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Stories of Hope
December 2012
Confronting Age-Old Problems
Spring 2012
Making a Difference
February 15, 2011
A Tale of Two Women
May 17, 2010
Investing in Our Common Future: Healthy Women, Healthy Children
September 29, 2009
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Stories of Hope
December 2012
Dear Friend,
In the ten minutes you spend reading and thinking about this letter, five women will lose their lives to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Almost all of them — and almost all of the nearly 300,000 women who will succumb to preventable maternal death this year — will have lived, and died, in the villages and slums of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Each, dead from causes that are routinely prevented or treated in the world's wealthy countries, will leave behind her a trail of grief — devastated parents, a bereft husband, motherless children, a community in mourning — and a deepening cycle of family poverty.
These stories are heartbreaking, but I am writing to tell you other stories with a quite different ending. During these same ten minutes, countless lives are being saved:
Each of these stories ends not with grief but with hope. A thousand women will survive today who, on this same date a quarter-century ago, when FCI began our work, would have died needless and tragic deaths. Each of these survivors will live to explore a world of opportunity, of expanding possibilities, of choices she will make for herself. They are the face of a revolution that is taking place right in front of our eyes.
Today, as always, Family Care International stands at the very center of these momentous changes. FCI's highly-qualified local staff is on the ground in five countries in Africa and Latin America, we work in over a dozen more, and our impact extends across the developing world. Our goal is to make sure that every woman, everywhere, receives the essential, lifesaving care that she needs. We need your support for this urgently important work.
In the coming year, with your help, FCI will work to ensure that even women in the most remote communities have access to skilled maternity care. With your support, we will teach women's groups that have little experience in defending their rights how to advocate effectively for themselves. In urban slums and rural villages, we will give young people the information they need to avoid unintended pregnancy and HIV. We will provide expert assistance to Ministries of Health, helping them develop policies and programs that expand the reach of essential health-care services.
And in capitals from Washington to Ouagadougou to Quito, FCI will make sure, thanks to your generosity, that women's lives, women's health, and women's rights are given the priority they deserve and so desperately need. FCI is on the front lines, fighting to save lives, to educate and empower women, and to hold governments accountable for keeping their promises. We, and all of the women and families who feel FCI's impact, depend on your support.
This is FCI's 25th anniversary year. As we look back at the last quarter century, we are inspired by the great progress we have seen — and helped make happen — and motivated by the tremendous need and challenges we still face. At this critical time, your contribution will build on what we have achieved together. It will help us to build sensible, sustainable strategies to address age-old problems, whose solutions are now in our sight. It will ensure that FCI — at a time when organizations like ours face unprecedented financial pressures — will have the resources we need to continue and expand our unique and important work.
Most of all, your gift will empower teenagers who want only to make their own choices in life. It will bring more accessible, affordable obstetric care to women in deserts, mountains, jungles, and teeming cities. It will help drive national policies that are sensitive to women's needs and rights, and evidence-based programs that save lives. Your contribution is an investment in the dreams and opportunities of women in a thousand villages; an investment in their future, and in all of ours.
When you make a donation to Family Care International, every dollar broadens and deepens our impact. We need your support; we cannot do our work without you. Please give as generously as you can.
Warm wishes,
Ann M. Starrs
Confronting Age-Old Problems
Spring 2012
For pregnant women in poor countries, joy and expectation are always mixed with fear. They know that giving birth is one of the most dangerous things they will ever do. Today, a thousand women in the villages and cities of the developing world will die needlessly from complications — preventable and treatable complications — of pregnancy and childbirth, and a thousand more tomorrow.
Over the last century we learned, for the first time in human history, how to make pregnancy and childbirth safe. And yet, all over Africa, Asia, and Latin America, women continue to die as if these transformative advances in knowledge and technology had never happened.
Imagine a classroom somewhere in Africa, filled with eager, chattering teenage girls. The statistics tell us that one of them will fall victim to this epidemic of maternal death. For too many of those schoolgirls, their reproductive years will be a minefield of unintended pregnancies and unattended deliveries; those who are lucky will make it out alive.
For the unlucky one, death may come in a tiny hut in a remote village, where there's nothing to do when a new mother starts bleeding but watch her die. It may find her at a clinic, where no one has the skills to perform an emergency C-section. Or she may die in a city hospital, after arriving too late when unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion led to a life-threatening infection.
Each maternal death becomes the center of a wider circle of devastation and pain: a newborn who won't survive without his mother, a daughter who must leave school to go to work or take care of younger siblings, a grieving husband getting by on half the family income, parents suffering an unspeakable loss, a community deprived of a young woman's energy, creativity, and productivity.
