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Katielee ArrowsmithStaff PhotographerKatielee is an imaginative and resourceful photographer with a great eye for a picture and the determination to get it. She graduated from the NCTJ course in Sheffield in 2000 and has done stints at the biggest press agencies in the world. Katielee has a broad depth of experience in hard news, features, showbiz and commercial work and comes highly recommended by both her clients and peers. Based in Edinburgh Katielee is forging a new future for SWNS in Scotland. See Katielee's Gallery here.
Adam GrayStaff PhotographerAdam joined SWNS after a spell in the North which saw him working on the Raoul Moat and Derrick Bird shootings. Now based in the SWNS Bristol office he has extensively covered major news stories such as the Somerset floods, the M5 crash and Glastonbury Festival. Adam is as happy photographing a dramatic landscape at 5.00am as he is managing a large scale studio shoot. See Adam's gallery here.
Peter SummersStaff PhotographerPeter Summers is a press photographer currently working for Newsteam/ South West News Service (SWNS) in Birmingham, England. Originally from Elgin in the north east of Scotland, Peter left school at 17 to undertake the NCTJ Press Photography/Photojournalism course in Bournemouth. After completing the course Peter worked as a freelance photographer before joining SWNS and moving to Birmingham in July 2013. See Peter's gallery here.
Henry NichollsStaff PhotographerOriginally from London, Henry joined SWNS in the summer of 2013 having completed a Photojournalism degree from the LCC in London. Based in Birmingham, he covers the eclectic variety of breaking news and feature stories for the national press across the UK, as well as working on PR assignments for an assortment of major companies. Henry enjoys both the fast pace and evolving nature of live news, and the creative challenge of portrait shoots and on location lighting, always hoping to bring original ideas to every job. See Henry's gallery here.
Jonathan RowleyStaff PhotographerJonathan Rowley is an experienced editorial photographer who is regularly requested and commissioned by the national media and large corporate clients. His stunning images have appeared in publications including National Geographic, NME and Hello, as well as the national and international press. With an adaptable and sensitive approach, Jonathan skills cover numerous varieties of photography such as aerial, music, portraiture, product, large events, documentary and PR. See Jon's Gallery.
Alastair JohnstoneStaff PhotographerAlastair joined SWNS in Bristol in summer 2014. Graduating with a degree in Photojournalism from the London College of Communication the same year, Alastair has a keen interest in news and current affairs, and is driven to visually illustrate stories, be it news, features, portraits or commercial PR. Experienced working in a wide range of situations and contexts. Alastair is confident, approachable, and comfortable adapting to the brief in hand, and greatly enjoys the challenges and variety of the job. See Alastair's gallery.
James DadzitisStaff PhotographerBased in Plymouth, James Dadzitis covers Devon and Cornwall for SWNS. James started his journey into press photography in 2007 at the Western Gazette where he completed his NCTJ qualification. He joined SWNS in 2011 and has never looked back. James has since gained his NCE in Press Photography and was commended at the Picture Editors Choice Awards in 2013 in the Young Photographer of the Year category. He is ambitious and always strives to achieve the very best results. James brings a sunny disposition and his friendly professionalism to every job he undertakes. See James' gallery.
Tom FlathersStaff PhotographerTom Flathers joined SWNS in May 2013 having had a great deal of experience in sports photography. Mentored by legendary sports photographer Bob Martin at Wimbledon 2010 at just age 19, Tom went from strength to strength photographing many of the midlands clubs in the Barclays Premier League and Football League in the 2011 season for AMA Sports Photo Agency under the guidance of Matthew Ashton. Tom greatly enjoys working for SWNS and covers news and feature stories for the national press as well as working for major companies on PR assignments. Outside work Tom loves photography theatre, music and portrait photography. See Tom's Gallery.
Stuart MaxwellStaff PhotographerStuart works in Aberdeen, our most northerly office, and from there has covered news stories, travelling through the mountains, to the top of Scotland. Well organised and well contacted, Stuart has an a eye for a story and the picture that is going to make it sting. Very used to working on his own, Stuart is a polite, hardworking, resourceful and imaginative photographer. See Stuart's Gallery here.
David EvittsStaff PhotographerDavid is a highly organised, enthusiastic and motivated photographer with a passion for all types of photographic work with a good eye for composition and detail. He has been working for many years in the photographic industry, starting in the darkroom, and moving on to studio and lab manger. David has worked in both the commercial and press sides of photography which as enabled him to develop not only is photography skills using different styles and techniques, but has also developed his ability to quickly absorb a brief, adapt to varying work conditions and personality types, and work quickly and efficiently. See Dave's Gallery.
Mark SutherlandStaff PhotographerMark's first posting at SWNS meant travelling the entire length of the country from his native John O'Groats to work in the SWNS Plymouth office. After three hugely successful years the former Young Scottish Press Photographer of the Year has returned north as SWNS Chief Photographer Scotland. Mark has now been based in Glasgow for the past three years making him one of the most experienced photographers. Mark combines a sharp nose for news with a determination to get the job done, a strategy which gets his work in print time after time. See Mark's Gallery.
James Linsell-ClarkStaff PhotographerJames has been working in the press and media field for more than 15 years on assignment to every UK national newspaper. Until its closure, James worked for The News of the World's live music review covering gigs and festivals across the UK. Prior to that, he covered news, celebrity and politics across East Anglia and London. He's also an imaginative and focused portraiturist with a documentary flair and an easy-going, amicable attitude that puts his subjects at ease. He regularly spends his days off capturing life's rich tapestry through the lens. See James' gallery.
Ceri OakesStaff PhotographerCeri is a highly motivated photographer with an eye for news. She joined SWNS in April 2014. Ceri graduated from the NCTJ course in photojournalism in 2008, followed by a succesful stint as staff photographer on a local newspaper in Whitby. Now covering the North East of England for SWNS, Ceri covers a variety of assignments from breaking news to commerical shoots and features for the National Press. She is also confident shooting video. See Ceri's gallery.
Adam HarnettStaff PhotographerAdam Harnett started his career as a administration assistant for a national news agency, but soon became a photographer gaining a portfolio of work published in the national, and international press. His enthusiastic nature and great eye for the perfect picture led to huge success in publishing outstanding foreign stories on behalf of photographers all over the world. After seven years of valuable news agency experience, Adam is now the content editor of our busy Leeds based office.
Tom MaddickStaff PhotographerTom Maddick is a press photographer based in Nottingham. In 2013 after completing the NCTJ in Photojournalism in Sheffield, Tom joined Ross Parry Press Agency a month later. Before this Tom worked as a freelance press photographer. Now covering Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire he covers national news as well as features and PR assignments. Alongside stills Tom likes to use video to give the story he is covering an extra dimension, Tom creates eye catching images that pull the reader into the article. See Tom's Gallery.
Thomas TempleStaff PhotographerOriginally from Carlisle, Cumbria, Thomas joined the SWNS team as an enthusiastic photographer wanting to gain new experiences and further his photography portfolio. He has since had exceptional shows in all the national newspapers including the front page of The Daily Star. Covering all of the Lancashire area for the busy Leeds office. Thomas is a very passionate, determined and creative photographer. See Thomas' Gallery.
