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Discredited gun researcher John Lott falsely claimed that "over 99 percent" of individuals who fail background checks to obtain a gun are law-abiding citizens, despite convincing evidence that the vast majority of denied individuals are prohibited by law from owning a gun.
On his October 26 appearance on CNN's New Day Saturday, Lott made untrue charges on background checks that are characteristic of his work. He often advocates for weaker gun laws by manipulating statistics about firearms and by touting his discredited research that purports to prove looser rules concerning the carrying of guns in public reduces crime.
Lott, a contributor to FoxNews.com, will testify before an October 29 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the controversial "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law while representing his new organization Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). Lott has previously mischaracterized "Stand Your Ground" in order to defend the law that played an important role in the acquittal of George Zimmerman on charges that he unlawfully killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. CPRC's secretary is National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent who caused controversy by calling Martin a "dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe," and used the Martin case to make disparaging remarks about the African-American community and endorse racial profiling.
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National Rifle Association board member and conservative columnist Ted Nugent has accepted the role of co-chairman and treasurer in former Texas State Rep. Sid Miller's campaign for agriculture commissioner, The Texas Tribune reports.
Nugent described his role in the campaign to the Tribune by stating, "I do media every day, and I'll raise as much hell as I can." Miller will face other Republicans in a primary before a general election is held.
Miller, a founding member of the Texas Legislature's Tea Party Caucus, was defeated in a primary by a more moderate Republican in 2012 after serving seven terms in the Texas House of Representatives.
Miller is best known as the sponsor of legislation to require women seeking an abortion to undergo a sonogram, including a transvaginal sonogram in some cases. Liberal newsmagazine The Texas Observer explained he has become "a kind of national shorthand for folksy intrusion into women's health decisions."
The legislation, which was signed into law by Republican Gov. Rick Perry and survived a legal challenge, requires a sonogram to be performed by a doctor at least 24 hours in advance of the abortion procedure with the intention of having the woman see and hear the results. According to The New York Times, "Though the woman can choose not to view the images and hear the heartbeat, the doctor must describe what the sonogram shows, including the existence of legs, arms and internal organs." PolitiFact noted that medical experts say a transvaginal sonogram would be the only option up to week seven of pregnancy and may be needed to create an observable image as late as week 10. The Sunlight Foundation found that Texas' pre-abortion sonogram legislation served as the most popular model for legislative efforts in other states to enact similar laws.
The National Rifle Association's media arm, NRA News, attacked an academic study on gunshot injuries to children by conspiratorially suggesting that the study was part of a "kids and anti-gun hype" movement to ban firearms. NRA News host Cam Edwards further dismissed teenage victims of gun violence by falsely stating that they are culpable for their injuries because of their supposed involvement in criminal activity.
The NRA is notorious for blocking scientific research into the causes and prevention of gun violence. During the 1990s, the gun rights organization successfully lobbied for legislation that prevented the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in practice, from researching gun violence. While the legislation -- which prohibited CDC funding "to advocate or promote gun control" -- did not technically ban research on firearms, it was widely acknowledged in practice to have a chilling effect on the CDC's research priorities. The Obama administration advocated for $10 million in funding for the CDC to study gun violence in January, noting that "research on gun violence is not advocacy."
An October 18 interview on NRA News demonstrated how the gun lobby handles scientific studies when they are actually forced to confront them. During that segment, Edwards hosted Dr. Timothy Wheeler, founder and director of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO), to attack a study in the November edition of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
DRGO often attacks research conducted by AAP, accusing the organization of being "motivated by deep-seated prejudice against gun owners." The organization told NBC News that its "mission is to expose the poor medical scholarship -- and the anti-gun bias behind it -- held out as truth by organized medicine and medical journalism." DRGO is a project of the Second Amendment Foundation, a group that recently caused controversy by announcing plans -- since altered -- to hold a "Guns Save Lives Day" on the one-year anniversary of the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.
During his appearance, Wheeler, along with Edwards, suggested that the Pediatrics study -- which chronicled nearly 30,000 gun fatalities and 155,000 serious gunshot wounds in children between 2001 and 2010 -- was part of an effort to "hype" child gun injury in order to ban firearms.
National Rifle Association board member and conservative columnist Ted Nugent claimed on a Florida radio station that the federal government shutdown could be resolved if the United States were "run like the Nugent household."
He also suggested that a single person could do a better job than 5,000 federal employees and revived his previous claim that members of the military are committing suicide at a record rate because President Obama is "the enemy of the country."
Asked how he would resolve the government shut down during his October 14 appearance on The Gater 98.7, Nugent said, "I celebrate that they're shut down because Fedzilla is a bloated monster."
Noting that his previous "threat" to run for president is "alive and well," Nugent added, "I would love to see America run like the Nugent household. You get up early, you maximize your productivity, you be the best that you can be, you live within your means, you save for a rainy day and you don't be some gluttonous, slovenly, criminal, wasteful paycheck fire-torching bastard like most of the people in politics today."
The right-wing media often claims that the government budget could be operated like a household budget, even though the comparison is inept because, among other reasons, the federal government is able to roll over debt and issue its own currency. As former Labor Secretary Robert Reich noted, "Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either."
"Guns Save Lives Day," a gun rights event originally scheduled to be held on the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that claimed 26 lives, will now be held on December 15, the day after the anniversary of the tragedy.
According to MSNBC, Alan Gottlieb, the head of primary event sponsors Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), stated that his decision to move the event day was a challenge to gun violence prevention groups "not to hold political events in favor of gun control" on the anniversary.
On October 8, Media Matters first reported the existence of "Guns Save Lives Day," which was announced by Gottlieb at the SAF and CCRKBA sponsored 2013 Gun Rights Policy Conference. During that September event, Gottlieb took a hardline stance, stating, "We are not going to let the gun prohibition lobby own December 14," and continued, "We will out-organize the other side and show America that there is a good side to guns."
Beyond the date change, the event appears to be going forward as originally planned. According to the "Guns Save Lives Day" website -- which warns, "Don't be a victim, ARM YOURSELF -- the event will "honor" Newtown victims "by doing everything within our power to prevent misguided gun control laws from leaving Americans defenseless or worse victims."
The website also indicates that SAF and CCRKBA hired Political Media -- "a Republican New Media consulting firm" that was behind the misstep-fraught "Gun Appreciation Day" -- to organize "Guns Save Lives Day."
"Gun Appreciation Day," which was held on January 19, asked people to visit gun stores and shooting ranges and express opposition to new gun laws. The effort quickly came under fire after it was revealed that it was sponsored by several far-right organizations and a white nationalist group.
Washington Times senior opinion editor Emily Miller offered false information about gun violence during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe where she promoted her recently published book, Emily Gets Her Gun... But Obama Wants to Take Yours.
