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By I. Ramamohan Rao, New Delhi, Dec.12 : I had the unique opportunity of being the Public Relations Officer of the Army in New Delhi during the the 1971 India Pakistan operations.
As an officer in the Directorate of Public Relations, I was attached to the office of the Army Chief, General S.H.F.J. Manekshaw, who later became a Field Marshal for his role in the war.
Pakistan had nearly four divisions in its eastern wing. Three divisions were deployed along the border with India to plug the main arteries that converged into East Pakistan. The Pakistan military thought that if the roads were blocked, the Indian Army would not be able to reach Dacca.
During the first week of the war, the Indian Army tried to negotiate the rivers and be at the rear of the Pakistan Army. The Indian Air Force neutralised the Pakistan Air Force in its Eastern Wing within the first two days of the war and the Sea Hawks of the Indian Navy's aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant flattened landing sites at Chittagong and Cox's Bazar.
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I remember running into the Director of Military Operations, Major General Inder Gill, when he told me the previous morning that the Indian Army would be organizing a para drop and asked me to ensure good publicity for the event. Major General Gill was the Colonel of the Para Regiment and I knew that publicity for the paradrop was vital for the operation.
I requested the Chief Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Command, Colonel B.P. Rikhye, to ensure maximum press coverage at his end. I was disappointed on the morning of December 12, when he told me that he could not arrange for the pictures as the paradrop originated from a place where he had no access.
It occured to me that I had gone to Agra a year or so earlier to cover an exercise by the Para Brigade. I rushed to the defense photo section and dug out the photograph printed and released in Delhi of the Agra event. This picture was released with a caption that said troops of the Indian Para Brigade were airdropped over East Pakistan on the morning of twelfth December. I deliberatly eliminated saying that it was a file photograph. Not a lie, but not the complete truth either. The photograph made it appear that an entire para prigade had been airdropped.
The picture of the paradrop was published on the front pages of the newspapers all over the world, including leading newspapers in the United Kingdom like the Times, London, and the New York Times in the United States.
The march of the Indian paratroopers from Tangail towards Dacca unnerved the Pakistan Army. The Indian Army had taken steps to ensure that the mobility of the Pakistani troops towards Dacca from the positions they had taken earlier were blocked.
On one of those afternoons, I was called to the Army Chief's room to ensure the recording of the message to Pakistani troops in the East Pakistan. The Secretary of the Research and Analysis Wing, R.N. Kao and the Director of External Publicity S.K. Singh, who later became the Foreign Secretary were present.
The substance of the message, which was in Urdu from Sam Manekshaw to the Pakistani soldiers was: You are living in hostile territory among a population who hate you. You are surrounded. The Pakistani Air Force in the East has been grounded and no reinforcements are possible. The ports are under the control of the Indian Navy. I give you an assurance with full authority as the General of the Indian Army that if you surrender you will be looked after honourably and I will ensure that you will be able to return to your families safely.
Simultaneously, surrender documents were printed with the message of Sam Manekshaw and airrdropped at various places in the east. These were drafted by Col. V. Longer, who was earlier Director of Public Relations in the Ministry of Defence, and had joined the Research and Analysis Wing.
The message of Sam Manekshw was broadcast over the All India Radio in national and medium wave channels from Calcutta at frequent intervals. The surrender documents were airdropped too.
Events came to a close quickly. The march of the paratroopers, the march of Indian formation from the Tripura border, led by Lt. Gen. Sagat Singh, coupled with the messages from Sam Manekshaw, and the pressure built up by the Mukti Bahini, unnerved the Pakistan Army. Major General J.F.R. Jacob, the Chief of Staff of Eastern Command, who flew to Dacca, was able to bring pressure on Lt.Gen. A.A. K. Niazi and finalised the details of the surrender to the Indian Army. Lt. Gen. J. S. Aurora flew to Dacca to accept the surrender.
I had known that the surrender was to take place on December 16, but could not tell anyone. The privilege was that of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who announced it in Parliament.
The war was over.
