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- David Letterman
"Now everyone with an opinion has a forum, and it's really kind of scary."
-Katie Couric
In the same conversation. Not seconds apart.
"Television is dead."
Gee, I wonder why.
(Also I'm fairly certain that they started out the conversation with Couric defending the fact that she believed some abusive and famous asshole when he claimed he wasn't an abusive asshole. Since I wasn't really listening, I'm not completely sure, but I'm pretty sure.)
Your ability to get to the truth astounds me Ms. Couric. It truly astounds me.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
"Television is Dead"
- David Letterman
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Labels: blogging, media literacy, politics, tv
Friday, February 27, 2009
I Am Amused
So, I am sitting on the couch with my father. The TV is on. He is reading the news. And I am too.
On my laptop.
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It's All Comes Down to Cats
I have a confession to make. I don't actually like cats that much. So I've always been wary of the strange hold they have over the internet. LOLcats are one thing, but catblogging? Blech.
But I have finally realized that resistance is futile. That there is no problem to large or too rant-inducing that cannot be solved by cats.
Even this one.
That particular question seems to be on everyone's minds lately. And not just on the minds of a handful of idiots and the people who were unfortunate enough to stumble across such stupidity.
No, I even ran across it the other day while I was reading the sequel to Save the Cat!. Snyder's parting thoughts on Superhero movies was "why aren't there any movies about females superhero? C'mon, we can do better than that!"
(or something to that effect, I don't have the book in front of me.)
Snyder is smarter than he realizes, because he answered his own question earlier in the same chapter.
Snyder defines superhero movies in the original Save the Cat! as movies that have an "extraordinary person who finds himself in an ordinary world." (And yes, he uses "he", which explains why he couldn't see that he's already answered his own question.) The plot of such stories always revolves around being the misunderstood genius. In the sequel, he elaborates on that, clarifying that superhero stories are essentially stories about gods. More specifically, here in America, God/Jesus.
And everyone knows that God made Man in His image, not Hers.
This is in many ways one of the last impregnable assumptions about what makes men the default and women the Other in western (and I'm guessing most all) cultures. So I wonder if part of the reason why superhero movies about women always suck so very much is because people may be used to the idea - even like - women who kickass, but most are still comically uncomfortable comfortable with divinity as feminine. And so they sabotage their own great ideas without even meaning to. Because every time they are presented with the problem of who she is and where she came from and what she can do, they fall back on the kinds of things that are least likely to be godlike. Because a female hero is one thing, an all powerful Goddess is another.
Which makes the story and the character unsatisfying at best.
Take Claire, for example. She can not only regenerate, she's even crucified (which is why the scene works even though it's yet another sexual assault against a superheroine), but she not only remains anything but a leader of Heroes, taking charge of this often passive power results in her turning evil, if the hints of what's to come are any indication.
And this, I think, is the final proof needed for the argument that the whole root of the problem lies in culture's inability to accept a female Jesus - because anytime a superheroine accidentally gets powerful enough for the analogy to really work, her power threatens to destroy the whole world. And so she must be destroyed instead. It's like we're not just telling the Story of Christ, we are also retelling the story of the Church.
I think it's also why Wonder Woman works better (as a stand alone character) than any other female superhero, and we she is so timeless. Her divine origins are not only explicit, they are explained away. She is a Goddess rather than a god, but she is not of our world. Unlike Superman, she didn't even grow up here, among us. She may be a Christlike figure, but she isn't our Christlike figure. She remains in many ways, completely alien, and so doesn't directly challenge this particular argument culture makes about women being the Other.
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Labels: adventure, comics, feminism, Heroes, movies, scifi/fantasy, sexism, Wonder Woman
The Problem
with this sentence is not just the obvious
Wishing for more female superhero movies is kind of like longing for more Sex and the City knockoffs with all-male casts.
It's also that I think that sounds like kinda of a fun idea. (Even ignoring the slash that was unintentionally implied.)
Because I am now picturing Reid and Morgan having gab fests and heart to hearts with Charlie and Don. And then going off on dates with all kinds of interesting people. And coming back together and gabbing some more. While they shop for Reid's pocket watches.
And it amuses me muchly.
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Two Reviews, Ten Words, And a Little Punctuation
(I am attempting to be more concise with my writing.)
Last week's The Dollhouse: huh?
This week's Criminal Minds: yay!
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Because God Forbid
That one might decide that constant cheesecake doesn't make a whole lot of sense in a story that is trying to deconstruct gender roles.
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Labels: comics, masculinity, objectification
Monday, February 23, 2009
*headesk* repeat x infinity
So, my uncle has written a fantasy novel. And has asked me to critique it.
Three chapters in and the phrase that keeps circling round my head is a quote from Emma:
Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a school -- not a seminary, or an establishment, ...-- but a real, honest, old-fashioned boarding school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.
(well, ok, what I remembered of it anyway. i looked that up, obviously)
needless to say, when you are a 21st century aspiring fantasy/sci-fi author making the same general kind of pronouncement as the one above, without any hint of the irony found in Austen's 19th century high society novels, you are not off to good start. at least not the kind of start that doesn't make me want to smash things, in any case
he's been bugging me about my opionions on it.
wtf do I say to him?
do I lie and say "oh, it's really good."?
or do I tell him the truth and say "it made me want to smash things. such as: whatever part of your brain decided that " "…[name withheld] was the kind of girl that I've always wished there could be more of. …[she] was bright, but she didn't try to intimidate others with her intelligence when they failed to see her point of view. " was a sentiment that deserved to be typed out on your computer, much less shared with anyone. especially me."?
seriously, how the fuck does an intelligent woman that actually has opinions respond to that piece of shit?
I have an answer typed out to him. It's as polite as I can make while still being honest. bc I can't just say "it's not my cup of tea" and leave it at that. Not when he presents me with crap like that and asks my opinion. It's like a fucking dare. It's certainly taunting me in any case.
I did lie though. I told him I took no pleasure in letting him know that I would mock him mercilessly if he wasn't my uncle and I simply came upon his novel randomly in a bookstore.
Bullshit. I take great pleasure in calling shit shit - especially when it's shit that says that I should be a good girl and not say words like shit, much less call a man's work a piece of shit.
I'd just also like to get through family functions intact.
what to do……
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Who Else Could Bring Me Out of Hibernation but Joss Whedon?
Now that the first ep is out, I've decided that the thing that is going to bug me most about Dollhouse is people talking about Dollhouse. (irony is my middle name) Well, ok, so I should really know better than to venture into the TwoP forums, but still - who the fuck says this:
[Echo was c]oerced by circumstances, no doubt horribly lied to about what would happen afterwords (as discussed elsewhere I'm SURE the Dolls never actually get "out") but yes it was voluntary.
