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Are Kickstarter and IndieGogo ruining webseries?
I can feel all independent webseries creators slowly notching their arrows in my direction. How could Kickstarter/IndieGogo possibly be bad for webseries? It's often the only way webseries can get funded!
Well, yes. That's true. Often it is. And I have nothing against either operation. I use them both and have supported friends stageplays, records, films and webseries. In fact, I have sat on a panel with Kickstarter's kickstarter, Yancey Strickland, and found him a great guy with a lot of great motivations and a really fantastic success story. He and his colleagues are doing wonderful, altruistic work for many, many people. Much better work than me, in fact, so I should probably just shut my damn mouth, right?
But what I'm most interested in is quality of web video. Let's try that filter out.
It used to be (in the aulden dayes of 2008 and before!) that if you wanted to make a webseries, you either had to find some sponsor willing to pay for it (in which case, most of the time, it turned out crappy), or you did it yourself on credit cards (in which case, most of the time, it turned out cheap). Today, everyone can get their shit together, put together a pitch, and send it out to 100+ friends.
Everyone can do this. That is the benefit, and that is the problem.
ISSUE 1: Kickstarter pretty much funds everything. Because it's social. If you are reasonably popular, you sell your pitch reasonably well, and your friends are not all reasonably homeless, you can count on milking 10 or 25 bucks from them each to do pretty much whatever you want. Extend that to your colleagues, your Facebook friends, the people on Twitter, and probably a couple of older and wealthier relatives, and you can pretty easily get your $5,000.
But just because your friends are willing to support you doesn't make it good. (In fact, experience has taught me that sometimes folks are willing to fund projects just to get their creators to shut up about it already). The money is now available – for everybody. Which means people who were too timid to spend money, too afraid of taking a risk, or too unsure of the quality of their ideas are now jumping in. Because what's to lose? It's not my money, and it's not real money. Right?
I don't mean to be aggressive or Randian on anybody here. But I do think that if you have a good idea, you know you have a good idea, and you do whatever it takes to make it. If it crashes and burns along the way, congratulations: you've failed, the most important step in success. If it doesn't crash and burn, then congratulations: you've just taken one massive, exciting step towards your next failure.
With crowd-sourced funding of yet-to-be-produced projects, there is little natural weeding of poor ideas. It used to be a little easier to separate the wheat from the chaff, webseries-wise, in that there was just so little of either. Now there's a lot of both. The meritocrats believe that good content will naturally rise to the top. I don't believe that anymore. I believe that a glut of chaff will continue to hide most of it, and we keep shoveling in that chaff.
(At least until we have better filtering, which will be the subject of several future entries).
ISSUE 2: These sites are unwittingly setting the standard rate of production for webseries. It seems to be, most people are asking for $5K to $10K for a 6-to-10-episode season. With most webisodes clocking in at 3 minutes these days, let's do some terrible math and estimate that we are producing our webseries for a rate of about $300-$500 per produced minute.
Now, I'm all for low-budget video. I haven't really done anything but. My highest budget for an actual webseries (excluding commercial projects) was a half million; yet, that was for about five and a half hours of broadcast-quality content (roughly 3 feature films). I love low-budget, and nothing makes me more angry than "directors" who think they can't shoot a single frame without a crane, gib arm and pyrotechnics.
Except for being undervalued. That makes me madder. And I'm starting to get afraid here. Because we were producing The Burg for $100 a produced minute, and no one got paid. We shot 60 pages in 3 days for All's Faire. But that's supposed to not be the case anymore, in 2011. This is supposed to be becoming an industry. Kickstarter/Indiegogo is setting a potentially dangerous precedent here: 1, you have to have money, but 2, it should only be a little money. If this is defining what webseries are and which ones get made, then should we be concerned about the motivation for more professionals to really get into the business (and thus, real audiences)?
Now before anyone accuses me of being mean, elitist, needlessly antagonistic, or just a douche, I want to make it clear: I am indeed doing the online equivalent of throwing a bunch of darts into the air at the holiday party, and hoping they don't hit me. Everybody loves Kickstarter and Indiegogo, and they're making a lot of great stuff happen. I'm just asking questions.
Nor do I have alternatives to suggest. Although I do have interest in a different kind of crowd-sourced model: the audience-supported one. By which I mean, the actual audience that you know you actually have, because you made the first season on your own and built it up. Anyone But Me is the constantly cited example of this, but they're not the only ones. Reason I like this is it combines the feel-good-social-video model (which we all love to embrace in theory) with the hardcore-objectivist-meritocracy model (that's what actual business runs on). I, personally, think that's a more viable longterm trend for web video.
Disagreements? Darts? Throw 'em my way.
Size Really Does Matter
The numbers for online video consumption in the U.S. came out from comScore (basically, the internet-video version of Nielsen, but site-specific). I found out about it through Marc Hustvedt's great online video resource, tubefilter.tv.
Two key takeaways:
– 6.3 BILLION viewing sessions. Everybody is watching internet video, and watching more and more of it.
– The average video duration is 5.4 minutes. It's been climbing steadily from December 2007.
Think about that second stat for a second. If you're coming from TV land, 5.4 minutes doesn't sound like much screentime. But if you're coming from web video land, this is huge.
When my partners and I started The Burg way back in 2006, comScore wasn't even around, but online 'common sense' was. This common sense told us, nay, SCREAMED at us, that a minute and a half was an ideal video length, and anything longer than 3 minutes was suicide. This frightened us, as a typical episode of The Burg was anywhere from 14 to 22 minutes long. So, we played it safe. We began to create shorts of anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes (yes, even our shorts were longer than most people's 'longs'.) We interspersed our normal eps with our shorts. We fully anticipated looking at our viewcount and having much less views for our longer eps.
The exact opposite happened. Our views actually went down every time we posted a short. Why? We don't know exactly. But after talking to fans, we have a pretty good idea: they were outside the chronology of the story. They were little jokes, standalone scenes, things that didn't fit in the tightly plotted and structured episodes of The Burg. And so, people didn't care as much. I knew right then that we had something good. People were hooked on the structure and the story and didn't mind the length.
