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Guest Post by Julia V. Hendrickson
Notes on a Conversation.
With—Mark Pascale (Curator in the Dept. of Prints & Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Adjunct Professor of Printmedia at SAIC)
In—the Prints & Drawings Study Center
Commenced—on Thursday, February 17th, 2011, 4:15–5:15pm
"It's a dream job. It's great place to work. Even under great pressure, when people are at their most difficult, there is still a lot of love here and we all know it. We give each other a lot of space, there's a tremendous amount of collaboration here, and people supporting everybody when they need the support. I think it's very collegial.â€
— Mark Pascale
In a curious corner of the Art Institute, beyond the lions and the ticket booth; through the first gallery on your left (filled, currently, with John Marin's watercolors); past a large glass door; and adjoining a nondescript long white hallway, lies a room full of natural light and very busy people. Dedicated to public inquiry, the Goldman Study Center in the department of Prints & Drawings is one of this city's quiet treasures. Open to the public by appointment only (available to classes in the mornings and to individual researchers in the afternoons), since the 1940s the department has made available over 80,000 works on paper that are part of the Art Institute's collection. Staffed by hard-working curators, collection managers, researchers, administrators, and interns (as well as its own paper conservation department), the study center serves as a visual library; it offers the rare opportunity to examine a small selection of major works of art in person, without the distancing of glass or display.
However, one of the most invaluable treasures in Prints & Drawings is not actually on paper. It is, in fact, embodied in a living, breathing, wise-cracking person: a curator, Mark Pascale, who is celebrating his 30th year with the Art Institute. I first knocked on Mark's door over two years ago, armed with the brazen assumption that he would meet with me based on a shared love of comic art and his connection to Ohio (he went to graduate school at Ohio State University). Since then, Mark has proved to be an encyclopedically resourceful, tirelessly supportive, always kind mentor and friend.
While visiting the study room last week, we looked at one of my favorite recent departmental acquisitions, a bequest from the estate of Sylvia Sights: a small collection of envelopes and ephemera illustrated by Edward Gorey (who was born in Chicago in 1925). Sylvia Sights and Gorey were childhood friends and Lakeview neighbors. Gorey attended SAIC for one semester in 1943, and after he left Chicago he wrote to Sights frequently. Many of the envelopes are from his time at Harvard (1946-50), and were often sent under fantastic pseudonyms like "Childeric Drool†and addressed to "Fascia Scorch.†You can see more photographs of the collection in an album here.
I asked Mark about print-related shows he is proud of being involved with during his time at the Art Institute. He spoke of the intense research and collaboration that goes into major museum exhibitions:
"Being involved in the Jasper Johns: Gray show [in 2007] was a career changing moment for me. He was an artist that I had admired, as an artist, and I especially had admired his printmaking. It was hugely inspirational and instructive to me. It was a frightening prospect because he's very judgmental, and he is not known for his generosity. But I was asked to join the team and I did. […] That experience, working with James [Rondeau] and Douglas [Druick], Harriet Stratis, Christine Conniff-O'Shea, and Maureen Pskowski, having a cross-departmental experience was fantastic.
The other show that I've done that I'm extremely proud of is the one that was called After the Crash: Picturing the U.S. 1930-1943, which I did [in 2000] in conjunction with a curatorial assistant in photography and the special collections librarian in Ryerson. We incorporated prints, photographs, and texts from the Depression, [about] the Depression.
We used our WPA [Works Progress Administration] and FSA [Farm Security Administration] holdings, and it was based upon my question: 'If so many of the artists who worked for the WPA were urban, why are there so many farm images?' So, [we were asking] whether or not the FSA photographs played any role in what got depicted in printmaking. To some degree we found evidence that it definitely was true, and there were quite a few artists that worked both on the FSA project and the WPA project. […] The crowning moment for that was, even though we didn't get to do a book, we had a panel discussion that was chaired by George Roeder, who created the Visual and Critical Studies area at SAIC (now sadly deceased), and included Studs Terkel, who was still really sharp, he really had his wits about him, and the photo historian and photographer Naomi and Walter Rosenblum, respectively.â€
— Mark Pascale
Mark also collaborates across the city with other museums and galleries. In the mid-1990s Mark was an advisor and catalogue contributor to one of the definitive Chicago print shows, Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995, a survey exhibition at Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art. When I mentioned that show, he sighed and said, "I wish I could redo it because I've learned a lot more about the history of Chicago printmaking since then. But I covered some of it in the Chicago Stories exhibition.â€
(Chicago Stories is Mark's most recent departmental exhibit from the summer of 2010, an historical survey of local printmaking called Chicago Stories: Prints and H.C. Westermann's 'See America First'. While I served as an intern in the department with Mark, fellow intern Andrew Blackley and I collaborated with him on the research, writing, and exhibition planning for Chicago Stories.)
Although Mark rarely has the time to advise or organize more than one show a year outside of the department, he is often asked to judge exhibitions. This year he selected a members exhibition for the upcoming Southern Graphics Council Tempting Equilibrium conference in St. Louis (March 16th-19th, 2011). At the Art Institute, Mark is currently working on a departmental exhibit showcasing a promised gift of over 100 contemporary drawings from a private Chicago collection. He notes that the museum recently has received a lot of criticism for doing private collection shows, but that it's simply a way to honor and celebrate the major support of private collectors:
"We're often accused of being an island, and we're not. To some people we might be. We don't buy that much art. We spend a lot of time engineering gifts. […] The people who are quick to criticize the museum don't seem to know of the long and distinguished history of giving that Chicago museums enjoy, and don't seem to know that we don't receive much public money. There's a limit to what we can do, and a high expectation for what we put out. My feeling is that they should be excited and happy that this art stays in the city forever.â€
— Mark Pascale
The other big show Mark has been working on for the last few years, scheduled for 2013, is a Martin Puryear retrospective, focusing on Puryear's printmaking processes. Although much of Puryear's early work was destroyed in a fire, Mark has been able to find a number of working and state proofs for his more recent editions. The exhibit will highlight Puryear's etchings from Paulson Bott Press (Berkeley, CA), and a major work from Arion Press (San Francisco, CA): illustrations for Cane, a 1923 novel by Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer.
