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First membership meeting under new executive director
Posted Jul 18th, 2007 00:00 AM by
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -
The Free Speech Coalition's first membership meeting under new executive director Diane Duke took place Tuesday evening after the close of the Adult Novelty Expo, and the invited guests delivered all-star information and entertainment.
First up was
editor Bruce David (pictured), filling in for publisher Larry Flynt, who'd been invited at the last minute to appear on the Larry King Show to discuss Hustler's outing of Sen. David Vitter as a client of D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
David lauded Flynt's unswerving activism for free speech causes, and gave some details of how Hustler crime reporter Dan Moldea had managed to link up with Palfrey, noting that Moldea was one of just four people to get an advance look at the list of client phone numbers that Palfrey was to release a few days later. Upon discovering Vitter's number on the list, David described a flurry of phone calls between Moldea, himself and Flynt as to how to handle the matter -- a debate settled by Flynt saying, "Get the son of a bitch."
"We're going after hypocrites and liars," David announced, noting that of the 280 responses Hustler had received to its ad in the Washington Post seeking information on Washington insiders' sexual indiscretions, the staff was following up on the 25 most promising ones.
Commenting on the Bush administration's flagrant disregard for the truth, David averred, "The issues these days go far beyond the sex industry," and said that the industry's enemies are "dangerous [but] they're really stupid."
The highlight of the meeting, however, was the "presidential debate" -- that is, a panel of past FSC presidents responding to questions from moderator Robert Raben, FSC's Washington lobbyist.
The panel, which consisted of Nick Boyias, Julie Stewart, Gloria Leonard, Jim Everett and Scott Tucker, represented all of FSC's past presidents except Lenny Friedlander, who was kept away by a family emergency.
Boyias took Raben's invitation to contrast adult industry productions with Hollywood's to recount his travails in producing the award-winning mainstream feature Quinceanera, helmed by adult industry director Wash West at a final cost of over $900,000. Boyias noted that just about everyone connected with the film, including distributor Sony Pictures Classics, made a profit except himself, then warning, "Stay in porn; that's where the money is."
Stewart used her five minutes to talk about how she got involved in FSC in the first place -- she'd grown tired of complaining that she didn't know what Free Speech did for the industry, so she joined to find out -- and noted that the current political scene presents many challenges for industry members, whom she saw as adrift in an "atmosphere of political malaise." Her answer for that condition was the recognition that people need to be informed of what the industry's enemies are doing, and suggested that manufacturers slip political "fact sheets" into product boxes .. and possibly even postcards pre-addressed to legislators, letting them know that, "I'm a happy sex toy user" or "I'm a happy porn viewer."
Leonard opened her segment with several thank-yous, particularly to FSC board member Sid Grief for having donated 87,000 frequent flyer miles so Leonard could jet in from her home in Hawaii to attend the meeting. She was asked to comment on what changes she had seen in the present-day industry from her perspective as an early porn star. Leonard decried the lack of storyline features currently being produced, saying that today's content is much the same as the 8mm loops that were popular when she was first starting out; that adult features are much more readily available now, and in more varied forms, than in the mid-'70s, noting that in those days, movies played for a week in theaters and were then forgotten.
"I do sort of miss the good old days," she concluded.
Current FSC president Jim Everett, who works as a consultant for, among others, the Lion's Den chain of retail stores, was asked about how the recently-enacted SB 16 will affect his home state of Ohio, as well as the rest of the country. Everett then detailed the fight being waged by the Buckeye Association of Club Executives, whose members include both adult cabaret and adult bookstore owners, and the newly-formed Citizens for Community Standards to gather enough voter signatures to put the new law on the November ballot. Everett listed some of the "bad guys" -- Citizens for Community Values founder Phil Burress; former newspaper publisher Carl Linder; Cintas owner Richard Farmer -- and some of the good ones, which surprisingly included Ohio's Chamber of Commerce.
