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Interview Question – How was the past interview on a scale from 1-10. Very bizarre Answer Question
Reason for Declining – The vibe I got from the last 2 interviewers was not good. Does not look like they have a solid plan for the future and I dont think it is a stable department. Friend who works there says that they plan to automate everything and the department will be defunct in 3 years
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I applied online and the process took 4 weeks - interviewed at Cambridge Associates, LLC in November 2010.
Interview Details – Applied to the company based on their ad. Received message back in a few days asking a few basic questions. After that was invited in for interview. Met with 3-4 supervisors. Seemed straightforward and pleasant to deal with.
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The process took 2 weeks - interviewed at Cambridge Associates, LLC in April 2010.
Interview Details – I initially applied online and got a phone call two days later. The HR rep set up an informational phone interview. The questions were very basic and included a review of my resume. Then I was invited to interview on-site. They did not pay for travel or rooming expenses. The on-site interview consisted of two group presentations and three one-on-one interviews with questions ranging from basic resume information to simple finance/capital markets questions.
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Interview Details – Got the interview through a friend. Before the interview I found out that the position is essentially data entry and it didn't seem too fulfilling. During the interview I expressed a desire to at some point to return to b-school or get a CFA and aspirations of being portfolio manager one day. I don't think that they are looking for anyone particularly ambitious...at least knowingly. And truth be told the interviewer didn't seem very skilled. I received a thank you email the following day telling me that our interests didn't align, and I agree.
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Powerful racial profiling documentary screened at Congressional Briefing
by Restore Fairness, Tue Oct 05, 2010 at 05:48:37 PM EDT
From the Restore Fairness blog-
Breakthrough's Restore Fairness campaign showcased its powerful new documentary, 'Face the Truth: Racial Profiling Across America' at a briefing for Congressional staff on Racial and Religious Profiling in Washington, D.C. on Thursday September 30th. The documentary brings to life a new report by the Rights Working Group that was released along with 350 local and national partners on the one year anniversary of the Face the Truth campaign to end racial profiling. Along with compelling personal stories, the documentary features interviews with notable law enforcement and civil society leaders, many of whom were present at the briefing. Hilary O. Shelton (NAACP), Dr. Tracie Keesee (Denver Police Department) and Karwan Abdulkader (resident of Nashville subjected to racial profiling) are some of the speakers from the film who spoke in person to the packed room on September 30th.
"I've seen a lot in my life but to be degraded… not just stripped of my clothes, being stripped of my dignity, was what I had a problem with."
As Kurdish American Karwan Abdulkader broke down while relating his story, listeners learned that he was detained and interrogated by local law enforcement for no reason other than driving around in the wrong neighborhood. His is one among many stories featured in 'Face the Truth,' a moving video that illustrates the devastating impact of racial profiling on communities around our country, including the African American, Latino, Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities.
Racial and religious profiling as a pervasive problem that is not only humiliating and degrading for the people subjected to it, but one that is unconstitutional, ineffective as a law enforcement practice, and ultimately damaging to community security. Both the video and report urge Congress to pass the End Racial Profiling Act (ERPA).
Watch the video NOW and urge Congress to pass the End Racial Profiling Act.
Learn. Share. Act. Go to restorefairness.org
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Seahawks Hold Off Tribe For 14th Victory
Courtesy: UNCW Athletic Communications
Release: 02/05/2012
WILMINGTON, North Carolina - Junior guard Tawanna Lee scored a career-high 21 points as UNCW outlasted a late William & Mary rally to win, 80-77, in Colonial Athletic Association women's basketball action Sunday afternoon at Trask Coliseum.
The Seahawks, who returned to the win column after No. 12 Delaware ended UNCW's five game winning streak Thursday, climbed to 14-8 overall and 7-4 in conference play. The Tribe dropped its third straight contest and fell to 9-13 on the year and 2-9 in the CAA.
Sophomore guard Abria Trice and junior forward Ayoola Weaver both recorded double doubles for UNCW. Trice posted 15 points and 10 rebounds, while Weaver compiled 11 points and a career-high 16 rebounds. Junior forward Chelsea McGowen added a career-high 12 markers.
Junior forward Emily Correal led the Tribe with a game-high 22 points. Junior guard Janine Aldridge was close behind with 19 points, while senior guard Taysha Pye posted 13 markers. Junior center Jaclyn McKenna added a double double, notching 14 points and 10 rebounds.
With W&M holding a narrow 71-69 lead at the 3:39 mark, UNCW rattled off a 9-0 run, capped by a McGowen jumper to take a 78-71 advantage with 1:31 to go.
A trey by Aldridge at the 44-second mark cut the lead to 78-74 before UNCW committed a five second violation on the ensuing inbounds. W&M took advantage, as McKenna converted a three-point play to slice the lead to 78-77 with 38 ticks still on the clock.
UNCW, which won its sixth-straight game against W&M, got two free throws from sophomore guard Alisha Andrews with 19 seconds remaining to boost the advantage to 80-77. The Tribe's Aldridge and senior guard Katherine DeHenzel then both had looks at potential game-tying threes on W&M's final two possessions, but both shots were off the mark and the Seahawks held on for the win.
