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The Sulzberger family has been in the newspaper business for a very long time. When they decide that they want to shape public perception they know how to do it.
Theirs is an important, even awesome, power in a mass society like the United States but it is a delicately balanced power – if they abuse their power they can lose their legitimacy and thus their power. That happened most recently to the Times when they promoted the idea that, indeed, Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. That helped lay the groundwork for a war the Times now believes was a mistake.
Thus, when they decided recently that the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama (a candidate already advocating another dangerous war!) was too important to ignore, yet at the same time so critical for their political purposes to debunk, their method had to be pitch perfect.
How did they do it?
Well, asking that is a bit like asking David Blaine, the famous illusionist, how he does his famous card tricks. He won't tell you. And we, the unsuspecting public, will never be told precisely how the Times decided to cover the Ayers/Obama story.
But since I was a critical part of their story – I was interviewed numerous times by three different Times reporters over the last few weeks – I know a few things about it and I know enough to suggest a theory.
Like Blaine and all great magicians, the Times created an attractive distraction – something apparently so compelling that all would turn their heads in one direction while, in fact, the real story was missed altogether.
In the case of the Ayers/Obama relationship the illusion is the suggestion that there is any link at all between, on the one hand, the violent tactics, as opposed to the fundamental political viewpoint, of Bill Ayers from approximately 1969 until his decision to turn himself into the authorities in 1980, and, on the other hand, the views and policies of Barack Obama.
During that period Ayers and his fellow Weather Underground activists carried out a series of bombings that did extensive property damage and in one instance killed three of their own members. Of course, the wider damage was political not physical because as Ayers was blowing up government offices he was also helping to destroy the reputation of the most important social movements of the 1960s, including the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement.
It has, of course, been the narrow minded approach of the Republican party to attack Obama by attempting to link him to Ayers history as a terrorist.
What was so artful, in a way, about the magic of the Times story on Obama is that they used the very same episode out of Ayers' life to hide the real story. Thus, their headline read: "Obama and '60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths." This was a very carefully chosen headline. Two images are created: one, the link to the violent tactics used by Ayers for a few years out of his forty year political career and then, two, the metaphor of "crossed paths" – as if the two just happened to, well, cross paths while walking their dogs around their Hyde Park neighborhood. The former is the Republican story and the latter is the Obama campaign's story.
But neither is the real story. It turns out that, indeed, all the Times did was take a quick "look" into the real story.
That real story is the ball the Times must hide because it leads inevitably to the conclusion that the fundamental political world view of Ayers, not his tactical foray into bombings for a few years, is influencing the Obama candidacy. That is a conclusion the New York Times is likely well aware of – because I have patiently explained it to three of their reporters, including Michael Powell and Scott Shane – and because if you know where to look and whom to ask, and I think we can conclude they have the resources to look wherever and ask whomever they wish, the influence is clear.
So what is the evidence of the influence of Ayers' world view on Obama and his presidential candidacy?
First, what is the Ayers' world view? Ayers is what political scientists call a "neo-stalinist." Neo-stalinism is an authoritarian form of politics which attempts to control and build social institutions to impose state control of the economy, politics and culture on the general population. It has similarities to the original Stalinism found in the former Soviet Union but it arose in other countries and used slightly different forms and in some instances created regimes that were at odds for various reasons with the Russian regime.
Classic examples of neo-stalinist regimes – regimes that Ayers and people in his political camp respect and support – are the Chavez regime in Venezuela, the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, the Castro regime in Cuba, and the maoist regime in China.
How could such a world view have anything to do with Obama? Well, the route that Ayers and his camp have followed to promote his form of authoritarian politics is a critical policy area: education.
Ayers advocates what he calls a "social justice" approach to education. What that means is the promotion of his authoritarian politics through our public school system. Four key tactics that Ayers supports in order to help implement his world view are:
- the creation of "local school councils" (LSCs) like those that Ayers has promoted in Chicago for the last 20 years;
- "small schools" which Ayers has also promoted since the early 1990s in Chicago and elsewhere;
- the advocacy of what Ayers and others call "social justice" teaching; and
- the payment of reparations through education spending to correct what he has seen for 40 years as the fundamentally racist nature of American society.
As Ayers explained in a speech in Venezuela in front of strong man Hugo Chavez on his fourth visit to that country in November 2006, there are "profound education reforms underway here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution." He found in Chavez' authoritarian Venezuela institutions being created that were very similar to what he advocates here in the United States.
And it turns out that Barack Obama also supports all four of those key tactical ideas and has since the earliest days of his political career.
But did that critical conclusion appear in the Times story?
No, they were too busy trying to convince their readers of what those readers already knew: that Obama had no support for the foray into violence by Ayers from 1969-1980.
Thus, for example, the Times did not tell its readers that when Barack Obama was a community organizer in Chicago from 1985 to 1988 the organization he led, the Developing Communities Project (DCP), was a leading player in the lobbying campaign for "local school councils" in Chicago in the wake of a strike by the Chicago Teachers Union.
LSCs were mandated by a state law put in place in 1988 as a result of that lobbying. But the Times did not explain that Bill Ayers was a leading activist in that lobbying effort, a leading member alongside Obama's DCP in the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools which led the campaign for the LSCs.
Obama and the DCP backed the LSCs even though they were viewed as an attack by many mainstream black organizations, like Jesse Jackson's Operation PUSH, on the secure middle class jobs that blacks had won for themselves as teachers and school administrators in Chicago. Thus, Obama was willing to risk his relationship to the wider black community in order to back this effort.
And when the New York Times discussed the joint work of Obama and Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, they did not explain that among the most important projects of the Challenge were the very same four policies so critical to Ayers political strategy:
- promotion of local school councils,
- financial support for small schools,
- promotion of a "social justice" teaching agenda, and
- a race based approach to education policy.
Since the Times is uninterested, let me explain who Klonsky is. Klonsky was an actual stalinist active in the SDS with Ayers who supported the Russians politically until 1968 when he was called by Bill Ayers' future wife, Bernardine Dohrn, who was in eastern Europe at the time and told the Russians had invaded Czechoslovakia. Klonsky decided then his best bet was to back China! Klonsky formed a maoist party a few years later and even traveled to Beijing in 1977 where he was warmly greeted by the Communist Party leadership.
In the late 80s Klonsky went back to graduate school – as a Ph.D. student studying under his former SDS comrade, Bill Ayers, now on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on "small schools." He and Ayers have used that project, with the help of the hundreds of thousands of dollars approved for them by Barack Obama while Obama chaired the Annenberg Challenge, to invade numerous Chicago schools as part of their political campaign to establish an authoritarian beach head in American society.
