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The Most Honourable Tragedie of Sir Richard Grinuile, Knight. 1595.438
That time of yeare when the inamored Sunne Clad in the richest roabes of liuing fiers, Courted the Virgin signe, great Nature Nunne, Which barrains earth of al what earth desires Euen in the month that from Augustus wonne, His sacred name which vnto heauen aspires, And on the last of his ten trebled days, When wearie labour new refresh assayes.
Then when the earth out-brau’d the beautious Morne, Boasting his cornie Mantle stird with aire, Which like a golden Ocean did adorne, His cold drie carcasse, featurelesse, vnfaire, Holding the naked shearers scithe in scorne, Or ought that might his borrowed pride empaire, The soule of vertue seeing earth so ritch, With his deare presence gilds the sea as mitch.
The sea, which then was heauie, sad, and still, Dull, vnapplyed to sportiue wantonnesse, As if her first-borne Venus had beene ill, Or Neptune seene the Sonne his loue possesse, Or greater cares, that greatest comforts kill, Had crowned with griefe, the worlds wet wildernesse, Such was the still-foot Thetis silent paine, Whose flowing teares, ebbing fell backe againe.
Thetis, the mother of the pleasant springs, Grandam of all the Riuers in the world, To whom earths veins their moistning tribut brings, Now with a mad disturbed passion hurld, About her caue (the worlds great treasure) flings: And with wreath’d armes, and long wet hairs uncurld, Within her selfe laments a losse vnlost, And mones her wrongs, before her ioyes be crost
Thus whilst churning sorrowe ceaz’d her hart, Grinuile (ô melt my spyrit in that name,) As sings the Swan her funerall depart, And waues her wings the ensignes of her fame, So he, with vertue sweetning bitter smart, Which from the seas long toyling seruice came: For why, sixe Moones, and so oft times the Sunne Was past, and had one halfe the signes ore-runne,
Ere he the earth, our common Mother saw; Now earlie greets black Flores banefull Ile, (Flores, from whence afflictions selfe doth draw The true memorialls of a weeping stile;) And with Caisters Querristers1 which straw Descant, that might Death of his darts beguile, He tunes saluting notes, sweeter then long, All which are made his last liues funerall song.
Skillesse in deaths great Parliament he cals His fellow mat’s, and minions to his fame, Shewes them long lookt for land, and how it brauls, Repulsing backe the billowes as they came, Much he triumphes, and passed griefe for-stals With present ioy (sorrow lights pleasures flame:) And whilst his hopes of Happy–Fortune sings, Misfortune by, controls them with her wings.
Desir’d reliefe, and euer welcome rest, The elements that forme the wearie man, Began to hold a counsaile in his brest, Painting his wants by sicknes pale and wan; With other griefes, that others force opprest, Aduising stay, (as what is but they can,) Whilst he that fate to come, and past, nere feard, Concludes to stay till strength decayd repaird.
Then casts he Anchor hulling on the maine, And all his shyps poore Citizens recounts, And hundred iust were free from sicknes paine, Fourscore and ten death their redress accounts; So that of all both sicke and sound vnslaine, Vnto two hundred wanting ten amounts. A slender armie for so great a guide, But vertue is vnknowne till it be tride.
Those whom their harts enabled to attempt, He puts a shoare to make supplie for neede; Those whom long sicknes taught of death contempt, He visits, and from Ioues great Booke doth reede The balme which mortall poysen doth exempt; Those whom new breathing health like sucklings feed, Hie to the sands, and sporting on the same, Finde libertie, the liues best liuing flame.
Looke how a troope of Winter-prisoned Dames, Pent in th’ inclosure of the walled townes, Welcoms the Spring, Vsher to Somer flames, Making their Pastimes in the flowrie downes, Whose beauteous Arras2 wrought in natures frames, Through eyes admire, the hart with wonder crownes, So the wood-walled citizens at sea, Welcome both Spring and Sommer in a day.
The warring byllowes, seas artillerie, With long held siege, had bruz’d their beaten keele, Which to repaire the most, most busied be, Lab’ring to cure, what want in labours feele; All pleas’d with toyle, clothing extremitie In Hopes best robes, that hang on Fortunes wheele But men are men, in ignorance of Fate, To alter chaunce, exceedeth humaine state.
For when the Sun, towred in heauens head, Downe from the siluer mountaine of the skye, Bent his bright Chariot on the glassie bed, Faire christall, guilded with his glorious eye, Fearing some usurpation in his stead, Or least his Loue should too-long daliance spy Tweene him and Virgo, whose attractiue face, Had newly made him leaue the Lyons chase.
In that same myd-daies hower came sayling in, A thought-swift-flying Pynnase, taught by winde, T’ outstrip in flight Times euer flying wing; And being come where vertue was inshrinde, First vaild his plumes, and wheeling in a ring, With Goat-like dauncing, stays where Grinuile shynd, The whyle his great Commaunder calls the name, Which is ador’d of all that speakes the same.
The great Commaunder of this little Barke, Which like an Eglet armes the Eagles side, Was Midleton, the ayme of Honors marke, That more had prou’d then danger durst haue tride, Now seeing all good fortunes sun-shine darke, Thrise calls Sir Richard, who as oft replyde, Bidding him speake, and ring his newes aloude, Ill, not apald, nor good could make him proude.
O then (quoth Midleton) thou soule of all What euer boasts in magnanimitie, Thou, whom pure Vertue her best part doth call, Better then valure, stronger then dietie, Whom men adore, and all the gods exhall Into the bookes of endlesse memorie, I bring thee tidings of a deadly fray, Begun in Heauen, to end vpon the Sea.
The glorious Senate of the Skyes was set, And all the gods were royaliz’d in state, When Happy-fortune and Ill-fortune met, Striuing who first should enter Heauen’s gate, The one made mad the others fame to let, Neither but stirr’d with rage to wonder at, Confusedly, as water floods doe passe Their common bounds, such their rude entrance was.
The gods disturb’d, admire their strange aproch, Censuring their angers by their gloing eyes, Ill-fortune was attended by Reproch, Good-fortune, Fame, and Vertue stellesies;3 One sweares the other doth her right incroch, Which is the elder house, none can deuise: The gods diuide, yet in the end agree The Fates shall iudge each others pedigree.
Good–Fortune, drawes from heauen her hye descent, Making hie Ioue the roote of her large tree; She showes from him how many god-heads went, Archangells, Angells, heauen’s posteritie: From thence, she shows the glorious thrid she lent, To Monarks, Emperours, and Kyngs in fee, Annexing as Colatteralls to her line, Honour, Vertue, Valure, and Endles-time.
Naithlesse, Ill-fortune will be elder borne, She saith, she springs from Saturne, Ioues wronged Sier, And heauen, and earth, and hell her coate haue borne, Fresh bleeding harts, within a field of fier; All that the world admires, she makes her scorne, Who farthest seemes, is to Ill-fortune nier, And that iust proofe may her great praise commend, All that Best-chaunce begins, Ill-chaunce doth ende.
Thus they, dispute, guilding their tongues report With instances, and argumental sawes, Ill-fortune, bids let all the worlde resort, And show within their Chronicles and lawes, The man whose liue-line neuer did consort, With sharpe affliction, deaths first grounded cause, Then will she yeeld, else, is shee victor still. Worlds good is rare, perpetuall is their ill.
Euen as the racket takes the balls rebound; So doth Good-fortune catch Ill-fortunes proofe, Saying, she wil her in herselfe confound, Making her darts, Agents for her behoofe; Bow but thine eies (quoth she) whence ha’ts abound, And I will show thee vnder heauens roofe Th’ vnconquered man whom no mischance importunes. Crown of my kingdom, deaths man to misfortune.
At this, the casments of the skye broke ope, Discouering all what’s girdled in her frame, Whilst Happy-fortune through her eyes large scope Like a Cosmographer comments on the same; Three parts with praise she past and future hope, Then to the fourth, the Westerne world she came, And there, with her eyes festrawe paints a storie, Stranger than strange, more glorified than glorie.
See (sayd Faire-fortune, to her soule shapt Foe) How on the scourge that beates against the Ile Of Flores, whence they curst oblations growe, A winde-taught capring ship which ayre beguiles, (Making poore Cephalus for-lorne with woe, Curse arte, which made arte framed saile such smiles) Richlie imbrodred with the Iems of warre, In thy dispight commaunds a lucky starrye.
In that faire vessel liues my garlands flower. Grinuile, my harts immortall arterie; Of him thy deitie had neuer power, Nor hath hee had of griefe one simpathie; Successe attends him, all good hap doth shower A golden raine of perpetuitie Into his bossome, whete mine Empire stands, Murdring the Agents of thy blacke commands.
Say, and say true, (for what but thou wilt say,) That euer Grinuils fortunes came before thee, Of euer prostrate at thine Altars lay, Or with one wreath of Cipresse did adore thee? Proue one blacke storme in all his Sommers day, Whose threatening clouds compeld him to implore thee. Then wil I staine my milkwhite vaile with weeping, And as thine handmaide dye in sorrowes keeping.
As wounds the lightning, yet preserues the skinne, So did these words split Lucklesse-fortunes hart, Her smiling Superficies, lockt within A deepe exulcerated festring smart; Heere shee perceiu’d her first disgrace begin, And wordlesse from the heauens takes her depart. Yet as she flewe her wings in flying cri’d On Grinuile shall my fame and power be tride.
At her departure all the heauens were glad. Triumphing in Ill-fortunes banishment, Apollo set new Anthems as Ioue bad, Which spheare tunes made more then most excellent; No light in heauen but with new fier was clad, Making next Ioue, Good-fortune president, Enrowling in the Bookes of destenie, This memorable famous victorie.
Only the Fat’s su’d for her backe repeale, (For they Ill-fortune lou’d exceeding well) Many her deedes and Tropheis they reueale, And all her liues blacke legend, weeping tell; Yet all they speake, cannot in heauen preuaile, Which seene, in spight they follow her to hell, And there inhoused with their mother Night, All foure deuise, how heauen and earth to spight.
Hence sprang the loues of Ioue, the Sonnes exile, The shame of Mars and Venus in a net; Iunos forsaken bed; Saturns compile Of frantike discontentment, which beset All heauen with armes; Diana hence had while To court her sleeping boy; whilst Thetis let Phoebus imbrace her in her Neptunes stead, Who made complaints, breach of his bridall bed:
Yet not content with these disparagments, Much greater mischiefes issues from their minds, Grinuile, thy mountaine honour it augments Within their breasts, a Meteor like the winds, Which thrall’d in earth, a reeling issue rents With violent motion; and their wills combinds To belch their hat’s, vow’d murdrers of thy fame, Which to effect, thus they begin the same.
Fast to Iberia flies vntoward chaunce, Iberia, which we vulgar Christen Spaine, Vpon whose Sunne-burnt continent doth daunce Westerne Ducallidon, the greatest maine, Thither shee packs, Error doth their aduance Her coale-blacke standerd in the hands of paine; And as escapt from rauishment or bale, With false teares, thus shee tunes a falser tale.
Great Empire (said shee) blessed in thy birth, Beautious created for-head of this round, That with thy smiles first lent to heauen mirth, And bout thy temples all perfections woond, Lodgd in th’ immagin’d corners of the earth; Thou whom our centers Monarchesse art crownd, Attend my suite, baptisd in mournefull teares, Who but ere while triumphed on the spheares.
Nor for my selfe more then thine owne decay Which blindfold pleasure clouds as they arise, Be gracious, and retort the domefull daye Which thee and me to shame would sacrifice. Loe, on the great west-walling boisterous sea, Which doth imbrace thy gold-enclosing eyes, Of many sailes one man, of one poor Ile, That will my fame, and all thy faire defile.
His numberlesse great infinits of fame, Haue shut against me heauens great christall dore, The clouds, which once my feets dust had to name, Hang ore my forhead, threatning euermore Death to my praise; life to my infant shame, Whilst I with sighes mediate a new restore. And in my selfe behold my pleasures past, Swimming amongst the ioyes I cannot tast.
Th’ ambrosian Nectar-filled banqueting, No more shall I communicate, or see, Triumphes in heauen, Ioues masks, and reuelling, Are cleene exempt, both from my ioyes and me. The reason, for my loue to thee I bring, Trimming the locks with Iems of dietie, Making the gods a dread a fatall day, Worse then the Giants warre or Centaurs fray.
Poore goddesse, rob’d of all eternall power, Whose broken Statues, and down razed Fan’s, Neuer warm’d altars, euer forgotten hower Where any memorie of praise is tane, Witnes my fall from great Olympus tower; Prostrate, implore blame for receiued bane, And dyre reuenge gainst heauens impietie, Which els in shame will make thee follow mee.
Behold these robes, maps of my fortunes world, Torne, and distaind with eye-scornd beggerie; These rags deuide the Zones, wherein is hurld My liues distemprate, hote cold miserie; These teares are points, the scale these hairs vncurld, My hands the compasse, woe the emperie: And these my plaints, true and auriculer, Are to my Globe the perpendiculer.
Looke how I am, such art thou like to be If armes preuent not heauens intendiment, Grinuile, which now surfeits with dignitie, Burd’ning the Sea with my disparagement; Chiding the wanton winds if greedelie They kisse his sailes; or els too slowlie vent, Like Ioue, which bad the day be and it was, So bids he Conquest warre; she brings to passe.
The sole incouragement he giues his power, Is Prophet-like presaging of thy death, Courage he cries, euen in the dying hower, And with his words, recalls departing breath; O (sayes he to his Mat’s) you are my glories tower, Impregnable, wall’d with vnuanquisht faith, You are the hands and agents of my trust, I but the hart reuoluing what we must.
Liue Saints, til we haue ript the wombe of Spayne, And wounded Error in the armes of hell, Crushing the triple Myter in disdaine, Which on the seauenfold mounted Witch doth dwel, Angells rewards for such dissignes remaine, And on heauens face men shall your stories tell; At this they shoute; as eager of the pray, As Ants in winter of a sunne-shine day.
Thus like triumphant Cæsar drawne in Rome, By winged Valure, and vnconquered Chaunce, He plowes the Sea (ô were it made his tombe) Whilst Happy-fortune pypes unto his daunce. Yet may thy power alternat heauens doome, So pleaseth thee thy forward will t’aduance, And cheare the sinews of thy mighty arme, Whose out-strecht force shall quell his proud alarme.
Then giue newe fuell to his honours fier, Least slight regard wealth-winning Error slay, And so old Saturns happie world retyer, Making Trueths dungion brighter than the day; Was neuer woe could wound thy kingdom nyer, Or of thy borrowed beautie make display, Because this vow in heauens booke doth remaine, That Errors death shall consumate thy raigne.
Now, for my god-heads remnant liues in thee, Whose lost successe breeds mine eternall end, Take for thine ayde, afflicting Miserie, Woe, mine attendant, and Dispayre my freend, All three my greatest great Triumuerie, Blood bath’d Carnifici, which will protend A murdring desolation to that will, Which me in thee, and thee in mee would kill.
Here, with her fixed Comet-blazing eyes, The damned Augurs of vntimely death, Shee ends her tale, whilst from her harts caue flyes A storme of winds, no gentle sighing breath, All which, like euill spirits in disguise, Enter Iberias eares, and to her sayth, That all the substance of this damned storie, Was zealous true, coyned for her Spanish glorie.
Sworne to beleeue, for ill, in ill assies, Spayne then enamour’d with the Romane trull, Calls all her forces, more then Atomies, And tells Ill-fortunes storie to the full; Many Parenthises shee doth deuise, And frost-relenting words doth choycely cull, Bewitching those whom oft shee had deceiued, With such like Hemlock as her selfe receiued.
The first and greatest one, commaunding all, The soule of mischiefes old created mother, Was Don Alphonso Bassan, proud in brall, The Marques Sancta Cruces onely brother; Him shee coniures by typ’s emperiall, And all that falshoods seeming trueth could couer, To vndertake this hie (she termed it) act, Which craues a curse of all that reads the fact.
Her selfe (shee said) and all the flowers of Spayne, Should vnder his, as heauens Ensigne warre: Thus from her harts foule dunghill flyes amaine Grosse vapours, metamorphosd to a starre; Her words in fumes like prodogies retaine His hart, by her tongues witchcraft bound so farre, And what shee will, that will hee vnder-take, Be it to warre with heauen for her sake.
The seeming Nectar of her poysoning speech, So well shee saw surprise his licoras sence, That for to reare her ill beyonds ills reach, With selfe-like tropes, decks self-like eloquence, Making in Britain Dona such a breach, That her arm’d wits, conqu’ring his best wits sence, He vowes with Bassan to defende the broile, Which men of praise, and earth of fame shal spoile.
To him shee giues the Biscaynnoys for guard, Mechanicall Artificers for death, And those which of affliction neuer hard, She tempers with the hammer of her breath: To euery act shee giues huge lyp-reward, Lauish of oathes, as falshood of her faith; And for the ground of her pretended right, T’is hate, which enuies vertue in a Knight.
These two to her fast bound in vassailage, Vnto the Marques Arumburch shee flyes, Him shee prouokes, him shee finds apt to rage, Imprisoning Pitties teares in flintie eyes; To him the power of Siuill for a gage Shee doth bequeath; bidding his prowesse ryse, And clense his Countries face from widowes tears, To which he posts, like lightning from the sphears.
Lastly, to make vp mischiefes perfect square, To Luis Cutino shee takes her flight, Him shee commaunds, he to her homage sware To guide a Nauie to this damned fight, Of Hulks and Fly-boats such as durst to dare. Shee giues him soueraine rule, and publique right, And then vniting all foure powers in one, Sends them to sea, to calme Misfortunes mone.
And now behold (diuine for valiancie) Like flying Castells sayle they to this strand, Fiftie three saile, strong in artillarie; Best men of warre knowne in the Spanish land; Fifteene Armados, Kings of soueraigntie, Which led the lesser with a mightie hand: And these in foure battalions hither flie, With whom three dayes I sailed in companie.
Then gentle Grinuile, Thetis parramoure, Dearer than Venus, Daughter of the flood, Set sailes to wind, let not neglect deuoure Thy gracious fortunes and thine Angell goode, Cut through the maine, compell thy keele to scoure, No man his ill too timelie hath with-stoode And when Best-chaunce shal haue repaird thy fortune, Time for this flight may iust reuenge importune.
Here Midelton did end the passing peale Which gaue the warning to a dismall end, And as his words last knell began to faile, This damned Nauie did a glimmering send, By which Sir Richard might their power reueale, Which seeming conquerlesse did conquests lend; At whose appearance Midelton did cry, See where they come, for fame and pitty flie.
This certaine story, of too certaine ill, Did not extinguish, but gaue honour fier, Th’amazing prodigie, (bane of my quill,) Bred not astonishment, but a strong desier, By which this heauen-adopted Knights strong will, Then hiest height of Fame, flew much more hier: And from the boundlesse greatnes of his minde, Sends back this answer through his lyps refin’d.
Thanks hardie Midelton for thy dilate, Perswasiue presage to auoyde my death, But if thou wed my fortunes with my state, This sauing health shall suffocate my breath, To flye from them that holds my God in hate, My Mistres, Countrey, me, and my sworne fayth, Were to pull of the load from Typhons back, And crush my selfe, with shame and seruille wrack.
Nor if my hart degenerate should yeeld, To entertaine an amorus thought of life, And so transport mine honour to the field, Where seeming valure dies by cowards knife, Yet zeale and conscience shall new forces build, And others soules, with my soule holdeth strife; For halfe my men, and all that draw sound breath, Are gone on shore, for foode to conquer death.
If I forsake them, certaine is their end, If I obtaine them, doubtfull is our fall, Vpon my flight, shame and their sacks depend, Vpon my stay, hope of good hap doth call, Equall to me, the meanest I commend; Nor will I loose, but by the losse of all: They are the sinewes of my life and fame, Dismembred bodies perish cripple-lame.
This sayd, he sends a cock-boate to the shore, To summon backe his men vnto their ship, Who com’d a board, began with some vprore To way their Anchors, and with care to dip Their hie reuolues in doubt, and euermore, To paint deaths visage with a trembling lip, Till he that was all fearelesse, and feare slew, With Nectard words from them all dangers drew.
When Midelton saw Grinuills hie reuolue, Past hope, past thought, past reach of all aspire, Once more to moue him flie he doth resolue, And to that purpose tips his tongue with fier; Fier of sweete words, that easelie might dissolue And moisten flint, though steeld in stiffe attire, Had not desier of wonder praise, and fame, Extinkt the sparks, and still keepe dead the flame.
Greater, and better then inarked he, Which in the worlds huge deluge did suruiue, O let thy wings of magnanimitie, Not vainlie flatter, Honour to acchiue, Gainst all conceit impossibilitie, By which thou murderst Vertue, keepe aliue, Nor in thy seeking of diuinitie, Kill not heauens fame by base mortalitie.
O Grinuile thou hast red Philosophy Nature and Arte hath made thee excellent, And what thou read’st, hath grafted this in thee, That to attempt hie dangers euident Without constraint or neede, is infamie, And honor turnes to rashhes in th’euent: And who so darrs, not caring how he darrs, Sells vertues name, to purchase foolish starrs.
Deere Knight, thou art not forst to hazard fame, Heauens haue lent thee meanes to scape thine ill, If thou abide, as true as is thy name, So truly shall thy fault, thy death fulfill: And as to loue the life for vertues flame, Is the iust act of a true noble will, So to contemne it, and her helps exclude, Is baseness, rashness, and no Fortitude.
He that compard mans bodie to an hoast, Sayd that the hands were scouts, discouering harmes, The feete were horsemen, thundring on the coast, The brest, and stomacke, footmen, huge in swarmes. But for the head, in soueraigntie did boast, It Captayne was, director of alarms, Whose rashness, if it hazarded an ill, Not hee alone but all the hoast did spill.
Rash Isadas, the Lacedemon Lord, That naked fought against the Theban power, Although they crown’d his valure by accord, Yet was hee find for rashness in that hower: And those which most his carelesse praise affoard, Did most condemne what follie did deuoure; For in attempting, prowesse is not ment, But wiselie doing what we doe attempt.
Then sith t’is valure to abandon fight, And base to darre, where no hope is to winne, (Renowned man, of all renowne the light) Hoyst vp thy sailes, delay attrackts thy sinne, Flie from ill-boding starres with all thy might, Vnto thy hart let praise and pittie in. This sayd, and more desirous much to crie, Sir Richard stayd him, with this rich replie.
Captayne, I praise thy warlike eloquence, And sober Axioms of Philosophie, But now’s no time for schoole points difference, When Deaths blacke Ensigne threatens miserie; Yet for thy words sound of such consequence. Making flight praise, and fight pale obloquie, Once ere I die, Ile clense my wits from rust, And proue my flying base, my stay most iust.
Whence shall I flie? from refuge of my fame, From whom? euen from my Countreis mortall foe, Whither? but to the dungeon of my shame, Why shall I flie? for feare of happie woe, What end of flight? to saue vile life by blame, Who ist that flies? Grinuile? Captayne no, T’is England flies, faire Ile of happines, And true diuine Elizas holynes.
Shall then my life regard taynt that choice faire? First will I perrish in this liquid round, Neuer shall Sunne-burnt Spanyards tongue endeare Iberian eares with what shall me confound, The life I haue, I for my Mistris beare, Curst were that life, should it her scepter wound, And trebble cursed be that damned thought, Which in my minde hath any fayntnes wrought.
Now, for Philosophie defends thy theame, Euen selfe Philosophie shall arme my stile, Rich buskin’d Seneca, that did declaime, And first in Rome our tragicke pompe compile, Saith, Fortitude is that which in extreme And certaine hazard all base feares exile: It guides, saith he, the noble minde from farre, Through frost, and fier, to conquer honors warre.
Honie-tongd Tullie, Mermaid of our eares, Affirmes no force, can force true Fortitude, It with our bodies, no communion beares, The soule and spyrit, sole doth it include; It is that part of honestie which reares The hart to heauen, and euer doth obtrude Faint feare, and doubt, still taking his delight In perrills, which exceed all perrills might.
Patience, Perseuerance, Greatnes, and Strong Trust, These pages are to Fortitude their King, Patience that suffers, and esteemeth iust, What euer woe, for vertue fortunes bring; Perseuerance, holds constant what we must, Greatnes, that still effects the greatest thing. And armed Trust, which neuer can dispaire, But hopes good hap; how euer fatall deare.
The Roman Sergius, hauing lost his hand, Slew with one hand foure in a single fight, A thing all reason euer did with-stand. But that bright Fortitude spred forth her light Pompey, by storme held from th’ Italyan land, And all his sailors quaking in his sight, First hoisted saile, and cry’d amidst the strife, There’s neede I goe, no neede to saue my life.
Agis that guilt the Lacedemon streete, Intending one day battaile with his foes, By counsaile was repeld, as thing vnmeete, The enemie beeing ten to one in shoes; But he reply’d, Tis needful that his feete Which many leads, should leade to many bloes: And one being good, an Armie is for ten Foes to religion, and known naughty men.
To him that told Dienecus, his foes Couer’d the Sun with darts and armed speares, Hee made reply, Thy newes is ioy in woes, Wee’le in the shadow fight, and conquer feares. And from the Polands words my humor floes, I care for naught but falling of the Spheares. Thunder affrights the Infants in the schooles, And threatnings are the conquerors of fooles.
As these, my case is not so desperate, And yet, then these, my darre shall be no lesse: If this in them, for fame was wondred at, Then this in mee, shall my desiers expresse; Neuer shall Greece, nor Rome, nor Heathen state, With shining honor, Albions shine depresse, Though their great circuits yeelds their acts large bounds, Yet shall they neuer darr for deeper wounds.
And thus resolu’d, deere Midelton depart, Seeke for thy safetie in some better soyle, Thy stay will be no succour in my smart, Thy losse will make them boast of better spoyle. And be assur’d before my last breath part, Ile make the Sunne, for pittie backe recoyle. And clothe the sea within a scarlet pale, Iudge of their death which shall my life exhale.
This ship which now intombs my iealous soule, Honestlie enuious of aspiring laude, Is cald Reuenge, the scourge which doth controule, The recreants that Errors right applaud, Shall like her selfe, by name and fame enroule My spyrits acts, by no Misfortune aw’d, Within eternall Bookes of happie deeds, Vpon whose notes, immortall Vertue reeds,
Say, if I perish, t’was mine honours will, My Countries loue, religion, and my Queene, And if that enuie glorie in mine ill, Say that I dyed, conqu’ring, vnconquered seene. Say fiftie three strong shyps could not fulfill, Gainst one poore mayden vessell their foule teene, But that in spight of death, or miserie, She fought, and foyled, and scapt captiuitie.
Replie not Midelton, mine eares are clos’d, Hie in heauen’s for-head are my vowes ingrau’d, I see the banefull Nauie nowt disclosed, Begon betime, Fate hath thy fortune sau’d; To me good starres were neuer yet opposed, Glorie hath crownd me when I glorie crau’d, Farwel, and say how euer be my chaunce, My death at honours wedding learnt to daunce.
This sayd, away sailes Midelton with speede, Sad, heauie, dull, and most disconsolate, Shedding stout manlie teares at valures deed, Greeuing the ruine of so great estate; But Grinuile, whose hope euer did exceede, Making all death in daungers fortunate, Gan to prouide to quell this great vprore, Then which the like was neuer heard before.
His fights set vp; and all things fit prepard, Low on the ballast did he couch his sick, Being fourscoore ten, in Deaths pale mantle snar’d,4 Whose want to war did most their strong harts prick. The hundred, whose more sounder breaths declard, Their soules to enter Deaths gates should not stick, Hee with diuine words of immortall glorie, Makes them the wondred actors of this storie.
Nothing he left vnsaid that tongue could say, To breede contempt of death, or hate of thrall, Honours reward, fame for a famous day, Wonder of eares, that men halfe gods shall call: And contrarie, a hopelesse certaine way, Into a Tyrants damned fists to fall, Where all defame, base thoughts, and infamie, Shall crowne with shame their heads eternally.
In this great thunder of his valiant speech, From whence the eares-eyes honors lightning felt, The Spanish Nauie came within the reach Of Cannon shot, which equallie was delt On eyther side, each other to impeach; Whose volleys made the pittying skyes to melt, Yet with their noyse, in Grinuiles heart did frame, Greater desier, to conquer greater fame.
And now the sunne was past his middle way, Leaning more louely to his Lemans bed, And the noones third hower had attacht the day, When fiftie three gainst one were basely led; All harts were fierd; and now the deadlie fray, Began tumultuouslie to ouer-spread. The sea with fier, the Element with smoake Which gods, and monsters from their sleep awoake.
In foure great battailes marcht the Spanish hoast, The first of Siuill, led in two great squares, Both which with courage, more then can be most, Sir Richard forst to giue him way with cares; And as the Sea-men terme it in our coast, They sprang their luffe, and vnder lee declares, Their manie forces feebled by this one, Whose thoughts, saue him, are rightly due to none.
And now he stands amidst the thickest throngs, Walld round with wooden Castels on the waue, Fiftie three Tygers greedie in their wrongs, Besiedge the princelie Lion in his caue: Nothing sees Grinuile which to hope belongs, All things are fled that any hap could saue; Bright day is darkned by incurtaind night, And nothing visits them but Canons light.
Then vp to heauen he lifts his loftie hart, And cryes, old Salon, I am happy made. All earthlie thoughts cleane from his spirits part, Vertue and Valure all his sences lade, His foes too fewe, too strong he holds his part, Now doth he wish for millions to inuade, For beeing conqueror he would conquer all, Or conquered, with immortall honour fall.
Neuer fell hayle thicker then bullets flew, Neuer show’rd drops faster than showring blowes, Liu’d all the Woorthees, all yet neuer knew So great resolue in so great certaine woes; Had Fame told Cæsar what of this was true, His Senate-murdred spirite would haue rose, And with faire honors enuie wondred then, Cursing mortalitie in mightie men.
Whilst thus affliction turmoyld in this brall, And Grinuile still imployed his Actor death, The great San-philip, which all Spayne did call Th’ vnuanquisht ship, Iberias soule and faith, Whose mountaine hugenes more was tearmed then tall, Being twice a thousand tuns as rumour saith, Came rushing in, becalming Grinuiles sailes, Whose courage grew, the more his fortunes failes.
Hotlie on eyther side was lightning sent, And steeled thunder bolts dinge men to hell, Vnweldie Phillip, backt with millions lent, Worse cracks of thunder then on Phaeton fell, That with the dayes fier fiered the Element; And why? because within her ribs did dwell, More store of shot and great artillarie, Then might haue seru’d the worlds great victorie.
Three tire of Cannon lodg’d on eyther side, And in each tire, eleuen stronglie lay, Eyght in her chase, that shot forth right did bide, And in her sterne, twice eight that howerlie play; Shee lesse great shot, in infinets did hide, All which were Agents for a dismall day. But poore Reuenge, lesse rich, and not so great, Aunswered her cuffe for cuffe, and threat for threat.
Anon they graple eyther to the other, And doth the ban-dogge with the Martins skinne; And then the wombe of Phillip did vncouer, Eight hundred Souldiers, which the fight beginne: These board Sir Richard, and with thronging smother The daye, the ayre, the time, and neuer linne, But by their entrance did instruct eight more, To doe the like, on each side foure and foure.
Thus in one moment was our Knight assaild, With one huge Argosie, and eight great ships, But all in vaine, their powers naught prevaild, For the Reuenge, her Canon loud-dogs slips, Whose bruzing teeth, so much the Phillip quaild, That foundring in the greedie maine, he dips His damned bodie in his watrie tombe, Wrapt with dishonour in the Oceans wombe.
The other eight, fighting, were likewise foild, And driuen perforce vnto a vile retraite, None durst abide, but all with shame recoild, Whilst Valures selfe, set Grinuile in her seate; Onely Don Luis Saint Iohn, seeing spoild, His Countries honour by this strange defaite, Single encountred Grinuile in the fight, Who quicklie sent his soule to endlesse night.
George de Prunaria, a Spanish Knight, Euer held valiant in dispight of fate, Seconded Luis, and with mortall might, Writ on Sir Richards target souldiers hate, Till Grinuile wakned with his loud rung fight, Dispatcht his soules course vnto Plutos gate: And after these two, sent in post all those Which came within his mercie or his blowes.
By this, the sunne had spread his golden locks, Vpon the pale green carpet of the sea, And opned wide the scarlet dore which locks The easefull euening from the labouring day; Now Night began to leape from iron Rocks, And whip her rustie wagon through the way, Whilst all the Spanish host stoode maz’d in sight, None darring to assayle a second fight.
When Don Alfonso, Generall of the warre, Saw all his Nauie with one ship controld, He toare his hayre, and loudlie cryd from farre, For honour Spanyards, and for shame be bold; Awaken Vertue, say her slumbers marre Iberias auncient valure, and infold Her wondred puissance, and her glorious deeds, In cowards habit, and ignoble weeds.
Fie, that the spyrit of a single man, Should contradict innumerable wills, Fie, that infinitiues of forces can, Nor may effect what one conceit fulfills; Woe to the wombe, ceaselesse the teats I ban, That cherrisht life, which all our liues ioyes kills; Woe to our selues, our fortunes, and our minds, Agast and scarrd, with whistling of the winds.
See how he triumphes in dispight of death, Promethean like, laden with liuing fier, And in his glorie spits disdainfull breath, Loathing the baseness of our backe retire; Euen now me thinke in our disgrace he saith, Foes to your fames, why make you Fate a lyer, When heauen and she haue giuen into your hand, What all the world can neuer back demand?
Say that the God of Warre; Father of Chiualrie, The Worthies, Heroes, all fam’d Conquerours, Centaurs, Gyants, victorious Victorie, Were all this Grinuils hart-sworne paramours. Yet should we fightlesse let our shyps force flie: Well might we crush his keele with rocklike powers, And him with them ore-whelme into the maine, Courage then harts, fetch honour backe againe.
Heere shame, the fretting canker of the mind, That fiers the face with fuell from the hart, Fearing his weapons weakenes, eft assigned To desperate hardines his confounding dart, And now the Spanyards made through words stone blind, Desperate by shame, ashamd dispaire should part, Like damned scritchowles, chimes to dead mens hours, Make vowes to fight, till fight all liues deuours.
And now the tragicke sceane of death begins, Acts of the night, deeds of the ouglie darke, When Furies brands gaue light to furious sins, And gastlie silence gaping wounds did marke; Sing sadlie then my Muse (teares pittie wins) Yet mount thy wings beyond the mornings Larke, And wanting thunder, with thy lightnings might, Split cares that heares the dole of this sad night.
The fier of Spaynes pride, quencht by Grinuils sword, Alfonso rekindles with his tong, And sets a batelesse edge, ground by his word Vpon their blunt harts feebled by the strong, Loe animated now, they all accord, To die, or ende deaths conflict held so long; And thus resolud, too greedelie assay His death, like hounds that hold the Hart at bay.
Blacker then night, more terrible then hell, Louder then thunder, sharper then Phoebus steele, Vnder whose wounds the ouglie Python fell, Were bullets mantles, clowding the haplesse keele, The slaughtered cryes, the words the cannons tell, And those which make euen rocky Mountaines reele, And thicker then in sunne are Atomies, Flew bullets, fier, and slaughtered dead mens cries.
At this remorsles Dirgie for the dead, The siluer Moone, dread Soueraigne of the Deepe, That with the floods fills vp her horned head And by her waine the wayning ebbs doth keepe: Taught by the Fat’s how destenie was led, Bidds all the starres pull in their beames and weepe: For twas vnfit, chast hallowed eyes should see Honour confounded by impietie.
Then to the night she giues all soueraigne power, Th’eternall mourner for the dayes diuorce, Who drowned in her owne harts killing shower, Viewes others torments with a sad remorse. This flintie Princesse, ayme cryes to the hower, On which to looke, kinde eies no force could force. And yet the sight her dull hart so offended, That from her sight a fogge dewe descended.
