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gerri: hello, everybody, i'm gerri willis. right now on "the willis report", the new push for smartphone kill switches, stirring up much debate. will it put a stop to cell phone crime? what this means for users across the country next. and president obama unveiling a $4 trillion budget plan today. >> a road map for creating jobs, with good wages and expanding opportunity for all americans. gerri: but will a plan that involves more government spending and taxing really get anything done? also will criminals feast on atms come aprilth? find out why your identity may not be safe next time you make a cash withdrawal. we're watching out for you on "the willis report."
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gerri: our top story, new momentum to put a kill switch on all cell phones. it's a way to permanently that is disable them so they are useless to thieves. congress now taking up the issue. smartphone theft counts for a third of all robberies in the u.s. according to the fcc take a look at these surveillance tapes. phones snatched, people assaulted, beaten for their phones. some victims, even killed, with me now, paul whose daughter meagan was shot and killed for the iphone. with us meagan's sister. they are behind this new effort to make sure no family goes through what they went through. welcome to you both. great to have you here. you're on set with me. i want you to tell me what happened to your sister. >> well, my sister was walking to her car and at the time she
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was in st. louis. my family lives in chicago. she was traveling there to the weekend and visit friends and play in alumni volleyball game at st. louis university where she played volleyball. she was walking to the car calling my mom to check in with her, while she was talking, two 18-year-olds were look for someone to rob and saw her talking on the new white iphone and decided she would be target of a robbery. she was approached when she got in the car and demanded the phone and they were not able to get it and they shot her twice and she was killed. gerri: very possible, paul, that she fought, she fought back? we are seeing pictures of her right now. what a lovely young woman she was. what was your reaction to what happened? i assume you were angry? >> we, initially we didn't know a lot of what had happened. we didn't get a lot of information. once we found out what happened
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it was absolutely devastating to us. meagan was the most wonderful young person. to think this could happen to her was just unbelievable. gerri: do you think that this kill switch could fix this problem, paul? >> yes, i do. i think what the kill switch would do, it would eliminate the market. the reason why these people are taking phones, is because they can take a cell phone and sell it within 24 hours for substantial amounts of money. this legislation would eliminate that market and, as a result, there would be no need to steal cell phones. gerri: annie, you're taking a very public stance here in support of your sister i assume. how does that feel? and what do you want to see happen? >> i want to see a day where people walk down the street and use their phones and not be targeted and suddenly become a victim of violent crime. i think what happened to my sister was a terrible tragic
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thing and i just don't want to see it happen to anybody else. >> i can completely understand what you're saying. again we're looking at pictures of your sister. she looks completely charming and beautiful. and amazing young woman. let me show you some of the numbers though that describe this problem, the depth of this problem. the fcc says, in new york city, the number of cell phone thefts, 40% of all thefts in san francisco, that is, it is 60% of all thefts. you take a look at these numbers, "the wall street journal" reporting that 50% of all robberies in san francisco are smartphone thefts. the issue is really out of control. and paul, to you, the cell phone companies here are really fighting back. here's what they say, their opposition to the kill switch. they say, our members are continuing to explore and offer new technologies to address these crimes while not inadvertently creating a trap door that hacker and cyber criminals could exploit. paul, they believe that a kill
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switch isn't the right technology, isn't well-developed enough. what do you say that. >> the idea we're looking at is technological solution. what people are doing when they steal the cell phones and reformat them and put operating system back on if the phone was brand new. they ship it overseas and resell it immediately. the idea would be that if someone tried to reinstall the operating system, that phone would still know that it was paul boken's phone and would require paul put his password back in in order to reuse that phone. it is a technological solution. we have some of the most brilliant people in the world working for these companies, i think they can get it done. gerri: annie, do you guys feel a little like david and goliath? these big cell phone companies don't want to change their policies. some people feel it is a concern about profits.
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do you guys feel like you're fighting uphill battle on this. >> definitely. we have been pushing this last several months. we were pushing this when we helped eric schneiderman's secure cell phones initiative. gerri: new york attorney yen. >> there is legislation in california. and now the federal legislation. i think people are starting to pay attention. gerri: paul, there is another solution being proposed by the wireless companies themselves, a national database of stolen phones where you could go and check in if your phone is stolen. is that enough of a solution for you? >> no, i don't think that would solve the problem. the problem is these phones are being stolen here and being shipped overseas that would solve a national problem. if the phones are being resold in america but it doesn't solve the problem of the phones going to asia and other places. >> annie, to you, how old was your sister when she died and what do you make of this debate
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and this controversy and you sit down and listen to people talk about it, people that didn't even know your sister. >> meagan was 23 when she was killed. she was a year out of college. she was just starting her career and navigating life as an adult. she had so many great things ahead of her. when i hear people talking about issues that they're not sure how to resolve, and figure out the right technology to use, it all seems so silly to me because i think that a human life is worth so much more than this. and i think that, if it can save a life, this technology needs to be developed. >> all a matter of perspective. annie and paul, thank you for coming on tonight. great to have you here. we really appreciate your time. we'll continue to follow your story and love to have you back anytime. thank you so much for coming on. >> thanks for having us. >> thanks, gerri. >> you're most welcome. we want to know what you think. here is our question tonight, should cell phones have a kill switch? log on to gerriwillis.com, vote
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on the right-hand side of the screen. i well show the results at the end of tonight's show. from the safety with cell phones to your health care. another obama care delay is coming. fox news confirming that white house will allow insurers to continue to offer health plans that don't meet obama care's minimum coverage requirement, this time as long as two years. with more on this, dr. scott gottlieb, resident fellow at the american enterprise institute. dr. scott, welcome back to the show. >> thanks. gerri: another delay. i have to admit at this point, i don't know what is left of obamacare, we delayed so many things. is this a knife in the heart to the law? >> there is more they can delay. what they're doing here they will allow small business that is were supposed to conform to the mandates under the law get grandfathered in another year or two. the small businesses can continue to offer policies they're offering currently. under the current law they would have to stop offering the policies this fall just before the election. that is why the administration is taking this move.
