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• The background assumption – not stated in the report – that 18 percent of all Angels ticket buyers spend the night in a local hotel has been challenged by Mayor Tom Tait, among others. "That would be nearly 7,000 people a game. That's unlikely."
• Some hotel guests come to town for other reasons and then decide to attend a game, meaning their hotel occupancy would not be affected if the team wasn't in Anaheim, Zimbalist said.
• The premise that 90 percent of game-goers who rented rooms did so within the city limits – unstated in the report but explained to the Register by CSL's Kaatz – is impossible to ascertain without surveying attendees, Adibi said.
"Orange is five minutes from the stadium," Adibi said. "It's going to take extensive research to determine how many people stay in hotels in the city of Anaheim. If you do samples of 200 or 300 people at three or four games, you get much better information."
Adibi said he and 10 economics students spent roughly 400 manpower hours researching his 1996 economic report – and that they took the much simpler task of estimating the economic impact of the team countywide. Boring down on the single city of Anaheim would be considerably more challenging, he said.
Adibi's 1996 study found that total new spending countywide, thanks to the Angels, was $106 million – or $160 million in 2013 dollars. He said increases in ticket prices and other costs that have exceeded inflation could conceivably bring that amount to the Texas consultant's conclusion of $204 million – but for the entire county, not just for Anaheim as estimated in the $30,000 report by CSL.
"With the budget they had, they would have a hard time doing detailed surveys," Adibi said.
Kring and other City Council members say it's not just about money – that civic pride and city image are also motivations to make sure the home field remains in Anaheim.
"I think the Angels are important to the people of Anaheim," Councilwoman Gail Eastman said. "The Angels are our team. Also, people know the city because of all the amenities the city has to offer, and the Angels are one of those."
But Eastman said the economic impact is also a reason to negotiate a new lease.
The starting point for negotiations is a document drawn up by city staff and city consultant Charles Black, former president of the San Diego Padres, in consultation with the Angels. Among other things, that proposal would reduce the team's payments to the city.
The team currently pays the city $2 on every ticket sold after the first 2.6 million. That threshold would increase to 3 million under the proposal, largely eliminating that revenue to the city because the team is drawing only slightly more than 3 million fans. This year, 3,019,505 tickets were sold.
The proposal also would allow the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim to drop "Anaheim" entirely from its name. And it would grant the team a 66-year, $1-per-year lease on 150 undeveloped acres around the stadium, which the team could develop according to the existing high-density residential, commercial and retail zoning. All tax revenue generated by the development for the city would be rebated to the team, according to the team's proposal.
In return, the city would no longer have to make its $600,000 annual maintenance payment for the city-owned stadium. The Angels would pick up that tab, as well as the bill for an estimated $130 million to $150 million in needed renovations.


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We had a great time on this float trip. It was very flat and smooth and good for people of all ages. The guide was fun and engaging. Would float with these guys again.
I have never been rafting before in my life so you can imagine my fear when visiting Nelson my daughter suggested rafting!! Well it was absolutely fabulous and I would love to do it again if I returned to Nelson! We went in the afternoon about 5 of us with our wonderful paddler John. He made us feel safe and...
My family and I went with Nelson Whitewater Rafting on their scenic float trip. It was my second time going on an excursion with this company, and once again it was extremely well organised, lots of fun and very professional. The scenic float is a great way to get out into the wilderness around Nelson with any exertion whatsoever! It...
What a perfect way to spend 3+hours!
Friendly for all ages.
The crew and company is focused on Safety First, and provides all the equipment you will need.
Just show up with a bathing suit and towel.
If it was cold they have wet suits
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Just did a whitewater trip on Aug 12. Even though the rapids are pretty tame in August, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Sean was our guide and he was very personable and professional so we had a great time even though my partner and I were the only participants. When we go back next year, we'll try to go earlier in...
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Thank you very much for taking the time to write a review, and for saying such nice things about your trip. It was really nice meeting you and Pat.
Another great way to experience the river with us and to make the trip as exciting as possible is our inflatable kayak tour. In August it's perfect for beginner...
For my daughters 13th birthday celebration, I booked a surprise trip with Nelson Whitewater Rafting for her entire soccer team- the Nelson Selects U13 girls!!!
I knew at the time of booking that things were going to go smoothly. John with Nelson Whitewater Rafting was very organized and communicated all information and details clearly. He was easy to get ahold...
Had Pete as a wonderful tour guide, he was really entertaining and really interacted with the guests. Instead of just talking at us he was in the water with us and played games and told jokes and everyone in (and out) of the raft had an amazing time and really enjoyed themselves. The trip itself down the river was lovely,...
Had a wonderful time with our guide Pete. Loved the rapids and so did our teens aged 14 and 17. Will go again.
This was a great first white water rafting experience for our kids (aged 9 & 11). They aren't super adventurous so the Slocan river float was perfect. We got to jump in the river and swim quite a bit and also enjoyed a few fun mild rapids. The owner of the company (our bus driver & picture taker) was great,...
We went on a river float last week with extended family and had a wonderful time. Mostly smooth water with some fun splashy bits. A few of us even went swimming during the trip. Our driver, John, and our guide, Tanner, were both professional, friendly, and lots of fun. The safety talk at the beginning was perfect. And John took...
