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By Linda D. KozarynAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 20, 1999 In the past two months, U.S. and NATO fighters have flown more than 6,000 combat sorties over Yugoslavia and dropped 14,200 bombs on Serb air defenses, airfields, roads, bridges, ground forces and other military targets.
Day after day, the continuous barrage of precision-guided missiles and other munitions is taking a heavy toll, according to U.S. and NATO military authorities. Officials at the Pentagon here and at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, updated battle damage assessments for reporters May 18 and 19.
NATO strikes have removed 90 percent of the artillery Serb forces had massed on Yugoslavia's borders with Albania and Macedonia, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said May 19. "The massed artillery is relatively easy for NATO planes to target," he said. "We have now removed the majority of the artillery in Kosovo."
U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles Wald, Joint Staff vice director for strategic plans and policy, reported the strikes have destroyed more than 80 percent of the Serbs' Mig-29s, about 30 percent of the Mig-21s, 35 percent of the Galeb fighter-bombers and 70 percent of the helicopters and other smaller aircraft. Along with the combat sorties, Wald noted, NATO aircraft have flown more than 16,000 combat support and combined support sorties.
NATO continues to hit Serb airfields hard and keeps them out of action with follow-on attacks, according to German air force Maj. Gen. Walter Jertz, a Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe spokesman. Since the air war began March 24, NATO has concentrated on interrupting key lines of communications within Serbia. The strikes have destroyed most of the primary road and rail bridges to disrupt the flow of weapons, ammunition and spare parts vital to the Serb military campaign, he said.
NATO strikes have destroyed 75 percent of Serbia's fixed surface-to-air missile sites and 12 percent of their mobile systems, Jertz said. The mobile systems now are forced to move continually to avoid destruction, which makes them less effective, he added.
NATO has eliminated the Serbs' ability to refine oil, Jertz pointed out. More than 30 countries have agreed to impose an oil embargo to cut the flow of oil to Yugoslavia, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea noted. Although oil continues to reach Yugoslavia, the amount is reduced, it's more expensive and Milosevic must funnel it to meet both civilian and military needs, he added.
In recent weeks, NATO has concentrated heavily on striking the ground forces carrying out Milosevic's ethnic cleansing policies in Kosovo. Jertz reported NATO forces have struck 11 battalion or brigade command posts, nearly 560 individual pieces of military equipment, including 312 tanks, artillery or armored personnel carriers -- about a third of the estimated heavy forces in Kosovo.
"Milosevic's forces are being taken apart faster and faster," Jertz said. "Their ability to operate effectively, let alone carry out acts of brutality, is further reduced with each day of this campaign. With Serb air defenses weakened, command and control undermined, Milosevic's forces on the ground are at growing risk as the conflict goes on."
And as each day goes by, NATO pilots and crews become more adept at their mission, he pointed out. Pilots are growing more familiar with Serb tactics and Kosovo's terrain, he said. "Pilots are more familiar with the valleys, the forests, the roads, the cities, and they increasingly know where Milosevic's forces are concentrated," he said.
The pilots' growing knowledge has caused a change in Serb tactics, Jertz said. "They are operating in smaller and smaller units to make them harder to detect from the air," he said. "The downside for the Serbian forces is that this makes them increasingly vulnerable to KLA ambushes, and it also makes Serb forces less mobile, to the benefit of those Kosovars still living within Kosovo."
Only about 130,000 ethnic Albanians remain in their home villages in Kosovo, according to Shea at NATO. About 90 percent of the province's 1.9 million ethnic Albanians have been displaced as a result of Milosevic's policies, he said. This figure equals the population of Denver; it's more than the population of Munich, Germany. About 580,000 ethnic Albanians remain displaced within Kosovo; the remainder, about 980,000, are refugees in other countries.

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Tax penalty ahead
This editorial appeared in the News & Record, Greensboro
North Carolina's political leaders are all about cutting costs for businesses, except when they're not.
Employers could pay more than $80 million in federal tax penalties next year, thanks to the state's decision to deny expansion of Medicaid coverage.
That comes from a new report by Jackson Hewitt Tax Service. Its key finding: "States that do not expand Medicaid for adults leave their large employers exposed to higher employer 'shared responsibility' tax penalties under the ACA."
That assertion might fuel more antipathy toward the Affordable Care Act by those who think it piles heavy burdens on individuals and businesses. Yet, it's here. It should be managed to gain the most benefit at the least cost. North Carolina is not doing that.
