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Order was generally restored among the top seeds Tuesday at Wimbledon, where the No. 1 men's and women's players easily won their opening matches one day after No. 5 Rafael Nadal had been eliminated in a shocking straight-set defeat.
Serena Williams extended her winning streak to 32 matches with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Mandy Minella of Luxembourg, taking only 57 minutes. Williams' serve was broken once, and although it seemed like a romp she insisted she never let up.
"I feel that I'm always ready," the defending champion told reporters. "You know, I never feel invincible. I always feel that I have to be ready for each opponent in each game, and I never become overconfident. I think when I do or if I do, that's the moment that I'm most vulnerable."
However, No. 10 Maria Kirilenko of Russia was eliminated by 19-year-old Laura Robson of Britain, who won 6-3, 6-4 on Court 1. "I'm still nervous," Robson said afterward during a TV interview.
Among the men, top-seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia ousted Florian Mayer of Germany, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4. The Australian Open champion improved his match record this season to 34-5. Also, No. 8 seed Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina defeated Albert Ramos of Spain, 6-2, 7-5, 6-1, and No. 13 Tommy Haas of Germany, who's 35 years old, defeated Dmitry Tursunov of Russia, 6-3, 7-5, 7-5.
Americans James Blake, Denis Kudla and Ryan Harrison advanced. Blake defeated Thiemo De Bakker of the Netherlands, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, while Kudla prevailed over James Duckworth of Australia, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 6-1, and Harrison defeated Jeremy Chardy of France, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
But No. 21 Sam Querrey of the U.S. was eliminated as Bernard Tomic of Australia won, 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (3), 3-6, 2-6, 6-3.
On the women's side, Bethanie Mattek-Sands of Phoenix made a distinct impression with her green-tinted hair but was dismissed by No. 7 Angelique Kerber of Germany, 6-3, 6-4. No. 14 Samantha Stosur of Australia, the 2011 U.S. Open champion, beat Anna Schmiedlova of Slovakia, 6-1, 6-3.
Promising American Madison Keys defeated Heather Watson of Great Britain, 6-3, 7-5.
[Updated at 11:25 a.m.: No. 4 seed David Ferrer of Spain fell twice during his first-round match against Martin Alund of Argentina and limped noticeably in the late stages, but he held off Alund, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, on Wimbledon's Center Court.
Ferrer fell to the grass once in the second set and again in the fourth, yelling in pain for several seconds because of an apparent ankle injury. But he was able to finish and move on, though he was scheduled to have his ankle examined afterward.
"I'm okay," he told the BBC, his expression reflecting more embarrassment than pain.
In other men's matches involving top-20 seeds, No. 7 Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic advanced wth a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Martin Klizan of Slovakia, No. 9 Richard Gasquet of France rallied after losing the first set and defeated Marcel Granollers of Spain, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, and No. 17 Milos Raonic of Canada defeated Carlos Berlocq of Argentina, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.]
No. 5 Rafael Nadal makes fast, and stunning, Wimbledon exit
Serena Williams tries to minimize verbal volleys at Wimbledon
Serena Williams apologizes for comments in Rolling Stone interview


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Whisper it, but things finally seem to be looking up. Investment is rising, unemployment is falling, and the deficit seems to be coming under control. But it could be a lot better. Real wages will not recover to their pre-crisis peak until 2020. And expected growth of 2.7 per cent this year is well below what we might expect in a real recovery.
The question is, how can we get the strong growth we all want? Tax cuts are nice, but hard to sell as long as the deficit remains large. And calls for business deregulation are often too vague to be useful. But there are clear areas for reform in planning, immigration, and money, and none would threaten the deficit. Reform these areas – the PIMs, we might call them – and real, booming, sustainable growth will come.
Three steps forward
In today's City AM I outline a fairly simple growth agenda that would, I think, deliver very strong growth without requiring tax cuts (which are very important, but seem to be politically dead in the water right now). My three items are reform of planning, immigration and money (the 'PIMs', as I call them), by rolling back the green belt outside London, allowing high-skilled immigration, and targeting NGDP instead of inflation:

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Joe Amendola, Jerry Sandusky's lawyer, has heard back from the judge about his request that prosecutors provide him with more specific details about the allegations against his client: Nope.
Judge John M. Cleland wrote that the request was "a futile act," because those details don't exist. Prosecutors had already argued that the precise dates of the alleged abuse are impossible to come up with, because the incidents took place so often and because the defendant allegedly had encouraged victims to forget what had happened. The ruling, which can be viewed below, does cite case precedent saying that the absence of exact dates "would violate the notions of fundamental fairness embedded in our legal process." But Cleland then cites additional precedents that he says give the prosecution "greater latitude when the alleged crimes involve sexual offenses against a young child."
Undeterred, Amendola has since let it be known that his next step will be to seek a dismissal of the charges because, well, why not?


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Time to reform House ethics process
Now that the Office of Congressional Ethics has been in existence for a couple of sessions of Congress, a sufficient record has been created demonstrating that changes are needed to increase the due process rights of subjects. Most people are surprised to learn that a subject of an OCE review is left in the dark during the entire OCE review process. To be fair, a subject is requested by OCE staff to provide any information or evidence that he or she believes is germane to the review. However, a subject is not permitted to review or respond to the specific allegations being made against him or her or to the evidence that the staff relies on during its presentation to the OCE board of directors.
The first time a subject has an opportunity to review this information is when the House Committee on Ethics sends the final OCE Report, along with the supporting memorandum and evidence. By then it's too late: The OCE board has already made its decision, and the matter has been referred to the House Ethics Committee. At that point, the public disclosure requirements kick in, unfairly damaging a member's reputation with allegations the member has never had a meaningful opportunity to refute. This reputational harm is particularly unjust in those instances in which the OCE report may contain clear errors or reaches an unreasonable conclusion and that harm is not fully remedied even when the committee later sides with the subject and rejects the OCE's conclusions.
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This process needs to be improved to provide basic fairness by increasing the transparency of the OCE process for members and staff who are the subject of a review and to provide a subject with a more meaningful opportunity to respond to the allegations and evidence. The changes will also increase the quantity and quality of information available to the OCE board prior to making its recommendation to the committee for further review or dismissal, thus, improving the credibility of those recommendations. The OCE procedures should permit the panel to conduct its investigation effectively but at the same time protect the due process rights of each subject. Pursuing the truth should be the singular goal, not the number of referrals.
A subject first learns that the OCE has initiated a preliminary review when he or she receives a notice delivered by OCE staff. Typically, the subject is provided two to four sentences describing the nature of the review in exceedingly broad terms — providing no meaningful notice of the specific allegations. The OCE rules should be changed so that the notice of a preliminary review includes a copy of the third-party complaint filed with the OCE or a copy of the OCE staff's findings resulting from their initial investigation. The subject should also be permitted an opportunity to respond to the notice prior to the OCE initiating costly and intrusive discovery, such as sending requests for information to the subject and third-party witnesses. This change will permit subjects an early opportunity to correct simple misunderstandings and resolve frivolous reviews.


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OAKLAND — The problem with exhibition games, especially the first one, is that it's easy to make too much out of what you see when there hasn't been any football played for seven months or so.
