Man
 Season 3:
 Two; Five Characters in Search of an Exit; Nothing in the Dark; The Hunt; Kick The Can; The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank; To Serve Man; Little Girl Lost
 Season 4:
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 Sorry that the list is so long, but as carlotta_valdes says, this series has such an incredible success ratio. I'm sure I've even missed out a few.
 If I had to pick one 'best' episode, I think I'd go with Eye of the Beholder. A taut story, excellent direction, and a universal message. This series is just great, great television.
May 13, 2010, 9:45 a.m. CST
I forgot...
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'It's a Good Life' and 'Long-Distance Call' with Bill(y) Mumy, and 'Night Call' with Gladys Cooper!
May 13, 2010, 12:20 p.m. CST
ditto knightrider...
by carlotta_valdes
...if i were to pick one episode to show to someone who had never, ever heard of the show, it would be 'Eye of the Beholder'. It just seems to encapsulate so much of what Twilight Zone was about...amazing visual style, great writing/performances, social commentary concealed in a sci fi framework and a fantastic twist ending which at the time, must have been mind blowing to a 1960's audience. Sadly, some people today fail to understand what makes this groundbreaking episode so special seeing it as predictable, having experienced many other like story telling conventions that were birthed in the Twilight Zone. I always bow down to the original and it's greatness.
May 13, 2010, 12:41 p.m. CST
concerning 'It's a Good Life'...
by carlotta_valdes
...Dan Hollis rocks!...all he ever wanted was to listen to his Perry Como record...and look what happened? "Happy Birthday to me...Happy Birthday to me..."
May 15, 2010, 12:10 p.m. CST
Pretty envious...
by whitsbrain
...of you Quint. I watched all of the Twilight Zone episodes in broadcast order just as you are now a few years ago. I enjoyed them so much, I did it again. Great, great stories. I wish I could see them all again for the first time. I bought the Definitive Edition DVDs as they came out one season at a time and ended up paying about $350 for all five seasons. Oh, and don't look now, but Image Entertainment is releasing all of these episodes with reportedly new/additional extras on Blu-Ray.
May 20, 2010, 4:36 p.m. CST
Nine and done?...
by carlotta_valdes
...Quint where are you? You can't be burned out already?
May 24, 2010, 12:42 p.m. CST
yeah, what happend to this feature
by Bathman
I was looking forward to seeing all 156 episode reviewd, Was interest not high enough to warrant more then the first 9..whats up wit dat?
May 31, 2010, 7:11 a.m. CST
So i guess this feature wasn't a hit?
by Bathman
It's been 3 weeks and no more of them...what a shame
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The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning - GC - Review
That cute little purple dragon is back again, but this time around he's much more serious and not as playful as in previous games. Unlike his other adventures, A New Beginning is almost wholly a combat game, with very minimal platforming elements. There aren't any locational puzzles to speak of, and hardly any collecting. About the only jumping involves jumping high up to deliver some type of one-two punch to enemies. Yep, Spyro has changed, but for the better? Our family doesn't think so, but the final verdict depends on what type of game you prefer, a platform game or a fighting game.
In A New Beginning, Spyro learns that he really isn't a firefly after all, but is really a dragon from a distant land (remember The Jerk?). He immediately sets out to discover more about his origins and soon learns that the Dark Master has enslaved the dragons, with the help of a very bad dragon named Cynder. In order to free the land from these two, Spyro must free the dragons. Along the way, he will also learn more about his true identity.
This story is unfolded by the use of many cutscenes, which are of a high cinematic quality. They are excellently animated and really neat to watch. This is a good thing, because they also interrupt the gameplay to an annoying degree in the first part of the game. The intrusiveness is almost forgotten, though, as players watch these dramatic movies.
These movies set the tone for the entire game, as this game is darker and much more serious than previous Spyro games. The plot of the game is a quest, where Spyro is on a dangerous mission to free the dragons from Cynder. His whole demeanor is serious, even his facial expressions. The silliness of the previous games is absolutely lacking, despite the punish names of some of the characters (manweersmalls are the names of some small characters).
It's not only the movies that are beautiful; the entire game is a joy to watch, from the backgrounds and characters to the animated fighting between Spyro and the bad guys. It's easily one of the prettiest games we've seen on the GameCube. The effort that went into the animation and cinematics is evident. But, pretty pictures do not a game make. Unfortunately, besides the wonderful graphics, there isn't a whole lot going for this game.
