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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe | |
Developer(s) | Midway Amusement Games, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | Midway Games |
Series | Mortal Kombat |
Engine | Unreal Engine 3[1] |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360[2] |
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Genre(s) | Fighting |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Distribution | Blu-ray Disc, DVD-DL[3] |
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is a crossover fighting game between Mortal Kombat and the DC Comics fictional universe, developed by Midway Games and Warner Bros. Games. The game was released on November 16, 2008 and contains characters from both franchises. Its story was written by comic writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray.
The game takes place after Raiden, Earthrealm's god of Thunder, and Superman, protector of Earth, repel invasions from both their worlds. An attack by both Raiden and Superman simultaneously in their separate universes causes the merging of the Mortal Kombat and DC villains, Shao Kahn and Darkseid, resulting in the creation of Dark Kahn whose mere existence causes the two universes to begin merging; if allowed to continue, it would result in the destruction of both. Characters from both universes begin to fluctuate in power, becoming stronger or weaker.
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was developed using Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 and is available for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms. It is the first Mortal Kombat title developed solely for seventh generation video game consoles. Most reviewers agreed that Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was entertaining and made good use of its DC Universe license, but the game's lack of unlockable features as opposed to past installments of Mortal Kombat and toned-down finishing moves garnered some criticism.
The game features a story mode, playable from two different perspectives. The perspectives consist of one segment from the DC Universe side, and one from the Mortal Kombat side, each split up into various chapters.[4] Depending on which side players choose, the characters from one universe see those from the opposite universe as the invaders of their own. Ed Boon, creative director of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and co-creator of the Mortal Kombat franchise, did confirm that the player would have the ability to play as all the characters in the story mode at one point during development, but the story mode ultimately lacked story arcs for a few characters.[4][5] Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe also contains a mode called "Kombo Challenge". Its aspect is individual[clarification needed] to the Versus and Story modes, where players must perform ten precreated combos of increasing difficulty.[6][7]
Unlike in previous Mortal Kombat titles, which used a control scheme of four buttons of high and low punches and kicks or specialized fighting styles for each character, four buttons on the game controller represent attacks that correspond to each limb. The same control scheme is used in the follow-up game Mortal Kombat. Intertwined within fight matches, which are played in a 3D fighter style, are new gameplay modes, such as "Free-Fall Kombat" or "Falling Kombat," which are activated automatically after throwing the opponent to a lower level in the arena. The players can fight in the air during the fall in a quasi-mini-game, with one player having to hit certain buttons to be above the other during the fall and land on the other player when the fall ends.[8] "Klose Kombat" is a mode the players can enter during a fight, causing the characters to lock with each other and the perspective to change to a close-up shot of the two, to make for an interval of close-quarters fighting.[4] A "Test Your Might" mini-game is also worked into the gameplay; while fighting in certain areas, the player can smash the opponent through a series of walls and engage in a tug-of-war with the damage meter at the top of the screen. The player on the offense presses buttons to increase damage given, while the player on the defense presses buttons to decrease damage taken.[8]
Another in-fight feature called "Rage mode" is introduced in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. The Rage mode is governed by a rage meter placed below the player's health meter that fills progressively every time the player receives damage or attacks. Once the meter is completely filled, Rage mode can be activated and lasts for several seconds. Rage mode enables the player to break the opponent's guard on the second hit, prevents the attacker from experiencing hit stun, knockdown or pop-up, and increases the damage of an attacker's moves.[8] During fights, characters show permanent signs of damage, such as bruises, scrapes, bleeding, and broken or torn clothing.[9] All of the characters except Darkseid, Shao Kahn, and Dark Kahn have finishing moves; the Mortal Kombat characters and the DC villains can execute Fatalities, while the DC heroes can execute moves called "heroic brutalities," which function in the same manner but do not kill opponents, in order to stay in tone with the heroes who have an established reputation of never taking a life.[10]
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe does not follow chronologically with the other games in the Mortal Kombat series, and is considered an "ultimate-Elseworlds" for the DC Universe continuity by story co-writer Jimmy Palmiotti.[11]
