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German GP 2013
Sunday Press Conference
(Conducted by Kai Ebel)
Q: Sebastian, tell the world how sweet a taste is this home victory?
Sebastian VETTEL: Yeah, it's unbelievable. I'm very, very happy, an unbelievable race. Kimi was pushing very, very hard in the end and obviously they tried to do something different with different compound tyres. I think we had a very solid, very controlled race but I was pushing, I think, every single lap, except the laps behind the Safety Car. Very happy with the result and incredible to finally win in Germany.
Q: At the closing stages of the race you felt the warm breath of this guy [Raikkonen] in your neck so what do you think about driving with this guy next year together in one team?
Vettel: Well, I don't know. I think first of all I enjoy today and, yeah, I could feel him coming and more and more pressure but yeah, I obviously had a couple of laps where it was quite close with Romain as well who tried to push very hard. In the middle of the race we lost KERS for a couple of laps so it was very difficult - but fortunately the system recovered and yeah, it's very useful to defend properly. Very happy that the race ended after 60 laps and not 61 or 62.
Q: Kimi, was it better for you that the radio had some problems and you couldn't understand the guy from the pit wall?
Kimi RAIKKONEN: No actually - I could hear them but they couldn't hear me. I think it only worked in one part of the circuit and unfortunately today there was quite a lot to discuss and it didn't work. So, not the ideal but we managed to do pretty well and obviously we want to win but today we didn't have the speed. The race should have been a bit longer, maybe then we could have had a good chance - but we scored good points for two cars and we are getting back where we should be. So in the end not ideal but pretty OK for us.
Q: Romain, how good is it being back on the podium, even if it is now the third position and not the second if that could been?
Romain GROSJEAN: It's good, it's a good result for the team. We had a very strong race, which is good. Very good first stint. I thought I would have had a chance at one stage on Seb but the Red Bull was quick today. And then at the end we choose different strategy with the team. I think that was the right things to do - just put one car on one tyres and the other one on the other one, and it appears the Option for Kimi was quicker. So, yeah, I think it was good to play a little bit, the team, and then I'm very happy to be back on the podium. I think we've deserved it for a little while but now it's reality.
Q: [Question in German]
Vettel: Obviously I felt the push from the crowd and yeah, obviously, I tried to focus the last couple of laps, knew it would be very close with Kimi once he gets past Romain, so yeah, incredibly tough, I was pushing every single lap as hard as I could and Lotus was incredibly quick today, looking after their tyres probably a little bit better than other people. But yeah, all in all, fantastic. Compliments to the team, three great stops we had. Very, very happy with the day.
Q: Sebastian, many congratulations. That was a tremendously entertaining race to watch for anybody who loves the sport. You were obviously made to work pretty hard for it. Your fourth win of the season [and the] 30th of your career. Clearly, the defining thing is that it's meant so much to you for such a long time and you've achieved so much in 26 years but just put into words what it means to finally win your home grand prix.
Vettel: Definitely a great relief. Very happy with how the day went. To be honest, for sure, there are a lot of expectations. Especially when you have a good car and for a couple of years you've had a good run, when you come to home soil people expect you to win. I think the whole team, including myself, we never ever let that get to our head but it just feels very, very sweet now to have succeeded after a couple of tries. Sometimes we were close. I think we had good races in the past in Germany as well, finished on the podium, which was a great experience but today, to win here, yeah. Both tracks, Hockenheim and Nurburgring mean a lot to me. To race in Germany I think is a privilege. To have the ability to have a home grand prix. Great relief, very happy, special day for sure. I think it take some little while to sink in but yeah, just incredibly proud today. The team did a fantastic job for strategy and for the pit stops. On the track it was so difficult. I pushed every single lap but it's so tough when you're on the edge and you know that you can't go over the tyres too much because then you will not reach the end of the stint. Equally, passing people, you know that you have to get through traffic as quick as you can, so not an easy race. The Safety Car didn't help us. We had a little bit of a cushion but Lotus was incredibly quick today and gave us definitely a big run for our money. I'm just very happy that it worked out. Last but not least our compliments to Pirelli. They did a very, very good job within a couple of days to react and bring a different rear tyre to this event. I think we didn't have any failures throughout the whole weekend. Compliments to them. They had a lot of criteria after the last race but it looked like they made up for it this race and hopefully for the next races we continue to have racing like that.
Q: Kimi, moving to you. Obviously Lotus were in a strong position. They could make a tactical gamble, put Red Bull on the back foot. From your point of view, you got through, Romain let you through towards the end. But was there a scenario where you could have won this race today?
Raikkonen: Obviously not, because we didn't win it. I was stuck behind the Mercedes after the first stop for a little while until I got past them. It cost me some time. After the Safety Car we were pretty OK and the cars, three of us, had similar speed and it's very difficult to overtake anybody. I could run longer and we had a think about it, if we can try to run until the end but we had a massive problem with the radio. I could hear them but they could only hear me between two corners. So I'm wondering if we should have done it, take a gamble and try to go to the end because the tyres were pretty OK, my speed was pretty OK so it was hard to know what happens in the next ten laps. We decided to come in and put the soft tyres. We had good speed. Obviously I got some help from Romain to get past but that was... we would have had a big fight, anyhow. I could have probably passed him in a normal situation but obviously it would have cost me a lot of time. And as a team we try to win and I caught up with Seb but, like I said before, everybody was behind each other but we are too close on speeds and it's so difficult to overtake then. We tried everything that we had and failed to win but I think for the team we did a good race and got both cars on the podium, so as a team we're happy but obviously I lost some more points to Seb in the championship. We keep trying.
Q: Romain, great to see you back here in the top three again. Fantastic first stint that really played you into contention for this grand prix. Tell us about your race, about how you felt and also a little bit of detail maybe about the radio traffic that was going on.
Grosjean: We had a good qualifying and the first stint has been amazing, seeing P1 on the board is always good. The car was working much better than what we thought on Option tyres. After the first pit stop Seb and myself were quite a long way ahead of everyone else and it was looking like we will try to see with strategy to adapt, to stop three stops depending on how we were going and then the Safety Car came. It made it easy for strategy but less good then for the traffic. Clearly then, as a team we had to put different eggs not in the same basket and change different strategy for Kimi and myself. It appears that Kimi's one worked better but it could have been the opposite. So, it's good to be back on the podium, good to score strong points. The summer is back on - which should help us to be more consistent at the front. But the first stint has been really good and finally getting car and tyres that work together, it's nice.
Q: (Leonid Novozhilov) Sebastian, what to you think about the weather today? Maybe the weather help you make a win, or no?
Vettel: Well first of all it's German weather. It's always like this in Germany. I think we were just a little unlucky the last couple of years. I think it didn't help us today. I think it made it a little bit more tricky. I think it helped probably Lotus a little bit. They were taking care of their tyres probably a little bit better than the rest of the field. By the looks of it they were very strong at the end of the stints - but I say that now, I don't have a proper look. But in the end we won today so we had good speed - good enough to win the race so I'm very happy but I think we were a little bit stronger on Friday than today.
Q: (Michael Schmidt - Auto, Motor und Sport) Sebastian, when you came in for the third time, did you do it in order to cover Romain or did you come in anyway? Was it a plan to come in?
