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While the aggressive nature of mesothelioma leaves many patients with few treatment options, there are several procedures available to patients that can slow the progression of the disease or work to alleviate some of the patient's suffering. The appropriate type of treatment will depend on the type of mesothelioma that the patient is suffering from and the stage of the cancer.
Pleural mesothelioma usually strikes one lung before the other giving physicians a chance (if caught early enough) to try surgery to slow the disease. The common surgical procedures are:
- Pleurectomy – this procedure removes part of the infected lung and the surrounding lining of the chest. This will remove the tumor (or reduce the size) and relieve the painful pressure in the chest cavity area.
- Pneumonectomy - is when the total lung, the lining around the lung and some of the connective tissue is removed. This procedure is only used in severe cases and only to relieve the pain.
- Thoracentesis - a procedure to drain excess fluid from the lungs using a needle. This helps a patient to breath and reduces the painful pressure on their lungs.
- Extrapleural pneumonectome – an extreme surgery that can only be used in cases of mesothelioma. This procedure removes the entire lining of the chest wall that surrounds the heart, lungs and diaphragm to prevent it from becoming infected with mesothelioma. This surgery is usually done in combination with radiation and chemotherapy. The recovery period can easily be a full year. For patients suffering from peritoneal or pericardial mesothelioma, surgical procedures are focused on tissue removal.
In theory, cancer in the body can be cured if it is entirely removed by surgery, but this is typically never the case in patients with mesothelioma. If the cancer has metastasized and moved to other regions of the body, surgery is usually impossible. Additionally, if cancerous cells are left within the body there is the potential that the cells will re-grow, leading to a new tumor mass recurring in the body.
Surgery is also often necessary for determining what stage of the cancer has progressed to, and doctors will always perform biopsies on the cells removed from the body in order to determine the extent of the disease.
Surgery is difficult for mesothelioma patients. It's physically hard on the body, recovery is long and painful, and on top of that - it's expensive. It is very often the last resort in alleviating painful symptoms for patients with mesothelioma. However, if the cancer is detected early enough it can be the best option for patients who are not yet showing symptoms of mesothelioma. If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma it is important to discuss all treatment options with your medical team. Your team will take all factors of your condition into account, including your personal wishes, and will give you all the information you need to make a decision regarding your personal treatment regime. Important information regarding treatment methods and alternative therapies is also available upon request.


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The Field The tournament field will feature teams from all over the mountain region and will include Western Athletic Conference rivals
The Players The Broncos will send eight players to the Mountain Regional Championships including the tournament's number one seeded player, Luke Shields.
Shields enters the competition as the nation's 33rd ranked player, according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. At the All-American Championships, Shields knocked off three straight ranked opponents to advance to the quarterfinals before eventually falling to the nation's number four ranked player.
In addition to Luke Shields,
Brother Clancy Shields joins Luke in the top 10 with his seventh place seed and Blake Boswell who ranked 10th in the final seeding.
Other Broncos receiving seeds include Eric Roberson at 13 and Piotr Dilaj at 31.
Also participating in the regional championships are Brent Werbeck, Steve Robertson and Jamaal Hepburn.
All eight members of the team will be participating in the doubles competition as well with three duos receiving seeds. Dilaj and L. Shields received the Broncos' highest seed at number five, followed by C. Shields and Robertson at six. The final seed went to the team of Boswell and Roberson at number eight. Hepburn and Werbeck will make up the final doubles team.

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|Chapter 5
|Education: Education is a key component to achieving the Bike 2015 Plan's goals to increase the number of trips by bicycle and improve the safety of the bicycling environment. Many people think that bicycling in Chicago is dangerous. This concern keeps people from bicycling more, or at all. A key way to address this concern is through education, particularly through the six objectives identified in this chapter.
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|Train city staff and consultants to implement the Bike 2015 Plan.
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Crikey! A Readathon That Can Save Wildlife
Crikey! 2013's Readathon went off like a frog in a sock with over $13,400 raised online for the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. Wooo-hoo!
If you love animals and love reading, like Bindi and Robert, you'll love being part of the Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors Readathon!
What better way to help our precious wildlife than by reading? Read a little on the WILD SIDE - the more books you read, the more patients we can save! So get some sponsors and raise much-needed funds for our Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital.
Read as many books as you can from 15 October until 15 November and help save our precious wildlife at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. Sponsors can donate per book or per minutes read. It's that easy!
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I find the notification (or lack there of) for receiving private messages needs to be improved.
The bold Number of unread messages isn't eye catching enough. (of course this is all IMO) I find myself missing the fact that I have a new message for days, and by the time I get it, it is redundant.
May I suggest a slight font size increase to accompany the bolding?
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Community members have started to act against cable thieves who have been plaguing the telecommunications industry with the theft and destruction of copper and fibre cables which was affecting the quality of service.
Three persons on three different occasions spotted suspicious activity in the middle of the night, and called the local police to make a report.
These actions have led to the arrest of youth in three areas of the Greater Accra Region, and have averted thousands of Ghana cedis revenue loss to Vodafone Ghana, the operator affected by these thefts.
At Mile 7, a young lady spotted six young men with an unbranded truck attempting to pull cables out of a manhole in front of a kiosk at 2:00 a.m.
Suspicious, she reported it to the police who confronted the group and apprehended two of them. The damage averted by the quick action by the young lady was in excess of GH¢60,000, not to mention the voice and internet network outage that would have been experienced by the local community.
The next morning there were reports of another act of bravery by a group of people who had volunteered to patrol the Middle East area of Ashaiman, after numerous cable thefts had left them without Vodafone services on several occasions.
They apprehended two youths, who were known to collect scrap in the area, at 1:00 a.m. after they were trying to drive away with metres of copper cables. The damage caused at the site was in excess of GH¢25,000, and would affect 1,000 customers.
Another act of bravery was effected by a staff member of Vodafone, who spotted six youths pulling underground cables into a truck at 4:00 a.m. He approached the group, and with the help of passersby, apprehended two of them, he then called a team member from the Corporate Security Unit at Vodafone, and together they escorted the suspects to the police station.
The damage caused in that incident was in excess of GH¢50,000 and affected 1,200 Vodafone customers.
Michael Mbroh, Head of Corporate Security, commented on the actions of individuals. "We are very grateful for the diligence and bravery of these community members. Cable thefts cause Vodafone Ghana huge financial losses, but I think customers are now beginning to feel the impact of the actions of these thieves on their ability to communicate. We don't ask customers to approach the suspects, but we do urge them to report any suspicious activity to the nearest police station, or call our shortcode 155 - it is manned twenty four hours a day by a member of staff from our security department. We can only stamp out the menace of cable theft if we work together with the police and members of the community, as we are all affected by these illegal acts.
