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Infutor Data Solutions
AdTech • Big Data
Infutor is 100% focused on enabling brands to know everything they need to about consumers, to instantly make informed marketing and risk decisions. Infutor's experience linking trusted data sources results in proven, secure, and compliant solutions for our clients, and that is what makes us the experts.
80Local Employees
Civis Analytics
Big Data • Machine Learning
Civis Analytics is building a data-driven world. We are building cloud-based products to help organizations do data science better and easier. We create technologies that empower organizations to unlock the truth hiding in their own data—transforming them into smart organizations that are ready to thrive. We're solving the world's biggest problem
150Local Employees
Big Data • Transportation
Founded by The Allstate Corporation in 2016, Arity is a data and analytics company focused on improving transportation. We collect and analyze enormous amounts of data, using predictive analytics to build solutions with a single goal in mind: to make transportation smarter, safer and more useful for everyone.
270Local Employees
Big Data • Cloud
Discover is one of the most recognized brands in U.S. financial services. We're a direct banking and payment services company built on a legacy of innovation and customer service. We support, challenge and inspire employees to continually develop their skills, advance their career and help grow our business. Named to Digital Edge 50 2019
4500Local Employees
Big Data • Healthtech
VillageMD helps each primary practice reach its highest potential, creating a more rewarding experience for patients and physicians. We bring experience in value-based contracting, -driven decision-making, and ancillary development, combined with the capital needed for success.
100Local Employees
KAR Global
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive
KAR Global powers the world's most trusted automotive marketplaces through innovation, technology and people. Our diverse team helps manufacturers, financial institutions, insurance companies and dealer groups buy, sell and trade used vehicles.
70Local Employees
Big Data • Cloud
We are the data and analytics consulting firm you want to work for. We help organizations make smart, data-driven decisions by translating their data into meaningful and actionable information. We believe that organizations thrive, lives are improved, and the world is a better place when organizations understand and use the data around them.
25Local Employees
Nexgen Packaging
Big Data • eCommerce
We are changing how companies leverage technology to manufacture and manage supply chain in the retail, apparel and footwear industry. We have created a software platform to optimize, organize, and digitize customers' portfolios. Considered the industry's leading technology platform, over 10,000 brands and manufacturers globally use our platform.
65Local Employees
Big Data • Consumer Web
For customers, we're an online, members-only service that provides benefits across 140+ of the best online stores. Our members save time and money with benefits including free 2-day shipping & free returns. For merchants, we're driving ecommerce business and providing insights otherwise unknown. It's the ultimate ecommerce win-win.
100Local Employees
Networked Insights
Big Data • Marketing Tech
Networked Insights technology helps marketers from the world's biggest brands and agencies understand their customers, inform their media spend, invent new products, drive amazing creative campaigns and improve their targeting by providing game-changing insights no other technology company can provide.
63Local Employees
Big Data • Legal Tech
The only Intellectual Property research platform built to help navigate the IP lifecycle. Finding useful IP information in the public domain is difficult. Not only is it scattered and unorganized, but there is also no obligation for companies to disclose their IP assets or strategies.
24Local Employees
10th Magnitude
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data
10th Magnitude {Microsoft Azure Partner of the Year} helps businesses transform and innovate with cloud-based solutions that harness the power of Microsoft Azure. With a deeply rooted investment and expertise in data and DevOps, we truly help clients become more agile, more customer-focused, and more operationally efficient.
52Local Employees
Big Data • Information Technology
Aptitive is a Chicago-based tech consulting firm that helps organizations tap into the power of their data. At Aptitive, we look for the FUN projects and solutions – the ones that are exciting, challenging, and career growing experiences. We bring you a career in technology consulting without the typical life trade-offs found in the industry.
36Local Employees
Big Data • Machine Learning
Enodo is an automated underwriting platform for multifamily real estate. Utilizing predictive analytics and machine learning, Enodo's core features allow users to achieve optimal rent, identify statistically relevant comps, and test value-add strategies.
11Local Employees
Pareto Intelligence
Big Data • Healthtech
Pareto Intelligence is a leading healthcare solutions company modernizing the way health plans and providers succeed in value-based care. These solutions are supported by proprietary algorithms, predictive models and advanced data science that have analyzed over $100 billion in claims/medical costs and touched over 14 million lives.
80Local Employees
Integral Ad Science
AdTech • Big Data
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is the global market leader in digital ad verification, offering technologies that drive high-quality advertising media. IAS equips advertisers & publishers with both the insight & technology to protect their advertising investments from fraud and unsafe environments as well as to capture consumer attention, and drive ROI.
40Local Employees
Label Insight
Big Data • Machine Learning
Label Insight was founded with the mission of helping consumers understand what's in the products they use and consume. Today, their world-class data solution powers transparency between CPG brands, retailers, and consumers.
50Local Employees
Big Data • Information Technology
Numerator is a market intelligence firm that brings together omnichannel marketing, merchandising and sales data to make pursuing new possibilities simple for brand, retail and agency clients.
188Local Employees
Big Data • Edtech
Otus brings the entire school community together on a common technology platform reducing the number of disconnected solutions educators use while providing actionable insight to school leaders.
35Local Employees
Big Data • Cloud
At SPINS, we believe there's more than meets the eye to data. As the leading provider of retail consumer insights, analytics and consulting for the Natural, Organic and Specialty Products Industry, we strive to transform raw data into intelligent and actionable business solutions.
176Local Employees


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A team spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Ryan was issued a warning and no citation after the accident on Jan. 14 in Bethlehem, Pa., located about 45 minutes from the team's facility in Florham Park, N.J.
No one in the other two cars was injured in the accident, which was first reported by Deadspin.com.
Ryan is in Mobile, Ala., for Senior Bowl practices with several members of the Jets' front office, including new general manager John Idzik, and did not comment.
Bethlehem Police said in a statement Tuesday night that Ryan, according to the incident report, was driving a Ford Mustang at 6:13 p.m. when he collided with another vehicle on West Third Street. One witness told police he observed Ryan pass through the red light at West Third and Wyandotte streets moments before the accident, and the impact caused the second car to hit into a third.
Bethlehem Police declined to identify the other drivers, and added that they were awaiting a return call from another witness before completing the investigation.
Ryan has been in the headlines a few times this offseason - for being retained by owner Woody Johnson despite missing the playoffs for the second straight season, and for being photographed in the Bahamas with a tattoo on his right arm depicting his wife wearing the No. 6 jersey of embattled quarterback Mark Sanchez.