In her book, Miller advanced the National Rifle Association's conspiracy theory that President Obama is planning to confiscate privately held firearms and offered false information about the incidence of mass shootings and the capabilities of assault weapons, while distorting academic research on gun violence.
Miller's Morning Joe appearance offered more of the same as she misled on research about the effectiveness of gun violence prevention measures and made false claims about assault weapons, including advancing the notion that an AR-15 assault weapon is "not any functionally different than a hunting rifle."
Miller claimed that "no gun control law reduces crime, and that's fact," citing a "CDC study, Harvard study." Opponents of stronger gun laws often distort a 2003 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study and a 2007 study from Harvard's Journal of Public Law and Policy to attack gun violence prevention proposals.
In Emily Gets Her Gun, Miller wrote about the 2003 CDC study at length and deceptively quoted from it to make it seem as if the study concluded that gun violence prevention laws are ineffective. Miller wrote:
There has been only one extensive government research study on firearms laws in America. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) -- an agency with a known bias against guns -- looked at the various statutes from the local to national level. The two-year investigation evaluated the following laws: bans on specified firearms or ammunition (which includes the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban), restrictions on firearm acquisition, waiting periods for firearm acquisition, firearms registration and licensing of firearm owners, "shall issue" concealed weapon carry laws, child access prevention laws, and zero tolerance laws for firearms in schools.
The final 2003 CDC report concluded, "The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes." [Emily Gets Her Gun: ...But Obama Wants to Take Yours, pg. 47, 9/3/13]
But when quoted in full, the very next line of the study undermines Miller's characterization:
The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes. (Note that insufficient evidence to determine effectiveness should not be interpreted as evidence of ineffectiveness.) [emphasis added]
The CDC did not conclude that gun violence prevention laws do not work, rather it called for further research on the topic, finding the current body of research insufficient to draw conclusions.
Conspiracy theorist Pete Santilli, a spokesman for Truckers Ride for the Constitution, suggested that violence against the government would be justified if his group's plan to jam the Capital Beltway that surrounds Washington, D.C., and ask members of Congress to resign fails.
Santilli is the host of a radio show that promotes conspiracy theories, including the notion that "The World Trade Center towers were turned to dust in mid air by a very powerful energy source." He also drew widespread attention -- including from the Secret Service -- in May when he suggested that Hillary Clinton should be "shot in the vagina" for treason.
Reports that truck drivers would circle the Beltway to cause congestion from October 11 to October 13 and call for the arrest of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) quickly garnered national media coverage. But as U.S. News & World Report noted, the event is disorganized as a result of infighting among its organizers over logistics and what the protest should seek to accomplish.
Santilli and organizer Zeeda Andrews, who promoted the protest on Fox News' On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, appear to have coopted the event from one of its original promoters, Earl Conlon, who now says he merely intended to "stir the feather of the mainstream media." Media Matters noted that Andrews has promoted racism and bizarre conspiracy theories, including the belief that President Obama and Osama Bin Laden are the same person.
Santilli, whose radio show is prominently featured on the Truckers Ride for the Constitution website, told U.S. News that no arrest attempt will be made on members of Congress, but that he hopes members will "voluntarily resign" as a result of his protest.
But on his radio show, Santilli threatened a "bloody battle" against the United States government if his peaceful protest failed and said that opponents of the government are presently "justified" in using violence.
NRA News aired a special on the AR-15 military-style semi-automatic assault weapon -- ubiquitous for its use in recent mass shootings -- that provided false information about the power of the weapon and downplayed its dangerous features.
The October 7 edition of NRA News' Cam & Company on the Sportsman Channel featured a trip to the National Rifle Association's gun range where host Cam Edwards and National Review Online writer Charles C.W. Cooke fired a custom AR-15 assault weapon, .308 bolt-action rifle, .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun, and .357 caliber revolver. At the beginning of the segment, Edwards noted the weapons were provided by gun manufacturer and NRA corporate donor Ruger.
After firing the weapons, Edwards and Cooke advanced the notion that the AR-15 was less powerful than a handgun because the semi-automatic handgun produced larger holes in a paper target than the AR-15 assault weapon:
EDWARDS: Having shot now an AR[-15 assault weapon], what would you tell people who say, "Charles, it's too high-powered, it's too this, it's too that?"
COOKE: Well, I think I'd say what, sort of what you were pointing out. If you look at the targets and you asked people which is the scary AR, they wouldn't say -- much smaller holes, it's quieter, it's much more comfortable to hold, there's less recoil, you wouldn't presume -- in fact that gun is the easiest probably to shoot of all of them, and it's certainly the least scary really, it's just black.
But using bullet hole size as a proxy for wounding power is highly misleading, because assault weapons fire the round at a much higher velocity than a handgun.
According to a 2011 report by doctors who had performed autopsies on soldiers killed by gunfire in Iraq, "The velocity of the missile as it strikes the target is the main determinant of the wounding capacity" and "[t]he greater energy of the missile at the moment of impact the greater is the tissue destruction." Indeed, the study found that rounds with a velocity exceeding 2,500 feet per second cause a shockwave to pass through the body upon impact that caused catastrophic injuries even in areas remote to the direct wound.
Using popular ammunition brand Hornady as a comparison point, the ammunition available for the .45 caliber handgun fires at a muzzle velocity of no more than 1,055 feet per second. The .223 ammunition most often used by the AR-15 assault weapon, however, can achieve a velocity of 4,000 feet per second. Some AR-15s are designed to accept 5.56 NATO ammunition; a similar round to the .223 that has a velocity of up to 3,130 feet per second.
"Take a look to your left," said the Hon. Philip Journey. "Now take a look to your right. What do you see?"
It was Saturday morning inside a hotel ballroom at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. We, the several hundred congregants of the twenty-eighth annual Guns Rights Policy Conference, did as instructed. Looking to my left, I saw the pundit and National Review columnist John Fund struggling to attach a new credit card reader to his smart phone. Looking to my right, I exchanged nods with an older gentleman wearing suspenders and a VFW hat. He looked like he could have served in the Navy with the airport's nearly nonagenarian namesake.
"You'll notice there's a lot of grey in this room," said Judge Journey, who when not sitting on a Kansas district court bench serves as an officer for the Kansas State Rifle Association. "That's the problem with our movement. We've got to get children into the shooting sports and develop an appreciation by them in the right to keep and bear arms. Because in 20 years, where will we be?"
