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I agree with what you said buddy.
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I hear a lot of talk about two games in particular, Spec Ops: The Line, and Far Cry 3, as being examples of games which subvert the war game, or first\third person shooter genres. While affirming of refuting these claims is an article in itself, I will say with confidence that in my opinion these two games are the very thing they supposedly are the antithesis of, and are merely an excuse for writers to preach to us via a storyline which is bolted onto simplistic and violent game mechanics.
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::Perfect Dark::
Who remembers Perfect Dark? Rareware's swan song FPS? The game which broke the Nintendo 64's hardware like Bane broke Batman in Dark Knight Rises? The game which some people stopped playing when they discovered it had aliens in it? The game some people hate, some like, and others love with a religious passion? (Guilty as charged?)
While Perfect Dark is frequently praised for things like dynamic lighting effects, comprehensive multiplayer and a vast array of weapons, the singleplayer is in fact a deeply subversive experience which deserves to be examined as an example of how to subvert the FPS genre via mechanics, not story.
::Perfect Dark vs Goldeneye::
In order to explain the basic nature of Perfect Dark's subversion, it is necessary to compare it to its predecessor. Goldeneye took the stylings of a Bond film and translated them into an FPS. Weapons fire big and loud, bullets spark when they hit wood, and enemies are plentiful, generally poor shots, and die for the satisfaction of the player. The only time they speak is to grunt when taking bullets to the chest. Killing people in Goldeneye FEELS GOOD. Killing forms the backbone of gameplay, and is euphoric. Just about anything which can be shot explodes in a classical fireball which was exaggerated in scale so Rareware could mask the switch between the 'live' model and the 'dead' husk. You are James Bond, mowing down waves of mooks as bullets spark off wooden surfaces just like the movie, and generally feeling good about yourself the entire time. In my opinion, no game since has recaptured the sheer impact of Goldeneye's combat.
However, Perfect Dark is a very different creature. Weapons are more subtle, explosions are smaller, and your enemies are no longer silent. They get angry with you, they talk among themselves, and most importantly, they surrender.
::Non-Lethal Combat::
Perfect Dark has simple, but servicable non-lethal combat mechanics. Besides several missions when the player is provided with tranquilizing weapons, players can at all times perform standard punches, pistol whip NPC's, or alternatively disarm them. Disarming can be done via punching enemies or shooting the weapon from their hands, the latter requiring significant skill. Disarmed enemies will either pull a handgun, pull a second, or even third handgun, pick up a discarded weapon, attempt to attack the player with martial arts, or, quite commonly, they will simply surrender.
(Excuse the emulation glitches.)
In almost every situation, killing is a choice. You kill in Perfect Dark because punching a squad of trained soldiers with assault rifles into unconsciousness is really, really difficult. (But still possible.) Action movies make taking on 5 armed guards with your bare hands look really easy. It isn't and Perfect Dark makes no attempt to cheat this basic reality.
However, it also is quite possible to rush enemies and snatch their weapons in rapid succession, and\or sneak up behind them and delivery an instant knockout punch.
::Surrendering mechanics::
It is this, surrendering mechanics, I feel, which are Perfect Dark's true subversion of the FPS genre.
Death barks - When NPCs die, they will sometimes speak, saying lines such as "Why me?", "Oh, God, I'm dying!", "I don't wanna die!"
Standard surrender behavior - Upon throwing their hands up, NPCs will plead, "Please, don't kill me," and "I'm just doing my job!"
Throwing down weapons - occasionally, enemies will simply throw their weapon, usually a handgun, down on the ground, then announce, "I don't like this anymore!"
::The Half Life of a Perfect Dark::
Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Skyrim are examples of popular FPS games (if we're willing to class Skyrim as an FPS) with enemies who beg for mercy, but their words always contradict their subsequent actions - which always involved attempting to kill you. In most combat oriented games, including the much praised Far Cry 3 and Spec Ops: The Line, anyone who is opposed to you must die.
Granted, Fallout 3 is hardly a subversive FPS. But it stands as an example of a half-implimented surrendering mechanic which could have profoundly influenced the gravity of the player's attempts to follow some sort of moral code.
Spec Ops - The Line is a simplistic cover-based third person shooter where you murder hundreds of nameless enemies in kill or be killed situations. The attempts to be deep and meaningful and criticize war are shoehorned into pretentious cutscenes.
You spend almost the entirety of The Line shooting people or inanimate objects.
Jason Brody from Far Cry 3 makes sacrifices to save the ones he loves - by shooting hundreds of basically identical pirates and running around the jungle turning native animals into wallets. The Jason Brody outside cutscenes wouldn't know anything about humanity, since the game mechanics never allow him to demonstrate basic human qualities like mercy and compassion.
Half Life 2 has a storyline which is supposedly about humanity and free will and how Gordon Freeman might be doing the world a disservice via his actions. But the gameplay consists entirely of shooting identical enemies and pressing colour-coded buttons. Your only choices consist of shooting enemies, blowing them up, throwing things at them, tricking them into fighting another AI faction, or killing by some other means.
It takes more than words to subvert or break new ground within a videogame genre. You can dress your murder simulation up in as many subversive colours as you like. Unless the gameplay mechanics speak differently, you're blowing hot air. And the opposite is true - if you design your game as some sort of anti-gun\anti-violence statement where using guns or violence invariably leads to bad things, you're just preaching - and presenting a warped view of reality in an attempt to push a point.
