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-4 in Peoria, IL
It is -4 in Peoria, IL, and I am not talking about the windchill either. The wind has died down a bit.
It was 24 when I went to bed, though the wind was starting to howl.
Workout notes: probably going to the Riverplex (the gym) after this post to use the track, treadmill and whatever strikes my fancy. 6 miles on the track then 5 on the treadmill (or some combination thereof) sounds about right.
Topics for the day
Football: I am playing college "pick 'em" and I only got one of the 4 bowl games right. But the three that I lost were ranked 1, 2, and 3 on how confident I was (34 being the most confident); my one correct pick was ranked 28.
For the record I picked South Florida (as did everyone else), Fresno State, BYU and Navy. Fresno and Navy had chances to win in the 4th quarter.
Other topics
Science and mathematics:
Jorge Luis Borges and his library of Babel: Imagine a library in which every room of books is laid out in exactly the same way. But here is the kicker: given a language of a fixed number of characters, punctuation marks and spaces, your library has to contain every single possible book (up to a certain length) that could be written, including books that have complete nonsense in them.
The upside: you'll have every book in this library. The downside: you'd better have some free time to find the book you'd want. :)
This is a piece of this fun article:
These combinatorial exercises are the most obvious instances where mathematics can illuminate the Borges story, but Bloch finds much else to comment on as well. Many of his notes concern the structure of the library itself rather than the books in it, focusing on details that I blithely passed over in my own readings of the story. Borges describes the library as a close-packed array of hexagonal rooms. Four walls of each hexagon are lined with bookshelves, holding a total of 640 books; the other two walls provide portals to adjacent hexagons. Vertically, the levels of the library are connected by ventilation shafts and spiral stairways. This design has some curious consequences. For example, Bloch points out that somewhere in the library there must be at least one hexagon whose shelves are not full. The reason is that 251,312,000 is not evenly divisible by 640.
For me the biggest surprise in Bloch's commentary comes in a chapter that applies ideas from graph theory to the layout of the library. Another celebrated Borges story is titled "The Garden of Forking Paths," but it turns out the library consists entirely of forkless passages; there can be no branch points in any route weaving through a floor of the library. If you view each hexagon as a node of a graph, then all the nodes are of degree 2, connected to just two other nodes. Branching requires nodes with at least three connections. Similarly, the vertical structure of the library is strongly constrained by the ventilation shafts and stairways that connect the levels. Depending on exactly how Borges's description is interpreted, it may be that every floor is required to have exactly the same layout. It's even possible that the graph of the library is divided into multiple disjoint components. If that's the case, then although the library holds all possible 410-page books, there's no guarantee you can get to them all.
Human Evolution: still going on….and has been going on even in the last 5000 years!
Tracking human evolution used to be the province solely of paleontologists, those of us who study fossil bones from the ancient past. The human family, called the Hominidae, goes back at least seven million years to the appearance of a small proto-human called Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
Since then, our family has had a still disputed, but rather diverse, number of new species in it—as many as nine that we know of and others surely still hidden in the notoriously poor hominid fossil record. Because early human skeletons rarely made it into sedimentary rocks before they were scavenged, this estimate changes from year to year as new discoveries and new interpretations of past bones make their way into print [see "Once We Were Not Alone," by Ian Tattersall; Scientific American, January 2000, and "An Ancestor to Call Our Own," by Kate Wong; Scientific American, January 2003].
Each new species evolved when a small group of hominids somehow became separated from the larger population for many generations and then found itself in novel environmental conditions favoring a different set of adaptations. Cut off from kin, the small population went its own genetic route and eventually its members could no longer successfully reproduce with the parent population.
The fossil record tells us that the oldest member of our own species lived 195,000 years ago in what is now Ethiopia. From there it spread out across the globe. By 10,000 years ago modern humans had successfully colonized each of the continents save Antarctica, and adaptations to these many locales (among other evolutionary forces) led to what we loosely call races. Groups living in different places evidently retained just enough connections with one another to avoid evolving into separate species. With the globe fairly well covered, one might expect that the time for evolving was pretty much finished.
