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Stepping across the great DSLR divide into the land of mirrorless cameras always requires some compromise. Focusing speed, image quality, lens compatibility and battery life are frequent casualties, but for everyone except professional shooters, the size and cost benefits of swapping a full-grown beast for a compact ILC surely help soften the blow. The latest Micro Four Thirds model from Olympus, the OM-D E-M5, adds functionality that expand that list of betterments even further, allowing more versatility than larger DSLRs have to offer. These perks include a water-resistant design, for starters, along with a nifty lens that offers macro shooting and both manual- and powered-zoom in one compact package.
One area where the 16-megapixel E-M5 does match the footprint of its full-size brethren is in price: you'll drop a cool grand for the body alone, while the 12-50mm f/3.5-6.3 lens kit will bump that tag up another $300. Make no mistake, the E-M5 is a fantastic camera, but $1,300 is mighty steep for any mirrorless model, especially one with a Micro Four Thirds sensor. This, however, is no ordinary MFT camera. As the first model in Olympus's OM-D line -- taking design cues from the company's popular line of OM film cameras -- the E-M5 is in a class of its own, at least as far as Olympus's portfolio is concerned. Besides physical appearance, perhaps, the most notable selling point is its focus speed: press the shutter release, and your subject comes into clarity with rapid-fire precision, whether you're shooting in bright sunlight or a dark restaurant. But though the E-M5 has already received accolades for its powerful focusing, you might be wondering how the whole package performs. Meet us past the break to find out.

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Rob Ickes, Dobro player for the bluegrass music group Blue Highway wrote to express his appreciation for Mike Auldridge's Fellowship award from the National Endowment of the Arts. Rob says, "This is a special week for someone who is my mentor, and an icon not only in the dobro community, but in the world of music."
Rob continues saying, "Mike Auldridge will be in Washington, D.C. this week to receive the National Endowment of the Arts National Heritage Fellowship - the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts.
"The first time I heard Mike play, it literally changed my life. I started playing the dobro the next day and have kept at it ever since. I know he has inspired thousands of others as well.
"I'm hoping you will join me in congratulating Mike. We have set up a special website celebrating this honor, with information about Mike and the NEA National Heritage Fellowship, and a Guest Book you can use to send a tribute or message of congratulations to Mike. Please post your message ASAP, since Mike will be seeing the Guest Book very soon. The site also has the text of the presentation of IBMA's Distinguished Achievement Award to Mike in 2007, which I was honored to present.
Thanks for taking the time to post a tribute or message for Mike (use the links below), and for joining me in sending good wishes his way throughout this special week.
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The Philosophical Radicals were a group of British reformers in the early and mid-19th century who were inspired by the ideas of Jeremy Bentham. Their group included James Mill, Francis Place, George Grote, John Stuart Mill, and William Molesworth. Some of them entered Parliament to lobby for legislative reforms. Their main journal was the *Westminster Review".


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Will AJ McCarron have a big game? McCarron has been playing like you would expect a fifth-year senior with two national championship rings to play. He has completed 71 percent of his passes over the course of UA's last three games for 705 yards with eight touchdowns and hasn't thrown an interception in October
Will AJ McCarron have a big game?
McCarron has been playing like you would expect a fifth-year senior with two national championship rings to play. He has completed 71 percent of his passes over the course of UA's last three games for 705 yards with eight touchdowns and hasn't thrown an interception in October. Tennessee held both South Carolina's Connor Shaw and Georgia's Aaron Murray to less than 200 passing yards, so this will be a test for Alabama's quarterback.
Can Alabama put the Volunteers away?
Georgia wasn't able to do it, but won in overtime. South Carolina couldn't do it, and lost on a last-second field goal. Tennessee is a much better team than the one that lost 59-14 at Oregon in mid-September, a testament to the job first-year head coach Butch Jones is doing in Knoxville. Alabama would be best served to get a comfortable lead before the fourth quarter.
How will UA's defensive front hold up against Tennessee's offensive line?
The Vols have what is probably the best offensive line in the Southeastern Conference, and one of the best in the country. Every starter save one is a senior, and 6-foot-6, 327-pound left tackle Antonio "Tiny" Richardson is a fourth-year junior who may be the best of a big and burly bunch. Alabama's defensive front seven will face a stiff challenge in trying to stop Tennessee's running game and putting pressure on quarterback Justin Worley in the passing game.
Is Ua's secondary up to the challenge of containing UT's Marquez North?
North, a 6-4, 215-pound freshman, burned South Carolina for 102 receiving yards on just three catches last week. He has caught 21 passes for 281 yards, an average of 13.4 yards per catch, and seems to be coming into his own. Alabama's secondary has had changing parts because of injuries, the latest coming when Vinnie Sunseri was lost for the season to a knee injury. North is a playmaker, and Alabama needs to keep him from making big plays.
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Creepy weirdos
Living in a hot climate for many years, we are never getting used to running into various kind of insects, either jumping in the garden or somewhere inside the house where they, under the cover of darkness, have a tendency to break in.
The scariest of them all … tada! … is THE Flying Cockroach. Once, Hanna was quietly sitting reading a book when she heard a screeching sound from the living room. She then saw Alex running out in panic trying to brush off the rare beast that was glued to his t-shirt. Even when it was long gone, Alex avoided the living room locking himself inside the bedroom armed with a flyswatter.
Then we have different types of spiders. Nasty looking fellas roaming around scaring the living daylights out of Hanna when she accidentally bumps into one. Alex deals with them the old-fashioned way: tries to shoo them out with a broom while standing as far away as possible.
One day Alex got a frantic call from Hanna who could swear that she saw a snake in the backyard. A small commando unit was organized and armed with rocks it arrived at the house within 10 minutes to deal with the poisonous intruder. However, on close inspection the ferocious animal ended up being a small but colorful candy wrapper lying in the grass. Well, better safe than sorry as they used to say.
Sam (our best friend forever) is on the other hand always ready to come to the rescue. He is naturally equipped with all the proper weapons: excellent hearing, sharp teeth and strong paws. As soon as he hears the annoying sound of a fly passing by or sees a cockroach trying to run under the sofa he is on their case faster than a speeding bullet.
What we haven't come across yet (knock on wood) are real snakes (those made of candy wrappers don't count, right?) and scorpions. On the other hand, if we did, we probably wouldn't be writing this right now…
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Our own Marnie Macauley whose columns you've read here, has many distinctions, aside from her natural "Jewfro". For one thing, she was a prison administrator (File under: No Job For A Jewish Maidel). For another, she re-invented herself as a writer at the age many people are actually making money at their chosen professions. Then there was the time she removed half a human brain – and put it back -- while she was writing for As the World Turns. She's also an advice maven as "Ask Sadie" which was syndicated by Tribune Media.
But, of all of her accomplishments, she's perhaps best known as "The Yiddishe Calendar 'Qveen' having written over 10 Jewish-themed calendars, including the award-winning "A Little Joy, A Little Oy" and "The Joy of Jewish Humor" published by Andrews McMeel. Her 2012 boxed Joy of Jewish Humor is out now, and she's just finished a 2013 boxed calendar of the same name.