James ChapelardStaff PhotographerGlasgow-based photographer James Chapelard covers news throughout Scotland and the central belt for SWNS, searching out breaking news, celebrity scoops and covering politics. His photos appear regularly on the frontpages of broadsheets, tabloids and magazines. He recently covered the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and in 2012 covered the French Presidential election in Paris. Originally from Paris, Chapelard brings a wealth of skills having originally trained and worked as reporter on a regional newspaper and an American business newspaper for 10 years. James Chapelard's Gallery.
Glen MinikinStaff PhotographerAward winning photographer Glen got his first publication in a newspaper at the age of 14. With pictures published in every national newspaper from front to back, almost 20 years later he still likes to see his pictures being used across the world. Highly skilled in all aspects from portraiture, commercial, features and news photography Glen still gets a buzz from clicking the shutter of a camera. Now more desk based in Leeds, organising photographers and jobs across the north of the country, he loves to see new staff under his wing gain experience and learn the job he still enjoys. See Glen's gallery.
Tony KershawTony Kershaw is a friendly and hard-working photographer, who has a love of the outdoors and nature. Based in Surrey, Tony has been an integral part of the SWNS operations in London and the South East. He joined SWNS as a freelancer in late 2013, following stints on the Falmouth University Press and Editorial Photography course and working at Rex Features. His images on a wide variety of topics have appeared in all national newspapers and magazines, and clients regularly praise his kind-hearted and sensitive nature. See examples of Tony's work here.
Paul WaltersPicture Editor / DirectorPaul is one of three directors who run the SWNS group. He also maintains the role of pictures editor. Paul has journalism in his blood – his father John was a long-serving staff photographer at the Dail Mail. He joined South West News in 1984 after learning the trade in local newspapers. Since, he has helped grow SWNS into a the largest independent multi-media agency in the UK, and has established his department as Britain's leading independent picture desk where he runs an award-winning team of 20 photographers.
Jon MillsPicture EditorJon Mills is the Picture Editor at SWNS. Jon worked as Picture Editor on the Western Daily Press for six years during which time they twice won Press Gazette Newspaper of the Year. In 2004 the paper won an unprecedented seven awards. During his time at the WDP they raised £120k to save bears in China, bought a rescue hovercraft for Burnham on Sea and got the law changed on flying over nuclear power stations. He joined SWNS in 2006 and, with director Paul Walters, manage a team of 20 staff photographers and countless freelance and syndication contributors. Jon also runs SWNS video service as well as developing and integrating new infrastructure. You can see Jon's Gallery here.
Rebecca RoulstonPR & Corporate ManagerRebecca joined SWNS in 2012 after a stint at Splash News in Los Angeles and Sydney. Rebecca is based on the central picture desk where she is responsible for booking and organising the PR and corporate photography shoots. She works closely with the photographer and client making sure each job runs smoothly, overseeing the project from beginning to end. Rebecca is highly organised, friendly and professional.
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Nigeria has been urged to re-focus her post-2015 development agenda, and to urgently address six key challenges to improve the lives and livelihoods of Nigerians for a better development process.
The proposed six challenges highlighted by the Executive Director Centre for Democracy and Development, Dr. Jibrin Ibrahim, include the implementation of the policy package on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), combating corruption, addressing poverty and inequalities, population dynamics, insecurity, and lastly, climate change and its attendant effects on livelihoods.
In an information titled, 'As the MDGs End; Let's Refocus Nigeria's Post 2015 Development Agenda', Ibrahim, popularly known as Jibo, said, "The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted in 2000 and are supposed to have been attained by 2015, that is, in two years time. There are currently a number of on-going consultative processes in the search of a successor agreement.
"Nigeria still lags behind and it is now clear that we are unlikely to be able to meet any of the goals by 2015. The three levels of government, federal, state and local, are simply not investing enough to meet the goals and a significant part what is being invested is lost due to massive public corruption and diversion of resources to meet security challenges.
"As we move forward, I propose six key challenges we need to address to improve the lives and livelihoods of Nigerians. Nigeria has already engaged the Post 2015 Development Agenda with the launching of Vision 2020 in 2009 as our blueprint for economic transformation.
"The expected outcome of the policy is a high standard of living and quality of life for citizens. To achieve this, the policy framework will prioritise economic growth and job creation over the next seven years. The MDG goals have been incorporated into the National Implementation Plan (NIP) of the visioning process but the key challenge is that there is very little being done on the implementation of the policy package.
"The level of investment on infrastructure and job creation is insufficient to push us to the desired goal of being part of the top twenty economies in the world. We therefore need to invest more to achieve the targets and we must develop clear benchmarks for implementing the visioning process. Public budgeting processes must therefore become more closely aligned to the Vision 2020 implementation benchmarks.
"The second challenge is that of combating corruption. Over time, there has been increasing evidence of the growth of mega corruption in Nigeria. Corruption has therefore become a stumbling block to combating poverty and achieving the MDGs. Nigeria is suffering from a pattern of organised looting of our national resources emanating from governments.
"For Nigeria to return to its development agenda and implementation of Vision 2020, we must prioritise the promotion of transparency and accountability in public life. There is increasing evidence that Government will not act on anti corruption if citizens do not mount sufficient pressure so all sections of the society must join the anti-corruption struggle as part of our strategy of liberating the resources to implement Vision 2020.
"The third challenge is that of addressing poverty and inequalities. Nigeria has sustained a growth rate of over 5 per cent since 1999 but the rate of poverty has grown over the period from 54 per cent to 69 per cent of the population. The gap between the rich and the poor has been widening and the number of the poor growing.
"Our development agenda must therefore address both the growing incidence of poverty and the significant spatial differentiation in its distribution. Governments and stakeholders in the North must declare a state of economic emergency and allocate significantly more resources to the combat against poverty in their zones.
"The fourth challenge is to take population dynamics more seriously. Whilst Nigeria continues to grapple with economic crisis, the population growth rate continues to soar and to change in composition.
"This means that we must transform our population from one characterised by short lives and large families to one with long lives and small families. We cannot achieve our objectives if we maintain our current rapid population growth which gives us an unusually large proportion of children and adolescent dependents, and a relative dearth of working age adults per dependent", he said.
According to Jibo, "The fifth challenge is that of insecurity. Nigeria is suffering from several sources of instability. Life is becoming increasingly precarious because of breakdown of social fabric and family bonds, as well as the mounting pressures on livelihoods. We have to prioritise achieving the MDGs as a strategy for national survival and progress. Addressing poverty and misery is a vital component of our national security strategy but even more important, a fulfilment of the pact signed by Nigerians and their governments to achieve the social and economic goals set out in chapter two of our Constitution.
"Finally, we need to address the challenge of climate change and its attendant effects on livelihoods. As the effects of global greenhouse gas continue to rise, causing dramatic changes in temperature, and precipitation, we see the dramatic impact of this process on Nigeria in the last two years as floods and erosion continue to pose threats to human and food security and causing environmental degradation in alarming magnitudes in different parts of the country.
"As we look forward to the Post 2015 development agenda, there is an urgent need for Nigeria to implement policies and programmes aimed at addressing the challenges of climate change. It is imperative that all levels of government in Nigeria engage with citizens in mapping out priorities for the Post 2015 Development Agenda", he said.


