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Woman Sues Neiman Marcus for Rejecting Return of Items Husband Bought for Mistress — Is It Fair?
Here's a storyline that could have been pulled from an episode of 'The Young and the Restless.' A former Neiman Marcus customer is suing the high-end retailer for refusing items she attempted to return. The items were gifts that the woman's ex-husband allegedly purchased for his mistress, who not only works as a personal shopper for the store, but was also the plaintiff's personal shopper.
But it 's even more complicated.
Patricia Walker was confined to a bed for three years after a terrible car accident. During that period, her husband, Robert Tennison, began spending more and more money on lavish items at Neiman's, which Walker claims were for his lover and her personal shopper, Favi Lo.
Lo, who remains an employee of the store, earned a substantial commission from the gifts that were purchased, making it a doubly sweet deal for her.
Walker's attorney, Mark Ticer, pointed to an increase in Tennison's purchases from 2007 through 2010, the alleged time of the affair with Lo. He maintains that his client had no prior knowledge of the relationship until divorce proceedings and that Lo was never disciplined by her employer over these transgressions.
However, when Walker attempted to return the luxury items to the store, employees reviewed the merchandise, but did not accept them nor did they explain why they were rejecting the items. How Walker came to possess items bought for her then-husband's mistress is not clear.
Walker isn't so much interested in getting her money back as she is about exposing the principle of the matter. In fact, she blames the retailer. Her lawyer said, "The real villain in this case is Neiman Marcus. After learning of this affair decided they weren't going to do anything about it."
Neiman Marcus declined to comment.
We can understand Walker's fury at her personal shopper sleeping with her husband and receiving both gifts and a commission on top of it. But her statements about the store's culpability are emotionally charged and the store's accountability isn't exactly clear.
Also, an employee having an affair with a customer is a private matter. If Lo was picking out gifts and having Tennison buy them for he so she could receive a commission, that's an entirely different matter that would seemingly be grounds for dismissal.
Neiman's is also known for a generous return policy, so it's unfortunate that Walker's items were rejected, especially if they are in unused condition.
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"It is about encouraging investment in safety through the purchase and installation of technologies on trucks and buses that have been tested and proven to work." –Stephen F. Campbell, executive director, Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance
It's quite ironic that I'm again writing about yet another Congressional legislative attempt to provide tax credits to trucking fleets for investing in safety systems.
Despite the ongoing ballyhoo over improving truck safety, reducing truck-car crashes and fatalities, despite all the rhetoric and diatribes, it's proved impossible to actually get legislation passed that would directly address the truck safety issue head on.
The reintroduction of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Advanced Safety Technology Tax Act of 2009 (H.R. 2024) amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit against income tax to help accelerate the adoption of advanced safety systems not just for commercial vehicles, but for school and transit buses.
The systems covered in this bill – reintroduced by Representatives Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Geoff Davis (R-KY), backed by the 10 original sponsors of this legislation last year – include brake stroke monitoring systems, vehicle stability systems, lane departure warning systems, plus collision warning systems.
The legislation encompasses both the original equipment (OE) and aftermarket installation of these safety systems and also:
• Creates a tax credit for fleet owners valued at 50 percent of the retail cost of the system with a maximum of $1,500 per technology;
• Allows fleets to purchase multiple technologies, but limit the total amount of credit permissible to $3,500 per vehicle; and,
• Allows the overall tax credit for each truck owner or trucking company of up to $350,000 per year for all covered technology purchases.
"It is about encouraging investment in safety through the purchase and installation of technologies on trucks and buses that have been tested and proven to work," says Stephen F. Campbell, executive director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), which has actively supported this tax credit effort. "It will reduce the deaths occurring from the most prevalent truck and bus crash types on our highways, which have been hovering around 5,000 per year for the last decade."
This effort is really a no brainer – and its received support from both the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in the past, with NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker specifically pointing out in testimony before Congress last eyar that the quickest way to promote widespread use of motor vehicle safety technologies was through this tax incentive approach.
Will it work this time? That's the big unanswerable, isn't it? But it would be a shame to see such an effort fall by the wayside again – an effort that could dramatically change the safety picture for commercial vehicles and buses alike on our highways in a very short amount of time.

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The vaccine — $417,000 worth of it — is stacked high in refrigerated containers to protect it from the Haitian heat.
Hundreds of health workers are trained and ready to give the vaccine. They're armed with programmed smartphones and tablet computers to keep track of who has been vaccinated and who needs a second dose.
And 100,000 eager Haitians, from the teeming slums of Port-au-Prince to tiny hamlets in Haiti's rice bowl, have signed up to get the vaccine.
But everything is on hold. A long-planned project to find out whether vaccination is feasible in the midst of an ongoing cholera outbreak in Haiti has been stymied — temporarily, its proponents insist — by the kind of glitch that bedevils many projects in Haiti, large and small.
Vaccination was supposed to begin this week in two carefully selected target populations.
One is in a densely packed slum called Cite de Dieu along Port-au-Prince's waterfront, where raw sewage snakes its way from countless gutters into a garbage-clogged canal and into the sea.
The other target area is in a rice-growing area bordering the Artibonite River about 50 miles north of the capital. This was the initial epicenter of Haiti's cholera outbreak in October 2010.
But the campaign was abruptly halted when a Port-au-Prince radio station reported that the impending vaccination effort was actually a "medical experiment on the Haitian people" — a potentially incendiary charge.
The Haitian Ministry of Health scrambled to counter that report, which apparently arose from a mix-up that occurred during last year's change of government.
The previous government opposed cholera vaccination. It would distract from cholera treatment, officials said, and might spark dangerous resentments because there is only enough cholera vaccine in the world to protect 2 percent of the Haitian population.
But the government of Haiti's new president, Michel Martelly, supports a cholera-vaccination demonstration project. His health ministry gave the go-ahead in December.
The problem is, the two sponsoring medical groups — Partners in Health and GHESKIO — submitted their proposals last year to the previous government at a time when the World Health Organization hadn't yet certified the vaccine they were going to use.
That government judged the vaccine to be "experimental" because it lacked WHO's imprimatur. So it referred the proposals to the National Ethics Committee. There they sat, apparently ignored, until the recent radio report woke everyone up.
The committee has called for revised proposals, which were submitted Monday. It usually requires four weeks to review and decide, but proponents hope that can be accelerated.
