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The board of Four-County Community Services will meet today to discuss the nonprofit's recent audit by the state Department of Health and Human Services.
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Four-County's board of directors will meet at 6 p.m. at the Red Springs Head Start Center to discuss the audit. Part of the meeting is expected to be public.
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Among the audit's findings, Greene is accused of misusing his agency vehicle for personal trips and concealing a nine-year marriage to Annie Rothwell, Four-County's fiscal manager, in violation of the agency's nepotism policy. Cummings is accused of using agency funds for a Kindle Fire tablet and a state-owned cellphone.
"There hasn't been any conscious wrongdoing that I have been able to see," Cummings said. "There have been some calls made that I might have called differently, but cannot be construed as intentional wrongdoing."
Four-County receives $21 million annually through state and federal grants to administer 16 Head Start programs as well as weatherization assistance and housing assistance funds to clients in Scotland, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Hoke, Pender, and Robeson counties.
The audit also found that Four-County has paid for several improvement projects at Sandy Grove Baptist Church in Lumberton, where the agency leases space to conduct a Head Start program. Such projects include a $9,000 repavement of the church parking lot and $13,000 to install televisions and other multimedia equipment throughout the church building.
Four-County's contract with the church stipulates that the agency pay $1 per year and $250 in monthly maintenance for the Head Start facility. No mention is made of special projects, according to the audit.
The audit involved interviews of Four-County employees and vendors, as well as examinations of Four-County board meeting minutes from June 2009 to June 2012 and accounting records.
Four-County is also facing a civil lawsuit brought by eight Section 8 housing clients who accuse Four-County employees John Wesley and Eric Pender of threatening to withhold benefits unless the women provided sexual favors. Four-County is also listed as a defendant in the suit.
Cummings said that the board is not expected to discuss the sexual harassment lawsuit at today's meeting.


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Classic signed Sadik Yanik carved meerschaum with some amber. This is perfectly coloring and is waxed and oiled with my own formula's -Jason ' The Meerschaum King'"
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@Driftstage5 I honestly do not remember what I paid but his pipes have increased-saw one the other day for over $10,000! I like mine better but not sure he ever repeats anything exactly. I would guess about $350 but look around or google S.Yanik on Google or even Ebay-besides if you get one like the OMG I will have to hurl 3 hoods out from Chicago to change your mind! LOL Excellent luck-Jason-in California
Wow! How much did that cost? Because Im thinking of getting a custom order from yanik akin to that. So I wanted to know how much I should expect to pay. Thanks Jason!
@JJJUSCFAN8 Yes I mean curve the stem but you answered my question. Thank you and cool video
@jwmarco21 Consent to me say first I am not a carver and not even excellent making things. Did you mean curve the stem or pipe? If it is the stem they often place it in hot sand then bend it. If its the pipe your just carve it that way or did I miss your point? Jason
Im into carving and I wana make a pipe…How do I get it to bend? I can do a straight pipe but not one that curves like that
@galiffrey1 I do not know what Yanik dipped it in originaly as he has many different formulas, I know it was maily bees wax-probably unbleached and I have added my own formula many times of bees wax-oil-a small other waxes like parifin-carnuba, etc. I have many formulas as well. If you buy one that is not white and has a yellowish glow it is unbleachead wax-they will all color-this is not rocket science. Today they use all kinds of wax unlike in the ancient days. Jason
Just incredible! So did it start out with natural beeswax or bleached?
Blink, I don't know a thing about formats for sending things-pipes yes, PDF or whatever they are called -NO. You can hurl your email if you like and I would be glad to hurl stuff I run across on whatever subject on pipes you like. Jason
@JJJUSCFAN8 :excellent morning……if there are any free articles or books in word document or pdf format want to scan them……i could hurl my e-mail to you for you to hurl me some or all…….as it would be very fascinating…..
watchout as ill be posting a vid today giving a link to this vid….. -
@MrBlink182ishi Well, Blink I have written many articles on pipes and meerschaum but hope I get around to writting it and then getting it published takes time so you could get very ancient waiting but thanks for the future sale -LOL (writing is a lot of work!)