Dear TwoPer with yet another punny name - Did we watch the same episode? Cuz if we did, you need to learn what the word coercion means and how it affects the legality of agreements and contracts - written and otherwise.
Seriously, the only thing that's going to make me go ew more than the prostitution/rape/sexual slavery angle is people arguing that Echo actually consented to all this. (Based on the little clip we were given at the start of the pilot, anyway. I don't know what the future holds.)
as far as the pilot itself...eh. If it wasn't Joss I wouldn't be watching. Or at least not going out of my way to do so. And if that's the reworked pilot, I either really don't want to see the original or really want to see the original.
(From what Joss has said about it, I'm actually guessing the latter, bc the actual pilot is a typical "let me hold your hand and tell you how it's going to be" pilot and I don't think I need that for Joss shows, but I understand why that's the better choice for network TV.)
My biggest complaint is that it didn't feel terribly new and it felt like there was far too much given away in the beginning. Mostly - the bit about how Echo got there should have been kept a secret for at least a few more episodes. Possibly the rest of the season. It would have been much better to find out when Echo did (or maybe just a little before) not when Caroline knew.
Also, the plethora of details about the cop was a bit gratuitous (or maybe it was just the stupid intercut fight scenes). Maybe CM has me spoiled, but I've come to believe that economy is key in character development. All I needed to know about the cop was that he was willing to threaten a not-quite-civvie with a gun despite getting heat from his boss - and I really didn't need that last part beaten to death. Anvils were great for Buffy, Dollhouse feels like it should be more subtle. Really, honestly, a single line would have been much better than a long drawn out pissing contest - multiplied for effect! And it would have given him a chance to save the cat - or something.
That said, the last bit can stay in. That's the way to get them coming back. it could have been done better, but nice start with that there.
Overall, bc of the whole ew factor and the OH GOD WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE ME FROM FOX'S ANNOYINGLY SEXIST BULLSHIT ADS AND PROMOS THAT FLAT OUT SAY THAT WOMEN ARE WORTHLESS IF THEY AREN'T SEX DOLLS EVEN IF THEY ARE FUCKING SAVING THE WORLD?!!??!!?!?? I probably wouldn't be watching if I hadn't stumbled across this interview:
We wanted to talk about it...human sexuality and how it drives us and why it's important to us.
And the idea of objectification versus identification, these are all things that I've been working on all the time...
...are we actually making a comment about the way people use each other that is useful and interesting and textured, or are we just putting her in a series of hot outfits and paying lip service to the idea of asking the questions.
...I think some things will offend some people, some things will not. There are things in it that I'm not positive I support, and some of the things that bother me don't bother any of the other writers....part of the point is to look at these gray areas and to see what of this is unique in us, what is it we need from each other, how much do we objectify each other, how much do we use each other, both men and women, and what is actually virtuous.
One of the problems I ran into early on... was [the network] didn't really want to deal with those issues having bought the show....It's a classic network problem. You want to evoke this, but then they don't want to say anything....We've struggled with making sure that the show doesn't, by virtue of playing it safe, become offensive, because the idea of this show was never to play it safe. The idea of this show was always to be in your face about it.
....The idea is to get the audience to look at their own desire, and to figure out what of it is acceptable, and what of it is kind of creepy. In order to do that, we go to a creepy place sometimes, and I will be very interested to see if people find it empowering or the other things. I may have crossed the line. Let's find out.
I don't know if he's explained all this before and I just missed it, or if Rachel is just a really good interviewer (quite possible), or if the other articles did their best to cut that shit out*, but the fact that Joss is very aware that of the whole prostitution/rape/sexual slavery angle but in fact seems to see it as one of the main themes of the show puts my mind at ease - at least a little bit. As does the fact that he quite aware of the dangers of both selling out and of not selling anything at all. I'm still watching with a critical eye, but I am watching. And very much hoping Joss makes this worth my while.
*The Salon article linked in the TwoP forum, for example, quotes Joss as saying "I believe that prostitution is not, in concept, repulsive," but the interviewer doesn't go back and ask him how that relates to what he said earlier about human trafficking or the question of wether or not the Dolls are coerced. Nor does Joss go into more detail about why he thinks that making the show hot but having less actual sex - as requested by TPTB - is offensive. Without the interview above, it sounds almost like Joss really believes that he his created a sci-fi premise for prostitution without having to deal with the power imbalance of it all - shades of the fundamental problem with "companions." Taking into account the interview above, it sounds more like Joss has taken those critiques to heart (at least a little) and while the Dollhouse is in no way an apology or a concession it is very much a deeper exploration of those issues.
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Thursday, January 01, 2009
FYI (Twilight Edition)
To understand the popularity of Twilight, you need to understand 4 things:
1. - Adolescence is depressing and confusing
2- Teen girls are discouraged from being so unfeminine as to be depressed - ever, but when they are upset they tend towards mopey since being angry and violent and actually making people pay attention to them is even more discouraged
3 - YA books are mostly for girls not just because girls read more than boys, but because boys read adult (ie - violent) books earlier than girls do; this is mostly because girls parents freak out more when girls read adult (ie - sexually graphic) books than when boys do
4 - even teen girls tend to like the Twilight books less and less with each book (you just can't tell by the sales bc the overall sales keep growing with time)
I do not think any of these things (with the exception of #4) is healthy. I don't think the way the Twilight series ended sounds even remotely interesting (which is why I haven't read the last book), much less healthy.
I do however find it extremely unsurprising that teen girls like this series. I also think that anyone that is upset by the popularity of this series by itself (as opposed to culture overall and are simply dissecting the Twilight series as part of something larger) needs to stop underestimating teen girls. Bella isn't blah because teen girls are okey dokey with heroines with no personality, Bella is blah because teen girls know that everyone else expects them to be blah - and they hate that, but they don't like disappointing people. Edward does stuff and Bella feels stuff, but never the twain shall meet, because together they make up one complete character. Not because women need men, but because Bella, who feels like half a person like many teen girls, needs an exciting alter ego who can do the stuff that she thinks she can't.
(Note that she spends the entire first book not just wanting to be with Edward, but to actually be Edward, or rather a vampire. In fact, she even ends the first book with the decision that being a vampire - and yes, being with Edward in the long run - is more important to her than doing what Edward wants her to do.)
Also, Bella may not cross the "no sex in ya books" line but it flirts with it really well, because the one thing it does have is discussion about desire and the the fact that girls want sex. (not Men, not boys, not women, but girls.) Which happens in ya books, but rarely to the degree that Twilight takes it, and almost never outside of ya lit and mags.