PASCALE'S PICKS:
Above and beyond his knowledge of modern and contemporary art, Mark also knows a thing or two about good food in the city. At the end of our conversation, Mark humored me with a list of a few of his favorite places to eat out.
"Any opportunity to eat badly, I will accommodate it. I have a very high threshold for people's hot dogs and fries, because it's such a Chicago thing. Chicago-style hot dog joints are not like what I experienced growing up. It's local, and I love local.â€
— Mark Pascale
1.) Hot dog and fries at Gene and Jude's Red Hot Stand (and many other places, but G&J is the best) (2720 River Road, River Grove, IL)
2.) Tom Yum Koong (shrimp soup) and Pad Ped Pla Dook (spicy catfish) at Opart Thai House (4658 North Western Ave., Chicago)
3.) Enchiladas Mole at La Oaxaqueña (3382 North Milwaukee Ave., Chicago)
4.) Bhendi Masala (okra curry) at Hema's Kitchen (2439 W Devon Ave., Chicago) or Udupi Palace (2543 W Devon Ave.)
5.) Hungarian Potato Pancake at Smak Tak (5961 North Elston Ave., Chicago)
6.) Chicken Fatoush Salad at Pita Inn (Skokie, Wheeling, and Glenview, IL)
Julia V. Hendrickson is a native of eastern Ohio who lives and works as a visual artist, writer, and curator in Chicago, Illinois. In 2008 she graduated with a B.A. in Studio Art and a minor in English from The College of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio). Julia is currently the gallery manager at Corbett vs. Dempsey, as well as the office manager and design assistant for Ork Posters. She is a teaching assistant at the Marwen Foundation, an active member of the Chicago Printers Guild, and has taught at Spudnik Press. A freelance art critic and writer for Newcity, Julia also keeps a blog called The Enthusiast, a documentation of the daily things that inspire, intrigue, and inform. She is currently exhibiting at Anchor Graphics (Columbia College Chicago) in a solo show titled FANTASTIC STANZAS, on view through March 26th.
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Roy Oswalt retiring after 13 seasons in majors
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- Oswalt was 0-6 with an 8.63 ERA in nine outings and six starts for Colorado last year
- Oswalt went over 200 innings seven times in his career but dealt with injuries in recent years
Roy Oswalt retired from baseball on Tuesday after winning 163 games and making three All-Star teams in 13 major league seasons.
The pitcher's agent, Bob Garber, confirmed the decision and said Oswalt would go to work for his agency, RMG Baseball. Oswalt will be vice president of baseball operations.
"Roy is now going to be representing players with me," Garber said Tuesday night. "He's now an agent."
The 36-year-old right-hander had a 163-102 career record with a 3.36 ERA. Oswalt won 20 games in consecutive seasons (2004-05) with the Houston Astros and was the 2005 NL championship series MVP. He pitched more than 200 innings seven times but was hampered by injuries in recent years.
"He was a tremendous competitor," Giants right-hander Matt Cain said. "He was one of the guys I always loved to watch pitch. I remember facing him for the first time and I knew if I gave up more than a couple runs that it wasn't going to be a good day for us. He went about his business every fifth day like a true pro."
Oswalt got hurt with Houston on June 11, 2003, when he and five other pitchers combined to no-hit the New York Yankees in an 8-0 victory in the Bronx. It was the only six-pitcher no-hitter until Seattle did the same thing against the Dodgers on June 8, 2012.
Oswalt strained his right groin and left in the second. He looked toward catcher Brad Ausmus after his second pitch of the inning, his 23rd of the game, and immediately was replaced.
The Yankees had gone 6,980 games — the longest streak in major league history — without being no-hit, since Hoyt Wilhelm's 1-0 victory for Baltimore on Sept. 20, 1958.
Oswalt was 0-6 with an 8.63 ERA in nine outings and six starts for Colorado last year. He signed a minor league deal with the Rockies in May 2013 and missed time with a strained left hamstring.
Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington was thrilled to acquire Oswalt in the middle of the 2012 season, when he went 4-3 with a 5.80 ERA in 17 appearances with nine starts.
He joined the Rangers on June 22, 2012, but didn't know if the team just planned to trade him away. Washington often said Oswalt "has been a pro" in handling a tough, unclear situation that called for him to be used primarily out of the bullpen.
That was after Oswalt spent two stints on the disabled list during 2011 with Philadelphia because of lower back inflammation. He went 9-10 with a 3.69 ERA in 23 starts for the Phillies that year, and his 139 innings were his fewest since 2003. He didn't go more than 59 innings in his last two years.
A 23rd-round pick by Houston in the 1996 amateur draft, Oswalt pitched his first nine-plus seasons for the Astros (2001-10) and then played for Philadelphia (2010-11), Texas (2012) and the Rockies (2013).
On Aug. 25, 2010, Oswalt became the first Phillies pitcher to play a position in the field in 39 years after Ryan Howard was ejected in the 14th inning of a 4-2, 16-inning home loss to the Astros. With the Phillies out of position players, Oswalt went to left field and Raul Ibanez took over at first for Howard.
Oswalt drew a rousing ovation from the crowd when he caught a routine fly ball. He was the first Philadelphia pitcher to play a position since Bill Wilson on Aug. 6, 1971.

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It's been a couple days since I've actually sat here to chat. Man, time goes fast(do I keep repeating myself?...ooopppsss, I claim the fifth on that one)! I spent yesterday at a painting class and though it's a very long day, I love expressing creatively thru painting. It's often a stretch and challenge for me, but it's SO worth it all when I stand back and look at each of my fellow class mate's paintings and marvel at how we went from a blank canvas to something that actually looks like something :)
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Posted by Faye at 2:53 PM
2 comments:
- Rach said...
It's such a gorgeous painting! YOu have such talent, sis .. I hope you continue with it because I know it's a great outlet for you, but it speaks volumes too that you're so darn good at it!
- September 10, 2007 at 3:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
Faye, I thought I had left a comment on this already, but I guess it didn't go through.
You should post your mountain painting! That was gorgeous work and I wish I could paint mountains like that!