In the case of the Raiders, that thinking goes out the window. This is a team in the midst of a massive overhaul, and any positives and reasons to believe are things to be treasured.
So, feel free, go ahead and get carried away with the way Terrelle Pryor and Matt McGloin played in relief of presumptive starting quarterback Matt Flynn in tonight's 19-17 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. Try to picture rookie wide receiver Brice Butler as a staple of the passing game. Let your mind envision rookie Latavius Murray as the starting running back next season, assuming the Raiders don't re-sign Darren McFadden.
After the way those guys played tonight, you're entitled. So are Raiders coach Dennis Allen and general manager Reggie McKenzie.
Maybe this is why Allen, McKenzie and the players act as if they know something that none of us will comprehend until we see the Raiders play. Maybe this is an aberration. Who knows?
For one game, anyway, the future looks bright and the Raiders have hope of being competitive in the AFC West, despite nothing but negative press from the national media.
— Flynn got flattened by Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee on the fourth play of the game. Fortunately for Flynn and the Raiders, the hit caused only a fumble and not an injury to Flynn.
It appeared as if the Cowboys just called a well-timed blitz and caught the Raiders short of blockers to account for Lee. That's better than someone missing an assignment.
Pryor's impressive night wasn't without flaw. He capped one drive by making an ill-advised throw across his body and into heavy traffic in the end zone. Predictably, the pass was intercepted by the Cowboys.
As former Raiders coach Jon Gruden used to say, "Sometimes the best play you make is the one you never make." Meaning, don't force things and throw away the ball. Live to see another down.
That's one of the lessons that Pryor will learn as he grows as a quarterback. It's why it's so important for the Raiders to play Pryor as much as possible, so that Pryor can see things in game settings, learn from them and evolve as a quarterback.
Pryor looked as comfortable as I can recall seeing him since he arrived late in camp in 2011. He didn't panic, waited for plays to develop, showed nice touch and made plenty happen with his feet.
It will be interesting to see whether Allen and McKenzie give Pryor a legitimate shot to beat out Flynn for the starting gig knowing that they didn't have much confidence in Pryor last season.
— Undrafted rookie Matt McGloin entered the game ahead of fourth-round draft pick Tyler Wilson, which comes as a bit of a surprise, even though McGloin was getting more reps of late in practice.
The fact that McGloin is ahead of Wilson in the pecking order doesn't bode well for Wilson, who looked sharp in some offseason workouts.
McGloin didn't do anything to hurt his chances of making the 53-man roster ahead of Wilson, either. He capped a solid showing with a well-thrown pass that Butler turned into a touchdown with a diving catch in the end zone.
Wilson entered the game in the fourth quarter and promptly got sacked on his first snap. Ultimately, he settled into a rhythm and put together some decent drives.
— Butler served notice that he isn't afraid of doing whatever it takes to get noticed by the coaches. It's not every day that you see a rookie make a diving catch in his first NFL game.
Butler's play stands out even more when Jacoby Ford is on the sideline injured and Juron Criner and others aren't doing anything of note.
The Raiders are likely to carry six receivers on their 53-man roster. The smart money says, Denarius Moore, Rod Streater and Ford and locks. Criner figures to have an edge, too, based on his experience and potential.
Beyond that, it's wide open for the final two spots. Butler and Andre Holmes are making the most noise among a crowded field right now.
— Taiwan Jones carried over his eye-opening play in training camp to Friday night's game. It's now not so strange to imagine Jones making the roster as a cornerback.
He entered the NFL as a running back. However, he converted to cornerback out of frustrating after not getting a chance to show what he can do with the ball in his hands.
It appears as if the move is paying dividends for Jones and the Raiders. On Friday night, Jones showed nice instincts, the ability to break on the ball and make plays in tight coverage.
Now, let's not get carried away just yet. Jones still has a way to go before he gets considered for a starting job or meaningful playing time. However, it's saying something that he has come this far in such a short period of time.
— We told you about Murray during the offseason. Now you see what we meant when we promised you that you were going to like what you see.
He's that impressive. On Friday, Murray debuted in a Raiders uniform and showed that he has the size, speed, strength and ability to be a dependable back.
He rushed for only 29 yards on eight carries, but it's the way he carries himself, his decisiveness when he runs and the confidence.
Hence, it wouldn't be surprising to see Allen take a real long look at Murray this season as a means of gauging whether he already has a potential replacement for McFadden on his roster.
— Other odds and ends:
The Raiders committed only four penalties for 35 yards. That would have been a typical series for the 2011 Raiders, or several other teams from the past couple of decades.
The Raiders intercepted one pass (Usama Young) and recovered a muffed punt (Eric Harper). Their lone turnovers came as a result of the Flynn sack and the Pryor ill-advised pass.
Rashad Jennings looked sharp as a complement to McFadden and the leading candidate as the short-yardage back. He rushed for 39 yards on nine carries, which included his converting a third-and-one early on.
Chris Kluwe's one punt grossed/netted 36 yards. Marquette King's lone punt grossed/netted 50 yards and ended with the fumble. King's punt was quite solid, but it had nothing to do with the Cowboys player coughing up the ball.
Undrafted rookie Greg Jenkins flashed a few times, once on a 51-yard kick return and again on an 11-yard punt return that he fielded under pressure so that the ball didn't keep bounding toward the Raiders goal line. These are the kinds of things that don't go unnoticed. Keep an eye on Jenkins, a college quarterback who converted to wide receiver as a way of increasing his odds of making an NFL roster.
The Raiders defense held up pretty well against the run, even though they were thin on the defensive line. The Cowboys rushed for 70 yards on 20 carries.
— A handful of Raiders didn't play Friday night: Ford, cornerback D.J. Hayden, linebackers Kaluka Maiava, Miles Burris and Billy Boyko, offensive tackle Menelik Watson, guard Lucas Nix and defensive linemen Lamarr Houston, Brandon Bair, Pat Sims and Vance Walker.
— The Raiders announced during the game that former Raiders offensive tackle Lincoln Kennedy will be part of the broadcast team this season. Kennedy was at the game tonight, and the Raiders introduced him in the second half.


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WASHINGTON - The drone attack that killed a Pakistan Taliban deputy leader this week was a clear signal that despite President Barack Obama's promise last week of new transparency in the drone program, the CIA will still launch secret attacks on militants in north Pakistan and the administration will not have to tell anyone about it.
The CIA drone took off from Afghanistan on Wednesday and struck a compound in Pakistan's remote tribal areas where the agency believed Waliur Rehman was staying. The Pakistani Taliban later confirmed the death of Rehman, believed to be one of the key planners behind the deadly suicide bombing against a CIA base in 2009.
But White House officials would not even confirm that the strike occurred, much less confirming Rehman's death, although the president pledged in a national security speech only last week that he would be more transparent about U.S. counterterrorism actions.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Thursday would only say broadly that Obama feels a responsibility to protect U.S. forces in the "Afghan war theater" - it includes Pakistan - and would use a "range of abilities" to provide those forces as much protection as possible.
