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Workers at weight-loss surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign persuaded patients to have medically unnecessary surgeries and billed insurance companies for procedures that were never performed, a new lawsuit alleges.
Two women who formerly worked at surgery centers affiliated with the Lap-Band ad campaign claimed that surgery center executives covered up mistakes that contributed to the Sept. 8 death of Paula Rojeski, a Lap-Band patient from Orange County.
The new lawsuit seeks damages from eight people, including brothers Michael and Julian Omidi, who the lawsuit says run the weight-loss business from offices in Beverly Hills. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, also seeks damages from 13 companies it says are controlled by the Omidis.
The Omidis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
At least five patients have died since 2009 following Lap-Band procedures at clinics in Beverly Hills and West Hills that are affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing campaign, according to autopsy reports, lawsuits and other public records.
Manufactured by Irvine-based Allergan Inc., the Lap-Band is a ring that is surgically implanted around the stomach to discourage overeating. The 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company said in a court filing last year that it scheduled more than 10,000 Lap-Band surgeries in its first 15 months.
The lawsuit accuses the Omidis, their mother Cindy, three of their attorneys and two employees of violating the Racketeer Influenced or Corrupt Organizations Act, which Congress passed in 1970 as a tool against organized crime.
The lawsuit by former surgery center workers Dyanne Deuel and Karla Osorio accuses the defendants of running a "criminal enterprise" centered around a scheme to drive up revenues from the Lap-Band surgeries by billing insurers for procedures that were never performed and encouraging patients to have procedures they did not need.
Deuel and Osorio also accused the defendants of improperly sterilizing and reusing surgical instruments in an effort to reduce costs.
"What the slick advertising campaign doesn't disclose are the horrific and gruesome conditions that our clients allege exist at these surgery centers and the fact that patient care is sacrificed for profit," said Alexander Robertson, the Westlake Village attorney who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Deuel and Osorio.
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1-800-GET-THIN warns of Lap-Band death risk
FDA accuses 1-800-GET-THIN of misleading ads


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Readahead is a tool that can prefetch files into system memory before being needed. Readahead-list is a profiling tool that helps you build a list of applications while your system loads. This list can then be used by readahead to help you accelerate program loading.
This wiki page describes using Readahead in two parts: 1) Bootup - all the files/daemons, etc. that load during your system's boot process. 2) Desktop - all the files that get called when you log into your desktop (gdm, kdm, etc.).
- 1 Credit Where Credit is Due
- 2 Using Readahead on Arch Linux
- 3 User Experiences with Readahead
- 4 Copy of Peterw's Blog Entry on Readahead
Credit Where Credit is Due
This entire wiki page is based on and uses content from Peterw's blog wherein he has made an excellent guide for readahead on archlinux. Find his original blog posting here: Install readahead-list on ArchLinux
In case his blog goes down, a copy of it has been included at the end of this wiki page.
Note that you do not need to run Readahead in both modes if you do not want to do so.
Using Readahead on Arch Linux
Installing Readahead
There is a nice package in the AUR based on Peterw's instructions - readahead-listAUR.
Profiling Your System
The Boot Process
Following the instructions in Peterw's blog, first bang-out the display manager (DM) daemon in your daemons array (eg: gdm or kde or whatever you're using). In my example, it is gdm:
DAEMONS=(preload syslog-ng network netfs @crond @alsa @hal @fam @powernowd cupsd !gdm)
Now edit your
/etc/rc.sysinit adding the following lines to profile your system's boot process between the top and the part that starts with ". /etc/rc.conf" like this:
#!/bin/bash # # /etc/rc.sysinit # # uncomment the next three lines to profile the boot process # be sure you disable gdm from starting before you reboot # add a bang character to gdm in the daemons array in rc.conf echo "starting readahead-watch..." /usr/sbin/readahead-watch -o /etc/readahead/boot echo "readahead is watching..." . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions
Now reboot your machine and allow the boot profiling to take place. It should take extra time (1-2 min is normal). When the system does finally displays your text login screen (remember you disabled your DM), login as root and manually kill readahead
# pkill readahead.
This just generated your boot profile located in
Now comment out the lines in your /etc/rc.sysinit to prevent the profiling again:
# echo "starting readahead-watch..." # /usr/sbin/readahead-watch -o /etc/readahead/boot # echo "readahead is watching..."
Remove the bang from your DM in your daemons array in
DAEMONS=(preload syslog-ng network netfs @crond @alsa @hal @fam @powernowd cupsd gdm)
The Desktop Process
Just as you did profiling the boot process, you will now profile the desktop process. First add the the daemon readahead-watch-desktop to your daemons array in
/etc/rc.conf. Place it before your WM (gdm in my case) like this:
DAEMONS=(preload syslog-ng network netfs @crond @alsa @hal @fam @powernowd cupsd readahead-watch-desktop gdm)
Now reboot your system again and login via graphical login. It is recommended that you launch whatever programs you want included in the profile such as your web browser, email program, whatever you use on a regular basis. When you are ready to stop the profiling process, either open a shell (remember this action will also be included in the desktop profile) or if you do not want the shell getting profiled for some reason, drop into another tty (Template:Keypress+Template:Keypress+Template:Keypress for example), login there and again kill readahead as you have done with the boot profiling:
# pkill readahead.
This generated your desktop profile located in
Enabling Readahead on Your Profiled System
Now that you have generated both the
/etc/readahead/boot and
/etc/readahead/desktop it's time to activate them. The easiest place to start readahead for your boot process is again in the /etc/rc.sysinit file. Add a line to it below the ones you commented out for the profiling process like this (new lines are shown in bold text):
#!/bin/bash # # /etc/rc.sysinit # # uncomment the next threee lines to profile the boot process # be sure you disable gdm from starting before you reboot # add a bang character to gdm in the daemons array in rc.conf # echo "starting readahead-watch..." # /usr/sbin/readahead-watch -o /etc/readahead/boot # echo "readahead is watching..." # this starts readahead with your boot profile /usr/sbin/readahead-list /etc/readahead/boot . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions
Now add the readahead-list-desktop daemon to your daemons array BEFORE THE GRAPHICAL STARTUP (gdm in my case) in
/etc/rc.conf it is recommended that you background it (prefix it with an @ symbol):
DAEMONS=(preload syslog-ng network netfs @crond @alsa @hal @fam @powernowd cupsd @readahead-list-desktop gdm)
Now you can reboot and enjoy readahead!
Periodically Update Your Boot and Desktop Profiles
If you make major changes to your boot or desktop processes, repeat the above profiling steps to keep them current in readahead's lists. You get the idea.
User Experiences with Readahead
Please post your experiences with readahead in this section. Include some hardware specs to give others an idea what kind of system is being used.
Comment 1
I installed readhead via the package mentioned above in the AUR and followed the instructions for profiling my system from Peter's blog. Here is a summary of the results; times were measured using bootchart:
Before doing anything: 26 sec Using only the boot profile: 25 sec Using only the desktop profile: 20 sec Using both the boot and desktop profile: 27 sec
Hardware specs: X3360 @ 3.40 GHz, 8 gigs of DDR2 @ 1,000 MHz, HDDs are both Seagate SATA-II 640 gig 7200.11 series.
Make sure both your readahead-list* processes have been backgrounded with the @ symbol in rc.conf. No need for these to be in sequence. Also, it adds a second on to my laptops boot time as well, but there is a tradeoff. Archlinux is already a pretty lean OS, so this is probably the wrong way to further optimize, and bootchart stops recording once the bootup sequence has stopped. It doesn't take into account other metrics, like time-to-firefox. That extra second I've added makes the whole desktop startup quickly, and improves the feel of speed if not the actual speed. --Peterw 12:41, 30 January 2011 (EST)
Copy of Peterw's Blog Entry on Readahead
Again, you can read Peterw's Blog from its [native URL] but for posterity's sake, I have taken the liberty of pasting it below in case his server goes down or whatever.