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At the R/W subway station near the Flatiron Building on 23rd street, the walls are decorated with tiles representing famous hats of famous people. There's P.T. Barnum and far below his hat, the hat of General Tom Thumb. There are colorful tile hats for philosophers and actors, artists and dancers. Isadora Duncan's hat is there, even though she is probably now more famous for her scarf. I love the walls of tile hats inside the subway station and I wonder if it is too soon for Aretha Franklin's now famous Inauguration bow hat to join the ranks. We all wear different hats at different times and it was never more evident to me than it was this week as I saw two notable friends wearing decidedly different hats.
On Tuesday night after the show I headed downtown to Paris Commune, where I had such a nice time a few months back. It was back to the Rouge Room in the basement where my beautiful friend Ronnie Kroell was having a release party of sorts for his latest venture. Ronnie is well known from his constantly nearly naked turn on Make Me A Supermodel last year and since then we have become good friends. Now in the receding shadow of fashion week he is launching a new (and I suppose simultaneous) career as a singer. Ronnie is a sweet and wonderful guy and I am sure he can do anything he puts his mind and talents to. Singing may not have been the next logical step for him, especially after all of his political stumping this fall, but in this economy, in the immortal words of Kang and Kodis contemplating a series of Old Navy ads, "work is work."
When I arrived, I immediately recognized Perry from the show, even though I had never met him. He had a ski cap on his head and a rumpled plaid shirt and he was so thin, TV thin. Just the way I would have imagined him. The Rouge Room is not large but it was crowded, so it took me a moment to find Ronnie in the melee. He was standing with Supermodel judge Tyson Beckford, whom I have seen on TV and in print many, many times. I have always thought he was extremely attractive but in person he has an otherworldly beauty that is nothing short of insane. Who looks like that? No one. Tyson. That's it. Looking at him, it is impossible to imagine another career for him. He was designed by the hand of God to model. If he had been born 500 years ago, Michelangelo would have chiseled him in stone and then wept at his own inability to fully capture his essence for the ages. Fortunately for us, in our time we have Ralph Lauren ad slicks to commit him to eternity.
Ronnie has such a warmth about him that hugging him always feels like greeting finally a long lost and much loved relative. His firm low brow, stony chin and pouty lips remind me (when pulled down in gravity) of the face of the Statue of Liberty. I have not heard his music, but it doesn't matter. I am his biggest champion. I hate how busy he has been that we haven't had any real time to catch up and hang out. As we embraced in the Rouge Room, he reminded me of the last time we saw each other, too long ago. He asked when he was coming back up to my house. "Anytime!" I assured him as I squeezed his arm and rested my head on his shoulder, my home and heart wide open to him always.
Two nights later, the same drill, with me dashing out after the show and heading downtown on the R train, this time to Aspen, a bar in the grey shadow of the Flatiron Building. There is a Thursday party there called Jack which one of the weary patrons explained to me while I was waiting in a booth in back. "The theme was lumberjacks. Big guys in plaid shirts. But it's less bear now than it used to be. I don't know why." Usually I get a "don't like" vibe from slick gay men in bars but this guy went straight to "don't care" and after briefly engaging after my question, returned to ignoring and imagining better people sitting near him. While not the bear stop it used to be, the bar was still packed, jammed with eager twenty-somethings buzzing around inside the latest hive.
I dropped by to check in on Erik Rhodes who has been like a magician's rabbit of late. His blog postings have been sporadic at best and my phone calls and emails had gone for weeks unreturned. He passed a birthday completely in silence and I suspected that his rollercoaster dating life was as much to blame for his absence as the additional candle on his cake. Then last week he finally made a new post on his blog prompting me to send him a txt message: "Done pouting yet?" Two hours later, two simple words from his road back to reality: "I guess."
Erik is now bartending at Jack @ Aspen, so even though I knew we wouldn't have a lot of time to talk, at least I would see him. But he was the first to see me. While texting him to find out where he was, he suddenly appeared in the crowd and rushed over to hug me. It was great to see him again, looking good and all in one piece. "I was so worried about you. I almost went to your apartment to check up on you." I told him when we finally connected in the back of the bar. He looked the part but I could see that he was struggling. I don't know that bartending is the future for him, but he sure is giving it the old college try. The problem though, as I explained to Ken Hunt who was also hanging out at Aspen tonight, is that Erik bartending is a little bit like getting stuck behind the old lady at the supermarket. The customer wants their moment. In the case of the old lady, it may be her only meaningful human interaction all day ("The grandkids never call. My son doesn't visit."). For the gays, they want a photo or to bask in the glow of Erik's massive arms and rippling torso. And all he wants to do is just pour them a fucking drink and make a life for himself while he still can. But the gays each want to wrench as much as they can out of their vodka cranberry experience with him and seconds later the line is a mile long and no one has a drink in their hands. It's not Erik's fault either. He is a God among men. It just impedes his ability to function among the mortals, especially when they won't get out of the way.
I have had a lot of jobs in my life and some of them I loved and some I hated. Some I was really good at but most of them were all wrong for me. I like where I am now, writing and talking on the radio. These are good occupations for me. I get to express myself creatively but I don't have to labor too hard. Perfect for a lazy narcissist like me. Sometimes it takes a while to find the right place for yourself. It took me 15 years of trial and error to get it right. That's a long time. Maybe Ronnie will be a big music star, dancing around on stage with his shirt open to thousands of screaming and adoring fans. And maybe Erik will develop the acumen for being one hell of a bottle jockey. Perhaps these are the hats that will someday adorn the walls of the 23rd street subway station. Or perhaps they will be as temporary as a paper crown at Burger King.
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You've heard of Westlaw and Lexis, of course. But have you tried Bloomberg Law yet?
The Bloomberg name (as in, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg), is best known for financial and business matters, and now Bloomberg has expanded its reach into the legal field with Bloomberg Law, an award-winning legal research database.
Bloomberg Law is the real-time legal research system that integrates innovative search technology, comprehensive legal content, company and market information, and proprietary news all in one place. This collaborative workspace also includes a suite of new tools for more effective legal analysis and more productive client development.
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Many of us have legal heroes, from the fictional Atticus Finch to our school's namesake, Sandra Day O'Connor. Rather less common are lawyers who turn to superheroes as inspiration for a new career. That is exactly where ex-bankruptcy lawyer Andrew Lebwohl turned when he determined that he wanted to leave Big Law to open a bar. What better to draw the college crowd than servers dressed as superheroes and constant karaoke?
Interested? Unfortunately the bar is located in New Haven, Connecticut, but the story of Lebwohl's pregression from junior associate at Dewey & LeBouf to small business owner is available … Continue Reading
The Law Library staff hopes you had a fun and productive summer. We would like to thank everyone who took the Law Library Student Survey during the 2012 spring semester. The Law Library staff worked very hard this summer to implement your suggestions and take care of your concerns. We will be publishing the results of the survey soon but we wanted to tell you about our new Study Zone policy. Many survey takers were concerned about the noise levels in the Law Library so we have established Collaborative, Quiet and Silent study zones. Study zones have varied noise levels and allow … Continue Reading
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review Let me just say from the outset; I'm not actually opposed to the free-to-play model. Understanding that free-to-play does not mean free, I've had a great time with those games that I have felt have put the model to effective use in providing players with a basic, entry-level version of the game for free, and then offering those who wish to invest in the game additional perks.
