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With the help of eight fire tenders and one browser the blaze was eventually controlled. No casualties are reported, according to the fire department, as the workers quickly evacuated the building. The fire department spokesperson said that some yarn had caught fire after a short circuit in the building but it could not be said with certainty if that was the only cause of the blaze.
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Installing a Satellite Dish to Watch the News – Explained by Shaykh Fawzan
O noble Shaykh there are numerous questions surrounding one topic here is one of the questions. What is the ruling on the person who installs a satellite dish in his home just for the news or to listen to Al Jazeera channel?
Shaykh Fawzan:
The news is obtained without a satellite dish, it can be obtained in the newspaper, it can be obtained on the radio, and it can be obtained on Saudi television that which is not on satellite. It is obtained without a satellite dish.
The satellite dish brings about evil upon him and upon others such as his children and his family. Thus its evil is greater than its benefit, if there is any benefit. The evil outweighs it. Thus do not install it in the home due to its pure evil or its preponderant evil.
And the affair is not limited to him, rather it will corrupt his family, all of them, the young and the old, except those whom Allah has mercy upon. And he is responsible for them. He صلى الله عليه وسلم said: The head of household is a shepherd and he is responsible for his flock. Who will question him? He will be questioned by Allah the Exalted on the Day of Judgment.
Thus it is not permissible for him to install a satellite dish in his home using the argument of watching the news. The news is obtained by many means that do not contain corruption.
And then, what is the news? Most of it is fraudulent and lies, so what will he benefit from it?
He destroys his home in order to get the news? The news, most of it is lies and most of it is incitement and evil. So he should not destroy his home and corrupt his family for the purpose of this false claim.
And the Al Jazeera channel has a great deal of evil; it contains a great deal of evil and incitement. And they bring people who fumble about in the affairs of the religion and in issues of jurisprudence. And they make impermissible what Allah has made permissible or they make permissible what Allah has made impermissible, in their verdicts. Thus this is a great evil to listen to and watch the Al Jazeera channel. Its evil is wide spread now and everything associated with it is evil, and no one praises it.
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We find ourselves in the middle of one of the greatest wealth transfer periods of all time. Those with wealth must decide whether they want to make transfers, and if they do, they must decide how much, to whom, when and in what structure?
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New plans for the project near the intersection of 30th and Pearl streets call for three four-story office buildings totaling about 300,000 square feet of space, and also do away with a 400-seat amphitheater that had been proposed in the original concept plan.
Denver developers Darren Fisk and Dan Otis led the purchase of four parcels of land last year for $12.2 million. The four parcels total 4.33 acres and wrap around the Chase Bank at the southwest corner of 30th and Pearl.
Neither Otis nor Fisk could be reached Wednesday.
The developers will go before the city's planning board Feb. 27 for a second concept review to gain feedback from the planning board and community members. The group originally went through a concept review last fall. At that time, planning board members had made several comments on the original proposal and asked the developers to come back for a second concept review.
Boulder planner Elaine McLaughlin said a second concept review isn't required and that the developers could have gone ahead with submitting a more formal site review application with their changes.
"Not everybody would do that," McLaughlin said. "It's expensive. It's another trip to planning board and another process. But you can get some really great feedback in the concept plan review, so I think they decided to go through it again."
Planning board members last fall had told developers that they'd like to see the hotel along Pearl Street be more "building forward" and not set back so far from the street. Board members also commented that a proposed street bisecting the development wasn't necessary.
The new plan does away with the street, and the office building that replaces the hotel is closer to Pearl Street than the hotel had been. The amphitheater, meanwhile, is replaced in the new concept plan with a more natural open space area on the east side of the property. The previous plan also called for about 6,000 square feet of retail space that has been removed from the new plan. All of the proposed 770 parking spaces are underground.
Pearl Place sits in the heart of one of Boulder's most active areas for redevelopment. To the east across 30th Street, the Solana 3100 Pearl apartments are being built. To the north of those is the Depot Square development that will include a Hyatt hotel, bus rapid-transit station and affordable housing.
To the south of Pearl Place, the 29 North apartments and Twenty Ninth Street mall were also built in recent years.


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Smoked aubergine purée
Cooking timePrep: 5 mins Cook: 30 mins
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ServingsServes 4
This is great served with grilled meat or chicken and also makes a simple lunch for vegetarians
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- 2 medium aubergines
- juice 1 lemon
- 2-3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 150ml pot thick yogurt
- small bunch dill, leaves chopped
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- Heat grill to very hot. Slice the aubergines in half lengthways, then grill for 25 mins, turning occasionally, until soft – the skin will remain firm, but the flesh will soften. Lift the aubergines off the grill and leave until cool enough to handle.
- Using a sharp knife, score the grilled flesh and scoop out the flesh with a spoon. Tip into a bowl and mash with a fork until you get a thick pulp. Beat in the lemon juice and garlic. Add the yogurt and dill, and season. Serve while still warm.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2006
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Loved this, but admit I made a few changes, in that I grilled the aubergine whole under the oven grill. Forgot to pick up a lemon so used a splash of apple vinegar, had mint instead of dill. Put it all on top of a baked sweet potato (instead of butter or sour cream) - Delicious. Will definitely do again, Thanks!
Made this for lunch today because Aubergines are in season. It tastes nice with pitta bread but I wouldn't recommend for crudités because the texture is a bit sloppy- maybe this will be nicer when cold. It was easy to make. I put the whole aubergine under a grill and kept turning for about 20mins to save on prep time. I also used Greek yoghurt and used a hand blender for a few blitzes because it was still quiet stringy after mashing with a fork.
All in all it's nice and healthy and a bit different but I won't rush to make again.


