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Just Cause 2: Something for nearly every man
Which isnt to say that women wouldnt like it, but Just Cause 2 has elements that would appeal to males more often than females. Regardless, there appears to be something that many people can find appealing in the game. The story is pretty simple, and because of this, I would not recommend this game to people who just want a serious, in depth story, you are not going to find it in this game at all. The plot of this game boils down to: bad dictator is in power on a tropical island, do everything you can to mess up his rein and overthrow him. Luckily, this isnt trying to be topical about current wars or dictators, or at the very least its subtle about it. But what you really play Just Cause 2 for is the gameplay, and this is where most of the different appeal comes from; a little something for everyone if you will. There are cool cars and optional races for these cars, for those interested in racing and cars. There is a large island that can be explored, with easter eggs for those willing/like to explore. To go with the large island you have many a cool X to go around it, be it boat, car, or plane/helicopter. There is also a grappling hook, to either get around with, which it exceeds very well at, and to use and different ways to attack enemies. There is also a lot of destruction going on in the game, with lots of explosions and gunfights to be had, so this will really appeal to people who love action games. The game even has a tough talking lead, though he isnt too machismo, in the sense that he isnt overly gung-ho or militirstic, which I really enjoyed, considering the abundance of gung-ho type of characters in action games. As a final note on the appeal, there are also strange and quirky missions you can get during the game and even towards the end of the story line which are fun to go through. There may be issues that may bug some players, one being the sheer size of the island, which is very large and makes it difficult to systematically search the island to see what your missing for those who feel compelled to get 100% in games. Another issue may be that there is a bit too much sameness in small villages and military bases; although I know that it is a problem, for me I never found it ruining the game for me. Overall, Just Cause 2 is a fun game that has many gameplay aspects that different types of people can enjoy.
Action Movie: The Video Game
AI: They have their stupid moments like all video game enemies, but the first time you notice a soldier taking cover or leaping away from a grenade feels awesome, even if that makes them harder to kill. The Action: Rico is your typical get shot in the face like it's nothing, grows back limbs by hiding behind cover, no negotiating, Badass video game Action Hero who can hold hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his pockets...somehow, but with two key differences: First, he has a grappling hook, which effectively turns him into Spider-Man with a gun. Second, it appears he has no blood relation to the Wicked Witch of the West, unlike other video game characters. It's really great to see how the guy who can take a 10 story fall no problem also doesn't die upon contact with water. Expect pretty explosions, cinematic gun battles, awesome set-piece missions, and even helicopter dogfights all the way while playing as him. Heartwarming: The first and every subsequent time you save a group of civilians by killing the soldiers standing over them, you just feel happy inside. The Game World: Large and beautiful, Panau features mountains, jungles, a city, and a desert all within the same island archipelago. Military bases and villages dot the landscape, and the graphics are stunning. The Controls: Ground movement is simple, as is the handlng of the grappling hook. Vehicles have a tendency to overturn, but you are still in control and merely need to compensate. Helicopters are awkward at first, and the fixed Wong aircraft have no yaw (steering left or right) capability. Plot: It has one which is kind of interesting, but is poorly developed. The setup is that the American-friendly leader of Panau has been killed and replaced by his son, a tyrannical despot whose soldiers regularly oppress and massacre their own people. A government agent (who just happens to be your former mentor) on the island goes "dark" at the same time. Can Rico fnd out what happened to his mentor and oust one really big meanie? Just Cause 2 has a great premise, but it fails to deliver.
Just Cause 2 - Think of a Michael Bay movie, but actually fun to watch (and play).
From the moment I first saw the trailer for it about a year before this review was made, I've always had an interest in Just Cause 2. Fun gameplay centered around shit going boom? Beautiful graphics? I was nearly sold, but I held off on it for a while until December of 2012, when I finally got it, and this I can say - it is one of the best games I have played in 2012.
Should you buy Just Cause 2? Stop reading and buy it now, it's pros vastly outweigh it's cons. 9 out of 10.
- Platform for Gameplay: Xbox 360
- Pros:
- Absolutely stunning to look at.
- Vast wealth of collectables will have you coming back for at least a 40 - 50+ hour playthrough.
- Fun, intense gameplay.
- Transportation and weapons can be purchased at any time from the Black Market - once you unlock all of them of course, which, thankfully, doesn't take as long as you think.
- So unbelievably over the top.
- Cons:
- Storyline isn't really there. Core game can be finished around 7 - 8 hours (although as mentioned before, post game can push 50).
- Audio clipping. Often. Although this can be nitpicking.
- Noticable frame drops.
- Neither Pros nor Cons:
- Vehicle physics. Cars are twitchy; even the slightest touch on the left analog stick might send a car careening into a wall, although this can be intentional.
- Terrible voice acting that reaches the point of hilarity.
- The game is difficult, you will die often. This can be frustrating to players new to TPSes or Wide Open Sandbox games, or can provide an added sense of challenge to getting 100% (or rather, 99.5%) completion.
- Little ammo to be gotten from downed enemies. Again, can add a sense of challenge.
- Quick time events. Let's just leave it at that.
Should you buy Just Cause 2? Stop reading and buy it now, it's pros vastly outweigh it's cons. 9 out of 10.
Over The Top, and Proud of It
Just Cause 2 is a game that knows what it wants to be, angles everything towards being that, and blows up the target. Panau is huge, the action is awesome, graphics are crisp, and the controls are surprisingly easy to understand. The only way it could be more over-the-top is if you could Leap And Fire in Bullet Time or the game enabled free-climbing all over any vehicle. There are a massive range of locations over Panau, and many seem to be tailored to an action movie sensibility. The first base you enter is mounted on a cliffside, with cable cars, bridges, and big buildings. One island base has a main road running through it and explosive silos on either side; it's basically begging you to drop a tank at one end and drive to the other, blowing up everything you can on the way. Not every place is as memorable, but they largely avoid feeling repetitive. The acrobatics in the game are perfectly designed to enable planesurfing without you falling off or the controls being too obtuse. At the touch of a button, you can jump onto a passing car, and not fall off until it slams into a wall or you hijack it. Some vehicles even enable you to hang from the front or back of them. Surprisingly, this is handled in a kinda-sorta-semi-realistic fashion: military vehicles have ridges or bars that would be easy to hold on to, while civilian vehicles are much smoother, offering no handholds. Missions are nicely varied, and cover just about every part of the spectrum you can think of, from escorting a boat through a series of military floodgates to hijacking a traitor's plane to rescuing a hostage from a convoy to stealing an armored car to storming fortresses. They vary in length from less than ten minutes to over half an hour, and a select few have their own partially-developed mini-story. However, some of the story missions skimp on checkpoints, particularly when you need to destroy several things in a row; there can be ten minutes between checkpoints. If you somehow get bored of all the action, optional races provide an easy diversion, whether they're skydiving, flying, or driving. Even these come sometimes get crazy, such as driving at high speeds inside a massive satellite dish or weaving between supports and departing planes at an airport in a sports car. Just Cause 2 might be cheesy, but it's some of the best cheese I've tasted.
Just Cause 1 — Lovely wrapping paper, little present.