Family Care International has been working for a quarter-century to build long-term, sustainable solutions to these age-old problems. We are in the slums of Mali, helping young people protect themselves from unintended pregnancy, HIV, and sexual violence. We are in mountain villages in Ecuador, making sure that indigenous women choose to give birth in modern clinics because they know they'll receive respectful, high-quality care. We are on the edge of the Sahara in Burkina Faso, and in the Amazonian swamplands of Bolivia, to ensure that women can reach the emergency obstetric care that will save their lives. And on the global stage, FCI is one of the world's leading voices for maternal and reproductive health, fighting to put women's lives at the top of the policy agenda, and to make sure that governments follow through on their promises.
This work is urgently important, and we will keep at it until every woman can decide for herself whether and when to have children, until every woman who chooses to get pregnant has access to skilled care throughout her pregnancy and childbirth, until surviving pregnancy is not just a matter of good luck.
But we cannot do it alone: we need your support.
Even in the midst of the current global financial crisis, major foundations, governments, and other donors continue to support FCI's programs. But cutbacks in their budgets mean that we need your help to fill critical funding gaps. Your contribution is essential to all of FCI's vitally important work, now more than ever. Please give as generously as you possibly can.
Thank you, as always.
Making a difference
February 15, 2011
A few minutes ago, a young woman in Kenya developed a sudden hemorrhage just after giving birth; she received emergency treatment, and survived. Right now, an expectant mother in India is getting medicine to control the high blood pressure that threatens her life and that of her baby, due to be born within weeks. Later today, a teenage girl in a Bolivian mountain village will learn how to use contraceptives; she won't get pregnant until she decides she's ready, will finish school, and will have a chance to lift herself out of poverty.
These are the powerful, if unremarkable, stories of women whose lives are being saved every day in our battle against maternal death. When Family Care International began in 1987, more than half a million women were dying every year from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. New research shows that the policies and programs FCI has fought to put in place are working — maternal deaths have been reduced by nearly 200,000 a year. Every three minutes, a woman who would have been carried to the graveyard now goes home to her family, child in her arms.
FCI's work over the past two decades has helped make this happen. Here is some of what we've done this year, thanks to the support of FCI's donors:
These successes, and the many women's lives that have been saved, do not mark the end of our work —only the end of the beginning. A pregnant woman or new mother still dies every ninety seconds, 350,000 each year. Almost all of these deaths are preventable, and at least one in five results from an unplanned pregnancy.
That is why FCI is here, and why we urgently need your generous contribution. FCI holds governments accountable for meeting their commitments to invest in maternal health and family planning, build clinics, train health workers, and distribute essential medicines. We educate doctors, nurses, midwives, and clinic managers to offer appropriate, effective care. And our programs and publications empower women and communities to demand the information, education, and health services they need to make healthy decisions, avoid unwanted pregnancy, and live healthy, productive lives.
Your help is essential to all of FCI's critically important work, now more than ever. This year, the global financial crisis has severely limited the grants available from governments and foundations: we need you to help fill the gap. Please give as generously as you possibly can. Thank you, as always.
A tale of two women
May 17, 2010
Dear Friends,
I'd like to tell you about two women. Both are young, barely out of their teens, and both are pregnant. The two have much in common, but their very different stories illustrate the range of heartbreak and joy that pregnancy can bring in the developing world.
The first woman lives in a rural village in a very poor country. She gives birth, like most women in her village, at home, with the help of a local "auntie." After delivering a healthy baby, she begins to hemorrhage. Neither her traditional birth attendant nor the understaffed and ill-equipped local clinic, where her family eventually takes her, has the skills or the supplies to help her. She bleeds to death. Her newborn child, left without a mother, will succumb a few days later.
The second woman lives in a similar village. She, too, experiences a life-threatening hemorrhage. But Family Care International has been at work - fighting for more maternal health funding, stronger policies, and better programs; working to improve maternity services in her district; and helping persuade village women to give birth at the local health center. She chooses to give birth at the clinic, whose skilled staff knows how to stop her bleeding. Before long, she will be back at work in the family's fields, baby happily strapped to her back.To the naked eye, these two villages look the same: remote, traditional,terribly poor. But for two young women, the differences are as stark as life or death. In so much of the developing world, the second woman's story is still far too rare. The first story, the one that ends so cruelly, is repeated every minute of every day.
For more than two decades, it has been FCI's mission to change that ending, for millions of women. We put women's health and survival at the center of global policy discussions. We pioneer new approaches in the field, from improving dysfunctional clinics to promoting new treatments for common complications of childbirth. We teach women and young people in villages and cities from the Sahara to the Andes about their bodies, their reproductive health, and their rights, and empower them to make a difference in their own lives and communities.
The world has yet to deliver on the promise that it owes to women everywhere to value their lives and enable them to deliver on their potential, for the sake of their children, for their communities, and most of all for themselves. Our work will continue until it does.