After Shao Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm is halted by Raiden's forces of light, Raiden blasts and sends Kahn through a portal. At exactly the same time on Earth, Superman stops Darkseid's Apokoliptian invasion by blasting Darkseid with his heat vision as he enters a boom tube. These acts do not destroy either of them, but merge them into Dark Kahn, and causes the DC and Mortal Kombat universes to merge.[12] As this happens, the characters' abilities fluctuate, causing violent "rage" outbreaks that are actually the feelings of Dark Kahn being infused in the characters from afar. Because of this, certain characters gain either strength or vulnerability. This allows for such things as the possibility of Superman being defeated due to his vulnerability to magic, and giving the Joker the ability to fight Raiden. With each world thinking that the other is responsible for the merger, they fight each other until only one fighter from each side remains: Raiden and Superman. In the final battle, the two fight while Dark Kahn feeds on their rage. Both realizing that the other is not working with Dark Kahn, they overcome their rage for each other and defeat their fused enemy, restoring the two worlds to their normal separation.[13] While everyone else has been sent to their original universe, Darkseid and Shao Kahn have been switched and are both rendered powerless. In the end, they both face eternal imprisonment in the other's universe; Darkseid is restrained in the Netherealm, while Shao Kahn is trapped in the Phantom Zone.[5]
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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was Midway Games's last project before filing for bankruptcy and selling the rights.[17] In February 2007, Midway Games announced they were planning a new game in the Mortal Kombat franchise, inspired by seeing a showcase of Gears of War. "Mortal Kombat 8" would have been "dark, gritty, serious" and a "back to basics reboot" of the series.[18] Eventually, during the planning process, a deal with DC Comics was made and this project was cancelled, thus leading to the development of a different game.[19] An announcement in April 2008 confirmed the game as a crossover, and a trailer was released.[20] The only notable aspect that remained from the original project was the use of the Unreal Engine 3, also used in Gears of War.
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was co-published by Midway Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and was the final Mortal Kombat title to be developed under the Midway label prior to its purchase by Warner Bros. Interactive.[21] Midway used AutoDesk software to develop Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, according to Maurice Patel, entertainment industry manager at AutoDesk,[22] and Illuminate Labs products for lighting.[23]
The use of a DC license in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe imposed some restrictions on the characteristic violence in Mortal Kombat games. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was thus restricted to a "Teen" rating. Therefore, various Fatalities such as Sub-Zero's "Spine Rip" were replaced due to their violent nature.[24] In order to keep that rating, two of the Fatalities in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe were censored in North America.[25][26] In the United Kingdom version of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, both the Joker and Deathstroke's first Fatality depict them each finishing their opponent with a gunshot to the head, both shown uncut from a distance. The North American version has the camera quickly pan toward the victor before the shot is fired, thereby cutting the victim out of the shot completely.[27][28][29][30] Additionally, one of Kitana's Fatalities which involved impaling the opponent in the head and the torso with her fanblades was modified so that both fanblades impaled her opponent's chest instead.[31][32]
According to interviews, the characters were chosen for their popularity, and for parallels between them from both universes.[4] Boon has said that some of the characters' abilities, especially those from the DC Universe, had been toned down to make them balanced within Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. For example, Boon specifically mentioned that Superman became vulnerable because of magic.[33][34] Boon revealed that two new characters were developed as downloadable content, Quan Chi from Mortal Kombat and Harley Quinn from DC comics but had been discarded.[35] He had also hinted earlier at the prospect of Kung Lao and Doomsday being downloadable characters.[36]
For the release of the Kollector's Edition of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, a new cover was created by Alex Ross. Also included in the Kollector's Edition is a 16-page comic book prequel, Beginnings, which was illustrated by Mortal Kombat co-creator John Tobias.[37]
Downloadable content (DLC) had been confirmed by Major Nelson, but was canceled due to Midway's financial issues.[38] Ed Boon had stated that they would have been updating Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe periodically with new content all the way up to the release of the next installment of the Mortal Kombat series: "I'd like to have [DLC] as soon as possible. I think that might be a great Christmas gift to reinvigorate the game".[39] Ed Boon said on his Twitter account that the plan for DLC had been scrapped, which occurred because, as clarified by 1UP, Midway had filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Warner Bros. Interactive after the suggestion of downloadable content.[35]