Vettel: No, I don't think it was the plan yet. Tyres were holding up OK and the gap to Romain was increasing a little bit again at that time. Just before the stop, a couple of laps, I lost KERS and I was able to switch it back on and pull away again. But obviously I think we try to cover him to make sure we stay ahead and we defend the lead because we saw that overtaking is quite tricky here. It's possible: I went through traffic pretty quickly but obviously there was a big delta in speed, in pace at that time. So, yeah, in order to make sure we stay ahead, we try to cover him.
Q: (Mark Ellerich) How intense is the relief to get this done, with this win now? Did you have a plan to get it here in Germany, right now, this year?
Vettel: Yeah, I made it in January! No, in the end it's just another race and we try to prepare as much as we can for every race. Surely winning here is very special and tastes very very sweet, especially the way we won today with a lot of pressure from behind, but I think we did our homework - as much as we could - on Friday, the conditions changed a little bit and it was quite close today but we succeeded, that's the most important thing. Very happy to take the win today and also it's good to score some points.
Q: (Kate Walker) Sebastian, Kimi is one of the men on the short list to replace Webber as your teammate next season. In the closing stages of the race, we saw him giving you quite a bit of challenge. How do you feel about the prospect of being challenged by a fellow World Champion in equal equipment for an entire season rather than just a few laps?
Vettel: Well, I wouldn't mind. I think he wasn't nice today to me because of that but in the end of the day, to be completely straight, it's not my decision. I think I have a good relationship with the team and to be honest, we spoke about that but not in detail yet. I think the team has no pressure to decide on anything, at least, that's what they communicated with me. I think I get along fairly well with Kimi; we never had a problem on track, even if one day we might have and crash into each other which can happen, then I think we deal with it as grown-ups and talk about it and sort it out amongst ourselves, at least, I think that's the relationship I have with him. I respect him a lot on and off track. But like I said, it's not my decision.
Q: (Kate Walker - GP Week) Would you be excited by the challenge?
Vettel: Yeah, definitely. I think it's strange in a way because I was looking up to Kimi when he was with McLaren for many years and trying to give Michael a very hard time but his McLaren broke down many times and now, since he's come back, I've raced him again and I think there's no doubt that when it comes to qualifying, to race, he does his job very well and gets the maximum out of the car, and that's what - at the end of the day - is our job. He's quite good at what he does. That's my opinion.
Q: Kimi, give you an opportunity to respond to that.
Raikkonen: He seems to be a bit better. I don't know what will happen in the future. Things will be decided at some point but until that happens there's nothing to talk about. I would definitely tell if I know something just so that all these follow-up rumours and nonsense stops straight away. But right now, there's absolutely nothing for next year and we will see. For sure, at some point, once we know we will tell but I don't have any pressure to make any decision right now. Obviously I try to make the right decision for myself but it depends on many things; next year there are rule changes, everything else, so it can be a right or wrong decision. Whatever it will be, I will live with it and I'm fine with it. We will see when it comes.
Q: (Heikki Kulta - Turun Sanomat) Kimi, your best ever result in Germany. Does it taste any better than the previous ones or is it only victory that makes the difference?
Raikkonen: Obviously we are here to try and win races. We couldn't today because we were not fast enough but for the team it was a good result after a couple of quite difficult races, so obviously for my championship it was not ideal, we lost some more points but it's still a long season and if we keep putting ourselves in a position for at least fighting for first place then I think we can do it again but as I said, it's good for the team and not so good for my championship.
Q: (Livio Oricchio - O Estado de Sao Paulo) Sebastian, your team was one of the teams that suggested to come back to 2012 tyres and it looked like your car behaved very well today. Is there any relationship between these two facts?
Vettel: I think no. Whenever I opened my mouth, it was purely targeted at safety, because it can't be the case that we go out and we have a race like at Silverstone. I think in the end of the day, we step into the car, we want to race, race at the limit and we cannot drive into the unknown. All sorts of criteria I think was targeted at that and I think people forget that at the end of the day, you have to do your maths, you don't have to be a genius. We are leading the team championship and the Drivers' championship and if anything, we are the ones that have most to lose. Nevertheless, we pushed very hard, at least I did, from the drivers' point of view. I wasn't shy of communicating as well. I think we are happier overall - all the drivers - with the tyres we raced this weekend. Whether it suits your car or not is secondary.
Q: (Livio Oricchio - O Estado de Sao Paulo) And to Romain and Kimi, is the performance of your car also related to the new tyres?
Grosjean: I think when we tested it in Canada - well, personally, I quite liked them. They were more proper racing tyres with the different rear belt so I was sort of happy that they brought them here. I think the compounds - medium and soft - were better than hard and medium normally, so I am looking forward to using the full new tyres from Budapest onwards that I understood a little bit better last year than this year. The fronts are a bit strange sometimes but as Sebastian said I think the main thing was to have a safety issue. We all remember Felipe Massa in 2009 and we don't want to see the same thing with a piece of tyre so we were glad and happy that Pirelli did something and well done to them because it wasn't easy.
Raikkonen: First of all, I don't think it's a 2012 tyre. The front tyre is exactly the same as all year. The rear belt is different but it's not the construction of 2012. We tried these tyres in Montreal and they were fine. It's not a very big difference to what we ran before so for us, I don't think it made any difference. They felt a little bit better tyre in Montreal. I think the biggest difference is on high downforce circuits but the weather is hot so that's probably what made the bigger difference for us.
Q: Heikki Kulta (Turun Sanomat) Sebastian, Kimi has been chasing you for victory quite a few times. What this the tightest of them all or was Bahrain last year even tighter?
Vettel: It was a different race. I think Bahrain was tighter because he was right behind for more than a couple of laps. Obviously I had Romain pushing very hard before Kimi pushed at the end of the stint, because he came through, past Romain and he was a little bit quicker at the end. Yeah, but both races, in terms of race pace, were very even and if the cars are nearly the same pace then it's very tricky and very difficult to overtake, so obviously if you're ahead, it's your advantage but I'm sure that one day it will be the other way round and I will probably hate it as much as Kimi does right now.
Q: (Andrea Cremonesi - La Gazzetta dello Sport) Sebastian, how confident are you about the next race because they will change the tyres again and they will be even more similar than 2012 tyres?
Vettel: First of all, I think we have to wait now. I think there's a test at Silverstone where race drivers are allowed to test and so we have a tyre test you can say, for at least a day and get a little bit more of an idea, and then I think Pirelli will make up their mind and decide to get together with the FIA - whether the teams like it or not, it doesn't matter. So I think at this point we don't know which tyres we are probably running in Hungary. The most important thing is that we learn the lesson from previous races, especially Silverstone, so for here, I think nothing happened which is good but it's good to have another proper look, especially around Silverstone and then decide for the remainder of the season.
Q: (Andrea Cremonesi - La Gazzetta dello Sport) Kimi, during the last laps, did you think about the opportunity of being with Red Bull and if that had an effect on your mood during the fight?
Raikkonen: Absolutely not. I try to win and it doesn't matter if it's a teammate or some other team. As long as we give ourselves a chance, I try to make it happen and obviously if there is a good chance to try to overtake I will try it but we never got that close so there was nothing to do really.