Warm regards,
Ann Starrs, President
September 29, 2009
Dear friends,
The last week of September is an exciting time here in New York City, as the world comes together at the UN to confront its most pressing challenges and paralyze our streets. This year's events showed us both the tantalizing nearness of our goal and the obstacles we must overcome to reach it.
President Obama brought not just a new tone to America's voice but also a public commitment of $63 billion for global health, some of which will go to strengthen public health systems, whose inadequacy is the key reason that Millennium Development Goal 5 (Improve maternal health) is so far off track. Women dying in childbirth, he said on September 23rd, are a daily challenge to our common humanity.
That same day, FCI — as lead advocacy partner in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health — helped to organize an event, hosted by the UK prime minister and the president of The World Bank, called Investing in Our Common Future: Healthy Women, Healthy Children. The focus was on funding for health systems: the presidents of several developing nations promised to provide free health care for women and children, and donor countries committed their support with over $5 billion in new health aid over six years, much of it through new and innovative mechanisms. The event also launched a new global Consensus for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, setting out five key action steps to save the lives of more than 10 million women and children by 2015.
This represents real progress, but it mainly highlights the work still to be done. It is so profoundly not enough.
The Consensus calls for $30 billion of additional funding specifically for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health services over the next six years. However, this figure does not include basic investments in strengthening health infrastructure and personnel, and it assumes that donor governments will meet their existing commitments, which few are doing. Barack Obama told the world this week that "the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words." It is up to all of us to make sure that our leaders follow the hopeful words we heard in New York with actions that actually save lives.
All our best,
Ann Starrs, President
Think globally, act locally
July 30, 2009
"Think globally, act locally": this has become a cliché, because it reflects an essential truth about how social change happens. Policy matters — and a broad view of problems and solutions is necessary to getting policy right. But people's lives are lived locally, and change, when it comes, occurs in individual lives, families, and villages. American schools were integrated by a Supreme Court decision, but real change had to happen in classrooms, on schoolhouse steps, and in people's hearts. Reversing climate change will require smarter energy policies everywhere, but all if us will have to alter our lives to consume less.
To defeat the age-old scourge of maternal death, we must seek solutions at both levels. Thinking globally, we and our many colleagues argue, cajole, and demand that national and international leaders use their power to save women's lives. This is among FCI's most important and effective work, and it will continue until women are no longer needlessly dying in pregnancy and childbirth.
But our years of work in the villages of Africa and Latin America have taught us that, while crucial, policy alone will not solve the problem. Yes, it is urgently important to build health systems that can provide skilled care, emergency treatment, post-partum care, and family planning for every woman. But clean, accessible, professionally-staffed health centers can only save the lives of women who use them. And in many villages, in many countries, social and cultural barriers — traditional health practices, gender inequities, taboos and other beliefs, insensitive medical practices — keep women away from clinics. After all, in the places where women are dying, women have always died from complications of pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and childbirth: women and their communities need to see that these deaths are preventable. Change needs to happen locally, because all health care is local.
We believe that communities are the "missing partner" in efforts to end maternal mortality. FCI's field work often focuses on building communities' capacity to overcome these barriers — to persuade women to use, and empower them to demand, the care that can save their lives — particularly by working with respected, influential local leaders who can be powerful agents of change at the grassroots level. In the coming months, I'll write more about FCI's work to make communities a full partner in improving maternal survival. Stay tuned!
All our best,
Ann Starrs, President
Funding the Health MDGs
Dear friends,
The fight against AIDS has led to an urgent set of policy responses — including innovative funding mechanisms and new structures for distribution of lifesaving medications. Now is certainly no time to declare victory — HIV is still infecting people faster than antiretroviral treatments are being rolled out — but this extraordinary mobilization of resources does offer some useful lessons.
Recently I joined colleagues from the child health and HIV/AIDS communities to articulate one important lesson. The result appears in the May 5 issue of The Lancet: a Comment calling for "bold action to streamline the global aid architecture for health" through the creation of "a global fund for the health MDGs."
The current Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has, since 2002, directed over $15 billion into 140 countries. This represents a monumental increase in money available to fight these diseases, during a time when resources for other health needs has stagnated and when little progress has been made in reducing the number of women who die in pregnancy and childbirth.
This exceptional approach to fighting AIDS must now be broadened, fully resourced with increased funding and appropriate staffing, and applied to strengthening the under-resourced, understaffed, and often dysfunctional health systems in developing countries, enabling them to fulfill every person's right to a full range of health services — including reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health. This radical, yet rational approach would continue to support prevention and treatment of AIDS and other diseases while also, finally, driving progress on critical health challenges that require systemic responses.