Obama announced new "presidential policy guidelines" last week on the standards his administration has been using when deciding to launch lethal strikes, including a guideline to strike a target only if it presents an "imminent threat" to U.S. national security and only if the target cannot be captured. He also stated his preference for using the military, not the CIA, to carry out such strikes.
But he also indicated that the CIA would continue to control and run its secret drone programs in places like Pakistan and Yemen. While the CIA has permission from the Yemeni government to take strikes, it operates without permission from the Pakistani government, and the newly elected administration of Nawaz Sharif has demanded an end to the program that has killed more than 3,000 people since 2004.
The program has also eliminated dozens of key militants, including al-Qaida's second-in-command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, last year.
Obama's speech promising more transparency is not necessarily at odds with this week's covert strike, according to Shamila Chaudhary, a former National Security Council staffer who worked on Pakistan.
"He's codifying it, trying to set down in legal language" the counterterrorism program built during Obama's first term, said Chaudhary, now at the New America Foundation.
"But Pakistan is still an exception," she said. The fact that the American drone took out one of Pakistan's enemies also probably helped mute Islamabad's reaction, she added.
U.S. officials briefed on the drone program say the administration's intent in the speech was to take the heat off the controversial drone strikes by promising future action would be done by the military when possible. The suggestion was that military strikes are more subject to publicly accessible congressional oversight. In fact, Congress is briefed on drone strikes by both the military and CIA but in closed, classified hearings.
But U.S. officials say they will continue to carry out drone strikes, launched from bases in neighboring Afghanistan or anywhere else al-Qaida and its affiliates operate and local governments can't or won't act. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the classified program publicly.
Guidelines for lethal force issued by the White House after the speech would seem to fit the Rehman case, stating that lethal action would only be taken against "a target that poses a continuing, imminent threat to U.S. persons," where there is "near certainty that non-combatants will not be injured or killed."
White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday said Rehman was responsible for cross-border attacks in Afghanistan against NATO troops and as well as deadly attacks against Pakistani troops and civilians. Rehman was also thought to be a key player in the 2009 suicide attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan that killed seven Americans working for the CIA. Pakistani officials said the other three killed in the drone strike also were militants.
The White House guidelines also state that lethal strikes would only be taken after "an assessment that the relevant governmental authorities in the country where action is contemplated cannot or will not effectively address the threat to U.S. persons." Sharif had indicated willingness to open peace talks with Rehman, which could have meant the man who helped carry out one of the deadliest attacks on the CIA would get away with it.
The drone strike also highlights the closing window of opportunity for the CIA to target high-level Taliban and al-Qaida-related militants while the agency still has tens of thousands of U.S. and NATO troops to protect its dozen-plus major bases around neighboring Afghanistan.
U.S. intelligence and military officers are also drawing down, and will be relying more on Afghan agencies and intelligence agents. That complicates the mission Obama says will not end with U.S. troop withdrawal: hunting the al-Qaida remnants responsible for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, on New York and Washington, and keeping them from launching new attacks.
"They're still trying to come back," said a senior coalition intelligence officer in an interview Wednesday from Afghanistan, describing the remote stronghold of al-Qaida in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, just across the Pakistan border. He said al-Qaida continues to support both Pakistan and Afghan branches of the Taliban with financial backing, and training in bomb-building and military tactics. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be identified.
Associated Press writer Josh Lederman contributed to this report. AP writer Rebecca Santana contributed from Islamabad, Pakistan.
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A girl, a wolf, a mysterious walk in the woods -- trace their mysterious path as they traverse time and culture to land in the 21st Century! Local artist Jane R. Willson has created a magical pop-up art museum at the Main Library Children's Center tracking the evolution of Little Red Riding Hood, one of the best known folktales ever. For all ages!
October 7, 1-3 p.m.: Meet the creator of Not So Little Red Riding Hood, local artist Jane R. Willson, and ask her questions about her folkloric journey of discovery into the origins of the famous story of Little Red Riding Hood. Free for all ages!


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The President gave a terrific speech. But if great speeches could heal our economic wounds, if they could repair the ever-increasing gap between the rich and the rest of us, if they could re-open the closing doors of opportunity for the young, the African-American, the Hispanic, and the graying members of our workforce, we'd be living in a different country today.
We must never forget that in a democracy it's the people, not their elected officials, who lead. This speech leaves progressive Americans, and that great American majority that agrees with them on economic issues, with a choice:
Will we be pacified with rhetoric, or will we demand – and take – action? Will we lead?
The speech included stirring, if vague, statements about economic fairness. "Our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it," said the President. "We believe that America's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class."
That's certainly true, for all the reasons laid out by economist Joseph Stiglitz his New York Times op-ed of last week. But the President offered no specifics about the growing wealth inequality that has allowed the wealthiest to take more and more of the national income while the rest of the nation. That inequality is truly stunning, and (as polls have shown) is far worse than the American people realize.
This was an opportunity to teach the American people. It was an opportunity to make the case for government job creation, to talk about the need for good jobs at good wages.
It was not taken.
The President also said: "We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship."
But the ranks of the "working poor" continue to increase and wages for most Americans continue to fall. This was an opportunity to tell the American people these things. It was not taken.
The Sounds of Silence
The speech's real strengths extended to what it left out. There was no mention, direct or indirect, of the hard-right agenda known as "Simpson Bowles" – or, for that matter, of deficit reduction in general. There was no suggestion that Social Security contributes to the government deficit (it doesn't). There were no amplifications of right-wing rhetoric about downsizing government.
But not all of the omissions were wise. There was also nothing specific about creating jobs for a nation desperately in need of them. There were no cold facts and figures about the millions of Americans who don't have a job, of the millions working below their skill level or stuck with part-time employment when they need to work full-time.
Every American family that can't make ends meet is a tragedy. A very specific tragedy.
Connect the Dots
You could find the outline of a just economic program in the President's speech by playing connect-the-dots:
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"A modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce …" That sounds like a program to rebuild our infrastructure. That would require several hundred billion dollars in government investment, but it would be repaid several times over with economic growth and would create a wave of well-paying jobs in construction and beyond.
But he didn't say that.
"A modern economy requires … schools and colleges to train our workers." That sounds like a program to create a new cadre of primary and secondary school teachers a new commitment to higher education, perhaps even a program to make college affordable again.
But he didn't say that.
"A free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play." That almost sounds he's saying we need to do more to rein in the job-killing lawlessness and cheating on Wall Street and among our largest corporations.
But he didn't say that.
The Empire Strikes Back
We shouldn't have to connect the dots. A Presidential speech shouldn't be a Rorschach test onto which each listener projects his own desires. This one's vagueness gives the forces of corporate self-interest an opportunity to connect the dots their way for the President and his team, to whom they have great access, using the self-serving mythologies of the past as a stencil:
We can "create jobs" through deregulation, Mr. President. We can create those well-paying jobs if you'll just lower our taxes.
We can be sure that the lobbyists, CEOs, titans, tycoons and campaign contributors are already hard at work doing just that. Time and time again their influence has prevailed upon this President, just as it did upon his Democratic predecessor Bill Clinton, with disastrous economic consequences for the rest of us.
Stars In Our Eyes
It's time for citizens to fight those forces without discouragement or distraction. Far too often, stirring rhetoric has evaporated in the relentless heat of big-money influence. Only action will prevent that from happening again.