The rush is for meteorological reasons. Haiti's heaviest rains start in April. Those rains send the contaminated Artibonite over its banks and into villages in the low-lying river delta.
The rainy season also floods the low-lying slums of Port-au-Prince, sometimes carrying sewage into people's crowded homes.
Haiti's biggest spike of cholera cases and deaths occurred last May.
Since Haiti's cholera outbreak began in October 2010, it has sickened more than 500,000 people and killed more than 7,000. Before then, there had never been a recorded cholera outbreak in Haiti.
All evidence suggests the disease was introduced accidentally by United Nations peacekeeping forces from Nepal, a cholera-endemic country, when a latrine spilled sewage into a tributary of the Artibonite, 60 miles upstream from the rice-growing villages. President Bill Clinton, now the U.N.'s special envoy to Haiti, acknowledged that was the "proximate cause" of cholera in Haiti during a visit here last week.
Villagers in the Artibonite delta are well aware of the cholera risk, and anxious to get the vaccine.
Last Saturday, Alexi Rochnel pulled out blue vaccination cards for himself, his wife and his children. They live in a rice-growing village that pulls its drinking water from the Artibonite River.
"Lately we have been facing this cholera disease that we didn't have before, so it's good to be vaccinated," Rochnel says. A year ago, during Haiti's rainy season, his wife fell ill with cholera. "It was very bad," he says, but she survived with hospital care.
Jonathan Lascher of Partners in Health says the organization is confident the vaccination campaign will go ahead later this month. So are officials at GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince.
If they succeed in showing that cholera vaccination is feasible, the next debate will be whether and how it can be scaled up to a much bigger proportion of the population in time for next year's rainy season.
Let's go next to Haiti, where the 2010 earthquake is just one of the disasters the country is facing. Cholera broke out in that nation about a year and a half ago, and has been killing people ever since. NPR health correspondent Richard Knox is in Haiti, tracking the latest effort to contain it: a plan to give a vaccine to about 100,000 people. We'll be hearing his stories in the coming weeks on NPR News, and we've got a preview now. Richard is in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. Hi, Richard.
RICHARD KNOX, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.
INSKEEP: What have you been seeing?
KNOX: Well, we've been traveling from the slums of Port-au-Prince to the remotest villages up in the hills of various parts of Haiti and the rice-growing areas in the valleys north of here, looking at cholera and looking at people's experience of cholera last year during the rainy season - which was about a year ago - and asking people about how do they get their drinking water, what kind of sanitation facilities they have - or actually, more to the point, usually don't have.
INSKEEP: When you talk about rice-growing areas in the Caribbean, I imagine just gorgeous landscape, but terrible suffering in that landscape.
KNOX: Yeah. The rice-growing area of Haiti is lush and green, brilliant emerald green fields of rice, but very, very poor villages. I mean, the rice economy has really imploded, but that's what they've been doing for generations.
INSKEEP: You know, I was talking with your editor, Richard, and he mentioned that he sent you down to Haiti to be there for the start of this vaccine program. But I gather while you're ready to see it, they're not actually ready to do it.
KNOX: No, they're very ready to do it. It's just that there's been some - a big glitch lately that's held it up. There are two medical groups who've been working for most of the past year to vaccinate against cholera. But there's been a controversy about whether it's a medical experiment or not. And so they're having to work through that.
INSKEEP: You know, Richard, people get vaccines by the millions all the time. Why would it be controversial to give a vaccine for cholera?
KNOX: Well, a couple of things. Some people think that the effort should be spent on getting clean water and sanitation. But secondly, there's been concern that this vaccine was experimental, and that's been really just a confusion of timing. Last year when they originally proposed it, this vaccine was not approved by the World Health Organization. Now it is. But lately, people have said this is an experiment. So, they're trying to work that out and make it clear that it's really not an experiment. This is a certified safe and effective vaccine.
INSKEEP: So, this isn't just a question of medicine. It's a question of politics.
KNOX: It is a question of politics, which is often the case here in Haiti.
INSKEEP: So, what are some of the stories we can expect to hear from you in the coming days, Richard?
KNOX: Well, we're also going to report on the basic problem, which is most people don't have access to reliably clean water. And many people we talk to around Haiti know that the water's unsafe. They know that's how they get cholera, and yet they really don't have any choice.
INSKEEP: NPR health correspondent Richard Knox, keeping us up to date on the basics, which are a life or death matter in Haiti. Richard, thanks very much.
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UNICEF alarmed as attacks on Afghan schools rise
KABUL/GENEVA, 4 August 2006 UNICEF warned today that schools in Afghanistan are the targets of increasingly dramatic attacks, noting that reported incidents have spread from the south and southeastern region to all of the provinces and include 11 explosions, 50 school burnings and 37 threats against schools and communities.
As of July 2006, the UNICEF School Incident Database a UNICEF-run monitoring system totaled 99 cases, especially alarming because this is more than six times the number of incidents from the same period in 2005. Six children have died as the result of the violence.
While UNICEF and the Afghan government are taking steps to protect children and schools, the latest school-security related incidents are becoming increasingly worrisome. The education structure is still shaky following years of political turmoil, including denial of education for girls, under Taliban rule and subsequent ongoing conflict.
With all that the children of Afghanistan have gone through, to expose them to this kind of terrible violence is appalling, said Bernt Aasen, the UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan. The children of Afghanistan have a right to education. Threats, intimidations and violent attacks on students in schools undermine the very fabric of the future of Afghan society.
UNICEF called on all parties to cease targeting children, education workers and schools.
In March 2002, Afghanistan schoolchildren sparked hope for out-of-school children everywhere, as 1.5 million children returned to the classroom. By December 2006 this figure has soared to 5.1 million children. Most impressively, 1.5 million girls who had been discriminated against under Taliban rule, returned to formal learning, despite numerous challenges.
Today, schools are closing, students are staying home and the hard-won progress is at risk. In four southern provinces it is estimated that more than 100,000 children are shut out of school because the school closures. Children and teachers are under increasing threat and being denied their right to a safe teaching and learning environment.
In four southern provinces it is estimated that more than 100,000 children are shut out of school because of school closures. Children and teachers are under increasing threat and being denied their right to a safe teaching and learning environment.
In response, UNICEF, Ministry of Education and other partners have set up a special task force to devise solutions that is strengthening protection of students, teachers, school officials and schools themselves and providing a rapid response when incidents arise, including:
Establishing a 24-hour a day communications system with provinces and twice a day call-ins to stay abreast of situations in the field.