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SHELL HOUSTON OPENRedstone GC (Tournament Course)Humble, TXPar: 36-36—72Yards: 7,457FedExCup Points: 25,000 Winner: 4,500Purse: $5,500,000Winner: $990,0002006 Champion: Stuart Appleby (269, -19)
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My husband recently got an Assistant Professor position (tenure track) at University of Hawaii. The ranking of their engineering program is around 100 (it wasn't so successful for my husband to land a position in top-ranking universities). Well, it has been his dream or career goal to be a faculty. However, to me, Hawaii equals 'vacation'. I just don't see us LIVE there. We have a one-year-old daughter. Both of us have decent jobs here in the bay area. To be frank, I don't want to move at all. I love the life and friends here, and moving with a young kid to Hawaii is too huge a project. Now my husband is very passionate about this perspective job. And I feel like for the family and his career, I will be forced to move. Please, give me some advice how to deal with the situation. Also please share some insights if you know Univ. of Hawaii and being a faculty there (Not that I don't believe what my husband said, just afraid his picture would be too rosy). Really appreciate your input.
I didn't know it at the time, but that was a major turning point in my life. I thought that other good jobs and offers would come along, but the next few years didn't have much to offer in the way of tenure-track jobs, and by the time things picked back up I was less competitive. So I stepped off the train: I spent a semester as a lecturer at Cal, then ended up changing careers. Thinks have since worked out very well for me. But even though I understood my then-husband's decision, it was also a major disappointment that he wasn't willing to try things out for a year or two after I had put so many years working towards this point.
I know this sounds more dramatic because the marriage didn't last; please be assured that there were other issues. You don't say what field your husband is in or what the other job possibilities are, but certainly both of you should take into account potential long-term impacts on his career. The view from the other side of the fence
My sister is a professor and just took a job in a place she isn't wild about, but jobs are tough to come by and if you take a break, my understanding is that it is very tough to get back in. Anon
I have a job interview at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I'd love the job, and the Hawaiian lifestyle sounds absolutely fantastic, but we are wondering if it's a realistic move for a family with 2 almost-school-aged kids on 2 academic-type salaries. It seems like Hawaii is the only place except NYC where housing prices are MORE expensive than the bay area. And apparently there's terrible traffic. And rumor has it that the public schools aren't so great. And we'd be even further (and 4 more expensive plane tickets) away from our east coast families. Yikes! But it's Hawaii! I want to fantasize about us all out body surfing with Obama, but I guess I'm getting too old not think about practicalities. Any advice about whether or not it can be done and how we could do it (if the job works out, of course)? Thanks! Would love to move to Paradise...
I went to Kainalu Elementary School (public) and it was and is still pretty nice. There is a big flat grass field there to run your guts out at recess... One of my neighbors and best friend growing up, went to Punahou which is pricey but, she thinks that her UH Professor father was getting a special rate. One idea to check out?
The Honolulu Advertiser is online so you can see actual prices. I don't think that houses do cost more there for what you get. Houses right on the beach are a lot. But, a block away and it's like the hills here in Berkeley. By the canal, and it's comparable to Richmond so.. Commuting to Manoa is stop dead traffic comparable to Emeryville to Vallejo here at the same times. However, the scenery is better. Back in Manoa Valley is gorgeous and there are cool old wood houses. They cost about the same as nice parts of Oakland. Hiking and waterfalls abound around Nuuanu.
I think that public high schools are pretty rough everywhere. Most Elementary schools are OK. Don't worry until you need to. I think the quality of life trades are equal. Aloha Nui Loa
If you do move, send your stuff by freighter(even your car). Furniture and cars are more expensive there too! Love Maui, can't afford to move!
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Dr. Azizi, who has been in business in Napa since 1997, said she had outgrown her former office on Jefferson Street when she decided to transform her practice into a full-blown dental spa. She hired a Los Angeles architect to redesign the new space into an earth-friendly, yet high-tech environment.
Vineyard Dental offers a range of spa and dental services that can be combined at each appointment, she said. There are several dental spas in San Francisco and other large cities, but Dr. Azizi said Vineyard Dental is Napa's first.
The spa experience starts with the lobby. The waiting room is has a fireplace, lounge chairs and an assortment of teas. Soothing music provides the background noise and the front desk staff does double duty as estheticians and massage therapists.
Dr. Azizi said the look and feel of the office communicates her philosophy of being earth-friendly and organic.
"Our space needs to reflect our philosophy,"
Dr. Azizi and her team of 11 employees are all trained in Reiki, a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation. There are four dentists on staff including Dr. Azizi, Dr. Caterina Fiorentino, Dr. Joseph Styger, and Dr. Parwin Shiran.
Spa treatments can be added to each dental appointment. For example, patients who feel apprehensive or need to relax can add free services like hot stone therapy, a head and neck massage, meditation CDs or a warm blanket. For $10, customers can add a facial, ginger foot detox or collagen eye mask.
Rose Sheehan of Napa has been coming to Vineyard Dental for two years. She said she hasn't used the spa services, but "the new space is beautiful and calming. As if the old office wasn't enough, this is stunning and the staff is amazing."
Vineyard Dental services include more than the spa treatments and relaxation — the practice utilizes some serious dental equipment. Dr. Azizi has spent the past 14 years acquiring top-of-the-line technology like the CEREC machine, which produces dental crowns during a patient's visit, and a hand-held X-ray machine that allows the dentist or technician to stay with a patient during the X-ray procedure.
"I am a big advocate that dental equipment pays for itself,"Dr. Azizi said.
She explained that the interior was designed to be a spa-like atmosphere with serene off-white walls and special raw wood ceilings. Special acoustical tiles were used in the ceilings to reduce the dental noise.
When asked about the cost to customers, Dr. Azizi said her services do not cost more than other dentists'. Vineyard Dental's rates, she said, are in line with the usual rates for Napa County and with other local dentists' offices. The cost for the spa treatments covers Dr. Azizi's cost for the materials so that instead of passing the fee on to everyone, only those who request a service pay for the products.