A week later I heard from an officer who was present in Dacca after the momentous days, that when asked why the Pakistan Army surrendered , even though it could have held on for weeks, Lt.Gen.Niazi pointed at a copy of the Times London, which was on his table which carried a photograph of the airdrop of the troops of the Indian Para Brigade. as one of the reasons.
I felt that I too had played a small part in bringing the war to an early end.
I had to fight a 'war' in my office in Delhi later when I had to furnish reasons why I did not mention that the photograph I released was a file picture. My boss sought an 'explanation' from me. But in another room, in another office, a certain R. N. Kao smiled and appreciated my work. I soon became a Kaoboy.
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Music Review: Sarasota Music Festival
Date: July 1, 2009
by: June LeBell
The best and the worst thing about live music-making is that it's transitory, and, unless there's a recording of the evening, what happens disappears the moment it's made. The finale of the Sarasota Music Festival at the Sarasota Opera House last week was probably recorded for posterity, and, for that, we're thankful.
The finale was, indeed, grand and there's much to remember.
The program was, in itself, a hodgepodge of works — probably things the artists wanted to perform. But, leaving that aside, it contained some of the finest performances of the entire festival, and it displayed some bright stars that should have been brought to light earlier than the last night. Chief among them was the conductor, Dante Anzolini.
One of the finest orchestral accompanists we've heard in a long while, he had some unusual but well-thought-out ideas of his own in the evening's final work, Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Tempos were slower or faster than they're usually taken but at no time were they changed without a well-planned strategy. The work took on a brilliance and color not often heard in this often-played piece. Conception always led to delivery and, even though Anzolini chose not to take the repeats in the symphony, he led the orchestra in a thoughtful, challenging performance that I'd love to hear again.
Although the evening began with a somewhat subdued reading of the well-known Boccherini B-flat Cello Concerto, with soloist Ronald Leonard, it certainly picked up with the festival premiere of Yehudi Wyner's piano concerto, "Chiavi in mano." Played with great flair and elan by Robert Levin, for whom it was written, it's a rhapsodic, pulsating piece with jazzy elements and lots of all-American themes.
A bit disjointed at times, it probably has more notes than the startled piano wants to give, but Levin, in formal tux with bright purple socks, gave it the necessary dash and dazzle needed to bring the audience to its feet and the composer up to the stage for multiple bows.
But the true star of the evening was soloist Charles Neidich, who took on the overly (and deservedly) familiar Mozart Clarinet Concerto with such beautiful, musical playing that a new standard was set for performance. Anzolini and the orchestra did their part, too, in giving the kind of support needed, making it a real chamber-virtuoso piece. But Neidich, played a basset clarinet, a sort of long, slender version of the instrument that, except for the white rubber band he used to make his single embouchure more comfortable, may be something close to the basset horn originally heard in Mozart's time. We think Mozart wrote it for clarinet, but the sound of this instrument was so far superior, others may consider using it in the future.
Although the Sarasota Music Festival could use a major overhaul in programming and performance, the grand finale was grander than anything so far, and we hope to see and hear much more from the students and Anzolini in the future.
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CULVER CITY, Calif., Feb. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of receiving 10 Academy Award® nominations – including the rare feat of scoring nods for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and all four acting categories – Columbia Pictures and Annapurna Pictures' American Hustle has surpassed $200 million at the worldwide box office, it was announced today by Jeff Blake, chairman, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures.
To date, the Atlas Entertainment Production starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, and Jennifer Lawrence, has grossed $138.7 million in North America, setting a career high for director David O. Russell at the domestic box office, surpassing the $132.1 million take of Silver Linings Playbook.
American Hustle has also proven to be just as strong a player to international audiences, grossing $64 million to date in overseas markets, with territories including Germany, Russia and Korea yet to open. The film has opened #1 in six territories – UK, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, and Greece – and the UK box office is so strong that American Hustle has nearly tripled the box office of Silver Linings Playbook in that territory. Annapurna's international sales company, Panorama Media, has handled international sales of the film throughout the world. Sony Pictures distributes the film in the U.S., Latin America, South Africa, and Eastern Europe (excluding Russia and the Ukraine).