@JJJUSCFAN8 :hey…….awesome news about the book…..just remember ill be among one of the first ten who will be purchaing it……cheers…..will be contacting you some day i get a meerchum pipe…..
@MrBlink182ishi Thanks and I am going to place together a book on coloring and waxing if I ever get around to writing it. (why not place off today what you didn't do yesterday or the day before) and thanks for the link. Jason
@JJJUSCFAN8 :jason you have dont an incredible job there with the colouring……..shes a beauty……i have to make a video about a meerchum pipe experience will give your link as an example……..im seriosly impressed with the colouring…….makes me want to get one….
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@MrBlink182ishi Glad you like it and it is fantastic fun smoking and trying to color even deeper and all over-it is heavily waxed and a small darker in person as the camera lights wash some color out-it is a favorite. Jason
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@RevJoeyG We didn't want to tell you Joe–That is you! We could not get a piece of meerschaum huge sufficient to get the Harley in. Jason
S. Yanik yes, a master indeed! Like his work and that is a really nice pipe. I have always wondered how a Meer that shape would smoke and you are making it look effortless! Now I want a pipe like that. Your pipe nearly looks like me LOL…Joe
@ClandestinePipe So glad you liked the pipe and I will have many more in the future that are OMG class! Anyway I delight in them and glad others also appreciate them Jason
That is, hands down, the most gorgeous meerschaum I have ever seen in my life…if not the most gorgeous pipe. WOW! Thank you for sharing!
@JJJUSCFAN8 Got the video of my small meerschaun collection posted. Thanks for your help.
@oldpipepops Consent to me know when your video comes out and if your meerschaum colors well please give me all the credit–If it does not do well –You never heard of me! Jason
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Naperville City Council Tuesday tabled indefinitely an ordinance to approve $1.3 million for purchasing the property at 20 E. Jefferson Ave.
The city would like to eventually use the property for the future expansion of the city parking structure that sits on Chicago Avenue just east of Washington Street.
In the meantime the purchase price of $1.3 million was to have been defrayed partially by renting space at part of the property to the Naperville Development Partnership, but that deal fell through.
"We had a tenant who no longer wanted to pursue the lease," City Manager Doug Krieger said.
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'Girls Night Out'; 'Annie Get Your Gun'; Community Theater; Toe Jam Puppet Band; Turkey Raffle; two parish bake sales.
Here are 5 things you may want to know about for this weekend in Barrington:
- St. Luke's School hosts another "Girls Night Out" holiday shopping experience to raise money for "A Swift Cause"; it starts at 6 pm tonight, Nov. 16, with dozens of vendors showing off their wares; bring non-perishable food for TAP-IN; $5 includes refreshments.
- The Barrington Community Theater finishes its fall season with a festival of one-act plays this weekend: 7 pm Friday, Nov. 16, and Saturday, Nov. 17, in the Barrington library auditorium.
- The Barrington High School Stagemasters perform Annie Get Your Gun tonight, Nov. 16, at 7, Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7 and Sunday, Nov. 18, at 2 pm in the auditorium.
- The Toe Jam Puppet Band performs at the Barrington Middle School on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 3 to 4 pm. The show for children and adults combines music with dancing, puppetry and storytelling; $10 tickets and $30 per family.
- The Barrington Democratic Club, 186 Roffee St., holds its second annual Turkey Raffle on Saturday night, Nov. 17, from 6:30 to 9:30 pm; meat, Thanksgiving, and liquor baskets with plenty of turkeys to be raffled off.
- BONUS: Two Thanksgiving bake sales will be held this weekend: Holy Angels parish on Maple Avenue holds the sale after all masses this weekend – it includes the sale of the Women's Guild Cookbook "Angels in the Kitchen-2012; the Jamaica missionaries at St. Luke's parish on Washington Road holds its bake sale starting from 7:30 am to 12:30 PM on Sunday.
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Also, BHS Stagemasters Presents "Annie Get Your Gun"! Opens tonight - 7p, BHS Auditorium. Also, Sat night @ 7p, and Sunday matinee at 2p. Tickets - Friday/Sat, $8/adults, $5/students. Sunday, $7/adults, $5/students. See you there!