So what do her 15,000 patients think of the change to a dental spa? "Every single patient loves it," she said.
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Notre Dame High's football team earned a share of the Class C East title, but now the Jugglers are seeded sixth in the C-1 playoffs and Friday night they travel to General Brown to face the unbeaten and state-ranked Lions in the quarterfinals.
By the looks, Notre Dame High School's football team didn't do itself any favors Saturday when it rallied for two touchdowns in the final 1:40 of a 14-8 victory over Frankfort-Schuyler.
That dramatic Homecoming win earned the Jugglers (4-2) a share of the Class C East title, but they are seeded sixth in the Section III playoffs and that means a Friday night trip to Dexter to face an unbeaten and state-ranked General Brown team in the Class C-1 quarterfinals.
Notre Dame head coach Byron Abraham, whose Jugglers stunned Frankfort-Schuyler 14-8 on Jordan Chrobak's 70-yard punt return with 14 seconds remaining, called "the whole playoff thing screwy."
Because Class C is splitting and C-1 and C-2 champions will be crowned, Section III's "C" teams played only six regular-season games this season.
The five qualifying schools with the largest enrollments and the three private schools – Notre Dame, Watertown IHC and Bishop Ludden – were placed in Class C-1 and the other eight in Class C-2.
General Brown (6-0), Skaneateles (6-0) and Canastota (5-1) were unbeaten in league play. Class C South champion Canastota (5-1) won the coin flip for the top seed in C-1, with Class C West champ Skaneateles taking the second seed and Class C North champ General Brown the third seed.
"It certainly didn't benefit us to share the league title," said Abraham. "We tied (Herkimer) for the league championship and we drive 90 miles north to play a team that won a league championship and Frankfort has a home game?"
Notre Dame lost to Herkimer in the Section III final last year, when Class C was not split and teams played seven regular-season games.
In other Class C-1 quarterfinal games involving local teams, Canastota hosts Watertown's Immaculate Heart Central and Skaneateles hosts Sherburne-Earlville.
In Class C-2 quarterfinal games at 7 p.m. Friday, defending section champion Herkimer (5-1) hosts Little Falls (2-4) in a rematch of last Saturday's regular-season finale, second-seeded Waterville (3-3) hosts Lowville (4-2), and fourth-seeded Frankfort-Schuyler (4-2) hosts Mount Markham (3-3).
In what Little Falls coach Bryan Shepardson later called "basically a playoff game," the Mounties earned their first playoff berth since 2005 by upsetting state-ranked Herkimer 20-12 last Saturday. Mike Battisti ran for 128 yards, including a 65-yard touchdown on the first play from scrimmage, and Tyler McLean scored twice for Little Falls.
Herkimer's loss ended a 14-game winning streak against Section III teams, but the Magicians – with just 17 players in uniform -- were playing without seven players who were serving one-game suspensions for disciplinary reasons. They all are expected to return Friday night.
"Nobody is happy with the situation this week, but it's behind us now," Herkimer coach Alan Steele told the Little Falls Times after Saturday's loss. "As far as we're concerned, this is the beginning of a new season."
Page 2 of 3 - Waterville is coming off a 32-13 loss to Morrisville-Eaton/Hamilton. The Indians were missing several players due to injuries, including leading rusher Alec Savage, RB-LB Anthony Rice, linebacker Casey Jones and linemen Sean Wiley and Nick Rockwell. Coach Greg Jones said all but Rockwell, a 265-pound sophomore lost for the season with a hip injury, are due back Friday night.
"We should be in much better shape," said Greg Jones, who last week tried using star quarterback Jon Piersma at tailback. The previous week, Rice – filling in for the injured Savage at tailback – ran for 219 yards and two touchdowns in a win over Mount Markham.
Lowville was limited to 68 total yards in last week's 40-6 loss to Watertown IHC.
Led by RB-LB Mitchel Shortt and QB-DB Joe DeSarro, Frankfort-Schuyler did everything but win its regular-season finale at Notre Dame last Saturday. After limiting the Jugglers to 152 total yards and seven first downs, the Maroon Knights hurt themselves with a false start penalty on 4th-and-inches and an errant punt snap, and then lost the game on Chrobak's punt return for a touchdown.
Dempsey's pick seals win for Sauquoit Valley
At 1-5, Mohawk is out of the playoff picture, but the Mohicans and quarterback Carson Murphy gave yet another state-ranked team a scare last Friday night.
"I know I wouldn't want to see them again," Sauquoit Valley coach Rocky Corigliano said, his Indians able to clinch a playoff berth with a 22-16 Homecoming win over Mohawk. "We were having a tough time containing Murphy."
Murphy ran for one touchdown and threw for another, and he had the Mohicans inside Sauquoit's 20-yard line when Justin Dempsey's second interception of the night – his fifth of the season – sealed the Indians' victory with less than two minutes remaining.
Both Connor O'Neil (122) and Alec Voce (104) rushed for over 100 yards and Ethan Harris made nine tackles as Sauquoit improved to 4-2 with the Class D East win. The Indians end their regular season at Cooperstown (1-5) on Saturday.
"Playing our fourth state-ranked team. … Section III is really, really good football!" emailed first-year Cooperstown head coach Mark Segina, a former assistant coach in Section IV.
Proctor already in Class AA playoffs
Thomas R. Proctor (2-2, 2-4) has lost two straight, but the Raiders will finish third or fourth in the division, so they already have clinched a Class AA playoff berth. They can earn the third seed from AA-1, but it will take a win over first-place Baldwinsville in Friday's regular-season finale.
Baldwinsville (3-1, 5-1) handed Liverpool its first league loss, 54-29, last Friday as all-state running back Tyler Rouse rumbled for 382 yards and seven touchdowns on 39 carries. Rouse has rushed for 1,951 yards and has scored 30 touchdowns.