Ryan is expected to be in attendance Thursday at the team's facility when the Jets formally introduce Idzik, who was hired to replace the fired Mike Tannenbaum last Friday.
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Everyday represents a new opportunity for each of us to make new choices to live our best life possible. And as my Bikram teacher, Bikram Choudhury says,
"It's never too late, it's never too bad, and you're never too old or too sick to start from scratch once again…"
"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection." – George Orwell
I am not a poster woman for the perfection of balance and health. This path I am choosing, running a restaurant, is not easy or glamorous, and I often find myself reacting to the challenges rather than seeing each challenge as an opportunity. Then I fall out of balance, rather than move through the challenge to stay the course. Sometimes I feel angry because I was born into this world with a wound-up tortured mind that never rests…yeah, that's ego, playing the "victim" role. (I think I should take up surfing, as it a sport that is the ultimate symbol for remaining present to surf the challenge). But, honestly, every time I shift myself back into being present, I swell up with gratitude, and love… all the struggle melts away and I am in awe of life.
What I do represent, is a woman who has experienced life waking up feeling sick and tired everyday but with an insatiable desire to play a role in making this world a better place and live with purpose.
Celiac disease, a killer sugar addiction, Candida Albicans, hypothyroidism, stress, insomnia, and workaholicism are my challenges. However, prior to opening Sun In Bloom, I discovered what feeling alive tastes like. And it was my personal experience healing myself with food that led me to aligning with my potential and opening Sun In Bloom.
I want to say THANK YOU! I am incredibly grateful that you choose Sun In Bloom on a daily basis and feel energized every day by the exchange of support and collaboration Sun In Bloom truly symbolizes. Hand-crafting the most nourishing foods to support you to live a health- conscious, nourished, and beautiful life enriches my life.
Sun In Bloom is moving into its 3rd year in business with an extraordinary, talented, experienced and passionate team behind it. We are a healthy family here and each member is a stand-out character. With this support behind Sun In Bloom, I've decided it's time to release all personal inhibitions, embrace my fear and unveil the space I imagine being in everyday. So, we are tearing the house down to rebuild. I think you will LOVE it!
Sun In Bloom will serve its last brunch of 2011 on Christmas Eve, December 24. We will be closed Sunday, December 25, 2011 through Sunday, January 8, 2012 and reopen Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 9 am.
Because renovations will not affect our kitchen, we want to create the opportunity to support you to jumpstart 2012. We will be here to help you make healthy food choices by offering juice, meal plans and orders to-go. You can either pick up food or we can deliver. Norwalk pressed juices are fresh for 3 days and most food can be packaged and is delicious for 3-5 days. Please stop by to pick up an order form and help support us through this transition. You can also email us for a copy.
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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
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|Information: Completed Flood Damage Assessments for Winnebago County
|Date: 08/05/10
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NARRATIVE:Today, (Thursday, August 5, 2010) a team of assessors from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) surveyed areas of Winnebago County (Edgemere Terrace); Machesney Park (Shore Dr./Marquette Blvd./Liberty Blvd. neighborhoods); New Milford; and rural Winnebago County for flood damage. This survey was based upon assessments conducted by the Winnebago County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency (ESDA), the Village of Machesney Park, and Sheriff's personnel over the past several days of those flooded areas. These state and federal officials will compile the results of their overall assessment of the area, which will be used as a basis to classify the area as a whole. Based upon this classification a determination will be made as to what, if any, additional resources, recovery, or assistance processes may be appropriate or available to victims of the flooding. Not all flooded areas need to be inspected and classified at this stage of the process. Some victim properties were visually inspected though no contact with residents or homeowners could be made at the time. If victims of the flooding did not have direct contact as part of this assessment process and assistance is made available at a later date, officials will notify any victims of the additional steps that may be required at that time.


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A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.
Haiku began in thirteenth-century Japan as the opening phrase of renga, an oral poem, generally 100 stanzas long, which was also composed syllabically. The much shorter haiku broke away from renga in the sixteenth-century, and was mastered a century later by Matsuo Basho, who wrote this classic haiku:
An old pond!
A frog jumps in—
the sound of water.
Among the greatest traditional haiku poets are Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, and Masaoka Shiki. Modern poets interested in the form include Robert Hass, Paul Muldoon, and Anselm Hollo, whose poem "5 & 7 & 5" includes the following stanza:
round lumps of cells grow
up to love porridge later
become The Supremes
Haiku was traditionally written in the present tense and focused on associations between images. There was a pause at the end of the first or second line, and a "season word," or kigo, specified the time of year.
As the form has evolved, many of these rules—including the 5/7/5 practice—have been routinely broken. However, the philosophy of haiku has been preserved: the focus on a brief moment in time; a use of provocative, colorful images; an ability to be read in one breath; and a sense of sudden enlightenment and illumination.
This philosophy influenced poet Ezra Pound, who noted the power of haiku's brevity and juxtaposed images. He wrote, "The image itself is speech. The image is the word beyond formulated language." The influence of haiku on Pound is most evident in his poem "In a Station of the Metro," which began as a thirty-line poem, but was eventually pared down to two:
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.


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YORK, Pa. – Junior Kailey Brewer (Hartly, Del./Smyrna) scored a hat trick to help the York College women's field hockey team win a 3-1 non conference matchup against Stevenson Thursday afternoon.
With the win the Spartans improve to 6-4 overall and Stevenson falls to 6-7.
Brewer's hat trick was the first of her career and broke her single-game high record that previously stood at two goals.
The Spartans set the pace very early on in the game. York's offense was extremely explosive and got off five shots in the first two minutes. The Green and White would continue firing shots on the Stevenson goalkeeper but would not be able to finish on any opportunities in the first half.
Stevenson would be the first team to get on the board. Senior Danielle Gaitings (Massapequa, N.Y./Massapequa) would come up with a defensive save, but the Mustang's Amy Tamarana would tip the ball in the goal off of Gaitings stick at 26:22.
Coming out in the second half the Spartans were determined to take the lead. York would once again continue to dominate in the offensive circle. At one point the Mustang goalkeeper Katie Cavanaugh came way out to the top of the circle. Madi Wilt (Harwood, Md./Kent Island) took a shot that was deflected by Cavanaugh and Brewer came up with the rebound and fired a shot into an open cage at 53:33.
Only a few minutes later Brewer would score her second goal at 57:44. This time senior Ashton Burk (Glen Rock, Pa./Susquehannock) took a shot that Brewer was able to knock in after a deflection off of the goalies pads.