But that turns out not to be the case. In a study published a year ago Henry C. Harpending of the University of Utah, John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and their colleagues analyzed data from the international haplotype map of the human genome [see "Traces of a Distant Past," by Gary Stix; Scientific American, July 2008]. They focused on genetic markers in 270 people from four groups: Han Chinese, Japanese, Yoruba and northern Europeans. They found that at least 7 percent of human genes underwent evolution as recently as 5,000 years ago. Much of the change involved adaptations to particular environments, both natural and human-shaped. For example, few people in China and Africa can digest fresh milk into adulthood, whereas almost everyone in Sweden and Denmark can. This ability presumably arose as an adaptation to dairy farming.
Another study by Pardis C. Sabeti of Harvard University and her colleagues used huge data sets of genetic variation to look for signs of natural selection across the human genome. More than 300 regions on the genome showed evidence of recent changes that improved people's chance of surviving and reproducing. Examples included resistance to one of Africa's great scourges, the virus causing Lassa fever; partial resistance to other diseases, such as malaria, among some African populations; changes in skin pigmentation and development of hair follicles among Asians; and the evolution of lighter skin and blue eyes in northern Europe.
Harpending and Hawks's team estimated that over the past 10,000 years humans have evolved as much as 100 times faster than at any other time since the split of the earliest hominid from the ancestors of modern chimpanzees. The team attributed the quickening pace to the variety of environments humans moved into and the changes in living conditions brought about by agriculture and cities. It was not farming per se or the changes in the landscape that conversion of wild habitat to tamed fields brought about but the often lethal combination of poor sanitation, novel diet and emerging diseases (from other humans as well as domesticated animals). Although some researchers have expressed reservations about these estimates, the basic point seems clear: humans are first-class evolvers.
Much more is there: what is currently going on? Is the fact that that, in general, dumber people have more kids hurting our human race, at least as far as intelligence? (hint: the evidence indicates: "no"; read on to find out why)
I was lead to these articles by the following entries in 3 quarks daily: this one and that one.
If I had to restrict myself to reading just one "non personal" blog, it would be 3-quarks daily.
Science and Obama: I am not the only one who thinks that Obama is delivering on his science related promises.
Many scientists have been actively supporting Obama. This support stems, in part, from a feeling that any change from the past eight years can only be an improvement. But there has also been a belief that Obama fundamentally understands how science works. That he appreciates its relevance to the key issues of the day. And that he will actively solicit input from the scientific community, and that this input will appropriately inform his decisions. All of this has been primarily hypothetical, based mostly on somewhat vague statements and sound bites. Today Obama gave his weekly radio/YouTube address, and it was exclusively devoted to science and technology. In addition to Steve Chu and John Holdren, he has now added Harold Varmus and Eric Lander as co-chairs of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He has assembled a scientific dream team, including two Nobel Laureates, and a host of eminent scientists with public-policy experience. A President is not expected to master the scientific issues at stake. A President's effectiveness depends solely and crucially on their choice of appointments. These appointments are thus the first and most important scientific decision Obama will make, and he has done an extraordinary job. Of course, the next most important aspect will be whether or not Obama listens to their advice. This will be an extremely difficult group to ignore. In his weekly address Obama announces the appointments, but then articulates his concerns:
The article goes on to point out that we no longer just have "hope" with regards to Obama, but we have what he has promised.
THAT, to me, vastly outweighs any anguish over his making a bad pick to give the invocation at his inauguration.
Higher Education: From "Rate Your Students":
A professor reads her evaluations. Here is one of them:
# "Not bad on the eyes" or any synonym for "cute."
A+ student. Granted, students are more likely to learn when there's something worth paying attention to. But this kind of comment makes me feel dirty. Or phony, like Sarah Palin. But I consider myself more articulate and couldn't shoot a moose even if it handed me the gun.