Now on our Knight, raines yron, sword, and fiers, Iron wrapt in smoke, sword bath’d in smoking blood, Fiers, furies king, in blood and smoke aspires The consumation of all liuing good, Yet Grinuile, with like Agents like expires His foemen’s darts, and euermore withstood Th’assaults of death, and ruins of the warre, Hoping the splendour of some luckie starre.
On eyther side him, still two Gallions lay, Which with continuall boardings nurst the fight, Two great Armados, howrelie ploy’d their way, And by assaulte, made knowne repellesse might. Those which could not come neere vnto the fray, Aloose dicharg’d their volleys gainst our Knight. And when that one shrunk back, beat with disgrace, An other instantly supply’d the place.
So that their resting, restlesse him containd, And theyr supplies, deny’d him to supply: The Hydra of their mightines ordaind New spoile for death, when old did wounded lie: But hee, Herculian-like one state retaind, One to triumph, or one for all to die. Heauen had onelie lent him but one hart, That hart one thought, that thought no feare of smart.
And now the night grew neere her middle line, Youthfully lustie in her strongest age, When one of Spaynes great Gallions did repine, That one should many vnto death ingage, And therefore with her force, halfe held diuine, At once euaporates her mortall rage, Till powerfull Grinuille, yeelding power a toombe Splyt her, & sunck her in the salt waves wombe.
When Cutino, the Hulks great Admirall, Saw that huge Vessel drencht within the surge, Enuie and shame tyered vpon his gall, And for reuenge a thousand meanes doth vrge; But Grinuile, perfect in destructions fall, His mischiefes with like miseries doth scourge, And renting with a shot his wooden tower, Made Neptunes liquid armes his all deuouer.
These two ore-whelm’d, Siuills Ascension came, A famous ship, well man’d and strongly drest, Vindicta from her Cannons mouthes doth flame, And more then any, our dread Knight oppresst: Much hurt shee did, many shee wounded lame, And Valurs selfe, her valiant acts confest. Yet in the end, (for warre of none takes keepe) Grinuile sunck her within the watry deepe.
An other great Armado, brusd and beat, Sunck neere S. Michaels road, with thought to scape, And one that by her men more choicely set, Beeing craz’d and widow’d of her comly shape, Ran gainst the shore, to pay Ill-chaunce her debt, Who desolate for desolations gape: Yet these confounded, were not mist at all. For new supplies made new the aged brall.
This while on Grinuile ceazed no amaze. No wonder, dread, nor base astonishment, But true resolue, and valurs sacred blaze, The crowne of heauen, and starrie ornament Deck’t his diuine part, and from thence did raze Affects of earth, or earth’s intendiment. And in this broyle, as cheerefull was his fight, As Ioues, embracing Danae by night.
Looke how a wanton Bridegroome in the morne, Busilie labours to make glad the day, And at the noone, with wings of courage borne, Recourts his bride with dauncing and with play, Vntil the night which holds meane bliss in scorne, By action kills imaginations sway, And then, euen then, gluts and confounds his thought, With all the sweets, conceit or Nature wrought,
Euen so our Knight the bridegroome vnto Fame, Toild in his battailes morning with vnrest, At noone triumph’d and daunst, and made his game, That vertue by no death could be deprest; But when the night of his loues longings came, Euen then his intellectuall soule confest All other ioyes imaginarie were Honour vnconquerd, heauen and earth held deare.
The bellowing shotte which wakened dead mens swounds, As Dorian musick, sweetned his cares, Ryuers of blood, issuing from fountaine wounds, Hee pytties, but augments not with his teares, The flaming fier which mercilesse abounds, Hee not so much as masking torches feares, The dolefull Eccho of the soules halfe dying, Quicken his courage in their banefull crying.
When foule Misfortune houering on a Rock, (The stonie girdle of the Florean Ile,) Had seene this conflict, and the fearfull shock, Which all the Spanish mischiefes did compile, And saw how conquest licklie was to mock The hope of Spayne, and fauster her exile, Immortall shee, came downe herselfe to fight, And doe what else no mortall creature might.
And as she flew the midnights waking starre, Sad Cassiopea with a heauie cheare, Pusht forth her forehead, to make known from farre, What time the dryrie dole of earth drew neare, But when shee saw Misfortune arm’d in warre, With teares she blinds her eyes, and clouds the ayre, And asks the Gods, why Fortune fights with man? They say, to doe, what else no creature can.
O why should such immortall enuie dwell, In the enclosures of eternall mould? Let Gods with Gods, and men with men retell, Vnequall warres t’vnequall shame is sould; But for this damned deede came shee from hell, And Ioue is sworne, to doe what dest’nie would, Weepe then my pen, the tell-tale of our woe, And curse the fount from whence our sorrows flow.
Now, now, Misfortune fronts our Knight in armes, And casts her venome through the Spanysh hoast, Shee salues the dead, and all the lyuing warmes With vitall enuie, brought from Plutos coast; Yet all in vaine, all works not Grinuils harmes; Which seene, shee smiles, and yet with rage imbost5 Saith to her selfe, since men are all too weake, Behold a goddesse shall thy lifes twine breake.
With that shee takes a Musket in her hand, Raft from a dying Souldiour newlie slaine, And ayming where th’ vnconquered Knight did stand, Dischargd it through his bodie, and in twaine Deuids the euer holie nuptiall band, Which twixt his soule, and worlds part shold remaine, Had not his hart, stronger then Fortunes will, Held life perforce to scorne Misfortunes ill.
The bubling wound from whence his blood distild, Mourn’d to let fall the hallowed drops to ground, And like a iealous loue by riuall illd, Sucks in the sacred moisture through the wound; But he, which felt deaths fatall doome fulfilld, Grew fiercer valiant, and did all confound, Was not a Spanyard durst abord him rest, After he felt his deaths wound in his brest.
Hundreds on hundreds, dead on the maymed fall, Maymed on sounde, sound in them selues lye slaine, Blest was the first that to his ship could crall, For wounded, he wounds multituds againe; No sacrifice, but sacrifice of all, Could stay his swords oblations vnto paine, Nor in Phillipie, fell for Cæsars death, Soules thicker then for Grinuils wasting breath.
The Nemian Lyon, Aramanthian Bore, The Hircanian Tyger, nor the Cholcean Bulls, Neuer extended rage with such vprore, Nor in their brests mad monstrous furie lulls; Now might they learne, that euer learnt before, Wrath at our Knight, which all wrath disanulls, For slauish death, his hands commaunded more, Then Lyon, Tyger, Bull, or angrie Bore.
Had Pompey in Pharsalia held his thought, Cæsar had neuer wept vpon his head, Had Anthonie at Actiome like him fought, Augustus teares had neuer drowned him dead, Had braue Renaldo, Grinuiles puissance bought, Angelica from France had neuer fled, Nor madded Rowland with inconstancie, But rather slayne him wanting victorie.
Before a storme flewe neuer Doues so fast, As Spanyards from the furie of his fist, The stout Reuenge, about whose forlorne wast, Whilome so many in their moods persist, Now all alone, none but the scourge imbrast, Her foes from handie combats cleane desist; Yet still incirkling her within their powers, From farre sent shot, as thick as winters showers.
Anger, and Enuie, enemies to Life, Strong smouldering Heate and noisom stink of Smoke, With over-labouring Toyle, Deaths ouglie wife, These all accord with Grinuiles wounded stroke, To end his liues date by their ciuell strife, And him vnto a blessed state inyoke, But he repelld them whilst repell he might, Till feinting power, was tane from power to fight
Then downe he sat, and beat his manlie brest, Not mourning death, but want of meanes to die; Those which suruiu’d coragiouslie be blest, Making them gods for god-like victorie; Not full twice twentie soules aliue did rest, Of which the most were mangled cruellie, Yet still, whilst words could speake, or signes could show, From death he maks eternall life to grow.
The Maister-gunner, which beheld his eyes Dart fier gainst death triumphant in his face, Came to sustaine him, and with courage cryes, How fares my Knight? worlds glory, martiall grace? Thine honour, former honours ouer-flyes, And vnto Heauen and Vertue bids the bace; Cheere then thy soule, and if deaths wounding pain it, Abram’s faire bosome lyes to entertaine it.
Maister, he sayes, euen heers the opned dore, Through which my spirit bridgroome like must ride, (And then he bar’d his wounded brest all gore) To court the blessed virgine Lambe his bride, Whose innocence the worlds afflictions bore, Streaming diuine blood from his sliced side, And to that heauen my soule with courage flyes, Because vnconquered, conquering it dyes.
But yet, replyed the Maister once againe, Great vertue of our vertues, strive with fate, Yeeld not a minute vnto death, retaine Life like thy glory, made to wonder at. This wounds recouerie well may entertaine A double triumph to thy conquering state, And make thee liue immortall Angell blest, Pleaseth thee suffer it be searcht and drest.
Descend then gentle Grinvile downe below, Into my Cabin for a breathing space, In thee there let thy Surgion stanch our woe, Giuing recuer to thee, our wounded case, Our breaths, from thy breaths fountaine gently flow, If it be dried, our currents loose their grace: Then both for vs, and thee, and for the best, Descend, to haue thy wound bound vp and drest.
Maister, reply’d the Knight, since last the sunne Lookt from the hiest period of the sky, Giuing a signall of the dayes mid noone, Vnto this hower of midnight, valiantly, From off this vpper deck I haue not runne, But fought, and freed, and welcomd victorie, Then now to giue new couert to mine head, Were to reuiue our foes halfe conquered.
Thus with contrarie arguments they warre, Diuers in their opinions and their speech, One seeking means, th’ other a will to darre; Yet both one end, and one desire reach: Both to keepe honour liuing, plyant are, Hee by his fame, and he by skilfull leach, At length, the Maister winnes, and hath procurd The Knight discend, to have his woundings curd.
Downe when he was, and had display’d the port Through which his life was martching vp to heauen, Albe the mortall taint all cuers retort, Yet was his Surgion not of hope bereuen, But giues him valiant speech of lifes resort, Saves, longer dayes his longer fame shall euen, And for the meanes of his recouerie, He finds both arte and possibilitie.
Misfortune hearing this presage of life, (For what but chimes within immortall eares) Within her selfe kindles a home-bred strife, And for those words the Surgions doomes day swears. With that, her charg’d peece (Atropos keene knife,) Againe she takes, and leueld with dispairs, Sent a shrill bullet through the Surgions head, Which thence, through Grinuils temples like was led.
Downe fell the Surgion, hope and helpe was reft, His death gaue manumition to his soule, Misfortune smyld, and euen then shee left The mournfull Ocean, mourner for this dole; Away shee flyes, for all was now bereft, Both hopes and helpe, for life to win deaths gole; Yet Grinuile vnamaz’d with constant faith, Laughing dispisd the second stroke of death.
What foole (saith he) ads to the Sea a drop, Lends Etna sparks, or angry stormes his wind? Who burnes the root when lightning fiers the top? Who vnto hell, can worse then hell combind? Pale hungry Death, thy greedy longings stop, Hope of long life is banefull to my mind: Yet hate not life, but loath captiuitie, Where rests no trust to purchase victorie.
Then vp he came with feeble pace againe, Strength from his blood, blood from his wounds descending, Saies, here I liu’d, and here wil I sustaine, The worst of Deaths worst, by my fame defending, And then he fell to warre with might and maine, Valure on death most valiantly depending, And thus continued aye coragiously, Vntil the day chast shadowes from the sky.
But when the mornings dewie locks drunk vp A mistie moysture from the Oceans face, Then might he see the source of sorrowes cup, Plainly prefigured in that hatefull place; And all the miseries that mortals sup From their great Grandsire Adams band, disgrace; For all that did incircle him, was his foe, And that incircled, modell of true woe.
His masts were broken, and his tackle torne, His vpper worke hew’d downe into the Sea, Naught of his ship aboue the sourge was borne, But euen leueld with the Ocean lay, Onely the ships foundation (yet that worne) Remaind a trophey in that mighty fray; Nothing at all aboue the head remained, Either for couert, or that force maintained.
Powder for shot, was spent and wasted cleane, Scarce seene a corne to charge a peece withall, All her pykes broken, halfe of his best men slaine, The rest sore wounded, on Deaths Agents call, On th’other side, her foe in ranks remains, Displaying multitudes, and store of all What euer might auaile for victorie, Had they not wanted harts true valiancie.
When Grinuile saw his desperate drierie case, Meerely dispoyled of all success-full thought, Hee calls before him all within the place, The Maister, Maister-gunner, and them taught Rules of true hardiment to purchase grace; Showes them the end their trauailes toile had bought, How sweet it is, swift Fame to ouer-goe, How vile to diue in captiue ouerthrow.
Gallants (he saith) since three a clock last noone, Vntill this morning, fifteene howers by course, We haue maintaind stoute warre, and still vndoone Our foes assaults, and driue them to the worse, Fifteene Armados boardings haue not wonne Content or ease, but beene repeld by force, Eight hundred Cannon shot against her side, Haue not our harts in coward colours died.
Not fifteene thousand men araungd in fight, And fifteene howers lent them to atchiue, With fifty three great ships of boundlesse might, Haue had or meanes or prowesse to contriue The fall of one, which mayden vertue dight, Kept in despight of Spanish force aliue. Then list to mee you imps of memorie, Borne to assume to immortalitie.
Sith loosing, we vnlost keepe strong our praise, And make our glories, gaynours by our ends, Let not the hope of howers (for tedious dayes Vnto our lines no longer circuite lends) Confound our wondred actions and assayes, Whereon the sweete of mortal eares depends, But as we liue by wills victorious, So let vs die victours of them and vs.
Wee that haue mercilesse cut Mercies wings, And muffeld pittie in deaths mistie vale, Let vs implore no mercie; pittyings, But from our God, deere fauour to exhale Our soules to heauen, where all the Angells rings Renowne of vs, and our deepe tragick tale; Let us that cannot liue, yet liue to dye, Vnthrald by men, fit tropheys for the skye.
And thus resolu’d since other meane is reft, Sweet Maister-gunner, split our keele in twaine, We cannot liue, whom hope of life hath left, Dying, our deaths more glorious liues retain, Let not our ship, of shame and foile bereft, Vnto our foe-men for a prize remaine; Sinke her, and sinking with the Greeke wee’le cry, Best not to be, or beeing soone to dye.
Scarce had his words tane wings from his deere tong, But the stout Maister-gunner, euer rich In heauenlie valure and repulsing wrong, Proud that his hands by action might inritch His name and nation with a worthie song, Tow’rd his hart higher then Eagles pitch, And instantlie indeuours to effect Grinuils desier, by ending Deaths defect.
But th’ other Maister, and the other Mat’s, Disented from the honour of their minds, And humbly praid the Knight to rue their stat’s, Whom miserie to no such mischiefe binds; To him th’ aleadge great reasons, and dilat’s Their foes amazements, whom their valures blinds, And maks more eager t’entertaine a truce, Then they to offer words for warres excuse.
They show him diuers gallant men of might, Whose wounds not mortall, hope gaue of recuer, For their saks sue they to diuorce this night Of desperate chaunce, calld vnto Deaths black lure, Their lengthened liues, their countries care might right, And to their Prince they might good hopes assure. Then quod the Captaine, (deare Knight) do not spill, The liues whom gods and Fat’s seeke not to kill.
And where thou sayst the Spanyards shall not braue T’ haue tane one ship due to our virgin Queene, O knowe, that they, nor all the world can saue, This wounded Barke, whose like no age hath seene, Sixe foote shee leaks in hold, three shot beneath the waue, All whose repaire so insufficient beene, That when the Sea shall angrie worke begin, She cannot chuse but sinke and dye therein.
Besides, the wounds and brusings which she beares, Are such, so manie, so incurable, As to remoue her from this place of feares. No force, no wit, no meane, nor man is able; Then since that peace prostrate to vs repaires, Vnlesse our selues, our selues make miserable, Herculeen Knight, for pittie, pittie lend, No fame consists in wilfull desperat end.
These words with emphasis and action spent, Mou’d not Sir Richard, but inrag’d him more, To bow or yeeld, his heart would neare relent, He still impugns all thought of lifes restore; The Maister-gunner euer doth consent To act his wish, swearing, in beds of gore Death is most louelie, sweete and amiable, But captiu’d life for foulenes admirable.
The Captayne, seeing words could take no place, Turnes backe from them vnto the liuing few, Expounds what pittie is, what victors grace; Bids them them selues, them selues in kindnes rew, Peace if they please, will kindlie them imbrace, And they may liue, from whom warres glory grew; But if they will to desperate end consent, Their guilty soules too late shall mourne repent.
The sillie men, who sought but liuing ioyes, Cryes to the Captaine for an honord truce, Life they desire, yet no life that destroyes Their wonne renownes, but such as might excuse Their woes, their wounds, and al what els anoyes Beautie of laude, for other they refuse; All which the Captaine swears they shal obtaine, Because their foes, in doubtfull states remaine.
O when Sir Richard saw them start aside, More chaynd to life then to a glorius graue, And those whom hee so oft in dangers tryde, Now trembling seeke their hatefull liues to saue. Sorrow and rage, shame, and his honors pride, Choking his soule, madly compeld him raue, Vntil his rage with vigor did confound His heauie hart; and left him in a swound.
The Maister-gunner, likewise seeing Fate Bridle his fortune, and his will to die, With his sharpe sword sought to set ope the gate, By which his soule might from his bodie flie, Had not his freends perforce preseru’d his state, And lockt him in his Cabbin safe to lie, Whilst others swarm’d where haplesse Grinuile lay, By cryes recalling life, late runne away.
In this too restlesse turmoile of vnrest, The poore Reuenges Maister stole awaye, And to the Spanish Admirall adrest The dolefull tidings of this mournfull day, (The Spanish Admirall who then oprest, Houering with doubt, not daring t’end the fray,) And pleads for truce, with souldier-like submission Anexing to his words a straight condition.
Alfonso, willing to giue end to armes, For well he knew Grinuile would neuer yeild, Able his power stoode like vnnumbred swarmes, Yet daring not on stricter tearmes to build, He offers all what may alay their harmes Safetie of liues, nor any thrall to weild, Free from the Gallie, prisonment, or paine, And safe returne vnto their soyle againe
To this he yeelds, as well for his own sake, Whom desperate hazard might indamage sore, As for desier the famous Knight to take, Whom in his hart he seemed to deplore, And for his valure halfe a God did make, Extolling him all other men before, Admiring with an honourable hart, His valure, wisdome, and his Souldiours Art.
With peacefull newes the Maister backe returns, And rings it in the liuing remnants eares, They all reioyce, but Grinuile deadly mourns, He frets, he sighs, he sorrowes and despaires, Hee cryes, this truce, their fame and blisse adiourns, He rents his locks, and all his garments teares, He vowes his hands shall rent the ship in twaine Rather then he will Spanish yoke sustaine.
The few reseru’d, that life esteem’d too well, Knowing his words were warrants for his deede, Vnkindly left him in that monstrous hell, And fled vnto Alfonso with greate speede, To him their Chieftaines mightines they tell, And how much valure on his soule doth feede, That if preuention, not his actions dim, Twill be too late to saue the shyp or him.
Bassan made proude, vnconquering t’ouer-come, Swore the brave Knight nor ship he would not lose, Should all the world in a petition come: And therefore of his gallants, fortie chose To board Sir Richard, charging them be dombe From threatning words, from anger, and from bloes, But with all kindnes, honor, and admire To bring him thence, to further Fames desire.
Sooner they boarded not the crazed Barke, But they beheld where speechlesse Grinuile lay, All smeard in blood, and clouded in the darke, Contagious curtaine of Deaths tragick day; They wept for pittie, and yet silent marke Whether his lungs sent liuing breath away, Which when they sawe in ayrie blasts to flie, They striu’d who first should stanch his misery.
Anon came life, and lift his eye-lids vp, Whilst they with teares denounce their Generals wil, Whose honord mind sought to retort the cup Of deaths sad poyson, well instruckt to kill; Tells him what fame and grace his eyes might sup From Bassans kindnes, and his Surgions skill, Both how he lou’d him, and admir’d his fame, To which he sought to lend a liuing flame.
Aye mee (quoth Grinuile) simple men, I know My bodie to your Generall is a pray, Take it, and as you please my lyms bestow, For I respect it not, tis earth and clay: But for my minde that mightier much doth grow, To heauen it shall, despight of Spanish sway. He swounded, and did neuer speake againe. This said, orecome with anguish and with paine,
They took him vp, and to theyr Generall brought His mangled carkasse, but vnmaimed minde, Three dayes hee breath’d, yet neuer spake he ought, Albe his foes were humble, sad, and kinde; The fourth came downe the Lambe that all souls bot, And his pure part, from worser parts refind, Bearing his spirite vp to the loftie skyes, Leauing his body, wonder to wonders eyes.
When Bassan saw the Angell-spirite fled, Which lent a mortall frame immortall thought, With pittie, griefe, and admiration led, He mournfully complaind what Fat’s had wrought. Woe me (he cryes) but now aliue, now dead, But now inuincible, now captiue brought: In this, vniust are Fat’s, and Death declared, That mighty ones, no more than meane are spared. You powers of heauen, rayne honour on his hearse, And tune the Cherubins to sing his fame, Let Infants in the last age him rehearse, And let no more, honour be Honor’s name: Let him that will obtaine immortall vearse, Conquer the stile of Grinuile to the same, For till that fire shall all the world consume, Shall neuer name, with Grinuile name presume. Rest then deere soule, in thine all-resting peace, And take my teares for tropheys to thy tombe, Let thy lost blood, thy vnlost fame increase, Make kingly eares thy praises second wombe: That when all tongues to all reports surcease, Yet shall thy deeds, out-liue the day of doome, For even Angels, in the heasens shall sing, Grinuile vnconquered died, still conquering.
O ælinam.
“But being then imbost, the stately deer
When he hath gotten ground,” &c.
Drayton’s Polyolbian, xiii, p. 917.
438At London, printed by I. Roberts, for Richard Smith, 1595. (Written by Gervase Markham — KTH).
1 Choristers.
2 Hangings, so called from having first been made at Arras.
3 Constellations.
4 Entangled.
5 Blown by being hunted.
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In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first. It corresponds to the call-and-response pattern in human communication and is found as a basic element of musical form, such as verse-chorus form, in many traditions.
Call and response patterns between two musicians are common in Indian Classical Music, particularly in the style of Jugalbandi. Call and response is likewise widely present in parts of the Americas touched by the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It is extensively used in Cuban music, both in the secular rumba[1] and in the African religious ceremonies (Santería).[2]
Folk music[edit]
It is common in folk traditions of choral singing of many peoples, especially in African musical cultures[citation needed]. In the West, it is most readily seen in the sea shanty, African-American work songs, military cadences, Québecois folk songs, and the dance-songs of various European countries including France (particularly Brittany) and the Faroe Islands.
Classical music[edit]
In classical European music it is known as antiphony.
Popular music[edit]
The phenomenon of call and response is pervasive in modern Western popular music, as well, largely because Western music has been so heavily shaped by African contributions. Cross-over rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll and rock music exhibit call-and-response characteristics, as well. Three examples are The Who's song "My Generation",[3] "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin,[citation needed] and The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York"[citation needed]:
"My Generation" vocal melody with response.[3] About this sound Play
To make an attempt at diagramming it:[citation needed]
• Twelve bars:
• A: 4-bar CALL
• (2-bar vocal CALL
• [1-bar CALL, 1-bar RESPONSE]
• 2-bar instrumental RESPONSE
• (2-bar vocal CALL
• [1-bar CALL, 1-bar RESPONSE]
• 2-bar instrumental RESPONSE
• B: 4-bar RESPONSE (repeated)
• (2-bar vocal CALL
• [1-bar CALL, 1-bar RESPONSE]
• 2-bar instrumental RESPONSE/turnaround
Leader/Chorus call and response[edit]
A single leader makes a musical statement, and then the chorus responds together. American bluesman Muddy Waters utilizes call and response in one of his signature songs, "Mannish Boy" which is almost entirely Leader/Chorus call and response.
• CALL: Waters' vocal: "Now when I was a young boy"
• RESPONSE: (Harmonica/rhythm section riff)
• CALL: Waters': "At the age of 5"
• RESPONSE: (Harmonica/rhythm section riff)
• CALL: Drop the coin right into the slot.
• RESPONSE: (Guitar riff)
• CALL: You gotta get something that's really hot.
• RESPONSE: (Guitar riff)
Question/Answer call and response[edit]
An example of this is the Christmas song Must Be Santa:
CALL: Who laughs this way, ho ho ho?
RESPONSE: Santa laughs this way, ho ho ho!
A similar question-and-answer exchange occurs in the movie Casablanca between Sam and the band in the song Knock On Wood:
CALL: Who's got trouble?
RESPONSE: We've got trouble!
CALL: How much trouble?
RESPONSE: Too much trouble!
Question/Answer in Indian Classical Music[edit]
A distinct section in North Indian Classical Music is known as sawaal-javaab (question-answer). Primarily an instrumental technique, the sawaal-javaab occurs between two artists. One artist will present a melodically and rhythmically challenging riff which will be either replicated or improved upon by the other artist.
3. ^ a b Middleton (1990). Studying Popular Music,[page needed]. ISBN 0-335-15275-9.
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Alcoholic beverages[edit]
In New South Wales, a "half and half" (also known as a "fifties") consists of half Tooheys New (a lager) and half Tooheys Old (a dark ale). In pubs where Tooheys New is not available, Carlton Draught may be substituted. This is commonly known as a 'Flaming Carlo'. Other combinations are:
Tooheys Old & Tooheys New = "Bruiser"
Carlton & Fosters Light = "Tutti Frutti"
Carlton & Lift with Iceblocks = "Swamp Water" or "Swampi"
In some cafés in Brussels, a "half en half" (Dutch for "half and half") is a mixture of white wine and champagne.
Originally, it was a mixture of 2 different typical beer types from Brussels: 50% lambic and 50% faro.
Ireland, England and North America[edit]
In Ireland, a half and half is a combination of Guinness draught and Harp or Smithwicks Ale, with the Guinness in a layer on top.
In England, a half and half may also mean a mixture of mild ale and bitter.
In the North East of England, a request for a half and half would more commonly produce a combination of Scotch ale and India Pale Ale (IPA). This drink fell from favour when the Scottish & Newcastle brewery were obliged to sell many of their tied public houses and McEwan's Scotch and IPA disappeared from public bars across the North East.
In Canada and the United States, capitalized Half & Half is Guinness draught and Bass Pale Ale. A lower case half & half is a generic Guinness draught. Black and tan is any lager or ale that will support the Guinness draught, although some Irish-themed bars shun the term for its association with the Black and Tans.
In Scotland, a half and a half (a hauf an a hauf)[2] is a dram of whisky and a half-pint of heavy as a 'chaser'.[3][4]
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia[edit]
Non-alcoholic beverages[edit]
The Arnold Palmer, also known as a half and half, is popular in the Southern United States. The drink consists of 1 part lemonade and 1 part iced tea.
Some coffee shops in colder climates serve a half and half drink consisting of half coffee and half hot chocolate, similar to cafe mocha.
Half & Half might refer to a flavor of soda which combines the flavors of grapefruit and lemon.
Canada and the United States[edit]
In Canada and the United States, half and half (known as "half cream" in the United Kingdom) almost always refers to a light cream typically used in coffee. The name refers to the liquid's content of half milk and half cream. Its butterfat content is 12.5%.[5] It is widely available in the United States, both in individual-serving containers and in bulk. It is also used to make ice cream. Non-fat versions of the product are also available, containing corn syrup and other ingredients.[6]
In the German-speaking part of Switzerland, especially in the north-eastern part, a mixture of apple and orange juice is known as "halb halb" ("half half", sometimes written 1+1[7]).[8]
Half and half, in South Wales and North West England, is commonly understood to be a bed of half chips and half rice.[9][10] A classic selection would be "chicken curry half and half" or "chili con carne half and half".
In the Netherlands, "half om half gehakt" (half for half) is commonly used for minced meat, a mixture of beef and pork (or lamb in Islamic butchers). The term "Gehacktes halb und halb" is used in Germany, also referring to minced meat.
1. ^ Stradley, Linda. "Cream, Types of Cream, Definitions of Cream". What's Cooking America. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
2. ^ Smith, Ken (Thursday 8 December 2011). "Driven to distraction". The Herald. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
3. ^ "West Word news from the Highlands of Scotland". Road-to-the-isles.org.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
4. ^ Mairi Robinson, ed. (1985). The Concise Scots Dictionary. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press. p. 262. ISBN 0-08-028492-2. "a small WHISKY with half pint of beer as chaser"
5. ^ Legally, it may be between 10.5% and 18% butterfat
6. ^ "Fat Free Half & Half". Consumer.darigold.com. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
7. ^ "Aproz, Verschiedene Fruchtsäften". Aproz Sources Minérales SA. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
8. ^ "obi Halb Halb". Thurella AG. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
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Norfolk Terrier
Norfolk show.jpg
A Norfolk Terrier at a conformation show
Country of origin Great Britain
Dog (Canis lupus familiaris)
The Norfolk Terrier has a wire-haired coat which, according to the various national kennel clubs' breed standards, can be "all shades of red, wheaten, black and tan, or grizzle."[1]
They are the smallest of the working terriers. They are active and compact, free moving, with good substance and bone. Good substance means good spring of rib and bone that matches the body such that the dog can be a very agile ratter or earth-dog.
The ideal height is 9 to 10 in (23 to 25 cm) at the withers and weight is about 11 to 12 lb (5.0 to 5.4 kg).[2]
Norfolks are described as fearless, but can be aggressive. They, along with Norwich Terriers and Border Terriers, have the softest temperaments of the Terrier Group. Norfolks work in packs and must get along with other dogs. As companions, they love people and children and do make good pets. Their activity level is generally reflective of the pace of their environment. This breed should not be kept or live outside since they thrive on human contact. Generally, Norfolks are not given to digging but, like any dog, will dig out of boredom when left alone for too long a period. Norfolks can be barkers and are very vocal. They generally cohabit well with other household pets when introduced as a puppy. Outdoors, they are natural hunters with a strong prey drive for small vermin.
Norfolks are self-confident and carry themselves with presence and importance, holding their heads and tails erect. A Norfolk that is shy or that carries its tail between its legs is atypical, as it is hot-tempered and aggressive with other dogs; these traits are not the standard. A Norfolk's typical temperament is happy, spirited, and self-confident.
Working style[edit]
Norfolks were originally bred as barn dogs to rid the barn of vermin. Some literature suggest that they were also occasionally used on the hunt to bolt animals of equal size from their den. To some extent they are still used in that capacity in continental Europe. Norfolks are pack animals and hence expected to get along with other dogs while working or in the home. As a pack dog, they take turns working their prey. They are fearless and their courage is incredible. Today, of course, they are household companions and must have an agreeable disposition for living with people.
The life expectancy of a Norfolk Terrier is 8–14 years, with some growing as old as 17 years.[3] Norfolks do have incidences of mitral valve disease, luxating patellas, and incorrect bites (where the teeth do not align with the breed standard, i.e. overshot or undershot). Norfolks most often have shallow hip sockets and many breedlines are dysplastic. There has never been a Norfolk Terrier recognized by the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) as having "excellent" rated hips. Therefore responsible breeders are testing for hip dysplasia. Breeders that do not radiograph hips and have them evaluated by either OFA or PennHip, cannot answer questions regarding hip dysplasia in their breeding program.
A recently groomed Norfolk
These breeds have a double coat: a harsh, wiry topcoat and a soft, warm undercoat. Ideally, the coat is combed daily with a steel "greyhound" comb, but all that is really necessary for grooming a companion dog is a good combing once a week to remove the loose, dead hairs and prevent matting. As a minimum, the coat is hand stripped once in the Fall and once in the Spring. Clipping or cutting ruins the coat's colours and harsh texture. A Norfolk Terrier can be washed with a dog shampoo when it's dirty.
They were first called the Cantab Terrier when they became fashionable for students to keep in their rooms at Cambridge University in England.[4] Later, they were called the Trumpington Terrier, after Trumpington Street where the breed was further developed at a livery stable.[5] Then, just prior to World War I, a prominent Irish horse rider Frank Jones sold quantities of the short-legged terriers to the USA, so there they were called Jones Terriers.[6] It was Jones who designated the terriers were from Norwich.[6]
1. ^ Breed Standard at the Canadian Kennel Club's website (requires registration)
2. ^ Norfolk Terrier at the American Kennel Club's website
3. ^ "Individual Breed Results for Purebred Dog Health Survey".
4. ^ Read, Joan R. The Norfolk Terrier, Third Edition, American Norfolk Terrier Association (ANTA), 2004, p.16.
5. ^ Read, Joan R. The Norfolk Terrier, p.17.
6. ^ a b Read, Joan R. The Norfolk Terrier, p.20.
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Semeru in 1985.
Elevation 3,676 m (12,060 ft)
Prominence 3,676 m (12,060 ft)
Ranked 44th
Listing Ultra
Semeru is located in Java
Java, Indonesia
Coordinates 8°6′28.8″S 112°55′12.0″E / 8.108000°S 112.920000°E / -8.108000; 112.920000Coordinates: 8°6′28.8″S 112°55′12.0″E / 8.108000°S 112.920000°E / -8.108000; 112.920000
Type Stratovolcano
Last eruption 2013
First ascent Unknown
Easiest route Hike
Semeru volcano, July 2004
Semeru, or Mount Semeru (Indonesian: Gunung Semeru), is an active volcano located in East Java, Indonesia. It is the highest mountain on the island of Java. The stratovolcano is also known as Mahameru, meaning 'The Great Mountain.[1] The name derived from the Hindu-Buddhist mythical mountain of Meru or Sumeru, the abode of gods.
Known also as Mahameru the (Great Mountain), it is very steep rising abruptly above the coastal plains of eastern Java. Maars containing crater lakes have formed along a line through the summit of the volcano. It was formed south of the overlapping Ajek-ajek and Jambagan calderas.[1] Semeru lies at the south end of the Tengger Volcanic Complex.
Eruptive history[edit]
Semeru has been in a state of near-constant eruption from 1967 to the present. At times, small eruptions happen every 20 minutes or so.[2]
Semeru is named from Sumeru, the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology and by extension Hinduism. As stated in legend, it was transplanted from India; the tale is recorded in the 15th-century East Javanese work Tantu Pagelaran. It was originally placed in the western part of the island, but that caused the island to tip, so it was moved eastward. On that journey, parts kept coming off the lower rim, forming the mountains Lawu, Wilis, Kelut, Kawi[disambiguation needed], Arjuno and Welirang. The damage thus caused to the foot of the mountain caused it to shake, and the top came off and created Penanggungan as well.[4] Indonesian Hindus also hold a belief that the mountain is the abode of Shiva in Java.
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b c "Semeru: Summary". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution.
2. ^ for March 2009 eruption
3. ^ "Birth of Soe Hok Gie". Viva News. December 17, 2008.
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Carbon Impact of Meats
August 8, 2010
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint By Eating Less Red Meat
Red Meat. In terms of taste, I’ve always preferred baby back ribs to herb-roasted chicken, and honey glazed and grilled salmon to chicken marsala. In terms of cost, I’ve always preferred chicken over pork and fish.
However, in terms of carbon impact, I am not sure which meat I should prefer. There seem to be many different figures comparing the carbon footprints between various meats, but they all seem to follow a basic trend. How can I eat more healthy and more environmentally responsible without resorting to prison pap? How can I reduce my carbon footprint, life a more sustainable lifestyle, kick out less carbon, simply through my choice of meat?
Beef and lamb has the largest carbon footprint because producing a unit of beef or lamb (a ton, a kilogram, or whatever unit) contributes about four times more CO2 than producing an equal amount of pork, turkey, or chicken.