So we decided to ask Marnie what it takes to become a Jewish Calendar Qveen.
Q: What makes these calendars different from all other calendars?
Marnie: When I started, Jewish calendars provided of course, dates, art, and specific themes, such as the Holocaust. But humor? Jokes? Anecdotes? Fascinating facts about We Jews? Bupkes. Having written the column, WouldJew Believe, and being a fact-nut, I proposed to my publisher that we try it. Thank God, a few people liked it, besides my relatives and those I paid.
The facts and anecdotes I choose are fascinating and enlightening -- I hope.
Q: As your calendars include facts as well as jokes, how do you choose your material?
Marnie: "I don't do "trivia." The difference between "fact" and "trivia" is simple. I ask myself: "Who cares?" If the answer is "nobody" but some meshuggenah who's into "How many wings would you find on your standard manananggal?" it won't make the cut. The facts and anecdotes I choose are (hopefully) fascinating, and enlightening, whether I'm writing about The "Kosherization" of America or the Jew who shlepped the ruins of the Colossus of Rhodes and loaded it as junk on 900 camels.
Q: Where do you get your material?
Marnie: I use hundreds of sources – books and online, along with my own material, and others' with attribution and permission. I doubt there's a Jewish joke I haven't heard! Many of my readers – and I love this – challenge me with new jokes. I can now pull a Morey Amsterdam (Buddy Sorrrell from the Dick Van Dyke Show). Give me a topic? Any topic. You'll get a Jewish joke. My file of jokes, facts, and anecdotes run into the high thousands.
Q: With all that information, how accurate are your facts?
Marnie: 981/2 percent. I verify, verify, verify! One factual "WouldJew Believe" entry often involves 20 pages of research, cross-checking, and re-checking the cross-checking. After a while instinct kicks in. Excellent sources and sites make errors. The remaining 11/2 percent? As a research nut, these haunt me. For example, for years everyone reported that the real name of the late, great Walter Matthau was "Matuschanskayasky!" A few years ago I came across a small item about him that stated Matthau, not wanting to answer questions about his absentee dad, made it up as a joke.
My second Big Mistake was horrifying. I "killed" someone. I reported a famous wit as "dead" by referring to him as "the late." A reader caught it. Gevalt! How could I do such a brainless thing? I could blame my lousy hearing. But I won't. I heard part of a news show that did an obit mentioning his last name. Upset about his "passing" I failed to hear it was his wife who had died. Mortified, I called him, quaking and told him I'd mistakenly reported him as "dead." He listened, then calmly said: "I've been called worse." A witty and gracious gentleman indeed.
Q: Is there any material you won't use?
Marnie: I loathe hideous two-liners comparing Jewish Mamas to rottweilers, or anything involving "Jewish Princesses." I also find "dirty" jokes unappealing, along with jokes that overdo the stereotype.
Q: How do you feel about the new "hip" Jewish humor?
Marnie: Well, it could be a generational thing, but I don't generally find either "Heebster" humor funny, or even comprehensible in some cases.
Q: After all these years do you have a favorite joke and/or story?
Marnie: A few still break me up. One joke that comes to mind is: David received a parrot for his Bar Mitzvah. This parrot had one bad attitude and worse vocabulary. David tried to teach him manners, but the bird just got ruder. Desperate, David put him in the freezer a moment to cool off. He heard squawking, then quiet. Frightened, David quickly opened the freezer. The parrot calmly said: "I'm sorry I offended you. I shall go to synagogue, pray, and modify my behavior." Before David could ask about this astounding change, the parrot continued, "Sir ... may I ask what did the chicken do?" Maybe it's the visual … the image of all those Empire frozen chickens in my childhood freezer! The anecdotes I love are those that are surprising, outrageous, and informative.
Q: As your calendars and books are quintessentially Jewish, how do you answer those who say there's no such a thing, or offended by the label: "Jewish humor?"
Marnie: Two very Jewish comics gave me the "bewildered" stare when I asked them about "Jewish humor." Odd, as one, in particular, made his early rep. doing Jewish monologues. Yet he had the chutzpah to say there was no difference between say, Sid Caesar and Red Skelton. Ridiculous! Apart from being about Jewish subject matter, Jewish humor has a specific cadence, nuance, and subtlety. A truly evolved Jew, to my thinking, can bask in the glory that is quintessentially Jewish humor and has set trends for other ethnic humor.
Q: While some of your calendars include Holocaust and other serious history, the emphasis is on the light-hearted. What do you think these calendars contribute to you personally, and to your readers?
Marnie: So many Jews are clueless about Judaism as a religion and as a culture. My greatest naches comes from introducing them to a sense of who We Jews are. And humor is a magnificent vehicle to interest and teach. I've gotten letters and emails from those who have said their interest has been re-awakened and led them to explore further. On a personal note, old friends have contacted me after years to say they've read my calendars and books. I treasure re-uniting with them, and have maintained close relationships with so many people from my past … who remember – and have once again become part of my life. What a remarkable mitzvah!
You can buy Marnie Winston-Macauley's "The Joy of Jewish Humor 2012 Calendar" online or at fine bookstores.


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Weekend of 26th Jan ~ 28th Jan
After a long day (and week) of work, I decided to chill out and wanted to let loose all my woes and wicked worries off my tired back. So I called up a few buddies and we decided to head to a friend's apartment in Mount Kiara to chill out. Literally. The first thing we did there was to jump straight into the blissful blue of the apartment pool but as usual, we did not anticipate the 'coolness' of the pool and we found out that the waters was freakin' freezing. No matter, the pool was too good to ignore, I mean it has a damn bar in the middle of the pool, how cool is that? That night the bar was closed and no one was there to attend it, so we took it to our own and made contorted concoctions of Coke with Nescafe and beer with Hershey's chocolate syrup. Let me tell you the drinks are NOT recommended (it gives you severe gas, and being in the pool with this problem make you look like you are breathing from your behind with all those bubbles shooting out from the water). Satisfied with our bubbly underwater musical, we chilled out at the pool decks and took in the rooftop view of the crescent moon with slight joinings of silvery clouds and joyful interruptions of rain drizzles. Cool, calm and caressed by bliss, I was in rooftop heaven.
Halfway through our voyage to heaven, it started to rain pretty heavily but what the heck, we were having too much fun so we bummed at the pool bar all to our own until midnight. Of course being a swimming pool and raining, it was kinda chilly and having to be half naked from 8pm until midnight in freezing waters, I got back home and had the sneezies. Being the weakling that I am, off goes the air-conditioning and off to bed at 2am.
Well let me tell you about THIS Saturday. It started off slowly as I woke up at 'noon and being the fool that I am, I went to the office to pump up my OT amounts and of course worked off some office assignments. Took off at around 5pm and went straight to Ampang to hang out with SL. SL had RM40 of Nando's vouchers; we decided to spend the entire RM40 that night. Off to KLCC and I ordered a whole half chicken with rice and chips for myself, and she had a quarter chicken with salad and chips. Actually I suggested ordering a Platter which can easily feed 4 mal-nutrition refugees, but I decided to be humble and settle for a half chicken instead.