In the first half, UNCW clung to an 8-7 lead at the 14:06 mark, when DeHenzel pegged a trey to spark an 8-0 run. McKenna capped the spurt with a three-pointer of her own with 12:40 left before halftime to give W&M a seven point lead, 15-8.
The Tribe still held the lead, 28-24, at the 6:45 mark, but McGowen notched a bucket inside to begin a 9-0 run which gave UNCW the 33-28 lead at 2:41 off two free throws from Lee. The Seahawks shot 8-of-8 from the charity stripe in the first half.
The 9-0 spurt was part of a 16-6 run to conclude the first half for UNCW, sending the Seahawks into the halftime break leading, 40-34.
The Tribe came out roaring out of the gate in the second period with a quick 10-2 run to grab a 44-42 lead off a jumper from junior guard Chanel Murchison with 17:40 to play.
The Seahawks responded 2:02 later, when a layup by junior forward Karneshia Garrett sparked a 10-2 run. Junior guard Jessica Freeman drained a long ball to complete the spurt to give UNCW a 54-49 lead with 10:46 remaining.
W&M recovered again, however, to take a 56-54 lead with 9:41 left following a 7-0 run capped by an Aldridge bucket.
Both teams return to the court for mid-week clashes Thursday at 7 p.m. UNCW travels to Atlanta, Ga., to face Georgia State, while W&M heads back to Kaplan Arena to host Towson.
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Adams Paces UNCW In Final Round Of BNC
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Release: 04/08/2012
GREENSBORO, North Carolina - Sophomore Lori Beth Adams posted a two-over-par 74 to lead the UNCW women's golf team in the final round of the Bryan National Collegiate Sunday at the Bryan Park Players Course.
The Seahawks ended the event in 15th place with a 54-hole total of 926 (310-307-309), 15 strokes ahead of Big East member Louisville (317-316-308=941).
No. 10 Duke (298-295-289=882) and No. 14 Tennessee (293-291-298=882) finished tied for the team lead after three rounds with an 18-over-par result of 882. The two teams then engaged in a team playoff hole, with the Lady Volunteers combining for a team score of even par on the deciding hole to defeat the Blue Devils for the team crown.
Senior Sofia Hagsund carded a final round 79 to lead the Seahawks finish in a tie for 43rd place with a three-round total of 229 (75-75-79). Adams (77-81-74=232) and sophomore Laverry Kumar (80-75-77=232) were both three strokes back of Hagsund to earn a share of 60th place. Sophomore Jeanne Metivier (78-76-79=233/T65th) and senior Alei Mitchell (80-82-79=241/T-82nd) completed UNCW's entry.
Duke's Lindy Duncan (71-71-70=212) posted a two-under-par 70 on Sunday to claim the individual title with a two-shot victory over UNC Greensboro's Fanny Cnops (73-70-71=214). Tennessee's Erica Popson (71-70-216) and Ohio State's Rachel Rohanna (71-70-75=216) finished four shots back of Duncan in a tie for third at even par.
UNCW is back in action April 20-22 as it looks to defend its title at the 2012 Colonial Athletic Association Women's Golf Championships at the St. James Plantation in Southport, N.C.


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J.R. Reynolds has been named a CLASS Award Senior Second Team All-American. CLASS is an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, and the All-American Team honors the top senior student athletes.
Reynolds averaged 18.4 points and 3.7 assists per game during the 2006-2007 season. He finishes his career ranked third on the all time Virginia three pointers list, as well as tenth in scoring. The senior guard scored a career high 40 points back on January 21st against Wake Forest.
The senior guard teamed with Sean Singletary during the past two seasons to make up what is regarded as one of the best backcourts in the country. Reynolds earned second team All-ACC honors as well.
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The victim described the attacker as a Hispanic male in his late 30s to early 40s, standing roughly 5'8" with a medium build, with a short buzz-cut and scruffy facial hair. He was wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.
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Leila Pedersen on January 7, 2013 - 9:01am
The nation let out a collective sigh last week when a deal was made just hours before the country went toppling over the so-called "fiscal cliff." Although the agreement passed by Congress and signed by President Obama provides temporary reprieve, it also left much to be desired. While the agreement ultimately reflected the public's mandate to raise taxes on the super-rich, it also failed to define those who make between $250,000 and $400,000 as "wealthy," extending all of their Bush-era tax rates permanently. This misclassification contradicts public opinion and will result in a dramatic loss in revenue, setting a dangerous precedent. Perhaps the most threatening decision made was to make no decision at all on across-the-board spending cuts, known as sequester, for another two months. These automatic spending cuts pose a serious threat to states and localities.
With state revenues still recovering from the recession, most states continue to suffer from severe budget shortfalls. In addition to inadequate revenue streams, declining federal aid imposes an added threat to states. Last year, the Budget Control Act (BCA) set caps to "discretionary spending" including nearly $900 billion in cuts to states and localities. If sequestration goes into effect in March, federal aid to states will be cut by nearly 10 percent, on top of the cuts already imposed by the BCA. Already heading toward historic lows, cutting federal grants would shift more costs to the states for public services such as education, maintaining clean waterways, improving public transit systems, job training and placement, disaster relief, law enforcement and public safety. It is the states who educate our children, build our bridges and roads, protect the public safety, and care for our sick and ailing. Absorbing these costs would likely reduce the effectiveness of programs designed to protect our nation's most vulnerable and stimulate the economy.
