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Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. Albert Einstein
Einstein was famous for his thought experiments, so let's do something of that sort for a moment. Imagine that you can hold the scope of existence in your mind, from the Big Bang to just now. Conceive of the billions of years of stellar and planetary formation, the hundreds of millions of years of life formation, and the millions of years of the development of the human body and mind that lead to this moment. You stand at the crest of that mounting wave that begins at the bottom of the depths and thrusts upward.
Ask yourself, "What am I doing with this moment at the crest, this moment that represents the labors of existence and the labors of uncounted beings for billions of years?" For all those labors, how do you exert yourself to give in return? This moment of self-aware cognition may not be happening anywhere else in the universe. We don't know. Can we let it slip by? How do you spend these moments of existence? How do you use your mind and the vast sparkling gift of this internet that links us together? What do you express? Is it a gift in return for the gift? Only you can truthfully answer that for yourself.
In the last article I posted here, I stated the thought that the internet represented our collective unconscious mind with all the good, the bad, and the ugly. I'm going to extend the analogy into another thought experiment. Imagine you are a computer connected wirelessly to the internet, but with a firewall that doesn't allow you to see the internet. The firewall also allows and regulates a flow of information. If it could truly think, the computer would think it was isolated and alone with little effect on other computers it might see, and no effect on computers it can't see. The computer might see some random comings and goings of information from the good, the bad, and the ugly, but it could only see the randomness. The computer might have to invent words to describe the random comings and goings, words like imagination, insight, prophecy, and madness.
Now think of the human condition. Our own firewalls have a tricky job. Imagine as a child bearing the full brunt of the good, the bad, and the ugly. It would be a paralyzing or terminal information overload. For survival's sake the firewall has to dole out access as the individual human mind grows, expands, gains strength. However in this conjecture, this thought experiment, the firewall is sometimes sabotaged, sometimes damaged. Horrors like war and sexual abuse and abandonment as well as the bad expression of genes, damage the regulator and new words enter our vocabulary, words like post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and psychosis.
We believe we are separated but we are not. Every point is connected to another by the fabric of existence, the fabric of space-time. What we call the empty vacuum of outer space is still part of the fabric. Our minds share everything, the good, the bad, and the ugly. If you can really see this, can really grasp the nature of this conjecture, then it's time to move on to the next steps. The trick is to learn to manage your own firewall, your own access to the mind-of-all, damaged regulator, or not. You become the regulator in an ultimate act of self-responsibility and being. There are deeper levels to this mind-of-all that go far below the good, the bad, and the ugly.
In returning to our original inquiry, I have to ask, what are you inputting to the mind-of-all? What thought forms, what energies do you put into the internet and into our collective mind that others will have to suffer for? Do you exert yourself to return a gift for the gift, or do you contribute anger, venom, attitude, and self-aggrandizement, the same-old shit? How are you spending your moment in the fabric of all this, this fabric of space-time and beyond?
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Braves edge Indians, offense continues to struggle
ATLANTA -- Rookie Alex Wood isn't just learning on the job for the Atlanta Braves.
The left-hander keeps winning, too.
"Today wasn't one of his best outings," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "He was spraying it around a little bit and got his pitch count up, but he's tough to take swings at."
Wood pitched five-plus strong innings, Elliot Johnson had a two-run triple and Atlanta beat the Cleveland Indians 2-0 on Tuesday night.
The Braves have won two straight, improving the majors' best record to 79-52. They have won 14 of 17 at Turner Field and own baseball's home mark at 45-18.
Closer Craig Kimbrel pitched a perfect ninth to earn his 42nd save, most in the majors, in 45 chances.
He struck out Drew Stubbs and retired pinch-hitter Lonnie Chisenhall and Michael Bourn on groundouts.
Atlanta took a 2-0 lead in the second inning. Brian McCann walked with one out, advanced to third on Joey Terdoslavich's single to right field, and both runners scored when Johnson tripled over Stubbs near the wall in right.
Wood (3-2) allowed five hits, a career-high four walks and struck out five in 5 2/3 innings. He's 3-0 with a 1.46 ERA in his past six starts.
Wood credited pitching coach Roger McDowell with making a timely mound visit in the third. The rookie retired the first two batters he faced and was ahead in the count on Jason Kipnis and Carlos Santana before walking both batters.
McDowell wanted to help Wood slow down his pace and not rush to make the next pitch. But he also wanted to talk strategy with the rookie and McCann, the catcher.
After McDowell returned to the dugout, Wood got Mike Aviles to ground into a forceout and end the threat.
"He comes out and he has an idea what we should do to that hitter," Wood said. "That's definitely a big help. As long as we execute it, it usually ends up working out pretty good."
Cleveland had won two straight and five of six, but lost despite holding Atlanta to just three hits.
"Our pitching's been on point, but you've got to score to win," Bourn said. "You can't score zero runs and win the game. It's not going to happen.
"We've got to find a way to put some runs on the board and help our pitchers out."
Rookie Danny Salazar (1-2) gave up three hits, two runs and two walks in four innings. The right-hander struck out three.
Wood issued his four walks in the first three innings, but he worked around Asdrubal Cabrera's leadoff double in the fourth and Kipnis' two-out double in the fifth.
A two-out single by Michael Brantley chased Wood in the sixth. The next Atlanta pitcher, Luis Ayala, walked Stubbs, the only batter he faced, but Scott Downs ended the threat by striking out pinch-hitter Jason Giambi.
Cabrera went 3 for 4 and was the only batter with more than one hit, but Johnson drove in the game's only runs.
"I got a fastball out over and hit it well enough to get it over Stubbs' head, and we get a couple of runs off a guy that throws really hard," Johnson said. "But Woody was the story of the day, pretty much commanding all of his pitches and keeping them off balance."
Gonzalez indicated that Johnson, claimed off waivers last week from Kansas City, likely will stay with Atlanta with second baseman Dan Uggla set to come off the disabled list on Wednesday.