I am not saying that this is the case here, but we had a couple of feminist professors. One used to wear tight leather skirts to class. Another (older) one used to wear see through pants suits (complete with bikini underpants); one student described the latter as "being old". She would have died had she heard that comment. :)
Another professor has a battle with cell phones:
I have a strict "no cell phones in class" policy that reflects the University's policy. My class meets once weekly and the second half of class is a feature-length film screening. What really galls me is when students use their phones during screenings, thinking somehow how those bright lights are not visible and therefore not distracting. But that is beside the point; it's NOT ALLOWED
Ours implemented a policy that someone in each classroom must have one turned on! Why? Well, to "keep us safe" of course. Never mind that this is a gross overreaction to the possibility of a rare incident or that such overreactions (a campus panic over a routine fist fight!) often cause more harm than good.
Social and religion: did you know that the police in Connecticut are keeping you safe from "swinging clubs"? That's right: if some couples want to rent out a club (and keep it private) and have kinky sex, well, the police will keep you safe from them!
Of course, I wonder which social force is behind such an idiotic thing; nah, you don't need to wonder. This was put very well at the Richard Dawkins site (though the author of this article was referring to Great Britain, it can apply equally well here)
I wonder whether, in the dialogue of the deaf that this quarrel has become, a few reminders might be in order. Secularism is the view that religious outlooks, though perfectly entitled to exist and have their say, are not entitled to a bigger slice of the public pie than any other self-constituted, self-appointed, self-selected and self-serving civil society organisation. Yet the religious persistently ask for special treatment: public money for their "faith-based" schools, seats in the House of Lords, exemption from laws inconvenient to their prejudices, and so endlessly on. They even have the cheek to ask for "respect" for their silly and antiquated beliefs; and in Geneva at the Human Rights Council the Islamic countries are trying to subvert the Universal Declaration of Human Rights because it is inconvenient to their medieval, sexist, intolerant outlook.
Secularists in the west say to the apologists of the religions: your beliefs are your choice, so take your place in the queue. They also say: you've had it your own way for a very long time – and committed a lot of crimes in the process – and you still fancy yourself entitled, but you aren't. You don't smell too good at times, so don't try to tell me what I can read, see on TV, do in my private time, think or say. In fact, keep your sticky fingers off my life. Believe what you like but don't expect me to admire or excuse you because of it: rather the contrary, given the fairy-stories in question. And when you are a danger to the lives and liberties of others, which alas is too frequently the wont of your ilk, we will speak out against you as loudly, persistently, and uncompromisingly as we can.
Speaking of the Dawkins site: one of the things I like most about it is that it covers articles that are critical of Dawkins and the whole so-called "new atheist movement". Here is one such article (the article it links to).
Note: it takes some patience to read the article that it links to and it might not be worth the effort. Here is a sample of what is there:
Today's "new atheists" are not at all impressed with the moral credentials of the Old Testament (OT) God. Oxonian Richard Dawkins thinks that Yahweh is truly a moral monster: "What makes my jaw drop is that people today should base their lives on such an appalling role model as Yahweh-and even worse, that they should bossily try to force the same evil monster (whether fact or fiction) on the rest of us."[1]
Dawkins deems God's commanding Abraham to sacrifice Isaac to be "disgraceful" and tantamount to "child abuse and bullying."[2] Moreover, this God breaks into a "monumental rage whenever his chosen people flirted with a rival god," resembling "nothing so much as sexual jealousy of the worst kind."[3] Add to this the killing of the Canaanites-an "ethnic cleansing" in which "bloodthirsty massacres" were carried out with "xenophobic relish." Joshua's destruction of Jericho is "morally indistinguishable from Hitler's invasion of Poland, or Saddam Hussein's massacres of the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs."[4] […]
They then lay out other criticisms that new atheists make.
These are the charges made by the new atheists. Are they fair representations? I shall argue that they are not. Though certain OT texts present challenges and difficulties, navigating these waters is achievable with patient, nuanced attention given to the relevant OT texts, the ancient Near East (ANE) context, and the broader biblical canon.
In other words, they will cherry pick what they like and rationalize away what they don't.