"We're appealing for our customers to 'own the Network' in their areas, and stay vigilant."
Network customers are becoming increasingly frustrated by the service interruptions caused by the indiscriminate cutting and theft of copper cables.
The Corporate Security Department at Vodafone Ghana is working very closely with the police to make sure all suspects are prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and police informers appropriately rewarded.


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With the Christmas season ratcheting up the pressure to spend on those who cannot afford to do so, local MSP, Labour;s Jackie Baillie, speaking in a debate in the Scottish Parliament this week, drew attention to the work of two local credit unions and called for increased support for credit unions in general.
The pressure of consumerism at such a time compounds the daily route to borrowing for everyday necessities by so many of the needy. The obscenely exploitative rates charged by the seedy payday loan companies require to be made redundant for as many as possible – and Credit Unions exist to harness community support to sustaining the genuinely needy through hard times.
Jackie Baillie told MSPs that Dumbarton Credit Union and Vale of Leven Credit Union did a 'fantastic job' of encouraging saving and promoting a responsible approach to lending money.
However Ms Baillie warned that more support was required from the Scottish Government if credit unions were to provide an alternative to the dangerous seductions of the high-interest short term loans offered by payday loan companies.
Jackie Baillie says: 'I was pleased the Scottish Government launched the '12 Days of Debtmas' campaign in response to Scottish Labour's call for wealth warnings to promote alternatives to rip-off payday loans.
'However we could be doing so much more to promote responsible, and cheaper, lenders like Dumbarton Credit Union and the Vale of Leven Credit Union.
'Shops which offer expensive short-term loans are popping up in high streets all over Scotland. There are already five such companies in Dumbarton, Alexandria and Helensburgh. They charge eye-watering rates of interest, in some cases it's APR of 3000% pulling people into a spiral of debt that is very difficult to escape.
'At a time when faith in our banking system is at an all-time low, we have an opportunity to promote our local credit unions as a community-based alternative to lending and saving.
'The SNP government should put its money where its mouth is and invest in promoting credit unions and in the short term look at all options, including a guarantee fund to provide small instant loans.'
Text of Jackie Baillie's parliamentary speech on 18th December
Jackie Baillie (Dumbarton) (Lab): I, too, congratulate John Wilson on securing the debate and on his thoughtful and considered speech. As others have pointed out, the debate follows last week's excellent debate led by my colleague Kez Dugdale on the regulation of payday lenders. It is fair to say that Ms Dugdale has led the debtbusters campaign in Scotland to considerable effect, highlighting the scandal of payday lending with companies charging extortionate rates of interest and taking advantage of people in recouping that loan. Clearly, as far as the minister is concerned, persistence works but I encourage him not to wait quite so long before responding to Ms Dugdale's letters, e-mails and suggestions.
In the past year, a number of payday lenders have sprung up in my local area—in fact, it is about the only growth in the high street—and they are charging a frankly outrageous annual percentage rate of almost 4000 per cent. We are facing a huge cost-of-living crisis of a kind that we have not seen for very many decades. Incomes are declining in real terms, costs have risen by more than 30 per cent in the past five years and people are in difficulty.
There are alternatives, but we need to do more to raise awareness and point people in the right direction. As a result, I very much welcome the Scottish Government's 12 days of debtmas campaign, which highlights credit unions' valuable role in providing access to low-interest loans. The two credit unions in my area—Dumbarton Credit Union and the Vale of Leven Credit Union—do a fantastic job. Very much rooted in their communities, credit unions are member-owned co-operatives whose aim is to develop a responsible approach to money and encourage all of us to save. With their low-interest loans, which are usually repayable over a long period, they are growing all the time. Across Scotland, there are 108 credit unions, some based on a workplace, others based on where people live, and as many as 350,000 people have joined them.
However, they have so much more potential, and that is the issue that I want to explore with the minister.
I will digress for a minute, however, and mention that in the House of Commons Gareth Thomas MP has tabled a 10-minute rule motion that seeks to create a credit union for military personnel who are increasingly turning to payday loans to get by. I hope that Scottish National Party MPs and, indeed, Conservative MPs will support that, as it is particularly important.
In my local area, we asked the council to advertise the credit union on its council tax notices, which are received by every household. It is considering that. We have also asked it to promote the super savers scheme, which gives every primary school child a credit union account with a small sum of money—£10, say—to kick off their saving habit. That, coupled with financial education that is provided by the credit union, can be a powerful tool to change habits in the next generation. A small sum of money could prevent a future spiral into debt. The Scottish Government should consider ways of promoting credit unions, perhaps on television or radio, that would support local activity at this time of year and all year round.
I recall that the previous Scottish Executive had in place a credit union development plan entitled Unlocking the Potential: An Action Plan for the Credit Union Movement in Scotland", which was backed by considerable resources. I suspect that the current Scottish Government has also provided funding, but if we are to make a quantum difference to financial exclusion, we need to do much more to sustain credit unions.
What specific measures will the minister implement to do so? In the short term, what about providing credit unions with assistance through a loan guarantee fund to enable them to offer more instant loans? In the long term, how can we encourage community credit unions to have people from all walks of life as their members? I look forward to the minister, in the spirit of Christmas, outlining the further measures that he will implement now to support credit unions.'


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In this lab, you will develop and test a hypothesis, analyze data and draw conclusions.
You are given guidance at each step of the way. Fill out this form completely - do not skip steps!
Question: What factors will make an alka-seltzer tablet dissolve faster
Variables to test:
.....Tap water, Warm water, Cold water, Salt Water, Acidic water (using vinegar)
Of the variables above, which should serve as your CONTROL group? __________
In this experiment, the independent variable is the type of water (warm, salt..etc).
What is the responding variable, or the thing you will be measuring? _________________
Alka seltzer will dissolve fastest in ______________ water, and the slowest in _________ water.
Answer these questions regarding your experimental design:
A) Will you use a whole tablet or a half a tablet of alka seltzer? _______________
B) How will you measure how quickly it dissolves? _______________________________
C) How much water will you place in your beakers? ______________________________
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If you plan to make a public speech, take time to plan a careful approach to provide a dynamic talk that will inspire your audience.
Many people in the business world must occasionally make a public speech. It may take the form of addressing or leading a business meeting, or your talk may be geared to co-workers during a training session. Some well-known leaders or speakers may be asked to share ideas with a community or civic group.
Whatever the occasion, speaking to an audience is an exciting opportunity to persuade people of something you believe in strongly or hold dear. Reflect on your goals for the session in advance, and plan a thoughtful approach to presenting your information to a group of listeners.