Install readahead-list on ArchLinux
According to freshmeat:
"Readahead-list allows users to load files into the page cache before they are needed, to accelerate program loading. It improves on the existing readahead by taking the name of a file with the items to load, instead of requiring the arguments being passed as parameters. Additionally, it contains a tool (filelist-order) to optimize the order of the file list in several possible ways."
I am picking the source file from ubuntu/debian because it also includes a tool to "record filesystem events" and generate the list of files to load. Grab the source and the diff here from launchpad
extract it:
gzip -d readahead-list*.diff.gz tar -xzf readahead-list*.tar.gz
patch it:
patch -p1 < readahead-list*.diff cd readahead-list*/
Be sure to apply all the patches in the patches directory:
patch -p1 < ../debian/patches/05* patch -p1 < ../debian/patches/10* patch -p1 < ../debian/patches/50* patch -p1 < ../debian/patches/51*
#please choose the appropriate prefix: ./configure --prefix=/usr make #(as root) make install
Hopefully everything is compiled. There might be some error messages, but as long as the process did not error out, everything should be ok.
Now for the system setup. The way I think it ought to go is record the startup in two parts, the boot, and the desktop. The boot part will record and load all files related to general startup. The desktop part will load everything from after the system startup (including graphical login manager) to when the default session type is loaded (i.e. kde desktop). The following files and directories need to be created:
#technically, this contents might make this directory better place in /var but /etc will do mkdir /etc/readahead touch /etc/readahead/boot touch /etc/readahead/desktop #the following can be duplicated for each section, if you want it handled by rc touch /etc/rc.d/readahead-list-desktop touch /etc/rc.d/readahead-watch-desktop
To record the first part, we need to stop the graphical login manager from loading, so we login via the command line interface. This is done by editing the DAEMONS section of /etc/rc.conf by adding an ! before kdm, or gdm, etc. Then we need to start the record as early as we can in the boot process. This is technically done by creating a script, and then using the init= parameter on the kernel line of grub. For this tutorial, we will put the lines of code in /etc/rc.sysint. Insert some lines to make the top of the file look like this:
#!/bin/bash # # /etc/rc.sysinit # echo "starting readahead-watch..." /usr/sbin/readahead-watch -o /etc/readahead/boot echo "readahead is watching..." #echo "reading files..." #/usr/sbin/readahead-list /etc/readahead/boot & . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions
Line 7 is the import one above. This will record all files loaded after the command is run, on any device and save the list to the specified file. After you login, to kill the process run:
ps ax | grep readahead #as root kill $PID
The boot section has now been recorded. Now the files /etc/rc.d/ will look like:
#!/bin/bash #readahead-watch-desktop /usr/sbin/readahead-watch -o /etc/readahead/desktop
#!/bin/bash #readahead-list-desktop /usr/sbin/readahead-list /etc/readahead/desktop
With these files in place, edit the daemon section in the rc.conf to include readahead-watch-desktop before the login manager, and do NOT background it. Reboot the computer, and kill the process in the same was as before after you have logged in (Note: this will record a terminal instance in the file. You can avoid this by hitting something like ALT-F6 to login textually). After you have stopped the recording, edit the daemons section to instead start readahead-list-desktop.
Here are my results.
The results are kind of dismal in the pure timing end, as observable by bootchart only two seconds shorter. But I have never seen my desktop load faster! If I didn't have the resource heavy services such as klipper, guidance-power-manager or network-manager it would load in a blink.
Play around with the placement of the readahead-list command, just make sure you start a recording from the same place. This placement of the rc.d file is kind of cheating, because it relies on the lag in response time of the user login to load files in the background, but it still makes a heck of a difference. Also, if you always start up firefox or something when you login, record that too and it will start a little faster.


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LAGOS, Nigeria – Landing in Nigeria's largest city, one of the first thing visitors see as they peer out of their airplane's windows is the moss-covered metal carcasses of what used to fly in Africa's most populous nation.
Workers at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos call it "the graveyard," an overgrown field filled with about a dozen cargo and passenger airplanes long since abandoned and left to rot by insolvent airlines. At least 65 abandoned airplanes, ranging from small commuter jets to one massive Boeing 747, sit at airfields across the country and serve as a haunting reminder of Nigeria's chaotic and disaster-filled aviation history.
Now, however, workers have begun dismantling the planes as part of a government plan to remake Nigeria's aviation industry. While some the federal government's plans seem aspirational at best, the modest goal of simply removing the derelict aircraft represents at least a change in a nation where corruption often ensures things remain exactly the scrambled way they are.
Nigerians "need to fly," said Henry Omeogu, director of airport operations at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. "They need to fly and feel safe in their airplanes."
Not many Nigerians have felt safe flying since June 3, when a Dana Air passenger jet had both of its engines fail and crashed just north of the Lagos airport, killing 163 people. The crash came after a series of other major crashes in the country, where airlines often have shaky financing and rely on aged aircraft.
The graveyard at Murtala Muhammed, at the far north end of the runway where planes come in, is where the derelict planes serve as tombstones for those failed airlines. An airline called Space World has two aircraft there -- Hallelujah 1 and Hallelujah 2. Bellview Airlines has two planes there, left after the carrier collapsed following an October 2005 crash that killed 117 people.
Planes sit at airports across the country, partly due to local regulations allowing airlines to park their planes for free at any airport they declare as their base of operations, Omeogu said. Some companies became insolvent and left planes still loaded with first-class china service and large briefcases for captains containing flight manuals.
Other aircraft sit parked on the apron nearby, including one for Air Nigeria, which collapsed last year amid allegations that owner Jimoh Ibrahim hadn't paid staff for at least four months, despite receiving millions of dollars from a government bailout fund. An airplane from Ibrahim's Nicon Airways, which collapsed after one year of operations in 2007, sits in the graveyard as well.
For years, the planes sat, partly out of the inertia that often grips government in Nigeria, an oil-rich nation earning billions that has an ailing state-run power company that can't provide reliable supplies of electricity for the nation's more than 160 million people. But in the last few weeks, government officials decided the planes must go, partly out of security concerns as a radical Islamist sect continues to launch bloody attacks in the country.
Officials decided to offer the planes free to those who applied for them. On Thursday, workers used hammers and saws to tear apart fuselages as landing aircraft roared overhead. Seats rose up in the tall grass, as oxygen masks and paperwork littered the ground. Most of the planes appear to be heading to scrapyards.
The removal of the planes come as Nigeria's federal government is remodeling terminals, some of which haven't seen much work in as many as 50 years. The government also has announced plans to buy planes and begin its own national carrier. However, corruption allegations still lurk. In September, Nigeria's largest carrier, Arik Air, halted its domestic flights and alleged that Aviation Minister Stella Oduah had a financial interest in seeing their business fail. Oduah denied the claims through a spokesman and the airline began flying again days later.
Omeogu, director of airport operations who is a pilot himself, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the government's plans would aid an industry that needs both a safety and a psychological boost.
"When you fly an `old mama,' an old aircraft, and you run into problems, maybe weather or anything, you're confident about yourself, but when you have to worry about the aircraft you're using, that's double jeopardy," he said.
So, for now, the hammers continue to hit the steel fuselages of the planes, some already opened up like tin cans. Omeogu hopes the airplanes at Lagos will be cleared in several weeks and workers will move onto the nation's other airfields.