This question -- "In 20 years, where will we be?" -- is one of gnawing urgency for the gun-rights movement. At the National Rifle Association convention last summer, I heard gun industry veterans joke that NRA now stood for "Normal Retirement Age." At this smaller but no less influential meeting of leading pro-gun minds, most speakers circled back to their fear that those in the room represented the end of a proud line. Even as the movement's leading activists boasted of recent victories at the federal and state level -- and there are many, from successful recall elections in Colorado to a carry law in Illinois -- they warned of a deadly demographic drop-off, that the energy and the youth was all in the gun-reform corner. "The people on the other side, like [the Stimson Center's] Rachel Stohl, they are very young and they are motivated," said Julianne Versnel, of the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights. "They know how to Tweet and Facebook, and they are doing a very good job."
If only winning the battle for young hearts and minds was as simple as opening a Twitter account. Like the GOP it overwhelming supports, the pro-gun movement does not sound like a modern army positioned to win a culture war for the allegiance of young Americans. Beverly Zaslow, a protégé of Andrew Breitbart who produces right-wing documentaries, used to the GRPC podium to slam the television program Glee for not having "normal kinds of relationships in it." Another speaker advised the pro-gun movement to "accept the gays, if they're with us." This kind of outreach is unlikely to draw the required levels of new blood needed to replace the men in suspenders and VFW hats. The severity of the crisis was put most bluntly by Andrew Sypien, content manager for the online retail gun giant CheaperThanDirt.com. "It's the 25 to 35 year-olds who are going to replace you in ten years," he said. "If you don't get them, it's going to die here with you."
The "it" here refers to a Second Amendment absolutism that rejects as unconstitutional restrictions on the right of Americans to buy, sell, transport, and carry firearms as they see fit. For the last 30 years, no single figure has done more to advance this vision of an Armed America than the diminutive, bow-tied organizer behind the Gun Rights Policy Conference. Though few Americans have ever heard of Alan Gottlieb, we live in a country he helped create.
NBC Sports will not be a sponsor of the nation's largest gun trade show next year, a spokesperson confirmed to Media Matters. The network had served for several years as a top sponsor of the event, which has billed itself as a show of industry strength against stronger gun laws.
"Our level of sponsorship has varied each year, and this January we will not be sponsoring the show because it does not make business sense for us at this time," said the NBC Sports spokesperson.
The Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show calls itself the "the largest and most comprehensive trade show for all professionals involved with the shooting sports, hunting and law enforcement industries" and "the world's premier exposition of combined firearms." Manufacturers use the event to show off their latest products, typically including an array of assault rifles, tactical shotguns, and pistols with high-capacity magazines.
According to its organizer, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (the trade association for firearms manufacturers and dealers), the trade show is also "a powerful display of industry unity and its resolve to meet any challenge affecting the right to make, sell and own firearms."
In January, NBC Sports returned as the sponsor of the show's New Product Center, "the showcase for innovative, new equipment being introduced to the hunting, shooting, outdoors and law enforcement markets," using the event to promote their hunting programming. That sponsorship drew criticism since it came in the wake of NBC Sports host Bob Costas' on-air censure of the nation's "gun culture" and the December 2012 mass shooting in Sandy Hook, CT.
While NBC Sports will not sponsor the event, their executives will be at the show conducting meetings and entertaining clients, according to the network's spokesperson, who stressed that the network is participating for the show's focus on hunting and outdoor sports, not firearms.
The statement comes just days after a controversy involving the network's firearms programming.
National Rifle Association commentator Billy Johnson released a video that sought to shift focus away from guns and onto domestic violence following widespread discussion of gun policy in the wake of a mass shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington D.C. This new-found concern for domestic violence ignores both the lethal consequences of armed domestic abusers and the NRA's lengthy history of blocking measures to keep guns out of the hands of abusers.
Notably, Johnson did not offer a single policy solution for domestic violence, concluding his September 30 commentary by stating, "I don't have a silver bullet to solve domestic violence, but what I do know is that we can no longer avoid this issue."
In his commentary, Johnson referenced mass shootings to claim, "Everyone from President Obama to Mayor Bloomberg's Demand a Plan campaign will shamelessly exploit the stories of children who are killed in tragic -- but isolated -- incidents, yet these same people are noticeably silent about millions of children and innocent adults in our country who are victims of, or witness to, violence in the place they should feel safest, their homes."
Johnson also stated, "If we sincerely want to decrease violence against children in our country, it's time we stop talking about AR-15s" -- the assault weapon ubiquitous for its use in mass shootings, including the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre -- "and start talking about real threats that millions of our children face every year."
While Johnson concluded his video by stating that "we can no longer avoid this issue" of domestic violence, the NRA has not avoided the issue in the past. In fact, it has fought legislative efforts to remove guns from the homes of individuals subject to a restraining order because of domestic violence.
NBC Sports Network host Tony Makris defended his controversial killing of an elephant on an NRA-sponsored hunting show during the September 26 edition of NRA News by claiming that opponents of elephant hunting have a philosophy similar to Hitler's.
Makris has faced widespread criticism since he shot and killed an elephant on the September 22 episode of Under Wild Skies on NBC Sports, which also showed him celebrating the kill with Champagne. A petition calling for the cancellation of Under Wild Skies, which Makris hosts, currently has more than 47,000 signatures.
Makris has longstanding ties to the NRA. According to the Los Angeles Times, "he helped install Charlton Heston as president" of the NRA in 1998. Makris has also been previously identified as an employee of Ackerman McQueen, an ad agency employed by the NRA for decades that was responsible for a controversial ad that politicized security measures that protect the president's children.
On the NRA News show Cam & Company, Makris offered a number of rationales for shooting the elephant, including suggesting that people who oppose elephant hunting but accept other forms of hunting are practicing "animal racism." He added that he would respond to someone who said elephants should not be hunted because of their size, scarcity or intelligence by saying, "Hitler would have said the same thing."
Right-wing media dishonestly reacted to Secretary of State John Kerry's signature to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) by promoting the National Rifle Association's conspiracy theory that the treaty -- which aims to stem the flow of weapons to human rights abusers -- would threaten gun rights and require the United States to create a civilian gun registry.
In fact, the treaty only regulates the international trade of arms and explicitly affirms the right of a nation to regulate domestic firearm ownership "pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system." As the American Bar Association noted in an analysis that found the treaty to be consistent with the Second Amendment, "the treaty would not require new domestic regulations of firearms."
Still, Fox News continued its checkered coverage of the ATT, promoting baseless conspiracy theories about the treaty.
On September 25, Fox host Heather Nauert reported on Fox & Friends that "gun supporters are opposing part of [the ATT] because it requires the United States government to adopt a new civilian gun tracking system, and that could sidestep the Second Amendment":
Reacting to the release of surveillance footage from the Washington Navy Yard mass shooting, Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich claimed that, "[w]atching Aaron Alexis stalking his victims in these videos prove a proficient armed person could have stopped him, easily." Her commentary ignores that there were armed guards at Navy Yard and that Alexis reportedly fatally shot an armed guard before taking and then using the fallen guard's Beretta 9mm handgun.