- September 15, 2007 at 7:50 PM
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Frequent, Severe Fires Turn Alaskan Forests into a Carbon Production Line
By Jennifer Donovan | Published
Alaskan forests used to be important players in Mother Nature's game plan for regulating carbon dioxide levels in the air. It's elementary earth science: Trees take up carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.
But now, American and Canadian researchers report that climate change is causing wildfires to burn larger swaths of Alaskan trees and to char the groundcover more severely, turning the black spruce forests of Alaska from repositories of carbon to generators of it. And the more carbon dioxide they release, the greater impact that may have in turn on future climate change.
"Since the proliferation of black spruce, Alaskan soils have acted as huge carbon sinks," says Evan Kane, a research assistant professor in Michigan Technological University's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. "But with more frequent and more extensive burning in recent decades, these forests now lose more carbon in any fire event than they have historically been able to take up between fires."
Kane is co-author on a paper published in the January 2011 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. Lead author on the research study titled "Recent Acceleration of Biomass Burning and Carbon Losses in Alaskan Forests and Peatlands" is Merritt R. Turetsky of the University of Guelph, Ontario.
The overall impact of burning northern forests depends on both the frequency and severity of the fires, the researchers note. A majority of the carbon in these forests is stored in the layers of moss, peat and leaf litter that cover the ground, and those are the layers most likely to burn in forest fires.
This burning not only releases carbon emissions, but the loss of that ground layer affects a number of natural processes, such as regulation of soil climate, maintenance of permafrost and the kinds of trees that can grow back. The new forest types likely to establish after repeated severe fires act as a much weaker carbon sink than black spruce forests.
During their study, Kane and colleagues collected data on the depth of ground-layer combustion in 31 Alaskan black spruce forest and peatland fires at 178 sites. Black spruce forests cover two-thirds of all woodlands in the interior of Alaska.
They found that when larger areas burned, the severity of the damage—measured by the depth of burning—was high throughout the fire season. Also, the carbon emissions were greater. In fact, the researchers found that the annual carbon losses from forest fires in 2000 to 2009 were more than twice the carbon lost during each of the previous five decades.
Climate change is an undeniable fact in the Arctic, where Arctic sea ice in January 2011 covered 5.23 million square miles, the lowest January ice measurement since satellite records began in 1979, and air temperatures over much of the Arctic were 4 to 11 degrees above average. These climate conditions are already thawing the permafrost, where the northern forests sequester much of their carbon intake. The researchers say that an increase in area burned and severity of fires is likely to increase that permafrost loss, in turn accelerating the negative effects of climate change.
The annual burned area in the Alaskan forests is expected to increase by 200 to 300 percent over the next 30 to 100 years, the scientists said. Since the changes over the past decade have already turned the black spruce forests from carbon sinks or repositories to carbon sources that release emissions into the air, they say, the future threat is very real.
"Soil carbon losses will increase dramatically if warming continues to affect the
thawing of permafrost, exposing deeper carbon pools to rapid loss through burning,"
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degradation, potentially triggering a positive feedback between permafrost thaw and
severe fire activity. Such feedback has significant implications for greenhouse gas
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The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians announced Wednesday that it's seeking land in Lansing and near Detroit Metropolitan Airport to build gambling facilities.
The tribe said it filed applications Tuesday with the U.S. Department of the Interior to take the land into trust.
A $245 million gambling resort would go up on three acres near downtown Lansing, the tribe said. It said the casino would be 125,000 square feet.
The scope of a gambling project anticipated for 71 acres in Wayne County's Huron Township will be determined by an economic impact study, the tribe said. The site is south of the airport and about 25 miles southwest of Detroit.
A federal appeals court ruled in December that the Upper Peninsula tribe can move ahead with plans to build the Lansing casino. The state has opposed the project, but Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last week withdrew his petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear lawsuit.
The Supreme Court ruled in another Michigan casino case that Indian tribes have sovereign immunity that prevents them from being sued.
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Ever wondered what a neocon would make of the zombie apocalypse? Professor Daniel Drezner has your answer.
Most zombie movies skip straight to complete social disintegration, without bothering to explain just how matters got so far out of hand. But for political scientist Daniel Drezner, that's the most intriguing part. Inspired by the enthusiastic response to a post on his blog at Foreign Policy Magazine, he set out to bring some global perspective to the subgenre. The result? Theories of International Politics and Zombies, the latest zombie mashup. He spoke to us about which countries would fare best in an outbreak, teaching poli sci with pop culture, and Zombie Strippers' single moment of brilliance.
What drew you to this particular science fictional trope? As you've said, there are a lot of things that are interesting for international relations scholars, aliens for example. Why this type of story?
In some ways it was truly accidental. What originally sparked this was that paper by a bunch of biomathematicians at Carleton University called "When Zombies Attack." I saw that and thought, "There's no politics here." So I wrote a sort of lighthearted post about it and it got linked to by a lot of people. That led me to think there's actually something useful and pedagogical about this. And as much as people get aliens, they also get zombies.
I think the other reason is, simply put, name any book, add the world "zombies" to the title and it's automatically funny. War and Peace and zombies. Crime and Punishment and zombies. It's impossible not to start laughing. And if you can make a student laugh, you sneak in the learning before they realize it.
Let's say there's an uprising of the undead tomorrow. How could an understanding of international relations, of the concepts in this book, help politicians respond?
The key thing to realize is different governments would respond differently. This is interesting in comparison to the trope you were talking about earlier. Most alien stories end with all of Earth uniting against the aliens. What's fascinating about zombie stories is they almost always end with the apocalypse. When you think about diseases breaking out, governments don't always cooperate terribly well. They sometimes have an incentive to conceal information. When there's genuine concern about epidemics, you start seeing competition over scarce resources. There are different paradigmatic responses and cooperation would be one possible outcome. But the book shows that's hardly the only one.
I see, so there are any number of scenarios, and different governments might act on different paradigms?
It's possible. Again, one of the interesting things as I was writing it was how often I could go to the well of zombie movies and say that this scenario plays out in this particular movie or this particular book. Obviously, none of these theories perfectly captures the dynamics of world politics. They're all partial pictures at best. But hopefully, by reading the book, when people are looking at real world situations, they can say, "Oh, I see, constructivism is playing itself out here." And then also see what they can expect going forward.
Would you suggest that one theory is more likely than others?