As one union activist who encountered Klonsky and Ayers in his inner city Chicago high school during that period said: "At best, they are irrelevant wanderers. At worst, they are teacher bashers and ideologues pushing a political line while collecting political patronage. On a couple of occasions they sent out their heavyweights (Mike Klonsky and Bill Ayers), who were equally irrelevant, albeit more arrogant (and a bit more polished)."
The Times ignored the $2 million Leadership Development Initiative put together by Ayers while Ayers headed up the Annenberg Challenge's Collaborative arm. The Initiative was aimed at recruiting parents to the LSCs in Chicago. In fact, a central explicit purpose of the CAC was to bolster the LSCs in the 90s after they had begun to weaken in the face of ineffectiveness and morale problems.
One reason the Times may have avoided discussing the Initiative, which I had already described here on my blog and in my discussions with the Times, is that it undermines a critical defense of the Obama campaign against public attention to their candidate's connection to Bill Ayers. They defend their candidate by saying that the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago was not a "radical" project because mainstream figures like former university presidents Arnold Weber and Stanley Ikenberry served alongside Obama on its board.
What they do not explain is the temporarily shared agenda between Ayers, Obama and those mainstream Chicagoans. Recall that the LSCs were set up in the wake of a Chicago Teachers Union strike that was unpopular, as teachers' strikes and others strikes by public servants often are. The LSCs were a watchdog group that became an alternative center of power to the school board and the teachers union. Thus, mainstream figures from the business community and elsewhere who wanted to rein in the power of the union and the size and budget of the school board thought the LSCs might help.
However, as the 90s unfolded mainstream support for the LSCs began to fade. Thus, when Ayers proposed the Leadership Development Initiative in 1996, he ran into a buzz saw of opposition at the board of directors of the Annenberg Challenge, led by Arnold Weber, former President of Northwestern University and then a leader of a major business lobby in Chicago, the Civic Committee. Weber understood the political impact of the LSCs on labor relations in the schools. Why? Weber was a leading figure in industrial and labor relations for many decades and thus intimately familiar with the role of unions. He complained during the Annenberg board's discussion of Ayers' proposal that the LSCs would be viewed as a "political threat" to school principals.
But the CAC funded the Initiative anyway. How did that happen? Barack Obama led the effort to craft slightly altered wording to the statement of purpose for the Initiative and eventually Weber relented. Ayers got his $2 million and over the next several years worked with Ken Rolling, the executive director of the CAC, to set up programs to recruit and train candidates for the LSCs, thus strengthening Ayers ability to establish his base inside the Chicago public school system.
But wait – there is more. The objections inside the CAC by Weber to the LSCs were nothing compared to what was happening outside. As business and other support for the LSCs set up in 1988 waned because they were not actually improving student outcomes, Mayor Daley began moves to gut the LSCs of their power to fire principals and control teachers. He wanted to re-centralize power over the schools in his hands. As part of that effort he attacked the CAC itself attempting, in the words of CAC Executive Director Rolling, to "wrest away" the Annenberg grant from Obama and Ayers.
This, too, is ignored by the Times even though it is clear evidence of the intensely close political alliance between Obama and Ayers as Obama was beginning his climb to prominence in Chicago and Illinois politics. The willingness of Obama to take on the CAC board chairmanship side by side with Ayers chairmanship of the CAC board's sister arm, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, meant that Obama was willing to go into political battle with Ayers against Mayor Daley. Most likely Ayers trusted Obama because they had been on the same side in the original battle in 1988 to set up the LSCs that Daley was now attacking. And, of course, Obama had an interest in possibly unseating Daley for the mayoralty himself. It was time to prove himself on a bigger stage.
No wonder Ayers and his wife were willing to host Obama at their house to launch his campaign for state senate in late 1995. But once again, the Times is busy distracting their readers' attention with odd comments about Ayers as a "toothless ex-radical" to explain this context – again a context they are fully aware of since at the very least they heard about it from me several times. Of course, there was, and is, nothing toothless or "ex" about Ayers' radicalism. In 1995, Ayers was in his early 40s and as we have explained here very much still engaged in his own form of authoritarian radicalism.
Oh, and in case you thought it might be just a tiny bit useful to consider whether Ayers today has any influence on Obama, the candidate, the Times, perhaps now exhausted by their sleight of hand, simply states: "Since 2002, there is little public evidence of their relationship."
Would that it were so. But again the Times ignores the very public evidence.
In fact, Obama supports an approach to education based on race – one of the four central lifelong concerns of Ayers – as indicated in his appointment as a key education advisor Linda Darling-Hammond. Darling-Hammond is a leading race theorist in education who has taught at Columbia and now Stanford. She contributed a chapter on education for a book edited by Ayers.
She is, like Ayers, an advocate of what is known as "social justice" teaching. She is, like Ayers, an admirer of authoritarian regimes like that of Singapore, one of her favorite examples of allegedly improved approaches to education despite the rigid control of the population there by the state.
She is, like Ayers, a strong supporter of a proposal to mandate that whites repay "people of color" the billions of dollars of "education debt" that has allegedly accumulated after centuries of racism, oppression, and slavery. In other words, reparations. She published a blue print for the radical Forum on Education and Democracy that argued that repayment of that "education debt" must be the top priority of the next President of the United States.
Of course, there is little meaningful content to this proposal. It is grievance politics at its best, pandering to desperate inner city black students and parents at worst. An alternative multi-factor approach to education reform advocated by the Economic Policy Institute would represent a much healthier alternative but Obama has refused calls to endorse it. Instead he has made several comments indicating sympathy with a race based reparations approach.
Recently, a group emerged called "Support Bill Ayers." They contend that Bill Ayers has been unfairly attacked for his views on education and politics. The group has started a petition in support of Ayers. Among the very first signers of the petition are three of Darling-Hammond's fellow "convenors" at the Forum on Education and Democracy who also signed on to her call for repayment of education debt.
These activities all developed since 2002 and are impacting the Obama campaign itself yet none are mentioned by the Times, again despite my discussion of these issues at length with them.
In sum, despite the best efforts of the magicians at the Gray Lady to convince its readers to ignore the obvious, there is a readily available consistent 20 year record of a relationship between Obama and Ayers evidenced by their mutual support of the authoritarian policies they advocate in the world of education.


