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When the Inner Senshi used that crystal sword to focus their powers and wake up Usagi in the manga, the sword lay forgotten and frozen at Point D after Metallia was defeated. (I don't think you see it again, ever?) At the end of the manga years later, after the world was healed by Usagi and they wanted to create Crystal Tokyo, the sword was recovered and 'planted', stuck in the ground at the center of the (current? ruined?) Tokyo and used as a seed around which the Palace grew. It remains as an equivalent to that pillar thing in the remains of the Moon Palace and is a really useful power focus.
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Rei never really mends her relationship with her father, but she still sends him a card on his birthday. She presents the card as from an admiring fan of the politician, but she always hopes deep, deep in her heart that he'll know that it's from her and call her in response.
He never does.
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Sailor Astarte
Sailor Astarte (from the musicals) is out there in the SM mangaverse and animeverse. Maybe the PGSM world too (where I also believe the Outer Senshi at least are also definitely in existence). She just never had a reason and/or occasion to appear, or possibly even awaken at all, in the anime and manga series, and hasn't had one yet in the slice of the PGSMverse we got to see (I believe more happened in it after the conclusion!). She may be different in certain ways from how she was shown in the musicals (as many characters are) but is still recognizably the same character and goes by Shiba Shingetsu (no "Astarte" in her civilian name like in the musicals)
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Evil manga Kunzite = magical drug junkie/zombie
Kunzite never came up with a single plan of his own in the manga. Beryl came up with all of his plans. Why? Because Beryl had him magically stoned off his ass 24/7/365. Since it was a magically altered state of mind, it didn't affect his reflexes or fighting abilities, but it did dull his cognitive reasoning in order to reduce the likelihood of him questioning orders. It also served the purpose of dulling his emotional reactions, distracting and difficult to control as emotions are.
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While she disliked Hotaru in the anime, in the manga (at least my Mixx version) Kaolinite acted kindly towards her, only to be hostilely rejected by the girl and told "you're not coming in to our family!" I think that Kaolinite might have actually wanted to be close to Hotaru and be a family with her and Professor Tomoe. Sure, it could have just been an act to make Prof. Tomoe think better of her, but my first instinct was to take it at face value and believe that Kaori was really trying sincerely…maybe she also felt sorry for Hotaru because she knew what was really happening to her.
I also think that Mistress 9 killing her in the anime was in fact a manifestation of Hotaru's own anxieties about the idea that Kaori might also be trying to replace her mother in her father's heart.
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Mark Loftmore:
One last thing before you kill us Lincoln!
Mr. Lincoln:
You know my name?
Mark Loftmore:
I should. You murdered my grandfather!
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You're a Loftmore! Old horror lord's grandchild. Well, well, well, what a coincidence. It's such a small world!
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Well, then why do you want to end it?
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Somebody has to.
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Do you know your site has issues? The fight for usability.
Posted on 16. Dec, 2011 by Amy McInnes in Digital Marketing
Driving quality traffic to your website is a key goal for most our media services, but what happens to that traffic once it gets there? Are your users getting what they expect from your site? Do they find the information they are seeking or are they leaving?
It is not only important to drive traffic to your site, but to address the experience your users have once there. Your site could be performing better but you just don't realise it. There may be barriers to conversions that you do not know about. The answer, better usability.
There is a belief that more visitors equal more conversions right? Not necessarily true, and in most cases, not a guarantee.
More traffic means more conversions?
Yes SEO and PPC help you attract quality traffic, and better qualified traffic may increase conversion rates slightly. However, combine that traffic with a better, more user friendly site and you will increase your chances of creating even more conversions.
People are what make your website survive, therefore it seems logical to make it the best experience possible for the user. Fundamentally, as Shaun Gomm so righty states – "if a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people will leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave".
You may not realise that your site has potential issues that result in increased bounce / exit rates than necessary, nor that with help you can identify and address those issues.
Usability identifies, tests and fixes these issues
Why fix something that's not broken? Our argument is, how do you know it's not broken? Often we are tasked with resolving the issues you know about. What about the issues you don't know about? A site that is converting well can still make improvements. Don't settle for good, aim for better.
"They won't buy usability if they don't know what it is."
W.Craig Tomlin sums up the problem, and I fully agree, 'if clients don't know what it is, they won't invest hard earned resources into it'. Why would anyone buy a service they do not know about? Perhaps the real issue is education.
The problem – education
One of the more unhelpful claims I hear people make is 'we'll improve usability'. As nice as that sounds, this is sadly not as helpful as they think. There are many components to web usability, in particular, the separation of usability and user experience to its individual components:
- Learnability — how easily a beginner can use the system, and how easily they can become an expert.
- Efficiency — how quickly people can achieve what they want.
- Memorability — how easily people can remember how to use the system or feature, after not using it for a while.
- Safety — how rarely people experience errors, and how easy it is to fix any errors.
- Satisfaction — how pleased people are with the overall experience.