Rico Rodriguez, star insurgent, glares at the air mattress that defeated him. His trusty machine gun slaughtered a drug cartel, but it cannot even mark this rubbery nemesis blocking the ladder. He cannot pick it up. Jumping, he bounces off the ladder. As they warned him in spy school, ladders only work at the bottom. He shall never reach the helicopter above. All around me are lush visuals, from the voluptuously toned beaches to the misty mountains in the far, far draw distance. At my feet lies a trivial, but broken and niggly thing ruining my sense of immersion. I drive to a story mission. Sheldon and Maria are waiting on a beach by their mobile command post. It may be mobile but they aren't. They stand rigidly still — a life-sized Ken and Front Heavy Barbie. Rico is reasonably realistic. Maria is roughly human above the neckline. Sheldon's mum appears to have had an affair with Mr Potato Head. In the driving section the bad guys can shoot me, but I cannot shoot back. If I stop to kill them on foot, more will respawn. On foot, fights happen inside a nebulous cloud of respawning baddies. There is no logic to their materialisation, hence cover can cease to have meaning in an instant. They respawn behind me when I employ even rudimentary tactics. The baddies die quickly, being as dumb as concussed ducks. I can soak up their bullets, but die from the gentlest tap by a car, often driven by my own side. I just run for the objective: I'll take a few hits either way. These baddies look unnervingly like Raoul Duke from Doonesbury. Earlier I turned off the looping music and blinding bloom. Then the sound, because of the endless irritiating drone of inexplicably Ricophilic helicopters and sourceless voice spam: "Halt, Citizen!" over and over. Now I'm ignoring some bad guys as being unavoidable, unthreatening, unending and unrewarding. I find a plane that isn't locked away by an air mattress. Airborne, the world looks luscious. I move my view to admire a river dotted with sandbars and small islands. The game jealously snatches the camera back. There is fun to be had. Rico has some neat grappling gun and parachute tricks, and makes some things go boom. But exploration yields duplicated and brain-dead sidequests. Go get a car. Go kill Raoul Duke again. They made a much better sequel. Play that.


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The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous was written by alcoholics for alcoholics. It was the story of how more than one hundred men and women have recovered from alcoholism. There have been three revisions to the book since the publication of the first printing in 1939. The first printing of Alcoholics Anonymous was published in April 1939 by the Works Publishing Company. There were sixteen printings of the first edition Alcoholics Anonymous book. More than 300,000 of these first edition books went into circulation in the following sixteen years. The second edition began publication in 1955 and followed with sixteen more printings that reached an estimated circulation of well over a million copies. There were seventy four printings of the third edition that started publishing in 1976. In 2001, the fourth edition of Alcoholics Anonymous began publication. To preserve the "original" message of the AA founders, there have been no changes to the first 164 pages in any of the four editions of Alcoholics Anonymous, often referred to by it's members as the "Big Book." The major changes in the different editions of the Big Book were in the personal stories. As stories were added to each new edition of Alcoholics Anonymous, there was the difficult task of removing stories. These revisions made in the different editions of the Big Book were intended to update the story section, representing current membership, and show the potential "newcomer" who has been helped by Alcoholics Anonymous. These personal stories reflect the experience, strength, and hope of alcoholics that have learned a new way of life and how to live!

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LA Galaxy star Landon Donovan admits a return to Everton during the MLS off-season could be very likely.
The 28-year old had a successful stint at Goodison Park last season and has definitely left the door ajar for another loan spell this European winter.
"I'll have to think about rejoining Everton in the off season. Things went pretty well there," he admitted.
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Topeka Gov. Kathleen Sebelius says Kansans have learned from neighboring Colorado that what sounded good - the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights - wasn't.
"There was a discussion on issues about higher ed, park services, social services - and a lot of citizens of this state took a look at what was a good sound bite, and decided that maybe this was not good public policy," Sebelius said.
But Alan Cobb, state director of Americans for Prosperity, which is pushing TABOR, disagreed with Sebelius' assessment.
The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR, is a proposed constitutional amendment that would require voter approval of state tax increases and limit state spending increases to the inflation rate plus population growth and refund taxes above that amount. To be adopted, the amendment would need two-thirds approval in the House and Senate, then must gain approval in a statewide election.
Efforts to establish TABOR in Kansas have continued for the last three legislative sessions, but they have yet to take hold.
Advocates for social services, higher education and the business community have worked against TABOR, saying it would stifle the government's ability to invest in needed services and respond to emergencies.
TABOR efforts in Kansas also may have suffered a setback in November when Colorado voters decided to suspend their TABOR amendment for five years because of budget problems there.
But Cobb said Colorado's economy had grown faster than Kansas' in recent years, in part because of the government spending limits imposed by TABOR.
And, he said, the Colorado amendment worked the way it was supposed to by giving voters the authority over budget decisions.
"It worked in form by allowing their citizens to vote on whether or not to keep tax dollars that would have otherwise been refunded, which is what happened last fall," Cobb said.
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11/05/2005 3:52pm, #119chambersGuest
I see what you're saying. It's much easier to lose weight if you aren't worried about losing muscle. All you have to do is starve yourself half to death. I mean, anorexics don't eat 5 meals a day or mix in HIIT and they seem to lose weight just fine. I've thought about doing that myself -- going on a really skimpy diet and just not eating at all. The problem is that when you start eating again you have to make sure you learn to eat properly and exercise properly anyway so you might as well start building good habits right off the bat. Fasting could give you a good head start, I guess. It's just not a healthy lifestyle you can maintain over a long period of time. Eventually, you have to switch to a more healthy routine. It can work for a while though.
You are right in saying diet is the most important thing. Without that, nothing else seems to help much.
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Showing only at Mayfaire 16, "Cirque do Soleil: Worlds Away" is a 3D experience that captures the exciting skills of this world-renowned group. The group's performances are used to tell a story about two young lovers on a journey through dreamlike worlds to find one another. Mia, a young woman, wants to escape and takes her first step after entering a circus tent and falling for an aerialist.
After seeing one another, the aerialist slips, falling into another world and bringing Mia through as well. Ultimately separated, they travel across different worlds to find each other. The worlds make up the heart of the film, bringing together seven acts from the Cirque du Soleil live shows to tell its narrative.
Cirque do Soleil began in the early 1980s as a street act and grew into a larger, artier version of what many know as the big top circus. It has grown to become a world phenomenon with 20 shows globally. The film, filmed intermittently and edited over the course of three years, is brought to the screen via director and producer Andrew Adamson ("Chronicles of Narnia") and pioneering filmmaker James Cameron ("Titanic," "Avatar").
The filmmakers weren't content to just film the live show. In addition filming those shows in 3D, they also filmed on days off for the performers. This allowed for 3D cameras to get closer and shoot better angles to bring the audience into the world of Cirque du Soleil. Utilizing up to 10 3D cameras and shooting from angles sometimes 50 to 100 feet in the air the film becomes an opportunity to place the audience in the same space as performers.
Shows are 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. only starting Friday and in 3D. On Christmas Day shows run all day but onylone show is in 2D. Check matfaire's web site for details.
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WESTERN Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust has been flagged up in a independent report into hospital mortality rates.
The trust was named in the Dr Foster Hospital Guide as one of 12 scoring higher than expected on two out of four 'mortality measures.
The report looks at four key areas – the standardised mortality ratio, looking at death while in hospital care; the summary hospital-level mortality indicator, deaths following hospital treatment taking place in hospital or up to 30 days after discharge; deaths after surgery and deaths in low-risk conditions.