In this context, it is notable that the Obama Administration's recently-announced global health budget, which includes a strong statement of support for maternal and child health, makes more of a moral than a financial commitment. But moral support is not enough: training health workers, making skilled care facilities accessible, buying essential supplies — all require money, and the need is urgent. The Global Fund has been effective at mobilizing funds for AIDS, and AIDS remains a crisis that demands even greater, not fewer, resources. But AIDS is not the only health crisis in developing countries, where women, newborns, and children are dying every day because health systems are not in place to keep them alive. It is time for the U.S. and other governments, the global community, and the Global Fund to recognize this reality, and to take action.
All our best,
Ann Starrs, President
International Women's Day and Maternal Health
Dear friends,
Yesterday's observance of International Women's Day had me thinking about how we talk about maternal health.
With 1,500 women dying in childbirth every day, the insufficient financial resources being invested in ending maternal death can be frustrating. We know that so much of the solution comes down to money — because that's what it takes to build health systems to provide essential maternal health services.
But we need to talk not only about money to be raised, but also about work to be done. In recent years, technical experts have come together around four core health strategies that, when provided to every woman everywhere, will release women in poor countries from the grave risks they now face in every pregnancy. These lifesaving strategies are:
• family planning and other reproductive health services,
• skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth,
• emergency care when life-threatening complications develop, and
• immediate post-natal care for mothers and their newborn babies.
To provide them, nations must build public health systems with reach and quality that go far beyond what is in place today. They need to train doctors, nurses, and midwives in essential skills; build and equip clean, functional health centers; and establish efficient communication and transportation networks. They must teach health care workers to treat even the poorest women with respect and sensitivity; enlist community leaders in encouraging greater use of maternal health services; and educate women, men, and young people about family planning.
All of these cost money, yes, but they also require hard, smart work — by health ministry officials, by local health workers and educators, and by NGO professionals like the dedicated, highly-skilled members of FCI's local teams in Africa and Latin America. Our staff is at work every day, often in the poorest and most remote parts of their countries, helping to build and strengthen the services that save women's lives.
On International Women's Day, we re-committed ourselves — as we do each year — to our fight against maternal death. Please join us.
All our best,
Ann Starrs, President
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With the first quarter of 2014 behind us, let's consider where we stand now versus our outlook at the beginning of the year, when we were favoring the US equity market over other equity markets. And our outlook for fixed income was based on a bias toward higher interest rates — not a dramatic hike in rates, but a downward drift in bond prices across the board. So we were favoring credit and shorter maturities.
Among US stocks, we liked the technology sector, where we noted some exuberant pricing but found that the broad swath of tech companies were not trading at bubbly prices — and after the recent market selloff that remains a truism.
My thoughts early this year were that low energy prices and labor costs would persist, keeping the US manufacturing sector competitive. On the corporate side, we would see more spending on capital, or capex, to replace some of the longest-lived assets in history. And on the household side, more jobs in manufacturing would drive pent-up demand for housing and automobiles, helping to revive the construction sector and fuel the economy in general.
January came along, and we got some poor results from the consumer, with the first inklings that bad weather was at least partly to blame. Then in February there were heavier snowstorms and weaker numbers out of the consumer and factory sectors. While the market grew concerned when job gains seemed to decelerate and hours worked fell, many — but not most — technology stocks reached very heady valuations.
How do things look now in April, as we enter the second quarter of 2014? The numbers from March are starting to come in. US labor markets continue to heal, with nonfarm payrolls again exhibiting modest expansion including upward revisions to January and February. More important, we saw an uptick in the workweek — a figure that I emphasize. So even though the pay rate received by workers has remained flat, which has favored corporate profits, the growth in jobs and the longer workweek bias the total wage bill toward better consumption going forward.
My conclusion? Even after last year's nearly 30% gain in the S&P 500 Index and this year's turmoil in the technology sector and the broader markets, the story of the durable US expansion remains intact.
How do we measure the US economy against what's occurring in the rest of the world? Let's go through US trading partners. Number one by percentage of US GDP is the eurozone, which on the whole is showing better and faster growth. This may not be a V-shaped recovery, but jobs, factory orders and fiscal responsibility all look to be improving in Europe. Another big trading partner is Mexico, and the numbers there remain solid.
Moving across the Pacific to Japan, we saw growth ticking up after the yen was devalued, although some indicators seem to be slowing down right now as the value-added tax is kicking in. I would say the outlook there is a little more uncertain.
China stands out among emerging markets for its major role in the global economy, but it accounts for only 7% of total US exports — and that share is declining. With exports contributing about 12% of the US economy, China directly influences only about 1% of US GDP. I don't see any near-term excitement coming out of the numbers from China.