This President's first term was marred by a shocking refusal to hold Wall Street criminals legally accountable for fraud, or even for laundering drug money for killer cartels. Those same Wall Street criminals destroyed millions of jobs and trillions in middle-class wealth, yet presume to lecture the President and the nation on the need for Social Security and Medicare cuts to fix the economy.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the first Obama Administration, and its core error, was the President's decision to lean on former President Bill Clinton and his team. Clinton's a very popular figure personally, but his economic team were the GOP's co-conspirators and co-architects in the design of our current economic misery.
This week the President proved again that he is a star, every bit Clinton's media equal. But neither he nor Clinton have reliably acted in the nation's best interests without pressure from a truly independent, galvanized progressive movement. That means it's our turn. We must take action in the face of economic injustice: writing to our leaders, supporting activist groups, and taking to the streets when necessary. But we won't do that if we're blinded by the stars in our eyes.
The President has issued a declaration of values. It's to insist that those values be honored with action – his, and ours. Good speeches are the beginning, not the end, of the struggle.


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Recommendations by the dean of a leading US business school that governments should look to stock markets for guidance may sound controversial during a period of sustained public outrage at Wall Street and its international counterparts. The economist Peter Blair Henry, dean of NYU Stern School of Business, however is making the case that market responses to economic reforms provide a valuable predictor of government policy's success.
At the core of Prof Henry's research is historical analysis of stock market reactions to government reforms in emerging economies. He concludes that decisive and transparent plans to implement market-friendly policies repeatedly inspired market optimism in future growth. Given that stock prices take a predictive approach, considering whether given factors will create or destroy value, Prof Henry sees them as a powerful bellwether of policy effectiveness.
He highlights the particular relevance of stock market responses to fiscal austerity among emerging economies in his analysis. Amid high inflation, the announcement of austerity programmes heralded very positive market responses in expectation that economic conditions were to improve. Markets fell however when restrictive policies were implemented in countries with only moderate inflation.
These lessons, Prof Henry asserts, are of utmost significance to today's policy makers across Europe and in the US. Given low inflation in these countries, their governments should caution against excessive fiscal austerity that removes demand from the economy, thus exacerbating their economic malaise.
Prof Henry also concludes that historical stock market responses suggest that the best way to resolve the Eurozone debt crisis is conditional debt forgiveness. In expectation of debt relief, stock markets in both debtor and creditor countries rose, according to his analysis. Importantly, debt forgiveness only restores market confidence and economic growth when accompanied by by structural reforms that encourage investment, Prof Henry argues.
Such structural adjustment policies - as prescribed to developing countries for decades through IMF and World Bank loan programmes - must now be embraced by troubled European countries to improve their global competitiveness. Their creditors must meanwhile share the burden of this adjustment through debt relief. It is the aversion of US and European governments to make difficult reforms that leads to continued stock market volatility, Prof Henry argues, rather than the market mechanisms themselves.
"The wisdom of the market", was published in Foreign Policy journal on 8 February 2013. "Turnaround: third world lessons for first world growth", will be published on 12 March 2013.
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It wasn't all that long ago that actress Laurene Landon got her big break in Hollywood.
Granted, the movie wasn't nominated for any Oscars, but in no way does that
dampen the fact of having achieved what the majority of wannabe actors can only
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Landon made it into show business.
"I think
it's remarkable that people remember me from the film. When I go to the store
and different places, it amazes me the number of people that come up to me and
say 'Oh my God, you're the girl from All the Marbles," said Landon in an
interview with SLAM! Wrestling from her home in Hollywood, California.
It wasn't
just some walk-on role that launched an active career performing in front of
the movie camera. Landon in fact was one half of the ass kicking, voluptuous
women's tag team known as The California Dolls in the MGM movie, All The Marbles.
So how did
this Canadian native (hailing from Toronto) score the role that is still
winning over fans after all these years? Landon traced her journey to Hollywood
from her days at the Los Angeles campus of Cal State. "I was
going to police academy training at the time, I was going to be a police
officer and wanted to be a service to my community." Landon and her family had
relocated to California when she was only three.
However, being an officer of the law meant carrying a side arm. As she discovered when
applying her marksmanship skills at the shooting range, firing a gun was just
not for her.
"When it came to shooting the gun, I realized I was much too emotional to actually kill
someone. I felt guilty shooting at the targets," confessed Landon.
Abandoning her aspirations for the law, Landon enrolled in acting classes. The move proved
to be a good one, landing her first role in front of the camera for a TV
commercial after only two weeks of classes. Small movie roles would follow,
along with modeling jobs. In fact, it was while pursuing one specific modeling
assignment that she would stumble upon a lead that would eventually take her to
that elusive spotlight of fame.
"I went to Las Vegas where they were casting for the Miss Black Velvet billboard girl,"
told Landon. "I flew up to Las Vegas, met with the casting director and I just
missed it. They picked another girl. While I was up there, the casting director
told me that down in Los Angeles they're casting this huge movie and they're
not happy with any of the girls they've found. They had been across the
country, back and forth, looking for two girls."
Specifically, they were looking for were two females to play the role of professional
wrestlers. As Landon went on to explain, attempts were made to get actual women
professional wrestlers to take on the roles.
"Initially, they found wrestlers and tried to teach them how to act, but they couldn't do
it. So now they're going the other way; trying to find actresses and teach them
how to wrestle. It was very exciting to me because of the physical aspects of
it. I thought I would be able to handle the wrestling part of it because I was
always athletic and won trophies since I was a little girl. I loved sports and
so I thought 'This wrestling thing can't be too hard.'"
With a phone number in hand, Landon setup an appointment with a casting director for
the film. It would be at that meeting where she would meet with the man who
helmed the movie, director Robert Aldrich.
"I was a fool, I thought he was Robert Altman (famed movie director)," admitted Landon
when she first met Aldrich, who directed such films as The Dirty Dozen, The Longest
Yard and The Frisco Kid. "When I met him I said 'It's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Altman.' I didn't know and
everyone started laughing. Robert Aldrich said 'That's very funny, but my name
is Robert Aldrich.' I guess he thought I had a sense of humor, but I was being
very sincere. I didn't know; I was nineteen years old."
A prompt apology followed from Landon and perhaps the thought that her big chance at
fame had come to an abrupt end with the blunder. Instead, she got an invitation
to be screen tested for the film.
Leading up to the screen test, it was revealed that Peter Falk, forever immortalized for his portrayal of the meandering, crafty homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo from the TV series Columbo, would be cast in the leading role as the manager of the tag team.
"He was a doll, he was wonderful -- one of the most caring people I every met in my life," praised Landon.
"I was very apprehensive and scared to meet this famous actor. I was living in trepidation
during the screen test period because I just felt that I'm going to get busted
that I can't act. He (Falk) gave me a lot of confidence. He had a brilliant
sense of humor and that helped too."
According to Landon though, Falk was not the first person the studio had in mind.
"They were going to use Paul Newman at first, but he decided to do another film, so Peter
Falk was brought on board."