We chitchatted and grubbed all the food without hesitation (at least I had no hesitation anyway), but it seems it was not enough. Our demanding CEO of cuisine provisions operations (also known as our stomach) was crying out for more, so we headed off to Genki Sushi to nip and tuck. Now if this was a movie, this part would be where the big fight scenes occur, where the good guy fights the bad guy, where the climax of any movie takes place. Because in this movie, just when I was about to leave Genki Sushi, the 'Director of the movie' (or God in this case) decided to make things interesting. When I was walking towards the door and looking down at my bill and happily calculating the discount given from Citibank, I smashed right in front of the glass door and caused a shockwave of glass tremors measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale all across the Genki Peninsular. But honestly speaking, my head or whatever DID NOT hit the glass, only MY FOOT hit the glass so in a way I DID NOT HIT THE BLOODY GLASS!!! *sigh* I'M NEVER GOING BACK THERE EVER AGAIN!!!!
Walking around KLCC in a piss-off mood, I decided to abandon KLCC for the night and we headed up to Saga Hill to take in some fresh air and enjoy the view of the KL skyline. We minum-minum until 12:30am and then headed back to SL's house to watch Man Utd Vs Portsmouth which Man Utd won with contributions by Rooney's spectacular goals. After that, it was good nite until Sunday.
It's the main event of the weekend whereby me, V, S, and SL went to this Izzi Restaurant very near to Lot 10 and stuffed ourselves silly with some pretty good Italian food. The place was kinda pricey but you see, they were having this promotion for Citibank credit cards and they were dishing out 60% discounts on the final bill!!! So we let loose our taste buds and pull away our wallet restrictions to order as many dishes as possible. In the end, we over ordered and over eaten but left satisfied with the place. Overall the deco was nice with an interesting toilet design to boot plus good service, I have to say this place is indeed recommended!!!!
Left the restaurant at 9pm, but the night was mighty young. Hence, what to do what to do? We tried to 'sing K' but their package offerings were RM35 for dinner and non-stop singing per pax!! As we had our dinners, we abandoned this plan and headed to the nearest Dome café to chill out 'till 11pm. We talked 'kok' a lot and discussed on our planned trip to Bali, but as usual, nothing concrete was mentioned and continued to 'kok' until laughing like drunken hyenas high on the best drug in the world: Happiness.
Dome reached its closing time, we reached our point of satisfied 'kok'-ness and decided to adjourn for the night, thus adjourned for the weekend that was indeed, Izzi.
Just so you know, I've moved… - … to a new blog persona: http://majidah.wordpress.com Let's meet there:)
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Singer-songwriter died of organ failure due to alcohol consumption
A post on Chunklet this morning says native Ohioan Jason Molina, of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., died Saturday of organ failure from alcohol consumption.
"On Saturday night, March 16, 2013, Jason Molina, the songwriting force behind Songs:Ohia and Magnolia Electric Company died from a body that had been drowned in alcohol for years on end. He was far too young to die and his friends and fans have experienced a massive loss."
I first encountered Molina's music, like I imagine a lot of people did, during a particularly rough and somewhat dark period of my life, and his music was an immense comfort to me. Now I take comfort, like I'm sure countless others, that Jason is finally at peace.


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Opinion: Putin's Presidential Pardon
Editorial board member Matt Kaminski on the Russian president's decision to pardon Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Photo: Associated Press
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Activists want public vote on alternate rent control ordinance
Taking a lesson from the children's story about the little engine that could, rent control advocates who opposed to changes made by the City Council late last year are seeking to put the matter on the ballot in November.
The City Council passed an ordinance last November that would abolish rent control once current residents moved out of a currently rent controlled apartment. Opponents of the measure sought to put the matter on referendum several times earlier this year, but failed to meet the legal requirements for proper notice on petitions or to obtain the minimum requirement of signatures.
Saying that they have a new lease on life, the rent control advocates are taking a different approach and will seek to propose their own ordinance.
"This is similar to a referendum in that it would put this up to a public vote," said Bayonne City Clerk Robert Sloan. "But in this case, they would have to draft their own ordinance."
This ordinance would be presented to the City Council, and then if the group has enough valid signatures, it would go on the ballot in November.
But the current ordinance would remain in effect until the new ordinance is passed by the public vote in November.
"Let the people decide, not paid politicians," said Douglas Wasama, chairman of Keep Bayonne Rent Control. "We are currently circulating petitions asking registered voters in town to agree to allow all of the people of Bayonne to make the final decision on this matter. That's the democratic way."
Previous attempts failed
In their last effort in March, the Bayonne Tenants Organization came up about 70 signatures short during their drive to put the question up for a public vote. That was the second attempt by the group to reverse a City Council move from last November.
The group submitted signatures in December, but these were invalidated because of a technicality. The group failed to provide identification for the purpose on the top of each page so that those signing the petition were clear on what the petition was for.
In February, Hudson County Superior Court Judge Hector Velazquez ruled in favor of the city of Bayonne, saying that petitions filed to overturn the changes to the city's rent control ordinance were invalid. But the group got an additional 14 days to correct the deficiencies. The group collected 1,025 signatures. They needed 845 to get the question put on the ballot. But City Clerk Robert Sloan determined that only 772 were valid signatures, thus making the petition invalid.
The City Council rejected an even bigger change for rent control in July 2011 after residents complained that it was too arbitrary. Under the original proposal, a landlord could have opted out of rent control simply by doing upgrades to his or her property. This would not have protected existing tenants. The second ordinance, which was approved last November, protected existing residents, but many residents feared they might face intimidation by landlords to move out.
'Rent control affects everyone'
Property owners and some real estate representatives say rent control is one of the barriers that keeps property owners from upgrading their facilities. City officials agreed.
There are currently just fewer than 400 rent controlled units throughout the city. There are no income requirements or other criteria for living in a rent-controlled apartment, although many of those who do live in them currently would otherwise qualify for low-income housing. Unfortunately, there is a waiting list for the low-income housing.
Modern rent control laws have their roots in the Civil Rights movement and were instituted in many cities in the 1970s, along with other social reform programs, such as affirmative action. New Jersey is one of four states that give communities a local option to pass rent control laws. About 100 cities in the state still have some version of rent control, although it is seen as something being phased out in modern times.
"We are pursuing this petition drive under the initiative process provided by state law," Wasama said. "When we accumulate a sufficient number of signatures from qualified voters, the people will be allowed to determine the outcome of this extremely important public question for themselves, and overturn the awful and callous action of the City Council."
Wasama went on to say that rent control in a city like Bayonne affects everyone, not just tenants.
"Without rent control, there will be a terrible ripple effect throughout the community," he said. "The result would be a severe negative impact on both businesses and even property owners, deepening the economic recession and high unemployment rates that our city already faces." Needing to collect signatures by the end of July, Wasama urged the public to sign this initiative when approached by their neighbors circulating the petition.
"By signing to allow this matter to be placed on the ballot, people will be helping to keep Bayonne's future economically viable, while showing their support for keeping Bayonne a livable and family-oriented community. This can only be accomplished by exercising our right to participate in the democratic process during this presidential election year," Wasama said.


