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Next month the original Fire Emblem will be reborn on the Nintendo DS. Even though North America is no stranger to the strategy series (four games in the franchise have been released here), the game that started it all has never made it stateside. Released on the Japanese Famicom in 1990, Fire Emblem: Dragon of Darkness and Sword of Light introduced our hero Marth, who has become well known due to his appearance in Super Smash Bros.
We've been playing the Famicom game, and while visually it is almost unrecognizable compared to the remake, all the series' deep strategy is instantly familiar. It's really a shame it wasn't released here in the U.S. back in the day, because it would have been one of the most robust and challenging NES games around. That rock/paper/scissors gameplay is in place requiring players to think critically about who attacks who and with what weapon. And the fact that when a Fire Emblem character dies they're gone for good makes this one of the most hardcore strategy experiences around.
Booting up the original, you're treated to a pretty slick title screen followed by profiles of all the character classes. The 8-bit chiptunes that accompany your battles is great. If you're anything like us, you totally nerd out about this stuff. While the cut scenes are all delivered in Japanese, you can make out Marth's cute little face and it's easy to tell which character he is on the battlefield.
The DS remake includes a prologue that wasn't in the original game, so the two products don't begin with the same conflict. Another major difference you'll notice early on with the remake is a lot of tutorial help added to assist newcomers, which is very much in line with Nintendo's current push towards casual gamers.

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In addition, he is well-regarded for his contributions to various other artists' recordings. Belew was nominated for a Grammy in 2005 for his single Beat Box Guitar, in the category Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Adrian Belew's vocals are known for their distinct, sometimes manic feel. Belews singing voice is often compared to that of Talking Heads singer David Byrne. Belew has been the King Crimsons lead vocalist for every incarnation since 1981.
He prevailed through a competitive audition to perform with Frank Zappa in 1977. Belew appeared in Zappa's 1979 concert film Baby Snakes, and also worked in Zappas controversial album Sheik Yerbouti.
He then played for David Bowie's Heroes tour in 1978, and recorded for the double live album Stage. Belew also contributed to Bowie's next album, Lodger.
Belew next assisted Talking Heads on Remain in Light and the subsequent tour. His session credits include Lights Out by Peter Wolf, Earth Moving by Mike Oldfield and Paul Simon's landmark 1986 album Graceland.
In 1981, Adrian Belew contributed to a Ryuichi Sakamoto album called Lefthanded Dream, together with Robin Scott of the pop group M.
The American guitarist worked with Laurie Anderson during the mid-1980s, and appeared on Mister Heartbreak and her subsequent concert film Home of the Brave. He worked as a rubberneck guitar in Lauries concert film.
In the late 1980s, he formed the pop band The Bears with ex-members of The Raisins. The Raisins was a Cincinnati-based band that had some local success in the early 1980s.
With the band, he released two albums, The Bears and Rise and Shine. Belew played synthesized guitar on the song God Shuffled His Feet by Crash Test Dummies in 1993. He again contributed to Laurie Anderson album, Bright Red, in 1994.
During the 1990s and 2000s, he contributed to three Nine Inch Nails albums, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile and Ghosts I-IV.
In 1995 Adrian Belew came up with two tracks on Jars of Clay's debut album, including the crossover Christian hit Flood. Belew has also played for Heads' side projects: the debut album by Tom Tom Club, The Red and the Black by Jerry Harrison, and several tracks of David Byrne's The Catherine Wheel soundtrack.
The Bears released their third album entitled Car Caught Fire in 2001. Adrian Belew is featured prominently on Tori Amos's 2001 album of cover versions, Strange Little Girls.
Belew appeared in a series of Japanese advertisements promoting the mechanic company Daikin. He also contributed his lead guitar stylings to Cyndi Lauper's album, True Colors, Porcupine Tree's album, Deadwing (2005) and a track I Can't Get Behind That.
Belew is featured as primary guitarist on the album Habitat by progressive rock band Man on Fire. In April/May 2006, he toured Australia with local musicians Al Slavik and John Prior from Matt Finish.
Adrian has intermittently toured the U.S. and abroad with his latest band, The Adrian Belew Power Trio. The band came up with their fourth studio album, Eureka, early in 2007.
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Silverlight 5.1.20125.0 plugin for Firefox needs a disc?
Before posting this, I searched on what I thought was relevant keywords & found nothing relevant in the way of answers among the 129 results I got. So I hope this isn't a duplicate or something that will end up being answered with a response like, "Oh, go look at this Tutorial at http://whatever." I hate when that happens.
So Firefox pushed out version 20.0.1 a few hours ago. I decided to get Firefox to check my Add-ons for updates to my existing plugins. One that was flagged was Silverlight. So I downloaded it & started to execute it. It started bopping along & it came to a screen demanding a Silverlight disc. A disc? Are you serious? Silverlight has its own disc? When did that happen? Of course, I've never heard of such a thing so I had to just cancel the install.
Well, I suppose Silverlight is a rather low-priority plugin & I can probably live with the "faulty" one I've got now. Or live without the feature entirely. But I'd sure like to know where such a disc can be procured. For free, of course. Failing that, how can I trick the install into finding what it needs already on my hard drive? Like just about every other bit of maintenance I've ever done.
I vacillated between posting this in this Forum & in the Browser Forum. I hope I made the right choice.
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Did you update the plugin or download a seperate installer? Try the installer from MS instead of updating it through FF.
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Thanks for responding, Robo.
I tried the link you posted. It looks the same as the one I got going through Firefox's own process for checking for updated plugins. I downloaded the .exe offered there. I think it was the same one as I grabbed the other day but I got it again anyway.
Same problem. I closed all my browser windows then executed the .exe I just downloaded. It shows me a screen saying the feature I want is on a CD-ROM or some other removable device. It does offer a Browse button for selecting something off my hard drive but I don't have the faintest idea what to choose.
Any more ideas out there?
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Hi again. :)
I understood your situation. You certainly have some Windows component missing, I suppose. Can you post a screenshot of the dialog box that demands the disc please?
Press Win+R, type "sfc /scannow" and hit Enter. This should put back any missing component and do provide the Windows DVD if demanded during this process.
Report back. :)
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|15 Apr 2013
Hey Robo. Thanks for keeping an eye on this.
I ran sfc /verifyonly because there's something . . . I think it's the Start Menu icon . . . that I modified that makes some sort of allegedly corrupting update to EXPLORER.EXE that sfc would reverse if I let it. So I ran /verifyonly and then
findstr /c:"[SR]" blah blah blah
The ONLY thing it flagged was EXPLORER.EXE, which means there is nothing missing on my system.
Unfortunately, I do not have a Windows 7 Install CD handy. I may have to rustle one of those up. Meanwhile, I still contend that this process should not require either that CD or any other. I don't recall needing a CD to install Silverlight the first time.
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|15 Apr 2013
Hmmm...That's strange!
Found a possible fix:
Backup your registry before doing any change
Try running the installer again.
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|16 Apr 2013
OK Robo. I am officially now surrendering. I am not messing with this any further. This tail has wagged this dog quite long enough. I hardly ever encounter a use for Silverlight. I thought I would keep it up to date since the new Firefox was flagging it. But I am officially now mentally exhausted by this effort. Silverlight can stay at my current antique release level for eternity or until Microsoft figures out a way to make their update work without my spending countless hours debugging their faulty software for them. I used to be in that biz. I've retired from it. I'm not going back there. It's the been there done that syndrome in play.
But I do appreciate your efforts. Thanks greatly.
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OK Robo. I am officially now surrendering. I am not messing with this any further. This tail has wagged this dog quite long enough. I hardly ever encounter a use for Silverlight. I thought I would keep it up to date since the new Firefox was flagging it. But I am officially now mentally exhausted by this effort. Silverlight can stay at my current antique release level for eternity or until Microsoft figures out a way to make their update work without my spending countless hours debugging their faulty software for them. I used to be in that biz. I've retired from it. I'm not going back there. It's the been there done that syndrome in play.
But I do appreciate your efforts. Thanks greatly.
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|16 Apr 2013
Scared? Oh I've done much scarier things than this. No, I am, as I said, tired of chasing this. It has gone beyond the point of diminishing returns for me. It's like system updates that don't work. If they don't work, I hide them and move on. I just don't care to debug other people's software for them. I thought I'd ask about Silverlight but it turns out it's just another of those errors that shouldn't occur. But it does. Like I said, Microsoft may some day come up with an update that actually works. Some day. Until then, Silverlight will languish unused in my system, as it has languished unused for about as long as I can remember. Or if by some miraculous accident I stumble across some site that uses it, which would be a first in at least 2 years for me, then it can use the old plugin I have or I will just close that web page & move on.
Again, thanks anyway.
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|16 Apr 2013
Not a problem brother!
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DENVER – Gov. John Hickenlooper successfully pushed a plan to transfer homeless people to Fort Lyon in southeast Colorado for rehabilitation despite arguments from both Democrats and Republicans against spending more than $10.5 million on the untested program.
The Fort Lyon project isn't the first homeless initiative that Hickenlooper has backed. As mayor of Denver, he launched "Denver's Road Home," an initiative to end homelessness in the city by 2015.
Critics claim that the 10-year initiative has failed to provide sufficient housing and services despite spending more than $10 million a year. Hickenlooper said he planned to make the program 88 percent government funded by 2012, and intended to use part of $1.5 billion in federal stimulus funds for housing and support projects.
"We have been asked lately if the economy is going to impact the progress we are making to end homelessness… We have never been more determined to move this initiative forward," asserted Hickenlooper.
Yet the number of individuals panhandling and sleeping on the streets has escalated, threatening the viability of downtown businesses. That led the Denver City Council to pass the "Urban Camping" ban in May 2012.
Occupy Denver, MoveOn, labor union members and illegal immigrant rights activists who railed against the "1 percent" high income earners and capitalism in 2011, are now protesting so-called "elitists" who supported the "Urban Camping" ban.
The problem of urban campers was evident in October 2011, when Occupy Denver protestors erected 70 tents in Civic Center Park. After ignoring demands to leave by Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Attorney General John Suthers, police in riot gear cleared the park and arrested more than 20 demonstrators.
This week, the coalition plans to protest in front of the Downtown Denver Partnership and The Palm Restaurant. The entities and The Colorado Restaurant Association supported the ordinance, which activists said, "created a law enforcement tool designed to move the homeless out of sight of tourists and residents."
Snooze, a breakfast eatery, reversed its support of the ban after coalition demonstrations disrupted Sunday brunches, and customers complained.
The Palm, frequented by politcos and powerbrokers in Denver, was targeted because Sales Manager Wendy Klein testified in favor of the ban even though the restaurant had provided charitable contributions to help the homeless.
"We need to let The Palm know that criminalizing acts of survival while being homeless is a despicable way to treat another human who needs help," said Irene Clark of MoveOn Denver. "No amount of charity can undo that."
But, Klein said, "There have been verbal confrontations and physical confrontations that have gotten violent," including homeless individuals trying to break into the restaurant, intimidating employees and clients, and stabbing one customer.
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"We're in this for the long haul and this ordinance was always supposed to be the first step to many solutions," said Denver Councilman Albus Brooks, who said the city has added shelter beds and services.
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Max Payne 3 Gets Free "Gorilla Warfare Pack" Multiplayer DLC
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Rockstar has announced the Gorilla Warfare Pack for Max Payne 3, which is available for free to everyone on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. The PC version of the game will also receive this DLC for free on its release date.
The three items included in the pack help players customize their multiplayer loadouts. First is the Gorilla Mask (which can be seen in the image below), which gives extra adrenaline for melee kills from behind. The second item is the Lucky Coin, which gives extra cash when looting bodies. The third and final item is the Booby Trap item, which rigs the player's corpse to explode when looted by another player.
Rockstar had previously released a list of scheduled DLC for the game that begins in June and ends in the fall. Max Payne 3's announced DLC list can be seen here.
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Climate Change: Saving the Planet, Saving Ourselves

