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The campaign discussion was dominated Tuesday by remarks made by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a May 17 fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., which were surreptitiously recorded by an anonymous source and surfaced Monday evening.
The video was first obtained by Mother Jones magazine and published on its website. The full video of Romney's remarks has also been obtained by NBC News and is included in two parts below, along with the full transcript.
Watch Part 1 of a surreptitiously-recorded video of Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a May 17 fundraiser, which was held at the home of private equity mogul Mark Leder. The video was was first obtained by Mother Jones magazine and later by NBC News.
Watch part 2 of a surreptitiously-recorded video of Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a May 17 fundraiser, which was held at the home of private equity mogul Mark Leder. The video was was first obtained by Mother Jones magazine and later by NBC News.
(This is a rush transcript. Accuracy is not guaranteed.)
MITT ROMNEY: (IN PROGRESS) -- time. And I guess everybody here is a dignitary and I appreciate your-- your help. And, by the way, I am serious about the food. Bring that doug-- doughnuts (?) so-- just try and clear and place-- places and-- and-- but Hillary has to eat her beets. (LAUGHTER) Okay?
I-- I'm gonna-- because of-- the table is small enough and the room is-- intimate enough I'd like to-- spend our time-- respond to questions you have. Listening to advice you might have. Occasionally, as-- as I did just a moment ago, I get envelopes like that, which is-- and I'll open this. It'll be campaign ideas. "Why don't you talk about the following issue?" So I'm happy to take advice and then we can all vote on whether it's a good piece of advice or bad piece of advice. (LAUGHTER)
And-- and so we'll-- we'll-- we'll get a chance to do that. But I-- I'm-- I'm lookin' to get your-- your perspectives. I-- just to tell you a couple of things you may not know about me. You probably know that I'm the father of five and-- and grandfather now of 18. I-- my oldest son this past-- had two-- had twins-- just last week. And-- so our-- our grandchild nest is getting larger. And they are a source of great joy.
When I was-- when I was probably halfway through my career at Bain consulting I met with a lawyer to draft a will. And-- and she said, "How do you divide what estate you might eventually have?" And I said-- (LAUGH) I-- I didn't have anything at that point. I said, "I wanna divide it equally among my five sons."
And she said, "Well, how much will you wanna give to the grandchildren that they will ultimately have?" And I said, "Well, I don't wanna give anything to the-- to the grandchildren. I'll-- I'll give it to the sons and they in turn will give it to their-- their children as needed." And she said, "You'll change your mind." I said, "No. No, I don't think so." So I saw her not long ago. And I said, "I don't wanna give anything to my sons. I wanna give (LAUGHTER) it all--" and-- so the-- (UNINTEL PHRASE). My grand--
MALE VOICE: So you-lost Samantha's vote (UNINTEL PHRASE). (LAUGHTER)
MITT ROMNEY: But this-- it-- it's not--
MALE VOICE: That's my daughter. (LAUGHTER)
MITT ROMNEY: --it-- it's not just because-- I love my grandchildren, as I do. I-- (CLUNKING) love my sons and daughters-in-law. It's that I'm very concerned about what the nation is gonna be like over the coming-- decade or two. And-- and I-- and I really do.
As I said in my remarks earlier, I see these two very different scenarios. One is-- has-- America really powering the world economy with an extraordinary economy here, with China working with us, wanting to see stability in the world-- and-- a very vibrant America with freedom and-- and-- and prosperity for-- the great-- bulk of the American people. On the other si-- other hand, I really do see something like Europe. And-- and I think that's the path we're on right now. So that-- that-- that's why I-- I wanna make sure that what I-- what little I'll have left after the campaigns goes to my-- (LAUGHTER) goes to my-- my grandchildren.
That's one piece of-- about me that you may not know. The other is just about my-- my heritage. My dad, you probably know, was-- was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company, but he was born in Mexico. And-- had he been born of Mexican parents I'd have a better shot of winning this, but he was-- (LAUGHTER) unfortunately born of Americans living in Mexico. They'd lived there for a number of years. And-- I mean I say that jokingly, but it'd be helpful to be-- Latino. And--
FEMALE VOICE: You can pull an Elizabeth Warren.
MITT ROMNEY: Pardon?
FEMALE VOICE: Pull an Elizabeth Warren.
MITT ROMNEY: Yeah, that's right. That's right. I can (UNINTEL) say. Folks who don't know Elizabeth Warren-- (FEMALE VOICE: UNINTEL) --she's the woman who's running for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts -- (OVERTALK)
--who-- who said that she's Cherokee and has put on her application over the years that she's Cherokee and Harvard put down that she's one of their minority-- faculty members. It turns out that at most she's 1/32nd Cherokee. (LAUGH) And even that can't be proven. So-- at any event, I mean I could put down my dad was born in Mexico and leave it at that. (LAUGHTER)
But-- but-- but his-- his dad was in construction, very successful, in Mexico, but in America went broke more than once. So my dad never had the money or time to get a college degree. Without a college degree, became head of a big car company and ultimately governor. And-- and believed in America. Believed in the opportunity of this country. Never doubted for a moment that he could achieve his dreams.
And Ann's dad, my wife's dad, was born in Wales. His dad was a coal miner. This coal miner got injured in a coal mining accident. Realizing that there was no future there for him or his four children, then he came to Detroit and-- worked in the auto factories until he could save enough money to bring his kids over, which he did.
And-- and then they got together as a family and said, "You know, to be successful in America you've gotta get an education." And they couldn't afford an education. And the kids and the parents said, "You know, if we all work and we all save we could afford to send one of us to college." And they-- they sent my wife's dad. Can you imagine working every day, taking a couple of jobs and saving your money so that your brother could go to-- I mean I would never do that for my brother. (LAUGHTER)
But, you know, it-- so he went to college and got a degree at the General Motors Institute of Technology, which-- which is one of these programs where you work a semester and then you go to school a semester. And-- and-- and then after it was over he started a little company. He became more successful and he was able to hire his brothers and his brother-in-law and-- and provide for them in an extraordinary way.
By the way, both-- both my dad and Ann's dad did quite well in their lives-- but when they came to the end of their lives and-- and passed along the inheritances to Ann and to me, we both decided to give it all away. So I have inherited nothing. Everything that Ann and I have, we have-- we earned the-- old fashioned way. And that's (APPLAUSE) by hard work (UNINTEL PHRASE). I see that all--
MALE VOICE: You've just lost the (UNINTEL) vote for a second time. (LAUGHTER)
FEMALE VOICE: (UNINTEL PHRASE) jokes (UNINTEL PHRASE).
MITT ROMNEY: I say that because there's a perception that, "Oh, you were born with a silver spoon. You know, you never had to earn anything," and so forth. And-- and-- and I-- frankly I was born with a silver spoon, which is the greatest gift you could have, which is to get born in America. And I'll say there is-- let me-- 95% of life is-- is-- is set up for you if you're born in this country.
And I remember going to-- to-- sorry just to bore you with stories, but I was-- when I was back in my private equity days we went to China to buy a factory there. It employed about 20,000 people. And they were almost all-- young women between the ages of about 18 and 22 or 23. They were saving for potentially becoming married and they work in these huge factories. They made various-- small appliances.
And-- as we were walking through this facility, seeing them work, the number of hours they worked per day and the pittance they earned, living in dormitories with-- with little bathrooms at the end of maybe 10-- 10-- rooms. And the-- and the rooms, they had 12 girls per-- per room. Three bunk beds-- on top of each other. And you've seen 'em. You've seen 'em.
MALE VOICE: Oh yeah.
MITT ROMNEY: And-- and-- and around this factory was a fence, a huge fence of barbed wire, and guard towers. And-- and we said, "Gosh, I can't believe that you-- you know, you keep these girls in." They said, "No, no, no. This is to keep other people from coming in, because people want so badly to come work in this factory that we have to keep them out or they'll just come in here and start working and-- and-- and try and get compensated. So we-- this is to keep people out."
And they said, "Actually, at Chinese New Year's the girls go home. Sometimes they've decided they've saved enough money and they don't come back to the factory." And he said-- and so on-- on the weekend after Chinese New Year there'll be a line of people, hundreds long, outside the factory, hoping that some girls haven't come back and they can come to the factory.
And-- and so as we were experiencing this for-- for the first time for me to see a factory like this in China several years ago, the-- the Bain partner I was with turned to me and said, "You know, 95% of life is settled if you're born in America." The-- this is-- this is an amazing land. And-- and what we have is-- is unique. And fortunately it is so special we're sharing it with the world.
I am-- I am concerned about the future but also optimistic, as I say. I-- I-- I look forward to getting America back on track and having-- and having people-- plan on-- on-- on bringing their-- their ideas and their dreams to this country. We need big dreamers, by the way.
I'm just-- just-- we didn't talk about immigration today, but gosh I'd like to bring in more legal immigrants that have skill and knowledge. I'd like to staple a green card to every PhD in the world and say, "Come to America. We want you here." Instead we-- we make it hard for people who get educated here or elsewhere to make this their home.