Western Sussex Hospitals, which runs St Richard's Hospital, in Chichester, as well as Worthing and Southlands hospitals, scored higher than expected in the first two areas.
"These measures are to be used as a warning sign of a risk that poor quality care may be leading to a higher than expected mortality," said the Dr Foster report.
"They are not measures that definitively state poor quality care is happening."
Medical director Dr Phillip Barnes said: "While we are disappointed by the Dr Foster results, it is important to stress that our overall mortality rate – without applying any complex mathematical formulas – is falling, and falling quickly.
"The rate fell by approximately 10 per cent in the year to April 2012, and is on course to fall by a similar amount in this current year.
"Dr Foster themselves say that high HSMRs (their mathematical measure of mortality) should make trusts check out other measures of safety and quality.
"That is precisely what we do, and are proud of the fact that we have some of the best results for nursing care and safety in the South East, low and reducing numbers of complaints about nursing care, steadily improving rates for hospital infections and excellent reports from external regulators like the Care Quality Commission.
"Dr Foster have also described the need to avoid hospital admissions where possible.
"We know this and have been working with our local clinical commissioning group of GPs, community health services and the County Council on innovative projects such as One Call to achieve precisely that.
"Our focus is on getting overall mortality rates down, because that is about the care given to real people rather than mathematical models and the figures show we are having a real impact on patient care."
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Oral History: Tony-Award Winning Actress Bebe Neuwirth interviewed by Arts-Journalist Patrick Pacheco
Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
(65th Street & Amsterdam Ave)
Monday, May 5 at 6PM
Free Admission, Seating first come first served
League of Professional Theatre Women, Friends of the League, New York Women's Agenda, Women in the Arts & Media Coalition Members may RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com.
This program is produced by Betty Corwin.
This program is made possible by the generous support of the Betty R. and Ralph Sheffer Foundation.
Ms. Neuwirth starred as Velma in the Broadway production of CHICAGO, for which she won a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Astaire Award, and Distinguished Performance of theYear Award. A few years later she returned to the show, this time portraying Roxie. She received her first Tony Award for her portrayal of Nickie in SWEET CHARITY. Other Broadway credits include FOSSE, DAMN YANKEES, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, DANCIN', LITTLE ME, and A CHORUS LINE. She has performed in regional productions, including Anita in WEST SIDE STORY, Jenny in THE THREEPENNY OPERA, the title role in KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN (London's West End), and Katherine in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.
Off-Broadway credits include a Woody Allen play (directed by Mr. Allen) at the Atlantic Theatre Company, a Terrence McNally play at MTC, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at the Classic Stage Company, and singing and dancing an evening of Kurt Weill music in HERE LIES JENNY at the Zipper Theatre. She has also played in comedy revues such as UPSTAIRS AT O'NEAL'S.
Concert work includes appearing with symphony orchestras around the country, singing the music of Kander & Ebb and Kurt Weill, and also a more intimate show called STORIES with PIANO. On television Bebe is well known for her role of Lilith on CHEERS, for which she received two Emmy Awards. Other TV appearances include her Emmy-nominated portrayal of Dorothy Parker in DASH and LILY, and a starring role in the series LAW & ORDER: TRIAL BY JURY.
Film work includes LIBERTY HEIGHTS, SUMMER OF SAM, CELEBRITY, JUMANJI, MALICE, GREEN CARD, THE FACULTY, BUGSY, and TADPOLE. Bebe has also provided cartoon voices for several characters in both television and the movies. Ms. Neuwirth is a recipient of the 2007 Dance Magazine Award, The CTFD Rolex Dance Award, and is proud to be an Honorary Ziegfeld Girl. As a vice-chair of The Actors Fund, she founded The Dancers' Resource, a program committed to addressing the needs – emotional, financial, physical, etc. – of professional dancers across the country. Bebe recently returned to CHICAGO to perform the role of "Mama" Morton, the third principle role she has played in the Broadway production, surely a record of some kind.
Patrick Pacheco is a New York- based arts journalist whose work has appeared in "The New York Times," "The Los Angeles Times," "The Wall Street Journal," and many other periodicals and webzines. His blog "Play by Play" is published on Artinfo.com and he is a regular contributor to the TV programs, NY1 "Onstage" and PBS's "Theater Talk." He wrote the 2009 Disney documentary "Waking Sleeping Beauty" and is the co-author, with Maria Cassi, of the play, "My Life with Men…and Other Animals."
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From Ballet to Broadway and Bebe Neuwirth's nod to Ben Vereen!
Last evening, I was once again in attendance at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' fabulous Oral History program, this time featuring the "Triple Threat" Tony Award winning actress/dancer/singer (the "correct" alphabetical listings for the admitted "obsessive compulsive disorder with a bit of Asperger's thrown in") BeBe Neuwirth in conversation with arts journalist Patrick Pacheco. This on-going series in collaboration with The League of Professional Theatre Women is arguably one of the most satisfying theatrical experiences in New York City. It is always fun, informative and FREE!! Yes, free! (I must admit that I would go even if I had to pay an admission price!)
Founded by the indomitable Betty Corwin, whose passion for preserving live performances on tape for future generations led to the creation of TOFT (Theatre on Film and Tape) in the late 1960's. Thanks to Betty (and her solid successor Patrick Hoffman), over 7,000 Broadway, Off Broadway and regional theatre productions have been archived for professional and scholarly viewing. The Oral History, "Women in Theatre" initiative features acclaimed actresses interviewed by critics, collaborators and even friends in the intimate Bruno Walter Auditorium. Last night was one of the highlights of this delightful program. Thanks to the fascinating and funny Bebe Neuwirth and the charming Patrick Pacheco, the stage lit up with warmth, intelligence and humor and I believe everyone in attendance, including the participants, did not want the interview to end.
What did we learn about Bebe? Back in Princeton, New Jersey as the daughter of a mathematician father and an artist/dancer mother, Bebe had the support of parents who were open to their children's career choices, even if that did not include a traditional path of college and a secure job. Ballet influenced Bebe as a very young child and she eagerly began lessons at 5. As a teenager, Bebe wrestled with the imposing reality of a lifetime career in ballet and felt quite heartbroken at the thought of giving it up. As fate would have it, at 13, she attended a production of "Pippin" on Broadway starring Ben Vereen. According to Bebe, "It was a religious experience. I recognized myself." As she watched Ben Vereen move in his role as the Leading Player she had the feeling that her "broken heart was rescued". Now, she had a new passion…to dance on Broadway! And dance she did!! How poignant that when Bebe won her first Tony for Nicki in "Sweet Charity" at the age of 28, Ben Vereen presented her with the award. The moment is not lost on her. She is reverential and fully aware of the significance of this moment in her career and her life. 'It was mystical." I was truly impressed with the humility and respect Bebe displayed throughout the interview. She is a wise and gracious woman and acknowledges the artists who influenced her. Her parents indeed deserve recognition for allowing Bebe to create her own curriculum after one year at Julliard in the dance program. Bebe had landed her first professional job in "A Chorus Line" as Sheila and had no longer time nor desire for college. She obviously did a fine job educating herself for her chosen career. (College or on the job training?? Everyone is different of course. I think she knows how lucky she was to have the resourceful parents who had saved for their children's education and were flexible. In this case, the risk paid off. They surely recognized the drive, ambition and focus that Bebe displayed…. I digress.)