That the author wrote the later books to explicitly say that women need a man to be whole is bad. That girls feel like half a person because they are teens and because girls are pressured to be blah (and think of sex as something they have but that only guys want) is a fact of life. That teen girls like Twilight has more to do with the latter than agreeing with the author on the former - which is obvious by how actual teen girls and young women react to the books. That a series that makes the former argument is so popular is depressing, but more in the sense that it's sad that it's easier to address this split that teen girls feel by falling back on bad gender roles. Not so much in the "OMG impressionable teen girls are reading this!" sense.
I certainly wish they had something better to read, but I also don't find it entirely worthless. In fact, I think the first books is fairly good and intriguing. Because while Meyer's series comes to some disturbing conclusions, she captures how teen girls feel really well. Which means that despite glossing over all the bad things her solution to this problem will create in its stead, teen girls are still exploring this feeling of being half a person more than if they simply got the same bad gender roles from, like, every romantic comedy ever written. Which means they are more likely to come to a different conclusion about how to deal with it by reading Twilight than by not reading it, despite the overall message of the series itself.
It would be much better still if Twilight presented a different solution altogether and there are a lot of other things to complain about. (God forbid I should ever tell anyone to not complain about anti-feminism in media.) However, in order to create and talk up the kind of media that is better than Twilight, it really helps to understand why Twilight is so popular. What really doesn't help is talking down to teen girls and making condescending assumptions about the media they consume and why they choose it.
So, can we please lay off the OMG the vampires are sparkly and how in the world could teen girls like this stuff?
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On our recent trip to Chicago, Michelle and I made a slight detour on the way home to stop off at the Goose Island Clyborn Brewpub. With 25 different beers available on tap or in bottle, we knew it was going to be fun to try beers that we cannot usually find back home.
This was our first visit to Goose Island and it was well worth the time. The layout of the beer menu has the beers divided up into categories of flavor: Refreshing, Session, Malty, Hoppy, Belgian and New World. The menu gives food pairings based on these categories and we split an order of Sweet Potato Fries which seemed to work with the different selections we had.
We each tried a sample of 4 different beers poured 4-oz tall. My selections were:
Six (Session) – This was my least favorite of the 8 samples. It seemed a little off and basic. For a low alcohol beer, it just didn't have enough structure in my opinion and gets a
S.O.B. (Session) – A nice Bitter with good solid balance and very little hoppiness.
Naughty Goose (Malty) – This cask conditioned beer was one of my favorites, this had a nice chocolate malt flavor that exploded in the upfront taste. This was like a stop at UDF for a malt. Nice and smooth and easy to drink.
Midway IPA (Hoppy) – Nice citrus with hops up front, in the middle and on the end. Not much else to say, but this impressed with it's flavor.
Michelle went a little sweeter and selected:
Willow St. White (Refreshing) – Unfiltered wheat beer had a little more bitterness than Michelle's favorite (Bell's Oberon) but still had nice spice to balance the usual wheat flavor.
Hefeweizen (Refreshing) – Another wheat beer, but it had more concentration on the banana flavors.
Fleur (Belgian) – I think this was the overall favorite of Michelle and high on my list as well. This was crafted with a similar approach to the Grassroots ale from Great Lakes. This uses hibiscus tea leaves to add an incredible amount of spice to the beer.
Wheatmiser (New World) – A 9.1% AbV was a nice finish to the two samples as the sweetness made this a desert beer. This was one to be enjoyed in small quantities (it's sold in an 8oz snifter) It was also on the possible growler list, but we doubted we could finish it in time.
Overall, this was a great stop and we left with a growler of the Fleur and an extra empty growler for our friends over at Hoperatives. I'd recommend the trip if you are in the Chicago area and want to try more brews than we can get in the Cincinnati area. Goose Island gets a nice as both Michelle and I were able to find beer we liked.
– Kevin
I grew up in Chicago but have lived in Eastern Europe for 20 years now. I go home to visit my sisters once a year, and for my oldest sister Anna and me, one or more visits to Goose Island during the course of those two weeks are an absolute must, not least because she works near the Clybourn location. I trust that you tried the special potato chips, which are to die for. The pub food is also yummy. They used to do a wedge of iceberg lettuce with bleu cheese dressing which for some reason is gone now — that was a wonderful lunch for me!
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About newsgrist
Great post by Bobbi Newman... But the focus on CC confusion and flickr enablement is beside the point-> we can reproduce COPYRIGHTED works in our [educational, non-commercial, etc] presentations without permission or licensing because it's a FAIR USE.
There's another side to this story, which is that Blake is actually a creepy profiteer. He verges on stalker. Poor Chuck Close has stepped in shit by engaging this character at all, who now appears to be an underdog in a story about copyright/ownership. When he's not. We're not talking copyright anymore. This one's actually about harassment and self-promotion.
ha. It's notable that this tattoo artist borrows freely from the movie industry's copyrighted imagery - unless it might be deemed fair and non-infringing (I doubt it: skateboards = merch)-->
Not to mention this--->
an d this-->
re: "1) Copying Tā moko from Māori" - yup. So it could be argued that this guy's tattoo is itself 'not sufficiently original' (a copy, or maybe a 'remix' of Tā moko); I prefer the obvious: 2) the Hangover II use is a clear-cut parody. Parody = protected speech, the best fair use defense there is. Tattooist/gold-digger case: dead in the water. Judge isn't making any sense.
I agree that Lang should be compensated for HIS work; but he should not be compensated for Sarah Morris's work. Try to see the difference. This case is a kind of extortion.
A long-time fan, this is my first ever comment on Techdirt. (Joy Garnett here, aka 'newsgrist').
Some thoughts:
- Visual art has ALWAYS utilized quotes: visual referencing. Visual language is composed of such referencing. In that respect, visual art is 'open source". Always has been.
- You can't copyright an arrangement of shapes any more than you can copyright the color blue, or an arrangement of a selection of colors. Legally speaking, such things are usually "not sufficiently 'original'". At any rate, the attempt to make it impossible for another artist to re-use such an arrangement of shapes is not practical, nor is it legally or ethically viable. If such prohibitions were legally enforced (or even enforceable, which they are not), art production would abruptly cease -- a perfectly Kafka-esque scenario. Of course, all the actual artists would go underground, leaving behind an above-ground cultural landscape populated by Disney, CNN, mangy old Associated Press photos, and Hallmark cards. Someone please write a juicy sci-fi thriller along these lines. You can send me my residuals poste restante. :-)
- More on owning compositions: consider a Monet painting of a haystack: a particular geometric shape set against a horizon line, painted with a certain palette. By extension of Allison's logic above, (where she states that Lang's crease patterns were blown up and exhibited as paintings...), if artists were able to copyright compositions -- for that IS what we are talking about here re: crease patterns -- no one else would be allowed to paint the haystack in the same composition or utilizing the same palette. So much for Impressionism (etc), eh?