By understanding the different services available and how these are vital to a user's experience, it is possible to find and address potential pitfalls within your site that reduce your conversion capability.
When do you need to think about Usability?
We are often asked 'well when should usability be considered'. There is no when, the time is now. Any website, at any stage of design/build/development/on-going optimisation can benefit from improved usability.
Final thoughts
The Holy Grail is in fact self-advancement, a never ending quest to better your website through trial and error through an effective web usability campaign. By understanding your user you can effectively design an experience that captures and drives all the valuable efforts of other media services like SEO effectively. Don't just drive traffic, understand your user and develop a site for them by addressing the issues you don't see through web usability.


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FL – An Evening with Kevin Smith
October 21, 2014 by Colin Solan
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Kevin Smith appears at the Orlando Improv on Saturday November 8th at 9:00 PM for a live Q&A!
During the session, Kevin Smith answers questions regarding his movies, as well as his life. He discusses how he got started in the movie industry, how different films came about, his friendship with Jason Mewes, and his relationship with the media, fans, and various other celebrities.
Tickets available at the link…
Orlando Improv
9101 International Dr Suite 2310, Orlando, FL 32819
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UT – Jay & Silent Bob and Netheads LIVE
May 30, 2014 by Colin Solan
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Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Will Wilkins, and Trent Hunsaker appear at Death Ray Comics for LIVE podcasts on Saturday, June 14th!
NETHEADS – Noon
The NetHeads of SModCo, Will Wilkins and Trent Hunsaker, appear live at Death Ray Comics for an intimate interview with special guest writer/director/producer and Pod-Master Kevin Smith! Not since the SModcastle has there been an opportunity to see a SModCo Show this up-close and personal.
All ticketholders to this show will receive a Jay & Silent Bob's Merchandise bundle which includes a mystery t-shirt. Please enter your t-shirt size. Please use a valid shipping address upon checkout.
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JAY & SILENT BOB GET OLD – 3:00 pm
No Trench Coats. No Hair Extensions. Bound for the Grave. Watch Jay & Silent Bob Get Old right in front of your very eyes! Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith podcast LIVE at Death Ray Comics in Logan, Utah.
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CA – Jay & Silent Bob Hit 40
May 20, 2014 by Colin Solan
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Celebrate Jason Mewes' 40th birthday with Kevin Smith and a special live recording of Jay & Silent Bob Get Old at The Comedy Store on Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 8:30 PM (Doors open at 8:00 PM)!
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Two drink minimum per person
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NYC – Batman at 75: To All a Dark Knight
February 21, 2014 by Colin Solan
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Kevin Conroy, Chip Kidd, Marc Tyler Nobleman, Kevin Smith, and Michael Uslan appear on a panel moderated by USA Today's Whitney Matheson at the Paley Center for Media on Monday, May 5, 2014 at 6:30 pm! Celebrate 75 years of Batman!
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Kevin Conroy, Voice of Batman, Batman: The Animated Series; The New Batman Adventures; Batman Beyond
Chip Kidd, Designer, Batman: The Complete History; Author, Batman: Death by Design
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Kevin Smith, Filmmaker; Writer, Batman comic books; Host, Fat Man on Batman podcast
Michael Uslan, Executive Producer, The Dark Knight film trilogy; Author, The Boy Who Loved Batman
Moderator: Whitney Matheson, Columnist, USA Today's "Pop Candy"
Even your grandmother could name Batman's sidekick or home base (or maybe both). The Dark Knight is arguably the world's most popular superhero and one of the most iconic and influential fictional characters of all time. Celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of his first appearance, in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939), with this panel of influential creators and interpreters of Batman entertainment, all of whom were fans first. (Bring your grandmother.)
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CA – New Year's Babble Eve
December 17, 2012 by Colin Solan
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Ralph Garman and Kevin Smith celebrate New Year's Eve at the Jon Lovitz Podcast Theatre!
This evening's show is 21 and over. We will open doors at 7:00 pm (seating is first come first serve), showtime is at 10:00 pm.
Tickets include a glass of champagne per person or bottle per couple.
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NJ – Jay & Silent Bob Return to Red Bank
August 16, 2011 by Colin Solan
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Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes appear with Walt Flanagan, Bryan Johnson and Brian Quinn at the Count Basie Theatre on October 8, 2011!
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Jay & Silent Bob are back! Live in person! Writer, producer, director and actor Kevin Smith's epic-length Q&A's at the Basie are legendary. Add actor Jason Mewes to the mix, and you've got what fans everywhere have been waiting for! Smith and Mewes became film icons playing the characters Jay & Silent Bob in the movies Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks 2. Sometimes touching, always hilarious, "Jay & Silent Bob Get Old" is a look at growing up in Hollywood's gaze. This engagement will be recorded for smodcast.com, Kevin Smith's #1-ranked iTunes Comedy podcast, but you can be there in person! Jay & Silent Bob are dying; watch it as it happens!