It is clear that Bebe is a genuine "Broadway Baby", but the opportunity to star as a featured performer in two hit television sitcoms is hard to resist for most actresses. The character of Lilith on both "Cheers" and "Fraiser" has earned Bebe numerous awards and forever cemented the idea of the immovable woman, an image Bebe says people expect of her. She claims she is not as strong as she appears, "delicate to loud noises", not at all as confident as she appears. She claims her low voice and persona have led folks to believe she is more like her characters than the actress. I say that like every great artist, Bebe adapts to the role. Without the courage to do that, she would not have won the numerous awards and recognition that she has to date. And, she keeps going! After starring as Velma and Roxie in "Chicago" the Musical, she recently trod the boards as Matron "Mama" Morton in the current Broadway revival.
As far as the great theatre artists she has encountered in her illustrious career? Bebe spoke so eloquently about the influences of Bob Fosse… "There are two kinds of dancers…feline and canine. Bob was definitely feline! Michael Bennett… canine! Bob had this "pulled up" yet "dropped down" physical approach to dance that lent itself to the ballet/jazz feeling of his work. Michael said '" Don't dance on the music, dance in the music. It was very Zen. They both possessed clarity of vision. Woody Allen has that as well. Everything serves the vision." Her discipline and focus led her to these "geniuses" and her respect and admiration for these choreographers and directors as well as such performers as Chita Rivera ("There is nobody like Chita Rivera!") Juliet Prouse, Gwen Verdon and, of course, her first love, Rudolph Nureyev and the ballet ("Ballet training is great for a Fosse dancer") is profound. And she has not forgotten her mother, who was a dancer and an artist and had given Bebe, along with her father, the gift of opportunity and freedom to follow her dreams.
When asked if she modeled herself after any of these great women artists who came before her she clarified that she is "completely different" from them. When preparing for a role she is revising, she will look at the film version of the production for understanding. The original Morticia (Carolyn Jones) in "The Addams Family" on television was a great inspiration for Bebe when she played the role opposite Nathan Lane on Broadway's "The Addams Family". "She was so elegant. She had a great humor. She was empowered." But Bebe also was inspired by the original images and words by Charles Addams, the creator.
Asked if she felt, after such great success in television, film and live theatre, if she had "arrived", Bebe spoke like a true craftswoman and artist who knows the challenge never ends. "Artists should stay curious. I don't want to "arrive".
And finally, when asked what is next for her? "Good writing draws me to a role. I ask myself "Can I serve the character?" I would love to do more Shakespeare. The poetry of the words is like ballet." Ah yes, back to the ballet where everything was beautiful….
I loved listening to Bebe Neuwirth and Patrick Pacheco and I look forward to the next Oral History interview on September 22nd, 2014 when celebrated stage and television actress Phylicia Rashad will interview actress and stage director Billie Allen, Founding Member of the Women's Project and Productions and Founding Member and former co-president of the League of Professional Theatre Women.
The Oral History program is produced by Betty Corwin and is made possible by the generous support of long-time LPTW member Angelina Fiordellisi.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Centre is the LTPW's long time partner for this program and is open to the General Public at no charge. LPTW members may reserve in advance and attend the post interview Green Room reception (another benefit of membership!) At risk of sounding cliché, the best things in life are often free.
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Wisconsin asks 7th Circuit to keep night deer ban
- Article by: TODD RICHMOND
- Associated Press
- May 7, 2014 - 5:35 PM
MADISON, Wis. — State attorneys tried to persuade a federal appellate court Wednesday to reject a request from Wisconsin's Chippewa bands to reopen a long-settled case barring tribal hunters from hunting deer at night.
The state Department of Natural Resources has long banned night deer hunts out of safety concerns. The Chippewa, though, have pushed for years for a tribal night deer hunt in the ceded territory, a gigantic swath of northern Wisconsin the bands handed over to the federal government in the 19th century.
The tribes tried to persuade U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb in 1989 to exempt tribal hunters from the state prohibition during a court battle over treaty rights in the ceded territory. Crabb ultimately ruled in 1991 that night deer hunting is dangerous and the state ban therefore applies to the tribes.
Legislators angered the Chippewa in 2012 when they allowed hunters to kill wolves at night. The tribes consider the wolf a spiritual brother.
The tribes asked Crabb to revisit her 1991 decision, arguing that circumstances have changed. They maintain that the state must believe night hunting is safe because lawmakers allowed hunters to kill wolves after dark, the DNR instituted night deer hunting programs to slow chronic wasting disease and has allowed night hunts to protect crops and prevent car-deer collisions.
Crabb rejected their arguments in December, saying the tribes failed to prove that circumstances have changed so drastically she should revisit the 1991 decision. She noted state officials did almost all the night hunting and most of it was designed to slow chronic wasting disease. Legislators also ended night wolf hunting after one season, she said.
The tribes asked the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago earlier this year to find that circumstances have changed and force Crabb to reopen the case.
Wisconsin's Justice Department, which is representing the DNR in the case, filed a brief with the 7th Circuit arguing that nothing has changed. The governor has used night deer hunting for specific purposes for decades, DOJ attorneys argued. The general public couldn't hunt deer at night in 1989 and still can't now, they said.
"It was reasonable for the court to conclude these circumstances did not create an inequity requiring it to reopen its judgment," the brief said.
Colette Routel, a lawyer who represents the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and serves as one of the lead attorneys for the tribes, didn't immediately respond to an email message Wednesday afternoon.
It's unclear when the 7th Circuit might rule.
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Grownups Need Recess, Too
A New York Times story (the most emailed article for much of today and yesterday) reports on the positive impact school recess has on academic performance. Here's how it begins: "The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it."
The paradoxical lesson of this story is relevant not just for school children but for us grownups, too: taking time out to restore and rejuvenate ourselves results not in reduced performance caused by less time dedicated to work, but to increased performance caused by the stronger, more focused effort you bring to work after fruitful rest.
But in the midst of this soul-crushing, terror-inducing recession, how can anyone think seriously, and without guilt, about undertaking activity that isn't directly reducing costs or increasing revenues? The short answer is that you can't afford not to.
Our minds, our bodies, and our spirits can only go so far without some care and feeding. So perhaps the more difficult question is this: How do I do it in a way that works and is sustainable? Here are some tips for the rejuvenation-starved:
- Whatever you do for your recess, try it in small steps for starters. You are much more likely to make it happen if you undertake some activity that doesn't require a big restructuring of your life.
- Make a list of the benefits -- direct or indirect -- that your recess will have on other people in your life. Not only will you feel less guilty about doing something that at first might have seemed selfish, but you'll actually be more likely to do it when you realize how it will benefit others.
- Enroll someone you trust to serve as your coach. It could be anyone, so long as they can provide both support and accountability pressure.
- After a week or two, get feedback from the people who matter to you to see if indeed you're better able to serve their needs and interests as a result of taking your recess.
Finally, adjust as you learn what's working and what's not, again, from the point of view of the people around you. There are tons of ways it might not work! But these will be many fewer if the people around you see your recess as useful for them, too.
Shut off your BlackBerry or cell phone for 30 minutes each day, whenever works best. Yes, this alone can count as recess. Just shutting off the stream can leave you feeling more focused when you turn it back on.
