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Crossovers are rarely exciting, invigorating family movers. They also don't offer much style, either. However, the 2013 Mazda CX-9 steps outside the generic mold with its new wheel designs and front and rear treatments. The high raked windshield also adds to the sleek lines, while the seemingly low slung roof resembles a sport wagon more than a crossover.
The 2013 CX-9 gets high marks for interior space. To start, the sliding second-row seats make third-row access easy for both kids and adults. Plus, with added legroom, the rear bench can actually accommodate adults.
For 2013, the Mazda CX-9 is offered in three trim packages, including Base Sport, Touring and Grand Touring. Technology is plentiful even in the base trim and includes a potent 6-speaker audio system, USB port and Pandora Internet radio connectivity. Upper trim levels include a rearview camera and blind spot monitoring, but you'll have to check that options list if you want Bose Surround Sound or a TomTom navigation system.
Only one engine and transmission combination is available: a 3.7-liter V6 that produces 273 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque, mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission. Standard drivetrain layout is front-wheel drive, but you can opt for Mazda's all-wheel-drive system on the higher trim models. Mazda's system delivers 100 percent of the power to the front wheels in normal driving conditions but automatically powers the rear wheels when extra traction is needed.
Fuel economy comes in at 17 miles per gallon in the city and 24 mpg on the highway for the front-wheel-drive CX-9, while the all-wheel-drive version gets a bit less at 16 mpg city/22 mpg hwy.
With a starting price of just under $30,000 for the Base Sport, the loaded Grand Touring with all-wheel drive seems a bargain at just $36,375. All trim levels come with a 5-year/60,000-mile warranty.
Rivals to consider include the GMC Acadia, Honda Pilot or Ford Explorer. The Acadia and Pilot both offer slightly more room but keep with a more traditional look. The updated Explorer matches the sporty look of the CX-9 and offers more engine choices, but it also gets more expensive in the upper trims.
With enough interior space for seven people, plenty of technology and three trim levels, the 2013 Mazda CX-9 is a modest SUV with the personality of a sport sedan. Just pack those bags economically and lower your fun-to-drive expectations when everyone's on board.

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DelPen wrote:I'm confident any weakness in the defense can be addressed at the trade deadline either by addition or subtraction like adding Gill in 2008 or dumping Whitney in 2009.
columbia wrote:DelPen wrote:I'm confident any weakness in the defense can be addressed at the trade deadline either by addition or subtraction like adding Gill in 2008 or dumping Whitney in 2009.
We heard that the last three seasons and it never happened.
You can't blame Shero for the trade market, but fans need to stop counting on the magic pill at the deadline.
It's not to take a look at him; it's not to give it a try," Bylsma said. "He's played 18 games in the National Hockey League. We've taken a look at Simon in those games.
Nizzy wrote:Letang Despres
Orpik Martin
Niskanen Engelland
Pick someone up at the deadline like maybe Murray from the Sharks or something.
Tico Rick wrote:Just throwing this tidbit out there: Rob Rossi, like many on this board, questions in today's Trib whether Despres is ready for regular duty:
But Dan Bylsma's quotes in the P-G indicate that he's on the big club because he won the job. It seems like Bylsma has fewer doubts about Despres than many here do:It's not to take a look at him; it's not to give it a try," Bylsma said. "He's played 18 games in the National Hockey League. We've taken a look at Simon in those games.
Eight D-men is a lot to carry, but in this shortened season, and with the players starting out the gate without necessarily being in game shape, I think we're going to see a lot of hamstring pulls, groins, etc., so it could be that we'll need all 8 defensemen and that they'll all see significant ice time as the season progresses.
Despres, 21, will make mistakes, as he did Wednesday in the Black & Gold scrimmage. However, his upside is enticing to coaches, who thought he could contribute more than some regulars last season.
The range of likely defense partner Kris Letang will help cover for Despres, but his inclusion among the top six is more an indication that Robert Bortuzzo has not developed as hoped — and that Ben Lovejoy may be in coach Dan Bylsma's doghouse until he eventually leaves Pittsburgh.
Fire0nice228 wrote:can't develop in the minor leagues? thats news to me..
Fire0nice228 wrote:I feel like Rossi doesnt watch or see enough WB/S games to even attempt to decipher the development of a player with his keen eye for hockey let alone publish things about it that the uninformed masses will take as gospel.
JoseCuervo wrote:Basing off what I saw in the Black and Gold scrimmage, Despres looked nowhere close to top-six duty and was manhandled by the pens third line. Letang looked great on the other hand, but I really don't want him babysitting Despres all season because it got Letang out of position a few times. The Martin-Orpik pair looked pretty strong, though Martin looked a bit awkward playing on his off-hand at rightD and Orpik chased a few hits in is own zone. Bortuzzo, Niskanen, and Engelland all looked okay and neither one stood out in a good or bad way. I thought Lovejoy looked awful, though, and was surprised that they kept him over Strait, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Of course, this is all based on one scrimmage.
I think the real X-factor is not the personnel on defense, but the ability of the forwards to play solid defensively in their own zone. Strong defensive work by the forwards can make up for small short-comings by the defensemen in this system.
KG wrote:Gonchar, Whitney and Scuderi are all expected to be UFA's after this season...FYI = )
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I joined Twitter at the end of December 2011 because I realized that I was using my computer less and less, and my smart phone more and more, relatively speaking — and I was using my phone to find and read content that intrigued me. I plan to use my Twitter account almost as a note-taking service — I will tweet news articles, etc., that intrigue me and that I might want to come back to later.
My account is @aaron_sterling, and you can see it in the rightmost column of this blog. Here are three items that are good examples of things I found interesting, but which, after today, I won't be "elevating" to the status of a blog entry.
- The computer security company McAfee has produced a document titled 2012 Threat Predictions (pdf file). I skipped over some of it, but the parts I read were fascinating. For example, they see BitCoin as an extremely insecure currency, they believe illegal spam will diminish and be replaced by "legal spam" (equally annoying), and they think far more attackers will target hardware exploits instead of the traditional software exploits. Worth a look.
- Enrique Zabala has produced a Flash animation that explains Rijndael/AES visually. It is beautiful.
- Rajarshi Guha and co-authors are designing a type-ahead chemical substructure search engine. This addresses a longstanding open problem in cheminformatics, which is: searching for chemicals in a database is slow (in worst case probably exponential because the Subgraph Isomorphism Problem is NP-complete), but can it be made faster? At least for important special cases, this tool seems to be competitive in speed with Google's type-ahead search engine for other content: it provides the chemist suggestions, given the prefix of the input available, before the chemist even hits the enter key.