Featuring Bryan "Steve-Dave" Johnson, Walt "Fanboy" Flanagan, and Brian "The Dubious Tech Guy" Quinn, Tell 'Em Steve-Dave! are the comedic trio with their own award winning podcast on the SModcast Podcast Network. It all started when Johnson played Steve-Dave, and Flanagan played Fanboy, who yelled "Tell 'em Steve-Dave!" in the 1995 feature film Mallrats. Now with over 60 podcast episodes to their name, they're the winners of an iTunes "Best of" award, and two 2010 Podcast Awards, for People's Choice and Best Comedy.
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GraniteCon Updates for 2010
January 4, 2010 by Colin Solan
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So what's up with Granitecon in 2010? Quite a bit actually! On Sunday March 14th we launch our NEW Nashua show at the Radission with featured guest Walter Flanagan of View Askew fame! Walter is the artist of Kevin Smith's Batman series Cacophony and Widening Gyre! Plus we're bringing together the Atomic Robo team of Scott Wegener and Brian Clevinger together for the first time at Granitecon!
Then on Sunday May 23rd we've got our annual Manchester show! We're moving the show into the Armory room at the Center of NH which will allow more room for dealers, artists, and special events! Our special guests in Manchester include artists Craig Rousseau (Perhapanauts, Iron Man: Armor Wars), Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash), returning guest Khoi Pham (Mighty Avengers), and the recently added Charles Paul Wilson III (Stuff of Legend) with additional guest announcements coming soon!
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Please note this interview has been translated from its original Spanish text, and all credit goes to Indieorama for letting us put up the English translation.
This interview also contains slight spoilers for The Walking Dead and Heavenly Sword, so read at your own discretion.
Indieorama: Let's start talking about your preferences as a writer. 'Til now, you've worked on multiple genres: epic fantasy, sci-fi, even stories based on our modern world, like Tomb Raider. With which one do you feel more comfortable?
Rhianna Pratchett: I'm not sure if I have a "most comfortable" genre. I think there are interesting challenges in all the genres I've worked in. I like games where I can put in a little bit of humor, like the Overlord series. Really, I feel most comfortable with games where I can get my teeth really stuck into the characters.
IOR: Really, all your games have very strong main characters. That's something you've talked about sometimes in other interviews.
RP: Comfort also depends a lot on the team you're working with and the scope and agency you've got for the narrative component of a game.
IOR: So, what comes to your mind first, usually? The characters, the feelings you want to transmit? An idea?
RP: Neither. Games work in a very different way compared to other entertainment media. Usually the gameplay, level design and art will be conceived first by the developers behind the project. At that stage, they're only likely to have a writer (or narrative designer) involved if they have one working full-time, on staff, which is pretty rare outside the big studios.
As I work freelance, I am normally called onto a project somewhere between one and two years into development, and I'm given the existing elements to work with. So that might mean a synopsis and some character bios, as with Tomb Raider, or it could mean the whole game has been designed with no narrative in mind, like Mirror's Edge. My job is to take what exists, fill in all the gaps, sew it together and make it work within the mechanics of the game. And, of course, write the scripts, alongside fleshing out the characters, bios, backstories, relationships and a large amount of world-building.
Games are not normally created by the writer, unless the writer is also someone like Ken Levine, but even then, there's still a large team working on fleshing out the idea across all departments.
IOR: That's really interesting, because I think the work of a video game writer is still pretty unknown, at least to the general public. We tend to think he/she is like a TV show writer, maybe. But there are strict premises to follow, as you say: gameplay, mechanics… Do you ever feel "frustrated," maybe, by not having total freedom?
RP: It's the nature of the beast, really. I think that developers would benefit from getting writers in earlier to help them create the narrative premise for their games, and the logic behind their worlds, characters and mechanics.
IOR: Those are my feelings too.
RP: Writers are skilled at this sort of thing. It's not merely about the writing; it's about creating the worlds.
IOR: As a literature lover, and a fantasy lover, there is something that bothers me. We don't see too many fantasy or sci-fi writers that make scripts for video games nowadays. Recently, we've had Orson Scott Card (he wrote the script for the game Firefall) and R.A. Salvatore (Kingdom of Amalur). Maybe companies still see literature as a separate world, whereas video games have grown in the past few years, becoming more and more complex with their plots. Do you think it'd be necessary to promote this? More writers "from the outside" entering video games?
RP: When it comes to control, games writers are at the other end of the spectrum to novelists. A novelist has ultimate control over their work. Okay, so they will have an editor involved, but it's still their baby. In games, narrative is just one department fighting for space and agency alongside gameplay design, level design, art, sound, music, etc. Writers rarely have the hard power on a project, unless you're Ken Levine or Tim Schafer.
IOR: So a "pure writer" probably will suffocate in that enviroment, right?
RP: Tim always tells me, "Rhianna, you won't get real power unless you start your own studio."
IOR: It seems he took his own words and made them real.
RP: Well, a writer who is used to having ultimate control might well suffer. Being able to work with, and understand the needs of, other departments is all part and parcel of games writing.