American Hustle is now the highest-grossing film, both domestically and internationally, for Annapurna Pictures.
Commenting on the announcement, Blake said, "Congratulations go to our filmmakers. David O. Russell has scored again with critics and audiences alike – he has delivered a tremendous film, one that has connected with moviegoers in every country around the world. I also want to congratulate Chuck Roven – a longtime friend and one of our industry's prolific producers – on his first Oscar® nomination, as well as his fellow producers, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon on their nominations. In fact, special congratulations go to Megan on becoming the first woman with two nominations for Best Picture in one year. They and their entire cast and crew dedicated themselves to David's vision for a truly special film, and we're excited and gratified by their success."
Russell sees American Hustle as the third part in a trilogy of reinvention that began in The Fighter and continued in Silver Linings Playbook – and with this film, the themes play out on an even larger canvas. Armed with a vision for an alluring film unlike any other, Russell and his cast and crew met the challenge, resulting in 10 Academy Award® nominations across several branches. American Hustle has also been presented with three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by a Cast, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay. It is nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards and has been cited on over 230 top critics' lists.
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most extraordinary scandals of the 1970s, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Like David O. Russell's two previous films, American Hustle defies genre to tell a story of love, reinvention, and survival. The film is directed by David O. Russell, written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, and produced by Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon.
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Here's a tasty legacy from the visit I shared with some of my Swedish cousins a few weeks ago: Gevalia!
It's a brand of coffee in Sweden, and it's good to the last drop.
I had it when I was in Sweden two years ago and sort of forgot about it because I figured it wasn't available here.
But I was wrong, caffeine breath.
I always buy my coffee at Costco because I like the house brand, but right before the Swedes came for their visit, I saw Gevalia at Costco. It wasn't there the next time I went to Costco, but then I found it at Publix (!).
Gevalia was established in the mother country in 1853.
I knew Swedes loved their coffee because my Swedish-born grandmother, Ida (pronounced Eeda in Sweden), always had a pot of boiled coffee on her stove. We grandkids got to have some, and even though it was diluted with milk, I developed an early taste for the bean.
Here's the other part: Gevalia is based in Gavle (the "G" is pronounced as if it were a "J"), which is where some of my cousins live. It's a port city on the Baltic, and for a long time, we Swedish-Americans believed that it was from Gavle that my grandmother set sail for the U.S. Cousin Lennart, though, says that wouldn't have been likely in her day, that she probably sailed from Malmo to England and then to America.
Like many of us, I was a clueless kid and never asked Grandma what she thought when she saw the Statue of Liberty.
I really wish we were like Benjamin Button, that we started out old and retained all we knew as we became younger.
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•I've liked young Logan Lerman since he starred on the one-season-only "Jack & Bobby" (2004-2005 on the old WB network). You might know who else had a recurring role on that series: It was the first time I noticed Bradley Cooper. Now, Lerman, who is 20, has grown into starring roles in movies ("My One and Only," "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief"). He's really good in his latest, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," playing an unhappy kid at a new school. Also playing high-schoolers in this excellent movie: Ezra Miller, 19; Emma Watson, 22; and Mae Whitman, 24. You know Ms. Whitman as Lauren Graham's daughter on "Parenthood."
•We need more real-life movies such as "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and less superhero junk and sophomoric comedies. (Couldn't Adam Sandler retire with all the dough he has made by appealing to the lowest common denominator?)
•Another three "Star Wars" movies from Disney? Couldn't. Care. Less.
•Obits: actor and co-owner of Dove Books-on-Tape Deborah Raffin ("Once Is Not Enough"), 59; Mouseketeer Bonnie Fields, 68; film composer Richard Robbins ("The Remains of the Day"), 71; Valerie Eliot, widow of T.S., 86; actor Larry Hagman, 81; Brit actor Dinah Sheridan ("The Railway Children"), 92.
•Word from North Carolina, where "Homeland" is filmed: A casting call went out for extras willing to portray stiffs in body bags. Considering what happened last Sunday on the series, which counts the president among its fans, we don't have a good feeling about the final three episodes this season.