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Alexis fatally shot 12 people and wounded others during the morning of September 16 before he was killed by police. On September 25, the FBI released a 31-second video, some of which showed Alexis moving through Building 197 at the Navy Yard.
Pavlich's claim that more guns would have improved the Navy Yard shooting situation is the latest attempt by conservative media to brand the Navy Yard a "gun-free zone," despite clear evidence that armed individuals were on the base when the shooting happened.


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Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer co-star Tom Towles has joined the lineup of the next Chicago edition of Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors, to be held March 6-8, 2009 at the Wyndham Chicago O'Hare Hotel (6810 North Mannheim Road, Rosemont, Il). Besides playing Henry's henchman Otis, Towles appeared as Lt. George Wydell in both House Of 1000 Corpses (pictured) and The Devil'S Rejects.
He also turned up in Night Of The Living Dead, Halloween, Grindhouse, Home Sick, Fortress, The Borrower and The Pit And The Pendulum. Other guests comin' to our Midwest extravaganza include:
• George A. Romero: the director of Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, Day Of The Dead, Land Of The Dead, Diary Of The Dead, Creepshow, Martin, Knightriders and The Dark Half will have the first news and footage from his latest zombie flick
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Anchor Bay Entertainment http://www.anchorbayentertainment.com has announced a New York City theatrical date for Rob Schmidt's The Alphabet Killer. The fact-based serial-murder thriller opens Friday, December 12 at the Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street).
Scripted by Tom (The Attic) Malloy, Alphabet Killer stars Eliza Dushku from Schmidt's Wrong Turn as an upstate New York police officer who descends into a mental hell as she investigates child murders in which the victims all have double initials (see our review here). The supporting cast includes Cary (Saw) Elwes, Timothy (The Dark Half) Hutton, Michael (Scanners) Ironside and Bill (Devil'S Rejects) Moseley. In addition to the commercial engagement, Alphabet Killer will have a red-carpet, invitation-only premiere at the Cinema Village on Thursday, Dec. 11, with special guests from the film in attendance. You can see the movie's official website here and read an interview with Schmidt in Fango #279, on sale next month. »
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Golden Sun: The Lost Age
- Released on Apr 14, 2003
- By Camelot for GBA
Golden Sun: The Lost Age review
The good:
Camelot's classic rises again
Presentation is excellent
Djinni system
Outside world still slightly confusing
Lack of PP replenishing items
Need the original game for everything
The first Golden Sun game set new standards in the RPG genre when it hit the Gameboy Advance, and established itself as one of the system's best games. Such a feat is hard to follow up on, but Camelot has nevertheless given it try by producing the sequel The Lost Age.
Hardware is no obstacle to Camelot, and they have gone on to prove it yet again this time. Travelling around once again adopts a top-down perspective, but despite this there is a high amount of detail in the environment you're exploring. Shading is applied well to give off a level of depth, to avoid the looks feeling flat. Colour is just as important as usual, helping to put together locations that look just right. Chances are you've seen these types of areas before, but nevertheless put together to ruely seem as new as they are, as well as new types like the sandy temple within Air's Rock or the slippery wet stone of Aqua Rock.
The individual characters also possess a lot of detail, as well as extensive use of shading and colouring to give each one a distinct and wonderful appearance. Yes, this extends even to the NPCs that see relatively little time on the screen. This amount of work ensures there is no discrepancy between sprites used. Random villager number 5 looks just as good as Felix himself does.
The classic "appearing textboxes with static portraits" makes a return too for conversations. Thankfully, while the portraits may be static, the visible character sprites aren't. Due to how the textboxes only appear when needed and take up the minimum of space required the player still gets to see a significant portion of the game screen, and the character's involved in these conversations tend to be quite animated. Bouncing, shaking heads and question mark clouds help to deliver the expressionism needed and gives what could have been dull walls of text enough charm to be interesting. There are even a few new animations, such as Jenna turning red when blushing.
The same battle system returns, similar to the old system as well as throwing in some new animations and visual effects. The camera moves down to view the action up close, typically staying behind the group for most of the action.
The characters are just as detailed as before, giving them easily distinguishable appearances, but naturally there are a lot more sprites this time. The concept of weapon type choices being reflected visually is back too, but once again limited to the type of weapon only and not reflecting each individual weapon. Swords shouldn't all look exactly the same.
There are more backdrops here too, and while not as detailed as the characters do a great job of putting the battle in the correct area. Fight in a cave and the backdrop will accurately reflect this.
Basic attacks still consist of a jumping attack or dashing swipe, with light shows and a zooming camera for critical hits. Considering this is what the game considers a normal attack they still look impressive.
The special attacks and techs put on even more impressive shows though. Weapon unleashes make use of a normal attack animation usually, accompanied by some special effect like slamming rocks into the enemy or forming a seal. These types of animations are also used for the various psynergy techs and Djinni unleashes usable. There's also a wide variety in the game, even more than the previous game, so you're unlikely to think it repetitive at any point.
Summoning animations are still the best type though. Again, the better the summon the more impressive the animation. With the introduction of new summons comes a whole slew of new summon animations too, and most of them could only be described as epic.
The Lost Age delivers the visual treat that all other GBA titles should strive for. Camelot have really put a lot of effort into making the game look good.
It seems The Lost Age is just as concerned for its audio as it is for its visuals. Some of the music is recycled from the previous game but there's also a whole collection of new tracks that go along similar themes but sound distinctly different. Once again, Camelot have succeeded in crafting music that is well suited to the situation. Sailing the seas results in high spirited tunes, for example, and it really compliments the game.
Battle music is still most often fast paced and frantic with the occasional dark themed addition. It really helps the mood of battles and doesn't sink into the depths of forgettable at any time.
If something is meant to make a sound then there is a suitable sound effect stashed in GS's sound banks. Things indeed sound as they should, whether it's an explosion or shifting sand. The series of beeps system returns to mimic talking, complete with varying tones based on who is talking. Lacking true voice acting this works as a nice substitute.
Chances are if you haven't played the original Golden Sun game then half the story here will be lost on you. This is because The Lost Age takes being a sequel to an extreme by following on directly from the end of Golden Sun. See, the two games form a two part story, and The Lost Age is part two. It's possible to play it as a standalone game. Just don't expect to understand everything if you do.
That said, those who have played the previous game will be a little surprised to see that Isaac is no longer the main hero. Instead gameplay shifts to Felix, who acted as an enemy to Isaac and his group in the first game, and tells the rest of the story from his perspective.