Without adequate funding, states risk reneging on the commitments they have made to the public, needlessly hurting families and putting the brakes on economic growth in the process. Under sequestration, state education funding to K-12 schools would be cut by $4 billion, making it harder to provide the quality education needed to thrive in a 21st century economy. Reduced investment in infrastructure would cause roads and bridges to begin to deteriorate. Cuts to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), one of the most effective social programs, will mean fewer low-income pregnant women, infants, and young children will have access to nutritious foods.
With the federal fiscal fight now destined to continue to play out through the early part of 2013, state legislators, citizen activists, and progressives across the nation should stand together to insist that any future deal does not needlessly cut essential programs disguised as "discretionary spending."


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Aug. 15, 2012 — William Elias "Billy" Barker and MaKayla Jade Henderson were married June 29, 2012, at the Pleasant Valley Gospel Tabernacle. The Rev. Paul Zornes performed the double-ring ceremony. The bride graduated from West Carter High School in 2012 and is the daughter of Jody and Angie Henderson of Olive Hill. The groom is a 2008 graduate of West Carter High School and is currently employed by Austin Powder as a drill operator. He is the son of Jay and Rebecca Barker of Olive Hill.
Presented in marriage by her father, the bride was attended by her maid of honor, Paige Tackett, and Ashtin Henderson and Kayla Richmond as bridesmaids. Andrew Hargett was the best man with John Rodgers and Jay Barker as groomsmen. Attendants also included Atiana Perez and Khloe Easter as flower girls; Kaden Pennington as ringbearer; Corey Pennington and Emilee Henderson as aisle runner attendants; and Johnny Nathaniel Pennington and Tyler Ray Pennington as ushers.
A reception followed in the church's banquet hall after the wedding. The couple currently lives in Tazell, Va.


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Erik Kain, Contributor
I write about video games: the industry and the culture.
Black Ops 2 is an implausible, over-the-top action movie of a game, but it's still one of the most interesting in the long-running franchise.
That's the word I think most accurately describes the plot of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Other words that come to mind: absurd, over-the-top, implausible, intense, violent, action-packed.
This is what one should expect from a Call of Duty game, of course. You play as a super-soldier, mowing down hordes of enemies, chasing after a cartoonishly evil villain with the fate of the world, capitalism, and your own tragic backstory at stake.
Now, don't get me wrong—there's nothing at all to complain about when it comes to preposterous games and their outlandish stories, and if I can suspend my disbelief playing all the fantasy and sci-fi RPGs and epic shooters out there, I can certainly suspend my disbelief for the duration of Black Ops 2.
So let's take a look at what the single-player campaign of the game gets right, and what it gets wrong.
The Premise
Black Ops 2 follows the events of its predecessor by weaving together two stories—one in the past, and one in the future. It's the tale of a father and son whose fates are linked together by the actions of a diabolical drug-runner and revolutionary with a powerful need for revenge and a deep distaste for capitalism.
We first encounter Raul Menendez during a rescue operation in the storyline of the father, Alex Mason. Menendez is a narco-terrorist working with all sorts of bad characters and he becomes a CIA target pretty quickly.
He's obviously a bit off his rocker from the very beginning, but over the course of the game we come to learn that he's not only completely insane, he's also an evil genius and a people person capable of uniting 2 billion of the world's people behind his "Cordis Die" movement while pulling off Joker-style trick moves on the government.
I won't spoil how it all goes down. Suffice to say the way both plots weave together makes for a much more interesting Call of Duty game than we've seen in the past. It's a Mission Impossible style action-movie of a game, with a whole suite of implausible plot twists, betrayals, and reasonably good voice-acting and direction.
There are moments when the implausibility gets to be a bit overwhelming.
It's not the big action sequences that bugged me most—we expect these—it's other moments.
For instance, when a city is undergoing a major skyscraper-toppling invasion, the primary concern of the military is to protect G20 leaders because the fallout of any of their deaths will be so catastrophic. Really? Your city is crumbling into ashes all around you, and we're supposed to worry about some diplomats because of the political fallout?
Come on.
The unfortunate appearance of David Petraeus as the 2025 Defense Secretary (aboard the USS Barack Obama) gave me a chuckle, and the line "So this is how the 1% live" made me wonder if we'll actually still be using that terminology in 2025, in which case kill me now.
It's a good lesson in why fictional games should avoid using real people and pop-culture blurbs as much as possible, especially if they set the game in the future. It's also really, really bad timing of course, with the Petraeus scandal just hitting. I'm sure the team over at Treyarch had a minor heart attack when they heard of the CIA Director's affair.
But all told, as far as the stories in Call of Duty games go, this was one of the most interesting I've seen. There are a handful (but only a very small handful) of choices the player can make, and these choices can lead to different outcomes at the end of the game.