- Moving right along: Lang's design, which initially was intended as an instructional diagram, is an "idea" and not yet an "expression"; if he himself took the idea and re-purposed it as a painting, then *anyone* can. And why not? These are instructions: instructions are meant to INSTRUCT. They offer a set of procedures to be followed. And procedural instructions are one of the things not protected by copyright... that is because they need to be covered by patent law, which has much stricter rules for inventions and new procedures. Did Lang patent those instructions? something tells me not; nor would he be able to demonstrate that his origami patterns are sufficiently unique or new vis-a-vis traditional origami patterns -- and hence patentable. That they are not.
- Lastly: Sarah Morris appropriated these various arrangements of shapes in order to make her signature paintings; that they comment on the flatness of painting vis-a-vis the ironic use of patterns intended as templates for 3D objects is a conceptual twist that changes the meaning of these patterns considerably. This new meaning adheres to the crease patterns only in her work. They do not change, hinder, impede, supercede, destroy or harm the originating diagrams (or the market for them) in any way. This is one element among many that demonstrates how Morris's use is a transformative use. This also highlights the fact that all artworks have a conceptual dimension, and are not merely about appearances -- people! ---> get past the notion that art is just about "appearance"! the underlying ideas are largely what contribute to the nature, meaning and purpose of any given work.
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Patrón Añejo Holiday 2012 Guitar Bottle Stopper by John Varvatos.
Award-winning fashion designer John Varvatos teamed up with design agency Mode Design Group (MDG) to create a custom, limited edition bottle for tequila brand Patrón this holiday season.
Varvatos designed a Guitar headstock and tuning pegs along with Patron's Bee symbol to function as the stopper on a bottle of for Patrón Añejo for the 2012 holiday season, alluding to the rock n' roll vibe of both the fashion designer and the tequila brand.
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This was the first designer collaboration for Patrón and the first spirits collaboration for John Varvatos. "This guitar stopper is a perfect blend of the two brands. John Varvatos put his trademark rock n' roll edge on the iconic Patrón bottle. It's an exciting blend of fashion, music and spirits, and with the custom box to complete the package, it really makes a perfect holiday gift". Says MDG Creative Director Gabrielle Rein.
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Where can I find the bottle stopper?
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
- laura sweet said...
As it says at the end of the post, it hits the shelves at liquor stores in December.
- Thursday, November 29, 2012
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There's no doubt that sports games have lost the simplicity that made them so accessible back in the days of the Genesis and Super Nintendo, when player models were nothing more than 2D sprites on the screen. In those days the expectation for a realistic depiction of the sport was minimal. That has changed recently and has sadly left the younger generation of gamers without much of a footing in the sports world. That's where Little League World Series 2010 (LLWS 2010) comes into the picture with its simple gameplay and easy-to-learn feature set. There's no doubt that it's lacking in many of the hardcore baseball areas, but as a casual title meant for newcomers to the sport, I think there just might be enough to warrant your time.
The two most complicated elements for the MLB 2K series – hitting and pitching – have been simplified significantly in LLWS 2010. They both hinge on you holding and releasing the right trigger at a certain time. For hitting, holding the right trigger starts a simple power meter that, if timed just right, will get you maximum power when you release the trigger. Pitching works in an almost identical way, but has been handcuffed further by the fact that every pitcher has the same offering of three pitches and you can only move the pitch's location right or left. Fielding is automated, your only worry being to throw the ball to the correct base and making sure to wiggle the right analog stick to light a fire under your players' butts (read: make them run faster). If you can't tell by now, the gameplay in Little League World Series is extraordinarily simple with only the most basic of actions left up to the player. In other words, if you've never touched a baseball game before, this one is for you.
Adding a bit of spice to the mix is the inclusion of power ups and talent cards. Talent cards can be played at any time during the game to give your players certain abilities or detracting from the abilities of the opposing team. You can earn a binder full of more than 50 cards, five of which can be assigned to any one game. These cards do things like lessen the speed of the other team, increase your hitting power, and make your team run faster as well as other abilities. You can see that the development team knew that the gameplay needed some spicing up, but the talent cards don't quite take the step needed to keep things feeling fresh after several hours of play.
The artificial intelligence could also use a bit of work, especially since the game relies on the AI of your teammates for so many crucial actions. Too often players will make bad decisions when running the bases and there's an interesting issue when the opposing team hits the ball slowly down the first base line and pulls the first baseman from his post.
Another downer is the general lack of innovation since the game launched on Wii back in 2008. Many of the same mechanics make their way into the Xbox 360 version with little changes to speak of. At the very least the developers should have added online multiplayer support. Sadly all you get is leaderboard integration and the same offering of mini-games to play locally that we saw on Wii. That doesn't take away from the fact that kids will find something to enjoy, but they could've done more to differentiate the two packages.
The only area that has seen a bump when making the transition to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is the visuals. They've been nicely bumped up into the HD era and enjoy more detail, brighter colors and a framerate that holds strong throughout. Granted, nothing you're going to see should push the system, but that hasn't stopped other games in the past from experiencing technical issues for no real reason.
Closing Comments
Little League World Series 2010 is a simple game that doesn't warrant a look if you already played the Wii version from more than a year ago. If you didn't check out the Wii rendition, perhaps this will bring some fun for you and your little tikes. So long as they're sitting right next to you, as there's no online play at all. The game's biggest strength is its ability to deliver fast, fun and, most importantly, simple baseball that's been cobbled together under the veil of a simple Little League World Series setup. If you've found your baseball experiences stymied by overly complex controls and modes, Little League World Series 2010 might just be worth a look.


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At a bit after 10am Eastern time this morning, Elon Musk's commercial launch company SpaceX will attempt to send its Dragon capsule on a second resupply mission to the International Space Station, following a successful test flight and one previous cargo mission. As of the last check, all systems are go. If all goes well, the mission will give SpaceX both a healthy paycheck from NASA and further validation of its Dragon hardware, which is being prepared for a human crew.
Any worries about the power supply limiting the range of Elon Musk's vehicle should be assuaged by the presence of two large solar panels on it.
UPDATE: The Dragon has successfully reached orbit after a countdown that went off without a hitch. Docking with the International Space Station is expected around 6am US Eastern tomorrow.
UPDATE 2: According to a tweet from Elon Musk, the Dragon's software is currently blocking the initialization of the thrusters used to control the craft in orbit. Operators are attempting to override the initialization block.
UPDATE 3: We've received the following statement from SpaceX: "One thruster pod is running. Two are preferred to take the next step which is to deploy the solar arrays. We are working to bring up the other two in order to plan the next series of burns to get to station."