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Are Self Published Authors Getting Free Pass From Readers?
22 comments:
- Dee Brice said...
A very interesting take on the self-published. More published authors--self- and otherwise--should take note.
Dee Brice - March 23, 2012 at 12:33 PM
- Jenna said...
As with anything, I suppose there will always be gradations of expertise that will show up on every forum. I've certainly run across traditionally published and small press e-published books that I've said "How the heck did that ever get into print?"
But there's going to be a lot more of it in self-publishing because anyone--talented, untalented, scamm artist--can do it now for very little cost. With no checks and balances (like an editor), the reader is going to have to become a little more savvy in their selection process to avoid especially the scammers you mentioned.
Readers who get burned enough might revert to print only books or only books from e-publishers, penalizing those who have talent but who desire the control that self-publishing gives them over traditional venues.
Thought-provoking post, Dee. :) - March 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM
- Denysé Bridger said...
As said, an interesting and thoughtful look at the self-publishing game, and an honest take on why so many traditional publishers still refuse to acknowledge it as any kind of worthwhile credit on an author resume.
I've read a few self-pubbed books that were ok, but would have benefited greatly by editing and insight. I rarely pay attention now to anything self-pubbed.
Another interesting insight, Dee.
Denyse - March 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM
- Shandy Jo said...
I've seen my share of really good self-pubbed works right there with the crap. I've also seen crap jobs by professional publishers. Personally I'll give any author a chance, but I also tell it like it is and if you're work isn't good then I'll let you know.
As for your question no I don't think readers are giving them slack many won't even read self-pubbed books due to all the things you mentioned.
As for the scammer yes there are many out there but they'll do anything for a quick buck. Usually authors and reviewers/book bloggers are quick on the uptake and let everyone know. - March 23, 2012 at 2:21 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hi Dee, (Snicker) It's like saying hi to myself. Thanks for reading and commenting
Ciao, You know who - March 23, 2012 at 3:17 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hi Jenna, Yes there's no black and whites only shades of grey. Just because a book comes from an publisher doesn't mean it's error free and maybe it hasn't even been edited. Some publishers take editing very lightly. I've read one or two that were chuck full of errors. Submission, published by New Concepts comes to mind.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
Dee - March 23, 2012 at 3:37 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hi Denyse, Glad you liked my Blog. The publishing industry has yet to sort itself out. It'll be interesting to see what it looks like when it does.
Ciao, Dee - March 23, 2012 at 3:40 PM
- Maggie O'Malley said...
There's crap out there, no doubt about it. But readers will let you know if they do or do not like your book. If a reader is predisposed to giving their opinion, they will. So, I don't think they're cutting us any slack because we self-pub. - March 23, 2012 at 4:20 PM
- Patricia Green said...
Consumers appreciate a decent product, but too frequently aren't willing to pay for it. Cheap consumers often get what they pay for, and they usually know it and give it a pass, which is why you have such a proliferation of subpar crap on the market. If there was no market for it you wouldn't see it.
Good post, Dee. - March 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hi, Sandy Jo, Thoughtful comments.
Thank you - March 23, 2012 at 4:42 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hi Maggie, Well at least everybody agrees there is crap out there.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Dee - March 23, 2012 at 4:44 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hey Patricia, Seems like I just talked with you. Everybody agrees there's crap out there. Nobody wants to do anything about it, but I do. Take Amazon, where so much of it is. One of the smut buyers major complaints is shortness. Apparently even too short for a decent sex scene. Honest to God you can put a hundred word book up and who's going to stop you. Nobody, but Amazon or any host seller could. They have minimum lengths for reviews, why not stories. Make 2500 words the minimum for 99cent stories and 6000 words the minimum for $2.99. Believe me that would clear at least a few thousand junk books from the rolls.