Venus lighthouse has been lit, leaving only two more remaining. Saturos and Menardi were defeated at Venus lighthouse, but before Isaac and his friends could challenge Felix a tremendous earthquake tore the lighthouse into pieces and shook the land. Sheba, a young girl taken by Felix's group shortly before, fell from the lighthouse. Felix dives after her in a desperate bid to save her.
The earthquake also manages to tear part of the land away from the continent – the land where Felix's companions happen to be waiting. Out to sea Jenna and Kraden recover, and are called by their remaining companion Alex. They walk around to find Felix and Sheba have washed up onshore. However, their reunion is cut short when a tidal wave crashes into them.
The wave turned out to be a stroke of good luck, as it forced them into a new continent and stopped their floating away. Everyone seems safe except Alex who had vanished. Assuming he left exploring without them Felix and friends decide to set out too. They intend to release alchemy on the world, and need to find a boat to reach the remaining two lighthouses.
As can be seen, the story seems half done unless you've played the previous game. The reasons become slightly more apparent as you progress, but it still isn't the same as knowing the actual story. Overall it is a pretty epic setting, even moreso than the last game as you begin to understand just why the lighthouses exist and the true nature of alchemy. Suffice to say, there will be some interesting revelations that will challenge the beliefs built up in the first game.
Generally speaking the story progresses quite nicely. We get to experience elements briefly mentioned in the last game, such as the mysterious Lemuria, as well as whole new stories. Of course, Isaac is still chasing after Felix, and when they do catch up the story just goes into overdrive.
The development of the characters continues just as strongly. Isaac and his group are mostly abandoned for a large part of the game as things focus more on Felix and his group, which turns out to be a very good thing. We get to see exactly why Felix acts as he does, as well as the reasons for the others remaining on the quest. Felix takes over the silent protagonist role here, although it's not the same as usual. Aside from having already seen him talk plenty of times in the last game Felix does sometimes say the occasional thing in this game too. It's very limited though, so expect mostly yes and no text dialogue from him when the player has to make a choice. Similarly, Isaac now has a full set of dialogue open to him, giving him even more depth than before.
The basics of exploration hasn't really changed much. Towns, caves, dungeons and other areas still comprise where you'll be exploring, although you can now add the open seas to that list. Yes, the world in TLA is much bigger than in the first game, and many areas can only be reached by using a ship that you gain access to not too far into the game.
Puzzles are ready to make your progress that much harder, although there is more variety to things, and thus more psynergy moves to overcome them. You can turn into sand to move along sand paths, pound objects into the ground or even cause explosions, which we all know is a fun thing to do.
Reading minds manages to be a very interesting ability again. Gain useful advice, interesting back-story or random dialogue from the minds of those that wouldn't share it with you otherwise. It's also possible to communicate with animals this way, which is needed for certain objectives.
One of the cooler aspects about the game is how the main quest isn't done in a linear fashion. While many other games would quite happily lead you from A to B to C, TLA is quite happy to let you decide in what order you'd like to do A, B and C in. That said, there is still some sense of needing to do some tasks before others, but it's a lot less restrictive than other games, so the freedom of choice is certainly welcome.
However, one of Golden Sun's few flaws makes an unwelcome return here, and it's worse than before. Basically, it's very difficult to know where to go. Sometimes you'll find yourself walking around for ages because there's no clear indicator on which way is the right path. TLA seems less eager to give hints in the first place. Add in a bigger world to explore and an even less linear path than before and it can lead to running into dead-ends more often. It's not disastrous but it is annoying.
It seems that hiding stuff in caves and the like isn't enough, so snooping about town is also encouraged. While the level of exploration isn't anywhere close to that in the various caves and temples and wherever else, it is nice to have more to do in towns than talk and shop.
The communities here are thriving, with evident signs of life. The early towns are shown recovering from the tidal wave that hit, and this is reflected in the actions and responses. Some of the dialogue doesn't make too much sense but overall it is a solid experience when gathering important information, interesting gossip or completely useless ramblings.
Shopping tends to be a common practice in towns, especially when you first arrive. Nothing has really changed since the first game aside from a selection of new items. Most of the towns you come across still have inns and sanctums. Inns is where you can give your group a well-deserved rest, and thus replenish their HP and PP to full, for a small cost. The amount you pay increases as you get further into the game dependant on which town you're visiting, but since your income tends to increase more than costs do it won't really matter. Sanctums are where you can cure ailments, since inns won't do that. The ability to cure poison and revive a fallen ally may be handy early on, but there are psynergy skills acquired later that replicate this effect for no cost in gold. The other two are rarely used. Removing haunting is rare since few enemies induce haunting in the first place and removing cursed equipment is similarly rare since a player probably isn't going to be constantly giving cursed equipment to their group.
In terms of item shopping we still have the three shop types of weapon, armour and item. Sometimes these three shops are replaced by a single shop that sells all three types of items. As per typical you have a buy command to purchase whatever that shop is selling (dependant on where the shop is) and a sell command to sell any unwanted goods. The two options from Golden Sun return too, and work the same way. Artefact lets you buy rare items that are usually better than normal items but more expensive and many can only be purchased once. New items appear under this option as you progress, and any rare items you sell or drop will also appear here. Unlike the normal buy option artefacts are not specific to a single shop. An artefact in one weapon shop will be buyable in all weapon shops. The repair option is used to fix items that may have broken during battle, although the usefulness of this depends on how often you use breakable items.
So far into the game you will come across the village of Yallam. There is a blacksmith there who will forge new equipment for you, for a cost that never really gets specified. In addition to the price you must also bring materials, which consist either of a rusted weapon or raw material. The weapons produced from rusted weapons are dependant on the item brought to him, while items created from raw materials are random. It's possible to get some really powerful items here, although since raw materials can't be purchased than gathering them may be trickier that it seems. It's a nice addition nevertheless to add to the game's shopping system.
There is a very long list of items in The Lost Age. In addition to all the items from Golden Sun we also have a high amount of brand new items. Characters are once again limited to 30 different types of items each, although much later on you get a party of eight characters to help you manage them effectively. Even then, item placement becomes important, since each character can only access what they are holding. Do you spread the items out for ease of access or give them all to one character and free up item slots?
It's fair to say the game doesn't skimp on sheer variety as well. You have all different types like weapons, armour, armlets, footwear and various other pieces of equipment and items. Items differ in stats and many also possess special traits like raising elemental resistance or restoring HP. There's a general group hierarchy involved here but it's hard to say there is always a best item for each moment. One sword may be stronger but doesn't have an unleash, for example.