This is the kind of stuff that you'll find there:
Or consider race (remember Dawkins's "xenophobic" charge). Yes, the Pentateuch's legal code in places does differentiate between Israelite and non-Israelite slaves (for example, Exod. 12:43, where non-Israelites are not to partake in the Passover); it grants remitting loans to Israelites but not to foreigners (Deut. 15:3); it allows for exacting interest from a foreigner but not from a fellow Israelite (Deut. 23:20); Moabites and Ammonites are excluded from the sanctuary (Deut. 23:3).[31] To stop here, as the new atheists do, is to overlook the Pentateuch's narrative indicating God's concern for bringing blessing to all humanity (Gen. 12:1-3). Even more fundamentally, human beings have been created in God's image as co-rulers with God over creation (Gen. 1:26-7; Ps. 8)-unlike the ANE mindset, in which the earthly king was the image-bearer of the gods. The imago Dei establishes the fundamental equality of human beings, despite the ethnocentrism and practice of slavery within Israel.
In other words, when confronted with the evil that is in the Bible, find something good in it and focus on that.
They go on:
Any treatment of the Hebrew Bible with regard to ethics, especially as an ethical resource to contemporary communities, must acknowledge the impediment created by the simple fact that these texts are rooted in a cultural context utterly unlike our own, with moral presuppositions and categories that are alien and in some cases repugnant to our modern sensibilities.[38]
Which is one good reason why the Bible shouldn't be seen as a source for modern morality. :)
According to Birch, we should acknowledge rather than ignore or downplay morally-objectionable practices and attitudes within Israel such as patriarchalism, slavery, ethnocentrism, and the like. He adds a crucial point, however: none of these practices and attitudes is "without contrary witness" elsewhere in the OT.[43] The new atheists gloss over any "contrary witness," focusing only on the morally problematic. However, closer examination reveals that Scripture itself (rather than twenty-first-century critics) has the resources to guide us regarding what is ideal and normative and what is temporary and sui generis in the Bible.[44]
In other words, cherry pick what you like; blow off what you don't.
Then after Israel had to wait over four hundred years and undergo bondage in Egypt while the sin of the Amorites was building to full measure (Gen. 15:16), God delivered them out of slavery and provided a place for them to live as a nation-"a political entity with a place in the history books." Yahweh had now created a theocracy-a religious, social, and political environment in which Israel had to live. Yet she needed to inhabit a land, which would include warfare. So Yahweh fought on behalf of Israel while bringing just judgment upon a Canaanite culture that had sunk hopelessly below any hope of moral return (with the rare exception of Rahab and her family)-a situation quite unlike the time of the patriarchy.
Let me add a few more thoughts about warfare here. First, Israel would not have been justified to attack the Canaanites without Yahweh's explicit command. Yahweh issued his command in light of a morally-sufficient reason-the incorrigible wickedness of Canaanite culture. Second, the language of Deuteronomy 7:2-5 assumes that, despite Yahweh's command to bring punishment to the Canaanites, they would not be obliterated-hence the warnings not to make political alliances or intermarry with them. We see from this passage too that wiping out Canaanite religion was far more significant than wiping out the Canaanites themselves.[67] Third, the "obliteration language" in Joshua (for example, "he left no survivor" and "utterly destroyed all who breathed" [10:40]) is clearly hyperbolic. Consider how, despite such language, the text of Joshua itself assumes Canaanites still inhabit the land:
Ok, now to Joshua's reported genocide. "Well, the HAD to do it because they were that bad, but well, they really didn't do it anyway". :)
But here is the best part:
The new atheists consider Yahweh to be impatient, jealous, and easily provoked. In actual fact, God endures much rejection from his people. God is often exasperated with and hurt by his people, asking, "What more was there to do for My vineyard [Israel] that I have not done in it?" (Isa. 5:4). Again: "How I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols" (Ezek. 6:9). And again: "I have spread out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in the way which is not good, following their own thoughts, a people who continually provoke Me to My face" (Isa. 65:2-3).
Thus when Dawkins accuses God of breaking into a "monumental rage whenever his chosen people flirted with a rival god"-as "nothing so much as sexual jealousy of the worst kind"-he seems to show utter disregard for the significance of the marriage covenant-and, in particular, this unique bond between God and his people. Israel had not simply "flirted" with rival gods, but had cohabited with them, going from one lover to another, "playing the harlot" (cp. Ezek. 16 and 23). Hosea's notable portrayal of Israel as a prostitute-not a mere flirt-is far more serious than Dawkins's casual dismissal. The appropriate response to adultery is anger and hurt. When there is none, we rightly wonder how deeply and meaningfully committed to marriage one truly is.