We expect the equity market to focus on fundamentals, and earnings season for the first quarter has just begun. S&P profits expanded in the last quarter of 2013, and so did margins. Based on a broader number including privately held as well as publicly traded companies, the profit share of GDP — or the percent of the economy going to capital — actually rose again last year, despite the many predictions that it would have to revert back to the mean. This is really important because we haven't seen a recession since World War II when the profit share of GDP was rising.
Looking at interest rates, which matter to all financial markets, we're getting to see the new Federal Reserve chair in action. Janet Yellen seems to be accommodative, though with a view that the US central bank eventually has to step aside and let the market determine longer-term rates. So we continue to expect a slow drift higher in long- and medium-term rates, while short-term rates are likely to remain contained, since she apparently has no intention of raising the target federal funds rate as long as US inflation persists on the low side.
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It seems the retro collection genre isn't going away anytime soon, and the latest entry is the first volume from 80's arcade giant Taito. Mostly famous for the Bust a Move games these days, Taito were once right up there with the big boys, with many famous arcade titles to their name, beginning with Space Invaders.
As far as collections go, Taito Legends is among the best yet. The front end is very nice and clean, the loads are minimal, and there is plenty of bonus and history material. Most games come with original arcade distributor pamphlets, and some of the bigger games even have developer interview videos.
We'll leave issues with individual games for their specific descriptions below, but for the most part, the emulation is very good for all games. There is a 60Hz option, and you can adjust the screen, change some controls, and view game instructions and bonus material from each game's individual menu, and all high scores are saved to single file on your memory card automatically. Everything is here to give you as authentic an arcade experience as possible, but with two major exceptions.
Firstly, Taito Legends does not support any light guns, which is understandable, but reduces the playability of the gun games, some more then others. What is far less excusable is that this collection does not support digital controllers, and therefore 99% of joystics will not work. For serious arcade fans, this could be a major problem, as a large part of the feel of a classic arcade experience is from the input device. Most peopleprobably wouldn't bother with a joystick anyway, so it won't be a problem, but it may be frustrating for some.
Taito Legends contains 29 compete games spanning about 15 years. Here's a rundown of each in alphabetical order, as they appear in the menu:
Battle Shark
A gun game where you shoot submarines. Like all the gun games on the compilation, this one forces you to use the analogue sticks for aiming, and Dual Shock sticks are just too "all or nothing" in the way they are read by the PS2 to be very good at aiming – your cursor is always moving either too slow or too fast. You can lower the sensitivity, but then it just means you can't cross the screen fast enough.
The game is a decent arcade shooter, which means there's some classic cheap fun here. It has nice 16 bit graphics, and is emulated very nicely.
Bubble Bobble
What should be one of the jewels in this collection's crown is let down by bad emulation. The frame rate, while stable, is down in the 20s – appalling for a game this old, and the graphics are blurry. Apart form the technical angle, it's a perfect arcade translation (ie the secrets and enemies appear in the same places as the original cabinet), but it just doesn't play very well, since the frame rate affects the feel.
For fans of Taito's Japanese offerings, the poor emulation of Bubble Bobble will be the biggest disappointment of the collection
Colony 7
A cross between a gun game and Space Invaders. Instead of moving a ship, you move an aiming cursor around the screen to defend the colony against waves of aliens. It's a very early 80s game, with tiny, single coloured sprites, but fun enough for an early single screen shoot em up.
Continental Circus
No Clowns and elephants in sight – It's actually about a car racing circuit. Not sure when the typo was made...
Anyway, what this means is a decent Outrun clone with F1 style cars. Nice Mega Drive like graphics make this a nice treat for fans of 2D car racing games – all twelve of you.
Electric Yo Yo
Gimmicky games have always been around – Those "tech demo" early DS games and the weaker Eye-toy offerings are just the latest to cash in on the "one trick pony" market.
In Electric Yo Yo, you play as - you guessed it – a Yo Yo, in what we can only describe as Qix Meets Pac Man. You have to collect the dots in a grid by extending the Yo Yo string, and avoiding enemies. Very Primitive.
Elevator Action
Many people have fond Memories of this game. If you'd like to keep them intact, it's probably best to avoid it. The emulation is fine, but the game doesn't hold up very well today.
Like most pre Super Mario Bros platform type games, it has ultra stiff controls and not much in the way of physics. The level designs are hardly inspired, and the graphics look EGA horrible, with many plain pastels and browns making up the colour pallet.
A primitive but decent shooter in the vein of Burai Fighter, in that you play as a person with a gun rather then a ship (although you can morph into a ship Transformers style). The Graphics are a bit rough, and show that more could have been done by the technology. But it plays very well for it's age.
Primitive Side scrolling Beat em up, but it actually plays more like a shooter, since it auto scrolls It's got some nice graphics for the time, but it gets old pretty quick.
