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Phil satirizes and pokes fun at the issues and issuemakers of the day with radio theater that introduces guests with viewpoints that are, well, let's just say they are a bit unusual.

Creative genius chock full of character, comedy and commentary — that's Phil Hendrie. Famous for concocting a cast of fictional characters, all of whom he plays on air while simultaneously serving as host of his national talk radio program, Hendrie actually started out as a disc jockey at WBJW 1440 AM in Winter Park, Fla., a suburb of Orlando. After 15 years working as a disc jockey at stations across the country, he realized he hated what he was doing. Moving to Los Angeles, Hendrie debuted in talk radio as a weekend host at KFI-AM 640.

In 1990 at KVEN-AM in Ventura, Calif., Hendrie introduced his first fictional character on air — an Iraqi, Raj Fahneen. The Gulf War was happening and Fahneen vociferously defended Saddam Hussein. Thinking he was a real person, listeners went ballistic and the phones lit up. An entire cast of characters would evolve from that moment on, marking Hendrie's place in radio history.

Hendrie's popularity resulted in the radio show going national in 1999. By 2006, he was ready to explore the next chapter of his career — acting in front of the camera. He departed from radio and quickly added to his resume which already included Trey Parker's and Matt Stone's motion picture, Team America: World Police, as well as television roles on Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Richard Appel's A.U.S.A., and Judd Apatow's North Hollywood. He also starred in Steve Levitan's Phil Hendrie and wrote, executive produced and starred in Phil at the Gate.

For the last 10 years, Hendrie has regularly played characters on FOX's popular animated series King of the Hill and Futurama. Other recent television work includes roles on Giants of Radio, The Replacements, Three Strikes, Mike Birbiglia's Secret Public Journal, David Mamet's The Unit, and NBC's Teachers. He also played Nets Coach in the motion picture, Semi-pro. Hendrie continues to act today and is currently working on the motion picture, Last Call.

Although he enjoyed acting on a full-time basis, Hendrie missed the daily creative outlet that radio provided. In 2007, he returned to national radio in the late evenings. On over 100 radio stations today, Hendrie is a master of satire and comedy. He has come a long way since doing voices as a child growing up in Altadena, Calif. Influenced by comedy greats such as Jackie Gleason, Lenny Bruce, and "Emperor" Bob Hudson, Hendrie has artfully carved his own niche in comedy and the spoken word format.


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Today, Barry, Martin, Fabian Cancellera and I rode the Gruyère Cycling Tour.
A stunning 123 kilometres over 3 climbs (Mittelberg, Col du pillon, Col des Mosses) through the Swiss Alps near the medieval perched village of Gruyère. It's a fantastic course.
As usual we started near the back. It's a fun start as some old guy sings a slow, atmospheric old Gruyere folk song while everyone crosses the start line (seriously).
With 2000 riders the beginning is a challenge as we went through about 8 roundabouts (downhill) to start – with police with whistles and waving flags à la Tour de France. Almost immediately the work starts as the Route heads towards the Jaun Pass – and climbs much of it before turning up a perfectly surfaced tiny forest road towards Mittelberg.
This climb is steep and with the huge crowd it was often complicated to pass people.
The descent down to Gstaad is hair-raising with several crazy hairpins through the woods. Half way down, several officials warned us to slow and around the corner, on a very steep stretch was a section of gravel. There were quite a few crashes throughout the day – Martin witnessed one.
And a rider in front of Barry fell and took Barry with him. Serious road rash – more on this later. And guess who helped him up? Mr Cancellera himself.
The Swiss World Champion and Olympic Medalist was participating (not racing) in the event – pretty cool.
Me? Far behind Barry and Fabian, I actually skidded a little on that section – I am usually braking when I descend – but I survived.
Feeling pretty good, I worked hard today and really enjoyed the route. I knocked 27 minutes off my last year time – so I was pretty pleased.
At the finish – I met Barry and translated for the First Aid guys. They informed us that he needed to go to the hospital to remove embedded gravel. Ouch. Before leaving, I, of course, snuck into the VIP section to get a photo of Cancellera.
KUDOs to Barry for finishing the course after his crash with a time a little over four hours. Unfortunately, this was almost the exact time we spent waiting at the hospital for him to be treated.
Still, a very fun day.