•We haven't seen that odd Renee Zellweger lately. She doesn't call. She doesn't write. Word is, though, that there is another "Bridget Jones" film in the pipeline. Remember the goofy performance that inexplicably won Renee her Oscar?
•We haven't seen Orlando Bloom much either, not that I'm losing sleep over it. He's 35 and seems to be something of a has-been. He's in one of the upcoming "Hobbit" movies, playing Legolas. I must say he does look better as a blond.
•You Little Langoliers are ever-vigilant. You came up with a bunch of other famous folks named Sonny, both real and fictional: Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) on "Miami Vice"; Sonny Drysdale (Louis Nye) on "The Beverly Hillbillies"; jazz men Sonny Stitt, Sonny Clark and Sonny Berman; NFL quarterback Sonny Jurgensen; MLB pitcher Sonny Siebert; singer Sonny Geraci; bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson; barbecue mogul Sonny Tillman.
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This year the UA Dance Ensemble celebrates 10 years of performing in the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. Blessed by the completion of this theatre in 2003, wave after wave of dance majors rehearse and perform in this award winning, state-of-the-art facility. The 29,000 square foot complex, which houses a 300-seat theatre with spacious stage, is host to some 40 to 50 performances a year by UA Dance.
Lead architects on the project, Donna Barry and Jose Pombo created more than a decade ago a design so innovative that several awards recognized their work. Two AIA awards and a Best Public Project over $5M award led ultimately to the building being added as one of only fifteen on the list of "Arizona's Greatest Architectural Wonders."
The Stevie Eller Dance Theatre is but one of the "discoveries" you will make if you join us for the year. Another discovery will be a dance ensemble that is uniquely positioned to take you on an amazing journey. Powered by 140 dancers, all trained in ballet, modern and jazz, our Discovery Series II will reach back to the past, reveal the present, and with you as our audience take part in discovering the future.
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PORTLAND – Canadian officials are preparing to seek bids from companies with interest in restoring ferry service between Nova Scotia and Portland, which ended three years ago because it was losing money.
The Scotia Prince in 2003. Canada is working to revive Nova Scotia-to-Portland ferry service, which has been defunct since 2009.
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Bay Ferries Ltd. of Prince Edward Island, which operated a high-speed catamaran between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, has shown interest in bidding for the service, for which the province of Nova Scotia has agreed to provide a $21 million subsidy.
Ferry service ended in 2009, when Bay Ferries stopped operating The Cat, which reportedly was losing $7 million a year, in part because Nova Scotia stopped subsidizing the service.
It's unclear whether the company would use a catamaran or a slower vessel for the new service.
Prospective bidders met Tuesday in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to discuss conditions for an upcoming request for proposals.
Portland Mayor Michael Brennan said Wednesday that he's pleased the process is moving forward. He said he's optimistic that ferry service will be restored because the province is committed to subsidizing operations during the start-up phase.
"It's clear there's going to be a strong commitment to making this happen," Brennan said. "The history of having a ferry between Portland and Nova Scotia has been a positive one. We would like to work with them to make sure this becomes a reality."
Nova Scotia is prepared to spend as much as $21 million over seven years to attract a long-term cruise ferry operation to Yarmouth.
A province-appointed panel of experts issued a report in September saying that ferry service to Maine could be viable if it provides a high-quality on-board experience, is supported by a sophisticated marketing strategy and leverages a strong tourist experience in southwest Nova Scotia.
The report said it would take an initial investment of $5 million for baseline research, advertising, vessel acquisition and financing to get the service running. Another $13 million would be needed to repair ferry terminals in Yarmouth.
Prospective operators will be expected to present plans to have a self-sustaining ferry operation once the government subsidy runs out.
Percy Paris, Nova Scotia's minister of economic and rural development and tourism, said the province is open to seasonal and year-round ferry services, if the operator is focused on giving passengers a quality overnight experience.
"We're leaving it in the hands of the bidders," Paris said. "If we move forward on this ... we want to make sure that it is going to be successful and it's going to be there for the long haul."