First, determine your primary goal for making the presentation. Are you trying to change people's behavior? Do you want to change the way they think? Is it important to make a good impression as a leader? Or do you hope to inspire the local community with a daring challenge or a tempting risk? Whatever the main purpose, make it the focus of your plan for the upcoming event.
Second, find out who will be in your audience. Are attendees mostly co-workers who want to learn from you? Or will there be community and civic leaders who need to find out about your company's expansion plans or a proposed change in zoning laws? Perhaps you represent the organization on a good will mission, offering information, technology, or service to surrounding areas that will be represented by everyday citizens with little background knowledge of your company. When you know who your listeners will be, get estimates about their ages, dominant gender type (males versus females), education levels, and relationship to your organization. This information will help you target their learning needs in your presentation.
On the day of the speech, look and feel your best. "Clothes make the man" is an old saying with a core of truth. Male or female, dress neatly, groom well, and adopt an air of confidence when you step forward to begin speaking. Get plenty of rest the night before to avoid dark circles beneath your eyes and a slurred voice or forgotten words. Make an effort to use hand gestures, and change your stance occasionally, moving a bit around the platform area as space permits without appearing twitchy or nervous.
Organize your speech with a catchy introduction, detail- or example-supported body, and a resounding conclusion. List main points numerically or follow another type of order as you move from one section to another, which will allow your audience to keep up with you. Don't overwhelm them with details or they may feel confused. Don't drone on with one central idea or they may get bored. Start with a hook, state the key idea, provide support, and summarize or restate at the end. If the forum permits it, allow time for questions and answers.
Offer your audience something of value. A hot tip, insightful observation, useful suggestion, or empathetic reflection can serve as a meaningful gift to your listeners. They will leave feeling the talk was worthwhile if you follow Aristotle's advice from the 4th century B.C., to "teach and entertain" those who come to hear you speak.
Finally, learn something yourself. Be alert to the effect of your speech on the audience. Think about their comments and questions. Look at the topic from a new perspective. You, too, will come away feeling enriched from your experience.


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Kam Tang
Kam Tang lives and works from his home in London and is one of the UK's best kept creative secrets. Naturally shy of publicity, his creative output is poetic, contemplative and can best be typified by his meticulous attention to detail and constant reinvention.
Kam is one of the most successfully diverse graphic artists working today leading him to collaborate with The Chemical Brothers, Gnarls Barkley, Burberry, Adidas, the London Design Museum and Royal Mail. He cites completing his MA at The Royal College, London as being a formative period as well as travelling, particularly to Asia and South America. Kam has exhibited widely around the world including the British Council's Picture This touring show, Versus 2 and Who Let You In, in Tokyo.


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ND native Hafner MLB career most likely finished
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FARGO â Opening day took place for most Major League Baseball teams on Monday. And for the first time in a long time, Travis Hafner, 36, was enjoying the action from his home instead of from a dugout.
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Traffic on the 405 Freeway around Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) can be a nightmare. But on the weekend of July 15-18 it is expected to be even worse, in part because more airport shuttles and buses than normal will be on the road in an effort to get travelers to and from LAX on time.
"Plan ahead is the key word," said Harold Johnson, an airport spokesman.
During the 405's 53-hour shutdown, traffic between Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley will turn to other arteries, including the 101, 5, 210 and 110 freeways, the canyon routes and Pacific Coast Highway. This is expected to create long delays on such detours.
LAX has posted a "405 Freeway Alert" to its Web site, lawa.org, and plans to notify arriving passengers of the closure by hanging informational posters around the airport.
Among the 50,000 international passengers traveling through LAX's Bradley Terminal on Sunday, July 17, will be 250 from Israel, who might not be aware of the freeway closure.
Liora Avrahami, West Coast regional manager for El Al, said only one flight will arrive from Tel Aviv during Carmageddon, because the airline doesn't fly on Shabbat.
Upon learning of the freeway closure in early June, Avrahami said El Al contacted travel agents with the news, but not its passengers.
However, those arriving from Israel will find plenty of transportation services available at the airport.
The Van Nuys FlyAway, which ferries passengers between the Valley and LAX, will operate throughout the weekend. To ensure correct departure times, Johnson said, the FlyAway is increasing the number of buses available that weekend.
"Extra buses will be available so that the buses will leave the terminals when expected," he said.
The buses, which usually travel along the 405, will use the 101, among other detours, Johnson said.
Airport shuttle services are also preparing for the closure.
Bobby Gilson, marketing manager at Prime Time Shuttle, said their dispatchers are adding one to two hours to pick-up time estimates for that weekend.
And while the drivers will rely on GPS systems to navigate traffic, Gilson is hopeful that Angelenos will make their job easier by avoiding the freeways altogether.
"We're hoping for less drivers on the road," Gilson said.
For those who would prefer to avoid the freeways altogether that weekend, Johnson suggests turning to public transportation.
"Consider a Metro Rail alternative," Johnson said, referring to the Metro's Green Line, which has an Aviation Boulevard/LAX station.
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pretty sure I will never play this game
BF4, first day purchase on PC =) can't wait
At the risk of sounding like a fanboy/miserable sod with nothing fun to say. Is anyone a little uninspired by the whole new console "generation" being slightly defined by slightly prettier graphics but the same annual updates of essentially the same game.
Is everyone really happy to fork out a whole new console's worth of money to play the same game... really? Cue retaliation!!! go!
i am wating for battlefield 4 all the nights and the morning
ps4 + bf4 +fifa 14 what else would you need?
that was so awesome....
oh lord......the amount of hours this game will require.......
look BF4 is the best war simulator AND FPS
This is shaping up to be an epic game, can't wait!
this is awesome but just one thing, Is this on the game or should we pay for it?
A mix up of combat should be a staple in all games. If you can't do that, then especially include it in FPS's.
There's no such thing as too epic. This game will be insanely good.
gotta love Patrick Bach, DICE FTW
No one can match the production values that DICE has it just looks so professional its insane.
i want one of those who want to boycot E.A.......To be honest i dont know if i will resit the temptation to buy this game
better than CoD :O
i Need more info in Commander Mode for PC..... Can i set way points for my team and squads to follow, can i VOIP with them, and individual members.
and will the game Support TrackIR, would be AMAZING if it did
Skeet Skeet !!
Why arent they talking more about commander mode?
mmm...Executive Produce. Yummy
so can anyone identify the new jets? cause the 1 is a PAK-FA while i cant tell about the other, it looks like a Eurofighter Typhoon or a Dassault Rafale
This ragu ad that keeps playing is one of the dumbest fucking advertisements I have seen all year.