The third and final goal of the game for the Spartans capped off Brewer's hat trick. Once again Burk was credited with the assist after she crossed the ball in front of the cage and Brewer was on the right post to tap it in with only 3:36 left in regulation.
York finished the game with an extreme 42-14 advantage in shots and 21-7 advantage in shots on goal. Penalty corners were closer with York having a smaller 18-12 advantage.
Freshman goalkeeper Abby Baker (Baltimore, Md./Mercy) played another great game in goal and recorded four saves. For Stevenson Cavanaugh made a whopping 17 total saves.
The Spartans return to action on Saturday at 2:00 pm with another home game against # 19 Lynchburg.


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Japanese tuning shop Tommykaira is best known for jucing domestic-market Nissan Skylines to within an inch of their lives. Now, with Nissan having launched its latest Skyline — the JDM equivalent of the Infiniti G35 — they've worked up the Tommykaira GT, which is destined for unveiling at the Tokyo Auto Salon in January. No word on specs yet, even with help from a robust Katakana-to-English translation app. More to come.
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Dragonfly 4 Wins Best in Show Award
The all-new Dragonfly 4 has recently won Pacific Yachting's 'Best in Show' award in the accessories category at the Vancouver International Boat Show!
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Reset the Pocket PC Phone and Clear Memory
You can perform a soft reset or a full reset a soft reset restarts your device and a full reset switches the battery off. The result of a soft reset is that some data may be lost in programs that are open, however, the result of cutting power is to wipe all the data and new programs you have added, and return the device to factory setting i.e. it will only have the software that was present when you bought it. On this basis, it is important not to think about a full reset as you would restarting, shutting down or even switching off improperly your desktop, but rather like a complete crash requiring you having to wipe your OS. The importance of backing up data to a SD card or your computer cannot be stressed enough - in the event you have to perform a full reset your data will not be lost.
To perform a soft reset:
If your Pocket PC Phone responds slowly stops responding or freezes, try soft resetting it. A soft reset causes the Pocket PC Phone to restart and re-adjust memory allocation. Unsaved data in open windows may be lost.
Use the stylus to press and hold the Reset button.
1. Soft Reset. Press into the hole with the end of your stylus to reset your device
To perform a full reset - hard reset:
A full device reset clears memory, deletes all data and restores the Pocket PC Phone to its default settings. Programs installed at the factory remain, while data you have created and programs you have installed are erased.
1. Unscrew the stylus and use the smaller point of the top-half.
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Quote from: CPTBadAss on Thu, 25 July 2013, 16:21:26Send her to her room and make her type on "The lazy brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" a thousand times on one of your boards. That'll teach her.Its funny you mention that. I was watching her play some Lol the other day and noticed that she only uses her pointer fingers when she types. I asked her is she knew how to type correctly? She said that she was taught at school, but that she is better with the hunt and peck. I immediately made her stop playing and had her type that sentence over and over. 30x with fingers, and 30x touch type. She was faster with the pointer fingers, but that was because she can't type the other way. Set her up on Type Fu. She was at 10wpm with under 50% accuracy . Part of the problem is that she stares at her fingers while she types. She has got a bit of practice ahead of her.
Send her to her room and make her type on "The lazy brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" a thousand times on one of your boards. That'll teach her.
OK, this is probably one of the GREATEST things I've ever done, but here goes...
OK, this is probably one of the silliest things I've ever done, but here goes... Detective Caroline has just been handled a horrific case and there's only one person that can help her unravel the mystery....Hope I got the submission under the wire and I hope everyone gets a laugh out of it.
unless they have some unforeseeable downside (like they're actually made of cream cheese cunningly disguised as ABS)
Obviously Mashby's a pro actor.
I can't believe your wife(?) helped you with this. She's a keeper.
congrats mash, i knew that was going to win
Quote from: Dubsgalore on Fri, 26 July 2013, 18:25:30congrats mash, i knew that was going to winyou win a gh pack dubsas of now
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wut. i'd buy a ****ty IBM board for that green V2
Just a quick thank you to BunnyLake for choosing me for the set. That is too kind. I figured there was a good chance that my entry could have been kicked due to a technicality, but Holly (my wife) is super stoked that it didn't, so thank you.I didn't intentionally submit it at the last minute, it just worked out that way. I didn't start editing it until just a couple of hours before the deadline, because of other... well... deadlines. I was doing it more for the creative outlet than for competition, so don't be surprised if this set ends up as a future giveaway down the road. Because, unbeknownst to my co-star, I already have a set ordered so I'll end up having one set too many. Speaking of giveaways, @Photekq I plan on sending you the Hapster keys so that you have a kick ass present to give your friend for his birthday.Thanks again BunnyLake for all that you do for this community. This giveaway, bringing the Miami set to life, the t-shirts, the Bunny Caps and the list goes on-and-on. I don't think that I'm the only one that feels you're a true gem of the GeekHack community. You add so much joy and fun to this hobby and I'm grateful for all that you do.
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This simple play is the genesis for a litany of questions. Among them: Gerald Green is still in the NBA? (Yes, on a ten-day contract with the Nets.) Where has he been? (In the D-League, mostly, but also playing in China and Russia.) Why has the NBA beaten the punch to would-be screencappers to upload this highlight to its YouTube channel? (Watch the highlight yourself, then remember he's the one who bested Dwight Howard in the '07 Slam Dunk Contest.) [YES]
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pens_CT wrote:bhaw wrote:Dave Molinari
With so many teams seeking blue-line depth, Shero should have a good chance to get something for 1 or 2 of his 9 waivers-eligible defensemen
I think most GM's will try to grab guys off the waiver wire rather than part with an asset. I doubt we get anything for these excess d-men.
Agreed. Considering we didn't get anything for Michalek, I don't see anything major coming back for a couple depth guys.


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Staybridge Suites Sacramento - Folsom
The new extended stay all-suite Staybridge Suites Sacramento – Folsom is ideally located between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe. Just across from the Palladio Mall, Staybridge Suites has it all.
Folsom is home to many of the world's leading technology companies and Intel, Micron and Agilent are all nearby. Just off Highway 50 guests are minutes from Aerojet, Blue Shield, Paychex and Cal ISO.
South Lake Tahoe, Folsom Lake, and Red Hawk Casino are all close by. Outdoor enthusiasts will enjoy every kind of outdoor recreation from water sports to cycling. Whether traveling for business or leisure the Staybridge Suites is close to anywhere you need to be including Downtown Sacramento and the Sacramento International Airport.