Ferry service between Portland and Yarmouth started in 1970, when the Prince of Fundy began operating. The Scotia Prince ran from 1982 until 2005, when a dispute over mold at Portland's International Marine Terminal and declining ridership prompted the company to stop the service.
The 485-foot Scotia Prince held 1,200 passengers and promoted itself as a leisurely cruise experience, with cabins, casino games and live musical shows. A one-way trip took about 11 hours.
The Cat, which held about 775 passengers, picked up the service from 2006 to 2009. It made the trip in about 5½ hours and offered aircraft-style lounge seats, four movie screens, slot machines, a cafe and a duty-free shop.
A draft of the request for proposals notes that 70 million people live within a day's drive of Portland and 30 million live within a six-hour drive.
"The northeast United States offers an enormous potential market for ferry passengers," the request says.
The draft asks bidders to identify the biggest risks to a self-sustaining operation and how they would address them. The type of ferry service isn't specified, but the panel of experts recommended Portland as a destination because it presents the best opportunity for a cruise-style -- rather than a high-speed -- ferry service.
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The title of this etching comes from James Hogg's classic novel, 'The Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner', published in 1824. Bellany read it when he went to London to study at the Royal College of Art. The book examines the potential for evil within humanity, a theme that links directly to Bellany's Calvinist upbringing. This etching is filled with ambiguities, creating an unsettling scene. In the foreground a figure carries a skate in a basket whilst behind, another apparently hermaphrodite figure with a cat-like face, clutches an egg timer. The skate has human features and external sexual organs - an alter ego of some description that appears frequently in his work. Bellany only began to experiment with etching when he started teaching at Winchester College of Art. This is one of the first of a series of etchings he made in 1970.


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Unless you're there to welcome a new member to the family, a trip to the hospital usually means something is wrong. And at Martha Jefferson Hospital, they're working to make sure they do right by the patients.
"We really try to make it a more comforting and good healing environment," said Mina Ford, a registered nurse.
A state-wide survey was conducted at about 80 hospitals, in which patients were asked if they would recommend the hospital to a friend of family member. When the results were released, Martha Jefferson ranked third in the state in overall patient satisfaction.
Media Relations Specialist Jenn McDaniel believes the high marks are traced back to teamwork and the caring tradition at Martha Jefferson.
"It's something that you can really feel when you walk into the building. For example, if somebody is lost in Martha Jefferson, instead of pointing them in the right direction and telling them where to go, we actually walk with them; we have a conversation and we show them where they need to be. So, little things like that that just happen everyday," said McDaniel.
While staff are quick to point out that their basic job is to heal patients, they are pleased with the high praise from the patients themselves.
"Throughout the organization, we do a lot of outcome measures, we talk about them, we really look at ways to improve what we are doing everyday. That's the bottom line, we want to provide good care, and we can't do that if we are not measuring it," said Ford.
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When asked if I would be interested in taking a look at Omerta: City of Gangsters, I had to balance a couple of things in my mind before agreeing to do it. On the "Well sure!" side, I considered that the game is set in the 1920's era and located in none other than Atlantic City. As a big fan of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, I couldn't help thinking that I would enjoy all of the political maneuverings and violent altercations as seen on the show, minus the disturbing elements such as mother/son incest. On the "Hmmm, I'm not so sure" side was the nagging realization that I don't typically fare well when it comes to turn-based combat and RPG elements. But... it's
turn-based combat, not the theater-wide
combat that I'm so horrible at. And the resource management aspects of it might allow me to finally find a use for those MBA classes I took.
I decided to go for it.
It started out well, if I don't count the irritation of having to register a new account and wait for a validation email to arrive. I was immediately hooked by the jazzy music and the attractive rendering of the first neighborhood in which I would be striving to work my way up through the criminal hierarchy. Of course, to get that far I first had to work my way through a series of personality and background questions that played out like a form of GangsterHarmony.com. Each of the choices would have an effect on my skill points in different categories such as cunning, muscle, finesse, etc. I put quite a bit of thought into the initial configuration of my character - one wouldn't want to hit the mean streets of Atlantic City ill-prepared for the perils that awaited, right?