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Call of Duty: WW2 microtransactions due to arrive this month, and find out what's coming for PUBG!
Call of Duty: WW2 microtransactions due to arrive this month, and find out what's coming for PUBG!
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Check out Sideshow Collectibles' Tychus Sixth Scale Figure from StarCraft II. Assembled from over 525 individually engineered components, see Tychus Findlay geared up for battle!
Reality Check delves into the psychology behind why 55 million people log on to Twitch every month to watch other people play League of Legends and Hearthstone.
Nathanias on MLG Anaheim 2014
Shortly after his heart breaking loss to Acer Scarlett, DRG talked with Slasher about his recent performance, the shocking game 2 of that series, and his future in esports.
Harstem discusses various esports related topics at MLG Anaheim.
Destiny and Slasher catch up at Major League Gaming in Anaheim.
Slasher and InControl discuss various esports related topics at MLG.
Your MLG Anaheim Starcraft 2 Winner: Trap.
Son 'StarDust' Seok Hee talks to Slasher about wanting to get good results at MLG Anaheim to make up for his play at DreamHack Summer.
Slasher speaks to Kim 'viOLet' Dong Hwan on his return to form in StarCraft 2 at MLG Anaheim.
Heroes of the Storm draws its roster from multiple universes, but not everyone has joined the battle. Zorine Te names some favourites she'd like to see.
If you are a serious gamer there are serious reasons you should consider buying a gaming PC in 2014 if you don't already have one.
Take a look at this trailer for Starcraft II which gives an overview of the new features coming with Patch 2.1.
Take a look at this trailer from Blizzard announcing that you can play the entire Blizzard Arcade for free.
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Slasher talks with Golden about his retirement and what his plans are for the future.
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Take a look at this teaser trailer for the Starcraft II World Championship Series Global Finals that was shown on the main stage at BlizzCon 2013.
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Many people are surprised to learn that YouTube is the second-largest search engine. YouTube gets more search volume than Bing. Plus, YouTube is still a place people go to learn about different topics. With universal search Google includes much of the YouTube video content in search results. So how do you get to the top of your respective topic on YouTube?
The Holy Grail of search marketers is the algorithm. Figuring out or learning more about the alogorithm than your competitors is the key to top rankings in organic search results. We have found these 32 variables have the biggest influence on YouTube individual video rankings. The variables are ranked on a Factor of 100, 100 being the highest or the highest correlated variable to achieving top YouTube rankings.
2) Channel Creation
Creating a channel is the first step to promoting your videos but this step shouldn't be taken lightly. The YouTube Channel is your homepage and channels get top placement in YouTube search results. Make sure you use a theme not only relevant to all of your videos but a theme that you want to rank on. Only focus on one channel, rather than creating multiple channels for different themes. Total video channel views allows a channel more relevant for increased search results.
3) Buy an Established YouTube Channel
When uploading a new video to a brand new channel, the videos will need some history on the channel before capturing top rankings. However, buying an established channel with its established history and fan base (subscribers) is a quick tactic to increase visibility. Remember that a new video must have at least three months of history before it can attain top rankings in YouTube search results. Note that if you are a YouTube sponsored channel, the guidelines say you can't sell your channel.
4) Playlist Creation
Creating a playlist of multiple videos on the same topic can be a good way to present your videos to your viewers. Always make sure your video is located in the first position to increase engagement and views of your videos. Ending playlists with video content that provides information about your products and services will provide an opportunity to talk to potential customers early on in the buying cycle.
5) Video RepliesAnother way to signal YouTube about the theme of your content is to post a "video reply" to other related videos. Like a blog comment, a video reply offers a response to the primary video. Unlike a blog comment, the video reply contains a full version of your video for the viewer to watch. Video replies give YouTube context as to what your video is about, and helps to get increased traffic. To do this, search YouTube for the exact keyword you want to rank on. Click on each video that comes up and post your new video as a "video reply" to the most relevant videos. Click on "ad comment" and choose "Create a video response."
6) SEO Keyword Optimization
Titles & Descriptions - Like traditional SEO, the Title of the video is a major element that influences search rankings on YouTube. Unlike traditional SEO, the Description "does" hold some influence on search rankings so optimize your video description with the keywords you want to rank on.
Video Naming - File names are an often overlooked task. In my experience I've seen a lot of big brands upload videos with some variation of the following naming convention: "video1". Generic naming conventions provide little indication about the content and in fact, can actually be more of a deterrent to achieving higher rankings. Google's algorithm is like Hansel and Gretel, the more breadcrumbs/clues about the nature of your content, the more confidence Google will have in showing your content. Increasing the keyword density of the naming convention
Video Tags - Like social bookmarking and blogging, video tags are important and influence the search rankings on YouTube. Choose the 10 most relevant tags for each video to help it rank in search on YouTube. Never repeat the same tag twice on the same video.
7) Content Crawling
Two ways to get Google to index content from your video is a) by using Closed Caption settings and b) including the video's script in the description (Source:DailyBlogtips). YouTube gives you the option to upload transcript files for your video when choosing Closed Captions. With the Closed Caption setting, the video will offer captions for people watching the video around the world. The best part is Google will index the content in the captions and use it to rank your videos in Google organic search results.
8) Link Building/External Embeds
You can see how many links and embeds a video has accumulated using YouTube Analytics, YouTube's internal analytics tool. To access your channel's YouTube Analytics, log into your account, click on your username tab in the top right corner, click 'Video manager,' and then select 'Analytics.' Then take a look at the video's 'Playback Locations.'According to Mashable, "Next, start building links back to your video. The more websites that link back to your video on YouTube, the more relevant that video will appear in searches. The best way to do this is simply to find out who is linking back to the most popular videos in your category, searching for that URL in Google to see where it appears, and then reaching out to these sites to ask them to link to your videos."
9) Keep the Channel Fresh
Like a blog, channel subscribers like to see new videos on a regular interval. By updating the channel with videos you will also keep your channel fresh. Freshness is important for rankings in YouTube. If you upload a bunch of videos to a channel and never touch it for years, then those videos may not have as much value as the videos in the channel which are updated regularly.
For more tips and best practices for increasing your audience on YouTube download the YouTube Playbook.


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George W. Bush's Texas Ranch
Tuesday, 24th October 2006 by Alex Turnbull
CNBC: "I'm curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?"
President George W. Bush: "Occasionally. One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see – I've forgot the name of the program – but you get the satellite, and you can – like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes."
Via Andy Baio's Waxy.org, and thanks to punk floyd, Joey, Kyle Maxwell, Jason, Markus, Benjamin, Larry, rob schimmel, Tony, Gut, Rick Second and Greg Askins.


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|The White House
President George W. Bush
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 21, 2005
Joint Statement Between Mongolia and the United States of America
President George W. Bush and President Nambaryn Enkhbayar today reaffirmed the longstanding friendship between the United States of America and Mongolia and committed to defining guiding principles and expanding the framework of the comprehensive partnership between their two democratic countries based on shared values and common strategic interests, as declared in the Joint Presidential Statement of July 15, 2004.
On behalf of the American people, President Bush expressed his appreciation for the outpouring of sympathy and generous financial assistance from the government and people of Mongolia for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. President Bush welcomed Mongolia's progress toward becoming a mature and stable democracy, which observes human rights and civil liberties, and a private sector-led free market economy.
He congratulated the people of Mongolia, on behalf of the American people, for qualifying for eligibility for the Millennium Challenge Account, and looked forward to the successful conclusion of a Compact that will reduce poverty through economic growth and reflect the Government of Mongolia's commitment to continued political and economic reform. Mindful of the role that rule of law, good governance, transparency, and public sector accountability play in building democracy and prosperity, the two presidents welcomed Mongolia's recent ratification of the UN Convention Against Corruption.
The two presidents agreed to work together to facilitate Mongolia's participation in regional and international political, economic and financial structures. They also agreed to enhance their cooperation against all forms of organized, transnational crime, to include trafficking in people, counterfeiting, money-laundering, and terrorist financing. President Bush welcomed Mongolia's support for the Proliferation Security Initiative to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and for its commitment to sign and ratify the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
The two presidents reviewed the work being conducted under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) to promote bilateral trade and investment, and expressed the hope that this will lead to a closer bilateral economic and trade relationship.
Recognizing the potential threat to human health posed by avian and other forms of influenza, the two presidents agreed on the importance of bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.
President Bush and President Enkhbayar underscored their strong commitment to fight terrorism, which undermines international peace and security. President Bush applauded Mongolia's participation in the stabilization and reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, including its peacekeeping commitment to the Multinational Force in Iraq. The United States and Mongolia agreed to continue working to advance Mongolia's contribution to international peace support efforts.
They also agreed that the establishment of a free, democratic Iraq is important to democracy, peace and stability in the Middle East and the United Nations should play a leading role in the process. The two leaders underlined the importance of multilateral cooperation and, in this context, agreed on the need to pursue reform of the United Nations as a means to improving its effectiveness. President Bush and President Enkhbayar also emphasized the importance of implementing the September 2005 Joint Statement on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, issued by the members of the Six Party Talks.
The two presidents affirmed the value of educational and cultural exchanges to enhance understanding between the citizens of the two countries and agreed to promote people-to-people exchanges and educational cooperation. President Bush also expressed appreciation for the ratification of the bilateral International School of Ulaanbaatar Agreement which will help to ensure the availability of high quality, U.S.-accredited education for its students. The presidents noted the successful and positive contribution of the Peace Corps program in Mongolia.
The two presidents stated their expectations for the continued and steady growth of the U.S.- Mongolia relationship, based on mutual respect and equitable partnership, and reaffirmed that such growth will be in the national interest of both countries. # # #


