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They go by such nicknames as "Fat Cat" and "Tomboy." Their simmering power struggles once drove them into the streets, guns blazing. They rule their crime families with steely determination, and also raise the kids and stir the pasta.
Move over, Don Corleone. Godmothers are rising in the ranks of the Camorra, the Naples' area crime syndicate.
Women have long played a strong role in Camorra crime families, muscling, sometimes murdering, their way to the top. Their influence stretches back as far as the 1950s when a pregnant former beauty queen dubbed "pupetta" (little doll) shot dead the man who had ordered a hit on her husband, and allegedly settled into a life of crime.
Now, as the state steps up its war against the Camorra, rounding up scores of mobsters, the women are increasingly taking over the helm from their men.
"There is a growing number of women who hold executive roles" in the Camorra, Gen. Gaetano Maruccia, commander of the Carabinieri paramilitary police in the Naples area, told The Associated Press.
"They are either widows (of mob bosses) or wives of husbands who have been put in prison. They hold the reins."
Mothers, daughters, sisters and sisters-in-law are "assuming ever-more leading roles," Stefania Castaldi, a Naples-based prosecutor who investigates organized crime, said in an interview.
Wielding power on the streets
This family dimension of the Camorra finds its echo in mainstream Italian society — a family often will entrust its business to a woman relative rather than an outsider.
Camorra women still perform the more "traditional" roles of cutting and repackaging cocaine and heroin in their kitchens or tidying up the hideouts of fugitive bosses, but others are wielding power on the streets. They shake down merchants in extortion rackets and increasingly direct drug trafficking worth millions of dollars, Castaldi said.
In one of the most lurid episodes, in 2002, two carloads of women from rival Camorra clans lurched through the streets of Lauro, a town near Naples, first trading insults, and then machine-gun fire and pistol shots until two grandmothers and a 16-year-old girl were dead. The root of the bloodshed: a turf war fueled by the murder of a clan boss' cousin.
Some of the Camorra "godmothers" rank right up there with the men in commanding clout and obedience, authorities say.
Among them is Maria Licciardi, one of the victors of the long-running blood feud between the Di Lauro and Secondigliano Alliance that left Naples littered nearly daily with bodies a few years back.
"Signora Licciardi is a true 'madrina' (godmother), absolutely," said Castaldi. "She was the sister of a boss, and she sat at the table with other bosses, she made decisions with them, she was right at their level."
Authorities are now investigating whether one of those decisions was an order to execute as many as 30 of her rivals, say investigators, speaking on condition of anonymity because Italian law prohibits officials from discussing ongoing probes.
Known as the 'little one'
Licciardi, a petite woman known by cohorts and enemies alike as 'a piccirella" (the little one), was arrested in 2001 after she was stopped while driving her car near Naples. On the run since 1999, Licciardi at the time figured on the list of Italy's top-30 wanted criminals.
She is one of a handful of female mobsters who are considered so top-level they are held in Italy's stiffest prison regime, which includes isolation and severely limited contact with the outside world.
"She's in prison, but she still commands. Prisons don't represent a barrier" for the Camorra, said Anna Maria Zaccaria, a sociologist at Naples Federico II University who is researching women's roles in the syndicate.
Licciardi is widely considered an able manager, particularly valued for her "powers of persuasion," Zaccaria said in an interview. Dangling promises of cash, she is believed to have managed to persuade some Camorra mobsters who were contemplating becoming turncoats to stay loyal to the clan, the professor said.
For generations, when such mobsters were arrested, mothers and wives would descend screaming into Naples' chaotic streets, throwing insults and sometimes punches at police arresting their men. But as investigators increasingly regard women as significant Camorra figures, handcuffs have been snapping shut around their wrists, too.
"They are ... as cocky as the men" when arrested, said Maruccia, the Carabinieri commander.
In July, Carabinieri swept up 11 women for drug trafficking in a raid on Naples' Sarno crime clan. In another blitz, a mother and her two grown daughters were arrested on organized-crime charges, including extortion.
Deep roots in Naples society
The emergence of strong Camorra women has deep roots in Naples society.
"The Camorra woman follows the model of the Neapolitan woman" in the matriarchal Neapolitan society, said Zaccaria. "She is in charge of household spending, the raising of children."
These skills can translate into setting the interest rates for loan-sharking or doling out weekly payments to neighborhood kids to watch out for police raids.
Raising offspring means steeping children in a life of crime and arranging marriages of sons and daughters to spin a web of new or stronger ties with potentially rival clans. "They're very determined, very good at mapping out strategy, even sharper" than their men, Maruccia said in a telephone interview.
Assunta "Pupetta" Maresca — who carried out her 1955 vendetta with a Smith & Wesson and gave birth to her son in prison — allegedly pursued a long life of crime after her release from prison in the 1960s.
Aspiring male Camorristi must undergo a rite of passage — often carrying out a boss' order to kill or maim a rival, investigators say. Zaccaria said no such "requirement" applies to female bosses. Still, "they eliminate their enemies, their rivals, in a merciless way." said Zaccaria.
After the killing, spaghetti was served
Even when the Camorra woman doesn't pack a pistol, they seem to pump their offspring with pride for bloody deeds which further their crime family's prestige.
Take Concetta Prestieri, matriarch of a family in the long-powerful Di Lauro clan. A son-turned-informant told investigators how, in 1981, the clan eliminated a rival by "bringing him into a basement, torturing him, killing him and cutting him into pieces," said Castaldi, the Naples prosecutor.
After the killing, the participants gathered around the table in Prestieri's kitchen.
"All the while, as they recounted the deed, the signora cooked up some spaghetti and served it at the table," Castaldi said.
Using prison visits to their advantage
After bomb blasts in Sicily in 1992 killed two leading anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Italy stiffened its laws against top mobsters. One measure limited prison visits to family members, and Camorra women have used that to their advantage.
"Most of the bosses choose to see their wives," said Castaldi. "The women are the ones who most transmit the orders of the clan chieftain. She becomes the continuity between inside the prison and the outside" world, enhancing her prestige.
Imprisoned mob bosses are known to communicate their orders to visiting family with gestures, code words, even facial expressions.
Admiration — and perhaps fear — for these godmothers is reflected in their nicknames. One woman, shot in the face in a power struggle, goes by the moniker "a' masculona," or tomboy, while another, wounded in the shoulder in a turf war, is known as "la gattona," meaning fat she-cat.
While Camorra women seem to have no limits in their ascent to power, the women in Sicily's Cosa Nostra's apparently don't enjoy the same possibilities.
A Milan-based historian, Ombretta Ingrasci, author of a book about women in the Sicilian Mafia, speaks of a "glass ceiling," possibly because unlike the family-based Camorra, Cosa Nostra's organization is essentially a men's club which seeks its members not based on blood ties.
But does that mean Camorra women can be considered "liberated?"
In one key sense, sociologist Zaccaria thinks not.
"The code of the Camorra permits the boss to have all the lovers he wants, even publicly, because it reinforces his strength," she said. "The Camorra woman, in contrast, cannot betray him."


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Have you ever had a project that you have wanted to work on for a long time? This project is the fruition of a project like that for me (it's been three years in the making). I'm so excited to finally be able to share with you all – this downloadable 45 page eBook to help with preparations for a Catholic First Holy Communion!
Not only is this eBook filled with ideas and reflections for preparation for First Communion, but there is also a step by step guide on how to make a First Communion banner, as well as lots of other resources. But, my very favorite part of the eBook is the 24 pages of patterns for First Communion banners (which can also be used as color pages).
Contents of the First Holy Communion Preparation and Printables eBook:
- Prayers to Learn for First Communion (and First Reconciliation)
- Why is it Important to Receive Communion? (A reflection for parents and children)
- 30 Family Activities to Do While Preparing for First Communion (this is a four-page section of the book, so it's not just a listing of sentence fragments)
- How to Make a First Communion Banner*
- Examples of First Communion Banners*
- First Communion Resources
- 24 pages of printable First Communion banner patterns
*The How to and Examples have been previously published on this blog, and you can still find them via the First Communion Resources page.
I can't wait for our youngest to make First Communion next year because I am so excited about both the 30 Family Activities to Do While Preparing for First Communion section, as well as the banner patterns section! I know that the latter will make our banner so much easier to do, and the former is going to make the experience much richer for her than I think I had to offer to our other children.
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First Communion Banner Printable Patterns
If you wondered why I have waited three years to put this eBook together, it's because of the banner patterns section. You see, while I do sell my art, I'm not a particularly gifted drawer. I tried to talk my husband into doing the patterns for the eBook, but it just never came together.
Earlier in 2012, I realized that I knew just the guy who could help me put this project together — my friend Rob Jensen from Art for Kids Hub.