It's all about the combat. Really, there is nothing else going on here besides fighting. There are different levels, such as a fire world, an earth world, an ice world, a space world, etc., with a few, brief flying sequences thrown in, but that's all that is different, because the fighting is the same from level to level. Spyro gains new powers in each level, but they don't change the game any, except that he doesn't die as quickly in his first encounters with the current level's baddies. This is what happens in every location: Spyro runs into a location, the bad guys pop out of the ground or swoop down from the air, and the player immediately starts mashing buttons for combat combos. By killing the baddies and smashing items, Spyro collects gems which are used to increase his powers, essentially. While Spyro does become more powerful and harder to kill, there isn't anything new or special about these attacks, as we've seen them all before.
Wham! Pow! Flame! Spyro is a whirlwind of flame and ice as he battles. It's intense action, and fun enough the first few times, but as the enemies keep piling on, it becomes less fun, especially for younger players. This game is much more difficult than A Hero's Tale, and young players will have a hard time of it. Older gamers who like a lot of combat may enjoy the higher level of difficulty, but the sameness of it all may pall on adults.
For starters, this is a one-pony show, with fighting the only thing to do the entire game. There is a constant barrage of combat directed at Spyro that he cannot avoid. Once an enemy is defeated, a ton more appear. There is literally nowhere to hide or escape; all enemies must be killed to advance. There are almost no collection items, except for the gems that are used as power-ups, and there really aren't any locational puzzles to solve. All Spyro does the entire game is beat up the bad guys. The combat itself isn't badly done; in fact, much of it is well-designed with good collision detection and good camera angles. But it is repetitive and tedious after awhile, and there is no opportunity to rest or catch a breath between fights, as the baddies are constantly present. The gameplay becomes boring, and there isn't anything else to do besides fight. No mini-games, no collecting, no puzzles.
Whether gamers like the new Spyro over previous interpretations really depends on the type of gaming they prefer, platforming and collecting, or combat-oriented. Our family enjoyed A Hero's Tale immensely, despite it not being considered a great game by the majority of reviewers. While not a technical marvel or a startlingly innovative game, A Hero's Tale was a very entertaining family game, and one that everyone could enjoy. The variety and amount of collecting was just right for young players, and it offered enough challenge to be interesting without being frustrating. On the other hand, A New Beginning is much more difficult, due to the intense combat which can't be avoided. This higher difficulty could be considered a plus for older players, but the repetitiveness of the game as a whole and the utter lack of anything else to do besides fight ultimately negates any positive from the increased challenge.
The bottom line is that this isn't the family friendly game that its predecessor was. It is a better-looking game, and is harder, but the drawbacks of the lack of variety and general sense of fun cancel out the good features.
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Gameplay: 6.0
The endless combat palls after awhile, with no relief in sight. There is no escape or avoiding the fighting, and there isn't anything other than fighting to do. There needed to be more things to do, like puzzles, mini-games, or anything besides fighting.
Graphics: 9.0
The graphics are absolutely wonderful!
Sound: 7.0
The sound effects are decent, but nothing above the average.
Difficulty: Hard
The game is difficult due to the endless combat that can't be avoided.
Concept: 6.0
There isn't anything new or different about this game.
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We're looking for one good intern. If you love web design, writing, and publishing, this is the gig for you. You'll work with Aaron Gustafson, Erin Kissane, Ethan Marcotte, and Jeffrey Zeldman on the new edition of the industry-changing Designing With Web Standards, and possibly another great publishing project as well.
NYC area location is ideal, but not required—what matters most is your commitment and professionalism. Must be willing to work with Microsoft Word, have access to one of the latest versions of it, and be a Word styles ninja. We're looking for 6–8 hours per week through September or mid-October. The right person will see this as an opportunity to experience the publication process from first draft through galleys and launch, and to learn from industry and community leaders who are funny, smart, and nice.
Apply by e-mail to internquest at happycog dot com. Send a short note selling us on you. All queries will be handled with discretion.
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Armed with nothing more than a keen eye, a good seat, a fine camera, and the ability to use it, An Event Apart Seattle attendee Warren Parsons captured the entire two-day show in crisp and loving detail. Presenting, for your viewing pleasure, An Event Apart Seattle 2009 – a set on Flickr.