It doesn't bug me because I do believe that developers deserve to be paid for their hard work, and if these games were actually free, then the developers wouldn't be making many more of them. With all that out of the way, I do have a problem with free-to-play when it has been forced into a game that was never really designed around the model.
For example: Plants Vs. Zombies. Here is a game that was perfectly self-contained and carried with it a pricing model that allowed players to pay once, and get access to everything the game had to offer. With the monetisation out of the way, the developers were free to simply throw whatever they felt was fun at the players, and the result was a game that was entertaining beyond measure. And because it was so joyful, it attracted a broad audience and it was profitable for the developers, Popcap, despite there being no microtransactions involved whasoever.
Enter Plants Vs. Zombies 2. Here's a game where every single design element has been built around microtransactions. I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way; for instance, I do think Popcap has spent more time balancing this game to make sure players will continue to progress even if they don't spend a cent of their own money then they have actually making the game. That's a good thing in principle – it shows that the developers didn't want players to walk away from the experience having felt nickel and dimed. Where things go wrong is the basic reality that it is so obvious that this game has been so carefully constructed around its monetisation model, and because that is where the development energy went, the game itself no longer has a soul.
Players get access to three worlds (with the initial release…). These worlds are big, bloated and generally become boring well before players get to the next one. The simple reason? They've been designed to keep players playing in the hope that they can be encouraged to spend some cash. Rewards are dolled out just often enough to act like a candy trail, and icons litter the playing field reminding players that they're one tap away from even more goodness. But there's not enough variety; not really. Just endless streams of levels to play for the sake of playing levels. It's Candy Crush Saga all over again.
The primary cash sink in the game is in its virtual coins (thankfully there are just a few non-essential plants that are available only through real-cash purchase, and while they're fun they're also not overpowered). With those virtual coins players can purchase a major power-up that allows them to personally flick or pinch a zombie horde to oblivion en masse, or they can buy a magic leaf that superpowers a plant for a short period of time.
The game quickly falls into a rhythm then – as soon as a level starts, bring out a sunflower as your first plant (the sunflowers are the ones that produce the light energy that allows you to summon attack plants), then quickly pay for a super leaf to have that sunflower spit out a mass of energy. At that point you've got more than enough energy to get a major early advantage over the zombies and level design, and it's relatively straightforward cruising from there.
Without the energy leaf the going is tougher initially, and some levels become very difficult indeed without that valuable time and energy at the start to lay the foundations of a sound defence. I'm not going to quite say it's pay-to-win (especially since it's possible to grind a few old levels to have enough of the virtual cash to buy a magic leaf, with no payment involved), but it does come dangerously close.
Notice how I've spent most of this review talking about the monetisation of the game? That's not how a discussion of Plants Vs. Zombies should be. I should be talking about its awesome sense of humour, the beautiful, bright visual style, and the perfectly executed tower defence gameplay. All of that is still in the game, buried under the stuff that's going to annoy a lot of people. It's still a very, very good game. But because it is so heavily focused on how it is going to make money, it's hard for me, as a player, to really connect with it.
I really don't understand why PopCap and EA didn't simply say "here you go, dozens of hours of fun; give us your $10 please." It would have been a guaranteed hit at that price, and perhaps, just perhaps, it would have retained its soul.
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I really hate the fact that you have to pay for plants, and that they haven't introduced more plants, and the artwork and design is not as good as the first game. In my opinion, this isn't as good as the first. Sigh
Good review, can't say I disagree with any of it. I was reading on Touch Arcade that one of the reasons it was released in Aus/NZ first, was to see how players react to the IAP purchase model, so it may still be tweaked to at least be better balanced before international release. However given the whole game is designed around IAP, I can't see them changing their minds altogether and turning into a paid title, which it should have been all along.
Luckily lots of devs having been moving away from the 'Freemium' gaming model on iOS lately and releasing top quality paid games instead, but Popcap obviously didn't get the memo about how much gamers hate being so obviously milked. I've already deleted it.
I don't much like the pricing model myself (I avoided Candy Crush Saga for this reason), but are there any plans to do a review of the game itself rather than just throw a hissy fit about pricing?
@Bob: Actually it is very telling if the review is ragging on too much about the pay system instead of actual gameplay. A good F2P game will let the gameplay shine and have the pay element woven in the background. Instead of an obvious in your face approach which diminishes the fun factor.
It's rather disappointing that from the looks of things the game has shifted away from what made the game fun (ie. messing around w/ various plant combinations as a stage progressed and you were given access to more plants + mini games + zen garden to extend the life) to relying completely on grinding for power-ups instead.
Like Bob, I've played this for the past few days without having to pay for anything. Paying for stuff is just effectively like paying to 'cheat' the game by unlocking special plants earlier than you would by playing through. I understand the frustrations of the in-built pay options, but the simple fact is that unlike other games you can very easily play on without paying for anything – and you don't miss out on a thing.
The gameplay is brilliant, it's fun and full of laughs. It's a brilliant sequel to an addictive game – a fact this review fails to mention.
"I should be talking about its awesome sense of humour, the beautiful, bright visual style, and the perfectly executed tower defence gameplay. All of that is still in the game, buried under the stuff that's going to annoy a lot of people. It's still a very, very good game."
Second last paragraph, Tom. The review quite explicitly says "it's fun and full of laughs."
What you meant, I'm sure, is "the IAP model must have annoyed the critic, but it didn't annoy me. I can't say I agree with this review, but I understand where it's coming from."
So this is what you have really been doing for the last two days, right?
I understand why new games no one has heard of would go the F2P model just to get people trying the game but with PvZ the original was so well known they could of charged $10 easily and people would have purchased it even though other games people hesitate to pay 99c. I was sad when within the first few minutes the tutorial even prompted people to go to in app purchases. When a tutorial suggests it as part of the game play I knew what to expect for the rest of the game and made a decision right then to spend zero money on it. I will still play once in a while though. Also the 3 power ups u can buy with coins are so annoying to use I think the game wouold of been better without them which shows they were only added to encourage in app purchase of coins.
What a refreshingly honest review of yet another depressingly cynical game that appears to have had its heart and soul eaten up and shat out by greedy idiots.
Please, please, if there is a god, have those idiots make less money from this than they did from the first one.
what a stupid review. I've played this game for 20+ hours now and not once had I have to pay any money. The game is easy enough to not have to.
its free. Play it and see how wrong this editorial is.
I totally agree with this review – whilst the game itself is generally a lot of fun, the IAP aspect is built in to the design. Already, I'm finding that some parts of the game are simply there to entice you to buy extras. I've been playing for a day or so, and am finding this really detracts from enjoying the gameplay.
It's such a shame, as I loved the first version, but feel less engaged with this one.
I'm pretty much in agreement with the review. I was also really disappointed with the graphics and layout of the game. Where the original version made really good use of the 'i' architecture pvz2 looks jumbled and the field seems cramped. I read an interview where Shigeru Miyamoto said he wanted Zelda to be like a miniature garden you could carry in your pocket (or something to that effect..) and that was the magic of pvz for me. This game feels like it was made by a different team and is very 'samey'. I would have happily stumped up $10 buck for a refresh of the original that incorporated some new plants and game play. Bring back the zen garden.