::Perfect Dark vs Goldeneye vs the FPS genre::
Which brings us back to Goldeneye. Killing in Goldeneye feels great. It feels, dare I say, empowering. It feels better than most other FPS games simply because its mechanics are so elegant. Killing in Perfect Dark is a deeply conflicted game mechanic. Enemies are real human beings with a very real fear of death. Some of them will fight you to the death no matter how many opportunities you give them to surrender. Many of them cry out in desperation when killed. But most importantly, a significant portion of them will surrender, throwing themselves upon your mercy. There is no scripted cutscene, or QTE prompt. The NPC merely surrenders in real time, and the choice of whether to shoot them or move along is entirely up to the player.
Playing Perfect Dark, I feel a pang of regret when I rarely, and accidently, shoot someone who has surrendered. Perfect Dark makes no attempt to comment upon your actions as a killer. It gives no speeches. It has no moralising. The only anti-gun sentiments come from members of Rareware who have occasionally expressed less than approving attitudes towards gun ownership. (This can reasonably be attributed to them being British, and the attitudes towards firearms in the UK.) Despite having no pretense of subverting anything, Perfect Dark subverts the first person shooter genre more powerfully than any other videogame I can name. For that, it deserves recognition, and it deserves praise. It gets plenty of praise from people like me for being a bloody amazing videogame. But it has been criminally ignored in the lively debate over subversive shooters.
Anyway, thanks for reading my fanboi rambling. I encourage you to break out the N64, buy the HD re-release ON XBLA, or use an emulator to play this classic, if you haven't already. Perfect Dark is a must-play FPS which deserves to be cherished for its achievements.
I agree with what you said buddy.
Moral choices are always a touchy subject in video games because most of the time they are just a cheap gimmick to make you play a game more than once (see "Fable" or "The Cave" for a recent example) or if they are not then it is hard to implement, time and money consuming for the developers or simply doesn't match with the story, not realistic.
I don't like how you mix gameplay and AI behaviour like that is a thing that can be compared together.
With this logic I wonder why didn't you brought up GTA which also has people running away from you if you are walking around with weapons.
Also you forgot the context in your examples:
- In Half-Life 2 the enemies are either alien animals and parasites or ex-humans full of cybernetic implants that brainwashed them. The reason these enemies don't surrender is given.
- In Far Cry 3 the enemy are animals again or pirates lead by an insane idiot, who would most likely kill them if they fail on their mission and get back wounded.
There are also non-lethal way to approach gameplay objectives in many games that are otherwise support the violent approach. I don't think this is an idea that Perfect Dark invented.
I'm a moral gamer also (probably my weakness) and it's also hard for me to do the "wrong" choice in a given "good" vs "bad" situation in games, but that is because I forget that in the end it's just a game, an interactive story and the way it makes me feel a certain way is because of my own standpoint in real life. Also real life is not really so black&white two-sided like what you can see in games.
Back on Perfect Dark, the reason it might not come up as an example is most likely because it is old and developed for console only. I'm not against any of that, it's simply the fate of older games. If I ask you an example for a recent world changing invention you more likely to say "smartphones" for example than "the first cellphone". I never played PD, but maybe, just maybe it isn't as good, everyone remembering it too fondly with pink glasses on. That is the reason I'm usually stopping myself from playing old games I liked in the past: Nostalgia can do some bad things to your memory. It's a dilemma with me like the case with the first Half-life and Black mesa.
So next time please be less "fanboi" and be more objective, don't mix up game elements and consider time and past technology and yourself ageing.
Okay, so let me address these sequentially.
My problem is with the way the games handle combat. The issue of morality is more to do with the paradox of games which claim to offer deep moral choices which matter, then force you into killing. People got rightfully grumpy when Deus Ex: Human Revolution forced you to kill bosses, when the rest of the game made killing fully optional. In real war, you don't win by brutally killing all the bad guys. You win by demoralizing them and making them surrender.
In Half Life 2, the cops are humans who just follow orders. Barney shows this. He's "behind on his beating quota." Half Life is Quake with a more complicated story, and it doesn't pretend to have great meaning on commentary on the human condition. However, it is held up as a grand achievement of PC FPS design. Yet you spend the entire game shooting people with no context or justification. You HAVE to shoot them because the game mechanics are Quake's. With a gravity gun.
Far Cry 3's problem is the fact the game deliberately sets out to covey themes of loss of humanity, etc. The fact that a pirate with a pistol doesn't surrender in the face of a crazy yuppie with a grenade launcher drives home that FC3 is a blunt shooter, no different to Far Cry 2, or even, yes, Quake, only with story bolted on.
I was partly inspired by Orson Scott Card's take on videogame writing:
-- It's like golf. Sure, you could put on a World War II uniform and pretend that each ball was a bomb that needed to be dropped down into the underground bunker of some Nazi generals, and call it "Golf: The Dirty Dozen," but the GAME is about you and your contest with the obstacles placed in your way by the course designer. You can compare your score with other players, but the things they do are completely irrelevant to your game. It's just you against the golf course designer (and, of course, the groundskeepers).