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CUMBERLAND, Maine - Sophomore Jake Ruzevick crossed the finish line first for the second consecutive week in leading MIT to the team title at the Bates College Cross Country Invitational. Ruzevick split 26:57 in outdistancing a field that included Keene State, Southern Maine and the host Bobcats.
Ruzevick's win was the second in as many weeks and follows his selection as NEWMAC Runner of the Week. While all three teams facing the Engineers showcased strength at the top of their lineups, including Keene State's second-place finisher, Kevin Kelleher, the Cardinal and Gray countered with a deep attack that included four of the top 10 finishers.
Kevin Brulois was nipped at the line by Southern Maine's Nick Wheeler, although the Tech senior still managed fifth with a time of 27:27. Rookie Johannes Schneider moved up in the team rankings, finishing as MIT's third man after closing seventh overall in 27:34. Trevor Rundell followed in eighth, while freshman Brandon Pung completed the scoring for the Engineers after crossing the line in 11th place.
MIT scored 32 points to easily win the meet. The exciting battle was for the runner-up spot, which Southern Maine grabbed with a team score of 65. Bates finished just one point back, while Keene State took a surprising fourth-place finish with 69 points. The Engineers top seven finished ahead of every other team's No. 4 runner in the 8k circuit, while MIT boasted half of the field's first 28 finishers.


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Report: Wright, Mets Agree to $138M, 8-year Deal
NEW YORK (AP) - WFAN radio is reporting that David Wright and the New York Mets have agreed to a $138 million, eight-year contract that would be the richest in franchise history.
The deal would keep the All-Star third baseman under contract with the Mets through the 2020 season, when he will be 37.
The sports-talk station first reported the agreement early Friday.
Without a new contract, Wright would be eligible for free agency after next season. Last month, the Mets exercised his $16 million option for 2013. That money is included in the new agreement, according to WFAN, which broadcasts Mets games.
Wright batted .306 with 21 homers and 93 RBIs last season. A homegrown fan favorite, he is the club's career leader in several major offensive categories.
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A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press Poll released this morning shows 65 percent of registered New Jersey voters support a constitutional amendment to raise the state's minimum wage by $1, to $8.25.
The numbers provide a glimpse of November, when voters will tackle the question through a ballot measure. Poll numbers also show that while 22 percent of voters remain undecided on the issue, just 12 percent claim they would vote against it.
Poll data also show a disconnect between business groups — which are fighting the measure — and voters. While business groups argue a wage hike would create jobs losses, two-thirds of voters don't buy that argument.
"The minimum wage amendment is set to pass by a substantial margin," Monmouth University Polling Institute Director Patrick Murray said in the report. "New Jersey voters simply do not accept the business community's prediction of dire consequences."
Laurie Ehlbeck, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business, said the numbers illustrate to her that voters don't fully recognize the ramifications of such a proposal. As a member of the coalition seeking to defeat the amendment, NFIB will amp up its message come October, she said.
"That just shows me we need to be a little more aggressive with our educational campaign," Ehlbeck said.
Of particular concern to the business community is language calling for future hikes to the wage tied to the consumer price index. Gov. Chris Christie had sought to decouple the CPI and the wage in a conditional veto in January.
While Ehlbeck said she's "a little disappointed" with the poll numbers, she thinks there's still time to make up the ground and noted that in the end, all that matters is the outcome on Election Day.
"Ultimately, it comes down to what people think when they walk in the door," Ehlbeck said.
One area of the poll's results that's not as clear-cut is the potential effect a minimum wage increase might have on small businesses. Only 26 percent of voters think raising the minimum wage will help small businesses, while 33 percent think it will hurt them. An additional 33 percent of polled voters said it will have no impact.
According to the report, poll data was collected over the telephone from a sample of 674 registered voters in New Jersey from Sept. 6 to Sept. 10.


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How would you book a festival that, regardless of your decisions, was sure to sell out? Would you give the people what they want, or give them what they need?
Always the diplomats, those who slotted the 2013 Coachella Music and Arts Festival lineup, which was released on Thursday night, opted for a little of both.
But that's not news. Goldenvoice, which owns and books the festival, has long pushed at the fringes of festival booking while delivering on its promise to present the world's most engaging rock, dance, avant-pop, hip hop and legacy acts. Lest fans start questioning the expense and effort involved in attending, the Coachella powers must annually read the minds of its ticketholders and then prescribe the musical medicine best suited for them.
In 2013 more than in recent years, the lineup does seem more prescriptive. The demand among kids for a Lou Reed appearance, for example, is surely low; most only know him as the dude who muttered along with Metallica on "Lulu." But as the founder of the Velvet Underground, his influence on Coachella-style rock music can't be overstated, and twentysomethings who don't know this should.


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After months of speculation about which athletes would bravely reveal themselves sans clothing for ESPN's "Body" issue, the hard-heads at Belsky headquarters have finally leaked some of the covers all over the internet.
This particular issue was one that was veiled in such secrecy that even the most reliable sources usually on board with discussing the ins-and-outs of their boss's bowel movements with child-like glee clammed up. "I think that's crossing a line," one said. "I will lose my job," another said. "I will be escorted outside and then promptly set on fire," said the man who sits at the desk three cubes down from you-know-who. (Just kidding, I have no idea who that person is. Your life is safe. For now.)
USA Today caught up with Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones who, despite her strong Christian beliefs and dislike of being nude in doctor's offices, decided that it was okay to birthday suit-up for the Disney corporation. Unfortunately, she had to yank her favorite photo from the shoot.
"There was another photo that was very cool where you could see how hard I worked for those muscles. The problem was, that photo didn't portray the message I want to send."
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Pedaling its way into theaters this weekend (and surely a lot of hearts too) is the Dardenne Brothers' beautiful and poetic The Kid with a Bike, whose red-shirted, redemption-bound lead, Thomas Doret, should be penciled onto your shortlist of Best Actors for 2012. They may not be as common as the boy-and-his-dog tale, but stories about kids and their bikes have long been hitting screens (as evidenced herein, the 1980s, in particular, had a bike-film free-for-all). So before you check out this new can't-miss slice of cycling cinema, dig into our list, likely the only one to put Nicole Kidman in the company of Lori Loughlin.