Johnson started his fifth game at second base in Uggla's place.
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Wow….I must admit, this made me laugh:
Is it just me, or does Robert Pattinson's American accent make him sound a little like a young Marlon Brando? Bella: "You've gotta give me some answers!" Edward: "I'd radda hear your tearies." And a little further in, "My famlee, we're different from udders of our kind." A Godfadder in the making.
XD! I can't get enough of the trailer, but for some reason, I keep laughing at the comment mentioned above. Robert being a godfather in the making? WAY to much *laughs*


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Audi, BMW play laser tag on high-beams
In the latest round of technological one-upmanship involving German luxury brands, Audi and BMW each claim to be the first to market with high-beam laser headlights.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Audi r&d chief Ulrich Hackenberg declared that Audi would be "the first car brand to put laser light into production." In February, BMW said that its i8 plug-in hybrid would be the first series production car with laser high-beams.
So who gets bragging rights? In late July, Audi will begin delivering its limited-edition R8 LMX with laser lights in Europe. All together, 99 units of the $285,000 supercar will be delivered to customers.
But BMW claims to be first because it delivered eight i8 models fitted with laser lights to specially selected customers on June 5.
Still, the i8 won't arrive in European showrooms in volume until this fall, and laser high-beams can't even be ordered yet because a price for the option has not been announced. Lacking a price, those first eight customers got their laser lights for free.
The laser high-beams on both models offer a bright white light that extends about twice as far as LED high-beams. Because of their intensity, they only work above 37 mph -- and when sensors detect no other light ahead. The lasers can't be used to flash, and, indeed, won't be offered in the United States because they far exceed brightness standards.


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The 30-year-old is pleased that the full squad are able to contribute to the cause, but is eager for the fringe players to be able to see out a win without needing star players
Liverpool goalkeeper Brad Jones feels his side must stop relying so heavily on the talents of Luis Suarez and Steven Gerrard.
The two Reds stars were called upon by Brendan Rodgers to lift Wednesday's youthful side to victory over Swansea City in the Capital One Cup, only for the Welsh side to see out a 3-1 triumph.
Initially, fringe players were given the chance to send the club through to the quarter-finals, and their frailties left Jones frustrated.
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Jones told the Daily Mail: "The fact other players were getting a run in the cup was good because we were performing well with players who were not playing regularly in the league and that was a bonus.
"A few players came in and got minutes, which was good, but it took us 45 minutes to get going and by that time it was too late as they had a grip on the game.
"In the end it took Stevie and Luis coming on to spark the game up and for the team playing in the cups you don't really want them coming on, you want to do it yourself.
"It is a difficult one. Stevie is an icon for the club and he carries the club sometimes."
Despite preferring the more inexperienced members of the first-team squad being able to beat the Swans, Jones admitted the influence of Gerrard and Suarez was immediately visible after their introduction.
He added: "Them coming on just gave us that spark, it made the other players pick up, the tempo was quicker and passing was crisper and we controlled the game better.
"Whether that was through them specifically or whether it was the other players upping it because the manager had basically had a go at us at half-time and sent them on.
"But it was the kick up the backside to let everyone know things weren't going well and we needed to get moving."


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Speech Debelle, 29, won the 2009 Mercury prize for her debut album Speech Therapy. Her second album, Freedom of Speech, was released this year.
What was your earliest ambition?
To be a teacher.
Public school or state school? University or straight into work?
Harris City Technical College in south London. When I was at secondary school, rapping was a way of impressing people. The reaction I got made me cool. When I left school, I started to write for myself; I'd go through a situation or emotion and that's how I got it out. I was signed in 2007; I was doing nothing, then I was working full-time until my first album came out.
Who is your mentor?
My mum. The older I get, the more I realise how much of who I am is due to her and how she raised me. Also my gran. She is an artist – she taught me that being an artist was my job.
How physically fit are you?
I smoke, so I hit a wall every time. I have a personal trainer; I'm pretty fit and strong, but my cardio's not what it should be.
Ambition or talent: which matters more to success?
Ambition. Talent can be perceived in so many different ways. Ambition, working towards something, is constant.
Have you ever taken an IQ test?
Yes, and I performed pretty badly. Our curriculum is set up to teach a child how to relate information. An IQ test is for someone who's good at that. A lot of musicians I work with, they'd do badly – but when you see what they can do in the studio, they're genius.
How politically committed are you?
It's something that I've been drawn into – not any particular party, but about social issues.
Do you consider your carbon footprint?
Yes, but it would be easier not to.
Do you have more than one home?
I have lots – the home I live in, my mum's home, my gran's, my cousin's, and four or five friends' homes where I feel comfortable.
What would you like to own that you don't currently possess?
If this is a gift, give me some money!
What's your biggest extravagance?
Food. Other things are just one-offs.
In what place are you happiest?
In the studio. It's a place to be energised, have life fired into you.
What ambitions do you still have?
A few. Doing something else that I love – food, cooking, a restaurant, a TV show, a cookbook.
What drives you on?
I get bored quickly. I do things for a natural high – the buzz I get from doing things I love – and if the buzz starts to fade, I need to do more.
What is the greatest achievement of your life so far?
My first album. The Mercury Prize didn't even come close. In life we want to do so many things and we do hardly any of them – for me, that was the first thing I wanted to do and managed to complete.
What has been your greatest disappointment?
Not doing what I should have done for loved ones – not being there, not showing them my appreciation.
If your 20-year-old self could see you now, what would she think?
I hope that she wouldn't. At that stage, I was writing but thinking people would never hear my music. It would have made me self-conscious and insecure.
If you lost everything tomorrow, what would you do?
I could still go out and start rapping – someone would be affected by it.
Do you believe in assisted suicide?
Do you believe in an afterlife?
If you had to rate your satisfaction with your life so far, out of 10, what would you score?
Right now, pretty high.