Appointing 34 provincial Protection Advisors to monitor and analyse security data from the field and to work with local task forces, Provincial Reconstruction Team officials and traditional leaders to ensure security. Placing Mobile Protection Teams with two child protection officers per province with more officers in the bigger provinces. The Child Protection Officers will devise strategies with Government and local communities towards greater protection of children, particularly girls and female teachers, from any kind of abuse. They will also monitor that health and safety guidelines including mine awareness, health and hygiene training and first-aid facilities are in place.
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When incidents do occur, UNICEF, if security allows, is on-site within 72 hours providing support within five days with the provision of classroom tents, teaching-learning stationary materials, blackboard, chalks, floor mats so as to restore normal functioning of schools and having teachers and children return as soon as possible.
In cases where major repair or construction is needed, UNICEF is taking further action in consultation with the respective Provincial Education Department and the Ministry of Education.
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We must not allow the progress that was made in establishing access to quality education to 5.2 million children be destroyed because we did not try hard enough to protect childrens right to be taught in a safe learning environment. said Aasen.
UNICEF praised the work of the government and its partners in making Afghan schools a place of learning and not of fear.
If we want our children to grow up non-violent, we must do everything we can to ensure that their schools are as safe as they possibly can be, said Aasen.
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UEFA has responded to widespread outrage against the racism
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players during an under-21s match in October by deciding to appeal
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Serbian fans directed monkey chants at black England players
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immediately confirm his intention to appeal on UEFA's behalf,"
European football's governing body said in a statement.
UEFA was lobbied by the English Football Association and groups,
including Football Against Racism in Europe.
"UEFA now have an opportunity to send out a message," FARE
executive director Piara Powar said. "It takes a lot of honesty
and self-reflection to admit that one arm of the organization got
it wrong … what happened warranted a harder sanction."
Serbia's punishment drew unfavorable comparisons with the
?100,000 fine given to Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner for wearing
sponsored underpants at Euro 2012 in June.
UEFA President Michel Platini had indicated he was likely to
seek tougher sanctions against Serbia, having previously urged its
government to enact stricter laws and to do more to tackle violence
and discrimination by its fans.
UEFA's panel imposed international bans on four Serbia players
of between two and four years, while two coaches were banned from
football for two years. Parts of their punishments were
England won the match 1-0 to advance to the under-21 European
Championship in Israel.
The English FA previously said it would appeal suspensions for
defender Steven Caulker (two matches) and midfielder Thomas Ince
(one match).
England coach Stuart Pearce said Caulker and Ince were not
aggressive and were only protecting themselves. UEFA's appeal could
result in those sanctions being reduced or overturned.
The post-match brawl began after England defender Danny Rose
complained about being subjected to monkey chants every time he
touched the ball. He was sent off after the final whistle for after
kicking a ball into the stands, gesturing to the crowd as he walked
off the pitch.
The appeals will not be heard until after the Jan. 8 deadline
for all sides to challenge the ruling.
Serbia FA general secretary Zoran Lakovic previously
acknowledged that the Balkan country is on its "last warning"
from UEFA and would not appeal.
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Some people know when opportunity knocks, and Chris Clemence — an East Hampton native and the bass player for the band the RapScallions, who will play at the Stephen Talkhouse tomorrow night — is one of those people. But opportunity didn't exactly knock. It arrived as a misaddressed piece of junk mail.
Mr. Clemence was about 14 when he went to the mailbox at his parents' East Hampton Village house and found a catalog meant for another address. He started looking through it and fell in love with a picture of a bass guitar.
"I wasn't even exactly sure what a bass was," he said. No matter. His parents, Debbie and Mike Clemence, who were very supportive of his semi-musical intentions, bought him the bass for his birthday.
Then, because of more support he received, most notably from Troy Grindle and Marilyn Van Scoyoc at East Hampton High School, Mr. Clemence became an accomplished bass player. "I was in jazz band in high school," he said. "Dr. Van Scoyoc really helped me a lot."
He also tipped his hat to Johnny Blood, the guitarist who plays with the Nancy Atlas Project. "He was really helpful," he said.
Mr. Clemence received the Kris Dalene Music Scholarship, in memory of a young drummer who died in 2003, and he also acknowledged the encouragement he received from the Dalene family of Wainscott.
When it came time for college, Mr. Clemence ventured out to California and the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, a leading school for contemporary musical studies. It was there that he met his band mates — Matt Still (vocals), Dario Forzato (guitar), and Adam Fisher (drums).
But it started with a friendship. "We were friends first," he said. "And then we realized, 'Wait a minute — you play drums, you play guitar, you play bass.' " He laughed and explained that when they finally got around to playing together, the chemistry was immediate.
Playing original tunes, the RapScallions started gigging at the school and quickly became a popular party band. "Getting the respect of other musicians felt really good," Mr. Clemence said. "It validated us."
The venues started getting bigger, from house parties to the Roxy and other clubs on the Sunset Strip. This led to national touring. The RapScallions have opened for Fishbone, Chris Cornell, the English Beat, Bone Thugs N Harmony, and others, sometimes playing to crowds of over 10,000.
The band's sound has been compared to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime, and 311, a combination of funk and rap with a strong guitar presence. The band's single "California Brain" will be included in Ubisoft's latest video game, the eagerly anticipated Rocksmith, which premieres in October. Unlike the ubiquitious Guitar Hero, Rocksmith allows gamers to plug into real guitars instead of plastic, guitar-shaped controllers, and can help them learn to play guitar for real.
The RapScallions have been busy, Mr. Clemence said. The band recently performed at the VHI Save the Music benefit concert and the Official N.B.A. All-Star Block Party. They've been listed by Music Connection as one of the top 100 live bands of 2010, and were featured in the magazine's March 2011 issue.
And now a new force has been thrown into the RapScallions mix — Wendy Starland, a producer who "discovered" Lady Gaga and has worked with Moby, Wu Tang Clan, and others.
"We met her a few years ago," Mr. Clemence said. "She thought our stuff was raw, funky, cool." Ms. Starland is honing the group, both musically and in the image department.
According to Mr. Clemence, she has no compunction about saying what works and what doesn't. "She's not afraid to speak her mind," he said. "We've learned so much from her. And the proof is in how much more professional we sound."
The RapScallions were recording a four-track demo at Interscope records, and before they were done had secured an independent recording deal.