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what will happen it, will cause premiums in the obamacare exchanges to go up next year more because the insurance companies were counting on these small businesses moving those individuals into the obamacare exchanges. gerri: well, i have to tell you, yet another delay, and it seems to me it is pretty obvious the reason why they're doing this there is election coming up. what do you make of the fact that the things are happening coincidentally? >> it is political. frankly a smart move politically because the small businesses would have to send out cancellation notices a month best election. most of us figured they would do it. i figured they would wait closer to the election. the reason they had to do it now because the insurance companies are trying to figure out the premiums for 2015. they need to start baking that into the costs. this will increase costs. each time they peel away alear for the law it has ripple effects because the law is overly complex. gerri: i was going to that. i was wondering it does to the
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economics of the law when you suddenly decide you will extend deadline for folks. does this undermine the financial underpinnings of the law? >> absolutely. the premiums will go up. it will make i had hearter for people to enroll in fifth if i have. so-called insurance death spiral more likely and premiums get increase and people only get into the market are people that need the coverage. the insurance companies were counting on moving small business plans into the obamacare exchanges because they tend to have healthiest and wealthiest consumers. they tend to be low-cost consumers. so you want the customers. now more of the customers will stay outside the obamacare exchanges they will have to increase premiums to offset what would have been the benefit of having these customers in those markets. gerri: so the prices go up and meantime we've had over 6 million insurance cancellations under obamacare. so, you could be in a situation where your coverage has been canceled, yet some people are having their deadlines extended.
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that has to be doublingly frustrating for people out there. respond to another thing. 30% of americans respond that obamacare had personally negative impact on them. it seems to me that the support for the law, and we talked a lot about the problems with the law overand over again, but support for the law really coming apart here. >> right. well most people are seeing their costs go up. they're seeing health plans get degraded. there is very narrow sweet spot folks that benefit from the law at all. it tend to be between people 150% to 200% of the federal poverty level. family of four earning about $35,000 a year to $40,000 a year probably will benefit from the law because they will get enough subsidies for both premiums and cost sharing to offset the costs. people outside of that window a lot will be made worse off. there is narrow cohort of the population better off under this law. gerri: dr. scott gottlieb,
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thanks for coming on tonight. we appreciate your time. >> thanks a lot. >> thanks so much. we have more to come this hour include an easy way to cut future mortgage bills. next, president obama unveiling a nearly $4 trillion budget so what does this mean for you and me? some analysis coming after the break.
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see what's new at projectluna.com gerri: the white house unveiling its 2015 budget today, filled with stimulus money and an earned income
credit expansion. but what will this new proposal mean for your bottom line? joining me now, peter morici, economist at the university of maryland. welcome back to the show, peter. i'm looking at this and thinking an extra $60 billion, $60 billion in spending over last year and we have $11 trillion in debt. does this make any sense at all? >> no, it really continues the kinds of policies we've had for the last 15 or 20 years. you know the economy has grown less than 2% throughout this century. compare that to the reagan clinton years, two different parties where the economy grew at twice that pace.
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gerri: let's take a look at some of the things the president wants to spend on, give people a sense, if you're a consumer this is what you're looking at. expansion of earned income
credit. more money for highways, bridges and transit. more money for head start programs and cuts to crop insurance. start with the earned income
credit for a second. antipoverty plan is popular with both sides of the aisle. when you look at actual numbers, there is no traction on ending poverty in this country. none of the stuff seems to do a lick of good. what do you make of it? >> one of the things about earned income
credit permits people to work for less money. so some of the gains they get out of it are taken out in lower wages. also, it has to be paid for by, you know, somebody paying higher taxes. very people that hire these folks that go into mcdonald's, and that hire folks to clean their homes and things like that. so you know it is not the unvarnished gain that it
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advocates say that it should be. gerri: that is absolutely true. the of course the president already picked out whose pocket he would like to pick for the expansion of the earned income
credit and it is people on wall street. he is not likely to face a lot of opposition, certainly from not any place other than new york on doing this. what do you make of this? this is expansion of the president's belle discussed, much trotted out idea there is income inequality here and uncle sam's job is to fix that? >> well i think it is important to recognize that the carried interest provision president is targeting has been targeted by congressman camp in his
reform proposals. there is some consensus in congress that is look hole that should be closed. there is very big difference in the purpose for which that money should be used. republicans would like to consolidate, improve the earned income
credit and consolidate various programs available to the poor. that makes some sense.