Speech Debelle is performing on Wednesday November 14 at the 2012 London Jazz Festival, which runs from November 9-18


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Given harrowing market swings in the United States and Europe this September, Western news media have largely ignored the fact that Russian markets-one of the world's brightest economic success stories of the past few years-have actually suffered much worse losses. The Russian ruble has rapidly lost value (MarketWatch), and Russia's leading stock index has fallen 57 percent since May (RFE/RL). The Dow Jones Industrial Average, by contrast, dropped roughly 14 percent during the same period. The country now faces what many analysts regard as its most serious economic crisis since 1998 when Moscow defaulted on its international debt.
In fact, the 2008 crisis bears several similarities to the economic breakdown that unfolded almost exactly one decade prior. The first and most obvious is the rapidly plummeting price of oil, the commodity on which Russia's economy floats. While oil prices currently remain well above the lows of a decade ago, current prices have lost significant ground since their July peak of over $147 a barrel, hitting a low in early September of just over $90 (CNN). This sharp volatility proved unnerving for Russia, which produces more oil than any country other than Saudi Arabia. Moscow also relies on exports of natural gas and other commodities, the prices of which have also plummeted from summer highs. Additionally, analysts say the short-term outlook for commodity prices is anything but certain. Major producers worry that failing financial institutions, which had speculated heavily in crude and pushed up prices, could now be forced to rapidly unwind those positions, potentially leading to further price declines. Anders Aslund, a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in the Moscow Times that this phenomenon could stretch beyond oil and lead to broader withdrawals of investments in Russian markets.
Geopolitical uncertainty also has weighed heavily on Russian markets. As in the 1990s, when Russia spent some $5.5 billion on military operations in the breakaway province of Chechnya, Moscow again finds itself embroiled in a regional conflict with no obvious end game-this time with Georgia. William Burns, the undersecretary of state for political affairs and former U.S. ambassador to Russia, recently testified before the U.S. Senate that Moscow's military intervention in the breakaway Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has much to do with its recent market woes. Beside the direct costs of the operations, Burns noted several major "opportunity costs" of the conflict, saying they could derail Russian efforts to modernize its economic infrastructure and diversify its economy to make it less dependent on commodities.
Just as the U.S. Treasury has pressed its cleanup plan to stabilize Wall Street, the Kremlin has pushed its own series of reforms. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has suggested a $100 billion financial rescue package. The Financial Times writes in an editorial that the Russian plan has garnered a significantly more positive response domestically than has the U.S. Treasury's, albeit in a culture not much drawn to contradicting Putin. Still, the economic mood in Moscow remains highly nervous, and major potential problems lie hidden among Russia's own financial institutions. Despite a recent fire sale at the Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital, the Financial Times concludes that "the shake-out in Russian finance has barely begun." Moreover, the Economist writes, cleaning up Russian markets might take much more than saving a few firms. The article points out the major problems presented by structural flaws in several developing world economies, including Russia's, and suggests a major systemic cleanup aimed at rooting out corruption and cronyism. "Bad capitalism," the piece concludes, "carries its own risks."


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The police have launched a manhunt to arrest the accomplices of Maninder Pal Singh alias Sunny Johar, the main accused in the assault on AIG SS Mand.
The police have been raiding their possible hideouts. The police on Saturday booked Nitin Jethi, a close associate of Sunny Johar, along with one of his (Jethi's) friends and drivers of Sunny Johar and Amandeep Singh.
The police would present Sunny Johar, Amandeep and Rishi Banda in the court on Monday and may seek extension in their police remand.


text: eldavojohn writes "The Ethics Organization of Computer Software (EOCS), now 233 companies strong, and met in Tokyo yesterday to ban a controversial title from Japan known as RapeLay, an eroge game (something much more adult than the more popular dating simulators). It's gotten a lot of press as reviewers have noted at one point the player must force sex on a 12-year-old. More importantly, the large ($353 million annually) adult game industry in Japan will now need to stay away from rape in their games if they wish to remain a member of EOCS. RapeLay seems to be available on Amazon's UK and JP sites, sparking outrage and causing a former US Ambassador to Japan to write an editorial criticizing Japan, saying, 'Only Japan allows people to possess these hideous images without penalty. Six of the G-7 countries have found ways to protect the innocent from being prosecuted for possession of child pornography. Is it not time for Japan to find a way to punish the guilty?' Singapore's Straits Times has more details, pointing out that it's still not illegal to possess these materials in Japan. We discussed this and other games last month in an editorial."


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The payment industry, and online payments in particular, have evolved a lot in the last few years. How has online payment changed, concretely?
It is important to underline that online payment is the direct consequence of the digitization of every aspect of our daily life. Indeed, a lot of our daily tasks, for which we used to have to go to a physical place to do them, can now be done online. Payment has naturally followed this evolution and is now digitized.
What kind of role does authentication play in online payments and how has it evolved in the last few years?
Authentication is a core aspect of online payments because these payments happen without the physical presence of the payment card. Indeed, in the case of an in-store purchase, the customer is physically in front of the merchant and needs to enter its PIN code, which allows the payment's authentication. But, at the start of the online payments, online authentication was not yet in place. Indeed, consumers only had to enter their card's number to make an online purchase and that was not ideal in terms of security and payment guarantee. This is exactly why banks and schemes* put authentication systems, such as 3Dsecure, in place for online payments with bank card. These systems guarantee payments for merchants and protect consumers from potential fraud.
Now that authentication is up and running, digitized payments continue to evolve through digital wallets, such as Paylib, powered by Worldline, and ApplePay. Authentication within these wallets is either done directly through the smartphone, through fingerprint scanning or by entering a code.
How are consumers impacted by these changes?
Consumers have adapted quite naturally to the new consumption models and online payment facilitates these.
Regarding authentication, the experience gained from the 3Dsecure implementation has shown that it is crucial for issuing banks to guide their customers through these systems. That way, customers will have a clear understanding of these new systems and will adopt them more easily for their daily payments.