Thanks for reading and commenting. - March 23, 2012 at 4:57 PM
I read constantly both self published and publishing houses and I've gotten crap from both as well as some wonderfully edited, wonderfully written books from both. I cut no-one slack. Though I do not insut anyone I tell them what I liked and what I thought was wrong and I've only ever had one author blast me for my opinion and ironically enough it wasn't a self published author who did it. I must say that I think that it's very insulting to call people "cheap consumers" just because they are thrifty with their budget. In this economy everyone has to really watch their budget. I persoanlly have a problem with spending more than $5.00 for a book that lasts me only an hour or so. I hate seeing anyone bash people who are trying to make their dream come true just because they are self publishing. The sammers on the other hand should be shut down!
Pati - March 23, 2012 at 8:56 PM
- A.M. Burns said...
An interesting post. Please don't tar all indie authors with the same brush. There are some out there that go through getting their work edited and making it look as perfect as they can before publishing. Then there are others that crank it out, type "The End" then slap it up for sale because they have to get the next great 1500 word piece done.
Lately there are a lot of cringe worthy work out there both indie and trad published. If you're going to try a new author its a risk. What makes me sad with some of the trad publishers is as an author writes more for them they edit less of the book before sending it out. It shows. I personally don't think a book should be published without having a good editor go over it. That doesn't mean your best friend, unless they happen to be an English teacher and don't mind hurting your feelings.
As for readers giving indies a free pass...look at some of the reviews of the book, see what they say. A lot of reviewers crucify indies that put out a poor book. If a book has been out more than a month or so and doesn't have any reviews, people are trying to be nice and not say something bad about it. Don't buy it. That's my opinion. - March 23, 2012 at 10:35 PM
- D'Ann said...
I agree to a point. However, one of the best writers I ever knew was a Yale-educated minister who wrote several books, but couldn't sell a one. He finally Indie pubbed shortly before his death. A shame he didn't become well-known before it was too late.
- March 23, 2012 at 11:05 PM
- Daryl Devore said...
Great post as usual Dee.
Awesome covers too. - March 23, 2012 at 11:52 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hello Pati, Of course there are conscientious indie author who take pride their work, including some who even have their pubs edited and there are a couple pubs I know of who do little of no editing. But if I were to venture they are both in the minority.
Thanks for your thoughts - March 24, 2012 at 4:00 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hello A M, Thanks for commenting. I know there are serious indie authors out there, Read my response above. As for reviews that's a whole new problem, at least on Amazon and B&N where anyone can review. If you see a recently published book, say two months, with a dozen or even five mostly five star reviews, there's a problem. Reviews don't naturally come that fast to a book, especially an er or erotic book, unless it's a mega seller.
And having no reviews is not bad. I have two books, Angel Love and April Showers which I pubbed in 2009. Both have sold well north of a thousand copies, but until recently, never received a review. Finally a couple months ago, April Showers got a review. Yet the books kept selling w/o reviews. - March 24, 2012 at 4:16 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hi D'Ann, Long time. That is too bad about your friend. Yes that's where indie pubbing is good. Everybody gets to pub their baby. If it's bad it'll sink into oblivion. If it's good, who knows it might sell a zillion. Unfortunately it's an opening for the scammers too.
- March 24, 2012 at 4:20 PM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hi Daryl, Glad you liked the post and covers.
Thanks for reading and comnenting.
Dee - March 24, 2012 at 4:21 PM
- Miriam Newman said...
Dee, I guess I'm not your typical reader because I'm an author, too. But I can tell you that if a book is shot through with grammatical errors and typos, I'm too annoyed to finish it and you can bet I won't be buying another of their books. That's not to be unkind, I do admire people for pursuing their dream, but I have too much respect for the art of writing to see it abused. JMO.
- March 28, 2012 at 7:50 AM
- Dee Dawning said...
Hello Miriam, I have to agree with you. Whether published by a publisher or an indie author, continuous writing errors are annoying enough to make me quit reading.
Thanks for commenting. - March 29, 2012 at 10:20 PM


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Lexington Ice Age survivors play on in NHL
December 13, 2008Eight years after Lexington lost its American Hockey League franchise and five years after the East Coast Hockey League's one-season debacle here, how many players from those teams would you guess are playing today in the National Hockey League?