Part of the law expanded Medicaid coverage to adults under 65 whose incomes range from 100 percent of the poverty level to 138 percent. The federal government would pay all the costs for this expansion through 2016, 95 percent from 2017 through 2020 and then 90 percent, with the states paying the rest.
Gov. Pat McCrory turned down the deal last year, citing the later costs to the state and the ongoing problems of operating the Medicaid program effectively at its current size.
The state is struggling with Medicaid management. As for cost, however, Jackson Hewitt warns against overlooking the penalties employers will pay.
They come into play for businesses employing 50 or more full-time workers, some of whom earn low salaries and do not get medical insurance. If those workers enroll in Medicaid, the employer incurs no tax penalty. If they enroll in an insurance plan under the ACA and qualify for a premium subsidy, the employer can be assessed a tax penalty averaging up to $2,000 for each of those employees.
Jackson Hewitt calculated the potential cost to North Carolina employers in 2015, when this provision goes into effect, at $80 million to $120 million.
That's one calculation, and others may disagree with it. But it comes from a firm whose success depends on its ability to advise clients of their tax liabilities under various conditions. Did the governor consider these liabilities when he made his Medicaid decision? If not, he should take this information into account and reconsider now.
One of his top priorities has been to cut taxes and regulatory costs for businesses. This looks like a significant cost that's on the way.
There is the possibility that many North Carolinians won't sign up for coverage under the ACA, even if they would qualify for subsidies. That would spare their employers the penalty, although it would leave them at risk of the chronic poor health experienced by people who lack routine medical care. That doesn't make them better employees, parents or citizens.
A society and an economy are stronger when people are healthier. Expanding Medicaid coverage could help North Carolina achieve that goal. If that could spare employers tens of millions of dollars in tax penalties at the same time, our pro-business governor should explore that opportunity.


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Privacy and Cookies
WestJet has appointed Rocky Wiggins as executive vice president and chief information officer, effective 2 June.
Wiggins joins from Sun Country Airlines, where he was chief information officer since 2012.
"Our information technology systems play a pivotal role in our ability to evolve and grow in the highly competitive airline space, and we look forward to having Rocky on board to lead us in this critical area," says WestJet chief executive Gregg Saretsky.
Wiggins had also worked with AirTran Airways as chief information officer before joining Sun Country. Prior to his time at AirTran, he was vice president for delivery management at Sabre Airline Solutions, which provides the platform used by WestJet.
He replaces Cheryl Smith in the chief information officer role at WestJet. Smith joined the Canadian carrier in 2011 on a two-year contract.
Wiggins will relocate from Georgia to Calgary, says the airline.


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Top Ten Live Performances of 2009
A band's worth can't always be determined by the strength of a live performance, but it certainly helps. Of the fifty-two live sets I saw this year, these ten stood out the most.
10. Baroness - Cincinnati, OH - July 7: Although Baroness were slightly underwhelming when I saw them play with Opeth and High on Fire last December, six months of practice, a member change, and a new album gave them the edge necessary to blow my mind.
9. Overmars - Dayton, OH - August 17: For the last time I was able to go to the Dayton Dirt Collective (probably my all-time favorite venue) before I started school in August, this French doom metal band destroyed my expectations and played disturbing footage of a stillbirth, among other things, on a makeshift projection screen made of a bed sheet. Raw as fuck, gritty as the streets outside the venue.
8. Matisyahu - Columbus, OH - July 15: The Hasidic reggae-rap-rock sensation dragged his songs out a little bit too long at times - probably thanks to the fact that Dub Trio is his new backing band - but incredible renditions of "Youth" and "One Day", as well as the fact that my brother and I were pulled on stage during the encore along with much of the front of the building to dance on stage made this show extremely memorable.
7. Between the Buried and Me - Louisville, KY - September 30: BTBAM are an incredible live band, and of the three times I've seen them (so far), this was by far the best set they put on, thanks mostly to the fact that they played all of their best songs as a setlist. All Bodies, Selkies, Obfuscation, Foam Born, and White Walls. That's unstoppable.
6. Cynic - Cincinnati, OH - April 26: DragonForce were a hell of a lot of fun, but they had an unbelievable act to follow after Cynic spent forty minutes on the stage dropping the jaws of every open-minded member of the audience. The band's stage presence has been criticized, but the music of Cynic is timid and complex. If they ran around the stage while they played, it would look ridiculous. The stage presence fit the setlist, which was flawlessly executed. Welcome back, guys.