IOR: You lose control on one hand, but on the other hand, you gain perspective, I suppose. And that's something good too. Some writers have the habit of hiding their head below their desk.
RP: As a games writer, you have to be pro-active. You've got to get in there, ask questions, see what's going on, understand how your work is being used and why. My dad doesn't really understand why developers don't just listen to the writer.
IOR: Haha, I bet. About the control of your writing, what differences have you noticed so far between writing for indie video games, in comparison to major companies? Do they generally give you more freedom when creating? They're smaller, with less staff, so I guess it's a more comfortable environment.
RP: Smaller teams often mean that there's more trust and fewer people that have to sign off on your work or want to interfere with it. There's still a rush at certain points, because crunch periods are common to both indie games and non-indies. Beatbuddy was a rush, simply because they found me quite late. So I turned around their story and script in about two weeks. Something like Overlord, which was a much bigger game, while still being fairly indie, was a longer job. On those games, I also worked on the casting and audio direction.
IOR: I guess that helped you enrich the story you had in mind, knowing how the characters were going to "sound." Do you like to know these details when writing, actually? Not only game mechanics, but also background music, voices, etc.
RP: To a degree, yes. Casting is usually done half way through the writing, although it might be done before on a bigger project. With audio directing, it's more a case of knowing how you'd like the character to sound and being able to communicate that to an actor. I don't need to know about the music, but it is very useful to have links to the audio department for things like casting, directing, performance feedback, etc. Likewise, you also need links to the gameplay and level design departments.
IOR: I was going to ask you about the music, in fact, because of Beatbuddy. How do you confront the writing for a genre like this? Did rhythm or music style influence your narrative?
RP: When I came onto Beatbuddy, the initial story they had wasn't about music. That was the first thing I wanted to work on. I explained to them that this was a game about music, about rhythm, harmony and beat and their importance in the world. Therefore, it needed to be a story about music, because the story needs to be about what the player does and why.
IOR: Having to work with Austin Wintory also helped a lot, I suppose. I think he is a really talented musician, and his works are very expressive, almost visual.
RP: Austin is great, and he's very in touch with the indie scene, which is why I asked him if he could keep an eye out for cool indie projects that might benefit from my attention, because I never normally get asked to work on them.
IOR: That's a pity. You'd probably find a lot of unique opportunities to challenge yourself with in the indie scene. Let's talk a little about indie, actually. And let's make a trip to the past…
RP: Okay!
IOR: We've read that your first experience as a gamer, or maybe the one you remember most deeply, was Mazogs, on the ZX81. These games, even with few elements on screen, were able to create a whole story and make us connect with its main characters, even though they were just a bunch of pixels back then. Nowadays, it seems that the indie scene is revisiting these elements, using minimalism with intentions other than just a vehicle for nostalgia. What do you think about this trend, about games like Thomas Was Alone? Would you like the idea of writing a script for a game like that?
RP: Oh, absolutely. It's all about the challenges. You just don't know what you can do until you get the opportunities, or you make them! I really love the narrative in Bastion, for example.
IOR: Like Bastion, we've recently seen some games that explore innovative forms of narration. For instance, Dear Esther, where the backdrop itself acts as the main character, or Storyteller, the game Daniel Benmergui is developing now, where the player becomes the narrator of the story, creating it while they're playing. Is there any "risky" idea in your mind you'd like to explore… or play? Is there anything lacking, in your opinion, in video game scripts?
RP: No specific ideas as yet for games. I tend to actually enjoy working on other people's embryo ideas and helping flesh them out and contribute new ideas and direction. If I had the backing of a strong team behind me, then that probably wouldn't seem so scary. I tend to work on my own original ideas in the TV/film space more than games, because no one ever really comes to writers for original game ideas.
IOR: One of the editors and I were talking about Telltale's The Walking Dead. It's indeed a sad game; we're used to playing games where everything ends well, where players have a reward for beating the odds. But TWD is all about choices, and sometimes, there seems to be no good one. Do you see this style of narration as more advanced, as a more mature kind of story? Do you think games should get rid of the moral and happy endings in order to build complex stories, maybe like literature does?
RP: I'll show you this quote from my boss on Tomb Raider, about our ending for the game. So, originally, we did have more of a down, bittersweet ending for the game. But it was grating against what players seem to want through focus testing, etc. They wanted to "win."
IOR: But this idea of "Okay, I've won, but I've lost so many on the way; is this what I really wanted?" is not often seen. Getting back to The Walking Dead, do you think players don't feel it's a happy ending to know Clementine is safe, for instance?
RP: I'm not sure that downbeat endings in themselves are especially mature, because it's really down to how the rest of the story is structured. Obviously, there have been some great movies with downbeat endings, such as Chinatown or The Descent.
IOR: Yeah, obviously there are more things at stake, not only "sadness," to make a mature story.