Producing pork contributes slightly more CO2 than chicken and turkey.
Eggs, a compact source of protein, produce about half as much CO2 as beef or lamb.
Last and in this case least, raising fish contributes a little more than half the CO2 of producing either chicken or turkey.
Okay, I promise to not say “producing” again in this post. Below, I’ve provided a set of rough and very unscientific ratios of CO2 output per unit of meat, just to give those visual learners a clearer understanding.
Please don’t hold me accountable to IPCC or USDA data on this one or else I will be in big trouble.
Ratio of Unit of Meat to CO2 output can be understood in this order….. Beef: Lamb: Eggs: Pork: Turkey: Chicken: Fish = 16: 14: 8: 5: 4: 4: 3
Also, be wary of these ratios may fluctuate slightly due to differences in packaging, quality and type of feed, and transportation and processing can adjust these ratios in every direction. Use this scale directionally. It will naturally skew if the meat is transported long distances or if the pieces are individually wrapped (using a lot of plastic, … petroleum). Otherwise, its a good approximation.
So to answer my own question, from a “carbon footprint perspective”, I should clearly prefer fish over all the other meats options. However, just like everyone else, I make consumption choices for a number of reasons. It’s not like suddenly I’m only going to only eat fish, even despite how cool it would be to be able to identify myself as a “pescatarian”. On a similar note, it’s not like I’m going to completely abstain from putting cheese and bacon on my quarter-pound hamburger just to be more eco-friendly, but it is at least good to have a rough understanding of the implications of your consumption decisions.
Regardless, for now I think I’ll still opt for whole milk American cheese on my burger, but will start weening myself towards the less carbon intensive meat options, more often!
If you want to dig deeper and have a more profound understanding of food’s link to climate change, you can explore the debate of whether we should focus on scaling back our meat-eating as a solution to climate change. Some say it is crucial to reducing carbon dioxide and methane emissions, while others say we can omit this step, and just eat what we like and conserve in other ways.
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American Apparel founder Dov "Pants-optional" Charney has been repeatedly sued for sexual harassment and he masturbated in front of a reporter. One wonders what their lenders think of this. Well, turns out they're into eating sushi off naked chicks' bodies.
Lion Capital holds around $80 million of American Apparel's total $120 million in debt; they have been the troubled company's largest creditor ever since the t-shirt concern first started experiencing credit issues, in early 2009. In fact, Lion's loan effectively saved the company from bankruptcy.
Lion owns around 18% of American Apparel, and it has been unusually indulgent with its debtor. American Apparel has been so wracked by plummeting sales and spiraling costs that it has twice had to announce its inability to meet the terms of its obligation to Lion. In response, Lion restructured its loan once already this May; last month, American Apparel admitted it was again falling into default, and might not have enough cash to continue its operations through the next year. Lion is expected to work with American Apparel to restructure the loan again, possibly at the cost of even higher interest rates. (American Apparel is currently paying a whopping 17% interest.)
But what kind of a company is Lion, exactly? Aside from one that seems as interested in making questionable investments as Dov Charney is in making questionable legwear? The Guardian reports that Lion is pretty much run by the scuzzy rich dudes one would expect:
Lion Capital may not be an entirely grey-suited, sober company of British investors. Just last week, Lyndon Lea, the son of a Lancashire hairdresser and a founding partner of the private equity firm, was reported to have held a no-expense-spared polo party at his £25m mansion in Montecito, California, with sushi being served off scantily clad women rather than plates.
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"Did you know you can be charged up to $250,000 for destroying an eagle egg, but you can destroy babies in the womb?" McGill asked the Times-Journal. That was actually not the most inane question he asked. This was:
"So my question concerning aborted babies is, where do they go, heaven or hell? I just want to know what [people's] perspective is."
He just wants to know! Can't blame a guy for asking a simple question about imaginary angels!
Of course, the bill itself isn't any wackier than other personhood initiatives, like Paul Ryan's Sanctity of Human Life Act. North Dakota lawmakers are voting on a personhood measure tomorrow. Given the shitty state of current anti-abortion events, we hope Broseph keeps asking dumb questions and comparing women to birds, in hopes that the concept of personhood will fly far, far away.
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NBC resolves lawsuit over 'To Catch a Predator' suicide
The network said her suit was without merit.
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the sick bastard knew he was guilty thats why he took the coward way out!thanks nbc for getting those sick bastards caught and put in jail where they belong! burn in hell conradt
NBC guilty?? So because the child molestor kills himself, obviously knew he had broken the law and KNEW he wouldn't survive in prison, did the weak thing and killed himself. So NBC is guilty because there are child molestors out there? Seriously?
I think anyone who thinks NBC is guilty obviously sides with the pedophiles and child molestors out there. You can't blame a show for catching people who are breaking the law. I wish they would stay back on and put more of these disgustin low life creatures in prison where they belong.
A lot of you keep saying "the show outed a paedophile and this woman won the jackpot."
You're missing the point entirely.
The show, not the police, not the prosecutors, but the show was the one that "researched" the crime. We only have the TV shows word that he was guilty. We only have their side of the story.
Now, as for "only guilty people kill themselves". Imagine if you were called a paedophile on (inter)national TV. How would you feel? How would your family react? How would your neighbours? They showed his house, so how would strangers react and know where you lived?
And keep in mind, he's hadn't been found guilty. Perhaps he was a paedophile. Perhaps he thought he was talking to another adult that was role playing. Perhaps it wasn't him at all.
Whatever the case, the police are the ones in charge of gathering the facts, and the courts are the place for guilt to be assigned. This abomination of a TV show bypassed both of those.
I'm glad they had to pay.
I think it is very clear what those potential sex offenders were up to. I have seen many episodes of Dateline To Catch A Predator. If those girls had really been underage those men were clearly going to have sex with those young girls and boys. Chris Hansen clearly has a sincere motive to catch predators. He is trying to prevent these guys from taking advantage of young girls in the future. SEXUAL PREDATORS NEED TO BE CAUGHT. TAKING THAT SHOW OFF AIR IS LIKE OPENING THE DOOR TO SEXUAL PREDATORS.
It's unfortunate that people kill themselves due to embarrasment and sickness. However, what about the poor "children" that lives are RUINED because an ADULT decides to have sex with someone, sometimes, as young, or younger than their own kids!! This is a perverted world and it will take God to come down and pluck the weeds from his flowers. Mr. Hansen,I applaude you for trying to protect the children and trying to get it across to the parents that children should be monitored when on line due to the abundance of perverts in all categories; from Judges to Janitors. I hope the parents are more alert to this kind of insensitive trash to youth and that the nasty, sick, men/women are continually exposed. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
How can you claim there is only one side of the story being shown? The guy talked on the phone and on his computer to what he thought was a kid, and got cold feet when he thought it was a police sting. Why does Patty need money? Her brother kills himself for being a pedo, so she gets millions of dollars? How will that make things better for her? Surely it would have been better if she campaigned for a public apology and admission of wrongdoing by NBC, not $105 million!?
I just wish the guy who dresses in the ghillie suit had infiltrated the house and taken him down, Hansen style. WOOF WOOF TERRIERS
Listen i watched the show i am 23 and i have 2 kids 2 and 3 boy and girl. What they are doing should be done. It is sad to see these men trying to me KIDS and that is what they are just kids if datline hadnt been there God only knows what would have happened if they would have refused the suspect could have gotten mad and raped or even worse to the victims. That guy just couldnt deal with getting caught so he did what anyone would have done to keep from ruining his name esepecially if they were an assistant DA i
I love all the people that like to say he hadn't been found guilty of anything yet and that the police never should have gone after him in the first place.
Ever heard of "soliciting a minor"? Yeah, it's a crime.
NBC shouldn't be targeted for showing the realities of the world. Would you rather watch Orange County housewives?
Perverted Justice and NBC played "Cops" just with "soliciting a minor". They have ever right to expose people that choose to engage in a CRIME. They are going to be arrested and to say these pedophiles have never been convicted really shows how little you know. Perverted Justice has hundreds convicted of actual CRIMES.
Stop trying to play Law and Order people when you don't know what these people are actually guilty of.
Ty, House wives isn't an NBC show but your right... Claiming NBC is guilty of entrapment is just stupid. It's more obvious how dumb this lawsuit is by just looking at the amount the sister sued for.
105 million? Really? That is just down right greed. Lots of people have had family members commit suicide caused by someone else's pandering and pestering. I'm sure they all deserve millions for the grief they have go through. Stupid.
Just because NBC gave something the public wanted to watch doesn't mean they are sleeze balls. People always overreact to big corporations. I'm so sick of everyone thinking every single company is a greed machine. NBC has donated to charities, school funds, and much more. To say a show about exposing pedophiles makes THEM dirt bags is just down right idiotic.
And to say he deserved a trial...like really? Please read more people. He was a DISTRICT ATTORNEY, the IDEAL person who should've understood there is always a trial and he definately knew the saying "innocent before proven guilty". He was probably way more guilty than we could have ever known and I'm sure if he did go to trial we would have seen a lot more skeletons in his closet. The man had a right to trial but he didn't take that right. Don't go blaming other people because of his obvious problems.
If 'To Catch a Predator' needs to be cancelled than so does "Cops". Cops cameras are no different than TCAP's cameras. A crime is a crime and your feelings shouldn't be protected because of the manner of crime. You committed one and the public has the right to know. Whether you are convicted or not.
There is something too called the first amendment. Right to free press...ever heard of it? NBC can report whatever they want.
The only people to blame are the police for entrapment (not NBC). And if we start blaming police for pedophile stings then we should also get them for prostitution stings, drug stings, grand theft auto stings, and any other ways of catching criminals before they commit a crime.
Nobody forced him to go looking for sex from a minor. He chose to do it. That's not entrapment.
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GLAAD president explains his position regarding ABC's treatment of Adam Lambert
They say the third one's the charm.
In the third statement released in two days about the ABC v. Adam Lambert controversy, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation on Friday explicitly criticized the network for using a "double standard" against the "American Idol" runner-up and called on the community to protest ABC.
GLAAD's previous two statements regarding ABC's cancellations of Lambert's performances on the network after his sexually charged American Music Awards appearance have drawn criticism and caused confusion. In the first statement, GLAAD seemed to give ABC a free pass: "It would appear that the kiss between Adam Lambert and his keyboardist did not factor into ABC’s decision."
In the second statement, GLADD said "ABC confirmed this is not about a same-sex kiss or his sexual orientation but about being 'caught off guard.' GLAAD asked ABC and calls on them for clarification on 'caught off guard' so that the community knows why Lambert is being denied the opportunity to perform on the network."
This afternoon, GLAAD issued its strongest statement yet, saying that the organization does, in fact, believe that ABC canceled Lambert's appearances on "Good Morning America" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and stopped considering him for "New Year's Rockin' Eve" because he is an "openly gay performer."
All of this gave us whiplash, so we asked GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios for a telephone interview, which he granted.
Barrios said that he realized quickly after the first statement was issued that GLAAD's position was being misunderstood because "I'll admit it, the statement should have been more clearly worded," he said.
"Giving ABC the opportunity to explain themselves is important, but it's also important for us to be clear about what our position is," Barrios said. "And that is that we believe that Adam Lambert is being subjected to a double standard because he's an openly gay entertainer. Canceling his performances, past and future, are a result of that double standard."
Although GLAAD asked ABC to explain itself to the public in the second statement, it failed to be clear about how the organization deemed ABC's actions. Barrios decided to issue a third statement, he said, to make it crystal clear.
"GLAAD is appreciative of ABC's other work," Barrios said, referring to the commendations ABC has received in recent years for the network's portrayal of gay characters on several of its prime-time shows. "But let me be clear: We remain steadfast in our beliefs that he's being subjected to a double standard because he's an openly gay performer."
GLAAD no longer wants ABC to explain what it meant by "caught off guard" to the public. Instead, Barrios said he hopes viewers will let ABC know what they think about how Lambert is being treated. ABC declined to comment today.
"We're urging the community to reach out to ABC and express those concerns because we believe Adam Lambert is being subjected to an unfair double standard," Barrios said.
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Well, it's about bloody time GLAAD. ABC is ridiculous for canceling Adam.
whether gay- lesbian or hetrosexual was not the issue. Preview Spears and Madonna theirs was not deep throat and filled with passion. Sex preference was not the issue- a time and a place was.
Well, great, GLAAD has clarified their clarification. Expect another clarification to come soon to clarify that one. And, of course, the only ones left shaking their heads in the dust are gay people, who GLAAD has proved to be utterly useless for, time and time again. Gotta love those gay rights organizations - right on top of it.
It's about time! This double standard was apparent to most of us the minute ABC cancelled Adam's GMA appearance. I am a huge and long-standing admirer of Adam's talent and have taken ABC's treatment of Adam personally. I, and a legion of other's around the world, are boycotting not only the ABC network, but the products of all of ABC's sponsors! I will not consider lifting my boycott until ABC apologizes to Adam Lambert.
Well, okay, I'm glaad to hear that. It makes more sense, anyway. [deep breath]
I'll be the first to admit there is something going on here that I do not get. Okay, that's fine. Believe me, at this point, I want there to be something I do not get – because all that I've been able to read, research and glean only confuses me further.
ABC, you've been in existence all these years, I can only imagine there MUST be a method to your madness. And if I've ever known anything about Disney, is that they have a cadre of lawyers who serve the company's best interest (and for those willing to discount this PR IS A HUGE PART OF THAT). Sorry for yelling, but it was a point that needed to be hit and one that has confounded me.
Why is ABC gambling its entire reputation on a theoretical FCC fine? What is it? Like $500,000 at the worst? Isn't that like a day's revenue off .34 of your overall venues?
ABC, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I've loved you my whole life, from the time I was watching "All My Children" at age 6. You have blown it, epically. I truly believe there is something legal behind this (because, to be honest, no other theory holds a dram of water), but what the hell is it????
GLAAD, you are a by-product of this scandal and I want to figure this out too, but you've got me flummoxed.
At first I had my doubtsif ABC was discriminating cause Adam's performance was quite raunchy, although I was not offended by it. But, once I learned who is behind the pressure, the same group who went after the purple teletubbie for being gay, I am boycotting ABC and all products that sponsor their tv programming. It is a shame what ABC is doing to this talented young man who now knows better on what the public wants, How can they let a fraction of people control them, a fraction of people with a control remote in their hands, a fraction of people who sat for two hours of a show that had performers being even worst than Adam, like Eimenem and his alleged rapes
Adam was disgusting whether he is gay or not! His preformance was sickening. He is a rude, crude, lewd dude! I support ABC's decision.
Signed....former Adam fan
Yes the third time is the charm but I do appreciate that he was probably trying to navigate and give ABC the opportunity to explain themselves so he gave them the benefit of the doubt. Realizing they were not going to give a acceptable answer GLAAD has now revamped their statement to reflect what is actually going on. Thank you for your articles the past couple of day as I think they helped clear up any misguided thoughts that GLAAD initial had.
It is about freaking time GLAAD!! You people are just useless to let Adam hang out there by himself when there is so obviously a double standard and witch hunt going on here. Thank God Adam has balls of steel because he has proven he is calm under fire. He has been nothing but gracious toward ABC and is truly proving what a remarkable person he is. Anyone who says that this one performance made their opinion about Adam was just looking for an excuse to bash him. People are afraid of gay and male sexuality and they are projecting that fear on to Adam. Mean while the right wing have decided to latch on to Adam as a lightening rod to further their own agenda. Insanity anyone?? Talk about mountains out of mole hills.
To all the haters, just three words, you are psycho!!
Would you please post contact info for ABC so we know how to complain to them about their horrendous treatment of Adam? Thank you.
Adam Lambert is an entertainer, when he is onstage he is not a gay man or a gay advocate, and what he did was put on a SHOW, ppl who can't understand that should simply throw their tv's out the window.
Translation: The idiot got whipsawed by the outcry against their feet-dragging and butt-kissing of one of their biggest donors. Thus, desperately trying to save face, he says, in effect "We were behind Adam Lambert all the time, you just didn't notice!"
Bullcrap! Good thing Adam bounces well from being bussed by his own tribe.
And LOL!!! He just Tweeted that ABC's relenting and letting him perform and be interviewed on The View December 10!! So, there may be hope yet for Dick Clark's NYE show.
There is a double standard and HERE IS PROOF!!!! Watch the video of Pink performing at the Billboard Awards in 2004!!!!!! A guy wiggles his tongue and then she grabs his head and puts his head to her crotch!!!!!!! Did anyone say boo to that?? Where was the FCC then! Did anyone cancel her???? Watch the video and you will be outraged that Adam Lambert is being treated the way he is -- UNFAIRLY and being blacklisted by ABC. This is a travesty of justice if I have ever seen one.
@SQUAW14 if you actually watched both performances as opposed to just repeating some biased secondhand report, Lambert's kiss lasts for all of five seconds and is filmed with middle/long distance shots. The Spears/Madonna/Xtina kiss was filmed much closer up, lasted a touch longer, and was indeed also a passionate tongue kiss. Try again.
It's seriously amazing how many different excuses people will try and dredge up to deny that they are freaking out because a gay male performer actually displayed his real sexuality.
And I love ABC's claiming this is because they were taken off-guard. No, it's because they were taken off-guard and they didn't like what he did. Meaning that if they'd known, they would have ordered him to censor the performance, despite all the other risque and explicit heterosexualized performances. THAT is the double standard. It's seriously unfortunate it took GLAAD three separate rounds to figure out that excuse is crap.
With friends like this, who needs enemies?
No wonder gay rights have suffered a string of defeats across the country. Gay "advocacy" groups like GLAAD are more interested in kissing up to the Powers That Be than coming to the defense of actual gay Americans who are flagrantly and openly being discriminated against. How many revisions, retractions and parsing of words did Martin Luther King issue before he came to the defense of Rosa Parks or countless other Americans suffering from bigotry? What a sad, disgusting spectacle that GLAAD needs a week of PR lessons and damage control before it figured out what its mission is to advocate for gay people, not be a stooge for the entertainment industry. I haven't lost sight of the fact that it's ABC that is conducting itself in a despicable manner, literally blacklisting a performer for conduct that is encourages and airs from straight performers. But GLAAD's behavior is contemptible in its own right. It won't ever get a cent or an ounce of respect from me.
ABC is a business and they have a right to book who they want based on what they think is best for their bottom line. Double standard? assuredly, but it's their right based on what they feel their viewing public finds acceptable.
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Nobel Peace Prize or Not, Malala Will Always be a Hero
One year ago today, 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai struggled for her life in a hospital after being shot in the head by a member of the Taliban. Her crime? Advocating for all children, including girls, to have access to an education. Nearly one year later, I felt amazement, but certainly not surprise, when I read that Malala had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize honoring her work and her bravery. The saying -- that a person would risk their life for what they believe in -- has grown cliche, but when it comes to Malala it is the uncontroverted truth. She risked her life to advocate for education, and even after nearly dying, she continues to speak out despite the continued threats to her safety. The fact that she is still a child herself gives her message all the more impact.
While the honorable prize ultimately went to The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for the amazing work they do in Syria to destroy poison gas, their victory does not take away from anything Malala accomplished, including becoming a role model for my sons when they are old enough for me to explain to them just how brave Malala is.
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Growing up as a Pakistani-American in South Florida, I longed for a role model. Someone like me reflected in the television I watched or the books I read. A Paula Abdul poster graced my bedroom wall for most of my middle school days, less because I loved her music, and more for her olive skin and her last name which had a hint of a heritage that might be shared with mine. Growing up, no one I knew could tell you where Pakistan was on a map. The Pakistani portion of my Pakistani-American heritage felt invisible in the life I lived.
And then came 9/11. And suddenly everything changed. Suddenly the catch phrases Muslim, Pakistani, Arab and some variation thereof, were blasted from every cable news channel on 24/7 news cycles. Suddenly I couldn’t turn on the television or pick up a magazine without an image of someone who bore my skin color or who had a name familiar to me. Suddenly people not only knew about Pakistan, they held strong opinions of my ancestral land. I was no longer invisible. But in the worst possible way.
Why are people from your country so angry? So evil? Someone asked me once. Questions like these, unexpected ones from friends, co-workers, and once, a law professor, caught me off guard. When I argued that just as there is bad and good in all countries and in all faiths, so too there is this dichotomy in my own, my response was typically brushed aside. Look at the news, they responded. Where is the other side you speak of. Sure, they conceded, you’re not like that but you also didn’t grow up there. While I would insist that one man’s crime is not another man’s burden even if the two looked similar, and that 99.5% of the world’s Muslim population are regular people just trying to get by though not necessarily newsworthy, my words were greeted with skepticism.
And then came Malala. Beautiful, brave, strong, Pakistani born and raised, Malala Yousafzai.
Malala didn’t just survive a harrowing ordeal. She doesn’t just champion the right to education for all. Malala gives a newsworthy narrative so beautiful and profound and courageous that everyone stopped. And listened. And, more beautiful still, the media gave her story a voice that reverberates the world over. And with that voice comes the unspoken acknowledgement that yes, while there is darkness in Pakistan, there are also people like Malala-- because she speaks for thousands if not millions of others just like her-- and that there is more to the narrative than what was previously covered.
Just as I believe that evil done by others is not a reflection of me even if they look like me, I also cannot say that the good and beauty of Malala is a reflection of me because she looks like me too, but I am proud of her. I am proud of the hope she gives to so many; for the role model she is for my sons. She took what people saw as a country of darkness and shined a light by the beauty and grace of her being. She broke, however briefly, the narrative of her birthplace.
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Only a child would take the time to watch the pretzel-maker at the airport Auntie Anne's stretch the dough into long ropes, then carefully twist them into pretzels. “Mom, LOOK!” she exclaimed as the woman playfully spritzed flour at her. That woman probably makes pretzels all day long, and rarely does anyone stop to watch.
As we boarded the plane and everyone rushed to find their seats, Calli chatted up the pilots. “Is it hard to drive this thing?” she asked, much to their amusement, and launched into details about where she was off to. Then she grilled the flight attendant about the different kinds of airplane treats and the lady next to us about the book she was reading. All I could think of was how many times I had delved into my book and never looked up until we had landed. Who knows who I could have met if I'd tried?
Once we landed, Calli couldn't wait to hear that it was OK to use cell phones (Do you wait?) so she could call her father. “Dad, guess where we are? Dallas, TEXAS!” she practically screamed into the phone, as people around us smiled. “What time is it there? Do you know what time it is here?” She couldn't get over the time difference, or the fact that you can step on an airplane and in just a few hours find yourself in another world.
At the pizza place in the airport, the lady ringing up our order called her “Buddy.” (With short hair and a baseball hat, Calli can easily be mistaken for a boy). “I'm a girl!” she proudly responded. “I'm turning nine on February 6.” And so on. By the time Calli was done with her, the woman was giving her hugs and calling her “Honey.” As we rounded a corner, she stopped me to throw pennies into the fountain, commenting on how fresh the water smelled. Then it was on to the next leg of our flight.
When we returned home, Calli couldn't stop saying how friendly people are across this country. I couldn't stop thinking about how you get what you give. And about how easy it is to extend a smile, or to start a polite conversation. She reminded me to take some time to enjoy the journey, not just focus on the destination. The next time I travel, I'll do just that.
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Trello is so much better for me than Wunderlist. But it doesn't have a non-Metro UI for Windows. Heck the app for Win 8 doesn't even work for me. When I add a board, it doesn't get updated in the app.
Anyways, any similar apps with native windows UI? (Simply, I do not want to switch between "desktop" and app).
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Why not use the web version of Trello and create an application shortcut via Chrome so that it opens in its own window?
This is how you do it: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95710
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Well it's not really my taste. I also work offline sometimes, and it will be a big issue when the web version is not accessible. – None Apr 11 at 5:20
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Adv Appl Bioinforma Chem. 2009; 2: 71–78.
Published online 2009 June 5.
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Nalin CW Goonesekere
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA
Correspondence: Nalin CW Goonesekere, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Northern Iowa, 1227 W. 27th Street, Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0423, USA, Tel +1 319 273 3949, Fax +1 319 273 7127, Email nalin.goonesekere/at/
Whole genome sequencing projects have yielded sequences of a large number of proteins for which no direct experimental information is available. Homology detection is a widely used tool for the structural and functional annotation of such proteins, since two related proteins with a common ancestor may retain the same ancestral function. A number of sequence homology search algorithms15 have been developed for this purpose, and are in wide use. Despite these developments, identification of distant homologs in the twilight zone (sequence identity <25%) has remained a challenge.
Pairwise sequence homology search programs1,3 evaluate alignments between sequences by using a scoring scheme that includes a 20 × 20 amino acid substitution matrix and a penalty function for gaps. The substitution matrix assigns a scaled log-odds score for each aligned residue pair. Substitution matrices are also important in programs that utilize “sequence-profile”2 and “profile–profile”5,6 alignments, since the initial profiles are built by collecting homologous sequences identified by using a pairwise comparison score matrix.
Many amino acid substitution matrices have been devised over the years, utilizing a variety of methods.711 The popular BLOSUM series is built from multiply aligned sequence segments or ‘blocks’ that represent the most conserved regions in aligned families.12 The accuracy of these alignments will obviously impact the success of these matrices in detecting homologs. In the case of sequence-based matrices such as the BLOSUM series, the sequence alignments tend to become less reliable at large evolutionary distances.13
Structure-based matrices obtain amino acid substitution data directly from structural alignments and hence largely avoid the issues relating to sequence alignment at large evolutionary distances. Thus, sequence alignments obtained from structure alignments have long been considered to be the gold standard, only being superceded by human curated alignments.14 When compared with sequence-based matrices, though, structure-based matrices13,1517 have suffered from a paucity of data in the form of homologous protein structures required to construct a substitution matrix.13,18 More recent applications of structure-based matrices have focused primarily on the quality of sequence alignments.13,17 In some evaluations, 19 structure-based matrices have not performed as well as sequence-based matrices in the detection of remote homologues, and in the most recent comparison of substitution matrices performed by Brenner and colleagues,20 structure-based matrices were omitted from the comparison.
A large number of protein structures have become available in the past decade, fueled in part by the structural genomics initiative.21 In this paper, we investigate whether structure-based amino acid substitution matrices that exploit this resource could improve the detection of remote homologs. Access to larger datasets of remote homology significantly improved the performance of sequence-based matrices20 and we hypothesized that the same may hold true for structure-based matrices as well.
The structurally aligned substitution matrices (SASM) that we describe here were computed using structurally aligned protein domain pairs. These pairs were selected from an all-against-all pairwise structural superposition of protein domains obtained from the ASTRAL SCOP22 protein domain database. The SASMs that we computed were implemented in BLAST and PSI-BLAST, and their effectiveness in detecting remote homologs was compared against BLOSUM62.
Pairwise structural superposition of protein domains
Nonredundant data sets of protein domains with less than 40% and 50% sequence identity to each other, which excluded structures determined by NMR, were selected from the ASTRAL SCOP v1.67 database.22 Domain selections to these sets were based on the SPACI score,22 which is a measure of structure quality. The 0%–40% dataset contained 6551 domains, and the 0%–50% dataset contained 7444 domains. Domains in each set were subjected to an all-against-all pairwise structural superposition using the structure comparison program SHEBA,23 in order to generate a structurally superposed domain pair dataset. The total number of pairwise structural superpositions for the two datasets were 42,915,601 (0%–40%) and 55,413,136 (0%–50%). For each domain pair ab, the best superposition (ab vs. ba) was selected. Self superpositions (aa) were removed from further consideration.
Selection of structurally aligned domain pairs
Structurally aligned domain pairs were selected from among the structurally superposed pairs, using the following criteria. These criteria are based on the number of aligned residue pairs, m. SHEBA determines the aligned residue pairs by using a dynamic programming algorithm on two superposed structures. A necessary condition for a pair of residues to be “aligned” is that the distance between the alpha carbons of the pair is less than 3.5Å after superposition of the domains.
• m ≥ 40
• m ≥ 0.6 × number of residues in the larger domain in domain pair
• The domain pairs had z-scores greater than a cut-off value (filter)
where the z-score was defined as
equation mm1
mf = m/number of residues in the larger domain
<mf> = mean of mf over all pairs involving the given domain
s = standard deviation of mf over all pairs involving the given domain
Computation of the log-odds scoring matrix
The log-odds scoring matrix was obtained as follows:24
equation mm2
where Sij is the score given when a residue of type i is aligned with a residue of type j. The frequency qij was computed as
equation mm3
where Nij is the number of aligned residue pairs of types i and j. The corresponding frequency expected for a randomly aligned protein pair was calculated by
equation mm4
where Ni(a) is the number of residues of type i in protein a and Nj(b) is the number of residues of type j in protein b which is aligned to protein a, and the summation labeled ab is over all aligned domain pairs, ab. The constant factor 1/c is set to 2/ln2, to express the score in half-bit units. The matrices generated using structurally aligned protein domain pairs from the 0%–40%, 0%–50% and 0%–60% sequence identity sets were labeled SASM40, SASM50, and SASM60, respectively. Ten matrices were generated for each sequence identity set, by varying the z-score filter used.
The relative entropy H of a matrix was computed according to Altschul24 as follows:
equation mm5
Evaluating the performance of structurally aligned substitution matrices (SASMs)
Implementation of SASMs in BLAST and PSI_BLAST
SASMs were implemented in BLAST and PSI_BLAST to evaluate its performance in pairwise and profile homology search algorithms. The statistical parameters for the appropriate extreme value distribution, which are required to calculate the normalized score and the E-value of a hit, were computed by the computer program obtained from Steven Altschul. PSI-BLAST experiments were performed for 20 cycles (or to convergence) using a threshold E-value of 0.001.25,26 The default (11,1) affine gap penalty scheme was used for all experiments.
Evaluation of hits
True hits were determined based on the human-curated SCOP27 database assignments, rather than a pure structure-alignment based score.28 Domains that belong to the same SCOP superfamily were considered to be homologous (true hits), while domains belonging to different folds were considered non-homologous (false hits).19,25,29 The domains that belong to the same fold, but different superfamilies, were not counted as either true or false hits.
Datasets used
For all experiments, the target sequence set was a subset of the ASTRAL SCOP22 v1.65 database, which contained 6,442 protein domain sequences, each with less than 50% sequence identity to any other sequence in the database. The query sequence set consisted of 92 protein domain sequences each of which had at least 10 SCOP family members (including self) in the target sequence set. This was to ensure that a large number of true positives exist in the target dataset. Also, the most difficult pairwise relations to detect tend to be those between members of larger families and superfamilies.20 The 92 query sequences represented six classes and 64 folds in the SCOP database. The BLOSUM62 substitution matrix was chosen as a benchmark for two reasons. First, it continues to be a popular choice for detecting homologs, and is the default matrix employed in both BLAST and PSI-BLAST. Second, in recent tests conducted on the performance of amino acid substitution matrices, the BLOSUM matrices have faired well against sequence- and structure-based matrices.19,20 The (11,1) affine gap penalty function, which is optimal for BLOSUM62,30 was used for both BLOSUM62 as well as for the SASMs.
Generation of structurally aligned substitution matrices (SASM)
Protein domain datasets in ASTRAL SCOP v1.67,22 each containing protein domains selected by pairwise sequence identity, were downloaded, and all protein domains within each dataset were structurally superposed in a pair-wise manner, using the program SHEBA.23
The selection criteria described previously (see Methods) were used to identify structurally aligned protein domain pairs from among the structurally superposed domain pairs, for each ASTRAL SCOP dataset. Increasing the z-score filter resulted in increasing the stringency, and a concomitant reduction in the number of protein domain pairs selected (Table 1).
Table 1
Table 1
Some statistics for SASM matrices: the numbersa of structurally aligned protein pairs and the entropy valuesb
According to Table 1, the SASM40 matrix that is isentropic with BLOSUM62 (0.7) was constructed using a z-score filter of 6.5, and the corresponding amino acid substitution scores are given in Table 2. The coefficient of determination (R2 value) for the two matrices is 0.91. The single substitution score that shows a sign inversion is the cystein/valine substitution, which has a negative score in BLOSUM62.
Table 2
Table 2
The structure-derived substitution matrix SASM40 (z-score filter = 6.5) in half bitsa
Analysis of hits from BLAST
In order to evaluate their effectiveness in detecting homologous sequences, the SASMs were implemented in BLAST. A subset of the ASTRAL SCOP v1.65 database, containing 6,442 sequences having no more than 50% sequence identity to each other, served as the target database. A set of 92 query sequences were chosen from this database such that each sequence had at least 10 SCOP family members in the target database. The results were evaluated with respect to the default matrix in BLAST, BLOSUM62. A hit (E-value < 0.001) was considered true if it belonged to the same SCOP superfamily as the query.25,29
SASM50 and SASM40 matrices performed better than BLOSUM62 in returning more true hits for a greater number of queries when the z-score filter was between 3.5 and 8.0 (Figure 1). SASM60, which is formally the SASM matrix most akin to BLOSUM62, performed the poorest in this comparison (data not shown). There were no false positives observed for SASM or BLOSUM62 in BLAST.
Figure 1
Figure 1
A comparison of the performance of SASM and BLOSUM62 in BLAST. Each data point represents results for 92 query sequences with ASTRAL-SCOP v1.65 (50% sequence identity) as target database, and depicts the numbers of query sequences that had more success (more ...)
Analysis of hits from PSI-BLAST
SASMs was tested in PSI-BLA ST using the same query sequences and target database as for BLAST (see above) and the results were evaluated with respect to BLOSUM62 (Figure 2). As in the case of BLAST, SASM50 and SASM40 matrices performed better than BLOSUM62 in returning more true hits for a greater number of queries when the z-score filter was between 3.5 and 8.0. This effect was more pronounced for PSI-BLAST, when compared to BLAST (Figures 1 and and2).2). The SASM40 matrix that returned more true hits for the greatest number of queries when compared with BLOSUM62 (23 vs 7) was constructed using a z-score filter of 6.5 (Table 2), and is isentropic with BLOSUM62.
Figure 2
Figure 2
A comparison of the performance of SASM and BLOSUM62 in PSI-BLAST. Each data point represents results for 92 query sequences with ASTRAL-SCOP v1.65 (50% sequence identity) as target database, and depicts the numbers of query sequences that had more success (more ...)
The ability of a similarity detection method to report homologous sequences (sensitivity) must be balanced against the spurious detection of nonhomologs or false hits (specificity). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves31 provide a convenient method of indicating the number of true hits for a given number of false hits.19,26 A comparison of ROC50 curves generated from results of PSI-BLAST using BLOSUM62 and the SASM40 matrix isentropic with BLOSUM62 (Table 2) is given in Figure 3. The results show that the latter finds more true hits at all E-value cutoff levels.
Figure 3
Figure 3
ROC50 curves computed from pooled results for a set of 92 query sequences with ASTRAL-SCOP v1.65 (50% sequence identity) as target database. Results are shown for PSI-BLAST with SASM40 (z score filter 6.5) (solid circles) and BLOSUM62 (open circles).
Accurate alignment of protein sequences is critical in obtaining reliable amino acid substitution frequencies required for computing substitution matrices. This task becomes more challenging as the evolutionary distances between proteins increase. Since sequence alignments based on structural alignments have been long considered to be the gold standard, it is reasonable to expect that substitution matrices based on structural alignments can lead to better performance in detecting remote homologs. Efforts at obtaining structure-based substitution matrices have been constrained by the limited amount of solved structures available, when compared with sequence data. For example, two of the more recent structure-based matrices, BC17 and SDM13 were computed from the alignments of protein pairs that numbered in the hundreds. These matrices have been useful in generating improved sequence alignments. However, the BLOSUM matrices have been shown to be superior in detecting remote homologs.19 It has therefore remained an open question as to whether structure-based matrices could prove useful in the detection of remote homologs. In this study, we have shown that structure-based matrices computed using the expanded set of protein structures now available can detect a greater number of homologs in the popular homology detection programs BLAST and PSI-BLAST, when compared to BLOSUM62.