The band will release its first album in October, concurrent with the release of the game featuring their music and a planned college tour.
But Mr. Clemence couldn't be more excited about playing at the Talkhouse tomorrow. "It's like a homecoming show," he said. "Our first East Hampton venue."
The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20. For more information about the RapScallions, or to get a taste of their music, their Web site is reverbnation. com/rapscallions.


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Cheryl Cole says Simon Cowell was right to fire her from the US X Factor - admitting she wasn't "well in the head" at the time.
The singer also revealed the shocking foul-mouthed text she sent the music mogul after being humiliated just weeks into her high-profile job.
She told Elle UK : "I can talk about this because I'm OK about it now. But I went through hell and it literally drove me mad. I became so desensitised, you could say terrible things to me and I wouldn't even think about it.
"I'd read awful stuff about myself and not blink. I shut down because I didn't know what else to do."
She told the mag: "Now I can say that Simon was right to get rid of me.
"I wasn't well in the head when that was going on, so it wasn't going to work. But he wasn't right not to tell me to my face."
The usually chic star, who raised eyebrows when she appeared with big hair and dressed in purple trousers and an orange frilly top on her first day's filming for the US show, sent Cowell a text after she was dropped.
"F**k you, F**k Fox, F**k the orange and purple outfit. F**k the big hair. F**k the UK X Factor. F**k you all. I hate you," she wrote.
Cole, who is now back as a judge on the UK X Factor, revealed to the August issue of the magazine that she felt as though she was having a nervous breakdown last year.
"It only hit me at the beginning of 2013 that I'd completely lost myself. I'd look in a mirror and think: 'Who the hell is she?'," she said.
"I didn't know what I thought or felt about anything, couldn't make decisions - I didn't even know what to eat or drink. Something was seriously wrong: it felt like a nervous breakdown. I had to stop, get out of my life I'd been living and find myself again. The consequences if I didn't were just too frightening."
The former Girls Aloud star, who divorced her husband Ashley Cole in 2010 and is now dating French restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini , said that today she is a stronger woman.
"I thought I had every box ticked, career and personal. I was the first to get married. I was the one everyone thought would be the first to have a baby and then the rug got pulled out from under me. I've learned that there is no such thing as a plan. You can't make them," she said.
The singer, whose new single Crazy Stupid Love is out later this month, said: "I'm just enjoying finding out who I am. That's good enough right now... I know I'm really lucky because none of what I've been through broke me.
"It actually taught me everything I'm going to need for the rest of my life. I love feeling that I'm strong because I have good women at my side. And I don't give a f**k what people think any more."
See Cheryl's 9 most popular X Factor moments here.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - Democratic governors are accusing House Republicans of deliberately sabotaging the economy to help Mitt Romney oust President Barack Obama.
"There's not a doubt in my mind that in their calculations, that they are hoping for the economy to slow before the election," Gov. Martin O'Malley, D-Md., said in an interview Friday. "They think that's their best shot at unseating the president."
Democrats have grumbled for months that Republicans have obstructed legislation to deny Obama the election-year victories he needs to make the case for his economic record.
But on Friday, some Democratic governors pointed to the GOP-controlled House's efforts to withhold support for the stimulus and block Democratic jobs legislation, and said - in interviews with the Associated Press on the sidelines of the National Governors Association's annual meeting - the only rational conclusion is that Republicans are sacrificing the economic recovery to bolster their argument Obama has failed to create jobs.
"You have to ask the obvious question: How desperate and how far will they go to ensure this president gets defeated?" Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said.
An aide to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, rejected the notion Republicans were working to ensure the economic recovery failed. He said Democrats have not put forward any legitimate jobs legislation and he faulted them for blocking GOP efforts that could have resulted in faster job creation.
"We have passed bills that would reduce red tape, repeal a health care law that is making harder for small businesses to hire, open up American energy resources, and - later this month - stop the largest tax hike in American history," said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel.
The Democrats' comments came on the first day of the NGA's three-day meeting in historic Williamsburg. The bipartisan group will compare notes on programs that have been effective in their states and hold sessions on Saturday focusing on commerce, health, homeland security and natural resources. They'll also pay an evening visit to the colonial settlement in Jamestown.
Although the group of governors meets annually, rarely are their gatherings fraught with as much naked partisanship and finger-pointing as this year, with the presidential election less than four months out. Overshadowing this year's conference was a campaign event by Obama on Friday in southeastern Virginia, about 30 miles away.
The Democratic governors' concerted effort to impugn Republicans' motives suggests Democrats may seek to assign blame to Republicans for a weak economy, rather than working to convince voters the economy is improving under Obama and just needs more time. But that argument is a double-edged sword for Democrats, because it forces them to fully confront economic realities - including an unemployment rate that is hovering at 8.2 percent nationally. No president has been re-elected with the unemployment rate above 7.2 percent.
On the other hand, Republican governors face the awkward task of touting growth in their own local economies while arguing progress has come despite - not because of - Obama's leadership.
They're approaching that task by drawing side-by-side comparisons with states with Democratic governors whose economies have added jobs at a slower pace than their neighbors.
"Just look at Illinois," said Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican. In Iowa, the unemployment rate is down to 5.1 percent, according to Labor Department statistics for May. In neighboring Illinois, it's at 8.6 percent. "He comes from Chicago. His philosophy is in control in Illinois, and look where they are: mired in debt and raising taxes and driving business and jobs out of the state."
O'Malley accused congressional Republicans of "taking the country's credit rating hostage and kicking a dent in it," alluding to the standoff over raising the debt ceiling in 2011, when Republicans spoke openly about the possibility of a U.S. default if Democrats didn't acquiesce to major spending cuts. Democrats blame that standoff - and the GOP - for Standard & Poor's decision in August to downgrade the U.S. credit rating and the souring effect the downgrade had on consumer confidence.
And Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set the tone in 2010 - and again in 2011 - when he said his top priority was to ensure Obama didn't serve more than one term.
In reality, both parties have stood in the way of efforts the other party claims would spur job growth. Republicans argue the jobs plan Obama put forth in September was laden with too much spending and would add to the deficit. Democrats counter that Republican initiatives rely too heavily on tax cuts for the wealthy.
Case in point: The Senate on Thursday rejected both a Democratic and a Republican plan to cut taxes on businesses. Both sides said the other's bill fell short of what was needed to help struggling families and businesses looking to expand.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said Republican resistance to Democratic jobs legislation had no other purpose than to elect Romney as president.