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America is in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic affecting families across the country. Reports show that there are almost 80 opioid-related overdoses a day, amounting to more than 28,000 deaths annually.
This figure continues to climb as over 2.1 million people in the United States suffer from substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Additionally, the rise of synthetic opioids like fentanyl, W-18 and carfentanil are threats to those already using opiates as the epidemic worsens.
Where do opioid overdoses occur?
Data from the Centers for Disease Control shows that 77 percent of opioid overdose related deaths occur outside of a medical setting and 56 percent occur in private homes, meaning family or friends must often be the first to take action in an emergency situation. Accordingly, it is increasingly important that responders understand how to prevent death from overdose, including knowing how to use naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal medication.
What does naloxone do?
Naloxone, the antidote that reverses an opioid overdose, works by neutralizing the opioid receptors in the brain, allowing an overdosed person to breathe again moments after it is administered. It's been used in ambulances and hospital settings for decades and is now available for people to use in their homes or other remote areas.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 10,000 reversals of overdoses with naloxone are conducted by non-medical bystanders. Without having a solution in the hands of those closest to opioid-related overdoses, lives are left hanging in the balance while waiting for emergency medical services. However, there is an FDA-approved naloxone nasal spray designed for use by laypeople, like friends and family, who are not medically trained. It's needle-free and requires no training or assembly to use while providing a strong enough dose to help reverse opioid-related overdoses. Naloxone is only effective in opioid-related overdoses and does not affect a person without opioids in their body.
What can you do?
A majority of states have issued standing orders for FDA-approved naloxone products, which permit pharmacies to dispense the nasal spray without a physician's prescription. If you or someone you know is susceptible to an opioid-related overdose, whether caused by illicit drugs, like heroin, or prescription painkillers, it is important to prepare for an emergency overdose situation. By having naloxone on hand, you can save a life when every second matters.
Learn more about naloxone at getnaloxonenow.org.
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Patheos blog article on the Holy Spirit.
Phil Wyman's Four Square No More Blog post.
The Transform Gathering East Coast page.
Informational films I've made (with Kristina) about Quakerism are here.
Tony Jones' post about Pentecostalism and the Emergent Church is here.
Sam Laurent's profile (almost to the bottom of the page) from Drew is here.
Sarah Walker-Cleaveland is currently working on some pneumatology stuff and her home page is here.


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RIVER FALLS, Wis. – A search for meaning leads one to find it. Jessica Peterson finds hers in a tree that holds its fall leaves long after the others.
The maple at the edge of a River Falls cemetery shines golden upon the headstone of her three daughters.
"I have faith that they are at peace," Jessica says.
Jessica's search for light started in suffocating darkness.
In July of 2012, while Jessica was at work, her ex-husband Aaron Schaffhausen came to her home and murdered their three daughters: 11-year-old Amara, 8-year-old Sophie and 5-year-old Cecilia.
"If I started slipping toward trying to imagine living decades without them, it was too much," says Jessica, now more four years after the murders. "First an hour, or a day - then a week, then a month - breaking it down into small pieces that I could get through."
Getting through has led Jessica to a playground a few hundred feet from her daughters' headstone, accompanied by her two children born since the deaths of Amara, Sophie and Cecilia.
"I knew I needed to have more children," Jessica says. "I needed people to keep mothering so I could keep that part of me alive."
Flint, Jessica's first son, was born a year ago. Trinity Hope arrived a year before that.
"I was hoping by giving her the name it would reinforce for her the light," says Jessica, "that she wasn't here because they died, but she's here because I lived."
Matthew Peterson has been here too. His first date with Jessica happened less than two weeks before the girls were killed.
"He's a man of faith, deep faith, and he felt compelled to be there for me and ride it out," says Jessica.
Their marriage brought Jessica two stepdaughters too. But in truth her family now encompasses an entire community.
River Falls was shaken by the deaths of Amara, Sophie and Cecilia.
"There was just so much love and support and outpouring and people just wanted to do something," Jessica says.
In a series of fundraisers Jessica's adopted community stepped up in ways the Illinois transplant could never have imagined.
In two years' time the community's Tri-Angels Fund collected more than $550,000 – most of which was spent to build the playground where Jessica now plays with her kids.
Each section of the playground honors a different daughter.
"This is Amara's section," Jessica points out, "my scientist and my soccer player."
Sophie's section pays tribute to her love of art and fun fashion, while Cecilia's section of the playground focuses on her love for bugs. "Her section is for the littlest of us," says Jessica.
The joy Jessica finds here is tempered with the sadness the fall's first school buses bring – and the reminder her daughters' friends are moving on without Amara, Sophie and Cecilia.
"Amara should have turned 16 last Wednesday, and all of her friends are going to homecoming," she says.
Jessica's old home has been respectfully razed by Affinity Plus, the credit union that held the mortgage. Salvageable pieces of the house were donated to Habitat for Humanity. Proceeds from the sale of the lot were donated for the playground.
Jessica hasn't returned to her old neighborhood since the murders, instead surrounding herself with her daughters' artwork and photos in her new home.
"I just try to think about them and how I would have wanted them to live, how I would have wanted them to grieve, if I was the one who had gone," she says. "I would have wanted them to find more love and make the world a better place."
That desire to better the world has brought Jessica to the front of a ballroom, speaking to several dozen people who deal with trauma in their jobs.
"If you walk away from my story with anything, it's that good things can come from bad, bad things," Jessica tells the gathering.
Julie Stulz of Prairie Care is among the attendees wiping away tears. "I can't imagine doing what she's done since 2012 and being able to come here and talk," Julie says.
Public speaking is brand new for Jessica, but she feels it's time. "If somebody can hear my story and it helps them, it makes that load of grief a little easier to carry," Jessica says.
Amara, Sophie and Cecilia are remembered across River Falls - on a bench in their old neighborhood, in carved stones at Greenwood Elementary School and in stained glass windows at the public library.
"Every day I get a little further from the last time I was able to hold them," says Jessica, "but at the same time every day I get a little closer to being able to be with them again."
Until then Jessica will go on finding meaning - in a stubborn tree, in a playground and in her life.
"Even after it happened, there was that little glimmer of light ahead that would keep pulling me forward," she says, "and I have to say that light was most certainly those girls."