The large set of structurally aligned protein pairs used in this study (Table 1) were selected from an even larger set of structurally superposed proteins pairs (see Methods), and the amount of data clearly precluded a manual examination of structural superpositions as a basis for selection. The criteria that were developed to automate the selection process includes the use of a z-score filter (see Methods). The superiority of the structure-based SASM matrices in detecting remote homologs is relatively insensitive to the value of the z-score filter used, in the range between 3.5 and 8.0 (Figures 1 and and2).2). This is somewhat remarkable, given that the number of protein domain pairs selected changes by a factor of three in this range (Table 1). When the z-score filter value is further decreased (<3.5) we have anecdotal evidence showing that structural alignments in the beta sheet regions may, in some cases, be poor, which will lead to errors in pair-wise frequency counts. These results also suggest that the matrix elements themselves may be relatively insensitive to future increases in the size of the protein structure database.
The selection of structurally aligned protein domain pairs, which are presumed to be homologous, was based solely on the application of the selection criteria described in methods. This selection procedure is also supported by the observation that most protein domain pairs thus selected were related by SCOP classification.
There is an expectation that the optimal set of frequencies utilized to compute a substitution matrix, are in the words of Karlin and colleagues, “simply those found in the sort of region we seek to identify.”32 Our results are consistent with this expectation, since SASM50 performs better than SASM60 (or BLOSUM62) when using a set of query sequences which had, at most, 50% sequence identity to target sequences. In the case of sequence-based BLOSUM matrices, BLOSUM62 is often preferred to BLOSUM45 in detecting remote homologs. This discrepancy may be due to the difficulties associated with aligning sequences at greater evolutionary distances, in the absence of structural information.
We thank Dr. Stephen Altschul for providing the program that calculates the statistical parameter values for amino acid substitution matrices. Nalin CW Goonesekere received funding through a Summer Fellowship Award from UNI. The author reports no conflicts of interest in this work.
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To describe publications by hospital pharmacists in France and Quebec and evaluate factors predictive of publication productivity.
Variables related to scientific publication productivity were identified through a search of the literature and organized into 4 themes (ie, personal and professional characteristics, hospital activities, research and publishing activities, publication-related motivations and perceptions). A questionnaire was developed that included short-answer items and 58 multiple-choice questions to determine respondents' level of agreement with statements about their motivations and perceptions surrounding publishing.
Four hundred twenty-two hospital pharmacists (218 respondents from France and 204 from Quebec) were recruited. Respondents from France were more prolific than those from Quebec, even when considering factors such as time worked and gender. Furthermore, the percentage of respondents working in a university health center was lower in France than Quebec (46% vs. 70%, p = 0.001), as was the percentage of respondents indicating a mastery of English (43% vs. 88%, p = 0.001).
Seven factors were predictive of the number of publications per respondent in France and Quebec: practicing hospital pharmacy in France, being male, having academic duties or a PhD, having participated in a clinical trial, having secured funding in one's own name for a research project, and allocating a greater number of hours per week to research.
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1. Reference Values of Impulse Oscillometric Lung Function Indices in Adults of Advanced Age
PLoS ONE 2013;8(5):e63366.
Impulse oscillometry (IOS) is a non-demanding lung function test. Its diagnostic use may be particularly useful in patients of advanced age with physical or mental limitations unable to perform spirometry. Only few reference equations are available for Caucasians, none of them covering the old age. Here, we provide reference equations up to advanced age and compare them with currently available equations.
IOS was performed in a population-based sample of 1990 subjects, aged 45–91 years, from KORA cohorts (Augsburg, Germany). From those, 397 never-smoking, lung healthy subjects with normal spirometry were identified and sex-specific quantile regression models with age, height and body weight as predictors for respiratory system impedance, resistance, reactance, and other parameters of IOS applied.
Women (n = 243) showed higher resistance values than men (n = 154), while reactance at low frequencies (up to 20 Hz) was lower (p<0.05). A significant age dependency was observed for the difference between resistance values at 5 Hz and 20 Hz (R5–R20), the integrated area of low-frequency reactance (AX), and resonant frequency (Fres) in both sexes whereas reactance at 5 Hz (X5) was age dependent only in females. In the healthy subjects (n = 397), mean differences between observed values and predictions for resistance (5 Hz and 20 Hz) and reactance (5 Hz) ranged between −1% and 5% when using the present model. In contrast, differences based on the currently applied equations (Vogel & Smidt 1994) ranged between −34% and 76%. Regarding our equations the indices were beyond the limits of normal in 8.1% to 18.6% of the entire KORA cohort (n = 1990), and in 0.7% to 9.4% with the currently applied equations.
Our study provides up-to-date reference equations for IOS in Caucasians aged 45 to 85 years. We suggest the use of the present equations particularly in advanced age in order to detect airway dysfunction.
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FEV1; FVC; genome-wide association study; modeling risk
3. High blood pressure, antihypertensive medication and lung function in a general adult population
Respiratory Research 2011;12(1):50.
Several studies showed that blood pressure and lung function are associated. Additionally, a potential effect of antihypertensive medication, especially beta-blockers, on lung function has been discussed. However, side effects of beta-blockers have been investigated mainly in patients with already reduced lung function. Thus, aim of this analysis is to determine whether hypertension and antihypertensive medication have an adverse effect on lung function in a general adult population.
Within the population-based KORA F4 study 1319 adults aged 40-65 years performed lung function tests and blood pressure measurements. Additionally, information on anthropometric measurements, medical history and use of antihypertensive medication was available. Multivariable regression models were applied to study the association between blood pressure, antihypertensive medication and lung function.
High blood pressure as well as antihypertensive medication were associated with lower forced expiratory volume in one second (p = 0.02 respectively p = 0.05; R2: 0.65) and forced vital capacity values (p = 0.01 respectively p = 0.05, R2: 0.73). Furthermore, a detailed analysis of antihypertensive medication pointed out that only the use of beta-blockers was associated with reduced lung function, whereas other antihypertensive medication had no effect on lung function. The adverse effect of beta-blockers was significant for forced vital capacity (p = 0.04; R2: 0.65), while the association with forced expiratory volume in one second showed a trend toward significance (p = 0.07; R2: 0.73). In the same model high blood pressure was associated with reduced forced vital capacity (p = 0.01) and forced expiratory volume in one second (p = 0.03) values, too.
Our analysis indicates that both high blood pressure and the use of beta-blockers, but not the use of other antihypertensive medication, are associated with reduced lung function in a general adult population.
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4. Regional differences in prediction models of lung function in Germany
Respiratory Research 2010;11(1):40.
Little is known about the influencing potential of specific characteristics on lung function in different populations. The aim of this analysis was to determine whether lung function determinants differ between subpopulations within Germany and whether prediction equations developed for one subpopulation are also adequate for another subpopulation.
Within three studies (KORA C, SHIP-I, ECRHS-I) in different areas of Germany 4059 adults performed lung function tests. The available data consisted of forced expiratory volume in one second, forced vital capacity and peak expiratory flow rate. For each study multivariate regression models were developed to predict lung function and Bland-Altman plots were established to evaluate the agreement between predicted and measured values.
The final regression equations for FEV1 and FVC showed adjusted r-square values between 0.65 and 0.75, and for PEF they were between 0.46 and 0.61. In all studies gender, age, height and pack-years were significant determinants, each with a similar effect size. Regarding other predictors there were some, although not statistically significant, differences between the studies. Bland-Altman plots indicated that the regression models for each individual study adequately predict medium (i.e. normal) but not extremely high or low lung function values in the whole study population.
Simple models with gender, age and height explain a substantial part of lung function variance whereas further determinants add less than 5% to the total explained r-squared, at least for FEV1 and FVC. Thus, for different adult subpopulations of Germany one simple model for each lung function measures is still sufficient.
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Most everyone agrees that the strategy of attacking "the squishies" first in a combat scenario is generally the best idea, except in some specific exceptions. Often, then, the decision on whether or not an NPC is "smart enough" to do this comes down to their intelligence score and cultural upbringing - animals are not smart enough to do this, human opponents are, and orcs may or may not be.
Is this an accurate view on intelligence and strategic planning? It seems possible that this kind of strategic thinking is something that we take for granted in the modern day. Being exposed to tons of video games, roleplaying games, and a wealth of historical records may bias us. Is it possible that people only recognize this kind of strategy as being "obvious" due to massive amount of role-based games and combat situations people see these days? How likely are characters in a fantasy environment with less exposure to games, education, and strategic thinking to know how to properly prioritize characters of different offensive/defensive roles? How common is basic strategic understanding to the uneducated?
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I think this needs to be tagged as edition-specific. Some editions make it clear that no character knows the mechanics being leveraged against them, while others are the opposite (a D&D 4e character automatically knows all the riders and caveats of a power used against it, for example). As it is, the question doesn't even have a system tag. – BESW Aug 18 at 3:29
@BESW It's not even really game-specific. In fact, I think D&D 4E is probably the only game it DOESN'T apply to, due to the weird gamey, meta weirdness of it. It applies to any other D&D version and any other RPGs of a similar setting. – Southpaw Hare Aug 18 at 3:31
Unfortunately, the more you take it away from a system and edition, the more this becomes too broad and primarily opinion-based, as it's inviting us to speculate on the mental ability and martial training of an endless number of races and character types in an endless number of settings. – BESW Aug 18 at 3:37
Perhaps, rather than asking us to opine on the realism of granting strategic planning to various unspecified NPCs, you could ask us either about a specific group of NPCs --or you could ask for experience-based answers about the use of strategic planning as a form of worldbuilding, or the like? Whatever challenge you're actually facing that prompted you to ask this question, bringing it to the fore would be helpful in making the question answerable. If you'd like to talk about it further, please join us in the chat! – BESW Aug 18 at 3:50
This doesn't need a game and edition, but it does need to be a little more specific, it's a bit of an "invitation to discussion" and it's unclear what does the best answer to this look like. – mxyzplk Aug 18 at 15:54
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As the comments on the main question say, this is too broad a topic, and also highly debatable, more fit for extended discussion in a forum or chat than for the general format of this site.
On the other hand, however, this is also very interesting, and if we strip away the explanatory parts and the secondary questions, and focus on the primary two questions, it can be answered, in short (to lend a quick hand):
Do NPCs understand target priority strategy?
Yes, they do, in general. Evolution (or, to avoid debates, your preferred supernatural entity in-game or IRL :)) made it so. Yes, even animals do, who are, contrary to the view suggested by the Q, often more cunning in small scale combat tactics than members of a sentient race. (Check out a few videos about hyenas versus lions, for example.) However, who or what the actual top priority target is depends on a myriad factors ranging from physical prowess and evolutionary instincts through culture and customs to psychological warfare, and morale, so...
Is this an accurate view on intelligence and strategic planning?
No, it's not. Taking out the squishies, as you put it, works best only if you're facing a group of opponents who are determined, willing, and capable of fighting to death, and are totally unlikely to stop fighting even when they obviously won or are losing. In a more realistic combat situation, where morale and such apply, the primary aim of the opposing groups, which determines strategy, tactics and objectives, is to break their opponents' morale and willingness to fight (through taking out their leader with a quick strike, or capturing or starting to kill off their culturally / evolutionarily important, but weak members -- "taking out the squishies" --, and so on, and so on), and to force either surrender or retreat.
Once again, this all is highly debatable, but these are the answers to the core questions. Yes, NPCs understand strategy, to varying levels, and no, this isn't an accurate view. What is, though, is open to discussion.
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Note, that in real battles the casualty rate was rarely above 10-20%, even for the loser's side. In an RPG (or strategy game) setting, the casualty rate is usually 100% for the loser (and anything above 0% for the players means a Pyhrric victory). Even if morale is handled in the game, it only means the last few enemies try to run away if nearly all of their force is killed. In real life, very few armies could keep up fighting after losing so much as 1/5 to 1/4 of their men. – vsz Aug 18 at 10:03
@vsz That's not a true generalisation since it varies heavily between RPGs. As just one example, in AD&D 2e (which retained much of Gygax and Arneson's sensibilities from wargaming) a morale check was made as soon as one of a variety of conditions occurred, including being surprised by a superior force or seeing the leader fall. As a result, the opposition often enough broken with very few or no casualties. Not all RPGs are made equal, especially when it comes to morale. – SevenSidedDie Aug 18 at 13:27
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Is this an accurate view on intelligence and strategic planning?
This depends on a lot of things for the NPCs in question. Basically, this can only be answered on a case-by-case basis, by considering what the NPCs know about squishies. The process for this is explained below.
Taking out the squishies first is something most PCs will do, as they understand that magic is more dangerous (usually) than melee combat, and also that spell-casters are usually easier to kill. However, a group of human bandits from the middle of nowhere may have only heard of magic in myths and legends, and maybe a village priest who's not really a threat. They would think that the melee fighters are the most dangerous, based on their past experience (which is really the key for each NPC). Of course, once the mage starts shooting fire at them they may reconsider their priorities, or even just flee.
You'll have to decide this yourself for each group of NPCs you use. Some general information about an area, though, can make this easier. Ask yourself this: have the NPCs seen a magic-user casting before, and could they recognise another caster? If not, do they know about casters from other sources - old legends and the like? If the enemies see an armed and armoured knight and three men wearing dresses and lacking decent weapons, who will they kill first? By placing yourself in their situation, with their background knowledge, it becomes easier to see what they will do.
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I'm sorry, but it's unclear to me if you're saying anything here except "this question is too broad to answer definitively, you'll have to figure it out yourself." Can you please edit it to emphasize what you're saying to answer the question that OpaCitiZen hasn't said yet? – BESW Aug 18 at 9:41
@BESW Better now? – Dakeyras Aug 18 at 11:14
It's a good answer to a D&D-scoped question, but the OP has effectively abandoned it as too broad and discussion-y, because he doesn't want D&D-scoped answers. I'm afraid that although this question is effectively abandoned, it's been slow to garner the needed close votes. – BESW Aug 18 at 11:39
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Comment: Re:real socialism (Score 1, Troll) 334
by Charcharodon (#45712815) Attached to: GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses
Charity does work, people who don't work starve unless they aren't a douche bag and have friends.
The key for charity to work is zeroing in on the whole not being a "douche bag" part
Here let me give you a few examples to help you understand.
1. You are the town drunk/drug user. You've been arrest 10 times before you were 18 and now you are homeless and hungry. Douche bag.
2. You are the child of the town drunk. Your father is in jail....again and you are hungry and homeless. Not a douche bag
3. It's ten years later since you were the child of the town drunk, and now you are out on the corner begging for money because you are a drug user, hungry, and homeless just like your dear old dad. Douchebag.
4. You are a bunch of politically connected and corrupt unionized workers and corporate boobs at the largest automobile manufacturer in the world and after decades of helping run the company into the ground, need a 50 billion dollar bailout in order to avoid being unemployed. Douche bag
See how that works. Not a douche bag, you deserve help. Douche bag you should be told to go pound sand.
Comment: Re:News for Nerds? (Score 1) 585
How big does a business (how many people) have to be before it's a "business"? The correct answer would be 1. So if you invest in anything that can in turn when used, generate wealth....you....are....a....capitalist. When you buy a form of transportation (a car) car and a clothes to wear to work in, you have participated at one of the most fundamental levels of capitalism. You don't have to buy stocks in a company to be one.
It's a leap of faith for most people at this point because capitalism is such a dirty word to everyone, but that doesn't change the facts.
Comment: Re:News for Nerds? (Score 1) 585
No. Capital only refers to investment in productive assets, not private property in general.
All private property is a productive asset, maybe some more than others. Can you wear clothes? Can you sleep in your house? Can drive your car to work? Can your children work in the fields? Can any of those things be rented to someone else? Well yes, then all of those are all "productive assets"
There is private property and public property and that's it. Just because a business owns it doesn't magically make it not "private" property.
Comment: Re:News for Nerds? (Score 0) 585
A Capitalist is anyone that invests in property. Whether that be a car, an iPhone, a house, or in the stockmarket, and expects to be able to use said property in the way they see fit.
Socialists on the other hand feel that the state and or society has a right to either that property or the benefits from the use of said property over the rights of the owner.
If you work and expect to be paid more than you "need" (resonable costs), then you are a capitalist.
If you work your butt off, save your money, and invest in equipment, property, your education, land, or business and expect to generate even more moeny then you are known as a "greedy" capitalist.
You are using the term capitalist very narrowly by only applying it to a single type of capitalist, the investor. "Croney" capitalists are more likely what you are refering to, but they are not capitalists but actually national socialists. (Private capital with heavy handed gov't control) Can you name a National Socialist group that had a big impact in history?
Investopedia Capital is different from money. Money is used simply to purchase goods and services for consumption. Capital is more durable and is used to generate wealth through investment.
Comment: Re:News for Nerds? (Score 3, Funny) 585
Moron, if you do anything for pay and therefore end up with any posessions you are by definition a "capitalist"
To not be so means you would be willing to share everything you have with anyone else at their leisure.
So unless you are willing to let me borrow free of charge your tooth brush, your car, your spare kidney, your house, your wife, or your 16 year old daughter you are a freaking, dyed in the wool.......capitalist.
Comment: Re:Good (Score 1) 414
by Charcharodon (#45652113) Attached to: 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate
The whole "scary" part of 3d printed guns is that there is no "buyer". You just print the damn thing. high schools have 3d printers now, colleges and tech schools have full blown fab shops with all the CNC goodies that can make modern metal firearms.
The cat has been out of the bag for the better part of a decade and they politicians are just now getting a clue.
Comment: Re:Good (Score 1) 414
by Charcharodon (#45652057) Attached to: 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate
So where did all that "ammo" come from for the past oh say 700 years? You do realize ammo has been available longer than cheaperthandirt.com has been around? Considering you can go to the hardware store and buy all the components for basic gun powered and make it in your garage in like an hour or two. More advanced smokeless powder versions can be made with a high school chemistry education and maybe one or two more stops on the way home from the hardware store.
So yay we stopped the "gun" violence, but do you think the dead will care if they are dead because they were shot, stabbed, poisoned, or run over by a bus? Getting rid of guns will do nothing more than make people less free and helpless to fight back against people with guns.
You are not very bright.
Comment: Re:Already There (Score 1) 414
by Charcharodon (#45651891) Attached to: 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate
Yes, because Western Europe has fewer per-capita violent and petty crime than the USA. Oh, no it doesn't
I think you'll find that centuries of living with our (and occasionally hanging/shooting some of our thieving/criminal) neighbors has led us to not have to worry as much about having your home invaded or our person assaulted or property vandalized than the average European citizen.
Comment: Re:Good (Score 1) 414
by Charcharodon (#45651805) Attached to: 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate
Actually more than half. Most "school shootings" are not mass shootings and get no press. I guess a couple of wannabe thugs murdering a third on or near school grounds is less newsworthy than a bunch of white precious snow flakes getting murdered in a yuppy, clueless utopias by a brain damaged millennial with mommy and daddy issues.
Comment: Re:Good (Score 1) 414
by Charcharodon (#45651737) Attached to: 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate
Me neither, plus it get's really cold in the winter time in Chicago, Detroit, New York, and DC. Plus way too much traffic.
I prefer to live in the place where guns are so prevalent that they necessitate having a gun rack in ones vehicle. For some odd reason they typically have few problems with guns in places like that.
Comment: Re:Well... (Score 1) 578
by Charcharodon (#43761323) Attached to: Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns
Yeah, I know, I hate all those pointed stick killing massacres we've experienced lately. Or all the accidental oops my 6-year old killed her brother with a pointed stick episodes.
Tell that to the 8 year old little girl who was stabbed to death by her 12 year old brother in April. Bare minimum you might point poke someone's eye out. Pointy stick are dangerous and must be registered.
Comment: Re:Dumb title: CO2 is not "dirty" (Score 2) 260
by Charcharodon (#43605611) Attached to: Energy Production Is As 'Dirty' As Ever
I remember a few decades ago saying the same exact asinine thing as a younger man. The only thing worse now are the women are much looser, cars are cooler, electronics are cheaper.....oh wait. Never mind the future is pretty cool.
The real problem is not that we are polluting more, the problem there are a lot more people. Get rid of half the population and you'll get rid of half the pollution. Feel free to go first to set the example.
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Comment: Re:Taught by whom? (Score 3, Interesting) 235
by GlobalEcho (#45647329) Attached to: Chicago Public Schools Promoting Computer Science to Core Subject
CPS pays an average of just under $75K to teachers, which is more than most private schools do. Along with the extra job security and (promised if not delivered) pensions, that makes the teaching positions attractive to quite a few people. The teachers I know also feel good about dedicating their professional lives to students in CPS, who are generally in need of every bit of help they can get.
If I had made a bundle in the dot com bubble or something, I could see myself teaching CS in CPS. Or at least trying -- I teach grad school and don't know if I have the personality for younger students.
Comment: Where does the money go, then? (Score 3, Interesting) 1216
by GlobalEcho (#45501575) Attached to: Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio?
"Make your society egalitarian with this 1 weird trick!"
If we postulate that this measure will leave company profits unchanged, then the cap will send extra money somewhere else. Its backers seem to assume that it would go to the rank and file workers, but I think it likelier that the owners of the firm would begin experiencing a better return on their money. That cohort, too, is wealthier than average, though not by so much as CEOs since a lot of it is comprised of pension funds and mutual funds. In any case, the loopholes around this kind of measure are so numerous that it would be silly to pursue.
What we really need is to bring back serious inheritance taxes, even if some people want to call them "death taxes". In the long run, huge wealth is not a societal problem so long as it doesn't become dynastic. Rather than playing havoc with the incentives of the living via convoluted tax laws and weird rules, let's concentrate on fighting the growth of entrenched classes.
Comment: KeePass (Score 1) 230
by GlobalEcho (#45339503) Attached to: Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed
I used to do it the same way you do, with different levels of passwords. I eventually lost track and just started using KeyPass and generate unique passwords.
I think you mean KeePass and I quite agree.
Every new MMORPG that comes out now has a huge wave of "hacked" account
It would be interesting to know which "level" people tend to choose for their MMORPGs (at least of those who have "levels"). On the one hand it's just a game, while on the other it involves a gargantuan investment of time and attention.
Comment: Bad passwords on purpose (Score 5, Interesting) 230
by GlobalEcho (#45338141) Attached to: Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed
I haven't checked, but I assume my own Adobe account was part of this leak. And I don't care.
Along with a large portion of the increasingly savvy population, I have more than one "level" of password in use. My account used the lowest of these, basically something like adobe_123. Learning that is not going to help anyone form useful heuristics on how I create my banking passwords -- it might even poison them.
On the whole, I believe the breach will probably help crackers (if decryption can be achieved). But, I think it is foolish to automatically assume that accounts with "weak" passwords are contributors to the problem. As with me, they might be poor indicators of how humans choose more important passwords.
Comment: Different states = experiments (Score 5, Interesting) 333
by GlobalEcho (#45268225) Attached to: How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange
A point I've read in The Economist, and has really stuck with me, is how one of America's strengths is the somewhat loose federation of the states, which allows for different approaches to any given problem. Each state can try its own approach to the ACA, or education, or taxation laws, et cetera. Eventually the "better" approaches should become clear, and the country as a whole will adopt them.
Now in practice it doesn't always work like that, but I think we see it in action right now with marijuana legalization and gay marriage.
Of course, the federation also means that, in cases where the "best" approach is known a priori, we lose efficiency when some states fail to adopt it. I don't consider that a big problem, because I think politicians are rarely capable of identifying and engendering quality programs right from the start, especially at the national level.
Let's hope the rule proves true here, and that other states copy Kentucky. (Maybe Kentucky can even share the code?)
Comment: Re:Bragging about torture (Score 1) 390
by GlobalEcho (#45244551) Attached to: Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call
I mean selling crack to American school kids to buy guns for Osama bin laden is only the tip of the iceberg.
Wow.. Give me some of what you are smoking. Also, a few creditable links to this information would be nice. I have a feeling you are conflating several different things.
He's a little off, but pretty likely referring to the Iran Contra Affair.
Comment: Re:GPL trumps BSD as a usable open source licence (Score 2) 335
by GlobalEcho (#44882601) Attached to: New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud
there is no requirement to release modified GPL source unless you publish the binary in a form described by the GPL. There are a lot of "internal use" scenarios where modifications will never be published.
Indeed -- every place I've worked in the last 20 years has modified GPL code, and used the modified versions internally, while only rarely publishing those modifications externally. Declining to publish those changes is perfectly legal, and matches Stallman's original intent of the GPL as well -- namely that users have access to the source code of programs they are running.
Over time, many people have come to believe that modifiers of GPL should always publish their modifications. (Some sloppy license readers even believe they must). There's certainly a moral argument there somewhere. But in practice, more modifications are kept quiet than most people realize. In these situations, GPL and BSD are equivalent.
Comment: Hopelessly Naive (Score 5, Insightful) 251
by GlobalEcho (#44829239) Attached to: Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets
Consider the following quote from the paper
Since both crashes and spikes are typically more than 30 standard deviations larger than the average price movement either side of an event (see Figs. 1A and 1B), they are unlikely to have arisen by chance
This statement implies that the authors believe a gaussian model "should" apply to the market dynamics. As Benoit Mandelbrot and many others before and after him point out, financial markets never have followed gaussian dynamics and they probably never will. It's especially silly because they go on to analyze the distribution of Ultrafast Extreme Event (UEE) sizes as a power law.
Today's market has both accumulation algorithms now used by mutual funds and other sophisticated "buy and hold" investors, and market-making algorithms used by HF firms, and I fully believe there is some interesting dynamics arising from all that. Whether it is any weirder than the slower, human-derived, dynamics of yesteryear is still in doubt. Humans are so much more complex than any of those algorithms that I suspect if you examined the market behavior in 1980, and sped it up, you would see plots wilder than anything Nanex produces.
The paper is somewhat interesting, but not very convincing.
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What 10 series would Sports Guy MOST like to see in the playoffs?
by Bill Simmons
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We couldn't have gotten a better tip-off to the most anticipated playoffs in 15 years: a pantheon game on Day 1 that somehow exceeded the hype. Well, what if this entire postseason were to exceed the hype? What are the possible outcomes that could possibly rival Spurs-Suns, Round 1—and that could actually happen?
After narrowing my list to 10, here's what was left on the cutting-room floor: Pistons-Suns (the most even Finals possible), Lakers-Mavs (star power, plus the inevitable Cuban-Jackson pissing match), Cavs-Suns (an enjoyable romp), Mavs-Suns (this isn't top 10?), Celtics-Mavs (this either?) and Spurs-Pistons (just kidding; this is ABC's worst-case scenario, narrowly edging the cast of Lost being eaten by a polar bear).
The Sports Guy's Addendum
I missed a biggie with this column: a Suns-Lakers battle that would have cracked the top-five if I hadn't accidentally deleted it from an extended first draft. I have no defense other than age, lack of sleep and possible mental deterioration. But yeah, a Lakers-Suns battle would be tremendous for so many reasons—bad blood between Raja and Kobe (as well as D'Antoni and Jackson), Shaq's return to Hollywood, every awkward interaction between Shaq and Kobe, Odom and Diaw trying to out-soft each other, Gasol and Amare allowing each other to score at will, Nash fighting off the urge to punch Vujacic in the face—that it's possible my brain briefy exploded and I forgot to rank the series properly. Let's expand this list to eleven, push Celtics-Suns down a spot, make Suns-Lakers No. 5 and get me an appointment for a CAT-scan.
10. Lakers-Pistons (Finals) Maybe it could even end like 1988: LA prevails in a hard-fought seven after Detroit can't get off a series-saving three because its best player has gotten bodychecked just as Lakers fans prematurely storm the court. Right now, Pistons fans are nodding and saying, "We thought we were the only ones who remembered that!"
7. Celtics-Pistons (East Finals) You think this would be just a battle between two old rivals for Eastern supremacy? It's way more than that. This is KG and Sheed locked in a chest-pounding, eyeballing, trash-talking, somebody-better-separate-us-before-this-gets-ugly frenzy. This is former UConn Huskies Ray Allen and Rip Hamilton chasing each other from baseline to baseline. This is young Rajon Rondo — and if he can't do it, Yoda Cassell — trying to handle wily vet Chauncey Billups. This is Flip Saunders and Doc Rivers playing checkers and looking confused, and Tayshaun Prince using his octopus arms to shut down Paul Pierce, and Big Baby, Leon Powe and Jason Maxiell playing undersized forward rugby underneath. If that's not enough, think of the inevitable deluge of highlights of Larry Legend's famous steal and The Chief punching Laimbeer in the face. Yes, please.
5. Celtics-Suns (Finals) There's some sneaky but powerful history here from the '76 Finals, plus at least three likable stars who will have their careers altered if they win a title. We'd also have definitive proof that it's worth rolling the dice with a monster trade — which means they'd be made more often, right? I have no idea who would win this series; neither do you. That's a good thing.
4. Spurs-Lakers (West Finals) Here's another action-packed affair with high drama (the champs vs. the up-and-comers), a true villain (Bruce "The Anvil" Bowen, pulling out every one of his evil tricks to frustrate Kobe, short of hitting him with a steel chair), superior coaching, two of the greatest players ever, two premier clutch shooters and two exquisite low-post scorers. Still not sold? Wait until this "joke" scenario makes me a legend when it actually comes true: The Spurs are derailed in Game 7 by WWE-worthy officiating along the lines of that in the 2002 Kings-Lakers series, followed by everyone's being cool with it because we all were hoping for a Celtics-Lakers Finals anyway. Screw you, San Antonio! The NBA — it's FANNNNNN-tastic!
3. Celtics-Spurs (Finals) Beyond undercard matchups like Pierce-Manu, Allen-Bowen, Rondo-Parker and Cassell-Horry, plus the obvious parallels in styles (two superb defensive teams built around one good slasher and one good big man), this one has historical significance (San Antonio going for a dynasty, Boston trying to revive one) and a fascinating individual matchup that ranks somewhere between Russell-Chamberlain and Ewing-Olajuwon in Finals lore. We've always wondered if KG would have had Duncan's career if they'd been picked by each other's teams in 1997. Let's find out. For once, we'd get a real answer to a rhetorical question. (Important note: Like every other Celtics fan, I love KG as much as I can platonically love another man, but Duncan's proven crunch-time prowess pushes him to another level. In big moments, Duncan either gets a quality shot or gets to the line, whereas KG settles for fallaways and has a disturbing tendency to pass up big shots. It's no contest. Right now, Duncan is slightly better. How's that for a reverse jinx?)
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ZRAMN 8. jun kl. 2:30pm
What a game.
I recieved 100% completion on both parts recently, and I can say that none of it seemed monotonous, which many games usually do. If you like a casual game, this is perfect. A few dollars for a few hours of great fun. I was wondering, and this is the discussion part, if anyone else cared to get 100%, and their opinions on the total content of this game.
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skankityspence 19. jun kl. 3:09pm
I got 100% completion on the Xbox 360. I've 100% a few games and this is the first that - i totally agree - did not feel like a drag to 100%. It was all incredibly fun.
I just bought this for Steam so I can play it again. (Moving away from consoles to PC...) and I cannot wait to go at it again!
SimonG 21. jun kl. 1:40pm
Same here. It was really funny getting all the hijinks and solutions(although I did have to peek once or twice). The stuff the game gets away with is impressive. If this would use "normal" graphics, it would have been a AO game ;-)
misthausen 29. jun kl. 8:33am
The attention to detail is very impressive. It gives the game a very special flavor. I have only completed the first location, but so far, it is a lot of fun.
Kuhaa 6. jul kl. 4:29am
Since I don't want to make another thread about this, I'll post my question here because you, having 100% this game must know an answer. I got this from Double Fine Bundle, and after completing Psychonauts (about time) and Costume Quest (and finding out Brutal Legend doesn't run smoothly at all on my Mac) this is the last game from the bunch I'm yet to try out. I'll get 100% completition from Psychonauts and Costume Quest next Christmas, and since Double Fine's games don't require any excessive effort to 100% them (I think they're very well designed in that regard), I want to do that with Stacking as well.
I don't want to spoil anything by looking at walkthroughs, but I spent a fair amount of time running around the Royal Train Station trying to find all the special dolls and such. It seems I have done everything I can at the moment, but I'm missing two special dolls, only completed one challenge and I don't even have a clue what "hi-jinks" are. It seems I can visit all the areas again after leaving them, so I have this question:
Am I supposed to be able to find/complete everything on my first visit, or is it required to revisit all the areas in order to 100% this game? I know I would probably find this out by just playing the game, but I don't think I can spend very long time on it today anyway so I figured I'd ask you kind people here, and then proceed with the game accordingly when I do have time.
honeymaker 6. jul kl. 6:59am
You revisit the Royal Train Station several times. I'm not sure, but I think it's not possible to find all special dolls at the station upon your first visit. I believe that hi-jinks are explained at the Gilded Steam Ship section, so I think it's better to move on to that "level". Each challenge (such as "Empty the lounge") has multiple solutions. You van try and find them all at once or return later. It's all up to you!
skankityspence 7. jul kl. 12:35pm
Yeah, you'll need to complete the story and come back to the royal train station to 100% that area. :)
Kuhaa 8. jul kl. 1:07am
Alright, thank you both! I'm really enjoying this game, and I'll definitely try to 100% it.
GladiumMiles 11. jul kl. 2:49pm
i completed 100 % today, i really liked the game.
Maerzay 13. jul kl. 9:18pm
I'm stuck at around 95% right now. Some of those hi-jinks are really tricky.
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Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable Aero Shake in Windows 7?
In Windows 7, if you grab a window and shake it back and forth, there is a shortcut to minimize all the windows.
I keep doing this by accident so I would like to disable this feature.
Is there a way?
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In the "search programs and files" box type
right click on the search result and run as administrator
Go to User Configuration > administrative templates > desktop
In there at the bottom(-ish) you will see "Turn off aero shake window minimizing mouse gesture", double click it and make your selection in the window that opens
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+1 easier for beginners :) – bubu Jun 20 '11 at 19:01
I had to lock and unlock my computer to get it to take effect. Thanks! – xr280xr Aug 8 at 19:54
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It requires you to edit the registry. Here is an article on how to do it.
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I tried this approach in Windows 8 and found that it had no effect. – Richard Ev Aug 7 at 7:44
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I have a USB Zebex barcode scanner, this device works properly using WinXP , Vista when I open notepad. However I can't get it to work on Ubunbodytu. I open Gedit, and it makes the same noise as in Win, but nothing scans.
If any advise will be appreciated
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Looking around, I see that it also doesn't work in Xubuntu. In OpenSuse it works without a problem. Maybe you need some additional drivers (keyboard, maybe?). – alex Sep 14 '09 at 14:08
It's really weird, going to have to search for a solution – Roland Sep 14 '09 at 19:12
usb keyword works 100% – Roland Sep 14 '09 at 19:23
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Two things you could try:
xinput list
This will give you a list of all input devices that are recognized by Xorg and allows you to enable or disable devices as well as test them (replace ${DEVICEID} with what is displayed by xinput list):
xinput set-int-prop ${DEVICEID} 'Device Enabled' 32 1
xinput test ${DEVICEID}
Second thing you could try would be the more low-level evtest tool (replace /dev/input/eventX with the proper device file):
evtest /dev/input/eventX
It should print events to the screen when it gets data. evtest is part of the joystick package in Ubuntu.
Neither of these will make your Barcode scanner work, but they will allow you to figure out where the problem is. If evtest works, but xinput doesn't, then you have to tweak your Xorg.conf and manually add it as extra keyboard, if neither works then its a Kernel driver problem.
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Does the sound come from the PC speakers or from the scanner?