UPDATE 4: At least one of the other thrusters is now online, and the solar arrays have been deployed.
UPDATE 5: Tomorrow's rendezvous has been put on hold, since two thrusters are required to get to the right orbit for a rendezvous with the Station.
UPDATE 6: They now have two thruster pods powered up, which should be sufficient to get the Dragon capsule to the Station. Three are needed to maneuver in the area of the station, so some further work is needed before a successful docking can occur. Fortunately, NASA is saying there is a lot of flexibility in the berthing schedule there.
UPDATE 7: And, in the middle of the press conference, the remaining thruster pods came up to pressure; Elon Musk is saying that they will enable the thrusters shortly.
UPDATE 8: Musk is saying that the Dragon can operate for about a month in orbit while they try to sort out the thrusters. And, if all else fails, it can splash down with the cargo, avoiding a complete loss.
UPDATE 9: All four thrusters are now working. They're starting to raise Dragon's orbit, and will continue testing the hardware while figuring out a new plan to rendezvous with the Station.
UPDATE 10: Grappling of the Dragon capsule, the first step towards docking, will take place at 6:30 am Sunday morning US Eastern time.
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A Dungiven woman has spoken of her forgiveness for the man who drove her daughter to death.
Denise McAuley's daughter Claire Kelly was a 20-year-old student who was a backseat passenger in a Renault Clio that police spotted doing handbrake turns in Feeny village - between Dungiven and Claudy - on 11 December 2011.
The car, which police had been following, crashed outside Claudy shortly before 1.40am.
Claire was injured in the collision and died in hospital.
The driver of the car in which Ms Kelly was a rear seat passenger pleaded guilty to a series of motoring offences.
He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving with excess alcohol. He was jailed for three years and banned from driving for five years.
Ms McAuley has since met with the young man at Magilligan Jail, as part of the Restorative Justice programme
It has been a hard journey for Denise, but one she knew she had to take.
"I felt let down during the court case and realised I wan't going to get the answers I needed. So, I approached the court witness service and Victims' Support and made an appointment to discuss the possibility of meeting the young man," said Ms McAuley.
She was advised to wait until the court case was over, which she did, but eventually, through official channels, Denise was told the man was serving his time in Magilligan Jail.
"Fortunately, for me, Magilligan has a Restorative Justice programme. They were very good, very protective, and said they would facilitate a meeting. However, it is a very long process and can take anywhere between six and eight months and I thought, at the start, is this a worthwhile endeavour taking this length of time but, at the end, I realised it was," said Denise.
"It's a storytelling process where I told my story and they took that to the young lad and where the young lad told his story and they brought it back to me," said Denise, who was all too aware that at any time both she or the defendant could have pulled out of the process.
Then, Denise was deemed ready to meet the man, who was a close friend of her daughter.
"I went to Magilligan and we went into a room and the staff were great. They got me settled and then the meeting took place," said Denise.
"I could have pulled out, and so could he, but I needed answers and, at the end of the day, I couldn't get those answere from anyone else. He needed to see for himself how it affected Claire's family for his own healing to go on, and that he was accountable for his actions, and I suppose to see if he had remorse.
"I gave him a hard enough time and he took it. I asked him 'why, why, why? Why did you do this? Why didn't you stop?' and he told me the truth. I could hear the passion in his voice and I needed to hear that. I believed him. I said to him I wish it had of been him and he said, 'I wish it had of been me', and my heart softened. I mean, here was a close friend of Claire's who had killed one of his best friends. It is heartbreaking, and I was humbled by him and by his honesty."
Denise explained the man asked if Denise could forgive him and she told him, not yet, but that was just a few months after the court case was over.
A year ago and Denise said she was in a different place.
"Every time I went to bed, Claire was in my head, so I got in touch with him and asked if we could meet, just me and him, one-to-one. I told him 'I've come to a place where I forgive you'," said Denise.
"It was wrong of me to hold him back. I want him to move on and have a life and to have hope. I hope he does and that he does something with his life and helps others. It is a hard journey, and people would say to me 'why are you putting yourself through this?', but I'm nobody special. I have no regrets whatsoever. When anyone loses someone there are questions to be asked and, if you don't have the opportunity to ask questions and get answers you feel as if you are in limbo.
"You have to know each and every part of the story. You have to be selfish in order to push forward to get the answers you need. It's a harsh process but, the way I see it, I can show my family I can do this and this is my journey and, hopefully, I can help them with their grieving process. It's not about self pity on my part. I had a need and I had to look at that young chap and say 'I forgive you'."
Denise also revealed: "I will keep in touch with the young lad and I hope he got as much out of the meetings as I did."
Denise knows her daughter Claire would be proud of her.
"She'd smile and say 'good woman'. That's just Claire. It doesn't fill the passing of Claire but, if it helps someone else, it's worth it," said Denise.
In the meantime, Denise believes she deserves an apology from the PSNI.
A recent report from the Police Ombudsman recommended the two officers involved be disciplined but said the way the police car was driven did not cause the fatal crash.
However, Ms McAuley said: "The way I see it, the young chap driving the car is serving his time but I feel the police officers involved should be prosecuted for dangerous driving. I haven't received an apology from the police.
"I've been very transparent and open, and so has the young lad. Why haven't the PSNI come forward with an apology? Claire is not just a statistic. She is my daughter."


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KINGS MOUNTAIN � North Gaston clinched no worse than the league�s third playoff seed while putting Kings Mountain�s playoff scenario on shakier ground.
Jared Wallace pitched a complete-game shutout and North Gaston cranked out 12 hits in a 7-0 win Friday at Kings Mountain that figured heavily into the Big South 3A Conference postseason picture.
The victory assured North Gaston (14-8, 7-4 Big South) at least a third-place finish in the conference and kept alive the Wildcats� hopes of earning a home playoff game if they can tie Crest for second place and force a tiebreaker game.
�They knew coming in that this was a lock for the playoffs for us,� North Gaston coach Jesse Martin said. �We finally started to swing the bats a little better after we saw them one time. We got some key hits and ran the bases well, and Jared pitched his normal game.�
North Gaston closes the regular season Tuesday at first-place South Point and needs a win there in addition to Crest losses against Kings Mountain and South Point to rise to second place.
The Wildcats put themselves in that position with a solid performance Friday at Lancaster Field for their fifth win in six games.
Garrett Lowery had a pair of doubles and an RBI as part of a 3-for-4 night and A.J. Cook added two singles and four RBIs as North Gaston�s season hitting leaders continued to show the way.
Lowery and Cook provided back-to-back run-scoring hits in a five-run third inning that put the Wildcats in control. Cook�s two-run single in the sixth accounted for the final margin.