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you know economists like giving folks cash directly. so that they can be use it to make choices of their own. so consolidating all these programs, getting rid of any abuses we have in food stamp, that does make some sense for making things better. >> well, peter, though when you give people cash there is much more of an opportunity for fraud and when you look at these
credits, that is exactly what happens. if you look at reports from the irs. these are the part ofs of the
code where the regular old-fashioned taxpayer gets ripped off more than any other. expanding
credits is actually bad for curbing fraud. what do you say? >> well my feeling is that if you let me run the irs i'll stop that fraud. but i won't spend my time targeting conservative organizations or liberal organizations, depending on who is president. it is matter of irs not expressing its own values where it puts enforcement resources
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but enforcing the law. one of the problems you have with this kind of fraud there is not a big payback when you catch somebody. so they don't give it enough emphasis. but it creates an environment where there is too much of it. i think fraud problem can be fixed. it is fairly simple. gerri: another 30billion for highways just as we have potholes all over new york city you could lose your car in. net-net when, you look at this budget, what will it mean for the economy? is it thumbs up or thumbs down? >> it is thumbs down because it just continues on kinds of policies we've had. i would like to spend more on road but i give it at office. carve it out of the department of education and money you're sending my university and others we would be better off with less cash learning to be more frugal. >> peter, thanks for coming on. great to see you again. >> take care. >> thank you. now the latest developments on the recall scandal, rocking general motors. ceo mary barra finally coming out on the issue, finally
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talking, posting a letter to employees online. the company launched an internal investigation and acted without hesitation when the issue was brought to her team. but the company waited years, years before issuing its 1.4 million car recall in the u.s. after a string of fatal crashes, the defect soming the ignition switch. it turned off, resulting in 13 deaths at a minimum. we will of course continue bringing you the very latest on that story. and later in the show a warning before you hit the atm again. next we answer the question, how do you do that? we'll have advice cutting your mortgage bill with a simple second payment. stay with us. ♪
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gerri: you can pay the loan back on 30-year mortgage on your term, not the banks. how do you do that next?
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gerri: 30-year mortgage is probably the biggest expense most people will ever pay but there is way to cut years off your repayment schedule. we have the founder of help save my dollars.com and author of the book, more money please, the financial secrets you never learned in school. you know why? because they never teach it to you in school. scott, great to have you here. this is great idea. you will help people save money on the mortgages. what is that easy step to take? ers. >> if off, think about it, your mortgage is likely largest expense and goal is to get it paid off as soon as possible. you think about retirement. a lot of uncertainties surrounding health care. there are more health care
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costs. great way to pay off the mortgage faster is by making extra payment each year that will take a 30 year mortgage down to about 24 years. gerri: i have to tell you it is so simple and by tweaking your budget here and there, over the year, this is simple move to make. i think the reason people don't do it, because they don't believe it. it sound too easy, scott. how does this work? how can you make this work so you can save money ultimately? >> well if you can make a lump sum payment at end of the year, that is a great way. a lot of people that is more difficult. instead you pay your mortgage every go weeks, that amounts to 26 payments. which is essentially the same thing as making that lump sum payment. but the key here, is to tell your bank that you're doing this beforehand if you're going to make that monthly payment twice per month. >> may not turn out pretty if they don't know what is going on because they think you do the wrong thing. it is saving interest what you're doing at end of the day. this is the money you're saving is interest money. interest on average
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200,000-dollar, 30-year mortgage, how much could it add up to the over life of the loan? >> very common for to us see a loan for principle and interest double that, and what a lot of times happen, these loans have amortization asked us. in beginning most of the payments are allocated towards interest. toward the end of the loan that is when you make the dent in principle. with paying one additional mortgage payment each year we're trying to expedite this process. gerri: so you end up paying less interest to the bank and that is always good news for people out there who have a mortgage. we talked about before, if you don't get the bank in on your plan, you could be in trouble. why? >> this is because, the first payment of the month, if you're doing it twice per month is not going to be enough to cover the entire amount. so the bank will not necessarily know what to do with the money. a, they could put it towards interest, essentially give them free money and deem your payment as insufficient, in that case you would be late on your
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mortgage. so instead you want to call head and tell them to allocate this money, not only towards principle but to unapplied funds. this is the best way to make dent on principle. >> i love the idea. great stuff, scott, thanks for coming on. i think a lot of people will get ahold of loan officer next few days after hearing your story. thank you so much. >> thanks, gerri. gerri: coming up another day, another data beach. we have live report from chicago to tell you all about it. beware of your next trip to the atm as the security software that is supposed to keep your information safe, it is expiring. we'll tell you about that coming up. ♪ i ys say be thman with the plan but with less ergy, moodiness, i had to do something. i saw mdoctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talked about axiron the onlynderarm low t treaent
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speed on is the bank atm about
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to put you at risk to hackers? on april 8, microsoft is ending support for its windows xp operating system and that means no more security or technical upgrades. dates are scrambling to update 95% of bank software that uses the system for they become targets for hackers. joining me now is the chairman of identity theft 911. thank you for joining us here today. >> thank you for having me. gerri: so can you explain the rest? >> the risk is that for a period of time if they don't it be data, this will be fair game for hackers. so they they have to do the upgrade. some are extending their contract with microsoft and they will ultimately be facing the expense between 1000 and 3500 per machine because they have to update the software machine by machine. gerri: they knew the deadline
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was coming. are you telling me that banks can't of the six before the deadline? >> if it isn't a this year. there are 200,000 atms that actually use the windows xp software. we're not only talking think atms, but even a more dangerous atm. but they are probably three operating distance behind us as good news is that xp. this is an opportunity for banks to upgrade their atm machines to include chip and pending technology. while they do that? >> i don't know. there should be this kind of upgrade. i don't know if they ultimately well. the truth is that its national
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consumer protection week. if it's anything to talk about it, the moment he. gerri: the software that we were talking about during the bank, it was released 12 years ago. that is an eon in technology time. people make changes every month. why is it that makes her so locked into the software, which is really a dinosaur. >> it is actually dogeared that were talking about. it is just crazy that people don't want to spend money to a good upgrade. the on come back and tell us it works out or if we should stop going to atm machines altogether. thank you for coming on the show. more security issues to report tonight. if they take a chicago cab, first american bank, filing complaint with the city of chicago over what it calls a pattern of fraudulent transactions. involving charge card to the
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city's taxis. jeff flock is at our chicago bureau with the details. >> can you imagine this? a big thing don't use our credit card or debit card are you pay cash, it's much safer. that is what first american in chicago. a reasonably small bank, about $2.5 billion in assets. take a look at the warning notice on your facebook page as we speak tonight. it says essentially that we advise our customers to not use their debit or credit cards to pay for taxi services. and the says clearly that the is not a case of a reach of first american system. and they said it is the process or were the taxi charges and they say that they have contacted both mastercard and bank of america two weeks ago or it here is essentially what they got from b of a. this is their public response. it is also what the bangkok.