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I can't understand why or when should I do this, although I always use jquery's AJAX. As an example, if I make a forum when do I need this? Can someone give real world examples?
The same goes for XML. It stores information too. But what kind of information? Why can't I store it in MySQL?
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The 500-pound Kifu treated Aspinall gently most of the time, reaching into his pockets to see if he had any more snacks. But he also clamped his jaws around Aspinall's shoulder. It's normal gorilla horseplay, which Aspinall likes to call "love bites."
"Kifu plays very gently with me," he said. Then he added, laughing, "He knows I'm not after his women."
It is Sounda, a female and mother of two, who will hold his baby daughter Freya. The keepers say she is the best mother in the zoo.
Aspinall agrees, "Sounda is the gentlest of gorillas and would never, never harm any, any of my children." Gorillas do not, by their nature, attack humans. But in the complex gorilla world, there is enormous potential for misunderstanding between man and animal, something we discovered very quickly here.
As our cameraman filmed through the bars, one female gorilla approached quietly and then grabbed keeper Steve Perry by the neck. The gorillas erupted in a frenzy. Another keeper had to drag Perry away.
"I got too close because there was food on the scene," said Perry. "Had there been no food there probably wouldn't have been an issue there really."
Aspinall himself was attacked a few years ago, when another silverback thought he might be a competitor for the affections of a gorilla female. For his baby daughter, he and his girlfriend, Donna Air, consider the risk to be small.
"Any mother is always apprehensive, as you can imagine, but she's fully supportive of me," he said. "She's seen me in with the gorillas a hundred times. It's just I have complete faith and trust, as, as, you know, I love these gorillas and they love me."
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Perhaps spend 15 mins in the first phase and then go to town on him with > 100 mobs (which increasing from 70 mobs, means the numbers are 396000 and 158958 respectively - yeah, less than 1K vengeance for another 30 mobs).
I should mention that my numbers DO NOT apply to the normal strategy. It's absolutely going to still be soloable provided you kill off the ghouls before FM, etc. but the zerg strat looks much less viable.


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During his extensive travels, Sanjay Shirodkar, 45, a Pune-based sales professional, always felt strongly about the terrible condition of roads in the state, more so where motorists paid heavy toll charges.
In 2007, he started collecting information through various means like RTI about roads and toll contracts. It was then that Raj Thackeray, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, spotted Shirodkar on a TV debate on toll and picked him to drive the party's agitation on the matter. Shirodkar, who says he has visited most of the 176 toll nakas in the state, spoke to Dhaval Kulkarni about the problems and mismanagement he found at these posts. Following are edited excerpts.
Q: The state government says that the toll matter was overdone as only 2% of the 2.43 lakh km road network is tolled.
They do not reveal which roads are covered under the 2%. This figure covers the road network across the entire state, including village and district roads. My claim is that around 20% of the 4,800 km stretch of national highways (NH) passing through Maharashtra are tolled. The government must reveal figures regarding tolled stretches on national and state highways (SH). These people are misguiding citizens.
Q: What are the problems with facilities on the tolled roads?
People must get service roads, rest areas, bus and truck bays. Emergency services like ambulances and cranes should be available. There must be adequate petrol pumps, communication facilities, restaurants, drinking water, patrolling and proper drainage. Not one tolled road in the state has all this.
Q: If toll is to be scrapped, what are the alternatives?
Maharashtra collected around Rs22,000 crore as vehicle tax in 10 years. It was necessary to use around 75% of this for roads. If this was done there would have been no necessity for tolled roads. In the 10 years, about Rs3,000-Rs3,500 crore has been collected by way of toll. The PWD must reveal figures regarding its budget, planned and non-planned outlays over the 10 years. If these funds were used again there would have been no need for tolled roads. Above all, if the government is collecting money (toll) it should at least provide good roads. The people are incensed as the roads are not good and lack facilities. This leads to accidents that claim lives. In Mumbai, people are charged toll at five entry points, then why are they charged on exit too?
Q: The government says toll is an accepted practice the world over.
The government must first give an account of the 13 types of taxes collected in the last decade. People must get services and facilities in lieu for the toll they pay. If motorists do not want to pay toll, an alternative road must be provided for them. Today, toll is charged on both the expressway and the old highway!
Q: How can systems be made more accountable?
Traffic data submitted by the contractors is blindly accepted by officials regardless of the fact that they must carry out inspections and conduct traffic sampling. We will keep on complaining to the chief minister, the National Highways Authority and the ministry. There is only one way to get accountability, that is people must be strong. They must ask the contractors why toll is being charged and say they will pay only if they get facilities. If people are incensed, it could lead to a situation as in Kolhapur, where people have united on their own against toll charges without the involvement of political parties.
Q: What has been the experience in other states?
I have traveled in Gujarat, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. It was a pleasure driving there. The toll levied there is according to rules and formulas. The distance between two toll nakas is 80-90 km. I will not say that there is a 100% compliance (with rules) but the roads are good. There is no toll on state highways in these states. In Maharashtra, one has to pay toll to enter even a small town like Baramati.


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Sujal Panchal, who cheated around 20 women after offering them jobs of cook in the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), was arrested by the detection of crime branch (DCB) from near Iskcon mall on Tuesday evening. The police also seized cash and valuables from Sujal.