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That's just one of many questions my family and I have been asked since heading for the Outer Banks of North Carolina and forsaking the Jersey Shore in 1991. Little did we know at the time that one trip would turn into a lifetime passion.
Why do so many people drive around with those white oval stickers on their car and the letters "OBX"? For us, that answer is simple. It is where stress takes a holiday. It's that straightforward.
To be honest, my favorite part is sitting on the beach and watching the water come in and go out; in and go out. With the pelicans patrolling overhead and the red knots feverishly dashing back and forth to beat the waves while looking for their next meal. You can feel the 50 weeks of stress slowly ooze out of your body.
My wife and one of my daughters, on the other hand, love sightseeing. Are you interested in lighthouses? There are four of them to see. How about historical sites? Well there is the Wright Brothers National Memorial, the Lost Colony, and many others we will talk about.
And I should not forget shopping ... How could I forget that? Something else my wife and kids (we have three, two girls and a boy) are experts at (well maybe not my son).
Maybe you are into fishing or water sports. Well let me tell you, you can do some of the best fishing right off the beaches, as well as the boat charter route from Oregon's Inlet. In addition, the southern Outer Banks is a haven for surfers, wind surfers and kite surfers. And of course, there are always the wave runners in Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds. We will get into all of this.
And by the way, the Outer Banks is not just a great summer beach location. We've been going between Christmas and New Years for the past six years, and we'll tell you about some of the neat things that go on during that time period.
Some of the things we will be writing about as we build this site out are:
In addition, we'd like to hear from you. We've added pages so you can actually put in your thoughts. Do you have a favorite vacation memory? Follow the link to have your story told in your own words! What about that fishing story or golf story you've been telling your friends and family about for years? Follow the links to share it with Outer Banks Revealed visitors! We want to share your stories as much as our own to give everyone the full OBX experience. Look for the invitation at the bottom of select pages to join in and help others appreciate this wonderful place. Lord knows during those times when we are not physically there, we would all love to have something to jog our memory of this unforgettable place. And anyone who has ever gone to the Outer Banks has something valuable to share with others.
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|From Tom of WI
This site is special. It is a compact, easy to use, "everything you need to know" about OBX. This had to take you hours upon hours. Thank you for sharing your experiences with the OBX which in turns helps others create their memories. I went through this area in my teens on a vacation and felt drawn to it ever since. That ferry ride to the Ocracoke Island is unforgettable. I've been back to the OBX several times as an adult, although it has been a decade. When the kids get older, I plan to return!
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Soriano, Valbuena homer to help Garza sink Cards
Amid trade rumors, righty allows two runs over 6 2/3, fans four
CHICAGO -- If this was Matt Garza's last game with the Cubs, they gave him quite the sendoff.
Luis Valbuena smacked a two-run home run and Alfonso Soriano hit a solo shot and a double Saturday night to power Garza and the Cubs to a 6-4 win over the Cardinals in front of 42,240, the largest crowd of the season at Wrigley Field.
It was nearly a historic night. Garza was vying to become the first Cubs pitcher in 61 years to go six straight starts of at least seven innings with one or no earned runs allowed since Warren Hacker did so in 1952. But Allen Craig's RBI single in the seventh was the second run off the right-hander. Garza was pulled after giving up a season-high 10 hits over 6 2/3 innings, and throwing 113 pitches.
The crowd gave Garza a standing ovation as he exited, but he was ticked, and not because he was trying to tie Hacker.
"I don't really like not finishing through the seventh," Garza said. "Against a team like these guys, you keep pounding away. These guys are gritty and just keep grinding."
What about the applause?
"It's awesome, but 6 2/3 [innings] doesn't deserve that," Garza said. "Seven, eight, nine [innings] does. I appreciate it, but I hope this isn't my last one."
Who knows? He's been able to shrug off the flurry of trade rumors, which he jokes have followed him everywhere. The Rangers had two scouts at Wrigley to watch the right-hander, while the Tigers, Orioles, Pirates and Blue Jays also had representatives present. Others were probably watching on TV.
"You get caught up in it, but I've been through it so much that I'm just oblivious to it until something happens," Garza said of the rumors. "It's stressful, but at the same time, I have a great outlook. I get to pitch every five days. I just keep going and keep looking forward to that next five days."
"He's handled it great," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said about the speculation. "Obviously, he went through this last year at the same time when his name was all around. It goes unsaid how he's handled it. He's pitched in as good a five-game stretch as he has in his whole career. He's obviously handled it extremely well."
But Garza's 2012 season was cut short because of elbow problems, and he made his last start on July 21. A strained lat sidelined him in Spring Training this year, and he didn't make his first start until May 21. If a team does deal for him, they're getting a starting pitcher who is fairly fresh.
In his last five starts, Garza is 5-0 with a 1.47 ERA and 33 strikeouts over 36 2/3 innings. All five have been quality starts and Saturday was the first time he didn't go at least seven innings. He's been matched up with catcher Dioner Navarro all five starts as well.
"I just put down suggestions, and he knows what he wants to do," Navarro said. "We have a game plan."
Did Garza shake him off at all?
"He shook me off more times today, and that's why his pitch count was way up," Navarro said, laughing.
The Cardinals, playing without Matt Holliday, took a 1-0 lead in the second on Tony Cruz's RBI single.
The Cubs then batted around in the second. Soriano doubled to lead off and Navarro followed with a single to right that Carlos Beltran overran for an error. Soriano scored on the miscue, and one out later, Dave Sappelt hit an RBI single to go ahead, 2-1. Darwin Barney reached on a single and Garza bunted for a hit that floated past a diving Lance Lynn. One out later, Sappelt scored on Starlin Castro's infield single.
There was quite the buzz in the crowd, and Sveum said they noticed.
"Once we took that lead, I think the players really felt how big a game this was for us," Sveum said.
Soriano led off the third with his 16th home run of the season and No. 180 with the Cubs to move into sole possession of 11th place on the franchise's all-time list, passing Derrek Lee. It was Soriano's ninth homer in his last 15 games.
Barney singled to open the fourth and set up Valbuena's home run, his eighth. The two blasts off Lynn were a rarity; he'd given up five in his previous 18 starts.
The Cardinals loaded the bases with one out in the eighth against Blake Parker, taking advantage of an error by right fielder Julio Borbon who couldn't catch pinch-hitter Yadier Molina's fly ball. Parker exited, and Matt Carpenter hit a sacrifice fly off James Russell. St. Louis added another run off Kevin Gregg in the ninth, but he held on for his 17th save in 19 opportunities.
The Cubs now have won six of their last eight games, and close the first half on Sunday. Sveum will spend the All-Star break in Las Vegas, visiting his daughter. Any surprises in the first half?
"I don't know about surprises," said Sveum, who has had to revamp the bullpen because of injuries and ineffectiveness. "We've just come up short [in some games] and a lot of that is not being able to hold guys down in the later innings."
The only surprise in the second half may be if Garza stays with the Cubs past the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline. Garza told his agent that he didn't want to talk about a contract extension, which the Cubs have discussed, so he could focus on preparing for the game. He felt the buzz from the crowd.
"It's awesome, it's a great place to play, a great place to pitch," Garza said. "The fans really embrace you when you do your job. When you don't, they embrace you, but not in a positive way. I like it here, I love it here, but it is what it is."