Henry Thomas in E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982). It's only one of the most iconic images in American film: Elliot (Henry Thomas) sailing across the moon on his bike, with little E.T. tucked into a crate strapped to the handlebars. This forest flight has been dubbed by some as cinema's most magical moment, and Spielberg famously went on to incorporate the shot into his Amblin Entertainment logo. It's bike riding immortalized, alright. Feel free to grab your Reese's Pieces before clicking on.


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For Justin Yawn, success was achieved when music became his stable day job. He is content to strum an acoustic guitar while singing a broad range of cover tunes on the patio of Poppy's Hammerhead's Bar & Grille in the Village of Baytowne Wharf most days and at Mango's on the Bayou in Fort Walton Beach on Thursday nights.
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I actually started making this petticoat back before Elegant Impressions posted their 50s petticoat project (or I would probably have based it on that pattern); it's just that it takes me a very long time to complete any garment, and especially one that frays as badly with as much seam-finishing as this one!
It started when I acquired a beautiful 1950s dress last summer (which needed an awful lot of work done on it, but that's another project) and eventually decided that it needed a stiff petticoat of some sort to go under it. An old net curtain looked like a good prospect, but I soon discovered that a full 'Alice Lon' style petticoat needed a lot more net than that! Eventually I found a pattern online for a half-crinoline which saved a good deal of fabric by making the top section as a close-fitting slip out of silky fabric instead – the dress only needs a little extra volume, so this style was fine. I was expecting to have to starch the curtain net in order to get it stiff enough, but to my surprise and relief it actually works perfectly as is.
The 'Silkytex' fabric frays the moment you look at it, and sewing with narrow strips of this in order to bind the seams was very hard work. However the effect on the inside of the skirt is very smart, and there is no danger of snagging. The main trouble is that to my eyes it actually looks rather better on the inside than the outside now!
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I once used net curtaining for a costume of a 1950's skirt – I will admit it was much fuller and I used vilene/ non woven interfacing for the upper panel – that was fine for the fancy dress competition too ! more recently I made a net petticoat for a ball gown – luckily I found some net decorated with tiny sequins in a thrift shop ( something to do with Asian wear I think ) and I used this along with some bought net. I covered the seams with ribbon ( see my projects ). I love a bargain !
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One of the most moving stories to emerge during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London concerned "lost boy" runner Guor Marial.
A former refugee from the turmoil and civil war in Sudan in which eight of his brothers and sisters were killed, he ran a qualifying time for the Olympics in his first-ever marathon. The problem was that Mr. Marial had no country to run for. Instead, he ran under the Olympic flag.
Worcester native and documentary filmmaker Bill Gallagher was deeply touched when he read about Mr. Marial last year. "It's hard for anyone to succeed in life, right? But for what he's been through, it's just incredible. He ended up being one of the elite runners in the world."
Now, Mr. Gallagher is in the process of making a documentary about Mr. Marial with the working title of "Runner Without a Country." Later in the year, he hopes to accompany Mr. Marial, 28, as he makes his first trip home — to what is now South Sudan — in 20 years.
Meanwhile, Mr. Marial and Mr. Gallagher will be at the Boston Marathon April 15. Mr. Marial had planned to run in the event, but a recent injury will force him to the sidelines. Still, he can at least meet a large contingent of fans still expected to be on hand from Concord, N.H., the place where he first discovered he could run competitively after coming to this country with an uncle. And after the marathon he will visit Concord to meet more friends.
After reading about Mr. Marial's story last summer, Mr. Gallagher traveled to the London Olympics to meet him.
"I was struck by his humility and charm. He spoke of his running as something larger than himself," Mr. Gallagher said.
"People thought the story ended in London, but it didn't end there, and there was a lot more back-story." So Mr. Gallagher broached the idea of a documentary.
"I thought it was a good idea," said Mr. Marial in an interview last week. "I feel fortunate that I have someone like him to help me tell the story of what the South Sudan's needs are."
Part of Mr. Marial's story includes being kidnapped as a child during the civil war and forced to do manual labor, fleeing a refugee camp, escaping with his uncle to Egypt, and settling in the United States. In Concord, he became a track star at high school, and then did the same thing at Iowa State University, where he was an All-American athlete. Mr. Marial, who is single, now lives in Flagstaff, Ariz., where he trains as a runner and tutors middle- and high-school students in math and science.
After qualifying for the marathon at last year's Olympics, Mr. Marial faced a dilemma. The new nation of South Sudan, which he wanted to represent, hadn't yet been recognized by the International Olympic Committee. Although he had lived in America several years, he was not yet an American citizen. But Sudan, the nation of his birth that South Sudan emerged from after a bloody conflict, did offer him a place on its team. Mr. Marial's response was forthright: "If I ran for Sudan, I would be betraying my people."
Many people petitioned the IOC on his behalf. Mr. Marial finished 47th in the marathon, with a time of 2:19:32.
His next full marathon was to have been the Boston Marathon, but he couldn't overcome some tendinitis that also forced him to pull out of a recent New York City half-marathon event at the 10-mile mark.
On the bright side, Mr. Marial became a U.S. citizen in February, and also took dual citizenship with South Sudan. "It felt good," he said.
Regarding which country he would represent in international competition if the opportunity arose, he said, "Most likely I would lean toward South Sudan. It's been in my heart to do something for South Sudan, but it's a very hard decision to make."
He readily acknowledges he came here with nothing and the United States "lifted me."
Mr. Marial said he runs in part to inspire refugees and for Americans to learn about South Sudan.
"It (South Sudan) still needs a lot — clean water, roads, hospitals, access to health care facilities. … It's going to take time. It's going to take sacrifice from each and every one including myself to move forward and help the next generation."
"It's going to be such an intense moment," Mr. Gallagher said about the pending return journey to South Sudan. "They're probably going to welcome him home like a hero."
Mr. Marial said he is not sure what to expect. "I've been away a long time. I know I'm very excited. I have no idea right now what is going to happen. I have no idea."
Mr. Gallagher was a producer and member of the small team that made the documentary "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" that was nominated for an Oscar last year. He grew up in the Quinsigamond Village section of Worcester, graduated from Holy Name Junior Senior High School and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and studied in the documentary program at The New School in New York. He previously worked for Marshall Curry Productions in New York, and is currently living in Spain (his fianc�e is Spanish). "Runner Without a Country" would be Mr. Gallagher's first documentary as a solo director.
Filming for it has already taken place in London, New York and Arizona. To help finance the project, Mr. Gallagher has just launched a campaign on Kickstarter, a website that tries to match artists and their projects with prospective backers. The initial goal is to raise $12,000. To visit the webpage, go www.kickstarter.com and search for "Runner without a Country."