Take a yoga class. One hour a week is a pretty small step. What's the benefit to others? Well, if yoga relaxes you, maybe you'll be a more pleasant boss, parent, partner, or friend to be around. And improving your health and posture might mean less time absent from work. Going with a friend or coworker means you'll be less likely to skip class.
Treat yourself to a weekly food splurge at a farmer's market or local co-op. You have to buy food anyway, so there's little extra time involved, and if you're someone who enjoys cooking and eating, preparing a meal can be a relaxing and creative activity. And it's just more fun when you get to use fresher or more unusual foods. Benefits? You get to spend more time with your loved ones, and you're less stressed and distracted at work because you feel more connected to your family.
Read a book for fun. Try to set aside 20 minutes a day, at first. How will a little light reading on your part make things better for others? Maybe it will make you a more interesting conversationalist for your friends, or a role model for your kids. Maybe something you read for fun will give you a great idea for something at work - that random cross-pollination is a big part of creativity. Pair up with a friend and agree to swap books. Or, check the book out from the library: if you have a deadline you need to finish by, you'll be more likely to make the time to read it.
Do a crossword during your lunch break. Studies have shown that regularly doing crossword puzzles helps strengthen the mind and may delay the onset of dementia or forgetfulness. Taking at least a 15 minute break during lunch will make you fresher for the afternoon.
If you're stuck, post a comment and we'll see what we can do to help. And if you've already found a good way to take a recess that improves your performance at work, let us know. In the meantime, let's all keep learning from our children!


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Who needs a home life? Both our big spring shows went off this weekend. While Dan works on his 2,300 Musclepalooza shots, here's a look at our Sports & Exotic show at Lime Rock. We were up by the midway this year, and ran out of room long before we ran out of cars and bikes. If you're wondering, "why the 60 Porsches?", Porsche and Ducati were our featured marques. Next up: Our big concours at Stratton Mountain, July 20-22.
We had a couple of sprinkles of rain in the morning, but it was hot and clear by afternoon. It did rain, hard, down by NYC, towards Boston, in the north and to the west, so it probably suppressed turnout considerably; we know of several club convoys that didn't make it up. It's probably just as well, as we were out of room by 11 a.m.
I know Musclepalooza has some entrants who are almost ringers; George Dragone is one of ours. He brought two pre-war roadsters; the '24 Amilcar CGS won our Favorite French Car trophy.
Our Favorite Porsche and Best in Show winner, Mark Schultz's 1961 356 B Super 90. Outstanding in every regard.
Looks like a great show. I wish there were something like that down Texas way.
Down here they like both kinds of cars: Fords AND Chevys (Chevies?). Categories around here usually run like:
Early ford, Mustang early, Mustang late, T-Bird, Camaro early, Camaro late,
Corvette (5 to 18 classes) Chevy truck ,Ford truck, Mopar, Orphan (For your HMX) and…………………….Foreign.
Oh well…
Sorry I missed such a great event. Terrific choice on best of show. Royal Blue is very rare on 356's and just looks great. Red interior, by chance?
White or a very light gray, actually. The luggage was period-correct, as were the assorted accessories with the car. I'll see if I can dig up an interior shot or two.
Gray interior. According to the owner, this was a very rare combination on these cars.
It was a wonderful event, thanks for hosting it. Do you have photo's of the many Ducati's that were there? Thanks
this is the best i porsche i have ever seen. no wonder it was best of show.
congratulation mark
Down Texas way, you say? Do you know about the ItalianCarFest in Grapevine in September? Sweet show…If you're too far away from the DFW area, let us know and we'll find you something. Keep an eye on the Hemmings calendar entries for Texas, and try the Italian Car Club of the Southwest's excellent calendar, too.
Great Car Mark!……… luggage packed and ready for a weekend road trip to the peak of the mountain!
Thanks HMN!!
The place that the cars were shown was awful! The cars were jammed in together. I had to tip toe around the cars and the crowd. I wouldn't be a bit suprised if some of the great cars found new dings on them. If the weather was nice where would they have put all the cars?
I don't know how many acres Lime Rock Park is, but they sure could have found a better place to show the cars.
Sorry I missed the show this year. We watched the internet weather reports for Lime Rock Saturday night and Sunday morning and all reports called for 60% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Just didn't want to make that 2-3 hour drive to find a no show. I'll definitely be there Labor Day weekend though for the best car show on the east coast. Love the magazine. Its the best of the five I read each month by far.


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Well, do they? Double modifiers remind me of the Monthy Pythons The Meaning of life scene in school
Now before I begin the lesson will those of you who are playing in the match this afternoon move your clothes down on to the lower peg immediately after lunch before you write your letter home, if you're not getting your hair cut, unless you've got a younger brother who is going out this weekend as the guest of another boy, in which case collect his note before lunch, put it in your letter after you've had your hair cut, and make sure he moves your clothes down onto the lower peg for you. Now...
The "and" version is certainly supported, but I would not consider it the recomended version.
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Not Good Enough Fulham!
It`s a damn good job that we actually have enough points on the board not to be in contention for relegation.
Because the way we`re playing, in recent weeks, doesn`t bode well for the future.
In five Premier League games we`ve failed to trouble the scorers four times and up at Goodison Park yesterday afternoon, we failed to muster a single shot on target.
Following the defeat to Everton, Martin Jol had a few words for the media, remarking about the performance,
"From the start you could see that they were eager."
"They played with two up front and were causing us problems and they scored a good goal."
"But it was only 1-0 and in the second half we played with a bit of possession. With a little bit of luck we could have scored. But they could have scored two or three as well."
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Protection One is back on tech's version of the Big Board.
Lawrence-based Protection One Inc. on Monday closed its merger with Integrated Alarm Services Group, an Albany, N.Y.-based company that also provides monitored security services.
The combined company - still called Protection One and still based at 1035 N. Third St., in the I-70 Business Center - now has about 3,100 employees, combined revenues of about $365 million and plans for annual net savings of $11 million to $13 million.
Its shares also are back on the Nasdaq Global Market, three years after being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange because of mounting debt and other issues.
Now - since affiliates of Quadrangle Group LLC bought the struggling company in 2004, moved it from Topeka to Lawrence a year later and worked aggressively to restructure its debt - Protection One is back out in the market, looking for growth options and building on its pre-merger base of about 1 million customers.
"We are confident that we : can execute our plan to take the combined company forward and reach new levels of success," said Richard Ginsburg, Protection One's president and chief executive officer.
Protection One's new trading symbol is PONE, instead of the PONN ticker it had been using on Nasdaq's over-the-counter bulletin board. Protection One had been on Nasdaq's main market from 1994 to November 1998, when its shares shifted to the New York Stock Exchange and remained until December 2003.
The return to Nasdaq's major market will be expected to boost the company's visibility - it is the only Lawrence-based company to have its shares traded on a major national market - and provide liquidity for shareholders.
Protection One shares closed Monday at $13.90, the day's opening price. Protection One shares had closed Friday at $19.85, while Integrated Alarm shares had closed at $3.84.
Upon completion of the merger, owners of Integrated Alarm received 0.29 common share of Protection One for each full share of Integrated Alarm.
Darius Nevin, Protection One's chief financial officer, said that the Lawrence headquarters - now with about 70 employees - would be expected to add about another 30 jobs during the next year, mostly in accounting, financial services and human resources. Jobs also will be added at a monitoring center in Wichita, which has about 500 employees.