5. Rob Zombie - Columbus, OH - November 25: It's hard to walk out of a Rob Zombie concert without having a smile glued to your face for the next several days. No one has a better stage presence as a frontman, no one aside from Iron Maiden puts more sweat and energy into a show, and no one (again, aside from Iron Maiden) has a more impressive stage show. Simply amazing every time.
4. Jucifer - Bloomington, IN - October 31: I couldn't have possibly had a more evil Halloween if Satan himself rose up from his abode to say hello. Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood did things on that stage that should be illegal. In fact, domestic abuse, which may have been happening, is illegal. The music shifted between doom and grind and punk and was essentially one hour-long piece. I still can't quite describe what was going on up there, but it was a night to remember.
3. Clutch - Cincinnati, OH - July 7: The closest equivalent I can think of to what Clutch did at this show (my fourth time seeing them) is if Tiger Woods took bogeys on the front nine then came back and won the tournament. Clutch opened their set with the snail-paced "Who's Been Talking?" in the biggest "wtf" moment of the year in concerts, but stormed back with rarities like "(In the Wake of the) Swollen Goat" and incredible set closer "Animal Farm" to put on one of the best shows of the year. It's almost like they were challenging themselves to win the crowd back after opening with such a bizarre song. They pulled it off, to say the least.
2. Grayceon - Columbus, OH - August 11: I have to admit, I was knocked the fuck down by this progressive metal trio. When you manage to blow Kenoma and Giant Squid off the stage, you've done something right. That something happened to be making an electric cello (!) the centerpiece of all of your songs and playing with a sense of chemistry unmatched by any other trio not called Rush. This entire set was incredible, and inspired me to immediately buy their discography and slap their logo sticker on my notebook. (Side note: Jackie Perez-Gratz is a very underrated candidate for "hottest chick in metal," and unlike someone like Cristina Scabbia, it's far less for her looks (although she is quite attractive) and more for the amazing command she has over her instrument and the way she simply owns the stage, and from a chair, no less.)
1. Carcass - Cleveland, OH - March 14: This is top three live sets of all time material without a doubt. After arriving late, we still managed to end up right against the stage, eyeball to eyeball with one Mr. Bill Steer for the rest of the evening. From that position, we saw Carcass remind us how they reinvented death metal five times in their five album career, blowing through key cuts from each disc and slaying every naysayer and infidel in the room in the process. Standing face to face with Bill Steer while he unleashed from the bowels of his lungs the opening verse to "Exhume to Consume" pretty much made the rest of the year worth living. Keep on rotting, indeed.
Mortals are mortar and life is the fuse.
I was a bit underwhelmed by Cynic. I get the whole "stage antics aren't their thing", thing - but still. I don't know. I'm a big fan of theirs, but they didn't exactly blow me away live. They were "just OK" to me. My opinion.
I guess I gotta go see Jucifer after all.
Clutch is always the shit, so that one you get for free.
Yay, Grayceon!
Carcass was bad as balls.
That's all. (Miranda Priestly)
5/18 Anaal Nathrakh (?)
5/24 MastoClutch (?)
6/28 Meh-hem Fest
7/9-7/16 Van Halen :|
7/25 Alice in Chains?
8/1 Torche
9/29-30 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
@ Jucifer: Yeah, you kind of do. I think I paid 7 dollars. It's worth at least that.
@ Clutch: LISTEN UP YOU STINKING MAGGOTS, et al.
@ Grayceon:
@ Carcass: One of the best nights of my life, no exaggeration.
Mortals are mortar and life is the fuse.
Five Honorable Mentions (In Alphabetical Order Only)
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
After 2007's wretched Systematic Chaos, I had nearly lost faith in Dream Theater. So much, in fact, that I was hesitant to even listen to Black Clouds & Silver Linings when it came out. When I did, I was struck by a few things; primarily, holy shit, this is the best thing they've done since Scenes from a Memory and holy shit, these lyrics are awful in an awesome way. Some of the songs still drag on a little bit too long for their own good (four of the six tracks clock in at over twelve minutes), but the music is solid all the way through, and every last song has at least one revelatory moment that proves that Dream Theater has still got it.