Noting that he expects to have obtained over 100,000 signatures by this weekend, Everett stated, "This is about a serious loss of freedoms."
Topco Sales owner Scott Tucker batted clean-up for the panel, assessing what he considered to be the most important issues facing the industry today -- and not surprisingly, he dealt with the "obscene device" laws currently on the books in seven states, which he noted represent 14% of the country.
"They can buy guns but they can't buy a dildo," Tucker exclaimed, suggesting that perhaps some group should be formed which has as its slogan, "Save The Dildos."
Finally, FSC board chair Jeffrey Douglas took the microphone to give the group a short update on the new 2257 regulations, much of which was summarized on a "fact sheet" distributed by ASACP executive director and FSC board member Joan Irvine.
On the down side, Douglas noted that "lascivious exhibition of the genitals" had been added as a category triggering the requirement to keep 2257 records, and that such exhibition need not even be nude; a "filled jockstrap" could be sufficient to trigger compliance.
Declaring that 2257 was not about child porn, but is "designed to entrap you," Douglas warned that 2257 compliance "is something you must discuss with a lawyer," and that "This is potentially a life or death fight for the industry."
He urged attendees to check out the Free Speech website in the near future for tips and forms on how to comment to the Justice Department on the new regulations, and stated that Free Speech will be taking legal action to protect the industry from the harmful effects of the new regs.
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JOE ESZTERHAS, the screenwriter and force of nature, had seen Hollywood from both sides now. Having been to the economic mountaintop with ''Basic Instinct'' (worldwide gross: $350 million) he spiraled into an artistic abyss in September 1995 with his lascivious bomb ''Showgirls'' and failed to climb back out the following month with ''Jade,'' a dull, plodding thriller that starred David Caruso and Linda Fiorentino.
He figured it was time for a cathartic step back. ''I just wanted to write a piece that was fun,'' he said.
Fun: yeah, sure. Mr. Eszterhas sat down and turned out a screenplay that had all the glibness and lightness of touch of a sledgehammer pounding thumbtacks. It was a scathing, no-holds-barred satire on Hollywood that he called, sweetly, ''Amok!,'' the story of the director of a $200 million action-adventure movie who is so appalled at the studio's editing of his picture that he kidnaps the final print.
Not only was it a huge bite -- molars, bicuspids and all -- on the hand that fed him; it was also relentlessly inside-baseball, filled with references to industry eateries, technical aspects of filmmaking and names of people in the business, most of which were unlikely to resonate anywhere but in a handful of plush screening rooms. It so put off his agent, Mr. Eszterhas said, that the agent begged him not to make it.
Mr. Eszterhas was not to be denied. And now, ''Amok!,'' retitled ''An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn,'' opens Friday. Mr. Eszterhas is excited about what he calls his ''raw, twisted expose.'' But does he have a hit or a death wish? Has he accurately calculated moviegoers' taste for the real skinny or made an idiosyncratic film that belongs on a shelf with his home movies? Is America waiting for an in-your-face film so aggressively in the know that it's packed with the kind of minutiae that normally fill the pages of Variety? (Whose editor, Peter Bart, by the way, shows up in a bit part, as do Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg and Jackie Chan, making self-mocking cameos as a trio of rock 'em, sock 'em action heros.)
Time and fickle filmgoers will gauge the screenwriter's prescience. Unquestionably, however, ''Burn Hollywood Burn'' is the latest example of an expanding movie genre: black comedy dripping with inside dish. Whether it's a major release like ''The Player'' (1992) or the recent ''Wag the Dog,'' an art-house sensation like 1995's ''Living in Oblivion'' or ''The Leading Man,'' starring Jon Bon Jovi, which opens next month, movies today are increasingly trying to tap into a culture obsessed with the little picture, with discovering the innocuous or scandalous detail that unmasks the hypocrite, the liar, the phony, and makes us all feel like cognoscenti.