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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe received positive reviews from critics.[42] Adam Sessler of X-Play stated: "Whether it's a decade-late answer to the Marvel vs. Capcom team up games or an off-the-cuff boardroom joke gone wildly too far, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is destined to make just about anyone's shortlist of bizarre video game team-ups. Still, sometimes two disparate things can merge to create a unique synergy that makes the melding work, however unlikely it may have seemed at the outset."[49] In GamePro, Sid Shuman called it "surprisingly enjoyable."[50] Wired.com's preview stated that the concept of the game was "nose-pokingly ludicrous", noting that Superman's powers could be used to easily defeat a character with the comment, "from Sub-Zero to Well-Done in eight seconds flat."[51] ABC News praised the game's story because it did "a great job of giving players a cohesive, if far-fetched, story line that's fun if not engaging," as well as "comic book-like" dialogue.[52] Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe's Kombo Challenge mode was criticized as a thin and frustrating mode with combos that required very precise timing.[7][44][49] The modes of Klose Kombat and Free-fall Kombat were praised as concepts but were criticized in their execution as they appeared to slow the gameplay down and took the player out of the fast gameplay experience.[7] Critics noted that the change in the amount of gore was disappointing to longtime fans of the series who were used to the "insane amounts of gore."[9]
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry approved of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe because of its departure from the earlier M-rated games of the series praising its "simpler play, familiar graphics and adjustable gore content" but still not recommending it for younger players.[53] In 2008, GamePro, ranked it as the 15th best fighting game out of 18.[54]
Midway Games announced that as of January 26, 2009, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe had shipped 1.8 million copies since its release in mid November 2008, not including the sales of the Kollector's Edition.[55] The chief operating officer of GameStop stated that the Kollector's Edition of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe made up 55% of the game's total sales at GameStop locations in its first week.[56] In their 10-K filing, Midway Games revealed the title had sold over 1.9 million units, making it one of the company's most successful titles since 2002.[57] According to Wired.com, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe also "holds the distinction of being the most pre-ordered MK game of all time."[58] In a ranking by Rentrak, the Xbox 360 version of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was the sixth most rented game of 2009.[59]
- ^ Sinclair, Brendan (April 17, 2008). "New Mortal Kombat details inKoming". GameSpot. Retrieved April 2, 2010.
- ^ Miller, Greg (June 25, 2008). "Comic-Con panel on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe". IGN. Retrieved December 6, 2008.
- ^ "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Page". GamePro. Archived from the original on 2008-04-25. Retrieved April 21, 2008.
- ^ a b c d "GameSpot Video: Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Video Interview 1". GameSpot. Retrieved December 9, 2008.
- ^ a b Midway (November 16, 2008). Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Midway. Level/area: Story Mode.
- ^ Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Instruction Booklet, Midway Amusement Game, LLC, 2008, p. 13
- ^ a b c d Miller, Greg (November 15, 2008). "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Review". IGN. pp. 1–2. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ a b c Reynolds, Pat (March/April 2009). "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Strategy Guide by Pat Reynolds". Tips & Tricks (Larry Flynt Publications): 5.
- ^ a b c Petit, Carolyn (November 20, 2008). "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Review". GameSpot. p. 2. Retrieved August 5, 2010.[dead link]
- ^ "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Q&A - Xbox 360 News at GameSpot". GameSpot. June 23, 2008. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe Kollector's Edition DVD featurette, "Worlds Collide"
- ^ Vogel, John (w). Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe: Beginnings 1 (November 2008), DC Comics
- ^ Midway (November 16, 2008). Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Midway. "Dark Kahn: On your feet! This battle is not yet over! You will fight! / Superman: Don't give into the rage, Raiden! It can be overcome! / Raiden: Focus...we must focus! / Dark Kahn: What are you doing?! / Raiden: If we fight together, we can channel his own energy against him! / Superman: Sounds like a plan! / Dark Kahn: Face each other, or face me, it makes no difference! You - will - fight!!!"
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PATEADORES WIN U-17/18 TITLE; U-15/16 PLACEMENT MATCHES FEATURE ON SATURDAY: Pateadores claimed the 2011 Development Academy U-17/18 championship with a 2-1 win against FC Dallas on Friday (more below), and now Finals Week is down to its last day on Saturday with the U-15/16 Placement Matches. In an East Coast-West Coast showdown, PA Classics from Lancaster, Pa., meet the LA Galaxy here in the Midwest to decide the U-15/16 championship at 8 p.m. CT at Marquette University's Valley Fields. Each of the finalists is coming off a 3-0 victory in their final group game, with the Galaxy defeating Seattle Sounders FC in the winner-take-all match in the Group 1 finale and the Classics dominating North Carolina Fusion in Group 2. In the other U-15/16 placement matches, Real Salt Lake AZ takes on Real So Cal for third place, the Sounders face North Carolina Fusion for fifth place and CASL Chelsea FC Academy vies for seventh place against the Dallas Texans.