Where is the survival mode? Where is the endless mode? This game is trash without it.
PvZ 1 is in my top 5 games ever!
The reason? There was a blend of charming characters, visual & audio presentation and a finely honed gameplay.
Gameplay was king! You had the tools (ie plants) at your disposal. It was YOUR timing, judgement and ability to think on the fly that brought the satisfaction of victory.
PvZ 2? Well, I quite like the new graphics and I love most of the new plants and zombies (except that bastard parrot!)
I will state that I miss the upgrade mechanism from part 1 and cattail was my favourite plant!
What I do not like is some of the game play mechanics.
There are way too many challenges that are above victory through skill and has been tweaked to force you to at the very least consider you to buy IAP.
Agree or not but this has severely hurt the original game's premise.
On the IAP, I'm in the corner of buying the game and all the content outright.
I will state this as a personal opinion but of those real money plants are MEANT to be in the game. Snowpea & Jalepeno? Come on now!!!
This game will be successful and enjoyable. It will however not best the original as it has forsaken raw gameplay for profit.
Agreed. Played the first level without spending money and without using plant food or cheats (that gestures thing, it's cheating). It starts fun but grow boring very soon. There are 10 levels, some mini games, and then before seeing the next world you have to make 35 stars. It means playing again for 35 times the levels you just played with some quirks. In theory it could be fun, but it is always the same "produce a lot of sun" or "don't plant here". The first world attack plants are pretty much all the same and playing 35 levels was really boring. After that you get to the second world only to discover all the keys you dropped in that 35 boringness are useless, and you start over with tutorial like levels with one wave of zombies. Yeah dressed like pirates, but the gameplay is always the same.
The game is pretty easy and only children will have the need to spend virtual or real money here, so it's a big fail also for f2p fans, which I'm not.
I can't see this game as fun and neither as money making. A 1$ price tag would have got more cash to the publishers probably. At least it would have saved them the shame. You will probably never hear about pvz3. Sad.
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Last week, The Sex.com Blog teamed up with our friend Mr. Pink to try and find out what happened to one of our favorite pornstars, Nicole Ray.
What we were able to determine was that Nicole Ray had left the adult entertainment industry.
Over the course of our Nicole Ray investigation (which you can check out here), we also encountered another one of our favorite missing pornstars: Ashlyn Rae. And that got us wondering…whatever happened to Ashlyn Rae? So we're back with another Porno P.I. to hopefully answer some lingering questions about favorite pornstars that don't do porn anymore.
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Ashlyn Rae first started doing porn in 2009 when she was 19 years old. As a petite (only 5'3!), redhead with a wholesome vibe, she definitely caught the attention of porn fans everywhere.
If you're thinking of becoming a porn star, may I recommend that you play up your wholesomeness? There's nothing wrong with girls acting slutty in porn, but it's sort of over-saturated if you ask me. Wholesomeness is counter-intuitive to hot sex and porn, which is why when someone sees it in porn, it catches their attention. It also makes the actual sex more captivating because the viewer will think, "Wow. I can't believe a wholesome cutie like her would fuck like this." It's great. Why else would people always be searching "Selena Gomez Nude"?
Anyways from what I can tell, her first scene as Ashlyn Rae was with Nikki Rhodes and Diamond Foxxx in Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 7. So let's check it out right now:
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Ashlyn Rae is sexy, right? The porn industry definitely thought so because in her first year she filmed 22 scenes for DVD releases, which is a good amount for a girl who is just starting to come up.
So what happened to Ashlyn Rae?
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Well, my best guess comes from a lead I found on the Freeones Forums. On July 24th, 2010, someone posted:
I talked to her on the phone about a month ago in relation to some work stuff!
She expressed no desire to retire or anything of that nature but she was going abroad for a few months so that could explain the closing of said accts or anything related to that. She should be back within a few months again and going full force by year end unless something has changed to when I last spoke with her.
Hope that helps .
In 2010, Ashlyn Rae had 41 DVD releases (as per IAFD). So between 2009 and 2010, Ashlyn Rae had filmed roughly 63 scenes. I say roughly because it's possible that a few of those scenes are dupiclates.
I think the reason Ashlyn Rae retired was because she was too sexy. Clearly, everyone wanted her and she probably got burnt out from working in the adult industry. Maybe she had an epiphany while she was abroard and found something new to do because there is absolutely no new information on her. Most people are surprised to even hear that she retired.
So yes, Ashlyn Rae is retired. But so what? The scenes she did are fucking amazing. It shouldn't be about quantity of scenes but rather quality of scenes. So let's all be thankful that a girl as cute and as wholesome as Ashlyn Rae did porn in the first place by watching some of her classic scenes.
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There's plenty more Ashlyn Rae on Sex.com so go check it out. Make sure if you see a hot Ashlyn Rae picture or video that you pin it right away.
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There is one more mystery to be solved…
In an old interview, Ashlyn Rae mentioned that her sister did porn as well. Now the question is…who is that sister? Could it have been Faith Leon?
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In this first installment of the Foundations of Audio series, author Brian Lee White shows how to improve the sound of a mix with compressors, limiters, gates, de-essers, and other dynamic processors. The course explains the fundamentals of sound waves, and amplitude, explores common compressor controls, and shows how to eliminate unwanted noise using gates and expanders. The course also demonstrates best practices in compression and limiting in a variety of audio applications and covers sculpting the attack and decay of individual notes with transient shapers and applying frequency specific dynamics control with multiband compressors. Exercise files accompany the course and include special Get in the Mix session files.
Dynamic range is the difference between two extremes. In audio, dynamic range represents the ratio between the loudest and softest signal being produced over any given interval. Every day we experience this concept of dynamic range almost constantly across all of our senses. And as humans, we're quite adept at recognizing it: light and dark, hot and cold, hard and soft, and for the purpose of this course, loud and quiet. A sound's amplitude directly correlates with its loudness.
But what is loud? What is quiet? Is a concert loud? Is a library quiet? That depends. But I can assure you, if you walked out of a library and into a rock concert, you would have a pretty good idea of the difference in loudness between the two spaces. Loudness in our minds is not finite. It's all about perception. The key thing to understand is that we need both ends of the spectrum to fully evaluate what's loud and what's quiet. The distance between these extremes is what we call dynamic range.
For example, if you heard a book fall off a desk in a library, it would startle you. This is because the difference between the sound of the book falling in a library versus the library's quiet environment is fairly extreme. This same effect is used by movie sound designers. Ever jump out of your seat from a loud explosion? At its limits, the human ear can experience roughly 120 dBs of dynamic range, with 0 dB being imperceptible and 120 reaching the threshold of pain, although much of our day-to-day experience of dynamic range exists in a much narrower space.
For example, a modern pop mix may only have around 8 to 10 dB of dynamic range between the peak and average amplitude values over the entire song, while a modern film may have around 20 dBs of peak-to-average dynamic range, which is why you would be more likely to jump out of your seat at a movie theater during a loud explosion than you would be listening to a song in your car. Let's listen to some examples. This first example has a wide dynamic range. Imagine a quiet park interrupted by car horns and sirens.
(ambient sound) (car honking) (sirens) Now, here's an example of reduced dynamic range, a fully mastered pop mix. (music playing) Unlike the quiet park scene that's interrupted by loud horns and sirens, the pop mix maintains the same perceived loudness, thus exhibiting a much narrower dynamic range.