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it says that b of a services takes the security very seriously. but we cannot discuss specific matters. that is what they are telling the bank in chicago as well. so first american to the unusual step of saying, don't use your cards. they called out mastercard and bank of america. you can imagine what mastercard thinks about this when you start to hate, hate, don't use your mastercard, it is not safe great academies in chicago are not thrilled about it. if you get into a cab coming you give your card to someone that you don't know, no offense to cab drivers and women and men. but you don't know what the heck they are doing with the information. and they thought that maybe your data will be compromised. you go back the old fashion way and give a guy a 5-dollar bill or whatever. gerri: that's what we hear all the time. people are starting to choose cash rather than credit. but i am shocked that they are calling out inc. of america and
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math are card publicly. just how unusual is this? >> credit analysts say that it's highly unusual. because they really don't want to tick off mastercard. they do business together and mastercard and visa and the other credit card providers hate this idea. when you start talking about going back to cash, which is as good as money. [laughter] >> you can really put a ding in the business. gerri: jeff, you just illuminated it. cash is as good as money. thank you for coming on. it is grey tabby on the show. all right, in a consumer alert, you're going to want to hear this if you are a netflix fan. there is a new netflix stadium. a fake webpage exists for users when they try to the diner to the and netflix page. it will save the account has been suspended due to unusual activity. they will ask you to call customer service. however, the number is fake.
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he gives hackers complete access to your computer. double check every number that you are asked to call. it is on you to make sure that you they don't get ripped off here. that is a big heads-up out there for netflix users. when we come back, be prepared to watch me squirm. i am joined by a dog expert. we will look at the future of some creepy crawlers, people. i would not do this on my own, i am being forced to do this. we are looking out for you and your money coming up next announcer: where can an investor
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completely abandoned what we thought about investing. if the average mutual fund gets a better return than the average investor, what does that mean? john is with us. i thought this was interesting stuff. let's take a look at the numbers you crunch. over the past 10 years, the average investor underperforming the average fund. the investor making 4.8% return. the average fund 7.3. what is going on here? >> it's pretty simple. we look at the average performance of funds when you take the average of 10,000 funds. that compared to where the money is in the funds and where the money is than they are making less than the typical funds. >> people are not investing wisely. gerri: good investors dinged because they took their money in and out of the funds over time? >> they get thing because they take their money in and out of
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funds over time. they're basically going into the wrong asset process. they're performing well in the past but don't perform so well because they are hot when they buy them. so this really is not about index versus active management. we have a certain type of fund, a large growth stock fund.
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we have an enormous rebound since then. gerri: we have terrible timing, that is for sure. we have seen it over and over again. investors get nervous, they want to talk about this at exactly the wrong time. >> people tend to do better with a more stable kind of predictable category. and i really have stopped recommending the sector funds because people use them so poorly. look at commodity funds and people getting in after 2008 when commodities did well in unveiling. gerri: i just have to show 11 full screen from this because i think it so interesting. the terrible timing we were talking about. in 2012 was a net outflow of
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$93.8 billion or the return on your is 35% in equity funds. what a tragedy for people out there that were trying to do the right thing and got killed instead. john, thank you for coming on the show. it will be to have you here. i hope you will come back again soon. >> certainly. anytime. gerri: it's time now for a look at stories that you're clicking on. president obama says russia's invasion of the ukraine could hurt russia. vladimir putin has sent russian forces into the korean region saying that he protects the russian interest there. meanwhile secretary of state john kerry in the ukraine with that country's new government. and stocks brushing off the concerns, the dow jones jumped more than 200 points today while the s&p 500 moves back into record territory. and president obama is also sending congress a nearly
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4 trillion-dollar budget on roads and education and job creation. also by closing
loopholes, favoring the wealthy. the budget is not expected to go anywhere in congress. and this may be the nail in the coffin for radioshack. planning to close up to 1100 stories. radioshack also reporting a wider loss as traffic was down during the all-important holiday season. these are some of the hot stories on fox business.com. still to come, my "two cents more" in the winter weather isn't just a pain for humans. certain species could be wiped out as a result. a look at the future of these stink bugs coming up next.
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stay one an upside to the brutally cold winter. the stink bug population has been hit hard by a plummeting temperatures. are they gone for good?
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gerri: this winter has been a real killer for stink bugs. that is what we are talking about. the frigid temperatures across the country have stopped these invasive insects cold. that is what their little round bodies. almost 95% of the population has been killed, that good news for those whose crops have been invested. twenty now is our very favorite scientific assistant at the american museum of natural history. you are a man.
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if we have a book story, we come to you. i have seen these bad guys in my house. usually this cold weather is great upon them. >> it's tough, but it's not overall, the whole population with blake 40 different states infiltrated by these bugs. and then they rebound by next spring its asian beetles and they have infiltrated into japan to a town one inside my house and they move really slowly. what is going on at them in this time of year are at this time they are already sorted in a hibernation stage. and then they will come out in the early spring, april and may
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Quick to lose one's temper: poor sleep can leave you short-tempered
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People of mixed-race are more attractive, unless those
judging are thinking about what racial group the person
belongs to, University of Otago research shows.
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psychology and Prof Piotr Winkielman from the University of
California, San Diego, used blended faces made up of two
individuals, one Chinese and one Caucasian.