The campaign has already brought in more than $9,000, a good quick start. "That's totally blown out my expectations," Mr. Gallagher said.
He noted that many of the donations so far have come from people in Worcester. "I have a lot of good friends and family," he said.


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About 15 people evacuated a movie at the EPIC theater just before 10 p.m. Thursday after thinking they heard a gunshot, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.
No one was wounded but one person was treated by paramedics for an unrelated situation after the scare. Deputies were told one patron heard what was thought to be a gunshot and told others, but there was no evidence that a gun had been fired inside the building.
A patron notified theater management, and moviegoers left one theater in the multiplex on State Road 207 near State Road 312.
Sheriff's deputies and St. Augustine Beach police officers surrounded the entrances to the building shortly after 10 p.m.
Several officers were carrying rifles, and a man was in the back seat of a deputy's car.
According to Record news partner First Coast News, Sheriff's Office Cpl. Catherine Payne said the Sheriff's Office received reports of shots around 9:30 p.m. It turned out to be just a suspicious incident, with one person was arrested on an unrelated charge.
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A New Hope for the Digital Camera Market
Mirrorless cameras are gaining share, helped by their compact form. But how good are their prospects at a time when smartphones are hitting the entire digital camera market? The WSJ Asia Heard on the Street team discusses the outlook.
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If you need cloaks, are having trouble getting a hold of another staffer, are having trouble on the IRC channel, or notice a spam or security problem with Funtoo, or Funtoo's infrastructure, call me.
I was born, I ate, and slept approximately normal amounts. I then went to school, and slept not very much at all. After School, it was more work, and less sleep. Then I incorporated my own company, and slept even less still. I am working on the final efforts to transcend sleep all together. Progress reports on that effort can be found here.
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I started with a shell account on a smallish box running an eggdrop on EFnet. Later I set up my own Slackware 3.0 installation. From there I've run just about everything, including Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake (pre mandriva), SuSE (for quite a few years), and of course Gentoo. I left Gentoo when the tree became unstable, switching to Ubuntu, but kept in contact with Dan while he was at Microsoft. I now run Funtoo, and Ubuntu both (Funtoo is running in Virtualbox)
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I was an IRC Operator on Hybnet on and off between 1997 and 2001, helping in the development of Hybrid IRCd (an ancestor of Freenode's IRCd). I am the former owner of the Summit Open Source Development Group 2003-2008, which produced windows ports of ClamAV, and the Abusive Hosts Blocking List. I was the network administrator for the Xiph.org IRC network for about a year, and one of the first to get ICES2/IceCast2 working for internet radio. In that Capacity I was the most listened to radio personality on WOPN, and FreeNode/FreeMatrix radio.
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Helped start the thing, then got out and pushed. Finally walked to the gas station, and brought back a gallon of gas to get it running.
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Apologies for creating yet another thread and my second on the subject but this review popped up on YouTube and I'm not sure which of the outrage threads it best fits in. For those who don't know, Trobsmonkey is a US streamer (and unicum who insists that he sucks at the game) with a laid-back and irreverent approach to pretty much everything.
Secondly, someone (sorry for forgetting who) said that the CK wouldn't do anything that an O-Ho couldn't do better. "Aha!" I thought, "at least an O-Ho has side armour than my Type 64 can pen with its AP", grrrr, snarl, etc.
Yeah, I was way off with my reaction there. This thing has a much bigger area to shoot at and it's the same thickness all the way along, unlike the O-Ho which only has a limited area under the turret that's 105mm. So if I encounter a CK while playing my Type 64 I'll try to do what I try to do if I encounter an O-Ho and not engage it from the front.
Feel free to post below telling me that I'm a WG shill and that I've fallen for some clickbait video scam because it's not what your favourite streamer/youtuber/spirit guide/other content creator says. I'd post this with a poll but it'd only cause further complaints because that's what polls are for, isn't it.
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Bounder & Cad present their new show Class Clowns
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Following a run of critically-acclaimed sold-out performances, enjoyed by everyone from the Holy Roman Emperor to Natalie Imbruglia, comedy songsters Bounder & Cad are back by popular demand, with a hot new show.
Expect "laser-sharp wit", at least one illegal song, and some top-of-the-class clowning sure to induce "tears of laughter".
Bounder & Cad are Adam Drew and Guy Hayward, accompanied by 'pianist savant' Ben Comeau and his sizzling jazz trio.
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The Married Gamers staff writer, Addam Kearney, writes why he feels Dead Island and Deep Silver's way of doing business has made it a "better" company than EA, Activision and Ubisoft.
While I can agree with the sentiment of the article in regards to B grade games, I don't feel Dead Island was the polished game it's made out to be. It was released as a pretty buggy game, with one major issue in a cut scene that cropped up on every system.
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Yves Saint Laurent, in full Yves-Henri-Donat-Mathieu Saint Laurent, (born August 1, 1936, Oran, Algeria—died June 1, 2008, Paris, France), French fashion designer noted for his popularization of women's trousers for all occasions.
After completing his secondary education in Oran, Algeria, Saint Laurent left for Paris to pursue a career in designing theatrical costumes and women's fashions. He attended fashion school for a short time and won first prize in an international design contest. When a Vogue magazine executive showed Christian Dior some of Saint Laurent's sketches, he was hired immediately as Dior's assistant. He was 17 years old at the time.
As Dior's protégé, Saint Laurent was named the head of the House of Dior at Dior's death in 1957. Following the "little-girl" look and the A-line silhouette, he introduced more sophisticated, longer skirts and, in 1959, drastically shortened skirts. In 1960 he introduced the chic beatnik look of turtlenecks and black leather jackets edged with fur.
After induction into the French army in 1960, Saint Laurent suffered a nervous collapse and was replaced at the House of Dior by designer Marc Bohan. In 1962 Saint Laurent opened his own fashion house and quickly emerged as one of the most influential designers in Paris. He popularized trousers for women for both city and country wear. Metallic and transparent fabrics were prominent in his late '60s collections; in the 1970s, inspired by ethnic costume, he introduced the haute peasant look. During the 1960s and '70s his enterprises expanded to include ready-to-wear licenses, accessories, household linens, fragrances (notably Y [1964], Rive Gauche [1971], and Opium [1977]), and men's clothes in addition to his couture business.