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Vol. LXIII, No. 17
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
(From the Collection of Hollingsworth Fine Arts)
ART AND ARTILLERY: This decorated artillery shell, the work of an unknown Hungarian artist, is among the pieces on view through May 31 in From Swords to Plowshares. Museum admission and special exhibits are free to members, corporate and business partner members, and children under 6 years old. The museum is located at 138 South Pine. On Sunday, April 5, along with Fonthill Museum, Mercer Museum, and the Moravian Pottery & Tile Works in Doylestown, the Michener will offer free admission and special activities from noon through 5 p.m.
I didn't know that shrapnel was named after Lieutenant Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842) until I read C.K. Williams's poem, "Shrapnel," which was written in the second year of the Iraq war. Shrapnel was only 22 when he began working on his invention, described by the online Trivia Library as "a spherical projectile filled with lead musket balls and a small charge of black powder" set off by a time fuse that exploded the shell in midair, scattered the shot "over a large area," and "laid low everyone in its path." The contemporary version, as Williams reports, delivers a force of 700 tons per inch "in the microsecond after its detonation," propelling the shrapnel at a speed of 2000 feet per second. After quoting the effects of "shrapnel throughout the body" of a ten-year-old "killed in a recent artillery offensive" in Iraq, Williams points out that Lt. Shrapnel was later awarded "a generous stipend in recognition of his contribution to 'the state of the art.' " At that point in the poem, the reference to "art" delivers the poetic equivalent of tremendous force, if not quite 700 tons of it.
The edgy ambiguity of "state of the art" in the context of war is not easy to dismiss if you're walking through "From Swords to Plowshares: Metal Trench Art from WW I and WW II" at the James A. Michener Art Museum, where you can see shrapnel modified and shaped to form a model bi-plane. You can also see a scimitar-shaped letter opener made from a piece of shrapnel that fairly glitters with its ugly history, assuming that it quite probably "laid low" someone who happened to be in its path. Stating the obvious, the raw material for these decorative souvenirs has a lethal provenance. It's as if instead of confronting a red-tinted Andy Warhol print of the electric chair, you're in the presence of the polished, embellished reality. Clearly this has little to do with art and everything to do with war, as you're reminded by a British-accented voice droning on about life on the battlefield from the soundtrack of the continuously running documentary called War in the Trenches that follows you around the room.
While what you see at the Michener is called "trench art," most of it was not made in the trenches but outside the combat zone by soldiers on leave or in POW camps or by civilian artisans. According to Trench Art: An Illustrated History by Jane A. Kimball (available for $65 in the museum Shop), POW camps actually held "artistic exhibitions" where these handicrafts were offered for sale to the public. You have to hope that the wounded or traumatized soldiers making rings or cigarette cases out of war trash were at least putting themselves right again in the process.
Needless to say, the destroyers of destruction represented in the Michener's Wachovia Gallery have no names. There are anonymous Hungarians and Italians, Americans and Germans, Canadians and Australians.
A Mass Funeral
In Trench Art there's a reference to how these "cruel destroyers of humans and landscapes" have been "transformed into objects of beauty," while the literature accompanying the exhibit claims that it "testifies to mankind's indomitable spirit" and "that soldiers, prisoners and artisans created objects of exquisite design out of the scrap heaps of war." As true and uplifting as those sentiments may be, terms like "indomitable spirit" and "objects of beauty" sound a bit precious and naive when applied to material that testifies no less tellingly to mankind's indomitable inhumanity.
Anyway, maybe there's something to be said for draining, embalming, and symbolically diminishing the evil by putting pretty ornaments made from its leavings into glass-topped display cases in a museum. Picture it as mortuary art for a mass funeral, all this dead, gilded detritus of war, the stuff of destruction symbolically destroyed and laid out for viewing in a formal array of see-through coffins. My thoughts about "destroying destruction" were inspired by the phrase "death once dead" from one of those lines in Shakespeare that keep you company in times of stress. It's from the closing couplet of the 146th Sonnet: "So shalt thou feed on death that feeds on men/And death once dead, there's no more dying then."
While the title of the show (also the name of a veterans advocacy group) is not meant to be taken literally, what you see here has little to do with "plowshares" or "swords." You can't till the earth with lamps, vases, bookends, ashtrays, and letter openers, and the "state of the art" on display comes not from swords but from artillery shells, most of them the same size (75mm and 77mm). Unfortunately the sheer quantity of vases and similarly sized and shaped objects results in an overall effect of polished brass monotony. Given all this contained uniformity, the quality of the exhibit relies to a great extent on special points of detail, background, and design. The information about countries and campaigns, however, is sketchy, though a phone number and prompts offer extra commentary.
Among the more interesting pieces I saw were the vase on which a poem is engraved in Hungarian (the last line of which is "Look into the future and you will see the past," according to the telephone translation); numerous vases featuring female nudes, some crude, some elegant; a smoking box assembled from aircraft gauges, dials, including a plastic called Perspax from an aircraft windshield; and a big metal box in which a Mickey Mouse figure appears to be taking off Minnie Mouse's blouse. Another version of Mickey is posed, waving, astride a rocket in a stirring display of mousekind's "indomitable spirit." There are silver-plated brass beer steins "from the battlefields of North Africa"; a tankard engraved with a map of the world; an Art Nouveau-style vase; numerous elaborate lamps, a cathedral fashioned out of chrome-plated bullet shells, and several bullet crucifixes.
"From Swords to Plowshares" is one more in a series of admirably thought-provoking Michener shows. In 2005 it was "Impossible to Forget: The Nazi Camps Fifty Years After," and in 2007 it was the somewhat controversial display of Suzanne Opton's extraordinary portraits of soldiers back from deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention the companion exhibition, "Fire and Ice: Marine Corps Combat Art From Afghanistan and Iraq," featuring Marine Warrant Officer Michael Fay's drawings and watercolors.
Whatever you may think of its appropriateness to the source material, the swords into plowshares idea has considerable topical resonance. The recycling of battlefield litter not only suggests the notion of "sustainability," but gives it an antecedent in the homefront drives that collected scrap metal to make into weaponry, which after it has killed and maimed millions is transformed into something domestic and decorative.
In "Shrapnel," C.K. Williams juxtaposes the shrapnel-savaged Iraqi child with a hospital scene from Ian McEwan's novel Atonement, where after suffering horribly as a huge hunk of shrapnel is removed from his leg, a soldier quips, "Run him under the tap, Nurse, I'll take him home." As a souvenir, you know. Or maybe he'll make a letter opener or a paper weight of it, if he gets home alive.
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About 10 percent of software applications turned down by Apple's App Store are "inappropriate," either because they will steal personal data, are meant to help users break the law, or contain "inappropriate content," an Apple senior executive reportedly said.
But in an interview with a leading business magazine, Apple's Phil Schiller ignored some big issues spurring iPhone developers to move to the Droid and other mobile platforms, and he didn't explain why Apple is acting as a software gatekeeper for mobile users.
Most applications submitted to the App Store are approved by Apple, according to Phil Schiller, Apple's senior VP for worldwide product marketing, as quoted in an interview with BusinessWeek.
In about 90 percent of cases where applications are sent back to the developer, Apple asks for technical fixes, generally for bugs in the software or because something doesn't work as anticipated, according to Schiller. Beyond the roughly 10 percent sent back because they're deemed "inappropriate," about 1 percent fall into areas which Apple hadn't foreseen, such as applications designed to help users cheat at gambling casinos, he said.
Schiller, though, did not address the applications that Apple has denied due to "duplicate functionality," and he did not give any inkling as to how developers — many of whom are drifting or expanding to alternative platforms such as Android, Windows Mobile, and RIM Blackberry — can get quicker insight into whether their software will make it into the App Store.
Just over a year ago, Apple rejected Angelo DiNardi's MailWranger application on the basis that it was too similar to the iPhone's built-in Mail app.
Apple used a similar argument of "duplicate functionality" in banning Alex Sokirynsky's Podcaster software application, and later in barring not just Google Voice but all Google Voice-enabled applications.
Apple has made several moves lately to help placate disgruntled developers. Earlier this month, the company instituted a new policy that lets the developer see when an app is "Ready for Review," "In Review," or "Ready for Sale," after confusion ensued over a 3G TV app first tossed out and then suddenly restored to the App Store.
But in his BusinessWeek interview, Schiller does not say how Apple might go further to give developers more advance notice about potential blockades to application approval.
Nor does he explain why Apple feels the need to behave as an arbiter of public morality and taste in the area of mobile software applications.
Apple still has the power to wield this kind of control due to the commanding lead it holds over other mobileplatforms in terms of numbers of applications in its online store.
But as other mobile phone environments begin to catch up to the iPhone, will Apple still be able to maintain a "walled garden" for mobile phone users, reminiscent of AOL's approach to the Internet in years gone by? That scenario is looking increasingly unlikely.
See also:
Rejected! 10 iPhone Apps That Didn't Make Apple's App Store
The Best iPhone Apps Not in the App Store