Q: (Oana Popoiu) Romain, for the second race in a row, you were told you to let Kimi pass. Do you think you have any chance to fight for wins when you're ahead of Kimi?
Grosjean: When the opportunity comes, yes. Today, as I said, we didn't put our eggs in the same basket and Kimi was quicker and might have gained on Sebastian but it didn't work. I think it was the right thing to do. It is important for a team to score points and try to get the win. Without the safety car it would have been a different story, but we all got together and that was it.
Q: (Jan Kotulla - Mannheimer Morgen) Sebastian, what about the support from the tribunes today?
Vettel: Yeah, it was great to receive so much support. I think it's unique for Germany to have a situation where the Grand Prix is coming and you have two drivers able to win the race. Obviously Michael was in a good position for many years so I think we are in a lucky position anyway, but I think it was exceptional this year with Nico winning in Monaco and at Silverstone last week. Yeah, I think it was great and nice to see, especially round turn seven where, for the second time around Nurburgring, there were a lot of people and guests and friends from Red Bull. They put a big banner up on the formation lap and also on the in lap so it was very special and I enjoyed every second, for sure, especially after the chequered flag.
Q: (Jan Kotulla - Mannheimer Morgen) And to all of you, have you see the movie Rush and what's your opinion about the movie?
Vettel: I haven't seen it. I went to bed, so sorry Niki, he was very kind and invited me. I thought it was smarter to go to bed. So I have to wait.
Grosjean: I needed to sleep too so I went to bed as well.
Raikkonen: No.


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Tainted Love: The Marketing of Duke Nukem Forever
2K and Gearbox have been selling more than just a game.
I'm looking forward to 1-2 months in the future when people finally stop talking about Duke Nukem Forever.
I hate those people trying to convince themselves and others that the many faults of the game are forgivable for some reason. A bad game is a bad game, even if it is a sequel to a good game. And Games like Bulletstorm, Serious Sam 1, 1.5 & 2 and others are much better at what DNF tried.
But yeah, in terms of marketing, it's mission accomplished for Gearbox. Couldn't have been better in this situation.
Hey, I haven't seen one of these columns in ages.
That was really interesting. Especially the stuff about intentionally stirring up controversy.
Heh. I personally bought the game just to see what happens when three developers take 12 years to make a sequel to a relic. Yeah... my money could have been better spent elsewhere.
Does anyone know how the game is doing in terms of sales?
This series is an excellent read for one who is interested in marketing in general not just games. I could easily read this once a week, although i'm sure your quite busy. I would love it if you would write more often!
This was a really well written, well thought out article. I particularly agreed with the analysis of the sexploitation. Too many people respond to any criticism of the game's awful attempts at crass humour with 'What did you expect from Duke, this game was always going to sexist'. I would have welcomed a sexist game with open arms if I thought the joke was ON Duke, if we were meant to laugh at his ridiculous misogyny. Instead, there wasn't really any joke. It was more a celebration of Duke as a character, as if to say 'He's survived after all this time, therefore he must have something to contribute.' That was a complete deal-breaker for me.
I was vaguely interested in the game at first, but seeing the advertisements for it changed my mind. I would feel so embaressed buying the game over a counter, but I guess that was the wedge which pushed me to the other side.
I wonder what would have happened if they had used a different tactic, trying to lure over consumers with promises of wacky out-of-the norm gameplay and quirks - some of the things like the microwave 'minigame' appeal much more than digital boobs.
Firstly, love the avatar! All hail the Cap'n :D
Secondly, my, 0.02$.
I was one of those who -had- to buy this on day one. Pre-ordered the Balls of Steel edition. Yeah, as Sherman says in the article, Gearbox made a perfect ad campaign for DNF. I've been a fan of Duke since D3D back in the day, and was gonna get DNF no matter what.
When friends asked how the game was after I'd beaten it, I was honest. As a game? Yeah, its pretty bad. The graphics aren't amazing, the vehicle sections had me asking myself WTF are you doing Gearbox, the whole thing was pretty crummy. But Duke was still the same. Still had me laughing at his one liners even after hearing them more than a few times. I wasn't expecting the gameplay to be genre defining/changing, I just wanted to see Duke back in action, and it was exactly what I got.
So yeah, as a game = bad, but for a nostalgia trip, yeah its pretty good. I don't regret buying the BoS edition, as the bust I have of Duke now sitting on top of my TV is pretty awesome, and the mini playing cards go nicely with my Fallout: New Vegas playing cards x)
Anywho I diverse.
Bulletstorm was closer to what DNF was like. Although as I got nearer the end of Bulletstorm I just kinda wanted it to be over, as it was getting dull. And Serious Sam? Completely different ball game if I'm honest chap, thats more replicating DOOM/QUAKE but on a grander and more intense scale in my opinion. Hordes of monsters coming at you with stupid weapons, and a sense of humour [but different to Duke's]
Gotta say though, looking forward to Serious Sam 3 :)
Bad game was bad; I found that the game itself suffered from it trying to be modern enough and suffered from the only 2 guns thing, low ammo count & regen health. Without them I think it would have been a lot more 'old school' / doom / Duke 3D fun of shooting the crap outta stuff FPS game.
To be honest though I never thought of Duke as anything more than a joke. Hes the personification of all the 'hero' guys of the 80s & 90s - hes all the arnies & rambos mushed together to form Duke.
Hes a walking talking joke of the era that spawned him.
All this talk of him being sexist is really out of context I think; when a Duke has girls around him its assumed that hes some sort of sexual predator or some sort of woman beater but in the game hes seen as nothing more as simply 'attractive' to women!
Its pretty much the same as wrestlers in the WWF when the girls are all over them; its all a part of the show and shouldn't be seen as anything but that.
Again this is played up even more to enhance the joke as the steorotypical jock hero of the 80s & 90s always got the girl even if he looked like he'd gone a few too many rounds with the ugly stick.
His actions are never what I would consider to be abusive towards women; even the strip club level in DNF he's respectful of the women; he doesn't force himself onto them, drug them or force them into sex. If they find him attractive and want to do that stuff then he's not going to stop them and while I think the level itself is simply a piss take saying "this is what duke dreams of" its not something that I would consider to be in bad taste simply because it is a strip club.
Even when you have the women captured by the aliens the player can either ignore them or put them out of their misery. Yes its 'killing women' but in the context of youthansia he is helping them rather than leaving them to whatever hell awaits them. Ok they are topless and making generic sex noises so it seems a little out of place - but if anything you could argue that its a joke at the 'action movie' genre since all the girls have perfect bodies and a huge rack.
I am happy to admit that DNF wasn't perfect, but for that I blame the mechanics rather than its content. For me Duke has always been a joke; a guy who takes the piss out of the movies and the movie stars of action movies from my generation.
Have things move on too much and Duke missed his window? Yeah probably; is that the real issue here? Is Duke an old joke that not enough people 'get' anymore?
I'm sure Gearbox will turn a profit out of all this seeing as they only spent enough cash to 'finish' the game and buy the rights to it, which I'm assuming they got fairly cheap seeing as the old studio went bankrupt. But I don't see them doing a direct sequel to this game after the mess it has become, I'm willing to bet the next Duke game that comes around will in fact be a reboot so they can put their own spin on the character and to address a lot of the complaints.
i still think that the entire point of duke nukem being released is to allow gearbox to make sequels. They can say: yes be gave you the game and were responsible for the parts you liked and all the other stuff was made before we got our hands on it. Hopefully they will be able to pump a good game or two in the next few years.