Staybridge Suites Folsom is the perfect home away from home. Our studio, one and two bedroom suites include separate living – sleeping areas and fully-equipped kitchens. Enjoy our daily complimentary full hot breakfast buffet; our evening social including a light meal on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We also offer a complimentary laundry facility, storage lockers, fitness center and free high speed internet. At the end of the day enjoy relaxing at our indoor pool and fire pit.
Whether traveling for business or leisure the Staybridge Suites offers a relaxing atmosphere for everyone. We invite you to discover the warm hospitality at the brand new Staybridge Suites Sacramento – Folsom!
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Ash's has a range of facilities and services - pool, barbecue area, laundry, fish cleaning facilities, free guest Wi-Fi and is a step across the road to the Sunset Tavern - walking distance to coastline sunsets, Norman River mouth, fishing spots, boat ramps, other stores, fuel station and Karumba airport pickups available along with pre-arranged transfers from Karumba to Normanton.
Enjoy unique outback by the sea environment, bird watching, morning glory clouds, history/heritage displays, crocodiles, mudcrabs and fishing, river cruises, Barramundi Discovery Centre, town pool and waterpark, walking tracks, photography and local events - all to enjoy while getting away from it all.
Ash's has spacious open plan self-contained units - comfortable self-contained cabins or a self-contained two bedroom cottage. Karumba is the only destination along the Gulf of Carpentaria coastline on a sealed road along the Savannah Way from Cairns or the Matilda Highway from Mount Isa - the Gulf is waiting for you to discover.
Wi-fi is free for guests or reasonable rates for customers in the Cafe/Store. The friendly staff will assist with your charter and bus travel bookings or any other enquiries. Room service options 7am to 7.30pm daily, seven days per week.
Spacious open plan units with shower, bathroom, toilet, undercover off-road car parking, patio, full kitchen facilities and all utensils and linen provided. There is air conditioning, television, DVD player and directly across the road from Sunset Tavern and Gulf coastline. These large rooms feature either six single beds or one queen and four single beds, suiting larger groups and families particularly. There is access from these rooms directly to the lawn, barbecue and pool area as well as the guest laundry and the facilities and services of the cafe/store including room service from 7am to 7.30pm daily. Free Wi-Fi for guests during their stay. New in 2018 Electric car charging outlet
A fully self contained two bedroom cottage with a large yard located beside Ashs Units on the corner of Fielding and Ward Streets, Karumba Point. Bedroom 1 has a Queen bed and built in robes whilst Bedroom 2 has 2 single beds. In the open lounge, kitchen area there is a 2 seater couch and a double fold out futon - so the cottage can accommodate up to 6 people maximum.
Easy access to Ash's barbecue and pool area as well as guest laundry. There is an outdoor patio area as well as a large timber fixed table in the yard. Gas stove plus kitchen fridge with freezer compartment. This cottage has comfort, privacy and all the convenience of Ash's facilities.
Comfortable cabins featuring separate double bedroom, built in single bunk beds, kitchen with full refrigerator, cooking facilities with all cooking utensils and crockery/cutlery provided. There is a shower, bathroom, toilet, verandah, off road parking and all linen provided. Air conditioning, television, DVD player and wireless internet access. Suits couples, families with young children, singles and business guests particularly. Free Wi-Fi for guests during their stay and easy access to the cafe/store services and facilities including room service between 7am and 7.30pm daily.
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Short Version: Law Abiding Citizen is a satisfying (and at times funny) revenge movie that unfortunately loses its way in the last 20 minutes.
Screen Rant reviews Law Abiding Citizen
It seems like Law Abiding Citizen is one in a series of husband/father avenges the death/mistreatment of his family movies spawned by the success of Taken (next in line is the Mel Gibson-starring Edge of Darkness).
In this one we have Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton, loving father and husband (established quite effectively in just the first couple of minutes of the film) up against Jamie Foxx as prosecutor Nick Rice in a game of psychological cat and mouse.
Clyde's wife and very young daughter are brutally murdered (his wife, before his eyes) by a couple of burglars who break into his home. In order to guarantee that at least one of the perpetrators gets the death sentence, Nick cuts a plea bargain with the other, who will only serve five years. He does this without first consulting with Clyde, who doesn't buy Nick's argument of it being better to see some justice served rather than take the chance that both men go free. Within the first 10 minutes you'll get the entire set up for the film.
Cut to 10 years later - Nick now has a 9 year old daughter and the death row inmate is about to be executed. What should be a standard death by injection goes horribly wrong in a scene that will probably have you cringing in your seat at least a little. Soon after the bad guy who only served five years gets put in a compromising position by Clyde - and he is going to have a very, very bad (last) day.
One thing leads to another and Nick determines that Clyde is the guy behind both deaths. In a scene that frankly makes no sense other than to show Gerard Butler's naked butt, the cops capture him and take him in. It soon becomes clear that Clyde wanted more than revenge - he wants to expose the corrupt justice system where compromises are made and the letter of the law sometimes leads to injustice.
Murders of those involved in the plea deal continue to take place even with Clyde behind bars, where he makes a series of odd and interesting requests - all of which turn out to be made for very specific reasons. Of course the big mystery is how these things continue to happen despite the fact Clyde is behind bars - who is his accomplice? Unfortunately the longer this goes on, the bigger the shovel that is needed to dig out the answer to this question, and the solution is hard to swallow.
Gerard Butler basically chews the scenery and Jamie Foxx isn't given a whole lot to do here other than look and act solemn.
The movie is very violent, at times quite funny (Gerard gets some great lines that had the audience laughing out loud) and has at least one scene that comes at you out of nowhere with a hell of a punch. I'm a big fan of this sort of film being a husband and father myself, and was really enjoying it up until about the final 20 minutes where it took a turn in a direction that ends up putting a big damper on the experience. The ending seals the deal and really left me pretty cold (unfortunately).
So while the ending is pretty unsatisfying, I had a lot of fun for most of the movie. So overall if you're into this sort of film and you're a fan of Gerard Butler and/or Jamie Foxx I recommend Law Abiding Citizen.


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Department of Revenue News Release
July 30, 2010Interested Bidders Will Have Until Aug. 26 to Submit Proposals to Manage Palmyra License Office
JEFFERSON CITY - Interested groups or individuals will have until Aug. 26 to bid to operate the Palmyra License Office.