Rob is a wonderful guy and an amazing artist. I first met Rob in middle school, and even all the way back then, I thought he was the best artist that I knew. Though we lost touch for many years, we have been able to reconnect because of Facebook, and I've felt so blessed to be able to be friends again. One of the wonderful blessings that have come out of it (which I hope will bless many people) is this eBook!
Rob has filled the latter part of the eBook with some amazing patterns that are perfect for use with First Communion banners. Some are simple shapes, and some more complex. (I had to remind him at first that people were going to be cutting these things out of materials like felt and foam, so they couldn't be so detailed that it would make people crazy.)
The First Communion banner patterns section includes each shape in at least two sizes. Shapes included:
- Dove (a couple of different types)
- Chalice
- Cross (two different types)
- Grapes (a bunch of grapes and then single grapes)
- Heart
- 10 Commandments
- Star (a fancy one, like the Star of Bethlehem)
- Host
- Wheat
- Bible
- Candles
- Stained Glass Window (this is the only one that has only one size)
- Chi Rho symbol
- Monstrance
- Rainbow
- Sun
- Church
- Angel
- Fish
- Flower
- Alpha & Omega
In fact, the illustrations on the front of the eBook cover (the doves and stained glass window) are both from patterns in the book!
Here are two sample pages (these are just for examples, and not meant to be printed, as they are not full sized and are not as crisp as the originals. Site name has been added to pages just on the samples here.):
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Hone your fundamental understanding of computer systems by completing this online course called NAND to Tetris. The idea is to develop each fundamental unit that goes into making computer programs a reality. This starts with logic gates, which are put together into modules that eventually become a functioning computer. From there you need an operating system, a compiler, and eventually you'll be playing a game of Tetris which you programmed yourself.
It's certainly not an easy journey, but if you have a computer at your disposal you should be able to make it all the way through the course. There's a software suite which includes a hardware simulator so that the computer you're building can be assembled using HDL instead physical components.
The concept is discussed in this TED talk given by [Shimon Schocken]. It is also embedded after the break and in addition to the NAND to Tetris project he shows off some self learning software on the iPad. To us it seems very much like the learning software [Neal Stephenson] envisions in the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from his Diamond Age novel.


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CHICAGO – Federal authorities have alerted residents that a large contingent of werewolves is headed for the Windy City.
The Werewolf Defense Panel (a division of the Defense Department) has issued a warning to residents of Illinois, especially Chicago, of a coming werewolf "insurrection" or "infestation".
Professor Gregory Hayes of Oxford University – distinguished Professor of Lycanthropy – has been working with Defense Department officials for the last two months. He was brought to the U.S. because of increased reports of werewolves in the United States.
"In the last two years, there have been an unusually high number of werewolf sightings in eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. But the largest number of reports in the past five months have been coming from the United States, particularly the Midwest."
Members of the Werewolf Defense Panel would only speak to WWN off the record. But members told WWN that there have been over six hundred reports of werewolf attacks in the last five months alone. They would not say how many of those attacks were lethal. They clearly do not want to alarm Americans.
Professor Hayes told WWN that a study on historical werewolf attacks occurring in the 18th–19th centuries indicated that victims were almost entirely children under the age of 12, with 85% of the attacks occurring when no adults were present. In the few cases in which an adult was killed, it was almost always a woman.
"What is alarming about the attacks occurring in the Midwest of the United States is that the werewolves are no longer attacking only women and children, the werewolves seem to be attacking young men and older women as well. The werewolves particularly like high school football players."
Werewolves used to just attack and bite their victims, but the latest reports are that they are "mauling" and "tearing apart" the victims – young men mostly.
This young Joliet man, 25, was bitten last week, but luckily he survived:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is advising all Chicago residents to report any werewolf sightings immediately to the authorities and told citizens "not to try and apprehend the werewolf on your own." He will be holding another press conference tomorrow.
The Obama Administration has said it will send troops to Chicago if the werewolf insurrection gets out of control this weekend.
WWN will be in Chicago to monitor the situation.


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The Crockett Printer. (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 13, 1861
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Instant View: Apple shares slide, Netflix jump after profit reports
Apple Inc narrowly missed Wall Street's targets for sales of its iPhone, denting investors' faith in the tech leader's capacity for boundless growth and sending its stock down 5 percent after hours.
Meanwhile, online movie rental firm Netflix Inc posted an unexpected quarterly profit on the back of a surge in subscribers, helping its stock up more than 25 percent.
The following are immediate comments from analysts and investors.
"Any time a company does $54.5 billion worth of revenue in a quarter it can't all be bad."
"The reaction in the stock is iPads were a little bit lighter, and you would have thought given what Macs did, that you would have had higher iPad results. So to some extent it shows that people are taking their available dollars and putting them towards smartphones."
"Gross margin trajectory looks fine so that's a positive and cash continues to grow. But I think investors are going to want to know what Apple plans to do with a growing cash balance."
"And other questions going to be around innovation and where the next product's coming from and what does (CEO) Tim Cook see in the next 12 to 18 months."
"These results were OK, but they definitely raised a few questions. I think what investors are going to watch for is commentary on gross margin progression and how much in the year on year decline in gross margin had to do with startup costs in the refresh cycle they're doing."
"Apple will need to innovate. It has two or three product lines that are doing OK. But they need to come up with new phones and get the innovation going. The iPhone is coming toward the end of its life and they need a completely new device soon - in months not years."
"For Apple to renew growth they need to come up with new devices and form factors and completely amaze the world again. That's what's missing. You need a very compelling phone to replace your current iPhone."
"Their strategy has to be more user-centric. They had a few missteps with software, for instance maps. They also launched the Mountain Lion operating system with bugs. Apple cannot afford to have those missteps."
"But the quarter was very good. They guided at $52 billion and came in at $54 billion. They also beat on EPS and guided higher. I think the stock is over-reacting on the downside. But they need to reinvent."
"The fourth quarter numbers were stronger than I expected. They beat in a big way on the EPS line. The shorts are getting squeezed. If you're betting the stock's going down you're getting your head handed to you today."
"In some of these (content) deals they're overpaying. I'd say Disney is part of that."
"For now the domestic margins have improved. Looking out longer term my fear is that greater competition is going to put a cap on the margins in the domestic business."
"They did surprisingly well with subscriber growth and profitability. It was a very good quarter."
"The guidance is for flat sequential net income. That's OK. They've been guiding for breakeven now they're talking about continuing the profit they had in the fourth quarter."
"They're making money but they're still a growth company so they're burning cash. If you were going to be skeptical that's the one thing that you could be skeptical about."
"I think their plan is to spend more on content. I don't think they need to spend more on content domestically. I think they're spending enough to have a good service."
"The results were very good, they beat expectations across the board. There was margin expansion on the domestic and international streaming side and the domestic DVD business was more profitable than expected. Overall it was a great quarter and guidance was very strong."
"Moving forward, they can continue to grow subscribers at the rate they're going, and they should be strong enough to support the Disney contract. At worst they should be able to cancel other contracts if they can't support it moving forward."
(Reporting By Sinead Carew, Atossa Abrahamian, Alexei Oreskovic, Alistair Barr.)


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Wider World of Business
With cases of the flu reaching epidemic levels, it is critical businesses maintain a healthy work environment. A business can be severely affected by people coming to work when they're sick.
Sickness can interrupt productivity by creating a distraction and causing both the infected employee and co-workers to focus on the illness instead of their jobs, as well as affect how outsiders, such as clients and customers, view the stability of the company, Capelli-Schellpfeffer says."We know illness can spread from person to person causing entire work groups to be affected," says Dr. Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, medical director of Loyola Univ. Health System Occupational Health Services. "But less obvious is how job performance, organization, productivity, creativity and financial stability can all be affected."
She advises businesses to encourage employees who are sick to use their sick time, because just being in a room and breathing when a person is sick can spread the illness.
"If you're sick you shouldn't be in the workplace," Capelli-Schellpfeffer says. "It interrupts business and puts others at risk of infection."
To protect businesses from a flu outbreak, Capelli-Schellpfeffer offers the following tips:
- Communicate sick attendance policy: Make sure employees are aware of the company's attendance policy and identify a point person for questions. Give examples to illustrate when employees should stay home due to sickness.
- Prepare for unexpected absences: It's possible that schools and day cares could close due to illness, forcing parents to leave work to care for their children. Sick employees also should be sent home to avoid spreading the infection. Be sure the company has a plan in place to meet staffing needs in such cases.
- Good housekeeping: Regular surface cleaning minimizes germ exposure. Eliminate clutter on counters, especially around sinks and food preparation areas, to ease the job of wiping down these often germ-filled areas and promote quick drying.