In most videogames, you're still just playing golf. The story exists only to justify cool new gameplay features. Yes, we respond to greater and greater realism; yes, there's an element of escapism and power fantasy and all that crap that we hear about from psychologists – but lousy games have those just as much as good ones. What makes a difference is the degree of challenge and freshness in each new game. Everything else is window dressing. You've got to have it, but nobody should ever get confused and think that the window dressing IS the game.
The "story" elements of game are the window dressing. No wonder you skip them.--
And Grand Theft Auto? Well, GTA is a complex beast, and it to an extent is a satirical. But outside of scripted cutscenes, people never surrender. I think surrendering is such an integral part of war, that games omitting it are presenting the hollow view of war geared towards an action film.
Perfect Dark is very, very good. It's still good. Some people find its aged poorly in terms of textures and the original N64 framerate, but the game mechanics haven't been matched. The closest thing to Perfect Dark would be Deus Ex, released the same year.
And as for nostalgia? Not at all. I play Perfect Dark almost every week on a PC emulator. It's still my #1 FPS game, over all 3 Deus Ex games, Half Life, etc. It's simply an astonishing game. The fact it treats combat as something vaguely unpleasant, thus setting it apart from most other FPS games, is simply icing on the cake. The paradox is that combat in PD is awesome. The weapons are great, handle well, and the destroyable light sources mean setting off explosive weapons has visible effect on the environment.
I guess the point I was trying to make is that games like FC3 and Spec Ops attach a wanky story which is openly meant to criticise war games onto gameplay mechanics which are idenitical to the war games it criticizes. Perfect Dark's game mechanics are bizzare because of its non-Quake heritage. It's predecessor Goldeneye was based on Virtual Cop, a light gun game, with the collision system from Mario 64.
And the AI and game mechanics in PD are one and the same. The fact enemies surrender changes the basic game mechanics. Sure, a lot of people played the game as a straight FPS and shot everyone, and bizarrely the failed to notice that cornered enemies drop their weapons and surrender, that AI can't see properly in the dark, etc.
A lot of games have non-lethal combat, but it's no different to hitting them with a magic weapon which does 'sleep' damage instead of 'kill' damage.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to comment.
I understand your points and partly agree. Yet I still never noticed that people refer to these game as a criticism of wargames, except for Spec ops but I yet to play that.
The thing is when people say this or that game is innovative they are referring to parts that made something other games did differently or haven't before. That's why HL2 was awesome because it did something new with it's physics engine, story, etc. and it was a fun game, which is why people tend to look away that it's basically a linear shooter.
In the end it all boils down to whether the game is fun to play or not. There is no scientific evidence that video games lead to violence, so moral choices in game come second to gameplay.
And who knows, maybe in the future this trend will come back. I seen it in a few games now that I thought about it, although it doesn't really add much more to me than the feeling that "The devs thought of everything".
So if i wanted to download the emulation and relive my childhood days how would i do that?
Here's an emulator bundle I put together:
You'll have to find roms without my help, since they're a bit legally black, even if Rareware basically don't care anymore, and have said as much to people asking about emulating Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Send me a PM, or hit me up on twitter, (twitter's probably preferable, but your choice) if you want help configuring the emulator. I'm always happy to help.
Recently got cartridge,it was so beaten up,it looked like it was buried in tons of dirt for years after failed attempt of being destroyed by hammer.
Anyway after some cleaning I was able to start a game,and I see why cartridge was in so bad shape,someone actually wanted to destroy it,
I assume person that had it back in the day was real young at that time,
and complexity of mere basic menu probably made him furious,
not to speak about actual game...
I must say even I at the age of 20 and something struggled just to start
a game,moment I've started to play I was getting more and more impressed,
gameplay and its unique mechanics blew me away every few minutes,
and yes I was playing at that time 14 years old game on a even older console.
One of mechanics that is most impressive is one your text was revolving
about,enemies that surrender and taking opponents weapons.
Oh yes,and shooting their weapons from their hand.
I can go on with this but most of things I would say would be copy/paste
of ones you already mentioned above.
Point was,this game no matter how much praised,is still hugely overlooked,
and superior to lot of games that came in between of moment of its release
and moment I am leaving this reply,and no nostalgia is not speaking out from me since like I've said above,I've first time played it year ago.
This game is hugely under-rated. Just started playing again myself and I'm still amazed by the mechanics in this game. Playing it today I can see that this game was WAY ahead of its time. Especially for anything that was on the N64.


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Achy Breaky Tart: It's a time-honored tradition among teenage girls: They try to sneak out in a wildly age-inappropriate outfit, only to be stopped at the front door with the stern parental warning, "You are not leaving the house dressed like that, young lady!" But judging by Miley Cyrus' unsavory homage to "Pretty Woman" at the Teen Choice Awards, her sartorial supervision system has broken down in a big way. How big? The be-necklaced "Hannah Montana" starlet was joined at the ceremony by dad Billy Ray and mom Tish, which means that upon seeing their 16-year-old daughter tarted up in a black bra, sheer white ribbed tank and a sequined miniskirt so short and snug it could double as a tourniquet, their harshest words were apparently, "Looking good, sweet pea!" What's worse, they didn't protest when their role model offspring changed into short-shorts and took to the stage for a pole-dancing-inclusive performance atop an ice cream cart. With Miley's wholesome, Disney-fied image rapidly approaching its expiration date, her parents need to step up and ensure that her perilous journey from child star to grown-up performer detours around Vixen-ville, a dangerous place that devours pop princesses with the same gusto as Britney Spears digging into a freshly opened bag of Cheetos.