However, cynicism about Nigeria lurked even on the remains of an abandoned Douglas DC-8 cargo plane. Someone wrote the following into the dirt coating a moss-covered landing gear:
"The cat is dead. The world is good for a rat."


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Collaboration & Social Media Services in the Workplace – My 30 Second Elevator Pitch
I'm a great believer in the axiom that says "if your Grammy doesn't understand your explanation of what you do for a living, go back to the drawing board". To that end, I've being working on simplifying how I communicate my business purpose.
I began by reflecting on the services I've being offering since starting my business about four years ago. The services I provide to organizations are fairly diverse but two broad categories took shape. They are services that promote collaboration using social media tools in the workplace and using multimedia (mostly video) for communicating to stakeholders.
To get at typical challenges faced by organizations that I work with, I created a list of three "pain points". These pain points are what keep senior managers worried about the success of their business.
To help my in my task, I went to Jane Hart, Jay Cross and Harold Jarche from the Internet Time Alliance. These folks are key people in my learning network and I follow their writings daily. Harold writes a lot about Personal Knowledge Networks and Jay Cross writes extensively on "working smarter" (see Working Smarter Fieldbook).
Recently, Jane Hart wrote a post titled "A New Framework for Supporting Learning and Performance in the Workplace". It was this post that started me thinking differently about how I was communicating my work to colleagues and clients (& Grammy).
I encourage you to visit Jane's Social Learning Centre site for an indepth read of what she calls her Workplace Development Services Framework.
After delving into Jane's posts and others from the Internet Time Alliance, I started writing my new 30 second elevator pitch. This is a concise speech you can give anyone that succinctly expresses what you do and invites further discussion about your work.
This image by Oscar Berg in a post he called the Collaboration Pyramid (via Harold Jarche – You Simply Can't Train People to be Social) helped me recognize the role of collaboration supported by social media tools as the core message in my 30 second elevator pitch.
30 Second Elevator Pitch
My name is Brent MacKinnon, owner of Social Media Tools for Work & Learning.
Organizations hire me to help them strengthen their services by improving how staff connect, share, learn and collaborate using social media tools in the workplace.
Typically, I help businesses & organizations, face new challenges such as:
- Keeping pace with emerging social media tools that extends the organizations ability to communicate with consumers and build trust with stakeholders.
- Developing and implementing new strategies and procedures that improve performance outcomes through collaboration and innovation in the workplace;
- Attracting and retaining competent and self-motivated staff who depend on a supportive learning workplace that fosters innovative practices for business and professional success.
I've served as Executive Director for many varied non-profit organizations for many years and continue to provide leadership on local Boards of Directors.
For complex projects, I draw upon a pool of specialists from diverse sectors.
Organizations choose me because I have both the hands on management and social media skills for developing collaborative practices within teams, projects and across departments.
To learn more about what I can offer your business or non-profit organization, give me a call and I'll be happy to chat with you further.
I owe a big thank you to Tim Rooney from Rooney, Earl and Partners who taught me all I know about pain points and 30 second elevator pitches. Any business or non profit organization looking to increase their sales and communication skills of their staff will do well to connect with Tim.
If you have suggestions on my elevator pitch, I'd love to hear from you.


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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Claudia J. Dewane
Clinical social work is a derivative profession, drawing its knowledge and practice base from several theoretical schools. The four primary theoretical schools contributing to social-work philosophy are psychodynamic, humanist, cognitive–behavioral, and postmodern. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), although considered one of the third-wave behavioral approaches, draws from all four theoretical schools of clinical intervention. This entry gives an overview of ACT development, its essential features, empirical base, tenets and techniques, and relevance to the social-work profession.
Addictions: Gambling
Lia Nower and Kyle Caler
Gambling disorder is a significant public health concern. The recent and continued proliferation of land-based and interactive gambling opportunities has increased both accessibility and acceptability of gambling in the United States and abroad, resulting in greater and more varied participation. However, there is currently no designated federal funding for prevention, intervention, treatment, or research, and states are left to adopt varying standards on an ad hoc basis. Social workers receive little or no training in screening or treating problem gamblers, though research suggests that a significant proportion of those with mental health and other addictive disorders also gamble excessively. Raising awareness about the nature and scope of gambling disorder and its devastating implications for families and children is a first-step toward integrating gambling into prevention, assessment and treatment education in social work. This, in turn, will increase the chances of early identification and intervention across settings and insure that social workers can lend a knowledgeable and credible voice to addressing this hidden addiction.
Addictions: Tobacco
Mansoo Yu and Rachel Fischer
Tobacco use is a major public-health concern in the United States. Intervention and prevention strategies for tobacco use are an urgent public-health priority because tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death. To help social workers better understand tobacco use problems, this entry presents an overview, including definitions of terms, the scope and impact of tobacco use problems in terms of different segments of the population (that is, age, gender, race or ethnicity, geographic location, and education level or socioeconomic status), etiology of tobacco use (for example, biological or genetic; psychiatric; psychosocial; or environmental or sociocultural factors), policy history, tobacco prevention, clinical issues (such as cessation desire, treatment and success, or screening tools for tobacco use disorder and tobacco withdrawal), and practice interventions for tobacco use problems. Based on the information, the roles of social workers will be addressed.
Adolescent Brain Development
Jessica M. Black
Although it was once widely held that development through toddlerhood was the only significant time of tremendous brain growth, findings from neuroscience have identified adolescence as a second significant period of brain-based changes. Profound modification of brain structure, function, and connectivity, paired with heightened sensitivity to environment, places adolescence both as a heightened period of risk and importantly as a time of tremendous opportunity. These findings are of key relevance for social-work policy and practice, for they speak to the ways in which the adolescent brain both is vulnerable to adverse conditions and remains responsive to positive environmental input such as interventions that support recovery and resilience.
Adult Day Care
Namkee G. Choi
Adult day care centers provide important health, social, and support services for functionally and cognitively impaired adults and their caregivers. The adult day care services are underutilized, however, because of the shortage of centers, caregivers' lack of awareness of and resistance to using services, and the mismatch between the needs of potential consumers and their informal caregivers and the services provided by the centers. To foster and support the expansion of adult day care centers, lessons learned from national demonstration programs need to be disseminated, and social workers need to be trained to provide essential services at the centers.
Adult Protective Services
Patricia Brownell and Joanne Marlatt Otto
Adult Protective Services (APS) are empowered by states and local communities to respond to reports and cases of vulnerable adult abuse, neglect, and self-neglect. While incorporating legal, medical, and mental health services, APS programs are part of the social services delivery system and incorporate principles and practices of the social work profession.
Adults: Group Care
Sheryl Zimmerman
This entry presents information about group settings that provide residential long-term care for older adults, focusing on nursing homes and residential care/assisted living communities. It provides an overview of both settings, and describes their scope of services, funding, and clientele. The section Issues in Residential Long-Term Care addresses issues of special relevance to social workers: dementia and other psychosocial care needs; quality of life and quality of care; access to and disparities in care; end-of-life care; family involvement; and abuse and neglect. It ends with a section on the role of the social worker in residential long-term care.
Aging: Services
Nancy Morrow-Howell and Leslie Hasche
Despite high levels of functioning among older adults, chronic health conditions lead to impairment and the need for help. Family members provide most of the assistance; yet formal services such as in-home personal and homemaker services, congregate and home-delivered meals, adult day services, employment and educational services, transportation, nursing homes, assisted and supportive living facilities, legal and financial services, and case management are available. Even with the growing number and type of services, unequal access and uneven quality persist. In these settings, social workers develop and administer programs, provide clinical care, offer case management and discharge planning, and contribute to policy development.