Richard Gayl and Dr. Gary Null try to explain why people move to the most dangerous cities, ignoring warnings from climate science.

It is almost obscene to imagine that four of the top ten cities witnessing the largest influx of migrants within the United States are also the most compromised by more immediate climate change and extreme weather conditions: Houston (No. 1), Miami (No. 2), Phoenix (No. 7) and Orlando (No. 10).

Unless the threats the Earth faces are understood and perceived as a threat to our personal well-being and that of our immediate families, loved ones and friends, the constructive, necessary change so direly needed will not unfold.

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Gayl and Null mention the example of respected leaders refusing to see the problem.

Those who need to change the most–elected officials and legislators, corporate CEOs and Chairmen, professional institutions ... refuse to see the problem. And this is clearly evident by the fact that the fossil fuel industry is expanding rather than receding.

More importantly, climatologists underestimate the speed of climate change events.

The statistical and computational models to portend timelines for certain climate tipping points, although highly sophisticated, are unable to account for all variables and trends, particularly unforeseeable catastrophes...

For example,

Based upon satellite data feeds, the Greenland sheets, according to David Barber at the University of Manitoba, are now melting six hundred times faster than the current modeling trends suggest.

In 2016,... scientists identified ... a change in El Nino patterns that are now reaching the Antarctic. [emphasis mine]

Events that can't be predicted, such as wildfires, chemical plant explosions, oil fires, and how many extreme weather events will occur ...

... fall outside the realm of computerized simulations and cannot be accurately included in predictive climate models. For this reason, scientific conclusions are often far more conservative than the actual state of the planet.

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It seems as if our best hope is to help people grasp the way limits to climate models, rather than decreasing our confidence in them, should make us view them as underestimates of danger. It's like expecting uninsured parents to budget precisely how much medical expenses for themselves and their three kids will be a year in advance. Failing precise budgeting, nobody assumes the family can't get sick. Nobody demands god-like foreknowledge. Nobody publicly insults the parents for not knowing exactly in advance what doctors, hospitals, and dentists will cost over the next year. So we shouldn't discount climate scientists for not knowing the unknowable either.

See also Greenland Ice Sheet Melting 600 Percent Faster Than Predicted by Current Models

David Barber says the Greenland ice sheet is losing mass about 600 percent faster than what we expected - than what current models project - at 10:09 in the video.
 Alternative Versions of Yourself tag:atheistnexus.org,2017-12-26:2182797:Topic:2784052 2017-12-26T16:59:17.595Z StinkPalm http://atheistnexus.org/profile/StinkPalm
Could it really be that easy to promote mental flexibility? Could we just help people get used to imagining different versions of themselves, like a sci-fi movie where characters intentionally reinvent themselves to succeed in different worlds.

"Political beliefs are like religious beliefs in the respect that both are part of who you are and important for the social circle to which you belong," said lead author Jonas Kaplan, an…

Could it really be that easy to promote mental flexibility? Could we just help people get used to imagining different versions of themselves, like a sci-fi movie where characters intentionally reinvent themselves to succeed in different worlds.