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The Electronic Intifada Nazareth 24 October 2012
Six and a half years ago, shortly after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections and took charge of Gaza, a senior Israeli official described Israel's planned response. "The idea," he said, "is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger."
Although Dov Weisglass was adviser to Ehud Olmert, the prime minister of the day, few observers treated his comment as more than hyperbole, a supposedly droll characterization of the blockade Israel was about to impose on the tiny enclave.
Last week, however, the evidence finally emerged to prove that this did indeed become Israeli policy. After a three-year legal battle by an Israeli human rights group, Israel was forced to disclose its so-called "Red Lines" document. Drafted in early 2008, as the blockade was tightened still further, the defense ministry paper set forth proposals on how to treat Hamas-ruled Gaza.
The fine print
Health officials provided calculations of the minimum number of calories needed by Gaza's 1.5 million inhabitants to avoid malnutrition. Those figures were then translated into truckloads of food Israel was supposed to allow in each day.
The Israeli media have tried to present these chilling discussions, held in secret, in the best light possible. Even the liberal Haaretz newspaper euphemistically described this extreme form of calorie-counting as designed to "make sure Gaza didn't starve."
But a rather different picture emerges as one reads the small print. While the health ministry determined that Gazans needed daily an average of 2,279 calories each to avoid malnutrition — requiring 170 trucks a day — military officials then found a host of pretexts to whittle down the trucks to a fraction of the original figure.
The reality was that, in this period, an average of only 67 trucks — much less than half of the minimum requirement — entered Gaza daily. This compared to more than 400 trucks before the blockade began.
To achieve this large reduction, officials deducted trucks based both on an over-generous assessment of how much food could be grown locally and on differences in the "culture and experience" of food consumption in Gaza, a rationale never explained.
Chronic malnutrition
Gisha, the organization that fought for the document's publication, observes that Israeli officials ignored the fact that the blockade had severely impaired Gaza's farming industry, with a shortage of seeds and chickens that had led to a dramatic drop in food output.
UN staff too have noted that Israel failed to factor in the large quantity of food from each day's supply of 67 trucks that never actually reached Gaza. That was because Israeli restrictions at the crossings created long delays as food was unloaded, checked and then put on to new trucks. Many items spoiled as they lay in the sun.
And on top of this, Israel further adjusted the formula so that the number of trucks carrying nutrient-poor sugar were doubled while the trucks carrying milk, fruit and vegetables were greatly reduced, sometimes by as much as a half.
Robert Turner, director of operations for the UN agency for Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip, has observed: "The facts on the ground in Gaza demonstrate that food imports consistently fell below the red lines."
It does not need an expert to conclude that the imposition of this Weisglass-style "diet" would entail widespread malnutrition, especially among children. And that is precisely what happened, as a leaked report from the International Committee of the Red Cross found at the time. "Chronic malnutrition is on a steadily rising trend and micro-nutrient deficiencies are of great concern," it reported in early 2008.
Collective punishment
Israel's protests that the document was merely a "rough draft" and never implemented are barely credible — and, anyway, beside the point. If the politicians and generals were advised by health experts that Gaza needed at least 170 trucks a day, why did they oversee a policy that allowed in only 67?
There can be no doubt that the diet devised for Gaza — much like Israel's blockade in general — was intended as a form of collective punishment, one directed at every man, woman and child. The goal, according to the Israeli defense ministry, was to wage "economic warfare" that would generate a political crisis, leading to a popular uprising against Hamas.
Earlier, when Israel carried out its 2005 disengagement, it presented the withdrawal as marking the end of Gaza's occupation. But the "Red Lines" formula indicates quite the opposite: that, in reality, Israeli officials intensified their control, managing the lives of Gaza's inhabitants in almost-microscopic detail.
Experiments in social engineering
Who can doubt — given the experiences of Gaza over the past few years — that there exist in the Israeli military's archives other, still-classified documents setting out similar experiments in social engineering? Will future historians reveal that Israeli officials also pondered the fewest hours of electricity Palestinians in Gaza needed to survive, or the minimum amount of water, or the smallest living space per family, or the highest feasible levels of unemployment?
Such formulas presumably lay behind the decision to bomb Gaza's only power station in 2006 and subsequently to block its proper repair; the refusal to approve a desalination plant, the only way to prevent over-drilling contaminating the Strip's underground water supply; the declaration of large swaths of farmland no-go areas, forcing the rural population into the already overcrowded cities and refugee camps; and the continuing blockade on exports, decimating Gaza's business community and ensuring the population remains dependent on aid.
It is precisely these policies by Israel that led the United Nations to warn in August that Gaza would be "uninhabitable" by 2020 ("Gaza in 2020 - A livable place?," 27 August 2012).
Doctrines for destruction
In fact, the rationale for the Red Lines document and these other measures can be found in a military strategy that found its apotheosis in Operation Cast Lead, the savage attack on Gaza in winter 2008-09.
The Dahiya doctrine was Israel's attempt to update its traditional military deterrence principle to cope with a changing Middle East, one in which the main challenge it faced was from asymmetrical warfare. The name Dahiya derives from a neighborhood of Beirut Israel leveled in its 2006 attack on Lebanon.
This "security concept," as the Israeli army termed it, involves the wholesale destruction of a community's infrastructure to immerse it so deeply in the problems of survival and reconstruction that other concerns, including fighting back or resisting occupation, are no longer practicable.
On the first day of the Gaza offensive, Yoav Galant, the commander in charge, explained the aim succinctly: it was to "send Gaza decades into the past." Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai may have been thinking in similar terms when, months before Operation Cast Lead, he warned that Israel was preparing to inflict on Gaza a "shoah," the Hebrew word for Holocaust.
Seen in this context, Weisglass' "diet" can be understood as just one more refinement of the Dahiya doctrine: a whole society refashioned to accept its subjugation through a combination of violence, poverty, malnutrition and a permanent struggle over limited resources.
This experiment in the manufacture of Palestinian despair is, it goes with saying, both illegal and grossly immoral. But ultimately it is also certain to unravel — and possibly sooner rather than later. The visit this week of Qatar's emir, there to bestow hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, was the first by a head of state since 1999.
The Gulf's wealthy oil states need influence, allies and an improved image in a new Middle East wracked by uprisings and civil war. Gaza is a prize, it seems, they may be willing to challenge Israel to possess.
Jonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His latest books are Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (Pluto Press) and Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair (Zed Books). His new website is www.jonathan-cook.net.
A version of this article first appeared in The National, Abu Dhabi.
- Gaza siege
- Dov Weisglass
- Red Lines document
- child malnutrition
- closure
- movement restrictions
- Gisha
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- Dahiya doctrine
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Thanks very much, Jonathan, for highlighting the disgusting experiments that Israelis are carrying out on the laboratory population of the Gaza Strip. They are testing the level of despair, humilation and punishment that people under occupation are willing to put up with, including subjecting innocent children to starvation resulting in chronic malnutrition and stunted growth.
I am a primary care physician and I know what starvation can do to the brain of a developing child. This kind of experimenting reminds me of the immoral German scientists during WWII, who subjected the inmates of concentration camps to reprehensible experiments. We must name and shame Weisglas, Galant, Vilnai and all their colleagues of various university departments in Israel who were willing to collaborate with this.
Starvation diet
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If this policy is not subject to United Nations action, then the orfanization is shamefully useless.
The world is witnessing evil manifested by these policies which are similar to the vicious policies of the Nazis from whom the Zionist criminals have learned from.
Zionist Israel is deservedly a pariah state whose practices soil the tenets of the Torah and only adds to the prejudices against the Jewish people around the world. Such pyre evil is an insult to the human spirit.
Validation and References
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This is a fascinating article and bits and pieces I have seen before in other blogs, but never a complete outline such as this.
However, I would not be able to reference this article because there are no external references for the numbers quoted (trucks, calories etc in the Red Lines Document.. which I can only find scant reference to but not find online, or the throttling of the trucks - again, I have seen info about the throttling on the Egyptian border but not the food trucks).
It would be an incredibly powerful piece if you put in your sources. Thanks.