Same game as the last one, only a few new maps and a handfull of weapons. People will sadly eat it up and waste 50 euros on it + another 50 euros on the overpriced DLC.
The day when these two horrible franchises die (BF and COD) is sadly still far away but once it comes, it's gonna be a beautifull mark in gaming's history.
BF4 is the most impressive game on the horizon imo. It's 100% gameplay and it's just crazy the things that can happen and the different ways you can play the game. Sure, military shooters is a tired genre, but I just can't resist BF 4 :)!
IT will come out, later :D
Water animation is one of the most difficult graphical representation in a game, everything is so eye candy I got impregnated by that.
I just love how you can also destroy bridges now..this will change the gameplay so much. Stoping tanks from reaching an island where a flag is in conquest etc. I just cant wait.
So this is not launching for both systems. WHY THE HELL THEY PUT IT ON THE LIST SMH.. what Am I gonna do now. Im not gettin COD or Titanfall
PS4 Launch title please.
The only thing i hate about battlefield is the guns.. Whats the point of having so many awesome different guns/models/attatchments if they are all so nazishly-balanced to the point where having one gun is like having them all
@waldaz final fantasy 15
@waldaz life
@ICE_PREDATOR fuck yeah
Dice has been doing this for a long time now. They are top notch at what they do. I mean these guys are fucking smart, alright.
Those are some good questions. well the previous commanders could talk directly with the squad leaders which worked great. I doubt individual members of the squad though. You will definitely be able to set way points and point out enemy's. You should be able to airdrop supplies too but I'm unsure about that. It will be interesting to see the new commander features compared to the commander in BF2 and 2142. I think it's cool it can be played from a tablet. If you play commander and are good I will play on your team a lot, and my friends if you don't mind. we will be looking for a good commander.
@hishamramzan I think it may be a J-20
@NightmareP3 if it dies, FPS genre dies. Leaving only CS:Go. The game changed almost everything from BF3, the only thing that stayed the same was the game modes and graphics lol. The mechanics are diferent, dynamic weather, more destruction, hitcode changed, you can pickup weapons on the map, levolution, 3 factions, etc.etc. I could write more stuff but u get the point, I also play cod, and yeah cod stays the same. Say that about cod not bf4.
just because the graphics look the same its not as the game didnt change at all
well you have no clue what you are talking about.
@HipHopBeats dont u dare forget the fishes that move when u get close..
@GuPesci its not gona come out on next gen before the consoles are released
@GuPesci I'm pretty sure it'll be available at the launch of both next gen systems. The guy probably didn't want to out the Xbone release date, but the longer it takes to come out, the better polished it will be.
@GrayF0X786 they have stated that it will be out before the end of December!!
Their guns seem soo real to mee as I had to aim so high to the point where my sniper made a rainbow shot in someones head. That shyt was SICK. Love these games
@djpetitte You support me and i Will support you soldier :-)
@Gle4se @NightmareP3 i agree with you! But if they die i will probably stick to halo and crysis :D. Hmm actually come to think of it, i rarely play COD. I have never really owned one. I played counter strike, halo, battlefield, brothers in arms, (some other random shooters), but not COD because it looks like complete horse@hit compared to these franchises.
@Gle4se @NightmareP3 Exactly people are getting hung up on the graphics looks the same ( i think better ) but there is so much different about this from BF3.
@varuchi @HipHopBeats far cry 3 already had this underwater world.
@GuPesci @SpinDie25 yeah i know they are all so realistic and awesome which is kind of ruined by the fact that they are SOO BALANCED.. Thats fine for standard mode but i wish they would do a more realistic damage-per-bullet caliber size in hardcore mode.. For example in bf3 the SVD sniper rifle has a larger bullet size than even the bolt-action sniper rifles but it does 30% less damage just because it is semi-automatic.. Its just not very realistic.. Do you think guns in real life are "balanced" No. So make different guns better than others in hardcore mode.. just like it is in real war.
In bf3 the higher the weapons rate of fire, the weaker the damage per bullet. Regardless of caliber size
Oh shyt that was deep. Never noticed that.. They need some engineers for that shyt though. If that happened. There would be no stopping for Battlefield.


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It was very cold on the winter morning of Wednesday 27th February 2013 in the Vatican City, yet St. Peter's Square could not contain the crowd from all over the world that came to bid Pope Benedict XVI farewell. Pope Benedict XVI addressed the crowd with a serene and loving voice. He narrated his moments of struggle and joy in this unique Wednesday of his final public address as the successor of Peter.
In his words, there had been "many days of sunshine" but also "times when the water was rough and the Lord seemed to sleep. But even as the church passes through stormy seas, God will not let her sink." He recalled that when he was asked to be Pope eight years ago, he prayed for God's guidance and ever since felt the presence of God every day. He saw this as "a part of the journey of the church that has had moments of joy and light, moments that were not easy."
The Holy Father acknowledged the fact that there has to be a time in life when "tough choices" had to be made. In this last general audience, akin to a father addressing the children for the last time before his final exit, he called for a renewal of faith and speaks of his own spiritual journey through eight years as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. He thanked the cardinals, the clergy in Rome, Vatican officials and priests worldwide for their work, as well as their congregations, saying "the heart of a Pope extends to the whole world."
He said his strength was fading hence he had to resign honourably even in the face of the loudest ovation. He was aware of the gravity and novelty of his action. He affirmed that he stepped aside "with a deep peace of mind." He gave a perfect definition of love in the context of this great moment of the world history saying, "Loving the church also means having the courage to make tough choices." He called on the faithful to pray for him and the new Pope.
Pope Benedict XVI described the life of the pontiff as a life without any kind of privacy. He admitted that this kind of life is particularly difficult for a man known for his love of scholarship and the church. He said his life in retirement will be simply a return to the private place where he would forgo the exercise of active ministry but not revoke it. In other words, he would "return to a private life, not to a life of travel, meetings, receptions, conferences and so on."
The ovation that followed of his speech was akin to unceasing flowing torrents of thunder in the continuous clapping and hailing. Yes, cheers erupted from the tens of thousands gathered in the square. The Pope acknowledged this with an open-armed embrace. It was amazing how many languages the Pope used as a sign of respect for the people from the different parts of the world. He spoke Italia, English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Arabic to show the global reach of the church that is one, holy and universal.
Rev. Fr. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman said the Pope will still keep the papal title Benedict XVI, rather than reverting to the name Joseph Ratzinger and will be referred to as "His Holiness." He will also go by the title "Pontiff Emeritus" or "Pope Emeritus." When he finally retires into a small monastery within Vatican City, Benedict will wear a simple white robe, without the papal red cape, and will swap his red shoes for brown ones. According to Lombardi, he will no longer use the Fisherman's Ring; the symbol of the Pope. The ring will be destroyed, along with Benedict's papal seal, after his departure from office.