"Political beliefs are like religious beliefs in the respect that both are part of who you are and important for the social circle to which you belong," said lead author Jonas Kaplan, an assistant research professor of psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. "To consider an alternative view, you would have to consider an alternative version of yourself."

USC when someone sticks to a belief, brain networks becomes active in areas that govern personal identity and emotional responses to threats

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Characters accepting new versions of themselves is part of the attraction of many genres of fiction for me.

Could we just invent alternative worlds, such as an alternative energy future where global cooperation and sustainable lifestyles are the norm, showing resistant characters from now adapting and being happy?

On the other hand, isn't this what current fiction does now to make audiences more violent and nasty, seducing us into identifying with such lead characters? There are so many TV shows which are too disgusting for us to watch because we choose not to be changed into nasty. Case in point, Happy, "which careens between imaginative fantasy and grotesque gore with stomach-turning readiness."
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Climate anxiety doesn't have to ruin your life. Here's how to manage it.

Eve Andrews talks about how climate change isn't just an existential threat, it a unique threat. Coping means facing your own death and finding your own way to make a difference, remembering that doing your part matters.

... because you know what you should do to foil it: Don't…

Climate anxiety doesn't have to ruin your life. Here's how to manage it.

Eve Andrews talks about how climate change isn't just an existential threat, it a unique threat. Coping means facing your own death and finding your own way to make a difference, remembering that doing your part matters.

... because you know what you should do to foil it: Don't drive, don't fly, don't eat meat, don't buy lots of things, don't vote for (most) Republicans. But in practice, it's hard to do many of those things. At best, they are mildly inconvenient; at worst, they obstruct your daily life and long-term goals.

And climate change — while slow-moving — has already begun to alter the places in which we live in ways that cannot be reversed. That, to the average person, is a viscerally depressing sentiment.

Here's what I gleaned: Confront the end of your own life, and then figure out one thing you can do to channel your anxiety effectively.

A portion of environmental psychologist Renee Lertzman's work is devoted to what she calls "environmental melancholia," our unconscious sadness over ecological loss and degradation.

No one likes being told what to do. They also don't typically enjoy pondering their demise. But resistance to confronting climate change is essentially choosing not to think about your own death. [emphasis mine]

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That is the guiding philosophy of Michael Apathy, a psychotherapist in New Zealand who treats environmental anxiety. In some of his younger patients, he says, he's seeing "a real terror and despair that the picture of our individual and collective future is just so, so dark."

But feeling terror and despair isn't the same as truly coming to grips with the fatal implications of climate change. They're the product of futility brought about by anxiety — the running-in-circles sensation of not being able to do enough to save the world.

"The impulse to do something proactive is very, very healthy, ... But when that becomes over-relied on as a substitute for facing the fear and deep rage and loss periodically, we get uncreative and disillusioned and backed up against a wall." [emphasis mine]

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... there are a million ways to attack a problem as big as climate change. A single one of them can't fix the problem, of course, but each chips a piece off the carbon burden. It's up to you to figure out which one can be your strongest little pickaxe, and how to wield it to have the most impact. [emphasis mine]
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In his somewhat lengthy video, Jerry Kroth, Ph.D. (Associate Professor Emeritus in the graduate counseling psychology program at Santa Clara University in California) castigates liberals for displacement, a form of self-delusion, regarding climate change. I must confess, his accusation that efforts to…

In his somewhat lengthy video, Jerry Kroth, Ph.D. (Associate Professor Emeritus in the graduate counseling psychology program at Santa Clara University in California) castigates liberals for displacement, a form of self-delusion, regarding climate change. I must confess, his accusation that efforts to improve our carbon footprints, support activist organizations, and talk about the dangers of climate change fall short of what's necessary to save the planet.

He compares effective anti-war activism which halted the Vietnam War to our total lack of similar effective activism to halt climate change. We would be protesting around every coal plant, pipeline, and cargo vessel bringing in Chinese goods, he says, if we're serious.

Kroth says that a third of the US population buys into climate denial, and another third engages in displacement behavior such as vegetarianism and symbolic identity acts. In a sense he's painting everything I say here warning about climate change, and my lifestyle changes, as being as useful as a parent praying to reverse his adult child's drug use and petty crime. As long as I watch a flat screen TV, and use heat and air conditioning, and eat imported fruit, apparently, I'm self-deluded to think I make any difference at all.

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 Celebrities as fake neighbors hiding faceless corporations tag:atheistnexus.org,2016-12-30:2182797:Topic:2727739 2016-12-30T02:29:10.386Z StinkPalm http://atheistnexus.org/profile/StinkPalm
Weapon of Mass Distraction: Donald Trump Has Conned America into the Abyss

Prior to reading George Monbiot's insightful article, I never understood celebrity culture.

The rise of celebrity culture did not happen by itself. It has long been cultivated by advertisers, marketers and the media. And it has a function. The more distant…

Weapon of Mass Distraction: Donald Trump Has Conned America into the Abyss

Prior to reading George Monbiot's insightful article, I never understood celebrity culture.

The rise of celebrity culture did not happen by itself. It has long been cultivated by advertisers, marketers and the media. And it has a function. The more distant and impersonal corporations become, the more they rely on other people's faces to connect them to their customers.

 It is hard for people to attach themselves to a homogenised franchise, owned by a hedge fund whose corporate identity consists of a filing cabinet in Panama City. So the machine needs a mask. It must wear the face of someone we see as often as we see our next-door neighbours.

An obsession with celebrity does not lie quietly beside the other things we value; it takes their place.  A study published in the journal Cyberpsychology reveals that an extraordinary shift appears to have taken place between 1997 and 2007. In 1997, the dominant values (as judged by an adult audience) expressed by the shows most popular among 9-11 year olds were community feeling, followed by benevolence. Fame came 15th out of the 16 values tested. By 2007, when shows like Hannah Montana prevailed, fame came first, followed by achievement, image, popularity and financial success. Community feeling had fallen to 11th; benevolence to 12th.

The blander and more homogenised the product, the more distinctive the mask it needs to wear.

The role of such people is to suggest that there something more exciting behind the logo than office blocks and spreadsheets.

The celebrities you see most often are the most lucrative products, extruded through a willing media by a marketing industry whose power no one seeks to check. This is why actors and models now receive such disproportionate attention, capturing much of the space once occupied by people with their own ideas.

You don't have to read or watch many interviews to see that the principal qualities now sought in a celebrity are vapidity, vacuity and physical beauty. They can be used as a blank screen onto which anything can be projected. Those who have least to say are granted the greatest number of platforms on which to say it.

Celebrity has a second major role: as a weapon of mass distraction. The survey published in the International Journal of Cultural Studies I mentioned earlier also reveals that people who are the most interested in celebrity are the least engaged in politics, the least likely to protest and the least likely to vote.

In Donald Trump we see a perfect fusion of the two main uses of celebrity culture: corporate personification and mass distraction. His celebrity became a mask for his own chaotic, outsourced and unscrupulous business empire. His public image was the perfect inversion of everything he and his companies represent: as presenter of the US version of The Apprentice, this spoilt heir to humungous wealth became the face of enterprise and social mobility.

... celebrity is the lieutenant of exploitation. [emphasis mine]

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/narcissist-chief-psychopathology-explains-donald-trumps-depravity

Alfie Kohn summarizes my own thoughts about the soon to be elevated Denier In Chief.…

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/narcissist-chief-psychopathology-explains-donald-trumps-depravity

Alfie Kohn summarizes my own thoughts about the soon to be elevated Denier In Chief.