Alcohol and Drug Problems: Practice Interventions
Maryann Amodeo and Luz Marilis López
This entry focuses on practice interventions for working with families and individuals including behavioral marital therapy, transitional family therapy, and the developmental model of recovery, as well as motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral therapy, relapse prevention training, and harm reduction therapy. A commonality in these intervention frameworks is their view of the therapeutic work in stages—from active drinking and drug use, to deciding on change, to movement toward change and recovery. We also identify skills that equip social work practitioners to make a special contribution to alcohol and other drug (AOD) interventions and highlight factors to consider in choosing interventions.
There are a range of practice interventions for clients with AOD problems based on well-controlled research.
Alcohol and Drug Problems: Prevention
Flavio F. Marsiglia, David Becerra, and Jaime M. Booth
Prevention is a proactive science-based process that aims to strengthen existing protective factors and to diminish or eliminate other factors that put individuals, families, and communities at risk for substance abuse. Prevention is important because alcohol and drug abuse are a leading cause of morbidity, mortality, and health expenditures in the United States. Alcohol and other drug abuse is also associated with infectious diseases, chronic diseases, emergency room visits, newborn health problems, family violence, and auto fatalities. The comorbidity of drug and alcohol abuse with mental health disorders and HIV adds urgency to the development, evaluation, and implementation of comprehensive and effective prevention interventions. The social work profession plays a key role in substance abuse prevention, as it not only targets the use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs but also aims at reducing the related negative health and psychosocial outcomes and economic burden they produce on individuals and society at large.


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Cheek Augmentation (or cheek implants) (known to physicians as submalar and malar augmentation) is a general term that describes surgery to enhance the appearance of one's cheeks. This is a relatively minor procedure that restructures cheekbones, balancing facial features and restoring a youthful and vibrant appearance. The desired effect is to change the shape or size of the cheek or to correct flaws caused by birth defects or injury. The surgery is generally simple, fast, and uncomplicated. Cheek Augmentation (Cheek Implants) helps to boost self-esteem. This procedure gives the face a more proportional and balanced appearance. Cheek implants on older patients allow a face a fuller look, especially if the face is looking sunken in, drawn, or aged. Younger women that have flat cheekbones go for cheek implants to get the chic high cheekbone look of fashion models. Underdeveloped cheekbones make other facial features appear more prominent. This procedure is often performed in combination with Rhinoplasty, Neck Liposuction, and/or Chin Augmentation.
Cheek augmentation, includes the surgical insertion of cheek implants or injections of fat or other fillers. Cheek implants come in a variety of shapes and sizes so that they can be customized to fit each individual`s face. Implants are made of safe, non-reactive, and permanent materials that can always be easily removed or changed at a later date, if so desired. Cheek implants are made from several different types of materials. One commonly used type is made from solid silicone, but other types of cheek implants are made from expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) and polyethylene. You should discuss with your doctor which implants he or she prefers and why.
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Avoid taking any medicines containing aspirin or ibuprofen during the two weeks prior to surgery.
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Cheek augmentation is a very safe procedure, but no surgery is without risk. There is a chance of infection, bleeding and numbness from nerve damage. Also, bruising, scarring and swelling are an issue with any operation undertaken. The risks specific to cheek augmentation include the possibility the cheek implant could spontaneously shift location in the face. Should the implant become slightly misaligned, a second procedure may be necessary to reposition it.
Many people return to work (with the help of cosmetics to camouflage any bruises) about 5 days after their implants are put in. People who have injections of filler may be able to return to work earlier than that. You can expect to resume regular activities in 1 to 2 weeks. Avoid strenuous activity and rough contact in or near the area of the implant for at least four to weeks. Swelling can be quite pronounced after cheek implant surgery, and there may be bruising. . Patients with gum or dental problems should consult with their dentist and ask if the incision through the mouth will cause any complications. It may be normal to experience temporary difficulty smiling and talking after the operation.
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British military aircraft were scrambled to investigate Russian planes which flew close to UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed.
Officials said Typhoon aircraft were dispatched from Scottish base RAF Leuchars after the Russian presence was detected.
A defence spokesman said: "Typhoon quick reaction alert aircraft were launched today from RAF Leuchars to determine the identity of unknown aircraft that approached the Nato air policing area north of Scotland and could not be identified by other means.
"The aircraft were subsequently identified as Russian military aircraft. The Russian military aircraft remained in international airspace at all times as they are perfectly entitled to do so.
"Russian military flights have never entered UK sovereign airspace without authorisation."
Similar incidents happened eight times during 2013, an MoD spokesman said.
Today's operation comes after the MoD sanctioned a naval vessel to intercept a Russian ship as it came close to UK waters last week.
A defence spokesman tonight confirmed that as part of separate and routine activity, HMS Dragon, the Royal Navy's fleet-ready escort, sailed from Portsmouth on Good Friday to meet up with a Russian ship, the Vice Admiral Kulakov, which is transiting past the UK.
The spokesman said: "In what is a well established and standard response, the powerful Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer met its Russian counterpart and is now keeping an eye on its transit south."
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the operations should not raise alarm.
He said: " Recent events have increased awareness of Russian military activity, but we have always routinely intercepted, identified and escorted Russian air and naval assets that transit international airspace and waters within the UK's 'area of interest'.
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According to an article from last year's Momlogic Newsletter, 23 U.S. children died by mid-summer, 2010, in hot cars. Many of them were incidents in which the parent/care taker forgot the child was in the car upon arriving at their destination…and the kiddo remained in the car for hours (or minutes) thereafter and perished in the heat of what can basically become an oven on wheels.
As mentioned in the Momlogic article, approximately 36 American children die every year in hot cars. And according to a study conducted by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, a car's interior can heat up by 40 degrees within an hour–even if it's a relatively cool day outside. It all has to do with the size and shape of the car and whether or not the sun is out…plus the fact that the car's windows act like a circumferential set of inward-facing magnifying glasses.
According to this article on the National Weather Service website, "Leaving the windows slightly open does not significantly decrease the heating rate. The effects can be more severe on children because their bodies warm at a faster rate than adults."
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DETROIT (AP) Miguel Cabrera, Victor Martinez and Max Scherzer will all happily give Jim Leyland credit for improving their careers.
Saturday, they got a chance to pay him back.
On the day the Tigers honored their former manager in a pregame ceremony, Cabrera and Martinez both hit three-run homers and Scherzer threw well enough to lead the Tigers over the Minnesota Twins 9-3.
''We had a lot of great memories with Jim, so we wanted to give him one more,'' Cabrera said. ''We wanted that for him, because of everything he did for us.''
Cabrera connected for his fifth homer, tagging Kyle Gibson (3-3), while Martinez hit his eighth of the season and fourth in the last six games.
''It was great to see Jim today, because he's still a big part of our family,'' Martinez said. ''You see him today, running around and hugging people, and you forget how old he is, because he doesn't have the attitude of an old man. He still seems young, and we all loved seeing him, because he has done so much for all of us.''
Scherzer (5-1) wasn't sharp yet still won, giving up three runs on five hits and four walks in six innings. He struck out six - his team-record streak of fanning at least seven in seven starts to begin a season ended.
''I couldn't find my release point today, but I was able to get through it,'' he said. ''I gave up one big shot, but the rest of the time, I was able to make enough pitches to get the outs I needed and get out of any jams.
''And Leyland must have been proud. He always managed for Miggy and Victor to hit three-run homers for him,'' he said.
After the 69-year-old Leyland threw out the first pitch, another of his favorite players made an immediate impact.