Great Swordsman
No so great. It's a fencing sim, but it's only about as advanced as one from any of those old "olympics" games like Track and Field. NES level graphics and "Paper Scissors Rock" as the core gameplay element (hey, Dead or Alive still uses that – Ed), this won't take you much of your time.
Jungle Hunt
A fun adventure romp following an Indiana Jones/Safari type character through a jungle adventure with varying gameplay styles (rope swinging, swimming etc). Personally, this is the type of game that captured my imagination in the 80s.
Unfortunately, like a lot of the Taito USA productions, it has ugly, ugly graphics. But it's quite a lovable little game anyway.
New Zealand Story
Back to Cutesy Japanese made games with maybe the best game on the collection (in terms of both game and emulation). New Zealand Story is a brilliant little action platformer starring Tiki the Kiwi, who has to save all his Kiwi Friend from the Big Bad Walrus. Somewhere between Bubble Bobble and Super Mario Bros in gameplay, it has great graphics, great control, great level design, everything you want in a retro game.
Ninja Kids
A decent US made scrolling beat em up, starring some generic cartoon characters. Solid but nothing special, worth a play for fans of the genre.
Operation Thunderbolt
Sequel to Operation Wolf, and another gun game without a gun, with the same problems as the others (ie the analogue stick isn't so good for it). Nice graphics, can get boring though.
Operation Wolf
The original classic 80's gun game, it's more primitive then the others shooters on the disc, but has better level designs, so you'll come back to it more. Apart from the no gun problem, it's one of the better games in the collection.
Another Space Invaders clone, with more advanced enemy patterns – think Galaga. Good for some variety in your single screen shooters between rounds of space invaders.
Old, strange puzzle game, that at least shows that Tetris didn't invent the genre, but it can be frustrating when you reach a broken level – that is, one that actually can not be completed.
Plump Pop
An Arkanoid clone with alien space ships and cutesy animals? Strangely, it works! A great little inclusion this game.
Rainbow Islands
Another good one from from the Bubble Bobble guy. Nice music, nice graphics, nice levels, but it's impact here has been muted, because unlike most games on the disc, several excellent conversions of Rainbow Islands have been made in the past – not the least of which was the excellent NES version.
Rygar meets Golden Axe. Fun to pay an old side scrolling hack em up like this, but it can be be frustrating, and it's no Ghouls and Ghosts
Return of Space Invaders
Same gameplay, slightly better graphics (that actually date more then the original), variety that hurts the formula – sound like a standard sequel these days, eh? Good to see it's not a new phenomenon, but this game is only really worth it for the trivia value.
Space Gun
Another Gun game, this one "inspired" by the Alien films. Same aiming problems, but still fun.
Space Invaders
Not the original black and white release, but the one with some faked colour and the planet in the background. Still as addictive as ever - maybe just because of the incessant music! But I do actually prefer the Atari VCS version, the control feels slightly better.
Good version of a classic game, but not worth hours of your time anymore.
Space Invaders part 2
Same game, just with coloured sprites. Plays a little better because of the clarity the colour affords.
Super Qix
Another action puzzler – cordon off parts of the screen with your 'spaceship' (cursor) to trap enemies. Pretty clunky these days.
Thunder Fox
Part of the entire genre in the 80's based on Rambo, this one is actually a Green Beret clone, with nice 16 bit graphics. Worth a play through.
A complete 1942 Rip-off, but no-where near as good. The music is annoying, and the graphics are a bit bland, but it plays pretty well.
No, not surfing, the title is literal. It's a tetris like puzzle game crossed with pipe dream, and it's playable but a bit weak. Hard to believe it was released in 1993!
Qix repackaged with aliens. Better then Super Qix, but a tad unnecesary
Zoo Keeper
Strange ancient platform puzzle game. If you can work out how it works, lease tell me, because as far as I can tell it's just broken.
Well, that's it. Taito Legends is probably overall the best retro compilation yet. Capcom Classics has some better games, but the better emulation and presentation of Legends, combined with the greater number and variety of games (no "three versions of each game" here) puts it over the top – just. The only real downsides are the sub standard Bubble Bobble emulation, and the lack of Gun and Joystick support. So if you're after some 80's arcade action, Taito Legends is probably your best place to start.


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6401 6TH Ave, Brooklyn, NY | Directions 1122040.635756 -74.016325
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DISHONEST Stereotypical Car Dealership – I called this dealership 3/1/2012 about a Certified 2008 Sienna Limited with 19k miles. I spoke with a few people before finally talking with the actual salesman, Ray Simeone. Ray was very nice and very helpful. Molly seemed to be the 1st person you talk with about pre-owned before starting the process with a salesman. Ray and I had numerous phone conversations, text messages and emails about the condition of the van and the sales terms as I live 500 miles away from the dealership. I also had a conversation and email with Carl Feoli (Pre-owned Sales Manager) about the car requesting something in writing regarding our negotiated terms. I ended up agreeing to paying full price plus half the cost to repaint some serious gouges in the paint on the front bumper. The car was supposed to go to the paint shop the weekend of 3/10 but was delayed due to a damaged parking sensor and non-working 3 row power seat. Then the van was to go to the paint shop the weekend of 3/17 but there was supposedly a sudden death in Carl's family and he was out till 3/19 or 3/20.