"I was not selected right away," Landon added. "Twelve of us were screen tested out of
2,000. It was a dramatic spot and I played a lesbian initially. It was a scene
where Peter Falk was yelling at me for being a lesbian and I broke down and
cried. That was the scene that got me to the top four."
"After that, Robert Aldrich called us in and said 'There's only four of you left now
and we're only using two of you and two of you are backups.' He was very
forthright and I truly respected him for that because he could have just tricked
us and said you're all going to be in it."
Aldrich also made it clear that all the remaining candidates would have to pursue
training as professional wrestlers.
"One of the prerequisites by Robert Aldrich right away was that we were never going to be
doubled. We all went to wrestling school for a long, long time. It was endless
and incredibly arduous."
The school they attended was run by none other than legendary female grappler Mildred Burke.
As fate would have it, the Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) went on strike on July 21st
of 1980, right at the same time that Landon and the other actors were in the
midst of their wrestling training. In the spirit of solidarity, all of the
actors in question were expected to discontinue their training until the labor
dispute was over.
"The actors' strike hit half way through and we were supposed to stay away from the
gym where we were practicing our wrestling. Instead, Vicki Frederick and I
opted to go out to the gym to wrestle with the Mexican wrestlers. We just
wrestled every day and practiced, practiced and practiced. That's one the
reasons why I think I was lucky enough to get the role because I wouldn't give
up. I had a lot of blind faith when I was younger and I wouldn't take no for an
It may very well have been faith that would ultimately lead her to scoring the role. Before
a gathering of studio brass at MGM studios, Landon, and the other candidates,
wrestled in a ring in their final attempt to earn the roles.
"Funny thing is, I got thrown out of the ring and I broke my foot. I kept wrestling
anyway, even though I knew I had some kind of fracture. I limped out side and
they all thought it was great, that I was so believable that I acted like I
hurt my foot, when in fact I really did hurt my foot," Landon said.
"Robert Aldrich called in one of the girls and apparently she went out the back door.
Then they called me in and Robert Aldrich said 'You know, you did a fantastic
job, you worked really hard. We're all very, very proud of you.' He was staring
out the window the entire time that he said this. He hesitated and I blurted
out 'But you don't want me in your movie!' I started to cry like a fool. He
laughed and said 'No, no, I want you to play the role of Molly.'"
Aldrich wasn't done with having his fun. Under orders from him, Landon returned to the
back to confront the remaining actress, Frederick.
"He said 'Vicki is also in the film, she'll play the role of Iris. But don't tell her
she got the role, make it look real bad.' I was jumping up and down real
excited and Vicki was sitting there looking at me with her eyes wide open and
she said 'What happened?' I said 'Well, you better go in but it doesn't look
good. I'm sorry.' She came running out five minutes later, punching and screaming
at me 'You liar! Why did you do that to me?'"
With that, Aldrich found the two actresses who would go on to play a struggling women's
professional wrestling tag team in his movie. The name of their team would be �
The California Dolls.
But if Frederick and Landon thought they were on easy street, they were in for a harsh
With the SAG strike ending in later October of 1980, a 10-week shoot schedule was
struck. The film was shot in two primary locations; soundstage 11 at the MGM
studios in Los Angeles and Ohio.
The story, written by Mel Frohman, would follow the typical rags-to-riches story arc. The
film opens in a darkened arena where Iris and Molly are battling it out in the
ring against another women's tag team. Ever present of course is their fast
talking manager, Harry Sears (Falk). From that point, the saga unfolds of Sears
maneuvering his team through the impoverished and nefarious maze that is the
wrestling business, burdened with dream of making it to the big time where fame
and fortune await.
You would think that in their roles as a tag team would lead Frederick and Landon to
establish some kind of special bond to carry them through the coming physical
rigors of the film.
"Vicki was very beautiful, very athletic looking. She had come off broad way and had done A Chorus Line. She was a very famous
dancer on broad way, which I didn't know," told Landon. "She was very serious
about the role, where I was goofy and irreverent. I just couldn't help myself
back then. We weren't that close during the shooting at all."
"The thing was Vicki was 10 years older than myself. She was more conservative and serious
than I was, even though I was extremely dedicated to the work and wrestling.
She smoked, and I had a tremendous aversion to smoking at the time. I would get
sick in the car and ask her not to smoke so that caused a little friction. I
was always goofing off with the crew and Robert Aldrich and making jokes. I
don't think she quite appreciated that in me. Looking back, I don't blame her,
but that was my personality. She was very sedated and very serious."
Both actresses would have no choice but to hold a mature focus when it came to
delivering convincing performances, especially in the ring. Fortunately for
both Frederick and Landon, their time at Burke's gym had prepared them well.
With Burke acting as a consultant on the film, Frederick and Landon would shoot numerous
wrestling scenes. In some cases, their opponents were in fact active
professional wrestlers, including the Japanese team of Taemi Hagiwara and Ayumi
Hori, and famed Mexican wrestler Irma Aguilar.
"They were into their own world and they probably assumed we knew what we were taught,"
explained Landon when it came time to get the ring and wrestle while the
cameras were rolling.
"They really didn't give us any direction at all. We had Mildred Burke there and we
just kept practicing and choreographing the moves that we were going to do in
the movie. They would just basically tell us you're going to do this type of
move in this sequence and then you guys can just improvise the rest. It was so
easy to improvise because we learned so many moves. At least 50% of what you
saw was improvised. They shot so much footage they said they could have made
another movie out of it."
With the wrestling side of movie in good shape, all Landon needed to do was focus on her
dialogue, something of a challenge as she explained.
"Peter (Falk) had a tendency to change the dialogue around in the movie the night
before we shot. He would call us up to his room and change the dialogue all around.
The next day we would go on the set and the dialogue had very little to do with
the scene whatsoever."
The end result was predictable with an enraged Aldrich confronting the actors while
shooting in Ohio.
"Robert Aldrich took us all out in the alley and screamed at Vicki and I and said that
we were fired. He slammed Peter Falk up against the wall and said 'These girls
are getting fired because of you. I know it's you who's behind this. You can
all be replaced if you don't stick with the script.' Vicki and I were positive
we were going to get fired. We went back and did the scene properly. That
night, I went up and knocked on Robert Aldrich's door and I said 'I apologize
for what happened. Please forgive me.' He said 'I know it wasn't you. I know it
was Peter, but I was trying to make you guys an example. I was trying to
humiliate Peter so he won't do it again.'"
"Three days later, Peter called us up to his room again and changed more dialogue."
It wouldn't be the last time Frederick and Landon would butt heads with Aldrich. Assuming
the role of wrestlers meant the two actresses were expected to wear one piece,
form fitting bathing suits, the traditional garb for women grapplers for
"When we started shooting the wrestling scenes, Vicki and I decided we weren't going to
go bare leg. That's what Robert Aldrich demanded; that we not wear pantyhose,"
told Landon, as she and Frederick had other plans.
"Well, Vicki went down to this place and got a pair of panty hose that we could wear
that would not show on film, or so we thought. So when we were shooting the
wrestling stuff, we put on our pantyhose and got up on the mat. We're ready to
shoot and Robert Aldrich comes up to us and says 'You and you; get in my office
now!' Vicki and I were like 'Oh shit.'"