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TAIPEI (CNA) – China Airlines (CAL), one of Taiwan's leading carriers, on Tuesday announced the establishment of a joint venture with U.S.-based NORDAM Aerospace Group to repair and overhaul structural aircraft components for the CAL fleet and for other airlines in the Asia-Pacific region.
The joint venture, to be called NORDAM Asia Limited, is expected to stimulate industry investment, cultivate aerospace maintenance expertise and create new jobs in Taiwan, according to CAL.
CAL Chairman Ho Nuan-hsuan (何煖軒), who will chair the new company, said he hopes the joint venture will kick-start the aerospace industry in Taiwan.
Apart from the expected boost to the components and parts industry, related manufacturing industries should be energized by the joint venture, which would lead to new market opportunities and closer links between the domestic and overseas aerospace industries, he said.
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Dear John: Regarding your recent letter from the son of an old woman whom Wells Fargo was threatening to throw out of her house, why at 76 would someone still have a mortgage after living in their home for 45 years?
My guess is sometime in the past 45 years the woman and her husband took cash out of their home by refinancing with a new mortgage. So now the woman has a new loan that she cannot repay.
Is that Wells Fargo's fault?
I am sick and tired of hearing about people who are financially inept or squandered their life savings and it is [supposed to be] all the bank's fault.
It's time for people to take some responsibility for their own actions and stop blaming others for their financial mistakes. J.K.
Dear J.K.: As someone who doesn't have a mortgage and hasn't for a long time, I'm also tired of hearing about other peoples' problems: kids who went to fancy schools they can't afford, people who buy things on credit and can't pay for them, banks that take unreasonable risks and then expect taxpayers to bail them out.
In fact, if you include people on Wall Street who get away with cheating because they are too big or too influential to fail, then you can put me in the mad-as-hell category.
But that's not the issue in the case of this 76-year-old woman.
Wells Fargo is telling her that she qualifies for a refinancing, and then they ask for paperwork.
And then more paperwork.
And then they ask that stuff be refiled while telling her again that she qualifies for a new loan.
In other words, this bank (and other banks) are screwing around.
If she doesn't qualify, tell her so.
If Wells Fargo doesn't want to change the terms of her loan, it should just be honest with her.
Maybe she deserves to live on the street because of the careless moves she's made financially. Then Wells Fargo should tell her that.
And I'm glad you are in good financial shape. But neither you — nor I — have to make fun of others because they aren't.
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Back again everybody, today I will be doing another refining blog/post. Today I will be covering NBA LIVE's "Pick & Roll" mechanic.
The meat and potatoes of fundamental basketball offense...
How the system currently works…
Right now we have five options for the "Pick & Roll" mechanic
1. Pick and Pass to the driving big man
2. The Pop for a 2pt/3pt
3. The Pick and Roll into a jumper
4. Pass out to a guarded player
5. Pressing through the cumbersome pin wheel play calling menu to find said pick & roll plays - way too long of a process
Note: The current state of the pick & roll is simple and plain in both LIVE and 2K games. But what if we could layer this attack making your opponents have to think more about other optional attacks on the fly.
Let's Begin…
Pick & Roll Reactions: CPU vs Player vs. Player vs Player
CPU vs Player
The CPU in most cases if at all won't hound you and respects your space and doesn't play you 94 feet like Scottie and The Glove once did… This allows the user to pull off a smooth Pick & Roll to the basket.
Note: This needs to be fixed in NBA LIVE for sure because players like Lowry, Beverley, Draymond Green and specially Kawhi Leonard play their opposition very aggressively and out work their opposition to death. However, that's another note back to the Pick & Roll…
Player vs Player
During a Player vs Player game depending on the type of style your opponent he/she will either hound you for a steal/cause a foul, sagging off your pick leaving the pick ineffective, especially around the three-point line and lastly everyone gets bunched up together in mass confusion of Pick & Roll mash potatoes.
But what are the other players doing once the pick and roll is activated...
In most cases once the pick and roll is activated your other CPU teammates are not doing much but observing. There is no cuts or screen happening which is the major problem because there needs to be options beside a jump-shot or a drive to the basket.
While l was playing NBA LIVE 18 l was thinking how the Dev Team could make the Pick & Roll have offensive options while driving and bingo!
Once the pick and roll is activated using L1 press in Left-Stick which activates the pop, quickly flick in either direction UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT and let go of Left-Stick (L3) before your big man performs the pick would give you your pick & roll plays on the fly without waiting for menu toggling or waiting for a certain spot on the floor to indicate whether the play is ready to go. This will cause your CPU teammates to react to defensive sets and your pick and roll sorta how Kyle Korver and Richard Hamilton play off screens.
For Example!
Adding a bit more...
The introduction to the Invert Pick & Roll mechanic. This function will be activated by pressing and holding L1 and R1 and double tapping the player icon you want to do the second screen for the Inverted Pick and Roll. Therefore you call the first pick using L1 and press and hold R1 (Icon Passing) button and quickly double tap the icon that represents the player you want to do the second screen with. You can also use Inverted Pick & Roll button without calling an initial pick and roll to achieve V-Cut with selected player.
Note: These Pick & Roll plays do not have any markings on the floor to indicate what is happening, its up to the user to know how these plays are performed. Unless playing on a lower difficulty or toggling it on in the menu options.
My thought process on only using a four play shot mechanic is as followed.
1. Usage - The pick and roll is used 90% of the time for offense - Human vs Human - I could be wrong... But from playing CPU they rarely use the pick & roll they run plays for screens
2. Speed - Using only four plays allows the pick and roll plays to develop on the floor before your big man approaches your Point Guard
3. Smaller learning curve - Learning the four plays is easier for the user to remember the animation cues to execute the play
Note: The locomotion system must be tune down to have a better pick and roll experience and play running experience because more often then not the pick and roll the user will be sucked into a FORCE DRIVE!!! or run pass their spot on the floor.
Defending the Pick & Roll
Gone are the days of just having man to man defense play in the background, with these different pick and roll packages the team on defense must use different defensive sets or they will be crushed by the pick and roll. Enough with the handouts on D... the focus is on authenticity... So on the defense end are plays that could help your CPU players reaction to what they are seeing on the court better. With a man to man defense there will always be a man open, because attributes and player IQ will play a role underneath the hood of NBA LIVE prime example is how J.R Smith would guard K.D on a switch or off-ball.
Dribble Hand-Off 2.0™
At the current moment in NBA Live 18 we can not move to perform a dribble hand-off, but...