"In other times, taking those positions would be described as unpatriotic," Malloy said. "But our politics have become so distorted that to be against the jobs bill is a good thing."


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Time running out to vote White Sox into All-Star Game
CHICAGO -- There are a number of shortstops in the American League who possess better overall numbers than Alexei Ramirez.
Baltimore's J.J. Hardy has more homers and RBIs. Detroit's Jhonny Peralta has a higher average. And six shortstops hold better slugging percentages than the White Sox man up the middle.
CHICAGO -- There are a number of shortstops in the American League who possess better overall numbers than Alexei Ramirez.
Baltimore's J.J. Hardy has more homers and RBIs. Detroit's Jhonny Peralta has a higher average. And six shortstops hold better slugging percentages than the White Sox man up the middle.
Ramirez does have them beat in a couple of areas, namely durability and stolen bases. Those categories haven't given Ramirez enough support to be chosen as an All-Star, with Ramirez not in the top five for his position in the latest round of voting results. None of the White Sox players are in the top five or top 15 for the outfielders, which is not a surprise considering their team-wide offensive struggles, but there's still a little bit of time remaining for fans to show their support.
Fans can cast their votes for starters at MLB.com and all 30 club sites -- online or via a mobile device -- using the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot until Thursday, July 4, at 10:59 p.m. CT.
Fans may submit 25 online ballots during the voting period but can also earn a one-time bonus of 10 additional online ballots. To access these additional online ballots, fans must be logged into an MLB.com account when submitting any online ballot. To obtain an MLB.com account, visit www.mlb.com and register in accordance with the enrollment instructions for a free MLB.com account.
Fans can also once again participate in the Home Run Derby Fan Poll. Fans will have the opportunity to select three players in each league whom they would most like to see participate in the Home Run Derby. The 2013 Home Run Derby -- part of Gatorade All-Star Workout Day -- will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Radio in the United States beginning at 7 p.m. CT on Monday, July 15.
Though originally scheduled for July 7, the 2013 rosters will now be unveiled Saturday, July 6, at 5:30 p.m. CT on the 2013 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show presented by Taco Bell. The show will be televised nationally on FOX.
From Saturday, July 6 to Thursday, July 11, be sure to return to MLB.com and cast your 2013 All-Star Game Final Vote Sponsored by freecreditscore.com for the final player for each League's All-Star roster.
And the voting doesn't end there. The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday, July 16. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 84th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM also will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.
Ramirez stands as the only player in all of baseball to have played every single inning this year. His 18 stolen bases trail only Milwaukee's Jean Segura and San Diego's Everth Cabrera for the lead at his position.
Yes, Ramirez has made 14 errors, surpassing last year's total before the end of June. But he also continues to play solid overall defense up the middle.
The best bet for White Sox All-Stars comes from their pitching staff. Starter Chris Sale's 3.8 WAR ranks him second among AL starters, while he sits tied for fifth with his 114 strikeouts and tied for sixth with his 2.79 ERA. His WHIP of 0.96 places Sale third behind Seattle's Hisashi Iwakuma and Detroit's Max Scherzer.
Reliever Jesse Crain had his streak of 31 straight games and 31 straight innings without allowing an earned run snapped in Saturday's loss against the Indians. His WAR of 2.5 ranks 10th among AL hurlers and tops among relievers.
Crain figures to have support from his opponents around baseball, despite serving as a setup man ranking second in the Majors to Tampa Bay's Joel Peralta's 20 holds with 19 of his own. He certainly has the support of his teammates.
"For sure," said White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers, when asked if Crain deserves to be an All-Star. "What the guy has done all year, without a doubt. He's one of the best relievers in baseball right now."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin.


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JoeyLohan needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 15 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Wordpress theme for a blog called JoeyLohan.com. I'm a young student who blogs about entertainment news and various artists.
Women and Men who like to keep updated on the world of entertainment and the latest pop / urban music. Tracer Magazine is one of my followers.
Dark background. Neon border outlines and font (feel free to mix it up). The bottom of each post should have a Facebook logo to share or like, Twitter logo to retweet, envelope icon to send via e-mail, digg.com logo to submit a link, buzz.yahoo.com logo to submit a story, a bookmark this link logo, and a reddit.com logo. RSS, Twitter (twitter.com/JoeyLohan), Facebook (facebook.com/joeylohan), and subscribe links on the right side of header. A photograph of myself in the center or right side of header. A left, middle, and right Footer widget. Side widgets can be on either left or right side.
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Webhost Down
If you've stumbled in here, you'll be pleased/saddened/indifferent to know that Six Meat Buffet is not dead, it's just that our regular webhost at the primary domain is working on stuff and we're temporarily down. No big whoop. I'm sure we'll be back up in short order. In the meantime, go visit Laurie.


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Our ever so wonderful, talented and darling Debbie Moore
'Boss Lady' has come to a very hard decision and made the tough
conclusion to close The Crafty Pad Designs Shop, along with the
challenge blog :( This decision has not been reached lightly.
Great time and thought has gone into this evaluation and for the
moment, it is the right path for Debbie to take.
We would like to say a massive thank you to all of our
wonderful sponsors, who have kindly donated prizes,
images and goodies to the Design Team.
An enormous thank you to all our current and past Design Team
and guests! Without you, we would not have made it this far!
You are all exceptional, talented and gifted and we thank you!
And lastly; our followers, friends and customers!
You have made this journey memorable, incredible and extraordinary!
We thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
In admiration of the good times we have had here at
The Crafty Pad,the friendships that have been formed,
moulded and been discovered, today we bring you
our final challenge ....
Friendship / Keep In Touch/Goodbye
Our wonderful sponsor this week is the gorgeous and generous
For this auspicious occasion, the entire Design Team have come out
to play and to celebrate our friendships and the time spent together
using just some of the adorable
Crafty Pad Design images
that we have all come to love!
I will hand you over to gentle yet inspiring hands of our fabulous Design Teams!
Using TCP - Snowmen
Using TCP - MooRag and Friends
Using TCP - Girl at Wishing Well
and Imprints Sentiment Ticket
Using TCP - Dress Form Trio
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Using TCP - Anna Happy Birthday image
and sentiment from Rainbow Sally.
|Inside the card, the sentiment reads......