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First Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal and Justice M. Sathyanarayanan, ordered notice to the state government and sought reply within three weeks.
The notice was issued on a petition which sought a direction to the state government to withdraw all criminal cases filed against anti-nuclear activists, who have been protesting against the Indo-Russian project in Tirunelveli District.
The petition referred to the Supreme Court's direction to the state government to withdraw all criminal cases against the protestors.
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Ancient Thebes
Site: Ancient Thebes With Its Necropolis
Location: Egypt
Year Designated: 1979
Category: Cultural
Criteria: (i)(iii)(vi)
Reason: Towering temples and treasure-filled tombs shine a light on one of history's greatest civilizations.
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Ancient Thebes was home to some of the greatest monuments of the ancient world—built to honor the living, the dead, and the divine. The city, known as Waset to ancient Egyptians and as Luxor today, was the capital of Egypt during parts of the Middle Kingdom (2040 to 1750 B.C.) and the New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.).
Thebes was the city of Amun, whose devotees elevated him among the ranks of ancient deities. Once a relatively local Theban god, he was merged with the god Re and perched atop the entire Egyptian pantheon.
Amun's city sat astride the Nile in Upper Egypt. On the river's east side was the city proper and many important temples, including the legendary Karnak complex. Karnak was one of the biggest religious complexes in the world, nearly one mile by half a mile (1.5 kilometers by 800 meters), and even after more than 3,000 years it remains one of the most awe-inspiring.
This was the principal religious site of the New Kingdom, and its monuments are correspondingly enormous—Hatshepsut's obelisk towers 90 feet (27.5 meters). The massive assemblage of structures, columns, and statuary paid tribute to four different gods.
Karnak was linked to another legendary site, the Luxor Temple, by a grand, 1.9-mile-long (3-kilometer-long) avenue lined with sphinxes.
Luxor Temple, with its soaring columns and statues of Ramses II, is nearly as familiar as the Sphinx or Pyramids at Giza. The primary structure was built during the reigns of Amenhotep III and Ramses II, circa 1500 to 1200 B.C., but other rulers from Tutankhamun to Alexander the Great added their own touches over the years.
The temple was dedicated to Amun in his form as a fertility god and was used during the annual Opet Festival of royal renewal. Today it is still a place of worship—the Abu el-Haggag mosque added in the 11th century is still operational today.
On the Nile's west bank, the dead held sway. It was here that the Egyptians created an extensive necropolis to commemorate the lives of the royal and highborn—and to prepare them for the afterlife.
The Valley of the Kings (actually two distinct valleys) was used to bury royalty during much of the New Kingdom era, from about 1550 to 1070 B.C. Rulers were interred in elaborate underground structures, with chambers and passages decorated with paintings and filled with everything a pharaoh could desire in this world or the next.
The valley is best known for the tomb of Tutankhamun, with its legendary treasures, discovered by Howard Carter in 1922. Many other royals were buried here but few known tombs remained as unmolested as Tut's. The Valley of the Kings was heavily looted in the 21st dynasty (1070 to 945 B.C.) and many mummies were removed for safekeeping during this era.
Secreted in the cliffs of a Y-shaped ravine, the Valley of the Queens houses some 90 known tombs of queens, princes, and other notables from the New Kingdom (1550 to 1070). As at other sites, tomb robbing was common and relatively few undisturbed tombs were found here. Yet the necropolises themselves, along with the great temples on the far shore, make Thebes one of the truly great treasures of the ancient world—and the modern one as well.
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How to Get There
Luxor is serviced by an international airport, by train, by regular bus service, and even by Nile cruise ships.
When to Visit
Summer in this area is simply scorching. Winter has a far more favorable climate for exploring the sites. At any time of year it's likely best to explore in the morning and evening hours.
How to Visit
Take your time. Scholars have spent careers exploring Luxor—you won't have time to see it all and might miss the forest for the trees if you try. Leave time for relaxation in the style only Luxor can provide—like a sunset felucca cruise on the Nile.