The research found participants preferred mixed-race faces to
single-race faces. However, this changed for those who had to
first decide if a face was Chinese or Caucasian, those
participants judging mixed-race faces to be relatively
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electromyography (EMG) to measure facial expressions and
found people were less inclined to smile at the faces
presented to them if they had to categorise them first.
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faces, regardless of race, were usually found to be more
attractive than the original faces that went into the blend.
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blends, so if you take two people of different races and
blend them together then you get a face that is more
attractive than the originals,'' Prof Halberstadt said.
The findings did not indicate people were subconsciously
racist and instead revealed something that was ''endemic to
the way people process information'', Prof Halberstadt said.
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think that's what is going on here,'' he said.
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exposed to.
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humans they are more appealing because they better capture
your overall experience of life.''
But when people were thinking of the blended faces as
examples of racial groups their ambiguity ''pulls down their
appeal'' because they were difficult to categorise.
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When the bio-terrorist is eliminated from play (via the purple disease being eradicated), should they discard their current hand of infection cards to the infection discard pile?
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They are out of the game, but it doesn't say what to do with their cards. Personally, I would just have them discard the cards in their hand, since that should make it easier for the other players (a more diluted infection deck), and that is what normally happens when the Bio-Terrorist is captured.


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Did China hack into Twitter? Fears nation was behind massive attack that gained access to 250,000 accounts
- Twitter fears user names, email addresses and passwords have been stolen
- American newspapers have also been targets of sophisticated cyber-attacks
- There are fears that China officially sponsors hackers
Massive attack: China is feared to have been behind cyber attacks on Twitter that gained access to 250,000 private accounts
China is feared to have been behind a massive hacking attack on Twitter that gained access to 250,000 private accounts.
The social media company was assessing the full scale of the attack over the weekend - but fears that the hackers may have stolen user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to all those affected.
In recent days American newspapers The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post have also revealed that they have been the targets of sophisticated 'cyber-attacks'.
And there are growing fears that the Government of China officially sponsors a red army of hackers who work ceaselessly to discover not only the trade secrets of Western companies, but also discover details of critical journalists, Chinese dissidents, and delve into national defence and infrastructure systems.
Beijing spokesmen deny endorsing any computer hacking but companies falling victims to serious attacks repeatedly say they appear to originate in China.
And in 2010 Britain's strategic defence review made clear for the first time that 'cyberwar' was a genuine threat to national security, and had become one our major priorities, alongside combating traditional terrorism.
Twitter's director of information security, Bob Lord, said over the weekend that the massive attack on the social media network 'was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident'.
Mr Lord went on: 'The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.
'For that reason we felt that it was important to publicise this attack while we still gather information, and we are helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users.'
Experts said the assault on Twitter could have begun with a single Twitter employee's computer being infiltrated through well-publicised weaknesses in the Java computer language. It would then have spread through the company network.
Targeted: In recent days, newspapers The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post say they have been targets of sophisticated 'cyber-attacks'
Although Twitter is generally used to publish messages for all the world to see, hacking could enable Chinese agents to discover the true identity of people posting under pseudonyms, or locate where they are posting from.
A strong warning of the dangers posed by Chinese hackers comes in a forthcoming book by the executive chairman of internet giant Google, Eric Schmidt, who writes in The Digital Age that Beijing-based cybercrime is a global 'menace'.
The tightly controlled country is the most 'sophisticated and prolific' hacker on earth, he says - with Western countries restricted by laws and privacy concerns that discourage hacking.
Growing sales of Chinese computer technology around the globe are also making hacking by the country's employees and residents easier by the day, he suggests.
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal both suggested the recent cyberattacks they had fallen victim to involved attempts to spy on journalists monitoring China.
Global 'menace': Executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, gives a strong warning of the dangers posed by Chinese hackers
The Bloomberg financial news service is also said to have been hacked immediately after running a story about the fortunes amassed by relatives of China's probably president-to-be in March Xi Jinping.
China is obsessed with its own cyber-security, and does its best to prevent free access to the rest of the world wide web - fearing the social media could spark Arab Spring-style calls for democracy, and endanger the Communist Party's iron grip on power.
Twitter and Facebook are banned there, and on Weibo, China's own version of Twitter, there are said to be 1,000 censors employed full time to delete as many as 10 million politically dangerous messages a day.
Another 300,000 volunteers are said to be paid 4p a post to spread positive propaganda about the Communist Party.
British and American intelligence agencies are anxiously hiring their own computer experts in a bid to build up defences, and devise potential counter-attacks, against ruthless foreign hackers.
Experts say Western military attacks could in future lead to retaliation not on the battlefield, but in computer assaults on the National Grid or on water supply systems.
Swiftly deleting abusive tweets may save offenders from being brought before court, the country's leading prosecutor said.
Keir Starmer, director of public prosecutions, said it was 'relevant' for police to consider whether an offending tweet had been quickly deleted from the micro-blogging site.
Speaking to Sky's Dermot Murnaghan, he said he was holding a three-month consultation about the plan.
Libellous tweets, or messages which broke court orders or were threatening, would still face prosecution regardless, he added.
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Some Funds for Florida Public School Maintenance in Works
The unknown amount not expected to cover all repairs.
Published: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 11:04 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 11:04 p.m.
LAKELAND | Florida's public schools and universities will receive funding for repairs and maintenance for the first time in two years.
But deciding just how much they get and where the money comes from means House and Senate members of a conference committee must reconcile their widely different ideas on how to fund repairs to dilapidated education facilities.
Although it is a beginning for Polk County and the other school districts, the amount available is nowhere near what is needed to assure every school district and state university gets what is required.