Unless, of course, you have no skill or experience, in which case you're welcome to cross the border and stay here (LAUGH) the rest of your life. It's a very strange setup-- run by people who don't understand that we're in a global competition of ideas and-- and our idea has to win, but only if America remains strong. Well, with that as an introduction-- I-- I-- I'm gonna turn to you for counsel, advice or questions. Policy questions. Wanna talk about tax policy? Or-- or political questions. How I win? Please.
MALE VOICE: One comment, Governor.
MITT ROMNEY: Yes.
MALE VOICE: The debates are gonna be coming and I hope at the right moment you can turn to President Obama, look at the American people and say, "If you vote to reelect President Obama you're voting to bankrupt the United States." I hope you keep that in your quiver, because that's what's gonna happen. And I think it's gonna be very effective. In some (UNINTEL).
MITT ROMNEY: Yeah. Yeah. It's-- it's interesting. There's-- the former head of-- Goldman Sachs, John Whitehead-- was also the former head of the New York Federal Reserve and-- and I met with him and he said, "As soon as the Fed stops buying all the debt that we're issuing--" which they've been doing. The Feds buy like 3/4 of the debt that America issues.
He said, "Once-- once that over-- that's over," he said, "we're gonna have a failed Treasury option. Interest rates are gonna have to go up. You know, we're-- we're-- we're living in this borrowed-- fantasy world where-- where the government keeps on borrowing money." You know, we-- we borrow this extra trillion a year. We wonder, "Well, who's-- who's loaning against the Treasury? The Chinese aren't loaning to us anymore. The Russians aren't loaning it to us anymore. So who's giving us a trillion?"
And the answer is we're just making it up. The Federal Reserve is-- is just taking it and saying, "Here, we're-- we're giving--" it's just made up money. And-- and this-- this does not augur well-- for-- for our economic future. No. I mean I-- you know, some of these things are-- are complex enough it's not easy for people to understand, but your-- your point of saying bankruptcy usually concentrates the money. Yeah, George?
GEORGE: Governor, to you-- to your point on complexity, how-- as you travel around America and talk to people in larger groups, perhaps people with different backgrounds or people who are sort of-- to what extent do people really understand that we're hurtling toward a cliff? And to what extent do people really understand the severity of the-- of the-- fiscal situation we're in? Do people get it?
MITT ROMNEY: They-- they don't. They-- by and large, people-- people don't get it. People in our party-- and part of this is our fault, because we've been talking about deficits (RUSTLING) and debt--
MALE VOICE: Right.
MITT ROMNEY: --for about 25 or 30 years as a party and so they've heard us say it and say it and say it. The-- the fact that Greece is going through what it's going through, and they read about France and Italy and Spain, has-- has finally made this issue topical for the American people.
And so when you do polls and you ask people, "What is the biggest issue in the 2012 election?" Number one is the economy and jobs by a wide margin. But number two is the deficit. And-- but the debt and the-- that doesn't-- that doesn't calculate for folks, but the deficit does. They're-- they're-- they recognize you can't go on forever like this, although the people who recognize that tend to be Republican. And the people who don't recognize it tend to be Democrat. And what we have to get is that 5% or 10% in the middle who-- who sometimes vote Republican, sometimes vote Democrat and-- and have them understand how important this is.
It-- it's-- I mean it's a challenge. I mean I-- I did the calculation-- for folks today. And USA Today publishes this every year. It's a front page story. The-- the headline once a year that somehow-- escapes people's attention. And that is if you take the-- the total national debt and the unfunded liabilities of Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, the amount of debt plus unfunded liabilities per household in America is $520,000. Per household.
MALE VOICE: Which is like 12 times their income. Right?
MITT ROMNEY: At-- at least.
MALE VOICE: Ten times (UNINTEL).
MITT ROMNEY: Yeah, yeah. Ten, 12 times their income. And-- and-- and even though we're not gonna be writing a check for that amount per household, they're gonna be paying the interest on that. You will be paying the interest on that. (LAUGHTER) Because we will-- my generation will be long gone and you'll be paying the interest.
And so you'll be paying taxes not only for the things you want in your generation, but for all the things we spent money on, which is just-- I mean it's-- it's extraordinary to think that tax rates-- someone calculated what would happen if we don't change Medicare or Social Security, the tax rate-- you know what the payroll tax is now? It's 15.3%. If we don't change those programs that tax rate will have to ultimately rise to 44%. (MALE VOICE: UNINTEL)
The payroll tax. Then there's the income tax on top, which the president wants to take to 40%. Then there's state tax in most states and-- sales tax and so forth. You end up having to take 100% of people's income. And yet the president, three and a half years in, won't talk about reforming Social Security or Medicare.
And when the Republicans do, it's the, "Oh, you're throwing Granny off the cliff." It's like, "You're killing the kids." The-- the biggest surprise that I have is that young people will vote for a Democrat. They look at this and say, "Holy cow. The only guys that are worried about the future of our country and our future are Republicans." But the-- the Democrats-- you know, they-- they talk about social issues, drawing the young people, and-- and they vote on that issue. It's like-- I mean there won't be any houses like this if-- (LAUGH) if-- if-- if we stay on the road we're on.
MALE VOICE: So-- (OVERTALK)
MITT ROMNEY: But he-- yeah? I heard-- I heard a voice. (MALE VOICE: UNINTEL) That's all right. Please.
FEMALE VOICE: Governor Romney, we are former Bostonians. And we will talk about how we know you. (LAUGHTER)
MITT ROMNEY: Uh-oh.
FEMALE VOICE: And-- no, no. (UNINTEL) good.
MITT ROMNEY: Yeah, okay.
MALE VOICE: 'Cause we-- (OVERTALK)
FEMALE VOICE: And--
MITT ROMNEY: --pleasure. Thank you.
FEMALE VOICE: We-- hopefully agree to what you say economically, but I would like to know-- I mean-- and I would like you-- and I would like there to be much more discussion on what I consider the real big issues. And the real big issues are Iran and how would you your point of view differ from President Obama's?
MITT ROMNEY: Yeah, thank you. And-- and I-- by the way, start eating. Those who have-- those of you who have food in front of you, it's warm. Start eating. This has meant-- I'm standing up so I can see you, but I'm not standing up so that you have to stop and look at me. So-- (LAUGH) and it's important to look at your food as you're eating it. All right? (LAUGHTER) Don't wanna see you putting a fork in your finger here. (OFF-MIC CONVERSATION)
MITT ROMNEY: And you are right, which is-- a nuclear Iran is an unthinkable outcome. Not just for our friends in Israel and our friends in Europe, but also for us because Iran is the state sponsor of terror in the world. Has Hezbollah now throughout Latin America. Hezbollah with fissile material.
I mean if I were Iran, if I were Iran-- I mean-- and-- and a crazed fanatic, I'd say, "Let's get a little fissile-- material to Hezbollah and have them carry it to Chicago or some other place. And then if anything goes wrong or America starts acting up, we'll just say, 'And guess what? Unless you stand down, why, we're gonna let off a dirty bomb.'" I mean this-- this is where we have-- where America can be held up and blackmailed by Iran. By the mullahs. By crazy people. So-- so we really don't-- have any option but to keep Iran from having-- a nuclear weapon.
I'll give the specific on Iran and then maybe talk more broadly about foreign policy. The specific on Iran is-- we should have put in place crippling sanctions at the beginning of the president's term. We did not. He will say, "Yes, but Russia wouldn't go along with us."
Well, he gave Russia their number one foreign policy objective. For a decade all they've cared about is getting the missile defense sites out of Poland. And he gave them that and got nothing in return. He could have, I presume, gotten them to agree to crippling sanctions against Iran. He did not, which is, in my opinion, one of the greatest foreign policy errors of the modern time.
And, by the way, if he-- if-- if he could not have gotten that from Russia he should have kept the missile defense sites in Poland-- just-- just to keep a bargaining chip on the table. I mean-- put nothing in 'em if he wants to. I mean I would have kept-- I would have kept 'em. I wouldn't have traded 'em away. But that's-- that's where he was.
Number two, we should have been aggressively supporting the voice of the dissent in Iran. And when there was an effort towards revolution there we should have been aggressively supporting it. And, finally, we should have made it clear, at least by now, that we have military plans to potentially remove their-- their nuclear capabilities.
That doesn't mean we actually pull the trigger, but it means that we have-that we communicate to them that we're ready to-- to do so. And that it is unacceptable to America to have-- a nuclear Iran. Instead, what this administration has done is communicate to the Iranians that we're more worried about Israel attacking them than we are about them becoming nuclear. It's-- it's extraordinary.
So-- those are-- those are some thoughts directed at Iran. I'll-- I'll step back. Foreign policy. The president's foreign policy, in my opinion, is formed in part by a perception he has that his magnetism and his charm and his persuasiveness is so compelling that he can sit down with people like Putin and Chavez and-- and Ahmadinejad and-- and that they'll find we're such wonderful people that they'll go along with us. And-- and they'll stop doing bad things.
And it's an extraordinarily naive-- perception and has led to-- huge errors in-- in North Korea, in-- in Iraq-- obviously in Iran and Egypt. Around the world. My own view is that-- that the centerpiece of American foreign policy has to be strength. Everything I do will be calculated to increasing America's strength.