And it might have been his last start in a Cubs uniform.


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Cubs in better position as Trade Deadline nears
CHICAGO -- A year ago at the July 31 Trade Deadline, the Cubs dealt two of their starters, lost another to injury, and then shut down another in early September. They had to scramble to fill in the gaps.
This year, the Cubs have already traded one starter -- Scott Feldman -- and Matt Garza could also change uniforms. But this year, the Cubs feel they are better prepared to handle the moves.
"There's no question the pitching staff we ran out there in September was short," Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer said Wednesday. "I think we feel a lot better about that. We have more depth in the Minor Leagues, more depth on the Major League roster. It was hard to watch [last year]. ... Shutting down [Jeff] Samardzija was incredibly hard because we didn't have anyone to fill in for him."
The Cubs expect Scott Baker, who has been rehabbing from Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, to be ready in about a month. Jake Arrieta, acquired from the Orioles in the Feldman deal, also could start. Plus, they already have Carlos Villanueva, who has gone from the rotation to the 'pen and back to the rotation.
Chris Rusin and Brooks Raley, who both made their Major League debuts last season, also have another year of experience.
"There's obviously no question we're much more equipped than last year," manager Dale Sveum said.
Garza is the prime pitcher on the trade market, and Hoyer acknowledged that he has received a lot of interest.
"There's obviously a lot of incoming phone calls," Hoyer said. "There's a lot about Matt, obviously, but a lot about other players on the team, too. I think in general in the game, phone traffic has picked up. I feel there's a lot of interest in our players. The team is playing well, and a lot of our individual players are playing well. I think that's a big part of it."
Scouts are keeping an eye on closer Kevin Gregg and outfielder Nate Schierholtz.


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What is the difference between education and training?
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What is the difference between education and training?
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Schools and companies commonly use the word "Training" when actually all they are delivering is scholastic education. Our company clearly distinguishes between the two which increases our effectiveness and to differentiate what we deliver to customers (what most call students) from others like colleges. I thought it would be interesting to get this group's members opinion on the difference between "Training" and "Education", and to get group members thinking about it.
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This is one of those questions, the answers to which will be easy to pick apart. But, I will venture a beginning:
Training is task-oriented. It is circumscribed by circumstances such as location, goal, job, career. Training's intent is to master a task, method or approach.
Education is a broader activity that spans locations, goals, careers. Education's intent is life guiding, life changing and lasting.
Training can have lifelong import. But, the focus is on a specific task or goal.
Education often includes task-learning.
Enough. A more important task now demands my attention – breakfast – I have been trained well for this lifelong task.
Executive Director at SCI-EDUCATION SYSTEM,LONDON UK
Training direct develop skills for different profession but education reflects research and update knowledge.
Faculty at American InterContinental University
When asked the difference between education and training, a 4-star general replied…do you want your daughter to have sex training or sex education? Nearly everyone in the audience (1,000+) fell out of there seats. After the laughter subsided, the general went on to reply "fundamentally, education is focused on developing critical thinking skills (know why) that help enable creative solutions, whereas training is about developing specific skill sets (know how) for consistently reliable results." That said, while there is a large grey area between training and education, per se, when does education stop and training begin, the outcome of both is learning. As a former Air Force flight instructor, I told my students they are educated in the aerodynamics of flight, but trained on how to fly.
Workplace Performance Improvement, Training, Instructional Design, Independent Writer
I just finished reading The Eden Conspiracy: Educating for Accomplished Citizenship by Joe Harless (1998). He explains (p. 157): "Training and education are often differentiated by saying education is to provide knowledge for unpredictable circumstances; training is for predictable circumstances."
He also states education is provided in school, (K-college) and training is provided after school (knowledge and skills provided on-the-job). Since Harless published this book, the delivery options of education and training has changed, thanks to the Internet. Education and training can occur anywhere, and without proper context, someone can mix the labels and confuse being trained for a specific task with being educated about something they can use to determine if they should use the task they've been trained on.
Harless, J. (1998). The Eden Conspiracy: Educating for Accomplished Citizenship . Wheaton, IL: Guild V Publications.


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The Presence of the Past in Fallout 3
Fallout 3 offers much to swoon over. In hindsight though, the most memorable moments from my game play are not slow-motion replays of exploding super mutant heads. Most of the in-game moments that have stuck with me involve interactions with, Apple II-ish green-screened in-game terminals. Computers that have apparently been running since before the nuclear holocaust.
For those unfamiliar with the Fallout universe the description, and links, from the fallout wiki offer a bit of context. :
The game is set in a post-apocalyptic, retro-futurist Washington, DC following the Great War between the US, China and other countries. The Great War was a conventional and nuclear war that occurred on October 23,2077 and lasted less than two hours despite causing immense damage and destruction. Before the Great War were the Resource Wars, during which the United Nations disbanded, a plague rendered the United States paranoid, and Canada was annexed.
Playing the game is reconstructing it's fictional past
As the fan wiki definition suggests, the fictitious history of this world is of critical importance to the player community. After nearly 70 hrs of game play I never really cared about my character. I didn't really care about her father. For that matter, I didn't really care much about any of the characters in the game. Instead, I was enthralled with playing the game as a kind of future archeologist, excavating our present through traces left on these terminals and strewn about the physical landscape.
What is interesting here is how I like to play the game. (Really, who cares about my idiosyncrasies?) What matters is that developers at Bethesda thought enough people wanted to play the game this way. So much so, that they invested a substantial amount of time and energy rounding out these parts of the game. Many of these moments have no role in the games over-arching narrative. The optional nature of these discoveries makes them all the more fascinating. The idea that many players miss this women's story makes that story feel all the more powerful.
Reading the Germantown Logs
Late one evening, several months back, after fending off a batch of super mutants (or were they ghouls??) in the fenced in area around the former Germantown Police Headquarters I stumbled across a set of log entries. The 8 log entries, written by Nancy Kroydon reportedly of the National Catastrophe Relief Auxiliary – Response Unit MD-478. The logs record her experiences before and after the nuclear attack on Washington D.C. I have included the text from a few of the logs below. Feel free to read them or just skip to my analysis and come back to them. You can read the full log entry transcripts on the Fallout Wiki.
The first entry establishes the context. Nancy is in charge of a medical response unit which has been deployed to respond to a potential Chinese attack on the Capitol.
We were mobilized in the early evening. My security clearance isn't high enough to know this on an official level, but I have it on good authority that we're under threat of a Chinese attack. I don't dare share this with the girls; most of them are a solid sort, but I can't trust that some won't desert to try and protect themselves or their families, and wind up spreading panic, especially on flimsy rumors based on flimsier intelligence from DoD. We haven't been debriefed yet, but it's probably safe to assume we'll be on an evacuation detail in the rural areas. Our unit scored somewhat poorly in the last round of drills, and the high-flyers always get the urban details; we'll be stuck herding farmers and hermits in the hills.
The second log reports the aftermath of the attack. In it Nancy shares her fear and confusion, as well as the realization that a colleague's unit has likely already died.