"We went into his office and he said 'I know goddamn well you're wearing pantyhose.
You're defying me once again. Unless you take off those pantyhose you're fired.
The first thing I noticed when I saw you two get up was those fucking pantyhose.
I knew you two were going to pull a fast one on me because you mentioned this
pantyhose crap before.'"
With that, the pantyhose were gone.
But the stress of delivering convincing performances, whether it was acting or
wrestling, or wardrobe preferences, would pale in comparison to the one scene
in the movie that still reviles Landon to this day. The setup would involve
Frederick and Landon mud wrestling. The catch? Aldrich insisting they must go
"He (Aldrich) told us there was going to be a nude scene and we were going to be
topless in the mud. Vicki and I totally freaked out," said Landon. "We figured
out a way that we could get away with not showing our breasts. When we were
wrestling, we kept coving our breasts with the mud, or wrestling in the mud at
the other girls to cover our breasts. We thought we got away with it."
"Well, we got a call from Robert Aldrich the next morning in a rage. He was very angry
that we didn't show our breasts. In addition to that, they struck the mud
wrestling set the night before. He said 'I know what you two tricksters are up
to. We're building the set all over again because of you two.' We had to go in
there again and wrestle and show our breasts so to speak. I was mortified; I
was so ashamed and embarrassed. Plus my parents were still alive and I
respected my mom and dad so much that I promised them I would never do nudity
in movies."
Landon would carry on though, and in early 1981 filming finally wrapped up. It would
debut in theatres in the fall of that year against some heavy competition as it
turned out.
"It opened against the night of the World Series and the head of publicity at MGM got
fired," noted Landon, who set off, along with the other stars of the film, to
promote the film.
"We had to do publicity and travel all across the country to be interviewed by the press.
We were put up in the most amazing hotels. We would fly to two or three
different states in one day."
The biggest highlight for Landon while touring to promote the film came when she appeared
on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
"They brought me into The Tonight Show and interviewed me. They said that all
I did was make them laugh their heads off. I was on with Dudley Moore and I
picked him up because Johnny Carson said 'Can you do any wrestling moves?' I
said 'Sure, stand up' and everybody started laughing in the audience. I said
'Let me show you some moves' and he grabbed himself and said 'Oh no, I got an
old war injury.' So I grabbed Dudley Moore instead and lifted him up, spun him
around, carried him off the stage and dropped him on his butt. This was all
improvised and everybody laughed."
But there was a minor drawback for Landon while she trotted around the country for the movie.
"I was terrified to fly. I sat in the back of the plane because planes don't back into
mountains. Peter Falk always sat in the back with me because he was terrified
to fly as well."
She also struggled with another fear; seeing herself on
screen. Initially avoiding early screenings of the film, it was only a matter
of time before Landon would have to watch her performance in the movie, with an
accompanying audience no less.
"I was just terrified to see myself on screen, but a lot of actors are like that way,"
Landon said. "They screened it at the academy for all the producers and
directors and I had to attend that. I could hardly look at the screen I was so
embarrassed and scared."
If there was one consistent accolade that Frederick and Landon received, it was their
convincing in-ring performances. Time and time again they were greeted by
awestruck industry people and members of the press.
"Everybody thought it was fantastic and nobody could believe we did our own stunts
(wrestling). None of the press could believe that we did our own wrestling. They
knew we did it but they said they had never seen anything like it before in
their lives."
Whatever insecurities Landon had about her future in the business were dashed when
offers started flooding in. But with those opportunities would often come with
a condition that she would not budge on.
"I started getting offers left and right, movies with nudity. I turned them all down. My
agent encouraged me to do the movies where I would be nude or topless. But I
said I could not and would not do it. Playboy offered me a fortune when All
The Marbles was coming out. I couldn't make that kind of money in two
years. But I said I would do it if I kept my clothes on. I said I'll wear lingerie
and we bantered."
Neither side would relent, and Landon never did pose nude. But she did get some offers from the world of professional wrestling.
"I did get offers to wrestle, but I didn't want to pigeonhold myself into being associated with wrestling all my life. I wanted to do other parts. Matt Cimber, who directed me in Hundra, started GLOW - Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling. He wanted me to be a part of the wrestling series, but I declined. He found some blonde (Jane Hamlin) who looked like me and caller her The California Doll."
But All The Marbles did provide her the opportunity to take on others roles that
did not involve her removing her clothes or performing flying drop kicks.
She would go on to play a variety of roles, some of which would cater to
her athleticism.
"It was pretty vital in the sense that I got a lot of movie roles that entailed a lot
of physicality. For instance, Hundra, a movie I shot in Spain where I
played a female Conan, I did all the stunts in that movie except for one - it
was falling backwards from a 180-foot tower and I was very excited to do that
stunt, but the director would not let me."
Hundra (1983) would be among a variety of projects that Landon would take on, including noted films such as I, The Jury (1982) starring Armand
Assante, Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold (1984), Armed Response (1986) starring David Carradine, Maniac Cop (1988) starring Tom Atkins and Bruce Campbell and The Ambulance (1990) with Eric Roberts and James Earl Jones. Most recently, Landon appeared in the Masters Of Horror series.
When not acting, Landon remains active in writing music and scripts from here home in Hollywood. She has composed lyrics for a movie entitled Captivity, which is currently in post production and is writing a thriller called Father Time.
By her own choice, she remains single to this day.
"I never met a man who wanted to follow me around with a mop and a can of Lysol the rest of his life. I am a free spirit. That's not to say I wouldn't like to meet someone and get married."
While All The Marbles proved to be the gateway to a life in show business for
Landon, it also proved to be the last ever movie that Aldrich would direct. On
December 5, 1983, Aldrich died in Los Angeles at age 65.
Peter Falk would continue to remain active in both film and television, primarily anchored
to the Columbo character throughout the late '80s and '90s. Most recently, he
starred in the comedy film Checking Out.
Vicki Frederick would go on to appear in such films as Body Rock (1984), A Chorus
Line (1985), Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989) and Scissors (1991).
From available records, her last on screen appearance was in 1992's Chaplin.
"We spoke on the phone now and then because we would call each other when there was a
review on TV. We would speak on the phone periodically but we never got
together after that," explained Landon of her fading communications with Frederick.
It may come as no surprise baring in mind the conflicting personalities the two actresses
displayed. But to this day, Landon feels a sense of loss in not staying in
touch with her one time tag team partner.
"That was a
big mistake I feel in my life and in my career," admitted Landon. "I ran into
her on an audition at 20th Century Fox about six years ago. She had
gotten married to some very wealthy man. She was living somewhere in Brentwood.
She said she would call me and we would get together but she didn't call me.
But that's okay, it wasn't anything mean on her part. She was very amiable and
kind when I ran into her at the audition. I would love to meet up with her
"I get emails from fans all over the world everyday and people, a lot of times, say
'Where's Vicki?' I would say call the Screen Actors' Guild. I called one time,
this was about six months ago, and they said there was no agent or manager for
Vicki. I don't know if she's active in the business or not."