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Keeping it casual and comfortable! Kim Kardashian was photographed stepping out on Wednesday, April 10 in two different maternity outfits.
The 32-year-old reality star, pregnant with her first child with boyfriend Kanye West, headed to the gym in L.A. wearing running shoes, black leggings and a black sweatshirt. She also played up her curves by sporting a low-cut, sheer black T-shirt underneath that showed off her cleavage and baby bump.
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Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England argued in the Washington Times that the Law of the Sea Treaty would improve protections for the environment.
It could do the opposite.
The treaty requires states that cannot harvest the entire allowable catch in certain areas to make the surplus available to other nations, especially developing nations. Since the treaty makes re-acquiring harvest rights challenging once surrendered to a developing nation, coastal nations may seek to use the entire catch by whatever means are necessary. This may contribute to damage of marine resources.
Proponents of the treaty have also dismissed critics' concerns that it would subject the U.S. to judgments of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), a body unlikely to render decisions favorable to the U.S. due to its composition. John F. Turner, who served as an Assistant Secretary of State, claimed that "parties are free to choose other methods of dispute resolution."
Not entirely true.
When provisional measures – similar to temporary injunctions -- are demanded, the disputing parties must agree to a method of adjudication within two weeks or the case is automatically sent to ITLOS. Such an outcome would be likely, for example, if the U.S. seized an Iranian ship believed to be transporting terrorists or WMD.
Finally, Eagleburger and Moore have claimed that the treaty would facilitate oil and gas development.
It likely would make such development even more difficult.
The treaty requires states to "prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment," including "through the atmosphere," providing environmental activists with ample opportunities to file legal challenges, including on the grounds that the oil and gas contribute to global warming, threatening biologically-important and sensitive coral reefs.
What is needed is an honest and open discussion about the implications of the Law of the Sea Treaty – warts and all. The Bush Administration and its proxies need to be candid about what it sees as the key weaknesses of the treaty as well as it strengths.
One lesson of the Iraq conflict is that overselling the benefits of action in an effort to blunt criticism can be dangerous in the long run. This is a lesson the White House and other treaty proponents apparently still haven't learned.
David A. Ridenour is vice president of The National Center for Public Policy Research, a position he has held since 1986.
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Wednesday Oct 26 2011
Trusted, longtime employee charged with embezzlement from Auburn business
By: Gus Thomson, Journal Staff Writer
An Auburn business is missing $94,000 and a long-time, trusted employee is accused of stealing it. Janel Elizabeth MacDougall has been charged with embezzling the funds over several years from InterMotive Vehicle Controls. Before charges were laid, MacDougall worked for 11 years as accounting administrator for the business. MacDougall was initially charged in May with a single count of felony grand theft embezzlement amounting to $11,000. The theft allegedly occurred between Feb. 2 and May 20. But as investigators studied transactions and financial statement over a longer period of time, charges were adjusted to reflect allegations of theft totaling $94,000, court records show. Greg Schafer, InterMotive president, said the Auburn Airport Industrial Park vehicle-control-system design and manufacturing business will survive. But the theft and allegations against MacDougall have been a blow to business morale as well as InterMotive's bottom line, he said. MacDougall was InterMotive's first employee hired after it moved from Fairfield to Auburn 11 years ago, Schafer said. The business left Auburn and relocated for six years in Colfax but returned in July 2010. It currently employs 30 people, producing after-market automotive electronics. "Her position grew with the company," Schafer said. "She was our longest-standing employee and my right hand." InterMotive first learned of potential financial irregularities last spring when a credit-card statement using a corporate credit card didn't pencil out. It has since spent hundreds of hours revealing more irregularities in an attempt to decipher other irregularities over several years, Schafer said. "It's negatively impacted this business well beyond the loss of $100,000," Schafer said. "There have been morale issues and a sense of frustration. But we're getting through it. It's getting better." InterMotive's profits and profit-sharing plan will be affected by the $100,000 loss, Schafer said. "It affected every family that works here," Schafer said. "It wasn't only stealing from the business, it was stealing from them." Schafer said InterMotive has been able to assist employees in the past who ran into financial problems. He added that there were no overt signs of embezzling, such as living beyond someone's means. "It's frustrating," Schafer said. "If something was going on, we would have bent over backward to help." MacDougall was released after her arrest in May on $5,000 bail. Her next appearance in court will be Nov. 28 for an early-status conference. Her defense attorney, Thomas Leupp of Auburn, was contacted for comment but did not return a phone call.


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A routine immunization is one that is provided free-of-charge to all Ontario residents, according to a set immunization schedule. Immunizing according to a schedule maximizes your protection from serious vaccine-preventable diseases.
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You are encouraged to bring in a record of your previous immunizations. The nurses will review your record and they will also add any new vaccines you receive at the clinic.
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In general, the Health Unit does not provide TB skin tests for screening purposes for school or employment. TB skin testing is only available to those who are contacts of TB cases.
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There is a cost for some of the vaccines, so click here for a list of the most current vaccine fees.