It is interesting to note that Pope Benedict XVI gave the College of Cardinals authority to freely choose the date of the conclave to elect his successor. He signed a motu propio on the issue, setting aside parts of a previous mandate from Pope John Paul II governing the working of a conclave according to Lombardi, the Vatican spokesperson, at a press conference. At the conference, Vatican officials said the pope had not ordered the cardinals to change the date. He merely gave them the power to do so.
Now we can once again reflect, philosophize and theologize on the value of power and authority. From the messages I have received from my Muslim and Christian friends, it is clear that a person is more potent, powerful and respected when he or she is aware of the zenith and limit of his strength to lead. A wise leader knows when there is need to relinquish power for the sake of the people to whom power rightfully belongs.
Pope Benedict XVI was selfless and did not cling to power such that someone else would do the work while he claimed the glory or left the work to suffer. What a perfect way of putting the words of Jesus into practise: "it is better for me to go so that the advocate, the Holy Spirit of God would come" (John 16, 7).
I pray that some of our leaders who want to glue to power even when they are old, sick, incapacitated and incompetent will have a rethink. Some of the old dictators in our world today who want to rule at all cost have caused a lot of terror using religion as a veritable tool. Some have caused war because they believe that an incumbent cannot be defeated in an election. To die in power, some politicians have invented different styles of rigging elections even to the extent of kidnapping and killing those whom they see as rivals.
In cannon law, the Pope cannot be forced to resign. The decision must come from him in conscience and freedom. His resignation is not subject to the acceptance or rejection by anybody because he is the Supreme Pontiff. This makes the decision and action of the Pope a message to the world. He was conscious of the implications of his actions, yet he resigned for the good of the church and the people.
It is shameful to be chased out of power like we have witnessed in recent times. Every good leader must demonstrate power in the ability to plan for the next generation akin to Jesus who said, "Do not let your heart be troubled, I am going to prepare you a place so that where I am you too may be (John 14, 1).
It is very funny that in the world today, while the young people are unemployed, the retired old people are busy recycling themselves by various political appointments. We must really think about this as we continue to find solution to insecurity and violence in the world. A word is enough for the wise. The Pope has spoken and acted, let those who are wise take the message to heart and put it into practise.
Father (Prof) Omonokhua is the Director of Mission and Dialogue of the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Abuja, and Consultor for the Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims (CRRM), Vatican City


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The rectangles within this painting do not extend to the edges of the canvas and appear to hover just over its surface. Heightening this sensation is the effect of chromatic afterimage. Staring at each colored segment individually affects the perception of those adjacent to it. The red–orange center of the painting tints the yellow above it with just a bit of green. The yellow above seems to tint the orange with blue. Despite these color relationships, Rothko did not want his pictures appreciated solely for their spectral qualities. He said, "If you are only moved by color relationships, then you miss the point. I'm interested in expressing the big emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom."
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Curator Emeritus, John Elderfield: Rothko really wants us to engage with his pictures and let them work on us, to actually find our position in relationship to them. Perhaps you are doing this now, moving backwards and forwards until you find the place. And then, I think, as your eyes settle to it, things start to happen.
If you stare a lot at the reddish center of the picture, and then moved up into the yellow, that yellow will tint a little bit with green. And then it will fade away. And youll look at the yellow for a little bit and maybe move down into the orange, and the orange will tint a little bit with blue as the afterimage from the yellow. Effectively, you are, as Rothko says, the companion to the picture, helping to make the picture perform.
And you find that it isn't all sweetness and light. In fact, Rothko said of this picture that he thought it was rather violent. Perhaps he means the scratching in the center, which is unusual in Rothko's work.
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Jaanam Samjha Karo
|Jaanam Samjha Karo
जानम समझा करो
جانم سمجھا کرو
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|Directed by
|Andaleeb Sultanpuri
|Produced by
|Bubby Kent
|Written by
|Rajkumar Santoshi
|Salman Khan
Urmila Matondkar
Jaspal Bhatti
Shammi Kapoor
|Music by
|Anu Malik
|Santosh Sivan
Release dates
|2 April 1999
Running time
|156 minutes
|Box office
|8.4 crore[1]
Jaanam Samjha Karo (Hindi: जानम समझा करो, Urdu: جانم سمجھا کرو, English translation: Sweetheart, Try and Understand) is an Indian Bollywood film directed by Andaleeb Sultanpuri who is the son of veteran lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri. It was released on 2 April 1999. The film stars Salman Khan, Urmila Matondkar in lead roles, with Shakti Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor and Monica Bedi in supporting roles
Chandni (Urmila Matondkar), a lower class talented night club singer and dancer, who happens to be religious, and well mannered, lives an unfortunate life with her three aunts, who dominate her life, and with a weak maternal grandmother. She dances for a living because it is the only way she can support her poor family and she hopes to give her nieces an education.
One night while singing, she meets Rahul (Salman Khan), a young wealthy womanizer, and falls in love with him. Rahul feels attracted to her but he does not take her seriously. He intends to treat her just like any of his other girlfriends, and only wants to have a short affair. They get into fights all the time, only to become friends again. However after a mistaken impulse of kissing Chandni turns out bad for Rahul as he realizes Chandni is not like the girls he had met and he try to mend thing sending gift to Chandni, but the gift is rejected by Chandni as she feels as if Rahul keeps following her. Later on, she is stuck alone in London, being chased by an old Indian pervert who tricked her into getting in to his car since she was stuck outside the Indian embassy. She runs out of the car after the old man tries molesting her and is coincidentally saved by Rahul. Rahul invites her to stay at his rather luxurious hotel. One day, however, his Dadaji (Shammi Kapoor), mentions that he wants to see Rahul married to Chandni. In order to fool him, Rahul asks Chandni to pretend to be his wife, which she accepts. After Dadaji leaves, Rahul and Chandni have a big fight, where Rahul slaps Chandni, and both decide to go their separate ways. However, Rahul realizes that he has fallen in love with her. He follows her back to India from London. He goes to her home and asks to speak to her, but she refuses to listen to him. So he yells out his apologies in front of her house and states that he loves her, while a crowd gathers. His ex-friend arrives there with a gang and they get into a fight. When Rahul is almost about to murder his ex friend, Chandni comes out and tells him to not ruin his life by killing Harry. Rahul then proposes to her, and Chandni wants to accept, except that she had previously promised her cold-blooded manager that she would move to another city and open a bar with him. The manager feels as if he has witnessed true love and kindly lets Chandni go. Chandni then accepts Rahul's proposal and the movie ends with them embracing each other.