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July 16 | Seventh Place: CASL Chelsea FC Academy vs. Dallas Texans | 1 p.m. | Uihlein Soccer Park |
July 16 | Fifth Place: Seattle Sounders FC vs. North Carolina Fusion | 3 p.m. | Pat Jones Field; Uihlein Soccer Park |
July 16 | Third Place: Real Salt Lake AZ vs. Real So Cal | 6 p.m. | Quad Park; Marquette High School |
July 16 | Championship: LA Galaxy vs. PA Classics | 8 p.m. | Valley Fields; Marquette University |
VILLAREAL PACES PATEADORES TO U-17/18 TITLE: Pateadores claimed the 2011 Development Academy U-17/18 Championship with a 2-1 victory against FC Dallas at Valley Fields in Milwaukee, Wis., behind two goals from Jose Villareal. Juan Cervantes, the Western Conference U-15/16 Starting XI goalkeeper, allowed just the one goal while making five crucial saves. The championship completes Pateadores' improbable run, which included having to forfeit seven games from the beginning of their season. The SoCal Division club finished its season with 14 wins in the last 16 matches en route to the title. Villareal, who scored his first goals of Finals Week, had nonetheless already put in a standout performance in Milwaukee, earning a call up to the U-18 Men's National Team for the Milk Cup.
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FIFTH PLACE GAME: Michael Gamble unloaded for four second-half goals as Baltimore Bays Chelsea downed New York Red Bulls 4-1 to capture fifth place at 2011 Development Academy Finals Week in the U-17/18 age group. Chris Cano opened the scoring in the 12th minute for the New York Red Bulls before Gamble's four unanswered goals sealed the result for the Bays.
WESTON FC CLAIMS SEVENTH PLACE IN PK SHOOTOUT: Weston FC took seventh place in the U-17/18 age group at the U.S. Soccer Development Academy 2011 Finals Week after defeating Players Development Academy 4-3 on penalty kicks after a 3-3 draw in regulation. PDA took a 2-0 lead into halftime, but Weston refused to quit and scored three goals, including two from ussoccer.com's Man of the Match Felipe Noguerol. The short-lived lead was the first for Weston during Finals Week, but soon thereafter PDA scored the equalizer in the 88th minute and the match went direct to penalties to decide placement per the competition rules.
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STAY TUNED: Studio 90 will have you covered from Milwaukee with daily updates on Finals Week as the 16 teams compete for the national championship. You'll see goals from every game and post-match reaction as well as the scores and standings from the tournament.
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NEW YORK Some oil country tubular goods (OCTG) market players are seeing an uptick in demand even as prices remain in slow decline.
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"We certainly think the trend will be more towards the positive side going forward," Lynn Lupori-Gray, managing consultant at Mississauga, Ontario-based consulting firm Hatch Ltd., told AMM.
The U.S. rig count stood at 1,761 last week, down 11.1 percent from the same time last year, with Canadian drilling falling 5.6 percent to 662 in the same comparison, according to data from oilfield services firm Baker Hughes Inc. ( amm.com, Feb. 25).
While demand could pick up, prices for most OCTG products continued to slide in February as imports, especially from South Korea, shot up early in the year.
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Well, we survived another Christmas, and the atheists (agnostics, secularists, non-theists, or whatever they want to call themselves) had an even lesser impact than in previous years.
We are witnessing a dying breed, a group whose influence and reason for being is becoming less and less important.
Now, I must separate atheists into two groups. There are those who have personally made a serious decision to not believe in God and go about their everyday lives. I'm sure some of my friends are atheists. They are fine people and lead good lives.
The other group is the militant atheists. They are not content to have merely made a personal decision but also feel the need to demean, degrade and insult religion, Christianity in particular.
They pretend that their decision is based on honest intellectual reasoning, but they really have no more than vacuous explanations. If they were honest with themselves, they would admit the decision was made to escape the Christian laws of morality.