The sensibility permeates any number of new movies. Another, opening the same day as Mr. Eszterhas's, is ''The Real Blonde,'' a comedy by Tom DiCillo (whose ''Living in Oblivion'' was even more cinema-centric) about a group of New York models, makeup people and actors whose travails provide a platform for the director's urbanely cynical musings about the worlds of fashion, television and music videos.
Do filmmakers like Mr. DiCillo, whose years as a struggling New York actor form the basis of the disheartening experiences of the hero of ''The Real Blonde'' (played by Matthew Modine), worry about whether their movies are too inside? ''In all honesty, no,'' Mr. DiCillo said. ''Take 'Living in Oblivion.' I look at that film now, with all the references that are so intensively film-oriented. On a certain level, the entire last part of the film doesn't work if you don't know what 'room tone' is.'' But, he discovered in conversations with moviegoers, even those who had not a clue about room tone enjoyed his film about low-budget moviemaking.
Still, in an era when tabloid television programs like ''Access Hollywood'' devote endless air time to the film business, when movie critics with television syndication deals become as famous as late-night talk-show hosts, when weekly movie grosses are reported as widely as baseball box scores, the question of how much symbolic distance exists between the back lots and the popcorn lines may be becoming moot.
I GREW up in Cleveland, and even in the 1980's, producers were referring to the Midwest simply as the 'flyover people' -- the people you fly over between coasts,'' said Mr. Eszterhas. ''But I think it's easy to underestimate the intelligence and savvy of people in that part of the country. I know that when we're there and sitting down with friends, the questions are always, 'What's Jeffrey Katzenberg really like?' And 'What's with Michael Eisner?' ''
The American audience's growing command of cinema arcana makes ''Network,'' Paddy Chayevsky's 1976 satire of the television business, remarkably foresighted. In the movie, a group of media-unsavvy, propaganda-spewing terrorists are offered a prime-time hour of network television. By the end of the film, they are spouting Nielsen numbers and rating shares and complaining about the lousy lead-in they're getting from the preceding show.


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How do you smack a bomb!?!
Are the bombs those glowy bugs that always damage me in Jungle? They can't be smacked, and when I hit them they always explode and damage me. Are these bombs, and how do I kill them without damage?
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I think Langford was the better pound for pound fighter but Wills was likely the better heavyweight based on size and style ... to Sam's credit he did manage a few wins via the KO route but as a whole the series was really dominated by the much larger Wills .. I like Jeannette next followed by McVey who in his own right is highly under rated by many as some sort of brute slugger when in fact he had a terrific jab and could box quite well ..
I also find the way Wills is dismissed by Dempsey apologists as just another big , slow guy to be way off ... he clearly demonstrated far more skill against far better opposition than any other Dempsey opponent prior to Jack's two best, Sharkey and Tunney ... still, this is another conversation and one that has been talked to death on a weekly basis ..
It would be nice to see prime film on Wills. Remember how perspective changed when the board saw prime versions of Langford vs Jeannette!
Was Wills a big, but slow puncher, or was he a bit more than that? A film from 1914-1920 I think would help us answer that question. I do think Wills had a suspect chin vs punchers, and wasn't very tough as he quit quickly vs Battling Johnson.
One thing to keep in mind. Don't measure Langford, Jeanette or Mcvey by their chronological age. These three fought hard wars with each other, and took tremendous punishment.
To put in a modern context, Frazier and Ali took a lot out of each other.
Langford, McVey, and Jeanette all meet each other in their primes and had more than just three hard matches.
I still think Wills beat faded versions of Langford, McVey and Jeanette. But Wills avoided Godfrey, and that was his fault.