The twins, always with the goddamned twins. It wasn't until after I finished the game that I found out that my efforts to save the twins were vanglorious. I reasoned at the time that if I killed the queen quickly I might be able to save them from a process which was unleasant in the extreme, though not fatal, as they calimed they could exercise off the extra weight in a month (and there were no actual dead bodies to be found anywhere in the level... well, not female ones).
Because of this I can't help but to get deeply annoyed when people describe them (or the strippers in the club, or any other character) as Duke's 'willing victims'. Exactly what potential to be anything but a pair of gold diggers did they display at any point? They didn't get a whole lot of screentime, but what did they do after they finished supposedly fellating him? They weren't exactly lamenting that they had to debase themselves to finance some sort of worthy cause as you peeped on them through a vent; They went to their room and one videotaped the other masturbating.
Welcome to Duke Nukem, as it was, is, and ever will be. Everyone is as believable as in any adult cartoon; borderline retarded.
Maybe so. Evidently, the pedantic and literal-minded have quadrupled their numbers in the past decade, thanks to Internet.
On another note, I forsee poor reviews for this game being used in the marketing for the sequel - if they can financially justify one.
I don't mind DNF being successful but I doubt they're gonna repeat that marketing magic with a DNF 2. Hopefully they're just gonna funnel all that ill gotten gain into a super awesome Borderlands sequel.
Wow haven't seen one of your articles in a while glad to see them back. It was hard not to buy this game on day 1 simply because of the nostalgia as I used to play this game while at my aunts house when I was a wee child. She hated it but my uncle loved it and I would sit there joystick(yes little one computers had joysticks back in my day) in hand for hours. I however elected not to buy it but probably will once its super cheap.
Just thinking of Duke reminds me of my now dead uncle who is the reason I'm a computer nerd today.
Welcome back to the Escapist! Always found your columns really insightful, and hope we get to read some more soon.
...So overall a very successful marketing campaign on the one and only parameter a marketing campaign's success is to be measured on; Its ability to sell the product, and to people coming back to it if you make a franchise of it.
So long as it is legal to do, there is little wrong in utilizing crass humour or catering to sexist wish-fulfilment. It is not the job of marketers to purify society, but simply to sell a product to its intended demographic.
There is no malice behind this, and hence it is futile for the offended to target it; it is simply a reflection on tendencies in society which are still viable enough to be able to turn a profit from. Those are what can potentially be problematic, not the commercial reaction in fictional products to them.
I have fond memories of playing Duke Nukem 3D as a kid, and am entirely unable to get offended by fictional stuff; Hence I would fall firmly into the target demographic for this game. Though personally I'll simply cut the nostalgia middle man out and get the original Duke Nukem 3D for a tenth of the price for this new subpar game.
But to be honest, like Yahtzee said, you can't live up to 12 years of development time, they marketed it well, but under the presumption that it could live up to 12 years.
I honestly think it could have or at least gotten close if they'd just stripped the game back to the drawing board and maybe started again. What they did is, they released a game that as been in development hell for 12 years, just polished it up to the point that its just about playable and released it.
So as many have pointed out, it looks and feels like a dated, inconsistent mess. If taken back to the drawing board, reworked and such from the ground up... I think they could have released a very good game.
Hopefully now that this one is out the way and they still have the I.P rights, they'll release a new one from the ground up.
I'm not sure if hurling poorly rendered pieces of feces against the wall was a good choice. Sure it got word out pretty fast, but unless I go with Yahtzee's assessment that the game is tailored for younger audiences, (concordantly younger audiences enjoy the prospect of hurling feces) that only goes along with that 'no news is bad news' theme. I'm not sure about that one either.
I can see what you mean, I'd like it if it was just the first part of the game's feel with the old school Duke gameplay, camp, colourful and plain fun.
Still, the humor was great, 'LET'S RUPTURE SOME SPLEENS TOGETHER!'
I don't think many were criticizing the humor of this game nor the writing, honestly felt (dialogue wise) like what I was expecting from a Duke Nuke'm game. However that part is seperate from the gameplay and the graphics. Which all feel dated and inconsistent.
Honestly, a lot of the reviews are right on the mark when they say you can strip it down and see all the different generations of gameplay its going through in the game. I also did like the first part of the game a good amount simply for messing around. Was a good opening to the game. However it quickly goes downhill from there. Did I laugh at the jokes and crass humor of the game, course... However I didn't have much fun playing it after the first part.
Hello I just wanted to leave a quick post to say that I couldn't finish your arcticle. I'm sorry, I know everyone here at the Escapist considers themselves the intelligentsia yet they are the elite that apparently doesn't know how to spell or type. Reading the posts here is often nearly too hard to let me finish them.
So when I find typos and poor editing in "professional" material? Especially material that is already being critical of someone else's work? Right. See yuh.
Glass houses y'all....
So, I guess now the joke isn't that Duke Nukem took so long to get here, but that there were people actually waiting for it. I'm glad I'm too young for all that.
Articles like these are the reason why I'm on The Escapist.
You know what? I like Duke Nukem and I've enjoyed DNF on PS3. Bought it at launch. I had issues with loading times, but jokes? I loved his one-liners and sexist jokes. Jokes and one-liners were pretty much same in DN3D. Also enjoyed Hive level, the one getting bashed all the time.
I want more Duke games, but please no loading screens next time.
I am Duke Nukem, and I am here to ask you a question: 'Is a man not entitled to chew his own bubblegum?'
'No' says the man at 3D Realms 'it's done when it's done'
'No' says the man at Take-Two 'it is for the hardcore'
'No' says the man at Gearbox 'it must appeal to EVERYONE!"
I rejected those answers. Instead I chose something different, I chose the impossible, I chose:
Duke Nukem FOREVER!
I don't know which turned out more of a disaster: DNF the game, or Rapture the underwater city. But as fucked up as both of those turned out, you can't help but admire the idea and wonder - even if it was ever remotely possible - if it had turned out all right.
Duke Nukem Forever 2? (Not Duke Nukem 5?)
Surely it would be 'Duke Nukem & Robin', which following the trend of the Schumacher Batman films will be so bad it'll make the Forever-entry seem quite good by comparison.
Then 8 years later an arty kind of auteur will get a hold of the licence and reboot it with an origins story to fanboy squeeing success and everyone agrees never to mention those awful awful adaptations from a few years ago.
Seriously, if only they kept medkit system from DN3D and allowed you to carry all weapons...
Love this column! I'm glad it's back!
Really good read, thanks for the insight
Very good article. I really appreciate the professional view on this stuff.
I am one of the many I know who actually greatly -enjoyed- this game.
That being said, this is -DESPITE- the graphics being dated and the gameplay being a mishmosh of classic Duke 3D filled in with modern-day gimmicks to stretch out playtime. To be honest, though, I rather enjoyed some of the gimmicks... and I agree with those who have stated, time and time again, that Duke Nukem isn't about MAKING adult comedy.
He -is- adult comedy. That is to say, he's a bastardization of every 80's and 90's action hero/war movie protagonist ever created. He's the 'King-Badass-Man's-Man-of-Womanizing-and-Booze... and that's all he's ever TRIED to be.