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This value is represented by %A in the STATUS_FORMAT string. The %A has no special meaning in the STATUS_AWAY string itself (it will only expand in STATUS_FORMAT).
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Hundreds queue up for Wii U debut in Japan
TOKYO — Hundreds of people queued up at electronics shops across Japan Saturday as Nintendo released its new Wii U game console, hoping to reposition itself in a gaming market invaded by online social games.
About 100 people were waiting outside Bic Camera's flagship store in Tokyo's Ikebukuro commercial district before it opened at 8 am, with the number quickly swelling to several hundred, an Agence France-Presse photographer said.
"I have already ordered one. But I lined up to catch this carnival atmosphere," a 24-year-old graduate student, who waited overnight to become the first Wii U buyer at the Tokyo shop, told local media.
"I want to go home quickly to play the game."
The Japanese electronics titan has already released the successor to its video game console Wii in the United States, Europe and Australia.
More than 425,000 new units were sold in the first week on the US market after its release there on November 18, according to Nintendo.
The original Wii device has sold more than 97 million units around the world since its launch in 2006.
The company plans to sell 5.5 million units of the new console and 24 million pieces of software by the end of March, hoping to turn around business after posting a net loss of 43.2 billion yen ($520 million) in the year to March 2012.
Wii U, equipped with a touch-screen controller called the Wii U GamePad, enables players to play games on a television display or on the GamePad screen.
The suggested retail price of its 8-gigabyte model in Japan is 26,250 yen ($318) and that of its 32-gigabyte model 31,500 yen.
Nintendo has vowed to start a trend in "asymmetrical play" that lets players using GamePad tablets have different in-game perspectives and roles than those using traditional wand controllers.
The new console is also portable — offering up a challenge to smartphone games — but still offers players the option to jump, shift and shout as they wriggle their bodies to move the action onscreen, like the original Wii.


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Microsoft has finally broken its silence on the timing of the release of the highly anticipated Windows Vista Service Pack 1, saying the software updates should be in final release in the first quarter of next year, with the company shipping off a beta next month to 10,000 to 15,000 testers.
The company stressed that SP1, "is not a delivery vehicle for new features," said David Zipkin, senior product manager for Microsoft. SP1 will include OS updates strictly to fix bugs and enhance the performance, reliability and application compatibility of Vista, he said.
Zipkin acknowledged that Microsoft has "a reputation of sneaking fixes into service packs in the past." For example, Windows XP SP 2 included a host of new security features after XP was exploited by the Blaster worm and other serious attacks. However, the service pack also was incompatible with many applications running on XP, which caused massive headaches for a lot of users.
Vista SP1 will not break any applications already running on the OS. "Anything that works on Vista is going to keep on working on SP1," he said.
XP also will get another refresher in the next few weeks when Microsoft releases the third service pack for the soon-to-be outdated OS to customers and partners. Windows XP SP3 will be the last service pack update for XP, and will include previously released updates as well as a small number of new fixes. It shouldn't dramatically alter the XP experience, according to Microsoft.
Vista SP1 will include the 20 updates for the OS already released over Microsoft's automatic update services, as well as ones that are new to the update. In all, thousands of Vista files will be changed as part of the release, Zipkin said.
However, Vista SP1 will be a significantly smaller download than Windows XP SP2 was, he said. XP SP2 was more than 100MB in size, while Vista SP1 will be about 50MB, he said.
Microsoft will deliver SP1 over its automatic update services to consumers running Windows Vista. Business customers can use this service as well or roll out a stand-alone version of SP1, which has a bigger footprint, through whatever software a company uses for pushing updates to desktops, Zipkin said.
The stand-alone version of SP1 will be bigger than the one automatically pushed out through Windows update services for several reasons, one of which is it contains all of the 36 language updates, Zipkin said. The SP1 pushed out over the Web can detect what language a PC is running and only install that update.
Specifically, SP1 will fix performance features such as allowing for the computer to resume functionality after being in the Hibernate or Standby state, and also reduce the time it takes between a user hitting CTRL/ALT/DELETE to get the log-in prompt so they can log on to Windows, Zipkin said.
Microsoft also in SP1 will improve the performance of Internet Explorer 7 to speed Javascript processing and reduce CPU (central processing unit) utilization so sites running AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) can run faster, he said.
On the reliability side, the update will reduce the likelihood of Vista crashing from a vague "search protocol handler" error message that users have reported happens frequently, Zipkin said. The company also fixed other common crashes users have reported through Microsoft's automatic reporting service.
Many businesses have held off on updating to Vista until the arrival of SP1. Zipkin said that while Microsoft supports their decision, the company is recommending they test applications with Vista now so that they are ready to deploy immediately when SP1 is available. For consumers that may be waiting, Microsoft recommends they go ahead and install Vista or purchase a Vista machine now, and they will receive SP1 via automatic updates.
To date, Microsoft reports that about 60 million consumer licenses for Vista have been sold, and 42 million licenses have been sold to businesses through its volume licensing program.
Microsoft Wednesday also offered an updated roadmap for Windows Server 2008, the server release of Windows that complements Vista. The company now plans to release the OS to manufacturing in the first quarter of 2008; previously, the company was targeting the first half of that year. More information about Windows Server can be found on an internal company blog about the product.