When you stand by your allies you increase your strength. When you attack your allies you become weaker. When you stand by your principles you get stronger. When you have a big military, that's bigger than anyone else's, you're stronger. I want to-- when you have a strong economy, you build American strength. For me, everything is about strength.
And-- and communicating to people what is and is not acceptable. It's speaking softly but carrying a very, very, very big stick. And this president has-- speaks loudly and carries a tiny stick. And-- and that-- that is-- you know, that-- that's not the right course for a foreign policy. I-- I saw Dr. Kissinger in-- in New York. You're not eating. (LAUGHTER)
MALE VOICE: I'm mesmerized. (LAUGHTER)
MITT ROMNEY: He's bored to tears. I saw Dr. Kissinger. I said to him-- "How are we perceived around the world?" And he said, "One word, veek." (LAUGHTER) We are weak. And-- and that's has this president is perceived-- by our friends and-- and-- and-- and unfortunately by our foes.
And-- and it's-- it's no-- it's no wonder that Kim Jong-on-- the new leader of North Korea, announces a long range missile test only a week after he said he wouldn't. Because it's like, "What's this president gonna do about it?" You know, if you can't-- you know, if you can't act, why don't-- don't threaten. Please.
MALE VOICE: Just to follow up on the Iran-- (OVERTALK)
MITT ROMNEY: --by the way. Yes. Yeah, I just wanna show you how it's done. You take this. (UNINTEL) your fork. (LAUGHTER) Put it in. No.
MALE VOICE: But just to follow the president (UNINTEL PHRASE).
MITT ROMNEY: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Please, go ahead.
MALE VOICE: So this (UNINTEL) president we had possibly, Ronald Reagan was able to make a statement even before he became-- was actually sworn in. The hostages were released.
MITT ROMNEY: On the day of his inauguration.
MALE VOICE: Right. So my question is will the-- how can you sort of duplicate that scenario this time?
MITT ROMNEY: I'm gonna ask you--
MALE VOICE: With the (UNINTEL PHRASE).
MITT ROMNEY: --I'm gonna ask you how do I duplicate that scenario.
MALE VOICE: I think that that's due to the fact that-- the Iranians perceived Reagan would do something to really get them out. In other words, that he had strength and that's why I'm (UNINTEL) on your (UNINTEL) about strength. And that's why I'm suggesting that some-- something that you say over the next few months gets the Iranians to understand that their pursuit of a bomb is something that-- that you would predict (?). And I think that's something that-- that could possibly resonate very well with the American public and voters.
MITT ROMNEY: I-- I appreciate the idea. I-- I-- I can't-- one of the things that's frustrating me is that-- on a typical day like this when I do three or four events like this, the number of foreign policy questions I get are between zero and one. And the American people (LAUGHTER) are not-- (FEMALE VOICE: UNINTEL)
--are not concentrated at all upon China, on Russia, Iran, Iraq. This president's failure to put in place a Status of Forces agreement, allowing 10,000 to 20,000 troops to stay in Iraq? Unthinkable. And-- and yet in-- in that election, in the Jimmy Carter election, the-- the fact that we had hostages in-- in-- in Iran, I mean that was all we talked about.
And we had the two helicopters crash in the desert. I mean that's-- that was-- that was the focus. And so him solving that made all the difference in the world. I'm afraid today if you simply got Iran to agree to stand down on their nuclear weapon they'd go-- you know, hold on. It's really-- you know, but-- but, by the way, if something of that nature-- presents itself, I-- I will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity. Please. Yes?
FEMALE VOICE: But tonight's your lucky night. More foreign policy. (LAUGHTER)
MITT ROMNEY: Yes. Huge (UNINTEL).
FEMALE VOICE: (UNINTEL) actually this time you were in (UNINTEL). And we appreciate you being there. How do you think that the Palestinian problem can be solved? And what-- what are you going to do about it?
MITT ROMNEY: I-- I'm torn by two perspectives in this regard. One is the one which I have had for some time, which is that the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace-- and that the-- and that the-- the pathway to peace is-- almost unthinkable to-- to accomplish.
Now why do I say that? Some might say, "Well, just let the Palestinians have the West Bank and-- and have security and-- and-- and-- and set up-- a separate nation for the Palestinians." And then-- and then come a couple of thorny questions. And I-- I don't have a map here to look at the geography. But-- but-- the border between Israel and the West Bank is obviously right there, right next to-- to Tel Aviv, which is the-- the financial capital, the industrial capital of Israel. The center of Israel. It's-- (MALE VOICE: UNINTEL)
--well, the border would be maybe seven miles from Tel Aviv to what would be the West Bank.
MALE VOICE: Nine.
MITT ROMNEY: Nine miles. Okay. (LAUGHTER) (UNINTEL) close. Nine miles (UNINTEL). The challenge is the other side--
MALE VOICE: Don't go (UNINTEL).
MITT ROMNEY: --on the West Bank--
MALE VOICE: --don't go head-to-head with (UNINTEL).
MITT ROMNEY: The other side of the West Bank, the other side of what would be this new Palestinian state, would either be Syria at one point or-- or Jordan. And-- and of course the Iranians would want to do through the West Bank exactly what they did through Lebanon. What they did-- into Gaza. Which is the Iranians would wanna bring missiles and armament into the West Bank and potentially threaten Israel.
So Israel of course would have to say, "That can't happen. We've got to keep the Iranians from bringing weaponry into the West Bank." Well, that means that who, the Israelis, are gonna-- are gonna-- patrol the border between Jordan, Syria and-- and this new Palestinian nation? Oh, the Palestinians would say, "No way. We're an independent country. You can't-- you can't bor-- you know, guard our border with other Arab nations."
And-- and how about the airport? How about flying near to this Palestinian nation? Are we going to allow-- their military aircraft to come in and-- and weaponry to come in? And if not, who's gonna keep it from coming in? Well, the Israelis. Well-- the Palestinians are gonna say, "We're not an independent nation if Israel is able to come in and tell us who can land at our airport."
These are problems. And they're very hard to solve. (LAUGH) All right? And I look at the Palestinians not wanting to seek peace anyway for political purposes. Committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel and these thorny issue-- thorny issues, that I say there's just no way. And so what you do is you say you-- you move things along the best way you can.
You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize this is gonna remain unsolved problem. We-- we live with in-- in China and Taiwan. All right? We have-- we have-- a potentially-- volatile situation, but we sort of live with it. And we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately somehow, something will happen to resolve it. We don't-- we don't go to war to-- to try and-- resolve it imminently.
On the other hand, I got a call from a former secretary of State-- and I won't mention which one it was. But this individual said to me-- "You know, I think there is a prospect for-- for-- a settlement between the Palestinians and the Israelis-- after the Palestinian elections." I said, "Really?"
And-- you know, his answer was-- was, "Yes. I think there's some prospect." And I-- and I didn't-- delve into it, but, you know, I always-- keep open-- I mean I always keep open the idea-- I should tell you, the idea of pushing on the Israelis to give something up to give the paleshin-- to get the Palestinians to act is the worst idea in the world. We have done that time and time and time again. It does not work.
MALE VOICE: That's (UNINTEL).
MITT ROMNEY: So-- so this-- the-- the only answer is show strength. Again, American strength, American resolve. As the Palestinians-- someday reach the point where they want peace more than we're tryin' to put-- force peace on them. And then it's worth having the discussion. But till then it's just-- it's this legal (?) thing. (MALE VOICE: UNINTEL)
But it-- you can sit down and (UNINTEL), (OVERTALK)
MALE VOICE: I think the--
MITT ROMNEY: --do you notice--
MALE VOICE: --afterwards?
MITT ROMNEY: Please. (UNINTEL PHRASE).
MALE VOICE: (UNINTEL) like--
FEMALE VOICE: Well--
MALE VOICE: -- (UNINTEL PHRASE) possible. (OFF-MIC CONVERSATION)
FEMALE VOICE: The individuals in this room obviously are your supporters. I am very concerned about the average American who doesn't know you. There is-- a terrible misconception and I spend numerous hours trying to-- I hate (UNINTEL) the (UNINTEL) when you are in such a deserving individual.
You were saying years ago-- on a call with George Bush, Senior, and he had-- he called me in my campaign in Massachusetts when you were running for Senate. I told him that there is a guy named Clinton who's going to beat him for following reasons." And he laughed.
Right now I'm very concerned. Women do not wanna be-- vote for you. Hispanics, the majority of 'em do not wanna vote for you. College students don't. After talking to them and explaining and (UNINTEL) on a one-on-one basis, we are able to change their opinions, but on a mass level, how-- how-- what do you want us to do, this group here, as your emissaries, going out to convert these individuals to someone who's obviously gonna be such an incredible asset to the country. We want you.
MITT ROMNEY: Well--
FEMALE VOICE: What do we do?
MITT ROMNEY: --I have-- I have some--
FEMALE VOICE: Just tell us how we can help you?