Key tracks: "A Nightmare to Remember", "A Rite of Passage", "The Count of Tuscany"
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Well, it would have been nice if the seven-year hiatus from black metal's grimmest warriors would have yielded their masterpiece, but All Shall Fall is a more than competent album, and easily the most rockin' maelstrom of sound the Norwegian trio has ever committed to tape. The trend has been continuing since the release of Damned in Black, but this is the culmination of the original epic black metal sound of Immortal's fusion with thrash and classic heavy metal. From the moment that Abbath first offers clean vocals in the title track, it's clear that this is going to be a winter for the ages.
Key tracks: "All Shall Fall", "Norden on Fire", "Unearthly Kingdom"
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Supergroups this intense are rarely a good idea, but the combination of Scott "Wino" Weinrich, Scott Kelly, Al Cisneros, and Dale Crover turned out to be exactly the stoner doom powerhouse that it is on paper on record, and the quartet's debut rumbles earth and shakes bowels effortlessly. Elements of Earth, Neurosis, Om, The Hidden Hand, and others from the members' impressive collective resume are all present, but the band has already managed to forge a unique sound all its own, and the the whole package is awash in a sense of grandfatherly know-how that threatens to overwhelm any young bucks who think they can do this better.
Key tracks: "Blind For All to See", "Solar Benediction", "The Architect"
St. Vincent - Actor
American singer-songwriter Annie Clark has been favorably compared to Kate Bush in numerous music publications over the past year, but even that gushing compliment sells her versatility a little bit short. Easily one of the best lyricists in the business right now, Clark (under her stage name St. Vincent) uses ordinary emotions to express complex issues with an arsenal of vocal acrobatics hardly seen outside of the classical discipline and a huge palette of dark rock, pop, and electronica to drape it over. Perhaps the album title is the most telling thing of all: Annie Clark is all of the people she sings about, and she is none of them.
Key tracks: "Laughing With a Mouth of Blood", "Actor Out of Work", "The Party"
Struck By Lightning - Serpents
Blame personal bias if you must, but I can't help but think that Greg Lahm (formerly of Mouth of the Architect, now the frontman for Struck By Lightning) is going to be one of the most important dudes in underground metal in the coming years. With this record, he shows his ability to seamlessly transition from playing syrupy, sludgy post-metal to playing pissed-off crust and D-beat without losing the lessons he learned in the process as the MOTA influence seeps in on a number of the songs. It's also very encouraging that this album is the band's debut; it seems unlikely that they won't dominate the Ohio metal scene over the next decade.
Key tracks: "The Watchful Eye", "Supercell", "Becoming Earth"
Mortals are mortar and life is the fuse.
Top Ten Albums of 2009
10. Baroness - Blue Record
It might not be as instantly soul-owning as Red Album, but once you give it a few (dozen) spins, the greatness of the new album by Savannah prog-sludge monsters Baroness begins to reveal itself. The leitmotif recurring throughout the album is immensely satisfying, and the songs work with their interludes and intros, making them a part of the experience rather than a useless track that earns a skip every play. Boiled down to its essence, Blue Record is a celebration of the album as it once was, and it seems to spell great things for the future of its creators.
Key tracks: "A Horse Called Golgotha", "The Gnashing", "The Sweetest Curse"
9. Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
2007's Ithyphallic, while still awesome at times, can be regarded as a misstep by the best band in death metal today, South Carolina's unstoppable, Egpyt-obsessed trio Nile. Those Whom the Gods Detest sets them firmly back on the right path (left handed though that path may be). Everything that one might seek in a Nile album is here in droves: the Egyptian chant choir vocals, the unusual instrumentation, the brutal vocals, the PhD-level lyrics and liner notes, the light-speed guitars and drums, the unparalleled lead playing of Karl Sanders. It's all here, and it's all as good as it's ever been. The gods may detest them, but no sane death metal fan should after hearing this.
Key tracks: "Kafir!", "Those Whom the Gods Detest", "Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend Into the Underworld"
8. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
When a band puts out what is easily the worst album they've ever done and it still cracks the top ten in a hyper-competitive year, you know you're looking at one of the greatest bands ever. Mastodon stripped away a lot of the heaviest elements of their sound and attacked their newest full-length with a prog-drenched, clean-vocals-only approach, to startlingly terrific results. What it lacks in the balls-out metal of the previous three albums it makes up for with its moments of melodic beauty and epic scale. Depending on my mood, there are between three and six masterpieces on this seven-track album, the transition to the band's new style appearing to have gone off without a hitch. Long live the '90s Bulls of modern metal, and may they forever rock.