In 1983 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York held a retrospective of Saint Laurent's designs. He sold the ready-to-wear business to Gucci for some $1 billion in 1999 and shut down the couture house when he retired in 2002. In 2007 Saint Laurent was made a grand officer of the Legion of Honour. Two years later the art collection he had assembled with his partner, Pierre Bergé, was auctioned in Paris for more than $260 million, a record price for a private art collection.


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Slum Bride?
Jennifer Lopez was in New York yesterday at the NUVOtv Upfronts. Amazingly, the slum lover wasn't with her. The boss was probably in LA, managing preparations in advance of her appearance tonight on the American Idol season finale. JLO will return to the show to perform her latest single Live It Up. For the audience but, really, for Mimi who will, hopefully, find a way to casually mention that #Beautiful is a smash hit. As for whether or not JLO will return to Idol, she won't say no, and she seems to be suggesting that she's open to it, depending on scheduling. Which means it depends on what they offer her. It'll have to be more than they offered Mimi, obviously.
JLO's new album isn't due until later this year but she's still promoting herself all over the place. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, she's asked about her relationship with Casper Bear and she calls him her "creative partner". They're equals, ok?
And on the subject of marriage? Will she marry again?
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Yesterday, Tovalds offered his opinion as to where the battle over DRM should take place:
I would suggest that anybody who wants to fight DRM practices seriously
look at the equivalent angle. If you create interesting content, you can
forbid that _content_ to ever be encrypted or limited.
In other words, I personally think that the anti-DRM clause is much more
sensible in the context of the Creative Commons licenses, than in software
licenses. If you create valuable and useful content that other people want
to be able to use (catchy tunes, funny animation, good icons), I would
suggest you protect that _content_ by saying that it cannot be used in any
content-protection schemes.
Afaik, all the Creative Commons licenses already require that you can't
use technological measures to restrict the rights you give with the CC
licenses. The "Share Alike" license in particular requires all work based
on it to also be shared alike, ie it has the "GPL feel" to it.
If enough interesting content is licensed that way, DRM eventually becomes
marginalized. Yes, it takes decades, but that's really no different at all
from how the GPL works. The GPL has taken decades, and it hasn't
"marginalized" commercial proprietary software yet, but it's gotten to the
point where fewer people at least _worry_ about it.
As long as you expect Disney to feed your brain and just sit there on your
couch, Disney & co will always be able to control the content you see. DRM
is the smallest part of it - the crap we see and hear every day
(regardless of any protection) is a much bigger issue.
The GPL already requires source code (ie non-protected content). So the
GPL already _does_ have an anti-DRM clause as far as the _software_ is
concerned. If you want to fight DRM on non-software fronts, you need to
create non-software content, and fight it _there_.
I realize that programmers are bad at content creation. So many
programmers feel that they can't fight DRM that way. Tough. Spread the
word instead. Don't try to fight DRM the wrong way.
In a later post, Tovalds replied to Pierre Ossman, who suggested the GPL can
currently be thwarted by DRM measures:
> The point is not only getting access to the source code, but also being able
> to change it. Being able to freely study the code is only half of the beauty
> of the GPL. The other half, being able to change it, can be very effectively
> stopped using DRM.
No it cannot.
Sure, DRM may mean that you can not _install_ or _run_ your changes on
somebody else's hardware. But it in no way changes the fact that you got
all the source code, and you can make changes (and use their changes) to
it. That requirement has always been there, even with plain GPLv2. You
have the source.
The difference? The hardware may only run signed kernels. The fact that
the hardware is closed is a _hardware_ license issue. Not a software
license issue. I'd suggest you take it up with your hardware vendor, and
quite possibly just decide to not buy the hardware. Vote with your feet.
Join the OpenCores groups. Make your own FPGA's.
And it's important to realize that signed kernels that you can't run in
modified form under certain circumstances is not at all a bad idea in many
For example, distributions signing the kernel modules (that are
distributed under the GPL) that _they_ have compiled, and having their
kernels either refuse to load them entirely (under a "secure policy") or
marking the resulting kernel as "Tainted" (under a "less secure" policy)
is a GOOD THING.
Notice how the current GPLv3 draft pretty clearly says that Red Hat would
have to distribute their private keys so that anybody sign their own
versions of the modules they recompile, in order to re-create their own
versions of the signed binaries that Red Hat creates. That's INSANE.
Btw, what about signed RPM archives? How well do you think a secure
auto-updater would work if it cannot trust digital signatures?
I think a lot of people may find that the GPLv3 "anti-DRM" measures aren't
all that wonderful after all.
Because digital signatures and cryptography aren't just "bad DRM". They
very much are "good security" too.
Babies and bathwater..
And finally, in yet another response to Ossman and others on the LKML, he wrote:
> So taking open software and closed hardware and combining it into something
> that I cannot modify is ok by you?
But you CAN modify the software part of it. You can run it on other
It boils down to this: we wrote the software. That's the only part _I_
care about, and perhaps (at least to me) more importantly, because it's
the only part we created, it's the only part that I feel we have a moral
right to control.
I _literally_ feel that we do not - as software developers - have the
moral right to enforce our rules on hardware manufacturers. We are not
crusaders, trying to force people to bow to our superior God. We are
trying to show others that co-operation and openness works better.
That's my standpoint, at least. Always has been. It's the reason I
chose the GPL in the first place (and it's the exact same reason that I
wrote the original Linux copyright license). I do _software_, and I
license _software_.
And I realize that others don't always agree with me. That's fine. You
don't have to. But I licensed my project under a license _I_ agreed with,
which is the GPLv2. Others who feel differently can license under their
own licenses. Including, very much, the GPLv3.
I'm not arguing against the GPLv3.
I'm arguing that the GPLv3 is wrong for _me_, and it's not the license I
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So some backstory: Sean and I met about a year ago at a Reddit r/Columbus meetup (that I hosted, since I had just moved to the city). We had so much fun at this meetup that we decided to make it a weekly thing, and thus Bar Thursdays were born.
I don't really drink, but it was fun to meet up with people every week (for a couple months we played trivia, which I enjoy quite a bit). Sean and I played on the same trivia team quite a few times, but we weren't particularly good friends until I saw a post on r/Columbus about a David Bowie movie that was showing at a local theater. As I was leaving the meetup (early, because I am a fart), I asked if anyone wanted to go see the movie with me. Sean said, "Sure, I'll go see that," and we made plans to get dinner and go see it.