House Appropriations Chairman Seth McKeel, R-Lakeland, said his full committee, which voted on its budget Wednesday, has a
recurring source of money for the Public Education Capital Outlay program, which funds school repairs.
The program's permanent source, the gross receipts tax on telephone bills, has been drying up over the years, McKeel said.
The new permanent source being used in the House budget is from a proposal by Agriculture Commissioner and Bartow native Adam Putnam. He's pushing to reduce the business utilities tax from 7 percent to 3.5 percent over the next three years.
Currently, all 7 percent goes into the state's general revenue fund. But under Putnam's plan, all of the tax would become a permanent funding source for PECO.
The House has 3 percent from the utility tax this year written into its proposed budget, which goes to the floor of the House for vote next week.
That will yield $188 million. House press secretary Ryan Duffy said the reason his boss, Speaker of the House Will Weatherford, has been saying the House will have close to $565 million for PECO is the bonding capacity of the $188 million.
McKeel said to use the 3 percent from the utilities tax will require passage of a bill to change the way PECO is funded. The bill has been filed in both the House and the Senate.
But the Senate Appropriations Committee does not have Putnam's permanent source in its budget. It will have an entirely different proposal when it votes its budget out of committee today.
Instead, it is proposing $321.4 million for PECO, using cash left over from the PECO Trust Fund after current debt service is paid, a $21.6 million transfer from General Revenue, and approximately $41 million from the State University Capital Trust Fund, said Katherine Betta, press secretary to Senate President Don Gaetz.
McKeel said he thinks the Putnam energy tax proposal will pass both chambers and then the Senate will accept the permanent funding from the utilities tax.
"We are counting on Sen. (Anitere) Flores, (R-Miami) who has the bill in the Senate. It will still require a conference committee," McKeel said, "because there will be a difference in the amount of money we are offering and the Senate is offering."
The Senate also does not have bonding the tax money in its plan.
Polk Superintendent of Schools Kathryn LeRoy seems to say something is better than nothing.
She is in Tallahassee this week for a conference of state school superintendents.
"I think we will take any money we can get. What we really need is for the half mil in property tax for school maintenance returned," she said.
The Legislature reduced the 2 mils in property tax that county school boards were allowed to assess to 1.5 mils or $1.50 per $1,000 of taxable value during the economic slump. Then property values dropped. The result was like a double reduction in maintenance and repair money.
"If we didn't get (return of the half mil property tax), I am glad we got something," LeRoy said. "But the needs are certainly higher than what is proposed (in Senate and House budgets)."
The PECO funds being proposed from both chambers will be shared by 12 state universities and 67 public school systems.
Polk County school officials told the School Board recently that it would cost $274 million over five years to upgrade all the facilities needing maintenance or repairs.
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30 CFR 560.114 - How does BOEM assign and monitor royalty suspension volumes for eligible leases?
(a) We have specified the water depth category for each eligible lease in the final Notice of OCS Lease Sale Package. The Final Notice of Sale is published in the Federal Register and the complete Final Notice of OCS Lease Sale Package is available on the BOEM Web site. Our determination of water depth for each lease became final when we issued the lease.
(b) We have specified in the Notice of OCS Lease Sale the royalty suspension volume applicable to each water depth. The following table shows the royalty suspension volumes for each eligible lease in million barrels of oil equivalent (MMBOE):
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|(1) 200 to less than 400 meters
|(2) 400 to less than 800 meters
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Title 30 published on 2015-07-01
The following are ALL rules, proposed rules, and notices (chronologically) published in the Federal Register relating to 30 CFR Part 560 after this date.


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In the Monday, Dec. 23, finale of the first season of NBC's a cappella vocal competition "The Sing-Off" under new executive producer Mark Burnett ("The Voice"), the Minnesota-based, all-male country group Home Free is just that, with a trophy in hand.
"It's more than every dream I've ever had come true," Brown says. "My biggest fear coming here was that they would try to make us into something we're not. And while we have grown a great deal away from what we ever thought we were, I don't think we've ever lost our identity. It just feels right."
Adds Lundquist, "The whole experience has been so surreal, it's hard to put into words what I'm feeling."
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|"Shrapnel: Aristeia Rising" #1 on sale January 7, 2009
It was more than ten years ago that Nick Saga -- the son of legendary scientist, âCosmosâ creator and science fiction author Carl Sagan --and Zombie Studiosâ Mark Long first conceived of what would become Radical Comics' âShrapnel.â Scripted by M. Zachary Sherman (âStar Wars: Visionaries," "Seal Team Seven") and illustrated by Bagus Hutomo, âShrapnel: Aristeia Risingâ â which debuts in January with a 48-page, $1.99 first issue -- is the first of three five-issue miniseries chronicling the revolt of Earthâs colony on Venus against her imperial mother planet, and the role of a former soldier named Samantha in the galactic civil war.
We presented previously an interview with Production Designer Kai, responsible for the look of the environments and characters of âShrapnel,â and CBR News speaks now with co-creators Mark Long & Nick Sagan and scripter M. Zachary Sherman to learn more about the ambitious Radical Comics epic.
CBR: âShrapnelâ depicts a reality in which an imperial Earth government has colonized and controls nearly all of our solar system, with one holdout: Venus, led by one woman called Samantha. What else can you tell us about the story?
Mark Long: I think this comes from a discussion that Nick and I had when we first met. We found this mutual interest in Greek literature, and then of course, science fiction. And the idea that body armor might evolve to the point that it was so survivable that you would return to tactics of battles of antiquity, lined up in phalanxes and have to fight each other like that. We both love those epic films where great speeches are made about âonce more into the breachâ kind of things. That visual is what excited us.