This can't have happened. We don't even know if it was the Chinese, but DC was hit. My God. Andrea's unit was on evac detail right on the Belt Loop. Dear God. More bombs. What's happening?
Skipping ahead, log six establishes the dire situation. Prussian blue and filgrastim, are both real treatments for radiation poisoning.
We're low on Prussian Blue. Most of them don't know what that really means, for which I'm thankful. One of the local doctors in our camp knows about a cancer treatment facility not too far from here. We're sending some of the guardsmen out to investigate. If they can recover any filgrastim, we might be able to stave off widespread radiation sickness a little longer.
Log seven documents the beginning of the end.
These days I feel like more of a preacher than a nurse. We've lost hope that the reservists will be back. I can only hope they died with some scrap of honor and didn't abandon us. Without medication, people are succumbing to radiation sickness, for which there is no hope of treatment. We can do nothing more than make our patients comfortable as we await the end. When the painkillers and whiskey run out, prayer is all that we can offer them. I've taken to wearing a headwrap; I don't want them to see how much of my own hair has fallen out.
In the following log she records a goodbye, reporting that she realizes she will soon die, she hopes that someone will find and read her record.
Fallout 3: Worlds Best History/Archeology Sim
What strikes me about these logs is the layers of authenticity they provide for the kinds of thinking that historians and archeologists use to produce histories. As players unearth and develop a sense of what happened in this world from these kinds of records they do so in strikingly similar ways to historians and archeologists. For example:
- Interpreting authentic forms of writing: People don't leave history books around, they leave personal journal entries, duty logs, planning documents, etc. Part of playing the historical game is to imagine yourself in the role of the creator of the document and read them on the terms they were written.
- Dealing with gaps: There is no complete record. The game requires players to extrapolate from disparate and scant sources. This in part creates the mystery that drives the history game (both for fallout players and for real life historians.)
- The documents are full of relevant and irrelevant information: The documents contain all kinds of potentially relevant and irrelevant technical information. Players need to be able to tell what does and doesn't matter in the morass of materials they come across.
- Relevance of the information is connected to what you want to know: The above documents include information about personal reactions, about strategic decision making, about attempts to get into the Vaults. Depending on what you are interested in you will need to pay attention to different parts of the documents.
- Resequencing evidence: As you acquire information you need to piece it together. Things only come in sequence, like these logs, in cases where that is legitimate to the artifact. As you travel the world you need to put these pieces back together into your own history of the world.
- Dealing with conflicting evidence: The authenticity of the documents is further challenged by the fact that people lie, people frame things in ways that make them look good, some people (and robots) are just plain delusional. In The Wasteland Survival Guide quest line this becomes explicit, as you talk to different individuals in rivet city and are required to weigh the truth of different stakeholders accounts and corroborate those accounts with physical evidence.
- You can't help but read the ending into the documents: When you are standing in the wastes, reading the first log entry you are already reading into it the fact that this is going to end badly. As someone in a historical moment you cannot help but read that moment into every sentence of the account.
Despite having no history in it Fallout 3 is the world best history game
There is no history in Fallout 3. Or more specifically, the idea of history as what happened in the past is not in the game. However, it is the best game I have played at getting at historical thinking. Frankly, the idea of history as what happened in the past is the least interesting and least important kind of history. Much more important is the idea that history is the thing that historians do. In this sense, history is not what happened in the past, but instead the negotiation and creation of our understanding of the past. While the content of the game is not an authentic past it does provide a captivating space to develop the kinds of critical tools for thought that historians develop. Beyond being the most authentic notion of history, the idea of history as tools for thought is the most important contribution history can offer to the education of citizens in a democratic society.
Like everything, this only works because players care
The lesson here is not, "hey, lets put a bunch of text documents in something and call it a game." The only reason this works is that before I got to the Germantown logs I spent 20+ hours becoming interested and immersed in this world. I was immersed in the art. I had become paranoid about walking in open spaces or on clearly marked trails. My heart raced as I crawled my way through the abandoned and collapsed Metro tunnels. Once you care about a world you will do all kinds of things that look like work, or homework. Even more fascinating than the fact that people want to do this is the fact that there are people that want to document this. This post would not have been possible without the Vault, the amazingly comprehensive fan wiki which has just about every spot, item, character, and event in the game documented.
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A surprising number of video games depend on a deep imaginary history–they're driven by a kind of "historicity"and even if you don't uncover it, it lends emotional weight.
If only they had better weapons in the Civil War, and left big stashed of ammo lying around
This kind of imaginary historicity is implicit in a lot of fantasy and science fiction literature as well. Here's Jo Walton, at the sci fi site Tor.com on world-building science fiction and what it asks of its readers:
"Having a world unfold in one's head is the fundamental SF experience. It's a lot of what I read for. … Because SF can't take the world for granted, it's had to develop techniques for doing it. There's the simple infodump, which Neal Stephenson has raised to an artform in its own right. There are lots of forms of what I call incluing, scattering pieces of information seamlessly through the text to add up to a big picture. The reader has to remember them and connect them together. This is one of the things some people complain about as "too much hard work" and which I think is a high form of fun. SF is like a mystery where the world and the history of the world is what's mysterious, and putting that all together in your mind is as interesting as the characters and the plot, if not more interesting. We talk about worldbuilding as something the writer does, but it's also something the reader does, building the world from the clues."
Ourstanding analysis! I remember finding these logs in the game, and as much their existence is their location: out in the scarred remains of the waste. Their authenticity was tied to their location as much as their content.
This type of thinking, this historicity, is what was missing from Elder Scrolls IV. There were ruins out in the world, but they served no purpose and themselves had no story other than to loot them. One unique feature of TES IV, though, was the presence of other adventurers, other archeologists who would wander through the ruins and offer you a conversation. It was only in passing though: they themselves contributed nothing other than a hello. Such a lost opportunity.
Another fantastic example of this archeology in Fallout 3 came in the Anchorage monument on the way to the fire ant quest-line. There was no reason to search that structure unless you cared about finding all the logs, about digging deep enough to find out what happened to all the inhabitants.
I identify with your earlier statements. I, too, couldn't care one lick about my character and didn't really connect with any of the NPCs. Sure, their stiffness was an aspect, but that wasn't all of it.
The most powerful moments in the game were all the incidentals, a few of which you pointed out. For instance, coming across a thrown-together hovel and finding a bit of food and a checkerboard. The skeletal remains in the corner cause me to mentally reconstruct what those poor souls' lives were like.
No XP, no plot relevance, nothing but bones and a board. Still gives me chills. Great piece, sir.
Damnit Trevor! My friends have been telling me for a couple years now that I need to play Fallout. I think all 5 of my close group of guy friends have played this. They all love it and have been saying what a great game it is. But I haven't had time to give to another game except WoW and nothing about what they were saying was enough of an argument to get me to switch. Now you start talking about history of the game and get me interested in playing after all. Not enough time in the world to play all the good games 🙂
Terrific post, Trevor. "Much more important is the idea that history is the thing that historians do. … Beyond being the most authentic notion of history, the idea of history as tools for thought is the most important contribution history can offer to the education of citizens in a democratic society." Damn – you've just mooted and preempted a half dozen things I intended to post on this site!