I'm not going to answer the question as to which outcome is the most likely one. That kind of defeats the purpose. I was not trying to play favorites.One of the fascinating things in reading the reviews is how different reviewers think, "Oh, he's clearly a liberal" or "He's clearly a realist" or "He's clearly a neocon." I have my own predilections, but I really was trying to be ruthlessly scrupulous in terms of fairly describing these things.
That said, I think the one overarching conclusion I came to is it's better to be in a developed country and it's better to be in a democracy. If you take a look at zombie-like disasters or natural disasters, it is striking how wealthy democracies do much better in terms of coping with them. As bad as what's going in Japan right now is, it would have been an order of magnitude worse if it had happened in Indonesia or Malaysia.
That's interesting, because the movies often take wealthy countries like the US and imagine the apocalypse.
Exactly, it'll be set in a mall or something. Yet the interesting thing is — and there really is hard data to support this — if you take a look at something like earthquakes or hurricanes and loss of life, inevitably it is poor and authoritarian countries that do far worse.
You mentioned you were often able to find examples of how different paradigms played out in different movies or books. Is there a particular story in the canon that impressed you with its sensitivity to or awareness of these issues?
Hands down, World War Z by Max Brooks was far and away the most sophisticated take. Everyone is very quick to get to the apocalypse, and the thing that interested me was how exactly you wind up getting there. World War Z, I thought, was the most realistic treatment of this, and I probably cited it more than anything else in the book. The other, to a lesser extent, was Romero's original Dawn of the Dead. That that also happened in the middle, as things are starting to break down, and also basically every zombie movie made since owes something to Dawn of the Dead.
Which of the zombie movies did you enjoy most?
The two things I recommend to everyone, whether or not they're zombie fans, would be World War Z and 28 Days Later. They're just exceptionally well done pieces of art. Then I have a soft spot for the really, really bad zombie movies. I made an effort to cite Zombie Strippers. It is a horrible, horrible movie, but there is one line that just won me over completely. The premise is the zombie bug affects men and women differently. It turns men into your garden-variety Romero zombies, but women retain their intelligence and become even more alluring as zombies. It stars this woman, Jenna Jameson, who's a porn star. Naturally, this being a movie, she's a stripper and she's reading Nietzsche in her spare time. There's a moment after she becomes a zombie, where she's sitting in her chair reading Nietzsche's Being and Nothingness, laughing, and saying, "I finally get this shit." And that was inspired.
I'm curious to get your take on the idea of pop culture in the academy. You talked a bit earlier about making students laugh. But what's it like doing this sort of work in such a serious subject? Do you find it a challenge with your colleagues?
In terms of discussing it with my colleagues, they'd ask, "So, what are you writing?" And I'd "It's a book called Theories of International Politics and Zombies." Their initial response is, "So by zombies, you mean the Washington Consensus or capitalism?" They'll assume zombies are a metaphor, and I'll have to say that I'm actually talking about the dead rising from the grave and eating the living. That's always a nice double take.
Beyond that, I've always been a pop culture enthusiast. You're talking to someone who subscribes religiously to Foreign Affairs and Entertainment Weekly. The the pop culture stuff is useful when lecturing students for two reasons, one good and one bad. The bad is that, very often, you are dealing with students who don't have a great command of history. It''s not obvious they're going to have that complete of a grasp of the Cuban Missile Crisis as an example of some foreign policy concept. If you bring up Dawn of the Dead instead, they do know zombies. On the other hand, talking about things like zombies that have an air of unreality sometimes allows students to free their minds from the particulars of real-world situations and think more creatively. I've gotten really fabulously interesting questions whenever I've presented this stuff. One person asked me whether humans, in trying to figure out how to defeat the zombies, should ally with the wolves. That never would have occurred to me.


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The first 2012 presidential debate will be forgotten in 20 years, but Americans will have a far more positive impression of Mitt Romney when they vote five weeks from now, according to passionate and dispassionate observers who watched Romney and Obama on Wednesday night.
The debate had few memorable "zingers" but it did feature a challenger who, after taking a shellacking in recent days, came to play.
"Romney was aggressive and assertive," said Doug Brinkley, the Rice University historian and best-selling presidential biographer. "President Obama had the burden, not just in being the Democratic nominee but being President of the United States: You can't be too snarky, tell too many jokes or go for the jugular."
Matt Barreto, the University of Washington political scientist who supervised the Washington Poll, noted that Romney came into the debate coming off "a couple weeks of bad press and bad polling" — with low approval numbers and low expectations.
"My impression was that he was a lot more effective and aggressive than I have ever seen him," said Barreto.
Of Obama, he took a more critical view. "The president was fairly cautious, which is typical of the leader, but that can be dangerous," said Barreto.
Frank Greer, a Seattle-based consultant deeply involved in both Bill Clinton's and Barack Obama's campaigns, was on the phone as CNN put its poll results on the screen. Romney won on leadership and had a 35-17 percent advantage on those who might be swayed in their vote. The candidates came out even on who is more likeable, hitherto a major Obama advantage.
"He (Romney) did well this evening, but it is easy to do well when you are not encumbered by having to tell the truth," said Greer, a Democratic partisan.
But Greer, too, agreed that Obama was burdened by the office he holds.
"I think he (Obama) felt very responsible about explaining things in an honest, detailed way," Greer said. "He was feeling the weight and responsibility of being President of the United States."
The president's answers were, at times, professorial. A politician seldom at a loss for words, Obama on Wednesday appeared at times to be looking down and searching for what he wanted to say.
"I think Romney was really on his game tonight . . . Obama looked uncertain at times. I don't think he was a very good debater. He was not able to explain his positions very clearly," said Sally Poliak, a Republican and government consultant.
Another Republican, Eastside businessman and former U.S. Senate aide Tony Williams, joked: "My thoughts tonight were, 'Where has this Romney guy been the whole campaign?' Now I am FOR Romney versus just being against Obama."
"Hell, I would have enjoyed another hour," Williams added. A part of his enthusiasm was that, in Williams' words, Obama was "sort of cool, and seemingly disinterested in being there."