North Gaston also got two hits each from Wallace, Mason Smith and Drew Green, including an RBI double by Wallace.
Wallace (8-2) was even more effective on the mound, striking out five and walking one as part of a four-hitter. The defense behind him turned two double plays. Wallace, a senior left-hander, surrendered two first-inning hits but calmed down after that.
�I was leaving everything up,� Wallace said. �I think it was just nerves, but I eventually settled down. You hit a fly ball and it�s a home run here so I knew I had to keep it low and I eventually started to hit my spots.�
Kings Mountain�s four hits were spread among four players: Wil Sellers, Alex Reynolds, Logan Stevens and Will Wilson. Sellers, a Gardner-Webb signee, took the loss on the mound, yielding seven runs (all earned) on 11 hits in 6 2/3 innings. The right-hander struck out eight, walked one and hit two by pitch.
�They just beat us to the punch,� Kings Mountain coach Matt Bridges said. �They jumped on us in the third inning and we had no answer.�
Kings Mountain (10-9, 5-5) still controls its own destiny for the Big South�s fourth and final playoff bid but faces a tough closing week with games at Crest on Tuesday and at Forestview on Friday. Forestview trails the Mountaineers by one game in the standings after beating Ashbrook on Friday.
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Obama's Russia reset unravels
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden extended his 15 minutes of fame Wednesday, as headlines tied his saga to President Barack Obama's decision to cancel a planned summit meeting in Moscow next month with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But analysts said the talk of Snowden's role in the cancellation obscured a more basic reality: The U.S.-Russia relationship is now so frosty that it didn't appear the two presidents would actually accomplish enough to merit such a high-profile meeting.
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After four years, the much-vaunted reset in U.S.-Russian relations has devolved into a chilly standoff over issues like the Kremlin's support for Syria and an intensifying crackdown on dissent in Russia. Instead, the White House's blunt public announcement Wednesday of the summit's cancellation evoked Cold War-era showdowns.
( PHOTOS: Obama and Putin's relationship in photos)
"If you're looking at a summit and thinking, 'There's no there there,' this provides a nice excuse for him not going," said former National Security Council Russian Director James Goldgeier. "Usually, you like to have something happen at a summit, like have something positive to say together, or to say you agreed on something, and it doesn't look like they've got anything big to say or do … Part of the problem is they decided they were going to have this summit originally."
"The question the White House has been asking is not about whether Russia is going to give us anything on Snowden … but what will come out of a summit in Moscow that will be useful to the president's agenda on arms control, missile defense and our economic relationship," said Steven Pifer, a longtime U.S. diplomat who served in Russia, Ukraine and at the White House. "What I'm hearing from administration officials is that over the last month they've had no resonance, no response back from the Russians."
Wednesday's announcement followed weeks of somewhat dissonant messages on Snowden from Obama and his aides.
In late June, days after Snowden's arrival in Moscow, Obama seemed to downplay the leaker's importance and to suggest that his case shouldn't interfere with superpower diplomacy.
( POLITICO Junkies: Edward Snowden- Traitor or hero?)
"We've got a whole lot of business that we do with China and Russia. And I'm not going to have one case of a suspect who we're trying to extradite suddenly being elevated to the point where I've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues simply to get a guy extradited, so that he can face the justice system here in the United States," Obama said then.
The president also dismissed the global media frenzy over Snowden.
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"I get why it's a fascinating story from a press perspective. And I'm sure there will be a made-for-TV movie somewhere down the line. But in terms of U.S. interests, the damage was done with respect to the initial leaks," Obama said.
However, within a few weeks anonymous Obama administration officials sources were suggesting that Russia's intransigence on Snowden could contribute to the cancellation of the Moscow summit, scheduled to precede a broader international G20 meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia that Obama says he will still attend.
( Also on POLITICO: Amid Snowden tension, Obama cancels Putin meeting)
By last week, when Russia gave Snowden a one-year asylum permit and allowed him to leave the Moscow airport, White House Spokesman Jay Carney was publicly linking the case to the planned Moscow summit.
"Obviously, this is not a positive development," Carney said. "We are extremely disappointed. We have a wide range of interests with the Russians and we are evaluating the utility of a summit."
In a statement Wednesday, the White House said Snowden's case played a role in the decision but did not say how significant it was.
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"Given our lack of progress on issues such as missile defense and arms control, trade and commercial relations, global security issues, and human rights and civil society in the last twelve months, we have informed the Russian government that we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda," Carney said. "Russia's disappointing decision to grant Edward Snowden temporary asylum was also a factor that we considered in assessing the current state of our bilateral relationship."
The timing of the U.S. change of heart about the summit is curious. Putin and Obama reaffirmed plans for the summit during a meeting in Northern Ireland on June 17, the White House said at the time. Yet, according to Carney's statement, the White House began a "careful review" the following month that led to the decision to cancel based on U.S.-Russian interactions stretching back a year.


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Dramatically speed up video transcoding
Fed up with the hours it takes to encode video into the iPod- and PSP-friendly H.264 format? If so, the answer, according to video peripherals maker ADS Tech, is an H.264 encoding accelerator and, by sheer coincidence, it has one it would like to sell to you.
The InstantVideo To Go is a USB dongle that ties into ADS' bundled encoding app to reduce the time it takes to transcode video into H.264 dramatically. ADS claims it takes just 20 minutes to encode 100 minutes' of MPEG 2 video into an H.264 file, compared to the 300 minutes it says it would take you using a software-only encoder.
Who would use a software-only encoder these days? Certainly anyone with an Avivo-capable ATI Radeon graphics card can used the bundled Avivo Video Converter tool to run video transcoding operations through the GPU, and if AMD's quoted numbers are correct - 5 minutes to transcode 30 minutes of video - it'll take less time than the ADS product: 16.7 minutes to 20 minutes for 100 minutes of source footage.
Still, not everyone has an Avivo-capable graphics card, and for them ADS' $80 dongle might be the ideal add-on for PSP and iPod video conversion. ®


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MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Fabio Fognini won his third match of the weekend Sunday, downing Carlos Berlocq to clinch Italy's victory over Argentina in opening-round Davis Cup play.
Fognini bested Berlocq 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the first reverse singles match, giving the Italians an insurmountable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five series.
He defeated Juan Monaco Friday to even the series 1-1 and the next day teamed up with Simone Bolelli for a doubles win over Horacio Zeballos and Eduardo Schwank for a 2-1 Italian lead.
Fognini's heroics put Italy into the Davis Cup quarterfinals for just the second time since 1998. They will go on to face the winner of the United States-Britain match-up in April.
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SHEPHERDSVILLE-- There might not be a track for any local meets this season, or any season for the foreseeable future, but the area coaches and athletes seem to be doing a pretty good job of things despite the hurdles (or lack of hurdles).