The Office of Administration today issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) asking for bids to manage the office. The ability for people or groups to bid to run local license offices is part of Gov. Jay Nixon's reformed competitive process that requires the Missouri Department of Revenue to choose office agents that present the best proposals for customer service and financial efficiency.
Larry Markley, the current agent, will no longer be the agent for the Palmyra office. His last day as agent will be Sept. 9.
Alana M. Barragán-Scott, director of the Missouri Department of Revenue, explained how the bidding process will work.
"People or groups interested in managing the license office will have four weeks to respond to the Office of Administration with a bid," she said. "All of the bids are then evaluated by a review team at the Department of Revenue, and the proposal that scores best in the areas of customer service, business experience, office location and other criteria is the one that is chosen."
During Fiscal Year 2010 (July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010), the Palmyra office conducted roughly 15,000 transactions and generated an estimated $51,000 in agent processing fees.* The office is located in the Marion County Courthouse at 100 S. Main St. Potential bidders can propose to keep the office at the current address or submit another location in Palmyra.
Common transactions that take place at local license offices include renewing or applying for a driver license, renewing or applying for registration on motor vehicles, boats and outboard motors, and applying for titles and paying sales taxes on these units.
A copy of the RFP that bidders will use to develop their bids can be viewed at https://www.moolb.mo.gov/. To review an RFP, select "Guest" on the home page, click on "Open Bids By Agency," then scroll through the list of bids until the appropriate bid is located. (The bid number for the Palmyra office is B3Z11027.) Additional information regarding the bidding process can be obtained at http://oa.mo.gov/purch/vendorinfo/DORoffices.pdf or by calling OA at (573) 751-2387.
*Figures are based on 11 months of FY 2010 transactions and fees, with estimated totals for June 2010.


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West Hollywood makes a splash in Las Vegas as The Abbey Beach debuts at Vdara Hotel and Spa. Sancho Ryan, one of the handsome Abbey Boys, watches over the cabanas at Vdara's Abbey Beach on Sunday, August 29. Vdaras chic Pool & Lounge is decked out with The Abbeys colorful flags and beach balls, while its 19 fully appointed cabanas are serviced by the handsome Abbey Boys. Widely known as one of the most popular West Hollywood hot spots, The Abbey Food & Bar has partnered with Las Vegas party planner Eduardo Cordova and Vdara Hotel & Spa to host The Abbey Beach. The Abbey Beach at Vdara Pool & Lounge occurs every Sunday now through September 26, noon 6 p.m offering a taste of The Abbeys signature LGBT party in the heart of CityCenter.
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'Veep' premiered its second season on HBO this past Sunday (April 14), and it remains probably the best show you aren't watching — it's funny, it's smart, and it stars the very handsome Reid Scott. So what are you waiting for?
When you watch 'Veep' and your vision finally clears and you can see through all the tears induced from laughing so hard it hurts, you'll notice this tasty morsel: Reid Scott, the guy who plays Dan Egan on the show, an adviser to Julia Louis Dreyfuss' Vice President Selina Meyer.
The show follows VP Selina as she tries — and fails — to be a more substantial entity in the White House, scurrying to avoid and clean up bad press about her and her politics. She has a crew that includes Scott's Dan Egan, Anna Chlumsky's Amy, Tony Hale from 'Arrested Development,' and comic veteran Matt Walsh.
The show is fantastic and there's still plenty of time to get caught up and check it out in its second season. And if the synopsis and amazing cast don't sell you, maybe Reid Scott will. The tall, dark, and handsome (TDH is the holy grail, ladies) actor has also starred on other TV shows like 'My Boys,' 'The Big C,' and 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager,' so chances are you — like me — have seen him around and not realized it until now.
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National Champion Oregon Headlines Indoor Division I USTFCCCA All-Americans
NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) has announced the list of student-athletes who earned USTFCCCA All-America honors for the 2014 indoor season based on their performance at this past weekend's NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships in Albuquerque, N.M.
First-team honors were given to those who placed in the championships' top eight in an event or were a member of an eight-person final. Second team honors were earned by those who finished between ninth and 16th place. In addition, 14 men and four women earned honorable mention honors.
USTFCCCA membership by a program is required to earn All-America awards.
QUICK LINKS: Men's Honorees | Women's Honorees | Honorable Mention
National women's champion Oregon needed each and every one of their 14 first-team All-America performances to overcome Texas in the national team championship race for their fifth consecutive team title. That ties Oregon for the longest women's title streak indoors with LSU from 1993-97.
With a lean by Phillis Francis at the line in the meet's closing 4×400 relay, the Ducks defeated the Longhorns both in the race by .02 seconds and in the team scoring by half of a point, 44-43½.
Also tied within 3½ points of the team title were Florida and its nation-best 16 first-team All-America honors and Georgia with six.
Though 30 women earned multiple first-team honors, including double champion Abbey D'Agostino of Dartmouth at 3000 and 5000 meters, perhaps the most valuable trio of multiple-honorees were the Ducks' Francis, Laura Roesler and Chizoba Okodogbe, who ran three of the four legs on Oregon's American and collegiate indoor record 4×400 relay.
Both of Francis' honors came in American- and collegiate-record fashion with a title at 400 meters individually before chasing down two-time defending outdoor 400 meters national champion Ashley Spencer of Texas to win the 4×400 and team title at literally the last second.
Florida had five individuals earn two first-team honors, while both Oregon and Arkansas had four each. Texas had three multiple honorees, while Dartmouth, Penn State and Texas A&M each had two.
Men's team champion Oregon led the way with 16 first-team honors, followed closely by Arkansas – the defending champion over which the Ducks claimed the team title – with 15. The Ducks defeated the runner-up Razorbacks in the team competition, 62-54.
The title was the first for Oregon since 2009.
Providing nearly a third of Oregon's points with wins at both 3000 and 5000 meters – including dethroning defending champion Lawi Lalang of Arizona in the latter – was frosh sensation Edward Cheserek.
With those two wins translating into All-America honors, he was one of four Ducks to earn two first-team All-America honors along with Mike Berry, Marcus Chambers and Trevor Dunbar, and one of 18 overall student-athletes earning multiple honors.
Arkansas with three multiple-honorees and both Notre Dame and Pittsburg with two were the only other men's programs with student-athletes who earned more than one first-team All-America honor.
More good news for Notre Dame as the Fighting Irish's Patrick Feeney was the lone athlete in the meet, male or female, with three first-team nods: 400 meters and the 4×400 and distance medley relays.