Even before he ran for president, Trump had been Exhibit A for the axiom that it's possible to be rich and famous without being a successful human being, psychologically or morally speaking.

Donald Trump has distinguished himself as someone who is:

* given to boasting, preening, and swaggering to the point of self-parody;

* not merely thin-skinned and petulant but vindictive when crossed or even criticized;

* restless, with the attention span of a toddler;

* desperately competitive, driven to sort the world into winners and losers, and to regard other people (or countries) primarily as rivals to be bested;

* astonishingly lacking not only in knowledge but in curiosity;

* not merely given to uttering blatant falsehoods on a more or less constant basis but apparently unaware of the extent of his dishonesty, as if the fact that he believes or has said something makes it true; and

* possessed of a sense of absolute entitlement -- such that if he wants to kiss or grab an attractive woman, for example, he should of course be free to do so -- along with a lack of shame, humility, empathy, or capacity for reflection and self-scrutiny.

It's not just that he lacks the cognitive wherewithal to view himself as others view him (or to reflect on his failings) but that his psychological makeup is such that he can't bear to stop and think about who he is;...

Similarly, while his speech rarely ventures beyond elementary-school vocabulary or grammar, what's more alarming than his cognitive limitations is his egocentrism. One careful analysis found that he inclines not only to the monosyllabic but to the megalomaniacal: The single word he uses more than any other is "I" -- and his fourth-favorite word is his own name. Donald Trump seems to me a textbook illustration of how a lifelong campaign of self-congratulation and self-aggrandizement (acquiring as much as possible and then pasting his name on everything he owns) represents an attempt to compensate for deeply rooted insecurity.

He doesn't even bother -- or maybe just lacks the sophistication -- to conceal how desperate is his craving for attention and approval, how precarious is his mental state.

The vulnerability, the naked need, would almost occasion our pity were it not for the potentially catastrophic consequences when someone with this profile is in a position of power.

This is not someone who is merely narcissistic in the colloquial, casual sense of the term, meaning that he's selfish or self-centered. This is someone with a psychiatric disorder in all its flagrant, florid particulars.

How is it possible that almost half the voters, even those who like his values and disliked his ... opponent, could have listened to him taunt and lie and bully his way through a campaign and then said, "Yep. That's who should be in charge of the country"?

It's not just that he's an extreme risk-taker, but that he takes those risks purely in the service of his own wealth and glory.

... what he has is an overwhelming need to be the center of attention, to be liked, feared, admired.

His hunger for approval means he's likely to keep surrounding himself with those who tell him what he wants to hear and flatter him -- the engine of Shakespearean tragedies. His belligerence and volatility, that hair-trigger temper, are the last qualities you want to see in someone holding a position of power, particularly when they're coupled with a childish us-versus-them view of the world: xenophobic nationalism and compulsive competitiveness. His disorder leaves no room for consensus and collaboration.

John Oliver urged us to keep reminding ourselves, "A Klan-backed misogynist Internet troll is going to be delivering the next State of the Union address. This is not normal." Furthermore, we'll need to remember that what's abnormal here isn't just a set of positions and policies but the psychological state of the person who will be in charge. [emphasis mine]

It was a toss-up whether this belonged in Psychology or Dark Atheists.
 A culture designed to make you feel like shit tag:atheistnexus.org,2016-07-25:2182797:Topic:2699429 2016-07-25T23:14:50.317Z StinkPalm http://atheistnexus.org/profile/StinkPalm
In How Your Insecurity Is Bought and Sold, Mark Manson delves into marketing, particularly how advertising succeeds by magnifying insecurity. He paints a disturbing convincing portrait of a distorted society, where capitalism feeds on our worst. In fact, it strongly resembles GOP strategy described…

In How Your Insecurity Is Bought and Sold, Mark Manson delves into marketing, particularly how advertising succeeds by magnifying insecurity. He paints a disturbing convincing portrait of a distorted society, where capitalism feeds on our worst. In fact, it strongly resembles GOP strategy described here.

It all started with Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, pushing tobacco (of course).

... in 1928, the American Tobacco Company hired Edward Bernays,...

Through Freud, Bernays understood something nobody else in business ever understood before him: that if you can tap into people's insecurities — if you can needle at their deepest feelings of inadequacy — then they will buy just about any damn thing you tell them to.

When I first studied marketing when I started my first business, I was told to find people's "pain points" and then subtly make them feel worse. Then turn around and tell them my product will make them feel better.

In our culture today, marketing often is the message. The vast majority of information that we're exposed to is some form of marketing. And so if the marketing is always trying to make you feel like shit to get you to buy something, then we're essentially existing in a culture designed to make us feel like shit and we'll always want to overcompensate in some way. [emphasis mine]

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... Bernays' political views were like a diet version of fascism — he believed that it was both inevitable and in everybody's best interests that the weak be exploited by the strong through media and propaganda. He called it "the invisible government" and generally thought the masses were stupid and deserving of whatever smart people convinced them to do.

... in a capitalist system, it also becomes economical to feed into everyone's insecurities, their vices and vulnerabilities, to promote their worst fears and constantly remind them of their shortcomings and failures. It becomes profitable to set new and unrealistic standards, to generate a culture of comparison and inferiority. Because people who constantly feel inferior make the best customers.

After all, people only buy something if they believe it will solve a problem. Therefore, if you want to sell more stuff than there are problems, you have to encourage people to believe there are problems where there are none.

... the system simply creates certain incentives that shapes media, and then the media go on to shape a callous and superficial culture based on trying to always live up to something.

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Wasn't it 2016 just yesterday? Has a time machine malfunctioned? How does it feel like 2100 today?

Remember Paris? - - - - COP-21?

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Wasn't it 2016 just yesterday? Has a time machine malfunctioned? How does it feel like 2100 today?

Remember Paris? - - - - COP-21?

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We want to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C rise by 2100, the world agreed.

Already we're already up to our ankles.

… the year-to-date temperature through April is 1.45°C above the average from that period.

"The fact that we are beginning to cross key thresholds at the monthly timescale is indeed an indication of how close we are getting to permanently exceeding those thresholds," Michael Mann,…

Given the head start this year has over last, there is a more than 99 percent chance that 2016 will best 2015 as the hottest year on the books, according to Gavin Schmidt,… [emphasis mine]

'99 Percent Chance' 2016 Will Be Hottest Year

 Quirky Queer Comic Breaks Through tag:atheistnexus.org,2015-06-14:2182797:Topic:2611688 2015-06-14T17:23:47.405Z StinkPalm http://atheistnexus.org/profile/StinkPalm
You too can be an effective climate change communicator: 3 EZ Steps!

Peterson Toscano, a quirky, queer Quaker comic created an effective communication strategy to overcome climate change silence. Leave it to a comic to best the entire pantheon of professional psychologists and communication…

You too can be an effective climate change communicator: 3 EZ Steps!

Peterson Toscano, a quirky, queer Quaker comic created an effective communication strategy to overcome climate change silence. Leave it to a comic to best the entire pantheon of professional psychologists and communication specialists.

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Have you tried to talk about Climate Change and met this reaction?

I saw a look on people's faces that I have rarely ever seen before. In fact, I did not know what to call it. It wasn't resistance or anger, fear, confusion, and definitely not delight. The people I spoke to had an inscrutable look on their faces. Their expressions smoothed out and then went blank, drained of all emotion, even devoid of apathy. It was like I had been talking to a fully animated action figure when suddenly someone pulled the plug. Blank, dull, flat, even their eyes lost luster and focus.