Because their arguments are really quite lightweight intellectually, they resort to nastiness. The fact of the matter is religion is rapidly growing worldwide and Christianity is the fastest growing (Islam is second).
The only real hope they have remaining for survival is the hope that they can indoctrinate students as they pass through secondary education and above.
There are two excellent books I have recently read on the subject. The first is "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible" by Robert Hutchinson, and "What's So Great About Christianity" by Dinesh D'Souza.
It is this second book that will thoroughly convince an open-minded atheist or a person who is struggling with his or her decision of the fallacies behind atheist thought and the very convincing arguments in favor of God.
D'Souza does a pretty convincing job of dismembering the tired, old, recycled reasoning behind atheistic rationale. He has faced the leading atheists of the day in debates and won convincingly every time.
He debated a leading atheist, Christopher Hitchens, on C-Span in October and easily took apart Hitchens' "facts" and arguments. You can view this debate on D'Souza's website and decide for yourself who won.
Then he debated another atheist, "intellectual" Daniel Dennett, with the same result. View this one on Tothesource.org.
Another heavyweight, Sam Harris, will only do a written debate; and the biggest atheist blowhard, Richard Dawkins, has turned down numerous invitations to a public debate. I'm sure the last two individuals made their decisions after they saw how Hitchens and Dennett fared.
The book also covers the false facts presented by some atheists in regard to violence and Christianity. It covers the facts about deaths resulting from the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition that happened centuries ago and resulted in deaths numbering in the thousands.
Comparing that figure to the deaths caused by atheist regimes is foolish. Deaths caused by these regimes over a period of decades number more than 100 million.
The Reverend Paul Messner recently wrote a guest column in The Daily Star, and it was well-researched and factually correct.
One person responded quite childishly by taking Rev. Messner to task because he stated Hitler was an atheist. The responder claimed Hitler was a well-known Christian. This is a common statement made on all atheist websites and totally incorrect.
Instead of basing your argument using such shallow, biased sources, I suggest people read "Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives" by Allen Bullock. It is much more intellectually challenging and debunks the "Hitler is a Christian" fallacy.
Hitler also stated in "Mein Kampf" that his public statements on Christianity "should be understood as propaganda that bear no relation to the truth but are designed to sway the masses." So if you want to tear apart atheists' reasoning about religion, this book will offer everything you need. It has particularly good sections on Christianity and science, Christianity and philosophy, and Christianity and morality. It is very easy to read, accurate and a very thoroughly researched book.
It is a book that every religious person should read, as well as those having doubts or struggling to make a choice. I honestly hope my atheist friends will give an honest attempt to see if their arguments are addressed and answered intellectually.
It is a book that will make them honestly rethink their positions. It could be the most important rethinking of their lives, here on Earth and into eternity.
For those militants who are probably too closed-minded and arrogant to give the book an honest reading, I have a much simpler assignment for you. Just read Psalms, chapter 14, verse 1.
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For the past 4 years, Team NFS has steadily grown within the world of Major League Baseball. When Jeremy Affeldt became a pitcher with the San Francisco Giants in 2010, he reached out to Not For Sale to see how he could make a difference. Affeldt decided to pledge $250 for every strikeout he throws to NFS for every season he plays to fuel Not For Sale's global initiatives. He asked his friend Matt Holliday of the St. Louis Cardinals to join him and Holliday pledged $500 for every home run he hits each season he plays. To date, Team NFS now has more than 30 Major League Baseball players pledging to end slavery in our lifetime.
Each player has also begun to engage their fans in various ways over the course of the season. Whether through community service, local fundraisers, and private events, they want to plug their fans into the action. Throughout the course of the season, be on the lookout for unique events and opportunities to connect with your favorite athletes in personal and profound ways as they want you to join them as part of the modern abolitionist movement.