Digital wallets, like Paylib, can offer a smoother user experience than 3Dsecure but, so far, user enrollment has been slow and the actual adoption depends on the development of the acceptance network. That said, digital wallets are bound to be widely used in the future because it is a flexible solution that simplifies payments.
And what are the impacts on merchants and banks?
I believe that merchants are beneficially impacted by these changes. Indeed, all these authentication mechanisms for online payments guarantee these payments for them. Furthermore, the fraud responsibility is no longer with merchants with solutions like 3Dsecure. In the past, merchants carried this responsibility and they were directly impacted by the losses from these fraudulent payments. In addition, they even had to prove that a payment was fraudulent. Now, the cardholders have to prove that their payment method was used without their knowledge.
The benefits for banks are also linked to fraud. Indeed, with the help from these new authentication systems, fraud will be harder to achieve and related costs for banks will, therefore, lower. In addition, banks will be able to invoice these transactions, processed through 3Dsecure for example, at a lower price to merchants.
How does our solution Sips answer the issues previously mentioned?
Sips answers them on different levels:
- Authentication: 3Dsecure has been integrated in Sips since its launch. Merchants can choose to have it turned on directly during the setup of our solution. They can also manage this functionality; amongst others, in real-time.
- Digital wallet: Sips is compatible with all the currently available wallets, such as Paylib and MasterPass. Therefore, merchants are able to allow their customers to pay with their preferred wallet.
- Fraud: Sips also embarks functionalities for fraud prevention upstream of payments. This way, if a potential fraud is detected based on a certain number of parameters, merchants will be automatically alerted in order to take the necessary actions.
What major evolutions do you foresee for e-Commerce, m-Commerce and online payments in the next few years?
First of all, the separation, which existed in the past, between High Street retail and e-Commerce is slowly starting to disappear. Our solution is ideal in this setup as it takes this cross-channel business model into account. Besides, merchants will also need to invest in this new customer experience and imbricate their physical stores with their websites.
Mobile phones will also play a double role: first, as an online purchasing platform and, second, as a payment tool in physical stores, with the help of mPOS technology which can transform a mobile phone into a card reader.
We also expect the democratization of digital wallets in the near future and not just in its current payment functionality.
Finally, it is worth mentioning SEPA transfers because they are so far out the traditional bank card's way. These transfers being irrevocable and less expensive for banks and merchants, they also deserve a seat at the online payment table.
Thank you for your time today, Matthieu. I will leave you with one final question: we live in a hyper connected digital world and, suddenly, you find yourself stranded on a desert island, which electronic product do you have to have with you?
My mobile phone because it is truly a digital Swiss pocket knife.
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Matthieu Bédard
Matthieu Bédard is Business Developer for Payment Acceptance in our Global Business Line Merchant Services and Terminals, in which he works alongside the Sales team to identify and define new functionalities and new offers for our payment solutions. He joined Worldline in January 2012.
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Santa Fe Cheesecake With Cilantro Pesto
- 1 cup toasted bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup toasted pine nuts
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 pound pepper jack, grated
- 1/2 pound queso blanco, grated
- 1 pound cream cheese, room temperature
- 4 eggs
- 8 fresh roasted, peeled, seeded New Mexico green chiles, chopped
- 2 jalapenos, seeded and diced
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups tightly packed fresh cilantro leaves
- 1/4 cup lightly toasted pine nuts
- 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
- 1/4 cup grated queso blanco
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- To make the crust, place the bread crumbs, pine nuts, and butter in a food processor and process until thoroughly combined. Press mixture into the bottom and slightly up the sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Set aside.
- In the bowl, beat the pepper jack, queso fresco, and cream cheese until smooth. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after the addition of each. Fold in the peppers, jalapenos, garlic, cilantro, salt, and pepper. Pour mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, checking after 45 minutes. (Cake should be golden and puffed, and just set in the center.) Remove from the oven and cool completely on a rack before serving.
- To make the pesto: In a blender, combine the cilantro, pine nuts, and garlic, and puree on high speed. Add the cheese, pepper, and salt, and process to combine. Scrape the sides of the blender, and with the machine running, add the olive oil. Blend until well combined.
- To serve, drizzle the cheesecake with the Cilantro Pesto, slice, and serve.


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"Elections Confidential" describes how secret donors poured hundreds of millions into the 2012 election through "social welfare" non-profits that are really political vehicles and via shell corporations formed as conduits to hide a funder's identity.
The first post-Citizens United presidential election cycle was bought and paid for by a handful of wealthy donors, but the corrosive influence of money in politics was amplified by the fact that we don't know who – or what – actually provided much of the funding.
Despite widespread public support for disclosure and decades of legal precedent supporting the public's right to know the sources of election-related spending, voters were bombarded with messages from secretly-funded, innocuously-named "dark money" nonprofits that do not disclose their funding sources. Even those groups that do disclose their donors received millions from fake corporations that covered the money trail.
Key findings include:
- Shell corporations that do not disclose the sources of their funding funneled at least $17 million to Super PACs in the 2012 elections.
- Nearly seventeen percent of all business contributions to Super PACs came from identified shell corporations.
- Dark money nonprofits reported spending over $299 million in the 2012 election; however, because these groups ran "issue ads" that need only be reported when aired just before primaries or election day, the total spending by these nonprofits is certainly much higher than was reported to the FEC. Crossroads GPS, for example, told the FEC that it spent just under $71 million in the 2012 election cycle, but it actually spent more than twice as much as was reported, topping at least $165 million.
- Dark money nonprofits, which are not supposed to have electoral intervention as a primary activity, will justify their tax-exempt status in the post-election period by engaging in activities like lobbying. Incredibly, this qualifies as advancing the "social welfare."
- A dark money group's lobbying clout is amplified by the fact that, come election time, they can back an uncooperative lawmaker's primary challenger.
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XCOM: Enemy Within - Review Roundup #2
November 13th, 2013, 17:02
Here is the secound round of reviews for XCOM: Enemy Within I managed to roundup.