People

... hear climate change and immediately downloaded into their brains are messages and images of dire gloomy overwhelming guilty hopeless dread. And polar bears. That literally short circuits the brain.

Collective Silence. I call it climate change-induced zombie syndrome.

"In real life, it seems that the most influential climate narrative of all may be the non-narrative of collective silence." George Marshall

Here's his strategy:

First: Identify some important part of yourself: As as (parent, race car driver, fry master at McDonalds…whatever

Second: Reframe the climate conversation: say something like: I am not an environmentalist, but I am concerned about climate change. (and if you are an environmentalist try this: Sure, I'm an environmentalist, but I don't see climate change as simply an environmental issue)

Third, Explain yourself and one aspect of climate change that moves you but one that is outside of the traditional environmentalist talking points.

His example helps:

I had dinner recently with a friend and her parents who were visiting form California. Evangelical Christians, they have been to my house and know my husband well and they know about my work as a queer comic performance artist. After we ordered my friend turned to her parents and said, "Peterson is working on some new topics including climate change." Before climate change-induced zombie syndrome set in, I blurted out, "Yeah, it's funny, I'm not an environmentalist, but I am concerned about climate change as a faith issue." My friend's mother responded. "I'm not an environmentalist either," she then added, "but how is climate change a faith issue?" Wait, What?!? someone not only listening but asking questions about climate change. Yummy. I told her, "Well there are so many stories in the Bible about water and wells. So much happen at wells—conflict, romance, new beginnings, despair, and hope." She perked up, "Yes, I can see that, and you know we have had this terrible drought in California…" And we went on from there.

 Billionaire Terrorists Steal Your Future tag:atheistnexus.org,2015-05-17:2182797:Topic:2604460 2015-05-17T04:30:36.540Z StinkPalm http://atheistnexus.org/profile/StinkPalm
The awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit

Survivable IPCC Projections Are Based On Science Fiction

What's it like for a civilization to hide from approaching doom? For a small group of billionaires to trick everyone until…

The awful truth about climate change no one wants to admit

Survivable IPCC Projections Are Based On Science Fiction

What's it like for a civilization to hide from approaching doom? For a small group of billionaires to trick everyone until it's too late?

How could they create a sly looming destruction that no one will mention? To steal meaning, to suck away all life ahead - while horror seeps into reality.

What's the psychology of our complicity?

In a doomed civilization, language tricks abound.

Leaders' and experts' stories shift around.

What makes this idea of projected large-scale Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) even more perverse is the talk by policymakers of a "carbon budget". This refers to the amount of fossil fuel that can be burned before we are at risk of reaching a 2°C rise in global mean temperature. It is quite clear that we have no carbon budget whatsoever. The account, far from being in surplus, is horrendously overdrawn. To claim we have a few decades of safely burning coal, oil and gas is an utter nonsense.

The emissions to date are colossal and the warming effect is delayed by around 40 years. Therefore, even if we halt emissions, we know there is much more warming to come. That will also set off other positive feedbacks along the way that will amplify the warming further, stretching over centuries.[emphasis mine] Nick Breeze

Humans are subject to intense status quo bias. Especially on the conservative end of the psychological spectrum — which is the direction all humans move when they feel frightened or under threat ...

Climate scientists, Geden says, feel pressure to provide the good news. ... And so they construct models showing that it is possible to hit the 2°C target. The message is always, "We're running out of time; we've only got five or 10 years to turn things around, but we can do it if we put our minds to it."

That was the message in 1990, in 2000, in 2010. How can we still have five or 10 years left? The answer, Geden says, is that scientists are baking increasingly unrealistic assumptions into their models.

The scenarios that show a high likelihood of avoiding 2°C also presume policy regimes that are positively utopian: a rising price on carbon, harmonized across every country in the world; the availability, maturation, and rapid deployment of every known low-carbon technology; all bets paying off, for 50 years straight.

Now models routinely show 4 or even 6 percent annual reductions, a rate of emissions decline that has never been achieved by anyone, anywhere, ever, much less consistently over 50 years. [emphasis mine] David Roberts

It's become clear that the IPCC projections for achieving only a 2°C rise are based on fantasy. We're living out the worst scenario RCP8.5. Technologies to remove carbon from the air, that are supposed to save us, don't exist. The official science used by politicians isn't technically a lie.

...after all, they didn't *hide* the unrealistic assumptions, they are right there in Appendix 17 for anyone interested. David Roberts

Scientists' made-to-seem-possible projections work like deceiving to the public.

May CO2 Peak Shows Trend Is Up, Up, Up

... not only is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere going up every year, the amount by which it is doing so is accelerating;...

Currently humanity is on the worst case scenario of RCP 8.5 which takes us to 2°C warming by mid century and 4°C warming by the end of the century. As Professor Schellnhuber, from Potsdam Institute for Climate Research (PIK) said, "the difference between two and four degrees is human civilisation".

 In 2009 the International Union of Forest Research Organisations delivered a report to the UN that stated that the natural carbon sink of trees could be lost at a 2.5°C temperature increase. The ranges for RCP 4.5 and RCP 6 both take us over 2.5°C and any idea that we can survive when the tree sink flips from being a carbon sink to a carbon source is delusional. [emphasis mine] Nick Breeze

I constantly read of newly discovered positive feedbacks left out of the IPCC projections. Their potential synergy boggles the mind. While "the future" is being hollowed out, a facade of normalcy grips everyone.

And nobody wants to be the one to pee in the punch bowl. David Roberts

This is our trajectory, as I see it.

source for diagrams b,c, and d

That's crossing a tipping point. We have already crossed one with Arctic Ice, sooo many more waiting.

Irreversible catastrophic changes lie ahead, brought to you by billionaire eco terrorists.

(The "billionaire eco terrorists" framing thanks to Robert Hunziker in Methane's Danger Accelerating.)

Humans are subject to intense status quo bias. Especially on the conservative end of the psychological spectrum — which is the direction all humans move when they feel frightened or under threat ...


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Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh – A Review
Partition that has left many scars in the hearts of several Indians and those tragic days which still haunt the new India, the memories of that tragic period still makes people shiver, are brought alive through a great novel by Khushwant Singh. This story is set across during the time when India was butchered into two nations of India and Pakistan. This book was first published in 1956 when the horrendous memories of the holocaust were still afresh in everybody's minds. The present edition released on the occasion of its 50th anniversary includes the heart-rending photographs contributed by Margaret Bourke-White (who is?). The Images provided by her go very well go with the inner sense of the story and show the intensity of the Partition and the exodus of over a million immigrants, the largest in human history. It is well known that the Partition was carried out upon instigation of the British and based on communal lines. While the politics behind this tragic incident is what is most talked about, , this piece of fiction by the author has attempted to bring forth the sufferings faced by commoners.
The story primarily revolves around a fictional village located along the borders, named by author as Mano Majra. The story begins with a vivid description of how the village was like. It is followed by a dramatic incident that took place there one night. Ram Lal, the village money lender is killed by a neighbouring village's dacoit, Malli. Now the story shifts to its main characters Juggut Singh, Iqbal and Hukum Chand. Juggut Singh is arrested as murder suspect by the police. He is portrayed as local badmaash of the village who loves only daughter of half blind mulla of the village named as Nooran. On the other side, Iqbal, a social reformer, is a visiting commie in disguise who wants to mobilize support for the socialist party of India. Then we come across the character of Hukum Chand who is the village magistrate.
The descriptions of various characters in the story are presented in great detail that may allow the reader to form picture of what all happened. The village is portrayed to be a peaceful and harmonius place until the seeds of hatred and suspicion were sown . The story can be viewed from different angles. If it was a love story between a Sikh boy and Muslim girl, it was also a story that depicted the brutalities suffered by the people generated as a result of partition. Not just this, it also tried to show how people viewed famous personalities like Mahatma Gandhi in some way or the other. The bravery of Juggat Singh is brought about in the story, when he attempted to save several innocent lives and his lady-love, Nooran too. The crisis began when the horrifying train with corpses entered the village. Moreover the brutally mutilated bodies evoked the furies and drove the Hindus of Mano Majro to shoo away the Muslims who were till then their good friends and kin-like. Various situations that lead to one incident from another and the author weaves a heart-wrenching story in the backdrop of Partition.
The story by Khushwant Singh even being a work of fiction is very close to reality in terms of the scenes that are created. The story has a tone that is quite depressing and touches the core of the heart. This book is a must read for all those who want to get a glimpse of what had happened as consequence of one of the most saddened episodes of not just of the history of the subcontinent but also in human history.
Reeti Mahobe