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Texas DFPS, Texas CPS Child Protective ServicesLake Drive Texarkana, Texas United States of America
Texas DFPS, Texas CPS Child Protective Services THINGS HAVE TO CHANGE WITH TEXAS CPS. DAMAGING INNOCENT FAMILIES. Texarkana, Texas
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Cooperating but accussed of not Cooperating no matter what you try to do as they told you need to do or what you voluntarily do without even being asked to do to help the situation because as good parents would to help their children. All the while not giving you any options but to seperate the entire family, get a divorce, or abandon your children to their other parents who are proven through court unfit to raise them and constantly being told your spouse is abusing you while you are telling them constantly that is ridiculous and CPS not taking the fact you have never been harmed by your spouse nor has there ever been any reason to believe this or evidence to that effect they continuasly harrass you about leaving your spouse who is trying everything they can to help you, your children and their own all of which we had custody of. Causing you to miss so much work trying to cooperate with them that you get fired. Costing you over $20,000 and still counting not including having to miss work and lost wages for these people and money you have paid to counselors to help your children get past the trauma CPS has put them through. Provoking ex-spouses to gain custody of your children and step children. Broke HIPPA laws by giving a non-parent or person who was authorized to receive information on my child and gave them medical information regarding my child. No matter what you say or do to help children trying to cooperate is a red flag to them. Calling your job when you specifically requested them not to because you have 3 phones they can contact you through. Forcing you to sign documents with threats of taking your children permanently, then after doing so they swap investigators due to the fact they knew they messed up, then we filed a complaint with the regional office and was told that since the investigator said it didnt happen they believed it didnt happen even though she was removed from the case and it is also in the records it happened, the complaint was not followed through for 6 months when they were supposed to address the situation within 30 days. Trying to seperate us and children as a suggestion. Constantly recieving false allegations from people that are proven through the court system to not be reliable and then immediately acting on them. Taking statements from people and putting them in records as you or your children said them and very obvious in the reports. As soon as we get an attorney involved because nothing we did was right in their eyes even though we were going above and beyond their expectations and requests the report stops and even lied within the reports on comments that were never made with attorney present! What kind of training do these people have? They are definitely not qualified for their jobs especially dealing with children. Yes CPS is needed I agree and maybe its not all Cps workers but is very hard to believe especially after our experience with them. Closing Case after 8 months after Financialy, Mentaly, and perminitely damaging a family and then still harrassing us after their case is CLOSED. This is only brushing the surface of our case and is no where near the evidence we have against them. There is no way to explain, compensate or even imagine the EXTREME emotional, psychological, financial and physical toll this has taken on our family and will continue to do so for the rest of our lives without Justice and even after Justice is served we have to remember and still deal with the damages that they have caused our children.
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I am continuing to travel a similar road as you traveled, and have been doing so for the last 18 months. My situation does not involve my own child, but a child in my immediate family we have been trying to seek custody of but more importantly just fighting to keep safe and protected (Even if that meant she were adopted by a stranger in another state).
We, as in you & I & all others impacted by the malpractice of Texas DFPS and CPS are the only ones that can help make the changes needed. CPS is a necessity unfortunatly, and not all employees are "bad".
I encourage you to contact the Texas Sunset Committee. They do not deal with individual cases, they listen to the publics ideas & opinions on changes that need to be made within the "System" and take them to legislation to try to have bills & laws passed to change the way things are done.
Also, if you have not heard of them, contact the Department of Family and Protective Services Office of Consumer Affairs and file a grievance through them verses the Regional Department. The OCA is an unbiased agency over the state of Texas verses the Regional Department works directly with the employees you contacted them about.
I hope this helps. More so, I hope people realize that until we "come together" per se, changes will not happen quickly if at all.
Peace be with your family.