When you've paged your way through those, have a gander at Think Brownstone's extraordinary sketches of AEA Seattle.
Still can't get enough of that AEA stuff? Check out the official AEA Seattle photo pool on Flickr.
Wonder what people said about the event? Check these Twitter streams: AEA and AEA09.
And here are Luke W's notes on the show.
Our thanks to the photographers, sketchers, speakers, and all who attended.
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Everyone knows 37signals, inventors of Ruby on Rails and creators of Basecamp, Highrise, and other great productivity apps. We studied the leading web design and development job boards before signing on with theirs. Each job board we looked at had something great going for it.
We chose 37signals's board because it appeals to the hybrid designer/ developer who cares as much about great user experience as clean code—the kind of web professional who believes great content and great design are inseparable. This new kind of designer, forged in the fires of the web, reads ALA and this site, and the 37signals Job Board is where you are most likely to find him or her when you need to hire skilled professionals with vision.
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"Taking Your Talent to the Web" is now a free downloadable book
RATED FIVE STARS at Amazon.com since the day it was published, Taking Your Talent to the Web (PDF) is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com:
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I wrote this book in 2001 for print designers whose clients want websites, print art directors who'd like to move into full–time web and interaction design, homepage creators who are ready to turn pro, and professionals who seek to deepen their web skills and understanding.
Here we are in 2009, and print designers and art directors are scrambling to move into web and interaction design.
The dot-com crash killed this book. Now it lives again. While browser references and modem speeds may reek of 2001, much of the advice about transitioning to the web still holds true.
It's yours. Enjoy.
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ALA Survey Findings Up!
The annual A List Apart survey for people who make websites is the only public source of data on the shifting salaries, titles, job skills, and work satisfactions of full- and part-time, staff and freelance web professionals.
This year's survey findings, culled from answers provided by over 30,000 ALA readers, are now up for your pleasure on a specially designed website. We've sliced and diced the data, making sense of complex interrelationships, and displaying the results in miniature CSS masterworks by Mr Eric Meyer. (More about the CSS.)
This year's findings paint a clearer picture of the distinctions between full-time and freelance web professionals: how you work, what you earn, and what you love about the job. Interestingly, too, despite the brutality of a global recession that was already in full swing when we offered the survey, most respondents revealed a surprisingly high level of job security, satisfaction, and confidence in the future.
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Happy Cog is hiring: designer wanted
Happy Cog Philadelphia is looking for a full time designer to join our team in Center City, Philadelphia.
We are a web design agency—not a marketing communications firm or a design firm that dabbles in the web. But if you're the right person for this job, we don't have to tell you about us.
We seek an exceptionally gifted designer with effective communication and listening skills, as comfortable with clients as with coworkers. You're the best in your class or at your company, but it doesn't go to your head. You're a team player and you recognize that ours is a service business. Be passionate about aesthetics and serious about strategy. You needn't be front-end code whiz, as long as you understand how design and code interact, and embrace the principles of web standards and accessibility.
The job starts in early April. If you think it's for you, send your resume, site URL, and persuasive cover letter to [email protected].
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Jason Has Left the Building
I owe it all to Douglas Bowman's bad back.
Doug and Brian Alvey and Adam Greenfield and I were working on a big client project when Doug's back went out. He was so sick, he couldn't work, and it was unclear when he would be able to work again.
As a friend, I was worried about Doug. As a creative director, I was worried about finishing my client's project.
Doug and I had both done designs. The client liked my design but I'd sold him Doug's. Now Doug couldn't finish, and I didn't trust myself to execute the remaining pages in Doug's style. I needed someone skilled enough to finish what Doug had started and mature enough to sublimate his own style while still making good design choices.
I had just read "Grey Box Methodology," a well-written romp through a personal design process. The author was a young designer named Jason Santa Maria. His site looked great, his portfolio was impressive, he had good ideas about design, and the process he had written about lent itself to the technical aspects of finishing Doug's work.
I wrote to Jason Santa Maria, telling him I had a small freelance project that was probably boring and would bring him no glory, since it required him to design like someone else. Jason was game and said yes. He did a great job and was egoless about it, and he seemed perfectly comfortable working with better established, heavyweight talents. His quick, professional, selfless work kept the project going until Doug was back on his feet.