I only played through the campaign once, so I'm not privy to the alternate endings yet, but my ending was pretty good actually. Very dark.
Brevity is the Soul of Wit
One complaint lodged against Black Ops 2 is the length of its campaign. I'm not sure I agree with this complaint at all. Perhaps I'm biased as a video game critic—perhaps a short campaign can come as something of a relief from time to time. I finished the game in a day which is something I can't say for many games I play.
No, I won't hold the campaign's brevity against it. For one thing, it didn't seem very different than many other Call of Duty campaigns. And I'll take quality over quantity with a game like this which really emphasizes multiplayer over single-player. Black Ops 2, for all its wackiness, tells a story that's simply far more interesting and personal than any other Call of Duty game I've played.
It's still a silly story, and I found myself confused from time to time because certain events take place so quickly that I can't help but wonder if they're paving over plot-holes by rushing us along and coating over everything with military jargon.
But honestly, I found the actual length of the game to be just about right, and certainly on par with previous games in the franchise. This has worked out well for Activision in the past, and I see no reason why they should change that formula.
The Gameplay
I realized during my time with Black Ops 2 exactly what it is that bothers me most about Call of Duty games: within each game the rules constantly change.
When I play a game, no matter the genre, I like to understand what the ground rules are. I want to know that no matter where I am in the game, if I have tools at my disposal or actions that my character can take, I can do those things at any time. I may be met with failure if I use those tools in the wrong place or the wrong time, but I like to be able to play through an entire game with the basics of the game's mechanics intact.
Not so with Call of Duty. There are too many moments where control is taken away from me, where all I can do is walk and follow somebody, for instance, with no ability to raise my gun or jump. Or I'm confronted in one scene with a choice but in another I simply have to do what the game dictates. Or I have a tool that can eavesdrop from long distances but I only learn about this tool for this one mission and then never use it again.
Compare this approach to a game like Dishonored. In Dishonored you know what tools are available to you at the start of each mission and then you utilize those tools how you see fit. Your obstacles may shift, but your capacity to overcome those obstacles is unchanged (outside of upgrades.)
In Call of Duty the rules change constantly but the game holds your hand through each shift. This makes the entire campaign feel like one very long tutorial—and perhaps it is a tutorial for the much more important multi-player—but when some tools are only used once throughout the entire game one can't help but wonder why they've been included to begin with.
With stable rules and a choice of tools and weapons at your disposal throughout the game, multiple approaches to each mission, and no gimmicks, a Call of Duty game could be a lot more fun to play.
At the same time as I realized this about the Call of Duty games, I found myself understanding why quick-time events (QTEs) bother me so much. A QTE is basically just a way to give a cut-scene the facade of interactivity.
In Call of Duty, QTEs and rule-changing go hand in hand. For instance, sometimes when I try to open a door I need to press X repeatedly in order to shove it open. Other times, this is handled all by itself in the cinematic. I'm never quite sure what to expect.
This also means that by and large every QTE in every game will be a rule-changer.
In Assassin's Creed III sometimes when a wolf lunges at you, you need to press a button or two to dodge and kill it. The QTE cut-scene is very cinematic, but it changes the rules of gameplay in a truly disorienting and baffling way. Why can't I just kill the wolf the way I kill everything else? Why am I suddenly lurching out of the gameplay and its stable rules and into something else?
When rules change suddenly and arbitrarily in the middle of a game, fun dies.
There are two types of immersion in video games: 1) the immersion in the game world itself, achieved largely through graphics, ambiance, music, and so forth; and 2) gameplay immersion, in which we are so wrapped up in following the game rules in order to win, we forget that we're holding the controller in the first place.
QTEs and the rule-changing in Call of Duty games are immersion killers, as they are for any game. In the case of Black Ops 2, QTEs are actually mercifully rare. But the rule changing is a problem.
Strike Force Missions
Optional "Strike Force" missions accompany the main campaign. They ought to be fun, but they're really not. The half-baked RTS element shows a great deal of promise, but the missions would play better as multiplayer maps. It's just too messy to be very much fun in a single-player game.
That being said, maybe the next Call of Duty game can break the mold and drop the first-person shooter thing entirely. A turn-based or RTS Call of Duty game could be fun if it weren't messy and broken by design.
What happens in Strike Force missions is you get to control squads and various machines in order to pass each mission. Defend three points from the invading enemies and you win, for instance. You can do this by inhabiting various units or using a top-down strategic view. This top-down view is tricky to use, but when you're in an actual unit you're almost entirely useless as a commander.
Eventually I just gave up and played super-soldier style. Take out a few enemies, die and pop into some other body, kill some more, die, pop into another body. Some people may master this system but I found it mostly a distraction from the game itself.
Ammo, Weapon, and Health Management
The contrast between Black Ops 2 and Halo 4 ammo, weapon, and health management is stark. In Halo 4, you end up needing to swap weapons out all the time. You almost always run out of ammo for any particular gun, and the most powerful guns run out especially quickly and are much harder to find.
In Black Ops 2 this is never a problem, and I think that's a shame. The limits placed on players in Halo 4 make for an added layer of challenge that isn't present in Black Ops 2, where ammo refill boxes are always just around the corner.