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The Nexus 7 is Google's flagship tablet. It is also Android's most popular tablet. Thanks to its powerful specs, HD screen, and very attractive price point, the Nexus 7 remains the best offering on the market today. The Nexus 7 has a 7 inch screen, and a very slim bezel, making it significantly easier to hold than its predecessor, the original Nexus 7.
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In this article we will teach you had to take a screen shot on your new Nexus 7. You'll find many reasons to use this feature on your Nexus 7, so let's go ahead and see how its done.
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It seems that all good things must come to an end, ladies and gentlemen.
The absurdly priced $199.99 8GB Nexus 4 has just sold out on the Google Play store. At $199, it's quite easy to see why.
Google confirmed with The Verge that the 8GB version will not be restocked. And , for those of you that are on the market for a new device, the 16GB Nexus 4 still remains the most compelling, especially considering it is still priced at $249.
The Nexus 4 was originally announced 11 months ago in October, so perhaps the time is nigh for the next iteration of the Nexus family. The key question that remains now is this – what manufacturer close to Google [...]
With LG's latest flagship, the LG G2 having been unveiled late last week in New York, tech pundits, curious consumers, and others are already beginning to think about the arrival of the highly anticipated Nexus 5, rumoured to land in our hands around October this year.
There were more than a few murmurings that we would be seeing a Google Play Edition of LG's latest flagship, which was publicly denied by LG's PR. He confirmed that LG did not have any plans to release a Google Edition of the LG G2, but added "… as of right now". This suggests that, potentially, at some point in the future, we could be seeing a Google Play edition. Could [...]


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A weekend spent living in the lap of luxury has many good points: rest, relaxation and raising money for a worthy cause. Kaleidoscope, the second gala hosted by the Rocky Mountain Children's Health Foundation, was held at the Ritz-Carlton Denver and raised $275,000 for the foundation's programs that help families in need. Joanne Davidson has more in RSVP.
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Favorite Grilled Pork Chops Recipe
I start preparing this entree the night before I plan to grill it. It's a fabulous marinade with a unique flavor, and is of the only ways our family eats pork chops. —Erica Svejda, Janesville, Wisconsin
- 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 4 boneless pork loin chops (1 inch thick)
- 1. In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the first eight ingredients; add pork chops. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.
- 2. Drain and discard marinade. Grill pork chops, covered, over medium heat for 4-5 minutes on each side or until a thermometer reads 145°. Let meat stand for 5 minutes before serving. Yield: 4 servings.
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Enjoy this recipe with a light-bodied red wine such as Pinot Noir.
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Américo Alvarado wrote on Barataria about the campaign by Atletico Madrid Football Club [1]:
Sometimes, we witness real life stories, worthy of the seventh art. And right now we are witnessing one of those stories, somehow we are living it in the thrilling world of football. Heroic and inspiring are just a couple of adjectives that come to my mind to, somehow, classify the season Atletico Madrid Football Club is going through, with "Cholo" Simeone [2]. A team that, against all odds, is two matches away from becoming monarch of the so called Star League and, besides all that, the team has seeped, after forty years, in the final match of the tournament of the most important clubs in the world: the UEFA Champions League.
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COSTA MESA, Calif. – January 13, 2014 -- SYSPRO, a provider of best-of-breed, award-winning enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for on-premise and cloud-based utilization, announced today that the company's presentation to a group of leading analysts in Boston, December 2013, is yet the subject of another report. This latest report by Aleksey Osintsev, analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) is titled, "SYSPRO U.S. Reinforces Its 'SMARTER' Einstein Value Proposition—Analyst Roadshow December 2013." SYSPRO is dedicated to "making SYSPRO customers more successful," writes Osintsev. He notes that the SYSPRO Brain Trust encompasses four trust components: Product Trust; Deployment Trust; Micro Vertical Trust; and Economic Trust. Osintsev outlines the components of each trust:
Product Trust emphasizes the "strong new ERP product SYSPRO 7"; Deployment Trust highlights "new SYSPRO software implementation methodologies created specifically with industry micro-verticals in mind"; Economic Trust embraces SYSPRO's full support of current macro-economic trends in the United States; Micro Vertical Trust refers to industry areas where SYSPRO is planning to focus aggressively in 2014.
"Overall, SYSPRO has a reputation as an ERP vendor that does care about the businesses of its customers and has a commitment to providing its customers with more than just software," summarizes Osintsev. "SYSPRO's big efforts to deliver additional advantages and value to its clients are highly compelling arguments for those in an active search for an ERP contract." The TEC Report by Aleksey Osintsev can be accessed at: http://erp.syspro.com/TEC-Analyst-Report-BrainTrust.html
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Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) helps private- and public-sector organizations choose the best enterprise software solutions for their unique business needs—quickly, impartially, and cost-effectively.
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Since its inception in 1978, SYSPRO has been delivering state-of-the-art business solutions to some of the world's leading companies. As a global leader in the production of world-class ERP software, the company now caters to the specialized needs of over 15,000 licensed companies in more than 60 countries worldwide. SYSPRO is marketed globally through regional territory distribution centers and a global reseller network in the US, Canada, Africa, Asia Pacific, Australia and the UK.


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Abuse Claims Less Likely to Be Ignored
The sexual-abuse investigation at Penn State marks the latest in a string of high-profile child-molestation allegations in recent decades, but experts say that doesn't mean such crimes are becoming more common.