Ok, god is anthropomorphized into something that can feel hurt and rejected. And we are supposed to ascribe the creation of the universe (complete with sophisticated scientific laws) to this character? Yeah, right. :)
Anyway, such BS as this is what one can expect to find from religious apologists.
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One of these two teams that got off to nightmarish starts to their Pac-10 campaign are going to end up with two losses when this one is said and done, as the Stanford Cardinal engage in NCAA football wagering warfare with the USC Trojans.
The Trojans might have good memories for the beat down that the Cardinal laid on them last year at home, but one would've thought that they would never let the Washington Huskies beat them for a second straight season either. The problem for USC this year is still not the offense. That unit is raking in 471.6 yards per game for the season and ranks No. 14 in the land in total 'O'. The rushing assault has been fantastic regardless of whether it has been RB Allen Bradford or RB Marc Tyler carrying the rock. The play of QB Matt Barkley has been great as well. Those three have combined for almost 2,000 yards of offense in just five games this year and are clearly forces to be reckoned with. Then there's the defense, which has now had two absolutely horrifying games this year. This unit ranks No. 100 in the country in total yardage at 418.8 yards per game. The Cardinal have to be licking their chops at how bad this pass defense is as well, ranking No. 117 of the 120 teams in major college football.
Through one quarter of play last week, it looked as though Stanford was going to make its push into the Top 5 in the nation for the first time in the HC Jim Harbaugh era. The Cardinal were ahead 21-3 of the Oregon Ducks… and then the wheels fell off… Stanford was outscored 49-10 from that point forward, including by a 28-0 margin in the second half alone, as it dropped 52-31. QB Andrew Luck and WR Ryan Whalen have to be loving this matchup this weekend. As we already mentioned, the Trojans have had absolutely no protection in their back line this year, and teams are constantly beating them up deep. Luck has thrown for 1,253 yards already this season and has 13 TD passes. Whalen, who has been out since the second week of the season, could be making a big time return against a team that he helped destroy last season. It's true that RB Toby Gerhart is no longer at Stanford, but we must remember that between Luck and then backup RB Stepfan Taylor, the two rushed for 123 yards against USC.
This is a hefty number for the Cardinal to cover, but we tend to think that they can do the deed in this one. A close game probably ends up going to the Trojans. Stanford is clearly the more likely team to post a blowout, as we know that the wheels could fall off of the USC train at any given second, knowing that there isn't a bowl game to be going to at the end of the season. Too much offense for the Cardinal for the Trojans to keep up.
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Day's appearance before Chief Judge David L. Cavendar lasted less than five minutes as he waived formal arraignment on the charge contained in an indictment returned in late May.
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1. Polish that crown: These ladies have been working on their poise, opening number and pageant smile for weeks. Let's give these ladies a cheer at the 17th Annual Ms. Coastal Bend Senior Pageant at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Performing Arts Center. See who out of the 10 contestants will take home the title. Tickets will be available at the door for $10. Read more about the pageant and who is competing here.
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3. Ha ha or LOL: Get your week's stress out by laughing it out at the grand opening of the Comics Live Comedy Club located downtown at 1214 North Chaparral adjacent to the Railroad Seafood Station. The first comedic event will be the Funniest in Corpus Christi competition at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday. See who will take home the title by purchasing $10 for each show or $15 for both shows at the door. Read more about the opening of the comedy club, who will be featured and the Funniest in Corpus Christi competition here.
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DELEGATES to the Annual General Meeting of the Tanzania's National Investment Company Limited (NICOL) have unanimously endorsed dismissal of the company's former Board Chairman, Mr Felix Mosha, saying that the company recorded a 9.8bn/- loss between 2007 and 2009 under his leadership.
The shareholders also issued a seven-day ultimatum for the former NICOL leadership to hand over the office and make company's financial records accessible to the interim leadership under Board Chairman Gideon Kaunda, otherwise he would be evicted from the office forcibly.