As a side note, 16-bit recording systems offer 96 dBs of dynamic range. In comparison, 24-bit recording offers a much wider range of 144 dBs, exceeding the range of human perception, which is generally accepted to be around 120 dBs. Because of this, 24-bit recordings can accommodate a wider range of amplitude values before digital clipping. Now that we understand the basic concept of dynamic range, we can begin to harness the power of dynamics processors to control it.
Just as we can measure the change in perceived loudness of quiet dialogue in a film to a loud bomb-explosion sound effect, we can also measure the dynamics over shorter periods of time, like the volume differences in phrases of a vocal track from line to line or the amplitude curve of the crack of a single snare hit. And since we can measure these dynamic range relationships, we can change them if they aren't working for us. We'll do just that using dynamics processors.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States must continue sending diplomats and aid workers to the Arab world's emerging democracies, despite last month's deadly attack in Libya, during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON: The United States must look past the violence and extremism that has erupted after the "Arab Spring" revolutions and boost support for the region's young democracies to forge long-term security, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday.
Clinton, seeking to reinforce the Obama administration's Middle East policy following a wave of anti-American violence and last month's deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, said Washington cannot be deterred by "the violent acts of a small number of extremists."
"We recognize that these transitions are not America's to manage, and certainly not ours to win or lose," Clinton said in a speech to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
"But we have to stand with those who are working every day to strengthen democratic institutions, defend universal rights, and drive inclusive economic growth. That will produce more capable partners and more durable security over the long term."
Middle East unrest has become fodder for the U.S. presidential campaign, where Republican candidate Mitt Romney has sought to portray President Barack Obama as an ineffectual leader who has left the United States vulnerable at a time of international crisis.
Romney and other Republicans have focused on the Sept. 11 Benghazi attack, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, accusing the Obama administration of security and intelligence lapses in what officials now describe as a terrorist attack.
Clinton noted that the Benghazi incident was the subject of an official probe and vowed the United States would track down those responsible for the attack.
But she stressed that U.S. diplomats must engage with an uncertain and dangerous world if they are to promote and protect U.S. interests. "We will never prevent every act of violence or terrorism, or achieve perfect security. Our people cannot live in bunkers and do their jobs," she said.
Clinton acknowledged that political turmoil in Libya and Yemen, the rise of Islamist parties to power in Egypt and Tunisia and the expanding crisis in Syria were all tests for U.S. leadership - but said more engagement, not less, was the only way forward.
"For the United States, supporting democratic transitions is not a matter of idealism. It is a strategic necessity," she said.
And she pointed to the "undimmed promise of the Arab Spring" in the backlash against extremist groups in Libya and Tunisia, saying that in many cases newly empowered Arab societies were standing up for peaceful, pluralistic democratic principles.
Clinton pointed to the challenge in Egypt, where on Friday liberals and Islamists clashed in the first street violence since Islamist President Mohamed Mursi took power in June, injuring more than 100 people.
"We stand with the Egyptian people in their quest for universal freedoms and protections," Clinton said. "Egypt's international standing does depend both on peaceful relations with its neighbors and also on the choices it makes at home and whether or not it fulfills its own promises to its own people."
The Obama administration has earmarked some $1 billion in assistance for countries emerging from the Arab Spring revolutions, and has asked Congress for a separate $770 million fund tied to specific political and economic reforms.
But Republican lawmakers remain wary, citing political uncertainties in the region and the need for careful accounting in an era of fast-rising budget deficits.
Clinton urged the lawmakers to release the money, citing U.S.-sponsored programs and security partnerships she said could both reinforce democratic gains and increase pressure on extremist groups.
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History of Vladivostok
The history of Vladivostok can roughly be divided into the history of the territory where Vladivostok is now located, and the history of the city per se.
The area that is now Vladivostok was successively settled by ancient peoples and kingdoms such as the Mohe, Goguryeo, Balhae, and later, Liao Dynasty and Jīn Dynasty.
On Chinese maps from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), it is called Yongmingcheng (永明城 [Yǒngmíngchéng], literally "city of eternal light"). During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), it was visited by Chinese expeditions, and a relic of that time — a Chongning stela — is displayed in the local museum. The Treaty of Nerchinsk of 1689 defined the area as a part of China, under the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Later on, as the Manchus banned Han Chinese from most of Manchuria including the Vladivostok area — it was only visited by shēnzéi (參賊, lit. either ginseng or sea cucumber thieves) who illegally entered the area seeking ginseng or sea cucumbers (ambiguous since both terms use the Chinese 參, shēn). From this comes the current Chinese name for the city, 海參崴 (Hǎishēnwǎi) meaning "Sea Cucumber Cliffs". A French ship which is believed to have visited the area around 1858 discovered several huts of Chinese or Manchu fishermen.
Russian control[edit]
The area was ceded by China to Russia as a result of the Treaty of Aigun of 1858 and the Treaty of Peking of 1860.
In the summer of 1859, Governor-General of Eastern Siberia, Nikolay N. Muravyov, visited the peninsula and the bay, which was somewhat similar to the Bay of the Golden Horn in Constantinople (now Istanbul), aboard the steam corvette Amerika. The peninsula was named Muravyov-Amursky in his honor.
The first Europeans to visit the local bay (later named the Golden Horn Bay) were the crews of the British warships HMS Winchester and HMS Barracouta in 1855.
Beginning of the modern city[edit]
On June 20 (July 2 Gregorian style), 1860 the military supply ship Manchur, under the command of Captain-Lieutenant Alexey K. Shefner, called at the Golden Horn Bay to found an outpost called Vladivostok. Warrant officer Nikolay Komarov with 28 soldiers and two non-commissioned officers under his command were brought from Nikolayevsk-on-Amur by ship to construct the first buildings of the future city. They pitched a camp, selecting a place from where the entrance to the Golden Horn Bay was always visible.
In 1862, under the leadership of Yevgeny Burachyok, the outpost of Vladivostok officially became a port. To encourage foreign trade, a Free Port status, or a Free Trade Status for imported goods, was established. In 1864, the Command of the Southern Harbours was moved to Vladivostok from Nikolayevsk-on-Amur. A year later a Shipbuilding Yard was established in Vladivostok and the first settlers from Nikolayevsk-na-Amure began arriving. Foreigners started visiting Vladivostok. In 1871 it was decided that the Naval Port, Military Governor's Residence, and the main base of the Siberian Military Flotilla were to be moved from Nikolayevsk-na-Amure to Vladivostok. The same year the Great Northern Telegraph Company connected Vladivostok to Nagasaki and Shanghai by means of underwater International cable.
Vladivostok's first street was Amerikanskaya Street (ул. Американская), which was named to commemorate the above-mentioned corvette America in 1871. Two years later it was renamed Svetlanskaya Street (ул. Светланская), in honor of the frigate Svetlana, on which the Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia visited Vladivostok. At that time it consisted of a part of today's Svetlanskaya Street, from the Amursky Bay to house #85. Its other parts were then considered as separate streets and had the names of Portovaya (Портовая), Afanasyevskaya (Афанасьевская), Ekipazhnaya (Экипажная), etc.