Check and make sure the scanner is properly detected
and see if you have something that looks like this when you plug in the scanner
usb 5-1: new device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=0001
usb 5-1: new device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0
usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: HID 0000:0001 as /class/input/input6
input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [HID 0000:0001] on usb-0000:00:10.3-1
if you see the above, then you should also see events in dmesg after you push the scan button.
if you dont see the above, then you probably need to initialize the usb keyboard module with you might try
sudo modprobe usbkbd
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Yes, it makes a noise. initialized the usb keyboard and still nothing – Roland Sep 14 '09 at 15:24
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Did you try the scanner in the Linux console instead of XWindows? Could be that your Xconfig only includes your primary keyboard.
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I'm not sure how to test this in Console? – Roland Sep 15 '09 at 7:09
First thing I would try is to switch to the text console (probably CTRL+ALT+F1) then try scanning something into the Login: prompt – Craig Sep 16 '09 at 0:15
Did that, makes a scan noise and nothing displays on screen, then the scanner does not want to do anything – Roland Sep 16 '09 at 8:01
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Is there any reason not to think Romney won't embarrass Obama again in a foreign policy debate? My only concern is that the town hall format could interfere. The moderators are supposed to screen the questions submitted by participants (or so I'm told), but they won't necessarily do their job. | http://townhall.com/social/usercommentprint/5521250 | dclm-gs1-022260002 | false | false | {
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The top highest paid 50 federal employees are all doctors who are paid less than they would make in industry but none of them make more than the head of a washington "think tank". What percentage of the overpaid idiots in the DC area are lobbyists, think tank parasites, and lawyers as opposed to federal employees and who does the most damage. | http://townhall.com/social/usercommentprint/6613257 | dclm-gs1-022270002 | false | false | {
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''Mind Game'' (マインド・ゲーム) is a Japanese animated feature film based on the comic by Robin Nishi. It was written and directed by Masaaki Yuasa and animated primarily by Studio4C.
Nishi is a 20-year-old, self-deprecating loser who dreams of drawing manga for a living. Since the age of nine, he has always been in love with a girl named Miyo - but although she has feelings for him, his shyness and inability to confess his love have led her to think about marrying another man.
Shortly after learning of this, Nishi is shot through the butt by an angry Yakuza mobster and dies - and thus begins the story of Mind Game, a movie about second chances and living life with no regrets.
The whole movie is told in several different styles of animation, visual metaphors, intertwining plots and philosophical messages. Since its release, it has become something of a cult classic, being praised by directors from both the West and the East for its storytelling and visual style(s).
!!''Mind Game'' contains examples of:
* ArtShift: The entire movie switches between three or four different art styles, the main two being a sketchy, surreal style and ''Rotoscoping''.
** StylisticSuck: ... which is occasionally interspersed with clean, fancy and sometimes breathtaking animation.
* AssKicksYou: Saves Nishi's bacon on the second time around.
* DerangedAnimation: The message may be clear, but the presentation leaves one occasionally baffled at just what sort of chemicals would be required to envision what plays out on screen.
* DirtyOldMan: Jiisan, the old man in the whale.
* FlashForward: The ending basically shows a series of possible future events.
* ForgivenessRequiresDeath: Done to Atsu after he killed Nishi.
* KingOfAllCosmos: {{God}}, "In all his infinite manifestations".
* LikeABadassOutOfHell: Nishi TookALevelInBadass while there, and even pulled a fast one on God... Or did he?
* AFateWorseThanDeath: Nishi narrowly avoids being erased from existence by God after he dies.
** Actually, it's rather TheNothingAfterDeath than the CessationOfExistence.
** The scene where the people trapped inside the claustrophobic darkness of the whale are helplessly listening to the radio... and the weatherman describing the beautiful day, hoping everyone enjoys the warm sunlight and lovely breeze...
* MindScrew: And goodly amounts of it. It's named "Mind Game" for a reason.
* NonHumanSidekick: The Plesiosaurus.
* NoEnding: The movie specifically ends with "This movie has no ending."
* SerialEscalation: The entire whale escape sequence. Notably the obstacles that crop up.
* SwallowedWhole: Invokes the trope in classic fashion by using a gigantic whale.
* TimeTravel
* TheGodsMustBeLazy: God.
* TrainEscape: The protagonists end up narrowly avoiding a train (among other things) while escaping from inside a ''whale''.
* XMeetsY: A good description of this film would be a Japanese, art-house "Jonah and the Whale".
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Just copy the game subfolders (GEODATA, GEOGRAPH, MAPS, ROUTES, SOUND, TERRAIN, UFOGRAPH, UFOINTRO, UNITS) to OpenXcom's Data folder (usually the "data" subfolder).
The installer will automatically detect Steam installations and take care of the resource copying for you, just follow the instructions.
If installing manually, copy the resources to the data subfolder.
Mac OS X
OpenXcom requires the following libraries:
Data Folder
You can also specify your own path by passing the command-line argument "-data <data path>". The X-COM and OpenXcom data can be in different folders.
Mac OS X
User Folder
OpenXcom automatically creates a User folder with all the screenshots, savegames and options in one of the following paths.
Mac OS X
Log file
Portable Installations
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0.020981 | <urn:uuid:dd473aab-141b-4b66-a464-c1b57e247b92> | en | 0.917038 | 1. The Sundarbans (Bangladesh) (N 798)
Year of inscription on the World Heritage List
The Sundarbans: 1997
The Sundarbans: (ix)(x)
Previous Committee Decisions:
Illustrative material:
Corrective measures identified
International Assistance
Requests Approved: 0 (from2008-2008)
Total Amount Approved: 75,000USD
2008 Re-establishing essential management capacity in the Sundarbans WH site following the passage of cyclone Sidr 75,000 USD
UNESCO Extra-budgetary Funds
Previous monitoring missions
2007: World Heritage Centre mission
Factors affecting the property identified in previous reports
Current conservation issues
The property is comprised of three distinct components of roughly the same size, all part of, and located within, the larger Sundarbans Forest Reserve. The East Sundarbans component was subjected to the full force of the powerful cyclone Sidr on 5 November 2007. In response to the reported widespread damage to the property caused by the cyclone, UNESCO dispatched a mission in December 2007. The UNESCO mission consulted the IUCN Bangladesh office and had the following objectives:
a) Assess the impact of cyclone Sidr on the Sundarbans ecosystem, and on the Forest Department’s ability to fulfil its management mandate;
b) Develop, in consultation with local and national authorities, a response strategy focusing on ensuring that the Forest Department maintains its capacity to effectively protect the ecosystem and manage resource use activities in the site;
c) Assist the Forest Department authorities to prepare an emergency assistance proposal to be submitted to the World Heritage Centre;
d) Ensure that the UN response effort is fully appraised of the situation, particularly with the link between an effectively managed ecosystem and the sustainable livelihoods of surrounding communities, so that consideration is given to allocating available support to ensuring the long term productivity of the site.
The observations of the mission fall into two categories: impacts on ecosystems and impacts on management capacity. The ecosystem impact included very extensive damage to the mangrove forests in over 30% of the property (e.g. the near totality of the East Sundarbans component and a small portion of the South Sundarbans component). In this zone, trees and shrubs lost 75%-100% of their foliage while larger trees were blown down or suffered major crown damage. A clear measure of impacts on animal wildlife was impossible to obtain, though there is a strong likelihood, given the powerful winds and a flooding 3-4 metre storm surge, that significant mortality would have occurred (birdlife, other vertebrates including tigers). Fishermen reported reduced catches immediately following the cyclone but it is unclear if this was a temporary or more long-term impact on the aquatic species and habitat. The mission concluded that ecosystem recovery over the next several years was likely as long as no additional threats develop and if an appropriate management strategy designed to reduce ecosystem stress is adopted (e.g. such as temporary reductions in allowed human activities in certain areas).
Many fishermen and one forest guard perished in the cyclone. The impact on management capacity included severe damage to infrastructure such as water collection facilities for park staff, patrol posts and buildings which were rendered uninhabitable, having lost their roofing, windows, doors and furnishings. Jetties, critical for safe boat embarkation and disembarkation, and for mooring in tidal conditions, were also destroyed. According to Forest Department staff, all smaller motorized vessels have been lost, along with all communications and other office equipment.
The recommendations of the mission are to ensure that that no additional stresses be permitted to slow or prevent the recovery of the habitat and normal functioning of the ecosystem, and to monitoring the recovery. In particular, in response to the ecosystem impact: (1) avoid additional stressors: prevent fires and removal of deadwood; (2) monitor the ecosystem response to the cyclone and use this to help assess the post cyclone management actions and improve risk reduction planning for the future, and (3) clear the areas surrounding field stations to facilitate their operation. To aid the recovery of full management capacity the mission suggested short, medium and longer term strategies. The short term strategy focuses on restoring management capacity within the strict boundaries of the property, whereas the medium term strategy focuses on doing the same throughout the remaining areas of the Sundarbans Forest Reserve.
1. Short Term (3-6 months)
• Survey all field stations within the property and the surrounding Forest Reserve in an effort to identify which can be fully restored, and which need to be replaced.
• Develop a complete and detailed restoration plan, including budget. Begin to seek financing to implement it.
• Restore the most strategic field stations with those located within the property as priority, to provide adequate housing facilities for Forest Department staff (e.g. clean up and remove debris, restore structures, and equip with necessary furnishings, rebuild mooring jetties, consideration should be given to the feasibility of acquiring solar powered reverse osmosis machines for drinking and cooking water).
• Acquire a minimum number of suitable motorized boats to ensure basic monitoring role of Forest Department staff.
• Acquire necessary communications equipment to allow for optimal coordination of Forest Department activities in the field.
• Remove debris from smaller water channels to ensure adequate water flow.
2. Medium Term (6-18 months)
• Complete the restoration of field stations (as per short term strategy) and replace remaining lost motorized boats and communications equipment.
• Carry out an assessment of cyclone refuge needs (in terms of design, capacity, versatility, location, cost-benefit assessment and management requirements) to ensure that these serve effectively as occasional refuges of last resort (e.g. evacuation of personnel and fishermen prior to cyclone landfall being the preferred response).
• Construct strategically located cyclone refuge complexes.
• Support the restoration of eco-tourism facilities.
• Develop a sustainable financing plan for the property to ensure continuous optimal management capacity.
3. Long Term (18 months – 4 years)
• Implement the sustainable financing plan for the property, including support for a permanent ecosystem monitoring programme.
The mission also acknowledged the risk of encroachment by local populations into the property. The managers of the property, while trying to recover their own capacity, will need to engage actively with the local communities to ensure strong and transparent communication on the importance of protecting the property while working together to help rebuild livelihoods.
The World Heritage Centre and IUCN acknowledge the efforts of the State Party which has submitted a request for International Assistance for "Re-establishing essential management capacity in the Sundarbans World Heritage property following the passage of cyclone Sidr” and would encourage the State Party to report on its own activities to complement international assistance it is seeking. IUCN would encourage the State Party to carry out detailed ecological studies on wildlife and vegetation to determine the current populations of key and endangered species such as tiger, python, estuarine crocodile and marine turtles. The distribution and health of forest, mangrove and other habitat along with changes in the hydrology of the property, which affect salinity gradients, sediment load/ deposition and other factors affecting the distribution of flora and fauna should be monitored. Information so gathered will support risk assessment and cyclone recovery work.
The involvement of the international community is essential to ensure that the Forest Department quickly regains its capacity to manage the Sundarbans and avoid increasing impacts from uncontrolled exploitation – a risk which grows with the duration of the post-cyclone reduction in management capacity.
Decision Adopted: 32COM 7B.10
The World Heritage Committee,
a) produce a detailed restoration and recovery plan;
b) restore management capacity to:
i) restore field stations and forest patrols;
ii) communication and transport equipment;
iii) implement ecological monitoring;
c) support the revival of livelihood activities, including ecotourism;
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Posted August 03, 2012 13:51:24
The Country Liberals' plan to redevelop Darwin's Bagot community will probably result in a court challenge and compensation, a lawyer says.
Bagot is Darwin's largest Indigenous community and the Country Liberals want to turn it into a suburb where anyone can buy a home.
The party says it will have to change the lease arrangements for the land.
But barrister Lex Silvester says that would be legally difficult.
He says even if it did happen, payouts would follow.
"I would imagine there would be a very large amount of compensation to pay to the Bagot community," he said.
Treasurer Delia Lawrie agrees.
"Enormous amounts of money would have to be paid and you'd be caught up in the courts for years," she said.
The Opposition's Dave Tollner says he cannot see why his proposal would face any legal challenge.
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Iraq Spins Out of Control
Contrary to the claims of the White House, the events of this past weekend reveal a nation enmeshed in chaos and violence.
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The mission in Iraq is far, far from accomplished.
A surge in deadly violence this weekend brought the bloodiest day in Iraq in recent months; suicide bombings, mortar fire and fierce battles between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi security forces, including a firefight between an Iraqi crowd and a U.S. helicopter crew, killed dozens, leaving even more injured. Attacks against U.S. forces now average 87 per day, the worst monthly average, reports Newsweek, "since Bush's flight-suited visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln in May 2003." Casualty figures keep escalating: the U.S. death toll passed 1,000 last week and over 7,000 have been wounded. Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted this weekend, "We did miscalculate the difficulty" of winning the peace in Iraq.
In a significant setback for U.S. efforts in Iraq, Fallujah, one of the nation's biggest cities, is now entirely under the control of rebel insurgents. This weekend, the Iraqi military force put in place in the explosive city by the Marines disbanded. There is strong evidence that many members have been working with insurgents against the U.S. forces that provided them with weapons and paychecks. Last April, the White House withdrew Marine troops from the city, hoping the newly created Brigade would work with the Iraqi government to fight the insurgency. The city quickly fell under the control of the insurgents, as many in the Brigade openly joined the rebel forces against the United States. Today, the city is a safe haven for insurgents, a place to "take refuge, plot attacks and run manufacturing centers for car bombs and other explosives."
Lt. Gen. James Conway, the outgoing U.S. Marine Corps general in charge of western Iraq, said yesterday that he had disagreed with the hasty order that sent his troops to invade Fallujah in April as well as the subsequent decision to withdraw from the city and turn over control to the disloyal Brigade. Conway said the disastrous assault increased tensions while making the region more hostile to U.S. forces: "We felt like we had a method that we wanted to apply to Fallujah, that we ought to probably let the situation settle before we appeared to be attacking out of revenge." Instead, higher ups insisted on the attack, and then demanded troops pull out when the fighting grew fierce: "I would simply say that when you order elements of a Marine division to attack a city, you really need to understand the consequences of that, and not, perhaps, vacillate in the middle of that. Once you commit to do that, you have to stay committed." Marine Col. Jerry Durrant agrees: "The whole Fallujah Brigade thing was a fiasco."
Nineteen months after the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has failed to achieve significant reconstruction, contributing to the ongoing frustrations of the Iraqi people. According to Bathsheba Crocker, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, when it comes to economic opportunity, services, and social well-being, "Iraq is actually moving backward." The Los Angeles Times reports the job of restoring electricity to war-torn Iraq is "steeped in errors and misjudgment." Electricity for Iraqis was central to White House reconstruction plans, but today, Iraq's largest source of electricity, the Baiji power plant, "produces less than half the electricity it generated" two years ago. Why is the country still in the dark? Lack of planning, inconsistent leadership and an over-reliance on private contractors. The Bush administration "vastly underestimated the time, money and effort needed to restore the country's power grid." It's indicative of the failures of the entire reconstruction process, still marked by "tainted water supplies, limited sewage treatment and curtailed construction of public buildings." The ongoing failure has dire ramifications for the unstable security situation, producing "a deep reservoir of confusion and anger that feeds the country's deadly insurgency."
The increased violence has serious ramifications for the scheduled elections. "We're dealing with a population that hovers between bare tolerance and outright hostility," says a senior U.S. diplomat in Baghdad. "This idea of a functioning democracy here is crazy. We thought that there would be a reprieve after sovereignty, but all hell is breaking loose." The Bush White House is blithely insisting elections will occur in January as planned. Security concerns, however, have left others less confident. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stated this weekend on Meet the Press that "It would be lovely if they took place in January, but I sure don't see it." Iraqi officials are also increasingly skeptical. One senior Iraqi official told Newsweek, "I'm convinced that it's not going to happen. It's just not realistic. How is it going to happen?" Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari echoed that thought, saying, "The timetable really depends at the end of the day on the security situation."
Some worry that the Bush administration, desperate to avoid the appearance of yet another setback, will stick to the schedule despite ongoing problems. Ghassan Atiyya, director of the independent Iraq Foundation for Development and Democracy, warns, "Badly prepared elections, rather than healing wounds, will open them."
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Glycolysis (it literally means glucose degradation) is a metabolic pathway which changes glucose C6H12O6 into pyruvate CH3COCOO + H. The free energy which is generated in this process is utilized to make high energy compounds namely ATP (adenosine triphophate) and NADH (reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide).
It is a confirmed process of ten reactions with ten intermediate compounds (one step has 2 intermediates). The intermediate steps supply the point of entry for glycolysis. Now let’s consider one example, a lot of monosaccharide like fructose, glucose and galactose, could be turned in to one of the intermediates. The intermediate in itself may directly be of use. Consider an example the intermediate dihydroxyacetone phosphate; it is a source of glycerol which gets together with fatty acids to create fat.
Glycolysis is recognized as the archetype of a universal metabolic pathway. This process happens with some degree of variation in all the organisms both aerobic and anaerobic. The frequent occurrence of glycolysis shows that it is one of the older known metabolic pathways. The most commonly occurring glycolysis is the Embden-Meyerhof pathway which was found out by Gustav Embden and Otto Meyerhof.
Anaerobic Respiration:
One way of doing this is to just get the pyruvate to do oxidation; in this procedure the pyruvate gets converted in to lactate (this is the conjugate base of lactic acid) in a process which is called lactic acid fermentation. This process can be represented in a word equation as:
pyruvate + NADH + H -> lactate + NAD
This reaction happens in the bacteria which are involved in making yogurt (lactic acid makes the milk to curdle). This reaction also happens in animals which are under hypoxic (or partially anaerobic) conditions, found for example in overused muscles which are lacking oxygen, or in infracted heart muscle cells. In most tissues for cells this is the final resort for energy; most of the animal tissues cannot maintain the anaerobic respiration over an extended period of time.
Some organisms like yeast turn NADH to NAD in a reaction called as ethanol fermentation. In the reaction the pyruvate is turned first into acetaldehyde and CO2, after this into ethanol.
The lactic acid fermentation and ethanol fermentation can happen in the lack of oxygen presence. The anaerobic fermentation lets a lot of single celled organisms to use glycolysis as their only source of energy. From the two examples above regarding the fermentation, NADH is oxidized by sending 2 electrons to pyruvate. But anaerobic bacteria use a big range of compounds as the terminal electron acceptors in the process of cellular respiration.
Remember oxygen is not an essential for the glycolysis to occur. In many organisms such as C. tetani (this causes tetanus) or C. Perfringence (this causes gangrine) called as obligate anaerobes, the oxygen presence will be lethal. In the organisms that use glycolysis, absence of oxygen stops pyruvate from being metabolized to CO2 and H2O through the citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain (which relies on oxygen) doesn’t work. Fermentation will not generate energy more that already generated from glycolysis (2 ATP’s) but serves to re obtain NAD so the glycolysis can go on. There are useful end products created such as lactate or ethanol.
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Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and independent, the woman becomes plagued with worry over what happened to him, and is unable to move on with her life. Thus, Kanae decides to hire a private investigator, and keeps running the public bathhouse to the best of her abilities, but the detective who shows up is disheveled and eccentric. As he tries to figure out the truth about her husband, Kanae must deal with the stress from a work-intensive job, meddlesome neighbors, and recurring nightmares in which she is drowning.
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Both of these manga by Tetsuya Toyoda have a private detective hired to find a missing person. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's the same detective, although he's only named in Undercurrent.
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1. It's in the rules. You might want to check because they may have changed it.
2. O wow congrazt and how many post do i need to get a custom avi?
3. Well in the rules it says you have to have a certain amounts of posts to customize your avi. As for what I do I'm mainly on myspace. I come on here to talk to old friends if they are on. When I'm not on here I'm taking care of my son and myself since I'm pregnant.
4. O wow so ur multi tasking and rping? What do u do for fun online? And do u know how to make ur avatar a custom?
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0.018695 | <urn:uuid:82a0c359-137a-46f4-8b9d-2d0076b39d65> | en | 0.952779 | I'd suggest ruining an entire roll of the shortest and cheapest film you can buy by practicing in the light of day. Practice by letting the entire roll dangle in front of you and begin to learn to fasten it securely to the reel. Once you get the feel try it with your eyes closed. Then begin the rolling process. Learn to feel the curved film engaging the reel. Then do it all over again with your eyes closed. Once you are comfortable with this then try it in the bag. It may prove easier without the dangling film which wont dangle because you will working on a table or counter top.
As far as bag size goes, I'd say bigger is better.
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0.093613 | <urn:uuid:0298279f-7b10-41da-b791-efb494edd625> | en | 0.974661 | If I remember correctly, Olan Mills portrait studios throughout the United States had special cameras that used proprietary 35mm film in long rolls without the sprocket holes. One of their photographers told me that it almost gave a medium format negative, area- wise. This was when we were having a family portrait done circa 2001. | http://www.apug.org/forums/viewpost.php?p=1446498 | dclm-gs1-022520002 | false | false | {
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I don't think the democrats are to blame only the republicans after all this is a self made crisis that they intend to use to kill SS, medicare and any other programs they could. They have already did damage to the FFA. It's weird how after 9/11 our government has steadily been cutting off it's nose with crazy ideas like tax deductions with two wars, more intrusion into our lives and getting rid of restrictions and regulations that watch over big business and the environment. And now the Tea Party and Republicans are using this to get rid of safety nets that will lower the quality of life for millions of Americans that in there old age and are trying to maintain a dignity of life. Those that voted Tea Party hope you enjoy paying more for things, you reap what you sew.
One would think, by now, that your kind of short sighted thinking would be a thing of the past. That's right, blame the Republicans and Tea Party people for all the ills of our nation. What part of overspending don't you understand? Why should the President be given another blank check? He's proven himself incompetent in dealing with the issues that are killing our country, ie. the economy, unemployment, and telling the truth. I'm beginning to agree with those who claim nothing positive is going to happen until the Putz is sent packing along with the thugs he drug into Washington with him.
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0.996699 | <urn:uuid:25b42d35-351e-404d-a623-b6a5e0730579> | en | 0.770095 | Pulse-width modulating circuit question - VERY IMPORTANT AND NEED IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE! ...
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Devices: LM 555 timer, 3 kohm, 3.1 kohm, and3.9 kohm resistors, 20 kohm potentiometer. I usethese devices to build a PWM circuit but I need someassistance. The instructions say to connectthe input clock signal (0 to 4 V, 1600 Hz squarewave from asignal generator can simulate the TTL output). A 555 timercan also be used to generate the clock. Next, connect themodulation signal, Initially use a 1 V pk-pk, 300 Hz sinusoidwith a +2 V offset. Finally, synchronize theoscilloscope using the input sinusoid. Adjust thepotentiometer until the width of the PWM pulses its maximum at thepositive peak of the sinusoid and a minimum at the negative peak ofthe sinusoid. Please create this circuit on P-Spice orMultisim or any circuit building software.
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The problem with what you write is, Evansville has to continue spending the $$$ it spends on the Centre, so those dollars are not available to spend on Roberts...and we cannot do both. There's no way the money is not going to be spent on the Centre, and we do not have excess funds lying around. As for the Re-purposed Mall, it's not thriving! A HUGE percentage of its spaces are boarded up and sitting vacant. Sure, some of the space is being used creatively, but to say its thriving is an absolute stretch. I know the real story behind that mall, and the owners would DEFINITELY not say that it is thriving. Just wait until the Sear's store moves out, and you'll see how thriving it is. Just face it, the city is broke and we don't have the money (or the will) to keep Roberts. In most people's minds, it's already gone.
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I never cheer as the economy worsened. It worsened under Bush's last year and further worsened under Obama. A stagnant economy is not something to cheer. I'm very conservative fiscally and without a strong growing economy the ability to keep folks off social welfare programs is lacking. The more people we have working the better for America. When the Federal government is reporting 'bad' numbers such as high unemployment rates, it's only because they want that information out there to accomplish an agenda (ie the bailouts). Otherwise it would be construde so that you and I had no chance of seeing it. Please look at the labor force participation rate.
This particular link shows 1990-2000-2010. The trends are that young people are working less, and people are working older. This is the reason you see MANY minimum wage jobs hiring (fast food etc), but not nearly as many career type jobs hiring as people are working older and not retiring.
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0.031204 | <urn:uuid:0a8da19e-cd88-4892-8be3-b6e35e74ead7> | en | 0.962232 | The average person produces one to two pints worth of mucus each day in their sinuses cavities. And while that mucus has many functions in the body, those with blocked or damaged sinus cavities can feel the pressure of all that buildup.
Chronic sinusitis, which affects one in seven adults in the U.S., is an inflammation of the sinus lining lasting three months or more, and is one of the most commonly diagnosed chronic illnesses. It is typically caused by bacterial, viral and/or microbial infections. But there can also be structural issues, such as blockage of the sinus opening that can lead to the illness. If the opening is closed, normal mucus drainage may not occur and can lead to infection and inflammation of the sinuses.
Chronic sinusitis results in 7 million office visits each year in this country, and of those 7 million, just 40-80 percent are treated effectively with medication.
But there are newer surgical options available. And long gone are the days when those seeking relief ended up recovering with a black and blue nose and several days of recovery with lots of pain.
"Things really have come a long way," said Kevin Gietzen, an ear nose and throat specialist at McLaren Northern Michigan in Petoskey.
"In 2005, the FDA approved a balloon to dilate the openings. We've been offering the procedure for about five years, but not a lot of people know about it."
Unlike previous procedures in which the surgeon would create a new hole for drainage, the balloon sinuplasty system is a minimally invasive outpatient procedure that allows the patient to return to work in just a day or two.
Doctors thread a guide wire equipped with a tiny balloon into the nostrils and up to the area of blockage, usually found behind the eyes or cheeks. They then inflate the balloon just enough to open the existing passageway. There is little to no disruption to the mucosal lining.
During the procedure, the sinuses are opened in the same way that doctors open up blocked arteries during balloon angioplasty.
David Henry of Rudyard, has suffered from sinus infections and a loss of smell for 40 years. Henry was referred to Gietzen and underwent the balloon sinuplasty surgery a month ago.
"The recovery has been easy," Henry said. "The nice thing is that you go into the office and you have it done and are out in about three hours so there is no hospital stay."
Henry said his sense of smell is coming back slowly, and he wonders why he waited so long.
"It's been pretty easy," he said. "It's all coming back and I know it will be a while but it's just been a great experience from the procedure to the follow-ups. I'd recommend it to anyone."
"As of March 2012, the procedure has been done in 208,000 patients and has seen a 94 percent success rate," Gietzen said. "And the benefits are great because there is no need for packing the nose after the procedure like in the past, and strong pain meds aren't needed beyond Motrin or Tylenol."
Common signs and symptoms of chronic sinusitis include:
-- Facial pain, pressure, congestion or fullness
-- Difficulty breathing through the nose
-- Discharge of yellow or green mucus from the nose
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0.044482 | <urn:uuid:c599908b-f555-49aa-8d25-b9f57f72720d> | en | 0.969623 | The Salt Lake Tribune reporter Lisa Schencker writes for the Religion News Service about those left behind by the person who commits suicide and how different religions are changing their thinking about the sin of suicide:
DRAPER, Utah (RNS) As young brothers, Kris and Kourt McGuire often spent hours chasing the shimmering dragonflies that floated above a lush, green pasture behind their house.
She smiled, and they all broke into laughter.
Through the years, Ken and Lyn McGuire have found comfort in images of dragonflies, which now fill their home. The dragonflies remind them of warm memories and hope for the future.
They also hope to bring that sense of comfort to other survivors of suicide, and they see the Mormon faith as part of that effort, not an obstacle.
That wasn’t always the case. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like many other religions, used to focus largely on what they saw as the sin of killing oneself.
In fact, it used to be that Mormons who committed suicide could not have church funerals or be buried in temple clothing. Likewise, Catholics who committed suicide in past decades were not allowed Christian burials, said Scott Dodge, deacon at the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City’s Cathedral of the Madeleine. And until about 20 years ago, many evangelicals assumed those who committed suicide were headed to hell, said Greg Johnson, president of the Standing Together Ministries coalition of evangelical churches.
Today, though most religions still condemn suicide, there’s an understanding in many faiths that those who take their own lives don’t always have full control over their actions.
“What the (Catholic) church tends to recognize now,” Dodge said, “is that most people who (commit suicide) suffer from probably a grave psychological problem or really deep depression or sometimes, sadly, that happens in the grips of some kind of addiction.”
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If your new dog does show the symptoms above, it is considered mild as long as he/she has a
normal appetite and is playful. If the cough is deep and persistent and there is nasal discharge, a
visit to your veterinarian is recommended.
Digestive Troubles
Anytime there are major changes in lifestyles for pets, there is a chance for intestinal upsets.
Changes in the environment, diet, daily routine, etc. can cause temporary diarrhea and/or
diminished appetite. These changes usually last no more than 2 to 3 days. If these symptoms
persist beyond this period of time, contact your veterinarian.
Why is it important to vaccinate my dog, what are these shots about??
Vaccinating your dog according to your veterinarian’s recommendations is very important.
There are many diseases that your dog may come in contact with when he/she is in the outside
world. Many of these diseases are fatal to your animal if contracted or not caught quickly
enough for treatment. Vaccines help prevent the diseases from infecting your dog, much like the
shots we all received as children to safe guard us from many illnesses.
Rabies vaccine:
Rabies is a virus that is transmitted via saliva contact with broken skin or mucous membranes.
This normally occurs via a bite from an infected animal. All warm blooded animals can get the
disease (this includes humans!). The main carriers of rabies in the Midwest are skunks and bats.
When the virus in contracted, it enters the nerves at the site of the bite. Because the immune
system is not very active within the nervous system, the body is not able to produce antibodies
quickly enough to attack the virus and stop the disease.
Rabies lies dormant in the nerves for a period of time that varies from a few days to months,
dependent on the animal. This is called the incubation period. If treatment is sought
immediately and received during the incubation period, recovery is very likely. The incubation
period in humans averages 60 days. After the incubation period the virus travels through the
nerves to the brain. This is when symptoms first appear. Death occurs within a few days of the
onset of symptoms.
Rabies affects the nervous system. Easily identifiable symptoms in animals include unusual
behavior. Wild animals may act aggressive towards inanimate objects or lose their fear of
humans and act friendly. “Foaming at the mouth” may be present during the later stages of the
disease, OR not at all. Foaming is caused by excessive drooling, throat muscle spasms or
paralysis, and involuntary jaw movements that turn excessive drool to foam.
The spread of rabies is most effectively controlled by vaccinating domestic animals against
disease. Iowa law requires that domestic animals be current on rabies vaccines and dogs should
bear their rabies tag provided by the veterinarian on their collars.
Parvovirus Vaccine:
Parvovirus is a viral disease. It affects puppies much more frequently than it affects adult dogs.
causing diarrhea (often bloody), depression and suppression of the white blood cells. In very
young puppies it can infect the heart muscle and cause sudden death.
Parvo is probably the most common viral illness of dogs at present. It can be very hard to
requires from its mother can interfere with the vaccine. Many vets recommend vaccinating
puppies every 3 to 4 weeks for this virus starting at 6 weeks of age and continuing until they are
at least 16 weeks of age.
Parvo causes dogs to not be able to absorb nutrients or liquids. Symptoms that can occur are
diarrhea, vomiting and lethargy. Typically they will stop eating and develop a bloody, foul-
smelling liquid stool. Symptoms often begin with a high fever, depression, and loss of appetite.
Secondary symptoms are severe gastrointestinal distress, such as vomiting and bloody diarrhea.
In many cases dehydration, shock and death follow.
There is no cure for Parvo. Treatment consists of IV or sub-cutaneous fluids and antibiotics.
There is only about a 50% survival rate for animals that contract Parvo. Dogs who have survived
Parvo can get it again, and very quickly. As it can attack the heart, Parvo can cause congestive
heart failure as well, months or even years after recovering from the disease.
Parvo is carried by dogs, and transmitted by contact with infected fecal matter. Adult dogs may
be infected carriers without showing any signs. Dogs with the typical diarrhea that parvovirus
causes shed the virus as well. Parvo can last a long time in the environment, as long as 9 months
or longer, in favorable conditions. The most effective agent to kill Parvo on surfaces is chlorine
bleach. Parvo is highly contagious to unvaccinated dogs. The only way to prevent Parvo is for
your dog to be regularly vaccinated against this deadly disease, starting at 6 weeks of age. Dogs
who never leave their own yard can contract Parvo. This virus can be carried in by other animals
and even humans on shoes, tires, etc. So it is vitally important to protect your dog by
vaccinating it as recommended by your veterinarian.
Coronvirus vaccine:
Coronavirus is the second leading viral cause of diarrhea in puppies. Unlike Parvo, Coronavirus
is not typically associated with high death rates. It like Parvo is contracted through fecal matter
from infected dogs. However, unlike Parvo, Coronavirus is easier to kill with detergents and
solvent type disinfectants.
The primary symptom is diarrhea, typically vomiting is not common. However, there is no way
to differentiate between Parvo-induced diarrhea and Coronavirus-induced diarrhea, without a lab
test. The treatment for Coronvirus is to ensure dehydration does not occur. Water must be force
fed or specially prepared fluids can be administered under the skin and/or intravenously.
Vaccines should be given starting at 6 weeks to prevent this disease.
Distemper vaccine:
Distemper is a virus affecting a range of organs including the skin, brain, eyes, intestinal and
respiratory tracts. The virus is transmitted through the air and through body secretions such as
urine. Dogs of any age can be affected, but it is most common in puppies less than 6 months of
age and senior dogs.
The most common symptoms are nasal and eye discharge, coughing, diarrhea, vomiting and
seizures. Distemper is serious and can spread rapidly in unvaccinated dogs. There is no
treatment for distemper, fluids may be administered to prevent dehydration or anti-seizure
medication for neurological problems. High death rates are associated with puppies and older
dogs. Even those recovering will most likely have other health issues as a result of the disease.
The only way to protect your dog from this disease is vaccination by your veterinarian.
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Should Nonprofit Tax-Exempt Corporations Promote Crime?
It is common sense to expect corporations which are granted tax-exempt status by the federal government to respect the
laws of our society. But in reality, many tax-exempt corporations applaud crimes by others to the point where they
arguably incite crime, or break the law themselves as standard business practice. Taxpayers, meanwhile, both subsidize
their very existence and get billed for costs incurred by law enforcement, the courts and the penal system.
Applauding others’ crimes is, rightly, protected speech, but is it appropriate for a tax-exempt corporation? Meanwhile,
inciting others to crime and engaging in such acts as vandalism, trespassing, assault and worse are illegal, and breaking
the law should not be the business of tax-exempt corporations.
status. If it decides that they do not, they should be subject to fines or revocation of their status. If it decides that they do,
it should revise its reporting procedures to assess the cost of these corporations to society, and publish its findings.