Consumable items are also part of this system, and tend to prove pretty useful too. He ability to heal HP, cure status effects or unleash special effects without falling back on psynergy is excellent. But strangely, PP replenishing items are very few in number. There's more than before, but it's still a very low number and those included are still rare and mostly gained from finds or the artefacts shop option. Psynergy focused battles still feel awkward because of this.
Deciding on usable classes is also an important part of battle preparation, but this isn't as simple as changing some menu option. Classes are determined by the Djinni set to characters, which are found and recruited during the game. Each Djinni gives certain stat boosts, and certain combinations will also change the class of the character. There's a wide variety of classes available, more than previously since characters can have up to 9 Djinni set to them. These classes affect stats (both up and down) as well as affecting the psynergy available to that character. Many psynergy types are only available in alternate classes. But think carefully when picking classes, as the Djinni are shared out amongst the whole group. If Jenna takes Echo then nobody else can have him, so the class choices of one character will affect the classes of others.
Feeling this wasn't enough Camelot introduced 3 special class changing items as well. These items will also change a character's class when equipped and certain combinations of Djinni with these items will produce stronger variants of those classes. This adds to the tactical planning that goes into class choices.
The combat system is still the same type as before too. TLA uses a turn based system where every character is given an order and then everyone on the field carries out their actions, with the order based on the agility ratings of everyone. The attack command is the basic, low power strike to the enemy. It's free and may score a critical hit but can also miss targets and generally lacks power compared to other offence options. Many weapons also possess a random chance to strike with an unleash, which is an attack more on the level of psynergy attacks. These can be quite damaging and even have a chance of side effects, like inducing sleep or lowering speed of the target. But since they are random it's better to rely on other options for more reliable damage. These are handy for random monster encounters though.
Players can use up PP to make use of their various psynergy skills. Such skills range from standard elemental attacks, boosting the stats of the party or perform curative actions. Range based attacks tend to carry a diminishing effect to them. The enemy in the center of the attack takes the most damage, then every subsequent target to either side takes less damage, making targeting of group effect attacks still important. The available psynergy depends entirely on the character, their level and their class.
That said, the same flaw has returned. Psynergy is just more underused than it should be. While a relatively good system, it's outdone by the Djinni and summons systems. There's little incentive to attack with psynergy when you have options that are more powerful and don't cost hard-to-replenish PP. Therefore psynergy often gets relegated to support duty, causing many of the techs to simply gather dust.
Djinni can be used in battle to unleash various effects. These effects can range from standard powerful attacks, inducing status ailments or supporting the party. However, any Djinni used like this will switch to standby mode, meaning they no longer give boosts to whatever character had them set. This can hurt the class a character was, so you have to be careful in case you lose a stat spread or a certain skill you wanted. Fortunately, the game informs you of losses incurred for that character before the action is confirmed.
Standby Djinni aren't just doing nothing though. These Djinni can be used to summon more powerful creatures to strike with, and unlike using set Djinni anyone can summon with these ones, even if they weren't originally set to them. The stronger the summon the more standby Djinni are needed to summon them. Ramses needs 2 Venus Djinni and Meteor needs 4 Mars Djinni, as examples. Once a summon is called it unleashes a powerful attack (with one exception, who aids the party instead), then disappears. The Djinni used go into recovery mode. At the end of each turn one recovering Djinni from each used summon sets itself back to its original owner, allowing the cycle to repeat.
In addition to the 16 summons of the original game there are several new summons, but summoning them is a bit trickier. Whereas the original 16 summons only required you to gather enough Djinni to summon them, these new ones have an extra item of criteria that must be done first. Throughout the gaming world are summon tablets. These are usually off the main path and thus require some thorough exploring and some puzzle solving to get them. Finding a tablet adds a new summon to your list. These summons also require Djinni from multiple elemental classes, such as Megara who needs 1 Venus and 1 Mar Djinni.
Despite needing multiple elemental classes these summons still unleash single elemental attacks, but they also tend to cause other effects too. Megara boosts the attack of the party while she is there. It's an excellent addition to the system.
Items can be used within battles too, but this requires some thoughtful planning. While items can be targeted on anyone, characters can only use what they are holding on to. If you've given all your healing items to Jenna then only Jenna can use those healing items.
Defend causes a character to take less damage but also does not do anything else that turn. Characters automatically defend if their original target disappears by the time their turn arrives. It would have been nice simply to switch targets, but defending is better than nothing. You can also escape from battles. Well, the problem is that it is random and it tends to fail in the battles you'd want to escape from, making it fairly ineffective.
The switch option is new to TLA, and opens up when you have more than 4 characters. This allows you to switch out active party members with those in the reserves, just in case the battle isn't going as planned. Doing this doesn't cost a turn, but once the switch is made you can't switch again until the next turn. It's an interesting addition that could prove handy.
One of the game's best features is the linkup system. TLA isn't just a story continuation of Golden Sun, the two actually link together. This can be done in two ways – either using an actual system link or a password system for those without the first option. The system link is nice and smooth. I experience no problems with it. The password system is extremely awkward though. There are three passwords ranked according to what gets transferred. Bronze transfers little, silver more and gold everything. The problem? The passwords are massive. I tried putting a gold password across and managed to get it wrong somehow. Doable but very awkward.
Despite that it is an excellent system. Most of the results of the linkup won't be seen until much later in the game (and indeed, the game allows a linkup to occur right up until that certain point) and seeing the effects of what you did in Golden Sun come across in this game is awesome. That said, some of TLA's sidequests can't be done without doing the link, which is a shame for those who haven't got the original game.
TLA takes the lifespan of Golden Sun and mocks it. Just in case you haven't played GS then take it from me that The Lost Age is massive. You have a whole world to explore this time around, except for the places in the old game that you can't visit here. With such a long main journey and many sidequests to do it will be some time before you've done everything.
TLA contains the same arena game as GS did. Entering the arena lets you either take the monster battle challenge (single player) or linkup battle against a friend (two player). Two player battles consist of three person teams, so the reserves and the rightmost character gets dropped. Monster battles allow for full teams and allows you to take on a series of battles that end only by request or defeat. It's great to work your way through or take on a human opponent.
The arena is still the lively community too, with other warriors or people waiting around. Camelot have even set up one character to act as a music test, allowing players to listen to the game music in there.
The Lost Age bears much of a resemblance to the original game, but contains enough new stuff to be considered a fresh experience. The linkup system works incredibly well too. While it's not as groundbreaking as the original game, TLA still makes a significant impact that shows just how much Camelot knows about making RPGs. It's best experienced after Golden Sun, so buy both games and prepare to lose a large portion of your time to them.