Time goes quickly…most of the time.
If you are around long enough, you have the opportunity to witness a lot of things.
Unfortunately, there is seldom anything positive that results from these long term events.
The most notable example is the latest resolution of the Jessica Dishon murder.
In looking around the pool of reporters sitting in the jury box during the final sentencing of Stanley Dishon, I realized that I may have been the lone media person who covered the events from the very first day of the search.
Easter weekend and Spring Break are both fast approaching, but recent news items in Bullitt County are keeping The Pioneer News staff hopping like an Easter Bunny with an ingrown toenail.
In local news, Bullitt Fiscal Court continues to struggle with the Bullitt County Sheriffs Office over budget numbers.
The last argument was over a line item requesting specialized ceremonial uniforms to be worn by the sheriff and deputies only when television cameras are anticipated in the vicinity.
SHEPHERDSVILLE – Earlier this week, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association voted to sanction cornhole as a competitive sport starting with the 2015-2016 school year.
Kentucky now becomes the first state to join the cornhole bandwagon and other southern states are soon expected to join the cornhole phenomenon.
Adding cornhole is seen as a move to put the ugly 'yard darts' debacle in the rearview mirror for the KHSAA.
While recently driving around in snow and cold all week, in a vehicle without proper heat, used tires and worn windshield wipers, fighting off the pending cold that has waited months to attack me, I eat lunch at my desk.
I take a break to clear my head, and one of the things I check is my email, where I'm informed by a friend that Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez has apologized to us.
A wild week to say the least.
First, you get the snow and the cold.
That is always a situation of chaos.
Then, fire strikes the back portion of our business.
The important part of the incident is that no one was hurt.
The inventory and the building structure can be replaced. Lives can't.
Is it simply the falling of those pretty white flakes that make us a little crazy?
Or is it just a coincidence?
Probably just a coincidence that everyone hits the grocery stores on those days preceding a big snow storm.
And probably just another coincidence that people get interested in buying shovels and salt on the days before a snowy storm.
It's probably just a coincidence that the viewship on The Weather Channel, once a proud member of the Landmark family, goes through the roof.
Holes in the soul.
Those were the words of the minister conducting funeral services for Les Bandy on Monday afternoon.
Starting year number 31, you get to know a lot of people. Some are elected officials who seem to dominate the press. Others may be individuals who quickly go about their work.
Over the past couple of weeks, the Bullitt County community suffered some holes. Holes that will be patched but they will not be forgotten.
I'd like to say a few words about the president'Äôs recent proposal to offer college students two free years at community college.
That's great news, but what about all the students who have already graduated college?
I went to a public university and had scholarships and still owe more than $40,000 in student loans. I just wonder when the government's going to start helping those with my same situation out?
UPDATE (Feb. 2): At approximately 2:12 p.m. on Monday afternoon, Feb. 2, Nichols Nick, the official Bullitt County Groundhog, contacted The Pioneer News in regards to his prediction.
According to the local seer of seers and prognosticator of prognosticators, it was not until the afternoon hours that the Sun creeped through the clouds covering Bullitt County all morning.
With that little bit of sunlight, Nick declared that he did indeed see his shadow, signifying six more weeks of wintry weather expected for Bullitt County.
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Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.C., is almost certain to be chairman of the Senate Banking Committee next year, once current chair Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is out of office. Johnson has never had a good reputation with consumer advocates, in large part because he's opposed nearly every piece of legislation designed to thwart predatory lending.
That perspective is not likely to change with his chairmanship. Johnson just hired a top bank lobbist named Dwight Fettig to be a "senior policy adviser." Fettig's clients included some of the chief scumbags that wrecked the economy, secured epic bailouts, and opposed financial reform: the American Bankers Association, JPMorgan Chase, the National Association of Mortgage Brokers and the Vanguard Group hedge fund. Prior to peddling influence on behalf of the too-big-to-fail gang, he was the top "government relations" man at Freddie Mac. During the housing bubble.
By hiring Fettig, Johnson is sending the clearest signal possible to Wall Street: I've got your back.
This isn't Fettig's first trip through the revolving door. Before entering the bank lobby, he worked as a Johnson aide in the House.
So the bad news is, Congress is totally corrupt. The good news? It already was.
And hey! Obama's former Budget Director Peter Orszag just joined Citigroup! It's really pretty sick. The Republicans just spent an entire year promising to give Wall Street whatever they wanted on anything, but the public still thinks it's the Democrats alone who are in bed with Wall Street. This is why.
This also is not the Office of Management and Budget's first turn through the revolving door this year. The current director, Jack Lew, made $1 million running Citi's Alternative Investments unit into the ground.
The political optics here are just horrible. Obama is pushing a tax cut deal that provides huge benefits for the super-rich . . . as his former budget director take a job as Vice Chairman at Citigroup, thus joining the ranks of the super-rich.
Merry Christmas, Wall Street.


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meow wrote:Later, Letang. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Bioshock wrote:When it comes to stuff like this, Rossi is very tuned in.
nocera wrote:I would give Iginla a shot on a one year deal under the condition that he's actually able to play right wing.
Bioshock wrote:nocera wrote:I would give Iginla a shot on a one year deal under the condition that he's actually able to play right wing.
That's my feelings as well. I would love to sign Iggy. Dude is a great guy and plays great... WHEN ON RW!!!
Seriously, if you aren't gonna use him right in any capacity then you shouldn't even give him an offer. Let some other team make use of your terrible mistake to mishandle a hall of famer...
FreeCandy44 wrote:Letang just might be worth that with the right system and partner.
Sarcastic wrote:Wow, I so agree with Dejan. How can that stupid ape Bylsma say these things. Not that I expect him to throw Fleury under the bus - keep or trade him, better to be political in that situation - but I see his comments as very disrespectful to Vokoun. Dejan is right that Vokoun may have saved Dan's job. And now this:
And I really couldn't believe it when Bylsma was asked to expound upon what this declaration meant to Vokoun and came up with this: "Tomas ... um, I don't think is in any different boat than when he came in last year. He's going to play games for us, big games, but ... next year, he's not going to get that opportunity because Marc-Andre Fleury's going to be in net for us winning hockey games."
Oh, for real.
The coach outright tossed into the trash the goaltender who just (maybe) saved the coach's job and who just (undoubtedly) was his team's playoff MVP by a preposterously wide margin. Bylsma exhibited zero timing, zero awareness of what Vokoun means to his teammates.