MITT ROMNEY: --I have some good news for you. It's not impossible. And the reason I say that is, for instance, The New York Times had a poll last week. The New York Times and NBC. And I was leading by two points among women. All right? Now the president came out and he said, "This is an outrageous poll. They don't know what they're doing."
But-- by the way, the polls at this stage make no difference at all. But the point is women are-- are open to supporting me. They like the president personally. But they're disappointed. They're disappointed with the jobs they're seeing for their kids. They're disappointed with their own economic standing right now. So we-- we can-- can capture-- women's votes.
We're having a much harder time with Hispanic voters. And-- and if the Hispanic voting bloc-- be-- becomes as committed to the Democrats as the African American voting bloc has in-- in the past, why we're-- we're in trouble as a party and, I think, as a nation.
MALE VOICE: Rubio.
FEMALE VOICE: Exactly.
MITT ROMNEY: And-- okay. (OVERTALK)
MALE VOICE: Don't (UNINTEL PHRASE). Don't do it.
MITT ROMNEY: And so on the (UNINTEL)-- (LAUGHTER) (OVERTALK)
We have some great-- we have some great Hispanic leaders in our party that will help communicate what our party stands for. And-- what-- what I-- frankly, what I need you to do? Just to raise millions of dollars, 'cause the president's gonna have about $800 to $900 million. That-- and that's-- that's by far the most important thing you can do.
FEMALE VOICE: Is find (UNINTEL).
MITT ROMNEY: Because-- well, because you don't-- you-- you don't-- you don't have the capacity to speak to hundreds of thousands of people. I will be in those debates. There will be, I don't know, 150 million Americans watching me. If I do well, it'll help. If I don't, it won't help.
MALE VOICE: You will do--
MITT ROMNEY: Well--
MALE VOICE: --so well.
MITT ROMNEY: --well-- well--
MALE VOICE: Your debates are incredible. (APPLAUSE)
MITT ROMNEY: Thank you. Thanks. But-- but advertising makes a difference. And the president will engage in a personal-- character assassination campaign. And-- and so we'll have to fire back one, in defense and number two, in offense. And-- and that's-- that'll take money. By the way, you'll see the ads here in Florida may be one of those states that-- that is-- that is the key state. And-- and so all-- all the money will get spent in 10 states. And this is one of them.
So I-- the best thing I can ask you to do-- I mean, yeah, sure, talk to people and tell 'em what-- how you know me. And word of mouth makes a big difference. But, you know, I-- I'm not terribly well known-- by the general American culture because we don't-- (OVERTALK)
FEMALE VOICE: You're known as a rich boy. I mean they say he's a rich boy.
MITT ROMNEY: They don't-- (OVERTALK)
--but don't worry. Given all--
FEMALE VOICE: You're not.
MITT ROMNEY: --given all those negative things, given all those negative things, the fact that I'm either tied or close to the president and the fact that, you know, he's out there talking about the one year anniversary of Osama bin Laden being captured, unemployment coming down, unleashing his campaign, new campaign, we're still sort of tied? That's very interesting. And-- and it's the-- (UNINTEL) please.
MALE VOICE: I-- I would disagree with that. I think a lot of young children coming out of college feel they were let down by the president. And they feel that there's not a job out there for them. And it's (UNINTEL) and it's 60,000, now they're making $30,000. You know, very similar to the U6 (UNINTEL). You know, on-- on (UNINTEL).
MITT ROMNEY: Yeah, yeah.
MALE VOICE: My question to you is why don't you stick up for yourself? To me you should be so proud of your (UNINTEL).
FEMALE VOICE: Right.
MALE VOICE: That's what we all aspire to be. (UNINTEL) ourselves. We don't really (UNINTEL). We're away from our families five days a week. I'm away from my four girls five days a week and my wife. Why not stick up for yourself and say, "Why is it bad to be-- to aspire to be wealthy and successful?" You know, "Why is it bad to-- to-kill yourself and why is it bad to cut 30 jobs that net 300?" You know, when you're people coveting-- cutting jobs. You see companies that were strict-- that were failing in (UNINTEL PHRASE). So my question is when does that, you know, doing? (UNINTEL PHRASE).
MITT ROMNEY: Well, I am--
MALE VOICE: (UNINTEL) set (UNINTEL PHRASE). (UNINTEL PHRASE) neighborhood. And what can we (UNINTEL) up for nothing to (UNINTEL) president's success story (UNINTEL) yours, so--?
MITT ROMNEY: If-- if you heard in my speech tonight, I-- I talked to 'em again. But I didn't-- (MALE VOICE: UNINTEL)
Oh, you weren't here.
MALE VOICE: He came here early, so he was (UNINTEL PHRASE).
MITT ROMNEY: No, it-- in-- in every stump speech that I give I-- I speak about-- (MALE VOICE: UNINTEL)
--the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer. They make us better off. And the Republican audience that I typically speak to have (UNINTEL). I said that tonight and the media's there. And they-- they write about it. They say that Romney defends success-- success in America and dreamers and so forth. So they write about it.
But in terms of what gets through to the American consciousness-- that's-- I have very little influence on that at this stage. As to what they write about. And-- that will happen. We'll have three debates. We'll have a chance to talk about that in the debates. There will be ads which attack me.
I will fire back in a way that describes-- in the best way we can the fact that if the theme of my speeches are-- are why-- wind up at-- at-- you know, the ambassador heard me today several time-- I wind up talking about how the thing which I find most disappointing in this president is his attack of-- of one America against another America-- America.
FEMALE VOICE: Yes.
MITT ROMNEY: The divi-- division of America, based on going after those who have been successful. And then I quote Marco Rubio. I tell-- in my speeches. And I say, "Marco Rubio--" did I say-- I think what I said at the-- I (UNINTEL) at the fundraising event earlier today. But I did when I was in-- Jacksonville. (OVERTALK)
Exactly. I just said, "Senator Rubio says--" (FEMALE VOICE: UNINTEL)
--"when he grew up here poor, that they looked at people that had a lot of wealth. And his parents never once said, 'We need some of what they have. They should give us some.' Instead they said, 'If we work hard and go to school, someday we might be able to have that.'" That's-- (APPLAUSE) I will continue to do that.
How much of that gets picked up? There are so many things that don't get picked up in a campaign-- because people aren't watching it. By the way most people don't watch during the summer. That's gonna-- we're gonna go into a season here, starting from mid-June, of almost no attention paid. Then, after Labor Day, in September and October, that's when it'll get going.
MALE VOICE: For the past three years, all everybody's been told is, "Don't worry. We'll take care of it." How are we gonna do it, in two months before the elections, to convince everybody you've gotta take care of yourself?
MITT ROMNEY: Well, there are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right? There are 47% who are with him. Who are dependent upon government, who believe that-- that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they're entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you name it. But that's-- it's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.
And-- and-- I mean the president starts off with 48%, 49%, 40-- or he-- he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. 47% of Americans pay no income taxes. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And he'll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that's what they sell every-- every four years.
And-- and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5% to 10% in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion. Whether they like the guy or not. What they-- what it looks like. I mean the-- it's the-- the-- when you ask those people-- we do all these polls. I find it amazing. We poll all these people, see where you stand in the polls. About 45% of the people will vote for the Republican and 48% or 49%--
MITT ROMNEY: (BREAK IN AUDIO) --about twice as much as China. Not 10 times as much like is reported. And-- and-- and we have responsibility for the whole world. They're only focused on one little area in the world, the South China Sea, the East China Sea. That's it. And they're building a military at-- at a rapid rate.
So-- this idea that somehow we-- oh, we spend so much money on the military. It's like, "Guys, don't over think how strong we are." We-- we have said-- you probably know. This is a couple years ago. When we had one of our aircraft carriers (UNINTEL) by-- by Japan. And-- and the Chinese pulled up behind it in-- in a diesel sub, a super quiet diesel sub. Pulled up behind it. They could have te-- torpedoed it. And-- they were (UNINTEL).
Where-- where does that (UNINTEL)? Our Navy's smaller in number of ships than anytime since 1917. And this president wants to shrink it. The-- the list goes on. Our Air Force is older and smaller than anytime since '47 when the Air Force was formed. And he wants to shrink it. If we go the way of-- of Europe, which is spending 1% to 2% of their economy on the military, we will not be able to have freedom in the world.
MALE VOICE: When-- when the electorate tunes in September, the markets are gonna be looking marginal tax rates rates going up. Another debt ceiling fight. The sequestration under the debt ceiling deal. What do they call it? Taxageddon-- you know, they call it. (LAUGHTER) The-- the Obamacare-- taxes on dividends and capital gains. I mean-- it-- (OVERTALK)
MALE VOICE: --the markets are gonna be speaking very loudly about COBRA and all of those issues.
MITT ROMNEY: They'll-- they'll probably be looking at what the polls are saying, but if it looks like I'm gonna win the market-- markets will be happy. If it looks like the president's gonna win, the markets should not be terribly happy. It depends on, of course, which markets you're talking about. Which types of commodities and so forth.
But my own view is that if we-- if-- if-- if we win on November 6th there will be-- a great deal of optimism about the future of this country. And we'll see capital come back and we'll see-- without-- without actually doing anything, we'll (CHUCKLES) actually get a boost in the economy.