Game Informer - 9.25/10
Game Informer - 9.25/10
Enemy Withins minor flaws shouldnt be enough to distract anyone from diving back into Firaxis well-tuned expansion. The game often throws you curveballs; you can easily have a rookie wander too deep into the battlefield and suddenly alert three units of enemies. However, dealing with the bad hands youre dealt is what makes XCOMs battles so exciting and often leads to creative problem solving. Enemy Within adds more troop customization options, fearsome enemy units, and new levels to explore. Anyone who loves an intense firefight should test their mettle on Enemy Within.Kotaku - No Score
I highly recommend XCOM: Enemy Within, which both serves longtime fans and makes the cerebral strategy genre appealing to everyone. It is, as I said last year, simply a great game. We're four days from a new console launching and a year after Enemy Unknown launched and XCOM is still the only thing I want to play right now. Battle hardened commanders will probably have to bump the difficulty up a notch, or fudge with the Second Wave options, to create a real challenge. Newcomers will be delighted by all of the new toys it offers, while still finding entertainment in the tension, consequence, and loss that makes XCOM unique.EGN Now - 9.5/10
As far as expansions go, Enemy Within takes a relatively safe approach, opting to flesh out Enemy Unknown with new maps, enemies, and upgrades rather than redefining its core. Thankfully, it works, because the additions are every bit as smart and enjoyable as the main game.More information.
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As a Yank who has been able to play this the last 24hrs, gotta say, I like the new content… However, it does make the game easy fairly quickly as you simply outpace the ability of the enemies. Unfortunately, to make it more of a challenge you're forced to crank up the difficulty settings which basically allows the AI to cheat. Not a very good tradeoff.
Perhaps the next DLC will give some late-game content that allows more of a challenge.
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Man Group's AHL Hedge Fund Struggles
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In 2011, the City of Tampa began creating a master plan for Tampa's Center City, spanning from downtown to Ybor City on the east, Armenia Avenue on the west and north along historic Nebraska Avenue to Hillsborough Avenue. We walked, talked, photographed, mapped and — most importantly – listened to you about the nuances of your neighborhood, as well as the things that matter to you and your families now and in our future. We worked closely with Mayor Buckhorn, experts and scholars with worldwide experience and insight and returned to you, once again, to ensure we'd found a blue print that your supported your vision and could transform our community. By November 2012, we shared the Center City Plan and we're ready to start making it a reality.
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Center City Tampa will be a community of livable places, connected people, and collaborative progress that embraces and celebrates its river and waterfront. The Hillsborough River will be center of our downtown, providing an accessible, comfortable, safe, and highly active place for our residents and visitors. Our neighborhoods will be vibrant, diverse, distinctive, and safe and will be linked to each other and to the river through a series of attractive, bicycle and pedestrian connections. Our Center City will be a place for people of all ages to live, work and play – a place where opportunities can be found and hope for a better future can be realized.
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Now, we are turning our attention to making it happen! From the completion of the Tampa Riverwalk, the restoration of the Federal Courthouse, the evolution of Encore and the construction of downtown residential towers, our Center City plan is actively shaping the future of our downtown. More recommendations are in the works.
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04/30/13 - 05/02/13 | The InVision Tampa Consulting Team conducts a three day design workshop to develop preliminary ideas and a preliminary vision for the Corridor. On April 30, the consulting team led a working session with community participants to draft ideas and tactics for the corridor plan. On May 2, the consulting team presented preliminary ideas. |
12/05/12 - 12/11/12 | The Invision Tampa Consulting Team leads four corridor charrettes in support of the Nebraska - Hillsborough Primary Transit Corridor Master Plan. The charrettes were held at the Ragan Park and Robles Park Community Centers, Seminole Heights Garden Center and the Children's Board. |
11/27/12 | The Center City Vision Plan is presented to the public during an open house at Tampa Prep. |
11/13/12 | The Issues and Opportunities Report summarizing the output, findings and summary of the public engagement process is released. |
07/23/12 - 7/26/12 | The InVision Tampa Consulting Team conducts a four day design workshop to develop preliminary ideas and a preliminary vision for the master plan. On July 23, the consulting team led a working session with community participants to draft the mission and objectives for the plan. On July 26, the consulting team presented preliminary design ideas. |
06/20/12 | Knowledge Exchange Forum #4 - "Livable Transportation" |
05/30/12 | Knowledge Exchange Forum #3 - "Economic Development" |
05/16/12 | Knowledge Exchange Forum #2 - "Public Realm". |
04/28/12 - 5/19/12 | The InVision Tampa consulting team leads neighborhood charrettes and walking audits for 8 neighborhoods - CBD, Channel District, North Hyde Park, Tampa Heights, West Tampa, V.M. Ybor, Ybor City and the north Nebraska - Hillsborough Corridor. Approximately 150 people participate. |
04/11/12 | Knowledge Exchange Forum #1 - "21st Century Cities". |
04/09/12 | The City officially kicked off the project with a special announcement by the Mayor. The project was given a new name to provide identity and focus - InVision Tampa. The website went live and the schedule of events and meetings was provided to the media. A 90-second video was produced to introduce the project to residents and posted on the webpage. www.invisiontampa.com |
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11/29/11 | AECOM was selected as the consultant to lead the planning efforts for the Nebraska-Hillsborough Avenue Primary Transit Corridor Master Plan and the Downtown Area Conceptual Master Plan. |
10/14/11 | The City of Tampa hosted an Urban Land Institute (ULI) Advisory Panel on October 9-14 to help develop an initial vision for the city's central city area, identify potential issues and opportunities for redevelopment and highlight areas that need more targeted analysis by the consultant. Approximately 100 people attended an open house reception hosted by the Tampa Bay ULI (the local chapter of the Urban Land Institute) to meet the Advisory Panel. The Panel then met with city staff and held small group interviews with approximately 70 community stakeholders representing businesses, employers, government, architects, planners, residents and community organizations. On Friday, October 14, nearly 200 individuals attended the presentation of the ULI Advisory Panel's recommendations and suggestions. The final report from the ULI Advisory Panel will be available in January. |


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As authors, we have to manage the production of work, but also the care of our creative souls. There's a quote from Charles Bukowski that has been doing the rounds on social media, "Find what you love and let it kill you," but personally, I want a long term career and I want to have a good time along the way! In today's interview I talk to Todd Henry, author of 'Die Empty,' about how we can manage our creative lives.
The podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life, which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors.
Todd Henry is the bestselling author of Die Empty: Unleash your best work everyday, and Accidental Creative. He's also the founder of Accidental Creative, a business that helps creative people generate ideas.
- Todd did a degree in marketing and then spent a few years in the music business, before working with a creative team. With long hours and high pressure, Todd started to wonder how creativity could be sustained and fostered over a long term career. He started a podcast, The Accidental Creative, to start a conversation about creativity in the marketplace. This morphed into a business, and Todd writes books as well as speaking and consulting with teams on productive creativity.
- On 'Die Empty' and provocative book titles. We all have a finite amount of time and resources in this life, so we have to choose how to spend them wisely. Don't take your best work to the grave with you. Take steps every day to spend yourself on a body of work you can be proud of. Be more intentional about how you spend your limited time and resources.
- On the balance between giving your all and refreshing the creative well. We need rhythms in our life. It's less about work/life balance, and more about the rhythm of being effective. There are productive phases and other times when we need to recharge and relax. I mention the sign on my wall, 'Write to live. What is living today?' as this is something I am very aware of. Todd mentions this ability to judge rhythm is part of being a mature creative, recognizing signs of burnout and shifting energy as necessary. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
- On mapping, making and meshing. Mapping is planning and strategizing, outlining stories. Making is the shipping aspect, the actual production. Meshing is the rest of life, the living that helps us bring all our creative strands together, developing your skillset, understanding what you do, finding your voice and all the things that are less measurable. You need all of this, but the focus of many creatives is often just on making. The cult of shipping seems to be prevalent right now. As the questions: what am I really trying to achieve here? what is the why behind what I am doing?
- How do we take a long view of our body of work when we have bills to pay this month? You will be judged by the body of work you produce so you have to decide. You need to look at four aspects: Focus. Assets. Time. Energy. You need to choose where you focus and what your overall goal is. Assets are your resources, financial, relational. Time and Energy are your finite resources that you need to decide on every week. Ask yourself – why am I doing this? What is the overall goal? Be honest about it.
- We talk about Todd's next book which will be around finding your voice. He finds writing very difficult but it is the best way to get his ideas out in the world. A book is portable equity, turning ideas into tangible form, helping you spread your message. We talk about the difficulty of judging the quality of our own work, and the importance of editors, and time away from the text in order for it to become unfamiliar.
- On Todd's entrepreneurial business. We talk about the book and the audiobook (which he read), as well as his consulting and public speaking appearances. This is a common business model for non-fiction authors, when the book is more of an introduction to ideas and then the author earns more from the 'back end' after the book. You have to package the idea so it is easily accessible from a lot of different angles, and then you can apply that to a broad market by slightly reframing the topic every time.
- On podcasting for marketing, and how it helps to create a connection through the personality of voice and expression in video. We both think it is a great thing to be doing to build an audience who care for the long term as it is so authentic. Here's my tips on how to podcast.
- Todd is traditionally published and we have a chat about the changes in the publishing industry, how we are on the cusp of great change. There are many great things about the rise of self-publishing but Todd has some concerns around how the device owners in the music industry let the quality of the content slip, because their income was more about devices. Pricing expectations have changed, which has affected authors (like Todd) who publish through traditional publishing. Discovery is also the biggest problem for everyone.
You can find Todd at ToddHenry.com and his podcast and blog at AccidentalCreative.com as well as on twitter @toddhenry
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Demi Lovato Shares Fashion Secrets in VEVO 'Stylized' Video
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Demi Lovato lets Lovatics tag along with her while she picks out clothes and shares fashion secrets in her VEVO 'Stylized' video.
Lovato has become a fashion plate in the past two years, showing off a rock n' roll, edgy side, mixing lots of black and leather. She and her stylist pull back the curtain and offer up some trade tips.
"I take on a different persona when I am on stage. I like to wear edgier stuff, because I am playing guitar, singing and shouting at the audience," the singer and actress said about her stage clothes.
Lovato also called fashion "an awesome way to express yourself," while her stylist likes leather, lace, glamour, rock and chic looks for Lovato.
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military special ops qualification (msoq)?
Hey all, I recently took a very thorough advanced carbine course with a local instructor. One exercise we did was the msoq (don't know if this is the right spelling).
Been trying to find a write up/course of fire to practice it on my own, but can't find anything. Its scored out of 100 pts, 2 for proper hits, 1 for adequate hits, 0 for mikes. Starts at 50 yards with an ar and move in. Incorporates standing, kneeling and prone. Apparently this is the q course for most sof operators. Does anyone have a write up on this? Thanks
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meu soc qc maybe?
Marine special operations forces have a handgun and rifle qualification that is fairly well known -- Pat Rogers of EAG tactical uses variations of those CoFs in his classes.
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Pairing: | Simon Tam/River Tam |
Alternative name(s): | Crazy Space Incest, CSI, Tamcest |
Gender category: | het |
Fandom: | Firefly |
Canonical?: | No |
Prevalence: | Fairly popular |
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Simon/River is the pairing between the siblings Simon and River Tam. It is often called CSI for Crazy Space Incest.