- Company's culture on health: Install a prevention program that offers annual flu shots, informs employees about ways to stay healthy and what to do to avoid infectious illness. Also, find prominent places to hang posters that remind people to wash their hands before meals, after sneezing or coughing, and when moving between tasks.
"While news cycles and the public's attention span about the flu rises and wanes, the flu is not going away," Capelli-Schellpfeffer says. "Though there is a cost involved in promoting wellness, it is small in comparison to the pricey hit companies take when their work force is impaired by illness."


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Sportsmanship Nets Award
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ST. LOUIS, MO – The Washington College men's basketball team and head coach Rob Nugent will be honored Saturday, Nov. 17 at the 2012 National Sportsmanship Awards in St. Louis. Former Shoremen basketball student-athletes Sal Schittino '12 and Adam Naymick '12 will accept the award on behalf of the Shoremen and Coach Nugent.
The team and Nugent are being recognized for their role in the inspirational story of Cory Weissman, a Gettysburg College basketball player who suffered a stroke as a freshman only to return to score his lone collegiate point in his final home game last season.
On February 12th, 2012, the Shoremen were playing at Gettysburg College during the Bullets' Senior Day. While Weissman had worked hard to return to the court in the years following his stroke and remained a part of the team, he had not been cleared for full contact. Nugent and Gettysburg head coach George Petrie devised a plan to start Weissman on Senior Day. He was announced as a starter before the game, to loud applause from all fans and from both team benches. Immediately after Washington won the opening tip, Kevin Breslin '12 - then a senior on the Shoremen's squad - handed Weissman the ball. Weissman promptly rolled the ball out of bounds and was subbed out of the game to another round of applause.
If the story ended there, it would have been inspirational enough. However, the Bullets built a large lead late in the game and Petrie made the decision to reinsert Weissman into the contest with less than a minute to play. In the final seconds of the game, Nugent called a timeout to instruct his players to foul Weissman on Gettysburg's ensuing inbounds play. Washington's assistant coach at the time, Robert Hughes, quickly alerted Petrie of what the Shoremen intended to do so that Weissman would receive the inbounds pass.
After alerting the officials, then-freshman Sean Flanigan lightly fouled Weissman on the ensuing inbounds as planned. Weissman went to the line and the entire gym held its collective breath in support. The first shot missed badly. Weissman took the second shot and - swish - nothing but net. The entire gym, both benches, and the players from both teams already in the game erupted in applause and tears. Weisman had scored his first - and only - collegiate point and the Washington College men's basketball team reminded everyone that sportsmanship is alive and well.
The story garnered international attention, including features on ESPN and National Public Radio. A movie version of Weissman's story - entitled 1,000 to 1: The Cory Weissman Story and starring David Henrie and Beau Bridges - finished filming in Gettysburg last month and is currently in post-production. Nugent plays himeself in the film.
Produced annually by the St. Louis Sports Commission, the National Sportsmanship Awards honor the best sportsmanship stories, moments and people of the past year. The event showcases extraordinary examples of class and character by athletes, coaches and sports personalities from across the country. Representing all levels of sports – pro, college, high school and youth – award recipients are recognized for their integrity, selflessness, kindness, and perseverance.
The Shoremen will be playing their 2012-13 home opener tomorrow afternoon against Hampden-Sydney, making Nugent unavailable to attend the ceremony. Schittino and Naymick will be appearing in his place, alongside Weissman. A special pre-taped message from Nugent will be played at the ceremony.
For more information on the National Sportsmanship Awards, please visit: http://www.stlsports.org/awards/index.php.


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By Rolf Strom-Olsen, Director of Studies and Professor at IE University
Articles and media reports predicting the imminent demise of the Euro have become so commonplace over the last months that I suspect the next release of Microsoft Word will include it as a new document template: blank page, letter, CV, "Euro is doomed" article. A quick search on Google for the exact phrase "the euro is doomed" produces so many results (over 65,000), that I cannot even be bothered to look for variants. Pundits and politicians, bloggers and journalists, have all climbed aboard the euro-is-doomed train and cannot wait to tell us all about the destination which is envisioned, variously, as end-of-Euro land, end-of-Europe-itself land, global-financial-Armageddon land (for the real enthusiasts), etc….
Muh. Send us a postcard when you arrive.
That is a postcard I don't expect to receive. Why not? Simply put because the so-called euro crisis is the product of a narrative gone wild. It has swept up otherwise sober-minded people and produced a wave of incessant hysterical shrieking, fulfilling that deep lizard-brain desire to really enjoy a catastrophe.
Except that catastrophe is largely an artefact of a market-, media- and punditry-driven narrative, increasingly divorced from the underlying reality of what is going on.
What we are really looking at is a sovereign debt crisis rephrased into a "euro-is-doomed" narrative. How sustainable is that? About as sustainable as Greek borrowing patterns.
Let's review briefly. For the countries that have succumbed so far to the europanic – Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and now Belgium (with France waiting on the sidelines as an injury substitution) -the story has been drearily familiar. Irresponsible government borrowing over the last decade has put these countries' creditworthiness at risk, meaning they can no longer access or else are at imminent risk of not being able to access the bond markets to borrow more dosh. I use the word irresponsible because, in almost every single case (Ireland is an exception, given the rapid meltdown of its epic real estate bubble), government borrowing was based on two false premises. First, growth projections that were hopelessly optimistic. Second, debt-servicing projections that left little room for manoeuvre. In other words, for Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium and even France, if projected growth faltered or interest rates increased, the burden of servicing each country's sovereign debt would create serious budget shortfalls and, in turn, plunge them into fiscal chaos. This is what has happened already to Greece and Portugal; Spain and Italy might be next. And France should be nervous.
Now, that is certainly a grave prospect, and undeniably makes for a strong premise for the "euro is doomed" narrative. But I don't buy it. Let's consider the analysis of no less than Dr. Doom, the distinguished economist Nouriel Roubini. In hiswalkthrough of the impending catastrophe, Dr. Roubini observes:
Symmetrical reflation is the best option for restoring growth and competitiveness on the eurozone's periphery while undertaking necessary austerity measures and structural reforms. This implies significant easing of monetary policy by the European Central Bank; provision of unlimited lender-of-last-resort support to illiquid but potentially solvent economies; a sharp depreciation of the euro, which would turn current-account deficits into surpluses; and fiscal stimulus in the core if the periphery is forced into austerity.
Unfortunately, Germany and the ECB oppose this option, owing to the prospect of a temporary dose of modestly higher inflation in the core relative to the periphery.
Symmetrical reflation… Oh economists, never change. Actually, I think Dr. Roubini's analysis is highly acute. He is right when he says that there is a solution at hand, which is to give the ECB (or whatever acronymised monster that starts with an E it wishes to establish as its agent) the license to intervene "as the lender of last resort," which means giving it the license to pay its printers overtime to get them in on weekends to pump out euros.
However, where I am querulous with Dr. Roubini's analysis, where I challenge the logic upon which his (and many others) scenario of doom is based is this bit: "Unfortunately, Germany and the ECB oppose this option…." It is true that they oppose this option. But I would add a crucial qualifier: for now.
Here's a joke for you. A group representing the eurozone countries walks into a bar and each orders a beer. When it comes to the German's turn, instead of ordering a beer, she turns to the others in the bar and starts hectoring them about fiscal responsibility. Ok, not a funny joke, but it's true. The German government has been lecturing other member states about fiscal responsibility and following the rules like forever; before the euro even came into existence. And the response of the others? Order a beer and chill out already. Now that the German is the only one in the room that can pay the bar tab, are we really surprised that she indulges in some well-earned "I told you so's" and gladden her heart with a dose of Schadenfreude?
In other words, the so-called euro-crisis is achieving through the mechanisms of market panic what ineffectual German hectoring was never able to do: impose fiscal restraint, scale back government deficit-spending, restructure government finances. If you're Greek or Spanish, Italian or Portuguese that's not much fun. But if your German? Well… maybe you will have that beer now after all.
In other words, why should the Germans agree to open the euro-spigot to rescue these countries when there is more work to be done? Heck, the current crisis even managed to give Belgians something resembling (in the dusk with the light behind it) a working government, something they have not been able to achieve for themselves for almost two years. What's not to like? From a German (Austrian/Dutch, etc…) perspective, the dark storm clouds over their European neighbours are bringing welcome rain. Just look at what the German government tried to pull last week: in the midst of all this chaos, they tried to borrow money at interest rates below inflation (and note the highly misleading headline)! They did not succeed, but, oh, the hubris! Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Instead of casting the current mess in terms of Germans (and others in the league of responsible Eurozone nations) sitting back and letting markets do their work for them, we get instead curious and sometimes fantastical analyses that root German intransigence in the nation's history. The Weimar Crisis (early 1920s), the post-war turmoil (1945-47), the pain of reunification (1989), etc…. This is both lazy and shallow. If you are lucky enough to be invited for Wurst at your German friend's house, do you really imagine that your host will tell you Italy cannot be bailed out because of the bitter memories of 1922 and 1946? That German citizens are willing to let the euro collapse because they are concerned that the price of a bicycle or a coffee maker might go up 3%? That as 'a German,' they are born with an innate attitude towards monetary policy and the intricacies of fiscal management that prevents them from supporting a program of quantitative easing?