Ever since then, I've rigidly maintained that length should not be the top deciding factor when you're creating your content. I've been mocked for this, as there are many creators who believe otherwise. In the early days, there were a lot of 90-second episodic thrillers. For me, even when well produced, the story jolted and jittered, because 90 seconds of a thriller is enough to get you to a cliffhanger, but usually seems to stop short of great character development. When working with other online portals, I've had to cut 5 minute shorts to under 3 minutes, and in the process, lost some of the best moments because they just didn't fit. (This is not to say you can't make a great episode in 90 seconds – of course you can. I just think you shouldn't have to.)
I get why this happens in TV. You have a fixed inventory of time. 22 minutes for your sitcom once commercials are factored in. It becomes a surgical process (and to a degree, it should with all content). But on the internet, there is no such restriction. Yet content creators and programmers decided to all limit themselves to one anyway. It seems cynical, arbitrary, and a big underestimation of viewers' tastes.
Well, it seems that common sense was wrong in this case. People are now, officially, measurably, watching longer and longer video. And 5.4 minutes is the average. Meaning, many people are consuming video that's much, much longer.
As Hustvedt states, "If the same trajectory were to be taken forward a few years, which is probably a conservative estimate given the current market, we'd expect to see average online video duration at 10.4 minutes by 2014."
Which means, by my shoddy estimate, people are going to be ready for The Burg by… let's see… May 2017. Hm. Oh well. Better 11 years early than too late.
The Long Tail Theory: Why Webseries Creators Need Net Neutrality
The following remarks were delivered by Thom Woodley at the WGAE's Capital Hill briefing on Internet policy.
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I am a writer, and a creator of content, and as such, by necessity, an entrepreneur. What I'm going to talk about today are the business models of web video, how the open web allows creators to do innovative work, and the dangers that paid prioritization creates for that innovation.
In our discussions of net neutrality today, we've a couple of times heard the comparison of the internet to highways. I'd like to expand that. Let's suppose that a state decides adopt the prioritization model to their roadwork. This would mean they don't pave roads in a certain area as well as other ones. We all know what would happen. The economy in that area suffers. Trucks can't get to it, no one wants to drive along the bumpy, dirty road.
It's the same online. Pavement equals streaming speed. If the streaming speed is slow, no one will watch. We don't force the people who live on that road, the businesses on that road, to pay directly for paving the whole thing. But Internet Service Providers want to do that exact thing to content providers. If we don't have net neutrality, ISPs could charge content providers money to deliver their content at a reasonable enough speed.
I am going to make the case that that is tantamount to killing a new industry before it has developed.
There is a business model of independent web video. There are a few. They exist, but they're still nascent. And it's very different from television or most other traditional economic structures.
I don't know how many of you are familiar with the Long Tail Theory of economics. I'll just give a quick abstract. Say we're in a book store. 80% of people who come into that store will tend to buy the same top 20% of books. The remaining 20% of people may also buy that top tier, but in addition, seek out products that are more diverse, less common denominator. When we chart these spending habits, rank of products sold against volume of sales, we get a short 'body' and a long 'tail'.
Now, in a store, there's a physical inventory. So it only makes sense to keep that top 20% in stock. Of course, for an online store, inventory is more vast. So you can open up the full 100% of products, and get that extra business. And here's a hidden secret: people in this long tail will tend to pay more for the products they love, if they are perceived as rare.
How does this relate to television? TV has a fixed inventory of time that it is selling. As well as a great expense in broadcasting it. So it only makes sense to program shows that 80% of the populace will seek out. The same with movie theaters – a fixed number of screens. But web video has no fixed period of time. It has no fixed numbers of screens. Strictly speaking, it has no distributional limits, except for streaming speed.
That means that online, this long tail of specialized content is now open for everybody.
From an advertising perspective, we know that a message moves farther and more effectively when it is highly tailored to its audience. You are three times more likely to watch a video if a friend shared it to you. So advertisers have an excellent model here. Let's take as an example, an award-winning and very popular series I participate in called The Temp Life. It is sponsored by a staffing agency who could never afford to buy TV time. But they could afford a more specified and tailored web production with Hollywood celebrities like Milo Ventimiglia and Illeana Douglas. And the show just finished its 5th season, which is longer than most real Hollywood shows.
Web video, due to its long tail nature, has the tendency to gather audiences of more specific demographics. These shows function with a smaller audience, but they become more valuable to the sponsor. My show The Burg gathered an audience of hipsters and influencers mostly based in New York. It's the kind of audience TV shows desperately try to attract, but had not reliably done so. Sure, the show did not rack up the millions of views per episode that a TV show needs. That's okay. We did not need it. We had a highly activated audience who, when we did do sponsorships, were much more accepting of our sponsors' products.
Web TV will not be, in the future, about gathering the 'most views', but gathering the 'best views'.
But it's worth pointing out that putting any of this content behind a paywall, or tiered download situation where it didn't stream quickly, that would have killed it. People would not have watched.
There are two more models I'd like to briefly discuss.
One is the audience-supported show. Take the show Anyone But Me. It's a multiple award-winning show about a lesbian teenager and her struggles. It's excellent. It tells a difficult story about a topic some would think is controversial. And it likely would never have been made on TV. They are able to make this show because they have an audience who is demanding it. Again, it's a smaller audience, but they are so passionate about this show that they pay for it. Not per download – by donation.
But it's tight. Profit margins are slim in both of these models. If we were charging Anyone But Me an extra fee to stream fast enough so that the audience can watch it, then they probably would not be able to make it.
Another model that is developing is even more interesting to me, as a small business owner: the local webseries scene.
Distribution is, at present, open to everyone. I can make a video and put it up – there are no walls between me and a prospective audience of millions. At the same time, the means of film production are accessible to everyone, with consumer-level editing software and digital cameras. This means that a webseries can be generated and created anywhere, for any audience. This is of course different from film and TV, where you have to be in LA or NY.
What we are seeing now is communities of content creators and webseries makers beginning to pop up in every state of the union. In places that never had any sort of film industry before, we suddenly see one popping up. And it can be sponsored by local advertisers. I point to one of the shows I'm involved in, Greg and Donny, which is about two guys just chatting about stuff going on in the small, post-industrial steel town Johnstown, PA. Now, that sounds like a very specific show that no one outside that town would want to watch, right? Well… stay tuned.
I believe in a few years, we will be seeing small town film scenes. Communities of webseries creators and vloggers from Maine to Utah. Decentralized micro-industries of creative professionals from Alabama to Wyoming. I believe we will see this… down the road.
But not if the road is too expensive to travel on.