If the president gets reelected, I don't know what'll happen. I can't-- I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would I ex-- would have expected. But I-- my own view is that-- that-- if we get a tax-- a Taxageddon, as they call it, January 1st, with this president-- and with a Congress that can't work together and I-- it's-- it really is frightening. It's really frightening in my view.
MALE VOICE: 54% of American voters think the Chinese economy is bigger the U.S.' economy. When I first met you four or five years ago you did the diagram where you went very granular and you said, "Look, guys, this is a small group." You said, "This is it. This is-- this is what it is." Tell us (UNINTEL PHRASE) this. Not-- how are you gonna win if 54% of the voters think China's economy is bigger than our own? Or if it costs four cents to make a penny and we keep making pennies?
Canada got it right a month ago. Why isn't someone sayin', "Stop makin' pennies. Round it to the nearest nickel." That's an easy thing, you know, compared to Iran. I wanna see you take the gloves off and talk to people that actually read the paper, that read the book and care about knowing the facts and-- knowledge is power. As opposed to people that are swayed by, you know, what sounds good at the moment. You know, I-- if you turned into a-- like eager to kill, it would be a landslide, in my humble opinion. (LAUGHTER)
MITT ROMNEY: Well, I-- I wrote a book that lays out my view for what has to happen in the country and-- and people who are fascinated by policy will-- will read the book. We have a website that lays out white papers on a whole series of issues that I-- I care about.
I have to tell you, I don't think this will have a significant impact on my electability. I-- I-- I wish it-- I wish it did, but I think our ads will have a much bigger impact and the debates will have a big impact. I-- you know, I-- I-- you know, I-- I--
MALE VOICE: I don't even know who (UNINTEL) Peterson and he told us--
MITT ROMNEY: Well, but that's-- (OVERTALK)
MALE VOICE: --we were in trouble 20 years ago.
MITT ROMNEY: I-- but that's-- that's my point, which is-- is just being-- being right. My dad used to say, "Being right-- early is not good in politics." And-- and-- in a setting like this-- a highly intellectual subject on a whole-- discussion of a whole series of important topics typically doesn't win elections. And there are-- there are-- there are fra-- and, for instance, this president won because of "hope and change."
FEMALE VOICE: Right.
MITT ROMNEY: All right? He won because of "hope and change." (OVERTALK)
Yeah. But I-- (LAUGHTER) so-- so it's-- it's-- I-- I-- and I-- I can tell you I have a very good team of extraordinarily experienced, highly successful-- consultants. A couple of people in particular who've done races around the world. I didn't realize it. These guys from the U.S., the-- the Karl Rove equivalents, they do races all over the world. In Armenia. In Africa. In Israel.
They-- I mean they worked for Bibi Netanyahu in his race. And so they do these races and they see which ads work and which-- which-- which processes work best. And-- and-- we have ideas about we-- what we do over the course of the campaign. I'd tell it to you, but I'd have to, you know, shoot ya. (LAUGHTER) You know? Hopefully we'll be successful. Please?
MALE VOICE: I think-- I think one of the aspects about "hope and change" that worked well for Obama four years ago was he promised to bring us more honest, transparent-- (LAUGHTER) governance in Washington. I've been around politics. The first campaign I worked in was Barry Goldwater's in 1964. So I think I'm the oldest Republican here (UNINTEL PHRASE).
But-- from what I've seen in the last months because of my own personal involvement in the issue is-- is the government in Washington right now just is permeated by cronyism, outright corruption. Our-- our regulatory agencies that are supposed to protect the public are protecting the people that they're supposed to be regulating.
And-- I think people are fed up with that. Doesn't matter whether you're in the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street, people see that the government is working for the powerful interests and the people who are well connected politically and not for the common person. Which threatens that whole idea that we have this great opportunity.
Which we should have and have had that historically in the U.S. for anybody from what background to become successful. One way in which that becomes compromised is when the government is no longer seen as being an honest agent and where our tax dollars are not really-they're being put to work for us but for the people who are plugged in politically (UNINTEL PHRASE). You know, you have-- you had cases like Solyndra and the Fullbush (PH), which I talk about (UNINTEL) involved in. You've got Eric Holder, who's probably the most corrupt attorney general that we've had ever in-- in-- in American history. And-- I think it's something that-- that-- if spun the right way and in simple terms, can actually resonate with the American people.
Obama did not keep his promises. Nancy Pelosi was supposed to give us an honest Congress. Has-- has given us just the opposite when she was speaker. And-- I think that's a campaign issue that can work well. I'm optimistic that you'll be elected president and my recommendation would be clean house immediately. SEC, the CFBC-- are-- are-- are disaster areas. And-- (OVERTALK)
MITT ROMNEY: And what-- I wish we weren't unionized so we could go a lot deeper than you're actually allowed to go. But-- (MALE VOICE: UNINTEL)
Am I in the way here? Yeah. I-- I-- I can say this, which-- and I'm sure you'll agree with this as well, which is we-- we speak with-- with voters across the country about their perceptions. Those people I told you, the 5%, to 6% or 7% that we have to sort of bring on-- on our side? They all voted for Ba


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Long time, no post! It has been a crazy few months here in the Brown household. I must confess at this point, about 2 months ago I was seriously considering stepping down as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator (that's how crazy it got). A lot of factors were in play as to the reason for ceasing my role. The worst I think was when I had a very bad party/workshop experience. I had never met such a rude bunch of ladies. So bad in fact I drove away from the event crying vowing never to do another party and to date I have kept that promise. I also lost inspiration for new fun and creative ideas to do at my regular workshops/classes. Basically I felt I had done all I could do with my Stampin' career. I also didn't know whether I would be taking part in the BIG annual Christmas in the Country craft show I always attend.
I think though the fact that we had a lot of changes at home in regards to David starting a new career, which resulted in him being away for a week at a time, and my youngest starting school, which resulted in me taking on a lot more volunteer work at the school with tuckshop, uniform shop and in class work., has also been a factor in my near demise of being "Kirsty Brown Independent Stampin' Up! Dempnstrator".It was so bad in fact that until last week I hadn't ordered anything out of the brand new Stampin' UP! catalogues, which released in September. Hopefully my new goodies will be here early this week and I can have a good play with some fun new stamps.
Well as you can tell by the title of this post I did go ahead with the Craft Show and I have lots of pics to share of the event (something like 16 of them). I had a very similar display to last year but with loads of new projects. Take a look
So that's it! If you are a liker of my FB page you would have already seen these over the past few days, as this event started Thursday night and finished Saturday afternoon. I am so glad I decided to do this event as I met a whole new bunch of ladies who would like to attend my workshops/classes and would love to learn how to create all the things they had seen at my stall. Not to mention the fabulous sales I had. This event is actually the main fundraiser for Peace Lutheran Primary School to which my children attend so it is quite special to me and I hope my stall has done them proud and made lots of money for them too. To all those people close to Gatton, you really should come check it out next year, it is absolutely fabulous with the best the valley has on offer. I always find fabulous Christmas gifts here every year, and everything is handmade. So I will see you next year!

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So we shopped Spellirium around at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle this past week, and the consensus was that the game was good … for them to poop on.
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i've been billing Spellirium as a "word puzzle/adventure game hybrid", or "Jim Henson's Labyrinth meets Boggle."
Er – that's "Boggle", not "Hoggle".
To the casual games portals and bidnessmen i met at the conference, the phrase "word puzzle game" was tantamount to box office poison of Carrot Top-ical proportions.
Said one acquisitions director for a well-known casual downloadable games portal, "word games don't do well." He cited the only three word games he's ever known that did do well: Scrabble, TextTwist, and "to a far lesser extent", Bookworm. Apparently Bookworm Adventures, Spellirium's kissing cousin, didn't even rate.
At a reported development cost of over $700k, Bookworm Adventures is the casual downloadable industry's Ishtar.
i did my research before embarking on this project. i knew that word games don't sell. i even wrote that fact into our business plan. i was quick – perhaps too quick – to point out to him that there are no other word games quite like Spellirium. i wasn't just shilling, though – honestly, no other game i know has tried to combine an early-90's LucasArts-style adventure game with a word puzzle mechanic. All other word games i've seen have been just the mechanic, and that can get old quickly. Even Bookworm Adventures, with its worm-on-monster battles and its levelling and inventory systems, didn't do story. Story is not a blob of text you frantically skip after the title screen, or an explanation of how Character X has to retrieve the Magic Y.
Note: this is not "story".
i also tried to explain that Spellirium does word puzzling like no other game. We're really stretching this simple mechanic to its farthest logical limits – you'll be spelling words to paint pictures, navigate mazes, move objects, balance balls … in many of our modes, spelling words doesn't even matter. It's crazy, it's creative, and i think players are totally gonna dig it.
We've already produced and playtested over twenty unique variations on our main game mechanic, seen here in prototype phase. One of the goals of Spellirium is to ensure that the puzzling is constantly fresh and surprising.