RP: I think TWD ending played very well to what the majority of players were doing in the game, i.e. trying to protect Clem, trying to guide her, etc. Well, we actually did that in Heavenly Sword. What Nariko does, she does for Kai. To give her a chance of a better life, of a future, something Nariko has been denied. But knowing that gives Nariko peace, even if she's giving up her life for it.
IOR: That's a classic theme, the sacrifice of the hero.
Well, setting aside narration, a few words about your views as a former video games journalist. Just briefly, how do you see video game journalism/critics in the days of the "media boom?"
RP: I think that it's great we're seeing more female journalists out there. When I started, there were hardly any in the UK. Now, I can name about a dozen. It's a shame to see the decline of print press, which is where I come from. There's something wonderful about seeing your word on the printed page. I like the fact that the press is encouraging a lot more debate about the tone and content of video games, the representation of characters, the importance of narrative and the role of marketing.
IOR: I wouldn't like to end without talking a little about Discworld, if you don't mind. Not everyone has a dad like Terry Pratchett! We've read that he introduced you to video games, giving you Mazogs as a present. Has he ever played any of your games? Would you say there's any "Pratchett touch," even a tiny bit, in your games? Maybe in Overlord's sense of humor?
RP: He's never played any of my games, as far as I know, mainly because he's never been into consoles, but also because it's hard for him to play these days. And yeah, I guess there's a Pratchett-y way of looking at the world. [laughs]
IOR: Is there any Discworld novel you'd like to see adapted as a video game? Would you like to see Discworld growing this way in the future?
RP: I think it's much better to do a game set in Discworld, as with the previous games, than a game of a specific novel, because everyone would know what happens! I think a game with its own story works best, against the backdrop of Discworld.
IOR: So you like these "canonic iterations" of Discworld, then. I guess you've played the games. They were really challenging, by the way. Have you finished any of the past games? And you can't avoid the question! [laughs]
RP: [Laughs] I finished the first two, I think.
IOR: I don't have any more questions, but if you want to add something…
RP: Just that many games writers like myself are open to the challenge of indie games, no matter what we've written before. Okay, we are professionals who need to earn a living and should be treated as such. But we're passionate about the medium we work in, and we gravitate towards that passion in others.
IOR: And I think that's something we gamers search for… passionate narrators. So I wish you the best of luck, and I hope to see your name in indie game credits more frequently!
Many thanks for the chat. A pleasure and an honor for me.
RP: You're very welcome. Thanks for the great interview!


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He still has followers, there's still terrorism, there's a big chance of retaliation. I want to believe the US is prepared because they've been doing their best since the shock 09/11 was but don't be naive to believe that a man as smart as Osama would leave his organization unprepared. He has means, money and people - it doesn't matter if he's dead; his men believed in his ideals and not in his persona. His loss means a lot as a symbol but we can never say "it's over now"; to lose a symbol can weaken a group but it can also make it grow stronger.
Celebrate if you want and believe if you want but be prepared too, I don't wish for something bad to happen, but the death of Osama is not the end of all things bad going on.
Don't forget Iraq, don't forget religious radicals (and I don't mean only ONE religion, I mean all of them, radicalism is never safe), don't forget Libya, don't forget that al-Qaeda hasn't ended. There's much more to this than just the corpse of a 50 something year old man, ok?
Please think about the bigger picture and let's make our main goal not to celebrate someone's death but to celebrate the achievement of peace when it really gets here.
Unlike chess, killing the King does not mean the end of the game.
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Robert Bradley, of Jamaica, Queens, a 64-year-old hospital worker, had been low on cash and neglected to pay the first ticket, then the second — and soon he was worried that his car would get towed. "I took out a payday loan thinking that would solve the problem," he says. He started with a single loan for $300 from PDL Loans, also known as Piggy Bank Cash Loans. The company's address is in Nevis, West Indies, but Bradley easily found it on the Internet. Then, as now, the site promised rapid approval — and money in his checking account in a matter of hours.
That was in June of 2010. As is often the case with payday borrowers, Bradley's finances were already fragile. He was focused on the cash he needed then, not the consequences he'd face later. He paid off the first loan on July 9 — $390 for a $300 loan — and took out another $350 on July 28 with the same lender. This time PDL seemed to withdraw payments from his account at random, and never enough to pay off the loan. As costs for that loan ballooned, he needed even more money. He took out a third loan in August, which led to two more in September. By December he had taken out a total of 11 loans from 10 different online lenders.
Bradley thought each loan would be straightforward. "It was supposed to be a one-shot deal," he says. "I got the money in one shot, I'm gonna pay it off in one shot. It wasn't supposed to go on month after month." Bradley, who received his paycheck via direct deposit, expected each lender to electronically deduct the full balance of his loan from his checking account two weeks after the loan was made. But by his account, based on a review of his bank records, each lender withdrew less than the full amount of the loan, making successive deductions that were never enough to bring his balances to zero. To Bradley, the withdrawals had no rhyme or reason, and they had the effect of pushing him further into the hole as fees, penalties, and interest piled up.