ENDORSING CRIME = INCITING CRIME? up and smashing windows. For the record, I don’t do this
Applauding crimes already committed is protected
Aug. 1, a great way to
stuff, but I do advocate it. I think it’s 2003, San Diegobring
(Photo: San Diego Channel)
about animal liberation, and considering the level of the
speech, but it can also incite others to commit new
crimes, and is thus inappropriate behavior for a tax- atrocity and the level of the suffering, I think it would be a
exempt corporation. Meanwhile, intentionally inciting great thing if, you know, all of the fast-food outlets, and these
others to commit crimes is simply illegal. slaughterhouses, and these laboratories, and the banks that
fund them exploded tomorrow. ... I think it’s perfectly
Animal Defense League - LA (EIN: 95-4823289)
appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them
“The Animal Defense League is an above-ground animal
through the windows, and, you know, everything else
rights group, but fully supports the great work done by the
along the line. Hallelujah to the people who are willing to
underground Animal Liberation Front (ALF) in freeing
do it.” Bruce Friedrich, vegan coordinator, to the National
animals ...”; July 2003. ALF is
Animal Rights Convention, McClean, VA, July 2001.
classified by the FBI as a terrorist group. ADL should
Through words such as “advocate”, Friedrich is explicitly
clarify whether “supports” means providing the means to
inciting listeners to commit new crimes, which is illegal.
commit crimes, or whether it merely “approves” of those
crimes, which would be protected speech. Recommendations:
“... we frequently risk our personal freedom in the form of 1) A tax-exempt corporation which, whether as an
civil disobedience to show the animal abusers in our organization or through named spokespeople, publicly
midst that they may not continue business-as-usual. When endorses criminal acts committed by others, should be
arrested we regularly refuse to pay the government in the required by the IRS to explain how endorsing crime helps
form of bail or fines, and we do not plead guilty to any of it fulfill its tax-exempt mission. If no satisfactory
their charges ... We also do not accept probation as this justification is provided, it should be required to desist or
limits our future effectiveness as activists. Though many face a review of its tax status.
ADL-LA members do not take part in C.D. or get arrested, 2) A tax-exempt corporation which, as an organization,
we whole-heartedly support those that do ...” ibid. ADL appears to intentionally incite crime should have its tax-
hereby admits that as standard business practice it both exempt status suspended pending criminal investigation.
breaks the law and violates IRS Revenue Ruling 75-383. 3) A tax-exempt corporation which, through a named
Last Chance for Animals (EIN: 95-4013155) spokesperson, appears to intentionally incite crime should
either publicly denounce the spokesperson or publicly
“I always try to say that certain activities like bombings or endorse his/her statements, and have its tax-exempt status
arson - I always stay away from those things only because suspended pending criminal investigation.
they are uncontrollable. There are things that I am against
personally but I’ve seen them done and they have worked. COMMITTING CRIMES
For example the Managing Director of HLS [Huntingdon Any illegal act from vandalism and burglary to
Life Sciences] in England was beaten and that put the fear trespassing and public obscenity imposes a financial
of whatever into those people. ... Now am I endorsing that? burden on society. Law-breaking should never be
Not publicly. If it happens and it works, then that’s great.” considered appropriate behavior for a corporation, least
Chris DeRose, president, interviewed by Animal Liberation of all a tax-exempt one.
NSW (Australia), 2002. DeRose is technically engaging in People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
protected speech, but is it his true intent to incite crime? (EIN: 52-1218336)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals From 2000 to August 2003, the media reported 82 arrests of
(EIN: 52-1218336) PeTA activists in the US on charges including (but far from
“If we really believe that these animals do have the same limited to) felonious dumping, felony obstruction of
right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then government property, criminal mischief, assaulting a cabinet
of course we’re going to be, as a movement, blowing stuff official, felony vandalism, performing obscene acts in public,
failure to obey a law enforcement officer, obstructing traffic, training courses in committing illegal acts, and to attest
destruction of federal property, obstructing a lawful business, that no minors participate in these courses.
criminal trespass, criminal mischief and burglary.
FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES
The actual cost of processing these arrests is unknown.
However, a California police department unofficially Violations of IRS reporting rules and “creative” reporting to
confirmed that $5,000 was “a good ballpark average” for a conceal cash flows are illegal. Tax-exempt corporations
civil disobedience arrest. And that means in three and a should be required to meet the highest possible standards of
half years, PeTA’s law-breakers cost taxpayers $410,000. reporting, avoiding even the suspicion of trying to deceive.
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (EIN: 93-0792021) In Defense of Animals (EIN: 68-0008936)
Unigate Dairies, UK, 1999
“Going to jail is simply the price of doing business as an Animal Liberation Federation: For 2000 and ’01, IDA
activist.” Sea Shepherd president Paul Watson, Bite Back reports “restricted net assets” of $20,000 and $4,000 for the
magazine, summer 2003. “Animal Liberation Federation (ALF)”. There is no Animal
Liberation Federation, but the acronym is that of the Animal
In the same magazine, Watson provides a chronology of
Liberation Front, classified by the FBI as a terrorist group.
his “prison credentials” (edited for space reasons):
1996-2002: Reports outgoing donations and grants
“Two weeks in an Iranian jail in 1972 on charges of
totaling over $250,000, but fails to identify the recipients
espionage. One day in a Seattle jail in 1977 on charges of
or the purposes of the payments, in breach of IRS rules.
trespass. Ten days in a Quebec Jail in 1980 on charges of
breaking the Canadian Seal Protection Act ... Ten days in Animal Charities of America: The ACA has awarded over
a Quebec jail in April 1983 awaiting bail ... Ten days in $375,000 to IDA since fiscal 1997-8, during which time
December 1983 on a conviction ordering me to serve 21 IDA president Elliott Katz has served on ACA’s board.
months in prison ... One day in an Icelandic jail in 1989 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
awaiting a determination on charges that were not laid. (EIN: 52-1218336)
Five days in 1993 in Newfoundland awaiting bail on charges 2001: $1,500 grant to North American Earth Liberation
of Mischief ... Ten days in 1995 for Accessory to Mischief ... Front. ELF is classified by the FBI as a terrorist group.
One day in Germany in 1997 on a Norwegian Interpol 2000: $5,000 grant to a legal defense “support” fund for
warrant for sinking a whaling ship. Released and rearrested former ALF spokesman Josh Harper.
in the Netherlands on the same Interpol warrant and held for
eighty days in 1997 awaiting an extradition hearing ...” 1998-2001: Form 990 entries on grant schedule state “to
support their program activities” as “class of activity”, a
Recommendations: breach of IRS rules.
4) IRS 990 forms should include a section for corporations 1996-97: Form 990s omit grants and allocations
whose representatives are arrested to report incident schedules, a breach of IRS rules.
details, charges, ages of any minors (under 18 years old)
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (EIN: 93-0792021)
arrested, man days spent in custody, and related costs such
as bail and legal fees incurred directly by the corporation 1997: Receives $2.68 million worth of stock in for-profit
or in the form of donations earmarked to meet those costs. Northern Development Associates, Inc. (NDA), making it
5) Corporations should also be required to report the final the sole owner. Northern Development reports losing
outcomes of charges against them, including whether the $200,000 yearly and at the end of 2001 was $675,000 in
charges are upheld, fines imposed and prison time served. debt to Sea Shepherd.
6) Tax-exempt corporations which report arrests should be 1999: Receives property donation valued at $362,500,
required to explain to the IRS why the activity which which it promptly sells for $850,000. It reports that the
resulted in each arrest was compatible with its mission. “Cost or Other Basis” for the property was $1,053,888 and
7) If the IRS deems that repeated law-breaking is not that there were $61,319 in costs associated with the sale
compatible with a tax-exempt corporation’s mission, it and $64,070 in maintenance costs. It then claims a loss of
should revoke the corporation’s status. If, however, it $265,207 under “Related or exempt function income”.
deems that certain law-breaking is acceptable behavior, it
should develop a standard scale of costs associated with
various types of arrest. This should be used to assess the 10) Tax-exempt corporations which own for-profit
burden on taxpayers of individual corporations, and the corporations that consistently lose money should have
findings should be published. their status reviewed.
8) Corporations which report arrests of minors should 11) Tax-exempt corporations which consistently neglect to
automatically be reviewed by the IRS. list outgoing grants and allocations, or which fail to indicate
9) Corporations should be required to report if they hold clearly their purpose, should have their status reviewed.
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Inclusion and exclusion of ethnic
minority populations in health
effect on equality & equity
Raj Bhopal CBE, DSc (hon), MD, MPH, FRCP(E)
Professor of Public Health, University of
Edinburgh & Chairman, Steering Committee of
the National Resource Centre for Ethnic
Minority Health
What is the state of research in ethnic
minority populations, particularly in relation to
effectiveness of interventions?
What principles can we adopt in the light of
What messages are there for future
Policy Consensus
Policy requires us to integrate the needs of minority
ethnic communities within the broader health and
health care agenda
e.g. in Scotland
“We will require NHS Boards to ensure that NHS staff
are professionally and culturally equipped to meet
the distinctive needs of individuals and family groups
from ethnic minority communities”
Race Relations Amendment Act 2000
The DH and Scottish Executive action plans (Fair for
All HDL 2002)
Inequalities are centre stage
Inequalities and inequities in health and
health care
the concepts of migration, ethnicity and race
imply major differences in environment and
culture, and some differences in biology,
which inevitably
lead to inequalities in health, that are
easily demonstrated by variables such as
country of birth, ethnicity and race, so
we need research, information, plans and
actions to tackle such inequalities
Why should we have data by ethnicity ?
establish the extent of health inequalities and
inequity in health service provision
choose between interventions i.e. set
monitor impact of efforts to reduce these
demonstrate response to RRA 2000, Fair for
All etc
But - incredibly little data
What would we lose without such data?
Cardiovascular diseases are dominant causes of
death in UK South Asian populations-even
exceeding of the incredibly high levels in the UK as
a whole
We do not properly understand what is going on
Smoking is the number one public health problem in
Smoking prevention and cessation programs require
Newcastle heart project data and the Punjabi
siblings study provided vital insights
Newcastle Heart Project: Smoking prevalence (%)
Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi European
Men 14 32 57 33
Women 1 5 2 31
Comparison of some key risk factors in Indians in
the Punjab and their siblings (Bhatnagar, 1995)
Serum cholesterol (mmol/l) 6.5 4.9
H.D.L. cholesterol (mmol/l) 1.1 1.2
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) 146 132
Lessons from these data
Such important differences cannot be ignored
Such differences cannot be quantified except by
using the concepts of migration, race or ethnicity
Minority ethnic groups are extremely
Change occurs tremendously fast after migration
We need both descriptive and experimental data-
so we understand the burden of the problem and
what to do about it
Routine vital statistics and other data:
longer term solutions
clear policy commitment but information poor
country of birth is widely used as a substitute
for ethnic group
high-quality, complete, routine ethnic coding
in routine information systems is some way
recording ethnicity on birth and death
certificates-under debate
Routine vital statistics and other data:
retrospective coding of ethnicity project
Edinburgh University/ISD/GROS project has shown
how the information gap can be filled e.g.
using probability matching techniques to match hospital
discharge to census records
name searching
modelling
the information desert can be made to bloom!
Primary research: evidence base for
effectiveness in minority ethnic health
The question of what works is problematic
The placebo-controlled, randomised, double blind
trial provides the most solid evidence for
effectiveness of initiatives
These trials are difficult to conduct, particularly for
complex interventions.
Do we need evidence from such studies to
recommend an initiative in minority ethnic groups?
If so, do such studies exist?
What do we do when there are no specific relevant
Evidence to underpin interventions in
ethnic minority populations
North-south gap in research
Echoed in ethnicity gap
Work on ethnicity and health is small-scale
Ethnic minority groups generally invisible in
large-scale studies, particularly cohort studies
and trials
Such studies underpin interventions
Evidence of effectiveness of interventions
by ethnic group
Yet, ethnic minorities groups are willing
participants in trials with consent and
response rates on a par with the population
as a whole
Costs are higher for recruitment
Evidence to underpin interventions by
ethnic group: studies showing the gap 1
Ranganathan and Bhopal showed that while 15 of
31 North American cardiovascular cohort studies
provided data by ethnic group, the corresponding
figures in Europe were zero out of 41 (PLoS Jan 3
Bartlett and colleagues reported that eight of 47
trials on statins were specific about ethnicity-all eight
were USA based (Heart 2003; 89:327-8)
Evidence to underpin interventions by
ethnic group: studies showing the gap 2
Hussain-Gambles and colleagues have shown very
low participation of South Asian populations in six
trials led by the Clinical Trials Research Unit in
Yorkshire (HTA report 2004; 8: number 42, and BMJ
2003; 326:1244-5)
Sheikh and colleagues examined reporting of
ethnicity in154 trials-23 of 59 trials in the USA
reported ethnicity (39%) compared with seven of 95
in Europe (7%) (BMJ 2004; 329: 87 - 88)
Evidence base for health interventions in the
field of minority ethnic health
A focused research programme is needed
Studies on general populations ought to
include people from minority ethnic groups
-in time meta-analyses will be possible
Building up a database of this kind will be a
multi-billion pound endeavour and will take
many years
This will need to be an international exercise
Meantime, we need to use principles
Principles for health interventions
involving ethnic minority populations 1
All health initiatives are relevant to minority ethnic
The needs of minority groups should be met
simultaneously with the rest of the population.
If an intervention works generally try it in ethnic
minority groups.
Make modifications to adapt the intervention for
minority ethnic groups.
Involve minority health professionals in the teams
developing and implementing health initiatives.
Principles for health interventions
involving ethnic minority populations 2
For simple interventions, e.g. folic acid
supplementation for pregnant women to prevent
congenital abnormalities, effectiveness will probably
be transferable across ethnic groups.
Evaluate by monitoring uptake and outcome
If intervention is complex e.g. will brief advice from the
general practitioner help Bangladeshi smokers quit?
Ask the question in the context of a formal trial.
At least, research how to modify interventions to make
them cross-culturally effective.
Health initiatives must cater for the ethnic
minority populations with work of equal
potential effectiveness and sensitivity.
To do otherwise promotes inequality,
maintains inequity and is unethical and
institutionally racist, if not illegal
We need institutional structures including
pro-active strategies and stringent
requirements of researchers
Conclusions 2
Data are needed for increasing awareness
and stimulating policy and action to improve
the health of ethnic minority groups
There is a particular gap in the evidence
base showing effectiveness of interventions
by ethnic group
Conclusions 3
Legislative and policy imperatives are now integrated
and symbiotic
Ethnicity and health work is embedded within wider
diversity and social justice goals
The research community has an infrastructure within
which to collect evidence
To improve health in local communities needs research
Research can help ethnic minority groups to move from
the shadows and participate in a vibrant, healthy, multi-
ethnic society
as the following pictures illustrate
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Coming in to take a professional job, running schools, 1.1 million kids, a massive job in something you had not worked in before..."</p> <p>Klein: "I think it had its complications as well as its benefits. And I think that’s inevitable in what could happen .. I was able to see this in a way that, I think, people who grew up in the system were unlikely to see it ... Before there was Freakonomics I actually believed in incentives. And thought that they effect the way organizations work. And it just seemed to me that everything in k12 education was ms-aligned. We incentivise all the wrong things. That was something, I think, coming from the outside, you could see. On the other hand I didn't pretend to be some great expert on learning theory or development of the brain or what it was like day to day in the trenches ... I didn't to pretend to be a veteran teacher in any way. It seemed to me, the greatest disadvantage was it enabled critics to say 'he's not an educator'.</p> <p>That, I think that is a mistake. I think, because somebody has taught for a few years, or 5 year, or 10 years, I don't think qualifies em to run a huge complex organization. In fact, I always used to say I didn't think the managing partner of a law firm necessarily should be a lawyer. Lawyers are not steeped in management and human capital and creating incentives and creating an organization that is a problem solving organization. Those are not the things people are trained to do. You can be a great teacher and actually a poor principal. One of the things that always struck me was we taught people how to be a teacher first before you become a principal.... it seemed to make no sense. Why shouldn't there be people who could come in that have the management skills, appoint a strong deputy, put together a team, and get the work done."</p> <p>Dubner: " .. a lot of management position at the Department of Ed were filled by people from a corporate or consulting background, as opposed to typical ... of schools and typical of schools in New York City education veterans. Why? Why did you do that? How did it work?"</p> <p>Klein: "I did it because I wanted to mix the skills. I mean I hired a lot of people from business schools.I mean it is a $23 billion organization. Why would we think that a social studies teacher would be the primary person to do budgets. Why would we think a social studies teacher would be the primary person to do human resources. You need human resource policies, recruitment policies, so I wanted people who came from different backgrounds. Second of all, I wanted people who were really a part of a performance culture. Who really thought that excellence and driving themselves and pushing forward. And I wanted them to come from what ever background.</p> <p>... right now, in my current cabinet I have more senior educators than anybody else ever had. ... But I also got some people that have come from a very different background. That’s the way you assemble a team. Where I could find talent, whether it was the business schools, the law schools, or the Kennedy School or occasionally the school of economics [chuckle] I would go for these people and bring them in"</strong></em></p> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:44:42 +0000 Bob Charles - 62805 comment 97794 at New York City Teacher's Comments <p>I asked a new NYC Teacher friend about the book "Classs Warfare" by Brill. In that context, they made some interesting statements about NYC: </p> <p><em><br /> "What is an appropriate education is something that we have fought over in this country for quite a long time. Only in the last couple of years has a consensus come about, when the governors of 49 states agreed to a set of learning guidelines called the Common Core Standards. </p> <p>You'll start hearing a lot more about these, as school have begun to align their curriculum to them. Essentially, the are pretty much back to the basics, as far as English is concerned. Lots of reading and writing and thinking activities. I very much like them. I started teaching to them halfway through last year--and the kids really took to them as they are much less abstract than much of the coursework that was being offered. They are also more rigorous in general. </p> <p>I don't have much knowledge of the teachers unions nationally, but in New York City there is a general feeling among the newer (and even some of the older) teachers that the union stopped representing them a long time ago. Most of their attention goes toward protecting their position and the structure and their jobs, not making the system better. </p> <p>That said, the school system in NYC has a history of being quite corrupt, and while it is better, I still see teachers getting scapegoated all the time by the Department of Education for things that have nothing to do with what happens in the classroom. At the same time, the politicians seem to be letting big business take bigger and bigger pieces of the pie supposedly to "measure" student achievement. Most of what I see in this area is either inaccurate or ineffective. For this reason, I have come to understand the need for tenure among teachers. It gives them enough job security to stand up for the kids. </p> <p>Neither the union nor the Department of Education under the mayor's leadership, seems all that interested in the fact that the kids are feeling stuck and uneasy right now, as do many of the new teachers recruited by the mayor. Many of these newer, highly trained teachers feel like they are not being supported and are upset at how teachers seem to be regarded by the mayor. Teachers and school principals are in a very defensive posture right now, and the kids see it happening. </p> <p>For example, our new superintendent commented that our new school building was "a very valuable space" and that "lots of people would like to have it." Read: the mayor thinks a charter school would fit nicely in your new building instead of your school. A few days later she delivered a report on our school labeling is as "deficient—lower than the ranking we got last year–despite a host of new teachers and many obvious gains. We felt very undermined, especially since it is an open secret that much of the data other schools provide the district is just not true. Other schools are passing kids left and right who don't even come close to deserving diplomas. We chose to take a more honest route and were penalized. If they close my school, what happens then to all of the new teachers who chose to work there because they wanted to make a difference at a struggling school? The DOE does not care. </p> <p>It's kind of sad. I feel like what started out as a great reform movement is now just focusing on politics, particularly when it comes to busting the union in favor of funneling more money to big business. While having upper managers in the system with MBA's has been very beneficial in terms of creating effiiciencies in operations, very few educators are now part of the process that guides school policy making. This makes for some very strange things happening in the classrooms. In short, I think the effort has gone a bit too far, taking teachers out of the equation almost altogether, while becoming far too focused on money."</em> TJM</p> Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:39:10 +0000 Bob Charles - 62805 comment 97603 at Educators as Leaders <p>To be a leader of a school, and most certainly a city’s schools, one must be able to walk into a classroom and know what they are seeing. Educational leaders are made not outside the classroom, but inside. Respecting educators enough to make them the leaders of our schools -- and stop choosing from corporate, private sector, or military pools -- will take a shift in the current culture. </p> <p>That current culture includes the media’s proliferation of the idea that there are unprecedented numbers of “bad” teachers out there. I’m skeptical of this trend, mostly because I work side-by-side with countless individuals who are best described as intelligent, courageous, creative, and compassionate. 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0.020254 | <urn:uuid:f63a13e0-d8df-4726-ba3e-6fe2274caf78> | en | 0.961228 | The Ramapough Indians are sick. The Native American tribe has lived on land in northern New Jersey since before the Mayflower landed, but their beautiful acres – replete with green forests and rolling hills – are poisoning them.
In Mann v. Ford, directors Micah Fink and Maro Chermayeff explore the history of the people, splitting focus between the late 1960s when the Ford Motor Company began using the land as a dumping ground for its waste and near-current day when the people of the small town file suit against the company for gross negligence.
It’s fairly well-tread subject matter – the kind that seems to infect a ton of documentaries each year and even makes bigger noise when a movie like Erin Brockovich (a film some people featured here are far too aware of) hits theaters. There’s nothing wrong with telling the narrative of a mistreated group of people and their lawsuit, especially if it’s a story as compelling as this, but ultimately this documentary is average in almost every way.
From the opening screen where we learn that all of this took place 40 miles away from Manhattan, it’s clear that the filmmakers are keenly aware of creating context for the story. Not only could this happen in your own backyard, it did. Less than an hour’s drive from the largest city in the country, a small town was having toxic waste dumped into its neighborhoods on a nightly basis by one of the American icons of industry.
More so than that, Wayne Mann and the rest of the residents do a great deal to ground an otherwise jaw-dropping story in paint sludge-filled reality. They’re not a simple people, but they’re remote in their existence and even ostracized by other members of surrounding communities because of (what the movie purports to be) deep-seated racism. However, Mann (the person they chose as the lead plaintiff so that the court case would have a catchy name if it ever became iconic) holds himself in humble regard as a champion of his people and an honest individual who has seen and felt a lot of pain.
That pain might be the most severe element to the entire film. In particular, one scene where the lead lawyer strolls down a town street pointing at each of the houses while a resident explains who lived there, and what they died from or what will eventually kill them resonates with grim echoes. Cancer. Cancer. Cancer. Cancer. Kidney Failure. Cancer. The human element reflected in the sky high statistics of illness in the community is enough to seal the deal on common sense, but the lawyers need science on their side if they plan on going against Ford.
To that end, the film is both frustrating and fascinating. It does a great job of displaying the process of bringing a class action suit of that magnitude to court – the man hours involved, the research, the depositions, the doctor questionnaires, the examination of dirt in households – and that overwhelming presence is enough to create even more context for this community’s problems.
Sadly, the film also loses its way here a bit. Vicki Gilliam is the lead attorney for the entire proceeding, but she carries herself as if she’s auditioning for Erin Brockovich 2. She’s certainly doing a wondrous job representing the injured and otherwise unaided, but she’s a grating presence that seems constantly like she’s selling her folksiness and personal bravery. With Mann’s calm and quiet, she stands out as being too slick and false. When the movie then does a brief (yet far too long) segment on her childhood, it loses the plot completely, and comes dangerously close to becoming Crusader for Justice: The Vicki Gilliam Story.
Ultimately, that’s a minor complaint, but the bigger problems come in the structure of the movie once the legal eagles get their work prepared. There’s just far too much information to deliver, and Fink and Chermayeff don’t seem to know what to do with it all. There’s the bulk of the lawsuit, the EPA mishandling that allowed Ford to run its own cleanup, the new EPA chief coming in, and the economic disaster which sees Ford on the brink of bankruptcy. After watching half an hour of deposition collecting, checking out Gilliam’s old cheerleading pictures, and listening in on legal meetings where redundant information is given by people hyper-aware of the camera, it was a travesty to find out that all this genuine drama was unfolding away from the documentary’s scope.
A much less tangible problem is that the tone is about as interesting as room temperature water. It all plays out in a very matter-of-fact way that would have suited it well had the pace been kept at a steady clip and more damning information had been revealed in a timely way. The kind of stuff that would leave eyebrows defying gravity is there for the taking, but it’s never utilized with much impact.
All in all, the real joy of this movie is watching the people of the community tell their stories. As heart-wrenching as watching friends and family bring birthday balloons to a child’s annual memorial service can be, this is where the soul of the story lives. When it diverges into legal jargon, it was like “heavy-handed” strapped on an iron glove. It also forgets who really matters in the situation, and that’s a shame. For information, it’s a great source, but as a movie, it’s just not very worthwhile.
Mann v. Ford premieres tonight (6/18) on HBO at 9pm EST/PST.
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a bit racist, perhaps?
upon seeing this, we turned right around and went across the street to zablonski's. a much more pleasant experience.
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1. Benjamin Running 52 months ago | reply
update: the sign has been removed.
2. kd1s 52 months ago | reply
Interesting. As a public place you really cannot restrict membership in an overt way.
I'd bet that they still turn people away at the door if they're wearing any of the above.
3. Benjamin Running 52 months ago | reply
what is not evident for those who haven't been there, is that this bar is a total shit-hole. these are not the typical nightclub "no hat/no sneakers" rules intended to keep it high-class or something.
4. pazzia 52 months ago | reply
hilarious. stephen showed this to me from consumerist. didn't know it was your's at the time.
5. amysimmer 52 months ago | reply
whoa. there are no words.
6. thekateblack 52 months ago | reply
As one of the gothamist commenters noted, this is the same dress code set at the 4040 Club, owned by Jay Z.
Is he racist?
7. amysimmer 52 months ago | reply
there's a big difference between a williamsburg white people hipster bar and the 4040 club.
8. thekateblack 52 months ago | reply
What's the difference, amysimmer?
9. Benjamin Running 52 months ago | reply
the difference is that 4040 is a high-end, expensive, classy place with a dress code designed to maintain an atmosphere desirable to upscale and celebrity clientele.
hugs, on the other hand (as i pointed out above), is a gross dive bar where you go to drink cheap beer and play Big Buck Hunter.
it's often filled with clientele wearing ratty t-shirts, jeans, and sneakers. that's fine and all, but suggesting the 'dress code' is in place to keep the place 'classy; is not even remotely possible.
10. tanyandsuki 52 months ago | reply
all i could think was, whoa they really don't want anthony up in this joint ;)
11. incoglido 51 months ago | reply
most ironic (in fitting with the hood) part is that Cazwell is the host of tonight's party. cazwell.com/
12. filmnet 45 months ago | reply
How is this racist? If I saw this in the UK, I'd assume they wanted to stop chavs coming in. Chavs being predominently white, of course.
Black people are free to wear what they want, just as white people are. So if you think all black people dress like chavs, then you're a racist.
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If you've ever had a good chunk of credit card debt that you've struggled with and finally paid off, you know that the last thing you want to do is dig that hole again. Yet, some people slay the terrible debt dragon only to get burned by its fiery breath a few years later.
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A lot of debt isn't good debt, and in that category we're talking mostly about high-interest consumer debt. Many people would throw car loans into this category, too. If you want to avoid getting trapped in the really expensive cycle of financing your everyday purchases with credit, change your habits and thinking about your credit cards and the unavoidable offers to buy expensive stuff with the promise to "buy now, pay later!!!"
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The Investigative Committee said in a statement Tuesday that Navalny and his brother Oleg are accused of stealing more than 30 million rubles (more than $940,000) from a commercial company.
Navalny dismissed the charges as politically motivated.
In July, he was convicted of embezzlement in a separate case, but a court suspended his five-year sentence earlier this month. Navalny won 27 percent of Moscow's mayoral vote in September, finishing a strong second behind the Kremlin-backed incumbent and cementing his positions as Russia's No. 1 opposition leader.
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#131 - smashmeowth (06/30/2013) [-]
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User avatar #113 - centurionprime (06/30/2013) [+] (3 replies)
it isnt impossible, it would jsut take ***************
with six magikarp he can at least get one pokemon, survivor's eventually evolve, one gyrados shares with another magikarp after beating everybody it couldnt before then they all get trained individually being capable on their own, they get a moveset as diverse as possible and go and kick ass.
maybe go out to sea and fight the wild gyrados, learn a thing or two from them
they would get crushed by the pokemon league though.
they'd do better to jsut start a synchronized swimming act and be a showman.
User avatar #136 to #113 - corso (06/30/2013) [-]
But none of them would survive in the first place because they only know splash...
User avatar #84 - naldibesti (06/30/2013) [-]
But what if he fights any pokemon with a recoil move and he kills himself
#49 - beeneen (06/29/2013) [+] (5 replies)
What if green thumb is potato, and red thumb is potato. When red thumb, potato is actually cheese. But when green thumb? Is also cheese.
User avatar #69 to #49 - arandomanon ONLINE (06/30/2013) [-]
#37 - bluemagebrilly ONLINE (06/29/2013) [-]
Well.. it adds up.
User avatar #31 - theguywhocantgetit (06/29/2013) [+] (2 replies)
>Work in the Pokémart
>Earn enough to take them to daycare
>The Pokémart gives him enough money to keep them at daycare
>He gets them high enough for them to evolve
>Who's laughin' now?
User avatar #35 to #32 - theguywhocantgetit (06/29/2013) [-]
Get Gary ************* Oak to do it.
User avatar #14 - heartlessrobot (06/29/2013) [+] (11 replies)
It's possible to have a magikarp with Hyperbeam.
User avatar #30 to #29 - heartlessrobot (06/29/2013) [-]
Oh wow, nevermind. I checked my source again and the jackass had used action replay.
#10 - ilgattozaiga (06/29/2013) [-]
Magikarp Splash Attack
#135 - DjRicky (06/30/2013) [-]
**DjRicky rolled a random image posted in comment #2638544 at Friendly ** your ******
User avatar #132 - epicurious (06/30/2013) [-]
I always just dumped mine off at the pokemon trainer and came back for them hours later... didn't everyone else?
User avatar #123 - mycatislookingatme (06/30/2013) [-]
You only have to get them out of PP once, if you get them back with revives instead of pokécenters, they don't get their PP back.
#111 - anonymous poster (06/30/2013) [-]
Lance Armstrong did pretty ******* well...
User avatar #98 - MonkeyManz (06/30/2013) [-]
You struggle the **** out of people when splash runs out
User avatar #94 - falconxmard (06/30/2013) [-]
**falconxmard rolled a random comment #2799075 posted by deficiency at Friendly ** :
I'm going to die in my sleep though.
User avatar #77 - subaqueousreach (06/30/2013) [-]
He learns Tackle at level 15 now. So long as one of them were level 15 and he only fights metapods until they're all level 20 they'll all become Gyarados.
User avatar #22 - youngneil (06/29/2013) [-]
"Remember kids, winners don't do drugs! But you're a loser, so why don't you go do some drugs?"
User avatar #8 - zaperzero (06/29/2013) [-]
We're all ignoring the fact that there are wild Magikarp.
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GoroPosted 1/29/2013 11:13:45 PM
X250 posted...
There should be an option to boot for betrayals (but definitely a larger number than usual, like around 7-10).
GT: GaryBusey T33th
gamefreaklover2Posted 1/29/2013 11:29:48 PM
Silverosx posted...
Helps me sleep better at night listening to butthurt people and knowing I'll never be that mad.
Most betrayals in this game mode are accidents. Get over it. The hammer isn't as precise as the sword, and when 8 people run toward center map with it, collateral will happen.
ya thats when you sit back and wait then run in for it. So great see 6 or more bodys go flying.
Fallen donst meen allways sent to hell.
keyblade_lordPosted 1/30/2013 12:44:06 AM
No because then I wouldn't be able to troll my friends.
OBJECTION! This Topic Clearly Sucks!
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TheBlackAce222Posted 6/25/2013 9:21:47 PM
I'm sorry but most of your patch list sucks.
Its too late at night for me to write more than this because I'm lazy and tired.
Maybe 14 hours from now I will.
PSN - xOptogerx
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LizardheartPosted 6/25/2013 9:28:56 PM
As a professional PSASBR player...
This list is cancerous to my eyes.
Potatoman622Posted 6/25/2013 10:59:12 PM
You nerfed the current worst level 3 in the game in Fat Princess....
I don't even
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ZavalsBizPosted 6/25/2013 11:07:05 PM
Lay off the kid guyz, he's new to this.
A bit of advice Novally, we can be cruel here. Just be glad my naughty dog didn't go ballistic on you.
IcyFlamez96Posted 6/25/2013 11:26:38 PM
AP will be used for every electric move used....
If ya na'mean
Ratchet and Clank movie.... YESSSS
LightEcoSagePosted 6/26/2013 12:17:47 AM
TheBlackAce222 posted...
I'm sorry but most of your patch list sucks.
Simply amazing -
zombiabsolPosted 6/26/2013 1:35:04 AM
yes lets just make sly completely useless.
explain to me why his mine hurts him again? is it to make up that he can steal ap?
that would make sense if you werent making him shock his self from an electric roll.
why two punishments for a character who doesnt have anything to work with?
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TerraponPosted 6/26/2013 8:27:42 AM
Removing kat's air dash.... She would have almost no ap burst combos. She would also lose the thing that makes her "unique" towards other characters.
Punishing players for running away? WTH do you expect us to do when raiden uses his LV2 or Big Daddy? Dodging Raiden isn't a option with his LV2.
Making Cole require AP for his electrical moves? That may be "canon" or "iconic" but it is something no character in this game should go through. I do think he should be nerfed though.
No buff for nariko?!?!!? Leave as is?!?!?!?!?!
You want to nerf Toro which currently is considered the worst character in the game. Maybe tied.
FP's lv3 is already one of the worst and most unused.
I see 0 reason to nerf Zues. He is pretty balanced,
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Andrew_RyannPosted 3/7/2013 1:32:04 PM
Had an idea (which they'll never implement because "lol cod is realistic") of killstreaks that give you no advantage but a graphical effect. Something like flowers sprouting everywhere, kittens fall from the sky, hot babes appear everywhere on the map dancing, your soldier gets sunglasses, etc. This is similar to friendships/babalities etc from Mortal Kombat. Just something radically different in the game for once.
What are you feels on this gamefaqs?
ThankMeNowBLEHHPosted 3/7/2013 1:36:56 PM
call in a vtol worship, dont shoot and kill. just keep hovering around. same with dragon fire. just fly around, looking at the view.
ICantNameGudPosted 3/7/2013 1:37:39 PM
I wish we could buy paintball mode or similar to something you said - flower petal bullet trail etc.
Would love to see. I miss payback cash.
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AdaptBlade_KxmPosted 3/7/2013 1:40:24 PM
Graphic close up visually disturbing t-baging. In and out..... In and out.
Put Ya Guns On! After all...What've I got to lose? GT: The God Arm
DomonXPosted 3/7/2013 1:54:15 PM
Turn all the guns on the enemy team to pink.
Make all the enemy gun sounds bird tweets.
Change the animation so all enemies skip as they move around the map.
No statistical disadvantages, just humiliating.
Alternatively, how funny would it be if you could earn a 'no camper' scorestreak which auto-killed anyone who sat still for more than 1 second.
Not changing this signature until the Houston Texans make the playoffs. January 22, 2005
(Its been son long I have no idea what to change it to!!!)
BoyWitArabStrapPosted 3/7/2013 3:29:01 PM
entire enemy team in boxers
Mas tragem Lucifer pra mim
Em una bandeja, pra mim
Majora1988Posted 3/7/2013 3:30:44 PM
That would actually be quite funny, but since FPS games take themselves way to seriously these days, this will never happen.
Certainly, he had too many weaknesses to use my power.
[PDBA Forever]
MilordyPosted 3/7/2013 3:44:56 PM
BB gun mode where all silenced guns do 1 damage?
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1. jack75287
jack75287 said, 5 months ago
Uncle Sam I love you but to answer your question, you, Weiner was a congressman.
2. Oscar54
Oscar54 said, 5 months ago
With every smart phone having a camera front and back technically the NSA can video us anywhere anytime! Put that in your pipes and smoke it National Security Conservatives.
3. Radish
Radish GoComics PRO Member said, 5 months ago
It certainly facinates McCoy.