Instead, they say, society has become more aware of the threat of child sexual abuse, and far more aggressive about investigating and punishing it. Sentences have grown longer, and the number of people listed on sex-offender registries has jumped.
"A lot more untoward behavior towards kids is recast as a serious felony when maybe in the past it would be sloughed off as, 'There goes that crazy uncle again,' or variations on that theme," said Douglas Berman, a professor at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law who specializes in criminal sentencing.
The subject of child sexual abuse has also edged more into the open as institutions such as the Boy Scouts of America and the Catholic Church have been forced to confront molesters in their midst.
"We've made some pretty good progress at breaking the code of silence," said Jeff Dion, director of the National Crime Victim Bar Association. "We know we have to talk about it."
The indictment of former Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on charges of sexually abusing boys—allegations Mr. Sandusky has denied—appears to have emboldened victims of sexual abuse in unrelated cases to come forward. State and private hotlines say they have been flooded with calls.
It seems to have prompted soul-searching at other institutions, too. Days after the Penn State case came to light, Syracuse University in New York placed longtime assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine on administrative leave following allegations that he molested former ball boys more than 25 years ago. Syracuse had previously investigated and dismissed similar complaints about him. Mr. Fine, who hasn't been charged, denies any wrongdoing.
In South Carolina, administrators at the Citadel military college publicly apologized for failing to investigate a 2007 complaint by a teen who said a counselor at the school's summer camp had enticed male students to watch porn and masturbate with him. The college didn't report the allegations to police. The counselor, Louis ReVille, went on to work as a coach and educator and was arrested in late October on charges of molesting five boys.
Mr. ReVille is cooperating with investigators and hasn't entered a plea. His attorney, Craig Jones Jr., declined to comment.
But these high-profile cases don't necessarily mean that sex abuse is on the rise.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn't specifically track child-sex-abuse arrests. But Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit group, said confirmed cases of abuse have declined over the past 20 years, because perpetrators are being more aggressively identified, imprisoned and monitored through sex-offender registries.
Prosecutions weren't common 25 years ago, but today, "more of these guys are going away" to prison, Mr. Allen said. There are about 740,000 registered sex offenders nationwide, up from about 600,000 in 2006, according to Mr. Allen, who said studies indicate that the majority of those registered offenders victimized children.
In the past 15 years, many states have strengthened laws dealing with sex crimes against children, making it easier to prosecute abusers who are identified years after their assaults. "There is a growing recognition that minors are slow to report abuse," said Corey Rayburn Yung, a professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
States have also increased the penalties for convictions. The median prison sentence for sex abusers was 70 months in 2006, up from 44 months in 1996, according to the most recent data from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics. A federal law enacted in 2006 created a mandatory sentence of at least 30 years for the aggravated sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12. There was no mandatory minimum sentence under prior federal law.
Law enforcement has also become more sophisticated in dealing with child-abuse cases, including refining techniques for interviewing children and using social media to determine whether suspects have established contacts with alleged abuse victims, said Scott Burns, executive director of the National District Attorneys Association.
Still, experts believe sexual abuse of children remains widely under-reported, experts say, for both psychological and legal reasons. There is a natural tendency to assume the best of family members and authority figures, who make up a significant percentage of abusers. Plus, the legal duty to report sexual abuse remains unclear in many instances, including what sorts of conduct should trigger a call to authorities. Mr. Dion said national surveys have shown that less than 10% of abuse cases are reported to police.
States typically have laws that require the reporting of sex crimes against children, but often the reporting requirements apply only to designated classes of people, such as doctors and educators. Several states, including Pennsylvania, are now considering broadening their mandatory-reporting laws.
"There's been a slight increase over time in our willingness to believe that a popular, charismatic adult can be a predator," said David Clohessy, executive director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP. "But it's been a painfully slow process."


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Earth Hour: Scania sets energy savings target
Scania will this year, once again, participate in Earth Hour on Saturday 29 March 20.30–21.30, by turning off all non-essential lights. Last year, more than 7,000 cities and towns in 154 countries observed the hour of darkness to manifest their support for climate change action.
Scania switch off for the environment
Scania's production units in Europe and Latin America will observe Earth Hour on 31 March by turning off most lights. Scania's commitment to sustainability is not, of course, limited to one single hour of the year. Throughout Scania, projects are under way that will substantially reduce energy consumption.


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Sam Adams University: all about malt
Cold, Hard Football Facts for Jan 04, 2007
By Cold, Hard Football Facts contributor Lew Bryson
We talk about malt a lot when we talk about beer: barley malt, dark malt, malt liquor, blah-blah-blah.
Fine, but what the heck is malt?
Malt is both basic and complex. Simply, it is grain that has been wet down to trick it into sprouting, and then heated in a kiln to kill the poor little sprout.
It's cruel and dramatic: The tiny grain sprouts in hopes of growing into more grain. Yeah, grain! But bold man cuts short its life to make malt for beer ... a better end than the grain could have imagined.
Why do we do that? The sprouting process releases enzymes that transform the hard starches in the grain into softer starches. These soft starches can be converted into sugars by cooking the malted barley in a brew kettle. Yeasts then eat those sugars (it's called fermentation) to create alcohol.