Nonsense. This current market turmoil is producing the kind of restructuring that the German government and their central banking minions have been demanding, ineffectually, for years. So sip that beer!
I think a salutary lesson comes from the Swiss. As currency markets gyrated wildly this past summer, the Swiss franc became the potage-du-jour for nervous money. The franc started to become dangerously overvalued, to the point where it threatened the vitality of the country's economy. Gruyère producers and clockmakers, chocolatiers and Alpine horn craftsmen (…sorry) suddenly faced the prospect of a disappearing export market, all because international currency traders had decided (narrative anyone?) that the Swiss franc would provide safe haven in a climate of uncertainty.
So what did the central bank do? It promised to print however much money it took to stop the trend. As the Guardian headline put it "Swiss bid to peg 'safe haven' franc to the euro stuns currency traders." Note the use of the word "stunned." Within minutes of the bank's announcement the franc fell to the peg announced by the bank (SFr.1.20 to €1 for anyone taking notes) and presumably lots of traders had to sell their car the next day.
The point is that from a rational perspective, how could this action have "stunned" anyone? Did traders really think that the Swiss Central Bank would allow the Swiss economy to collapse in order to provide nervous hedge funds an alpine paradise to park their cash? And yet prior to the Swiss bankers' actions, the backstory being bandied around was stuff about Swiss conservatism and the repulsion to print money, etc…. In other words, people were locating the logic of their currency trades in the Swiss national character. Oh the folly.
This is the same tale. If the Swiss can print money, so, too, can the Germans. Whether German/ECB policy to promote (Roubini again) "recessionary deflation" is a good idea or not is certainly up to debate, and the risks of severe recession and faltering consumer confidence across the eurozone are very real. But the point is that eventually the Germans will finish their beer and settle up the tab. The ECB will agree to one of the various solutions being put forward to help out flailing member states (I think good money is on an ECB pledge to buy up any debt above a certain interest rate). Whatever the eventual solution, one thing seems clear: the Euro is not doomed.
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You can now reserve your Grunty the Murloc Marine by ordering the BlizzCon 2009 live Internet stream. If you are planning to get Grunty through the Blizzcon DIRECTV promotion, you must sign up for new service by July 31. Existing DIRECTV customers will be able to order the Pay Per View coverage starting on August 9.
Many of the new raptor hatchlings have been discovered on the PTR. They are all currently BoU. Those that are dropped by rare raptors currently have a 100% drop rate. Here is a list of the ones found so far:
- Darting Hatchling - Dark orange raptor that occasionally runs away leaving a trail of dust; dropped by Dart (rare).
- Deviate Hatchling - Purple raptor dropped by elite raptors inside Wailing Caverns.
- Leaping Hatchling - Dark blue raptor that occasionally wanders off then leaps to your feet; dropped by Takk the Leaper (rare).
- Obsidian Hatchling - Gray raptor sold by Breanni.
- Ravasaur Hatchling - Green raptor dropped by Ravasaur Matriarch (rare).
- Razormaw Hatchling - Light orange raptor that occasionally screeches; dropped by Razormaw Matriarch (rare).
- Razzashi Hatchling - Red raptor dropped by Razzashi Raptor.
It looks like Northrend Children's Week will finally be coming to a server near you! You can choose to look after either an Oracle or Wolvar orphan, regardless of your current standings with their corresponding factions. After completing the chain of quests, you will receive a new orphan pet in the mail - a Curious Oracle Hatchling or a Curious Wolvar Pup.
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As reported previously, the next patch will give you the option to upgrade your Argent Squire or Gruntling with a mount and access to a bank, mailbox, or vendor. The [Argent Pony Bridle] can be purchased for 150 Champion's Seals. Once upgraded, your squire will mount up on his pony whenever you mount up. He can grant you access to the bank, mailbox, or vendor for 3 minutes once every 4 hours. This video shows him in action.
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4 Basic Tech Groups Comprise Healthy Security Diet
The electronic security industry continues to soar beyond its hardware-based legacy into the new world of software-centric solutions. Find out how the four main areas of technology are interacting today, and why mobile apps are becoming the apple of security professionals' eyes.
The growth of technology advancement falls into four major groups that logically expand or restrict advances in our ability to protect people, places and property. The pace in developing these categories is only limited by imagination, money and skills in manufacturing techniques. These groups are not always in synch, which can cause legacy issues for everyone in the security food chain that at the least can be annoying but mostly cause everyone to spend more money.
Hey wait a minute; I thought this was only in the consumer electronics industry! If you better understand these four groups, you'll be able to look just slightly over the horizon for our industry. The four groups that make up technology evolution are: hardware, firmware, communications, and applications. Let's examine them more closely to see how they interact with each other and what they mean lower down the food chain.
Hardware Sets the Foundation
First is hardware, which includes the ubiquitous silicon wafer chip that can handle more commands than me tackling the weekend "job jar" my lovely wife Jayne supplies. Moore's Law states that computing power should double every 18 months. "Moore" power (pun intended) usually means more heat in electronics. Heat is the sworn enemy of anything that lives on a silicon wafer chip. This includes logic circuits, static RAM and microprocessor devices — basically everything on the electron racetrack.
In 1967, Frank Wanlass patented the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology that delivered great performance per watt consumed characteristics. More power and less heat is a very good thing if you live on Silicon Blvd. CMOS is really a technology for manufacturing circuit designs that yields low power consumption and high noise immunity. Both properties are important to advances in hardware performance characteristics and to fuel hardware growth.
Two concrete examples include the rise of power over Ethernet and the return on infrastructure investments it helps deliver. Another would be solar-powered hardware that only "sips" power due to CMOS technology in remote locations. So you see, strong hardware is a big player in our growth potential. So let's take a look at some realities in our next category.
Flexible Firmware Can Be a Friend
Firmware provides for implementation between machine hardware operating systems and software applications, and typically lives at ROM Blvd. or Flash Freeway. Firmware versions can be tricky to manage, track and update, and in the worst case can turn a hardware device into what we used to call a "brick." This gut-wrenching event occurred when remotely downloading new firmware (flash drive only) and the communication session would "hiccup," leaving the devise useless. This would require a tech and a truck, which is how firmware was managed and changed in the good old days.
Firmware typically required a change-out of a memory chip (after properly grounding yourself), good eyesight, a steady hand and not too much force. Ever try to straighten out a twisted chip prong on a ladder with needle-nose pliers in the dark? Not fun. Flash memory devices allowed us to make changes using the network instead of a tech and a truck, thus saving costs and time when updating hardware.
For example, today most quality IP cameras have the ability to upgrade their firmware from a single PC via the LAN they are installed on. Being able to expand feature sets or repair bugs remotely saves a lot of tech labor as well as expense. I had firsthand experience when we designed and implemented a 135-camera megapixel system at a wastewater treatment plant in 2004. Not the kind of place you want to go back and reload firmware on each camera if you catch my whiff … I mean drift! What made this solution set viable was stable communication protocol and reliability during the firmware download procedure.
Communications Cross Boundaries
Communications technology has reinvented our world of work and play, but mostly work for those of us with kids in college! Better coverage, more bandwidth, lower costs, cooler hardware and firmware that still fit in our hands — what's not to like? Improved coverage and faster speeds, feeds and fierce competition … yahoo! While limits still remain with bandwidth and channel availability, there are increasingly no limits to the mobile devices that can devour content data, nor the pace these devices intersect our lives at work and at home.
Does anyone besides me just want to curl up with a nice zinfandel and read a good old-fashioned, paper-based book anymore? BLASPHEMY you technology heretic! Want a concrete example of how communications and mobility are changing the way we live and keep ourselves entertained? Consider falling asleep while watching a streaming movie on Netflix in your living room and then picking up right where you left off the next day to find out how the story end on your smartphone. Not that you would actually be able to see much on the tiny screen, but hey, communications can really bring it now.
Why Apps Have Unlimited Appeal
Our final category is a passion of mine and I even got a degree in it. It takes the leading role to helps us manage this technology hurricane. Software applications or apps lend the ability to segment and narrow how we consume data. Apps are cool because they maximize the backyards they play in and sometimes just leap over the fence to expand our perception of how big a playground can actually be. Apps optimize and at times alter our realities for working and playing on the go.