Overall, the SEC led the way in total first-team honorees both in the men's (39) and women's (65) competitions, with the Pac-12 both second in both with 38 and 31 respectively.


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Basically with the combination of the server crash, selling out of tickets, and insane scalper prices; a decision was made to change the ticketing system for burning man. They wanted to retain tiered tickets, but wanted to make things 'more fair' for getting lower priced tickets and for getting a ticket at all. But they also decided not to tie the tickets to a government ID because of the diversity of the community and apparently that was not palatable to some people.
The New System
To solve the problems above a lottery system was created which would remove the need for 50,000 burners to log on and buy tickets simultaneously. The tickets would also be delivered at a much later date to allow less time on the market for scalpers.
The main problem is that the lottery is an epic fail because it forces people to play a game of chance for whether or not they get tickets. It is specifically bad because of the tiered ticket prices and this encourages people to over-buy tickets (to ensure that they not only get a ticket ... but also the most affordable one). This overbuying in turn puts pressure on the honest actors to also over-buy so that they have a chance of getting the tickets they want.
This creates several major problems (and even more that aren't listed):
- *The illusion of much greater scarcity than actually exists (encouraging people to over-buy)
*Uncertainty about whether or not people will get tickets
*Groups of friends / theme camps are basically forced to overbuy tickets to guarantee that they all can go
*It makes things difficult for people who can't make a decision so quickly because of other life obligations
*Takes the money for the tickets much earlier than some people would like and this causes financial strain
- *Prevent server outages
*Keep a structure that allows for differently priced tickets
*Not require government ID
*Make things harder for scalpers
BUT ... when you purchase your ticket, you can either:
Also elect to donate as much extra money as you like to a fund which will at a LATER date be distributed to the people who requested lower-price tickets.
Select that you would like to receive a portion of the donated money to help alleviate the cost of your ticket (there could be two boxes, one for minor assistance and one for major assistance)
Choose neither to give nor to receive assistance
Once all the tickets have been sold a partial refund could be given to the people who requested assistance ... with the money all coming out of the extra donations made by burners who could afford it.
The only parts of the new system that would be kept is that the tickets would be sent out later (around July) to provide less time-on-market for scalpers, and using a burning man controlled reseller market. Also since people wouldn't be fighting over the cheaper tickets scalpers would not have the advantage of (buy low, sell high). And finally any reimbursement for the cheaper tickets would only come at the end of all ticket sales ... which would disincentive scalpers from 'investing' in the assisted price tickets for a much later payout.
Why this would work
Not only would this solve all the ticketing problems ... but it might end up helping lower income people more than usual because there is a large difference between buying cheaper ticket and asking for help to buy something.
Also this would better reflect the real spirit of burning man since it will be other burners who are directly helping those who need the more affordable tickets.
So what do you all think? Is this any good?


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Luka Babic led Harvard with three goals against Mercyhurst (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- A strong defensive performance and a second half rally gave the Harvard men's water polo team a dramatic 10-9 victory over Mercyhurst Sunday. Luka Babic netted a hat trick for the Crimson and Alexandre Popp added seven saves and four steals as Harvard improved to 6-10 overall.
The first quarter was a defensive struggle as neither team could muster many scoring chances. Merchyhurst scored the lone first quarter goal and took a 4-2 advantage into halftime. Senior co-captains Kevin DiSilvestro and Luka Babic provided the scoring for Harvard.
Babic added another goal to open the second half and the Crimson rallied for four consecutive scores in the quarter. Max Murphy scored at the 5:54 mark and William Roller found the back of the net with a lob over the Laker's goalie before Babic topped off the rally with his third goal of the day.
A Mercyhurst goal late in the third made the score 6-5 going into the final quarter.
Kevin DiSilvestro got the scoring started in the fourth with a goal with 5:14 left but Mercyhurst answered with two scores to tie the game at seven with 3:33 remaining. Max Murphy followed with a quick goal at the 3:14 mark to give Harvard the lead until Mercyhurst answered with a pair of goals in the next two minutes to give the Laker's a one goal advantage with a minute to play.
Harvard used a timeout to draw a play and Max Eliot converted within seconds to tie the score at nine. It was Eliot's team leading 27th goal of the season.
With less than 30 seconds to play, a lob pass from the top sailed over a pair of Laker defenders and into the middle of the Crimson offensive set where Evan Ramsey caught and fired past a diving Mercyhurst goalie and into the top left corner of the goal. The game winner came with 25 seconds to play and was Ramsey's sixth goal in the last two games.
The win gives Harvard momentum entering its annual California trip next weekend. The Crimson will square off against traditional water polo powers Cal Baptist, UC-Davis, Stanford, Pepperdine and Santa Clara over the course of three days.


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The SOPA and PROTECT IP bills scare the heck out of me. They have the potential to allow entertainment companies to decide what information is okay to share and what information is not, which sites are okay and which are not, and popular sites like Facebook and Twitter could get completely shut down for a single infringing link (or, what a single judge decides is an infringing link). Scare you? Want to know more? Watch this short video and get a brief education in the scary workings of SOPA and PROTECT IP.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.


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Anti-doping outreach programme conducted in Tijuana
Tijuana, Mexico, July 2, 2013 – The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) in collaboration with
the FIVB Heroes project and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recently conducted
an outreach programme on anti-doping in Tijuana, Mexico.
The three day programme was open to volleyball players, members of their medical and technical staff, team managers and coaches. It was led by Medical Delegate, Dr. Hector Lozada.
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About Burt Wolf
I was born on a small island just off the East Coast of the United States. Its name, Manhattan, comes from a Native American language and means "place of inebriation."
I attended the High School of Music & Art – as an art student, New York University – where I earned a BA degree in English Literature, and New York University Law School, where I learned that expert legal advice is one of the keys to happiness.
I have made television programs, written, edited and published books, consulted for major corporations and governments on product development, and marketing, built and ran a restaurant, worked in the travel industry and published museum-quality photography. All of which is dwarfed by my activities as husband and father of four boys.
I have never been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder; however, I am often described as having an unusually wide range of interests.
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I have produced over 4,000 segments for CNN (Cable News Network), 800 segments for ABC (the American Broadcasting Company), 125 half-hour programs for the travel division of The Discovery Channel, and 350 half-hours for public broadcasting in the United States.
Our programs are broadcast on Public Television to 90% of the television homes in the United States, then translated into Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Mandarin and Korean and syndicated to an international audience of over 100 million.