He's a compilation parody, set in a world where that kind of machismo and over-the-top behavior is COMMON. Duke's world is a twisted, alien-infested place where the women are stupid and sleazy, and the men are too. Meatheads with guns reign supreme... and Duke is the Lord of the Meatheads.
Let's face it, he's basically a walking pair of testicles with an RPG wedged... oh-snap...
... I think I just made a dick joke.
Anyways, I agree with a lot of this article's assessment of the marketing strategy... but I don't think that anyone expected the game to be GOOD. And it's not. It's wonky. It's flawed. It's -utterly- crass...
... and as an old fan of the Duke... I love it.
I'd buy it again, today, if I had to. It's not a shining example of the Duke. It's not a great game. It's BARELY a mediocre one. But I can't help but love it... because I felt pretty much the same way about Duke Nukem 3D. Or any Duke Nukem game, really.
It's the most fun I've ever had playing a bad game.
I do love being written off as a fanboy by the pretentious who make sure to state they "get" adult humor. Yes, it was a nice article but it also gets rather sigh inducing. I am getting quickly tired of all the people who write about the game acting like it did lascivious acts to them as a child and this is their one and only chance to get payback. It's... Weird.
It wasn't going to and didn't change the world of FPS but I've had plenty of fun. I got my nostalgia and an average shooter with quirky bits of multiplayer. I still enjoy stalking people in Duke Burger with my friends.
I am also galled by how many people act like Duke 3D was somehow different... You could kill women in cocoons, there were strippers, there were porno flicks. The level of humor is pretty much the same. What I find funny is that Duke is basically Tony Stark without the pretension and gift of being Robert Downey Jr. Yet, I don't see the bile and misogyny card played every five seconds on Tony Stark. So yes, I am glad it is going to make money. I am waiting for DLC. Hell, my wife is waiting for DLC.
I get the idea reading a lot of the reviews or articles about Duke Nukem that everyone is so hooked on the "games are art" notion that they're kind of missing the point.
It is in production only it isn't called Borderlands and is set in WW2 and for no reason at all is dragging the Brothers In Arms name through the mud.
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Will Geography Decide Our Destiny?
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
When maps were introduced into Ottoman schools in the 1860s, conservative Muslims—people we would now call Salafists—were so outraged that they ripped them off classroom walls and threw them down the latrines. Though Muslim geographers such as Muhammad al-Idrisi (1099–1166) had produced serviceable maps, they were not widely available and for most of Ottoman history the spatial configuration of territory in two dimensions had been largely restricted to military specialists.
The images available to the sultan's subjects and to others pondering his domains were for the most part verbal, with reference to imprecise formulas such as Memaliki Mahrusi Shahane—"divinely protected imperial possessions." The imaginary—the different ways of conceiving the world—was human-centered rather than territorially based. Political power was not perceived as distributed spatially over a homogenous, two-dimensional field, but vertically through a hierarchy of human filters emanating from the sultan via his suzerains. As Albert Hourani pointed out in his History of the Arab Peoples, in the arid zones of North Africa and the Middle East where pastoralists ranged over frontierless deserts and steppes, power tended to radiate out of urban centers, weakening with distance.
For the most of the world, boundaries between states were not fixed until Europeans arranged treaties between themselves or with local rulers. From the late nineteenth century, however, the map was essential to this process. As Benedict Anderson noted in Imagined Communities, one of the map's effects was to compel citizens to identify with a specific territorial entity. According to the historian Benjamin Fortna, the Ottoman rulers deliberately used schoolroom maps to promote loyalty to the state: "The map insists on the importance of the shape of the territory and this shape begins to assume tremendous political importance as emblematic for the territory in question."1
Maps came to be used polemically to assert political sovereignty—or to deny political realities. Fortna notes that the "pink" of Ottoman sovereignty used in maps approved by the Ottoman ministry of education in 1906 showed Tunis—occupied by France since 1881—as still part of the Ottoman Empire while Bulgaria, independent from the 1870s, was still shown as an imperial province.
More recently, maps used throughout the Arab world routinely denied the existence of Israel, while Palestinian activists show the map of the whole of Palestine (to the exclusion of the Jewish state or "Zionist entity") as their national logos. Yasser Arafat deliberately folded his headdress, or kaffiyeh, to resemble the whole of Palestine. In South Asia it would be hard to conceive of an Indian government ceding any part of the disputed territory of Kashmir (the only state with a Muslim majority) when every Indian schoolchild grows up with a diamond-shaped image of the country with its apex far in the Himalayan north. Maps have been agents of political homogenization, an essential part of what…
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"After three days in the desert fun
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead"
from A Horse with No Name by Dewey Bunnell
Strangers in Strange Land tour of Death Valley and the surrounding desert region of eastern California.
For first-time visitors, pretty much everything about the desert is strange. For first year geology students, the mystery is deepened by that little bit of extra knowledge they possess that has them observing the rocks and surrounding mountains, trying to understand how this landscape might have developed.
So what was going on here? We had arrived at the eastern foot of the southern Sierra Nevada and parked in the midst of a lava flow from a cinder cone in the Coso Volcanic Field called Red Hill. The age is not precisely known, but it probably is less than 130,000 years old. The lava flow is covered by tan colored eolian (windblown) dust. Up to this point nothing seems particularly strange, but in the picture above, one can see a gap at the edge of the lava flow, a little bit to the right. Why is it there?
A look ahead confirmed the odd nature of this stop (below). The lava flow had turned into an intricate labyrinth of deep holes and channels. Even if you barely know anything about lava flows, it is clear that lava doesn't do this sort of thing. This lava has clearly been scoured by a pretty large river, the deep rounded pits being potholes formed by swirling masses of pebbles and gravel. The name of our stop, Fossil Falls, more or less supports the contention that a river once flowed here.
But this is a desert. No rivers are found nearby, and the few streams that flow off the nearby slopes of the Sierra Nevada sink quickly into the gravel-rich alluvial fans long before reaching this site. Could the channel be the result of flash floods? It doesn't seem likely, because the channel upstream has not been cleansed of the easily eroded silt and sand for a very long time. The growth of brush in the old channel suggests stability.
Where did all the water come from? Clearly at some time in the past the climate was cooler and wetter than it is today. The glacial ice ages that affected the region during the last two million years provide a reasonable explanation. Glacial meltwater flowed through Mono Lake and the Owens River, filling up Owens Lake which in turn spilled over into other lake basins farther to the south. These bodies of water are called pluvial lakes.
Fossil Falls can be found a few miles south of the Coso Junction Rest Area on Highway 395. Turn east on Cinder Road (just south of Red Hill, the prominent cinder cone next to the highway), and follow the signs on the gravel road about a mile to the recently improved parking area and trailhead (vault toilet and picnic tables available, and a small primitive campsite).
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Strangers in a Strange Land: A River Runs Through It, or at least used to
Posted by Garry Hayes at 11:46 PM
Labels: Coso Range, Coso Volcanic Field, Fossil Falls, Owens Valley, Sierra Nevada, Strangers in a Strange Land
5 comments:
- Anne Jefferson said...
This is very cool. I love the ways water flows over/under young lava.