This all got me to thinking that it would be really cool if a shooter adopted a weight-based inventory system. Carry as many guns and grenades and as much ammo as you want to, but it will slow you down, and eventually you'll be over-burdened. I mean, two or three grenades just seems too arbitrary. And why can I only carry two guns? Why not five guns but less ammo for each? I realize that arbitrariness in and of itself isn't bad in a game. Some rules must be arbitrary, and shooters have utilized many different systems.
Ammo management may be important in Halo 4, but in games like Black Ops 2 or Borderlands 2 I'm not even sure why we need to use ammo at all. Why not just have unlimited ammunition for every gun? Borderlands 2 bugs me more because I end up having to open so, so, so many crates and boxes in this annoying ammo grind. Black Ops 2 just gives every gun way more rounds than you'll use before finding more.
In Sum
All told, I enjoyed my Black Ops 2 campaign.
The story was silly and over-the-top but managed to be engaging regardless. It's a big summer-blockbuster style action movie at its core, but longer and more fun (and more expensive.)
It even addresses some really important issues like rare earth metals, the proliferation of drones and drone-warfare, and child soldiers.
Gameplay-wise, the core shooting element is what you'd expect. There's not much new here, but what is here seems to work pretty well. The problem with the game is its hand-holding and rule-changing that make it feel like an extended tutorial rather than a game in its own right.
Should you buy it? Well that depends. I'll talk about the game's multi-player next, because that's where the game makes or breaks.
I doubt most of your readerbase would care for "shitty rehash 7: why don't you buy a better game", though one good thing came in this review:
"There are two types of immersion in video games: 1) the immersion in the game world itself, achieved largely through graphics, ambiance, music, and so forth; and 2) gameplay immersion, in which we are so wrapped up in following the game rules in order to win, we forget that we're holding the controller in the first place."
Fantastic point. The games that achieves both are some of the most loved in the world. Sometimes even brilliant developers forget the second part, one of the major reasons for the decline of adventure games (and even roguelikes)
wow could you be any more of a condescending ass? You don't speak for 'most' of his readerbase.
Anyway, great review Erik. I personally really enjoyed the campaign lot. Didn't have as much problem with the Strike Force missions. They definitely need more work, but i can see it turning into something great in future games.
What did you think of the QTEs in The Witcher 2? The only time they appeared were in a boss fight and some mini-game brawling. In terms of the boss fights, I think they actually worked really well. If I rememeber correctly, they were partial finishing moves.
Ugh at comparing this game to Halo. It is WAY better than Halo in terms of multiplayer. The reason you run out of ammo for weapons in Halo is because you live forever and it takes 100 shots to kill somebody unless you snipe them in the head. In Black Ops it just takes one headshot or several well placed shots to take somebody down, so you die much more frequently, which reloads your weapons.
The multiplayer in Black Ops 2 is the best yet.
I'd agree that the inclusion of an ammo system in a game like this is more of a slavish devotion to tradition, like lives in a modern platformer, than a legitimate gameplay element.
There's definitely a role for ammo systems, and other linear shooters like Halo, Half-Life, and Left4Dead show how it can be used to vary the gameplay experience by forcing you to rely on other weapons, or in L4D's case, switch to melee or count on your allies.
The Stalker series implements a weight-based system similar to what you outlined, where you can choose to fill your inventory with different guns, ammunition, grenades, or provisions. In a linear shooter, the system would be needless micromanagement but in Stalker's open world it really helps communicate the preciousness of your resources.
The new blackops is a piece of garbage! Don't waste your money.
In the Cuisine of Shooters, the Call of Duty Series is the Junk Food. Sometimes it might be nice to have that Big Mac of Shooter, because it might appeal to some instincts, but in the end, it is a bad diet which you should not get used to.
Solely based on story and not the game play, this was by far the dumbest story I've ever been told across all mediums. Story telling in the video game medium is dead, with a few exceptions like Bethesda.
I love the game. The campaign story line is so, so stupid. Painfully implausable, amateurish and vile. I've already lost 20 I.Q. points and I'm only half way through the story. Human beings, and more specifically, soldiers and bad guys etc., which I presume you are trying to emulate, do not talk like that or act like that. Ever.
I imagine a bunch of chubby software engineers and pale graphic designers in their trendy offices as they are buzzed by Cessnas at the Santa Monica municipal airport, surrounded by crumpled Popular Mechanics and Tactical Life magazines and questionable California Rolls, debating the script after they make a game in what is literally the farthest place on earth from military conflict, instead of hiring top… as in #1 on Earth, world famous writers who collaberate with real Special Ops veterans like you would expect from a franchise worth billions. Worth more than any acadamy award winning movie that will come out this year. Worth more than the GDP of half of Earth's countries.
Why would you invent such a stupid plot? Real life is so much more intense and evil, inspiring and relatable to your audience. You can tap into hundreds of thousands of real life war veterans from multiple nations and their experiences, successes and failures. Maybe people will actually learn something. Kill terrorists. Kill Nazis. Show self-sacrifice and real suffering. Name names. Cowards, take sides and stop making up fake boogey men and use the real ones.