Our cultural history programs have included: The History and Future of Shopping; a series on Sacred Pilgrimage Sites; and a series on the History of Immigration to the United States. The New York Times described them as "the best food, travel, and cultural history shows on television."
In the Taste of Freedom series, we explored 13 major American holidays and gatherings to learn the history, folklore and rituals that have become central to those events. Special attention was paid to different ethnic groups and how they brought their own traditions to the occasions.
Travels & Traditions is a series of half-hour programs in which we travel to cities around the world and present their history, culture, gastronomy and tourist attractions.
At present, I am working as the executive producer of two new series, Artcops and Antiques Challenge, and overseeing the early research for a third series.
Artcops is a series of half-hour programs about missing art. Each year over 7 billion dollars of art, jewelry and antiques are stolen. The programs describe which objects have been stolen, why they are valuable from a historical and cultural viewpoint, how the theft took place and what the public can do to help recover the items. A central theme is the importance of these articles to the world's cultural history.
Antiques Challenge is a television series with Internet and e-commerce components – the Antiques Roadshow meets eBay.
My co-host is Newell Turner (the Editorial Director of House Beautiful and Elle Décor). The programs begin by presenting the history, cultural traditions and foods of a specific city in France. The major part of the program follows a team of experts who are challenged to furnish a dining room and a kitchen with things they buy in the antique shops and flea markets of the city. They work as a team and have four days and a limited budget to get the job done. As they shop, they also tell the viewers about the history, culture and technical aspects of the things they buy. At the end of the program, viewers are directed to a website where the objects that have been purchased for the show are offered for sale.
Aging Well will be a 10-part television series that presents the most reliable research we have on non-invasive techniques for staying healthier longer. An associated website will be updated each week. The series tag line is "How To Add Years To Your Life And Life To Your Years.".
I have written or edited 67 books. They were distributed by major publishing companies including Random House, Knopf, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster and McGraw Hill.
The Cooks' Catalogue, which is a guide to the history and use of cooking equipment, is often credited with starting the gourmet equipment business in the United States. TIME magazine described the book as "the definitive work on cooking equipment."
For a number of years I authored a weekly column for The Washington Post and was a regular contributor to the online publication, Salon.com.
Clients for my work as a communications consultant include Procter & Gamble, eBay, ConAgra Foods, Federated Department Stores, the government of Switzerland, the government of Taiwan, the government of Norway, the government of Canada and the government of Chile.
Product Development
I have worked on product development for a number of major companies including Procter & Gamble, General Foods, McCormick and the Origins division of Estee Lauder.
In partnership with Federated Department Stores (Bloomingdale's), I designed and managed a group of 276 food and cooking equipment shops that were installed in Federated stores throughout the United States. The franchise was eventually extended to May Company, Marshall Field's, Ives and Macy's outlets.
In 1980, I developed a branch restaurant in Memphis for the Brennan Restaurant group of New Orleans. I was responsible for raising the funding, the physical plan, menu and operating systems. The restaurant is still profitable and has had two expansions.
In 2005, I developed a travel company (Burt Wolf Tours & Cruises) to raise funds for local Public Television stations. The company takes PBS viewers on tours and cruises throughout the world. The group takes a trip that is based on one of our programs. They visit the same sites and travel the same route that was presented on Public Television.
I was the founder of the Double Elephant Press. For the past forty years, Double Elephant has published signed numbered portfolios containing the work of some of the world's greatest photographers including Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Helmut Newton. In 2011, we worked with curators at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art on a Public Television program that examined the relationship between photography and gastronomy and titled What Are They Eating In The Photograph?


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I have an unconventional family. We don't stay in the same house all the time. My dad is stationed in Tagaytay while my mom has her business in Paranaque. So, a few days before my birthday, my dad and my tita wanted to have lunch in celebration of my upcoming 21st brithday since my dad will not be here in Manila. Of course I wanted to look pretty and all but I found out that my clothes were still in the laundry and everyone was rushing me. So, plan B. This is what I found in my closet. I was so "kilig: when everything work together so well. :)
|Sorry for this shot of my feet:(
White lace top bought from a bazaar, black top (worn as inner wear) and bandage skirt from Greenhills, neon necklace from Passion for Fashion, arm candies from Mauve and InAccess, Casio watch, Sandals from Payless.
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Because no one reads the newspaper and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
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* Dwayne Collins the last pick of the 2010 NBA draft got the name "Mr. Irrelevant" tattooed on his hand. That will definitely impress people in job interviews. [MarkMcClune]
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This Tomato Salad Pita Pocket is fresh, simple and delicious. Raid your garden or farmer's market for crisp green lettuce and succulent tomatoes to get a true taste of summer.
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VANCOUVER - The B.C. government is facing legal action from an environmental group that claims the province doesn't have the right to give exclusive use of a public park to a specific group.
Friends of Strathcona Park is arguing in B.C. Supreme Court that the Environment Ministry should not have issued a park-use permit to Clayoquot Wilderness Resort in 2011.
She said that allowed the company to bring guided horse trips into a secluded area of the huge park on Vancouver Island.
Scott Bernstein, the group's lawyer, says granting rights to a single business, and what he calls its high-end clients, is not in the public interest.
The group's spokeswoman Bridget Horel says allowing a private company the exclusive right to bring horses into a wilderness area diminishes the park for everyone else.
She says the case is about ensuring the Environment Ministry protects parks for the good of the general public.
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From the BBC: "Schools across the UK are invited to take part in Off By Heart Shakespeare, an exciting new recital contest from the BBC, for students aged 13-15.
All students nominated by their school to attend a regional heat will perform a famous speech they have learnt from some of Shakespeares greatest plays. They will also get a fantastic opportunity to join a behind the scenes acting workshop where they will experience Shakespearean language like never before. They will learn how to breathe it, feel it, vocalise it and finally make it their own.
The eight finalists will battle it out on stage in a bid to be crowned Schools Shakespeare Champion in a televised final.
Dont miss out – there are still some places available at the regional heats. UK Schools can nominate students now by visiting bbc.co.uk/offbyheart
The BBC challenged ten celebrities to perform a speech from the set list. Go to the website to see comedienne Katy Brand play Titania, from A Midsummer Nights Dream, as a feisty glamour queen and Larry Lamb playing Jaques, from As You Like It, in an east-end café. There are lots more interpretations and classroom resources all available on bbc.co.uk/offbyheart"
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Should we boycott Shadow Complex?