- March 9, 2012 at 2:41 AM
- Tim Sherry said...
- March 9, 2012 at 6:18 AM
- Gaelyn said...
So much fun to study the world around us. And the teaching part can be very gratifying when there's an "Ah ha" moment.
- March 9, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- Unknown said...
I love that place! My wife and I have been there a few times and I've taken my scouts there over night. Why aren't any pictures of the cinder cone?
- March 9, 2012 at 10:23 AM
- Chas in Albuquerque said...
Wow, I want to visit that area soon! Thanks for sharing. When I retire I hope to come west and sign up for one of your field trips.
- March 10, 2012 at 8:40 AM
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From John Fabian Witt, author of Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law, in today's Washington Post:
We all know that the Declaration of Independence announced the United States' freedom from the British Empire. We all remember that it declared certain truths to be self-evident. But what you probably haven't heard is that the declaration also advanced an idea about war. The idea was that war ought to be governed by law.
In late June 1776, as the first detachments of what was to become a sizable British force were landing 90 miles away in New York, Thomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress in Philadelphia drew up charges denouncing King George III to the world. The accusations were to serve as the core of the declaration. The climactic final charges, for which the rest were prologue, indicted the king for war crimes.
Britain's navy, wrote Jefferson and the Congress, had "plundered our Seas," while its armies had "ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People." Jefferson accused the British of employing legions of foreign mercenaries to commit acts of death and desolation "scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages," acts unworthy of civilized nations. He charged British forces with taking Americans hostage and compelling them to bear arms against their own country. He and the Congress concluded their litany of war crimes by condemning the king's two most fiendish offenses against the laws of war: inciting slave insurrections and encouraging attacks by "merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions."...
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During this last week of 2009 the media is full of "best of 2009" lists. I thought it would be interesting to review ALL the music the San Antonio Symphony played on our Classics series in 2009 (see below.)
Instead of enticing me to rate the best, reviewing the list prompted me to think about the art of programming. This is one of the most important responsibilities of a music director. But this was an unusual year, in that it was put together by the many conductors in our music director search. The coordinating leader was our Artistic Advisor Christopher Seaman, who had to weigh the guest conductor's choices with the needs of the audience.
One of the keys to successful symphony programming is BALANCE. A great season finds a delicate balance between many factors such as:
Are traditional works balanced by the new?
Do composers of one nationality balance composers of other countries?
Are works that feature strings balanced by woodwind/brass/percussion showpieces?
Are piano concertos balanced by concertos that feature other soloists?
Are the well-known balanced by rare works?
By achieving the correct balance you not only produce a satisfying season that sells well, but it also helps the audience learn to love new works and deepen their relationship with the art form. Balance isn't the only important parameter to a great season, but it an especially interesting one. It is the area that often provokes the most debate. In 2009 (spanning the end of the 2008-2009 season and the beginning of the 2009-2010 season) we played these 40 compositions:
C. Assad Brazilian Fanfare
S. Assad Interchange for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra
Barber Violin Concerto
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
Beethoven Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Borodin "Polovtsian Dances" from Prince Igor
Brahms Symphony No. 1
Brahms Violin Concerto
Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Dvo?ák Carnival Overture
Dvo?àk Symphony No. 6
Dvo?ák Symphony No. 8
Elgar Cello Concerto
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4
Gutiérrez Improvisation for Strings
Haydn Symphony No. 100, "Military"
Korngold Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Orff Carmina Burana
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Schumann Piano Concerto
Schumann Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish"
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
Sibelius Symphony No. 1
Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Strauss Don Juan
Stravinsky Petrushka
Syler Gearbox
Wagner "Prelude and Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde
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Pennsylvania Farm Show showcases the state's leading industry
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Mushrooms and other Chester County-produced items were featured at the Pennsylvania Farm Show.
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The 98th Pennsylvania Farm Show, an eight-day celebration of the state's leading industry, took place at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg from Jan. 4 to 11, with more than 6,000 animals, 10,000 competitive exhibits, and 300 vendors featured during the event.
The theme of this year's farm show was "Pennsylvania Farms: Growing for You," and a few statistics from 2013 reveal that agriculture remains critically important to the state. Last year, agricultural endeavors produced $6.7 billion in cash receipts, and had a total economic impact of $67 billion. With $1.7 billion in international sales, agriculture is the state's leading export. One in seven jobs in the state is related to the agricultural industry.
Despite developmental pressures, there are still 62,200 farms in the state. There are 7.75 million acres of farmland, with an average farm size of 123 acres. Ninety-seven percent of the farms are still family-owned.
A visit to the farm show reveals the remarkable diversity of the state's agricultural industry. Folks
living near Kennett Square, the Mushroom Capital of the World, most likely know that Pennsylvania leads the U.S. in agaricus mushroom production with 548 million pounds in 2013. But Pennsylvania also leads the country in hardwood exports and hardwood growing stock. Pennsylvania is second in the U.S. with 1,599 Christmas tree farms. The "Christmas in January" exhibit in the Main Hall displayed some of the state's best live trees.
Pennsylvania ranks third in the U.S. with 25,125,000 laying chickens. The egg production of 7.3 billion brings in $486.2 million annually, and also ranks third in the nation.
The state is also third in commercial trout production, with 1.8 million pounds annually.
Pennsylvania is also fourth in apple production, at 439 million pounds, fresh market strawberries with 4 million pounds, fresh market pumpkins with 103 million pounds, and corn for silage with 6.5 million tons.
Pennsylvania ranks fifth in the number of milk cows, with 541,000 head, and milk goats, with 15,000 head. Overall, the state's 1.2 billion gallons in milk production is also fifth, accounting for $2.34 billion in annual sales.
Pennsylvania is also fifth in the U.S. in snap beans for processing, grapes, maple production, and peaches.
The food court is a favorite stop for farm show visitors. This year marked the 60th anniversary of
the popular farm show milkshake. Other returning favorites and new food items included lemonade, maple mustard, French fries, hot beef sausage, beef and cheddar sandwiches, and a steak and egg breakfast burrito.
An important aspect of the farm show is to teach youngsters about the importance of farming. Youngsters were invited to be "farm show detectives" by visiting learning stations that were spread out around the complex for hands-on lessons and activities.


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iFound? New shopping technology could change the way we buy
Every technology has its breakthrough year in which it travels from the experimental stage to the mainstream. This year could be just such a year for several important technologies that hold out some tantalising possibilities for retailers and shoppers alike.
One of them is the impending conquest by digital cartography of a domain that has eluded it for some time – the inside of buildings, including the retail store, the shopping mall and any building whose interior is challenging for people to navigate.
This news should really resonate coming straight after the peak shopping season, when everyone has just been reminded of the frustration of having mapping technology that makes finding stores in the car dead easy, yet gives up on them as soon as they step inside.
The bigger the store the bigger frustration. Supermarkets, department stores, home improvement, sporting goods, office supplies and toy stores are particularly challenging environments for many shoppers, made all the more so by the borderline hopelessness of ever finding a sales associate who can or will help.
So the opportunity to have a tool that makes all that frustration ancient history is almost too good to be true. Yet despite the fact that GPS technology is so much a part of everyday life that it's taken for granted, technical obstacles have slowed its progress towards indoor use.