Using TCP - Teaset and sentiment
Using TCP - MooRag-Cow-Just-Chillin,
Using TCP - Verse from Butterflies With Verse & Borders
Using TCP - Imprints Ticket Sentiment &
Sentiment from Teddies do Piano
winner and Top 5 from challenge #200 - ??? and the winners of our last ever challenge
#201 Friendship / Keep in Touch/Goodbye will be announced Thursday the 27th of December.
Debbie has kindly agreed to keep the challenge blog open so we can
always come backand reflect on the good times had and
The Crafty Pad Designs shop
will remain open for purchases until officially closing on
7th January 2013. There is a 25% Sale on Now at the Store until our doors close.
Debbie's wonderful images will still be available from
Card making Downloads
The Crafty Pads Designs label!
Again, we thank you all for the support and happy memories you have given us! And we would love you to play along with us and share in our final good-byes!
I (Debbie) would like to say a massive, big, huge Thank you to all my wonderful DT ladies. They have been a fabulous team and have worked hard on the behalf of The Crafty Pad Designs bringing stunning inspiration to us all....thank you ladies...HUGS.....HUGS
I would also like to Thank all the brilliant sponsors for their support and last but not least all our lovely followers and entries we have had - you are all just the Bestest Ever..HUGS.


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Primary poses test for Texas Democrats' strategy
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Battleground Texas, the major Democratic effort aimed at turning one of the reddest states blue, celebrated its first birthday this week with cocktails at a swank Austin bar, hosting one last party before the project's first significant test in Tuesday's primary election.
The initiative organized by Jeremy Bird, President Barack Obama's former field organizer, has raised more than $3 million, signed up 12,000 volunteers and attempted more than 370,000 phone calls and door-knocks to boost the Democratic Party, according to the organizing group's executive director, Jenn Brown. The group hopes to take advantage of the state's changing demographics to increase the Democratic vote, using a neighborhood mobilizing model that produced results in Obama's presidential campaigns.
The March 4 Democratic primary will reveal how much the group has accomplished on the road to the general election in November.
Democrats hope to make Texas a battleground state by 2016 to, at the very least, force the GOP to divert resources to preserving their hold on the second largest number of electoral college seats in the country. If Democrats could routinely win in Texas, along with their strongholds in California and New York, they could hold the White House for years to come.
But no Democrat has won a statewide election since 1994, and participation in the primary, as a percentage of the state's population, has steadily dropped to 590,000 in 2012. The one exception was the 2008 primary, in which Obama faced off against Hillary Clinton, a race that brought out a record 2.8 million voters.
"It gives you a sense of what is possible if you have very competitive mobilization efforts going on," said James Henson, a political scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, an expert on voter behavior in Texas.
"There's a chicken and egg question, do you get people mobilized and then you get more competitive races? Or do you get more competitive races, and then that helps mobilize people?"
Republicans say that registering more voters in the fast-growing state won't necessarily help Democrats because Texas residents, including many Hispanics, tend to be conservative.
"The center-right is the vast majority in this state, so you can register all the voters you want," said Republican Party Chairman Steve Munisteri.
Enthusiasm for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has sped up the organizing group's timeline for making Texas a battleground state, said Brown. Davis, 50, became a hero to abortion rights advocates when she conducted an 11-hour filibuster in the Texas Senate last year that temporarily blocked a new abortion measure. Her personal story of being a divorced teenage mother who went on earn a law degree and win elective office has added to her celebrity.
Until Davis' emergence, Democrats' hopes of breaking through had originally centered on 2020, when Hispanics will become the majority in Texas.
Nevertheless, expectations for next week's primary have been tamped down by the fact that Davis doesn't face a serious Democratic challenger. Greg Abbott, the state attorney general, is the presumptive Republican nominee for governor.
Brown said the group is far more focused on turning out the vote in November, when Battleground Texas will fully activate the neighborhood networks to staff phone banks, knock on doors and help Democratic voters get to the polls. Past Democratic campaigns have relied primarily on television and direct mail, only to see the party's share of the vote top out at 42 percent.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a rising star in the Democratic Party from San Antonio, said Democrats see opportunity in an electorate that is not nearly as ethnically diverse as the state's population. Texas also ranks last in the nation in voter turnout.
"In Texas, one of the reasons we have such an abysmal voter participation rate is because people are just not being spoken to and Battleground Texas is helping to change that," he said. Past Democratic campaigns have concentrated on mainly white likely voters who vote overwhelming Republican.
The GOP's Munisteri said Republicans have also stepped up outreach programs to minorities and sent activists to minority events, such as Asian lunar new year celebrations and Hispanic festivals. The party has a team of fluent Spanish speakers creating social media campaigns.
GOP leaders crowed when Gallup released an analysis of its 2012 daily tracking polls that revealed that while 51 percent of Hispanics outside of Texas identify with the Democratic Party, only 46 percent of Texas Hispanics do.
Democrats acknowledge they must do better.
"The real issue is that we haven't built the structures to engage the Latino community," Brown said. "That's the problem we're working to address."
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A Fifteenth Century Technopanic About The Horrors Of The Printing Press
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But what we didn't realize was there actually was just such a concern at the time.
ChurchHatesTucker points us to a wonderful historical analysis of a 15th century luddite, abbot Johannes Trithemius, who was no fan of the printing press, because of what it was going to do to those poor monks. It wasn't just that it would put them out of work, but that it would impact their souls. He worried that the printing press would make monks lazy.
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He does spend some time talking about practical reasons that printed books weren't anything to get bothered about: their paper wasn't as permanent as the parchment the monks used (he even advocates the hand-copying of "useful" printed works for their preservation); there weren't very many books in print, and they were hard to find; they were constrained by the limitations of type, and were therefore ugly.And then there's just the fact that if you're not writing a book, you don't really "get" it:
He who ceases from zeal for writing because of printing is no true lover of the Scriptures.Honestly, it sounds like a near perfect 15th century version of Nick Carr. Carr loves books, but frets about what the internet is doing to our appreciation of books. But, of course, this all seems to come back to Douglas Adams' famous saying, which I'll paraphrase: everything that exists before you were born is just normal, the way things should be. Everything that is invented from your birth until you're about thirty is cool and neat and innovative. And everything invented after you're thirty is "against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it."