Key tracks: "The Last Baron", "Oblivion", "The Czar"
7. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
It would be easy to point to this record as the token non-metal album in my top ten, but it's possible that that isn't totally accurate. While it's true that Propagandhi are known for their stripped-down political punk, this album is without a doubt their most polished and actually has lots of fantastic riffs that wouldn't seem out of place on a new Slayer album - you know, if Slayer were still any good. Back in the early 80s, metal used to wear its punk influences on its sleeve, so it's nice to see punk returning the favor, and even though the politics in the lyrics are sometimes spread on a little bit too thick for my liking, there's still a level of poetic brilliance there that can hardly be rivaled in music today.
Key tracks: "Dear Coach's Corner", "Supporting Caste", "Potemkin City Limits"
6. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the past decade has proven that, in faux-evolutionary terms, black metal has proved itself remarkably adaptable, whereas death metal has by and large proven itself to be a dinosaur with little to offer except more brutality, more technicality, and more tepid attempts at fusing the two. A band like Wolves in the Throne Room highlight this phenomenon all too well. In 1994, a band that fused elements of post-rock with traditional black metal, lacked a bass player, worshiped the environment, and exclusively wrote ten-minute-plus songs would never be able to exist. In 2009, they do exist, and they're perhaps the best black metal band on the planet right now. With yet another near-perfect album now under their belts, it's becoming hard to imagine a world without them.
Key tracks: "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog", "Ex Cathedra", "Ahrimanic Trance"
5. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
There's not a whole lot of metal bands whose resurgences can be described with the phrase "thank God they brought back a full-time violinist, that was just the shot in the arm they needed to make their masterpiece." For My Dying Bride, that pretty much covers it. I'm all about their classic Turn Loose the Swans and The Angel and the Dark River albums, and I'm even pretty much in love with their 21st century gothic doom metal albums, but the new record from the saddest men and women in Britain is probably their best yet from my perspective. Aaron Stainthorpe's vocals are more tortured than they've been in a decade, violins are taking back some of the leads from the guitars, and comparisons can accurately be drawn to sources so diverse as Swans and Iron Maiden. If you're a fan of My Dying Bride's previous work, it really doesn't get much better than this.
Key tracks: "Santuario di Sangue", "Fall With Me", "Death Triumphant"
4. Redemption - Snowfall on Judgment Day
Big-name traditional progressive metal is, for all intents and purposes, in the doldrums right now. Queensryche are releasing mid-tempo propaganda for the troops, Dream Theater and Symphony X think they should be emulating Metallica and Pantera respectively (with the new DT as a notable exception), Evergrey is a shell of their former self, and Fates Warning are recording nap-time prog of the first order. The rush of adrenaline that the genre so desperately needs has arrived in the form of California's Redemption. Now, I don't typically go for this kind of uber-melodic, clean-vox-only metal - Jeff Teets Music, as only those in the know are allowed to call it - but this is a really tremendous album on every level. Also, it earns the unofficial title of Coldest Non-Black Metal Album Cover, which should definitely count for something.
Key tracks: "Black and White World", "Love Kills Us All/Life In One Day", "Walls"
3. Slough Feg - Ape Uprising!
Massive credit has to be laid on Slough Feg, the best traditional metal band on the planet, for taking a concept that could have been so goofy and making it so incredible and not the least bit contrived. This loose concept album can be summed up pretty well by one of its lyrics: "We shared your ancestors/You kept us caged like monsters." That's right, folks: Slough Feg have recorded a revenge fantasy from the perspective of apes! Taking their cues from the less ubiquitous St. Vitus and Thin Lizzy rather than Sabbath, Maiden, and Priest, the California quartet has created a true gem for their previously somewhat inconsistent career. It's not even impossible that this is the best traditional heavy metal album since Judas Priest unleashed Painkiller. Unlikely, but not impossible.
Key tracks: "Ape Uprising", "Simian Manifesto", "The Hunchback of Notre Doom"
2. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Now, I've made it abundantly clear that 2009 is probably the best year for music in my time as an active listener and seeker of tunes, but only this album and the one outranking it left me unconscious on the ground from a tidal wave of awesome. Every moment of the new opus from BTBAM (and would-be magnum opus if it weren't for the somehow even more awesome Colors) is incredible. Despite throwing seemingly every curveball that exists at some point in their previous career, they throw at least two dozen new ones on this record. They play an admittedly throw-shit-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks style, but it would be wrong to fault them for it because it works so damn well. If I could find a criticism to offer I would, but I really can't. Keep doing what you do, boys.