Now, under one app pilot occurring in the US using technology from a mobile software company called Meridian, shoppers are guided turn-by-turn around Macy's 15,000 square metre flagship department store in New York. Indoor smartphone mapping technologies are also being road-tested in other environments, including museums, hospitals and even Sydney Airport.
But for retailers there is more to it than just helping shoppers find their way around the store.
Shoppers are first asked if they want to use the location tool on their smartphone. Once they have agreed, they are then invited to accept "push" marketing promotions as they progress through the store. If the shopper opts in the retailer can alert the shopper to special offers as they move through the store. And the offers themselves can be location-dependent so that they are directly relevant to the shopper's actual position in the store.
The hope is that retailers will be able to use the shopper movement data to help them improve product adjacencies and store layouts.
Technical issues are still not completely solved and the potential for the technology to be distrusted and abandoned if shoppers are not given accurate navigational information is real. In this respect there will likely be less difficulty implementing in-store mapping at a one-off store or across a very small chain, since there are likely to be fewer challenges keeping information up-to-date than at a retail chain with a large store fleet.
One of the interesting things about this technology is that it conflicts with the long-held retailer goal of keeping shoppers for longer in the store. Thus, the retailer risks losing some of the potential for impulse buys associated with traditional customer browsing. But the hope is to make up for that with the push marketing offers and the loyalty engendered by a superior shopping experience.
The opportunity to have a tool that makes all that frustration ancient history is almost too good to be true.
Doctors might welcome the new technology too. Think of all those extra injuries suffered as people collide with each other while they traverse stores with their eyes glued to their phones.
Michael Baker is principal of Baker Consulting and can be reached at email@example.com and www.mbaker-retail.com.


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HOUSTON -- A protein known as REST blocks the expression of a microRNA that prevents embryonic stem cells from reproducing themselves and causes them to differentiate into specific cell types, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the journal Nature.
Researchers show RE1-silencing transcription factor (REST) plays a dual role in embryonic stem cells, said senior author Sadhan Majumder, Ph.D., professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Cancer Genetics. "It maintains self-renewal, or the cell's ability to make more and more cells of its own type, and it maintains pluripotency, meaning that the cells have the potential to become any type of cell in the body."
The paper posted online March 23 in advance of publication grew from M. D. Anderson research on the protein's role in medulloblastoma - an exceptionally aggressive pediatric brain cancer.
Embryonic stem cells are essentially blank slates. They have the unique ability to develop from identical, unspecialized cells and then differentiate into distinct types of cells with special functions. In the laboratory, scientists have been able to induce embryonic stem cells to develop into heart muscle cells or insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. The hope is that embryonic stem cells might one day be used to restore or replace failing cells in the human body and perhaps treat a wide range of diseases.
"Embryonic stem cells have a very high potential in medicine," Majumder said. "The critical thing is to learn the mechanisms that could be used to generate a lot of self-renewing embryonic stem cells and be able to differentiate them into various cell types." REST could play a key role in maintaining a steady supply of these cells and in preserving their differentiation capability.
Suppressing MicroRNA-21
In studies using mouse embryonic stem cells, the researchers found that REST disarms a specific microRNA called microRNA-21 or miR-21. MicroRNAs are tiny pieces of RNA that control gene expression by binding to the gene's messenger RNA.
The team found that MiR-21 suppresses embryonic stem cell self-renewal and is associated with a corresponding loss of expression of critical self-renewal regulators, such as Oct4, Nanog, Sox2 and c-Myc. REST counters this by suppressing miR-21 to preserve the cells' self-renewal and pluripotency.
The researchers discovered the roles of REST and miR-21 in a series of experiments using cultured mouse embryonic stem cells in either a self-renewal state or a differentiating state. They found that REST expression was significantly higher in the self-renewal state. Withdrawing REST reduced the stem cells' ability to reproduce themselves and started differentiation -- even when the cells were grown under conditions conducive to self-renewal. Adding REST to differentiating cells maintained their self-renewal.
These experiments also revealed that REST is bound to the gene chromatin of a set of microRNAs with the potential to target self-renewal genes. REST controls transcription of 11 microRNAs.
REST Implicated in Pediatric Brain Cancer
Previous laboratory research suggests that the qualities that make REST beneficial in stem cell production and pluripotency may contribute to the development of medulloblastoma, an aggressive type of children's brain tumor. Medulloblastomas are believed to develop from undifferentiated neural stem cells in the external granule layer of the cerebellum.
In earlier research, Majumder's group at M. D. Anderson discovered that about half of these tumors overexpress REST, which is not found in most neural cells. "We found that REST is a critical factor in this group of children's brain tumors," Majumder said, "and that its major function is to keep a group of specific brain stem cells, or progenitor cells, in a state of stemness."
The researchers hypothesize that by maintaining the neural stem cells' 'stemness,' REST prevents their differentiation into normal and distinct types of cells, leading instead to tumor formation. The M. D. Anderson scientists are now exploring whether microRNAs might also play a role in medulloblastomas.
Understanding REST function has applications in both medulloblastoma and embryonic stem cell biology. "Just as blocking REST function has therapeutic potential in medulloblastoma, blocking REST function to allow for differentiation of embryonic stem cells is a potentially critical step in regenerative medicine," Majumder said.
The research reported in Nature was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Dodie Hawn Fellowship in Cancer Genetics.
Co-authors with Majumder are first author Sanjay K. Singh and Mohamedi N. Kagalwala, both from M. D. Anderson's Department of Cancer Genetics and the Center for Stem Cell and Developmental Biology; Jan Parker-Thornburg from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and Henry Adams from the Department of Cancer Genetics. Majumder is also affiliated with M. D. Anderson's Department of Neuro-Oncology, The Brain Tumor Center, and the Center for Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, as well as the Program in Genes and Development at The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston.


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Ear cuffs are great for hiding the seam between your ear and the prosthetic ear. These fancy style cuffs feature a cuff connected via a pair of chains to a post. The post itself is made of surgical steel while the celtic square knot work design is made of pewter.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~ Winnie the Pooh
I love my blog. I also love doing my research and finding cousins and blogging about it, and most of all, getting feedback from the blogging community.
Unfortunately, I realized (after looking back over my blog posts for the past month or so) that I was losing sight of WHY I was blogging.
I brought this up to Laura, my Success Team partner, and we agreed that I should bring the focus of my blog back to my research to find more cousins and, more importantly, discovering more about the people who had a direct impact on the person I am today.
While I still intend to tip my hat to some of the more obscure celebrations on the calendar, I want to try to do it in such a way that I work some of my research into it a little better. (Of course, if the mood hits, there is a possibility that I will post something WAY off topic - just never know).
For example, today is Winnie the Pooh Day. No, Winnie and I are not related (though we do resemble each other from the neck down occasionally - except I try to wear pants). I was able to find a quote that was fitting for genealogists:
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it. ~ Winnie the PoohFor a bear with no brain, Winnie the Pooh sure had some pretty stimulating thoughts.


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the internet at its best. Unfortunately, I am not writing to tell you about my time at the pastoral symphony pictured above, though it must have been delicious. No, instead I am writing about a more-or-less recent visit to the aforementioned El Trompito.