Obama was taking a pummeling from pundits on MSNBC and CNN, even those who have been his major boosters in years past. Ex-Clinton manager James Carville ridiculed his lack of focus. MSNBC loudmouth Chris Matthews said the president should be listening more to critical analysis on cable news outlets.
The president's lack of engagement allowed Romney to come across as "a reasonable man, neither an extremist (nor) an ideologue," said Bill Galston, a senior fellow with the liberal Brookings Institution. "At the very least he (Romney) wildly exceeded expectations," Galston added.
In fact, Romney raised some eyebrows in his own party.
"I was surprised at how well he did: I was surprised at how mediocre the president was," said Republican State Chairman Kirby Wilbur.
Greer cautioned, however, that the chattering classes are not always connected with folks.
The Obama campaign had a focus group, he said, which found Obama more likeable and more caring for the middle class, major themes of the campaign. "The pundit class may be, 'Boy, Romney did good,'" he said, "but real people may still like (Obama) a lot more and believe in him a lot more."
But even among some leaders of the president's campaign, there was admiration for the challenger — somewhat reminiscent of when such conservative pundits as Robert Novak and William Safire had to praise Walter Mondale's first debate performance against Ronald Reagan in 1984.
"Romney won the preparation and the style points," said Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter.
Earlier in the evening, Cutter had predicted the pundits would give it to Romney. She was right. Romney is back in the race.


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|Horned Frog Star Johnny Collins Sprints Into TCU Hall of Fame
|by Mike Fisher
|Mon, Sep 12, 2011, 06:13 am
Collins, who will be inducted into the TCU Lettermen's Hall of Fame on Sept. 15, is proud to be a product of his environment. His late father was a long-time executive at Justin Boots. His mother is the first African-American chosen to serve as the president of the Fort Worth Realtors Association. His huge extended family includes such notable as the late former NBA standout Wayman Tisdale. His wife is the accomplished singer-songwriter Tori Estes.
And his teammates on those Flyin' Frogs teams that made national headlines during his 1997-2000 stint at the school?
"I consider myself a humble person, but being surrounded by greatness certainly keeps me that way,'' says Collins, a four-time All-America and the anchor on the 4-x-400 meter national champion in 2000. "I just keep going as fast as I can, trying to keep up.''
Collins joins fellow Horned Frogs Rebecca Allison (1988, cross country and track), the late Bill Shelton Curtis ('57, football & track and field), Tory Plunkett ('89, tennis), Tracy Simien ('88, football) and Shawn Worthen ('00, football) as this year's inductees, who will be honored at TCU's Brown-Lupton University Union.
"We are extremely excited to announce another great Hall of Fame Class," said Alan Teichelman, TCU Lettermen's Association president. "These highly-decorated athletes are true ambassadors for TCU on and off the field.''
Collins, a product of O.D. Wyatt High School in Fort Worth, is remembered as a top quarter-miler – but also as an outstanding team leader. That quality has continued in his post-college life, as Johnny and his mother, Helen Collins Epps, personally oversee the charity Touch The Sky Ministry. Collins' background and education have also made him a success in business; he's the co-owner of Adobe Title Company, lauded for its work in North Texas and preparing to expand with offices throughout Texas, including in downtown Fort Worth.
"My faith and my family and my roots are all-important to me,'' says Collins, 33. "Well, all that and sports, of course. I grew up in Ryan Place. I went to Lily B. Clayton Elementary School. I went to Mclean Middle School. One of the things we did for fun is sneak into Amon Carter Stadium and play on that field. TCU was the only place I ever wanted to be.''
Johnny and Toni are the parents of two children, Justin Finley and Johnny III. And as the kids get a little older, Johnny and Toni are allowed some time to reflect on their so-far accomplishments.
"Toni has been so committed to the kids, and is just now working to get back to her music, which is wonderful,'' Johnny says. "She's written hits for Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston and has her own great performances, too. "In my case, the work ethic that I used, and learned in part, at TCU, is still very much a part of what I do. In my work, we're available to clients at virtually all hours. I know how busy a family can be, so we try to accommodate that. It's just work ethic. My parents are known for it, and at TCU, because we are a little smaller than some of the other powerhouse schools, we've got to work harder.''
Collins rattles off the names of some of his great Flyin' Frogs teammates … and then some influences from the Horned Frogs football team, and the TCU academic world. …
"All those people, and many more, are still some of my best friends to this day. My father died of cancer (in 1999) and TCU and its people were there for me then. TCU is, for me, a place of love.''
Collins was also a football star at O.D. Wyatt High and had offers from major schools all over the country. He never even made an official visit to anywhere but his hometown, though. He remembers with a grin watching Channel 8 anchor Dale Hansen deride his decision to stay in Fort Worth.
"If my dad was alive today,'' Johnny says, "he'd still want to share a laugh with Dale over that.''
What Hansen couldn't know back then, of course, is that Collins was destined to be a symbol of what makes TCU and Fort Worth great.
It's among the reasons he's now a Hall-of-Famer.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
So Long---For Now
Stress at home (with one of my cats, Sweet Pea being ill), stress at work (many organizational changes in the wings since the Boss left and not knowing what my job will entail in the coming months), and the incredibly oppressive heat and humidity of this summer (they talk about a cool front that will lower the temps to 90!), has made one very stressed out and melancholic possum.
Rest assured I will keep in contact by checking out your blogs and by Facebook. It's just that there is absolutely nothing of interest going on in my life and trying to think of a funny and/or interesting post is just one more stress I don't need right now.
Thanks for reading...
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- Amy & the house of cats said...
We understand - sometimes it is very important to get a break at least from one thing. We are sending lots of purrs and prayers for Sweet Pea and hope she will be ok. And hopefully the job will not be too bad - it is so fun when they dont' tell you what is going on isn't it! And hey, at least at some point it will have to get cooler there! We will be here if you decide to come back!
- July 19, 2010 at 2:07 PM
- Lynne at Hasty Brook said...
Here's a hug for you and your Sweet Pea Christine.
Take care and come back when it feels right.
- July 19, 2010 at 9:23 PM
- KGMom said...
Yes, it does take lots of time to keep a blog roaring away.
Glad to know you'll still pop in at Facebook, plus I can send you messages whenever.
I gave up Farmville because of time--took too much.
Sorry about the home crisis with SweetPea, and sorry about the work being unsettled.