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SUBMITTED: Saturday, May 29, 2010POSTED: Saturday, May 29, 2010
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ABOUT MY REPORTS: Texas CPS is not a total rip off. They are out to protect kids and are VERY GOOD at it. If you are guilty and do not protect your kids you will go down if they get a hold of you. People making false allegations, abusing, and using the system is the problem and when this is done they can't just ignore them. They have to investigate every allegation to protect kids. Yes innocent good parents get hit. Best thing to do is to educate yourself if you are innocent. PROTECT your kids is what we have done and it works when this happens and get ready because they will educate you real fast how they do it. If we educate the abusers the system will not work. Be Strong there is Justice. GOD BLESS
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I'm currently working(almost finishing) a Java project that consists on a server application and some client applications on the same network, that will communicate with the server only to request informations. So what tools are suggested to use for this kind of testing?
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TestNG is appropriated for functional testing (and unit test, by the way). For performance test, Grinder is probably a good choice:
The Eclipse plugin:
Try Jmeter to test performance of your app.
If you are looking for automated UI testing using java then Selenium is worth having a look at....
SoapUI is a nice tool to test (not only SOAP!) webservices, define several types of assertions on the responses, build functional tests and also derive load tests from functional tests.
As a (super nice) plus, mostly everything in SoapUI can be scripted with Groovy, which allows for even more flexible testing, and finally, there is also a Maven-Plugin which lets you integrate all your tests easily in a continuous integration/testing/deployment scenario.
JUnit is also an option if you want to test functionality.
The combo of JUnit and Selenium would handle most if not all of your needs, especially if your app is browser based.
Though JUnit helps in writing unit test cases for java code, it will not be able to help you to speed up the testing process with increasing numbers of test cases to be executed and more data to be processed.
Jthunder is a core automation framework which helps in enabling multi-threaded processing of any JUnit tests/Java code.
Have a look at the Jthunder framework documentation.
As you wrote in the comment your are mainly looking for performance testing and functional testing,
For performance testing I would recommend you user Jmeter. It is a java based tool so it should work really fine and for web applications I would suggest you record your test scripts using Blazemeter (an extension of Google Chrome). Here is a tutorial to help you with it - http://testacy.co.in/performance-testing-jmeter/
For functional testing I would suggest you to use Selenium Webdriver and if you are familiar with the TestNG framework of Webdriver that would be more preferable. Since Selenium is open source project you will get a lot of help from countless blogs and forums dedicated to it.
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URBAN TACTICS; Eight Million Stories in Dodge City (Jury Dodging, That Is)
By LAURA PEDERSEN
Published: February 4, 2001
ASK New Yorkers anything about jury duty -- how one gets picked, how to be excused -- and you'll get a hundred different survivalist stories.
There is certainly plenty of raw material. Each day computerized summonses from the State Supreme Court land in city mailboxes, 10,000 a week in Manhattan alone, ''inviting'' recipients to show up on such-and-such a date, followed by bright red letters that threaten: ''Willful disobedience of this summons is a criminal contempt of court and is punishable by a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 30 days, or both.''
Many New Yorkers, their Filofaxes and Day-Runners bulging at the seams, would move heaven and earth to get out of this job.
I was a 19-year-old innocent when I received my first court communiqué, in the mid-80's, after having moved to Manhattan from upstate. The summons so intimidated me that I arrived early at the courthouse on Centre Street and was directed to a cavernous waiting area.
There seemed to be two factions. The first was abuzz with how to get on a jury. Naïvely, I insinuated myself into this group because they seemed so cheery. They had brought along breakfast, newspapers and sewing projects. They were mostly Civil Service employees, teachers, retirees and young women who made no secret that they lived on welfare and wanted the stipend, then $15 a day.
But when my new cohorts spoke wistfully of friends who had managed to be empaneled an entire year, I shuddered. I had a new job as a trading floor clerk at the American Stock Exchange and attended New York University at night. I now glanced at the other group, surly and melancholic, weighed down with armfuls of reading material, lining up at the pay phones. One of my people waved at them and said: ''Oh, they're just trying to get off. And they will.''
Whoops! As nice as my new friends were, given my schedule, I was clearly in the wrong pew. So I scampered over to the disgruntled group. They weren't welcoming, least of all the men who were converting their benches into work stations. One man had even brought along his secretary, for dictation.