We met at the Blue Danube, which, as Sean describes it, is a place where you can "get a burger and it won't kill you." Take that as you will. His friend Bart joined us, we had a
We had a casual friendship after that, grabbing food here and there, texting once in a while (one of my favorite interactions was that he texted me on Thanksgiving to let me know that the undefeated Packers were winning, and not realizing that he knew almost nothing about football, I replied, "Uh, obviously." I didn't know he was trying to impress me at that point. :)...but then two things happened that solidified our friendship.
The first was a minor emergency that I had. Of course, I call it a minor emergency, anyone else would...probably not call it that. It was November, and since I had moved in to my apartment, my lock had been only working sporadically. I got to my door and couldn't get it open...so, of course, I started crying. I was new to the city, didn't have many friends...and felt very, very stupid for not being able to get my door open. I called a friend of mine who only lived a block or two away, and he didn't answer. I started to panic some more, and mentally ran through a list of people I could call who would help me and who wouldn't mock me terribly for being unable to get my door open. Sean was the only person I could come up with. So I called him, crying, and he agreed to come right over to help me. He finally showed up (I called at 1 PM, so, naturally, I woke him up and he had to shower), and it took him about 30 seconds to open my door. Simultaneously humiliated and relieved, I started to cry. Allowing me to save face, Sean offered to take me to lunch. I had errands to do that day, but I knew I wasn't going to get anything done because if Sean left I'd just cry and hug my cat, so we went off to lunch.
After that, we started hanging out pretty frequently, drawn together largely by a love of food and a hatred of eating alone. Sean took me around the city, showing me his favorite restaurants, and we got to try some cool places together.
We very rarely made plans, and I would often be at work and think about how I wanted to relax alone that night...but then as soon as I got home from work, I'd text Sean and suddenly he'd be over, and we'd be watching Parks and Recreation, or playing video games, or just talking. We went to see Fun. together, and Radiohead, and we went to DC together for the documentary that I'm in. He also took a day off work to take care of me after I had a colonoscopy.
About a week before SSA Con, power went out in most of Columbus, which included my place, but not his. He invited me over to crash the night it happened, but I was stubborn and refused...until the next morning, when I woke up and it was 90+ degrees in my apartment and my cat and I were overheating. We spent the day in his AC'd apartment...until that night, when I ended up having a super bad Crohn's flare up and was hospitalized. They sent me home around 2 AM, with the warning that if I couldn't keep food down, I should come back. Of course, the next day...I was in Puke City. Back to the ER we went!
I was sitting in my hospital bed, waiting to be seen by a doctor, and holding a puke bag in front of me. I was pretty miserable (being in the hospital, away from family...kind of scary), I was crying and I said, "I'm sick and in the hospital and there's no one in this town who loves me." (because I'm a whiner). Sean said, "But I love you." And then he looked away, naturally. So he didn't realize that I said, "I love you, too" back to him...and I semi-whispered it...we'll say it was because my throat was raw from vomiting, but maybe I was a little nervous, too. Then we had that awkward (or adorable), "Oh...you didn't hear that, did you?" "Wait, what did you say?" conversation...it was all very cute. :)
Once Sean and I started dating "officially" (as in, made it happen on fb), he moved in, and of course we started talking about marriage (as you do when you just start dating). It honestly made things easier, because at that point we were at one place or the other every single day, and it was getting difficult to cook because we had to keep track of where certain things were when cooking).
We kind of both knew we wanted to marry each other, and we'd often make jokes about when and where we'd propose to each other, or how we'd do it (sort of like Jim freaking out Pam on The Office by fake proposing to tie his shoe, etc.). We even went to the mall one day and looked at rings (and commemorated it by getting "just ducky" photos). The discussion turned to which one of us was going to do the proposing-- and Sean said he'd like me to do it. So, I started planning.
So, fast forward to now. If you read my previous entry, it's about my surgery (which went mostly well, save for a few hiccups in the post-surgery recovery). If you were following twitter or FB, I mentioned that the person to see for updates was Sean on twitter.
I woke up from surgery, and they kept me in a shared recovery room, which apparently made me very agitated (I was coming up from anesthesia...keep in mind that I don't remember any of this, it has just been relayed to me). They moved me to my single room, and my parents and Sean were sitting around the bed. Apparently I was very out of it, and my parents said they were going to go back to their hotel room to rest while I slept off the anesthesia (since my parents were nice enough to come down to Ohio from Wisconsin for my surgery).
I guess this upset me a lot, and I demanded (in a semi-conscious state) that they stay. Confused, but concerned for me, they agreed. Less than five minutes later, I told them I wanted them to leave the room. They said they would go back to the hotel room...but I said that wasn't okay. They needed to leave and come back. I kept suggesting that they go to the cafeteria or go for a walk and come back in a 20 minutes. Seeing how adamant I was, they agreed.
When they left the room, I turned to Sean (who had been diligently sitting at my side, holding my hand), and told him how much I loved him, how much he meant to me, how he was the most important person in the world to me...and then I asked, "Will you marry me?" and he said yes, and we kissed, and it was awesome. :)
Except for...I just had Sean proofread this entry, and he said that's not how it went down at all. Here is a more accurate summary from someone who was there and NOT waking up from anesthesia:
When they left the room, I turned to Sean (who had been diligently sitting at my side, holding my hand), and said, "I gotta ask you a question." (Keep in mind, I am not saying this very clearly, because, you know, drugs.) Sean humored me and said, "Okay..." and I replied, "Will you marry me...for real?" Sean said, "Of course." This is almost too embarrassing to write, but for the sake of honesty (and hilarity), I'm going to tell you. I then asked, "Was that a good enough proposal?" Sean laughed and said, "of course it is." I then druggedly suggested that he tell my parents when they come back, and when they did, we both blurted it out.
Now, remember that story, and remember that this was my face when I woke up from anesthesia:
Edit: Oh, and the funniest part is...a few days ago, I asked Sean if he was okay with how we got engaged. He said yes, because he could tell I had been planning it for a few days...it was like the "porp." If you don't get that, read this: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/09/party.html :)


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Maki's announcement of her upcoming bento cookbook make me realize we've been using a copy of "Japanese Cooking for Health and Fitness" for almost 20 years. My husband bought this book in the 80's, long before we met and its been a food stained staple in our kitchen ever since. Its still in print and the easy recipes don't require hard to find ingreidents; the book was published in 1983, back when Japanese food was still considered to be pretty exotic. In addition to recipes the book has photos of Japanese items as they appear packaged in stores, which is really helpful if you're shopping for something you've never bought before.
Every recipe has a phtoto of the finished dish and many of them are bento friendly. Here is the link to US Amazon, the publisher is Barron's so it should be available all over the world.