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- Hard to play in early game
Summoner Spells
Flash: I my opinion Flash is the most useful Summoner Spell for Akali because, you can use it for catching up a low enemy with Flash + Shadow Dance, that gives you very good possibilities for a kill. You can also use it as a very strong surviveability. You can use it through walls or you can throw your Shroud, pull the enemy inside and when the shroud is about to disappear you use flash. It would save you a lot of times.
Ignite: with the mastery Burning Embers you get 10+ AP which is very useful in early game, Ignite is also a excellent spell for a lot of kills in early game.
I have chosen a 21-6-3 talent tree.
I have picked 21 in offense for extra: Ability Power, Magic Penetration, Attack Damage, Armor Penetration for much better damage.
The last 9 points I have divided with 6 in Defense and 3 in Utility. I have choosen bonus Armor, Magic Resistance and Health Regen for some extra surviveability.l
Twin Disciplines (Passive): This is what makes Akali to a very strong hybrid. She gains bonus damage for every 5 AP and spell vampire for every 10 AD.
Mark of the Assassin: (Q) The most of Akali's damage is from this ability. It can be used for: harassing people, kill steal, jungle and make a lot of damage if you can make the double burst damage. I prefer this tactic inside Shroud: For the double hit you throw it at your enemy, then wait until the Mark is ready again, autoattack use it again and autoattack. Then you can make bunches of damage on few seconds.
Twilight Shroud: (W) This one is Akali's stealth ability. It is very nice for you when the enemies have almost killed you. I use it for checking bushes, escaping, kill enemies while they towerdive + 1v1 fights, slow enemies or trick the enemies when you are escaping. Sometimes there is some enemy champions who are to dumb and greedy so they could towerdive or just running through it and thinks you keep running. At tower you can throw it when they come to survive or let them hit you once more (depends on how low you are) and then use it so they get slowed and then it could be an easy kill. You can also as I said trick the enemy and then run in the other direction and use Shadow Dance at an enemy creep to improve your distance to the enemy champion, and then flee in to the woods.
Cresent Slash: (E) This is the only AoE ability Akali got. I use it for farming in lanes or bursting down the enemy. This ability gets improved with both AP and AD.
Shadow Dance: (R) This is Akali's ultimate. When Akali engages an enemy, it won't get away. You can use it for a lot of things: escape, chase the enemy fast with the highly amount of damage it deals, kill steal and surprise attacks.
My burst rotation: Q->R-> Autoattack -> Q->E-> Q -> W if you have too.
Greater Mark of Insightx9 (8,55): Magic Penetration boosts your damage.
Greater Seal of Potencyx9 (5,31): Will help you activate and improve Descipline of Force. It also improves: Mark of the Assasin (Q), Cresent Slash (E) and Shadow Dance (R)
Greater Glyph of Potencyx9(8,91): Same as above.
Greater Quintessence of Insigt: 3x Greater Quintessence of Insight for the extra Magic Penetration which will increase the damage by all of the spells.
Core Items:
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Lich Bane
Rabadon's Deathcap
Mejai's Soulstealer
Dorans Blade: It will activate the passive which gives spellvamp, very useful in early game (sell it when you are going to buy Deathcap, or when you got full inventory and have to buy a important item)
Boots of Swiftness: I prefer these beacuse they have a lot of speed and it is good for Akali, it will help you catch up enemies or get away faster. You can also buy Mercury's Treads if the team got very much CC, or Sorcerese's Shoes for the Magic Penetration.
Sheen -> Lich Bane: Very important to buy, because of the high amount of damage. (The third core item you have to finish)Buy Lich bane after Rylai's Crystal Scepter.
Mejai's Soulstealer: A very good item because of the high amount Ability Power you get. (The first Core item you have to finish)
Hextech Revolver -> Hextech Gunblade: Very nice for Akali because of the Spell Vamp, Life Steal, AP and AD.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter: Is very good because of the 80+ AP and the 500+ helth, plus you will be able to cite/slow the enemy with Shadow Dance and Mark of the Assassin.(The second Core item you have to finish)
Rabadon's Deathcap: It is the last item to make your build fantastic and done. It will give you ****loads Ability Power and the 30% bonus is just exceptional!
When you are going to gank enemies buy Elixir of Brilliance for the extra AP. Also when you have finished all items buy Elixir of Brilliance, Fortitude and Agility everytime you have money for it. It will boost your damage!
Early Game: Go middle lane, but if that isn't available go with a tank or a very good carry. In early game you have to play a little defensive, but when you the chance shows up, do some harassment. Last hit the creeps and don't die. If it is possible you will have to get 1-3 kills before you reach level 6. Every time your team is ready you have to kill the dragon.
Mid Game: In the middle of the game you will have some kills and maybe 8-12 stacks with Mejai's Soulstealer. In level 8-18 you have to gank a lot. Akali is the strongest ganker and if you can get 20 stacks Mejai's it's a win. Also it would be a great idea for you to kill Golem and Lizard buff everytime they respawn, because they are prety good.
Late Game: In late game you will have a bunch of kills, if it's a good game and you will be able to kill tower and heroes very fast. You would still need to kill Golem, Lizard and now Baron and buy all 3 flasks. In late game your awesome build should be done. In late game people will buy Oracle, so everytime you see an enemy be sure they haven't oracle or else your surviveabilities are minimized. And now it shouldn't be that hard to win, if the game isn't finished already.
1. Be careful in the start.
2. Last hit a lot!
3. Get 1-3 kills in the start
4. Jungle when creeps respawn (Golem, Lizard and Dragon)
5. Remember the rotation
6. Gank and push
7. Kill squishy heroes for easy stacks
8. Double Mark burst
9. Use your surviveabilities, don't get killed too much
10. Enjoy!
If you just follow this guide in every single step your enemies will die hard and fear you everytime they see you. You will be the carry on your team so you will be deadly and kill anyone, anytime. This is my first guide so please be patient and write a comment below.
Hope you have enjoyed my guide. It would cheer me up if you write a comment, because this is my first uploaded build! :)