Before reading the resolutions in Dar es Salaam yesterday, the Interim NICOL Manager, Mr Kinon Adam Wamza, showed a letter from Business Registration and Licensing Authority (BRELA) indicating that the interim leadership installed in April 14, 2012 was mandated to undertake all NICOL operations yet the former leadership had refused to hand over and vacate the office. Part of the resolutions reads:
"The interim leadership should act decisively to inform agencies or organizations to avoid signing any business agreement with former NICOL leadership Mr Felix Mosha and CEO Ms Katherine Armstrong. These have been removed from office and are no longer recognized by shareholders."
Another point in the resolution instructs the former chairman to withdraw all cases he filed in courts and hand over the affairs of the company to the interim manager. Explaining the basis of the refusal by the former leadership to hand over the company, the Interim Manager, Mr Wamza, said it was based on their misinterpretation of the Commercial Court ruling that endorsed shareholders' powers for the management of the company.
There has never been a stay of execution for the court order. Judge Mark Bomani who is among the pioneers of NICOL, advised the interim leadership to study the current situation for an effective resuscitation of the company which should be on the hands of the newly entrusted interim leadership.
"I would like to tell our friend Felix Mosha that ten years as chairman are more than enough and he should step down in dignity to allow fresh ideas for the company to move forward," said Judge Bomani. The IPP Executive Chairman, Mr Reginald Mengi, said the current state of affairs was disappointing and hurting shareholders all over the country, as some sacrificed the little they had to build up the indigenous company.
Another pioneer of NICOL, Mr Arnold Kilewo, said the allegations about forgery of court documents could not be substantiated and the decision by shareholders was binding. "The interim leadership should be assisted and given a chance to come up with a comprehensive and viable investment plan," Kilewo suggested.
Another shareholder, Daudi Msangi, said it was improper for someone to cling to the office while the shareholders have demanded his resignation. The company's shareholders formed a team of elders to meet Mr Mosha and advise him on the way forward.
Asked to comment on the stakeholders' meeting, NICOL's former Board Chairman, Mr Felix Mosha briefly said he was not in a position to say much. "I am waiting to learn more about the details of the meeting. Once I have a copy of the presentations I will be more than willing to comment," Mr Mosha said.
On the decision by the stakeholders to appoint a team of five elders to consult with him, Mr Mosha said he fully supported the idea and was hopeful the discussion would be fruitful.


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In the sixth step, EPA estimated the human health benefits resulting from implementation of the proposed or alternative standards for each county in the continental United States and then summed across counties to give the national estimates. EPA estimated the reductions in the incidences of a number of human health effects (see Table 2-1). Although EPA indicated that a few additional health effects were quantified, the results were not included in the analysis. Human health effects that could not be quantified but were associated with exposure to the pollutants were also listed. The human health benefits were estimated on the basis of the differences in pre- and post-control air-quality data and quantitative concentration-response functions derived from the epidemiological literature. The Pope et al. (1995) study was used to determine mortality reductions resulting from PM reductions. For ozone, a meta-analysis of nine epidemiological studies was used to determine mortality reductions resulting from ozone decreases. Clinical studies were used to support data for effects of ozone exposure. One important assumption made in this analysis was that the health benefits were realized in the year in which the exposure reductions occurred. The benefits were monetized to derive a total benefits estimate that could be compared with the cost estimate.
The analytical uncertainty was partially reflected by providing a plausible range of benefits estimates.3 For the high-end estimates, an effects threshold of 12 µg/m3 was assumed for PM2.5-related long-term mortality, mortality benefits (deaths avoided) were estimated for reductions in ozone concentration using a meta-analysis of nine epidemiological studies, ancillary PM benefits were included in the ozone benefits estimates,4 and an approach based on the value of a statistical life (VSL) was used to monetize the mortality benefits. For the low-end estimate, an effects threshold of 15 µg/m3 was assumed for all PM2.5-related health outcomes, no mortality benefits were estimated for reductions in ozone concentration, no ancillary PM benefits were included in the ozone benefits analysis, and an approach based on the value of a statistical life year (VSLY) was used to value the
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Mohamud, a Hargeisa native, was arrested in February on charges of treason for serving in the Somali government.