Hope that all will be well.
- July 19, 2010 at 11:43 PM
- Poppy Q said...
Have a good break. We hope you continue to come and visit us and get back to blogging if you feel like it later. We all understand, we all need to take breaks.
Julie and Poppy Q
- July 22, 2010 at 8:12 AM
- Moki The Wobbly Cat said...
We totally understand...momma gets a bit overwhelmed at times as well! Do keep in touch however, we would hate to see you disappear entirely...and try to take care and not stress too much (I know, I know, easier said than done...)
- September 21, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Moki The Wobbly Cat said...
Hi Christine,
Moki still can't jump which is part of the reason the chute works so well. Once he enters the chute he only has three choices, to try and back his way out of it, to lay down and refuse to move, or too walk forward and exit the chute.
Moki likes to walk forward and exit the chute because his sister Mini Munch is usually waiting for him at the end.
- October 6, 2010 at 2:24 AM
- Moki The Wobbly Cat said...
Hi Possumlady,
We are so very proud to see Moki's accomplishments. It's amazing what Scouts House has been to do to help so many animals. I haven't really seen any other kitties there, but there are lots and lots of dogs and they are just the cutest ever!
- October 27, 2010 at 11:50 PM
- kraftekat said...
Thank you for sharing. I hope you return :)
- April 20, 2011 at 7:33 AM
- Angel Ginger Jasper said...
Thank you for visiting me and your lovely comments. Hugs GJ x
- May 30, 2013 at 5:48 PM
- Angel Ginger Jasper said...
I came to say thank you so much for the visit with loving comments when we lost our sweet boy. So appreciated and helped us so much. Hugs Carol x
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- World of Animals, Inc said...
We hope to see you back one day here soon. Sometimes being busy with all things going on at the same time can be stressful. Thanks for the share. Have a wonderful rest of your week.
World of Animals
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10 Days to Pitchers and Catchers
Scott Merkin whets our White Sox appetite today on whitesox.com with some facts, figures and projections to chew on:
* Pitchers and catchers report on February 23
* Full squad reports on February 28
* First Spring Training game, March 5, vs. the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch
* Opening Day, April 6, at Texas
Merkin's Projected Batting Order:
Alejandro DeAza CF, Gordon Beckham 2B, Paul Konerko 1B, Adam Dunn DH, Alex Rios LF, A.J. Pierzynski C, Alexei Ramirez SS, Dayan Viciedo RF, Brent Morel 3B
Projected Rotation:
John Danks, Gavin Floyd, Jake Peavy, Chris Sale, Philip Humber
Projected Bullpen:
Matt Thornton Closer, Jesse Crain RH setup man, Will Ohman LH setup man (with all other spots up for grabs). Key bullpen prospect to watch is Addison Reed, who very well might be the closer (my two cents, not Merkin's).
New Guys:
Nestor Molina RHP, Dan Johnson 1B, Ozzie Martinez IF and, of course, the skipper Robin Ventura
Key Losses:
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Police are looking for a man who attempted to kidnap a woman as she was walking home alone in Berkeley on Friday night.
The 23-year-old Berkeley woman was walking along San Pablo Avenue around 10:20 p.m. when she noticed a man who appeared to be following her, Officer Jennifer Coats said.
He continued to walk behind her, even as she changed her route numerous times, Coats said.
As the woman pulled out her cellphone to call for help, the man suddenly grabbed her and forced her off the sidewalk and down a driveway in the 1200 block of San Pablo Avenue, according to Coats.
The woman clutched her purse and screamed for help as the man grabbed her waist and spoke to her in Spanish, she said.
A passing motorist saw the distressed woman, stopped and honked. The man released the woman and fled north on San Pablo Avenue, Coats said.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic man about 23 to 25 years old and 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 7 inches tall, with a thin build and some facial hair. He was wearing a white-and-red San Francisco 49ers baseball-style cap, a black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and black-and-red tennis shoes.
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WESTERN BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson went python hunting in the Everglades on Thursday, but returned empty handed.
Nelson participated in the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissions' month-long "Python Challenge." Eleven Burmese pythons were killed in the first three days of the hunt.
"They are devouring everything that Mother Nature intended to be in the Everglades," Nelson said prior to leaving.
Nelson returned to a boat ramp at Mile Marker 41 on Alligator Alley about 4 p.m. His office said the "pythons proved elusive in the warm weather."
"What we do is get near the tree islands, get out of the air boats, slog through the marsh grass-- by the way, which is very -- it's razor sharp," said Nelson. "The snakes were not there at the time we were there today."
It's unknown how many pythons live in the Everglades. Researchers say the large snakes menace native wildlife in the struggling ecosystem.
Two years ago, one ate a deer.
"And it's just a question of time before one of them gets the endangered Florida panther," said Nelson.
Hunters paid $25 to sign up for the month-long event. Each also had to complete a safety course online. According to FWC, participants are coming from 17 different states to take part.
"If you don't have a trained eye for it -- even if you do like we do -- it's tough," said biologist Shawn Heflick.
Prizes include $1,000 for the longest python caught, and $1,500 for the most pythons killed.
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VANCOUVER — For James and Eilona Penner, a little bit of help from family meant the difference between buying their first home in Maple Ridge this spring or waiting three years, as they had planned.
That intergenerational transfer of wealth is becoming a bigger factor for young buyers trying to get on Metro Vancouver's steep property ladder, according to BMO's annual survey of first-time homeowners.
The survey found that four in 10 respondents in Metro Vancouver were expecting help from parents or other relatives to make their purchase.
And Metro Vancouverites are waiting longer, paying more — an average of $506,000 compared with the national average of $316,100 for a first buy — and willing to cut back on lifestyle purchases to take that first step, the survey found.
For the Penners, it meant Eilona's mother contributed to the down payment so her daughter and son-in-law could buy for $360,000 the 1,500-square-foot house they had been renting, and is living with them until circumstances allow the couple to pay her back.
"We wouldn't have bought without her," James Penner said of their arrangement. "And (without) her allowing us to step into it, we … most likely would have started with a townhouse."
Instead, they will take possession of a house in mid-May that has room for their young family, children aged two and four.