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It was really Nick that came up with the idea that we would have a female heroine, and also that she would rise up from modest means to vanquish an entire army on a planet, weâd take this character as far as she could go on the heroâs quest.
M. Zachary Sherman: We definitely do that. We do everything we can to put Samantha in death-dealing situations. Itâs not only her strength of character, but her ability to bring out the best in other people that allows her and her men the ability to jump in and out of situations that no one else could get themselves out of in any way, shape or form.
Nick Sagan: Thatâs absolutely right. Sheâs one of these extraordinary people in history; we modeled her partly after Joan of Arc, but also Boudicca, other women warriors, and also women adventurers. I was fortunate enough to work with Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, at one point, and it struck me what a tough person she is. There is a kind of a gender selection that goes on, and if youâre a woman and youâre going to do one of these things, you have to really be that much stronger a person mentally than your rivals, and I think we sort of carry that through with Sam.
CBR: The structure of âShrapnelâ is very ambitious. Whatâs the thinking behind the decision to present the story in three five-issue parts?
ML: Itâs the heroâs journey in three parts. I describe these parts in Greek terms that are in their subtitle. âAristeiaâ is Greek for âthe warriorâs prowess or excellence,â it comes from âThe Illiad.â Sam reaches her greatest pinnacle of power in the first series. The third is âNemesis,â and âHubrisâ is the second one. Again, the ancient Greek meaning, which I was surprised to learn when we were thinking about titling it this, that hubris is actually considered the greatest crime in ancient Greek, you could be executed for hubris, because hubris in a military context would be responsible for soldiersâ useless deaths over your vanity or pride. And âNemesis,â the third, once more, ancient Greek, not modern meaning, something like the bill come due, payment for hubris.
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CBR: Tell us about the work of illustrator Bagus Hutomo, production designer Kai and the Imaginary Friends Studio team on âShrapnel.â
ML: What you normally want or get is to geek out on all the futuristic details and really have a visually dense style, but instead we chose a loose, more emotional style, and I think it just serves to reinforce the script so much better. A lot of what weâre trying to present is kind of this sweeping arc of a future history that references a very real ancient history, and I think we were able to communicate that. There are some pages in the book that are just so beautiful I think, and really set an emotional tone thatâs rare.
MZS: Iâve had people at Comic-Con this year come up to me and go, âAre these pages for sale somewhere?â And Iâm like, âSorry, guys, those are actually painted in the computer.â
ML: Nick and I are new to comics with this series, and I know what I like personally in comics, but Iâm certainly no judge of it at a commercial level. I was at the game developers conference in March this year, and I had the first pages, and began showing them to some colleagues that worked at DC or MGM, and they were really surprised by what I was showing them, and confessed that they didnât expect our book to be anything like this. And they wanted to know more, âWhere are you going to go with this? How will it be published?â So I knew right away that we were on to something good.
NS: Then thereâs that great experience on my end of just getting the art piece by piece, and seeing itâs just jaw-droppingly good. And there is a feeling that youâre being pulled both into the future and towards the past at the same time. Thereâs something almost painterly about it in a way. And itâs just absolutely moving. Thereâs an emotional power to it that packs a punch and sneaks up on you, I really like it.
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MZS: To Nickâs point, the painterly passion of it actually allows you to feel kind of this fine art emotional side of it where itâs almost like youâre looking at historical painting pieces, but then you turn the page and thereâs a guy in ceramic plated armor. But you get the sense of being on the battlefield with someone like a Russell Crowe in âGladiatorâ or something, itâs very different, but itâs very energetic at the same time.
CBR: What made you decide to make the first issue 48 pages?
ML: That was Radicalâs decision. Itâs a good starting example of how lucky we were to end up with them. They just instantly got what we were wanting to do. In the very first meeting, [publisher] Barry Levine committed to the entire trilogy because heâll probably double-issue each of the first [issues of all three miniseries]. He double-issued them, he has four variant covers, and heâs selling them for $1.99, I mean, if that isnât trying to gain fans, I donât know what else you can do. Anything that helps us get the book to someone. I mean, for $1.99, make a chance on what weâve created here and maybe youâll find something you really love.
MZS: Itâs hard to get fans interested in something other than what they know. Comic book fans tend to gravitate to what they know and have collected for years, so even if âAquamanâ stinks, if youâve been collecting it for years, youâre still going to buy it, if you are loyal to your characters.
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So what weâre trying to do is weâre trying to reach outside of the comfort zone for most comic book fans and say, âHey, you know what? With the art that weâve got, with the research that weâve done, with the story that weâve crafted, and the characters that weâve tried to create that have a sense of emotion to them, weâre trying to reach out to these audiences and say, âGive our book a chance,â because I think once you get through that first issue, youâre really going to be invested in these characters, who they are, what theyâre facing, and the insurmountable odds that theyâre going to have to overcome. It really is a powerful story, and itâs all about humanity. Even in the face of all of this technology and all of this amazing military gear and phalanx and all of these different types of constructs, itâs still all about the individual and how you have to overcome your greatest fears to become the best person that you can be. And that was, for me, the major focus of writing this story was concentrating on those characters, and getting people invested in them so they would come back for subsequent issues.
CBR: How else do you plan to promote âShrapnel?â
MZS: Radical has asked me to do the Samantha blog. So that will be fun, getting into the head of the character, and getting to do something a little more personal into what that person would be like.
NS: Right, it gives you tremendous flexibility, too, to kind of put us in another personâs soul, effectively.
MZS: Sure. And my plan for it was everything leading up to where the book starts. The back-story. She walks off the transport and itâs her first day on Venus.
NS: I like that. It creates its own sort of structure and its own rhythm and its own drama to it. Itâs like added value for people who become fans of the series.