During interrogation, Sujal admitted that he had duped around 20 women to collect money for the treatment of his mother. Around eight months back, he, along with his friend, offered these women that he could get them employed as cooks in Isro with a monthly salary of around Rs20,000, Sujal revealed to the police. He also introduced himself as an employee of ISRO.
Interestingly, Sujal got the idea of committing the crime after reading a similar kind of cheating case in a newspaper a year back and tried to apply the same modus operandi on these women.
K N Patel, assistant commissioner of police (ACP), DCB, said: "During last six months, the satellite police reported five complaints against Sujal, who cheated around 20 women. But the local police could not get any clue of Sujal. Acting on a tip-off, police inspector H A Rathod nabbed Sujal alias Chiku Kiritbhai Panchal (25), resident of Purushottam Nagar society, Viratnagar Odhav, on Tuesday."
Sujal brought these job-seeking women near malls in Satellite area on public buses and there he asked them to go for medical tests leaving behind their valuables. After sending them for the same, he used to decamp with the ornaments. The Satellite police have also recorded the statements of 18 women, who were victims of Sujal's fraud. Sujal confessed of his involvement in five cheating cases. However, police believe he may be involved in other crimes also.


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|Pistons Look for 7th Straight Win Against Clippers
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The Pistons look for their eighth straight win over the Los Angeles Clippers when the teams meet at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Monday for the first time this season.
Oddsmakers have made Detroit -8.5 point spread favorites (NBA Odds) for todays game, the over/under has been set at 188 total
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Detroit (31-18) has not lost to the Clippers since a 74-72 defeat at Staples Center on Nov. 3, 2002. Since then, the Pistons have made two trips to the NBA Finals, winning a title in 2003-04, and are once again leading the way in the East - they defeated Toronto 98-92 on Saturday behind Rasheed Wallace's season-high 28 points and seven rebounds.
Detroit, which had an eight-game winning streak from Nov. 17-Dec. 1, is outscoring its opponents by an average of 12.3 points and outrebounding foes by 6.5 boards during their run.
"`We are getting better as the season is growing a little older,'' said All-Star Chauncey Billups, who had 14 points and nine assists against the Raptors. "You learn from your mistakes, and I think we're doing a good job of that.''
Richard Hamilton, another Pistons All-Star, had 21 points and eight assists Saturday, and is averaging 19.3 points and 5.3 assists in his last six games against the Clippers.
Chris Webber had just eight points on 4-of-10 shooting against Toronto, after averaging 15.8 points on 62.0 percent shooting during the first five games of the streak. The Pistons are 10-2 with Webber in the starting lineup since acquiring him on Jan. 16.
Detroit has won five straight home games, including the first three during its season-high five-game homestand.
The Clippers (25-26), meanwhile, will wrap up a season-high seven-game road trip, but has been stumbling recently. They've won just two of six games on the trip, and have had little success beating the Pistons on the road in recent years.
Detroit has won 12 of its last 13 home games against the Clippers, with the lone loss coming in overtime on Feb. 19, 2001.
Los Angeles shot only 36.8 percent from the floor - its fourth-worst effort this season - as it lost to Indiana 94-80 on Sunday. The Clippers had won six of seven games before their road trip began, but have since fallen to eighth in the Western Conference standings.
"We talk about coming out ready to play. But yet, you have a game like today,'' Cuttino Mobley said. "We should come out hungry. Before you know it, it's going to be April and we may have no more time.''
Mobley had 23 points against the Pacers, and had 27 points in his last game against the Pistons, a 97-87 loss on Feb. 8, 2006.
Elton Brand added 14 points and 11 rebounds Sunday, but has been struggling on the final stretch of their road trip. After averaging 23.0 points and 14.0 rebounds in the first three games of the road trip, Brand is averaging only 15.7 points and 8.7 boards in his last three games.
Brand, who's averaging 20.7 points and 9.1 rebounds this season, was solid in two games against the Pistons in 2005-06. He totaled 66 points and pulled down 19 rebounds.
The teams will wrap up their season series on March 11 in Los Angeles.
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11 Arguments Against Women in Games, Refuted
Those ruddy feminists love to muck things up don't they? They storm in with their man-hating ideals and feminine wiles muttering about how 'every gender deserves to be equal' and other nonsensical claims such as 'women should be allowed the right to vote'. Oh, what's that you say, women have been voting and wearing trousers and putting their children into daycare to swan off and get jobs for some time now? Well I'll be damned.
But of course for as long as those feminists have come along to level the playing field (I, including myself in that category of equal rights hooligans, also known as the Daily Mail's favourite bogeyman) people are still far too quick to chalk down the sudden surge of 'women in games' discussion as another en-Vogue response to the PC vitriol that those darned feminist hippies have been spouting. And, while I could invite naysayers to the kumbaya, feminist peace picnic, that's not taking place until next week, so for those who've stumbled across this post before then, I present to you, 11 responses to the common 'women in games' arguments.