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Matthew Shipp: Nu Bop (2002)
Matthew Shipp takes Hancock's lead on Nu Bop, which encompasses a full range of sound from acoustic improvisation to funk, hip-hop, and electronica. His colleagues on this record include the rest of free jazz saxophonist David S. Ware's rhythm section (bassist William Parker and drummer Guillermo E. Brown), who translate their intuitive relationship quite effectively into the new context. Parker has never shied from new forms of musical expression, and his approach to the funky bass has an interesting angularitywhile unswervingly protecting the beat. We've heard Brown ease into down-home grooves before, and this disc offers more evidence of his fluid versatility. With the addition of electronics, Brown treads the line between programmed beats and live drumming. The odd man out on this urban workout is flute/saxophonist Daniel Carter. For the most part, he keeps quietbut when he lends his voice to the group sound, it assumes a floating, ethereal quality (regularly enhanced by effects, of course).
Shipp mixes up the performances on Nu Bop, interspersing spacey improv pieces with heavy-driving grooves. "Nu Abstract," toward the end of the record, makes heavy use of electronic textures to achieve an open, spacious feel. "ZX-1," on the other hand, is an acoustic piece in which Shipp lays down a series of evolving harmonies. "D's Choice," moments later, takes hip-hop beats to town, along with a layer of electronic sounds and scratchy noises. And of course a number straight-up urban groove pieces dot the rest of the record. A few moments of choice banter at the end of "Rocket Shipp" offer some irony on the group's adaptation to the new context:
"It took a minute for my brain to go dead, see. Once that happened, I was in it!"
Nu Bop represents a major departure for Shipp, who has recently been busy exploring the expanded range of sounds made possible through electronics. For the most part, it's a successbecause of the healthy mix of approaches and the tightness of the group. Occasionally Shipp dips a bit far into repetition for my tastes; he clearly has the talent to say more. But he also makes plenty of eccentric diversions as well, so that tendency is hardly a rule. If you have an ear for the groove and are curious about a fresh angle from the New York creative jazz scene, this is a must-listen. Just be prepared for a lower level of density and emotional intensity than you might otherwise expect from this group.
Track Listing: Space Shipp; Nu-Bop; ZX-1; D's Choice; X-Ray; Rocket Shipp; Select Mode 1; Nu Abstract; Select Mode 2.
Personnel: Matthew Shipp: piano; William Parker: bass; Daniel Carter: saxophones & flute; Guillermo E. Brown: drums; FLAM: synths & programming.
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Tooth Fairy more generous this year, survey says
Although more than a third of children receive a dollar per tooth, a Visa survey found that the average is up to $3.70 per tooth, up 23% from last year.
How much does the Tooth Fairy leave under the pillow at your house? Do you ever wonder if your kid gets less than others or if, perhaps, the fairy is overly generous when a tooth falls out under your roof?
For the 36% of Americans whose kids get a dollar per tooth, there are a lot of kids out there who are getting a whole lot more -- pushing the national average to $3.70 a tooth, an increase of 23% over the $3 average recorded last year, according to a survey conducted on behalf of Visa.
Visa offers a free app on iTunes and Facebook that lets parents put in some demographic information to see what other people's children receive, on average, when a tooth falls out. It turns out there are some variables, including geography and the age of the parents.
If you're a kid living in the Northeast, chances are the Tooth Fairy is going to be more generous to you than to kids living elsewhere in the country, according to the survey.
Here are the regional breakdowns per tooth:
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The survey found that 10% of kids are getting $5 per tooth. Visa said that's triple the number reported in 2011, indicating significant inflation in teeth rewards. A lot of kids get even more. About 6% reported tooth fairy payouts of $20 a tooth and an additional 2% reported $50 a tooth.
A far larger number of kids have encountered a more frugal fairy. More than one-third of kids get $1 per tooth (or less), the survey found.
For some reason, the younger the parent, the more generous the Tooth Fairy. In the 18-to-24-year-old group of parents, the average was $5, Visa found.
"The Tooth Fairy is throwing money around like pixie dust," Nat Sillin, Visa's head of U.S. Financial Education, said. "While more money is exciting news for children, parents should take this opportunity to talk saving and smart money habits with their kids and have the same talk with a perhaps overgenerous Tooth Fairy."
Visa's survey results came from telephone interviews conducted in July with about 3,000 people nationwide. About 10% reported the Tooth Fairy does not stop by after a tooth falls out.
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Benchmarking: Comparing performance over time and against industry norms
Competition will best serve the needs of society.