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Cooking-Health-Fitness-Konishi/dp/0812055... [1]
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Cooking-Health-Fitness-Konishi/dp/0812055616/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253013513&sr=1-1


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A Nursery for the Whole Family
Name: Chase
Location: Washington, DC
When we first found out we were having a baby boy, being an Interior Designer I instantly started thinking of the ideal nursery. The challenge was converting the only extra room (my "woman den") into a space that all members of the family would feel comfortable hanging out in including our seven-year-old son.
I also wanted to use some existing items in the room like the Crate and Barrel Marlowe daybed and Olin grey rug, Ikea Expedit bookshelf, Eames rocker, and thrift-store-find coffee table. I also reused my older son's changing table.
I was inspired by the children's book A Long Piece of String by William Wondriska. The wordless orange and black graphic story instantly caught my attention for a color scheme. I used thrift store frames that I painted black and custom mats to hang a collection of pages from the book. The black Jenny Lind crib purchased from Target made a bold statement in the rear of the room. To mimic the pattern and colors of my existing rug, I found the perfect pendant from West Elm to hang above Chase's crib.
A lot of the items in the room are handmade by me like the stenciled "C" and graphic throw pillows, mobile, and crib skirt. The room has become a natural gathering place for our family and friends to enjoy the new baby.
Thanks, Shawna! Readers, you can see more of Shawna at her website, Shawna Underwood Interior Design or her blog, Red Door DC.


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VATICAN CITY — For the first time since the election of Pope Francis two days ago, the Vatican on Friday formally defended him from accusations that, decades ago, in the so-called Dirty War in his home country of Argentina, he knew about serious human rights abuses but did not do enough to halt them.
Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said there had "never been a credible accusation against him" relating to the period in the 1970s when he was the superior of the Jesuit order in Argentina.
Indeed, "there have been many declarations of how much he did for many people to protect them from the military dictatorship," Lombardi said in a statement. "The accusations belong to the use of a historical-social analysis of facts for many years by the anti-clerical left to attack the church, and must be rejected decisively."
Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, was elected by fellow cardinals Wednesday, and much of his behavior since then has seemed to indicate a shift of tone at the Vatican to a more humble and frugal approach.
When he addressed cardinals Friday, for instance, he spoke frequently without notes, addressing them as "Brother Cardinals" rather than as the more usual "Lord Cardinals," and the Vatican press office highlighted other shows of modesty and lack of formality since his election.
But the question of his past has never been far below the surface, rekindling accusations relating to a conflict in which as many as 30,000 people disappeared or were tortured or killed by the dictatorship.
At a news conference Friday, Lombardi repeated assertions by a prominent human rights campaigner that there had been "no compromise by Cardinal Bergoglio with the dictatorship."
The debate has simmered in Argentina, with journalists there publishing articles and books that appear to contradict Francis' account of his actions. These accounts draw not only on documents from the period, but also on statements by priests and lay workers who clashed with Francis.
After the church had denied for years any involvement with the dictatorship, he testified in 2010 that he had met secretly with Gen. Jorge Videla, the former head of the military junta, and Adm. Emilio Massera, the commander of the navy, to ask for the release of two kidnapped priests.
The following year, prosecutors called him to the witness stand to testify on the military junta's systematic kidnapping of children, a subject he also was accused of knowing about but failing to prevent.
In an interview published by an Argentine newspaper in 2010, Francis said he had helped hide people being sought for arrest or disappearance by the military because of their political views, had helped others leave Argentina and had lobbied the country's military rulers directly for the release and protection of others.
The renewed discussion of the case intruded into a day when Francis offered warm praise to his predecessor, Benedict XVI, saying that his nearly eight years as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics had "lit a flame in the depths of our hearts."
Speaking to the church's cardinals, he urged them to persevere and find ways to spread word of their faith around the world.
"Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day," he said. He offered no direct allusion to the myriad challenges facing the Vatican from a series of sexual abuse and financial and other scandals that swamped much of Benedict's papacy.
According to the officials, Francis frequently extemporizes, making it more difficult for the papal press office to deliver texts of addresses like Friday's.
"That's the cost of having such spontaneity," said Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Vatican spokesman.
There was one clearly unchoreographed moment. Francis, 76, stumbled briefly as he greeted the dean of the College of Cardinals, Angelo Sodano, but swiftly recovered.
The pope also sent a message Friday to Rome's chief rabbi, saying he wished to pursue closer ties between Catholics and Jews.
"I hope very much to be able to contribute to the progress in relations between Jews and Catholics" the pope said.


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After Sandy Hook, Should Violent Video Games Call a Cease-Fire?
In the first post-Sandy Hook press conference held by the The National Rifle Association today, executive vice president Wayne LaPierre tore into some gratuitous and controversial parts of pop culture to explain the spate of mass killings that have occurred this year.
"There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and sows violence against its own people," LaPierre said during the press conference. "Through vicious violent video games, with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse. And here's one: It's called Kindergarten Killers. It's been online for 10 years. How come my research staff can find it, and all yours couldn't, or didn't want anyone to know you've found it?"
Critics of the NRA were quick to pick apart LaPierre's indictment of pop culture as easy scapegoating. And as the gaming website Kotaku points out, LaPierre's choice of videogames seemed almost random enough to be inconsequential—the bombastically titled Kindergarten Killer is an obscure flash game and only ever made news four years ago when it was removed from a Finnish web site after a school shooting occurred there.
It's worth noting that in 2006 the NRA made its very own first-person shooter called NRA Gun Club. Described as a "nonviolent target shooter," it's recognized as one of the worst games ever made by many video game critics.
A representative of the NRA didn't immediately return a request for a comment.
Ever since stories like the New York Post's lurid headline "Killer's basement his eerie lair of violent video games" began to dissect Adam Lanza's psyche, this kind of pitched cultural battle has been inevitable. And many game critics will no doubt rush to parody or vilify the NRA just as they did with Fox News when they first started trotting out professed "experts" to charge video games with murder. More and more studies appear every year debunking any notion of a psychological relationship between violent video games and violent behavior, yet the question persists. And despite the protests of gamers, it's beginning to make these same defensive players uncomfortable as well.