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Serial Misogynist Michael Fassbender to Work on Assassin's Creed Movie
First of all I would like to say that character limits are a swine, as provided I'd had enough room, that headline would read "Serial Misogynist and Known Woman Beater Michael Fassbender to Work on the Assassin's Creed Movie", because I feel like that might be the only thing attention-grabbing enough for people to click through and find out exactly why no one should be doing this really quite horrible person any favours. To re-tread the story, for those of you who don't stalk my Twitter page religiously (i.e most of you), hotshot actor guy Michael Fassbender is now on board to co-produce and star in the film, with Jean-Julien Baronnet, CEO of Ubisoft Motion Pictures, even going as far as to say that Fassbender was their "first choice" of actors when it came to choosing who would play said lead assassin in the movie. If you don't know who Michael Fassbender is, he has been in such films as Inglorious Basterds, X:Men First Class and he also featured as David the Android in the huge sci-fi hit that was Ridley Scott's Prometheus.
Now, lets ignore the fact that Fassbender is German-Irish, fair-skinned and light-haired (and therefore not really fitting the part to play a Mediterranean/relatively ethnic dark-haired assassin-type), he is obviously a talented actor and while it is perhaps some shoddy casting on Ubi's part, with a lot of tanning and some effective hair-dyeing, he might be able to pull off the acting side of things . But no, my issue is that Michael Fassbender is just generally the worst and that Ubisoft are doing a disservice to every single one of us by working with this human being. To put it into better terms : Michael Fassbender is the grossest. Gross things should be measured on a scale of "non-solid fecal matter" to "Michael Fassbender". My distaste is supported with reasoning too. Let me take you back to 2009. Sunawin "Leasi" Andrews, gets back together with ex-boyfriend Michael Fassbender. Michael, who obviously takes his craft very seriously, goes to a film festival and comes back blind drunk, so drunk that he wakes up in a puddle of his own piss. His reaction? Unlike most people, who would clean themselves off, change the bed and sober up, he decides to beat his girlfriend, throw her over a chair and break her nose.
That's not just me over-exaggerating either, the actual quote from Sunawin's filing for a restraining order says such – "threw me over a chair breaking my nose" – which comes from what she sent to the LA County Superior Court back in June '09 when this all happened. At the time, Andrews' said that this filing was to protect herself and her two young children (yes, Mr. Fassbender is this classy of an act when there are children involved who could be potentially affected by all of this) and that she asked for $20,000 to pay for medical bills, because obviously, repairing the damages that come from being beaten by a 6 foot 2, 185 pound man (though he potentially could have had more muscle mass then – this was around the time of his role as a British Lieutenant in Inglorious Basterds) doesn't come cheap. Oh, and it gets worse, if you could even imagine. This wasn't even the first time that Fassbender had released his inner woman-beater on his then-girlfriend either. The same filing at the LA County Superior Court referred to another occasion, in which Sunawin and Michael became embroiled in a heated argument about an ex-boyfriend of hers – "Michael allegedly dragged her alongside their car one night after they had an argument about one of her ex-boyfriends … causing her to twist her left ankle, blow out her left knee cap and burst an ovarian cyst".
More upstanding behaviour from him, right? Of course I am positive that someone will be willing to point out that this is "alleged", as the above quote states but according to statistics – over one quarter of all domestic abuse cases go unreported – those who do get close to going through with the prosecution, like Sunawin Andrews, often retract their statements for the sole reason that many of these women are deeply bonded with the person, and don't want to see them locked up, because they are quite literally willing to accept more beatings provide that person doesn't leave them. This isn't unheard of, emotions are tricky. On the other hand, when you're a woman in this position, shit is scary – you know and I know full well that a night in a jail cell won't make any budding woman-beater come to their senses, and when they're released, they will still have working fists, working legs and a working brain full of poisonous, angry thoughts with which to maim, beat and eviscerate you. It's not a situation that anyone should take lightly.
Fassbender proved his worth again (and I promise I will get to my point eventually) back in 2011 when filming "A Dangerous Method" with Keira Knightley in which they had to film a particularly intimate 'erotic' scene in which his character has to spank her. Like most people would placed in such a situation, Knightley was super uncomfortable with the filming of the scene, which requires her to be tied to a bedframe. During filming, she commented "I've got a security guard outside. You touch me and he's gonna break your legs!",Michael's reply to this? "Keira, you're tied to a bed. You're not really in a position to say that." Rape is never funny and for whatever reason, Fassbender doesn't get this. Rape is a very real thing that you wouldn't wish to happen to anybody and nobody out there has the right to get a laugh out of it or even suggest that being in a vulnerable position means that you're 'free' game', as it were, for rapists (or, in this case, that being tied up means that bodyguard or not, they could still have their way with you if they feel like it.) After all of this, for Ubisoft to enlist Michael Fassbender to work on the Assassin's Creed film is simply ludicrous. It's completely nutso bananas to let this guy represent this franchise. In fact, it's crazy to let him represent anything. He is in no way, shape or form someone who should be involved in this when the assassins of the Assassin's Creed games pride themselves on the liberation of people, on freedom, on equality. The women of the Assassin's Order (as well as those who aid the assassins) are treated with respect and are held in such high regard as the men. There's even a female-fronted Assassin's Creed game in the works from the franchise's developer in the form of PS Vita title Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation, so there's no doubt in my mind that Ubisoft know how to get it right and that this is just an incredibly large slip up from them on the path to treating women/female gamers the same as the men. And of course, I'm not brushing over the fact that even outside of the ideals of the Assassin's Creed games, his actions are shady and disgusting, there really is no place for what he's done in society. It's just plain unacceptable.