And sorry nerds, but you are in the big leagues. In Santa Monica. Use real actors, not the uberfake digital WTF slop you have been getting away with. Stop making last decade's video games and start making next generation's interactive movies, or die. A great game WITH a powerful story AND powerful acting is going to beat a great game every time.
I really loved MW3 campaign because it really had incredibly strong characters especially Price and even Overlord who only narrated in the background but still carried a strong impression. Though certain missions were dull and slow, the final assault in Oasis Hotel to kill Makarov in jauggernaut suit was mind blowing.
I'm trying to decide if the campaign in this game will be worth it. BO 1 was my first COD and I did like the campaign but I felt like it was jarring because it jumped time periods way too much. The overall tone didn't seem like it was heading a victorious direction.
If you want to talk about the level of obscene non-sense, BO 1 easily defeats MW3. The open field dash in Cuba, Gulag prison break, TET offense insanity, there were some serious lack of subtlety in these set pieces.
However I did love having my voice (Mason, Hudson) speak out rather than silently following someone else. MW3 only had one mission at the end which Price finally speaks out. During the Russian Roulette scene when Woods is asking "What's the plan?" Mason responds, "I'm think, I'm thinking." shows the intense psychological battle they endure during non-shooting moments.
So having a strong campaign is important for me to log onto the MP lobby because I'm trying to feel out the characters when I'm playing MP, imagining I'm Captain Price or Captain Mason. I just hope BO 2 can deliver these things to me because it seems MW3 can only last me so long.
I'm not a hardcore gamer, I only play domination. I've gotten better in the span of 2 COD games going as far as using Reaper in MW3. So hopefully with BO2, I improve and strikepackage unlocks because I'm all about aerial assault.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book from Al Ries
Al Ries (and Jack Trout at that time) created blockbusters classics books POSITIONING and MARKETING WARFARE.
I think Al Ries still wrote a great marketing book and this one is worth reading and thinkering.
PR creates branding, advertising defend the brand, hmmm. both are important.
The book is easy to read and hold a lot of truth. It is a bit...
Published on Dec 28 2003 by T SANTOSO
3.0 out of 5 stars The rise of PR
Most parts of this book impressed me, however some parts did not and it often seemed to point ou the obvious. They did a good job distinguishing the different between advertising and PR but using different examples to show how PR is more modern than advertising yet we view the advertising ass classic and somewhat essential. However, sometimes they drag on with exlaining...
Published on Feb. 17 2004 by Adam Sopper
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4.0 out of 5 stars Do not spend a dollar on advertising before you read this book,
Pierre Lapointe "www.maclap.biz" (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Fall Of Advertising And The Rise Of Pr (Paperback)
The Ries father and daughter team put in proper perspective the role of advertising in today's economy: what it cannot do, what it can no longer do and where it still serves a purpose today. With numerous examples and good humour they expose the obsolescence of most common beliefs about advertising.
They effectively contrast the waning power of advertising with the growth of truth oriented public relations. We have become a society of sceptics, quick to recognize and punish the deceiving; but also quick to appreciate the authentic. The Ries explain the need for patience and truth in using Public Relations as an effective tool to build solid high value brands.
This is a quick read. I found it well written and entertaining.
1.0 out of 5 stars Same old stuff,
Kevin (Virginia) - See all my reviews
For some reason, Both Ries and Trout get away with recycling their old material and putting a new name on it.
More than that, you couldn't tell that their partnership fell apart years ago since the same ideas, and more importantly, the same examples are used extensively in each man's books.
For Example:
These guys must LOVE Papa Johns (or be shareholder's, as they both mention the compony time and time again (In multiple books as well) as some paragon of food and of great marketing. As far as I'm concerned, Papa John's is indistinguishable from Domino's. I wonder if either man has ever even tried it.
Anyway... back on track.
This book continually simplifies the reasons behind the success and/or failure of various companies and products to the poor use of publicity. No mention of poor management or rationalizing markets, or the fact that the product or service stunk in the first place.
The most appaling thing is this guy has the balls to tell the city of Cusco in Peru and the country of Guatamala, they should change names in order to attract visitors. (Ciudad de las Incas and Guatamaya, respectively). I don't know if this is marketing ignorance, or American disregard for foreign cultures, but I couldn't believe what I was reading.
He continues to show his ignorance of technology and pop culture with incorrect example after incorrect example.
For example, he points out that there was once a beer called Yuengling that failed because of it's name. Guess what, Al, Yuengling, is alive and doing pretty well.
Also chapters are repetitive. After reading about Red Bull 3 times, in as many chapters, it got a little boring
To sum it up: Advertising is bad, Brand extension is bad. Anyone who didn't listen to his advice is now out of business, Papa John's is great. There I saved you the agony of reading this (Or anyother of his books or the books by Jack Trout) and $15.
Save your money. A stinker of a book.