The arrangement is something Penner has discovered is quite common among his co-workers at CP Rail. He said one colleague is buying into a property in Mission, along with his in-laws, that has two houses on it, and another is buying his in-laws' house, which the mother-in-law will continue living in — an arrangement similar to his own.
And whether it is parents helping children make a down payment with a gift of cash, or buying in under some other arrangement, it is something that realtors are seeing more of in Metro Vancouver's pricey markets, where buyers are having a harder time qualifying for mortgages under rules that have been tightened up by the federal government over the last two years.
"Families getting involved as a result of kids not being able to pull (a purchase) off on their own, there's much more of that," said Ron Antalek, managing broker for Ron Antalek Re/Max Lifestyles Realty in Maple Ridge.
Antalek doesn't see the same level of parental help in his more starter-friendly market of Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows that was found in the BMO survey.
However, the one-quarter to one-third of purchases he sees that involve family participation is a big increase from just a few years ago.
"Then it was maybe one in 10," he said.
For Metro Vancouver as a whole, BMO's Chris Menard said, there was a substantial jump in expectations of parental help in the 2014 survey. In last year's edition, he said, it was 33 per cent.
"It's interesting to show that kind of intergenerational switch of wealth, if you will," he said, which is understandable in the region's high-priced markets.
In the survey, BMO found that 57 per cent of Metro Vancouver respondents said they had delayed making a first purchase because of rising prices, and some 66 per cent reported sacrificing lifestyle choices to help add to savings for a down payment.
Antalek said he has witnessed some of that. He has seen first-time buyers lose deals because their non-mortgage debt was too high for them to qualify for a mortgage.
Then it takes cutting up a credit card or giving up a car lease to bring their debt picture back into an acceptable ratio for their banks, he said.
"Restructuring is what gets people who couldn't do it six months ago making it happen now," Antalek said.
Helping children boost their down payments above the 20-per-cent threshold for the requirement of mortgage insurance is another motivating factor for parents to get involved, according to Bill Binnie, managing broker for Royal LePage Northshore in West Vancouver.
The BMO survey found that the average down payment that Metro first-time buyers expected to make was 21 per cent, the highest in Canada.
"That tells me a lot of people are topping up to 20 per cent, and I know anecdotally that it is help getting it up to 20 per cent," Binnie said.
Antalek said he is seeing less speculation. Buyers are purchasing because they believe in home ownership, not for the opportunity to flip their purchase, which used to happen more often.
BMO commissioned the firm Pollara to conduct the survey, which used a random sample of first-time home buyers contacted between Jan. 24 and March 6 of this year. The survey is accurate to plus or minus 4.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Some details from the report, based on the experiences of the first-time buyers surveyed:
In Vancouver
Average price of first-time home: $506,500
Down payment percentage: 20.9%*
Percentage who set a budget, but are willing to break it for the right house: 41%
Expecting parents or relatives to help with their purchase: 40%
Those who say their first-home purchase was delayed by rising costs: 57%*
Percentage who made cutbacks to lifestyle to afford a home: 66%
*highest in Canada
In B.C.
Average price of first-time home: $430,300
Down payment percentage: 19.3*
Percentage who set a budget, but are willing to break it for the right house: 46%
Expecting parents or relatives to help with their purchase: 32%
Those who say their first-home purchase was delayed by rising costs: 45%*
Percentage who made cutbacks to lifestyle to afford a home: 58%
*highest of any province
Average first-home purchase price by region:
Alberta $364,700
Ontario $358,400
National average $316,100
Quebec $222,300
Man/Sask $226,100
Atlantic $204,400
Average first-time purchase price by major city:
Vancouver $506,500
Toronto $408,300
Calgary $363,400
National average $316,100
Montreal $237,900
Average first-time home price, by province:
Ontario $423,691
Alberta $407,540
Nfld $308,851
Sask $293,192
Quebec $263,661
Manitoba $257,016
Nova Scotia $218,261
Source: BMO 2014 First-Time Home Buyers Report


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Here's a question for the day: in MMOs, how large and "active" would you like the cities to be?
In most of them, cities are actually pretty static and deserted places, more like an abandoned movie set than an active community. However, that does make it easier to 1) maneuver through the streets and not become distracted/lost, 2) find what or who you are looking for, and 3) highlight "important" NPCs and other PCs, as opposed to those that have nothing to directly offer to the ongoing activity of the character.
For my part, I'd like more background activity in cities. Perhaps CoH has spoiled me a little bit there, because it really stands out for me now when a more traditional MMO implementation of towns and cities is presented… they seem even more lifeless than they used to, to the point of being a little creepy.
DDO is another example of a city that largely feels okay, in that case, because the town is small enough and so central to play that there are always PCs moving around bringing the scene to life.
I guess the basic question is, are most people happy with cities in MMOs as they are? If not, what changes would you like to see?


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Kim Kardashian Guest Judges Top Model
Known for her own sense of style, reality star Kim Kardashian will take the seat next to Tyra Banks on the America's Next Top Model judges' panel on tonight's episode of the CW show (8 p.m. EST). "I'm just a big fan of the show and I adore Tyra," Kardashian says of the gig. "I was so excited to give these girls advice and make a difference for their careers." Kim took time out of her schedule of filming the next season of her own reality show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, to talk about the cast of model hopefuls, the challenge she judged and working with an idol of hers, Tyra Banks. –Jennifer Garcia
How did you get involved with Top Model?They called and asked me to be a part of it and I totally look up to Tyra so I was so excited. I really admire her business sense and who she is. I get along with her really well. I was so honored when she asked me to do it.
Are you a fan of the show?I'm such a huge fan, always was. I watched it from the start. It teaches girls what it really takes to be a model. Sometimes think it's the easiest job in the world to just pose and all you're doing is taking pictures, but that's just a small side to it. There's the business side of things and of course it's really competitive and it's got a real excitement factor.
What did the girls have to do for their challenge?They had to do a commercial and talk about products. I had to judge them on their presentation, what they said, how they looked and how well they sold the product. They realized it's not as easy as it looks. Some just froze in front of the camera. It was about really knowing how to be a spokesperson instead of just taking pictures for a campaign.