Apps enable what I like to call LUT (leveraged untethered technology) — remember you heard it here first. Following are some examples of how apps "untether" us and allow us to leverage technology to the fullest.
My Droid or iOS device hardware is now an extension of a much larger and more powerful computing hardware system. The hardware and communication system that supports my mobile life lives in clouds around the world. This system aptly guides me through apps that make my life easier and sometimes harder than it should be. It's like having 10,000 servers in my briefcase and the best part is it costs me nothing to maintain those services. Oh yeah, when they have a new version I can download it for free; guess I can kill the R&D budget next year.
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Project Cars 2″ goes on sale Sept. 22 for PS4, Xbox One and PC. The second in the series of racing games from Bandai Namco will feature nine racing classes/disciplines, 180 cars and multiclass racing, where the player is awarded both for overall and in-class finishes.
In the trailer, we can find classic and current F1 cars, endurance prototypes and street cars decked out in race trim. "PC2" also features weather changes, with Monaco looking a little cloudy and rainy at the John Player Special rounds the curve. An expanded career mode gives players a chance to test their mettle starting at the grassroots level and progressing to the top levels of racing. Spend one or multiple seasons in any one discipline and then move on — or not.
The Electronics Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas next week, and we'll expect to get a little more news there. We'll also keep our eye out for other racing game news from Polyphony Digital's "Gran Turismo Sport," Codemasters' "Dirt 4" and "F1 2017.


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Sometimes things that are revolutionary don't seem like that big of a deal. They seem like nothing special or just tongue-in-cheek enough to be more humorous than important social commentary, or just another cool thing on the internet. But who cares — even if something is all those things at once, it can still be important, funny, and sexy at the same time, even as it raises questions — har — about how we think about sexy photos and female desire.
Vice recently posted a fashion spread today called "Groin Gazing." It features a series of photos by Claire Milbrath with styling by Mila Franovic, and the photos are framed tight on the clothed junk for your viewing pleasure. The models are identified by the type of guy they depict, such as "The Boyfriend" or "The Artist" or "The Businessman," and even "The Boy Next Door." And taken together, they are also exactly the sorts of men, anonymous, real, and imagined that a woman (or man) might lust after in her/his day to day just being out in the world, from:
The Basketball Player (pictured above)
to The Skater
to The Handyman
to The Logger
Er, am now wondering why I don't see more loggers on my way to get coffee. Anyway! I think it's all just great. The beauty of it is that the spread can function on multiple levels — 1.) it's a bunch of dudes' clothed boners. 2.) They are depicted as types, with no heads or faces, as women are often shot in spreads ("dismembered") 3.) The effect is a powerful one: It wordlessly comments on how women are shot while also upending a lot of assumptions about what hetero women want, like, enjoy, think about, when it comes to men and images.
In other words, it's an unapologetic zoom-in on a dick, just like you might see it in the real world, give or take some oomph. I realize that showcasing female desire is not new, it's creeping into ads and commercials more than ever. The idea that women don't care about seeing men naked or sexualized is a myth slowly being undone by research that points again and again to the fact that women are not less visual than men or less sexual, and possibly, they are more so. But research and arguments are one thing — a series of boners in a fashion spread is quite another. It is an argument settler to end all arguments. Boner: check.
I have to concede it felt a little illicit looking at these photos — it's not quite pornographic, but it's not quite a shirtless dude on a billboard, either, and it's not erotica per se. It's actually something in the middle of all that, and in a way, it's superior. But what makes it remarkable is that it, for a moment, you can indulge what it would actually be like if most of the photographs you saw in advertising or fashion were meant to cater to your desire. Not your desire to be more beautiful, or thinner, or more glamorous, but simply your desire for the opposite sex. This is something men take for granted. This is something women must overlook when watching popular TV shows and movies (*cough*gameofthrones*cough*truedetective*cough) that purport to be for everyone, and then instantly betray that when it's time to show naked bodies, which are largely female, and which are nearly always and only filmed for an assumed hetero male viewer.
But back to the boners: After I got over the novelty of it, I had to wonder: What if these sorts of photos were the norm? What if we stopped perpetuating the myth in advertising and art that men are more visual? What if women's appetites for sex were catered to just as much as men's? What if this was a common spread you saw in women's magazines growing up? How would that have changed your feelings about your own lust, your own sexual appetite, your own attraction?
Regardless, the response seems to be overwhelmingly positive. Some reactions on Twitter:
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Graphic and visceral accounts from the deadly conflict in Gaza are streaming around the world in real time – along with a parallel rise in fake images and propaganda.
It's not just Twitter that is changing the way each side is tackling its enemy: from drones to smartphone apps, innovation in information has changed the pace of one of the world's oldest conflicts. Here are 8 ways that technology is at the forefront of the war in Gaza.
More than 750,000 people have downloaded Red Alert, an unofficial smartphone app that uses real-time information from the Israel Defense Forces and Homefront Command to give a warning of between 15 and 90 seconds when a rocket is fired into Israel from Gaza. Developed during the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense, it allows users to select push alerts based on where they live.
For those concerned about kidnappings – the current military flare-up was triggered by the capture and murder last month of three Israeli teens – there is SOS, which triggers a personal safety alert with a single right-swipe, making it easier to raise the alarm when a phone call is not possible.
There's also an app that helps Israelis find their nearest bomb shelter. Not all apps have endured: a Palestinian-made iPhone app promoting a third intifada (Arabic for uprising) Palestinians against Israel was reportedly removed by Apple because it was deemed offensive.
The fastest-moving social media battleground is Twitter, where breaking news and eyewitness accounts are rapidly changing the course of diplomacy as well as events on the ground.
The Israeli Defense Force public information account has almost 350,000 followers and supplies a constant stream of official statements and updates about IDF activity, including reports of targeted strikes against militants who it euphemistically describes as having been "neutralized." Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld also shares pictures and updates on his own feed.
"Social media is actually a war zone for us here in Israel," Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, who founded an IDF unit dedicated to producing online postings, told CNBC. "Here we can have our own campaigns, we can decide on the size of the headline, what that headline will be and exactly which pictures and which footage to upload."
On the Palestinian side, the military wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades, has several similar accounts in different languages including an English feed with more than 11,000 followers. The accounts are sometimes suspended - but new ones routinely pop up to take their place. Visceral eyewitness pictures of dead and dying are often shared by activists under hashtags including #GazaUnderAttack and #PrayForGaza.
Both Israel and the Palestinians have uploaded polished videos to YouTube as part of their social media war. The IDF has an official YouTube channel that includes a clip from spokesman Lt. Col Peter Lerner explaining the Israeli military's position on civilian targets as well as military footage of attacks on Hamas targets.
The al-Qassam Brigades has produced its own slick propaganda videos including a clip boasting of its home-made rocket arsenal. The clips are similar to those created by ISIS – the al-Qaeda-linked terror group running rampant in Iraq - and lean heavily on music which appeals to young supporters and recruits. Al-Qassam has even designed a Hebrew version of one of its existing videos, taunting Israelis with images of Hamas fighters in fatigues.
In response to the popular #GazaUnderFire Twitter hashtag, a group of students at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC) has convened a propaganda "war room" to promote Israel's case under a website called Israel Under Fire.
"In view of the incomplete information provided by many international news outlets, it is in our hands to ensure that our friends and neighbors abroad are properly informed of the events taking place in Israel," the students say. (They also invite you to 'like' them on Facebook.)
The students aim to counter the tide of images posted by Palestinians illustrating the horrifying human toll of Israeli airstrikes. These often gruesome pictures are shared extensively by the Palestinian Interior Ministry on its website, and by the al-Qassam Brigades via its Google Plus account.
The current conflict has seen Hamas deploy drones for this first time, according to Israel. The first was intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system and shot down by a U.S.-made Patriot missile close to the port of Ashdod. The al-Qassam Brigades said earlier this year that it had found an Israeli drone which it said had crashed in the Gaza Strip.
As technology comes to the fore, so does the risk of enemy infiltration. The Free Syrian Army hacked into the IDF Twitter account earlier this month, posting a false claim that rockets had hit an Israeli nuclear plant.
Hackers reportedly took control of the Facebook page of Domino Pizza in Israel earlier this month, publishing warnings in English, Arabic and Hebrew. "Today will strike deep in Israel, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Ashkelon, Ashdod more than 2000 rockets. We'll start at 7. Counting back towards the end of Israel…Be warned!"
In the 2012 conflict, the IDF warned Israelis that Hamas was using information in posts on Facebook and Twitter to help improve the aim of its rockets. Posts revealing the exact locations of rockets which had fallen in open areas could help militants reach their intended targets in future, according to the IDF.