What if the developers gave us the ability to move our players at will and create our own moving dribble hand-off on command. If this could be implemented in NBA LIVE 20 we could recreate Golden States' Three-Man-Weave sequence. However if you are unable to perform these plays things like kick-ball, traveling and steals could happen.
Australia "Flip Angle" Olympics X's & O's is a prime example of how we could use the Pick & Roll, Inverted Pick & Roll and Dribble Hand-Off 2.0 mechanics in combination sequences to create unique plays. Being able to do these plays EA could reward the user by giving them a teamwork multiplier effect that would cause teams to heat-up and also unlock rare awards and new play books. Therefore once your team has a new play you can go to the Live Academy™ (read my first Dear NBA Live Developers post) and learn it causing your team to have higher chemistry and unlocking the play in your automatic play call functions. So think of these exclusive plays as learn-able attachments to your team's brain, which means your Boston Celtics will differ from someone else Boston Celtics. This also works in The One street mode 5v5, 3v3 and more...
The Live Academy would be central mode in NBA Live 20 that gives you your customization...
How Live Academy™ (from my first Dear NBA Live Developers post) plays a part in the user selected pick & roll plays, in his mode the user would be able to select his/her personnel and second unit roles by player attributes and Synergy. The Live Academy also would accumulate data on users effectiveness of performing these plays and could also suggest other plays instead or help users run the plays correctly. Live Academy mode would also have a Create-A-Play for the more astute users that understand basket ball a bit more than the causal gamer.
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He is a hell of a batsmen when its a flat road and using a kook ball. Cant deny that
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What I Learned About Myself by Doing an 'Argument Autopsy'
By Beth Steffaniak at Messy Marriage
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From the blog, Our Unschooling Journey Through Life, I enjoyed discovering some 10 GreatThanksgiving crafts. Two of my favorite craft ideas were an Indian Corn Wreath and a Thanksgiving Tree.
We also had a post featuring some great reads from Melissa at her blog, Jesus Loves Me Devotions. Melissa features five of her favorite Thanksgiving books. I loved the book, A Very Thankful Prayer. Be sure to check her great post out today.
Five Thanksgiving Books to Supplement Your Child's Devotions
We also need to focus on spiritual truths for Thanksgiving which is why I enjoyed Diana's post:
These characteristics will provoke and challenge you as you try to live up to each of them. She also includes a great resource for Thanksgiving: Blessed Thanksgiving Verses.
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Paws In The City Top Hat & Tails 2010
by Shari Peyser
DALLAS, TX – April 2010 – Top Hat & Tails, the annual fundraiser for Paws in the City, will be held on Saturday, June 12th at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field. The evening event brings in the most revenue for Paws in the City each year, saving more dogs and cats from the streets as strays and from being euthanized at the Dallas shelter. And it's a fabulous social event, a chance to dance with some local "Stars."
Judge Claudia Marshall, owner of the Arthur Murray Studio in Dallas and Plano, will serve on the panel of official dance judges, and the celebrities will be paired with several Arthur Murray dance instructors, who will teach the stars how to put their best performance on the dance floor. "We are honored to be a part of this great annual event both for judging and teaching the celebrities how to look great when they step out on the dance floor, like they know what they're doing" said Claudia Marshall. "We had a great time last year at Paws and are looking forward to another successful fun filled evening. This year the competition seems to be even greater. A few of the Celebs have started taking some brush up 50's Rock and Roll, Twist, and slow dance lessons at our studio."
The Flight Museum will be transformed back to the 1950's featuring a star-studded celebrity dance contest along with cocktails, and a live and silent auction. The dance floor will be open to all before dinner and after the dance competition…an excellent opportunity to dance with our local stars.
Dancers for 2010 so far are:
- Carly Patterson: all around Olympic Gold Medalist
- Dee Lincoln: Founder, Dee Lincoln's Tasting Room & Bubble Bar, Del Frisco's Steak House and The Dinghy
- Gary Seith: CBS 11 Meteorologist
- Michelle Witten: Wife of Dallas Cowboy, Jason Witten
- Richard Chamberlain: Chef/Proprietor Chamberlain's Restaurants
- Jocelyn White: Texas TV and Radio Personality and President of Jocelyn White Media
- Brendan Higgins: Television Anchor and personality
- Kim Fischer: Reporter for KXAS NBC 5
Judge Claudia Marshall, owner of the Arthur Murray Studios in Dallas and Plano, is joined by fellow judges Charles Lewis Haley, five time Superbowl winner and Former Dallas Cowboy, and Kellie Rasberry, host of KDD's Kidd Kraddick morning show. These three strong personalities bring their quick witted critiques, comments and "step by step-coverage" to highlight the evening. The judges' scores are combined with guest's votes to determine the winner, who is presented with the Lucy Award, named after a beloved dog owned by our emcee, Preston Pierson.
The Dallas Arthur Murray Dance Studio is located at 6526 LBJ Freeway, Dallas TX 75240 (972-702-9660) and the Plano Arthur Murray Dance Studio is located at 3001 West Spring Creek Parkway Plano, TX 75023 (972- 312-1262).
To learn more, visit http://220.127.116.11/~dancedfw/.
For more details on Paws, visit http://tophatandtails.org.
Arthur Murray Dance Studios can be found throughout America and Canada and in Australia, Brazil, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, South Africa, Japan, and Puerto Rico. For more information about ballroom dance, visit the Arthur Murray International website at www.arthurmurray.com.


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Muzaffarabad - Pakistan has sent a rare message of thanks to arch-rival India after a five-year-old boy who was taken to India by his father nearly a year ago was reunited with his Pakistani mother.
Pakistan thanks India after Kashmiri boy reunited with mother
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Muzaffarabad - Pakistan has sent a rare message of thanks to arch-rival India after a five-year-old boy who was taken to India by his father nearly a year ago was reunited with his Pakistani mother.
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Muzaffarabad - Pakistan has sent a rare message of thanks to arch-rival India after a five-year-old boy who was taken to India by his father nearly a year ago was reunited with his Pakistani mother.
Father wouldn't stop homeopathy on autistic sons, loses custody
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Father, brother of one of Paris suicide attackers placed in custody: Sources
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Paris - Police took into custody Saturday the father and brother of a French gunman linked to a string of deadly Paris attacks and were searching their homes, a source close to the probe told AFP.
UK police custody deaths probed as numbers hit five-year high
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London - Home Secretary Theresa May announced an independent review into deaths in police custody in England and Wales on Thursday as figures showed the number who died had reached a five-year high.