Last week, the popular video game blog GamerFitNation called for a one-day "cease-fire" in an impassioned video that spread though Twitter with the hashtag #OSCeaseFire. Founder Antwand Pearman was not trying to vilify video games any more than they had been already, instead, he told Mashable that he was seeking "a unified form of peace" in the wake of the tragedy. And with a form of entertainment that so often trades in horrendous body counts as its primary currency, the notion of peaceful gameplay has become its own challenge for players. Acclaimed games like Dishonored and Mark of the Ninja dared their players to take a "non-lethal" route to success, a tradition in stealth games known as "ghosting" that earns its own kind of bragging rights. As the WSJ reported at the beginning of this year, gamers have begun to embark on a sort of "non-killing spree."
The difference between these sorts of statements and the ones made by the NRA against video games is the dismissal of the form itself that many read into LaPierre's comments. Game designers themselves are beginning to interrogate some of the underpinnings of the perverse fascination their medium has with violence. Two of the most acclaimed shooters released this year—Spec Ops: The Line, and Far Cry 3—both positioned themselves as subversive critiques of the hyper-violent form in which they function.
This is where the two sides of the debate begin to disagree: not on the problematic nature of violence itself, but whether the problem rests in the virtual world of games or the real one of AR-15 assault rifles. LaPierre charged video games with bringing "reckless behavior, criminal cruelty into our homes." Jeffrey Yohalem, the lead writer of Far Cry 3, would probably agree—but keep "our homes" fixed to the television screen itself. When I spoke to him about his work on Far Cry 3, after all, Yohalem noted "a lot games are talking about killing as human, which is different than killing in video games."
But, of course, video games are meant to be fun on some level—a fact that could limit the medium's ability to question its own limits. As Evan Selinger, a Rochester Institute professor of philosophy who has previously written about the ethics of gun ownership, told me in a phone interview: "In the end, I think moral development on some level has to be uncomfortable. No matter how you define fun, it can't be fun."
This was partly in response to a comment from my interview with the lead designer of Spec Ops: The Line, who said that he wanted his work to show that "there are a lot of different types of fun."
"Fun isn't necessarily blowing things up and laughing," he said. "It's fun to be emotionally engaged, especially when you actually have a controller in your hand and you have to think about the things that you do."
The most violent video games are rarely the most successful. There's been a long line of commercial or critical failures (some of which LaPierre mentioned in his statement) that proved just too disturbing for players.
But then again, the least violent games aren't that successful either. A scathing review of the NRA's "nonviolent target shooter" video game NRA Gun Club at IGN praised the "wide variety of weapons to shoot with" that the game offered, but lamented that "most of the targets just sit around, waiting to be picked off." Games must walk an uncomfortable line between the representation and simulation of violence, and as the "cease fire" activists show, it's a line that more and more gamers want to learn how to walk anew with better games than the NRA Gun Club.
One of the most stunning moments in Far Cry 3 comes when a villain tells the player his definition of insanity: "doing the same thing over and over again, expecting sh-- to change." Is that what all shooters have ultimately become—an attempt to overcome their inner insanity by embracing it wholesale? The troubling question Far Cry 3 asks is why we enjoy doing these things so much in the first place. But Ubisoft would never let its artists make a game that asks that question so persuasively that we'd actually stop playing it.
Selinger therefore wondered: "Could we imagine a first-person shooter game that makes you never want to play another game, and would that be the best first-person shooter ever made?"
Could there be, in other words, a first person shooter so brutally violent, and thus so brutally effective, that it kills the genre in its entirety? I wonder if one day we're going to look back at first-person shooters with the same sordid curiosity with which we view gladiatorial matches or dog fighting. But either way, it's a question that's going to come from the games themselves and the people that make and play them.
As Assassin's Creed 3 writer Corey May told me: "fun," after all, "always comes first."
Yannick LeJacq writes for Kill Screen.


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Cronulla Sharks prop Andrew Fifita to play for Tonga after withdrawing from Australia's World Cup squad
Cronulla prop Andrew Fifita has withdrawn from Australia's squad for the World Cup to play for Tonga.
Fifita was named alongside Jason Taumalolo and Will Hopoate in the Tongan squad on Thursday after Fifita phoned Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga to decline his selection for Australia.
Fifita has played seven times for Australia but was controversially banned from the Kangaroos squad at the end of the 2016 season for the Four Nations Tournament in England because of alleged misbehaviour.
"Andrew called me and said he was passionate about playing for Tonga and I respect and support that decision," Meninga said.
"It is obviously a significant boost for Tonga as well as the World Cup and international rugby league in general."
In the process, Fifita has foregone a potential pay day of $50,000 should the Kangaroos win the World Cup. For Tonga, he will get a $3000 participation fee and a daily allowance of just $30.
Tonga were $81 shots (UBET) but are now priced at $31 to win the tournament. They have New Zealand, Scotland and Samoa in their group, with the clash with Pacific rivals Samoa in Hamilton one of the standout fixtures.
Penrith's Reagan Campbell-Gillard has been called into the Kangaroos squad following Fifita's withdrawal.
"At the same time it is also a great opportunity for someone like Reagan, who has been outstanding for the Panthers," Meninga said.
"I'm extremely excited about seeing Reagan in a Kangaroos jersey."


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I stumbled across the little documented reflect function today. I've always known about it, but java scares me if it's not in a cup so I didn't dig. Well today I dug, and found an awesome use case for reflect (for me) and wanted to share. I also thought it would be nice to validate some thoughts I had on reflect, and how we could possibly share ideas on reflect so that folks could get more use out of this great feature of hive. Here's my example: A simple URL decode function: select url, reflect('java.net.URLDecoder', 'decode', url, 'utf-8') as decoded_url from logs Basically I am using the decode function of the java.net.URLDecoder class. Pretty awesome, works great, no files to distribute either. Even works through JDBC! Ok that being said, I realized now that the function I am trying to call has to return data in a simple data type. For example, I struggle to come up with a simple reflect() for making an Hex MD5 out of a string because the built in function return an object, which have methods that can return what I am looking for. Which is great, but then I have to compile java code, distribute a jar, and then run the code. I am looking for simple like the URLDecoding function. I love this reflect feature, but I think it's probably underutilized due to the perceived usability issues for beginners. So that leads me to my next thought. What if we brain storm here handy functions in Java that are not included in the standard hive language, that make the transition to hive well using the reflect function and the show an example of it's use? I went first with my URLDecode, and obviously will be looking for more, but have you seen some examples that we neat and worked well for you? Can you share? Perhaps if we get enough examples we could roll some of these into a wiki page on the hive wiki that folks can use to get over the "perceived" complexity of using java reflect? Thanks to those who have worked hard to implement features like this, it is truly awesome.
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