The rapid rise of online propaganda by the likes of ISIS and al-Qassam poses a headache for counterterrorism experts who fear a surge in Western recruits to Islamic jihad. However, it also creates an opportunity for intelligence agencies to use the material to help identify suspects and glean information about the locations and activities of individual terror cells. The Pentagon, which monitors militant contributions to social media, takes on some of postings by reporting the accounts or flagging them for suspension or removal.
It recently emerged that the activities of Twitter and Facebook users were recorded and analyzed as part of a project funded by the Department of Defense's military research department, Darpa. The study, which examined how users are influenced by information, included analysis of the tweets of celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, according to The Guardian.
For those without smartphones or apps, Israel's Homefront Command can deliver urgent SMS updates to Israelis with warnings of incoming rocket attacks. It has used automated calls -- similar to Reverse 911 alerts in the United States - to warn residents in northern Gaza to evacuate ahead of planned airstrikes.
Sometimes the oldest technology can prove to be the most effective. Israel released a recording of a telephone call it says was made by the IDF to a house in Gaza warning those inside of an impending direct missile strike on a nearby target.


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A die-hard fan of brutal horror cinema from the '70s, Roth -- whose Freudian psychoanalyst dad teaches at Harvard -- digs this wicked genre for its sensational potential, not least in commercial terms. "The end of Hostel Part II will shock everybody," he promises during our recent phone chat. "There's all this money being spent on gigantic special effects in $300 million franchise movies, but I think I'm gonna steal the summer with one moment." Here, more of our conversation:
Did you and your distributor move the release date from horror-heavy January to June in order to play up the counter-programming angle?
You know, [Part II] never was going to come out in January. Lionsgate announced [a January release] before they had even talked to me about when the film was realistically going to be ready. I said, "Guys, you need to talk to the filmmaker to see if this is even possible. If we put people [in the editing booth] around the clock, maybe we could have it for April, but January is not realistic."
Opening opposite Ocean's Thirteen, the Rat Pack versus the Splat Pack, you've said Hostel II seems destined to promote the generation gap. You think your audience doesn't want to see actors older than 30?
Well, yeah, there's that. And also I think the horror movie has become the new date movie. I mean, if you take a date to see Ocean's Thirteen, your date is going to be looking at you and going, "You're not George Clooney!" But if you take her to see Hostel, and there's a scary Russian dude on the screen, she's thinking, "Well, at least you're hotter than that guy."
Women are the main victims in Part II. As a horror filmmaker, you see that as a different kind of exercise, right?
You have to. When you say, "Okay, it's women [getting tortured] this time," immediately everyone gets upset. It's the difference between hunting a lion and hunting a deer: Someone shoots a lion and they're a brave hunter; they shoot a deer, and you go, "Oh, that poor deer! How could they do that?" I'm very sensitive to that. I wanted to write scenes that were scary, but also entertaining and fun. A huge portion of the audience for Hostel was young women, and [this time] I wanted to make a film for them. I actually believe that [Part II] is a feminist horror film.
How is it feminist?
I don't want to say too much and give away the plot, but I think that anyone who's critical of the film because of what they hear about it will really get what I was doing after they see it.
Where's the line with this stuff? Do you ever sense that audiences could be getting tired of ultraviolence?
I think audiences are getting tired of bad movies. If there's fatigue with horror, it's because there are dumb, lazy films out. Before Saw II came out [in 2005], there were a number of horror films that had really done badly. And then The Exorcism of Emily Rose came out, it was rated PG-13, and it was a big hit. Everyone said, "See? R-rated horror is dead." I said, "No, shitty movies are dead."
What do you think killed the horror genre in the '80s?
The audiences stopped caring and the filmmakers stopped trying. The glut of sequels back then showed that audiences didn't care how Jason came back from the dead, whether it made sense -- they just wanted to see Jason. For the first time, around '85 or '86, audiences were going to movies and rooting for the killer. Then you had Freddy Krueger making jokes: "Have a nice day -- and don't lose your head!" Nobody cared anymore about what's scary; the movies started going straight to video, and the genre had a real stigma about it. Finally we have a new wave of filmmakers in power who really care about making great horror movies.


text: Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer By Ruin on OCT 10, 2011 Chris Priestly from Bioware announced their plans to include a multiplayer co-op mode in Mass Effect 3. This marks a significant departure from other Bioware RPGS. Many fans of Mass Effect and other single player role playing games produced by EA/Bioware have raised their eyebrows at the notion and are curious as to how it will effect game play. Hi EveryoneToday BioWare and the Mass Effect 3 team are very pleased to announce 4 player co-op multiplayer missions and the Mass Effect 3: Galaxy at War system for Mass Effect 3 on the PC, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.4 player co-op multiplayerJoin your friends in the all-out galactic war to take Earth back. The universe of Mass Effect expands with the addition of new co-op multiplayer missions, playable over Xbox Live, PSN and PC internet. Players can choose from a variety of classes and races, form an elite Special Forces squad, and combine their weapons, powers and abilities to devastating effect as they fight together to liberate key territories from enemy control. Success in multi-player will have a direct impact on the outcome of the single player campaign, giving players an alternative method of achieving ultimate victory against the greatest threat mankind – and the entire galaxy – has ever faced.Mass Effect 3: Galaxy at WarAs a bonus to the campaign, BioWare is introducing the Mass Effect 3: Galaxy at War system, a new way for players to manage and experience the galactic war from multiple fronts, including a new 4-player co-op mode. The key to saving the galaxy is the "Galactic Readiness" level, measured by Commander Shepard's ability to apply every possible asset – people, weapons, resources, armies, fleets – in the final battle against the Reapers. Players can impact their game's Galactic Readiness level in multiple ways via the Mass Effect 3: Galaxy at War system, including multiplayer. Other platforms and interfaces will be announced in the coming months. It is important to note that the system is entirely optional and just another way players can have control over your game experience – it is still possible to achieve the optimal, complete ending of the game in Mass Effect 3 through single-player alone.F.A.Q.Why include 4 player Co-op multiplayer in Mass Effect 3?Being able to explore and fight alongside your friends in the Mass Effect universe has always been something we thought would be fun and compelling, and many players have asked for it for a long time as well. Mass Effect 3 is the best place for us to introduce multiplayer through co-op because of the premise of the game – all out galactic war.Why only 4 player co-op? What not a versus mode?We have always maintained that we would only add multiplayer into the Mass Effect series if it made sense and did not compromise the power of the single player campaign. Fighting together against a common threat was the multiplayer experience that made the most sense for Mass Effect 3. The way we have designed co-op as a wayto take control of key conflict zones in the galaxy is a natural extension of the premise of Mass Effect 3.Why did you decide not to include it as a part of the main campaign?Our priority and focus with Mass Effect 3 has and always will be to deliver a complete and satisfying single player experience.Does the addition of co-op multiplayer missions impact the scope or quality of the single-player experience?No. A dedicated team from our recently formed BioWare Montreal studio has been focused on creating the multiplayer game features while the main game continued to be developed by the team in BioWare Edmonton. Both teams are integrated under the same leadership group that produced Mass Effect 1 and 2, led by Casey Hudson. BioWare remains dedicated to delivering one of the most amazing single-player campaigns gamers have ever experienced.How did developing multiplayer impact the single player game?BioWare is dedicated and focused on delivering an engaging, fun, and action-packed experience for Mass Effect 3, one that lives up the BioWare standard. To reach that level of quality, last year BioWare opened a studio in Montreal that is home to designers, programmers, engineers, and other developers. Both studios work together as partners, lead by the core Mass Effect team, unified in a single vision. Under the direction of Casey Hudson and other team veterans, both studios make contributions to both the single player and multiplayer modes in Mass Effect 3. Rest assured that no compromises were made to either of these modes in the development of Mass Effect 3.Which characters can I play in co-op multiplayer? Can I play as Commander Shepard?Commander Shepard's part in the war will take place in the single-player campaign, as will that of other beloved characters in the franchise such as Garrus, Ashley, and Liara…these characters do not appear in the multiplayer missions. In multiplayer, players will create custom characters to fight on different and unique fronts in the war. This will include the ability to play as favorites like Turians, Krogans, Asari and more… each with their own unique set of abilities.What if I don't like multiplayer – will my experience be negatively impacted?Mass Effect 3 is a complete, standalone game that will deliver a satisfying story experience, even if you choose not to try multiplayer. The Mass Effect 3: Galaxy at War system and all of the individual components are meant to complement that amazing game and can be enjoyed on their own or as part of the Galaxy at War experience.What if I am not good at / do not like multiplayer? Will my readiness rating go down?ME3 is a story about a war against overwhelming force where the most you can hope for us survival. The more you do to fight that war, the more you can change that story into a more optimistic one. You can reach the highest levels of success in the single player experience alone, but Galaxy at War gives you alternative ways to get there. It's about choice, and allowing players to find their own ways to stay immersed in the Mass Effect universe.Will you be adding any additional maps or modes through DLC?We can't comment on specifics right now, but can confirm that we are planning on having DLC for Mass Effect 3.Do save games from ME1 or ME2 impact the co-op multiplayer missions?No.Do characters level up in co-op multiplayer? What is the progression system?Character progression, weapon upgrading and leveling up is present in co-op. We'll release more information on this topic in the months leading up to launch.Is there more info about the other platforms of Mass Effect 3: Galaxy at War?We are not going into details about the other components of the Galaxy at War at this time except to say we are designing each to make sense for that platform. Each component will be able to affect a player's "Galactic Readiness" level in a different way. Again, participation in any or all ME3:GaW elements is entirely optional.» Mass Effect 3 Release Trailer » Mass Effect 3: Mass Effect 1 Recap


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Frugal living: tips to change your spending habits.