Page 3 of 3 - No matter what, Baldwinsville, Fayetteville-Manlius, Liverpool and Proctor will be the AA-1 playoff representatives. Rome Free Academy (0-4, 0-6) will miss the playoffs for the third time in four years. From 1979-2008, the Black Knights had qualified for the playoffs every year, but they have a 9-22 record since then.
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Tesla Motors Inc. cars have caught fire after collisions more often than gasoline-powered vehicles, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report rebutting assertions by Elon Musk, the electric-car maker�s chief executive officer.
Because only 4 percent of vehicle fires are caused by collisions, Tesla�s Model S sedan, with a rechargeable lithium- ion battery, is statistically more likely to catch fire in those incidents than cars with gasoline tanks, wrote Kevin Bullis, senior editor for energy for MIT Technology Review.
One in 32,603 registered vehicles catches fire compared with 1 in 6,333 of the Model S, Bullis said in a blog post last week, using U.S. government data. Fewer than 1 percent of registered vehicles are plug-in electrics.
�Based on the limited data, Musk probably isn�t justified in making a strong claim that the Model S is less likely to catch fire,� Bullis wrote. �It�s also probably too early to make the reverse claim � that the Model S is more likely to catch on fire.�
Musk is basing his defense of the Model S, under investigation by auto-safety regulators following two U.S. car fires since Oct. 1, on the fact that gasoline cars catch fire more often than electric cars. The MIT report, according to Bullis, narrows it to a direct comparison of fires caused by collisions.
Data showing a higher incidence of fire in Teslas may limit the effectiveness of his message as the company, based in Palo Alto, California, seeks to avoid a recall of the vehicle it has called the safest U.S. car.
The Model S, Tesla�s only vehicle, sells for $70,000 to more than $100,000 and was developed with the help of a U.S. loan. It received the highest possible crash-test ratings from U.S. regulators this year as well as the highest scores among all vehicles for performance and customer satisfaction from Consumer Reports magazine.
George Blankenship, who was vice president of sales, has left the company, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Musk�s decision to emphasize the rarity of two fires with no injuries among his Model S electric cars is similar to Ford Motor Co.�s decision to wait to recall models with faulty ignition switches until fires were more prevalent, said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a Washington-based advocacy group.
Ford ultimately recalled 15 million vehicles for the fault in a series of actions from 1999 to 2007.
�Tesla is making a mistake with this because you don�t need injuries to have a defect, and unreasonable risk,� Ditlow said. �Just doing a back-of-the-envelope calculation, the incidence rate on the Tesla Model S based on registered vehicle years is 63 times higher than the recalled Fords.�
Of all vehicle fires in the U.S. from 2008 to 2010, only 1.7 percent originated in the fuel tank or fuel line, according to a January report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency�s U.S. Fire Administration National Fire Data Center. Less than 1 percent of all highway vehicle fires were fatal.
An average of 209 people were killed and 764 injured among 152,300 passenger car fires annually from 2006 to 2010, according to a study released last year by the National Fire Protection Association in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Of the deaths, 60 percent were from crashes and 12 percent were from mechanical or electrical failure, according to the NFPA report.
Four percent, or 5,700 of the fires resulted from collisions yet represented 60 percent of the deaths, or 125, on average each year from from 2006 to 2010.
�There�s still a risk associated with conventional vehicle fires,� Marty Ahrens, the author of the NFPA report, said in an interview. �One of the things that we do need to always watch is that people look for something that is this new thing and forget about all the risks that are in the current environment.�
The data are not yet specific enough to determine if any of the fire deaths in passenger vehicles are related to alternative technology, she said.
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The Games'of the XVI Olympiad: Melbourne, 1956
The Summer Olympics were held in the southern hemisphere for the first time in 1956, when they opened in Melbourne, Australia on November 22. Though winter was approaching in Paris, London, and Rome, the summer sun shone in Melbourne. Once again politics threatened the Games. Three Arab teams refused to attend in protest of Israel's takeover of the Suez Canal, three European countries boycotted because of the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary (although Hungary sent a full team that quickly became a favorite with the crowd), and China refused to attend because Taiwan had been given official status by the IOC. It is indicative of the important place the Olympics had taken on the world stage that they had become so symbolic politically. In the decades to come, the Games would be plagued by such political protests, but, as they had survived the World Wars, they would survive the boycotts.
Troubles between local and federal governments in Australia led to a late start in the construction of the Olympic sites, and led the IOC to state several times that Rome, the host of the 1960 Games, was better prepared than Melbourne and could be substitute host of the 1956 games if necessary. But the Australians pulled everything together at last, and the Games opened as scheduled in the 102,000-seat Melbourne cricket arena. Despite the small population of Australia, the Games were extremely well attended, with the spacious venues frequently filled to capacity.


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Movie tie-in games are traditionally pretty poor- but EA has been hyping up GI Joe for some time now. They hired respected developer Double Helix, and chose a good license- but does it pay off?
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Yo Joe or No Joe?
Movie licensed games are often poor because of the short development time- but it seems like EA has been hyping "G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra" for months- I certainly heard about it before I even knew that a new film was in the making. However, it does suffer from not being directly linked to the movie's plot- and will this hurt it in the long run?
The story acts as some kind of prequel to the newly revamped G.I. Joe franchise, showing the rise of COBRA commander and his henchman. Thankfully, all the main protagonists have been captured from the movie, and also recorded their own voice, so you get to see the likes of Sienna Miller strutting her stuff in her black wig and catsuit.
Like with many games, the story is an excuse to trek all over the world in search of the new, mysterious COBRA outlaws, see what they are up to, and what their M.A.S.S. device is all about.
The game tries to throw as many environments and characters from the film at you as it can its 8-10 hour campaign, and whilst it can feel pretty overblown, it does so in a way that's no worse than the movie. There's a mix of cutscenes and in-game communications giving you the lowdown, and they all work pretty well to be honest.