Don Kelly, a utilityman who owes his major league career to Leyland's patience and trust, reached over the left-field fence in the first inning to steal a homer from Kurt Suzuki.
Kelly then scored the game's first run as the Tigers took a 2-0 lead in the second on RBI singles by Alex Avila and Andrew Romine. Detroit added another run when second baseman Brian Dozier dropped shortstop Danny Santana's flip, then threw wildly to the plate as Avila scored.
''Danny should have just thrown to first there, but he got himself into trouble by trying to get the out at second,'' Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. ''You can't make those kind of mistakes against that team.''
The error had major consequences, as Cabrera followed with his homer for a 6-0 lead.
''That was a huge mistake by the Twins, and we all knew it as soon as we saw the error,'' Scherzer said. ''If you let us extend an inning and get Miggy to the plate, he's going to make you pay for it. That's exactly what he did.''
The Twins closed the deficit on Dozier's long, three-run shot in the third, but weren't able to do anything else against Scherzer.
Anthony Swarzak relieved Gibson and pitched four shutout innings, but the damage had already been done.
''I just got behind too many guys, and then you have to come in over the plate,'' Gibson said. ''You can't do that against a team like Detroit. They are a pretty good team when you have to throw the ball down the middle.''
Martinez broke open the game with a three-run homer off Michael Tonkin in the seventh. Martinez, who is hitting .328 at the age of 35, is on pace to easily surpass his career high of 25.
''I knew Victor was a great hitter before I got here, but he has continued to surprise me all season,'' said Leyland's successor as manager, Brad Ausmus. ''I keep saying it - I've never seen a hitter like him.''
Tigers reliever Phil Coke got into the game in his latest role as the mop-up man. He allowed a leadoff single, drawing boos from the crowd, but Cabrera helped him out with a 3-6-3 double play that led to a shutout inning.
''We need to get Phil going in games like this so that we can work him in to tougher situations,'' Ausmus said. ''Miggy helped him out today, and hopefully, this will get the ball rolling.''
NOTES: The Tigers honored Leyland and had him throw out the first pitch to longtime friend and Tigers bench coach Gene Lamont. Leyland, the only manager to lead Detroit to four postseason appearances, was also presented with a framed painting by team president Dave Dombrowski, Justin Verlander and Cabrera. ''It was a great run for eight years,'' Leyland said before the game. ''I only wish we could have brought a World Series trophy to this city.'' ... A fan behind the Twins dugout got an ovation after catching a foul ball with his left hand while cradling his daughter in his right arm. ... Scherzer's eight games with at least six strikeouts is the second-longest streak to start a season in franchise history, trailing his own 19-game run last year.


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Join OUAB in the Instructional Kitchen at the Ohio Union for a chance to cook a meal of your own under the guidance of the Union's own professional chef, Chef Wolf. Following a cooking demonstration by the chef, students will collaborate with class members to create the menu providing a unique hands-on learning opportunity. In this fun and interactive environment students will enjoy a delicious meal and gain useful culinary skills to show off in their own kitchens. Whether you're are a master chef in your own kitchen or a novice, there is an OUAB in the Kitchen program for you.
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DOVER, DEL. – Wesley College scored two defensive touchdowns in the game's first three minutes and the sixth-ranked Wolverines never looked back in a 56-6 victory over 18th-ranked Cortland in the NCAA Div. III tournament second round.
Wesley improves to 10-1 and will face nationally second-ranked Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas) in the national quarterfinals next Saturday. Cortland completes the season with a 9-2 mark. The Red Dragons were making their third NCAA appearance in the last five years and their eighth overall.
Cortland received the game's opening kickoff and on its third play from scrimmage Wesley's Mike Brandenburg intercepted a pass by Chris Rose (Victor) and returned the ball 22 yards for a touchdown just 46 seconds into the contest.
On the Red Dragons' next possession, Rose was sacked on third down by Devin Hardy. Rose fumbled on the play and Sosthene Kapepula returned the ball 28 yards for a touchdown and Wesley led 14-0 with 12:54 left in the first half.
Cortland's points came on two field goals by junior Mike DeBole (Webster/Webster Schroeder). He made a 22-yard attempt in the first quarter to pull the Red Dragons within 14-3 and hit a career-best 38-yarder midway through the second quarter. The latter kick came after Wesley had scored on a Steve Koudossou 3-yard TD run on 4th-and-1 earlier in the quarter.
The Wolverines led 21-6 at halftime, but quickly extended their lead to 28-6 in the third quarter. Following a holding call on the first play from scrimmage in the half, Wesley quarterback Justin Sottilare connected with Koudossou on a 78-yard TD pass.
Wesley took advantage of a fumbled punt snap later in the quarter that set up a 6-yard TD drive capped by Chris Cummings' fourth-down, 1-yard run. Sottilare threw a 23-yard TD pass to Matt Barile in the third quarter and an 8-yard TD pass to Matt Bundy in the fourth quarter, and Devar Robinson completed the scoring with a 34-yard scoring run with 12:57 remaining.
Sottilare finished 8-of-17 passing for 192 yards and three touchdowns and Askia Jahad rushed for 90 yards on 16 carries.
Wesley intercepted Cortland quarterbacks five times. Rose was 14-of-26 passing for 100 yards with four interceptions and sophomore Tyler Hughes (Scranton, PA/West Scranton) finished 3-of-6 for 28 yards with one interception. Junior Justin Autera (Mahopac) ran 23 times for 65 yards. Sophomore Kordel McInnis (Sewell, NJ/Washington Township) caught seven passes for 37 yards and senior Mike Humphrey (Le Roy) made six catches for 59 yards. Humphrey finishes his career ranked fourth at Cortland with 139 receptions, and his 69 catches this season were the second-most at Cortland behind John Babin's (Warwick/Warwick Valley) 72 last fall.
Jared Morris, Terence Gavin and Jordan Wescott each finished with eight tackles for Wesley. Sean Hopkins intercepted two passes, with Wescott, Brandenburg and Payton Rose picking off one pass each.
Sophomore linebacker Tre Spaulding (White Plains/Woodlands) led Cortland with seven tackles. Sophomore cornerback Andrew Tolosi (Monroe/Monroe-Woodbury) and senior defensive end Vaughn Labor (Norwich) recorded six tackles each. Labor also recovered a fumble. Wesley outgained Cortland in total offense, 360-194.
DeBole extended his school single-season record with 16 field goals. He also established a new school mark for points in a season by a kicker with 84 (16 field goals, 36 PAT kicks).


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At John's grave, Natalie calls out to John, but it's Vincent hiding in the shadows. When asked what he's doing there, Vincent tells Natalie that he's following her, that he knows what she's going through. Natalie says she doesn't need his help, that she has family. However, Vincent doubts that she can open up to her family, suggests that Natalie talk to him. Natalie screams at Vincent, asking what's in it for him, says that he could care less about her. Natalie tells him to leave her alone! While he respects that, Vincent says he'll be there if and when she needs him. He leaves
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Natalie calls out to John, everyone meets at Rodie's, Nash kisses Tess and Blair makes a plea to Todd...
Natalie goes back to John's grave, kneels, tells John that Vincent was right, that she should be talking to her best friend but she can't because John was her best friend and he left her all alone.
At the hospital, Vincent comes to visit Hugh. Paige tells him that Hugh can't hear him, explains to him what'll happen when he comes to. Vincent tells Paige about their college days together. Vincent is very emotional, asks for some time alone with Hugh. Vincent confesses to Hugh that he ruined Cris's career. Just then, the machines go off, and the nurse comes in, says that Hugh is becoming more aware of his surroundings. When the nurse leaves, Vincent tells Hugh that he was just testing him by saying that about Cris. Vincent leaves
At Rodie's, Todd tells Rex that he needs to stop putting things off, that Rex is the man who can help him. Todd asks Rex to help him find his son.