In 1878, 40% of over 4,000 residents of Vladivostok were foreigners. This was reflected in the names of the young city streets, such as Koreyskaya (Korean), Pekinskaya (Peking), Kitayskaya (Chinese), etc. Their present names are Pogranichnaya (ул. Пограничная), Admirala Fokina (ул. Адмирала Фокина), and Okeansky Avenue (Океанский проспект).
In 1880 the Russian Volunteer Fleet, with the help of the government, organized regular trips between Odessa, St. Petersburg, and Vladivostok. On April 28 (May 10 Gregorian style), 1880 Vladivostok was officially proclaimed a city, and a separate administrative unit, independent from Primorskaya Oblast. At that time the city population totalled 7,300 people, which is twice as many as in 1878. Three hotels operated in Vladivostok at that time, including Moscow, Vladivostok, and Hotel de Louvre.
In 1883, the Resettlement Administration was established in Vladivostok, and the steamships of the Russian Volunteer Fleet began a mass transport of peasants from European Russia to the Far East, where active settling had recently begun. Vladivostok became the main shipping center. This resulted in a greater increase in the city's significance. In 1888 the residence of the Oblast Governor was moved from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok. In 1889 Vladivostok was proclaimed a Fortress, and two torpedo-boats, brought disassembled from the Black Sea, were launched.
In the 1880s, the cultural life in Vladivostok became more active, and a music school at the Siberian Fleet Depot was opened. In 1883, the first newspaper (Vladivostok) began circulation. In 1884, the Society of the Amursky Territory Study, headed by Fyodor F. Busse, was established. In 1887, the public Reading-Hall was opened in Vladivostok and the professional theater performed in Vladivostok for the first time. The city began to acquire modern amenities. The trees were planted along the main streets and 120 kerosene streetlamps were installed on the city streets.
By the end of 1880s Vladivostok had approximately 600 wooden and more than 50 stone houses, some of them were two- and three-story buildings. The main urban buildings were grouped in the area of today's central square and the Matrosskaya Sloboda (Sailors' Suburb)—a territory from the Obyasneniya River as far as Gaydamak tram stop. These figures are not large for a city which was about 30 years old. But considering the fact that it is located 10,000 km from the major cultural centers of the Russian Empire and that it took three to four months for the mail to arrive from those places, one can admire the persistence and stubbornness of the first settlers.
In the 1890s, the shipping lines Kobe–Nagasaki–Vladivostok and Shanghai–Nagasaki–Vladivostok were opened.
In 1891, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad began in Vladivostok. This is one of the world's longest railroads, and has been very important for the development of many remote Russian outlying districts.
In 1897, a new Commercial Port was opened in Vladivostok and regular traffic to Khabarovsk by rail began.
In 1899, the first Far Eastern higher educational institution—the Oriental Institute—was established. Today it houses the main building of the Far Eastern State Technical University (FESTU).
From 1899 through 1909 four theaters were opened in Vladivostok. They were the Tikhy Okean Theater (the Pacific Ocean), the Public Theater, which followed the creative methods of Moscow Artistic Theater, the Zolotoy Rog Theater (the Golden Horn), the Pushkin Theater, where the guest performance by Vera Kommisarzhevskaya, a famous Russian actress, took place. In 1912 The Theater and Music Newspaper was first published.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 a Japanese squadron of warships attacked the city with over a hundred shots. The Vladivostok Cruiser Group participated in the war, blocking the approaches to the besieged Port-Arthur.
During the first Russian Revolution the city was involved in the conflict. In the beginning of 1906 it was even governed by the rebelling military units. The revolution in the city was pacified through combining force and diplomacy by General Georgi Kazbek.
In the period between the two Russian Revolutions (1907–1917) a Railway Station of Russian architecture of the 17th century style, the city power station, two girls' schools, the School of Commerce, and Versailles Hotel were constructed. Trams began operating in the city streets. In 1909, for example, the port was visited by a total of 795 steamships, including 477 foreign ships. There were approximately 3,000 shops and stores in Vladivostok. In 1913, the local publishing houses issued 61 different books in Russian and foreign languages.
By 1917 Vladivostok had become a scientific, cultural, and industrial center, the largest in the Far East and Eastern Siberia. Many newspapers and magazines were published, and the first theater buildings of stone were constructed in the city.
After the Revolution[edit]
After the October Revolution of 1917 a new stage of life began in Vladivostok, as it did in the rest of the country.
On December 31, 1917 Japanese, British, and American cruisers entered the Golden Horn Bay. In April 1918, the Japanese firm Isido was attacked in Vladivostok. After this incident the Japanese and British Commands landed their troops under the pretext of protecting their citizens. The Entente soon expanded the goals of their Siberian Intervention and sent many more troops. Canada sent 4,000 troops, with headquarters in the Pushkinskaya Theatre and barracks at Second River and Gornostai Bay.[1][2]
The supporters of the Bolsheviks conducted a partisan struggle in the city. From 1916 through 1922 the population of Vladivostok increased from 97,000 to 410,000 people, as a result of the opponents of the new regime settling in the port city while retreating to the East together with the White Army. Among them were many Russian cultural workers.
From 1920 through 1922, 650 representatives of the Moscow and St. Petersburg creative intelligentsia lived in Vladivostok. They established two conservatories, two theaters, and several symphony orchestras and published a number of art magazines. After the victory of Bolsheviks the majority of these people moved to Australia, China, United States, and other countries. By 1926 the population of Vladivostok totalled 108,000 people.
On October 25, 1922 the last units of the interventionists left the city, and the units of the Red Army completely took control. On November 15, 1922 the Far Eastern Republic, which existed from 1920 through 1922, was included into the RSFSR.
The Bolsheviks who won control of Russia understood very well the importance of Vladivostok as a major Russian port on the Pacific Coast and as an outpost of the Soviet Union in the East. In the 1920s–1930s the reconstruction of the Vladivostok port began. In the beginning of the 1930s direct air traffic to Moscow and Vladivostok began. In 1932, Vladivostok became the base of the Pacific Naval Fleet.
Science and culture acquired the spirit of that time, which was reflected in their zigzag development. In the beginning of the 1920s the Far Eastern State University was established in Vladivostok. At the end of the 1930s, during Stalin's regime, it was closed for twenty years. In 1925, the Pacific Scientific-Commercial Station was established in Vladivostok. It was reorganized into the Pacific Scientific-Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (TINRO) in 1930. In 1932 the Far Eastern Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences was created in the city.
In 1926, a radio station began broadcasting in Vladivostok. Three theaters and three new movie-theaters were opened in the city in 1931. The collection of the Primorye Picture Gallery was formed during 1929–1931. About 1,000 pictures were brought here from the Hermitage, Russian Museum, and Tretyakovskaya Gallery. After the Revolution of 1917 many museums located in the Russian provinces were formed by this principle.