- Salman Khan ... Rahul
- Urmila Matondkar ... Chandini
- Shakti Kapoor ... Harry
- Sadashiv Amrapurkar ... Daniel
- Jaspal Bhatti ... Tubby, Rahul's secretary
- Bindu ... Chandini's aunt 1
- Monica Bedi ... Monica
- Shammi Kapoor ... Rahul's Dadaji
The soundtrack of the film contains 8 songs. The music is conducted by Anu Malik, except for one song composed by the duo Anand-Milind (Kisi Ne Humse Kiya Hai Vaada). Lyrics are authored by Majrooh Sultanpuri. Music was very popular at that time.
|Chandni Aaya Hai Tera Deewana
|Udit Narayan
|I Was Made For Loving You
|Anu Malik, Kamaal Khan, Ila Arun
|Jaanam Samjha Karo
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|Main Ladki Akeli
|Anu Malik, Hema Sardesai
|Sabki Baaraten Aayeen
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|Jaspinder Narula
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The Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) has reacted to the death of another Nollywood veteran Enebeli Elebuwa who passed on Tuesday this week in India.
Describing the death as shocking, unfortunate and a great loss to the Nigerian motion picture industry and the Nation, Mr. Afolabi Adesanya, NFC's Managing Director/Chief Executive said the passing away of Elebuwa, an actor he was privileged to have worked with, was equally a personal loss. The film industry, Adesanya further said was indeed stricken by the death of Elebuwa who he averred, like others, was a toast to many film enthusiasts.
Adesanya, in the statement, commiserated with the Elebuwa family over the loss and prayed that Almighty God give the family the fortitude to bear his loss. He equally paid tribute to veteran actor Pete Eneh who also passed away recently, saying that their contributions to the development of Nigerian motion industry are immeasurable. "They have written their names in gold".
The NFC, the statement added, had assisted, and followed the great struggle by Enebeli Elebuwa to regain his health, until his death. He will be remembered for the enviable and impactful roles he played in the several movie titles (celluloid and Video) dating back to the seventies. They include; Oba Sanya Dosunmu's "Dinner with the Devil", "Queen of Hasso Rock", "The Corridors of Power", "Extra Time", "True Love", "Dons in Abuja", "Bumper to Bumper" and Domitilla. Others are "Together as One", "Separate Live", "Expensive Game", "Family Circle" and more.


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First off, thanks for looking - it's very appreciated. I need some serious WoL feedback. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I know my DoT up-time is bad - and I don't know why (not doing anything different from Cata as far as DoT's). I think I'm primarily screwing something up in movement-heavy fights, I seem to level out / catch up a bit when I can park and play.
I've literally gone from being top DPS in my guild last xpac, to below tanks and the new, very under geared boomie we just picked up. There are plenty of fights where I'm damned near - if not actually - the bottom. I will lose my raid spot soon if I don't fix this, and I'm an officer. That'd be embarrassing.
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A pair of dueling intelligence exploitation revelations have given the ongoing Snowden releases a run for their money. The first is the allegation that Russia provided poisoned gifts to delegates at the G20 summit. The complementary USB sticks and telephone chargers which they distributed to attendees came with trojan software installed (in the case of the USB sticks) while the cell phone chargers had the ability to slurp data from phones connected to them and send it onward to quarters unknown. Apparently the malware accessories were first recognized as hacking devices by Herman Von Rompuy's staff. There have been official statements that the devices were not used by any heads of states, but there are indications they may have been picked up by various members of their staffs. Russia has made an official denial of any involvement with the hacking attack, instead stating that this revelation is merely an attempt to distract the world from the NSA spying scandal. There has also been a report published (first in Russian media) that Russian customs officials had seized a number of electric coffeepots, imported from China, which when plugged in search for unlocked wireless networks and then start distributing malware and sending spam emails.
Undoubtedly this sort of situation is not what futurists predicting an "Internet of Things" anticipated. However, we must come to the conclusion that with ubiquitous computing will come ubiquitous malware and exploitative software. It may not yet be time to lie awake at night worrying if your toaster is hacking into your email and changing the controls on your fridge and your TiVo, but the hour certainly draws near.


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No kidding. I remember Boehm writing about buying the bike after Greg died. I see that you were in YB's with him, but did you know Greg (if you don't mind me asking)? Have fun with the resto.
Sure did. Had him over for dinner, camped with him a bunch of time, put him on the YB board of directors. I remember when he first got involved with the YBs and was at the Larz Anderson Eurobike day. We sent him out in our Civic to retrieve coffee for the masses. I think he came back with about 20 cups of coffee and a couple dozen donuts and was just loving that he could contribute. I think that pretty well summed him up: big happy puppy that loved motorcycles and motorcycle people. I miss that guy pretty immensely. I moved to California in the fall of 99 and we couldn't quite meet up. He was supposed to meet up with us in Morro Bay in March of that year to do some camping, but he got sent to Spain to do tire testing. We made fun of him around the campfire, but we all missed him and envied him quite a bit.
I talked to him a few times after that, the last time when I was in LA at a trade show. I called him and we started to coordinate a bit for meeting up at WSB. He had the access to the Motorcyclist tent and was going to get a couple of us up there for the races.
About a week after that, I got an email from a friend of mine with a link in it. The note said, and I'll never forget this, "Dave, I didn't know him, but I know he was a friend of yours." There was a link to an article on line about Greg getting killed coming back from the Honda Hoot. Tina and flew back to NY to go to his memorial service, which turned out to not be a somber affair at all, but rather a series of funny stories about Greg. I thought it kept with his character - "how can we make this more fun?"
I miss the guy quite a bit and am pretty honored to be caretaker of his bike. I'm not going to make it a perfect machine, but rather a regular rider - just like Greg was.
Greg's best friend, Jim O, is working for Sport Rider now, doing their Bitchin' Fresh Kit segment every month. Jim's making a living in the motorcycle world doing bike modeling for a few manufacturers. If you see a Kawasaki catalog and a guy hanging off a sportbike, that's probably Jim. He's racing Greg's old SV racebike these days, usually out at Willow Springs or Buttonwillow. I saw Jim a couple months ago when we got the bike and we had it in the back of the truck. It made us all a little melancholy, but we didn't talk about it much. We mostly had some beer and caught up, but Greg was the 600 lb. gorilla in the room and we all knew it.
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Washington County Commissioners approved pay raises and the creation of a new position in the Zoning Department by a vote of 19-5 at their Monday meeting.
Zoning Administrator Mike Rutherford will see his salary increased to $73,866 from $68,505; GIS Specialist Chris Pape will be made a chief deputy and his salary will increase to $34,778 from $25,277; and a new position of a deputy planner will be created at a salary of $33,000, with all items going into effect Dec. 1.