I wholeheartedly agree with your conclusion about inferred history in Fallout 3. Although for myself I felt less drawn to the computer terminals (they seemed a bit contrived, like Design Notes left scattered around the world because the writers wanted people to know they had thought deeply about that particular alley or store) but were enjoyable nevertheless. Definitely done better than the TES literature (books mostly) but seemed a bit too standard (as TES was books, most of these were on terminals).
Rather, the actual visual spectacle that the world presented left me ashamed. Little additions of coke bottles, burnt out signs, old stuffed animals, pictures on the walls of a child's room, a safe unopened but set into a wall that had already been broken into, and so on. I think I literally spent a half dozen hours just wandering mesmerized through landscape after landscape hungering after the smallest little details, which told the story better than anything else could have.
What would be interesting (regarding the actual content of your post) would be to take the Afghanistan or Iraqi War logs (or any of the Cablegate logs released by WikiLeaks) and stick those in a modern game about any of the wars that the US is currently involved in. I'm not sure of the legality of that procedure, but it would definitely takes history and shove it a new one.
I agree with this agreement.
I loved the logs (Little Lamplight springs to mind), but also the little vignettes.
A couple of skeletons lying together in bed…
An abandoned shelter under a ruined bridge…
I find Fallout's world staggeringly beautiful.
In game design terms this is the 'discover backstory' method, and it's a very powerful and useful way of combining interaction and storytelling. You write the (non-interactive as it's already happened) backstory on the landscape, and it can be discovered (or not) in any way the player chooses (interactive).
Stitching together the mystery yourself is a very personal and engaging experience, and immesurably better than just being told. This is why walkthroughs are so dry and hollow, and why computer game plots often seem trite when described as a story, not an experience.
Well written examples can even twist your perception of events by having a single, well hidden, critical clue change the meaning/context of the whole situation. Milla's Dance Party in Psychonauts is a great example, but Deus Ex pulls this one off nicely too.
And sadly, there's almost nothing like this in the Obsidian developed Fallout: New Vegas. They simply dropped the ball and the pathos of FO3 is palpably missing.
I'd have to disagree, there's a number of pieces that tie-in to imagined history in New Vegas. Here's a few that come to mind:
-The farmsteads along the north end of the map.
-The various shacks littered all throughout the wastes.
-The H&H Tool factory, and the whole backstory regarding the rivalry between Robert House and his brother.
-Vault 11 and the history of its elections with effects on human psychology (I found this in particular more shining than the biggest history descriptions in all of Fallout 3)
-Vault 22 and its unusual greenhouse facilities
-Vault 34, its relationship to the Boomers, and the history of its mutiny
I know there are more but they escape my mind at the moment
Granted, some of it was a bit more humorous than Fallout 3, although that's because New Vegas used much the same play area as Fallout 1 & Fallout 2 and had to keep continuity with those games. Across the entire series I've been constantly amazed to the attention to detail the designers had when peppering the wastes with various bits and pieces of a century-old world that fell into destruction. New Vegas was just as detailed in my opinion as Fallout 3 ever was. With both games, I urge myself to go find every conceivable location in the hopes of seeing more detail on what life was like before the Great War.
I bought this game with all the add-ons for the 360 and I passed the game and all the add-ons alike… I have to say that I was never able to play the bad guy.. the one time I tried was the mission where you have to blow megaton up.. instead of triggering the bomb I shot both tenpenny and mister burke. This game is awesome.
Your assessment is wonderful, and I really only enjoy games that don't hit you over the head with their story.
The best example I can think of regarding this is the original Myst game, perhaps along with Riven. There are the puzzles, too, sure, but most of the game can be spent reading Atrus's journals and the letters and other messages between the two brothers. It's entirely up to you to piece together what exactly happened to Myst Island and its eerily solitary Ages. It is an interesting idea to exercise history through games, what a great post.
If you haven't played Morrowind, you should. The books in the game — scattered across the continent in libraries, on the shelves of random people, and in odd locations — weave a whole world of backstory drawn from the mythology of the elder scrolls.
I find it interesting that I liked learning the history in the Fallout worlds (Vegas and 3) games and not in Dragon Age Origins. In DAO you even get XP for reading the scrolls lying around, but I never actually read them. Maybe it's the size of the docs or that I'm not really invested in the world (I stopped playing DAO since I found it too restricting and rail-like).
In FO though, there is a certain satisfaction of taking in the environment and reading the surroundings that evokes the mood of films like The Omega Man or Mad Max and brings to fore their associated feelings of loneliness, despair, hope, desperation etc. Even the content of the memos to employees in REPCONN HQ contrasts the games' world with the irrelevant and petty concerns of a safe, pre-war era and makes the player nostalgic for a once civilized world. I don't know but, I find this more interesting than learning about a medieval cult through some arcane scroll…
I must say, this is an excellent post. I felt the exact same way as you. You have to discover the story, it isn't really given to you. My favorite parts were to just walk around a building a try to figure out what the people that worked/lived there went through. This game really indulges mt love for history. Keep 'em coming!
Your suggestion that Fallout 3 was "the world's best history game" reminded me Opera Omnia, a game in which you play as a historian, reconstructing history. It's also extremely sinister.
(Great article!)
This too, is why I loved Fallout 3 and why I can't really get into New Vegas. Fallout 3 felt like a real place with, as you say, history. In New Vegas it mostly feels as the world didn't exist more than a few decades ago.
Fascinating article!
I'm intrigued by the idea this presents of teaching or telling a story about the near future by telling the story as if in the far future looking back.
Suppose you wanted to talk about alternate energy for example. Telling the story as a "what if" look forward into the near future could be fraught with peril with a strong risk of "you got it wrong!" feedback from readers. But telling the story as if looking back presents a whole new perspective where one can take interesting liberties by saying, "This is how we perceived the past" as opposed to the "This is how we perceive the future."
Not to disagree with you on what history is and how historical analysis works, but to me most of those logs felt contrived and unconvincing. It was as though the author was aware that future readers will be doing the seven things you're listing and wrote their journal in a way that plays upon that, e.g. realising that historians will have to deal with gaps in evidence, the journal writer chooses which bits to leave out so that the full story is never told in detail but there is very little confusion about the broad strokes of what happened.
However, that is just bad (in my subjective opinion) writing on the part of the game-makers. I otherwise feel the same as you: exploring the fossils of the past is the most engaging and enjoyable quest in the Fallout series.
I agree that the sense of history is powerful- I think it is what makes _Fallout 3_ work. This is something that I think Bethesda did even better in their earlier game _Morrowind_. In that game, there was NO authoritative narrative voice- the player actually had to do the work of an historian, reconstructing the entire narrative based on conflicting accounts.
The thing that really kept me playing Fallout 3 was the game world itself- every location told a story. I've yet to play a game that had so much attention to detail pretty much everywhere you went.