4. swr
swr said, 5 months ago
not if I have tape over it.
however we can now safely conclude that UFO’s, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster do not exist, since the prevleace of such cameras with no new pictures of same pretty much puts paid to those myths.
5. Jane from Florida
Jane from Florida said, 5 months ago
Weiner is a pervert and if NewYorkers vote him in… well,
they goona get what they deserve.
6. CrazyRubes
CrazyRubes said, 5 months ago
More comics along these lines instead of the daily one-sided attacks are much more appreciated.
7. MortyForTyrant
MortyForTyrant said, 5 months ago
I guess Mr. McCoy thinks this started in January of 2009. He is wrong…
8. Night-Gaunt49
Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago
They would get it only if you put it out there.
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Infographic: Forget China, Who Are Really the World's Worst Carbon Polluters?
Probably the most common refrain you here from anyone arguing against the United States agreeing to significant emissions reductions is, "what about China and India?" China is, after all, now the world's largest total emitter of carbon dioxide emissions.
But that's not the most important emissions metric we should be focusing on. Per capita carbon emissions is a much more telling statistic. Sure, China emits the most total tons of carbon dioxide, because it also has the largest population. On a per capita basis, even rapidly developing nations like China and India have a long way to go to catch up with long industrialized nations like the United States and those in Western Europe.
Designer Stanford Kay laid the two metrics side by side in a great and revealing infographic on Miller-McCune.
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As Kay (who granted us permission to run the graphic here) writes, "it’s clear there is plenty of room for other, smaller countries to reduce their per capita contributions to a problem that threatens all."
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Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
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Is there anything better than the real-life store of casinos getting scammed? Yes: casinos getting scammed by people playing by the casino's own rules.
This book tells the story of the MIT blackjack club, a group of card counters that had an organized campaign of playing blackjack for profit at casinos around the country. While card counting isn't illegal, the traditional method of a single player on his own ends up being largely ineffective: if someone is good enough to pull it off, their erratic play will be obvious to the casino. When the pit boss sees a single player making small bets for periods (during the time when the deck is in the casino's favor), then switching to making large bets for periods (during the time when the deck is in the player's favor), the player will be banned from the casino before they're able to make any significant profit.
The beauty of the MIT blackjack club style of play is that they work in teams to avoid erratic play by any single player. The group places a card counter at a large number of tables, and those counters continue to place small bets for long periods. A single player will watch the card counters, and only sit down at a table when a counter indicates that the cards are favorable. That player places extremely large bets for a short period, thereby avoiding the pattern of erratic playing while still enjoying large profits.
This book is compelling and entertaining. I had just a few small issues with it. For one, I couldn't quite buy all the stories: some sounded exaggerated, or at least filtered to put the players in a favorable light. Secondly, most of the information comes from just one of the players, and it would have been nice to have a fuller set of perspectives about the club. Still, those points are small, and barely detract from a thoroughly satisfying book.
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This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Aug 13, 12
bookshelves: read-in-2012, history, non-fiction, everyone-dies
Read from June 01 to 06, 2012
(7/10) This Republic of Suffering is more a history of death, or at least a history of ways of thinking about death, than it is a history of the Civil War. Faust (what an appropriate name!) details the various ways that 19th-century American culture coped with the mass death of the Civil War and has a lot of juicy details and strange stories about a traumatized society.
I can't help but feel, though, that this might have been better as an essay than a book. Most of the chapters are variations on the same theme, and threaten to drown you in examples. The thesis of the book is constantly repeated until it becomes a vague blur. Possibly I just dislike this because it reminds me too much of my own academic writing, but it does come off as distinctly thesis-y.
Because of its specialty, this is not really a book for those generally interested in the period, and while it's more accessible than most academic tomes, it remains narrowly focused. Still, for those specifically interested in this subject, it's hard to imagine a better resource, and it's a decent read no matter which way you slice it.
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Classic Pineapple Fried Rice With Tofu
MAKING 1. Cook rice according to package directions and then chill. 2. In wok or large skillet heat 2 tablespoons oil on high heat. 3. Add tofu, brown on all sides, using tongs to turn and remove from wok. 4. Add eggs to wok, scramble until cooked and remove... - 112.211
Pineapple Pistachio Cream Fluff
Spicy Fried Rice With Pineapple And Coconut
MAKING 1.In a frypan, heat the oil. 2.Put onions, carrots, green pepper, garlic, tomatoes and chilies. 3.Stir the ingredients and cook for 2-3 mins on high flame. 4.Add rice and pineapple in the pan. 5.Cook well for 5 minutes. SERVING 6.Serve hot with... - 46.5232
Batter Fried Shrimp With Pineapple
MAKING 1) In a bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. 2) Beat in the beer and egg in the sifted flour mixture. 3) Dip the shrimps in the batter, coating them well. 4) In a wok heat the fat to 370°F and fry the shrimps in until... - 45.598
Kowlong Chicken With Pineapple
Cut pineapple slices into bite size pieces. Mix the cornflour, salt and pepper in a bowl and add the chicken pieces and coat them well with it. Add crushed garlic, sesame oil and soya sauce to the chicken and mix well. Heat oil in a heavy pan and fry the... - 44.2749
Pineapple And Ham Puffs
MAKING 1. In a bowl, sift salt, flour and cayenne. 2. Cut in butter and stir in pineapple and ham. 3. In a bowl add egg and milk and beat them with mayonnaise and stir into dry mixture until it makes soft and light dough. 4. Drop teaspoonfuls of mixture into... - 43.7255
Pineapple Mustard Pork
Partially freeze pork; cut on the bias into thin bite-size strips. Drain pineapple, reserving juice. For sauce, stir together the reserved pineapple juice, mustard, cornstarch, and chicken bouillon granules. Set aside. Preheat a wok or large skillet over high... - 43.471
Good Fortune Chicken With Pineapple Piquant
Beat the egg, water, and milk with a mixture of flour, cornstarch, cornmeal, and baking powder in a bowl until smooth. Dip each chicken leg into the batter and drain over bowl a few seconds. Fry pieces in hot fat 15 minutes, or until chicken is crisp brown... - 42.9032
Chicken With Pineapple
Chop the chicken into 3-cm (1 -in) pieces, marinate for 30 minutes. Deep-fry the chicken for 2 minutes, reserving the marinade. Drain the chicken well. Put the onion, reserved marinade, pineapple juice and water into a saucepan with the chicken and bring to... - 42.3685
Pineapple Chicken
Cut pineapple into one inch pieces. Heat oil, fry chicken till golden brown, lay in serving dish. In same oil, fry garlic and ginger till brown. Pour over chicken. In a pan, mix stock, syrup from pineapple tin, salt, pepper and cornflour till well... - 41.7967
Fig And Pineapple Fritters
1. Drain the syrup from the figs and the juice from the pineapple into a measuring jug and make up to 300 ml/1/2 pint, if necessary, with cold water. Reserve for the sauce. 2. Pat the figs and pineapple rings dry on absorbent paper, then set them aside on a... - 41.056
Pineapple Bacon Toasts
Beat together the eggs, pineapple juice and salt in a shallow dish. Add the bread fingers and turn to coat well with the egg mixture. Leave to soak while frying the bacon in a dry frying pan until crisp. Remove the bacon from the pan and keep hot. Melt the... - 40.4601
Pan Fried Fish Fillets With Pineapple
If your family likes fish but if you don't have the time to cook them a very elaborate one, why don't you try this Pan Fried Fish Fillets With Pineapple. This Pan Fried Fish Fillets With Pineapple is any working mom's dream Chinese fish recipe. Do make it! - 40.2681
Pineapple Fritters
Combine first 4 ingredients in a medium bowl; add milk, margarine, and egg, stirring with a wire whisk until blended. Pour oil to a depth of 2 to 3 inches into a Dutch oven; heat to 375°. Dredge pineapple slices in flour mixture. Fry pineapple slices in hot... - 40.2566
Chinese Fried Cucumber And Pineapple
Upside Down Pudding
MAKING 1. Grease a 6-inches soufflé dish with butter and place 3 pineapple rings. 2. Cut the remaining pineapple ring into thirds and arrange the pieces between the rings in the dish. 3. Put the cherries in any gaps between the rings and place one in the... - 39.8194
Pineapple Chutney
1. Clean, core and cut the pineapple into small thin pieces. 2. Heat the oil and add half the quantity of the panchporan. When done, add the pineapple pieces, turmeric, chilly powder, salt, sugar and 2 cups of water. Cook until the pineapple is soft. 3. Mix... - 39.7959
Pineapple Chicken
GETTING READY 1) Remove meat from chicken pieces and cut it into chunks. 2) In a bowl, mix together potato flour or cornstarch, half the oil, the soy sauce, sherry and seasoning. 3) Add the chicken pieces and coat well. 4) Leave to marinate for 15 minutes. 5)... - 39.5953
Pineapple Kalan
Peel, core and cut pineapple into cubes. Simmer with turmeric powder, water and 1 tsp salt in a tightly covered pan. When the pineapple is almost boiled, remove from fire and stir in the ground masala, beaten curds and 1/2 tsp salt. Cook it over low fire till... - 39.4392
Sweet And Sour Lobsters With Pineapple
Clean and cut lobsters into bite size pieces and marinate with 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, soya sauce and wine for 25 minutes. Heat the oil, roll each piece of lobster in flour and dip into beaten egg and drop them one by one into the hot oil. Fry... - 39.1732
Red Snapper In Pineapple Citrus Escabeche
• Twist off crown from pineapple. Cut pineapple in half lengthwise. Refrigerate one half for later use. Cut remaining half in half. Core and skin fruit. Coarsely chop fruit; set aside. • Season fish with salt and black pepper. • Fry fish in large,... - 38.7117
Pineapple Fried Rice
My own version of cooking and preparing PINEAPPLE FRIED RICE... - 38.5539
File Fillets With Pineapple And Ginger
Mix half the turmeric with 1 teaspoon of salt, then rub over the fish pieces. Heat the oil in a large frying-pan. When it is hot, add the fish pieces and fry for 2 minutes on each side. Remove the fish to a plate. If necessary, add more oil to the pan to... - 38.2308
Chicken In Pineapple Shell
1. Mix all ingredients of the marinade in a bowl. Add chicken to the prepared marinade. Keep aside covered for 5-6 hours in the refrigerator. 2. Cut a thin slice lengthways from a fresh pineapple. Scoop out leaving a thin wall around. Use about 1/4 cup... - 37.9183
Caramelized Pineapple
MAKING 1. Cut off the stalk end and trim the leaves off the pineapple; using a sharp knife, cut off all the peel and remove the spines. 2. Slice the fruit fairly thickly and remove the hard core from each slice. 3. In a saucepan, melt the butter and add the... - 37.011
Corn Fried Snapper With Spicy Pineapple Salsa
1. In a shallow bowl, combine the cornmeal, parsley (if using), cumin, 1/2 teaspoon of the salt, and the cayenne. In another shallow bowl, lightly beat the egg white. Dip the fish in the egg white and then in the cornmeal mixture. 2. In a large nonstick... - 36.8503
Deep Fat Fried Pineapple Fritter Fish
GETTING READY 1) Slice fish into serving-size portions. MAKING 2) Mix together egg, crushed pineapple, and milk. 3) Combine dry ingredients. 4) Make a batter by blending the two mixtures. 5) In this batter, dip fish and brown in deep fat (350°F) until fish... - 36.6714
Pineapple Pancakes
Sift together the flour, saft, baking powder and sugar into a mixing bowl. Beat the egg, then blend thoroughly with the milk. Pour the egg and milk mixture into the flour mixture and mix well. Stir in the melted butter or vegetable oil and the... - 36.5342
Pineapple Pork Patties
In a bowl, combine pork, egg, garlic, onion, green pepper, salt, pepper, oregano, and cumin. Divide into 8 equal portions; shape each into a 4-inch patty. Heat a wide frying pan over medium heat; add patties and cook, turning once, until meat is well browned... - 35.3168
Pineapple Fritters
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt & sugar, mix well. Add milk, eggs & butter to make batter, mix well. Dip pineapple into batter, and fry in deep hot oil (360 degrees) until golden brown on both sides. Roll in powdered sugar. - 34.8537
Pineapple Bean Supper
About 30 minutes before serving: In large skillet over high heat, fry bacon until almost crisp; drain off fat. Add onion and frankfurters; simmer 5 minutes. Add butter beans and remaining ingredients; heat 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. - 34.0609
Taro, Pineapple & Bacon
Tasty Hawaiian Pockets
1. To make filling, place pineapple, cottage cheese, ham, cheddar cheese, chives and black pepper to taste in a bowl and mix to combine. 2. Make a small slit in the side of each pocket bread and spoon in filling. Brush a nonstick frying pan with oil and heat... - 33.0055
Fried Pineapple
Combine sugar and flour. Combine egg, salt and milk. Dredge pineapple with flour mixture; dip in egg mixture. Cover with crumbs. Brown in small amount of hot fat. - 32.0495
Pan Fried Tilapia Roasted Pineapple With Toasted Head Avocado Salsa
Sweet And Sour Pineapple Cabbage
1 Heat pineapple juice in a non-stick pan. Add ginger, onion and red peppers, and stir-fry 2 minutes. Add cabbage and cook covered 2 minutes. Stir in sugar, vinegar and soy sauce. 2 Blend cornstarch with stock. Stir in to thicken. - 29.6452
Pineapple Chicken Supreme
Pineapple Fritters
Drain pineapple; place on paper toweling. Pat dry. Dip pineapple sticks, one at a time, into batter; shake off excess. Drop fritters into hot (375 °F) oil in deep-fat fryer; fry until golden brown on all sides. Remove; drain on paper toweling. Place on... - 27.3954
Stir Fried Pineapple With Ginger
1. Melt butter in a wide nonstick frying pan or wok over medium-high heat. Add pineapple, sugar, ginger, lime peel, and lime juice. Stir-fry gently until pineapple is heated through (about 5 minutes). 2. Transfer fruit and sauce to a shallow serving bowl;... - 23.8304
Steak & Pineapple
Season steak with salt and pepper. Pan fry in oil or grill. Serve with slices of lightly fried pineapple. - 22.7714 | http://www.ifood.tv/network/fried_pineapple/recipes | dclm-gs1-023420002 | false | false | {
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Difficulty LevelEasyHealth IndexAverage
MethodInterest Group
Veal cutlets1 Pound (Each 1/4 Inch Thick)
All purpose flour5 Tablespoon
Rubbed sage1⁄2 Teaspoon
Butter/Margarine1 Tablespoon
Olive oil/Salad oil2 Tablespoon
Water1 Cup (16 tbs)
Dry sherry1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
Chicken flavor instant bouillon3⁄4 Teaspoon
Sliced prosciutto/14-ounce package sliced cooked ham1⁄4 Pound, cut into 1/2 inch-wide strips
Cracked pepper1⁄8 Teaspoon
Minced parsley2 Teaspoon (For Garnish)
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1465 Calories from Fat 574
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 63 g97.4%
Saturated Fat 20.2 g100.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 432.3 mg
Sodium 3857.6 mg160.7%
Total Carbohydrates 67 g22.3%
Dietary Fiber 3.5 g14.1%
Sugars 0.3 g
Protein 141 g281%
Vitamin A 27.3% Vitamin C 23.7%
Calcium 7.3% Iron 28.6%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet
1. With meat mallet or dull edge of French knife, pound each cutlet to 1/8 inch thickness. If cutlets are very large, cut into 5" by 4" pieces. On waxed paper, mix flour and sage. Evenly coat cutlets with flour mixture.
2. In 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, heat 2 tablespoons butter or margarine (1/4 stick) and 2 tablespoons olive or salad oil until hot. Add veal cutlets, a few pieces at a time; cook until browned on both sides, about 2 minutes, removing cutlets to plate as they brown and adding more butter or oil if necessary.
3. To drippings remaining in skillet, add water, sherry, and bouillon; over high heat, heat to boiling, stirring to loosen brown bits from bottom of skillet. Return cutlets to skillet; add prosciutto; heat through. Arrange meat and sauce on warm platter; sprinkle with pepper and parsley. | http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/veal-scallops-with-prosciutto-and-sage | dclm-gs1-023440002 | false | false | {
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Yesterday I purchased Max Payne 3 for the XBox 360 and instantly started to go through the game's story mode on medium difficulty. Shortly after watching the opening intro I instantly fell in love all over again with the game and it's main character. Why? Because nearly every thing he says or does is intriguing and has me hooked to the point where if this game was just Max Payne sat in a bar drinking whiskey while narrating about it, I still would buy it. Because of this here are 5 reasons why Max Payne kicks more ass the Appetite for Destruction and Dawn of the Dead combined.
1 Alcoholic.
In real life is this a good thing? No obviously not. But in this game it is freakin awesome. The fact that he is in a nightclub and orders a "real drink" which is of course a whiskey made me scream "HELL YEAH". I mean damn this guy can drink himself into oblivion. In fact in his house he is such a fan of getting totally smashed he doesn't even need any other form of entertainment such as music, TV or even a book. Just a bottle of whiskey will do fine.
2 He has aged. Yeah BABY!!! Again you may ask how is this a good thing? Well for starters it makes me feel a connection with the character and makes him appear mortal. Unlike every other video game series I can think of, Max has aged with the time. He is no longer that slim youngish cop. He is now out of shape, he looks old and years of drinking has clearly destroyed his body. I love this fact and I love it when people in the game make references to his age. The best thing is is that even though he is old he can still destroy everything he comes across.
3 He does stupid things but admits it.
I confess most of the time he just does stupid things when he is drunk and even at one point in the game he admits he would have jumped out towards seven bad guys who are holding a woman hostage only if he had more drink in him. I love that. Because that is exactly what I am thinking. When in the opening he jumps from off of a balcony to land a extremely precise shot right at a enemy's head who is holding a woman as a shield he admits it is incredibly stupid. Which obviously it is as any time you jump out and attack what appears to be an entire army and you are drunk then you are either stupid or brave. Max is both.
4 Nothing can stop this guy from accomplishing his goal.
This guy is invincible. But he isn't invincible like Mario, Zelda, Ryu, Snake or even any of the characters you play in Modern Warfare (even though some of them die but you know what I mean). Yo ucan shoot him in the body, beat the crap out of him with a baseball bat, he can jump through glass windows and fall from a large height. Hell in Max Payne 2 he even got shot in the head. NOTHING can stop this man. The difference in this game is that he looks like hell afterwards. He is always covered in blood, has simply DIY bandages on and he always barely survives. What keeps him going is either revenge, justice or the simple fact that he just wants to kill the "bad guy". Again. I absolutely love it. If he was running a marathon he would probably get drunk, get shot, take some pain killers and crawl across that finish line. He wouldn't come first but he would finish the race damnit.
5 The way he talks is so good it belongs in a Tarantino movie.
This guy has said so many good things over the course of the three games I don't even know where to begin. I wish I could talk like him because if I did people would just be in awe and would just wait for me to speak. It must have been so much fun writing a Max Payne script and I wonder how they came up with half of the stuff. In fact here are just a few of them that I have simply copied and pasted from Max Payne WikiQuote :) .
"You'd find that Lady Luck was really a hooker, and you were fresh out of cash."
"Turn around, walk away, blow town. That would have been the smart thing to do. I guess I wasn't that smart."
"[entering nightclub] This kind of place made me want to puke. I needed a real drink to cope with the electronic music and robotic people."
Sooo bad ass it is unreal. I am hoping to get a good session in tomorrow again of Max Payne 3 and have it finished by Saturday. Anyhow what do you guys of the IGN Community think. Anyone else think of other reasons that make Max Payne awesome?
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3D Classics Kid Icarus ReviewApril 15, 2012 by
While I wait for Kid Icarus Uprising to arrive in the post (please hurry up I can’t take any more Mario) I have decided to write a review and give my thoughts on 3D Classics Kid Icarus for the Nintendo 3DS. The game is just a rerelease of the original Kid Icarus for the NES with some slight differences. I never played the original so all of my thoughts and opinions are based on this version in 2012.
The story seems to be quite simple and straight forward. Medusa and her minions of the underworld have overthrown Palutena and everyone who lives in the Sky world. It is now up to pit to come to the rescue by making his way up from the ground to the Sky Palace to defeat Medusa and rescue Palutena. To do this he must first find the three Sacred treasures so he is powerful enough to complete his quest. None of this really matters and like in most NES games the story is barely mentioned at all but it is nice to have something rather then no plot and just “Go, jump, shoot, collect things”. Also the only difference between the stages is a slight change of colour so you have no real idea just how high up you have climbed and how close you are getting to the Sky Palace. A minor issue really though.
First Impressions
My first impression is surely everyone’s first impression of this game. It is insanely difficult. The first thing you have to do is make sure you change the control scheme to Custom so that you don’t slide everywhere and you don’t keep having to press the button to shoot. Even with this on the game remains very tough. You can not shoot diagonally so you have to jump and line up your shots perfectly so to start with you’re going to take quite a bit of damage and you will probably lose a few lives on the first level alone. The game looks a lot better then it did back in 1987 (I watched a few Youtube videos) which is a definite plus. It has nicer backgrounds and just seems brighter and more colourful. The main problem is the 3D effect. There really isn’t any. It is just a case of the new background that has been implemented is on a different layer to the actual game. It just seems pointless and there is no reason for it. The game should have just been released on the virtual console and not as a 3D Classic. Visuals aside I actually rather like the music. The opening tune on the first level actually sounds rather heroic but the sound effect of shooting the arrow sounds a bit odd and weak. I actually think it sounds like gas coming out of a radiator.
How the game works
The game consists of four different worlds. The first three basically involve three side scrolling levels where you have to defeat enemies and reach the end. The fourth level in a world is basically like a mini dungeon where you have to navigate your self around a castle and defeat the boss at the end. The fourth world is basically a slowish shoot em up as you have to fly through the Sky to meet Medusa. Let’s start then with the levels.
As I have already mentioned this game is really tough and it is one of the few games I know that starts off with maximum difficulty and becomes easier as you progress. Why is this? Simple. You can obtain powerups such as the ability to actually shoot arrows the length of the screen, have two flames go round you like a shield and you can also make your arrows more accurate by increasing the size of them. All of these are obviously really useful and can be obtained by going in training rooms that are scattered out around the game. You also increase your life by getting a certain amount of points as well as increase the power of your arrows. Towards the end of the game I almost felt invincible and believe me when I say the last three levels were some of the easiest in the game because of this. While a system of improving Pitt is good these levels also contain many annoying and confusing things. When I first started playing I thought that by collecting hearts I would increase my life but no. This is in fact the currency of the game it is like collecting Ruppees in Zelda. Also as you go higher up by jumping from cloud to cloud so does the screen. The problem with this is that if you fall off the screen you automatically die regardless as to what is below you. Here is a classic example.
I jump up two clouds.
I accidentally fall off the screen but it is ok because I know just below me is a cloud.
I lose a life and get angry.
This gets very annoying very fast and it makes no sense. The enemies also seem to be endless at places though this is a good thing as the more you defeat the more hearts you can collect which you get to spend on some pretty handy items. Though some enemies are just damn annoying. Plutons (I had to look online for the name) don’t damage you but just take away your power items. McGoos (Lava like creatures) just appear at your feet seemingly to annoy you and Shemums the little damn snake creatures, keep falling out of pots to get you. There is a very fine line between difficult and fun and difficult and “Why am I playing this game” and I am not entirely sure what category this game falls into.
The dungeon stages of each world as I said involve you navigating your way through a castle to defeat the boss and obtain the sacred treasure. You can also smash some centurion statues with hammers you have collected and free the imprisoned flying thing. These guys then come back to help you against the boss but are pretty much useless and get killed when the boss touches them. You can get a map to help you find your way around but the map appears to be useless as you need two other items for it to truly work (like in a Zelda game) and in the end it just isn’t worth it. The best part about these dungeons is you can’t fall off the edge of the screen to die. Perhaps the worst part is these damn blue like creatures with staffs that throw blobs of blue goo at you. If one hits you you become unable to attack or do much and you have to quickly find your way to the hospital in the dungeon to have it removed. It is another really annoying feature that I think the game would actually be better if it was removed.
Final Battle
When you have collected all three of the sacred treasures you then get to fly very slowly to Medusa in the sky for the final battle. In fact, very slowly could be an understatement and it is rather tricky to avoid enemies and obstacles. The shield you collect appears to do nothing as all the enemies that hit you still do maximum damage but at least your arrows seem to be super charged up. The last level actually repeats its self until you get a high enough score to face Medusa. The final battle was surprisingly not too challenging compared to the rest of the game and the ending you got depends on how well you performed. Elements such as heart pieces gained, centurions rescued and lives lost are all taken into account. I of course got the worst ending as I am bloody awful at this game but at least the multiple ending scenario gives the game that replayability factor.
Lasting Impressions
Again please remember the first time I am only judging this game on the 3d Classics release in 2012. My overall impression of the game is that it has got many fun elements to it. Powering up feels rewarding as hell as it makes the game easier, it is easy on the eyes and it controls well enough. The problem comes in the initial difficulty, losing lives when falling off of the screen and the game just feeling very repetitive. I normally find myself just standing still and waiting till I have wiped out all of the enemies on screen so I can advance because if you just run through it you don’t become strong enough to finish the game. I like the idea of there being many different kinds of rooms in the game that contain power ups, treasure games and challenges but there are many other things I wish just were not in the game such as certain types of enemies and items. In all honesty, I think if Pitt was not included in Super Smash Bros. Brawl people would not have been getting so excited about the idea of a new Pitt game. I mean a lot of people who were demanding a new Kid Icarus game would not even have been alive when this or its sequel came out. I am sure if I played this game back in the day for the NES my thoughts would be completely different but in 2012 for 5.60 (British Pounds) I am just not entirely sure if it is really worth it.
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No Nintendo at Gamescon is annoying.April 12, 2012 by
While most people who read this may be American and not really care about this, as I go to Gamescon every year I am. What could possibly be the reason for them to not be there. It doesn't make any sense to me. There is always a massive stand and place for Nintendo every year there. One of the things I was actually excited about this year was this:
Aliens baby
I am proper excited about playing this game for the Wii U and was hoping to play it for the first time at Gamescon for it. So yeah, annoying news and I do wonder how this will affect ticket sales. Last year was just ridiculous far too many people. Maybe this will be a blessing if it means less people turn up. Anyhow, I should have uploaded my review of 3D Classics Kid Icarus today but I left it at work so it will hopefully be online tomorrow.
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Alan Wake ReviewSeptember 20, 2011 by
Why did you choose to play Alan Wake?
Well my friend lent me a copy so it was free which is a big plus. Plus it looked really different from a lot of other games today (it is not a FPS). Plus it was done by Remedy who made the Max Payne games which I thought were fantastic.
What is the game about?
The games plot in all honesty is rather confusing and complicated. You play as Alan Wake, a famous writer who appears to be suffering from writers block so to help overcome this you go on a vacation with your wife to a small town and you end up staying in a cabin in the middle or a large lake. Things obviously don’t go according to plan and your wife ends up disappearing and you wake up in a car after a crash. This is kind of strange as the last thing you do is jump into the lake to try and save your wife. So this sets you up on your quest to try and find her whiel defeating the Darkness.
What is the Darkness?
The darkness is basically a black form of pure evil that can possess people as well as objects. The only way to defeat the darkness is to use light to get rid of it before using a conventional weapon like a gun or something to then kill the person who was attacking you. The best way of doing this is to use a flash light to eliminate the darkness from someone but you also can pick up other items like flares, flash bang grenades or a flare gun.
So what is it that makes the story so complicated?
The most confusing part about the whole thing is I was never sure what was real what was not. You keep seeing clips of yourself on TV talking to yourself. You have to go round and find pages of a story that you allegedly have written that you now seem to be acting out in real life. And you also keep passing out and waking up in strange places. I don’t want to give away too much but the plot is essential to this game and there are so many funny and interesting characters in it it will be sure to keep you entertained. I particularly loved the relationship of Alan Wake and his Agent. The voice acting is great and there are some real funny moments.
Alan Wake Baby
How are the controls for the game?
While this is no Mario the controls seem to be decent enough. The biggest problem is that Alan Wake is not like the dude from Uncharted. Your jumping ability is limited to say the least. Actually it can be quite awkward and frustrating at times. Aiming the torch is simple enough as is the actual shooting but when it comes to running it can look daft as the button to run is also the button to dodge so every time you run he always crouches first. But in all honesty it isn’t that bad just definitely not the games big selling point.
What is the games big selling point?
For me it is a combination of the story and atmosphere. When I first started the game there were some genuine scary moments. You have no idea what is lurking in the shadows and the music is great to build up suspense. I love it when there is a deadly silence and you can hear yourself kicking stones down a hill as you walk just as much as I love the cinematic slow downs when you just move out of the way of an axe that is coming to your head. The town also has a realistic feel to it and a certain charm that is turned into a nightmare as soon as it goes dark. I also think it looks great particularly the lighting effects that you can just make out through a mist and the idea that anything can be taken by darkness and suddenly come flying towards you (chairs, farm equipment, combine harvesters) adds a hell of a lot suspense.
Any other good aspects of the game?
I think the way the game is presented is brilliant. The idea of every time you start a new chapter in the game you get a “Previously on Alan Wake” Cut Scene is perfect. IF like me you might just finish a chapter and not play it again for a few days it is a great way to remember what happened. I also think the soundtrack is ace and I love it how after finishing a chapter you get a cool song playing. It feels like you have just finished watching a program on TV. All of the songs also fit in really well especially the Heavy Metal Song that is played during one of my favourite parts of the game. In short, defend the concert stage from an onslaught of bad guys while pyro technics, spotlights and all other stuff is going off around you.
Scary Birds
What are the negative aspects of the game?
Hmm. For me the negative aspects of this game are also the negative aspects of practically every other game that tries to be realistic. Ok, so a large truck has blocked me going down this road but why can I just crawl under it. Why can I climb over this fence? I cant go up this hill because it is too steep? WTF!!! So yeah. There are many moments where you are restricted in rather lame ways in terms of where you can and can not go. I hate this and whenever this happens I always say “NARNIA” as it is like being in an unrealistic imaginary land. Also while the plot is cool and keeps me interested as I have already said it is very confusing. There are times I don’t know what is going on. Who are the good guys and the ending literally made no sense to me. Also the fact that there is DLC that carries on the story annoys the hell out of me as I am guessing the questions that went unanswered you now have to pay to get the answers to them.
So to conclude, do you recommend people to buy this game?
Yes definitely. Judging by the figures on not too many people actually have which is a shame. It is a great experience and you can tell a lot of passion and time has gone into making this. Just take your time, get fully engrossed in the story and just ignore some of the games shortcomings. Plus it was released over a year ago so it should be at a nice bargain price by now J.
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A fantastic remakeMarch 27, 2011 by
Monkey Island 2 is often credited as being the best Monkey Island game in the series. It is kind of the Empire Strikes Back of the series, people will debate forever as to whether the first or second is the best. And after recently playing through again and finishing the special edition version of the game on the 360 I can in fact end this argument once and for all!
Brilliant start
So to begin with, the story kicks off a fresh but also follows on nicely from Monkey Island 1. LeChuck has been destroyed, you are now a rich and wealthy pirate and still no one knows your name. This time around, your quest is to find the greatest treasure of them all "Big Whoop". However, pretty quickly you get robbed of all of your wealth and LeChuck is resurrected in a zombie form. So while you still are hunting for the treasure, you have to also take down LeChuck once more.
The game is considerably bigger then the first Monkey Island and features a lot mroe characters and locations. I also think that the puzzles are more difficult and more stressful but I will talk about this later. Once again a huge amount of credit has to go to the people who remade remade this as the graphics are brillaint as every single scene is faithful to the original (which you can also check by pressing the select button to switch back and forth) and the voice acting is ace. I can not recall his name right now but the vocie of Guybrush is just brilliant once again and its nice to see Largo sounding like a moron as opposed to a bad ass. I am also glad the Elaine kept her English accent though there are sometimes when the voice acting does get really annoying such as in the spitting contest. Here, the organiser of the contest constantly talks and it becomes rather annoying to the point where I find my self actually switching to the original version just to stop the annoying voices repeating themselves. I also noticed that a few minor changes have occurred from the original which I guess for legal reasons they had to. Such as the popeye costume head in the costume shop no longer having the pipe, and the Sam and Max costume being simply replaced. For the record, I played the entire game in the HD form but kept switching back and forth to spot the changes. Even though now you can play the original version with the new voice acting, for me it really wasn't appealing.
Once again, this remake is very faithful to the original.
I do think that this game is in fact funnier then the first and there were many moments when I actually LOLED for real. Such as when you and Wally kept kidnapped and you "accidentally" keep on spitting on him, or when you get terrified of someone wearing a LeChuck costume. This game is full of humour that should keep you smiling along the way. It is also great to see the development of characters from the first. The Voodoo lady is now the wise mentor, Stan's role of the dodgy salesman is taken further, the love hate relationship of Guybrush and Elaine is expanded upon and LeChuck's evil ways keep on going. I do though have problems with some aspects of the story especially the ending, which I think is the most confusing ending of any video game I have ever played and due to the fact that the main people who made this game did not make the third, I guess we will never really know exactly what the hell was going on. (Unless you play the game with the Developers Commentary on, which is what I will do next :) .) Though I would like to list some questions I do have SPOILER ALERT
1 Ok, so you end up on Dinky Island because you got blown up from Lechuck's hideout. That seems really odd and makes the whole point of getting the map pieces redundant.
2 What is Big Whoop?
3 Its a fairground? Was it all a dream of a child? What is happening here?
4 Why is the name Monkey Island in the title?
What the hell is going on?
Please Note ALL OF THIS is explained in the third game, but as it was made by different people, it makes you wonder what the original creator (Ron Gilbert) had planned if he made the third.
Now, as for the gameplay, for me this game really was a mixed bag. For the most part it was awesome, the puzzles were great to work out and the new feature of how you can hold down LB to see all the selectable objects in a scene was a smart move. It saves having to constantly trying to select everything, though I do think it was a lot more rewarding when you find something on your own merit. I loved the second chapter the best as it was by far the biggest chunk of the game, and the idea of trying to find treasure and collecting map pieces was fun but what really hurts the game is the Library on Phatt Island. There is nothing worse then having to go through the card catalog where there are sooo many books, and you don't really know what your looking for. It was almost as if everytime I got stuck I was thinking "Hmm, is the answer in a book in the Library". It was a very annoying part and I wish it wasn't in the game. However this was by far the only real negative of it all and everything else felt very rewarding and I always kind of knew either what I was looking for or what I had to do. This is a combination of remembering what to do and just playing the game from a fresh.
O Christ No.
I don't really think I have much else to say about it. I think it is a great price, it looks great, the music also now sounds awesome. I love how every song has been redone and it all helps to bring back a lot of memories. If you can look past a couple of the annoying puzzles you will find that this is a great game, but in my opinion due to some confusion over the plot and various annoying puzzles, it just falls short when it comes to out shining its predecessor.
8 / 10.