Their decision cuts everyone even deeper when you look at the gaming industry as whole where misogyny is alive and well – just last week, Anita Sarkeesian received a massive backlash to her attempt to crowdfund a video series that took on misogyny in this industry, it resulted in a Fassbender-league jerkhole by the name of Ben Spurr going as far as to make a delightful little game called "Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian" which allowed you to do just that, getting TOTAL LULZ!!!!11! out of domestic violence if this woman had pissed you off so much with her attempt at helping equality . (Read about it here on HuffPo.) Evidently we most certainly do not need anyone else coming in and sullying our good name, we're perfectly capable of hating on women ourselves, apparently. In all, this decision says that rape jokes are A-OK, domestic violence is a common and acceptable occurrence and that gross people with unhealthy opinion (see : Ben, Michael, people who agree with them) should be put on a pedestal. That's not the case and these are the sorts of people whose actions should be frowned upon. I already know that this post will result in a few ruffled feathers and plenty of angry comments but if you agree with anything I've said, please spread this around via Twitter, Facebook or [insert social media of choice] to open some eyes and ears to what's going on, thank you. (And you can click here to subscribe to JSX).
DISCLAIMER: This post was written several years ago when I had far less journalistic experience than I do now. I'm done with defending the piece and I'm done with defending myself because this post was wrong in the first place. I no longer stand by many of the things that I said in it (the opinion that Fassbender is the wrong person for the Assassin's Creed job stands – but that's because I don't see him as any of the AC protagonists and for no other reason!) and in reality my previous statements were based off of evidence that either didn't or couldn't paint an entire picture of the opinions that I was stating. This disclaimer isn't being posted because of the backlash that it's gotten but because there are some real actual criticisms that I, two years after writing this, can no longer argue against. In short: the people who have commented so far are right in many ways and there are too many holes in the evidence (as many of you have pointed out so I won't rehash here) for me to portray it as concrete as I admittedly did. The site isn't a gossip blog and nowadays J Station X deals with cold, hard statistics that can be picked apart – opinions still matter but not like this. This article was poor, shoddy journalism and I'm leaving it up as a testament and a promise to do better. There's a strong likelihood that I'll delete the post in the future but for now all I can do is offer an apology for being so naiive and foolish to publish this article in the first place.
The Female Assassin in Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation isn't Just Good for Women, But Gamers Too
Rather than waxing lyrical as to why Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation is a more-than-worthy addition to the Assassin's Creed franchise, following in the stabby footsteps of Ezio and Altair who came before him, let's just talk about the fact that the inclusion of a female assassin in Ubisoft's leading series is really cool, shall we?
As a woman, I'm absolutely delighted that finally, a leading game character of a leading game franchise is a badass woman, showing everyone that we are just as capable of carrying a game franchise as our male cohorts. On the other hand, as a critic of video games, I feel that Ubisoft's decision to make the protagonist of Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation a woman is just as fantastic because it means that the conversation on women in games doesn't have to be dominated by talk of the entirely ridiculous (and completely unrealistic) cup size that lady adventurer Lara Croft has been sporting for the past few Tomb Raider titles. No, instead we can all rejoice in the fact that a top video game developer has finally realised that a woman with a vengeance is just as lethal as a man with a vengeance and boy, oh boy, will she vent that anger.
And I know that plenty of people have criticised Ubisoft for the decision to star Aveline as the lead in Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation because it's a handheld title on a console (the PlayStation Vita) that has yet to come into its own and frankly, I think that's wrong. While I don't think Aveline is a representation of me or any of the brilliant ladies I know, I think this because Aveline is fearless and brave and we are (for the most part) awkward and cowardly. But despite this, it's terrific that Ubisoft understand that there is a woman out there (less inept than I) who is capable of embodying the role of a stone cold killer, regardless of the stage that she's killing on. The fact that she's in the spotlight at all is a huge step forward for the industry.
In turn, people have also been heckling Ubi for Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation because 'women can't be assassins, the protagonist should be a man!', well, I tell those people to shush. This isn't a case of 'women deserve to star as the lead!' (okay, it sort of is) but it's a case for thought out and engaging protagonists too. Ubisoft cannot regress to the shaven-head, muscleman, hunky athletic archetype that so many male leads fall into, instead they have to really think about the character that Aveline is because this woman just wouldn't fit that meathead soldier role – not down to her womanhood, just for the fact that it wouldn't make any sense.
Just like Dead Space did for IPs, hopefully Aveline will lead the way for better written characters, eschewing stereotypes and pre-conceived ideals that the marketing teams of publishing houses think we want and will rather use their smarts to lovingly carve more characters that we will actually care a toss about after the credits roll.
And with that, I present to you the Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation E3 reveal trailer.
Assassin's Creed 3 Liberation E3 Reveal Trailer via ubisoft on YouTube.
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Star Wars Tarot: Two of Staves
When you're going from here to there, you can't do it with one foot… net very well at least. You'd be like a maimed Anakin Skywalker on a Volcano planet, screaming "I hate you" and trying to do his best with the woody dialogue he memorized in his trailed. Or maybe you'd hobble around like a humanoid droid holding your other foot, shortly after you've been rebuilt by your astromech counterpart.