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The hottest team in the majors since June 25th? That's right, the Cubs. The record says so, the Cubs are 12-4 since June 25th and are clicking on all cylinders as they welcome the Miami Marlins to town. Or should I say they welcome the circus to town as Tuesday will mark the return of Ozzie Guillen, Mark Buehrle, and Carlos Zambrano to Chicago. Guillen had an opportunity to set his rotation for this series and he chose to have Zambrano watch all three games from the bench. Of course I guess that could be good for all parties involved. The Cubs only care about one thing, and that's winning, which is what they have been doing as they come into this series on the heels of a three game sweep over the Diamondbacks. A big reason for the success has been the Cubs starters who have had an ERA under two over the last five games and have the opportunity to continue that dominance as they face a scuffling Marlins offense (14th in runs scored in the NL). The improved lineup has been another big reason for the Cubs turnaround, and there's no reason to expect them to slow down against a Marlins staff that is ranked 11th in the NL in team ERA. Full preview/breakdown after the jump.
July 16, 2012 – July 18, 2012
Game One – Tuesday July 17, 2012 – 7:05 PM CST
Game Two – Wednesday July 18, 2012 – 7:05 PM CST
Game Three – Thursday July 19, 2012 – 1:20 PM CST
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|24-11-2001, 22:29:06
Hmmm, Fondue !
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Aliens vs Predator 2
Just came out.
AvsP was the only FPS that actually freaked me out, especially playing the marine. That is one game that I just couldn't play before going to bed, because I would be too tense to sleep afterwards !
One of my friends bought it, I'm waiting for his feedback... Hope it's as good as the first one.
|27-11-2001, 15:15:23
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Rudolph's stable
Never played the first one, though it sounded like a cool premise for a game.
I loved the fact that the game was packaged with a pair of underwear as it would make you crap your pants.
TO LazyView!!!!
|27-11-2001, 15:23:39
Guardian of All Things Holy
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Al Khobar, Magic Kingdom
Get him to do a review and submit it!
|28-11-2001, 00:37:33
Hmmm, Fondue !
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
I don't think he can be bothered.
|28-11-2001, 01:43:59
Look out behind you!
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Rudolph's stable
He better be bothered.
TO LazyView!!!!
|28-11-2001, 08:13:47
Hmmm, Fondue !
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Or you'll come down knowing at this door (or was it knocking his door down ?)
|28-11-2001, 19:26:43
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Louisiana
I'm probably buying it soon, don't know when yet though. I have three round trip tickets to buy just for december, early january alone. So I'm saving my spending cash to use for that instead of dipping into savings to buy them. God damn airlines (oh, our fares are cheaper now!) Bullshit. They are more expensive for all but the flying hub to hub.
|01-12-2001, 21:19:30
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Louisiana
Despite what the game says, you NEED 256 megs of ram... load times are a fucking killer. One a p3 500 with a geforce 3, on best detail, it takes over 2 1/2 minutes, on medium, still takes over a minute. I only have 128 megs of ram... god this game EATS fucking ram. They tell you it in the manual, but not on the box... recommended should be 256 megs, not whatever was stated. Graphics are great for a lithtech engine, still not q3 arena engine, but the graphics are gorgeous, if you can wait 2 FUCKING minutes, then another 2 FUCKING minutes. Cutscene, 2 minutes, loading game 2 minutes. It's a fucking pain in the damned ass.
The interface is shitty as well, it's typical fps, but certain things don't fucking work... I'm downloading the 4 meg patch now on bloody 56k. I'm not impressed so far.
|03-12-2001, 05:47:29
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Louisiana
Okay, now I've seen it on a fast machine - p4 1 ghz, 384megs ram, geforce 3. It looks beautiful, but wolfenstien looked better still. Lithtech is still behind graphics wise in all categories. While AvP made more of an impression graphically, it wasn't cause the graphics were better, it was the setting. I don't see why the requirements are so high for an engine which basically has to render black over 75% of the screen. My friend's machine still had the occassional blip of load time during a mission itself, which is inexcusable for a machine with his settings. Now onto mine.
On my machine (on med detail), after a gaming session, it can take upwards of 5 to 7 minutes to clear out the disk cache. Quick save is quick, but quick load is just as slow as regular load. Also during missions, you can guess, not just by the music, but there is either a very brief, to a very noticable load time when enemies are placed into action (1/4 to 10 seconds). This also happens at inconvient times like when a different weapon is used that hasn't been used before (the last boss for the predator mission killed me on the pause alone).
The game itself is fairly fucking hard as I'm having a save reload fest on normal, but it's generally the first half of each species set of missions, until you know exactly how to play them and how much they can dish and take. As a marine you will ALWAYS be fucking alone. As an alien or predator you'll kill them in packs, but when your the guy, you get to prance around playing the lone ranger. Same goes with the alien. Rarely do you encounter multiple predators, and if you do, they take turns on you. Meaning you kill one, the other then chooses to pounce on you.
The marine missions require the most patience, as you have to creep around, as running will get you killed. Nothing is more "fun" than the game throwing three to five aliens at you at once and you get stuck in the middle of them, only to turn the next corner and see two or three more (on the first mission this happens... the marine gets assfucked in this game). If you have patience, they are great, as they do keep you on the edge of your seat. Having that bloody many aliens out there will do that to you, and then there are the predators. . .
The Predator missions are almost like the marine missions, except you can stroll around at will long as you have the ability to cloak and your around marines. If your a cautious player, with the way the health and power for it are set up, you can nearly never die. Running backwards with the autotargetting (you can't chose otherwise unless you pick a filter which makes it hard to impossible to see the aliens). plasmacaster works wonders on alien drones. The few humans that can see you though, can hurt you quickly as they are in packs. You have to watch out more for sentry guns than anything (makes you switch lense filters an awfully lot). One filter autotargets for humans, one for aliens, one shows terrain and weapons, and one shows the screen as is (which is the most rarely used one). Oh boy, pitch black. YAY! Your not as tough as in the first one, but being able to recharge your energy and health to full in 10 seconds max at will more than make up for that.
The Alien... the first three lifeform changes, each is dramatic... the facehugger you have to scurry around out of sight, but can pounce. The chestburster... you have to stay int he dark, can't pounce and eat rodents and shit, and the drone, you go around pouncing and biting everything. It doesn't notify you that you increase to the next phase after that one, but you sorta know by the types of enemies you take on. For those who've heard of the predalien mutant, well you don't get to play him. You only get to fight it as the marine, and he isn't fun (can leap a damned mile). The alien is probably played the fastest for more of it's levels than any other species. Your always pouncing on something, very little stalking, every marine as an unlimited powered lamp and is by a sentry gun if its dark, or your in well lit corridors, and have to kill them quick cause they can see you no matter what.