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Ambury Farm Park: This is an Auckland Regional Park, run by the Auckland City Council, on the shores of the Manukau Harbour. It's only about 10 minutes' drive from the international airport, so makes a good diversion on a travelling day when you have time to kill. A feature of this park is that it is a working farm. See the dairy cows being milked every day at 10 am. You can walk in the paddocks with the animals; except during lambing season, which runs from mid-July to early August. There's a few camping sites available, and parking for self-contained campers. From the park, you can walk or ride the Watercare Coastal Walkway for 7kms back to the cool urban village of Mangere Bridge for great coffee.
Tapapakanga Regional Park: Tapapakanga is another Auckland Council regional park. It is just over an hour's drive from central Auckland, through some of the most scenic city-edge countryside. You'll go through the rural town of Clevedon; which is an emerging wine region, and has a fantastic farmer's market on Sundays. At Tapapakanga, you can pitch your tent right beside the beach. If you're in a camper, there's several options, the most popular being the Seaview campground. Confusingly, this campground doesn't have a sea view, but it does have a cool hill-side track through the bush to the beach. Tapapakanga also has a fresh water lagoon to dip in. In February each year, the park is transformed as the venue for the music and arts festival, Splore. Party-goers arrive by car, camper, or anchor boats off the beach, and delight in great sounds, costumes, and delicious food, all on the foreshore.
Cornwall Park: A green oasis in the city, this park was established on land gifted by one of the city's founders, Sir John Logan Campbell. The park is centred on the volcanic cone of One Tree Hill. Walk or drive the path to the summit, and take in the stunning views of both harbours.
Silo Park: A newish space on Auckland's regenerated waterfront. It has a great playground to appeal to families, but is close to the bars and restaurants of the Wynyard Quarter. In summer it hosts a vibrant market, and movies are played on the giant silos in the evening. There's adequate metered parking for your car in adjacent streets.
Omana Regional Park: Just 40 minutes driving time from the central city, is this council run park with amazing views of the Hauraki Gulf. Stay the night at the Clifftop Campground in your tent or camper. You can swim off the shelly beach at high-tide. Head back to the sea-side suburb on Maraetai, just 5 minutes away, for superb café culture.
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Right before the Fourth of July holiday, new images of the black HTC One mini have leaked out. This leak comes from the Bulgarian technology news site Smart News, and it shows a few design nuances that differentiate the mini from its older, bigger sibling, the HTC One. There's also more information about specifications this time around.
The HTC One mini, which leaked in the last few months, will feature Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean right out of the box. It comes with a dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, and a 4.3-inch 720p display at 342 PPI. As far as design differences go, the mini will have two separate volume buttons on the right side of the chassis rather than the large, single-button volume rocker that has been standard in past iterations of HTC handsets. Android and Me also reports that there is a recessed camera lens and flash on the back of the screen.
We're apparently looking at a third-quarter debut, but there are currently no announcements about the device coming to the states. Regardless, it looks like the major OEM manufacturers for Android handsets are sticking with the idea that a "mini me" is good for consumers—giving them the smaller screen that they might otherwise miss with the influx of larger phones coming to market.


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The Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival continues as well, with the Philadelphia Orchestra visiting. The schedule for the upcoming week is as follows:
Friday, July 15: Dawn of a New Century, Strauss' Ein Heidenleben and Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, 6pm, Ford Amphitheater
Saturday, July 16: Carmina Burana featuring the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and Colorado Children's Chorale
Monday, July 18: Joie de Vivre: The Artistry of a New Generation, Calder Quartet & Mana Saxophone Quartet, 6pm Vail Mountain School
Tuesday, July 19: Soiree II, An Evening with Gabriel Kahane Music for the Ear, Intellect and Soul, 6pm, Home of Jeanne and Jim Gustafson
Wednesday, July 20: Big Music for Little Bands, The Artistry of Gabriel Kahane, 6pm, Vilar Performing Arts Center
Thursday, July 21: Let Music Swell the Breeze: Sounds of America, Mana Saxophone Quartet, 12pm, Vail Interfaith Chapel
The New York Philharmonic arrives next Friday for a week-long stint.
Beaver Creek hosts the XTERRA Mountain Championship with the triathlon on Saturday and the trail run on Sunday. The triathlon includes a one-mile swim, a 15.5-mile mountain bike ride, and a 5.75-mile run beginning at Nottingham Lake. Sunday's half-marathon and 10K will be a lung-busting out-and-back from Beaver Creek to Bachelor Gulch. Patagonia is offering 30% off retail during the XTERRA weekend. The Coyote Café is offering 15% off entrees as well as drink specials on PBR during the showing of "180 South," the documentary about adventurer Jeff Johnson and his recount of Patagonia founders' 1968 excursion through Argentina.
Festival-goers head to Green Mountain Reservoir for Gish's Getaway Music and Arts Festival this Friday through Sunday. Admission is only $10, but limited to the first 150 people who show. State Bridge hosts Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Yamn, and Ultraviolet Hippopotamus on Saturday at 1pm. Admission is $15 in advance, $18 day of the show.
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Security firm Intego posted about the latest version of the malware, Flashback.S, which mimics the behaviors of previous variants of the malware. Flashback.S doesn't require an admin password to install itself into the machine's home folder, and it deletes all files located within
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Those of us who have already updated our Macs with the latest version of Java won't have to worry, as Flashback.S has yet to find a new vulnerability to exploit. But there are apparently still plenty of Mac users—-650,000, according to Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web last Friday—who are currently infected with some version of Flashback, meaning there are at least that many (and probably more) who have yet to update their machines.
Meanwhile, Sophos claims in a new report that one in five Macs is "harbouring some kind of malware," though Sophos' limited sample size (those who have downloaded Sophos' antivirus software) indicates we should take the numbers with a grain of salt until more researchers can corroborate the claims.


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A fusion center sponsored by the Homeland Security Department will likely serve as a hub.
While details of what happened in Boston today, with multiple explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, are just beginning to emerge, there is a framework in place for federal, state and local officials to respond to such situations -- and try to prevent them from occurring in the first place.
In the January/February issue of Government Executive, Charles S. Clark explored the Homeland Security Department's network of fusion centers. The centers bring together officials at all levels of government to share information (especially about potential terrorist activity) and coordinate responses to crisis situations. The most recent prominent example of such a center at work involved the response to Hurricane Sandy last October, conducted out of the New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center in West Trenton, N.J. Clark's piece focuses on this center.
The Boston area is served by the Commonwealth Fusion Center in Maynard, Mass. According to its website, the center "works with federal, state, regional and local law enforcement, as well as the public and private sector as the state repository for homeland security information and incident reporting. It serves as a point of contact for local entities seeking to receive information from federal agencies. It collects and analyzes information to produce and disseminate actionable intelligence to support decision makers and operational personnel."
When it comes to preventing terrorism, the fusion centers have come in for their share of criticism recently.
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