Todd goes over to Evangeline, Layla and Cris. When Evangeline expresses that she's going to find out that someone drugged Cris, Todd thinks back on his conversation with Vincent.
Claudia and Nash are sitting together at a table. Jessica can't help herself from looking over at Nash. Claudia states to Nash that he's no longer looking at Tess, that he's now looking at Jessica. Nash pounds back his drink and leaves.
Jessica follows Nash into the alley, asks if he's okay. Nash tells Jessica he feels for Natalie because he knows how it feels to lose the love of his life. Jessica tells him to pull it together for their daughter, tells him to move on. Nash takes Jessica in a passionate kiss as Claudia watches from the doorway. Jessica pushes Nash away and Claudia goes in and orders a drink.
Clint tells Vicki that Natalie needs time, but Vicki is worried that Natalie won't be able to cope.
Marcie finds a distraught Michael in the alley at Rodies. Although he doesn't want to be there, he tells Marcie he needs to be there for his mom, that he needs to be strong like John. Marcie says that Michael needs to let it out, that he needs to lean on her.
Michael goes inside, tells everyone that John would not want them to be sad, that he'd want them to party, to talk about the good times that they shared with John. Michael lifts his glass, makes a toast to John. Michael, Marcie, Evangeline, Antonio and Eve share stories about John. Natalie arrives She expresses to Vicki and Clint that she can't understand why everyone looks as though they're having a goodtime. Just as Michael thanks everyone for their stories, Natalie steps up, says they haven't heard from her. Natalie tells everyone that she can't join in on their fun, that everything's changed She storms out.
Cris gets a call, tells Evangeline that they know who set him up.
Blair arrives at the penthouse, calling out to Todd, says if he's home he's in for a big surprise. When Blair looks into a drawer for some candles, she sees a wedding picture of her and Todd, smashed. Blair voices that Todd still loves her, that he just needs a little reminding.
When Todd arrives home, the room is filled with lit candles. Suddenly, Blair comes down the stairs. Todd wants to know what she's up to, and Blair says she's there to fix things between them. Blair lets her dress drop to the floor
Back at Bo's office, Rex tells Bo that he's looking for Todd's boy, says it would be a big help if he could take a look at John's notes on the case. Bo agrees to let him. Rex thanks Bo for giving him a second chance, for being his friend. Rex stands back as Bo hangs up a picture of John.
Next on One Life to Live: Evangeline asks Vincent what he's hiding, Cris gets a tip about his fight, Rex tells Adriana that he's going to look for Todd's baby and Blair makes a sharp statement to Todd.


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This section describes the user interface of in-place completion.
In-place completion is available in the LispWorks IDE, in the Editor tool and also in tools that ask for a named object such as the Class Browser and the Generic Function Browser. Set the Preferences... Environment > General > Use in-place completion option to use in-place completion in the LispWorks IDE, and see LispWorks IDE User Guide for further details.
In-place completion is also available to you to use in your CAPI applications. You may wish to adapt the remainder of this section for your end-user documentation. See Programmatic control of in-place completion for information on how to implement it.
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Can we just move on from this game?
Seriously people it is not the Messiah of story telling. It is not the paragon of videogaming. It is a game marketed to as many people as possible, getting rave reviews based on it's pedigree.
Moviebob trying to hastily bury all the dead plotpoints, bad gameplay and unnadressed themes in favour of what I would basically say is the most common and blandest interpretation of the story.
"It's about Booker having to accept what he did!"
Yeah we kinda get that when the game spells it out for you. What bothers me is that for that story we didn't need racism, xenophobia, classicism, religious zealotry, kidnapping, a city in the sky and basically anything else in the game. That story could have been told and has been told in better ways. You see when you add something to a game just to divert attention it ends up being a quivering addition. Something that doesn't quite belong there and is useless.
This could just as easily have been an adventure game delving into the story and characters rather than breaking things up for oh... 5 hours or so with boring shooting.
Stop asking completely logical questions. It will only hurt your brain when you realize the multitudinous plotholes and the infinite time loop Booker put himself in. You see how can he travel back in time to kill himself, if he never meets the person that allows him to do so, who will only exist if he becomes Comstock etc, etc.
Look at the Luteces. They were "killed," at least in all timelines we're familiar with, so that's probably a constant. But they still exist, scattered throughout space. When the siphon is destroyed, Elizabeth becomes a physical God. Maybe she likewise survives the destruction of her own timeline because part of her exists outside of reality altogether.
Yeah, why bother with actual themes in a story? I'm sure Shakespeare's writing would be just as good without all those annoyingly distracting details about characters, politics, and history.
But that is why the post-credits ending is there. All possible dimensions collapse to the only one that makes sense, Booker does not become Comstock and he never sells Anna. All other possible dimensions are stuck in a paradox and therefore cannot exist leaving only one with a necessary constant.
Or we can go with Doctor Who's explanation of timey-whimey stuff :)
Interesting take on the story and ending that falls down right at the end. I finished the game about half an hour ago and I distinctly remember him being drowned by the Elizabeths; how does that constitute taking responsibility? He was only there because he believed he was going to kill Comstock, the person he was passing the blame onto.
The irony is that, assuming that accepting responsibility is the overall story arc, the decision is made by a character/s that will have/had/has no responsibility as there can be no consequences when you can choose all options and see all outcomes.
Actually they had that covered, his comrades insulted him frequently about supposedly having Native American heritage. His attempt to prove them wrong was to become a slaughter-machine at Wounded Knee.
You would have to go further back than Wounded Knee to ensure Booker doesn't develop destructive racist tendencies.
How far back?
You'd probably have to smother him in his crib.
So, does someone write the song later in the game or what? I'm still confused and not entirely convinced that you and Yahtzee are both trolling me.
Are you seriously comparing Shakespeare to Bioshock Infinite? Now I ain't a Shakespeare fan, but seriously? Even the worst detractor of Shakespeare would have a laugh at that. The answer is quite simple, because the themes in Shakespeare's plays tie back into the characters and the story.
I'm not even going to start delving deep into Shakespeare because you just compared an entire oeuvre to one game, heck I don't even know which particular politics you are referring to there's only about a dozen or so of them. Let's instead dive into Bioshock Infinite.
Why is the theme of racism there?
You'll find the answer to most of those questions being, cause it's a Bioshock game. Not because it adds anything to the setting. You see in MacBeth for example the politics are central to the story. A man kills another to become king, the political strive this brings fuels his fear and paranoia and the rest is quite a lovely play of death and misery.
Now what does the racism bring to Booker's story? It's kinda there... sitting around, it's an easy way to excuse killing hundreds of hardworking family men because hey they are racists, but what else does it do.... not much really. It's piece in an exhibition. Just like religious zealotry, oppression of the working class and basically most of the other things in this game. It's shown, but nothing is done with it. It plays no role in anything story wise.
After all you just finished watching a video where the story is basically reduced to "Man needs to reconcile with his past and accept it". None of the other elements impact the way he reconciles with his past. They are therefore pointless. Just try it. Start taking out elements and stop when the story no longer works. You'll notice that a mighty fine bit of fat gets trimmed off Bioshock Infinite.
I never finished the game, because gameplay wasn't that very interesting, but now that I was spoiled by the story I understand better why the hype around the game exists. (But again, gameplay almost always comes first in my book)
I agree with this comment made by a user named Gespenst I found on google for comparisons storywise between BI and 999, unfortunately there are no comparisons, just a small mention.