"They were taking just the interest, then they would come back and do the same thing [again]," he says. "They didn't touch principle."
One by one, as he got behind, the calls started coming in: He'd paid $880 on a $300 loan from AmeriLoan Credit, but the lender said he still owed $550. He'd paid $1,225 on a $500 loan from Advance Me Today, which had PO Box in San Jose, Costa Rica — its Website no longer lists one — but the lender claimed he owed another $550.
By January 2011, US Fast Cash Credit, owned by AMG Services Inc., a corporation chartered by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, wanted $250 more after he'd already paid $945 on a $400 loan. GECC Loan (also doing business as Cash Direct Express), CCS Loan Disbursement (also doing business as Community Credit Services), Sure Advance Loan, Tior Capital, Loan Shop, and My Cash Now were all calling him at home and at work, though he never reached anyone who could answer questions about his accounts. By February, he had borrowed a total of $4,445 and had paid back $8,240. Altogether, his lenders said still he owed another $4,134.
By the time Bradley sought help to escape his snowballing financial disaster, he had closed his checking account, destroying a 20-year relationship with his bank. "I had nothing against the bank," he says. "I just wanted to stop these electronic withdrawals that weren't going to pay off the loan. And the bank was taking out fees when the loan payments didn't go through."
It was a paralegal at the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP) in Manhattan, an advocacy group that opposes predatory lending, who finally told Bradley that none of these lenders should have been able to charge Bradley such high rates or touch the money in his bank account. Payday loans are illegal in New York State.
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According to the Consumer Federation of America, only 18 states ban or strictly regulate payday loans. New York's ban is one of the nation's toughest. Whether they're made online or at a strip mall, loans with triple-digit APRs (annual percentage rates) violate the state's 1976 usury law, which caps rates at 16 percent. The state lacks the power to regulate commercial banks — such as Bank of America, Chase, and Wells Fargo — who are overseen at the federal level and allowed to charge 29 percent or more on credit cards. But payday lenders are considered non-banks, so licensing and regulation fall to the states. Any non-bank lender who charges more than 16 percent interest in New York is subject to civil prosecution; charging above 25 percent can subject lenders to criminal penalties. First-degree criminal usury is a Class C felony that carries a maximum sentence of 15 years.
In 2004, when Elliot Spitzer, then attorney general, discovered that lenders were circumventing the state law by lending on-line, he sued one of the lenders, Las Vegas-based Cashback Payday Loans, and shut down servers in the state that had been throwing up payday loan Websites, forcing Cashback to pay restitution to customers. In 2009, a year before Bradley got his first Internet payday loan, then-attorney general Andrew Cuomo settled with County Bank of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which let Pennsylvania-based Internet payday lenders Telecash and Cashnet use its bank charter to make Internet payday loans in New York. A $5.2 million settlement was distributed to more than 14,000 New Yorkers who had taken out their online loans, with some burned borrowers receiving more than $4,000.
Despite the successive lawsuits, Internet payday loan companies never stopped lending to New Yorkers. Consumer advocates and state regulators alike say that Robert Bradley's experience is hardly unique. "The use of the Internet to evade New York's strong consumer protections against payday lending and its exorbitantly high interest rates is a serious concern," says Benjamin Lawsky, the state's superintendent of financial services. "Payday lenders should know that making loans to New Yorkers puts them at risk of prosecution and that they have no legal right to collect on any loans they make here."
Payday loans, whether made by storefronts or on the Internet, are defined by their relatively small dollar amounts and excessive annual percentage rates (APRs), which routinely run to three and four digits. Bradley's first loan, for example, with a $90 fee on a $300 two-week loan, was the equivalent of a 782 APR, according to payday loan interest calculators.


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Daniel von Bargen -- who played Mr. Kruger in "Seinfeld" -- is clinging to life in an Ohio hospital after shooting himself in the head Monday morning in a failed suicide attempt ... and TMZ has the horrifying 911 tape in which he calls for help.
Daniel tells the 911 operator, "I've shot myself in the head ... and I need help."
The operator asks if it was an accident -- Daniel replies, "I was supposed to go to the hospital and I didn't want to." Daniel says he's diabetic, explaining, "They were supposed to amputate at least a few toes."
The operator asks where the gunshot wound is -- Daniel replies, "I shot in my temple."
Law enforcement officials confirm they were dispatched to von Bargen's Cincinnati apartment complex a short time later -- and when they arrived, you can hear them on the 911 tape ... yelling at Daniel to keep his hands where they could see them.
Von Bargen -- who also played Chief Grady in "Super Troopers" -- was transported to a nearby hospital where he is currently in critical condition.
During the call, Daniel goes into even more graphic detail about his condition. Listen at your own discretion.
I hope he pulls through and seeks help for himself. Praying for him to recover and live!
Failed?? "Half Hearted"!! How do you miss at point blank???
His makes me sad. My family and I are huge fans of his. Its so sad when people feel this low. I pray you find yourself and happiness again
Sad to hear this. Still... extremely bad luck to survive such an injury.