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Christmas Eve, 1968 – Apollo 8 spaceship of U.S.'s NASA became the first manned mission to reach and orbit the Moon. It was the first human spaceflight to leave the Earth's orbit and the first crewed voyage to return from another celestial body, that is the Earth's Moon. The three astronauts – Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr., and William Anders – went around it 10 times over the course of 20 hours during which time the three astonauts made a Christmas Eve televised broadcast in which they poignantly read the first 10 verses of the Bible's first book, Genesis Chapter 1, the book of creation.
December 25, 1938 – David O. Selznick asked Vivian Leigh to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, an all-time bestseller film with the length of about 226 minutes, almost 4 hours. It was first published in May 1936 based on the book by Margaret Mitchell that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year, 1937. The story is set in the U.S. state of Georgia during the American Civil War followed by Reconstruction. The heroine is Scarlet O'Hara, daughter of a rich plantation owner.
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Hello I have a 1996 buick riviera with 130,000 miles and a 3.8 supercharge engine. I bought the car with brake problems and recently I had the car put on the computer to get it diagnosed. Code 15 (not sure)and code 46(Left front ABS pulse-width modulation valve) came up for the abs. The wheels are locked and even though I have new break pads the car won't stop as if I don't have anything. What are these codes and what do I do first?
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Sexting King Anthony Weiner Immortalized in a Doll's Form
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U.S. Politician Anthony Weiner had originally wished his sexting scandal would fizzle out. With more women coming forth with new sexting photos the topic isn't about to die down. Now a doll is being created to immortalize Anthony Weiner and his infamous sexting.
Anthony Weiner is king of sexting. This is another situation where a person has done something "stupid" and will live with regrets. As most of us know, some regrets can't be lived down. Anthony Weiner is one such person who is learning this lesson well. Not only have his actions underscored disloyalty to his marriage vows but his not well thought out acts of sexting (sending sexually suggestive or explicit photos) to numerous women will forever be remembered in the form of a toy doll.
Two Choices of the Anthony Weiner Doll
An innovative business has created two versions of a doll of Anthony Weiner. One safe for children to play with the other more "adult" rated. The prices for the two versions are between $40 and $50 dollars. Interested persons can purchase a doll of Anthony Weiner at Herobuilders.com to add to their action or perverted doll collection. Anthony Weiner will have a hard time forgetting his indiscretions with a hard plastic model of him wearing shorts that state "Tweet This" being sold online.
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A Place in History
For Anthony Weiner, it will be hard enough to confront his wife face to face and provide an explanation as to why an intelligent person would do something to endanger his relationship with his mate and his supporters. But it has been known that when certain men come into positions of power they think they are above the norms and laws everyone else must observe. History is filled with powerful men doing "stupid" things earning their infamous place in history.
Yet Anthony Weiner, as king of sexting, has surpassed those men and their deeds. After all how many men in power have had a doll created to immortalize their scandalous behavior securing their place in history? Do you think Anthony Weiner will buy one for his unborn child? Probably not.
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The Secrets Of Chrome Plating @ Finishing Touch- The Bortz Job
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Bikefarm Taiwan: Top quality work! a lot of effort but a first class finish! Well done to that chroming plant!! Wish we had one like that here :(
TwIzTiD Marc: how much will it cost to get a schwinn lil tiger re chromed gatta get this donr for my 2yo is it cheaper to buy a kit or pay sum 1
Kip Burbank: Holy Moly, that's good chrome work. I use Space Coast Plating in Melbourne, FL. They are great too.
froglobster: I have bumpers to be rechromed and eveyone knows bumpers are prone to getting scratched, are there different strengths of chroming ?
sciencemansandera: Glad to see someone in the USA demonstrating quality of a real craft I am a 2016 presidential candidate for all the people and want to return manufacturing to America the way it should be
l konuk: I have a Question plz. You polished the part after acid copper and hanget directly to Nickel. I think you have some pretreatmens beetween polishing and nickel plating . plz can you explain the treatmens. I have to plate some times acide copper platet parts but I get allways roughnes on the surface. my pretratments for cu plated parts are cath. eleckrocleaning rinse acid dip and rinse and than to nickel bath
DaveRol Rolland: very interesting video chuck. I just saw another one about a Cadi grill rest. here's the link http://youtu.be/27tD_K2t84U for all of us who love chrome plating
The Federal Farmer: Smoking in a plate shop is a dumb as eating in the shop.
Kelvin Matthews: I chrome plate and silver plate for a profession, and also pre finish, and whoever says that it shouldnt be done without cathodic movement really doesnt know too much about the process, .... as for the gold plate - that was done separately
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glennifer king: That is crazy!!! That guys processes are so tight it's unbelievable! I know why you gave him a blank check that's gotta be very pricy but well worth it. I've never seen that quality and attention to detail before. Who is this wizard!!!!
Clint Rockfist: The chrome shop guy, I know his REAL name. He is called the Chrome GOD. No disrespect intended to any other GOD. This guy is very very good indeed. I saw a sign on the workshop wall, "Made in U.S.A" That says so much about this persons' worth ethic. I am in the U.K and I am going to try and build my own bike, and would only be happy with the chrome parts looking as excellent as he would make them. A great video. Thank You very much for kindly posting it.
John Hampton The Man From Oz: A thoroughly entertaining, eye-opening insight into the craft of chrome plating - and a CRAFT it is, something those DIY projects haven't a hope in hell of replicating. Oh sure, you might get a chrome finish, but it won't come within a bull's roar when compared to what a professional can produce - not by a long shot. And I could tell by the customers reaction that he was over the moon with result, and he like me wouldn't begrudge the cost when one considers how labour intensive the work is.
MrHeizer42: plating without kathodic movement thats dumb...
joremunderfoemangler: I chrome plate for a living myself. We wear safety glasses but that's about it as far as ppe. Our setup is with tanks with hoists to move the bars so we only touch the part raw and when its done. Our chrome is a low fume type so unless were splashed it wont bother us. The worst part is cleaning out the cleaners and putting our acid salts in instant choking if you're allergic to it..we do wear full Ppe when we clean and fill our tanks. It is truly a mans job or a womans if she can lift
ak68524793: No need for ppe....haha that's the most stupid statement I have heard about a plating shop it just would of taken that guy dropping the part into the cyanide copper and splashing in his face hope he gets paid well
Shawn Hawkins: What happens if you chrome plate plain brass without the nickle plate? Would it protect and shine the brass?
Luke .Waterhouse: How did you guys gold plate the last section without getting gold on the rest???