Net neutrality is vital to keeping the lanes of communication open. The creative economy of the future depends on it. Thank you.
Writer and web video pioneer Thom Woodley created one of the first narrative web series "The Burg", the Streamy and Webby nominated shows "The All-For-Nots", "All's Faire" and "Greg & Donny", and is the founder of DIORAMA, a new web video channel aimed at programming television-quality independent content.


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PFA in legal orders stands for "protection from abuse" and requires an abuser to stay away from a victim of domestic violence, according to Laurel Legal Services in Pennsylvania. A PFA order is a civil document mandated by the courts after being signed by a judge.Continue Reading
PFA orders involve spouses, former spouses, domestic partners, parents, children or sexual partners. Abuse occurs in several ways including causing bodily injury, raping, initiating sexual assault, making threats against someone's life and placing someone in reasonable fear of bodily injury. Abusers must stay a certain distance away from a victim's residence, workplace and school, notes Laurel Legal Services.
PFA orders protect children, men and women. An emergency PFA order usually lasts until the next business day in Pennsylvania, according to the National Network to End Domestic Violence. A temporary PFA order lasts about 10 days until the court hears further evidence of the case. A final PFA order may be in effect for up to three years and may be extended under certain circumstances.
Victims protected by such orders can call the police if the abuser violates the court's mandate. The perpetrator can be arrested and taken into custody, even if the arresting officer does not witness the violation, explains NNEDV. An abuser may face jail time for contempt of court charges for disobeying a court's order.Learn more about Law

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This is an email i sent to Ubersocial this morning, due to some massive problems i'm having since the latest updates. I don't think they'll fix it any time soo, since i'm not having a lot of faith in them anymore. I always thought the people behind it were businessmen, but i'm beginning to think they are 2 14-year olds in their moms basement…
Dear sir, madam,
I'm having huge problems with Ubersoc. Over the last 48 hours it has been updating 3 times, each update was more broken then the last. Since yesterday i van't even tweet or read tweets due to massive problems.
First of; it resets my settings every time i open the app or after x amount of minutes. Usually about 10 minutes.
Second; i can't read the last tweet in my timeline because of a pop=up box type of thing in the upper left corner of my screen.
Third; It asks me if i want to follow @Twidroyd every time i open the app or try to change the settings.
fourth; It wants me to take a tour every time i open it or try to change the settings.
Fifth; Im unable to change the theme to any other theme. It does nothing anymore. I need a dark theme due to an eyedisease. The standard colours are way too bright for my eyes.
Sixth; Due to resetting my settings every time it drains my battery like there's no tomorrow, since it resets itself to update every 5 minutes…
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but that doesn't help. I've now resorted to delete the settings and turning the app off, so it won't do anything. This however, made me unable to even use Twitter. And why did i get this app? Yes, to use Twitter on a regular basis!
I've tweeted about this last night, without expecting any help, i must say. Since you haven't replied to anyone who's having trouble. The only thing you tweeted are things that won't be of any help to any of us.
But, to answer your question: "Would you click on a 'Hate' button on Facebook? http://cot.ag/HwYvmp Check it out!" I would rather have a hate button for this app, so everyone can let you know how they feel!
Furthermore, why is there no chang-log available for the updates. Isn't it right to let people know what you (tried to) fix? I'm currently feeling like i've paid to be a alpha-tester, because if this was a new app, it would be in it's alpha stage. The only thing that is keeping me from turning my back at this app all together is the fact that i've paid for it.
And now that i hopefully still have your attention i would like to propose some future changes:
one; a chang-log, so we can see what we're getting into.
two; less bright colours, it's hard to even adjust the settings with these colours.
three; the app remembering my settings after an update. Right now it forgets everything after every update, and with 3 in 48 hours i'm getting sick of it.
four; please change the orange coloour in the dark theme to a less bright colour (green was good). The orange is hurting too.
So please, get rid of the last 3 updates. I think we all can live with the jumping timeline issue. Just not with the app resetting every x minutes…


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ESCORTS have been returned to a school service in an area where a pupil died in a school bus crash.
Less than a fortnight since a father spoke in The Western Mail of his unhappiness at their removal, the Vale of Glamorgan council has reinstated adult escorts after scrapping a policy of having them on a minibus taking children to Llancarfan Primary School.
Karl-James Langford is now delighted that his five-year-old daughter, Bethan, once again has an escort.
Mr Langford said, "I feel totally vindicated in my approach. It's very rare that something like this has a positive outcome."
He said he hoped the reintroduction of escorts onto buses would encourage other people to lobby councils.
"If people make a fuss, something can be done," he said. Mr Langford had been concerned that the driver would not be able to cope with sick or unruly children.


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The ban stood in place for 50 years. It was lifted the same year of the first women's FA Cup final, when Southampton beat Stewarton and Thistle 4-1 in 1971.
But that was four decades ago, right? Surely the nation that prides itself as the inventor of the sport would surely have embraced the women's game by now. After all, a brand new Women's Super League debuted last year. The eight teams drew an average of, well, 550 fans per game.
And, yet, that meagre number represented a 604 per cent increase for the teams that migrated from England's previous top league.
Now there's the London Olympics, and the English — along with the Scottish and Welsh — are getting a full-fledged, in-your-face dose of the women's game, and the matches are drawing unprecedented crowds. The same historic venues that kept women off the pitch are seeing support ranging from decent to robust, topped by the 70,584 who watched Kelly Smith and Britain beat Brazil 1-0 at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday night, a record British crowd and the third-largest to watch a women's game anywhere in the world.
"I think we're breaking boundaries," Britain forward Eniola Aluko said. "And the people who are in control of the game can recognize now that women's football is essentially a sport. So get more people out to see us like this and it will grow."
And they're not just turning out to see the home team. Close to 30,000 watched the United States play North Korea on Tuesday in the first international women's game — and the first women's game of any kind in 23 years — to be hosted at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United.
The 18 women's games played so far have averaged 22,242 spectators, although officials at the games in Scotland said tens of thousands of tickets were given away because the women's game is such a poor draw in that area.
Still, the sight of 14,753 watching a women's game between Canada and South Africa in Coventry, England, is definitely not the norm. Might the London Games finally get the women's game firmly on the sporting radar in Britain, much the same way that the Atlanta Olympics put U.S. women's football on the map in 1996?