The casual games publishers do not dig it. "Anything that involves thinking", they said, "is a non-starter." The same acquisitions guy told me that one of our other games was "too cerebral", and followed up by saying "i don't wanna say that our audience is dumb, but … "
And i won't say that either. i'm sure that the Big Fishes and the iWins and the Gamehouses have more than their fair share of dim bulbs buying games from them. But i think the real challenge for us with Spellirium is finding the right audience. The casual downloadable audience is mostly female, and mostly older, and they play games to escape. Spellirium is not an escape in that clicky-gemmy, findy-object kinda way. It's escapism in that "i've been transported to a fascinating and fun other world where there are characters who are more interesting than anyone i know, and places more vivid than i've ever visited" kinda way.
i actually feel like i have to escape Bejewelled whenever i've played. Is this lunch break ever gonna end?
i was never more dismayed during the conference than when i attended the talk by Luna Cruz from Boomzap, who talked about economizing story in her game Awakening: The Dreamless Castle. Look: i know i'm a wordy writer, and i know the Spellirium script could use trimming as badly as those ladies from the 1970's skin mags. So it was with great hope that i sat down to hear Luna's talk.
(Awakening: Not to be confused with that movie where Robin Williams gives drugs to all those old people.)
Early on, Luna said "We really needed to find a way to simplify this cut-scene and get the most important information out in as few lines as possible." i was all ears. But then: "The original cut-scene had six lines of dialogue, which we knew was way too much for our audience, so we worked really hard and gave it a lot of thought, and cut it down to only two."
You cut it down to – guh. What? How many lines? And you say six lines was too much for your audience to bear? i have to say six lines of dialogue before i can even establish one of my characters' names. i was going to approach Luna after the talk and ask for her advice, but i began to worry that she'd look at one of our cut-scenes and start vomiting on me uncontrollably.
But let's compare. Here's the entire story of Awakening:
*** spoilers ***
A princess who can't wield magic wakes up in a magic-imbued world and must escape the castle, with the help of a magic mirror and some ornery trolls who were sworn to protect her.
And here's just the backstory to Spellirium:
*** no spoilers ***
In the future, a young apprentice journeys with an ill-fated monster to find his missing guardians, using a dangerously magical device to battle enemies and to overcome challenges.
Luna can tell her entire story in the same space that it takes me to write a synopsis of Spellirium. We're dealing with apples and oranges here. Which suggest to me that the audience, likewise, is like apples and oranges.
Three panels from a Spellirium cutscene.
What Sort of Gamer Plays Spellirium?
The suggestion was repeated to me by a number of people at the conference, when i asked whether i should just scrap Spellirium and take up pork farming: i need to find the right audience for the game. So what sort of gamer plays Spellirium?
The pervy sort. Next question.
We tried to answer this question way back before production began by stating the obvious: people who play word games will play Spellirium. So we built a game portal called Word Game World and stocked it with word games leftover from the MochiMedia/Dictionary.com contest they ran last year. Here are the less-than-stellar results:
Yes – that says "40", not "40k".
The trouble is that now we found ourselves with the challenge of generating an audience for TWO properties. It makes more sense to just bring people straight to Spellirium, than to drive them to the game via the scenic route. That, and many of the word games people have made have turned out less-than-scenic, if you get my drift. (Yet another nail in the coffin for the genre – too many people making it look bad)
Beer Covers a Multitude of Sins
i got a hot tip from my fellow Christian game designer pal Grant Shonkwiler (who you'll remember from our earlier post on the impossibility of Christian gaming). These days, Grant designs games for tabletop bar cabinets (like any good Christian would … i forgot to ask if he got paid in hooch). He designed a word game for his company that was a smash success with the audience, and offered that bar patrons love word games. It reminded me of Norm MacDonald's old SNL Weekend Update punchline: Germans love David Hasselhoff. You hit the right niche with the right product, and you're sailing.
So what combination of Knight Riding and Baywatching will Spellirium have to pull off to find its Germany-sized pool of rabid fans? Here are some facts about what i *think* a Spellirium player is like. i think the game will appeal to both sexes, but i'll use masculine pronouns for simplicity:
- He can kick ass at Scrabble. Don't mess.
- He does crossword puzzles on his way to work. In pen. He may even feel that British cryptics are far superior to American-style.
- He watches movies. Among his favourite films are Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Road Warrior, Twelve Monkeys, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Princess Bride, The Last Unicorn, Dragonslayer, and The Goonies.
- He reads. He likes sci fi and fantasy. He may enjoy Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Lloyd Alexander, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Terry Brooks, and Neil Gaiman.
- He plays games. He quite liked Puzzle Quest, Bookworm and Bookworm Adventures, digital versions of Scrabble and Boggle, Wurdle, TextTwist, LucasArts and Sierra On-Line graphic adventure games – possibly even Infocom text adventures or MUDs – as well as Out of This World, Beneath a Steel Sky and the Fallout series.
- When he's playing a game that has story elements, including dialogue or cutscenes or even blobs of text, he does not – does NOT – push the A button to skip. He becomes particularly upset if he accidentally skips story, even if he's not particularly enjoying that story. If he's gaming with a dumb jock fratboy friend who blithely skips past all the story sequences saying "let's just play already, d00d", he punches that friend in the throat. (Then he gets his ass kicked, because he's a lover, not a fighter.)
i know, friends. i know. i've just described myself. (Or perhaps Jerry Holkins / Tycho Brahe from Penny Arcade – i'm convinced we're the same person.) i am a little concerned that i have not paid enough attention to the needs and wants of the market, over the needs and wants of the me. i have not designed Spellirium as an ineffectual, casual click-fest with simple puzzles and two-line cutscenes. i thought, perhaps foolishly – perhaps arrogantly – that if i designed a game that i desperately wanted to play, there would be others like me for whom this game would be a breath of fresh air.
If the world was as full of me as i am of myself, i'd be a wealthy, wealthy man.
Was i wrong? Like chocolate and peanut butter, is our word puzzle/adventure game hybrid born of two great tastes that taste great together? Or is it born of two disappointments – an overly cerebral genre that repeatedly fails to perform in the marketplace, and an outdated genre that saw its best days twenty years ago? Should we finish Spellirium and bury it as quickly as possible, or should we keep working to realize our vision – the vision of a smart, funny game for well-read, literate players that melds two genres like no other game before it?
Muffy and I simply *luuuurve* your game, Ryan.
i defer to your judgment and expertise. If Untold Entertainment needs to become a Hidden Object Game developer, please tell me now so that i can go get a lobotomy and get myself fitted at the Vagina Depot.
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Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 blog! The start of Meteorological summer on June 1 has turned into June gloom for southeast Wisconsin. Clouds, on and off rain showers, and chilly temperatures have been the rule to start the month. In today's blog we go in search of sunshine and milder temperatures.
The Milwaukee average high temperature now stands at 72 degrees. The past 16 days(including today) have produced only 5 days with highs in the 70s or warmer. Not only is it cool, but 19 of the last 29 days have produced a trace or more of rain in Milwaukee.
A little relief from the cool and dreary weather is near. High pressure will drift across the northern Great Lakes on Friday. This will help to scour out clouds delivering some June sunshine. The WPC surface forecast map below is valid at 7pm Friday. Notice the 'H' or high pressure over Lake Superior. This will keep our weather quiet for a day or two.
Clouds will likely hang tough into Friday morning before breaking up by afternoon. The NAM computer model forecast below shows moisture in the atmosphere and type. This forecast can be used to help forecast cloud cover. The map below is valid at 1pm Friday and has a mix of sun and clouds in southeast Wisconsin.
While the warm-up will not be huge on Friday, highs into the mid low to mid 60s should feel great! The Future Temps map below shows forecast temperatures at 4pm Friday.
The quiet weather should continue into Saturday as temperatures try to nudge toward 70!
While quiet weather settles into Wisconsin, the first named tropical system of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season will impact the East Coast the next several days.
Tropical Storm Andrea is just off the coast of Florida as of this posting. Maximum sustained winds of around 60mph. The forecast path from the National Hurricane Center takes Andrea up the East Coast Thursday through Saturday.
While winds will be gusty, the main threat from Andrea will be heavy rain. Three day rainfall forecasts below show totals of 3"-5" possible over parts of Florida, the Southeast and mid-Atlantic. The possibility of flash flooding will be a concern with the tropical downpours.
We will continue to update the path of Andrea during our weathercasts on WISN 12.
For the latest local weather information watch WISN 12 News, and for updates throughout the day follow me on Twitter @jnelsonweather
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If Obama Ran his Campaign like McCain
We would be hearing things like:
Prepared to lead when he can't even take care of his Senatorial commitments?
- McCain holds the record as the most absent senate member having missed 64% of his votes. At one point he missed five straight weeks! I can understand his absence during the campaign, but even prior to it he was among the most absent Senators. Ah well, he doesn't need to work! His wife is loaded! Why bother to show up?
- in 2006, McCain voted AGAINST an amendment before the Senate that would establish one interrogation standard across all government, military and CIA, and would ban waterboarding.
- By repeatedly voting against amendments that would expand sex education and contraceptive education for teenagers with the intention to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
- Strongly opposes public funding for birth control
- Strongly supporting abstinence-only sex education for teens (because it works so well!)