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UAA officials and local dignitaries cut the ribbon to officially open the new MAPTS center at KPC.
Classes are back in session at Kenai Peninsula College (KPC) and some of those classes are being held in a new facility that was dedicated August 23rd by a host of UAA officials and local dignitaries. "It's our first new building at KPC in about 24 years and we are very excited to have the new Mining and Petroleum Training Service facility on line," said KPC director Gary Turner. Following the official MAPTS ribbon cutting and dedication last week, KPC held their traditional welcome back community barbeque under drizzling skies with the gourmet grilling of Steve Horn.
Former Lt. Governor and present University of Alaska Chancellor Fran Ulmer was on hand for the dedication and pointed to the important mission the new facility will under take, "It was terrific to hear the stories that were told by the folks who have been part of MAPTS since the beginning. Fifty thousand graduates in thirty years that's an accomplishment to really be proud of. There are all kinds of people across Alaska today who have jobs in the oil and gas and mining industry who got the training for those jobs because people had a vision for this program and now this new facility will assure future Alaskans can be trained for new jobs and that Alaska will have the economic benefits of a trained workforce to fill the jobs that those industries will require. Clearly the petroleum and mining industry really relies on the training that MAPTS does and this facility and this program is really the place statewide that the University of Alaska supports for non-credit training in this area and is the largest training program in North America recognized here and elsewhere as being a leader, a best practices facility and I suspect in the future we will see not only people on the Kenai Peninsula and Alaska but from the lower 48 coming here for the training offered here at MAPTS," said Ulmer.
The MAPTS program already has a waiting list of students says Ulmer, "Gary Turner is doing a very good job with the whole KPC team to step up to the need at MAPTS and hopefully we will have the kind of funding that is required from the legislature and the Board of Regents in order for us to meet Alaska's need in the future."
That future need was represented at the ribbon cutting by director Dennis Steffy, his daughter Melissa Averill & grandkids Isaac and Sadie, who are the next generation of MAPTS students and instructors. The first director of KPC Clayton Brockel was also on hand and praised all who had lent a hand in making the facility a reality.
According to Gary Turner all non-resident tuition has been waved at KPC, "So if you've just moved to the area or have been here less than a year, you only have to pay resident tuition, which is a real bargain. The reason for this is that president Hamilton approved the waiver for one year as a test because most of our students who enroll as non-resident are not coming here particularly to go to college, but these are people who are moving here to stay or because there family has moved here or for a job so now they will pay resident tuition and I feel that is a real plus for students here," said Turner.
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Inter's Dejan Stankovic has announced his retirement from international football with Serbia. "It's time for the kids."
The midfielder, 33, made his decision after the 1-0 loss to Slovenia last night which ended his side's hopes of Euro 2012 qualification.
"It was my last game for my country," he noted. "I was waiting for my farewell encounter and this was it.
"I've played in many matches, I've helped the team and I think now is the time to just think about Inter.
"There are younger players than me who need to start preparing for the World Cup campaign in Brazil.
"It's time for a generation change, it's time to leave some space for the kids."
The former Lazio player made his Serbia debut in April 1998 and ends his national stint with 15 goals in 102 games.
Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic, 29, has also decided to quit the Serbian national side.
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Via Joel Sherman, Hal Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman are unlikely to authorize a big money bid to win the negotiating rights for Yu Darvish this winter. Sherman hints that the Kei Igawa fiasco may be scaring them, and if that's true, I assume they'll never sign another white guy after the A.J. Burnett mess. Seriously, if they're going to start ignoring talent pools because of nationality, soon enough they won't have anyone to wear the uniform.
Anyway, I suspect this is all just posturing. No team, let alone the Yankees, has any incentive to come out and say "we're going to bid big on Darvish." It's counterproductive. The team's scouts love the right-hander according to Sherman, so they'd be foolish not to make a serious run at him.


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Doug Baldwin got past cornerback Byron Maxwell along the sideline to run down a long touchdown pass from Russell Wilson. Paul Richardson, this year's top draft choice, caught a short pass from Tarvaris Jackson and used a nifty stutter step to get around the defender. Rookie free agent Kevin Smith hauled in a TD pass from Terrelle Pryor. Percy Harvin got the ball and was a blur as he exploded up the sideline, to the delight of the fans filling the berm adjacent to the practice field.
And rookie Kevin Norwood continued to look like a steal of a fourth draft choice by making impressive catches of passes thrown by Jackson, Wilson and Pryor.
"We love our position," coach Pete Carroll said when asked about the position that has lost two good-hands guys.
Having Harvin on the practice field and contributing is a good place to start with Carroll's love affair with the wide-out group. Last summer, after the Seahawks acquired him in an offseason trade with the Minnesota Vikings, Harvin couldn't practice and eventually had hip surgery that limited him to one regular-season game.
"He's had an extraordinary offseason. He looks great," Carroll said of Harvin. "He's a highly conditioned guy and he looks fantastic and fast out here today, right off the bat. So that's a big deal."
So was the fact that Harvin was feeling as good as he looked.
"It feels tremendously good," he said through a smile. "We were just talking to all the trainers earlier today and saying like last year at this time I was in there consulting with a whole bunch of doctors looking through the window and seeing all the fans and wanting to be out here so bad.
"So this year, just to be able to get my foundation back and go through the whole offseason with no problems – OTAs, mandatory camp and then to this camp. So as long as I just keep practicing and just keep building my foundation, I'll be fine."
And when Harvin is fine, well, it's like he said, "I'm just looking forward to putting it all together and being the monster I know I can be."Doug Baldwin, who has had 51 and 50 receptions in his two full seasons since joining the team as a rookie free agent in 2011; and Jermaine Kearse, who showed that he deserved more playing time with every big catch he made during the team's run to the Super Bowl last season.
And Richardson and Norwood were added in the draft this year to complement The Big Three. Richardson brings the type of speed the Seahawks have not had the position since – dare we say – Joey Galloway was catching 36 TD passes from 1995-98. Norwood, meanwhile, has a nice combination of size (6 feet 2, 199 pounds), speed and skills.
"What we've seen is really positive," Carroll said. "Those guys have great hands. They've have tremendous catching range. They're natural catching all the balls. They have really obvious receiver instincts.
"But we've got to get them banged around. We've got to get them in the speed of things and get them out against our guys when we get the pads on and see how that goes. I don't anticipate any problem. They look so comfortable and so natural; I think they're going to be able to contribute. They're different types of receivers and we'll see how we can fit them in. But we're very encouraged at this time."
"That's just a hats off to the whole organization – the whole scouting department and coach Carroll and those guys," Harvin said. "The last couple of years, they've been drafting this roster to get it to where it's at today, where there are tons of players at each group – whether it's linebackers, or DBs, or receivers, or running backs.
"We've got depth at all positions and I think that's what makes this team very dangerous."
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I was tired of working on projects, and I wanted to draw something without a specific purpose/practice perspective/use my markers, so I did all three.
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text: As the Dow plummeted toward 8,000 in 2008 and banks couldn't get bailed out fast enough, probably the last thing on everyone's mind was the state of biomedical — particularly genomic — research in the United States. Yet when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law in 2009 to prevent the US economy from bottoming out, investment in basic research figured prominently. Of the $787 billion that ARRA allocated, $18.3 billion was set aside for basic research, and the White House estimates that more than $1 billion of those research dollars are being spent on genomics.