Because I love 999, it's a game I played for the mystery and story, and the gameplay was simple and nice. in BI I felt the gameplay was in the way because it's more of the same. (except for the railthings).
According to google, they were singing God Only Knows by the Beach Boys. Came out in 1966, more than 50 years after Infinite is set.
Other songs in Infinite include Girls Just Wanna Have fun which plays in the fairground.
There was another good post after the experienced points column about infinite explaining that.
I agree. He nailed it. Even Comstock's version of Christianity has nothing to do with real forgiveness, it's all about him and how great he is... when he knows he's a total douche.
This game did so much right. I hope the dlc doesn't leave a bad taste in my mouth...
So, apparently he learned his lesson from the Mass Effect 3 ending episode and actually decided to play the game first before telling us why we're all wrong about the ending. At least he seems to be paying attention to his fanbase on that point, if nothing else.
I have to concur with Bob's summary about what Ken Levine was, ultimately, trying to say; however that's not me saying I accept or enjoyed the outcome. In truth, I suppose I fall within the category of, as Bob put it, those people who *wanted* the narrative to remain somewhat straightforward, i.e. "Dog, Dog, Dog, Dog..." To be more specific, I wanted Booker to not be the sad victim of his own sins and ultimately accept that he needed to be "punished" for them (namely die) to set things right; rather I would have preferred that he and Elizabeth find a means to overcome the impossible odds and "fate" set against them.
The Lucteces even indicated in their theories that while there were constants in the multiverse there were also variables, small things which could, in theory, lead to larger changes and unforeseen alternate paths, i.e. the millions and millions of Multiverses. It would have been cool to have Booker's relationship/bond with Liz be that variable that allows them to set things right without seemingly resetting all the Wibbly Wobbley, Timey Whimey aspects of the narrative. Had they not made Liz Booker's daughter a romance could have been the device through which both her and Booker overcome the impossible odds, or perhaps it could have been something else. Still, all of that doesn't detract from the fact that Infinite is a pretty damn fantastic game. Just wasn't what I had thought/hoped it would be.
An acoustic version of "Everybody Wants To Rule the World" also crops up (Tears for Fears).
Does anyone know the name of the song played during the title screen? I feel like I should know it.
That awkward moment where Bob. Fucking Movie Bob. Of all people. Is the only other person on the internet who fucking gets the ending of Bioshock Infinite.
No, I'm not. What would make you think that?
I was comparing your implication that stories shouldn't bother with details and themes to the history of literature, where such "diversions" are actually very important.
As do those in Bioshock Infinite.
No, I didn't.
Because of the predominance of racism in the setting?
Because that's how a lot of religious people act? Look at all the people who are supposedly Christian, but who also espouse political views supporting the death penalty, torture, or war.
Because that's the story, and it's how the writers chose to write it. Why does there have to be an alien in E.T: The Extra Terrestrial?
Because that's the setting and it's how the writers chose to write it. Why does The Tempest have to be set on a magical island?
By this logic, 99% of most literature is pointless, because they could all be reduced to a few sentences of summary. I think you're missing the point of storytelling. It's not just about the conclusions.
This is pretty close to how I felt about the game. I found it interesting that I heard from a lot of critics before the game that this was Elizabeth's game, that she's a incredible character and that the story revolves around her character arc.
When I finally played it, I didn't find this to be the case at all. Elizabeth was fine, but this game is all about Booker. And that's good, because Booker ended up being absolutely fascinating to me, much more than I expected. He wants nothing more than to forget the sins of his past and move on with his life, but he can't. He can never forgive himself for his atrocities at Wounded Knee and the selling of his daughter, and even when he tries to redeem himself in Colombia he is required to revert to his brutal ways. Slate and Fink go out of their way to do this, forcing him to kill wave after wave of people just to remind him of the monster he is. So in the end there's only one way for Booker to achieve his goal.
"That idiot priest needs to learn the difference between baptizing a man and drowning one."
It turns out that, in Booker's case,there's actually no difference between the two at all.
Thank you for answering with a whole lot of hot air. Like I said the answer you eventually gave was... because it's Bioshock. Just because the setting is in 1920's does not mean Racism has to feature so prominently. We could have made Columbia part of China and had only Chinese people in the flying city, the same story can unfold and no racism. Like I said it's an exhibit something to stare at and not intricate to the story in any way.
So you say the characters change because of oh let's pick one... the proletarian revolt? How are the characters impacted by this and how does it develop them?
You apparently know so answer me how Booker leading a revolt that we never see him lead and getting betrayed for really not a whole lot of reasons change him? What does Comstock being a racist zealout add? What does the city itself add, it's pretty sure, but what does it add?
We can easily answer that question with Rapture. It was there for both the story and the gameplay. It was both a safe haven and the prison to hold you in. Both literally and figuratively. We can explain it through the gameplay as well seeing as it had horror elements and claustrophobia is a big part of the oppressive atmosphere.
But why Columbia HAD to be a flying city is really answered by the religious elements which themselves are pointless to the whole plot because they are not explored. We basically get the quite insulting insinuation that religous folk view their beliefs as nothing but a get out of jail free card and by your dismissive answer of "relgious folk just be crazy yo" I again see why you have such a hard grasping the concept of the question "Why".
You see people do things for reasons. That is the why. Sure religious people can be insane and kill people. However they have their reasons. Be they political, economical, religious, vengeance and so on. You see we don't explore how a man who believed himself saved through baptism over remorse and guilt for killing ethnic groups can then go on to become a brim stone preaching racist.
We don't explore that. He just is. The "why" is left unanswered. Booker doesn't really change. He was a cynical bastard before and he was still a cynical bastard then. You see you can pretend like the development is there, but it isn't.
Did I say you should summarize them? What I said was take away anything that does not directly influence the characters or is required for the plot and then look at what's left. I don't really get how you end up at summarization from me saying you should examine a story for superfluous elements.
Seriously just try it. Try it with Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite.
Well you've given me something to chew on 'til next wednesday
The answer to that is actually explained towards the end of the game:
For every action there is an opposite action in a different universe.
Ex: Booker takes baptism in one universe therefore he doesn't take baptism in another one.
SO, if they were to go into the past and say "Hey man you shouldn't go to wounded Knee" and Booker says "Yeah ok man sounds good", there will be a different universe where he will always say "I'll go to wounded Knee so fuck off" which would lead to the path of Baptism or no Baptism and so on.
Therefore, the only way of securing the good choice is killing the one that will make the bad choice at the moment of choosing, thereby eliminating all possibilities of that continuity to go on and all other universes will always be the ones where he makes the good/opposite choice.
Essentially, it didn't matter if it was wounded knee or not at the end one Booker had to die in order to eliminate those possible futures.
CAPTCHA: Brain Games..... no shit?
I don't always agree with Bob, but I think he hit this one on the nail. I thought the story was great, but any story that handles time travel, parallel dimensions and what not isn't going to ever be totally full proof, since it's about time travel, parallel dimensions and what not. Like Bob said, I think it's more about a guy that's dealing with his own failure to take responsibility for his darker half and he just happens to do all this on a floating island with a magic girl while the two of them hop through portals into alternate dimensions. Good episode, Bob.
Well. No MovieBob for me today, I didn't play Bioshock Infinite.
Why do all the contributors to this site think it's completely okay to have features full of spoilers on a game that's been out for less than a month? I haven't seen this type of shitty behavior with games I don't give a shit about or can afford to buy new.
This is the third major contributor to do this, and the game hasn't even been out for three damn weeks
Why does this web site keep doing this to my #1 most anticipated (but currently un-affordable) game of 2013?
What the shit?
This may be my favorite Big Picture yet. At the very least it's extremely thoughtful.