Whilst I personally feel that it would be better to play through cool scenes from the film, I accept that a prequel/ side-story is fine if it makes the overall game better, and the story here is epic and well-thought out enough to work on it's own or as an aside to the film, without ever really excelling in it's own right.
G.I. Joe is a pretty straight up action game, that seems to take most of it's cues (bizarrely) from 'Lego Star Wars' and 'Gears of War'. Obviously, GoW is the action game de jour, so that is obvious, but this game is more aimed at slightly younger people (despite the bizarre 16+ recommended age), so that's where the LSW focus comes from.
So, like GoW you get a behind-the-shoulder view, a cover system, and respawning health. And like Lego, you get a fixed camera, drop-in, drop-out co-op, the ability to switch characters mid-level, secret areas, and automatic targeting.
Unfortunately, when 'Double Helix' have put these two elements together, the results haven't been great. The camera is by far and away the worst I've seen in many years, and this is only compounded when driving a vehicle, to the point where simple tasks become almost impossible. These sections would be far more fun if it wasn't for the fact you are always in a situation where you either can't see where you're going, what you're firing at, or both.
Loading times are diabolical, so it's not worth switching characters, especially as there's few differences between them.
There are some neat touches- on easy, you can't die- losing all your health just temporarily downs you and you lose a chunk of your score. There's also plenty to unlock, and also the game is pretty long by today's standards, taking around 8-10 hours to complete first time around.
The achievements are also pretty good, with plenty on offer for a casual play-through, but also requiring a little invention for those that do really enjoy playing.


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After the book came the film, then the play, and now Hosseini's bestselling tale has been made into a graphic novel. The bright panels and abridged dialogue follow bookish Amir and his childhood friend Hassan as they roam the kebab-scented alleys of 1970s Kabul, their dancing kite bright against the blue sky. The middle-class parties, chaotic bazaars and sense of possibility are captured rather nicely, and Amir's father, by turns hulking and sympathetic, is neatly realised. But the Disneyish illustrations, all big eyes and wide mouths, jar with the book's ghastly central assault and the horror of the Taliban, and the fast pace and tight focus (inevitable in a short comic) mean that the angst and resentment that eventually pushes Amir into a great betrayal doesn't quite ring true. What's left is an exciting and sometimes melodramatic story told with appealing but not particularly interesting artwork – it's unclear whether this adaptation is designed as a keepsake for fans or an introduction for kids; it feels too insubstantial to stand up on its own.


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The Commons Act 2006 received royal assent on 19 July 2006, and is arranged in five parts: registration, management, works, miscellaneous, and supplementary and general. It repeals the Commons Registration Act 1965.
To read the whole act for yourself, click here.
Further information can be found at Defra (scroll down to Commons registration and subsequent paragraphs on Pioneer implementation and Pioneer documents) and the Welsh Government.
Re-registration of common land under the 2006 Act
From 15 December 2014 there will be a new opportunity to register lost commons in Cumbria and North Yorkshire. These two counties are to be added to the list of seven pioneer areas in England where commons can be put back on the register, under part 1 of the Commons Act 2006.
Several hundred square kilometres of 'waste land' that was eligible for registration under the 1965 Commons Registration Act was not, in fact, finally registered. As a consequence, it ceased to be recognised as common land. A partial remedy for this defect in the earlier legislation is provided by the Commons Act 2006. Under Schedule 2, 4 of the Act, applications that failed under the original registration process may, in certain circumstances, be reconsidered – offering, in effect, a second chance for the land to be confirmed ('re-registered') as common. Land that is re-registered in this way will enjoy the special legal protection afforded to common land. It will also be subject to the public right of access introduced by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000; or, may qualify as a section 193 'urban' common (in which case, it would also be subject to a right of access for horse-riders).
Part 1 of the Commons Act 2006 provides everybody with a time limited opportunity to rescue some of the commons which failed to be registered under the 1965 Act. In seven pioneer areas the registers reopened on 1 October 2008. These are:
Full commencement of Part 1 in other areas will be reconsidered when resources permit, which will probably be during the next Parliament (2015) at the earliest.
An interesting and informative blog from Hugh Craddock, who formerly worked for DETR and then Defra on preparing and implementing access legislation under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000, and subsequently had policy responsibility for drafting the Commons Bill and then implementing the Commons Act 2006.
Successful applications and case studies in pioneer areas
Please click here for further information on successful applications for re-registration in the Cornwall pioneer area, including two case studies.
Regulations and guidance
New regulations (2008 and 2009) and guidance, for these pioneer areas only, prescribe the process for making applications to amend the registers of common land and town and village greens and can be viewed on the Defra website. The society has also issued an information sheet Commons Act 2006 Part 1 (Registration) Implementation in pioneer areas.
Applications can be made to register or deregister certain areas of land. Forms are available from the registration authority. The society has issued a free DIY guide on how to apply to register eligible commons.
If you live in one of the pioneer areas, we would like to encourage you to take up the challenge of getting areas of common re-registered, and we are willing to help and advise you with this when you become a member of the society.
The Open Spaces Society is grateful to one of our supporters, Steve Byrne, who has been undertaking detailed research about re-registration, and has provided the set of search sheets and other guidance to applicants. Steve has recently created his own site which contains detailed information about the work he has done. To visit his site, click here. Steve has received support from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd.
Making a request to a local authority
To make a request to a commons registration authority, we suggest you write to the commons registration authority using the following template. Remember that in two-tier local authority areas, the commons registration authority is the upper tier authority: the same one as is responsible for highways and rights of way. Some inner city authorities may have little or no registered land, and may be a bit bemused to receive your request.