Many fans see Simon and River as being the most important person in each others' lives, with their pairing winning over even some fans who would normally describe incest as "squicky."The tension seemed pretty clear long before the dvd revealed the cut scene from "Our Mrs. Reynolds" where River stuffs a pillow under her shirt and announces to all and sundry that she's having Simon's baby. [1]
The CSI Shipper's LiveJournal Community, light_it, was created in October of 2004. It went to moderated membership, with all posts automatically set to be viewable by community members only, after the events of Strikethrough in 2007. It remains active, with over 250 members as of June 2009.
At one point there was a Simon/River archive known as the CSI Fanfiction Archive, run by paperdollgirl, but it no longer exists.
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The human life force known as [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Lady Gaga[/lastfm] continued her all-out promotional blitz for the just released Born This Way CD yesterday by making an appearance at a New York area Best Buy store and then later last night, appearing for the very first time on The Late Show with David Letterman. Their banter was VERY entertaining. Take a look.
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Diana & Kate Leave Out 'Obey' During Nuptials! [AUDIO]
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Mitt Romney will campaign in Pennsylvania on Sunday, the first time he's campaigned in the state in many weeks, a Romney campaign official told The Hill.
Romney's campaign has been increasingly bullish about its prospects in the state, launching its first ad there earlier this week. A number of GOP outside groups have also bought millions of dollars in airtime for the final push there. Obama's campaign has scoffed at Romney's push in Pennsylvania and other states they previously haven't contested, although they are investing in ads to combat the GOP outside group's efforts.
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Yeah buddy!!!!!
Look at where the candidates are going in the closing days of the election.
Romney wants to try to sew up PA. I think he can get it and the fact he's scheduling a campaign stop there Sunday says the Romney Campaign feels that its internal polling is very good!
If nothing else, its a head fake to leave Obama guessing about what happens on Tuesday.
YES!!! I saw the question marks on Romney's schedule for Sunday earlier in the day. I was hoping he would come here. Hammer, nail, coffin ... time to put Obama in a grave.
I was figuring NV or OR for Sunday, but I like the PA trip a hell of a lot more.
Hell by Sunday the residents of NJ may be so fed up with the FEMA response that it will influence their voting :)
Romney coming to PA ping!
Anyone know where Romney is scheduled on Monday? Ohio, VA?
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PA's 20 Electoral Votes or Nevada's 6 or Oregon's 7.
Too little, too late.
They're not going to win PA. Their final push is better spent on states that they both need and can win.
I would run some ads here since they have more money than Obama, just to throw Obama off course and force Obama to spend money in a state he wouldn't otherwise spend it in. Ads can be run in many states simultaneously, but coming here is a waste of valuable time since you can only be in one place at one time.
I like it!
I think PA is a better state for Romney than OH. Twice as many suburbanites. Ma and Pa in the Volvo have stopped drinking the Kool Aid.
"Too little, too late."
I think the Romney campaign is in a better position to make that judgement. The have better information than we do.
The registration edge here is D+13. Among active registrations, it's D+12 (considered active by PA Dept of State as of 10/15/2012.) I think a realistic model for election day is D+8 or D+9. If the polls are anywhere near correct, it's going to be close.
Romney also doing well in Oregon. He's only down 3 in the latest poll and he hasn't even been there.
I was figuring those two because I had PA in the Romney column already...I'm thinking mandate ;)
Yup. Besides, Ohio has been saturated. I'd like to see him finish the campaign here in Pa. Make 0bozo chase him.
I think we've got a good shot. 20 votes, 2 more than Ohio.
THis is the state that elected Pat Toomey and Tom Corbett in 2010. That momo has only increased.
That's exactly what Barone said earlier. Romney has struggled in Ohio because they're aren't as many affluent suburanites there as in the other swing states. What I want to know is if he's going to PA because OH is safe, or because he needs an insurance policy against OH. Having that knowledge would tell you exactly where the race is at this point in time. I have to think he's going there because Ohio is safe. Otherwise, I would expect him to use that time making a play for WI, and another state that, when combined, can replace OH.
PA fits both of those criteria. While OH is probably Romney's (at least he is confident it is), it's too uncertain to count on.
Let's leave the tired "Republicans can't win PA" meme to the libs.
I think McCain spent a lot of time in PA didn't he?
One complicating factor (besides assessing the LV model, which is hard everywhere) is that PA is a closed primary state, so the registration edge is not as definitive among middle-of-the-roaders, who might have changed party affiliation but not changed official party registration, as it is in states with open primaries.
I don't know, does it matter?
They have poured 6 million into TV in PA this week. Time to close the deal.
Well just that McCain had the same kind of optimism and he diverted a lot of resources there and ended up losing by 10 points. That state has been fools gold for years.
Ignore the concerned troll.
The Libs are falling back. Take PA, MI, WI.. all! No Prisoners!
Ha ha...hahaha...ha ha...oooh... HAHAHAHAHA...
Why don't you take your Obama/Drive by Media Poll cheerleading elsewhere?
In 2008 there was a fever pitch in PA for Obama.
McCain never stood a chance.
For Romney, the odds are better than they have been for a GOP presidential candidate for a long time. And he has nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Making a campaign stop there Sunday costs him nothing and can bring him a lot of votes.
It should be glaringly obvious by now that Romney is no McCain. If Mitt thinks it's worth the time and money, I say go for it.
Mitt is finishing up Monday night in NH. He will be in Manchester with Kid Rock with a crowd of about 15,000:)
I heard that Romney is planning on going to New Hampshire on Monday, but of course these sort of schedules can change. I don't know if he has any other place planned for that day or not.
I think the news about PA is great. I'd especially like to see him push hard on Wisconsin, though, since that one is clearly even more winnable.
Oregon is finished. 100% vote by mail.
PA has no early voting. So last minute surge wins it.
It is definitely a ballsy move.
Questions is, do they really have enough other swing states nailed down to guarantee their election?
If so, I love it. If not, and this is just a head fake, then this move will be second-guessed like you wouldn't believe.
They have the data, and I don't, so I'm going to trust them on this one and interpret this as a very positive development.
Great point. The key, I read, were the 'burbs around Philly. If R/R can generate the turnout they expect, PA is more than in-play!