Key tracks: "Obfuscation", "Desert of Song", "Fossil Genera - A Feed From Cloud Mountain"
1. Cobalt - Gin
My next post will offer a lot more insight on the record, but I'll give you a few words to hold you over. Ugly. Grim. Raw. Fucked-up. Dark. Classic.
Key tracks: "Gin", "A Starved Horror", "Arsonry"
Dishonorable mentions:
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Queensryche - American Soldier
Slayer - World Painted Blood
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom
Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
These albums all basically sucked. None of these have more than one song that I genuinely like.
Mortals are mortar and life is the fuse.
07/22 - Melt-Banana
07/26 - Forever Came Calling & Primitive Man
07/30 - Warped (?)
08/05 - Knockout Kid
08/07 - Fireworks (?)
Mortals are mortar and life is the fuse.
Ditto the last sentence in the above comment for World Painted Blood.
5/18 Anaal Nathrakh (?)
5/24 MastoClutch (?)
struck by lightning kick ass. along with Lazarus A.D., best debut of the year. I wish more bands played music like this.
....are there any bands that play the same style of music as these guys? I would be very interested to know haha.
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Cardinal Sales Bathroom & Kitchen Alterations
Established more than fifty years ago and doing business primarily by reputation and word of mouth, Cardinal has worked itself into a position as one of the primary kitchen and bath designers and contractors in the New York Tri State area.
A family owned and operated business offering a wide range of contractual services. From design specialist to gut renovations. Working as a contractor for large as well as small construction projects. We are also equipped to do flooring, countertops, plumbing and electrical work, full alterations, and have access to architectural plans and services.
Originally based in Brooklyn, Cardinal is well experienced in producing from large to small scale renovations and can tailor to fit most any budget. We have learned through the experience of decades of working in the diverse size and layouts of kitchens throughout Brooklyn and the surrounding areas. To this day it is not uncommon to hear someone boast of having a Cardinal Kitchen in his or her house or seeing a Cardinal Kitchen listed as a selling feature in a listing for the sale of a home, even though the kitchen may be twenty years old.


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BLAKE, Marie, North Charleston
BOGGS, Mariah, James Island
BREAZEALE, Ann, Mount P
CROSBY, Buster, Walterboro
CROMWELL, Mary, James Island
DANGERFIELD, Gloria, Mount P.
DROZE, Gladys, Summerville
FLOWERS, Elizabeth, Darlington
FUNDERBURK, William, Mount P.
GERAGI, Sharon, Goose Creek
GREEN, Benjamin, Charleston
GREEN, Eliza, Smoaks
GRIFFITH, Rosa, Charleston
HOLMES, Prince, Bluffton
LACHICOTTE, Francis IV, Johns Is.
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The follow up to Fantasy Wars that improves upon the formula.
Elven Legacy is a turn based strategy game made by Russian 1C Company and published by Paradox Interactive. The game is a follow up to the mildly successful strategy game Fantasy Wars that it hopes to improve upon. The setting is still traditional fantasy with orcs and elves so let's see if this new attempt achieves turn based strategy greatness that eluded its predecessor.
Like any tactical or strategy game a good tutorial is important to quickly and easily familiarize players with how to play the game. The tutorial in Elven Legacy starts off in Russian. We didn't know why since were reviewing an English product here but thankfully the speech is backed up by English text so we assume this is a bug that slipped through during the translation process. Continuing the tutorial will play several videos that are in English and will explain the various game elements. These videos unfortunately cannot be paused and move along at a brisk pace. The switching between English and Russian combined with the fast moving videos makes the tutorial almost more confusing than helpful. Veterans of turn based games will pick things up easily but novice players will be unnecessarily confused.
After the introduction the story begins with you playing as a hero named Sagittel of the pointy eared elves. You have witnessed a human mage casting ancient spells that the elves claim as their own. Since this apparently is a big no no, you pair up with another elven named Gylven and are tasked with hunting this mage down. The games story is told through a mission based campaign. Prior to each mission you see a map of the world and chose which mission to take. At times your path will be linear and other times you will have a choice of which battle to fight or at least the order in which to fight them. Each mission begins with a story narrative and lets you chose your desired difficulty from one of three settings.