Dad tosses three-year-old son off 52-story building then jumps
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New York - After losing a bitter custody battle to his ex-wife, Dmitriy Kanarikov, 35, tragically threw his 3-year-old son off a 52-story building in New York City's Upper West Side then plummeted himself immediately after.
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Benghazi - The Voice of Russia is reporting that Libyan authorities say they have apprehended a man suspected of involvement in last year's terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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New York - Anyone who has ever been in a custody battle can probably attest to how difficult, and expensive, the proceedings can be.
Polish judge rules that Watkins boys to remain with their mother
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A judge in Poland is defying arrest warrants from Canada allowing a mother who is accused of parental abduction to retain custody of her two sons, Christopher and Alexander Watkins.
Parents of Adolf Hitler & Aryan Nation want their kids back
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Parents of Adolf Hitler denied custody
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A couple who gave their children Nazi-related names should not regain custody, a New Jersey appeals court ruled. The court cited the parents' disabilities and the risk of injury to the children, but the parents believe it is because of their names.
Mel Gibson delivers racist rant to mother of his children
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Mel Gibson is known for being a man who talks his mind, and more. But now, in a bitter custody dispute with his girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, he used his tongue as the real "Lethal Weapon" against her.
Alleged Manitoba white supremacists lose custody of children
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Winnipeg - A Manitoba judge has ordered the province's Child and Family Services to take the children away from the parents who are allegedly white supremacists and have permanent guardianship.
More dads are winning custody post-divorce
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With fewer stay at home moms more fathers are being awarded primary child custody when parents divorce. Is this new trend a punishment to working mothers or a case of fair play?
Texas Police Arrest 169 People After Raiding Cockfight
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After a surveillance operation lasting two weeks, police in Texas raided an illegal cockfight being held in a barn on Saturday, in the process arresting 169 people.
Debbie Rowe says she will fight for custody of her children
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The former wife of Michael Jackson, Debbie Rowe has now said that she will now fight for custody of the two children that they had together.
Jackson's Mother Given Temporary Guardianship
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On Monday, an L.A. probate court approved Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, for temporary guardianship of his three children.
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Cameraman Ibrahim Jassam has been in custody since September. Jassam works for Reuters. He is considered by the United States government to be a security risk. But is he any more of a risk than Roxana Saberi was to Iran?
Cole Puffinburger's Father Gains Custody Following His Abduction And Safe Release
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In frightening case involving drugs and kidnapping, the finding of little Cole Puffinburger alive earlier this month was a relief to many. Now, for reasons of safety, the courts have awarded custody of the little boy to his father, Robert Puffinburger.
Cow in custody in Cambodia after traffic accidents
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A cow is in a Cambodian prison for causing traffic accidents that killed at least six people this year. It caused two accidents, one a motorcycle ran into it killing the driver and another a truck tried to avoid hitting the cow ended up killing 5 people.
Dr. Phil Reaches Out To Britney Spears
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Possibly out of care for her well-being, but most probably because it will bring more money in his pockets, Dr. Phil McGraw has reached out to Britney Spears. Dr. Phil said he was willing to offer whatever help he could provide to the troubled starlet.
Op-Ed: Image Kills the Artist as Spears Loses Kids, Management, Career
Paul Wallis
A court has ordered that Kevin Federline, Spears' ex, be given custody of their two children until further notice. The court cited instances of frequent substance abuse. Spears and Federline have been ordered to attend parenting classes.
Spears Loses Custody
Britney Spears has lost custody of her two boys and has court orders to hand them over to Kevin Ferderline on Wednesday. The order given by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon was issued just ten days after her hit and run incident.
Mary Winkler Is Out Of Jail And Wants Her Girls Back
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She took a rifle and shot her husband to death. She tearfully told the jury about years of abuse. The jury believed her. Now she wants her children to come home to her. Grandma and Grandpa say no way!
Paris Hilton Now in Custody and Doing Time in Jail (With Video)
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TMZ caught Paris Hilton showing up in a black SUV for her jail sentence at Men's Central Jail, in downtown Los Angeles. She now begins her 23-day sentence.
David Hasselhoff Regains Custody of His Kids
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Girls Gone Wild Founder in Federal Custody
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Joe Francis, 34, finally surrendered to a contempt of court warrant, but not before calling the judge a "judge gone wild."
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Rotimi Akinosho is a singer and actor who plays drug dealer "Dre" in 50 Cents executive produced, Starz hit series "Power" (if you are not watching it yet, what are you waiting for ?J ).
The actor who revealed a while back that he was originally considered to play the role of "Hakeem Lyon" in equally successful show "Empire", but it went to Bryshere "Yazz" Gray instead.
It was down to me, Quincy (Combs) & Yazz actually & then Quincy dropped out and it was down to me & Yazz. At the time they were telling me, "I got it. it's yours, you're the guy". So I start looking for places in Chicago. I was signing on my lease and everything & I was having meetings with networks. It got to the point where I was turning down offers from other shows because I thought I was gonna be on it.
I turned down a couple of things. Like Star wars.
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Roles of Planning & Development Surveyors as Project Manager
Sr Edmond Yew (PDD)
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Sr Edmond YM Yew, Senior Vice President of Lai Fung Holdings Ltd., joined Lai Sun Group in 1991 and is responsible for real estate investment and development Projects in Greater China.
Sr Yew is the Chairman of the Planning and Development Division, Member of the Executive Committee and General Council of The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. Sr Yew is also a Board Member of the Surveyors Registration Board (Cap. 417) and the Vice Chairman of the China Committee of Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.
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Sr Jeffrey Wong joined YY Wong Safety Consultants Ltd. in 2016 and is responsible for corporate development and provides strategic advisory for corporate clients. He previously worked at Savills for 10 years and qualified as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in 2004 and The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) in 2005. Furthermore, he is a Registered Professional Surveyor (GP) and Estate Agent license holder of the Estate Agent's Authority.
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Sr Lam has been working in Hong Kong since his graduation from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1994. He has worked for the private sector for over 20 years including in real estate, public transport, property management, public works contractor and private building consultancy practice. He is currently a Director and Business Line Leader of the Building Consultancy Services at CBRE Limited.
As a private building consultant, he often oversees various building projects of different natures and scales from the cradle to the grave, i.e. from inception to implementation including fitting-out works, repair and maintenance, reinstatement, renovation, retrofitting and even new building construction projects.