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Western Publishing Company, one of the largest printers of children's books in the world, had its beginning in the basement of 618 Street in Racine, WI in 1907. Several years later, in September 1942, the first 12 Little Golden Books were printed here in Racine. Within five months, more than 1.5 million copies of the books had been printed and they were in their thir... Read more


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Turns out almost everybody who was a citizen was born somewhere else. Further, life spans were short, so most of the people weren't even citizens so it wasn't a big issue ~ the Doge was elected for life anyway.
The city had few children ~ the maternal death rate was nearly 100%. Wealthy people would make sure their pregnant women were out in villages, and the children would be raised by peasants in a healthy atmosphere.
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Funeral services for Naomi Honey Whitehurst of Hobbs, N.M., will be held 10 am. Thursday, March 6, 2008, at Chapel of Hope Funeral Home with Pastor Keenan Witcher officiating. Burial will follow at Prairie Haven Cemshy;etery.
Mrs. Whitehurst, 92, died March 3, 2008, at Lea Regional Medical Center. She was born Aug. 20, 1915, in Peacock, Texas. She married R.L. Whitehurst in 1936.
Mrs. Whitehurst was a loving wife and mother. Her family was her life. Honey was very active in her church until her health prevented that activity. She was a homemaker.
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Survivors include four daughters, Shirley Baird and husband Bruce of Hobbs, N.M., Louise Hughes and husband Lowell Odis of Hobbs, N.M., Sandy Russell and husband David of Ozawkie, Kan., and Danielle Callahan of Hobbs, N.M.; seven grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren.
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text: The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 390 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 140 (new: 0) Total number of packages requested help for: 65 (new: 0) Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following packages have been orphaned: shorlfilter (#649628), orphaned 2 days ago Description: Text filter to shorten long URLs using online redirection database Installations reported by Popcon: 26 389 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 140 packages are awaiting adoption. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the following packages help is requested: apache2 (#646208), requested 33 days ago Description: Apache HTTP Server Reverse Depends: aegis-web apache2 apache2-dbg apache2-mpm-event apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom (179 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 60071 apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 661 days ago Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch Installations reported by Popcon: 48866 ara (#450876), requested 1474 days ago Description: utility for searching the Debian package database Installations reported by Popcon: 104 asymptote (#517342), requested 1000 days ago Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by MetaPost Installations reported by Popcon: 2910 athcool (#278442), requested 2585 days ago Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors Installations reported by Popcon: 97 balsa (#642906), requested 60 days ago Description: An e-mail client for GNOME Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper Installations reported by Popcon: 274 bastille (#592137), requested 474 days ago Description: Security hardening tool Installations reported by Popcon: 270 boinc (#511243), requested 1050 days ago Description: BOINC distributed computing Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg Installations reported by Popcon: 1870 cardstories (#624100), requested 213 days ago Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another player Installations reported by Popcon: 7 chromium-browser (#583826), requested 543 days ago Description: Chromium browser Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg chromium-browser-inspector chromium-browser-l10n chromium-dbg chromium-l10n gecko-mediaplayer mozplugger Installations reported by Popcon: 9387 cryptsetup (#600777), requested 400 days ago Description: configures encrypted block devices Reverse Depends: cryptsetup cryptsetup-udeb libcryptsetup-dev libguestfs0 libpam-mount ltsp-client mandos-client partman-crypto-dm rescue-mode systemd Installations reported by Popcon: 7143 cvs (#354176), requested 2100 days ago Description: Concurrent Versions System Reverse Depends: cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsps cvsservice cvssuck (8 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 18227 dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1489 days ago Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package information Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dlocate haskell-devscripts javahelper libsbuild-perl linux-patch-debianlogo postgresql-server-dev-all simple-cdd (1 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 14783 debtags (#567954), requested 661 days ago Description: Enables support for package tags Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch Installations reported by Popcon: 2638 doc-central (#566364), requested 670 days ago Description: web-based documentation browser Installations reported by Popcon: 233 dpkg (#282283), requested 2559 days ago Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages Reverse Depends: a2ps acct ace-gperf acl2-doc ada-reference-manual-info adacontrol advi advi-examples alien alqalam (651 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 118589 elvis (#432298), requested 1599 days ago Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11 support) Reverse Depends: elvis elvis-console elvis-tools Installations reported by Popcon: 378 fbcat (#565156), requested 680 days ago Description: framebuffer grabber Installations reported by Popcon: 140 flightgear (#487388), requested 1251 days ago Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator Installations reported by Popcon: 799 flite (#576327), requested 600 days ago Description: A small run-time speech synthesis engine Reverse Depends: asterisk-flite brltty-flite eflite flite flite1-dev gnustep-gui-runtime gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad pd-flite speech-dispatcher Installations reported by Popcon: 45573 freeipmi (#628062), requested 182 days ago Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol Reverse Depends: freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-ipmidetect freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi-dev libfreeipmi10 libipmiconsole-dev libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect-dev libipmidetect0 libipmimonitoring-dev (1 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 752 gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1318 days ago Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5) Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacgi0 ghdl gnat gnat-4.4 gnat-gps libadasockets3-dev libahven1-dev libahven17.0 libalog0.3-base (46 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 1329 gnat-gps (#640532), requested 80 days ago Description: Build gnatcoll from the sources of GPS Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc Installations reported by Popcon: 396 grub2 (#248397), requested 2754 days ago Description: GRand Unified Bootloader Reverse Depends: grml-rescueboot grml2usb grub grub-coreboot grub-coreboot-bin grub-disk grub-efi grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-ia32 (15 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 106871 gwibber (#573822), requested 620 days ago Description: microblogging client for GNOME Reverse Depends: gwibber gwibber-service-buzz gwibber-service-digg gwibber-service-facebook gwibber-service-flickr gwibber-service-foursquare gwibber-service-friendfeed gwibber-service-identica gwibber-service-pingfm gwibber-service-qaiku (4 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 960 hfsprogs (#557892), requested 729 days ago Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems Installations reported by Popcon: 1074 hibernate (#558739), requested 724 days ago Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or disk) Installations reported by Popcon: 7691 hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1276 days ago Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys Installations reported by Popcon: 4963 jove (#470185), requested 1355 days ago Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor Installations reported by Popcon: 968 kvm (#479951), requested 1296 days ago Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with ia64, ppc and s390) Reverse Depends: nova-compute-kvm qemubuilder Installations reported by Popcon: 2554 lesstif2 (#551853), requested 764 days ago Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL Reverse Depends: alliance cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview grace grass gridengine-qmon hotswap-gui (48 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 16480 libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1006 days ago Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2 Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb Installations reported by Popcon: 19117 libcap2 (#534999), requested 879 days ago Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9 bind9-host bind9utils diod dnsutils gnome-keyring (82 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 108869 libnss-db (#624768), requested 207 days ago Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming service Installations reported by Popcon: 2814 libreoffice (#419523), requested 1683 days ago Description: office productivity suite Reverse Depends: cli-uno-bridge docvert-libreoffice gnome jabref-plugin-oo jodreports-cli libjodconverter-java libjodreports-java libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core (245 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 41749 link-grammar (#556010), requested 741 days