Template email for non-pioneer commons registration authorities:
With effect from 15 December 2014, applications may be made to your authority, as a commons registration authority, under section 19 of, or any of paragraphs 6 to 9 of Schedule 2 to, the Commons Act 2006, for the deregistration of certain wrongly registered common land or town or village green.
Under regulation 21(1)(b) of the Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2014 (as applied by para.2(h) of Schedule 8 to the Regulations), an authority which receives such an application must "serve a notice of the application by e-mail on anyone who has previously asked to be informed of all applications, and who has given the authority an e-mail address for that purpose".
This email asks that I be informed of all applications made to your authority under these provisions. Please use the following email address for this purpose: email@example.com. I would appreciate an email confirming that my request has been acted upon.
Template for pioneer commons registration authorities (Kent, Devon, Hert-fordshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and North Yorkshire, but not including any unitary authorities within these areas, and Blackburn with Darwen, Cornwall, and Herefordshire)
Under regulation 21(1)(b) of the Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2014, an authority which receives an application under Part 1 of the Commons Act 2006 must "serve a notice of the application by e-mail on anyone who has previously asked to be informed of all applications, and who has given the authority an e-mail address for that purpose".
Under regulation 22(5), the authority is under a similar obligation in respect of proposals made by the authority for the purposes of Part 1. This email asks that I be informed of all applications made to, and proposals made by, your authority under these provisions. Please use the following email address for this purpose: email@example.com. I would appreciate an email confirming that my request has been acted upon.
Finding your commons registration team
You can find details of the email address for the commons registration team in some authorities on the website of the Association of Commons Registration Authorities (ACRA), and for pioneer authorities in our own information sheet. For other authorities, try Googling 'commons registration [your authority]', or look for the 'Contact' details on the home page of the authority's website.
Correction of mistakes
From 15 December 2014 Section 19(2)(a) and paras 6-9 of Schedule 2 of the 2006 Act will take effect throughout England to allow respectively for the correction of mistakes made by the authority and the removal of wrongly registered land. These types of applications can be submitted from 1 December 2014. Defra have issued a fact sheet on correcting the register and this is also covered in the society's information sheet Commons Act 2006 Part 1 (Registration) Implementation in pioneer areas.


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As I still feel the need to say each time, I am so pleased that interviews continue to be a legitimate part of this little blog of mine! When the opportunity presents itself to ask a few questions to someone who contributed to the awesomeness of the 80s, I will continue to share those answers with you right here. Again, lucky for me (and hopefully you), I do get to share a little more awesomeness with you.
This time that awesomeness is Christy Marx. You might not recognize the name, but she is quite an accomplished writer who 80s fans might know best as the creator and head writer of the animated series Jem and the Holograms. Previous to that, she had written for both G.I. Joe and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends among other shows. Find out more about her, writing for those popular and memorable animated series and more as we get on to some selections from my interview with Christy Marx…
Q: When and why did you know you wanted to be a professional writer? When and how did you get your own start in that industry? What attracted you to comics and animation in particular?
Christy: I became obsessed with comics from the earliest possible age. I was madly in love with comics, loved reading comics, loved collecting comics and wanted to grow up to draw comics. Unfortunately, I didn't have the artistic ability to do that, but my passion for creating characters and telling stories through a visual medium was always there. I got my break when I was living in L.A. and Roy Thomas, who was the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics at the time, also moved to L.A. I met him when he was speaking to a small gathering of fans, showed him a Conan story I'd written, he bought it and that became my first published story. Roy bought other stories from me for What If… and Red Sonja.
As for animation, it never occurred to me that animation had writers, nor was I especially interested in animation. Up until that time, most animation was comedy and I don't write comedy. I had gotten to know a group of comics writers and artists and a friend from that group told me about a studio that was making a Fantastic Four animation series. They were looking for writers who had done FF stories and the What If… story I'd sold to Roy happened to be a FF story. On the basis of that, I got an interview and was hired to write an episode of the series.
Q: As a kid, I always loved when my favorite comic book characters were brought to life in the cartoons. Thus I fondly remember watching Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. How did you come to write episodes for that show? What can you tell us about the show in general and your experience helping create those five episodes?
Christy: That came about as a direct result of writing the FF episode. That FF series, a Spider-Man series and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends were all produced by the DePatie-Freleng Studio. I was in the door via the first script. Animation writers were rare at the time and they obviously liked my work, so they hired me to write for the next two Spider-Man shows.
It was great fun and I learned a lot about my craft from working on those shows. I also had the pleasure and privilege of working with Stan Lee. We had a strong collaboration in creating the origin story for Firestar.
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends ran on NBC as a Saturday morning cartoon from 1981 to 1983 and then as repeats for three more years after that. The show featured Spider-Man, Iceman and, an original character, Firestar. The third superhero was originally intended to be the Human Torch, but licensing issues led to him being replaced by Firestar who had similar powers but was created specifically for the series. As she mentioned, Marx helped create the origin story for Firestar with none other than Stan Lee himself who also narrated episodes for seasons 2-3. It was definitely one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons back then and I especially enjoyed when other Marvel superheroes (like Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and others) made guest appearances.
Q: Then it appears you went on to write for the very popular G.I. Joe cartoon series which help feed the success of the action-figures toy line. What can you tell us about the show in general and your experience helping create those three episodes (including two 2-parters)?
Christy: I moved from writing for DePatie-Frelengto writing for Sunbow Productions, who made G.I. Joe. It was one of the best times of my career for a number of reasons. Sunbow treated writers extremely well, even to the point of buying me an expensive computer. I gained Steve Gerber as my mentor and then dear friend and got to know many wonderful writers that I still call friends after all these years. Steve was ahead of his time and made every writer create their scripts on a computer, send them via a modem and communicate on a BBS… all of which was nearly unknown outside a small circle of technophiles, so he was responsible for putting me ahead of the curve in using computers.