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CBR: How does your collaboration work?
MZS: Itâs been a fantastic process, and one of the things I will congratulate Nick on through this whole process is always questioning -- not in a defensive way, but in a devilâs advocate way -- âHow do we make this better? Thatâs a great idea, how do we make it better?â It was a challenge, and it was one that I definitely liked to step up to because itâs so easy to fall back into easy patters, just saying, âYeah, we can do this, because I kind of saw it on this TV show.â Nickâs like, âYeah, thatâs a great idea, but what if we change that and did something else to it?â And both Nick and Mark pushed me in that direction, and it was a fantastic collaborative effort just because of that for me.
NS: We pushed you and you rose to it beautifully. I think the finished project is something weâre all going to be very, very thrilled with.
CBR: Have you seen a finished issue of âShrapnel?â
ML: I just got for the first time to read the book lettered, you know, the whole thing put together. And I just felt so strong, the guys can tell you, I sent a message, and I was like, âWow, this thing really came out so much better than I ever envisioned,â it made me so happy to read it.
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CBR: Mark and Nick, the two of you originally envisioned âShrapnelâ as a game. After the decision was made to develop the project as a comic book. How did you become involved, Zach?
MZS: Well, interestingly enough, Mark had gone to Comic-Con to find a writer for âShrapnel,â and one of the things that Comic-Con has actually become, as we all know, is kind of this haven for producers and entertainment moguls to come and find properties that they can turn into other entertainment venues as movies, video games, that kind of thing. And Mark was walking around the convention, and came by my booth over at the Image table and saw my graphic novel âSOCOM: Seal Team Seven.â And he picked it up, and he said, âHey, who can I talk to about this?â And the best thing was, it was like Sunday at 5:00, and Iâm looking at him, and Iâm like, âI just want to go home.â And I said, âYeah, I wrote that.â And so Mark and I started talking, and he said, âYeah, I totally want to turn this comic book into a video game.â And I had had another company interested at one point, I was like, âOkay, weâll talk about it, hereâs my agentâs number, whatever.â
Well, Mark is a consummate professional, and got on the horn with me literally the next week, and said, âI want to fly you up to the studio, show you around, give you a contract, talk to you about everything ASAP.â And I was really impressed by that. And when I got to the story, he and I clicked, because he and I have a lot in common, actually, from varying elements of our background up to what we like in fiction and what we like in reality.
And he said, âIâve got this project called âShrapnelâ Iâve been trying to put together, are you interested in writing that?â And he told me a little bit about it, showed me the original concept designs that were done by [âBlade Runnerâ designer] Syd Mead, and he mentioned that an old friend of mine named Nick Sagan was involved in it. Now, Mark didnât know that Nick and I knew each other from years ago, almost 20 years ago now, and I said, âYeah, absolutely, Iâm 100% behind it.â
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ML: There was something about when I first met you, Zach, at Comic-Con, and I took âSeal Team Sevenâ home and read it on the plane, I was like, âWow, this would be a fucking great movie, man.â Youâve got a great knack for that kind of action dialogue, where you got multiple plot themes going on simultaneously.
NS: Zach is a brilliant writer and a good friend, and Mark is a phenomenal talent and a good friend, so the ability for the three of us to collaborate on this is kind of a dream come true. Itâs a really fun process, itâs been a really great ride.
CBR: Zach mentioned that the original concept art for âShrapnelâ was created âAliensâ and âBlade Runnerâ designer Syd Mead. What can you say about those early designs?
ML: Nick introduced me to Syd. We had a fascinating Hollywood dinner. Sydâs a great storyteller, and I instantly liked him when we went out to dinner and talked about this project, but all three of us instantly gravitated towards a science fact, not fiction, approach. It was very important to the three of us that the world we develop be realized from fact as much as possible, so the early e-mails we sent back and forth to each other were about all kinds of exotic materials, and how they might evolve, and thatâs where the mech suits came from.
Syd went off and did his thing, and then I remember getting these first concept pieces, and it was just, my mouth was hanging open, because Iâd never seen anybody design a mech like that. Mechs traditionally follow the form grammar of armor, contemporary tank armor, stamped out, and these were highly organic, asymmetrical, I think one of them even looked very crustacean, instead of a hand with fingers, it had these weird kind of pincer hands. And I just really loved where he was going with that, and that set the tone for where we ended up years later.
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CBR: Are there more stories to tell in this world beyond the planned trilogy of miniseries?
MZS: Well, there are so many diverse characters in the story. We focus mostly on Samantha. But not unlike something like âHalf Life.â Remember when they put out the mod for the second version of âHalf Lifeâ where you can play as one of the cops or one of the soldiers? It was the âBlue Shift,â I think is what it was called, where you could actually play for the other side. There are so many moral issues that are tackled in this story from both sides. The whole concept of being a marine and being told, âYou have to go take these innocent peopleâs planet not, but youâre going to do what youâre told to do, because you signed a contract so you can win your freedom.â Thereâs something there that can be explored, so there are several different sides of this that can actually go on to spin-off into other series, or just concentrate down the line on different sides of the spectrum.
NS: One of the things that Iâm enjoying is that our sympathies can be pulled in multiple directions, as much as we are behind Sam, we can understand where her people are coming from, I think that there are a huge number of moral issues raised, the three of us have been enjoying this universe as a playground to the point that it wouldnât surprise me if we were to return to it. But right now, priority one is the first three books.
MZS: Not unlike Star Wars, which focuses on a triumvirate of Han, Luke and Leia, there are areas within that diverse universe that weâve created that can be explored, if people want it, weâre more than happy to do it.
âShrapnel: Aristeia Risingâ #1 goes on sale January 7, 2009 from Radical Comics.
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