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Today marks the end of my first month in Spain. Thus far, it's been a rollercoster of emotions, which is uncomfortable to hear from a guy, but whatever. Honestly, there are many days where it's hard to find the will to get out of bed and face my roommates (who are Mexican, though they speak excellent English). The largest barrier is language: no amount of mental exercises can prepare you for the difficulty of live in another one. Living here is giving me a peek into the daily life of an introvert, I do believe.
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Sony has confirmed with Kotaku that there have been layoffs today at the company's San Diego studio.
Sony has confirmed with Kotaku that there have been layoffs today at the company's San Diego studio.
The digital version of MLB 14 The Show is experiencing a game delay. Several tipsters alerted us to the digital delay earlier today, upset that the game, slated for release at 12:01 am this morning, was still a no show. An update to the release announcement post on the PlayStation Blog cites "unforeseen technical…
MLB The Show Launches April 1 on PS3, Arrives in May for PS4
MLB 14 The Show will release April 1 on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita and will arrive in May on PS4, Sony said today, ending an anxious stretch for baseball fans wondering if they would be playing a new version of the game on Opening Day.
First News on MLB 14 The Show Comes From Taiwan, Not Sony
Assuming MLB 14 The Show releases on the first Tuesday of March, as the series has since 2008, then we're five weeks from its anticipated launch and we have to go to freaking Taiwan for our first look at gameplay video. The game hasn't even gotten an official release date. Sony, you owe baseball fans some news. Now.
Once Again, Baseball Sends Up a Pinch-Hitter on the Xbox
For the second straight year we've gotten a January surprise with regards to baseball video games. And for the second straight year, it only nominally keeps Xbox as a relevant platform for Major League Baseball fans.
A-Rod May Not Be in MLB's Next Video Game, but Virtual PEDs Will
Alex Rodriguez was suspended yesterday for the entire 2014 Major League Baseball season. I've emailed the makers of MLB the Show to ask what this means as far as the roster of the next game, which releases in March. One thing that probably won't change, however, is The Show's own form of performance enhancing drugs.
Sports Video Games in 2013: A Year in Decline
To a video gamer, the pairing was so natural that I didn't recognize how unusual it really was. On Oct. 12, ESPN broke up its top two announcing teams to put Brad Nessler and Kirk Herbstreit in the booth for the network's Texas A&M-Ole Miss nightcap. The two have, virtually anyway, worked millions of games together in…
The PS4's Baseball Game Just Saved Thousands of Promising Careers
There's a ritual dedicated sports gamers go through with each new season. The excitement of peeling the shrinkwrap off the latest edition of NHL or NBA 2K quickly gives way to the realization that, once again, we're going to throw away our promising careers.
MLB 14 The Show on PS4 is the Only Next-Gen Baseball Game
Forget about baseball on Xbox One next year, if this image touting MLB 14 The Show is any indication.
In a Sports Video Game, There Are No Second Acts
Trailing four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, it was apparent the Yankees were already thinking about room service. Koji Uehara, the Boston relief pitcher, barely needed the free-swinging help to extend his personal equivalent of a perfect game from 11 innings to 12 on just nine pitches.
A-Rod's Already Serving a Suspension—in a Video Game
You may be following the saga of Alex Rodriguez, who was suspended today by Major League Baseball for more than 200 games but kinda not really, because Rodriguez may continue to play as he appeals the penalty. He's expected to join the Yankees tonight in Chicago. Know where A-Rod isn't playing, though? MLB 13 The Show.
Baseball Video Games Don't Decide Who's Left, Only Who's Right
Yesterday a reader sent me a screenshot in MLB 13 The Show of Nick Markakis, the Baltimore outfielder, taking his position at shortstop after pinch-hitting for J.J. Hardy. To a casual fan, it sort of sits there, waiting for you to guess what's wrong. Here's a hint: In real life, Markakis throws lefthanded.
Can You Play a Game Without the National Anthem? I Do It All The Time.
Hat in right hand, right hand over heart, I raised my beer cup with my left and took a sip. Dad chided me for that, so I put it down. The singer was behind the beat on The Star-Spangled Banner. My thumb tapped against my cap's bill. A distinctly video-game thought came to me: Can't we just button through this?
Baseball's Video Game Diehards Savor a Slow Dance on the Basepaths
Paul Goldschmidt fishes for the 1-1 slider way outside of the strike zone. He kicks dirt over the batter's box chalk, walks in a counterclockwise semicircle, fidgets with the brim of his helmet, and digs back in. Jon Garland rolls his shoulders and sweeps his foot twice over the pitching rubber. Now I may press X.
Still Traveling the Road to the Show, Even After Flunking Out of It
Ten years ago I was demoted in my job at the now-dead Rocky Mountain News. The subject is not something I talk about much, but it happened, and I worked with plenty of people who knew the score. The situation wasn't handled well, by either me or my bosses. Ultimately, it ended my newspaper career.
Dodger Fans Can Hit Carlos Quentin as Many Times as They Like Tonight
The Dodgers and Dodger fans want Carlos Quentin's ass on a platter but they will not get it. Not until June. But thanks to the magic of video games, and MLB 13 The Show's "The Show Live", you can hit him in every single plate appearance he should have made at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Okay, Seamheads, Your Ultra-Real MLB The Show Rosters Have Arrived
Not that MLB 13 The Show has no roster support, it's just limited in what it can do in the minor leagues. That's where Operation Sports' roster editors come in—every single year.
MLB 13 The Show: The Kotaku Review
The oldest memory I have is of catching a baseball. Coming from a sports fan, this may sound like treacly, lump-in-your-throat stuff, but it's true. I was three years old. My father was mowing one side of our front lawn, I was standing in the other, and I underhanded a pop fly into the air. It hung up there forever…
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For the second time in as many seasons the Atlanta Braves have tried to use the "Screaming Brave" patch on an official uniform piece and pulled it back under public outcry, leaving MLB The Show holding the bag.
New Caps, Old Parks Welcome You Back to The Show
Do sports video games deserve a spoiler alert? If I don't put one here, I'm sure someone will complain about it. Over the weekend I heard various reports of MLB 13 The Show being sold before it's supposed to hit shelves next week. Someone got their hands on a copy and have been feeding Operation Sports all kinds of…