Many ethnic groups that seemed rebellious in Stalin's eyes, including Chinese, Manchu, Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, Crimean Tartars, Chechens, and Armenians, were deported out.[3] In the 1930s the mass repressions began in the country, and the transit camp for political prisoners carried from the Western regions of Russia to Kolyma, was opened in Vladivostok. The prisoners were arriving by trains and later transported on prison ships, in terrible conditions. The prisoners, at first Soviet, after 1939 from Eastern Europe and after the end of the World War II the Japanese POWs, constituted a considerable part of the labor force which built factories, ports, and cities in the Far East from 1930 through 1940. After American aviators had bombed Tokyo, Japan on April 18, 1942, one of the sixteen B-25 bombers landed in Vladivostok, due to shortage of fuel. The bomber was confiscated and the crew was interned. Although Captain Edward York and his crew mates were well-treated, diplomatic attempts to return them to the United States ultimately failed. Eventually they were relocated to Ashgabat (20 miles (32 km) from the Iranian border), and York managed to bribe a smuggler, who helped them cross the border and reach a nearby British consulate on 11 May 1943. The smuggling was actually staged by the NKVD, according to declassified Soviet archives, because the Soviet government felt unable to repatriate them legally in the face of the neutrality pact with Japan.[4]
In 1954, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, visited Vladivostok. Nikita Khrushchev was the first acting leader of Russia and the whole USSR, who visited the city. Khrushchev became famous worldwide for his eccentric statements and actions. He also used to compare Vladivostok with San Francisco. After his visit intensive development of the city began.
In 1956, the Far Eastern State University, the only classical university in the Russian Far East until today, was reopened. The microdistricts of Vtoraya Rechka (the Second River) (since the early 1960s), Morgorodok (since the early 1960s), Churkin (since the late 1950s), and Tikhaya Bay have been built intensively. Vladivostok's last large district built with the new multistory houses is the region of Patrisa Lumumby Street and Neybuta Street where the multistory construction works began in 1980.
From the 1950s to the 1980s the fisheries industry was developed. For many years the ports of Vladivostok ranked first in terms of freight turnover in the Far East of Russia, having only recently yielded to Nakhodka. Vladivostok produced a large volume of military goods.
From 1930 till the 1970s foreigners were not allowed to visit Vladivostok. In 1974 a historic meeting between the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Leonid Brezhnev and the president of the USA, Gerald Ford, was held in Vladivostok. Nevertheless, after Ford's visit to Vladivostok the ordinary citizens of the USA and other countries could not visit the city, which was home base of the Pacific Fleet, for almost 20 years. In 1992, for the first time in 70 years, Vladivostok was officially opened for visits by foreigners.
In December 2008 Vladivostok protests against higher import duties on used cars were reported around the world, though with only limited coverage in Russia. These protests have been seen as potentially the first visible public anger at one of the government's responses to the global financial crisis.[5] Police clad in riot gear detained some protesters as other demonstrators blocked roads, lit flares and bonfires in Sunday's protests that blocked traffic in the city centre. A separate protest later blockaded the city's airport for a short period. [6]
As of 1996, there are six consulates, correspondent offices of four Japanese TV-companies, information service of the USA, more than 100 representative offices of foreign firms and approximately 600 joint venture enterprises in Vladivostok.
See also[edit]
- ^ Canada's Siberian Expedition website
- ^ Benjamin Isitt, "Mutiny from Victoria to Vladivostok, December 1918," Canadian Historical Review, 87:2 (June 2006)
- ^ "Tracing the Steps of Stalin's Unreliable People: Koryo Saram". The Journal of the International Institute (University of Michigan) 14 (1): 1–3. Fall 2006.
- ^ Секретная миссия подполковника Дулиттла (in Russian).
- ^ Timesonline
- ^ "Car duty protests challenge Russia's Putin" REUTERS Dec 16. 2008


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Berezovsky speaks to the media after losing his court battle against Abramovich at a division of the High Court in London.
Roman Abramovich won a lawsuit seeking about $6.8 billion over claims he intimidated Boris Berezovsky into selling shares in two Russian oil and metal companies for far less than they were worth.
Judge Elizabeth Gloster in London ruled Friday that Abramovich didn't make express or implied threats to force Berezovsky to dispose of interests in oil company OAO Sibneft. Both sides accused each other of dishonesty and greed during the three-month trial.
"I found Mr. Berezovsky an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept," Gloster said.
"At times, the evidence which he gave was deliberately dishonest; sometimes he was clearly making his evidence up as he went along in response to the perceived difficulty in answering the questions in a manner consistent with his case."
The trial exposed the business practices of a small group of extremely wealthy Russians who profited from the fall of the communism and privatization of a number of the country's largest energy companies. Abramovich, the 45-year-old owner of the Chelsea Football club in London, sold his stake in gas pipeline giant Gazprom OAO in 2005 for about $10 billion.
Berezovsky said following the verdict that he was "amazed" by the ruling and that he hadn't made up his mind about an appeal.
Gloster "tried to rewrite Russian history," he said outside the courthouse.
During the trial, which ended in January, lawyers for Berezovsky said their client received hundreds of millions of dollars from Abramovich before a final payment of $1.3 billion in 2002. Berezovsky claimed the money was for his share of Sibneft, and aluminum assets which became part of United Co. Rusal Plc. Abramovich denied the 66-year-old Berezovsky owned a stake and said he was paying for political protection, or krysha.
Gloster said the $1.3 billion was a "final lump sum payment in order to discharge what Mr. Abramovich regarded as his krysha obligations."
The former friends and business partners split when Berezovsky fled Russia in 2000 after a falling out with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
"Sometimes I think Putin himself wrote that judgment," Berezovsky said.
The disputed verbal agreements were made in a series of meetings at luxury hotels and ski resorts.
Berezovsky, the co-founder of Logovaz News Corp. and former adviser to President Boris Yeltsin, received hundreds of millions of dollars from Abramovich.
Abramovich, whose current estimated net worth is $14 billion according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, made much of his fortune through the privatization of Sibneft after the fall of the Soviet Union.
On top of settling a personal dispute between the two former business associates, the verdict issued by Gloster is the first by a British court to give guidance on dealing with the large, undocumented krysha payments by Russian businessmen.
The trial, which ended in January, took hundreds hours of court time, cost millions of pounds in legal fees and included Rusal founder Oleg Deripaska as a witness.
The case is: Berezovsky vs. Abramovich, High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court Case No. 09- 1080.
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SEATTLE — A federal judge on Thursday struck down a Washington state law aimed at battling online sex trafficking after an Internet advocacy group filed a lawsuit challenging the measure's constitutionality.
Judge Ricardo Martinez's order was filed Thursday in Seattle after the state declined to continue arguing in U.S. District Court over Engrossed Senate Bill 6252, one of several measures written by lawmakers earlier this year to combat online sex trafficking. Gov. Chris Gregoire signed the bill, aimed at online classified site Backpage.com, into law in March.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued on behalf of online library Internet Archive, arguing that targeting Internet service providers was unconstitutional and violated federal law. Backpage.com sued separately.
The organization said the Washington Legislature passed the law "despite its obvious potential to curtail legitimate speech."
For example, the vague and overbroad statute threatened to impose felony liability not only on those directly engaged in illegal acts but also on those who "indirectly" caused to be "disseminated" any "implicit" offers for commercial sex acts. That could potentially affect services that merely provide access to information, like web hosts, ISPs, or online libraries, impeding their ability to operate," the organization said in a statement.
Attorneys for Backpage.com and the EFF argued the state law came into conflict with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a federal law that protects online service providers from the acts of its subscribers or users.
State Attorney General Rob McKenna said unless Congress makes changes to that federal rule, an appeal to uphold the state law would have been lengthy and costly.
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