ago Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for English Reverse Depends: abiword-plugin-grammar liblink-grammar4 liblink-grammar4-dev liblink-grammar4-java link-grammar Installations reported by Popcon: 12909 logcheck (#539944), requested 842 days ago Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the administrator Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck Installations reported by Popcon: 5355 loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1911 days ago Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop Installations reported by Popcon: 335 mdadm (#537993), requested 855 days ago Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID) Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode Installations reported by Popcon: 15969 mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1268 days ago Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions mediawiki-extensions-collection mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor mediawiki-extensions-geshi mediawiki-extensions-graphviz mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth mediawiki-extensions-openid mediawiki-semediawiki Installations reported by Popcon: 447 monotone (#574609), requested 615 days ago Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more maintainers needed Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-extras monotone-server qct Installations reported by Popcon: 334 movabletype-opensource (#572484), requested 630 days ago Description: Movable Type and OpenMelody packaging Installations reported by Popcon: 44 mtr (#527482), requested 931 days ago Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool Installations reported by Popcon: 19503 nas (#354174), requested 2100 days ago Description: The Network Audio System Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas djplay gbsplay isdnvboxclient libaudio-dev libgnuradio-qtgui0 libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev (17 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 55036 nfs-utils (#616690), requested 263 days ago Description: NFS support files common to client and server Reverse Depends: fai-quickstart ltsp-server-standalone nfs-kernel-server rgmanager task-file-server Installations reported by Popcon: 96816 nn (#470187), requested 1355 days ago Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client) Installations reported by Popcon: 108 openbox (#566900), requested 668 days ago Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager Reverse Depends: libobrender21 lxde-core obconf openbox openbox-dev openbox-themes Installations reported by Popcon: 5156 openldap (#512360), requested 1038 days ago Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap apache2.2-bin asterisk-modules audispd-plugins autofs-ldap autofs5-ldap balsa (206 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 110737 openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1871 days ago Description: 3d scenegraph Reverse Depends: fgrun flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph80 libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1 libopenwalnut1-dev libosgearth-dev libosgearth1 libossim1 (10 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 505 openssl (#332498), requested 2240 days ago Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptographic tools Reverse Depends: 3270-common afflib-tools alpine amanda-client amanda-common amanda-server anon-proxy aolserver4-nsopenssl apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev (683 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 113200 otrs2 (#588363), requested 505 days ago Description: Open Ticket Request System Reverse Depends: otrs Installations reported by Popcon: 175 piuparts (#584125), requested 541 days ago Description: piuparts.d.o is maintainance hungry, please help Reverse Depends: elida Installations reported by Popcon: 365 piwik (#448532), requested 1487 days ago Description: real time web analytics software program plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1809 days ago Description: PLT scheme programming environment Reverse Depends: minlog Installations reported by Popcon: 287 ppp (#589632), requested 493 days ago Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon Reverse Depends: gpppon ipppd kppp network-manager-pptp portslave pppconfig pppdcapiplugin pppoe pppoeconf pptp-linux (8 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 48024 proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 989 days ago Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon Reverse Depends: gadmin-proftpd proftpd-dev proftpd-mod-autohost proftpd-mod-case proftpd-mod-dnsbl proftpd-mod-fsync proftpd-mod-geoip proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-msg proftpd-mod-mysql (5 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 7890 pyro (#530280), requested 915 days ago Description: distributed object system for Python Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core Installations reported by Popcon: 937 quilt (#543541), requested 821 days ago Description: Tool to work with series of patches Reverse Depends: broadcom-sta-source gcc-4.4-source gcc-4.5-source gcc-4.6-source gpib-modules-source gquilt meego-packaging-tools mozilla-devscripts nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source (4 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 12017 rng-tools (#630920), requested 159 days ago Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG Installations reported by Popcon: 585 sepolgen (#483641), requested 1273 days ago Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation Reverse Depends: policycoreutils Installations reported by Popcon: 9580 serna-free (#640976), requested 76 days ago Reverse Depends: serna-dbg Installations reported by Popcon: 53 sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1339 days ago Description: A web based double-entry accounting program Installations reported by Popcon: 101 wine (#479659), requested 1297 days ago Description: Windows API implementation Reverse Depends: dssi-vst libwine-alsa libwine-capi libwine-cms libwine-dbg libwine-dev libwine-esd libwine-gl libwine-gphoto2 libwine-jack (13 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 13928 yasr (#474251), requested 1329 days ago Description: General-purpose console screen reader Installations reported by Popcon: 60 zookeeper (#579791), requested 573 days ago Description: Information management inside a cluster. Part of the hadoop family. Reverse Depends: libzookeeper-dev libzookeeper-java-doc python-zookeeper zookeeper zookeeper-bin zookeeperd Installations reported by Popcon: 5 See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.


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The reputations of several industriescar manufacturers and banks prominent among themplummeted in the last year, according to a recent Harris Poll.
A consumer panel was asked whether 20 leading industries did a good or bad job serving customers. Compared with last year's results, the reputation of car manufacturers dropped the most (31 points), followed by investment and brokerage firms (down 27 points) and banks (down 24 points).
In light of the current debate about healthcare reform, said Harris, it's noteworthy that health insurance companies are down 10 points and pharmaceutical companies are down 6.
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Supermarkets, hospitals, online search engines, packaged food companies, and computer companies have the best reputation for serving consumers well, according to the research.
The most unpopular industries are tobacco, oil, managed care, and health insurancethe only industries that more than half of adults pointed to as doing a bad job of serving their customers.
Key findings:
- 92% of adults surveyed say supermarkets serve their customers well.
- 78% say the same for hospitals.
- 76% say online search engines do a good job serving customers.
- The highest negative ratings are those for tobacco companies (63% doing a bad job), oil companies (60%), health insurance (58%) and managed care (54%).
- Other industries with relatively high negative ratings include investment and brokerage firms (46%), car manufacturers (45%), pharmaceuticals (45%), banks (38%), and cable companies (37%).
Changes This Year
Airlines show a bigger improvement this year in reputation than any other industry. Tobacco (while still at the bottom of the list), life insurance, and computer hardware companies have also improved.
The formula used to measure changes in reputation over time (since 1997, the first time Harris asked these questions) is the number of adults saying "good job" for an industry minus those saying "bad job."
According to that measure, airlines are up 16 points, from 18 to 34 (which is still far lower than their score of 66 in 1998); life insurance is up 12 points, from 26 to 38; and tobacco companies are up 11 points, from minus 43 to minus 32.
The biggest declines using the same measure (those saying "good job" minus those saying "bad job"):
- Car manufacturers' score dropped 31 points, from 37 to 6.
- Banks are down 24 points, from 46 to 22.
- Investment and brokerage firms are down 27 points, from 24 to minus 3.
What Shapes Reputation
According to Harris's analysis:
- The collapse of General Motors and Chrysler has battered the reputation of car manufacturers.
- The economic crisis, the collapse of the housing and stock markets, and the rise of unemployment have had a dramatic impact on the reputation of banks and investment and brokerage firms.
- The health insurance and pharmaceutical industries have probably suffered because of the criticisms directed at them in the healthcare-reform debate.
- Airlines, the biggest winner this year after huge declines in 2007 and 2008, may have benefited from reduced traffic and less crowded airports.
- Why tobacco companies should have gained is more difficult to explain. Maybe they just haven't been in the news muchand for them no news is almost always good news.
About the data: This Harris Poll was conducted by telephone within the United States between July 8 and 13, 2009, among a nationwide cross-section of 1,010 adults (18+).