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Great idea, Richard. Maybe also Muslim clergymen could start wearing crosses to reach out to Christians. But of course that will never happen. The "outreach" always and in every case goes one way, and one way only. Richard Chartres here quotes St. Paul: "I become all things to all men that by all possible means I might save some." But he doesn't really want to save Muslims, i.e., challenge them with the truth, much less call them to Christianity. He just wants to welcome and "affirm" them, to show what a diverse, multiculti fellow he is.
Christian clergymen in the West are generally confusing appeasement and fear with charity and respect, and instead of recognizing the grave threat to Judeo-Christian Western civilization, they are welcoming in those who would destroy it and shaming and ostracizing those who are trying to sound the alarm. They preach "respect" (which is really just naked fear in clerical robes) in the face of radical, violent supremacism and intolerance, thereby enabling and encouraging that supremacism and intolerance, having completely forgotten that they're supposed to be playing a prophetic role and calling injustice and evil what they are. They are betting the future of the Church on the success of a chimerical "dialogue" with Muslims that has never accomplished a single thing other than to make the participants feel good about themselves: "dialogue" has not prevented one Christian from being persecuted or one church from being ransacked. They are standing by complacently and abetting the destruction of the West and the Church in the West. They are blind guides.
"Vicars should grow BEARDS to reach out to Muslims in their areas, says Bishop of London," by Katie Louise Davies, Jenny Stanton, and Steve Doughty, Daily Mail, January 22, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Clergymen should grow beards to emphasise their holiness to Muslims, the Bishop of London has suggested.
Rt Reverend Richard Chartres said the modern fashion for facial hair should not be the preserve of hispters, but would also be likely to impress those from Eastern cultures where wearing a beard could mark a man out as holy.
He singled out two priests in Tower Hamlets – the Rev. Adam Atkinson, Vicar of St Peter's church in Bethnal Green, and Rev. Cris Rogers of All Hallows Bow – who have grown bushy beards.
Writing in the Church Times, Rev. Chartres, who himself sports a 'modest' beard, said: 'The discovery that two of the most energetic priests in east London had recently grown beards of an opulence that would not have disgraced a Victorian sage prompted me to look again at the barbate debate throughout Church history.
'The two priests work in parishes in Tower Hamlets. Most of the residents are Bangladeshi-Sylheti, for whom the wearing of a beard is one of the marks of a holy man.'
He said the desire of the clergy of Tower Hamlets to 'reach out to the culture of the majority of their parishioners can only be applauded'.
He went on to say that David Beckham – who he describes as the 'nearest thing to a secular saint' – has 'stimulated countless imitators'.
One of the priests praised by the Bishop of London, the Rev. Atkinson told The Telegraph he found having a beard had helped provide a connection with many people in his parish, around 85 per cent of whom are Muslim.
He said he was persuaded to grow a beard by the staff at his local pub, the Hound Dog Barbers on Hackney Road.
He said he had forged new links with people after growing his facial hair.
He explained: 'It is an icebreaker – St Paul said "I become all things to all men that by all possible means I might save some".
'In our area there are three main groups, the poor, the "cool" and the Muslims and beards cover at least two groups reasonably well.'
The second vicar – the Rev Rogers – told the newspaper he was approached by a man who told him he respected him because he had a beard.
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Steamboat Springs — Steamboat Springs city officials are expected to find out Tuesday night whether the City Council will endorse their plan to relocate emergency services off Yampa Street.
Early in their meeting that starts at 5 p.m., the council will weigh the city's final four proposals to relocate its emergency services headquarters out of the downtown area.
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The adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words" is true enough. I can sit here and describe our art community. I can tell you in words how rich and diverse the arts community is or I can simply point you to our Web site.
There you will find visual images of hands creating art -- hands shaping clay, hands applying paint to canvas or paper, hands carving stone or coaxing images out of wood, hands playing a musical instrument, hands holding a book, hands creating images in stained glass, hands taking an image out of a developer, hands at a computer keyboard, hands creating jewelry out of beads and stones, hands sewing a quilt or fabric wall hanging, hands turning an etching press, hands creating a collage out of found objects, hands holding a theater playbill, hands holding ballet slippers, hands making paper, hands creating murals out of mosaic tiles.
These are the working hands of our artists.
Our web site was created by Schonda Sweeney, one of our artists. Unfortunately, Schonda and her family had to relocate to Washington, D.C., after the hurricane. We miss her but understand that she has to go where the job is. Luckily, David Sallis offered his help in updating our Web site to reflect what has happened since the hurricane.
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Gwen, the word you need is "sight." Site is a place, sight is a visual immage.
I am a supporter of the art community here in the Bay with many, many purchases over the years. Thanks for making the art community a loved dimension of our town.
artist....is also a carpenter or other skilled tradesmen....who are able who are able to bring back the beauty and elegance to our coast towns
These pictures amazed me.. Myself and 21 others traveled from Middletown, Delaware down to Kiln, MS the week of Thanksgiving to help rebuild a Therapeutic Riding program called Gaits to Success before moving down to another program in New Orleans. While we were there we took may pictures some of which you have here on the slide show. Its amazing to see the "before" pictures to what we have "after" pictures too...
Wish we could come back down and help more...
In this case the writer was referring to the web site being worth a thousand words as the web site contains "pictures." However, the "site" the Gulf Coast itself, seeing it in person is probably more compelling.
I live in Mobile and recently went to the doctor on the Northshore. I had to see Waveland and Bay St. Louis to fully appreciate what these people are going through. Depression and grief were my motivators. The magnitude of destruction and what people will experience in post-traumatic stress is overwhelming.
A small but determined group from Whitewater Wisconsin who recently adopted Bay St Louis as a sister city assisted in 480 volunteer hours in teh local schools and about the same in the library. We met Mary Perkins and were welomed with open arms in the library and Dr Kim Stazny in the schools. Whitewater Wisconsin will continue teh committment to assisting Bay St Louis in any way. Please keep them in your prayers as they are in ours.
A friend from the past. Hope all is well with you and your family.
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We worked-out together at the YMCA in Canton,
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There comes a time when one just has to put DOWN the notes, put ON her trekking shoes, and GO. LEAP off the cliff, FACE the challenge, TACKLE the unknown: since I already did this once this year, it should be a breeze.
As grateful as I am to have had an abundance of time to prepare for my Reve Americain, anticipation is now working against me. What if … ? Should I … ? Did I …? Can I?
"Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting", said Khaled Hosseini in A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Certainly, there is no hardship in traveling for a living. This girl is happy traveling. And while worrying in advance and preparing for any eventuality has served me well in the past, I usually realize, once I'm on the other side, that everything went much better than I expected.
So here's to a wonderful two weeks with new friends, sights like we've never seen before, and laissons les bons temps rouler!
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Daunting? For sure. Exciting? Absolutely.
Several weeks ago, an inconspicuous ad seeking french-speaking tour guides for Texas-based tours became the catalyst for an unexpected, delightful journey.
Travel has always been part of my DNA. As a young teen, I traveled to Western Canada on a student exchange trip that transformed me. After working at our local airport while in school, I determined that travel would have to play a major role in my professional career. Thanks to a little luck and the vision of two Panasonic (slightly ahead of their time) visionaries, I fell into the opportunity of a lifetime, traveling the world with young professionals I still call my friends, developing a new product that exceeded all our expectations.
When my husband and I decided to have children, our soaring careers took a back seat to the joys of raising our family. When I returned to the workplace, I was honored to be invited to bring my professional skills to my children's schools where I thoroughly enjoyed working with students, parents, faculty and staff.
Back to this ad. It was just a small caption: not even sure how I saw it. And I thought: I would love to do this. I would be honored to share my love of travel with others. Maybe it will lead to other worldly opportunities. How can I leverage my prior experience in travel?
The answers to these questions not only led to ITMI but to twenty-five multi-faceted individuals, all outstanding in their fields, all wanting to re-invent themselves while leveraging their love of travel. Here we were: some young, others a little less so, exhilarated by the opportunity, men and women, ambassadors of the world, being challenged, stretching well beyond our comfort zones. And we did it. We earned our nautilus, with flying colors.
Fast forward to today, as I prepare to introduce a group of European guests to the wonders of the American West. "Turn them on, and turn them loose", I can hear our instructors say.
Daunting? For sure. Exciting? Absolutely.
ITMI-Certified Travel Director. Wife & Mom. World Traveler. Photographer. Writer.
Photo on left: Our first tour of San Francisco included incredible views of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Right: Our trip down US 1 led us to Hearst Castle, not a castle at all but regal nonetheless.
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I just returned from a comprehensive, exciting certification program at the International Tour Management Institute. Honestly, I did not know that professionalism of this caliber still existed. To everyone at ITMI: thank you! I look forward to taking the road, leading adventures, and making you proud!
Now, we are in planning mode for the travel season: I look forward to keeping you posted on what happens next for this girl happy traveling!
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How do you get your kids to just sit and complete homework? There always seems to be some reason to get up and be distracted. They take so much longer this way than if they would just sit and get it done. So frustrated, help!