Then you have beer.
We mostly use barley to make malt for beer, but other grains – wheat, rye, even quinoa – can be malted. Barley is the best for several reasons. It's never really been popular for much else, except whisky (and that's kind of in the family), so there's not much competition to use it. Barley grows with a husk that makes a great ready-made filter when it's time to drop the sugary water out of the malt soup to make beer.
Best of all, throw in some hops and a good, feisty yeast, and, well, barley malt makes really good-tasting beer.
There are a lot of different ways to make malt (we talked about dark malt before). The malt-maker can vary the temperature or time in the kiln, the humidity in the kiln, or put smoke in the kiln. That will all have an effect on the color and flavor of the beer. So will the hops and yeast choices, and we'll talk about them soon.
But malt is the fuel for the beer, the heart of the beer: simple ... and complex.
Past lessons at Sam Adams University:
Dec. 28, 2006 - India Pale Ale
Dec. 21, 2006 - Ale vs. Lager
Dec. 14, 2006 - Dark Beers
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Hi FWP,
Certainly thought about filing a complaint but that's as far as it got.... a thought.
The moment was ruined but I did have another body loaded with 800 film and managed to snap a few half a** shots with that but surely nothing like I had hoped.
The event I mention was Dec of 2004 and from what you say things have changed a bit for the better.


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Shortage of Prison Cells Hampers PA Law and Order Campaign
Many PA prisons, some dating back to Ottoman era, were destroyed by Israel during uprising.
When a Palestinian law and order campaign started in the occupied West Bank late last year, Western advisors quickly realised they had a problem: Palestinian forces had no place to put all of their prisoners.
Many of the Palestinian Authority's prisons, some dating back to the Ottoman era, were destroyed by Israel after a Palestinian uprising erupted in 2000 and peace talks broke down.
The few prisons left and the dysfunctional judicial system, plagued by backlogs long before statehood talks were relaunched in November alongside the security crackdown, can't cope with the influx, Palestinian officials and their Western advisors say.
At Ramallah's civil penitentiary, a facility meant to hold no more than 180 inmates, there are 240 prisoners, according to the Palestinian attorney general.
In the town of Jericho, near the Dead Sea, 51 detainees cook, pray and wait in sweltering concrete cells so small they barely have room to stand up and stretch. The facility is meant to hold 40 people. "You sit here and you rot," said Yousef Judeh, a 34-year-old father of five accused of collaborating with Israel. His case still pending, he has been languishing here for two years.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's law and order campaign has improved security in some areas and showcased his government's pledge to comply with a stalled "road map" peace plan, a condition set by Israel for Palestinian statehood. But Western officials say the campaign has also revealed the weakness of the underlying penal system. "There may be order, but there is no law," one of the advisers said.
With the capacity of the civil prisons totalling just 509 inmates for all of the West Bank, home to 2.5 million Palestinians, Attorney General Ahmed al-Moghani said he has little choice but to release some of those arrested for lesser offences, from theft to prostitution. "Sometimes we take decisions that are irresponsible. But this is reality," Moghani said.
In Nablus, the city at the epicentre of Fayyad's campaign, "people were being arrested by the police, coming into a police station and going back out again", said Colin Smith, head of the European Union's training programme for the Palestinian civil police. Some prisoners were detained over activities in militant groups. Others stand accused of committing common crimes.
Israel has long asserted that a so-called "revolving door" policy, whereby some militants are rounded up but subsequently freed, stands as a barrier to any statehood agreement.
Fayyad and many Western officials blame Israel for undermining the security campaign by refusing to halt raids in Nablus and other cities after Palestinian forces deployed.
Despite the hurdles, Fayyad's government says the judiciary has improved. Officials say more criminals are being arrested along with some militants who used to blackmail businessmen.
But Western officials say the current system is ill-equipped to cope with a sustained crackdown, with some 88 percent of current detainees still awaiting final sentencing.
With no cells to spare, police can't execute thousands of outstanding warrants, let alone act on newly issued ones, the officials say. Israeli roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank make it difficult, if not impossible, for the Palestinian police to collect witness testimonies and take prisoners to court.
Palestinian investigators don't have forenic labs to analyse evidence and can't afford experts to appear at trial.
"The problem is not only how criminal trials are condcted, but if trials are conducted at all," said Claudia Fenz, an Austrian judge advising the Palestinian civil police on rule of law issues under the EU program.
Outside the system of dilapidated civil prisons, Mueen Barghouthi, a lawyer for the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights, said hundreds of political detainees are being held without legal proceedings in facilities run by security forces loyal to Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip and President Mahmoud Abbas's more secular Fatah faction in the West Bank.
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Mental health experts say a new tougher New York state gun control law might interfere with treatment of potentially dangerous people and even discourage them from seeking help.
The law would require therapists, doctors, nurses and social workers to tell government authorities if they believe a patient is likely to harm himself or others. That could lead to revoking the patient's gun permit and seizing any guns. (source)
New laws tend to have unintended consequences worse than the conditions or situations they are intended to remedy. The hysteria over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has such strange bedfellows as the NRA and some of the most liberal Democrats calling for psychological or psychiatric evaluations of potential gun owners.
Question: Does the state have enough of an interest to require a breach of the privacy normally holding between a patient and his clinician making the state an invisible presence in the conference room?