Whether you're dealing with a lot of debts or just trying to save money, there are multiple circumstances that can force someone to change his or her spending habits.
Frugal living is generally viewed in a negative light, when people need to make sacrifices.
CanDoFinance presented 10 frugal living tips to achieve happiness on a tight budget.
Keep track of your spending
If you're planning to live on a tight budget, you need to start by keeping track of all your expenses. From car repairs to that cup of coffee you buy every morning, everything must be recorded. It's easy to lose track of how much you spend in any given week. The next thing you know, you are looking at a credit card bill that is well outside your means. So, you pay the minimum payment, which is another no-no, and the cycle of perpetual debt begins. Keeping better track of your spending can help you avoid wasting money on unnecessary expenses.
Change your spending habits
Now that you're keeping track of what you're spending your money on, look through your monthly expenses and start trimming the fat. This is where people begin to think that frugal living is a complete downer compared to a lifestyle of superfluous spending. Don't think about limiting yourself on the things you want, start thinking about cutting out the things you don't need or waste money on. Avoiding name brand items, buying in bulk, and buying used or refurbished items are just a few examples to help you save and change your spending habits.
Monitor your money
Many people are guilty of not knowing how much money they are carrying in their pocket or purse on a daily basis. Even worse, many people are guilty of not knowing how much money they have in their bank account. How are you supposed to follow a budget if you don't even know what you are working with? What if you dropped some cash without even knowing it? Finding random cash in your pocket is the best feeling in the world, but you should be taking better care of your money if you plan on living on a tight budget.
Carry a coin purse
Start carrying a coin purse, and stop treating loose change like it's the plague. Most people become annoyed with fishing through their pockets for change, so they just pay with large bills and get more loose change that they don't want. Keep those coins organized with a coin purse. If you still refuse to pay with exact change, just stuff the coins in the coin purse and empty it into a jar when you get home. When the jar is full, take it to a coin counter at your local grocery and exchange it for cash or a gift card.
Give yourself an allowance
Limit yourself to a set amount of spending cash per week, like $100, and only withdraw that amount from your bank account. Stretch that weekly allowance as far as you can, and if you spend it all, don't withdraw more money until it's time for your weekly withdrawal. Giving yourself an allowance will help you develop better spending habits to help you save money for when it counts.
Start living a healthier lifestyle
Your health can play a factor in how much money you're spending. One of the best frugal living tips anyone can follow is to get in better shape. Those who smoke, consume too much alcohol, have poor eating habits, are out of shape or are overweight tend to spend more money than a person who is living a healthy lifestyle. If you are in shape, you will eat less. If you quit smoking and drinking, you aren't wasting money on alcohol or cigarettes. If you jog, walk or run on a regular basis, you are giving yourself an activity that will make you healthier and hardly costs any money.
Look for ways to earn on the side
While you don't necessarily have to take up a second job or even a part-time gig, finding ways to earn money on the side is a frugal living tip that will help you reach your retirement goals, or give you more spending money. Earning money on the side will also keep you preoccupied so that you feel less tempted to waste money, and what better way to live happily on a tight budget than to spend time earning money rather than spending it.
Stop impulse buying
Never walk into a store and purchase something without thinking about it first. Frugal living requires you to consider all purchases with at least a 24-hour timeframe. If you still feel compelled to have the item in question after 24-hours, then it might be worth buying.
Never buy anything at full price
If you find an item, make sure that the item you must have is at least on sale. If it's not, then wait till it goes on sale before you buy it. Hopefully, by the time the item goes on sale, you'll no longer feel compelled to buy it, thus saving even more money in the long run.
Another useful tip would be to only allow yourself to purchase something if you are able to find a coupon for it. Websites provide free coupons you can use for online purchases. This is another great way to help you curb your shopping impulses and practice frugal living habits.
You can even avoid paying full price for your water utilities with a flow meter. This device helps you to monitor and regulate your water consumption.
Change the way you eat out
Giving up on restaurant dining and eating out may be a good tip to save money, but it probably won't make you very happy. Instead of giving up on it completely, try changing the way you eat out. Always keep an eye out for promotions or deals. Restaurants tend to offer discounted meal prices during off hours, so try eating earlier or later than usual to save. Scan the appetizer section and see if you can turn an item into an entrée. Many times, a restaurant will have an appetizer and an entrée that are virtually the same, only the appetizer is a bit smaller and comes at a cheaper price. Also make sure you take advantage of any coupons you receive in the mail, or print your own from online.


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9 Entry-Level Jobs with High-Salary Potential
Selena Dehne, JIST Publishing
Recent college graduates sometimes have unrealistic expectations about how much money they will begin making in their entry-level jobs. Now, with job cuts soaring and employers increasingly cutting budgets and implementing hiring freezes, many young people have discovered that the salary they initially envisioned is even more difficult to come by during an economic downturn.
Despite these obstacles, current college students and recent graduates can still put themselves on the right track to a high-paying career, according to Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., and Michael Farr, co-authors of "200 Best Jobs for College Graduates, Fourth Edition."


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The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) is responsible for South African foreign policy decisions and conducts liaison with foreign governments and international organizations on all matters affecting official relations. These relations are conducted through foreign government officials, through diplomats accredited to South Africa, and through South Africa's accredited embassies, consulates, and other missions abroad.
After the abolition of apartheid and the inauguration of the democratically elected Government of National Unity, South Africa's foreign relations were dramatically transformed. The country's diplomatic isolation ended, and existing relations with other countries and with international organizations improved. South Africa's return to the international community from 1994 onwards has made a significant contribution to the definition of the general direction of the country's foreign policy.
Shortly after the inauguration of the new government, South Africa:
- gained re-admission to the Commonwealth;
- resumed its seat in the United Nations;
- joined the G77
- joined the Organisation for Africa Unity (OAU);
- joined the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC);
- joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM);
- rejoined United Nations Specialised Agencies such as ILO, WHO, FAO, etc; and
- initiated negotiations with the European Union (EU).
Apart from the formal multilateral re-admission of South Africa to the world community, other inter-state and inter-government actions characterized that return. Diplomatic relations have been concluded with 78 states since 1994, and South Africa had diplomatic relations with at least 147 countries in the mid-90s.
Principles of South Africa's Foreign Policy
South African foreign policy aims to help forge an African continent that is prosperous, peaceful, democratic, nonracial, non-sexist and united and which contributes to a world that is just and equitable. In the conduct of its foreign policy, South Africa is guided by and upholds the following principles:
- a commitment to international peace and to regional and internationally agreed upon mechanisms for the resolution of conflicts;
- a commitment to justice and international law;
- a commitment to the promotion of democracy;
- a commitment to the promotion of human rights; and
- a commitment to the African Continent.
South Africa was one of the original 51 founding members of the United Nations. The United Nations General Assembly decided on 12 November 1974 to suspend South Africa from participating in its work, due to international opposition to the policy of apartheid. During the late seventies and early eighties UN Security Council sanctions were instituted against South Africa and it was barred from officially participating in United Nations related bodies. Financial support was also provided by the United Nations to national liberation movements. South Africa remained on the agenda of both the UN General Assembly and the Security Council during the struggle against apartheid. The democratic elections in South Africa in April 1994 paved the way for the complete normalization of South Africa's relations with the UN. Since then South Africa has participated actively in all aspects of the work of the Organization. Its global status has increased significantly through participation in numerous UN bodies, agencies and General Assembly sessions. Democratic South Africa is thus a strong supporter of multilateralism and respects the current system of governance based on the United Nations and its various bodies. These institutions serve to combine the international community's strength to maintain international peace and security and employ multilateral institutions for the promotion of the economic and social well-being and advancement of all peoples. South Africa is also of the view that this is the legitimate and credible system through which other major global issues such as food security, disasters, refugees, international crime and disarmament could be effectively addressed in a collective manner.