4.0 out of 5 stars PR is King,
Randall D. Schultz (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews
The Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR by Al Ries & Laura Ries
I agree with the thesis of this book: PR can change perceptions but advertising can't. I've been preaching about the credibility of PR for years (it's more believable because the message is delivered by the supposedly unbiased media.) Advertising, on the other hand, isn't believable because everyone knows that it's a company's paid-for message. Ries & Ries further state that advertising has crossed over into the realm of "art" rather than remaining a form of communication. They point out that the yardstick by which ad agencies measure the success of their ad campaigns is the number of creative awards they win--not whether or not the ads actually sell products. On this, the authors are absolutely right. Ads (especially TV ads) don't sell anymore, they entertain. It's a waste of money for companies to advertise as much as they do. So, even though the authors overstate their case and repeat it incessantly, follow the advice of Ries & Ries and spend more money on PR!
2.0 out of 5 stars The Rise of "PR" Spin,
By A Customer
Regardless of the fact that the Ries' recently opened their own PR firm, and are "marketing" it through the regular channels (including advertising venues), the book does offer a PR perspective, albeit an alternative view of what can be accomplished in brand introduction. However, the majority of Integrated Marketing Communication campaigns adequately do the same and even more. Securing space in newspapers (the standard PR vocation), and attempting to get something for "free" still drives the PR industry. The demise of advertising is highly premature ($249.2 billion in 2003). The business of America Mr. Ries is still business. The "spin" remains too thin and lacks legitimate credibility. IMC....That's where we're going.
3.0 out of 5 stars The rise of PR,
Adam Sopper (Fitchburg, MA USA) - See all my reviews
Most parts of this book impressed me, however some parts did not and it often seemed to point ou the obvious. They did a good job distinguishing the different between advertising and PR but using different examples to show how PR is more modern than advertising yet we view the advertising ass classic and somewhat essential. However, sometimes they drag on with exlaining the difference, and use too many example in a row that may throw people off. The thing I liked is that when distinguishing advertising and PR, they try not to show how they are different, but how it is impossible for them to be the same. This led into how nothing can be mass produced without PR.
3.0 out of 5 stars The Fall of Advertising,
Kevin Duff (Fitchburg, MA) - See all my reviews
Al Ries and Laura Ries offer the opinion that no one believes advertising and using public relations is the way to get your product out there. The book also uses examples of companies and how spending more on advertising doesn't guarantee more sales. The book goes in-depth in describing a lot of the public relation campaigns.
2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting opinions, but calling it research is a stretch,
By A Customer
The central theme of the book is credibility and how PR is the surest route to building it, since "No one believes advertising." As other reviewers have pointed out, there are a number of arguments based on correlation, rather than cause-effect: "Chevrolet spends the most on advertising and has (therefore?) the lowest sales." Even more irritating are the armchair assessments of what other companies/countries should have done when building their campaigns with no real supporting evidence that the recommended strategies would have been effective. Guatemaya? In addition, even though the authors assert that PR is the best way to build a brand, they point out that it doesn't appear that the professional PR organizations (which are few and far between) even mention this fact in their charters. So, what it really comes down to is a very specific view of PR, using a very specific PR strategy which, as luck would have it, can't be found at a local PR firm...
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book from Al Ries,
T SANTOSO "Creating WOW and AHA!" (Surabaya, Indonesia) - See all my reviews
Al Ries (and Jack Trout at that time) created blockbusters classics books POSITIONING and MARKETING WARFARE.
I think Al Ries still wrote a great marketing book and this one is worth reading and thinkering.
PR creates branding, advertising defend the brand, hmmm. both are important.
The book is easy to read and hold a lot of truth. It is a bit "bitter" for the advertising people (and they will probably hate the book or play some other defences). But i agree that a lot of new advertising is more of an "ART" than a tool for better sales. I love Al Ries thinkering about whatever loses its functions will become an "art" ( think horse, paintings, even architectures etc) and that advertising is in the danger of losing its function (to make better sales) and becoming an "art" instead.
A lot of truth and things to think about and to learn from the book, even that it is very "opinionated".
I think this is one of the "have to read" for people in advertising, PR, marketing and even CEO.
3.0 out of 5 stars interesting theory, but is lacking strong supporting facts,
T. W. M. Philip "kitano_takeshi" (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews
It is not uncommon to hear the fall of advertising, and the rise of PR. The book illustrates some interesting points. But the authors use facts that are not objective enough. e.g. does really advertisement will attract opposite ideas (promoting safety of the tyre actually triggers people to think about the accident?? I don't think so) So overall, the book, though not necessary totally unbelivable, unadvoidably give me an impression that it is only a subjective heresay.
3.0 out of 5 stars Asserts Good Case for Brand Building,
"olisiwa" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
With a title like this, why would anyone in the advertising world want to read this book?
Two reasons. One, some clients are bound to and forewarned is forearmed. But better yet, many of the points the authors make can be easily refuted.
To start with, they have a marked propensity for the "assertion" school of argumentation, i.e. state one fact: Nissan ran a popular ad. State a second fact: Nissan's sales went down. Conclusion: The ad didn't increase sales. Did anyone say "post hoc ergo propter hoc"?
But, to be fair, they definitely do a good job of describing many of the flaws of the traditional ad agency model: its over-reliance on creativity for creativity's sake; its penchant for line extensions and its inability to build on ideas "not invented here". And they make a very good case for what is at the core of brand building, namely novelty. There's no question that new ideas, new names and new categories are what makes news.