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Director Francis Ford Coppola was insistent that he didn't want to use any kind of elaborate special effects or computer trickery when making the movie. He initially was given a standard visual effects team, but they told him that the things he wanted to achieve were impossible without using modern digital technology. Coppola disagreed and fired them, replacing them with his 29 year old son Roman Coppola, who set about achieving some of the effects by using old-school cinematic trickery. A thorough exploration of these effects can be found on the 2007 Special Edition DVD in the In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007) featurette and in the 'Heart of Darkness' article from Cinefax magazine (also found on the DVD), but some of the most interesting examples include: - When sitting in the train on his way to Transylvania, Jonathan Harker is looking at a map which appears superimposed on his face. This was a live effect achieved simply by projecting the image of the map onto actor Keanu Reeves' face on set. - In the same scene, outside the window, Dracula's eyes mysteriously appear in the sky, watching Harker as he travels. This was achieved by combining three separate shots. First, the shot of Gary Oldman's eyes was done with him wearing special makeup so that only his eyes would be visible when the image was projected onto the sky backdrop. The next shot involved the projection of the eyes onto the backdrop of the Carpathian Mountain set, making it appear as if two eyes are appearing in the sky. Then, a shot was taken of Keanu Reeves sitting in the train with the combined background/eye shot rear-projected through the window. - Another shot in this sequence involves a close up of Harker's journal with the train appearing to travel along the top of the book, blowing smoke across the pages. This was a forced perspective shot using a huge book and a tiny miniature train model. - After arriving in Translyvania, Harker is met by Dracula's carriage and the driver seems to magically reach out and lift Harker into the carriage. This shot was achieved by having the rider sitting on a camera crane which reached out and brought him towards Keanu Reeves. At the same time, the camera was moved to the right, so it appeared as if the rider's hand wasn't actually stretching, but was simply defying physics. For the lift, Reeves himself was also standing on a fake floor, which was in fact a movable rostrum which raised him up into the carriage. - As the carriage approaches the castle, there is a shot of the castle in the background as the carriage speeds along a narrow driveway. This was achieved by painting the image of the castle onto a piece of glass, and then positioning the glass in front of the camera whilst the scene of the carriage was shot on the sound stage. - The scene when Harker is shaving and Dracula approaches him from behind without a reflection in the mirror was shot by a classic technique as old as cinema itself. The actor with his back to the camera is actually Keanu Reeves double, not Reeves himself, and the 'mirror' is simply a hole in the wall, with the real Keanu Reeves standing on the other side in a portion of the set - hence when the hand touches the shoulder of the double there is no reflection to be seen because there is literally no mirror. - When Harker is exploring the castle, there is a shot of some rats walking on the ceiling upside-down whilst Keanu Reeves descends a staircase right-way-up. This was achieved by using a double exposure. First, the shot of the rats was done with the camera upside-down. Then the film was rewound and a matte box was placed in front of the lens so as to ensure only the correct portion of the image would be exposed. The camera was then turned right way up and the scene of Harker going down the stairs was shot. Due to the matte box, it appears as if the beam with the rats is above Reeves, and because it was shot upside-down, the rats appear to be defying gravity. - The first scenes in London after Dracula's arrival were shot with a real Pathé camera that was being hand cranked. It was also shot on a special Kodak stock to enhance the grain. There were no post-production effects added for this scene. - The scene when Dracula seems to magically catch Mina's bottle was shot by simply having two men and two bottles. On set Winona Ryder drops the bottle and Gary Oldman scoops down and catches it. The camera then pans up to reveal he is already holding it out to Mina seemingly without having raised his hand. In reality, the hand holding the bottle out is a double standing just behind Oldman, wearing identical gloves, and holding a completely different bottle. - For the scenes involving Dracula's POV, Francis Ford Coppola wanted to achieve something unusual, and it was ultimately decided to try to create something of staccato effect. These shots were created using an old piece of equipment called an intervalometer. When shooting at 24fps, an intervalometer trims the end of certain frames, and prevents the exposure of certain frames here and there, creating the 'jumpy' effect seen in the scene. Again, this was all accomplished in-camera, no post-production effects were added to the scenes.
Prince Vlad's scream after he drives his sword into the cross is not the voice of Gary Oldman. Lux Interior, lead singer of punk band The Cramps, recorded the scream and it was dubbed in.
Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder did not get along well at all during filming. The rest of the cast was shocked because the two actors had been friendly during rehearsals, then came back from a break in the schedule seemingly hating each other, with no indication given (then or later) as to what had happened.
The little girl who played the child carried into the crypt by Lucy was genuinely terrified of Sadie Frost in her vampire make-up, and obviously wasn't expecting to do more than one take. Director Francis Ford Coppola and Sadie Frost had to do a lot of sweet-talking to the child in order to get her back in Sadie's arms for another go at the scene.
Gary Oldman was quite drunk the night they filmed the scene where he had to lick blood from Keanu Reeves's straight razor. The scene was filmed far beyond midnight, which added to the spirit of the scene and helped put the cast "in the proper mood".
In an attempt to elicit more emotion, director Francis Ford Coppola shouted "whore" and "slut" at Winona Ryder while filming the scene when Van Helsing catches Mina with Dracula.
Francis Ford Coppola has openly criticized his own reasoning for casting Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. According to him, he needed a young, hot star that would connect with the girls.
Director Francis Ford Coppola explains on the DVD commentary that Mina and Harker's wedding was a reshoot done at a Los Angeles Greek Orthodox church. They filmed the entire ceremony with a genuine Orthodox minister and realized afterwards that Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves really were married.
Winona Ryder saw the script when it was originally going to be made as a TV movie, directed by Michael Apted. She took the script to Francis Ford Coppola, whom she had not spoken to since withdrawing from The Godfather: Part III (1990) due to exhaustion six months earlier. Coppola agreed to make the film, and Apted stayed on as executive producer.
During preproduction of the movie, director Francis Ford Coppola came up with the idea that when in the presence of a being such as a vampire, the laws of physics don't work correctly. This is why shadows often seem to act independently of the figure casting them, why rats can run along a ceiling upside-down and why liquid drips up instead of down.
Costume designer Eiko Ishioka (who won an Oscar for the movie) had never seen a Dracula movie prior to being hired for this film. She was initially hired as the art director, but when Francis Ford Coppola saw some of her costume sketches, he immediately asked her to work as the costume designer.
It was Winona Ryder who brought the idea of redoing Bram Stoker's novel to Francis Ford Coppola's attention. She had been given a pile of scripts by her agent, one of which was titled "Dracula: The Untold Story". This was the first time Ryder had ever read anything to do with Dracula, let alone see a film about him. Coppola was interested as he saw it as a bridge-building exercise between him and Ryder after she had inexplicably dropped out of The Godfather: Part III (1990).
Francis Ford Coppola considered at one point of giving the film the title, "D" in order to distinguish it from previous Dracula adaptations.
Anthony Hopkins also plays Cesare, the priest who tells Dracula that Elisabeta's soul is damned; and he provides the voice-over sequence during the narrative for the Captain of the Demeter.
Earnings from the film was enough to save Zoetrope (Francis Ford Coppola's studio) from bankruptcy after suffering from financial difficulties and liabilities of $27 million over the past 3 years.
The painting of Count Dracula which Jonathan Harker mentions after his arrival at the castle, is in fact a self portrait of Albrecht Dürer (a German painter, 1471-1528), but with Gary Oldman's face (the face of the young Count). The painting also served as inspiration for another vampire author's writings, Anne Rice, though she used it for her vision of a non-vampire character, that of Lasher, the spirit that haunts a family of witches in her series The Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
The scene of Lucy (Sadie Frost) getting back into her coffin in the underground crypt was shot in reverse to give it an eerie quality.
Dracula's final Kabuki dress is directly inspired by a Gustav Klimt painting known as "The kiss"
Liam Neeson was considered for, and very much wanted, the role of Van Helsing, but after Anthony Hopkins, still riding the success of The Silence of the Lambs (1991), showed interest in the role, Neeson was ultimately turned down.
In the scene where the heroes bust in on Dracula and Mina, Dracula turns into a bat-like creature and frightens the heroes out of their wits. Gary Oldman had problems with this scene, feeling constricted in the suit and not very scary. Francis Ford Coppola told him to whisper something scary into each actor's ear, which Oldman did with relish. No one knows what he said to them, but they all look absolutely terrified in the scene.
The exterior view of Dracula's castle, as seen in several shots from the approach from the road, is designed to resemble Czech artist Frantisck Kupka's painting "Resistance - The Black Idol."
Francis Ford Coppola had Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes and Billy Campbell embark on a series of "adventures" including horse back riding and hot air ballooning to build the camaraderie between the three.
Originally, director Francis Ford Coppola had wanted to use highly impressionistic sets using only lights and shadows with minimum props. Instead he wanted to spend the entirety of the production design budget on the costumes. The studio however wouldn't allow this, and ordered him to build 'proper' sets.
Preview audiences are alleged to have found the film too gory so 25 minutes of footage was removed to it less bloody.
Director Francis Ford Coppola says on the DVD audio commentary that during the shaving scene, the walls of the set gradually move inward to create a subliminal growing sense of claustrophobia.
The blue flame is the only optical effect in the film; every other effect was achieved completely "in-camera" on the set with no post-production effects work.
At the beginning of the film, Jonathan Harker asks why the Count has purchased his houses in such specific locations, a question that is never answered in the film. The explanation given in the book is that the 50 boxes of Transylvanian earth were distributed throughout Dracula's houses in locations surrounding London so that Dracula would have many places to rest and regain his strength at daybreak, during which Dracula must rest only in either a coffin or the earth of his homeland (Transylvania).
Gary Oldman hired a singing coach to help him lower his voice by an octave to help him give Dracula a more sinister quality.
The front of Gary Oldman's hairline was shaved, both for make-up purposes and to resemble Vlad.
Sadie Frost dyed her brown hair red after concerns that she resembled Winona Ryder too much.
Red jelly was used for the blood.
When Mina recalls her previous life as Elisabeta she says she remembers a land beyond a great forest. "Land beyond the forest" is the literal meaning of Transylvania.
Among the moving-picture displays in the scene where the prince and Mina first converse is a shadow-figure show depicting the battle between Vlad's army and the Turks.
Ian Dury was among those interviewed for Renfield.
Steve Buscemi was the first choice to play Renfield but turned down.
Mina walks past an advertisement for the Lyceum Theatre and Henry Irving. Dracula author Bram Stoker managed the Lyceum, and Sir Henry Irving is rumored to be one of the primary inspirations for the character of Count Dracula.
At the first "cast meeting" called by Francis Ford Coppola, he got all the principal actors to read the entire Bram Stoker novel out loud to get a feel for the story. According to Anthony Hopkins, it took two whole days to complete.
Among those who auditioned for the part of Dracula were Andy Garcia (who had concerns over the number of sex scenes), Gabriel Byrne, Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas and Viggo Mortensen.
Sadie Frost didn't bother auditioning for the part of Lucy as she figured that she was too physically similar to Winona Ryder. It was only after Francis Ford Coppola had real trouble casting the part, and had happened to see Frost's performance in Dark Obsession (1989), that she was approached.
The blue flame that the coach crosses over to enter the castle is mentioned in the original book. In the novel it is explained that on one night every year blue flames are seen over areas containing hidden treasures.
This is the first major US motion picture to be edited entirely on a nonlinear edit system.
The film's original teaser trailer (which consists of blood forming the logo on a jagged surface and quick flashes of scenes from the film) was pulled from theaters by Columbia Pictures when patrons complained of it being too intense. This trailer appears on the Criterion edition laserdisc.
Writer James V. Hart started writing the screenplay in 1977. According to him, David Lean was the first choice to direct the movie, but was unavailable as he was working on Nostromo, which was eventually shelved after his death.
According to Francis Ford Coppola, much of the cast was assembled as Winona Ryder's "dream cast", including Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves and Richard E. Grant.
Despite his occasional discomfort in them, Gary Oldman creatively contributed to the make-up effects when Dracula transforms into various monstrous forms.
To help put himself in a grieving mood at Elisabeta's corpse in the opening prologue, Gary Oldman carried a photo album of his then young son Alfie during and would go through it before doing a take. Interestingly, he also doubled , but uncredited as the mysterious coach driver when Jonathan is taken into the castle from the pass.
Prior to Sadie Frost's casting as Lucy, Juliette Lewis was the first choice for the role of Lucy.
One of the very few Dracula films in which, like in the novel, Dracula begins as a white-haired old man and becomes younger as he feeds on blood. His appearance as an old man is changed, however: in the novel he is described as "a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere," while in the film he wears a long red robe, is of average height, and does not have a mustache.
Director Francis Ford Coppola claims that Bram Stoker's name was included in the title because he has a tradition of putting the author's names in the titles of his movies that are adapted from novels, such as "Mario Puzo's The Godfather (1972)" and "John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997)." Others have claimed, however, that Stoker's name was included in the title to avoid legal action from Univeral Studios, who claimed to own the rights to the simple title Dracula (1931).
In the scene where the count serves Jonathan Harker dinner after his arrival at the castle, the count mentions his ancestors were members of the Order of the Dracul. There was an actual Order of the Dracul (Dracul=dragon), an order of chivalry fighting against the Ottomans in the Balkans in the 1400s. Vlad Tepes, who the character of Dracula is loosely based on, was known as "Draculea", which means "son of the Dragon", as his father was a member of this order.
The name Dracula is borrowed from Vlad the Impaler, but the character of Dracula is never identified as being Prince Vlad in Bram Stoker's novel. Though he does identify himself as Prince Vlad in this film, the historical Vlad lived in the fifteenth century.
Although the film was never at risk of getting an NC-17 rating instead of an R (which is what Coppola and Columbia were aiming for anyway) from the MPAA, the director and studio agreed to cut some of the more ultra-gory images from the final film.
The majority of gowns worn by Mina/Elizabeta are in shades of green. In many cultures, green is associated with love, lust and sexual desire. Mina and Elizabeta's gowns also frequently feature leaf-motives, most likely Rosemary leaves, which symbolize both love and fidelity (in wedding bouquets) and death, loss and grief (in funeral wreaths).
At one point during filming, a double was used to portray the wolf-beast version of Dracula when Gary Oldman suffered an allergic reaction to the makeup.
Drew Barrymore was considered for the role of Mina Murray.
Charlie Sheen auditioned for and was considered for the part of Jonathan Harker.
Johnny Depp turned down the role of Jonathan Harker.
Francis Ford Coppola recorded his audio commentary in both English and Italian.
Several elements of the film were taken from previous Dracula adaptations. Renfield being Harker's predecessor (the characters are completely unrelated in the novel) has been used in numerous previous Dracula films, starting with Nosferatu (1922). The scene of Dracula rising from his coffin for the first time is also taken from "Nosferatu." Dracula's line of dialogue, "I never drink...wine" has also been used in numerous previous Dracula films, originating with Dracula (1931). The idea of Dracula's motivation for coming to England being to find his reincarnated lost love was first used in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974). The lunatics in the asylum rioting to signal the coming of Dracula was used in Dracula (1979). References to non-Dracula films include Dracula turning Mina's tears into diamonds, a reference to the Jean Cocteau film Beauty and the Beast (1946), Lucy's glass coffin, taken from the various versions of the "Snow White" story, and the window in Lucy's bedroom, taken from the Frank Capra film The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933).
Charlie Sheen auditioned for the role of Jonathan Harker.
Costume Designer Eiko Ishioka was from Japan, and because the costumes had a Kabuki theater-like appearance, Gary Oldman's wig maker and hair designer Stuart Artingstall studied traditional Kabuki and Geisha hair styles and incorporated them into her unique and elaborate designs. Each wig was "built" and took many hours of painstaking work to thread each hair in a base individually, as is done in traditional opera companies.
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Greek-American avant-garde performance artist, vocalist, keyboardist, and composer Diamanda Galás provided vocal effects for the three brides of Dracula.
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Comic book artist Jim Steranko served as "project conceptualist" for the film.
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Like The Godfather: Part III (1990), the film was made in part in the hopes of rescuing Francis Ford Coppola's production company Zoetrope from bankruptcy.
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Director Francis Ford Coppola and the special effects team consulted with a professional magician the achieve the effect of Dracula's brides rising up from the bed.
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Director Francis Ford Coppola notes on the DVD commentary that although the three actors playing Dracula's brides had agreed to appear nude in the film, everybody on the set was too timid to ask them to take off their clothes before filming their scenes. Coppola asked his son Roman Coppola to ask them, but Roman didn't want to do it, either, and asked another crew member to do it.
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Director Francis Ford Coppola says in the 2007 Collector's Edition DVD audio commentary that the "Arabian Nights" book that Mina and Lucy giggle over went missing.
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Miniatures were used extensively in the film. Examples can be seen when Dracula drops Mina off in the carriage; the house behind the gate is a miniature model. Also, when Mina looks out the window at Carfax Abbey when the men go there to sanitize Dracula's crates of soil, Carfax Abbey itself is a miniature model in this shot.
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The Japan-based leadership of Sony was so new to Hollywood that after the film's record setting November 1992 premiere weekend, they asked the American executives if the $30 million+ box office tally was considered a good result.
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One of three vampire movies made by the Coppola family. Vampire's Kiss (1988) stars Nicolas Cage (Nicholas Coppola) and features Marc Coppola; Dracula's Widow (1988) was co-written and directed by Christopher Coppola and also co-stars Marc Coppola; and Francis Ford Coppola produced and directed Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) with also Anton Coppola conducting and Roman Coppola as second unit director and visual effects director.
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The main title music is reminiscent of the music of James Bernard, the composer of many of the Hammer Film Productions horror films of the late 50's, 60's, and early 70's, particularly the Christopher Lee "Dracula" films.
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The trivia items below may give away important plot points.
Though the film is notable for being more faithful to Bram Stoker's novel than most other adaptations, numerous liberties were taken, including: The pre-title prologue and the subplot about Mina being the reincarnation of Dracula's wife are inventions of the film. The novel never explicitly identifies Dracula as Vlad the Impaler and Mina has no personal connection to Dracula. This alters later scenes taken from the novel, such as when Mina asks Dracula to turn her into a vampire and willingly drinks his blood. In the novel Dracula forces Mina to drink his blood and she is traumatized by the incident. * In the novel Dracula immediately dies and crumbles into dust after suffering the knife attacks by Harker and Morris. In the film he lives for several minutes after the attacks, and Mina delivers the final death blow. * In the film Van Helsing asks Mina for permission to hypnotize her, while in the novel it's Mina's idea and she asks Van Helsing to do it. * In the film Mina seduces Van Helsing and attacks him. This does not happen in the novel. * In the film Van Helsing presses a communion wafer against Mina's forehead to defend himself against her attack, while in the novel he does this to bless her and does not know it will burn her. * In the film Dracula transforms into large werewolf and bat creatures, while in the novel he only transforms into a regular wolf and bat. He also is not explicitly shown to have had sex with Lucy as in the film. * In the film, when Dracula is caught with Mina in her room, Jonathan comes into the room with the rest of the men. In the novel, Jonathan is also present with Mina when the men come into the room, lying in a stupor unable to move due to Dracula's hypnotic power over him. * In the film Dracula escapes Mina's room by turning into mist and going under the closed door, while in the film he turns into a hoard of rats and they scurry away. In the novel he turns into rats at Carfax Abbey while the men are destroying and sanitizing the crates of soil. * In the film Dracula transforms into a wolf and leaps into Lucy's room and attacks her. In the novel's version of this scene, the wolf is not Dracula himself, but a wolf escaped from the zoo that's under Dracula's hypnotic control, and it does not attack Lucy. In the film the escaped wolf appears when Dracula and Mina are at the cinema house, a scene not present in the novel. * In the film Dracula's brides call Harker into the room with the bed and when he lies down on it, they appear to rise up from beneath it, and they attack him before Dracula appears and scolds them. In the novel Harker wakes from sleep on a sofa and sees the brides standing before him, and Dracula appears before they have a chance to attack him. The brides also appear semi-nude in the film, while in the novel they do not. * In the film Renfield is shown to be Harker's predecessor and it's implied that his experience at Dracula's castle drove him insane, while in the novel Harker and Renfield are unrelated and Renfield's insanity is not implied to have been caused by Dracula. * In the novel none of the gypsies carrying Dracula to his castle are shot or killed. * In the film the blue flame is seen directly in front of Dracula's castle, while in the novel it's seen in the distance on the journey to the castle. The flame appears again later in the film, though only the one time in the novel.
Francis Ford Coppola screened the film for close friend, George Lucas. Lucas suggested that, in adherence to the vampire mythology, Mina should decapitate Dracula as the ultimate release for him to reach heaven. Coppola agreed and shot it three weeks before the film's release.
A scene that was storyboarded but not filmed involved Seward and Holmwood coming across the dead bodies of Harker, Morris, and Van Helsing impaled on posts before the climactic confrontation, and then realizing that this is simply a hallucination conjured by Dracula using his powers of psychological persuasion.
Despite being the love interest for Dracula, Mina never actually says Dracula's name.
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On old guitars, cheap guitars and Happy Days
Jon Shain's "Silvertone"
On old guitars, cheap guitars and Happy Days
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"And it sounds all right to me." That's the recurring line Jon Shain delivers throughout "Silvertone," his ode to the cheap, Sears-sold, tough-to-tame guitar he bought several years ago at a thrift store. As those he's talking about an old friend, Shain details the imperfections of his instrument, accepting each one of them as a mark of charity and character. "You know that sound is real," he sings just before taking the old guitar out for a slide-solo spin. Real and proud, you could say.
INDEPENDENT: So, I assume you've got a Silvertone guitar?
JON SHAIN: I so have a Silvertone guitar. I found it in a flea market for about $25, and I play the slide solo on the song with it. A lot of people write songs about their expensive Gibsons or Martins or things like that, so this is kind of singing the praises of cheap guitars. I also chose the lyrics in a way that, if people didn't know it was about a guitar, they may think I was talking about a person with gray hair.
Has anyone responded to the song that way?
I don't know. At shows, I usually tell people it's about a guitar, so—there, at least—they know what it's about. And guitar players in the audience tend to get a kick out of it, you know, "Your tone is not silver." It's funny the way guitars get named.
How did the Silvertone get its name?
Silvertone is a brand name by Sears. They put that name on acoustic guitars and electric guitars. If you bought a guitar from Sears catalogue, it was called a Silvertone, just like Montgomery-Ward had its brand, the Airline, I think. Different companies made those guitars at different times. The Silvertone might have been made by some certain factory, and after five years, the contract would run out and they may move it somewhere else. Gibson, for instance, made cheap instruments for certain companies. If you ever see guitars from the '30s or '40s called Kalamazoos, those are made in the Gibson plant, but they're cheaper instruments made on contracts for department stores or something. It's interesting to me because all of those guitars back in the '50s were bought with catalogues. There weren't cool guitar stores in every town or Guitar Centers.
That sort of boutique and mega-mall guitar shop idea is interesting. Where do you buy your instruments?
I've never bought anything from a Guitar Center, except for little stuff. I've bought stuff mainly from individuals. I did buy an expensive guitar from Harry's Guitar Shop in Raleigh. They're a nice shop I want to give my business to, but a lot of my instruments come from pawn shops or people. I don't often buy new stuff. Most professional musicians can't afford it.
How about your first guitar? Remember it?
The first guitar I had met a quick demise. I was like 10 years old, and my parents rented a guitar from the Haverhill Music Center in Haverhill, Mass., where I grew up. I took some lessons, and the first thing I asked the guy was if he could teach me "Dueling Banjos." He laughed, like, "Maybe we'll learn a couple of things before that." I had seen the first 30 minutes of Deliverance on TV.
At this time, Happy Days was all the rage, and there is this famous episode where the Fonz traps this burglar in a closet by sticking a chair under a doorknob of the closet. I guess that's supposed to disable the doorknob. My younger brother was chasing me around the house, and I remembered my Happy Days lesson. So I closed the door shut and grabbed the closest thing I could find, which was the guitar. At first, it looked like it was going to work, and I was laughing about it. Then he slammed the door open, and the guitar broke cleanly in half. That was the end of guitar lessons for me because we had to pay for the guitar. My parents are pretty forgiving, though, and a couple of years later they got me another guitar, again a borrowed guitar, when I was 12. We finally paid for that one in high school. That's kind of when I started and kept with it.
It's probably like picking favorite children, but any favorite guitars?
Oh, certainly. I have a Gibson J-45 from 1967, which is also my birth year. That one is really special. I was working for Brian's Guitar Shop in Carrboro at the time, and that one came in the door. I immediately fell in love with it. I said, "You've got to let me take this home." He was pretty nice and gave me a good steal on it. That's the guitar closest to my heart, though I have a few old Strats that I hold dearly, too. I have had a '74 Strat since I was 14. At the time, it was just a used guitar. Now, it's a vintage guitar.
What was it about that Gibson?
Oh, it was everything. It was a beautiful sounding guitar, and it was a sunburst design. Most of the sunburst Gibsons are sort of the tobacco pattern, black to orange. But this one goes from a bright red to yellow, almost like some of those Les Pauls that came out. Some of those mid-'60s Gibsons had really think necks, and it's really easy to play. That one cost a few more bucks than the Silvertone.
But one of the nice things about that tune, "Silvertone," is that I played the rhythm part on the Gibson, and the lead part was played on the Silvertone. Most reviewers, whenever they hear something with slide on my albums, they say, "…and John Currie's dobro part on that song is really good." People don't realize it was me. I play bottleneck style, and he plays lap style on the dobro in a different tuning. Most of the single-note lead stuff we put down is me. This is the first time I used the Silvertone, though. The action is so high on that guitar, it's like a cheese grater or something. Unless you're going to play slide on it, it's pretty painful.
Jon Shain leads his traditional Pre-Turkey Day Jam at Cat's Cradle on Wednesday, Nov. 21 with Edsel 500, Kenny Roby, Jule Brown, Michael Holland and Big Medicine. The 8:15 p.m. show costs $10, and profits benefit the Helping Hand Mission.
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Actually, police unions are the primary reason that ongoing physical testing is not part of LE employment. Jhaz is on the money with that statement, and the absence of a union in Suquamish is the primary reason their PD gets away with this.
Are you saying it is the unions that prevent the public safety agencies from requiring officers meet minimum physical/mental job requirements?
Would that not make the union causal to endangering the officers they represent?
Is that a *good* thing?
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I personally cannot comprehend why these wasteful people keep getting re-elected. It's nearly too late to get this country or state back to fiscal responsibility. People need to carefully vote this election season. PLEASE!
Amen to that. Unfortunately there are a lot of people that vote the party their parents and grandparents voted without even reading stats of the folks running for office. "I always vote this way because my parents voted this way" is all too often the message I hear.
And about raising taxes: It seems the first thing that happens when taxes are raised, is pay raises around the board. That's why I dislike tax increases, because they always seem to fund something unrelated (pay raise, general fund to be handed out to whomever cries the loudest, expense accounts, etc.). Aarrrgh!
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Here is what concerns me about what the republicans are doing with this mosque issue. I realize they need to take every advantage to make for a good fight for this november's elections and thier best strategy is always fear. But this kind of public fighting makes it hard for the troops fighting in the mid east to due thier job. They have to flush out the terrorists in this heavy islamic countries without making the locals believe that this is a war against thier religion. The military has spent alot of time and money tring to make the troops job easier while the repubs are undoing the military's strategy for thier own political gain! and endagering the Troops!!! Think about Repubs! Think!!! Think!!
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This house is built in an almost serpentine fashion with odd angled roof joins, eaves, dormers, and chimneys all along its length. That's going to be a homeowner's nightmare/roofing company's dream to keep in good repair. You'll need somebody walking that roof constantly, just checking for any sort of drainage issue.
This place is a good two to three times my upper limit, so I'm not a prospective buyer. But if I was one, that roofline alone would send me in a different direction. No one should ever consider buying a place until he's walked on top of it and gotten underneath it with someone who knows what he's looking at. Even where there's not a current problem, you need to be aware of where you're likely to develop one. Symmetry, clean lines, very few joins, broad overhangs, a good pitch to the roof... those things are important, not just "classical" details.
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I hope they catch them, that could have been catastrophic.I find it interesting their camera system worked so well when they had a loss.Walmart wasn't interested in using their camera system when my wife confronted a punk in the same store that had stolen her wallet out of her cart.We made several attempts to contact store security so she could review the tapes and possibly identify the thief.Each time we were told they would call us back.That was a couple of years ago and we are still waiting.
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Michelle Elowe
Dear Michelle: Firefly Bistro was happy to share its sautéed Brussels sprouts recipe with us, which we've adapted below. Enjoy!
Total time: 30 minutes
Servings: 2
Note: Adapted from Firefly Bistro in South Pasadena.
Smoked paprika crème
1/4 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/8 teaspoon salt, or to taste
Milk, if needed
In a medium bowl, whisk together the sour cream, heavy cream, paprika and salt. Taste and adjust the seasonings as desired. Thin with milk, if desired, 1 tablespoon at a time. The finished crème should have a sauce-like consistency.
Brussels sprouts and assembly
1 tomato
4 baguette slices
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waterday writes:
A very nice letter, and this teacher is in the know, as she also has a child that attended Charter. A Charter High School should be allowed to proceed, it will bring property values up, and provide excellent education to many students. Children from Marco say how easy Lely is after attending Marco Charter, this is not a good thing. Middle school should prepare the students for harder courses. High school should prepare all students for college, and many Lely students are struggling with the work load of college, from the easy curriculum of high school. A Marco high school would bring competition to Lely. Competition is a good thing! It gives a check and balance, Lely school needs the competition to make it a better school for the A' students, and middle students and of course the low grade students that it continuously caters to at the present. Any extra funding for this school,goes first and foremost to the lower group of student. This is not acceptable, all extra monies should be split between lower grades, middle and A students. The new school on Marco, would hold Lely accountable to the Marco students,and many other students and parents that do not accept C grades or C students. As far as parents volunteering, the majority are Marco parents and the funds do not necessarily go back to all the students. Regardless of income levels, and grade levels this school needs to help all students not just the C or D students, when Lely learns to treat all students fairly and equally then this school will have a better chance of surviving with A, and B students,not just the C,and D students that it caters to. If you cater to only C and D students, you become a C or D school.
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Ocram (Inactive) writes:
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As we are blogging, Jane Watt and company is, most likely, in the process of trying to convince those who give grants that what she is offering is actually needed and wanted by the people on this Island.
The Academy's Web site has businesses listed that are being claimed as supportive of these ends.
Like many other claims in the past such as the list of so called volunteers and the list of Community Support Organizations which have been proven erroneous. I question whether the business supporters that are claimed on the website actually know what is going on and possibly where their business names are listed. If you use their services I would ask if they are aware of the total picture and not was sold to them by a proponent or two.
A project such as we are facing can and should not proceed if the Community itself is not in favor of it. No matter what "faulty" application they have in hand.
We have a right as citizens of this Island who wish to keep it the way we want it and not have to give into the wishes of a minor group with a loud voice.
Once again an is it or isn't situation.
It appears that the businesses listed are shown as event sponsers. What does that actually mean?
Does it mean that they support the Academy or just were hired as a meeting place. Maybe a couple of them are places where proponents work, but what does it really mean? There are 18 listed out of 100s of businesses on Marco. That surely does not show real community support.
More smoke and be continued.
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0.083724 | <urn:uuid:dad01b94-4038-4eed-8d69-1273e1113687> | en | 0.954256 | Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics
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1. Positive: 5 out of 11
2. Negative: 0 out of 11
1. 69
But the Ty series has never been original and this latest version feels like a copy of a copy. Gamers who played and didn't like the other two versions will find nothing new here and Ty fans may find themselves wondering why very little has changed.
2. It would have been good to see the game's accessibility for beginners complemented by combination moves for more skilled players.
3. An excellent game that I honestly don't think could have been any better.
4. Variety, accessibility, value, fun and tons of content is what TY the Tasmanian Tiger is all about, and never has Krome done a better job at pulling all of these elements together than they have in TY 3: Night of the Quinkan.
5. Variety, accessibility, value, fun and buckets of content is what the TY the Tasmanian Tiger franchise is all about, and never has Krome done a better job at pulling all of these elements together than they have in TY 3.
6. The story does a good job of keeping the enjoyment of the game alive. Yes, you might put the game back on your shelf once you beat it, seeing as how the mini games don't offer you much.
7. Minor frustrations and inconsistency compound a game that's not very good in the first place, making it one of the least appealing platformer choices currently on the market.
8. As a budget-priced title, Ty delivers satisfactory entertainment for platformer fans. [Dec 2005, p.122]
9. 60
Anyone looking for a lengthy, varied platformer with hidden secrets up the wazoo and tongue-in-cheek humor should find themselves enjoying Night of the Quinkan more than they would have expected.
10. The vehicle portions are pretty cool and I'm always down with collecting stuff.
11. There is no doubt that fans of the series will be more than satisfied with the new levels, story, weapons, and vehicles.
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1. JackC.
Dec 21, 2005
this will be the best game of ty the tasmanian tiger until they make a 4 one then that will be better.
2. DaKillerTroy
May 22, 2005
First I got to say I love the graphics during game time and1 that the story is entertaining and1 the tricks are hot as the whole and 1 crew. | http://www.metacritic.com/game/gamecube/ty-the-tasmanian-tiger-3-night-of-the-quinkan/critic-reviews?sort-by=most-clicked&num_items=100 | dclm-gs1-023860002 | false | false | {
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1. An inventive, stylish, varied and highly entertaining game that puts all other TV cartoon conversions to shame.
2. A solid and fun, if not very challenging offering that will appeal to children and casual gamers rather than the seasoned players of adventure games amongst you. The basic cel-shaded visuals and smooth animation gives it a unique style and the story is pretty entertaining along the way.
3. The level objectives, while varied and challenging are sadly a linear affair, inevitably leading you through the game by a leash. Though, with the recovery of each Talsiman, new powers are progressively unlocked such as increased strength, speed, jumping, and astral travel.
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1. DavidM.
Feb 12, 2005
It's cool! using da talismans is ded gd. | http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-2/jackie-chan-adventures/critic-reviews?dist=neutral | dclm-gs1-023870002 | false | false | {
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0.023586 | <urn:uuid:336e2321-816c-4cd7-b81f-db26426bf0d6> | en | 0.964822 | Infestissumam - Ghost B.C.
Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critics
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2. Negative: 0 out of 11
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Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings
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3. Negative: 0 out of 4
1. May 3, 2013
Ghost if proof that people will ignore sound if it looks cool; The band is getting sooo much hype as if it's the second comming (religious pun intended). I was led to listen to them because it's getting lot of praise on the metal scene. Well, at least Papa Emeritus has a distinct vocal style and he doesn't scream like you would spect. Seeing some live videos, he uses backtracks since all his parts are multi-layered vocals. That kinda sucks. But again, he has his own style. Musicianship tough is very sub-par, sounding sometimes like a garage band and there's no guitar solos (not any memorable at least). I am giving this an 7 out of 10 because the songs are catchy and it has great potential, and it's maybe the best new faces we're seeing. But listen to Mercyful Fate if you want pure evil ass-kicking. "he was born on a cemetery, under the sign of the moon...." m/ Full Review »
2. Dec 8, 2013
This is in my opinion album of the year. You will not find more catchy rock tunes anywhere. Pretty darker than dark lyrics, but that has its charm when combined with those sweet melodies. Full Review »
3. Jun 17, 2013
Fantastic sophomore album by the worlds most compelling, new metal band. Many will expect opus eponymous dues, but ghost has managed to please their fa base with something different but with the same quality of their debut. Full Review » | http://www.metacritic.com/music/infestissumam/ghost-bc/critic-reviews?sort-by=most-active&dist=positive | dclm-gs1-023900002 | false | false | {
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• Summary: This is the second album to be released in the United States for the Swedish singer.
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1. 80
Silence is not an option when Hyvonen is this witty and brazen. [Mar 2009, p.115]
2. Silence Is Wild is heart wrenching, brutally honest and, at times, difficult to listen to. It is also forceful, confident and mature.
3. In the past, Hyvönen’s songs worked as intellectual touchstones, but not necessarily always as songs. It’s the triumph of her new record that these two essential elements of her songwriting have been more or less reconciled.
5. Frida's a modern woman with her own sound and fury, and Silence breaks it open.
6. Her follow-up, Silence Is Wild, sounds not only more assured in its arrangements and performances, but more lively for being so self-indulgent.
7. Silence Is Wild may be willfully idiosyncratic and prone to self-indulgence, but it's also refreshingly imaginative, sexually upfront and impossible to second guess. [Mar 2009, p.101]
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Why would this girl get turned over to ICE when all the illegal hispanics are allowed to walk free? Politics?
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