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Dark Void will make you angry. Not because of its sometimes iffy controls or the fact that it isn't the next Crimson Skies. But because when you think that you're about to win a desperately fought fight, it often decides to shut you down by locking up.
But that is only the first of several issues that have made Dark Void a bitter disappointment for this would-be Rocketeer.
Airtight Games was formed by several developers that had left FASA Interactive shortly after completing Crimson Skies, taking with them some of the imaginative expertise that had created one of the most unique arcade fliers available for the PC and console crowd. Instead of embarking on another prop-driven fantasy, they decided to head into the unfriendly skies with an upgradeable jet pack stuffed to the turbines with hot lead. It's almost as close to a love letter for Disney's film adaptation of The Rocketeer could be without turning this into another movie tie-in. It even starts in the same year that the movie does: 1938.
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It's not a bad premise and mixing in conspiracy theories along with Nikola Tesla sounds like it could be fun. But even with Uncharted's Nolan North putting in a solid performance as Nathan Dra- er, Will, alongside other well acted characters, the story doesn't come off as much of a coherent adventure because of how little of it there actually is. Other than a few notable scenes, the presentation of its high flying yarn does a weak job of tying your actions into caring for anything else other than in shooting up more bad guys, a stark contrast to the vibrant color that the characters and setting of Crimson Skies had done so well with. There are journals scattered around that shed a little light on what is going on, but much like Resistance 2's approach, all of these little details will be lost to anyone that doesn't take the time to find them.
Even the opportunity to integrate Nikola Tesla feels wasted as the vaunted inventor is used in only a few scenes leaving the impression that he was only included for his name. I'm not asking for him to have been treated in the same way as Leonardo da Vinci was in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II where he proved to be helpful and as much a part of the story as the lead, but having more than a few cameos would probably have made him more than a passing fad.
But another factor to the story's weak ability to draw me in has more to do with the Void itself which is about as empty and as uninteresting as it sounds. There are a few sets that are great to fight through, but for the most part, once you've seen one alien base or rocky outcropping, you've seen it all. The stylized look of the characters added a bit more color to the storytelling cinematics, but some of the animations appeared pretty stiff and Ava's freakishly long fingers were just hard to get out of my head. On the plus side, the venue does provide plenty of vertical options to explore via jet pack or on foot. And Battlestar Galactica's Bear McCreary orchestrates a fantastic soundtrack that is worth listening to even if the rest of the game doesn't quite match its intensity.
The third-person action is divided into the flying stuff and the action on the ground as you take Will into a shoot 'em up against a seemingly endless, and extremely dumb, army of robot warriors. The ground action is as basic as it comes with a cover system, blind fire, and the handy ability to carry two different weapons at the same time. There are even upgradeable options that can be explored thanks to picking up "glowing balls" that bestow "tech points" Will can spend in between stages or at special weapon lockers. Each weapon has three different upgrade levels giving the player an additional incentive in exploring every corner of the Void for hidden caches, but the drudgery of the actual fighting makes even this endeavor unexciting.
The enemy has about as much genius as a rock thrown at you even if they do resemble the Geth from Mass Effect They can hurt you, sure, but they mostly use the same tactics making them, and the gameplay formula, painfully predictable. One neat trick that the game throws at the player is the ability to flip down a cliffside onto ledges and platforms below without fear, using those as vertical cover against enemies coming up. Once Will snags a jet pack, he can head up in the same way and this twist is pretty cool for awhile until the actual fighting and the sameness of your enemies turns this into yet another boring exercise.
But this is a flying game because the really awesome art on the case says so (the manual is also nice to look at). So it does better there, right? Sort of.
The flight mechanics take some getting used to. When the game begins, it literally throws you into the role of some guy with a jet pack in the Void, making another case for how slapdash the story is because it makes little effort to actually tell you just what you are looking at. Anyway, it will take you through the basics for when Will actually 'borrows' the rocket pack invented by Tesla (apparently he's okay with that…or not…that's also never made very clear) but it could have spent more time with what matters most: taking off.
Taking off without getting killed requires a little practice since you don't automatically go zipping into the direction that the reticle is necessarily pointed at and can easily end up smashing one's self into the ground, cliff, alien crate, or whatever else is nearby, lose control, and continue with said smashing until dead. If you expect Will to go straight up when he launches, don't be surprised if he crashes his head into the nearest wall.