"I think that Team GB, Great Britain — whatever you want to call them — I think they are putting themselves in a position to grow the game, and I'm proud to be here to be a part of it, to witness it," U.S. forward Abby Wambach said. "Kelly Smith has done wonders for her team. It's kind of like (Homare) Sawa, how Sawa and the Japanese team kind of went unnoticed in their country for so long, and now those Japanese players are superstars because they won the World Cup. Hopefully GB can keep going in the tournament and keep the excitement for their country."
Yet the Americans who are rooting for British growth can pass along some cautionary tales. The 1996 Olympics and the 1999 World Cup made the U.S. players enormously popular, yet two attempts at forming a top-tier American league — the WUSA and WPS — have floundered.
The English FA has taken note. The Super League's goals are modest, built on a semiprofessional structure in which only four players per team can make a salary of more than 20,000 pounds (C$31,200). Select players in the England national team poll get an extra 16,000 pounds (C$25,000) per year.
Officials say they've largely overcome the old prejudices about women and the game. FA spokesman Johann Alexander said women's soccer is now the third largest participation sport in England, behind men's soccer and men's cricket and surpassing men's rugby.
"I think the perceptions have changed a lot," Alexander said. "We've worked as an organization very hard to change that perception. In the last 20 years, the investment in the game, the quality of the games, the skill, stamina and fitness have improved. There's not too many people that watch a women's game or view it on the TV that won't come back with a different perception."
And, naturally, the Olympics are giving the women's game some priceless exposure.
"We gave girls a talent pathway," Alexander said. "Watching games like last night (at Wembley), you can see the pathway, and that's important to encourage young girls to play. They say, 'I want to be like Kelly Smith.'"
With prospects for a revival of a U.S. league uncertain, American players are considering playing overseas once the Olympics are done. The obvious choices are the more developed leagues in Sweden, Germany, Japan or France, but goalkeeper Hope Solo said she might opt for England.
"It's not necessarily about the play, it's about bringing the game to a whole different level globally, the women's game," Solo said. "So I would think about staying right here in England and helping build the sport here, the beautiful game where the game has such a rich history, yet the women's game is lacking."
That would be quite a coup. The outspoken, charismatic Solo would doubtless be a big hit with the British media.
The matter of publicity is the sticking point for Britain forward Aluko, who said there's been more interest in the women's games at the Olympics because they've been marketed so well. She'd like to see that kind of commitment year-round.
"Women's football is no longer a sport that is in the dark," Aluko said. "People need to be allowed to see it and get the information like you would in the men's game. We get fed up with seeing information about the men's game. We think it should be the same with the women's game and you would see crowds like that more often."
AP Sports Writer Paul Logothetis contributed to this story from Wembley, England.


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The plays and poetry of Howard Barker are an acquired taste, one faithfully nurtured by helmer Richard Romagnoli during his tenure as co-artistic director of the Potomac Theater Project. "Gary the Thief," in which the narrator rails at the "monkeys" he outwits, might make a nice curtain-raiser for "Claw," or any other Barker play featuring one of his dispossessed antiheroes. "Plevna," an account of a battle in the Russo-Turkish wars, would be a natural introduction to "Scenes From an Execution," or any other of the scribe's historically sensitive dramas. But two static curtain-raisers do not an evening of theater make.
As inhabited by Robert Emmet Lunney, who performs the first-person narrative poem with a plummy accent but without benefit of technical support, Gary the thief is one of Barker's classic angry outsiders.
"I live among you / Hating you," he informs the "cattle" whose possessions he steals. "My defense lies in your opulence," he explains. "Your greed dwarfs my offense." But aside from the strength of the language he uses to excoriate his victims, Gary's antisocial barbs don't carry much sting.
"Plevna: Meditations on Hatred" is made of sterner stuff, and Alex Draper, although forced to perform in the same visual black hole, seems more contented with his lot. Dressed in evening clothes (shirt unbuttoned, tie undone) and carrying a drink, he seems to assume we're all familiar with Plevna, the killing field of three atrocious 18th-century battles in which Russian forces pulverized the defending Turks.
Once again, Barker's tough language and visceral imagery convey his theme of the raw hatred that turns warring men into beasts. Men don't kill with rational motive, he says, but in a contrived "fellowship" that denies the enemy any humanity of his own.
"In wars of culture, it is never enough to be dead," Draper explains — cheerfully waving his glass — of the savage mutilations committed on this and other battlefields. "The enemy shall have no character."
Even in blank verse, Barker's blunt warnings could easily carry over into a companion piece. Here, they end in a blackout.


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There is great diversity of opinion regarding all Reiki training, but particularly at the master level. Many students seek the master initiation for their own purposes, without any intention to teach, motivated by the misunderstanding that an advanced initiation is a fast path to higher attainment. It may be clarifying to liken the process of Reiki training to that of gardening. Initiations break ground within our being, sowing seed vibrations whose germination is shaped by both the qualities of the inner landscape at the time of initiation (rocky, sandy, acidic, hard, etc.) and by the loving effort by which the seed is tended. In Reiki, that effort is daily self-treatment, which is in turn supported by contemplation and mindfulness of the Precepts.
Becoming a Reiki master is a choice to commit oneself to being a custodian of this conscious vibration. The Reiki master's calling is specifically to initiate others into Reiki practice and to support their development. Therefore Reiki master training is best given through an apprenticeship, an extended relationship between the initiating Reiki master and the candidate, rather than a class.
Reiki masters who initiate master students with only a few hours of training clearly have a different understanding of mastership than those who train apprentices. Reiki master candidates, and indeed Reiki students at all levels, must decide for themselves which approach reflects their values and goals. The accessibility of First degree practice was designed to encourage self-treatment. It was never intended as a foundation for instant mastership.
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All three levels of Reiki training provide instruction in Reiki only; they do not prepare students for professional clinical practice. The clinical skills of creating and honoring a therapeutic relationship with a client must be acquired outside the parameters of traditional Reiki training. Those who wish to collaborate with medical caregivers will also need a basic understanding of the scientific paradigm and medical procedures and protocols, including writing case notes.
At all levels of practice, Reiki develops through self-treatment. As we continue our practice, our Reiki hands continue to teach us. This does not preclude the need for treatment from another. Many practitioners have Reiki buddies with whom they share treatments, or return for treatment from their Reiki master as desired.