After the narrative you are taken to the unit management screen where you can see all the units you have, can purchase new units if you have the funds, upgrade existing units to more powerful ones if you can afford it and a choice is available, equip your heros with items and artifacts you may have found in previous missions and sell old units if you feel they are no longer useful. Once you have made your choices you proceed to the battlefield. At the start of each mission you are tasked with deploying your units on the battlefield around your starting town or camp. Each mission has a preset maximum amount of units that can be deployed at any given time. Players can own more units but they are kept in reserve until a slot opens up should you lose a unit in battle. Once your units are deployed the fight begins.
Each mission map is beautifully rendered in full 3D. Superimposed is a hexadecimal grid where your units are positioned upon and move through. Unlike games like Heroes of Might and Magic there are no grouped armies and all units including heroes are moved independently. Each unit can move a specific distance each turn and/or carry out an attack. Once all your units have been moved and have performed their actions you press the end turn button. It then becomes the enemies turn to move their units and perform their actions. This process repeats until you either complete your objectives and the mission ends or you fail and are forced to restart or reload a save game. Your objectives are listed in your quest log that you can access to remind yourself of what you need to accomplish. On the map will often be a faint arrow pointing to where you need to go for easy reference. The map has a fog of war which hides enemy units from you until you are close enough. This standard feature in most RTS games is optional and can be turned off but the effect whereby you can only see enemies within a certain distance of your units remains so disabling this option just removes the terrain darkening effect.
Units are divided up into several different categories. The first are heros which are the most powerful units at your disposal and should be kept alive at all times else you risk having the mission fail. Melee units such as spearmen are those that fight at point blank range and are subdivided into either offensive or defensive units. Ranged units such as archers are those that can fight either in melee range or can attack from one or more hexes away without risking counter attack. Mounted units such as cavalry are also melee units but play under slightly different rules than the regular melee troops. Air units such as airships and dragons can take up the same hex slot as a friendly unit or can fly overtop enemy units and attack from above. These cannot be attacked by melee units but are vulnerable from ranged troops. There are magic wielding units which can fight either in melee or cast powerful spells to assist friendly troops or hurt your enemies. And if all that wasn't enough choice or variety there are also war machines such as catapults.
Once your units are within striking distance of an enemy unit you can left click on that unit to have them perform their attack. If a unit suffers a significant amount of damage they may flee away from their attacker. This demoralizing effect goes both ways and can be beneficial in assisting to save your units or dislodging an enemy from a well defended place. You can take damaged units and press the rest button to end their turn and restore their health. If a unit takes too much damage their health will go down permanently. Placing the unit close to a friendly town allows you to purchase reinforcements for that unit which restores their health to maximum. The enemy units will also take the opportunity to heal themselves at times so it becomes important to finish them off in a single turn else you risk having your efforts nullified. Speaking of friendly towns, besides your starting town or camp there are often others present on the map that you can capture. These range in size and may have multiple units guarding them. Simply moving your units into the town will claim it as yours, earn you some gold for your efforts and give you the benefits such as the ability to purchase and deploy reinforcements at that spot on the map.
Careful positioning of your units and proper target selection is important in maximizing your offensive and defensive capabilities. For example, attacking a melee unit that has a ranged unit beside it will result in that ranged unit assisting their comrade and dealing additional counter attack damage. All units have an engagement radius around them meaning when you move up to an enemy you cannot move past them until they are defeated with scouts and specially trained units being exempt from this rule. This allows you to block enemy units from attacking weaker units by simply keeping stronger units out front at all times. Terrain also plays a key role in affecting combat. Having your units standing in water greatly lowers their defense while having them stand on hilly terrain will give them a defensive bonus. Units can be trained to take advantage of other terrains such as bonuses when being in a forest.
Partial unit moves are not permanent and pressing the backspace key reverts your unit to their starting position of that turn. This is a welcome feature that allows you to undo mistakes though sometimes for unknown reasons it is not available. Another nice addition is the space bar which is used to complete the combat animation sequence. If you don't care to watch your units duke it out for a few seconds each and every time just hit the spacebar and the results are immediate. When your units defeat other units they will gain experience eventually increasing their level. Once a unit levels up its various stats such as attack and defense automatically increase a predefined amount and you can chose a new perk for that unit such as a new spell, skill or stat modifier. This gives the game a slight RPG feel to it and serves to make units far less disposable. This is especially important given the fact that your units carry over from one mission to another therefore needlessly sacrificing your units will be a detriment both the short and long term.