As someone who greatly misses having local pro hockey, I try to keep tabs on the players who passed through horse country on their way to the big time. And a few who didn't make waves here.
For example, New Jersey defenseman Johnny Oduya is the younger brother of T-blades enforcer Freddy Oduya.
I also track the progress of the first Bluegrass Youth Hockey League member to go on to the NHL, as a first-round draft pick. Who could that be?
While you ponder that mystery, let's get back to the earlier question.
There are 18 former T-blades and one player from the Men-O-War in the NHL today. FIVE of the 19 are goalies — further evidence of the influence of the late, great goalie coach, Warren Strelow.
The goalies include: Johan Hedberg (Atlanta); Miika Kiprusoff (Calgary); Vesa Toskala (Toronto), and Evgeni Nabokov (San Jose). Nabokov reverted to his given name after going by the Americanized-version "John" in Lexington.
The fifth goalie is the lone Men-O-War grad in the NHL, Mike Smith (Tampa Bay). Smith notched his first pro win, shutout and goal — all in the same game — in Lexington.
Two current NHL captains came up through Lexington.
Towering defenseman Zdeno Chara wears the "C" for the Boston Bruins, while Ray Whitney dons an "A" for the Carolina Hurricanes.
Chara is among seven T-blade defensemen still in the league. The others: Dan Boyle (San Jose); Rob Davison (Vancouver); Jason Strudwick (Edmonton); Filip Kuba (Ottawa); Scott Hannan (Colorado), and Andy Sutton (N.Y. Islanders).
Whitney is among seven T-blade survivors at forward, along with: Shean Donovan (Ottawa); Ville Peltonen (Florida); Eric Boulton (Atlanta); Matt Bradley (Washington); Mikael Samuelsson (Detroit), and Jonathan Cheechoo (San Jose).
Harry Bricker holds the same position with Philadelphia Flyers as he had with the T-blades, equipment manager.
As for the youth-league player who became a first-round draft pick, that's Phoenix Coyotes forward Vik Tikhonov. The 28th overall pick this year, he is the grandson of legendary Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov. Vik skated in Lexington as an 8-year-old, when his dad, Vasily, was an assistant coach with the T-blades in their first (1996-97) of five seasons here.
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First of all, happy holidays, everyone.
I technically have two games to write about at the moment: the town remodeling at the expense of dead soldiers I've been attending to in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and exploring ONE cave so far as a racist elf in Dragon Age: Origins, a game I am finally getting to play.
There is one thing I've made clear everywhere but here. I'm a pretty big James Bond fan. I'm no superfan. I haven't read every book, I can't recall every gadget used in every scene of every movie, and although I'll say Connery is the number one Bond, I put Daniel Craig under a hairline second in spite of his two-film-three-game resume. I like the character. Even if you may not like WHAT he does (kill, but you know, he's licensed to), but you have to respect HOW he gets it done. I like many interpretations of the character even if I don't always agree on them. I have an eerie fascination with the style of the 1960s as seen in films like Goldfinger, Thunderball, and From Russia with Love. Overall, James Bond is awesome.
After Licence to Kill in 1989, the world didn't see another film in the franchise for six years until Pierce Brosnan debuted as the famous spy in GoldenEye. Two years after the film, Nintendo and Rareware released GoldenEye for the Nintendo 64 console. A strange wind swept over us all as nearly every single N64 owner fell absolutely in love with everything about the game. It's a first-person shooter we could play on a console and not with a keyboard and mouse. For 1997, the details, miniscule ones like bullet holes in the walls, were amazing. Hit detection, textures, they were all worth applauding. It gave the player tasks to accomplish that were beyond shooting your way from Point A to Point B, something I wish would return to modern shooters. In addition to an already fantastic single-player, there was a multiplayer mode included with dozens of characters to choose from and many modes and special options to configure, and this is before the explosion of the online deathmatches we all know and love today. In short, GoldenEye was gold.