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NCQA did not create the field of health care performance measurement, but we have refined the process and led the development of objective measures since the mid-1990s when our standardized measurement tool, the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS), was broadly adopted by the industry.
Since then, NCQA has expanded the scope of HEDIS from a narrow collection of process measures to a comprehensive set that assesses a range of important health care interventions and outcomes. The current HEDIS set addresses preventive services, chronic disease management, behavioral health care, appropriateness/overuse of services and value. HEDIS includes measures for high-burden diseases such as diabetes, asthma, heart disease and depression, as well as preventable hospitalizations and patient satisfaction.
A performance measure is a set of technical specifications that define how to calculate a "rate" for some important indicator of quality. For instance, one HEDIS measure defines very precisely how plans should calculate the percentage of members who should have received beta blockers that actually were given a prescription. Using these measures, plans can determine what their rate is and how they compare to other plans.
The ability to draw apples-to-apples comparisons among plans is extremely important — imagine if every health plan calculated the rate using a different methodology. A plan with an 80% rate using one methodology might actually be doing better than a plan reporting a 95% rate using another (if, for instance, the latter plan only measured a small sample of patients from its best clinic). HEDIS allows for standardized measurement, standardized reporting and accurate, objective side-by-side comparisons.
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HEDIS includes performance measures related to dozens of important health care issues. Selected measures include, but are not limited to:
Since 1997, NCQA has produced The State of Health Care Quality, an overall assessment of the performance of the American health care system. The report is issued just before the annual "open enrollment" season, when most Americans choose their health plan for the following year. Consequently, the report generates an enormous amount of media attention, and has been covered everywhere from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times to U.S. News & World Report,Newsweek, CNN and your local newspaper.
For more than five straight years, these reports have shown that participating commercial health plans recorded meaningful improvements across a wide range of clinical quality measures. For example, since NCQA began measuring beta-blocker treatment rates, performance in this critical area has gone from about 60% to well over 90%. Consequently, thousands of Americans every year will avoid a potentially fatal or debilitating second heart attack.
Performance measurement isn't just for health plans. Physicians are increasingly participating in performance measurement activities, especially in the context of pay-for-performance initiatives that are taking shape across the country. Measurement at all levels of the system is fast becoming the norm in health care.
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MLB Winter Meetings: Day Three SurprisesDecember 9, 2009
Any time I hear the phrase "surprise team" during the winter meetings, I am afraid...very afraid. Especially since there is a rumored "surprise team" that is involved with trade talks between the Chicago Cubs for Milton Bradley.
Back in September, I explored the possibility of bringing Bradley to Toronto , but overall it was too high a risk for not enough reward in return. Milton Bradley does not fit in the direction of the future of the Blue Jays, as was tweeted by Jordan Bastian :
"Jays want young controllable players to build around. Bradley, with his history and his contract, is not a fit for Toronto."
While I completely agree, that was said by Bastian and Alex Anthopoulos. I don't think AA would be crazy enough to want Milton Bradley on this team, however, there might be a few others like Paul Beeston and Cito Gaston who are trying to put together a good argument to bring in Bradley.
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Moving on to the first blockbuster of the winter meetings—the Yankees upgraded their outfield by acquiring Curtis Granderson from the Tigers in a three-team trade.
The Yankees gave up Ian Kennedy, Phil Coke and Austin Jackson,notably missing from that list of players: Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes. Don't consider that a coincidence.
The Yankees are likely keeping those guys in their back pocket just in case they want to swing a last-minute deal with the Blue Jays for Roy Halladay.
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Speaking of Doc,if you want to think back to a younger, more innocent time in his career, Dave at Go Jays Go got his hands on this picture of a fresh-faced, brace-clad Roy Halladay on draft day 1995. It almost brings a tear to your eye to think back to then and realize that just 14 years later, he would be leaving us.
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On January 12th, 2013, Rupert gave a talk entitled The Science Delusion at TEDxWhitechapel. The theme for the night was Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world). In response to protests from two militant materialist bloggers in the US, the talk was taken out of circulation by TED. Before the banning the video had a modest 35,000 views; since then it's been watched over 3 million times.
The "Charges" and Rupert's Response
The Debate on TED.com
A Good Summary of the Controversy
Protest and Petition
A group in New York, led by Paul Revis, protested at TED headquarters in New York City on April 2nd. This was the anniversary of the date on which TED removed Rupert's TEDx talk, along with that of Graham Hancock. See what happened on their Set Science Free web site.
Psi Wars: TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet
A new book on the TED controversy by Craig Weiler, which Dean Radin described as a "First rate exposé of an Orwellian reality in plain sight."
Remembering What Happened to TEDxWestHollywood
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Fellow K-drama lovers, brace yourselves for this shocker! SBS's upcoming drama My Sassy Girl has a brand new leading lady, and it's going to surprise you.
After months of auditioning 1,800 hopefuls, a fan-driven poll finally settled on Kim Joo Hyun. Known for her work in Modern Farmer, we were looking forward to seeing her take on her first major role. But according to Sports Joseon, the actress was overwhelmed by the responsibilities and pressure that came with being the leading lady of such a big drama, and ultimately decided to step down.
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Sporting students have been chosen to represent the country at an international games event.
Highfields School, in Matlock, has been named one of only ten winners worldwide in The Commonwealth Class competition in the build up to this year's Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
As a prize, pupils from the school, which is part of the Rural Derbyshire School Sport Partnership, won a trip to Glasgow, where they were invited to address schools from across Scotland in the celebrations at a special event at the Science Centre in Glasgow hosted by John Beattie, BBC broadcaster and former Scotland rugby international.
Nine Highfield students and school sport coordinator Jayne Allen met Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma and displayed their work.
Mrs Allen said: "We spent an amazing day in Glasgow and I was very proud listening to our team captains Annabel MacGregor and Oliver Walden answering the questions put to them about their experiences on the project. It has been a brilliant journey for the students and, as I said on stage, a third of the world's population live in the Commonwealth and half of those are under 25 so it is very important that we have the opportunity to understand the values of the Commonwealth."
The group of Year 11 GCSE students from Highfields have been taking part in weekly online debates and work on collaborative projects within a team other schools from Africa, Canada, the Indian subcontinent, and the Caribbean.