However, some of the public relations triumphs they cite seem utterly disconnected from the day-to-day world of PR practice. The mere fact that Sony's Playstation ended up on the cover of Newsweek or that at one point in time there were more articles about Amazon than former president Clinton can't automatically be attributed to the efforts of some PR agent or surely the authors would have named him or her. On the contrary, both of these items were just newsworthy. Thus, the apocalyptic title of this book may be stretching it a bit.
But, in the end, this book does suggest a new definition of the role of mass advertising that should come as music to the industry's ears. What they maintain is that mass advertising's fundamental role is as insurance to protect a brand's established franchise. In other words, while it may take a host of things to establish a new brand, once that brand is established and begins to lose some of its novelty and newsworthiness it needs something-ads-to protect its position. This is an interesting observation and an important one to advertising agencies because it plays right into the natural tendency of clients (and businesspeople in general) to want to minimize risk. Positioning advertising as another tool in the risk-avoidance area, like interest rate swaps or commodity hedges, as opposed to as an imperfect tool for brand building might give advertising an entirely new saliency.
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Lung transplant. Mayo Clinic.com website. Available at: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lung-transplant/MY00106 . Updated September 2010. Accessed November 12, 2010.
Organ transplant. Duke University Medical Center website. Available at: http://organtransplant.mc.duke.edu/transplant.html. Accessed October 14, 2005.
What is a lung transplant? National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/lungtxp/ . Updated December 2008. Accessed September 4, 2009.
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From the nine months before I was born until now, this album and every other album by The Grateful Dead has been playing in my life. The free-spirit sound and attitude of this band is a huge part of who I am today. This would be a band that has changed the way I've thought about more life situations than religion. The smooth feeling of folk with a blend of psychedelic sound waves on this album speaks to me in ways little music does.


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John E. Decker, 78, of Greenville passed away Oct. 10, 2012, while visiting relatives in Pennsylvania. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Coker-Mathews Funeral Home chapel.
Born March 14, 1934, in Derry, Pa., John was the son of the late Walter T. Sr. and Lucille Decker.
John was retired from the U.S. Air Force and was a veteran of the Vietnam War. He was also retired from E-Systems and the Greenville Independent School District. John was active in the community and enjoyed fishing, building and flying model airplanes, genealogy, crocheting, gardening, exercising, and spending time with his family. He loved his "projects" and embraced each one as an opportunity to expand and share his vast knowledge.
Besides his parents, John was preceded in death by a brother, Walter T. Decker Jr.
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Following his speech in Arlington to a group of Republican women, Dewhurst, who as lieutenant governor allowed an equal pay for women bill to make it to the Senate floor for a vote, told WFAA-TV that if he won this year's election he would once again move the bill through the process.
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The city first reported the news Monday afternoon on its Facebook page.
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As always, this last Wednesday was the last-Wednesday-of-the-month Open House here at the JREF. We had a full attendance of the usual friends, visitors, merely curious, and undecided, some even from out of state, who drop by at 7 in the evening to exchange ideas and opinions. Following this last meeting, one of our regulars, Collin Leach, dropped me this note, which I thought you should see. Collin is a professional massage therapist who has studied many techniques of his trade, and has travelled all over the world for that purpose. He first showed up here years ago at our door to present a problem he'd encountered - that most of his teachers in various cultures insisted on having heavy woo-woo as part of their instructions; Collin was unable to merely ignore these fripperies, since in order to obtain certification in a therapy, he had to go along with the teachers. Since taking these techniques into his repertoire, he has been able to omit the woo-woo in his practice and get down to the valued procedures that he knows work so well.
Collin has worked his magic (did I just say that?) on my ailing frame, and the word exhilaration only begins to describe it...
He e-mailed me this morning, ending with this:
As usual people approached me after the meeting enquiring about Reiki. I'm impressed that it's such an enduring fad. I guess it has an alluring mix of eastern mystique presented within Christian gift wrapping, at a time when all kinds of "healing" modalities are increasingly popular. I like to recommend that people can enjoy ritual and touch amongst each other more regularly without remuneration.
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Hey, any of you folks who find yourselves in South Florida at the end of a month, look up the last Wednesday and plan to drop by at 7 p.m. for a couple hours of interesting conversation. The doors are open, coffee and cookies are available, and riots are kept minimal... It's my job to empty the place out at about 9:30 or so, but I always pull away leaving a dozen or so diehards milling about in the parking lot.
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I mentioned Randi only in a good light.
written by BillyJoe, May 30, 2009 Thank you for blowing James Randi's cover for why he loves his job. The rest of us were already embarassed enough to dirty our heads with that thought.
I wasn't talking about Mr. Randi's "job" as it's my understanding that he holds a position, but I don't know his employment status. I was merely commenting on the fact that it's not creepy for an older gentleman to go on about the delights of being massaged by a smooth young boy. What you're embarassed about is unclear, and your business.
Our human energy fields are real, as evidenced by newer quantum physics measuring tools-- they can actually be seen.