Time will only tell if Landon will meet up with Frederick and swap tales of their
adventures in making All The Marbles. Sadly however, it seems that MGM,
the backers and distributors of the movie, have forgotten all about The
California Dolls (the alternative title of the film at one point). To this
date, the movie has never been released on DVD. In fact, fans may be surprised
to find that at the studios' website database of movies, there is no listing
for All The Marbles or its alternative title.
"I thought they were going to release it on DVD. That's what I heard recently," said Landon.
But fans of the movie have not forgotten and Landon continues to receive emails from fans,
recognized to this day for her role that continues to endure in the hearts and
minds of those fans that got hooked on the antics of Landon, Frederick, Falk
and everyone else who came together and went for all the marbles.
"I would just like to say to the fans, the kind people who supported the movie and my
career, thank you so much for being there and writing me. I'm just eternally
grateful to the fans who have not given up on me."
SLAM! readers, we want
to hear from you. Share with us your memories of All The Marbles or to just say
hello to Laurene. Send your comments to Corey
and be sure to include your first and last name, city and state/province. We
will compile and publish your remarks in the near future. SLAM! Wrestling
reserves the right to edit all responses as is appropriate.
The only
way that this story will ever be complete is if we get the chance to interview
the other half of The California Dolls, Vicki Frederick. If anyone can help
out, please contact Corey at email@example.com.
Oh yes, truth be told, The British Bulldogs were never really Corey's favorite
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robbalvey wrote:The only real constructive feedback I can give for the ride was in the operations department falling under the "ride rules" category. We had one of our riders who was RIGHT on the edge of not being able to to ride. The first time he rode, he was able to get the bar down and he fit just fine. The second time he rode, he was having more trouble so I went to push down on his bar to help just like I would on every other ride in the world, and this angry older ride op named "Al" came over and shouted at me "DO NOT TOUCH THAT BAR HE HAS TO DO IT ON HIS OWN IF YOU TOUCH THAT BAR AGAIN YOU ARE NOT RIDING THIS COASTER ANYMORE!!!!!"
I'm sorry what? Excuse me? This ride is already difficult enough for people to get on and you want to make it even HARDER for people? No, sorry, that's not cool with me. I cannot think of another ride anywhere in the world where you couldn't give the guy next to you literally a "nudge" on the bar to make it down that TINY extra to get the green light especially when the guy JUST RODE the coaster. The ride ops would NOT help anyone push the bar down on Lightning Rod, yet they had no problem pushing the bar down and helping on Thunderhead or Wild Eagle. This needs to be fixed, IMO.
This feels like something I'd read in a Six Flags TR and never in a trillion years did I think that I'd read it in a Dollywood TR. As a ride operator, anyone could need help with the restraint for whatever reason, be it medical or size. This seems like a bad situation for everyone on top of the ride's reliability (or lack thereof). Does anyone have more information as to how long this policy has been in place?
But I refuse to believe that this is done without rhyme or reason, be it some obscure park/ride policy, or RMC recommendation.


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Silicon Knights, a modest studio based in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada and led by outspoken president Denis Dyack, has built quite a devoted fan-base on the strength of cinematic titles like Dark Legions, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.
But in spite of Silicon Knights' strong fan-base, the company's latest project, an epic action-RPG trilogy based heavily on Norse mythology called Too Human, has suffered nothing but trials and tribulations since it was announced in 1999 at E3 as a PlayStation title. Now, nearly ten years later, the game's final pre-release demo was shown on the floor at E3 2008.
The game's development history is nothing if not sordid. Putting aside the fact that Too Human has been targeted for three different platforms in its ten-year life, the project was dealt a serious blow back in July 2007 when Silicon Knights decided to drop the Unreal Engine 3. The company subsequently filed a lawsuit against Epic claiming "inadequacies" in support for the engine, and then it rebuilt the entire engine from scratch with new proprietary technology that would provide the technical foundation for the three-part franchise.
At the center of the whole saga is Denis Dyack, president and mouthpiece for the company. Dyack has long been known as one of the most vocal developers in the industry. The man has fought tooth and nail for his title, and is proud to have his name attached to the work in spite of whatever criticism has been dished out against it. Dyack even went so far as to offer a challenge to vocal critics on the popular gaming message board NeoGaf, claiming that if his game didn't please the forum dwellers that he would wear a public branding in shame.
We had a chance to sit down with Denis Dyack at E3 this year to get his thoughts on the state of the industry, his game Too Human, and what it's like to have daily access to feedback from the critical hardcore gaming masses. Dyack is nothing if not out-spoken, and we discussed the online echo-chamber, the nature of dealing with online forums, and the death of the long game.
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Ars Technica: Before we jump in to talking about Too Human and Silicon Knights, we've been asking everyone we talk to about five big things going on at the show. Give us your quick thoughts on DRM, Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360, iPhone games, retro gaming returning to form with games like Megaman 9, and your pick between Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
Denis: Well, DRM needs to be modified in such a way that it's more user-friendly. I would use a two-way key code so that as long as you can identify yourself, you should be able to get it anywhere. I think it's manageable, but the way it's implemented in most places is not working well yet. Final Fantasy XIII is cool. iPhone games are still "wait and see." Retro gaming is interesting, and I haven't played Rock Band or Guitar Hero, but I need to play them both.
You know, I bumped into you on the plane ride here. It was a reminder that you guys are Canadian. As a big developer in Canada, what are your thoughts on the state of the industry in the country? Will Canada continue to become a more prominent player? Will we ever see a Canadian-based conference like a Canadian GDC or something?
I think Canadians will become more prominent in the development scene, yes, and I think that the Ontario government is becoming very proactive, which is fantastic for helping the game industry—that's tremendous. Will we ever have a big show? Well, we have a bi-annual conference now called the Interactive Arts and Sciences with Silicon Knights, but I don't think we're ever really going to have a big show: events will keep hitting the most centralized parts of North America, which tends to be the US.
Does the necessity of traveling to the states just to show press demos and do interviews all the time bother you?
Going down there or to the west, whatever it takes, you have to do. These big shows are starting to go on the wayside: we're starting to see more distributed press junkets. It's more efficient. It's better for the press, it's better for the gamers, and it's better for us.
Let's talk about your game. Too Human is going to be a big cinematic experience. One thing that I just finished playing a while ago was Metal Gear Solid 4, a heavily cinematic experience of its own, which drew many complaints about cut-scene length and whether it was a movie or a game. How do you feel about the divide between gameplay and cinema: will we see the death of the cinematic altogether?
No, definitely not. If people's enjoyment of MGS4 is any indication, what you're really seeing now is a convergent media, which is better for the industry. We're trying to erase the seams between cut-scene and gameplay, so when you play Too Human you'll see it seaming in and out from the two much more smoothly. We're trying to elevate the art form, the interactivity, the medium. Cinemas will never go away; it's an aspect of storytelling. Whether they are fused into something else is one thing, but, by and large, we're an entertainment industry, so it's all about the story-telling. That's always the way it's going to be.
With the increased exposure to casual gamers who want to get in and out, do you worry that there's going to be pressure to tone down and weed out long, drawn-out sequences for the sake of keeping the gamer playing?