You need at least two feet to make the first step.
Early on in any journey or endeavor, we don't just need to know our goal, but we need to make plans for that goal. In "A New Hope" Luke wanted to be a Jedi but the only person he knew who could train him was died at the end. Then he went to Dagobah, met Yoda and now we have a plan to confront Vader.
Senator Palpatine had a plan. It involved starting a war, becoming the head of Senate and killing all the Jedi. And all this can be seen visually in the holographic plans of the Death Star.
To have a plan doesn't simply mean creating a list or directions and then following those directions. It's actually kind of rebellious because you're subverting the natural order, the given system or someone else's plans. There is a boldness to it. You're going to piss someone off, and in the case of galactic conquest, kill a lot of people.
But I got side-tracked here. This card isn't explicitly about making plans, but it is about having power. Having respect, dominion and authority. Wielding the Force for your goals.
This card is about power and power can be seductive. In the case of the Emperor, he wielded power for its own sake and not in the service for others. Something a Jedi should watch out for.
May The Force Be With You.
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Star Wars Tarot: Ace of Staves
One of the first things I noticed about the Rider-Waite Ace of Wands card is how much the wand resembles a penis with a leaf growing out of it. This would make my inner-twelve-year-old giggle, which isn't a very suppressed part of myself. A friend called it "The Ace of Dickweeds". I mean, its made out of wood!
But since we're on the subject of phallic symbols, let's talk about The Sword again. The sword was the first known weapon specifically created to kill another human being. It cuts down. It destroys. It destroys lies with truth and logic. It upholds justice with force, or in the case of the Jedi, THE Force. It is severe masculinity. Remember Space Balls when they had their lightsaber fight? It was pretty much a contest of whose Schwartz were bigger. Who was a more man? Who was dominant? Who had a bigger dick?
The Staff, or Wand, isn't a tool of destruction (at least that's not its main use). If you put some bristles at the end of it, you can make a brush. And the brush can paint a beautiful masterpiece or put a coat of paint on a newly constructed house. And that home is made out of Staves or staffs or wood refined for human use. Where Swords are the masculine's severity, Staves are its mercy. It creates, rather than destroys. It builds up, rather than takes apart.
The staff is also associated with fire. You can burn wood. Yes, fire is destructive, but if used properly, you can make a good meal, a porceline plate, even a sword. Unlike the element of air, which is assoiated with thoughts and logic, fire is associated with creativity, passion, intuition, excitement, and spirtuality. It can be a light of inspiration, the burning one feels for those they want to kill, those they want to make passionate love to, or for those in complex relationships, both. It can be the Bodhi tree that the Buddha sat under. Or it could be the cross that Christ died on, a symbol of faith. Both trees gave light to both men.
The Tuskin Riders are a firey people, wouldn't you agree? The first time we see one, it attacked Luke Skywalker, holding its Staff over its head. Yelling in rage like a cross between a wild animal and a broken tuba. Do you think you can logically talk your way out of an attack by Sand People? They're savages! Not like the noble savages of the Wookie or the adorable savages of the Ewoks. They kidnapped and tortured Darth Vader's mom. They didn't have a reason, either because they're that savage or that under developed. They are more like a natural force than a band of nomadic people. Stormtroopers tried to frame them by destroying the Jawa transporter. An easy scapegoat because you know they've attacked Jawas before. They randomly shoot Pod Racers. And most importantly, their savagery ignited Anakin's hate and anger and pushed him ever so closer to the Dark Side of the Force.
The design of this card is based on that first time you see a Sand Person but I added distant smoke to further emphasize the wild and firery personality of the Tuskin Raiders.
But enough of Sand People. We can find Staves among the Ewoks and the Wookies. They represent another side of the Staves. These creatures CAN be reasoned with. Your intuition and passion and creativity can be an ally and be used to bring down the Dark Side or the evil Empire. It can help you take down your own personal Dark Side… or as C.G. Jung would call it, your Shadow. Actually, all the tarot cards can help do that, even the scarey looking ones.
When I see this card in a reading, it means that your intuition or creativity of fire is just below the surface ready to erupt. Its a plant, the North American Dickweed, just about to grow out of the ground. Its a reset buton. Your will and faith and sense of adventure are renewed. And its hard to say what that really means. Because the Staves don't represent things, but how things are done.
May The Force Be With You.
Star Wars Tarot: 13. Death
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A Break-up Letter to San Diego Comic Con
Dear San Diego Comic Con,
When I first met you, I just graduated from high school. You were so cool. We would hang out all day and talk about what we wanted to be when we grew up. But around that time, you also started to hanging out with the popular kids. They were all wrong for you. They didn't really care about you or comics. They just wanted to use you. Your attitude started to change. You got all conceited. I mean, you were still cool, even sexy with all that cosplay and sh!t. We still had some good times!
Remember that booth we rented? Or that table? Remember that magical night we watched Warren Ellis talk? Or that Tenacious D concert? Or when I was nominated for that award?! Or remember just simply, staying up late watching movies and cartoons? You always managed to blow my mind and show me something beautiful and new. You always seemed to inspire my creativity and my soul.