In October 2006, South Africa was elected by the Members of the General Assembly to serve, for the first time in its history, as a non-Permanent Member of the Security Council for the period 2007-2008. The election to the Council offered South Africa the opportunity to advance the African agenda of achieving peace, security and development, including respect for human rights. South Africa also regards the Security Council as a platform to help promote multilateralism and respect for international law as the most appropriate means of achieving global political and economic stability and security. The 14th Ordinary Session of the African Union held in Addis Ababa on 31 January – 2 February 2010 endorsed South Africa's candidature as Africa's candidate for the nonpermanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the period 2011-2012. South Africa was appointed again as a nonpermanent member of the Security Council in October 2010. As a nonpermanent member of the Security Council, South Africa will continue its efforts to promote and enhance the Security Council's cooperation with regional organizations, particularly the African Union's Peace and Security Council. Closer co-operation between these two bodies will contribute to enhancing the convergence of perspectives and approaches in dealing with and responding to peace and security challenges on our Continent. South Africa will actively contribute to the work of the Security Council by participating in its committees, working groups and other structures. Security Council membership will also present an opportunity to contribute to reforming the working methods of the Security Council and to work towards the achievement of a representative, legitimate and more effective Security Council.


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Candidates from this year's Rising Stars programme sponsored jointly by Westland Horticulture and the Garden Centre Association spent time on the Westland stand at Glee yesterday gathering ideas and information for their 2022 workshop projects.
Around a dozen of the 16 entrants were joined by members of the Young People's Horticulture Association (YPHA), an ideal opportunity to swap notes and share views.
The Rising Stars programme, which is designed to challenge trainees to develop their knowledge of the garden industry and think outside the box, is based on a series of workshops, after which entra.nts are assessed and a shortlist produced. The finalists present their finished projects to GCA members at their annual conference to find the Rising Star of 2023..
Previous workshop events included visits to Westland's Peterborough facility and to NIAB, Westland's research and development partner.
Sustainability features prominently in this year's workshop programme – so the tour of Westland's stand will have given the candidates plenty of material to work with.
Here is the list of candidates, centres and their individual projects.
Louise Oaks Bents Home composting
Jennifer Ind Webbs of Wychbold The environmental benefits of plants through companion planting
Pip Bransfield -Garth Ruxley Manor Bug Buffet
Victoria Taylor Barton Grange Integrated Pest management
Lauren Bell Millbrook Wildlife Garden
Matt Carr Barton Grange Water sustainability - small changes to make a big difference
Ashley Baines Barton Grange Bringing wildlife home
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Mia Crawford Poundbury Gardens Planting for wildlife in small spaces
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- (0:08) The Huge Church Where Nico's Kid Is Getting Baptized And Later Scenes Filmed There Including The Bomb / 1850 N. Hermitage Avenue, Chicago
- (0:10) The House Where The Gathering Takes Place In The Back Yard / 6222 N. Lakewood Avenue, Chicago
- (0:12) The Bar Where Nico Goes Upstairs To Rescue The Woman / 1389 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago (Note: It Is Across The Street From The Same Walgreen's Seen In The Movie And The Exact Address Is A Guess As The Building Has Changed Some Since Filming)
- (0:18) Nico Putting A Trace On The Bad Guys Phone And Then Following Them Over The Bridge / Roughly 1130 N. Halsted Street, Chicago (Note: This Area Has Changed A Lot Since The Movie Was Made. The Street Above The Car Was Ogden Avenue And That Has Since Been Removed. The Building The Bad Guys Are In Is On The Southwest Corner Of Halsted And W. Division Street)
- (0:19) Bogota Club Or Restaurant / 2205 N. Halsted Street, Chicago (Note: This Building Has Changed Since The Movie Was Made)
- (0:21) The Bust Scene Sequence. First Shot; The View From The Roof Is On The North Side Of 800 Block Of W. Fulton Market. The Car Is Coming Into The Scene Traveling North On Peoria Street Coming From Lake Street. The Spot Where The Exchange Was To Take Place Is On The Southeast Corner Of N. Peoria Street And W. Wayman Street. The Chase Ends Up At The Corner Of Green Street And Fulton Market.
- (0:46) Nico Getting Into It With Some Bad Guys / The Fighting Takes Place In The Alley Between 1434 N. Elk Grove Avenue And 1433 N. Milwaukee Avenue. The Chase Heads Right Past The Red House On Around 1434 N. Elk Grove Avenue And They Are Running North. They Eventually Run By Hollywood Cleaners Which Is Located At 1438 N. Milwaukee Avenue And The Chase Ends Just Past The El At Around 1816 W. Evergreen Avenue, Chicago
- (0:53) Nico Making A Call To His Wife From A Park Area And Then Getting Info From His Partner / Lincoln Park Zoo Walking Bridge Over The South Pond; 1950 N. Stockton Drive, Chicago
- (0:57) The Intersection Where Nico Comes Under Attack With The Machine Guns / He Was Pointed East On W. Ohio Street At The N. Armour Intersection, Chicago (Note: The Little Store Looked To Be At 1510 W. Ohio Street)
- (1:10) Picking Up Nico In Downtown / Northeast Corner Of E. Monroe Street And S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago (Note: Car Is Facing East On Monroe As It Drives Away)
- (1:12) Where The Bad Guys Enter To Try To Get Info From The Priest / Damen Avenue El Station, Chicago
- (1:26) Crashing The Bad Guy Out Of The Parking Garage And Onto The El Tracks Below / S. Wabash Avenue Just South Of E. Monroe Street, Chicago
- (1:28) Capturing Nico After The Crash As He Is Coming Out Of The Parking Garage / East Monroe Garage; 55 E. Monroe Street, Chicago (Note: The Garage Looks A Lot Different Today)
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This was such an awesome thing to do I was trying to use google street views to figure it all out, this is probably my favorite action flick ever. Having been to chicago last year for the first time it sure is something to see how much nicer it has become since the filming of this movie in the late 80s! The red house from the chase scene is completly unchanged... well again thanks a lot for doc'ing these sites! Very very cool stuff, very much appreciated!ReplyDelete
Hi, thank you for the kind words.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Awesome. Was cruising around the west loop on Fulton and thought that I recognized some of the buildings from the stake-out / bust scene. Thanks for putting it all together.ReplyDelete
Damen L stop would be either Blue or Brown Line...Purple Line dedicated stops are only in Evanston.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for the correction. I must have been color blind. I just erased the color to make it easier.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2013 at 10:01 PM
Pretty sure it'd be the Brown Line. The Damen Blue Line is in the middle of The Eisenhowser.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2017 at 11:08 PM
It's the blue line location in wicker park. The Walgreens is on Milwaukee.Delete
I think the Damen signs are fakes.....look at the el itself.....4 tracks in the station.....which means the station has to be either the Wellington,Diversey or Armitage stations on the Brown lineDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2013 at 8:36 PM
Your site is unbelievable!! I'm watching "Above the Law" as I write this, as I'm from Chicago I wondered if I could find some of the film locations, Googled "Chicago locations for A.t.L." & your site comes up, just love it. Amazing work! Thx, this is so cool. I always wanted to take Rt.41 to see where the plane crashes into the gasoline tanker in "North by Northwest" found out that was done in California. Thank so much for all your work.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 8, 2015 at 2:12 AM
Nico's house is probably at Waveland and Paulina.I have a feeling it is.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 8:38 AM
The bar scene was at 1383 N. Milwaukee.ReplyDelete
I remember seeing film crews around Yakzies II bar on Granville (between Broadway and Winthrop). I always thought the bar scene was there. This is located near the house on Lakewood.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 7, 2017 at 12:57 PM
Cool site. Was in behind the bar watching them film the restaurant scene as my girlfriend at the time was an extra in the scene. They filmed all day and until 11PM to get 5 minutes in the filmReplyDeleteReplies
Hi, thank you for the compliment and for your cool story.Delete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2017 at 9:02 PM
The large churches in the opening scene is St. Mary of the Angels.ReplyDelete
The grey building that Nic and Jacks drive past on the their way to 1389 Milwaukee is on the southeast corner of Damen, North, and Milwaukee. It is now a bank.
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- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2022 at 1:36 AM
I've been living one block away from St Mary's Church for almost 30 years. When I found out the church was in a movie,I had to see the movie. Amazing. Thank you and Thank you,Andrew Davis.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 2, 2022 at 2:00 AM
Where did the basement scenes take place at the Church?ReplyDeleteReplies
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- AnonymousMarch 23, 2023 at 12:41 PM
(0:11) also show the intersections of hermitage & N. Hermitage Ave & W. BloomingdaleReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 23, 2023 at 1:48 PM
- "Northwestern Pharmacy" in the movie is 1227 N Milwaukee Ave.ReplyDelete