To reward Jason for what he had done, when a new and juicy assignment came my way, I asked if he wanted to be the project's lead designer. The rest you can you figure out.
For four and a half years, Jason Santa Maria has been a designer and then a creative director at Happy Cog. In an agency filled with talent, he made a huge personal mark. I've trusted him with some of the most important designs we've handled, from AIGA to the redesign of A List Apart. He has never let me down, professionally or personally. More than that, his work has expanded my conception of what web design can be.
Four and a half years is a couple of centuries in internet time. For about a year, Jason and I have known that it was getting to be time for him to move on. Not that we had any problem with him or he with us. But just that nearly half a decade is a long time for any designer to spend in one place.
As he has just announced, Jason is leaving Happy Cog. He will stay involved in A List Apart and perhaps a few selected projects, but basically he is out the door and spreading his wings. Godspeed.
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Hope is the daughter of dawn
Awake at 4:30 AM at the end of a four-day heat wave. Sweating, but not from the weather. Running a business during a recession gets you out of bed with the chickens.
I have always moved counter to my time. I started Happy Cog as the dot-com boom went bust. We bought our first home in December 2007, as the U.S. mortgage crisis flared to full incandescence. And as the U.S. falls into economic narcolepsy, Happy Cog New York and Happy Cog Philadelphia are moving to newer, bigger, better, more beautiful, more perfectly located, and more expensive offices.
By daylight I hustle and count my blessings. We retire early, tired and contented. But at the first pale light of dawn, I'm awake and wired and already on the mental treadmill.
This morning as I lay there fretting over design and personnel questions, I heard our daughter cry out. I was at her side a moment later. She was dreaming; dreaming about bath time. Talking in her sleep, she gave voice to her nightmare:
"No, Mama, no hair wash. Let me skip it, Mama."
I put my hand on her shoulder and told her she could skip the hair wash, and she instantly subsided to calm sleep.
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Happy Cog, A List Apart and An Event Apart produce free 80-plus page report; first true picture of the business of web design.
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals participated, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
Months of data crunching later, what emerges in our free 80-plus page report is the first true picture of our powerful yet little-studied profession. Presenting the Findings From the Web Design Survey.
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A guy shaves his head, then makes a wig from his own hair and removes it, surprising friends and family members.
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The plan had been to venture into Little Havana for a traditional Cuban meal, but when we heard about Puerto Sagua- a hole-in-the-wall, authentically Cuban restaurant just down the street on Collins Avenue- we decided to traipse down there instead. It was the perfect no-fuss dinner to follow up our extravagant dinner at Barton G's the night before. No frills, no extravagant bill at the end. Just some hearty, home-cooked Cuban food.
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If you're thinking of dropping by Puerto Sagua for dinner, be prepared for quite a line. The place was packed when we arrived, but thankfully the line moved pretty quickly.
J ordered the Pernil Asado (featured above): roasted pork shoulder with moro rice and yuca. It may look messy, but Puerto Sagua knows what's it doing. The pork was succulent, tender, and relatively mild-flavored. Which made it pair perfectly with the hearty moro rice (black beans + rice).
J and I ordered juices and the perfect crispy croquette to start. J had the papaya juice, and I had the soursop juice which was perfectly refreshing.
I went for the Ropa Vieja: shredded beef served with white rice and sweet plantains. Having been raised in Southeast Asia, every now and then (ok, all the time) I crave flavorful meat "curries". The pairing of such a meat dish with some warm, fluffy rice is unbeatable; it's my idea of comfort food. The Ropa Vieja more than met this standard. The beef is fall-apart-in-your-mouth tender and the sauce was spicy, full-bodied perfection.
To wrap our meal up, J and I ordered the Cuatro Leches cake: four milk cake. I'm sure most, if not all, of you have heard of or tried Tres Leches cake, but Cuatro Leches cake? This was my first time coming across such a thing! And it was magnificent. Don't be fooled by the tiny portion. J and I split it, and we didn't make our way through. The spongy cake was soaked in sweet "milk", topped with gooey caramel. In other words, it's almost enough to induce diabetic shock. That would be my only criticism. The Cuatro Leches cake is delightfully sinful... but only in small quantities.
After the meal, J and I scooped ourselves out of our seats and waddled our way home. The next day we were leaving Miami, and we wanted to get a fresh start to squeeze in some more adventuring before boarding our flight home. But more on that later!


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