Those were good times, San Diego Comic Con. They were great, in fact. Those were times that, more than anything, I wanted to be inside you. And I wanted to stay inside you for a long long time. But now, everyone's inside you: the press, Hollywood, people who've never even read a comic book. We just don't have that special connection anymore and I can't imagine sharing you like that.
Now I hear that you've become a Goldigger lately so more people can be inside you. So more people can use you and throw money at you. You've lost sight at what's important, San Diego Comic Con. It sickens me a bit, but I'm not here to judge you. You've meant so much in my life: those fourteen or fifteen years we spent with each other are priceless.
The sad thing is, most of those people, those new people in your life, will never understand you like I do. Most of those people don't love you like I do. They just want to have their way with you, maybe for the weekend or just one day, but I wanted you all the time. If I had you all year long, I'd be a very happy man.
It's been over between us for a while now. Ever since that argument we had at the Portfolio Review section in 2010. What the f#ck were you thinking!?
Anyway please, please, San Diego Comic Con, please have some dignity! Or at least hold onto the dignity that you have left. You deserve so much better. You used to be so smart and charming, but now its like all of your intelligence has left the room. {You see, that was a metaphor for all the smart and interesting panel discussions like the Comic Arts Conference or Spirituality in Comics… which was a panel discussion I was on one year…. its a metaphor for those types of events being moved to the Marriott instead of staying in the Convention Center.}
Anyway, I've been seeing other conventions. I started seeing Comikaze, probably because we live in the same neighborhood. Although we don't have as long as a history like you and I. WonderCon Anaheim is really cool, but I had to admit, the first time we met, it was really rocky and the parking sucks because there's that weird cheerleader thing going on. What's up with that? AnimeExpo is awfully cute, and you know I have that thing for the Japanese, but… I never had deep, thoughtful, inspiring moments with AnimeExpo like I had with you.
I've never had a convention like you before and I'll never have a convention like you again.
Here's Looking At You Kid,
PS. But if I'm ever nominated for an Eisner Award again… I. will. SO. WRECK YOU!
—and you'd be all like, "say my name! say my name!" and I'd be like, "that's how you LIKE it you naughty naughty convention!" And I wouldn't give a f#ck whose watching!
An Excerpt From That Novel I'll Never Finish: Red Line
Last week, I took the Red Line, the subway here in Los Angeles, to Downtown. The train was filled with neutral, silent faces except for a father and his three very young children. He sang to them songs, the type you'd learn in Pre-school and Kindergarden. He kept them entertained as a means to keep them seated. A lesser man would yell at them and bark commands, but he sang to them and made them laugh. He made sure they were safe and behaved.
So, of course, I chose the empty seat across from him.
The father noticed my bag. My bag is one of a kind. It is an ornate and metallic Tibetan scroll holder attached to an East German Map bag. He pointed at it and told his kids that that's the magic scroll from Kung Fu Panda. The children were in awe.
The train's speakers announced that my stop, 7th & Metro, was coming up. So I showed the kids the metallic scroll holder. They asked to touch it and I let them. It is a mysterious looking thing that I traveled as far as Echo Park to attain it. I have two of them, each one cost me about forty bucks. Although I've seen some on eBay selling at 80.
Anyway, the kids wanted to see what was inside. I opened the cover and all there was were pencils and pens. "This is magic." I whispered. The kids looked at me with confusion. "This is real magic. I use these to control words and pictures. Kings have ruled with art and pictures. And those kings have been brought down with words. Master the words that come out of your mouth, your heart, and the ones you craft with your pen. Ask yourself what the pictures are telling you, or more likely, what they're selling you. Go to school, and sharpen your tongue like you sharpen a fine and dangerous weapon. Study art and understand the designed world. For some day, you may bring down a corrupt king or become a just one."
My stop came up and the doors slid open. Instinctively, I threw a smoke bomb onto the floor and disappeared from the three children and their father. As I left, like a ghost, I said, "You're an awesome dad!"
True story.
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Star Wars Tarot: The High Priestess
One of the biggest challenges of adapting Star Wars into a set of Tarot cards is the lack of female characters. Sure, there are a lot of female characters in the Extended Universe but that may or may not be cannon. This whole problem of the lack of females in the Star Wars movies reminds me when me and my sister used to play with our toys. Although my childhood memories are hazy, I do remember a diminutive Darth Vader riding in the passenger's seat as Barbie took him for a ride on her pink Corvette.
The female parts are a little underwritten.
–Amy Poehler
Our last card was "one", the Magician. We are at number two, the Divine Feminine. Where a Magician has to train and study to perfect his craft, The High Priestess just is. It just happens. Traditionally, for boys to become men, they have to go through initiation, or they have to prove themselves as a man. When a girl becomes a woman, one day it just biologically happens. Personally, it reminds me of how me and my sister separately learned Tarot. She just picked up on it and would give very intuitive readings. I read books, went to lectures, practiced and made mistakes.
Now, I know I might tread into language that might be politically incorrect. "Masculine" doesn't necessarily mean "a man" and "feminine" doesn't necessarily mean "a woman". I have met women way more masculine than any man I've met and men who are way more feminine than any woman I've met. And I'll probably use other terminology that has nothing to do with gender issues, but with explaining my understanding of Tarot.