This guy makes Curt Cobain look like a genius.
He didn't want to go to the hospital so he shot himself. Really? I hope he takes this as a sign he's here for a reason.
I think it is sick and wrong that you put this call online.
I know how you feel..I hope it gets better. Thanks for the many many laughs..
I'm confused . He tried to kill himself because of few toes . Come on there are amazing prothesis which look real . If he needed the surgery he will need it now anyway .whats really shocking is that he can speak .
How rude and insensitive from the operator to let him keep talking . aren't you use more blood when you keep using your mouth muscles to talk ?I understand that the operator tried to get as many facts as he could in case he really dies but this man is bleeding out of his head for god shakes
I'm so sorry to hear this. I had no idea he was dealing with these issues. That has got to be very difficult indeed. I wish him and his sisters all the best in this already trying situation. I can't believe you bleep out one sisters number but not the other!!! Please fix that! And keep us abreast of the situation please. I want to know that he makes it. I can't help but think of him from Seinfeld. He's a talented actor.
they didnt successfully bleep any of the digits in the one sister's number....her poor soul....prolly getting all kinds of horribly insensitive calls
Yeah, this is bogus. You don't shoot yourself in the temple with a .38 and then go on to have a lucid conversation with a dispatcher. He didn't shoot himself. It's just an attention-wh*re stunt.
So sorry ! I hope he gets the help he need ! Lucky to have survive!
I'm so sorry to hear this. I hope he makes it.
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No, Squeak is not fairly typical. You can however use emacs key bindings or the wonderful svi package so that the browsers feel more like the powerful text editors you are used to.
The point about the image though is not so much that you lose those things, it's that the productivity gain you experience FAR OUTWEIGHS what you "lose".
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I don't see why those of us who use highly capable text editors and command prompts should be forced to view proficiency and comfort with Emacs as a "mental block". The fact that Squeak (and apparently other Smalltalk environments as well) tie you to a text editor only marginally more capable and useful than Notepad is only one of many unnecessary absurdities one must accept if one wishes to explore the Smalltalk design paradigm.
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i noticed today that my monitor would not come out of power save mode so i had to reset my pc. i looked in event viwer and saw that there are lots of event id 11 going back to the 26/9 . also my internet is taking along time to load pages thismorning aswell i don`t know if this is the same thing.
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i have had another look in event viewer and just noticed where im getting all the event 11 error im also getting event 11 errors saying disk harddisk1/dr1. looking at my c drive it says that its in location 1. so does that mean its my harddrive. its passed the tests i ran tho?
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Hello again Mark,
I posted this in your other thread also, but since this is a pretty annoying issue which affects performance I an posting it here also so people can find a solution more easy.
If you have an Intel chipset I solved my ATAPI errors promblem by installing the SATA AHCI drivers included in the Intel ""RST and AHCI Driver and GUI" driver package. It can be found by a search here: Intel Download Center . The SATA AHCI driver is located in the \Drivers\f6flpy-x64 or \f6flpy-x86 folders . Use device manager to update. After updating restart computer. When restarted Windows will reinstall drivers for the harddrive(s). Another restart is required.
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Clio is a very religious lady. She's gone off it a bit these past few years, but for the most part she's very devout. She was after all brought up that way. For as long as she can remember there's been a priest, a rabbi, an imam or some other holy man in every village she's been too. She can't quite understand how we get by without them these days.
"Who teaches people if there are no priests? Who baptises, marries and buries folk? Who looks after the poor and the ill?"
On days like this it can take quite some time to remind Clio about the benefits of secular social services. As far as she's concerned care for the poor, the sick and so forth is a religious duty. Most of her friends agree with her. For many of them the local bishop was the most powerful person in their world. The king was a far off, insubstantial figure. The bishop was a real, concrete presence who provided services both religious and tangible. Incurring his displeasure could bring immediate punishment.
In the Muslim world this was carried even further. The Qu'ran makes no distinction between church and state. Secular duties and religious ones were not distinguished. It was the duty of the authorities to see that 10% of all income went to charity but they performed this not as a religious duty, but because it was their job, as much a part of supervising their cities as it was to maintain the water supply.
Until recently the Church also provided one of the most reliable communications channels available. Royal servants, bureaucrats and officers came and went with each passing monarch or administrative fad. The church on the other hand was a monolithic institution. Every parish has a priest, every parish is part of a diocese overseen by a bishop. Above them are archbishops, responsible for entire countries. Above archbishops stand only the cardinals and finally the Pope, the spiritual ruler of Western Europe. The church also had a virtual monopoly on learning to read and write that lasted until around the 16th century. Other faiths carried with them similar power structures and their influence was similarly broad.
The church, the most permanent of institutions was locked in a perpetual relationship with the other great institution of the historical world, monarchy. The influence of religion on Kings has always been important. The ancient Greeks sought divine aid from the Oracle at Delphi, placing great political power in the hands of the priesthood. After the fall of Rome it came to be accepted that only the ceremony of annointment by a priest (or usually Archbishop) actually marked the coronation of a king.