Now, 16 years later, hard-driving New Yorkers are still resisting the call of the jury. But the rules of the game have changed, thanks to some mid-90's initiatives by the New York State chief judge, Judith S. Kaye. Jurors who are not paid by their employers now receive $40 a day. Better yet, prospective jurors are now guaranteed a first postponement by phone, may be able to get more in person, and are even asked to choose a convenient time to serve.
Also, the sources used to find jurors have been broadened to include not only voter and car-registration lists -- the main sources previously -- but also tax returns and public-benefit records. This change has enlarged the jury pool and lengthened the minimum interval between summonses, from about two years to about four.
But gone are the exemptions for doctors, lawyers, politicians, embalmers and the self-employed. Even mayors must serve, as Mayor Giuliani did in a personal-injury case in 1999.
In fact, there are only two exemptions left besides a medical disability (and be aware that many show up, usually in vain, with bad-back X-rays and Prozac prescriptions). You can claim financial hardship -- mere loss of income doesn't fly -- if you bring in tax returns and documentation of employment status. Or if you can prove that you are the primary caretaker of small children or of an incapacitated relative.
These changes have challenged the ingenuity of many ambitious New Yorkers. Consider my old colleagues, the Wall Street traders, whose livelihood depends upon being there from opening to closing bell.
I remember a clerk named Roy, who earned about $30,000 to wait in line for all of us at the Department of Motor Vehicles and the post office, and was even sent out to videotape missed Little League games. Of course that was all legal. But at times Roy was also sent out for someone's jury duty. This was not legal.
REMINISCENT of the old Civil War dodge -- back then, draftees could pay others to take their place in uniform -- this tactic may be more tempting under the new jury rules. And the fact is that no one checks your ID at the courthouse.
But you are under oath when you state your name and address. ''It's perjury and a misdemeanor punishable by a hefty fine or jail'' to lie in that situation, said Brian Maxey, director of the Citizens Jury Project, a court monitoring group. In 1994, one bond trader, Andrew Levinson, was sentenced to 500 hours of community service for trying to have his auto mechanic replace him for jury duty.
''We hear this a lot,'' said Mr. Maxey of people's pleas to let them pay others, or pay higher taxes, to skirt jury service. ''But it doesn't work, because by narrowing the pool in this manner, then it's no longer a jury of your peers.''
A television news anchor has used a different approach for years. Once he was excused during voir dire for interrogating the lawyer and being ''generally obnoxious,'' he said. Another time he arrived in an N.Y.P.D. T-shirt carrying a beach chair and a radio. He told the clerk he would be outside and just to holler if he was needed. He was not needed.


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PHILADELPHIA Ś A few days short of two years onward, history will repeat itself for the Philadelphia Union Thursday.
The hope for the club is that it will be the last time it repeats in such a way.
Two years ago, almost to the day, a languishing Union team made a coaching change, replacing Peter Nowak with John Hackworth. Within two months or so, Hackworth had apparently done enough, in his first pro head coaching job, to warrant full-time consideration for the gig.
Twenty-two months later, heĺs on the unemployment line, leaving behind a club that doesnĺt know which way is up.
The task which starts Thursday with Jim Curtinĺs introduction as Hackworthĺs replacement on an interim basis is for the Union to avoid slipping into the same coaching treadmill and find a consistent winning formula.
The occasionally confusing media address of CEO and Operating Partner Nick Sakiewicz Tuesday evening isnĺt required reading to know that the club Hackworth bequeaths to his successor is different in many crucial ways than the one he inherited. The financial situation is much tidier. The additions to the team were more pointed and purposeful, fulfilling a coherent vision that was ostensibly Ś though not exclusively Ś Hackworthĺs. This divorce isnĺt as acrimonious or litigious as the last.