- Strongly supports the death penalty
- Supports broadening the use of the death penalty
- Like the current administration lead, McCain graduated at the bottom of his class. 394 out of 399.
- Despite his extremely low standings at the Naval Academy, he was pushed ahead of more qualified candidates and trained as a Navy pilot where he promptly destroyed five navy planes
- While McCain was a POW in Vietnam, his first wife, Carol, was horribly injured in a car accident. When McCain returned his former swimsuit model wife did not look anything like the woman he'd last seen. He stayed with her another six years using his pull as a Navy Pilot to fly off to carouse and have extra-marital affairs. Then he divorced the now misshapen and broken Carol and married Cindy one month after the divorce. Cindy is the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune and young enough to be John's daughter at eighteen years his junior. (I'm trying to see the honor in this. Trying. Squinting real hard. Coming up with bupkus.)
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Three former Arkansas coaches – interim coach John L. Smith, defensive coordinator Paul Haynes and offensive coordinator Paul Petrino — told the Sporting News recently that they felt some Arkansas players quit on the team during 2012's disastrous 4-8 season. The comments mirrored what Hogs quarterback Tyler Wilson said about his team early in the season following a 52-0 loss to Alabama, in which Wilson did not play because of a concussion.
No one from Arkansas — players nor athletic director Jeff Long — commented for the story. But one former player, running back Knile Davis, has now responded to it via his Twitter account.
Here's what Davis had to say (via ArkansasNews.com):
"The same guys who sacrificed their time and freedom. The same guys who gave their blood sweat and tears for that hog on the side of that helmet. The same guys who skipped an opportunity of a life time by not entering the draft and came back knowing the risk. The same guys that battled to get a win in the liberty bowl in the freezing cold. The same guys that battled to get the schools first BCS birth in the Sugar Bowl. The same guys that fought and won the Cotton Bowl. These same guys quit on one of the most anticipated seasons in Arkansas history?! I don't think so. Not these guys. Not my guys. #HAWG 4 LIFE"
The SN piece did not name specific players who "quit." Also, it would be incorrect to assume all players did (not that the ex-coaches are assuming that). And there were injuries. Lots of 'em. Davis missed a couple of games with a hamstring injury; tight end Chris Gragg missed more than half the year with a leg injury; and linebackers Tenarius Wright and Alonzo Highsmith had season-ending injuries.
This has amounted to a he said/he said story. Did Arkansas look defeated this past season? At times, absolutely. Was that the only issue Arkansas had in 2012? No way. The 10-month contract for Smith turned out to be a disaster, and Smith was never the guy the Razorbacks needed to maintain the success built by Bobby Petrino.
Say what you will about Petrino — I have numerous times — but one thing he does successfully is get his players to perform with an edge. An edge based on fear. That edge was noticeably absent last season.
So, too, was good coaching. That deserves blame as well. The Razorbacks' pass defense was among the worst in college football and opposing teams were scoring an average of 30 points a game. And if we're on the topic of quitting, Smith looked like he had mailed it in a season-ending loss to LSU.
The former coaches claiming certain players quit on the team only scratches the surface of what went wrong for Arkansas in 2012, even though it scratches the right spot. That scratch has removed the scab from the wound of what could have been for the Razorbacks.


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Brad Pitt called girlfriend Angelina Jolie his "soul mate" and defended the couple's decision not to wed in a candid interview that touched on his pot use during the actor's early years in Hollywood.
"I have a love in my life, a soul mate -- absolutely," Pitt said.
The Hollywood hunk told Parade magazine that he and brunette bombshell Angelina still have sparks between them after four years together -- and the couple often sneak off to the grotto behind a waterfall in the pool.
U.S. & World
"It's a great place for sex," he said.
Still, the super star couple has no plans to tie the knot.
"When someone asked my why Angelina and I don't get married, I replied, 'Maybe we'll get married when it's legal for everyone else.' I stand by that, although I took a lot of flak for saying it -- hate mail from religious groups," he said.
"I believe everyone should have the same rights."
Pitt said having a family is more of a commitment than marriage. The pair has six kids -- all under the age of 10: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox.
"It's certainly more than the ball-and-chain that country songs sing about," Pitt said. "Our family is the base that gives Angie and me the long tether to go out and do all these other things. It's a big step we've taken. We've put down roots together. As Angie and I carve out our time as a couple, we carve out our lives as individuals."
Pitt also confessed that smoking pot turned him into an anti-social introvert as a youth in Hollywood.
"I liked to smoke a bit of grass at the time, and I became very sheltered. Then I got bored," he said. "I was turning into a damn doughnut, really."


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No meaningful difference between the 2. The only difference is that Obama likes to use more sensitive language and bans phrases like 'axis of evil' and 'war on terror'. Substantively, they are both 100% exactly the same thing especially with Secretary Clinton being equivalent to male private part Cheney.
what wrong, obama not start enough wars?


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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Unknown Collection - The Final Class Photo
At least it's the final class photo in my collection. Who knows what may be uncovered years from now. Again, I know little except that it's from my Quirk family of the Hazleton, PA area. Again, I don't recognize anyone in the photo, but I maintain that keeping a class photo has some significance. Sure you keep portraits of friends and family, but you don't usually keep random class photos of some friend's kid or even another relative. I think it was someone from the immediate family, but who?
I'm rotten at dating photos too, so if anyone has any ideas about around when it looks like it was taken, I'd love the input!
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TiVo Announces Settlement of Patent Litigation With Verizon
TiVo and Verizon Enter Into a Patent Licensing and Commercial Arrangement
ALVISO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/24/12 -- TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) announced today that it has settled its pending patent litigation with Verizon Communications Inc. and that the companies have entered into a mutual patent licensing arrangement. Under the terms of the settlement, Verizon will provide TiVo total compensation worth at least $250.4 million. The payments from Verizon to TiVo shall be comprised of a $100 million initial cash payment followed by recurring quarterly payments totaling an additional $150.4 million through July 2018. If the companies pursue certain commercial initiatives prior to December 21, 2012, up to $29.4 million of the payments made by Verizon would be subject to a credit of an equal amount. In addition to the guaranteed compensation, Verizon will also pay monthly license fees through July 2018 for each Verizon DVR subscriber in excess of certain pre-determined levels.
In addition to the cash payments described above, Verizon and TiVo are exploring, among other things, future distribution of Internet video services developed through Verizon's joint venture with Redbox by making content distributed via that service part of the diverse selection of linear and broadband-delivered content accessible to users of TiVo's retail DVR products.
As part of the settlement, TiVo and Verizon agreed to dismiss all pending litigation between the companies with prejudice. The parties also entered into a cross license of their respective patent portfolios in the advanced television field.
"We are pleased to reach an agreement with Verizon which underscores the significant value our distribution partners derive from TiVo's technological innovations and our shareholders derive from our investments in protecting TiVo's intellectual property," said Tom Rogers, CEO and President of TiVo. "We also look forward to working together on a variety of future opportunities as we continue to expand the content choices available to TiVo subscribers. As with prior settlements, we also benefit by being able to operate our business under license from Verizon and by avoiding future legal expenses that we would have incurred during and after trial. Furthermore, we believe this settlement positions us well with respect to future enforceability of our patents."
About TiVo
Founded in 1997, TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) developed the first commercially available digital video recorder (DVR). Today TiVo is a global leader in advanced television service for virtually any platform or device. TiVo offers its service directly to consumers, and also distributes its technology and services through solutions tailored for cable, satellite and broadcasting companies. Since its founding, TiVo has evolved into the ultimate single-solution media center by combining its patented DVR technologies and universal cable box capabilities with the ability to aggregate, search and deliver millions of pieces of broadband, cable and broadcast content directly to the television. TiVo also continues to weave itself into the fabric of the media industry by providing interactive advertising solutions and audience research and measurement ratings services to the television industry www.tivo.com.
TiVo and the TiVo Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of TiVo Inc. or its subsidiaries worldwide. © 2012 TiVo Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, the amount of future payments TiVo expects to receive in connection with its settlement of its patent litigation with Verizon including possible future credits to such settlement amounts related to future commercial initiatives between Verizon and TiVo, TiVo's ability to innovate its products and services in the future, future distribution of Internet video services developed through Verizon's joint venture with Redbox on TiVo products, TiVo's ability to avoid future legal expenses as result of the settlement with Verizon and the future enforceability of TiVo's intellectual property. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include delays in development, competitive service offerings and lack of market acceptance, as well as the other potential factors described under "Risk Factors" in TiVo's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2012, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended April 30, 2012, and July 31, 2012 and Current Reports on Form 8-K. TiVo cautions you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect an analysis only and speak only as of the date hereof. TiVo disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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Reframing the Restrictive Diet Mindset
- I can't eat this
- I have to
- starve myself
- torture myself
- eat this rabbit food
- etc.