The motion passed 19-5, with Commissioners Mitch Meredith, David Tomita, Ethan Flynn, Ken Lyon and Pat Wolfe voting no.
Pete Speropulos, chairman of the Zoning Administration Oversight Committee where the funding request originated, said the money would enhance the department and recognize the expansion of duties of the office.
"This department is a revenue-generating department," he said. "The funds from this department will continue to grow. As far as increases in salaries for employees, you have to kind of think of it like a maintenance item: If you don't take care of what you got, you're going to lose it."
Tomita questioned the timing of the request and said he would like to see evidence of the increasing revenues in the department.
"Most of what we've been voting on (tonight) has been adding back things we've cut and items considered to be in the best interest of county. We're in an interesting economy. I know we need to take care of our employees, but we did. We gave them a raise across the board," Tomita said. "We're living in an age where companies in the private sector are cutting positions, not getting raises. ... Why now? Why is the salary of the zoning administrator at the top of our priority list?"
If revenues are increasing, Tomita said, he would he happy to share the money through raises; if not, "it will be a slap in the face to every other county employee."
Wolfe, who voted against the motion in a Nov. 16 budget committee, said this was not the time to be adding positions. He also said positions need to be reviewed and evaluated before raises were considered. In addition, he would not want the recurring costs to impact other salaries.
"I'd have a hard time looking a teacher in the eye or another county employee and explaining to them why we're giving these raises and I didn't give them the 3 percent," Wolfe said.
Commissioners also approved funding a new Sulphur Springs EMS Station for $209,677. The EMS station request was unanimously approved in a Nov. 16 Budget Committee meeting, when EMS Director Allen Taylor gave a presentation showing the need for the construction of a new station. The station would cover 36 miles and cut the response time in that area from between 11 and 15 minutes to less than five, county officials said. The $209,677 in funds will pay for the building's construction on donated land, as well as interior finishing, a vehicle, technical rescue equipment, and a base station radio. The money is expected to come from the proceeds of the sale of the Downtown Centre, but would be provided from the general fund should anything with the sale fall through, according to the resolution. The station will be ready April 1, according to Taylor. Washington County will own the building.
Flynn asked about recurring costs for the EMS station and where that money would come from.
Washington County Mayor Dan Eldridge said EMS will cover the new station's operating expenses through the end of this fiscal year, and the county would then pay about $144,000 in annual operating expenses starting in July 2012. Before that point, the county will need to figure out a way to fund that, Eldridge said.
Also at the meeting, commissioners approved paying former county Communications Director Jeff Keeling the amount of $10,470, funds already paid to Keeling while the county was running on a continuing budget. The vote was 15 commissioners in favor, with 10 commissioners voting no. Voting against the motion were: Doyle Cloyd, Alpha Bridger, Joe Corso, Richard Matherly, Mark Ferguson, Gerald Sparks, Roger Nave, Ben Bowman, Evert Jarrett, and Roger Shanks.
Ferguson asked the mayor if he could not find the funds in his office's budget, rather than pull from the county's unappropriated surplus. Ferguson specifically referred to a line item of $5,000 for contracted services in the mayor's budget.
According to Eldridge, that money is already committed in a contract to Keeling, who is being paid that for maintaining and updating the county's website. Eldridge said he did not have the resources in his office to do that job and chose to contract the work to Keeling.
When Ferguson asked why the county commissioners had not approved that action, Eldridge said they were not required to do so.
Commissioners also finally voted on the fate of the funding for the director of community relations and special projects position. The funding was not approved, with 13 voting no and 10 commissioners voting to approve the funding. Those voting no were: Cloyd, Bridger, Chase, Corso, Flynn, Richard Matherly, Ferguson, Gerald Sparks, Roger Nave, Mike Ford, Ben Bowman, Roger Shanks, and Pat Wolfe. Two commissioners were absent.
Questions were again brought up about the $48,000 salary cap placed on the job in discussions before the vote.
Chase called for more flexibility in the education and experience requirements, and Corso said he would like to see a range of salaries. Ferguson added that by talking about the $48,000, he didn't see how anyone would take less in pay if they knew what the county is willing to pay. In addition, Cloyd said $48,000 was too much to start someone out, when long-term county employees were making less than that cap.
Matherly defended the position, saying whoever was hired would help do research, be a contact person, prepare commission packets, and play many other vital roles to the county commission. He encouraged commissioners to consider funding the position.
After the vote, Tomita said the inconsistency between the vote on the zoning administration salaries and the vote on the community relations position was "troublesome."
On a final note, commissioners nearly did not consider many of the items in the 326-page agenda on Monday.
Commissioner Roger Shanks, who said he did not receive the commission packet until 5 p.m. on Monday, moved to table the agenda with the exception of the mayor's proclamations and the resolutions to consider the redistricting process and create a Regional Airport Authority.
"I don't even have any idea what's in the agenda," Shanks said. "I move we put the rest of the packet on the table until the commission pleases."
Once the meeting was officially opened, Shanks made his motion again, and amendments were added so that the final motion would table all the agenda items except for the Airport Authority resolution, the redistricting resolution, the EMS station vote, and the vote to finalize the sale of the Downtown Centre. The next time the commission could consider the other items without advertising every single item in the newspaper would be the commission's December meeting.
The motion to table most of the items was voted down, 15-10. Voting yes were Sam Humphreys, Skip Oldham, Mitch Meredith, Sam Phillips, Lee Chase, Joe Corso, David Tomita, Ethan Flynn, Ken Lyon, and Roger Shanks.


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For a while now, Monolith has been getting screwed when it comes to delivering great games that simply don't sell. The release of the instant classic No One Lives Forever (and its equally great sequel) proved to reviewers out there that these guys have what it takes to make a top-quality game, even if the gamers out there never even found out what the hell a "NOLF" is. Well, the guys behind both of those titles have decided to move on to a completely new property, and in the realm of first person shooters, it's pretty much at the opposite end of the spectrum.
F.E.A.R. was described to me as taking the action of The Matrix and the horror from The Ring and then mashing that into a cinematic first person shooter. That's pretty close to my impression, although this description doesn't address the many unique strengths (and weaknesses) that F.E.A.R. exhibits. This game is not a ripoff of anything, and while it borrows from popular media in making its gameplay mechanics work, it comes together very nicely. It also borrows from Half-Life 2 in that the entire game, other than the first cutscene, is viewed from the point of view of your character. In fact, they go a bit further than Valve Software did by not only giving your character no voice, but no real identity either.