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Sheila Boyington, MS, P.E. is co-Founder with her husband Dane of Thinking Media where she serves as President. Thinking Media is the creator of Learning Blade® for STEM education that introduces the students to STEM technologies and career opportunities through an entertaining game-based forma and has been validated by BattelleEd to increase awareness and interest in STEM Careers. Thinking Media also created KeyTrain® that was acquired by ACT (where she also served as Vice President until 2012) and has been hailed as the most effective system for improving basic skills, and was used by millions of students/clients in high schools, community colleges, one stops and major corporations in throughout the United States and abroad. Thinking Media is also the creator of PictureRx® for health literacy and CharacterEd.Net® for K-12 character education.
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Sheila has won numerous awards for her Entrepreneurship and Leadership including the Athena, Navigator of Entrepreneurship, Supernova, and Chattanooga Engineer Entrepreneur of the Year. Sheila is a Professional Engineer, and holds a Masters Degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida. Sheila worked for environmental firms such as Black and Veatch, Parsons Engineering prior to founding Thinking Media.
While working with and for ACT, Sheila led efforts that developed programs focused on technical jobs that were part of the National Association of Manufacturing's - Manufacturing Institute, Veteran Programs among others. The Boyington's have also served in numerous leadership roles including serving as the first Chairs of the Parent's Advisory Board at Georgia Tech, Engineering Dean's Leadership Council University of Tennessee of Chattanooga. They have sponsored activities related to STEM at University of Florida (Undergraduate Lab), Georgia Tech (President's Scholarships), Girls Incorporated (Programs focused on STEM), and Girls Preparatory School (STEM Curricula).


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Use iOS or Android to control your TV with Sony's TV SideviewAt CES 2013, Jason Jenkins shows how the Sony TV Sideview lets you control your TV with an Android or iOS device.
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Today Standard Life Bank announced its standard variable mortgage rate would increase by 0.15% to 7.46% or 7.66% depending on the loan to value of the mortgage.
It is very rare to see a mortgage lender increase its standard variable mortgage rate outside a Bank of England base rate change. It could very well be the first sign that the mainstream 'prime' mortgage is feeling the pinch of the credit crisis.
Even with this latest mortgage rate increase, Standard Life Bank's standard variable mortgage rate remains in line with the market average. While none of Standard Life's mortgage rates are directly linked to the standard variable mortgage rate, the increase will still affect many existing mortgage borrowers who have reverted to a standard variable mortgage rate once their fixed rate mortgage deal has elapsed.
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This is a stark warning for anyone on a standard variable mortgage rate, or anyone with a mortgage rate linked to the standard variable mortgage rate, as with many discounted variable rate mortgages. The standard variable mortgage rate is a managed rate, controlled by the mortgage lender, and it can and does move when Bank of England base rate is stable.
Standard Life Bank is one of the top 20 mortgage lenders, so it could very well set a precedent for other mortgage lenders to follow suit.
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Thu, 19 May 2011
On this episode of Comics Round Table, we get our rage on! We talk about Brightest Day, Thor arguments, Jon has some costumer service complaints, then we get into our round table, before arguing more about Thor.
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We fondly remember 1999: The *NSYNC vs. Backstreet Boys rivalry, celebrating our own spring break in front of the television watching MTV's and — of course — our enormous choker collection, from stretchy fake tattoo necklaces to velvet ribbons, that we wore for every festive occasion.
And, much like our lava lamps and inflatable furniture, we were happy to leave those chokers in the past, but spotting Anna Kendrick in one at Vogue's Triple Threat event made us wonder if we need to start fishing through the depths of our jewelry boxes.
We saw a resurgence of chokers last spring, and Rihanna has been spotted in the look several times, but it wasn't until the generally low-key Kendrick wore hers that we figured the trend had a real chance of making a comeback.
Of course, hers is a little different than the ones we last wore when we had a large Chupa Chup collection, in the sense that it's highly polished and couldn't be mistaken for anything sold at Icing. But we have to say, we're still not sold, so we'll put it to a vote.
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Unlike another invader who came from
the north, I did not descend upon the south to plunder and conquer,
intent on leaving a wake of devastation. No, I came to discover for
myself some of what I have heard so much about, the reawakening of
contemporary southern cooking from Appalachia to the Carolina coast. While I have
heard many good things about contemporary cooking all over the south
and have become familiar with much of it in and around New Orleans of
late, I decided to focus on a path that would lead me from the Blue
Ridge Mountains to the Carolina sea.
Starting out from a weekend of
excellent eating in Philadelphia, I ventured south into Virginia with
my wife and 10 year old son, shooting down past Washington, D.C. to
Charlottesville to reacquaint ourselves with Mr. Jefferson, his home
and his "academical village." Unfortunately, we didn't eat
anything of positive note there, as our time was spent revisiting
old haunts.
Our next evening found us in Lexington,
VA, to some the heart of the old south as it was the home of General
Robert E. Lee. Set amongst the beautiful rolling hills of the
Shenandoah Valley, Lexington is an atmospheric academic town, hosting
both Washington & Lee University and The Virginia Military
Institute. Both institutions boast of close associations to both Lee
and Stonewall Jackson, Lee's close associate and legendary general,
who ultimately succumbed from complications of "friendly fire."
Today though, Lexington has something special for those on the trail
of really good food to go with their history and scenery.
Tucker Yoder of the Red Hen cutting house cured bacon
The Red Hen is a cozy, casual
restaurant located in downtown Lexington with beautiful, big flavored
food that highlights the area's produce and respects the area's
culinary traditions while expressing the culinary creativity of Chef
Tucker Yoder. We sat at the 3 person kitchen bar overlooking the
action, while Chef Yoder, who cooks alone, prepared our dinner and
that of the other guests of the restaurant. Yoder utilized seasonal
locally sourced elements such as rabbit, beets, arugula, grits,
grass-fed beef, wheat berries, favas, house cured bacon from local
heritage pigs and mixed these with ingredients brought to the
mountains like scallops, halibut and chocolate to create a personal
cuisine, that while not strictly local, had a definite sense of place
and personality. Whether doing a version of North Carolina style
barbecue with rabbit, vinegar based bbq sauce and pickling spices or
pairing local, grass-fed beef with stone-ground Anson Mills grits or
a perfect scallop with a bright green arugula sauce with house cured
lardons or any of the other outstanding dishes, Yoder never failed to
please. Amongst the excellent wine pairings, Yoder also poured two
local hard ciders from nearby Foggy Ridge including the crisp and
bracing "First Fruit" and with dessert, the acid-balanced, but
sweet and delicious Pippin Gold. The Red Hen, though easy to miss due
to its diminutive size, is not a restaurant that should be
overlooked. In addition, the nearby Hampton Inn Col Alto, which
incorporates an old mansion, is simply the finest Hampton Inn I have
ever seen, let alone stayed in.