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If you've played an MMO since EverQuest, you'll be familiar with the idea of the 'holy trinity' of healer, tank, and damage classes. It's an old and tested system, and one that is popular because it allows people to shine in particular roles. Players known to be reliable healers or tanks are worth their weight in gold to guilds looking to take on the hardest bosses.
Guild Wars 2 rejects the trinity outright, opting instead for a system where every class can fill every role - they just do it differently, and the emphasis is on responding to changing circumstances rather than locking down a particular plan in advance. While at ArenaNet last week I asked game designers Ben Miller and Jon Peters whether ditching the trinity threatened a player's sense of identity.
"I'm the anti-healer person" Peters told me. "I don't hate that people like to play support roles, it's just that I want that role to be fun. I don't think there's any teamwork - what there is is just dependency."
He drew parallels between the trinity and the way a game studio operates. "If we worked that way, we would never make a game that I enjoyed playing. I would just say 'make me my effects', and [the art team] would say "ok, here's what you've got."
"We build on it, that's what that teamwork is about, and that's the same thing the Guild Wars 2 combat is about, right? It's about organic teamwork and building stuff together."
It's clearly a topic that the design team are passionate about. "I just detest dependency and the lack of teamwork it creates," Peters continued. "It seems awfully silly to get people to play together and then not have them interact other than to say 'are you doing your job?', 'Yes, I'm doing it.'"
The key to redesigning MMO classes, Peters argues, is looking outside the genre - at shooters. "No-one would tell you that everyone in Team Fortress just does damage," he says. "No-one would say a Spy and a Heavy are the same because they both do damage - they're very different playstyles. They have a very good sense of purpose."
In Guild Wars 2, what a character contributes to a party is based on their choice of weapons and abilities as well as the skill level of the player. "I'm going to be a rifle turret engineer" Peters explains, "and my sense of purpose is that [in PvP] I take capture points and I hold them. In dungeons I'm the guy who says, 'fall back to me when we're in trouble, and I'll blow my turrets up and we'll scatter.'" You develop that sense [of identity] with a playstyle rather than with a role."


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Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports.
WASHINGTON – Legislators from a number of states are preparing to introduce bills to protect utilities from either a natural or man-made electromagnetic pulse event, or EMP, despite opposition from major utilities and the failure of the federal government to act, according to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
At the National Council of State Legislatures last week in Atlanta, a number of lawmakers said they're preparing legislation similar to a bill introduced in Maine recently did under the leadership of Rep. Andrea Boland.
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Efforts are under way to press the membership of the NCSL to address the EMP issue, since the federal government has failed to take action to mitigate the potential for a catastrophic event, whether natural or man-made. An EMP event could knock out the U.S. electrical grid system and the critical infrastructures that rely on it.
Along with the national electrical grid, other critical infrastructures include telecommunications, banking and financial transactions, oil and natural gas pipelines, transportation, food and water delivery, emergency services and space systems.
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In short, an EMP event could cause the collapse of society.
It was the first time the NCSL had been confronted with the EMP issue. The two resolutions considered, both calling for action by the states, were met with a positive response.
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The first resolution called for Congress to pass the SHIELD Act, which would give the federal government authority to ensure the shielding of utility hardware, a move the utilities oppose.
The first resolution also called on the Department of Homeland Security to develop a new National Planning Scenario to prevent or recover from an EMP catastrophe and undertake other federal initiatives for national EMP preparedness.
"Almost all legislators agreed that this (resolution) was very important and probably should be adopted, but premature for a vote by NCSL, so it was tabled for study by the NCSL and a future vote," Peter Vincent Pry told WND.
Read the documentation that's sparking the worry about the EMP threat, in "A Nation Forsaken."
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Pry, who was a CIA analyst and staff director of the congressionally mandated EMP Commission, also is executive director of the Task Force for National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory group.
The second resolution called on Congress to support state-led initiatives like Maine's recently enacted LD-131 legislation sponsored by Boland, to protect state grids from an EMP. It also asked that Congress pass no law interfering with state efforts to pass and implement such initiatives.
A majority voted in favor of the second resolution, although approving a resolution requires the support of three-quarters of the voters.
Pry said the resolutions will be taken up again at the next NCSL, slated for December. He was pleased with their reception, since it was the first time the EMP issue had been raised at the NCSL.
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"We are running out of time to protect the grid," Pry said. "The solar maximum is upon us. Millions of cyber-attacks are already happening daily, and saboteurs using AK-47s damaged grid transformers outside San Jose, California, in April.
"In July, a North Korean freighter was intercepted carrying nuclear capable missiles," Pry said. "Connect the dots. The last time we failed to connect the dots, 9/11 happened and thousands of Americans died."
Pry pointed out the greatest opposition to the resolutions at the NCSL was the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which represents the state utilities, and allies such as the Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
The NERC has said that it is up to the U.S. Department of Defense to handle protection of the grid against an EMP, even though the responsibility comes under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The Defense Department has testified to Congress that it has a 99 percent reliance on the U.S. electrical grid system for maintaining its bases and being prepared to meet any national security emergency.
If the grid is knocked out, even temporarily, experts say such an event also would have an impact on U.S. national security preparedness.
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Another measure of the significance of an industry is its contribution to employment. Employment (and unemployment) data are used as social indicators by government, research and welfare organisations. Employment is also an indicator of economic activity, although turning points in the employment series tend to lag turning points in the business cycle.
The industry composition of average weekly paid hours for wage and salary earners provides an insight into the labour market. Data on this topic are derived from the biennial ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours. This survey covers all employing organisations in Australia (public and private sectors) except enterprises primarily engaged in the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry, private households employing staff, and foreign embassies and consulates.
Graph 13.5 shows average weekly total paid hours for full-time adult non-managerial employees by industry in May 2002 compared to the all industries average in that period (39.5 hours). Total paid hours are equal to ordinary time paid hours plus overtime paid hours. The highest average weekly paid hours for full-time adult non-managerial employees was in mining (45.8 hours), followed by transport and storage (42.0 hours) and manufacturing (41.4 hours) industries. The lowest average weekly paid hours was in the education industry (36.0 hours).
Paid overtime accounted for 3.8% of average weekly total paid hours for full-time adult non-managerial employees. The industry in which employees worked the most paid overtime was mining (12.9% of total paid hours for that industry). Paid overtime in the transport and storage, construction, and manufacturing industries accounted for 7.6%, 7.4% and 7.2% of total paid hours respectively.
Compensation of employees is both an economic and social indicator. This item includes wages and salaries (paid in cash and in kind) and employer social contributions (e.g. employers' contributions to superannuation and worker's compensation premiums). Wages and salaries in kind can include meals, housing, uniforms, and vehicles.
Graph 13.6 presents industry shares of total compensation of employees in 2001-02. These data are in current prices (i.e. they are valued at the prices of the period to which the data relate (2001-02)). In this period, total compensation of employees was $338,514m. Total wages and salaries was $306,048m (90.4% of total compensation of employees).
The property and business services industry held the largest share of total compensation of employees (14.8%), followed by the manufacturing (12.0%), health and community services (9.9%), education (8.4%) and retail trade (8.1%) industries. These industries were also in the top six labour intensive industries (along with construction) in 2001-02.


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