But the numbers indicate that the transition could be just as painful from a competition standpoint. The hauntingly similar statistics compiled by Hackworth (23-30-20 record in 73 games, 89 points, 1.22 points per game) and Nowak (21-30-24 in 75 games, 87 points, 1.16 ppg) illustrate how elusive improvement can be.
Whether Hackworth was afforded a fair amount of time is a question open for debate, given the duration of the housecleaning of the cobwebs of the latter days of Nowakĺs reign. What isnĺt up for debate is that he underachieved this season, to a point that made his continuation in the position untenable.
Sakiewicz detailed what the problems of the team are Ś or at least what they are not. Theyĺre not tactical, as he flatly denied that to be one of Hackworthĺs issues. Theyĺre not ideological. Theyĺre not about the atmosphere in the locker room, though Sakiewicz later admitted he never goes in the locker room.
The problem with the squad Curtin, like Hackworth in his first pro head coaching job, is inheriting is about the inability to get results. Though, to be fair, results werenĺt always the determining factor in Hackworthĺs earliest days.
In 2012, he inherited a team that under Nowak stumbled to a 2-7-2 record over its first 11 games. Game 12, the first under Hackworth, was an improvement, though still a loss. Between Hackworthĺs appointment and the removal of his interim tag August 30, the Union went 5-6-2. He added a win over Harrisburg City, then a loss to Kansas City to see them out of the U.S. Open Cup. Even the timing of the permanent hire, a day after the loss at home to Columbus, seemed unusual.
From that, Hackworth spent a season cleaning out Nowakĺs closets of tactical skeletons, starting with Freddy Adu. He overachieved with a roster largely assembled by his predecessor, then grossly underachieved with a roster of his own sculpting.
With that in mind, the Union must be much clearer on what it will take for the interim appellation to be removed from Curtin. Does simply taking a sub-par team and turning them into a .500 squad mean heĺs worthy of a longer-term run as manager? Or, like Hackworthĺs audition in retrospect, does that merely constitute underachieving to a slightly less degree?
Almost certainly, the goal of the making the playoffs has gone by the wayside in 2014. (To even match the Unionĺs non-playoff point total from last year, the Union would need 31 points from their final 18 matches. That amounts to 1.72 points per game, or an average of two wins and a draw in each four-game segment from here on out, a vast improvement over the .94 ppg theyĺve managed over the first 16 games. For a club that hasnĺt in its history won more than three consecutive games, something historic would have to occur.)
The metric must be more than being ôserious about winning games,ö as Sakiewicz offered as one criterion Tuesday.
Sakiewicz took pains to mention Ś twice Ś Tuesday that ôresumes are flooding in from all over the worldö for the job. He vowed a worldwide search in which, ôyou guys will hear some big names.ö
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WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Prosecutors have charged a freshman at the University of California, Davis, with having bomb-making materials in his dorm room.
The charges were filed Friday in Yolo County Superior Court against 18-year-old Mark Christopher Woods. Prosecutor Jonathan Raven says they carry a total penalty of up to 10 years in prison.
Campus authorities evacuated eight dormitories after Woods was arrested March 6. Police have said the materials did not present an immediate danger.
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IN EVERY NEXT GENERATION CONSOLE RELEASE, the launch games lineup is a key factor deciding whether the games machine will sink or swim in the increasingly competitive market. For this reason exclusive IP is worth its weight in gold for game console makers. Aware of this, Microsoft has worked hard to create and secure a number of exclusive launch titles for its soon to be released Xbox One.
One of the biggest and most interesting of these is Roman themed brawler, Ryse: Son of Rome. We've already heard a lot about Crytek's Ryse multiplayer, which is set to see you take the stage as a gladiator battling in a constantly evolving Colosseum. However, so far we haven't heard much about its single player campaign - that is, until now.
Jumping into the Ryse: Son of Rome single player at an exclusive preview event, we got a chance to try out the first two chapters of the bloody, sword swinging brawler. Kicking off we found ourselves take the role of Roman General Marius as he attempted to repel a barbarian horde from Rome's central palace.