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Sr Hui Wah Lun, Daniel joined The Salvation Army in 1997 as the Property Director to manage and oversee all its properties in Hong Kong and Macau. The Salvation Army is one of the biggest non-government organizations in Hong Kong and comprises of more than 150 services units, including churches, primary & secondary schools, kindergartens, nurseries, elderly homes, elderly centres, integrated services centre for young and families, hotels, etc.
Sr Hui is a professional property & facility manager surveyor and building surveyor with extensive experience in projects and facilities management. Sr Hui is now the Chairman of the Property & Facility Management Division of The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. He has served on various government committees/ panels, including Inspectors Registration Committee & Panel, Minor Works Contractors Registration Committee & Panel, Appeal Tribunal Panel (Buildings), etc.
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Lindsay Lohan is returning to familiar territory - a criminal court to face a judge who could send her back to jail or rehab for a failed drug test.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge will determine whether the Mean Girls star violated her probation with the drug test in September.
If the actress admits the results are accurate - as she has already done publicly - then the judge could return her to jail or order her to remain in an inpatient rehab programme.
The judge had been expecting Lilo to arrive at court directly from jail, where he ordered her to be held on September 24 after a brief hearing. But within hours, another judge had overturned his ruling and the star was released on bail.
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Integromat will automate processes that you currently handle manually. It is not only capable of connecting apps but can also transfer and transform data. It works 24 hours a day, seven days a week and does not require your intervention. Simply set Integromat to do what you want and let it work for you. Save your time!
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A drop curtain depicting the Californian desert in the laconic manner of a Glen Baxter cartoon did not bode well for this new production of La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's opera of the 1849 Gold Rush. Nor did black memories of the hash that the director Aletta Collins made last year of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (relocated to a Hilton hotel room).
But I need not have worried: what followed was simple, modest and focused, but never dull or mindless. I would even go so far as to say it was exemplary of the way works of this epic nature can be staged on a low budget.
Collins and her designer Giles Cadle haven't deconstructed the plot or hammed it up or even pretended it's a John Ford movie: instead they take it for real, focusing on character rather than concept and attempting to make it as sincerely and naively moving as possible.
The log cabin environment is stylized but not ironised, and a basic period sense observed in the costuming. Collins is particularly successful in highlighting the personalities of the individual prospectors in the first Act and building a Tosca-like sense of erotic tension in the second. Like every director, she has trouble making the bizarre comings and goings in Minnie's cabin seem plausible, but the lynch-mob and hanging is managed with tact and dignity.
A cannily selected cast abets her. Alwyn Mellor makes a somewhat matronly Minnie but one with a winning toughness and resourcefulness. After a tentative start, her voice opens thrillingly to the climaxes, both romantic and dramatic.
Her Ramerrez is the authentically Mexican tenor Rafael Rojas, rather dapper for an outlawed bandit, but vibrant in tone and secure in shaping Puccini's expansive phrases. His antagonist Sheriff Jack Rance is presented by Robert Hayward as a lugubrious alcoholic with a tremulous hold on his authority. All three will doubtless let rip more when they've played themselves in, but their potential is rich.
Gavan Ring's sozzled minstrel Jake Wallace and Eddie Wade's Sonora make their mark among the motley crew of dreamers and losers, nursed by Richard Farnes's measured and attentive conducting. Ideally, one would like more sumptuous orchestral playing - this is one of Puccini's most lavish and intricate scores - but I don't think anyone is going to come away feeling short-changed of the music's emotional grandeur and picturesque charm.
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Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)
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Made In Mandalay Shopping Tour
Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)
Culture shock rating
Worried we're going to shock your senses? Relax! We believe part of the fun of travel is immersing yourself in the destination and its culture, meeting the people, and learning what makes the place tick. We've got a wide range of tours with something for everybody. The cultural shock rating ranks how different the experience is from most Western cultures. But no matter the level, don't worry, you'll have a local, in-the-know guide with you every step of the way.
Consider these tours your 101 intro to a place. Transportation might be private or a very comfortable public option, and the activities are usually visits to iconic sites and locations that are familiar to most Western cultures – but that will still give you fantastic insight into a destination.
Expect to rough it for parts of this tour, whether that's on a packed public bus or in a local market off the tourist trail. There might be a few language barriers or unfamiliar cultural customs, and you'll get an experience different from what you're used to at home.
You're out there in the global community! We're going to take you down streets you'd rarely explore on your own, introduce you to local customs and languages, and take you for a ride in whatever transport is available. Get ready to take it as it comes, whatever comes. There might be a shock, but oh man, it's worth it.
Physical rating
Worried our tours are too tough? Relax! From leisurely strolls to muscle-burning treks, we've got a wide range of tours with something for everybody. The physical grading gives you an idea of how much huffing and puffing you can expect on the tour.
Slow and steady is all you need here. These tours have very limited physical activity, such as walking relatively flat streets, sites, or markets, and climbing in and out of the transport provided.
Not too hard, not too soft, these tours are just right! You can expect a bit of physical activity, but nothing overly challenging – perhaps walking up and down hills, riding a bike for up to 30 kilometers along mostly flat terrain, or jumping in a kayak for a gentle paddle on flat water.
Get ready for a workout! These tours are our most challenging and involve intense walking, hiking, kayaking, swimming, or bike riding. You could be making steep climbs by foot or pedal, or working your core in the water. We recommend you have a good level of fitness to join this tour.
Tour snapshot
Mandalay is the home of the Burmese craft movement, with workshops all over the city producing everything from Buddha statues and gold leaf to tapestries and slippers. But where do you start?! Take the stress out of shopping and join us for a morning mooch around some of the city's best (and often hidden) craft stores and artisan workshops, stopping off for a few delicious snacks along the way.
- Visit traditional artisan craft workshops and observe gold-leaf and tapestry making, stone and wood carving and lots more
- Acquire unique and beautiful souvenirs and gifts for your loved ones
- Meet the talented locals who make handicrafts their livelihood and learn about the processes involved in their creation
- Find workshops that are difficult to find on your own with a local guide by your side, helping you to communicate and get the best price for your purchases
- Sample delicious Burmese sweet treats at a popular local shop
Schedule details
- Duration: 3.5 hours
- Meeting point:
In front of the Oway Grand Hotel, No. 624, 78th Street, Bet: 30th x 31st, Chan Aye Tharsan Township, Mandalay, Myanmar.
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- Starting time: 8.00 AM
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Oway Grand Hotel, No. 624, 78th Street, Bet: 30th x 31st, Chan Aye Tharsan Township, Mandalay, Myanmar.