Later on Kings claimed to be divinely appointed and in some senses above the decrees of mere priests. Pope Gregory the Great took and opposite line - the kings of the earth should be subject to the Pope. His ideas bore no fruit in his lifetime, but in later years his call for knights to turn their swords to the service of Christ provided potent rhetoric for the crusades.
Religious institutions made their power felt in more subtle ways than monarchs. They had huge influence over the minds of every day people. A king who was denounced from the pulpit was sure to be concerned - one who was excommunicated was staring at a political crisis. There were plenty of practical reasons for this - if you'd been excommunicated none of your subjects were obliged to serve you any more, any loans you had made were not going to be repaid and any rival claimants to your throne would be actively courting the support of the church for their coming campaign.
In 1066 William of Normandy made the most of his political influence to have the entirety of England excommunicated for refusing to acknowledge his claim to the throne. The Saxons mostly ignored this, but in Europe the Papal Bull provided adequate political cover for his blatant opportunism.
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Well, if your game is set in a land where most people are religious then religion will be everpresent. Throughout history the church has regulated much of what we take to be government tasks. It set holidays, it upheld public morality, it levied its own taxes and provided 'social services'. In some cases it even provided a judicial process. Medieval Priests were only tried for crimes under Church law, and some offences committed by the laity - such as adultery - were likewise punishable by the church.
The Church is also a political power. If the players are in dispute with a local noble it pays them to know what the Church thinks of the issue. Perhaps a suitably large donation would be enough to have the church solve the problems on their behalf - or maybe they're on the verge of excommunication for daring to oppose one of the Church's allies.
In a religious society the church is present in every aspect of life. Don't let your players forget it.
Clio is complaining at me
"Religion isn't just about institutions you know. There's room for a few individuals in there as well. We'd have never given it all that time if it hadn't meant something to us."
And she's right. The reason religion counted for so much was because it mattered at the individual level. Everyone from kings to paupers believed. Not that they all behaved. All the evidence we have suggests that people are no worse behaved today than they were in the past. Its just that when people felt guilty they turned to the church, not Cosmopolitan.
The medieval Christian believed that everything he did was sinful - he was tainted by original sin. Only the sacrament of confession would save him from hell. Thus he confessed all his sins to the priests - in theory. In practice he would often hold things back, revealing them only on his death bed, or not at all. Alternatively a life changing experience, the threat of ruin, illness or family hardship might drive him to confess and repent. Men's' religious fervour waxed and waned over their lives, but it rarely died completely.
It could change though. Clio tells a good story about a group of Spanish monks. They lived in the Kingdom of Granada, under Muslim rule, but were permitted to continue as monks. When the Muslims were driven out by the Christian King Ferdinand they promptly converted to Islam and moved to North Africa - in order to keep their harem. Such converts were presumably not highly thought of in their new society, but they serve as an example that men from the past could have a mercenary attitude toward their faith. Neither could they abandon the notion of faith completely. Atheism may have been the most convenient option for the monks but to live without God (or any god) was unthinkable.
Varying ideas of religion make for interesting inter party dialogue. Make the players aware of the options open to them and see what they pick. Many medieval knights paid only lip service to God until their old age, when in order to make up for their sinful lives they entered monasteries and dedicated themselves to God.
Imagine such a man spending time with a peasant who saw the hand of God behind everything and felt that his every action was something to be ashamed of and judged for. Throw into the mix a priest of dubious virtue and you have an interesting group. Whatever the peasant thinks of the priest's behaviour he is still a priest, and as such has a direct connection to the God he so fears. The knight on the other hand might denouncethe priest for his behaviour. Who will the peasant side with?
Things like this add a depth to inter-party relationships that its hard to find in other ways.
So far this column has been fairly open ended. Next month I'll deal with a specific period and a specific task. How would I go about running a campaign during the medieval crusades? The environment certainly has a lot going for it, the clash of cultures, romance, adventure and more than a little religion.
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The Government Accountability Office's October 30 report "Observations on Potential FAA Funding Options" repeats some information the GAO released September 27 in airspace system modernization testimony. But an odd graphic in the new report might add confusion to the user-fee debate. Figure 1 on page 5 illustrates the FAA paying for airport, ATC and safety activities. The ATC section's "IFR Operations Commercial" shows an airliner flying above a "VFR Operations General Aviation" piston single. GA turbine aircraft (and pistons) are not shown interacting in the "IFR Commercial" part of the diagram, which some might interpret as supporting the Air Transport Association's claims that airliners operate in what it calls "commercial airspace." The GAO's Rich Swayze, who wrote the report, told AIN that it would have been clearer to show business jets and piston airplanes in the IFR section but added that the FAA had not mentioned that GA piston aircraft operate in airspace the airlines use.
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Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to privatize work determining who is eligible for food assistance in the state would violate federal law and could expose the state to a loss of more than $20 million in federal money, federal officials say.
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