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She has brought new attention and renewed scrutiny to the well-established practice of interning for credit but no pay, advocating against the "intern mill," where private companies take on many interns and use them to do work that would normally be done by paid employees. "While it has become commonplace for companies to have unpaid interns who earn school credit, many are violating the law by using interns to do work, rather than providing them with an educational experience that mimics what they would learn in school," said Bien. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, unpaid internships are only legal if they meet certain criteria, including that the internship experience is similar to a classroom or educational experience, the intern does not provide a direct advantage to the employer, and the intern does not displace regular employees. Internships in which interns do work alongside paid employees or reduce the workload of paid employees by shouldering some of their work are not legal. "Young people eager to join the workforce are rightly concerned," said Bien. "A number of large companies have sought to reduce their labor costs by using interns to do the work of entry-level employees for free. Young workers hopeful to get their foot in the door are accepting these conditions, even though many know that they should be paid and are being taken advantage of." These cases raise fundamental issues with the interning for credit programs that many colleges and universities use, namely that students are paying the institution for course credit, but the institution is not ensuring that the students' internship experience is of educational value. Bien recently struck a settlement in a class-action case against "The Charlie Rose Show." The settlement dictates that Rose will pay 190 ex-interns who worked for him between 2006 and 2012 up to $1,100 each. Though that case settled before dispositive motions were filed, Bien expects that two similar cases filed against Fox Searchlight Pictures and Hearst Corp. will be decided by courts in the Southern District. Leila Hull '09 Wins Victory for Protection of Miranda Rights Leila Hull '09, Staff Attorney for Appellate Advocates, recently won a significant victory for her clients in People v. Dunbar (2010-04786) in the New York Appellate Division, Second Department. On behalf of the defendant, Hull argued that a script that Queens' law enforcement officials read to the defendant in a pre-arraignment interview program rendered subsequent Miranda warnings ineffective, stripping the defendant of his constitutional right against self-incrimination and requiring a new trial. The case was one of three cases challenging the interview program, and all were decided in favor of the defendants. "We are happy that the Appellate Division found the systematic practice of the Queens Central Booking pre-Miranda interview program unconstitutional. These decisions are important not only for our three individual clients but also for the thousands of past and future defendants who were, or in the future could be, confused or misled about their fundamental constitutional rights," Hull and her colleague Allegra Glashausser said in a statement. Hull said that her experience as a student at Brooklyn Law School, where she learned the basic building blocks for her advocacy work, has been very helpful in structuring arguments as an appellate attorney. "When I stepped into this case, the material took me right back to Professor Herman's Criminal Procedure class and learning the genesis of Miranda," said Hull. The case remains pending as the Queens District Attorney has sought leave to the Court of Appeals. Eleonora Zlotnikova '11 Obtains Early U.S. Supreme Court Experience Eleonora Zlotnikova, an associate of Sam. P. Israel P.C., a boutique commercial litigation firm, recently had an opportunity that most experienced attorneys don't have—to work on a case that was argued in front of the United States Supreme Court. "It was really amazing to work on a case heard by the highest court in the land," said Zlotnikova. "And it was especially rewarding to see our client's arguments help shape this area of copyright law." The case was Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, decided by the Court in March. Zlotnikova helped shape the concept of the argument and developed ideas that contributed to the brief, which ultimately won the case. Before the Court was the "First Sale" doctrine, that states once a publisher first sells a copyrighted work, it loses any right to object to a later resale of that copy. This rule ultimately allows a customer to sell a used book to a second-hand bookstore that in turn can then sell used books to its customers. The case involved a Thai national who came to the United States for school. To help pay for his education, Mr. Kirtsaeng imported and resold textbooks purchased from bookstores in Thailand. When Wiley, a major American publisher, learned of Kirtsaeng's activity, it filed suit for copyright infringement. The district court found for Wiley and the Second Circuit affirmed. With contradictory rulings by the Second, Third and Ninth Circuits, the Supreme Court granted certiorari. The Court considered a provision of the Copyright Act that permits the owner of a copy that was "lawfully made under this title" to resell the work. Wiley argued that the books printed in Thailand were not "lawfully made under this title," and thus Kirtsaeng could not lawfully resell them. The issue was whether the First Sale doctrine applies to copyrighted works manufactured overseas. The Court ruled that the First Sale doctrine applies to all books, wherever made. As Zlotnikova explained, this is a copyright law victory that clarifies an important issue affecting a large secondary resale market including Amazon.com and Ebay. "Consider the burden that would occur to the user if the publisher's point of view were adopted," said Zlotnikova. "Would people know to check where something is made? It would subject participants in the secondary market to incredible liability under copyright law." While at BLS, Zlotnikova focused on securities law and commercial law, and interned at the SEC in the Summer Honors Program–Enforcement Division. She joined her current firm after graduation, where she focuses on a variety of commercial litigation, copyright, securities, art law and other intellectual property cases. 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MIAMI (AP) -- Family members of a 13-year-old Florida girl fatally shot while riding a school bus with her younger sister say they forgive the boy who allegedly did it, but the victim's mother insisted Wednesday that he also "has to pay for what he did."
A 15-year-old boy was charged with manslaughter after police say he took a gun out of a backpack and showed it to other students during the ride to school Tuesday. Investigators say he fired it once in an apparent accident, striking Lourdes Guzman.
The girl, known as Jina to her family and friends and identified as Lourdes Guzman-DeJesus on her Facebook page, died later at a Miami hospital.
"How did it happen? How did he have it on him? How did nobody notice?" asked the girl's mother, who identifies herself on Facebook as Ady DeJesus. "I want answers myself."
DeJesus said her daughter wanted to be a lawyer, was responsible, and was good at school.
The boy was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon. He waived his right to appear in court Wednesday morning and will remain in a juvenile detention center. The Associated Press generally does not identify juvenile offenders.
Messages left with juvenile division officials and the alleged shooter's mother were not immediately returned Wednesday.
Police have not released additional information about the shooting. Miami-Dade Police spokeswoman Aida Fina-Milan said that based on the charges "it appears to have been an accident."
Eight other children, including Guzman's 7-year-old sister, were on the bus but were not harmed. Authorities took the children and the bus driver to a police station to be interviewed. The bus was not equipped with video surveillance equipment.
DeJesus said her 7-year-old daughter called her after the shooting.
"She just started screaming. And, then the bus driver started talking to me," DeJesus said.
Tuesday, the family issued a statement by the victim's mother describing the girl as "fun-loving, helpful, a happy girl."
"Feels like just yesterday I saw her running around in her Pamper, dancing and modeling for the camera," the mother said. "Times and moments spent with Jina are memories I will cherish and keep in my heart forever."
The girl attended Palm Glades Preparatory Academy, a charter middle school. Her sister went to nearby Summerville Advantage Academy.
The teen suspect attended Somerset Academy, said Lynn Norman-Teck, a spokeswoman for the Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools.
Norman-Teck said all three schools made grief counselors available to students.
The school bus was operated by Yelimar & Portieles. There are no records of the company with the state's Division of Corporations or the Better Business Bureau, and telephone messages left with a number listed on the side of the bus in which the shooting happened were not returned.
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Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, a Cleveland-based consulting firm, said one area of school-bus safety that is weak in schools across the nation is driver training on behavior management and crisis intervention.
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The Florida Department of Education has state requirements to become a school bus driver, including a criminal background check, drug screening and 40 hours of pre-service training. There is no requirement specified on training for managing students who misbehave or act violently on a bus.
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