So The High Priestess is "The better half." She is kind of like a female magician, maybe even a wife or girlfriend. But also The High Priestess used to be The Popess, a female Heirophant (or the Pope). The feminine principle is hidden, mysterious and subconscious. Within Christendom, in the Holy Trinity, The Holy Spirit is feminine. We can understand what the Father and the Son are, but the Holy Spirit is a lot more abstract. So is The Force.
Often times, this subtle power that the feminine has has been mistaken for the women being the weaker sex. Subtle doesn't mean weak. Gravity is a very subtle force in the Universe. But without it, there would be no stars or planets or galaxies. Can you imagine what your life would be without your mother? And if you were motherless, didn't you often dream about what it would be like to have one? Being a woman is powerful. There are countless times I've made a fool of myself to a nice girl. They really don't have to do much, hell, they don't have to even be that pretty.
I work in a very masculine, geeky, industry. When its just men in the room, it has a certain energy. When you introduce some women– and I don't mean "we're going to hook up with our co-workers"– when you just bring women into a very male environment, things change. Its a bit lighter, more balanced and a bit more sociable.
Behind every great man there's a woman.
A long time ago, George Lucas had a wife, Marcia Lucas. She was the editor on George Lucas's early films. They had a divorce toward the end of Return of The Jedi. Being a creative person, you're probably going to talk about a good amount of your ideas to whoever's sleeping in your bed. And if that person is smart and creative, they're going to call out on your bullshit. They're going to tell you when your work sucks or when they don't understand this or that. They will be supportive, but they will be honest. I could just imagine George Lucas showing Marcia his first draft of Star Wars and Marcia telling him what she liked and what she didn't understand. I could imagine them disagreeing on how this shot or that shot should be edited. I can also imagine how messy this divorce was since the Oscar Award Winning Editor, Marcia Lucas, has only been mentioned in passing from official LucasFilm books. She might have not been a writer or producer or director in the creation of Star Wars, but I can't see a woman in her position, both as an editor and a wife, have some sort of influence on the films.
I have an innate ability to take good material and make it better, or take bad material and make it fair. I'm compulsive about it. I think I'm even an editor in real life.
–Marcia Lucas
The Prequels are a good example of a Magician (ego) without their better half, High Priestess (subconscious). When George Lucas made "A New Hope" he was just a film school graduate who made some interesting films. When he made "The Phantom Menace" he was GEORGE LUCAS and no one questioned his ideas or his authority. No one took him aside and told him, "I'm not so sure about this Jar Jar character." And the only person who could say anything like that was no longer sleeping in his bed.
So, here we have Princess Leia hiding secret plans in R2D2. And then when Luke Skywalker sees a part of this message, he had to find out who this girl is as if she was a part of him.
When you compare Luke Skywalker to Princess Leia, Luke is defined by what he is doing. Princess Leia is defined by what is revealed. As we got to know Princess Leia, we assume she's a damsel in distress, but later on we find out that she's not a bad shot. Her love for Han Solo is hidden, even by her, although its apparent to Han Solo. She was a hidden Jedi. She never knew she was Darth Vader's daughter or Luke Skywalker's twin sister. Plus, that metal bikini was a revelation in and of itself.
She is the better half of Luke Skywalker, separated at birth and sort of attracted to each other in an incestuous way. When Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were being written, you could get a sense that the whole brother/sister thing was written a little later. It could have easily been written where they weren't siblings and they lived happily ever after.
The Force runs strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. And… my sister has it. Yes. It's you, Leia.
–Luke Skywalker
On The Khabbalistic Tree of Life, The High Priestess is associated with the path between Kether and Tiphareth. Tiphareth means "Beauty" and its associated with the heart, the sun, the son (as in Jesus Christ), other god-like men like the Buddha. Kether means "Crown" and it gets more abstract, its God in the highest. It kind of see this as a trinity. Two Sephora held together by the mysterious and sacred feminine. That if you travel past the Christ or the Buddha or the best part of yourself, you can reach the Divine, the Force.
Tao produces one
One produces two
Two produce three
Three produce myriad things
–Lao Tzu
Do you think Luke could have ever done it without the love (as ambiguous you want to define that word) for his sister? My Dad just turned 7. I can't imagine him living without my Mother by his side? Behind every great man is a great woman. Behind Darth Vader's anger is his dead mother. A great Force is hidden behind your subconscious. If you do not recognize this side of yourself: the feminine, intuitive, secret, hidden side of yourself, then you might just end up with a cold, robotic, asthmatic heart. You might end up as some shriveled up old power-hungry Emperor. You might end up with too many damn Star Wars figures displayed in your room. Maybe if you got rid of half of them, you can make room for someone to share your bed with.
May The Force Be With You.
Next, The Empress (But I haven't done that, so the next is The Hanged Man>>
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Class B shares of Berkshire stock rose $1.47 Monday to close at $69.24. It's Class A shares gained $1,528 to close at $103,800.
Besides investments, Berkshire owns roughly 80 subsidiaries, including clothing, furniture and jewelry firms, but its insurance and utility businesses typically account for more than half of the company's net income. It has major investments in such companies as Coca-Cola Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
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