Joe was a challenging show to write for. The bible of characters and vehicles filled a massive three-ring binder. For each episode, you were told to use a certain set of characters and certain vehicles and you had to come up with an exciting story built around them. Steve Gerber loved my first episode so much that he happily assigned me the following two-parters to do. And I loved doing them because I could really stretch and tell an epic story focusing on more characters.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero ran in syndication from 1985 to 1986. It was based off of two 5-part mini-series that ran in 1983 and 1984 and, of course, the very successful Hasbro toyline. Like most cartoons back then, the primary purpose was to promote the toyline and this one did that especially well. Each episode ended with a PSA to impart safety tips and/or ethical behavior to children.
Q: Looking back now, I appreciate the "Now you know and knowing is half the battle" PSA messages that each show included. Jem also provided girls with a strong successful female role model to see. What are your feelings at including positive messages in the cartoons especially aimed at children? Was that something you consciously considered when writing those shows?
Christy: I wasn't even aware that Joe had PSAs at the time. They played no part in writing the scripts, they just added them in at the end. I only became aware of their existence when Sunbow asked me to write the PSAs for Jem. I didn't mind writing the PSAs, but I viewed it mainly as an extra bit of paid work.
But with the Jem series itself, I was following my natural inclinations to tell strong, positive stories. It's simply a part of who I am. I felt a responsibility never to write down to kids and to give it my best quality, no matter what subject I tackled. I wanted the show to say worthwhile things without preaching. Kids know when you're preaching to them.
Q: Speaking of Jem, how did you get involved with Jem and the Holograms? What role did you play in the development of the characters and the series? Did your role change over the course of the series?
Christy: Jem was produced by Sunbow Productions who loved my work on Joe. We had a great working relationship and I was their top female action writer, so they turned to me when they needed someone to develop the Jem series. It was a tremendous opportunity for me and my break into doing development work. I'd done a bit of development work at DePatie-Freleng, but it had never gone anywhere.
Hasbro had prototypes of the dolls. They had product names (which kept changing almost day to day!) such as Jem, Rio and Pizzazz, etc. So the two girl groups existed as dolls and they wanted the Jem/Jerrica secret identity, the holographic earring and computer, the sister named Kimber and the boyfriend named Rio. That was their set-up and everything else came from me. I developed the full characters and relationships, the Starlight Foundation, Starlight Music, the Starlight girls, Eric Raymond and all other secondary characters.
It was basically a soap opera for kids. We knew we would be doing 65 half-hours, so I had to make sure there was plenty of character richness to carry that many episode stories. I wrote 22 of the 65 episodes and was too busy developing and writing to do much else until we were near the end of the series. For the last batch of shows, I also acted as co-story editor with Roger Slifer, who was the over-all story editor. It was also my first credit as a story editor.
Jem ran in first-run syndication for 3 seasons and 65 episodes from 1985 to 1988. Marx was crucial to the development of the series by creating most of the characters and writing many of the episodes. The show follows Jerrica Benton, manager of the Starlight Music company, and her alter-ego Jem, the front-woman of the rock band Jem and the Holograms. Jerrica turns into Jem through special micro-projectors in her earrings. The Holograms have two rival bands, The Misfits and The Stingers. Many people remember the theme song which features the lyrics "Jem is truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous." Here is the opening theme to the Jem television series…
Q: Did you have any feeling at the beginning that this show would become a hit and go on to last 3 seasons like it did? At what point, did you recognize that the show might become something special?
Christy: At the time, it was a standard practice to do 65 half-hours because the shows were being sold in syndication, which is a different thing than a network show. Syndicators wanted that number of shows because they could later "strip" them, meaning show them five days a week as a strip of shows for a long run. So this wasn't a matter of the show becoming a hit; it was a matter of how the economics of syndication production worked at the time. If the toys had sold better, we might have had a pick-up for additional episodes beyond the 65, but the dolls didn't do well enough.
The first time I knew the show had special impact was when we aired the two-parter dealing with runaway kids and we ran a hotline number at the end of each part. The hotline was inundated with kids calling for help. It was astounding and gratifying. The second time was when I found myself remaining in contact with a group of dedicated fans for a decade, and then two decades after the show aired, and even still to this day. And most recently, I have heard numerous stories of parents introducing their kids to Jem all over again via the DVDs or the reruns on the Hub, and having those kids respond as strongly as their parents had before them. That told me that Jem had a reach that transcended its time.
Q: Were you involved with creating the songs or music at all? What can you tell us about how the music was created and integrated into each episode?
Christy: The writers would include the idea and placement for a song in each of the three acts of an episode. The producers would indicate how to balance out the number of Jem songs vs. Misfits or Stingers songs. When I was doing it, I would weave the song into the storyline, indicate what the theme of the song was, possibly give a title idea and some lyric guidance, and I would give a one-paragraph description of what the visuals should be. The writers had no further involvement in the creation of the music beyond that one paragraph in the script.
The music was a big contributor to the show's appeal. Over the course of the 65 episodes, the show included 187 music videos with 151 unique songs! No official Jem "soundtrack" was ever released; however, many of the songs from the first season were released on cassette with dolls or play-sets. Jem was the #1 Nielsen rated syndicated cartoon show in November 1986 and in 1987 it was the third most watched children's program in syndication with 2.5 million viewers weekly. Despite the success of the show, the dolls didn't seem to retail well enough and, as mentioned before, the main purpose for most cartoons in the 80s was to sell a toyline. Hasbro discontinued the Jem toyline at the end of 1987 after it failed to meet sales expectations, but despite this, the show continued production and aired until 1988.
Q: Any other interesting stories or facts about making Jem that you can share with us? What are some of your best memories from making Jem?