We found Ryse: Son of Rome combat uses a brawling mechanic that we could best describe as a mix between Koei's Dynasty Warriors and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series. Ryse: Son of Rome offers you four basic options. You can swing your sword using the X button, bash an enemy with your shield using the Y button, block an incoming strike with the A button or roll away using the B button. At a glance, this makes Ryse: Son of Rome seem dangerously close to a basic button basher.
However, after a few rounds of fighting the barbarian hordes, we found that there is a lot more to Ryse: Son of Rome's combat. For a start there's a big emphasis on making a kill as bloody as possible using the game's execution mechanic. The option to execute an enemy fighter appears after you've inflicted a set amount of damage to the enemy and can be activated using the RT key. When activated your character enters into a pre-scripted animation that requires you to press the X and Y in a specific order and timing. How brutal the kill is depends on how big the combo of attacks leading up to it was and how accurately you follow the animation's commands. Brutality ranged from the basic slitting of our enemy's throat to full on dismemberment.
Playing the game we found that the more brutal animations looked really cool, if a little like segments from the movie 300 or TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Past their visual allure Ryse: Son of Rome entices you to work to get better executions using experience. Ryse: Son of Rome has an RPG character development mechanic that lets you upgrade your character's abilities using experience and gold. Experience is earned by killing enemies or completing mission objectives. More brutal kills earn more experience, meaning that if you avoid button bashing and play skillfully you can level up more quickly. The upgrades we saw were fairly far ranging, including everything from unlocking new combo attacks to increasing weapon damage.
Ryse: Son of Rome also features a squad command feature that adds a more strategic element to the basic fighting mode. During our time with Ryse: Son of Rome we saw only the most rudimentary elements of this when tasked to defend a gate against an incoming horde of enemies. The section saw Marius take command of the troops, letting us set up where we wanted them positioned and then order them to do specific tasks. For example, we could command our archers to fire at an incoming group of enemies by holding down the LB key. We didn't get a chance to try more developed sections of the strategic command element but have been told that they get significantly more complex as the game progresses.
Graphically we have to say that we were seriously impressed with how good Ryse: Son of Rome looks. Running on the Xbox One, animations were wonderfully smooth and the slow down execution sections of the game did a wonderful job highlighting the brutality of the kills - in one section we got to see Marius slice off a barbarians, arms, legs and then head in slow motion. It was awesome, limbs literally flew.
The lighting and particle effects are also impressive, with the legionnaires' armour offering dynamic reflections across the map and fire and smoke animations looking leagues better than any we've seen on present generation consoles. Ryse: Son of Rome is also able to display and animate far more controlled characters than we expected. During the siege section of gameplay we literally saw hundreds, if not thousands of individually animated and rendered rampaging barbarians assaulting our defences, a task that would be beyond the Xbox 360.
Summing up, our opening hands on time with Ryse: Son of Rome left us very impressed. The game brims with potential, featuring what appears to be a subtly deep brawler combat mechanic that's balanced with strategic squad command elements. Add to this its awesome graphics and we can't wait to have some more time with the bloody Roman fighter.
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From this week's Economist:
The fall of Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania's junior senator, is even more eagerly anticipated by the American left. Mr Santorum is one of America's most articulate opponents of all things permissive. His six children are home-schooled; he opposes stem-cell research; he feels that sodomy should be outlawed; he favours national service. James Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family, an evangelical group, praises his "integrity, vision and unwavering commitment to the principles and beliefs upon which the United States was founded". Meanwhile, gay activists use his name to denote something indescribable in a family newspaper.
Who could those gay activists be? Why, they're me! But the word isn't being used by activists alone. The word was mainstreamed long, long ago.
An alert Stranger and Economist reader named Patrick brought this to my attention. Thanks, Patrick!