For all species it pays to keep run off, as running is only slighty faster yet much more noisey. Only run if your in such deep shit as one extra step for every five you take will save you (which is rare as fuck).
Plenty of wide open spaces in this game with far off scenery... too bad that its all fucking black and you only make out a hint of blue, grey, or green if that. Your filters have a very short range.
Great game, bad engine.
My recommendation, is if you have at least a 256 megs of ram, a GOOD graphics card, and a fast processor to kill those load times from hell, then get it. If not, and you want one of those games where you can fix a snack between levels, maybe eat it as well, then this is the game for you. The graphics are pretty, but the engine sucks resources up faster than a toothless whore. Lithtech must mean lowtech in some foriegn language. They should have used the q3arena engine. Too much ambition packed into to little technology.
|04-12-2001, 14:18:01
~Novus Ordo Seclorum~
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Origin.
AvP is the only game ever to have freaked me out too. As the marine, it was the face huggers that scared me most, some levels i'd avoid playing (levels involving flamethrowers and pipes).
I used to have dreams (or nightmares where you watch impationately) full of those Gieger-monsters a whole year after the last time i played it.
That game actually aggravated arachnaphobia in me, i have horrible dreams about spiders alot more after having played that game, horrible hairless long-legged spiders ( i don't care what anyone saiz, the hairy ones are at least honourable, the hairless ones are just plain fucking evil, like disembodied bony hands, crawling towards your face....)
i will be getting AvP2.
Intermittent Signal.
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|04-12-2001, 23:48:26
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Louisiana
As the marine, it is scary, as the first mission shows you how powerful a fully equiped predator is (and then some), the second mission entroduces you to the joys of aliens in confined spaces. With the marine, everything is a serious threat, though drone aliens die remarkably fast, they just come in packs from all directions.
As the alien it is downright fun. Pouncing from wall to wall. That marine a 50 yards away is shooting at you. POUNCE not anymore. Ambushes by marines supported by sentries suck, so do synthetics, can't detect them nearly as easily. Flamethrowers aren't much of a threat, as you can tell which marine MIGHT have one (they are generally heavily armored), so you pounce on that one and eat the others. Save civilians to go back and eat later if your low on health. Sadistic? No.
As the predator, you go from hunting, to being hunted, to hunting again. Very fun experience. Your biggest threat sentry gun falling into a sentry gun crossfire. That sucks ass. So you have to change filters and be cautious, especially in semi open areas where several sentry guns can shoot you. Nothing sucks more than jumping down on somebody and hitting them, screaming your trophy yell as three sentry guns blast you to shit.
My 17" monitor just went out, so now I'm playing on a 15" I bought YEARS ago, when cards only came with 1 meg ram tops, turns out it can run in 32 bit at 1280x1024... and this is a monitor from early 486 days. Just small and the screen has that curvature from how they were made back then. Turns out the game isn't as dark (not nearly as I thought it was), my friend just likes his screen dim, and mine was REALLY burnt out before it finally blew. I don't see how I played the game before, as it was so dark that I could only see where my lamp was. Now I hardly ever NEED the lamp.
|06-12-2001, 22:06:48
Never gonna be as ugly as Lurker
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Everywhere...
No longer trippins AvP2 review is now live on counterglow! http://www.counterglow.net/article.p...ienvspredator2
|07-12-2001, 09:43:09
Die Müfzwerge
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Drowning in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry
I read that last night, sounds good but as I haven't got Wolfenstein yet I might have to wait and see... especially as I have some PS2 games to get in the near future.
protein: Bryan Adams rocks
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|07-12-2001, 10:04:14
Never gonna be as ugly as Lurker
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Everywhere...
Ouch! The pressures of having a PC and a PS2!!
|07-12-2001, 10:08:41
Die Müfzwerge
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Drowning in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry
And I am getting Wolfenstein... not sure I can do another FPS.
protein: Bryan Adams rocks
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|07-12-2001, 10:09:48
Burggespenst Lülü
Join Date: Nov 2001
I won't buy FPS at full price. The price drops pretty fast for FPS.
|12-12-2001, 10:34:08
[works only in german, sorry]
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: here
Just got this last night and I'm still in two minds about this. The predator missions out in the forests are a real departure from the clostrophobia of the first game and they show off the engine well but I'm not quite convinced. It seems to be a little too easy esp with the energy sift device allowing you to heal at every quiet point.
The marine levels do recreat the tension of the first well. The first level where you see the predators targeting lasers tracking across the floor towards you is a masterpiece of design. Had me frantically reversing towards the door. The swaying scenery setting off the motion detector is also very neat.
havnt played as the alien yet.
More later
|12-12-2001, 21:14:32
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Louisiana
This is the first game I've ever played that the tension increases with difficuly. On hard, setting, if an alien gets close to you, he will damage you severly when dying, possibly even killing you if you have to blast him with the shotgun. Keeps the tension REAL high. Seems on Easy, splash damage is almost not present, on Normal, splash damage can take its toll on you, and on Hard, splash damage from even ONE can kill you or weaken you drastically. I have to say, on Hard, I was shitting my pants at every turn, even though I knew when the enemies would pop up.
What pisses me off is that when you fight most aliens in latter levels, the game pauses as it reads the hard disk before it loads them. So once I get a pause or hear the tick of the hard disk during the game, I stop, check my levels and reload and wait for the ensueing death squad. That is just poor engine design. They should have it cached in the memory instead, so the pause would be gone, or at least unnoticable from the occassional engine hiccup. I find the q3 engine SOOOOOO much better graphically and in the way it places extra enemies during the game itself. It's unnoticable.
I think they should have made the individual alien tougher (about how tough it is when you play as it, the weakest one, the runner). As of now, after careful playing and aiming, 5-7 shots from the pulse rifle will kill it. So I generally think one cliip will kill 6-7 aliens (I assume about 50% of shots miss).
In my opinion they should have drastically strengthed the predator, taken out the energy requirment of the throwing disk and knocked up his energy about 50% more while taking away his energy sift device. They should have decreased the sheer amount of aliens while strengthing drastically those they left behind, and left the human as is, only giving him less ammunition.
As the game stands now, with various certain things, the best strategy is always to run backwards blasting anything that follows you.
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