For a game that has received almost nothing but unanimous critical acclaim and has been hotly anticipated by gamers ever since it was announced at E3, that seems to be quite a bizarre, almost ridiculous question. If you are unaware of the recent controversy surrounding Shadow Complex, you could be forgiven for thinking that the boycotters were enraged PS3 fans, lashing out at an exclusive Xbox 360 game.
However, Shadow Complex is currently at the center of a touchy and thorny political issue, as it has become apparent that the game is based upon a world co-created by Orson Scott Card, a notorious writer who viciously campaigns against same-sex marriage and believes homosexuality to be a sexual dysfunction.
Card will be making money from Chair Entertainment's recently released Xbox Live Arcade game. Hence the question, should we boycott Shadow Complex?
The answer is not simple. In fact, the question itself is not simple, made up as it is of many more questions that are undoubtedly brought to the surface when trying to unravel the debate.
Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic and public speaker. A number of his writings are political in nature and address the issue of gay marriage, which he believes is a "potentially devastating social experiment." It is Card's view that same-sex marriage would mark the end of democracy, and to that end, he has made a habit of opposing what he calls the "homosexual activist agenda."
Card denies he is a homophobe: "This is a term that was invented to describe people with a pathological fear of homosexuals -- the kind of people who engage in acts of violence against gays. But the term was immediately extended to apply to anyone who opposed the homosexual activist agenda in any way."
For a man who claims not to have a phobia of homosexuals, he seems quite scared of letting gay people marry. For example, he believes that gay marriage would "spell the end of democracy." He also seems to not have much respect for homosexuals, suggesting that they are "tragic genetic mix ups." Whether he truly hates homosexuals or not, it's obvious he doesn't like them very much, and is threatened by the idea of them having the same rights he enjoys as a heterosexual.
Shadow Complex, developed by Chair and Epic Games, has a universe created in conjunction with Card. The game acts as a prequel to Empire, a game currently being worked on by Chair. The studio contacted Card and offered him the chance to help embellish the game's universe, as well as write a novel based on the universe, also called Empire. It's a unique case of a novelist co-creating a world with a game developer, and has led to some confusion as to what is based on what.
The game itself is written by Peter David. When Gay Gamer wrote about the controversy, it was pointed out that Peter David was a "gay-friendly" comic book writer, who has always included gay characters in his work without persecution and has been responsible for some high-profile gay Marvel superheroes. David has also stated that he completely disagrees with Card's politics, and not just when it comes to homosexuality.
In addition, Chair toned down the political elements of Card's contribution to the Empire universe, providing more of an action flick-style game than a deep and twisting political thriller. Shadow Complex itself does not espouse a view on gay marriage, one way or another. However, despite the fact that Peter David wrote the game, that Chair itself doesn't hold a public political viewpoint and that Shadow Complex isn't for or against same-sex marriage, a number of gamers, especially those on that hotbed of intelligentsia NeoGAF, are chewing on a gristly bone of contention.
The fact is, Card made money from Shadow Complex. He may still be making money from it. He might make a buck for every download Chair has. For some people, purchasing Shadow Complex is akin to putting money into the pocket of a homophobic bigot. However, before we ask the question, "Should we boycott Shadow Complex?", we have to ask ourselves this, "Should we boycott anything involving someone whose political opinions we disagree with?"
If your answer to that question is yes, then you need to seriously rethink how you participate in the world. It's highly likely that everything you enjoy, from the TV shows you watch to the food that you eat, is benefiting somebody who holds views you disagree with -- views potentially more extreme than Card's. In all probability, you've given your money to far worse people than Card, who is, to be honest, little more than a small and frightened man with a big mouth and an illogical desire for normalcy based upon his Mormon ideals.
Gamasutra points out one such bigot who outranks Card. I'm sure many of you reading this have played a Dragon Quest game before. The music for Dragon Quest was composed by Koichi Sugiyama, who has worked on all nine main entries in the series. Sugiyama also happens to be a member of the far right and denies that the rape of Nanking ever happened. As much as Card's opinions dismay me, that little bigot couldn't hold a candle to Sugiyama, whose views are absolutely abhorrent and disgusting. However, should we not buy a Dragon Quest game because one of the team members is a man with a horrendous opinion?
At the end of the day, that's all these men have: Opinions. Everybody has opinions, perhaps views that even Card or Sugiyama find tasteless and distressing. Does this mean they have no right to a job? That they don't deserve to earn money? I don't think that's the case. Both men deserve the opportunity to make a living and earn their way in the world, however backward their thinking may be.
Can we successfully separate art and their creator? Some people can, quite easily. For instance, Gary Glitter is one of the United Kingdom's most famous pedophiles. He was a musician who had found fame in the seventies and was enjoying a huge cult following in the nineties when it was discovered that he was downloading child pornography to his computer. He has since become one of the most vilified, hated men in the country, spending the rest of his life hiding from vigilantes and the British press.
Y'know, there are still people that love a good Glitter tune.
Are these people wrong to still enjoy his music, while condemning the man himself? I don't think so. Glitter was a talented performer and showman, despite what he did, and while Gary Glitter -- or rather, Paul Gadd -- is a despicable creature, his music was good for what it was, and I don't blame anybody for still enjoying the art he created, provided they're not applauding him as a person. Once again, Glitter is a far worse human being than the relatively harmless Orson Scott Card.
Shadow Complex is a great little game. Better than the music of Gary Glitter, for sure. It's a great game that Card was only vaguely involved with and yes, it's true, he has likely made money from it. But he's not an evil man. He's a stupid man, in my opinion, but he's not the most reprehensible character in the world. My answer to the burning question, as you may have gathered, is no. No, we should not boycott Shadow Complex. But that's with emphasis on the we.
We as an organized unit should not boycott Shadow Complex. Getting up in arms and vilifying the game would put us on the same bigoted level as Card, really. He's entitled to his opinion, and Chair was entitled to collaborate with him and use his talent as a writer. But that's not to say you shouldn't refuse to buy the game if you feel strongly about it. I don't blame anybody for having reservations about buying this game if it indirectly benefits a man like Card. I was lucky enough to have a code for Shadow Complex, but I can't deny that if I was faced with the prospect of buying it, I wouldn't stop and think about Orson Scott Card at least briefly before making a purchasing decision.
Shadow Complex is an ambitious, impressive XBLA game that was developed by a team of good people who would benefit from your money far more than Orson Scott Card ever would. If you want to boycott it, that is indeed your choice, but the true question for me is this:
Would doing yourself out of a great game just to score an insignificant blow to an insignificant bigot really be worth it?
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