The process seemed to be going slower than I though was natural so on Monday 3/12 I asked Ray if Carl was having 2nd thoughts about selling the Van. Ray said "no, but I'll ask him". I let it rest Monday 3/19 and then texted Ray this morning, 3/20, only to be told that the van had been sold and was delivered yesterday.
Ya know, the reviews for this dealership were quite mixed but I thought I'd take a chance. Some were good and I'd hoped that I'd be one of them. I have the very distinct feeling that the majority of the good reviews were written by people from the dealership.
If I were not a fairly loyal Toyota customer with prior Toyota ownership and dealership experience, this would keep me from EVER buying a Toyota product EVER. Bay Ridge Toyota is a blemish of the Toyota name and should have their dealership revoked.
I expected more from a franchised Toyota Dealership.
I created a citysearch profile for the sole purpose of reviewing this dealer. This place is terrible, and really should be avoided at all costs. They posted a leasing deal on their website, and when we went in, they claimed it was still true. After waiting around for three and a half hours, we find out at the end that we were "denied" the lease deal for no apparent reason--we both have excellent salaries and credit. Instead, they offered us a far worse deal. Clearly, we left. All around, an entire waste of time.
Watch Out for the Misleading Salesman! – We went back to Bay Ridge Toyota to return our leased vehicle and to purchase a new vehicle from the same dealership since we had the prior relationship only be mislead by the car salesman and had to walk out of the deal after investing a whole day. Next day we went over to Plaza Toyota and got a great deal from a friendly and honest salesman for the same modeled vehicle. The salesman we dealt with at the Bay Ridge Toyota failed to disclose all the material information that impacted us financially during the structuring of the deal and mislead us. I would not recommend this dealership for a car purchase.
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An import from upstate, this family-friendly barbecue looks like a concept but is really the creation of one man, John Stage, a hardcore barbecuer who started off cooking for his fellow bikers. The cooking here is grounded on hard-earned barbecue knowledge, and the smokiness and consistency of nearly every product really speak to it. And unlike a lot of other barbecue restaurants, the sides are almost as good as the meat. Don't miss the Syracuse-style salt potatoes.
Very Good BBQ – Very good BBQ. Great atmosphere. Sides are hit or miss. Sweet potatoes taste like THanksgiving (blech in the summer) and there are a few sides that taste the same because they top them off with the same creole-type powdered seasoning. However, the collared greens and salt potatoes are quite good.
This is a good place to take guests in from out of town.
Disappointing Lunch – I was disappointed in my meal at Dinosaur. I was expecting fantastic ribs. They were mediocre at best.
I started out with the original fried green tomatoes. They weren't bad, nothing to write home about though. For my entree I had the half rack of ribs, side of fries, and coleslaw.
Firstly, the ribs did not come out of the kitchen hot. They were warm, to almost cool. I found them to be rather bland, so I smothered them with the BBQ on the table. The cole slaw was uninspired.
I would not recommend Dinosaur or revisit.
These Wings Are Crazy! – The BBQ wings at Dinosaur are the very best the the city has to offer. A dozen wings, a pint of beer and a ball game equals a great afternoon in Harlem.
Best Damn Wings Ever – The last time we went, we were told 1.5 hour wait, but it turned out to be only about 20 minutes. The place was crowded, but there is enough room in-between tables so you don't feel like a herd of cattle. (no pun intended).
The chickens wings blow away any others that I've ever had. They seem to be grilled and coated, rather than fried.
The portions are not huge, but big. The prices are very reasonable. Lunch for two was about $48 plus tip. And we had left-overs to take home.
The real surprise for me was the side-dishes. Most places I've eaten the sides aren't taken seriously and are usually slopped on as filler. The dinosaur's sides were very fresh and could be a satisfying meal on there own.
Food Shopping and BBQ To Go!! – I have only eaten at Dinosaur twice and both times it was incredibly crowded with a long wait for a table. So now what I do is, park my car across the street at Fairway, call in my order to go, go food shopping, cross the street, have one great beer at the bar from their extensive selection and get my BBQ fix to go. The ribs are on most people's Top 10 List for the city and rightfully so...but the wings are really good too as well as their sides. I have also tried a few of their sandwiches which were very good as well. It's a fun place with a nice cozy bar, friendly staff and great atmosphere but there seems to always be a wait for a table since it is always packed. That should be a good sign, right?