HITCHHIKERNAIEM: im chrome plating a hummer engine guard tomorow for a customer od mine,,,, dis is hard work man, especialy if u dont have proper tools....... nice work in the video ,, keep it up :)
Perk E: Thomas looked good, but bud no PPE bad message, and you know what your doing ?, but there is a G in doing not an F ? LOL, the guy was right, put on apron , some neoprene gloves, and face shield, and the other guys is right, get the dog off that floor the HCL will destrioy the skin on his paws
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James on the Will
James Deese
University of Virginia
No topic has more completely disappeared from modern psychology than that of the will. It barely survived in the mainstream of psychology into the 1920s, perhaps even then only because it was one of the voices of resistance to the behavioristic revolution. McDougall treats of it at length in his famous book, Social Psychology ( 1908), but it scarcely figures in his later textbook, Outline of Psychology ( 1924). In that book there are but a scant three or four pages devoted to the topic, and this is almost the last mention of the topic in anything that could properly be designated as a textbook in psychology. True enough, the will hung on in textbooks, usually written by those in holy orders, especially designed for Catholic colleges well into the 1930s. It is still a topic of concern in certain philosophical and theological circles, and there it centers on the vexatious question of freedom of the will. But it is very hard to find any reference to the will in the psychological textbooks of the last 40 years. The will has disappeared from official psychology.
Psychological textbooks are, for all practical purposes, the invention of the 19th century. The early texts often follow the tradition established by Kant of labeling what we now call psychology by the term anthropology. Neither Kant nor those who followed in his tradition use the term anthropology in its modern sense. Rather it describes what we now call psychology. The first textbook published in America with the title of Psychology ( Rauch, 1841) carried the subtitle A study of the Human Soul Including Anthropology. The section of that book labeled Anthropology includes hints of what later in the 19th century came to be that discipline, but mainly the topics discussed in this part of Rauch's book are those to be found in the mainstream of psychology. The author, Frederick A. Rauch, an immigrant from Germany who died at much too early an age, had the


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Therapeutic Culture and Marriage Equality: What Comes Naturally and Contemporary Dialogues about Marriage
Celello, Kristin, Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
With its breadth of subject material and depth of analysis, Peggy Pascoe's What Comes Naturally inevitably prompts historians with myriad research interests--from race and gender to the law and the American family--to employ the book's insights in order to gain a more nuanced understanding of recurring themes in their own work. (1) Accordingly, I would like to consider the ways in which What Comes Naturally can influence historical and contemporary understandings of marital success and failure. First, I will extend the book's discussion of miscegenation law and interracial marriage in order to consider how these issues interacted with the rise of therapeutic culture in the twentieth century. While most "experts" in the years after World War II acknowledged that men and women should have a legal right to marry whomever they wanted, they nevertheless opposed interracial (and interfaith) marriages on the grounds that such unions were bound to be less successful than those between same-race couples. (2) In doing so, they provided Americans who were hostile to interracial marriage with a seemingly legitimate (and race-neutral) language with which to continue their opposition. Second, I will consider divorce and the legal entanglements that ensue when there are questions about the validity of the marriage in the first place (be those unions interracial or same-sex). As Pascoe's book elucidates, a relationship's end can tell us just as much about the law, and legal attempts to prevent certain types of unions, as the beginning of that same relationship can.
Several recent cases illustrate the connections that still exist among therapeutic culture, race, and marriage. In October 2009 Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell refused to issue a marriage license to Beth Humphrey (a white woman) and Terence McKay (a black man). Bardwell offered two justifications for his position without any solid evidence beyond personal observation. First, he strongly believed that any child born to Humphrey and McKay would face discrimination and would not fit "in" with whites or with blacks. (Bardwell disregarded the fact that the couple certainly did not need to be married in order to procreate.) Second, he felt that "most interracial marriages don't last." He adamantly maintained that he was not a racist and attempted to prove his point by telling a local newspaper that he had willingly married African American couples in the past. (3) Many Louisiana politicians, including Republican governor Bobby Jindal and Democratic senator Mary Landrieu, sharply criticized Bardwell's actions, which were, in fact, illegal. Many social commentators, including Peggy Pascoe, also called for Bardwell's removal from his office. (4) Under fire Bardwell ultimately resigned.
The swift and negative reaction to Bardwell's position demonstrates the distance that many Americans have come since the 1960s in accepting interracial relationships and viewing opposition to them as racist. And yet, when the story of Tiger Woods's marital infidelities came into the public eye about a month after the Bardwell scandal, any number of men and women--especially on blogs and in anonymous online forums--opined that the breakup was inevitable, precisely because the marriage was interracial. (Woods, while multiracial, is often identified as African American; his wife, Swedish-born Elin Nordegren, is white.) In this instance the opinion that interracial marriages were more likely to fail than same-race marriages came not only from whites but also from blacks. In a blog post for BV Black Spin, for example, Boyce Watkins reported the positive reaction of black audience members to a caller who slated, "If he [Tiger] had been with a sister, none of this would have happened." (5) The backlash against Woods's marriage is particularly ironic, given that a good number of online commentators had pointed to the successful marriage and golfing career of Tiger Woods--as well as to President Barack Obama, baseball player Derek Jeter, and actress Halle Berry, among others--in order to rebut Bardwell's position that the offspring of interracial relationships were disadvantaged in some way. …


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I'd like to make the (knit) dress in the current Burda WOF (11/08). What kind of fabric would best skim over my lumps and bumps? I'm not one for stuffy control garments - they are so uncomfortable and just create bumps in other places.
Wow - great dress! I may need to go get this issue....I think a double knit would work really well.
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Yes, I agree. A stable somewhat thicker knit like a double knit will work best here. Think Jill St. John weight. Wonderful dress. It will be somewhat fitted with the princess lines.
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Would a Sophia solid knit work? I've always thought that it might be too heavy and not have enough drape for a knit dress.
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I agree about the double knit, but a pair of spanx isn't a bad purchase for knits. They are comfortable to wear and really smooth out all those lumps and bumps!
What a great style!
You could also do a stretch velour & make a holiday version. I think the key is quality fabric with some substance, shaped but not too tight.
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If the dress fits correctly, a slip made of taffeta helps the dress slide over the body like dresses used to when we all were 18 and firm!
A busy print also helps disguise those lumps and bumps.
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I had the same thoughts about this dress! It's too bad that Burda doesn't give more guidance about knits, like how much they expect it to stretch. I'd go for a fairly firm knit, and make sure it has an inch or two of ease over the trouble spots. I may try a cotton interlock for the tunic version (shortened even more), but I wouldn't use it for a dress - it clings too much! I have a wool doubleknit that would be perfect, except I'd probably spend all day scratching which isn't the most glamorous look. I was also looking at how to raise the neckline - the pattern pieces are strange enough that it's not that obvious what to do.
By the way, we're on the Plus Size boards here, so spanx, etc. really aren't an option. We have lumps in places that spanx will never cover! :eek:
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