Language: English
Inclusions: Local English-speaking guide, transportation in a private, air-conditioned van, local tea/water, tea leaf salad and traditional sweet snacks.
Exclusions: Additional food and drinks, souvenirs and personal shopping, tips/gratuities for your guide, camera fees at the Mahamyatmuni pagoda.
As the saying goes, 'the early bird gets the worm!' Your tour will start bright and early at 8am; after meeting your super friendly guide, we'll lead you to our first stop of the day, a gold leaf-making workshop.
The Burmese love gold and later on we'll visit the famous statue that's become known as 'lumpy Buddha' because locals and tourists have added so much gold leaf to it over the years that it has become misshapen. Watch the master craftsmen at work as they hammer the gold down into paper-thin gold leaf, which can often take up to eight hours! (Don't worry, we won't stay as long as that, though.)
After all that bling, we'll visit a nearby showroom for a bamboo paper-making demonstration, which is still done all by hand by local experts. At each stop there will be time to make any purchases that you wish to make.
A 15-minute drive through the city in our air-conditioned van will take us to our next port of call, a stone carving workshop where you'll observe how Buddha images are expertly carved from stone and concrete.
Then we're off to check out a wood carving and tapestry studio where you can shop for a vast array of colourful and traditional handicrafts and intricate tapestries. They also sell some gorgeous jade products here, as well as traditional puppets, elaborate Buddha statues (what else?!) and animal statues that make for fabulously authentic souvenirs and unique gifts for loved ones back home.
After that, we will have chance to visit the beautiful Mahamyatmuni pagoda to admire the lumpy Buddha and perhaps add a sliver of gold leaf yourself.
After all that shopping, it's time to grab a mid-morning snack at a delightful local tea shop where you'll try local tea and our famous Mandalay tea leaf salad.
Our last stop of the day will be Myint Myint Khin Htoe Mont, where you can taste many kinds of traditional snacks and treats from the region. On the way, we'll visit an awesome slipper-making factory owned by a local family where you will have a chance to make your own slippers to take away.
Your guide will then take you back to where we started, shopping bags in-hand! Before you go, don't forget to ask for tips on what else to see and do during your stay in magical Mandalay.
Additional information
Inclusions: Local English-speaking guide, transportation in a private, air-conditioned van, local tea/water, tea leaf salad and traditional sweet snacks.
Exclusions: Additional food and drinks, souvenirs and personal shopping, tips/gratuities for your guide, camera fees at the Mahamyatmuni pagoda.
Your Trip: For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people.
Confirmation of booking: If you have your voucher, your booking is confirmed. We'll see you at the start point. Get in touch if you have any concerns or require more information via the email address or phone number (business hours only) on your voucher.
Child Policy: This is a child-friendly tour. Children between the ages of 6 and 11 inclusively are permitted on this tour at the rate listed above. Please select 'child' above when booking. Children under the age of 6 are permitted to join this tour free of charge. Please inform us at the time of booking if you'll be bringing a child under the age of 6. You can do so in the special request box on the checkout page.
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First-year Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson naming true freshman John Wolford the Demon Deacons' starting quarterback for Week 1 may not move the needle too much.
After all, Wake Forest is coming off a 4-8 season that ended in longtime head coach Jim Grobe's firing. The Deacs are expected to struggle as much, if not more, in Clawson's first season. But as a power conference program that has not started a true freshman quarterback in 40 years, Wake Forest is a potential barometer for the direction of college football in general.
High school recruits arrive on campuses each summer (or winter, as is the case with Wolford) better prepared for the college game than ever before. Quarterbacks in particular specialize at a younger age with a single-minded focus.
Through years of camps, 7-on-7 tournaments and one-on-one coaching, future quarterback prospects pick up playbooks quicker and transition to the college game more seamlessly.
We've seen college football's youth movement play out in the last few years. Jameis Winston and Johnny Manziel, the last two Heisman Trophy winners, were both redshirt freshmen.
The frontrunners for this year's version of the award are primarily upperclassmen. However, veterans like UCLA's Brett Hundley and Oregon's Marcus Mariota took over their respective offenses in the first week of their redshirt freshman campaigns.
Game experience for first-time starting quarterbacks isn't as important as it was once was. Soon, even the practice experience afforded redshirts will be at less of a premium. Experience comes on Saturdays.
Starting Wolford is perhaps more indicative of investment in Clawson's long-term vision than an effort to compete right away, despite the coach's statement to the contrary.
"It's not fair to the juniors and the seniors in the program to make a decision based on what's best five years from now," Clawson said in a statement.
That may be the case, but it doesn't hurt to start building a program with on a stable cornerstone.
A year ago, Cal head coach Sonny Dykes made a similar decision in his first season with the Golden Bears. Before facing Northwestern in Week 1, Dykes named Jared Goff Cal's starter over redshirt freshman Zach Kline and junior Austin Hinder.
Goff started all 12 games and threw for 3,488 yards and 18 touchdowns. Cal took its lumps–a lot of them–en route to a 1-11 finish.
"A lot of times last year we threw him to the wolves a little bit," Dykes said at Pac-12 media days. The Cal coach was referring to the Golden Bears' porous defense, but it could pretty accurately describe Goff's freshman season in general.
But thanks to this trial by fire, Goff heads into his sophomore tested and with an established chemistry among his receiving corps.
Investing in a true freshman starting quarterback doesn't have to be a punt for the future, either. Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin just might be banking on it.
Sumlin is tasked with replacing Manziel, and the Heisman winner's successor will debut on the road against a stout South Carolina defense.
Brent Zwerneman of the Houston Chronicle writes Sumlin wants to name his starter by Aug. 16–Saturday–but the competition between Kenny Hill and Kyle Allen is "dead even."
Allen is the nation's top-rated quarterback prospect in the 2014 signing class and the perfect example of the new-wave of quarterback recruit. He's talented, polished and able to play immediately.
And he just could be good enough to keep Texas A&M competitive this season, while also preparing for more in the years to come. It can be done.
Consider Louisville. UL was off to a rough start in 2011 before turning the reins over to true freshman Teddy Bridgewater. Coupled with Charlie Strong's midseason replacement of offensive coordinator Mike Sanford with Shawn Watson, the Cardinals came to life with wins in five of their final six regular season games to win a share of the Big East championship.