Completing missions within an allotted number of turns will earn the player a gold victory which can open a bonus mission. If you cannot achieve this timed goal you will have to settle for silver or bronze victories. These simply denote how quickly or efficiently you have managed to complete that mission. Failing to complete a mission within the number of turns needed to achieve bronze status will result in a failure of that mission. What this essentially means is that all missions have a finite number of turns and you cannot sit indefinitely on the battlefield. While this does make the game harder it also forces you to rush through the encounters. Many maps have hidden treasures or units you can unlock, but if you are forced to rush through you may miss some of these.
On normal difficulty achieving gold victory on many maps is nearly impossible unless you skip almost everything besides what is directly in your way. Other maps have so many hostile units that just completing the map within the allotted time is a significant challenge. This is an unfortunate design choice as it encourages moving all your units as one giant blob of death and destruction headed straight for your objective destination instead of fostering an atmosphere of careful planning, positioning and tactics. In one mission we had formed a three pronged attack that progressively advanced and destroyed all the enemy positions. This strategic planning and positioning was a lot of fun until we realized that we didn't have enough turns left to complete the mission. A last ditch desperate charge on the final enemy position resulted in mission failure, not because we were defeated but because we didn't defeat the enemy quickly enough. Back to the beginning of the mission for us. It would have been far more enjoyable if the game let you complete the missions but lose out on bonuses for a timely completion. That said the game is far easier on the easy difficulty setting which all things considered is probably the best choice for everyone.
Beyond the campaign there is the standard multiplayer head to head play and a few standalone missions for some additional encounters. We didn't notice any major technical problems or crashes though on occasion when starting a new level the frame rate would be very low temporarily. Tabbing out of the game and back in would also result in a gray progress bar that would take longer to finish loading than the actual installation of the product so alt tabbers beware. Overall Elven Legacy plays very similarly to Fantasy Wars and to past classic games such as Panzer General albeit with a fantasy setting. It isn't as hard as those two games but its difficulty on even normal settings along with turn limitations serve as a hindrance that will hopefully be addressed. That said fans of turn based strategy games will adore this game as its significant variety of units, well designed maps, tactical choices such as terrain placement and unit advancement all combine into a very enjoyable product.
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It is not discussed much, but in my personal experience, I think the community has more incidences of depression. Why? I can't say for sure, but I think it comes from a few main factors:
(1) Injured people come looking for answers that society cannot help with, such as "Why me?" "Does God hate me so much?", etc. or they are they feel that they are outcasts for some reason, such as lifestyle preferences. They already come with hurts and pains and depressions they have acquired and need to overcome.
(2) The spiritual path has a tremendous amount of focus on the inner you. The first year in an Outer Court is focused on discovering yourself. The reasons and motivations. The conscious and subconsciousness. The positives and negatives within us. We cannot move forward until we are willing to see ourselves clearly in all our aspects including our glorious ones. One cannot be fully responsible for their actions and make clear judgments if they are unwilling to acknowledge all the sources within them that may "creep" in to color that judgment and put those factors in their proper place. Many people cannot handle that amount of self-critique and analysis.
(3) As you journey, you become different. That's the best way I can describe it. You may discover that you have an ability or abilities that even others in the community don't want to acknowledge or are unwilling to accept. (A good example are really powerful seers.) So sometimes, the further you travel to find yourself and a place where you are accepted, you find that you are still separate. This can be depressing until you reach the place of acceptance and a certain level of indifference to other's opinions of you.
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I'd like a status page where you would know how many of the quiz questions have been found and answered and how many are remaining. And maybe a hint/help to places I haven't found (I'm stuck....)
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I think they should have Steve sitting at his desk. And maybe instead of just Movie posters they should have a room that have a screen with the previews playing and the posters on the walls. Plus we would love to see Marsha walkin' around
We ran into a problem with getting permissions from some of the studios to run trailers (they either wanted a lot of money or we would have had to request written permission from every person involved with a particular scene) so abandoned that idea early on in the development. The TV in Steve's office does have a video which Scribner has provided. Jordan will probably scream but maybe we can also display the videos Hodder did for FDNS on there as well as in the Multimedia section so that they would randomly rotate so you don't see the same one each time.
Marsha's right, the video clips in the new office theater will not be clips of movies. Only new videos such as commercials for books and the like.
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Ivory white walls play off ebony-stained oak floors in the centre hallway near the Showhome entrance. A bleached-oak pedestal table and black iron hanging lantern define the space.
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