Once you're in the air, though, the manageable controls and the pack's mounted machine guns make flying after enemy saucers more fun than in shooting up or kicking aliens on the ground. Will also has regenerating health which blurs the screen the more hurt he gets, but staying out of harm's way while on foot or while hovering in the air quickly put him back into fighting form. It's odd how he recovers from damage a lot slower when he's in flight, even without anyone shooting at him, though.
Will can also hijack enemy saucers, jump aboard human fighters as a pilot, or man an anti-aircraft cannon to sweep the air clear of bad guys. Of all of these activities, however, hijacking a saucer sounds like it could have been an exciting change of pace from using "human" weapons reverse engineered from alien tech, but I was wrong.
Hijacking a saucer requires a mini-game in which Will has to dodge a mounted defense cannon, hang on to the flipping ring of the saucer, and somehow find enough time to rip off the rear engine cover to force open the cockpit. Another QTE sequence later will determine whether or not Will kills the alien pilot or vice versa, but if successful, you now have a saucer with some decent firepower (you just have to trust the game on the fact that he just KNOWS how to fly these things).
If you think this is way too much to ask for over simply shooting it down instead with the jet pack, you would be right. After doing it the first few times, I decided to just simply blow everything out of the sky with my jet pack especially after upgrading it with missiles. The only reason I could see for hijacking more saucers was to get the Achievement for doing it so many times.
The pacing can also grind your patience down given how most of the game consists of simply shooting everything from the sky or on the ground. There were only a few exciting moments such as when Will had to bring down an alien battleship, or when he had to save his friends by bringing down three titanic alien walkers, but most every other sequence felt like typical combat filler against the same crop of mass produced peons.
Of all of these sequences, though, the worst one was when the game forced the player to escort a large ship through enemy territory in an excruciatingly drawn out shooting gallery several minutes longer than it should be for doing the same thing over and over again. There are also a one or two boss battles, but while they certainly appeared to have the potential to be awesome showpieces (the last stage probably had the best backdrop out of the entire game), they had little else to offer other than in putting on a good show of looking big and fearsome.
The game is also short. We're talking maybe five to seven hours worth of play with no multiplayer, no unlockable extras other than an improved radar to help find any bonus extras that might have been missed, or any other reason to go through it again. The formulaic feel of much of the action, other than in the directions that it explores, hardly made the gameplay worth it the first time through making it something that only Achievement hounds may want to pursue. Even then, there's one very good reason why replaying Dark Void is not on my list of things to do and the real reason for being thankful that it has a decent checkpoint system.
Dark Void is somewhat broken. It managed to freeze up no less than four times in one session and this is the same system I used with another Unreal Engine game, Army of Two: The 40th Day. I tried out a few other games to see if my system was to blame, such as Bayonetta, and everything else ran without a hiccup. Trying Dark Void again, it seemed to be working until the next stage when it froze up. I walked away from the game until the following day when it seemed to be fine, freezing up only once. But this, more than anything else, has convinced me that going back into it is far from being worth the frustration.
Remembering my time with Crimson Skies on the PC and on the Xbox made me hope that Dark Void could bring back more of the hot leaded daring it was known for backed by a rogue's gallery of personalities. The variety of missions, the crazy stunts, and the sheer number of things that I had enjoyed there are surprisingly absent from this game. It's not so much that I wanted another Crimson Skies, but that I wanted to play something that brought in the same spirit of adventure and white knuckled variety of action that anyone would want from a game with as much experience behind it.
There are hints that I picked up of what it could have been like, of the atmospheric flavor partly inspired by the Rocketeer, Flash Gordon, and the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Will is a likeable character, more could have been made of the Survivors and the Watchers, and it even leaves it open to a potential sequel. Instead, in looking past its vertical veneer, Dark Void's disappointingly forgettable action filled with unexpected technical surprises turn this into a flight would-be heroes may not regret skipping out on.
Dark Void
Xbox 360, PS3, Microsoft Windows
Capcom / Airtight Games
Rated T for Teen


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