Well I think there is certainly pressure in the industry already, but it's more because of the high production cost of the games rather than a response to casual gaming. Lots of people are doing casual games now, but the casual market is almost overcrowded now. I think what you're going to see is that trends are going to follow somewhat with Hollywood of 50 or 60 years ago with regard to games. There are going to be fewer, bigger games. Right now there are way too many games. That really reflects back on performance over supply. We're making too many games right now; the industry has to sort itself out. There's going to be some big paradigm shifting over the next five years.
On that same topic, talking about production values, do you think we're going to see the death of the 40 hour plus mega-RPG, action-adventure game?
I think we already have. I think that died five years ago. I don't know of too many people who are making those anymore. From the stand-point of production quality, you really want the optimum experience. Gamers these days have less and less time, so anything that starts going more than 15 hours will probably lose its audience. I know the hardcore gamers don't want to hear that, and I'm a hardcore gamer myself, but as you get older and you want to continue to play games, you just can't put in that much time and have time for other games. That's why I stay away from MMOs.
Speaking of the hardcore gamers, talk to me about the NeoGAF situation. That was the cult, online, hardcore gamers talking a lot of smack mostly about the length—
They talked a lot of smack about everything, I think.
Heh, yeah. How do you, as a developer, how do you deal with that direct access and exposure to thoughts of a small group that can be influential?
I don't want to spend too much time on this, but I would, of course, deal with it the way that I did. And I want to point out to everyone exactly what it is: how inaccurate, how full of hyperbole, how nonsensical it was. The problem is that with all these new convergent medias, and with the way that technology is affecting society, these things are having an effect. You can't roll back technology—I'm not a Luddite in any way, shape or form—but I want people to be aware of its effects. The way to deal with it is to speak out and say "Hey, look at this phenomenon. Is this a good thing?" And that's it; I've said my piece on that.
One last thing on that: would you tell other developers to speak out and to be vocal about backing their project? We see lots of people shy away from answering the tough questions and really getting behind and being proud of what they made. Is that essential for other developers?
I think developers need to choose their own path. I think it's safe to say that not many would do what we did. But you have to do what you think is right. Speaking out publicly is very, very difficult. A lot of what you do you have to really play to the mob, and that's one of things that I don't do. It's really polarizing. Some people like it, some people hate it: it is what it is. But I'm always going to stand up for what is right and I'm a very straightforward guy. These are the things that I believe in. But it's not really the right path for everyone, so people need to choose their own path.
Was there any reverberation from Microsoft?
*smirks* I'm done with it.
Ok. So, back to the game...


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Gerardo Harquin has been charged with vehicular manslaughter in the deaths of Lorena Dominguez, 23, and her 21-month-old daughter, Khloe Duenas.
The mother and daughter were in a car traveling on the Kinne Boulevard overcrossing near the former Concord Naval Weapons Station when Harquin's SUV crossed a divider and hit their vehicle head-on, authorities said.
The baby was transported to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland and Dominguez was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland; both later succumbed to their injuries. Dominguez's boyfriend also suffered major injuries and was transported to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
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Harquin was transported to County Jail in Martinez and has also been charged with driving under the influence, child endangerment and lying about his name. He is being held on $575,000 bail.
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Barclays is to axe at least 3,700 jobs and prune its investment bank, under a restructuring plan launched by its new chief executive which seeks to cut 1.7 billion pounds (approximately Rs 14,341 crore) in annual costs and improve standards.
The plans form part of an overhaul, which CEO Antony Jenkins hopes, will convince a sceptical public that he will change a bank which has been dogged by a series of scandals, including a $ 450 million (approximately Rs 2,423 crore) fine for rigging interbank lending rates or Libor.
"Believe me, I understand the cynics and the sceptics out there, but cynics and sceptics never built anything. It will take years before people actually change their impression of us. I'm not daunted by that at all," Jenkins told BBC radio.
Barclays also unveiled plans to pay its investment bankers an average bonus of 54,100 pounds (aprrox. Rs 45 lakh), down 17 percent on the year before. Bonuses across the bank will total 1.85 billion pounds (approx. Rs 15,606 crore), down 14 percent on the year.
Jenkins said the job cuts will include 1,800 in corporate and investment banking and 1,900 in its European retail
He plans to focus investment in Britain, the United States and Africa, and cut its presence across continental Europe and Asia.
That will include a scaling back of the investment bank's equities and advisory businesses in continental Europe and Asia.
Jenkins said he aimed to cut the bank's cost base to 16.8 billion pounds (Rs 141,724 crore) in 2015, excluding one-off costs of 2.7 billion (approx. Rs 22,777 crore) over the next three years.
Unveiling the strategic plan alongside annual results, the bank reported a yearly pre-tax profit of just 246 million pounds (approx. Rs 2,075 crore), down from 5.9 billion (approx. Rs 49,772 crore) in 2011 due to charges for compensating customers mis-sold products and a loss on the value of its own debt.
However, the bank said its adjusted pre-tax profit for 2012 was 7.05 billion pounds (approx. Rs 59,473 crore), up 26 percent on the year and in line with the average forecast by analysts.
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The claim that the best way to combat content piracy is to offer good legal alternatives and make them widely available isn't exactly breaking new ground. Case studies made out of several nations' piracy rates, such as in Australia and Norway, demonstrate the severe impact creating good digital marketplace alternatives to piracy can have. Techdirt's think tank arm, the Copia Institute, produced the definitive report highlighting this in multiple countries nearly two years ago.
And, yet, the copyright industries and their mouthpiece organizations typically choose to beat the punishment drum instead, going the route of litigation against pirates that ultimately ends up being a PR nightmare, or instead going the route of wholesale censorship on the internet that is equal parts ineffective and alarming to those of us that think such censorship ought to have a high bar to hurdle in order to be implemented. It's with that in mind that any new example that simply offering legal alternatives is a better route is useful to highlight.
Which brings us to the Netherlands, long assumed to be a hotspot of piracy. And, indeed, as recently as 2013 a study put out by Telecompaper indicated that 41% of the Dutch people were downloading copyrighted content for free. But that same study also suggests that this piracy rate has dropped all the way to 27% as legal alternatives have emerged.
In November 2013, when services such as Netflix and Spotify were still new, 41% of Dutch people were downloading illegal content. In January, that percentage fell to 27%. From this group, 77% say they plan to download less pirated content; the remaining 23% claim they will increase illegal usage.
Of the group that still downloads, 8% say they have reduced their activities because it is becoming harder to find what they are looking for. Of the people who have increased their pirate activities, 6% said in January that it was easier to find what they were looking for, compared to 13% in 2013.
Now, the post makes a point to note that BREIN, the anti-piracy outfit in the region, has also stepped up its efforts in this time. But if you look at the data in the respondents, it's clear that BREIN's attempts to make pirated content less available isn't much of a factor for those that have ceased pirating that content. Less than one in ten of the people still downloading content illicitly are finding it harder to do so. That's much less a factor than the piracy rate in the country dropping by a third.
Which leaves us with the wider availability of legal alternatives being the main impetus for the change. That jives well with what we've seen in other countries too. All of which leaves us to ponder once again why the content industries don't seek to ramp up the legal alternatives instead of going to war with them or, worse yet, trying to wage some unwinnable legal fight with all of piracy everywhere?


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