Christy: While we were making Jem, I was living way up in the mountains north of L.A. at 5,000 feet near a ski resort town. My contact with the Sunbow people in New York was mainly by phone or snail mail. In spite of that distance, I have warm memories of working with them. They were wonderful people and they treated me like a queen. They flew me to New York a couple of times, put me up in great hotels, took me out to excellent meals and really looked after me. It was a vibrant creative process. I had little contact with Hasbro, oddly enough, and never received so much as a single doll from them. They took three of the Starlight Girls I had created and turned them into dolls and I never even saw them. The only Jem doll I ever had was one that my very proud mother bought for me!
Q: What are your feelings about Jem now almost 25 years after the last episode was created? You touched earlier on the positive reaction you've gotten since the HUB network began airing the show more recently and it was released on DVD. How does it feel that the show seems to still inspire and connect with young girls all these years later?
Christy: I feel that Jem is some of the best work I ever did, and much of that is due to the creative freedom that Sunbow and Hasbro gave me. It was one of those rare combinations of multiple talents in the art design, storyboards, writing, music, singing, and acting that all came together and meshed beautifully.
And I feel that the way we approached the stories gave them a quality that makes them work today even though the look and sound dates to the 80s. The themes of love, friendship, trust, heartbreak and personal struggle are timeless. It gives me a feeling of the deepest satisfaction to know that the heart and soul of the show continues to reach new viewers.
Q: What do you remember best about the decade of 80s animated television (or pop culture in general)?
Christy: I don't especially relate to the culture of the decade. I think we are all shaped most strongly by the decades during which we're in our childhood and teens and I pre-date the 80s. But the decade of the 80s was significant in my growth as a writer and creator. I was working on terrific animation series and lots of them. It was the decade in which I published my creator-owned comic book series, The Sisterhood of Steel, and began designing adventure games for Sierra On-Line. I had the opportunity to write for the live-action TV series, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. It was a decade that saw many "firsts" in my career.
Q: Please tell us a little about where your career has taken you since the 80s. How have your priorities or goals changed over the years? What are some of your proudest professional accomplishments?
Christy: Starting in 1988, I concentrated on designing adventure games for Sierra and spent several years doing that. In the 90s, I did quite a bit more work in live-action television writing for Babylon 5 and doing development and writing on Hypernauts for ABC. While working on a Babylon 5 videogame, I met my husband, Randy Littlejohn, and we became a creative team, working on animation and games together. As a freelance writer, it helps to have a variety of skills to fall back on. The reality for freelancers is that it's about survival. You're always looking for the next job and seeking ways to advance yourself. That's pretty much a constant.
My goals have been to keep working and make a living at it, while working on projects that I enjoy and can believe in, whatever the medium happens to be. I was delighted to create an Elfquest Graphic Novel, working in close collaboration with Wendy Pini, a friend I greatly treasure and a tremendous talent.
One of my proudest career moments was receiving the WGA Animation Writing Award [in 2000]. It's means a lot because it's awarded by my peers for both achievement in animation writing and for working to advance the profession of animation writers. I was involved in helping to organize animation writers, which led to establishing the Animation Writers Caucus within the WGA.
Q: What else is Christy Marx up to nowadays? Writing and otherwise? What can we expect in the future?
Christy: The biggest change is that I gave up the freelance life and went to work full-time in the videogames business. In 2007, Randy and I moved to the Bay area and worked on an MMO (massively multiplayer online game). I developed what was intended to be a transmedia IP for that project. Sadly, like many such projects, it was cancelled. For the past two plus years, I've been working as a Senior Game Designer/Narrative Designer at Zynga, which has given me the opportunity to learn the exploding area of social and mobile game design. I love being on the cutting edge of game development.
I've also been able to return to my great love – writing for comics. It so happens that the ABC development exec I worked with on Hypernauts became the VP of DC Comics. He offered me the opportunity to write the Amethyst reboot comic (under the anthology title Sword of Sorcery). Sadly, the Amethyst book ends with issue #8. Meanwhile, I've begun writing the Birds of Prey series. It's tough trying to write a monthly comic while working full-time, but at least I'm earning a living doing things that I love. How many people can say that?
I am so pleased that Christy was able to take some time to answer some questions so I could share them with you here. You can keep up with her on her website at www.christymarx.com/ I want to take this occasion to again thank Christy Marx for her contributions to 80s pop culture especially through Jem and, even more, for going back to the 80s with us here for a little while as well. She is truly outrageous in our book, too!
That is all for another special issue of Kickin' it Old School. Thanks as always for reading and hope you are enjoying the interviews as much as I am. If you want a summary of all of my Back to the 80s Interviews posted thus far, please click on that link. Be sure you haven't missed any of them. There is a link to a summary of all of my 80s issues in the left hand column below the Archives and you can use the Google Search Box at the top of the right hand column to find any topics you are looking for or other issues you may have missed. If you are a fan of 80s pop culture and Kickin' it, PLEASE CLICK ON THE FACEBOOK LOGO in the upper right hand column. This will take you to the Fan Page where I ask you to then click on the "Like" button. You can also follow @OldSchool80s on Twitter by clicking on the FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER LOGO also in the upper right hand column. This will take you the page and you can just click on the box that says "Follow". I am sending daily 80s tweets, so sign up to get those. You can also hook up with us on Google+. Please leave comments so we know you're out there and let other 80s fans know about us as well! Peace and much love.
Quote of the day: "Animation can explain whatever the mind can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation." -Walt Disney


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I've been hearing the buzz on The Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel's Tone, Taste, Tan program here in D.C. It's a fun Sunday filled with yoga on the roof, breakfast at Art & Soul (one of my fave DC restaurants) and lounging by the pool.
I'm planning a self-love day in DC next month before my crazy life changes in the fall. This will definitely be on calendar for August. I only hope on the Sunday I choose that Faith will be leading the class. She's a dynamic teacher and the first DC instructor to be on the cover of Yoga Journal.
Reservations are required. I'll see you on the roof.
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