During development of the game, Monolith was very reluctant to give out any information about F.E.A.R.'s story. Now that I've played it, I understand why, and I will hold to the same ideal. The best I can say is that you're an operative in a government-run military organization called First Encounter Assault Recon (yes, F.E.A.R. for short) and you've got superhuman combat skills. Your group specifically is targeted towards supernatural occurences, and in this game you'll come across plenty of that stuff - it's full of creepy moments and chilling story elements. You'll start off tracking a crazed military man who has mastered psychic control of a battalion of trained soldiers. The story's of course quite a bit more complicated than that, and you'll see that it actually has many intriguing twists - but at the start, you have almost nothing to work with.
What you do have, though, is a flashlight that can be turned on separately from your weapons. You're going to need it, too - F.E.A.R. in many areas gets just as dark as DOOM 3 did. While the game doesn't use the dark to make things jump out at you whenever the lights do go back on, what it does is increase the tension. This way, when something does pop out at you (whether it's in a well-lit room or not) you're going to be more prone to a big scare. Overall this works pretty well, even if we've seen this tactic before in many horror games.
The combat in F.E.A.R. must be mentioned specifically because the designers have done their best to bless gunfights with impressive visuals that only get better as more bullets fly. The inclusion of a bullet-time-style mode called Reflex mode feels a bit gimmicky when you first try it out, but as you explore how both you and how your enemies fight, you'll realize that Reflex mode is a necessary skill for survival. And it's an ability you'll have in abundance, as your store of Reflex energy is not only expandable with new powerups you pick up, but it also refills fairly quickly over short periods of time.
The weapons you'll have access to here are immensely powerful and extremely satisfying to fire, and if your aim's true, you can score a lot of one-hit kills even with the starting pistol. You'll need to be able to kill quickly, too, as your enemies use possibly some of the smartest AI ever seen in a shooter. These guys will flush you out with grenades if they have the numbers, get behind you, push from both sides, cover each other when one's taking fire, and just all-around make it harder for you to kill them by way of using brains rather than brawn. They can retreat when outgunned or camp behind a box waiting for you to poke your nose out, lean around corners to expose as little of themselves as possible, and communicate with eachother on your whereabouts.
What this amounts to is an excellent style of combat where you'll need to keep an eye on the enemies you can see, as well as a brain cell tracking where the ones you can't see might be going. And when they pop up behind you (as most combat areas give them a chance to flank you), it's immensely gratifying to switch to that shotgun, turn on Reflex mode, spin around and blow them apart at the waist with a beautifully rendered shot from the hip. And the best part is that you can do the same fight a dozen times and still have fun the thirteenth, because each time it's always at least a little different.
It's not all blowing away commandos and chewing bubblegum, though, because there are some serious horror elements in F.E.A.R. that borrow heavily from Japanese horror films. Not the least of which is the little girl with the long black hair (which is quickly becoming a staple in Japanese scare flicks) who will pop up and scare the bejeesus out of you, even though there are plenty of other ways that the game will make you jump or cause your skin to crawl. This is augmented with excellent pacing that keeps you guessing and beautiful, scary-as-hell ambient sound that really makes you wonder what's around the next corner.
F.E.A.R.'s soundtrack is largely minimalist with only hints of music, while rest is a large array of ambient sounds. The voice acting is very solid and fits in with the rest of the soundscape nicely. And when it comes to gunfights, that's where the sound really hits you. Combat has rarely sounded so satisfying, as every weapon has great punch and your enemies buckle and scream in convincing ways. And once the smoke and dust (literally! - in most firefights, you'll see plenty of smoke and dust left over that slowly dissipates) clears, you'll know there was a big fight there. Actual chunks of walls and colums can be taken out, and debris from explosions is left everywhere.
All this said, I've got some serious concerns about F.E.A.R.. The first is that the horror elements are part of the story and generally don't play into the combat; rarely does your character come into any actual danger (well, danger that you can avoid as the player) during these scenes. It kind of feels like the story and the action are two separate pieces that fit together nicely, but do little to create a single cohesive experience.
Next, the environments are just nowhere near diverse enough. You've got the derelict industrial areas, beat up urban corridors, and deserted office buildings, and that's really about it. While this would be fine with enough variation and originality in level design, most rooms are pretty nondescript and there are many useless hallways and useless areas in these environments. Since the path through each level is pretty linear, the overall feel I got of the maps was that just not enough time was spent on them.
Finally, the story encompasses a host of cloned soldiers controlled by an insane commander, and while these troops use a variety of weapons, no enemies have any distinct personalities (a huge contrast to what we saw through the voice acting in Monolith's previous NOLF games). It makes fighting the same guys over and over pretty tiring, even though the actual fighting is still very satisfying and fun. Sure, there are some new and tougher enemies later on in the game, but they're mostly underused and the developers seem to have dropped back to using their basic soldier far too often.
Multiplayer modes in F.E.A.R. consist of a pretty industry-standard set of deathmatch, team DM, and capture the flag games. The incredible graphics that make up the game's combat has made it over in its entirety for the mulitplayer modes, and while the depth of the actual gameplay is lacking when compared to multiplayer-oriented titles like Battlefield 2, it's still not bad at all. Many aspects of the single player game are here in the multiplayer modes, including Reflex mode - which will slow time down for everyone, and is activatable by whoever has the ability at that moment. When you kill the guy who's got the ability, then it moves from him to you so that you can slow down time when it's convenient for you.
Despite my complaints, F.E.A.R. is still a very enjoyable game. But you've got to really be into both the horror parts and the visually stylish gunfights to really get your money's worth out of this game. The single player campaign will last you about ten to twelve hours, and while the multiplayer mode includes many of the great features of single player, it doesn't include enough game modes or maps to really keep you playing for more than maybe a week.
Frankly, I kind of expected more from the masterminds behind the No One Lives Forever series. While F.E.A.R. is by no means a bad game, the separation of horror elements from its heart-pumping action (with only a thread of admittedly great story actually holding both together) make the experience partially disappointing. But if you're looking for fantastic action and a good scare or creep-out mixed in, then F.E.A.R.'s dingy and abandoned alleys, rooftops, and office complexes will certainly satisfy.


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| Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Friday sent a message of greetings to Salou Djibo, president of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy and head of state of Niger, on the occasion of the anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic.
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T & K Sportsman's Friend, ca. 1900
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This insect repellent was distributed by a Bangor company.
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"Trade T & K Mark/Sportsman's/Friend/Keeps Flies and Mosquitoes/from Man and Beast/RUB ON EXPOSED PARTS/It will do the rest/If Animals have sores caused/by FLY BITES, it will heal/as well as keep the pests/away./4 Fluid Ounces/PUT UP BY/THURSTON & KINGSBURY CO./Bangor, Maine"
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