Totally thread unrelated, but are you a guest of the Underhills?
McCain was desperate and had exhausted all reasonable possibilities of an electoral college win. He was hoping against hope to find some traction elsewhere and gambled on PA.
That is not even remotely close to the situation we have today.
Chuck Todd says desperation. He is trying to get something since he is losing Ohio. MSNBC is really hard to watch, but I cant help it :)
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It things are going well on Tuesday night, I will be watching MSNBC hoping for Jim Jones to show up with cool aid.
Oh no doubt. If Romney wins MSNBC will have the highest ratings EVER
I understand Penn has little early voting, leaves large numbers who can be influenced
The only early voting in PA is absentee voting. Lots of PA folks are left to go to the polls on Tuesday... I'm hoping that Romney can flip a few more our way in Eastern PA over the weekend.
"If Romney wins MSNBC will have the highest ratings EVER."
So true. Big question: Do you switch from FOX to MSNBC 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes or 10 minutes after FOX calls it for Romney? I've been debating this scenario with myself. The issue is how much pure jubilation do you want versus pure schadenfreude?
MesSNBC will be great fun to watch Tuesday night.
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The president acts haleriose and I know now that max wants to be a gym leader.
The president acts haleriose and I know now that max wants to be a gym leader.
Huh. Interesting to see Team Aqua. But that guy never appeared during the final battle with Groudon and Kyogre ;_;
I like how they ended up adding action by chasing the TA member to Devon's roof.
I liked Steven's father in this episode, he is highly curious and likes Max. May was still crazy about shopping.
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Steven's father was very kind. he helped Max.
And the Aqua grant was smart, too bad he escaped.
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This is a great episode. Something I don't get is how the PokeNAV said that Dewford Island was the next gym city when Vernandurf Town is much closer. I know its trying to follow the games but the PokeNAV should have still said that Vernandurf was closer but have them go to Dewford Island first anyway.
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I like how they portrayed Mr. Stone as a fun old man, it really made him a lot more interesting than he is in the games. It was also good to see Crawdaunt in this episode since it's one of my favorites. Overall, this was a good episode, I enjoyed it.
Mr. Devon and Max weren't able to catch the evil Aqua guy, but at least his evil plan has been disabled, eventually. And yeah how can I forgot from Crawdaunt, it was so strong and even Pikachu with his type avantage didn't beat him.
This episode was ok... It was cool to see Team Aqua for the 1st time. It was cool to see a Crawdaunt for the 1st time. Mr. Stone was a really cool guy. His inventions were very cool and odd to see. The Devon Corporation was really cool to see.
This episode was cool. Nice to see Devon Corporation. Mr Stone was an interesting Charactor. Crawdaunt was awsome to see. He is such a bad***.
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Interesting episode. Since I don't remember most of these since not watching them for so long, I thought Max was gonna get his Pokenav stolen by Mr. Devon who I didn't know who it was at the time XP Its a good episode, showing one of the many, many, many members of Team Aqua.
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It was a pretty bland episode. Then again, it was featuring Max so I shouldn't have been surprised. Even though a lot seemed to have happened here, it was a chore to sit through it.
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What made this episode strong was both Mr. Stone and the infiltration attempt by Team Aqua that had an continuation in next episode. I also think for the first episode that was mainly centered around Max, that it still was alright. At least at this time, Max was much more of an better character than how it become later on.
First of all, I like the episode title: it's derived from one of my favourite songs, "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. Aside from that, this episode wasn't that special to me. I liked to see Professor Oak on the phone again. Seeing Max and Mr. Stone getting along well was also good. 5/10.
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I like how pikachu sees Mr. Stone give max the pokenav under the table as is confused lol
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This filler episode was pretty boring because it was focused on Max, and all episodes focusing on him turn out to be terrible. It was only during the tail end where it started getting good.
I wouldn't say that. I thought that the Poochyena episode was pretty good, depending on your perspective of what Pokemon is supposed to be. And even this episode has its own interesting bits as well when Devon talked about the Pokemon-creation machine, where the anime confirmed that Pokemon are composed of some data bits instead of being purely organic. I don't know if this was the case with the dubs (might have taken some liberties to keep the Pokemon lore from being too complicated), but this was so in the subs.
Furthermore, this episode further developed the sibling relationship between Haruka and Masato, so you have to be kinda shallow not to appreciate something like that.
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During the scene where Officer Jenny mentioned that an infiltration was being planned, I thought Mr. Stone was going to be involved with it, because of the way he looked for just a second. He sort of had that "it's all falling in to place" demeanor for a minute.
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Max spilling his drink on the PokeNav made me cackle; this is why kids shouldn't have technical devices imo. I really liked Mr. Stone's personality by the way, as well as the fact that he confronted the fake researcher and chased him to the roof with Max. Anyway, Team Rocket's plans here seemed so unnecessary in my opinion. The Team Aqua grunt was conflict enough.
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Mr Stone was cool and I liked how Ash's group finally came across Team aqua in this episode. The disguised Team aqua grunt's escape from the Devon Corp building itself was pretty neat and so was Crawdaunt.
All I really cared about was seeing Crawdaunt debut since I love Corphish's line. I liked how the Team Aqua dude flew off the building too. 8/10
The Devon Corp plot was done well here and was even better than in the games, so I was pleased. Team Aqua seemed competent.
I loved the beginning of the episode when Masato spilled his drink on the PokeNavi. Oh, and I really loved the part where Masato met the Devon Corporation president too. I also enjoyed when the Rocket-dan took off their sunglasses after they heard who the Devon employees were looking for, and then they got caught lol. It was cool when the president noticed that the capsules were stolen, and when he and Masato started chasing that guy from the Aqua-dan. It was pure luck how Masato caught the capsules when they were falling.
This was such a good episode, it was cool to finally meet a Team Aqua member.
At first I found the president really creepy and thought he was the criminal but he grew on me towards the end.
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