I visited just a couple months back, to meet one of the principal voice's of Westword's food writing: Mark Antonation. We met to talk tacos, and dive into some of Trompito's more unique regional items which he so eloquently described in his own post. I was quickly diverted from the mission to sample "other" regional items on the Trompito menu by the modest spit of pastor on display behind the counter. I ordered three. There was other conversation. Something about another location (which the above reader told me about), something about being open for this many number of years. Mark and my wife talked at length about regional Mexican specialities, and the Mixiote they both ordered. Mark got all that down, being the real journalist of the two. I became singularly focused on the nice looking pastor behind the counter, then in front of me. Then I ate it.
shitty looking pineapple. A blog comment by none other than Ruth Tobias summed it up nicely:
I also had another taco near and dear to my heart: chicharron en salsa verde. This is a simple taco, made by soaking crisp fried pork rinds in a tomatillo-based salsa. A lot of has to do with how good the salsa is, and for me the hotter the better. El Trompito version was not overwhelmingly spicy, but it did the trick. If you haven't tried this taco staple, please do. And Trompito is a good place to start.
Tacos. Although I have continued to eat them with at a disgusting pace over the past several months, I have truly missed not writing about them. Thanks again for pushing me back out to try El Trompito. I will eventually make it up to the north-side one... soon(ish). And keep the suggestions coming.


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(Pocket-lint) - The Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion, or should that be Sony Xperia Ion, is a 4.6-inch display touting Android smartphone coming to AT&T in the US.
Launched at CES in Las Vegas, Pocket-lint was on hand at the show to have a play with the new American Sony high-end smartphone to see whether it should be on your shopping list.
Cutting to the chase, the new handset will offer a 4.6-inch display with an HD resolution of 1280 x 720, so is up there with the recently launched Galaxy Nexus, and packs a whopping 12-megapixel Exmor R camera capable of capturing Full HD video. A forward-facing camera will offer you good old 720p as well.
In the hand the phone's design is strong with the handset well built. The screen is up to the company's usual standards as found on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and the camera's quality, if the on-screen results are anything to go by, is stunning. Sadly we weren't able to send ourselves any pictures from the camera (with the awful lighting at the show it probably wouldn't have told us much anyway).
Internally you'll find a respectable 1.5GHz dual core processor and 16GB of internal memory. It's an LTE phone, so those on AT&T will enjoy lightening fast data speeds on the move. Loading Pocket-lint up on the browser was certainly fast, even on the strained network of the LVCC.
It's also PlayStation Certified, so you'll get access to any games that Sony push out to its expanding line-up of PlayStation happy devices and you'll get the niceties of DNLA and HDMI as well - something we got to test with the optional dock. There is also NFC on board.
Plug the phone into the dock and the dock into your TV and you'll be able to really start to enjoy those 1080p movies at 46 inches, let alone 4.6 inches.
Like the Sony Xperia S, the Xperia Ion surprisingly still runs Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread, however Sony has confirmed that it will be getting an Ice Cream Sandwich update in good time. It seems to be a trait amongst phone and tablet makers at the moment unless you are Samsung with the Galaxy Nexus.
While the UK have the Xperia S, this larger screen device will sit nicely into the AT&T portfolio being powerful enough and spec heavy enough to last certainly longer that previous Sony Ericsson handsets have managed in the past.
No word on whether a non-LTE version will be heading to the UK. We will keep you posted.


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Snug between wooded banks at the lower end of the narrow Westfield Pill near the high level Cleddau Bridge, Neyland Yacht Haven enjoys a prime position in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
The passing motorist or coach traveller catches a glimpse of its tranquiil waters, packed with yachts and cruisers, as they cross the 90-feet high Barnlake Bridge over the pill before reaching the larger bridge across the Haven Waterway between Burton and Pembroke Dock.
Marina Manager James Cotton enjoys highlighting its many advantages, such as excellent round-the-clock CCTV security and 24-hour access to the 420 berths, free Wi-Fi, 50% visitor berthing discount at 50 other Trans-Europe member marinas, free parking and showers and a warm welcome for local and visiting yachtsmen.
Neyland was the terminus for Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway in 1856, later to become the Great Western Railway, and the line snaked through the valley into Neyland station, a stone's throw from where the Marina buildings are today. After Dr Beeching's axe amputated the last few miles of the railway to Neyland in the sixties it lay derelict for a few years until enlightened planners saw its value and potential and buit the marina there.
Indeed, the complex is known as Brunel Quay and there is a fine bronze statue of the famous Victorian engineer at the approach to the Marina. The 10-feet high statute is in fact a replica of the original placed there a decade or so ago, which was stolen by unscruplous scrap-metal thieves. The Brunel cafe and bar restaurant is a busy and popular rendezvous for yachtsmen and visitors with the bonus of fine views across the marina.
There is a large visitor berthing pontoon and nearby haul-out facilities, boatyards. boat repairs and chandlers. The lower basin is accessible at all states of the tide, and there are inner walkway berths for boats under six metres.
Near the entrance is what remains of the original ferry terminal, in the construction of which historic lengths of railway line - both bridge rails and Barlow rails of Brunel's day - were used as fencing posts and rails.
The Marina is also the terminus for one of the most successful Sustrans cycle routes in Pembrokeshire, covering nine miles of undulating track through wooded countryside via Johnston and Rosemarket, most of it following the old railway line.
The Marina, therefore, is popular not only with yachtsmen and cruiser owers, but also with cyclists, runners, walkers and those who simply like to gaze at boats of all sizes and enjoy the countryside at the same time.


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RNC chair says Walker will speak at convention
Priebus says governor will have "very prominent" role
MADISON, Wis. — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be a featured speaker at the upcoming GOP convention.
Priebus told Greta Van Susteren on the Fox News Channel Tuesday night that Walker will have a "very prominent" role during the convention in Tampa, Fla., later this month. Priebus says the committee is working with the Mitt Romney campaign on the convention speaking schedule.
Walker has built a national reputation in the party. His widespread support outside Wisconsin helped him raise more than $30 million in the face of a recall organized by those angered over his push to end collective bargaining for most state public employees.
Republicans said Walker's victory in June affirms his efforts to rein in government spending.


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lov2krz | 28 januari 2013
Haven't gotten mine yet, I'm in the delivery window but haven't gotten a VIN yet. Anyway, based on what you wrote you were on a trip and stopped for a recharge at ChargePoint. How long did your recharge take, how many miles did you gain and how many kWh did you push to the battery. I've got there RFID cards already and seen prices from free to $0.49 to $1.00 hour.
Brian H | 28 januari 2013
Your Model S is training you ... ;D
DJay | 28 januari 2013
If I understand you correctly, you lost about .54 miles per hour while you were away (30 miles/55:50 hours). Did some of that recover once the batteries were warm?


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To voice one's opinion, often in an aggressive or abusive way. I thought Paul was unhappy, but I did not expect him to lash out and give me the length of his tongue like that. I can't stand being around my mom when she starts giving us the length of her tongue.


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yeah - rinse quickly after use. i would wear gloves when using sanitizers though - they tend to wreck my hands from time to time.denny/amandaK - what concentration are you guys using now?
does the water have to be hot for it to work?
The slippery feeling of PBW always creeps me out because I read somewhere it was dissolving the fat in your skin.