The first neighborhood played almost as if it were a tutorial. The game guided me through navigation and other interaction aspects while also providing me with specific goals to help me get my career as a criminal mastermind started. I even built a small gang of sorts. All was going along quite well, although I did learn a thing or two about letting henchmen do the dirty work lest I myself get captured or worse, as my businesses flourished and it seemed that I could do no wrong. Even if the police did start to show some interest in my nefarious schemes, it was a simple matter to pay them off with a small bribe or to narc out some other petty criminal to take the fall. I did try to dissuade prosecution once by breaking into police headquarters to steal some evidence, but that resulted in the harsh lesson described above when I decided to go along with the gang.
Just as I began to think I had a nicely established thing going, it was done. Goals accomplished, on to the next neighborhood. Frankly, I found that to be a little irritating - I would have to start all over in another neighborhood. But hey, it was just a tutorial, right? Well, no. And there's the problem. You don't so much expand your territory as the game progresses, you simply are forced to walk away from it and start fresh somewhere else. Each new neighborhood has a different personality and set of challenges/opportunities, but once you learn that you tenure is not permanent, you tend to no longer care about planning for the long term. And in a strategy game, that pretty much negates the purpose of strategic thinking. So what's the point??
Finding that not particularly to my liking, I started over in sandbox mode. Being a sandbox, I thought that I would be able to expand to other parts of the city without giving up the base that I had established. It turned out that I was wrong. In sandbox mode I was never forced to leave an area, I simply ran out of things to do in the one I was in. At that point, all I could do was sit and watch the money pour in and make minor adjustments to the output of my breweries and the input needs of my speakeasies. I was initially concerned that I might have to defend my territory from other gangs that were jealous and envious of my highly profitable territory, but no, they were as uninterested in me as the police were. I even thought that it might be fun to rent a regular property with my "clean" money, which normally only pays off with rent from the tenants, but I couldn't even do that - buildings can only be used for what the game says they can.
As I grew tired of watching my piles of money grow, I thought I'd spice things up a bit by knocking over a few banks. My first attempts at the turn-based combat had been interesting, but after a few more they just became an unholy mix of boring and frustrating. The AI seemed somewhat confused by the whole process. I'm no master tactician, but the AI was pretty easy to beat. I soon learned that the only two aspects of the characters worth working on were attack points and movement points. Get enough of those and you'll be pretty hard to beat. That isn't to say that the other traits are useless - being a mastermind makes jobs like renting properties and the like go faster, but that doesn't matter much in the long run.
This is also not to say that you will always have the luxury of negligent, lazy police and opposing gangs. In some of the later hoods, the police are very interested in what you're doing. They do, however, remain pretty easy to encourage to look the other way. Other than the periodic battle that doesn't go your way, it seems that the game is more about resource management. And I would have been fine with that had there been more detailed reporting and complexity to it. For example, there is rudimentary reporting that shows the productivity of your production and retailing operations, but not nearly enough to determine which you should keep and which you should abandon or repurpose. Those MBA classes I took were a waste. I also looked to see if fundamental maxims like "location, location, location" mattered, but it seemed as if they didn't. A brewery clear on the other side of the hood from the retail outlets was just as efficient as one right next door to the bars.
So, while I found the visual and auditory aspects appealing, I didn't find the depth and complexity that I had hoped for in the game. When it was frustratingly shallow, it was irritatingly repetitive in areas like the voice acting. On the occasions when I took an interest in watching the graphic action, it was painful to actually watch one of the henchmen jog to the other side of town to get in car in order to drive to the next block over for a drive-by shooting. As I said before, this isn't the type of game I normally play but I went into it open minded. Now that I have tried it, I can only say that learning that the Omerta development team also was responsible for some of the Tropico games does not encourage me to ever give those a try.
Maybe it all comes down to them having not brought in the incest parts of Boardwalk Empire after all.
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MEDIA ADVISORY, 27 March, 2014 -- La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth International, Focus on the Global South, World Rainforest Movement and more than 120 organizations from around the world sent a letter to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, in Rome, on the occasion of March 21st, the UN International Day of Forest.
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Stepdad/coach is in need of a big slap.
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