What was the toughest part?It was really tough telling these girls what they were doing wrong and right, and picking the strongest of the girls was hard. I've worked in the field before, done shoots and commercials and ad campaigns, so I get it. But I really thought more than any cast I've seen, that they all had a really good head on their shoulders. Everyone took it as constructive criticism and that's tough because it can really hurt someone's feelings.
What was the best part of the filming?Being around Tyra and Miss Jay and Nigel — they have these great personalities and this awesome collaboration going on because they've been doing it for years. It was really cool that they trusted me to come into their circle and give my different opinion. I think the girls were excited and they had definitely watched my show. Even though Tyra and I may have had differing opinions, I learned a lot from what she had to say which was awesome for me.
Tell us: Will Kim make a great judge? What other celebrities do you want to see on ANTM?Michael Desmond/The CW


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FOXBOROUGH — The Patriots' defensive line depth took a hit Monday when the NFL announced that Jermaine Cunningham has been suspended four games without pay for violation of the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances.
According to a league source, Cunningham tested positive for Adderall, which is commonly prescribed to individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or attention deficit disorder (ADD).
However, the league does not announce which substance triggered the failed test, so players can say it was for whatever they choose; since the 2012 season began, the NFL has suspended two dozen players for violation of its PED policy, and many of those players have blamed Adderall.
Under league rules, if a player is documented as requiring the drug, and has a prescription and a therapeutic use exemption for Adderall, then he can use it without penalty. Without those things, he is subject to suspension for one failed test.
Cunningham is the second Patriots player this month to be suspended for PEDs, following rookie running back Brandon Bolden. Linebacker Brandon Spikes was suspended for the last four games of the 2010 season, when he was a rookie.
And new Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib received a PED suspension while still a member of the Buccaneers, and was unable to join the Patriots until Nov. 12, more than a week after he was traded to New England, because of the suspension.
Adderall is an amphetamine; individuals who take it without a medical need sometimes do so as a means of staying up (think students cramming for exams) and focusing. However, it can also increase blood flow and oxygen, and in some people it raises the heart rate to dangerous levels.
Cunningham, a second-round pick out of Florida in 2010, entered this season facing a likely make-or-break campaign. He has been a consistent contributor on defense, playing in every game and on 58 percent of the snaps.
Cunningham was also one of the Patriots' offseason award winners, given annually by the staff to players who had stellar attendance and made great progress in the weight room and on the field during organized team activities.
Coach Bill Belichick has spoken highly of Cunningham and his contributions thus far this season several times since training camp. Cunningham has been used in a few different ways on the defensive line and has 2½ sacks.
Last year he played in just nine games and appeared to take a step back from his rookie season; he was inactive for three games and then placed on injured reserve Dec. 11 with a hamstring injury.
Cunningham's base salary this year is $540,000, so the suspension will cost him $127,058.
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Review: 'Final Fantasy XIII' fizzles at the finish
I love Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" films, but even the biggest Tolkien geek has to admit that "The Return of the King" drags at the end. It's nice to say farewell to all the dwarves and elves and hobbits we've come to know and love, but — heck, just wake me when it's over.
"Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII" (Square Enix, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99) is like the last 20 minutes of "The Return of the King" stretched over a 50-hour-plus video game. So you get tearful goodbyes from Snow, Fang, Vanille and the rest of the gang you met back at the beginning of this trilogy, 2009's "Final Fantasy XIII" — even though you probably already forgot about them long ago.
You don't need to have played the earlier "XIII" chapters to understand "Lightning Returns." (Indeed, I defy anyone to make sense of the train wreck of time-travel paradoxes in 2012's "Final Fantasy XIII-2.") Here's the essence: The heroine, a warrior named Lightning, has been reincarnated with godlike powers. The world is going to end in 13 days, and her task is to save as many souls as possible.
So, every morning Lightning departs the celestial plane and enters the more Earthly realm of Nova Chrysalis. Each neighborhood is packed with pilgrims preparing for the Rapture. Some may ask you to kill a few monsters; others may present more complicated tasks, like nursing a chocobo (the giant chicken who's sort of the mascot of "Final Fantasy") back to health.
The clock is always ticking, and you can't solve everyone's dilemmas, although which missions are more important becomes quickly apparent. I found the artificial time constraint frustrating; "Lightning Returns" feints toward the open-world adventure of, say, "Skyrim," then punishes you if you spend too much time exploring.
Battles have evolved into more fast-paced affairs. You can dress Lightning in three outfits — say, one heavily armored, one built for physical attacks and one built for magic. During a fight you can switch outfits on the fly, and you'll need to, because enemies constantly change their attacks. It's essentially like switching among three different characters, and it's a challenging and ultimately rewarding system that makes almost every battle feel fresh.
Like any "Final Fantasy" game, "Lightning Returns" kicks around some weighty ideas about fate, duty, redemption and salvation. And it offers a few nice, personal moments among Lightning and her former comrades. But as delivered over three games and 150-plus hours, the story told by the "Final Fantasy XIII" trilogy is bloated, incoherent and ultimately silly. It aims for "wow" and settles for "huh?" Two stars out of four.
"Bravely Default" (Nintendo, for the 3DS, $39.99) has "Final Fantasy" in its DNA — Square Enix published it in Japan — and fans of the older "FF" epics will adore it. You are a boy named Tiz, and your hometown has been destroyed by an earthquake. Of course, supernatural forces are at work, and you must join forces with three more plucky youngsters to save your world from oblivion.
Combat is what role-playing aficionados call "turn-based": You select your four characters' actions from a menu, tap "go" and watch them play out. The gimmick here is that any character can "default," assuming a defensive stance and storing up energy. On the next turn, you can select "brave" to unleash that pent-up energy, making your attacks doubly effective.
The brave/default strategy becomes more important in end-of-dungeon boss battles, when one wrong choice can get your entire party killed. And be warned: At its initial setting, this is one tough game. Don't feel guilty about fiddling with the menus and dialing down the difficulty.
The story drags at times and doesn't hold many surprises, but "Bravely Default" does offer plenty of flexibility in building your characters as they rampage across the wilderness. It's a beautifully executed homage to the Japanese RPGs many of us grew up on, and could even inspire younger gamers to hunt down some of those old-school gems. Three stars out of four.
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