We were back at our old stomping grounds, Seattle, WA., and decided to strike up a convo with our restaurateur-friend about Indian cuisine and their offering at his establishment. So he stands there a while at our table and proceeds to literally blow our minds with the information he shared. It was like one of those light bulb moments. He told us that his menu, as large as it was, represented less than .1% of all that Indian cuisine had to offer; and, his mission was to highlight as many dishes as possible throughout the years, on his daily specials menu, so his customers could get the authentic Indian experience.
I would literally have to multiply his menu by over 100 to cover the cuisine of India.
That's a complete reframe!
More and more folks are finding they can't handle things like gluten, refined sugar, grains, certain fruits, dairy, etc. in their diets. They're having to take them off of their shopping lists, but there are thousands of items they can replace them with that are both healthy and tasty. If you're dealing with health challenges that require special dietary considerations, instead of looking at it as a prison sentence of lifelong restrictions, look at it as the perfect opportunity to explore new things and develop new likes. You'll be surprised at what you come up with, and in a very short period of time.
Here's a great way to get started in restriction-proofing your mindset.
Action Steps
- Pick a new food every week to try in different ways
[It's fun, healthy, and will keep you out of that restrictive box]
- Educate yourself, in mini-sessions, on healthy, ingredients
[Acid coupled with a low oxygen environment, and fermentation [needs sugar], according to the research of Otto Warburg, is the ideal combination for creating cancer.]
- Find 1 positive action every week to incorporate into your lifestyle. This can be for your health, for your business, etc.
[There are only 24 hours in a day and you'll get to the point where you just can't get the good AND the bad done. The good will be so enjoyable, supportive, and satisfying ['cause you're going to make it that way], that giving up the bad will come as no loss at all. If you focus on what you are 'adding,' and not on what you're taking away, you'll eventually, effortlessly replace the non-productive with the productive. You'll simply crowd them out with your new positive actions. ]
Try it out and let me know how it works for you. When dealing with your client base,
- always have great, healthy, tasty options to offer. It'll help keep them alive longer, build good will, set you apart as the chef who not only makes tasty foods, but ensures that they're healthy with a great presentation. It's an all around win-win-win situation!
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A partner zone is a co-branded, NAVTEQ hosted partner micro-site within the NN4D web portal. Partners joining the partner zone program typically utilize NN4D as a 'channel' or 'store front' for access and distribution of location development offerings to developers or to other players in the LBS value chain, aimed at recruiting qualified and innovative LBS application developers to the partner offerings in question and increase developer adoption. A partner zone enables partners to highlight their own developer content and may include partner tools for specific use with NAVTEQ map data, APIs for download to use with partner offering, technical documentation, commercial 'rules of engagement' (how to work with partners), white papers, research, contact information and links etc.
MIDs represent a new category of devices targeted to deliver the best Internet experience in pocketable form factors. Intel is driving the MID category with the Intel(R) Atom(TM) processor - Intel's smallest processor designed from the ground-up for high performance, full software and Internet compatibility with dramatically lower power.
In addition to the Atom processor, Intel is working with the open source community to enable the Linux-based Moblin software stack ( www.moblin.org) which plays a critical role in delivering a compelling Internet experience. A number of Intel Atom processor and Moblin based MID models are shipping in the marketplace around the world including ones targeting the navigation segment based on the NAVTEQ maps database. NN4D members will be able to gain access to technical support, software development kits, source code for all major components of the Moblin platform, documentation, and sample code.
"Mobile Internet Devices represent an exciting growth category in the industry today. The combination of Intel Atom processor and Linux-based Moblin software make it possible to bring next generation navigation and location based services across a broad range of MIDs over the next few years," said Pankaj Kedia, director of global ecosystem programs in Intel's Ultra Mobility Group. "We welcome NAVTEQ's developer community to take advantage of the opportunities in the MID market segment and look forward to making it easy for them by providing a range of resources through the NN4D partner zone program."
"Working with Intel enables us to strengthen our support for the global Linux developer community while at the same time supporting the growing trend of convergence in the wireless marketplace. Location-based services are a natural fit for the new class of devices made possible through the Intel Atom processor and Linux-based Moblin software, and this is something existing LBS developers can take advantage of to reach a broader audience," said Marc Naddell, vice president, partner and developer programs, NAVTEQ. "Developers already familiar with Intel can now also tap into LBS. NN4D provides the technical and business development support needed for the growing software developer community to innovate and create unique and useful location aware applications."
NAVTEQ will be presenting a workshop entitled "Leading the Next Wave of LBS: What's New in Mapping and Content" on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 10:45 a.m. at the Where 2.0 2009 Conference in San Jose, CA. Workshop attendees will learn how developers are succeeding with new NAVTEQ content, map data and APIs, in addition to specific "channels" to market through NN4D, including the developer showcase on NAVTEQ.com and the latest innovations with Intel on Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs).
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The most sensational news for today is the landing of the fighter jet Mirage-2000 on Yamuna Expressway. This was a test landing by the Indian Air Force (IAF) after the consent of Uttar Pradesh Government as a trial to use the highways and civil airstrips for emergency landing of fighter jets. The parties that took active participation in the test landing includes UP Government, Yamuna Expressway authorities, civil police and other authorities related to the development of the expressway.
After the successful landing of Mirage-2000, the government gave proper approvals to convert the three kilometer stretch of Yamuna Expressway into a road runway for the emergency landing of fighter planes. The jet landed near the 118th milestone of the expressway around 6:40 am. 100 technical ground personnel were deployed at the spot to ensure successful landing of the jet. [Read more…]


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#7 TOWSON vs. CENTRAL CONNECTICUT — GAME NOTES
WHEN: Saturday, August 30
Kickoff at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Johnny Unitas® Stadium, Towson, Md.
SERIES: Towson leads, 6-2
*Towson has won 11 straight games when opening the season at home. The Tigers have not lost at home in a season opener since 1991.
*Since 1993, Towson has opened the season facing Central Connecticut twice, winning both times. The Tigers defeated the Blue Devils 42-7 to start the 1993 season and opened with a 20-10 win over CCSU in 2007.
*The Towson football team reached new heights in 2013 when the Tigers advanced to the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) title game. The veteran Tiger squad won a school-record 13 games, including three in the playoffs, before falling to North Dakota State in the National Championship game.
*Entering 2014, Towson must replace eight starters on offense and four starters on defense.
*Junior Connor Frazier won the starting quarterback job in camp. Frazier has attempted just 15 career passes but led the Tigers to a 35-31 come-from-behind win at Eastern Washington in the FCS semifinals last season after starting quarterback Peter Athens went down with an injury. Frazier scored the game-winning touchdown on a one-yard run with 17 seconds left. He also ran for a career-high 98 yards in the win that led the Tigers to the national title game.
Gold Rush
Tiger fans were encouraged to wear gold for tonight's season opener. Gold smoke will be used when the Tigers take the field. Fans will also have chance to take pictures with the FCS finalist trophy and see the large FCS national runner-up shield now displayed outside of the field house.
Smith Named to Buck Buchanan List
Senior cornerback Tye Smith has been named to the 2014 Buck Buchanan Award Watch List. The award is given out annually to the FCS' most outstanding defensive player. Past recipients of the Buchanan Award include two-time winner Dexter Coakley (former Dallas Cowboy), Jared Allen (Chicago Bears), Rashean Mathis (Detroit Lions) and Kroy Biermann (Atlanta Falcons). Smith is one of only two cornerback on this year's list.
In the National Rankings
Towson begins the 2014 season ranked No. 7 in the NCAA FCS Coaches Poll. The Tigers, who won a school-record 13 games and advanced to the FCS National Championship game last year, received 438 points and one first-place vote. Towson finished last season ranked No. 2 in the final coaches poll. The CAA led all conferences with six schools ranked.
Scouting the Opponent
Central Connecticut is coming off a 4-8 season in which the Blue Devils won just two Northeast Conference games. CCSU was selected fourth in the annual NEC Preseason Coaches' Poll. Four Blue Devils – Rob Hollomon, Tyrell Holmes, Tyler Hurd and Josh Alaeze – were named to the Preseason All-NEC Team. Hollomon is the most noteworthy returner. He enters the 2014 season third on CCSU's career rushing list with 2,556 yards. He rushed for 1,452 yards last season and scored 19 total touchdowns, including 18 on the ground. Earlier this summer Hollomon was named to the Walter Payton Award watch list and was a Preseason All-America First Team selection at the all-purpose position by The Sports Network. Hollomon led NCAA Division I FCS with 189.17 all-purpose yards per game last season.


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How to explain the enduring allure of fairy tales, Snow White and the Huntsman' star, Kristen Stewart puts it this way "When good overtakes evil, it just feels f*cking good."
"Rupert beat me up." Stewart jokes. "He definitely threw me off cliffs and made me trudge through frigid, icy waters. It looks so cool, though. I can actually see the pain and discomfort on my face. It's awesome."
Sanders definitely appreciated Stewart's perseverance, "What's great about Kristen is that is that its one thing to be like, 'I'll jump off a building'. Its another thing to s--- scared about jumping and then go ahead and do it', says the director. "She didn't want to ride horses and ultimately she rode in front of 200 horses galloping at full speed across the beach in front of an army. She's very brave."
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