Dishes at the pass at The Red Hen
Hopping on I-81 South, a few hours
later we arrived in Abingdon, Virginia, a town known for a few things
including The Barter Theater, The Martha Washington Inn and the
unfortunately now defunct Camp Sequoya, famous (to me at least) as
the place where my wife and her sisters spent several summers of
their youth. Heretofore always a main attraction of the area,
Abingdon is now also becoming known as a town close to Chilhowie,
Virginia, which is located about twenty minutes further north on
I-81.What is so special about Chilhowie, you ask? While I suppose
there may be other elements to recommend this quaint, blink-of-an-eye
town, there is one thing that must make any contemporary
food-obsessed person make a beeline for it. John Shields and his wife
Karen Urie Shields, with Tru, Charlie Trotter's and Alinea on their
combined resumes, decided several years ago to answer an add seeking
a chef to run a restaurant in the middle of this small town. They
took the job rather than go to Las Vegas to open the new outpost of
Charlie Trotter. Arriving in Chilhowie in January of 2008. With
restaurant owners happy to let them cook as they wished in order to
make Town House a destination restaurant, the husband and wife team
did just that and with an award as one of Food and Wine's 2010 Best
New Chefs, the country has taken notice.
Chef John Shields of Town House
To my palate and experience, John,
Karen and their team is the most Spanish, non-Spanish restaurant I
have experienced in this country. With an aesthetic and sensibility
similar to Andoni Luis Aduriz, Joan Roca and Francisco "Paco"
Morales, the Town House Kitchen is using the best seasonal and local
ingredients to serve exquisitely beautiful and delicious food such as
the stunning "Chilled Vegetable Minestrone" with 19 different
vegetables cut, rolled and placed on end in a bowl with a vegetable
consommé poured around it. Additional highlights included a
self-consciously "Spanish" homage entitled "The Orange From
Valencia" in which liquid nitrogen is used to make an orange "skin"
from orange juice with mussels, marcona almonds, bread crumbs and
other delights occupying the orange's interior and a "risotto" of
squid that utilized neither rice nor dairy products. Karen's desserts
were equally exquisite, employing a symphony of flavors, herbs and
textures to achieve beautiful, harmonious and delicious results.
Since we were the last ones left in the restaurant by the end of our
meal, John & Karen invited our son to help them plate the final
dessert course. His ear to ear grin was priceless.
Vegetable "Minestrone" at Town House
Our son was enthralled throughout the
four hour dinner, tasting and enjoying each dish as well as the
imaginative and successful non-alcoholic pairings prepared
specifically for him (or anyone else who would like them). The wine
pairings poured for my wife, my sister-in-law (who met us to re-visit
Camp Sequoya with my wife) were equally imaginative and satisfying.
Both the wine and non-alcoholic pairings were overseen and served by
Abingdon native, Certified Sommelier Charlie Berg.
Pastry Chef Karen Urie Shields of Town House
Though not limited to sourcing locally,
John & Karen have committed to using the best of what this
agriculturally rich region has to offer. While not the easiest place
to get to, Town House is worth the journey and with accomodations
like their own two-bedroom luxury inn Riverstead or the grand old
Martha Washington Hotel to stay in, it can be quite comfortable as
We continued our journey to the sea,
veering to the southeast to spend some time in the lovely mountain
city of Asheville, N.C. It had been a few years since I had been to
Asheville and it was a great opportunity to reconnect with some old
friends. Asheville has become known as a beer making and beer
drinking city, but that is not what we focused on. Instead, we went
to a non-descript, self-described "dive" of a restaurant located
in West Asheville called The Admiral. Non-descript and divey it may
be, but The Admiral has certainly generated a following in Asheville.
With food as flavorful as we had, it is no surprise that getting a
last minute reservation proved difficult with us having to settle on
the uncivilized time of 5:30PM (but at least they take reservations).
With bold flavors and a lack of pretense, the restaurant struck me as
a southern version of Momofuko Ssam Bar. Keeping the Benton's bacon,
but substituting grits, peaches and green tomatoes for the Asian
accents of David Chang, The Admiral delivered with dishes such as
South Carolina quail with arugula, peach vinaigrette, avocado crema
and pickled onion and Sonoma Farms duck breast with heirloom
tomatoes, pickled plums, Benton's bacon and blue cheese amongst
South Carolina quail at The Admiral
Though not likely to open until late
November, we spent a good part of the rest of the evening bringing
together our old friends with some newer ones, who were telling us
about their upcoming Spanish tapas oriented restaurant called Cúrate
(which has me itching to return to Asheville once it opens). With a
capable, motivated and seasoned team including the man who was
primarily responsible for serving my table with poise, grace and fun
during my first visit to elBulli, who will be responsible for running
the front of the house and with advice and support from such
luminaries as the Adria brothers and Jose Andres, Cúrate has the
potential to be a destination restaurant in its own right.
From Asheville, it was a hop, skip and
a three hour jump straight down I-26 to the sea and Charleston, South
Carolina. Charleston is a fascinating, charming and historic old city
with plenty to recommend it. The city has plenty of excellent
restaurants including ones like Fig, which boasts James Beard award
winner Mike Lata running the kitchen, but on this occasion, the
purpose was to visit a restaurant that has been on my wish list for
quite some time – Sean Brock's McCrady's. What has intrigued me
about Brock and McCrady's has been Brock's way of uniting two of my
favorite culinary interests – preservation of biodiversity as it
pertains to food and the use of creative technique to enhance the
presentation and overall pleasure of a dish. Brock considers his
style with food as "95% refinement and 5% play," using various
tricks from contemporary kitchen tools to enhance the delivery and
sophistication of his dishes. With a farm at his disposal to help
rescue and preserve seed stock of such important southern tradition
foods as benne (the forerunner of modern sesame), Ossabaw pigs and
various other entities, Brock has a kitchen and a pulpit to put them
to use. His house-cured 18 month Ossabaw ham was silky and delicious
in a way that I had never previously experienced outside of eating
the best Jamon Iberico de Bellota in Spain. In the same way, the
Ossabaw tenderloin reminded me in flavor of Iberico tenderloin in
Spain, both cooked to a wonderfully flavorful and juicy medium rare.