Many of us have a bit of a competitive streak in us — whether it is pitting ourselves against some friends in a friendly game of cards, hitting the links on the local golf course with some acquaintances, bowling at the alley on league night or cheering for our favorite NFL team in the playoffs. We like to compare and compete against others — in fact, this is the psychological basis of the free-market system: Competition will best serve the needs of society.
A useful and productive method for implementing this concept in your feed or grain business is through the process of "benchmarking." Benchmarking is the process of collecting performance metrics including cost, cycle time, productivity, profitability or quality measures for your business, and then comparing these to your historical performance and/or industry standards or best practices. The term "benchmark" originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle-iron could be placed to form a "bench" for a leveling rod, thus ensuring that the leveling rod could be accurately repositioned in the same place in future. These marks were usually indicated with a chiseled arrow below the horizontal line. These notches, or marks, represented a given altitude and against which other heights could be calibrated or "benchmarked."
How can benchmarking be used?
Benchmarking is best used as part of your feed and grain business' annual or strategic plan (or both). These metrics, some of which we will discuss in further detail, allow you to make improvements or adapt best practices with the aim of increasing your firm's performance. Benchmarking may be a one-off event, but is better treated as a continuous process where you continually seek to improve your practices — like strategic planning.
Many performance measures can be grouped into one of the following five general categories. We will give some examples and ideas for metrics that fall into each of these categories; however, you may find developing your own additional measures may also be useful:
1. Efficiency: A process characteristic indicating the degree to which the process produces the required output at minimum resource cost.
2. Quality: The degree to which a product or service meets customer requirements and expectations, and/or legal requirements.
3. Timeliness: Measures whether a unit of work was done correctly and on time. Criteria must be established to define what constitutes timeliness for a given unit of work. The criterion is usually based on your customer's needs and requirements.
4. Productivity: The value added by the process divided by the value of the inputs used (labor and capital consumed).
5. Safety: Measures the overall health of your organization (literally) and the working environment of your employees.
(Note: These categories are paraphrased from the "Performance-Based Management Handbook, put together by the Performance-Based Management Special Interest Group, a Department of Energy funded group interested in this area. It can be found at http://www.orau.gov/pbm/pbmhandbook/Volume%202.pdf)
The primarily focus of this column is to get you to think about benchmarks and how to track them, rather than on how to improve the measures. We know that there are lots of "roadblocks" to improving business performance — if it was easy anybody could do it. Our thought (and that of many others) is this: "What gets measured, gets done." Intuition definitely has its place in managing, but performance measures provide a meaningful yardstick for evaluating and improving our work.
Efficiency measures
Efficiency focuses on getting the largest output at the least cost. Many efficiency measures can come from your income statement (almost every cost/expense measure can be divided into your outputs — i.e. bushels of grain or tons of feed or dollars of profit — to be analyzed as benchmark measures. You will find that some of these measures are inverse calculations of a few of the discussed in more detail below.
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Music/PDF Reader App?
On the iOS side, there were several developers that made PDF music readers before the iPad was ever released, like forScore. These PDF readers are geared toward music (although they could be used for any discipline) and have a number of other features such as being able to link music files (mp3s), edit the score, turn pages by swiping left/right or bluetooth foot pedal (Air Turn or PageFlip), metronomes, and other features.
With the advent of 4:3 larger Android tablets, do you know of any such PDF (i.e. "content self made/provided") music reader apps for Android tablets, or of a Android PDF reader that would at least work?
I've done a thread search on key words and haven't seen anything, and also looked at the thread of "Optimized for Honeycomb" apps.
Or, is the wide variety of Android tablets (5 to 12 inches, 4:3 to 16:9) a factor in not releasing a PDF music reader (i.e. wouldn't be functional/usable on all devices).
I'm really shocked that one of the iOS developers hasn't jumped in to fill this void. It would seem that the Galaxy Tab would make a great music reader.
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MARIEE, N, LI, T and LAIRD, S (2012). Expression of leukaemia inhibitory factor and interleukin 15 in endometrium of women with recurrent implantation failure after IVF : correlation with the number of endometrial natural killer cells. Human Reproduction, 27 (7), 2946-2954.
UDAYASHANKAR, R., BAKER, D., TUCKERMAN, E., LAIRD, Susan Laird, LI, T. C. and MOORE, H. D. (2011). Characterization of invasive trophoblasts generated from human embryonic stem cells. Human reproduction, 26 (2), 398-406.
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