Louisville was simply better with Bridgewater behind center than it was with Will Stein in 2011. And building off his game experience, Bridgewater produced two more monster seasons as the Cardinals' field general before heading to the NFL.
There's also risk inherent with tabbing a newcomer as starter. Aside from the most obvious, going with a true freshman starting quarterback is a tacit agreement to a three-year commitment.
Barring injury and with everything else going according to plan, that freshman has a minimum three seasons locked into the position. And, since only one quarterback can play at a time, that leaves others on the roster with few options.
When a young quarterback wins the starting job, transfers typically ensue. Aaron Corp left USC for Richmond after Matt Barkley's freshman season as the Trojans' starter. Clint Trickett exited Florida State when Jameis Winston became the Seminoles' No. 1.
Jameill Showers, Manziel's primary competitor, transferred to UTEP. And should Sumlin name Allen his starter, A&M could very well lose Hill, as well.
But a coach can't let the possibility of transfers dictate choosing the best option. Making a good first impression is more important for quarterbacks now more than ever, one take away from Clawson's statement on naming true freshman starting quarterback John Wolford the Wake Forest's guy.
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Rayman (Game Boy Color)
|Published by
|Ubi Soft Entertainment
|Developed by
|Ubi Soft Entertainment
|Produced by
|Riccardo Lenzi (project manager)
|Designed by
|Benoit Maçon (lead designer)
Davide Soliani, Giordano Nisi, Marc D'Souza, Massimo Guardini, Riccardo Landi
|Art by
|Jean-Marc Geoffrey (artistic and animation director)
|Soundtrack by
|Éric Chevalier (original music)
Stefano Palmonari (MIDI adaptation)
|Release date
|1st February, 2000 (Game Boy Color) (Europe)
24th March, 2000 (Game Boy Color) (Japan)
31st May, 2012 (Nintendo 3DS) (North America and Europe)
25th July, 2012 (Nintendo 3DS) (Japan)
|2D platformer
|Gameplay mode
|Single player
|Game Boy Color, Pocket PC, Palm OS, Nintendo 3DS (Virtual Console)
|Distribution media
|Cartridge, digital
Rayman is a 2D sidescrolling platform game based on the original Rayman game. It was first released for the Game Boy Color in 2000 with an enhanced port later being released for Pocket PC. The Game Boy Color version can be downloaded through the Virtual Console service on the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.[1] Due to the Game Boy Color's technical limitations, the game is much shorter than the original Rayman, and many characters and locations are absent. However, the game remains notable for its final boss battle against Mr Dark which has been changed drastically.
Most characters from the original Rayman do not appear in this version. The allies – Betilla, the Magician, Tarayzan, the Musician and Joe the Extra-Terrestrial – are all omitted, and so are the bosses – Moskito, Mr Sax, Mr Stone, Space Mama and Mr Skops. The only characters in the game, apart from generic enemies, are Rayman, Mr Dark, the Tings and the Toons.
The Game Boy Color game follows the same general plot as the original: the evil Mr Dark has imprisoned the Electoons in cages and cast the Glade of Dreams into imbalance, leaving Rayman to free his prisoners and defeat him. Like the gameplay, the story is simplified; many characters have been eliminated. This version's unique intro sequence details most of the plot changes:
Hey, wake up! We are the tiny fairies called Tings. Something terrible is happening...
That evil Mr. Dark came and imprisoned the Toons, the precious light-giver sprites of our land
He stole their energy for himself, throwing the world in chaos and darkness, with monsters spawning from everywhere!
I'll never let him do this!
Hurry up, Rayman: go after him and break open the Cages you find along the way!
Hold on, my friends! You won't be imprisoned for long
Go now! We Tings will show you the way: follow and catch us as you go. We'll also give you magic powers during the course of your quest!
The game, like the original game it is based on, is a 2D sidescroller where the player gets to control Rayman. Each level has an exit sign, shown as an arrow pointing downwards, which moves Rayman on to the next level. Between each level the player will get a save code which can later be used to load the game since there's no battery save available. On the Nintendo 3DS version the player can use the available save state feature, like in any other Virtual Console game on the system.
In each level there are Tings to collect, which, like in the original game, will reward the player with a life once a certain amount is collected: in this game, however, only 30 of them are needed instead of 100. Other ways to earn lives include finding them in secret areas or finishing a bonus level, which are shown as an arrow pointing upwards. Most levels also include cages for Rayman to collect, with the remaining cages for the level shown on the bottom of the screen. Whenever Rayman gets close to a cage, the music will change to indicate a nearby cage. Some cages cannot be obtained during the first playthrough as they will require a power Rayman has yet to achieve. Since the world map does not become accessible until the end of the game, the player will not be able to backtrack and collect the remaining cages until then.
While the game is mainly based on the original Rayman, there are several noteworthy differences which sets them apart from each other. In this game, Rayman is oddly enough has his appearance from Rayman 2, which can be seen in both the gameplay and cutscenes. The music is mostly based on Rayman 2, with themes like the Precipice and the Canopy appearing in a MIDI form, along with some exclusive tracks as well. All levels are also original, with only the general level themes being based on already existing ones from the original game, such as Airy Tunes being based on Band Land.
Other features
Ubi Key
The Ubi Key is an exclusive feature in which two Game Boy Colors can transfer data to each other using the infra-red links (the small black tabs next to where the user inserts the Game Pak). In this game, a giant key can be found in Spellbound Forest which when can be sent or used to receive other Ubi Keys from games which support it, such as the Game Boy Color version of Tonic Trouble. The keys unlock bonus content, such as secret levels.
Sticker book
New copies of the European version of the game contained a small sticker booklet and some stickers which used Rayman 2 artwork. Strangely, there was also a page that featured Rigatoni, the main antagonist from The Animated Series, which was possibly a means to advertise the series, though it never aired in more than a few countries. The rest of the stickers could be obtained at the now-defunct official Rayman 2 website, Rayman2.com.
Once the game is complete, the player will be taken to the world map where they will be able to replay previous levels. The world map shows which levels have any cages remaining, as well as how many. The Dark Legacy levels are first shown simply as question marks, not letting Rayman enter them. This however changes once Rayman finds every cage, when they will now unlock one by one. The Dark Legacy levels do not contain any cages themselves and are known to be the hardest levels in the game. Once all levels are completed, the player will unlock the Time Attack map, which will give access to all Time Attack bonus levels in the game.
- Spellbound Forest
- Airy Tunes
- Rainy Forest
- Rocky Peaks
- Ancient Forest
- Fiery Depths
- Arcane Forest
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