Many attempts to recreate the game's success had been met with decent to lackluster to awful reception. The videogame adaptation of 1999′s The World Is Not Enough was a decent entry, but forgettable. It was developed by Eurocom, as after GoldenEye, I believe MGM Interactive had the license and put out the games for Tomorrow Never Dies (an apparently terrible third-person action game) and 007 Racing (…). EA Games had it for the 21st century, releasing Agent Under Fire, which I've never played and never will and apparently I'm not missing much. Nightfire was a rather good game for 2002, although when I tried to play it last year good lord was I terrible at it because of the mechanics. 2004 gave us Everything or Nothing, which boasted some good production values. It featured R&B singer Mya in a role as well as the artist for the game's theme song. It casted Pierce Brosnan, who had filmed his last Bond movie, the mediocre Die Another Day, two years prior, as well as Judi Dench as M and Willem Dafoe as the game's villain. I actually managed to buy the Gamecube game for $5 and intend to finish it soon. In the decent attempts to make magic happen, it seems we all hoped to see another great game like GoldenEye.
Then EA released GoldenEye: Rogue Agent. I never played it and I never will. It received pretty mediocre to scathing reviews, and a lot of comments touched upon its use of the "GoldenEye" name to try and attract buyers. Studios, in whatever efforts they could exercise to bring in the cash, seemed to think we wanted another GoldenEye in name. We loved GoldenEye on the N64 because it's a GREAT game. I've personally never had conversations with folks about how much they loved the movie as much, or the movie in context to the game. It's a great adaptation of a James Bond movie, sure, but at its core it is a fantastic game that was incredibly well-realized and designed. We're not in love with the name; we're in love with the game. Certain evidence might point against me, as Rare did release a spiritual successor in Perfect Dark in 2000, which didn't sell as well I believe but received equally acclaimed remarks. I personally argue that Perfect Dark could have seen more success if it hadn't been released towards the end of the N64′s life span, as we were gearing up at that point for Project Dolphin (the Gamecube), and anticipating the next Legend of Zelda installment in Majora's Mask. Plus, we needed the expansion pack to actually play the solo mode, otherwise we were reduced to shooting it up against bots (made for a disappointing summer rental at that time). Perfect Dark is a great game and worth revisiting on Xbox Live, but I digress!
Apparently Activision didn't completely realize or correctly interpret our love for GoldenEye, since they thought their best attempts and best use of the license was to remake the golden goose with Eurocom. It's seeing good reviews, but it personally leaves a bad taste in my mouth that we clamor for the name itself. Activision released their first 007 game: Quantum of Solace, in 2008 the same week or month the film saw its theatrical release. It was developed by Treyarch, the beta team for the Call of Duty games and remember when they did awesome ports of Tony Hawk games for the Dreamcast? It was a toddler's version of Call of Duty, reflecting mostly on the Casino Royale film and story (my favorite Bond movie now) and just feeling like a shameless attempt for cash. I scored every achievement in that game. It required zero effect, and did not feel like much of an achievement at all. If you can snag it at a flea market for $5, I recommend it.
The reviews for the game were decent (a generous adjective) to critical (again, generous). They also did the inevitable comparison to GoldenEye, and it was at that point I had come to the realization that I wish everyone else would: WE'RE NEVER GOING TO SEE ANOTHER GOLDENEYE AGAIN AND IT'S SOMETHING WE WILL ALL HAVE TO COPE WITH IMMEDIATELY. Even Rare, who's been sitting around twiddling their thumbs as a Microsoft property, doesn't seem to have the incentive to make great games like they used to. Activision, with their reputation for being another money-and-power-hungry megalomaniacal corporation (to whose surprise?), acquired this potentially fun and great license just so no one else could have it, and squander it with mediocrity like Quantum of Solace. That sounds harsh for just one game from one company, until they released Blood Stone last month. I enjoyed what I played of Blood Stone, developed by Bizarre Creations (the folks behind Project Gotham Racing and the Geometry Wars series), when I tested it out at the New York Comic-Con months back. The game gets released to negative reviews, citing an apparently short campaign (four hours, I hear) and I guess not much in the way of multiplayer. Activision dumps this license on a talented team they couldn't care less for as they count the profits from their latest Tony Hawk's Call of Duty Shredding Hero game. It saddens me. Because this is the internet, it will all be met with indifference, and I will say to those people that they are part of the problem. I understand that a mediocre game isn't worth marketing, and that's where it should start. Activision should at least pretend to care and put out ONE good game in this franchise that's not a remake that misses the point even if it is decent. GoldenEye has actually seen a lot of marketing, way more than Blood Stone. My bias lies in my decision not to embrace the GoldenEye remake. I will play it eventually, but the whole philosophy behind it makes me feel a little dirty.