But nothing HAS to feature at all. It's fiction. It's whatever the writer wants it to be. There's no reason anything has to be logical, or meet your expectations. That's my entire point. There's no reason Shakespeare had to write the stories he did, or include details that ultimately have no bearing on the outcome of the story. But he did, just like all stories do.
I'm not sure what you want - a sterile world with all the racism and religion removed? Why shouldn't a story involve racism and religion, because it insults you or something?
Wow, that's quite a weird interpretation. I really don't understand how you took that from what I said. Just because a story feature crazed religious zealots, does not mean that all religious people are that way. You are confusing the specific with the general.
Why shouldn't they? They put a huge spoiler warning on it. Why shouldn't something that people are currently playing be discussed? It's their website/video/article/whatever.
It's really not hard to find plotholes in that storyline. For starters, it has the same problem with Looper. It mixes multiverse with a singular universe. What I mean by this is time either branches or it doesn't. So if it branches then you have infinite possibilities and NOTHING once done can be undone. The reason being is that the act "undoing" something merely creates yet another universe. So even going into the past to change cannot erase the events of the present. It just creates an alternate reality where the present never happened. This fact nullifies the ending. And I haven't even brought up time travel paradoxes into the conversation. With that said, these types of stories really aren't about the time travel. I was merely pointing out you'd have to be blind to not see the plotholes.
Infinite doesnt mix the two though, it jumps into the multiverse aspect with wild abandon.
I think at that point, you need to say "fuck it" and just go with it. It's like what Bruce Willis says in Looper: "We could spend hours going over this time travel bullshit, but it won't change anything"
We can spend hours deliberating the ins and outs of a multiverse narrative, but it won't get us any closer.
He never said anyone was wrong about the ending, he said that the extreme fanbase reaction to it was wrong. At no point, did he ever talk about the actual content in ME3, he simply stated that things like "Retake Mass Effect" were ludicrous in his opinion.
Interesting points, Bob. I find the whole Alternate Universe aspect of Bioshock fascinating... even if the mechanics of it make my brain hurt.
...Is it wrong that I laughed at his "It's fun to hit racists in the face with a buzzsaw" comment?
Hey, I'd watch it.
I was talking about how Bioshock Infinite portrays religion. As nothing but a facade and a charade to make belief that your mistakes are forgiven. After the yo I am talking about your cop out excuse for how Comstock acts being basically that religious people act crazy because they are religious. No other reason.
You are trying to handwave away useless elements and themes in Infinite by using an "it's a videogame" like excuse. Nothing HAS to be included in anything. But when it IS included it should be there for a reason. It should have a purpose other than just being window dressing.
Little details are not an issue, I don't care what kind of twirly moustache someone has or the Lutece sister's raincoat being yellow. When you however include racism. Make a point to show it multiple times. Have the characters talk about it. Base an ENTIRE FACTION around how they are treated because of it. Then still do nothing with it for the story at all... now you have a useless theme.
I am not at all asking for a sterile world. No the contrary I want to delve into it. Dig into the brain of these people see why they think how they do. What motivates them into their state of mind. Why do they follow Comstock, what won them over? How do newcomers think about killing people on the surface? Do any of the Columbians struggle with guilt because they know Comstock is a fraud? Do any of them have families on the surface they are trying to save?
Heck an even simpler question would be why are there vigour machines EVERYWHERE but nobody uses them? Bioshock managed to explain the plasmids, the vigours are just kinda .... there! Sure boss characters use them but we see that people play GAMES with these plasmids. That they even give out free samples! Why is no one using it then? Why is there literally only ONE gondolla that requires a vigour to use? I'm not joking here you see the electroshock doors on just ONE level and then they permanently disappear. Who would even have a use for this stuff?!
Again in Bioshock it made sense because even in a work of fiction the elements were TIED into the story. The plasmid technology was central to Rapture's decay. The vigours.... they are there because Bioshock had plasmids.
There is SO much more you could do with these gigantic themes!
But no. All they do is point at it and go. Look! A prophet! Look! Racist cartoons!
Nothing is done with it. That is my issue, it could be stripped out of the game and nothing would change.
I enjoy seeing people actually understand what the game was going for. Far too many times I've seen lame complaints about how the game didn't deserve that much praise because the combat is "subpar" (an aside: it's old school Quake era shooter, it's still good), and that none of the choices mattered. Yes, they didn't, and THAT'S THE POINT. It's a game about probability and String theory, that's the gag.
As for Bob's question on why the Vox needed guns, that's actually easier to explain, as a few audio logs hint at it. Vigors aren't cheap. Remember that aside from the free Possession you get, which I'll remind you is during a fair where blacks aren't allowed, you get them as gifts from other people are from the vending machines. This is a place where the Vox, primarily blacks, aren't making any real money. A gunsmith can craft them guns, but they couldn't craft Vigors if they wanted. It's not until the Vox uprising that you see vigors on the street to pick up, when they're vandalizing things and spilling them out onto the street.
And also very good for video games as a whole. Of course, MovieBob is better versed at this sort of analysis, because film has been doing this kind of thematic storytelling for a long time now, indeed ever since the days of theater (you only need to think of Shakespeare). But since AAA games such as "Bioshock Infinite", "Spec Ops: The Line" and "The Walking Dead" are now doing this as well, it is evident that better days lie ahead for storytelling in video games.
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A repeat drunken driver convicted in a fatal drunken driving crash is suing two Santa Fe restaurants and a friend that he says caused him to drive drunk.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that James Ruiz filed a lawsuit Wednesday in New Mexico District Court and is seeking monetary damages from a former drinking buddy and Applebee's and the Blue Corn Cafe.
According to the lawsuit filed by Ruiz without a lawyer, the restaurants and his friend caused Ruiz "emotional distress" when they served him booze in 2010. Police say Ruiz rammed his truck into a car and killed two teenage sisters from the Navajo reservation.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned this juicy nugget...If neither the blind cabron, nor his padres sinned, then why couldnt yahweh just staple one of those three to the sticks and not send daddy's lil boy down to earth to die (for a few days)?It just doesnt make any sense
The same thought had occured to me. Doesn't the Bible specifically tell us that "All have sinned" ?
Quote from: jynnan tonnix on February 06, 2013, 07:58:59 PMThe same thought had occured to me. Doesn't the Bible specifically tell us that "All have sinned" ?It supposedly does... "all have sinned and come short of the glory of god..." Romans 3:23 but jesus is clearly calling this bible writer a goddamn lie, even though he himself is the inspirer/co-author of the very verse. Nothing new here though, just your typical everyday contradiction in the bible. I'm sure the One True Christian with his or her magic decoder ring will come along and tell us how even though Jesus said they hadnt sinned that he actually meant was they DID sin. Its inevitable.
So, was Jesus a bastard?-Nam


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One Quick Handwriting Transcription Challenge Every Day-for the genealogist in you
Friday, August 19, 2011
Whose Name Is On the 8th Line?
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- Donna GrahamAugust 19, 2011 at 6:17 AM
Schulmeyer, Aninas (or Aninias)ReplyDelete
- Donna GrahamAugust 19, 2011 at 6:21 AM
After looking again, I like Julie's guess of Andrew better for the first name.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 10:14 PM
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Married to Bridget (Shilling)
parents of Elizabeth Schulmeyer
Appeared in the 1856 Iowa Census as having settled in Davenport, Iowa.
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Appeared in the 1856 Iowa Census as married to Bridget (Shilling) and Father of Elizabeth Schulmeyer. They were known to have settled in Davenport, Iowa.
Andreas Schulmeyer is it.ReplyDelete
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