Big Ass Pork And More... – I've been going to Dinosaur for the past 3 years. I don't know why I wasn't one of the first people at the door when it first opened, but better late than never.
Normally, we start with the wings, but the deviled eggs are almost as good as my grammy's. I am such a fan of the Big Ass Pork platter that it's usually the first thing I think of, but when I do switch it up, I'm never disappointed. The ribs are always tender and the roasted chicken is always moist.
I tend to stay away from the fried green tomatoes and bbq fried rice, but you can't go wrong with the mac&cheese, potato salad or the baked beans.
As for dessert, my last trip saw key lime pie on the menu...but I think the banana coconut pudding is totally unbeatable.
Two thumbs up! – The place was packed(which is a good sign). They told us the wait would be over an hour, but the place was recommended and it smelled so good we waited. We had some drinks at the bar and were seated within half an hour. Deviled eggs and the wings were really good. Loved the ribs. Try it. You'll probably be back! I know I will
Most amazing BBQ! – As we approached the restaurant the aroma of BBQ sauce was heavy in the air. We all quickly got very excited. What I didn't know before we got there was that you can make reservations, I will do this next time. We waited probably an hour but it wasn't bad since we got seats at the bar and they had like 40 beers available. The guys even ordered flights of 4 different beer samples.
We finally were seated and right away noticed the different sauce options on the table. The "Sensuous" sauce was a huge hit. We ordered a full rack of baby back ribs, korean style beef ribs, and pulled pork. We also got sides: mac & cheese, baked beans, fries, cole slaw, fried rice, salt potatoes, and corn bread.
The majority winner was the korean beef ribs. They had a great flavor very similar to the best bbq I have had in Korea town. I also really enjoyed the regular ribs a lot. The mac & cheese was absolutely amazing. The cheese was thick, rich, and creamy. I would highly suggest this side to complement your meal.
We were all STUFFED after dinner. Funny enough, the waiter hands us a dessert menu and we ask, "Does anyone actually have room for dessert?" He said about 1-2% order it!
Very Much Worth the Trip!!! – Dino BBQ is definitely in my Top 5 places to eat in New York City! While it is certainly not a place for passers-by, those that plan the trip will be handsomely rewarded with a huge plate of ribs, and some delicious side dishes. I personally go for the french fries and beans with my ribs!
The only drawback to this place is that it so so popular that the waiting area cannot accommodate everyone one inside. The bar area could be 50% bigger, and that might do it...but if you can get to the bar, you will find a solid selection of craft brews in bottles and on tap, and the drinks are as good as they get in the City. I had a rookie make my Long Island the other night (it was cute because she was measuring the shots). The second one was clearly made by the veteran bartender who was pouring two bottles from each hand!
Oh, and do yourself a favor, book your reservation online. Makes it much less of a hassle to get your table. Big groups must reserve early since the place is so popular!
Dinasaur Barbecue – The food was commercial BBQ. The Service was horrible. It was moderately priced.
Don't waste your money.
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"Our vision is to be the best church in the area."
Over the last ten years I've heard statements like
these with increasing frequency. Is this a good thing? Does our
desire to serve God with excellence naturally lead us to want to be
the best in town? Is the "best" classification the most honorable
way to measure our success and effectiveness?
Most people probably view the quest for best as a
helpful ambition. Driving to be better and better, at any endeavor,
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be best, you must conquer the others.
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ugly, especially in the church.
In the church, this spirit of bestfulness and
competitiveness leads to pridefulness. This has not gone unnoticed
by the public. A non-churched mom I interviewed said, "Churches
today just want to be bigger and better than the next one. That's
not what church is supposed to be about."
Yet, the quest for best seems intoxicating. Church
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ask. The trouble is, we're not called to stand out. We're called to
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In Mark 9 we see the disciples arguing about who stood
out as the best disciple. Jesus confronted their quest for best. He
said, "Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the
servant of all." In other words, we're not called to stand out.
We're called to stand behind those we're called to serve.
If a church is not called to be the best in town, what
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where God has placed it.
No disciple is called to conquer the other disciples
in a quest to be best.
Jesus illustrated and summed up his lesson on humble
servanthood by picking up one small child and urging his disciples
to do the same, to faithfully welcome the small.
It's not the kind of pursuit that will jetison a church to
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Carolyn Phillips had been shopping at the Kroger on Gallatin Road near Eastland Avenue. When she came out of the store a man tried to rob her after she got into her car.
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Now in its second year, the goal remains to bring LGBTQ music to a wide range of people, although this year will feature two headliners in addition to a slew of smaller acts. Initially Thomas wanted to focus on local acts but last year saw an avalanche of talent apply from around the world so opened up the process. This year it also opened the floodgates, with more than 80 applicants that had to be whittled down to 24.
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