Brock is fanatical when it comes to flavor and freshness, using herbs
freshly snipped from his herb garden just outside the restaurants
entrance because, by using them freshly cut, they retain more of
their aromatics and taste better. Brock is just as fanatical though,
about preserving the bounty of the seasons, as much of the
restaurant's kitchen time is spent preserving meats and vegetables
for future consumption through curing, pickling or canning
techniques. In the not too distant future, the Abingdon, Virginia
born and raised Brock is planning on opening an additional restaurant
in Charleston not far from McCrady's, called Husk. This restaurant
will be dedicated to serving nothing but southern food, that is to
say, food from the southern tradition and food that is grown and
raised only in the South. It will be a place where much of Brock's
heirloom seed and livestock are brought back to their rightful places
of culinary glory.
Preserved parsnips at McCrady's
Sherman wreaked havoc and destruction
throughout the South during his march to the sea almost 150 years
ago. Additional destruction and devastation arrived in the south as
with the rest of the country later in the twentieth century as the
rise of modern agricultural practice and large-scale agribusiness
wreaked havoc on Southern culinary traditions nearly eliminating many
heirloom products, putting many small farmers out of business and
white-washing long-standing culinary traditions. Fortunately, thanks
to organizations like The Southern Foodways Alliance and individuals
like Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills and Sean Brock, all has not been
lost. I am happy to say, that in my march to the sea today, southern
food is still alive and prospering with great local product, great
creativity and a respect bordering on reverence for the region.
Depending on the kind of Southern food one is looking for, there may
be different routes to highlight the specific target, such as the
Southern Foodways Alliance's distinct culinary tours. I daresay,
however, that for fine dining, nary a better path for a week's worth
of incredible dining, solemn history and beautiful scenery can be
found to surpass the one described here.
Keep your eyes on this blog for more detailed descriptions of my experiences at the above restaurants.


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Genre : FPS
Publisher: Eidos
Developer: Rocksteady
Release Date: Jun 13, 2006
We first saw Urban Chaos at E3 2005, when it was named Roll Call. Since then, it's seen a name change, but the general themes remain intact: it's a police-based first-person shooter with a focus on ... well, on not dying. It's not squad-based, it's not particularly tactical; it's more about time limits, action-based bonus objectives, popping gangbangers' heads like zits with a shotgun, escorting NPCs to a given objective, and getting set on fire 53 times in rapid succession.
In single-player mode, you are Nick Mason, who's come back to his hometown just in time to watch it get overrun by hockey-masked psychotic gangbangers called the Burners. There are several hundred of them, and they're crazy, which makes it difficult for ordinary police to halt their reign of terror.
You, fortunately, aren't ordinary police. You're a member of the new anti-crime squad, T-Zero, which means ... well, it seems to mean that you get to do things alone a lot. You'll rescue hostages, shoot it out with punks, get Molotovs thrown at you hundreds of times a level (as it turns out, they aren't called the "Burners" for no reason), and generally kick ass all over the city.
Your equipment consists of the usual FPS goodies – shotguns, pistols, a hand taser for nonlethal incapacitation of targets, confiscated Molotov cocktails, meat cleavers, assault rifles, and so on – along with a handy riot shield. You control the shield with the L trigger, and it can stop almost any attack with no harm to you. Granted, Molotovs will still leave you standing in a pool of fire, which kind of sucks, but you can use the shield for instant cover against gunfire, melee attacks, or situational hazards, like flame jets. In certain situations, you'll also have to protect NPCs so they can accomplish tasks for you, such as defending a paramedic while she treats a wounded civilian, or keeping a fireman safe so he's around to knock down obstacles for you.
In each level, in addition to what you're there to accomplish – arresting gang leaders, escorting paramedics, rescuing hostages, clearing an area of gang activity, or what-have-you – you'll be asked to fulfill various bonus objectives. If you can non-lethally incapacitate five or more hoodlums, pull off a certain number of headshots, or find five gang masks as evidence against the Burners, you'll get extra medals. The more medals you get, the more bonuses you unlock: better weapons, an upgraded shield, body armor, higher-capacity clips for your firearms, and so on. If you need a bit of a boost before going on, you can unlock extra missions by arresting gang leaders, or replay old missions in search of new medals.
The single-player mode's not bad, but the multiplayer is probably the big draw of Urban Chaos. Its conceit is that it takes place in the T-Zero team's tactics simulator, pitting small teams of T-Zero police officers against armed and dangerous Burner gang members. T-Zero officers get an impenetrable riot shield, like Mason's, as well as access to all the firearms from the single-player game. You can find others in the field, too, such as dead opponents' dropped shotguns or a rapid-fire sniper rifle.
Burners, on the other hand, have a completely different arsenal. You can wield a Magnum revolver or dual machine pistols, but more importantly, the T-Zero cops' shield is replaced with an infinite supply of Molotov cocktails. You can throw fire around all damn day when you're playing as a Burner, which is sort of like having infinite grenades. If you tag a cop right on, you'll set him on fire, which gives him maybe 10 seconds to live. That's enough time to kill you, but more importantly, it also means you've got a method of getting around his shield. You'll also get to carry around nailbombs and a bandsaw.
I am prepared to defend Urban Chaos's multiplayer game based entirely upon the existence of the bandsaw.
The multiplayer mode is set on nine stages, each inspired by a level of the single-player game, and there are three mission types. Riot mode challenges you to take an area and hold onto it, King of the Hill-style; a Safeguard map has cops defending a set of trucks while the Burners try to destroy them; and Rescue missions see the Burners trying to hold onto a set of civilian hostages while the cops try to grab them and shepherd them back to a rescue point.
It's simple, but it's executed well, and even in this early version, the network code sped along at a good clip. I'm a little worried that snipers own the game, especially with the cops' riot shields, but there's plenty of time to tweak the team balance on certain maps. (Up close, Burners are good; at a distance, the cops own them.)
Urban Chaos isn't perfect – there are way too many escort missions, and the emergency missions seem ridiculously hard – but it's a solid FPS. It's coming out in two weeks, and in these last days of the Xbox, it's a pretty good bet for online shooting action.
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