So today, Activision is taking another stab at Bond, with Raven Software. They are the fine folks behind Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Wolfenstein (which you probably didn't play or enjoy), and the recent Singularity (heard of it?), which is apparently decent, but Activision won't tell you much about it since it doesn't have the name "Call of Duty" on it. I can already predict that the next Bond game will be met with a constant stream of average to decent reviews, marked with scores between 4 and 7, and will sell two copies because there will be absolutely no marketing for it, and people will just wonder why they bothered in the first place.
I would personally attempt to trust EA with this license again and, of all developers, hand the license off to BioWare. Yes, THAT BioWare. Mass Effect, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic BioWare.
One of the things about James Bond games is that they're straight-up shameless action games. You're pretty much in the action setpieces of these attempts to recreate the mood and feel of James Bond movies. Between cut scenes of awkwardly rendered and animated Bonds spitting out some quip about women's genitalia, we're shooting at the same turtlenecked henchmen over and over until we see "MISSION COMPLETE" on the screen. M doesn't really tell Bond to go to Exotic Location A and shoot up guys who give you the slightest dirty look (oh, and take this MP5N with you). Believe it or not, Bond movies TRY to have a story behind it. Heck, even the GoldenEye game had dossiers and case files that set up the context of the who, what, where, when, and why of how many Walther PPK bullets you put into those Commie Nazis. Bond, before he's the killer, is actually quite the investigator. The train scene in Casino Royale will demonstrate that he's one hell of a detective and great at surmise, and can read ANYONE like a book. It's the whole incentive for his playing poker in the film. Incidentally, said scene, a battle of wits and words between smooth Daniel Craig and the luscious Eva Green, is a mission in the Quantum of Solace game: a literal battle with guns as Bond chases some drug czar on his way to the poker game. That's what's so great about these ridiculous and mediocre movie-games: every scene is a quest of survival! Anyway, Bond talks to folks, finds clues, gets leads, which will mean doing some talking. Since developers are obsessed now with trying to flesh out characters and have cutscenes interrupting my dynamics with their games, why not have the one developer who's mastered the art of dialogue? Bond can play just like Mass Effect. If you want to keep the idea that Bond is already skilled in combat, then it doesn't have to be a role-playing game. It would admittedly be strange for Bond to JUST learn how to be a sniper 10 hours into his mission. Bond can find clues, talk to people on the Citadel–I mean, well, wherever in the Bahamas he's sent. The dialogue trees can even let the player play as the Bond they prefer: be the smooth yet aggressive Connery, the cold, no-nonsense Dalton, focused but reckless Brosnan, or stoic and overall badass Craig. Hell, most, if not all BioWare games let you create your protagonists anyway. It could be one hell of a licensed game. Why am I the only one who's thought of this? Or am I?
Please, do something worthwhile with this license or let someone who might give a damn take a shot. Don't be greedy, Activision*.
*Yeah, futile, I know.


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Sellers at Tesco are high-street and online retailers who'll be selling their products on Tesco. For now we are only featuring a small selection of Sellers. But this is just the start, we'll be adding more each month. For the latest list of Sellers visit our Seller directory.
What it means for you
- 1000s more products to choose from
- Everything in one place
- Easier to compare products and prices
- Clubcard points on all seller orders
Why Sellers at Tesco?
Because we want to make it easy for you to find the widest range of products at low prices, all in one place.
How does delivery work for Sellers?
Delivery charges are calculated at checkout. If Click & collect is available from a seller you'll be given this option at checkout. The delivery of seller items is managed by the Seller. If you have a question about the delivery of a seller product please contact the seller


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