Question: Might more mayhem be prevented by letting clinicians do their job rather than imposing requirements on them.?
Question: Might imposing a reporting requirement on clinicians expose them to homicidal danger once the client realizes that his counselor has breached the shell of confidentiality holding between them?
Question: Given the ambiguities holding between what clients talk about and what they might actually do might a reporting requirement expose clinicians to needless criminal and civil sanctions if their best guess turns out to be wrong and a client they thought safe did something horrendous? The point is, it's a lot easier to judge how dangerous a patient was in retrospect and hold a clinician responsible.
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Not to mention that patients that would otherwise seek help decide not to and be completely on the loose to do whatever they might?
Well, I don't get the newspaper article.
The new law in New York seems to be similar to what California psychiatrists and therapists have had to do since the mid-1970s, from the Tarasoff decision.
Why don't these so-called experts in New York just send an email to their colleagues in California to find out what the new law might do?
They might hear that California has a higher rate of crime. Of course, New York and California are different in many ways having little to do with psychiatrists.
As always, when it comes to human affairs causality is hard to pin down.
I'm British and live in the UK. I'm not trying to tell people in the US what to think or how to run their country but hey. If you suspected, in any way that someone you knew were mentally unstable, would you hand them a kitchen knife after an argument? I effing wouldn't.
At a push, on an unlucky day for my community, I could stab maybe as many as 5 to 10 people with a kitchen knife before being wrestled by a hero or shot or captured by police. Give me a gun and I could kill 10s of people easily, given the ammo. The seriousness of giving someone a gun license should be treated really seriously...in my view...but I realise some people view it as an unretractable right. Some Americans told me it should only be allowed "as part of a militia" but that some misconstrue the constitution. This is not something I can really comment on but the risk of dishing out firearms like water pistols seems to me too high.
Would I? Probably not. However, many people here would argue that you can't take the rights of a citizen away based on a hunch about what they might do.
The words we use for the 2nd Amendment are that "it's a Constitutional right," which it is. That is what makes it intractable as you put it. Revoking or modifying it is difficult bordering on impossible, especially with anti-gun people clamoring, which makes the pro-gun people dig in. There are two ways to do it but both of them depend on amassing a super-majority. In other words, it takes more than just a simple majority of 50%+ to do it.
In a nutshell:
Both Houses of Congress must propose the amendment with a two-thirds vote. This is how all current amendments have been offered.
Two-thirds of the State legislatures must call on Congress to hold a Constitutional
It will be a long time before enough critical mass is built up to succeed in changing the 2nd Amendment.
...but even with people with a history of mental illness...seems mental to me.
Can they be banned at state level more easily? Strega was saying his state is very easy with guns which implies other states are harsher.
...not sure I'll come to the US with these risks...sounds a bit dangerous to me...I'll go to Israel or Afghanistan instead - seems safer
psst Karl, Strega is a 'she'. We did the same-sex marriage thing, might have caused some confusion :)
Vermont seems to be one of the most relaxed state about gun laws. Any more relaxed and there would have to be a law insisting you carry one!
Lots of gun availability, lots of guns, and low gun crime rate (for the U.S.). What a conundrum.
In particular, Karl, in Vermont you do not need a permit to carry a firearm concealed on your person (say, a pistol under your jacket). Most other states in the US require such a permit. Illinois forbids the practice completely. Permit-free carry is known here as "Vermont Carry" or sometimes "constitutional carry" since many regard a prohibition or restriction on carrying a weapon in that manner as a violation of the second amendment (and I tend to agree with them).
In spite of this... nay, I think it's in part because of this... Vermont has a very low crime rate. The very places you should be most frightened of here, at least in regard to your physical safety, are the ones with the strictest gun laws. Now that's counter-intuitive if you think guns somehow cause (or correlate) with violent behavior. But they don't.
Well I am being intentionally facetious. A gun is really just a tool. We had them in the house when I was a kid as my stepdad worked with animals. I was taught how to use a gun and have handled unlicensed firearms too but it's pretty unusual in the UK.
One of the most heavily armed countries in Europe is Switzerland yet their crime rate and murder rate is very low. There're parts of many UK cities that I wouldn't go to after dark and you can be unlucky no matter where you are.
Lowering crime rate is not just dependent on increasing risk to the criminal though that may have an effect. Other factors like poverty, population density, employment levels and culture all have a part to play.
...I'm no anthropoligist or social scientist but it stands to reason that you can't shoot someone without a gun, if you become enraged or disturbed to the point of killing indescriminately and you have a gun, the consequences are far more serious than if you don't, where guns are commonly held, criminals will routinely use them when committing crimes, and increased availability of guns, increases the availability of guns to criminals, including violent criminals.
Because of the high gun ownership in the US, I can't imagine that an amnesty would be workable without it being sustained over many years, and even then people fearing the effects would probably cache weapons, so I guess the UK model wouldn't be suitable. It'll pan out somehow. Just hopefully you don't get any more of the school shootings which are always so terrible.
@ Strega,
Any more relaxed and there would have to be a law insisting you carry one!
We already have that :D
And the results are quite good, maybe there is a lesson here.
You're going to run into the fact that for anti-gun people that any positive news regarding guns must be wrong. They won't even look at the facts.