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A special committee under Andrew Menzies of Balornock, was set up to examine the problem of housing "lunatics." The "Board of Lunacy" favoured the countryside as a place of refuge for these vulnerable people, and which also gave them employment and activity. The board also looked for a site near a railway, to facilitate the delivery of building materials and supplies.
Woodilee estate at Lenzie Junction on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway was chosen as the site. The 167-acre estate was purchased in March and cost £58 an acre. Plans were drawn up by a Glasgow architect, James Salmon and were approved in the autumn. James Grant Jnr. and his sub-contractors were hired to build the asylum.
The foundation stone was laid on 4th October when a special train brought the guests from Glasgow.
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East Dunbartonshire Libraries P2401
Total area of asylum grounds extended to 459 acres and during this decade it was licensed to house six hundred patients. Many of these residents were employed on the farm, which provided food for the asylum.
The asylum was greatly enlarged when the city and barony parishes were joined to form the "Glasgow and District Lunacy" Board.
A villa for mentally handicapped children was added.
A nurses' home was opened, and the practice of staff sleeping in the wards alongside the patients decreased over time.
It is now forty years since the asylum opened and it now has thirteen hundred beds.
Glasgow Corporation Public Health Department take over the institution, and a local government act means the asylum is now designated as a mental hospital.
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Circa 1900
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Woodilee became a Glasgow Corporation hospital this year. The bathrooms and ward kitchens were given a much-needed upgrade during this decade.
A major extension to the nurse's home opened in April.
On the 28th June a new reception house and sanatorium was opened containing six wards, an operating theatre, dental surgery and a laboratory.
Woodilee became a National Health Service hospital under the Board of Management for Glasgow North Eastern Mental Hospitals.
Largactil (Chlorpromazine) was introduced and many bed-ridden patients now became ambulant and long-term illness started to improve.
Woodcroft House, a unit for the treatment of twenty male juvenile patients was opened.
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Recreation Hall, May 1935
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A new reception suite opened, and the heating system was upgraded. The hospital farms (Home, East Muckcroft and West Muckcroft) were phased out and closed. Agricultural labour had been used as a form of therapy till then.
Two wards were demolished as a result of a fire.
The hospital was placed in the Northern District of the Greater Glasgow Health Board (Division of Psychiatry) along with Stoneyetts, Stobhill Psychiatric Unit and Lennox Castle. Campsie House opened as a psycho-geriatric unit.
A new unit dealing with alcohol abuse was opened.
There were several fires and vandalism after the evacuation, and on 2nd June, the latest of these fires severely damaged the main building. Woodilee towers, a famous local landmark, were demolished the same week, as they were deemed to be unsafe.
After a visit by Historic Scotland representatives in June and July, the clock tower; Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland administration building; Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland and the arches are placed on the register, and are now category B listed buildings. The register is maintained by the Scottish Civic Trust on behalf of Historic Scotland.
Following the National Health Service reforms this year, the Greater Glasgow Community & Mental Health Services Trust became responsible for Woodilee.
The Secretary of State for Scotland agreed to the closure of Woodilee Hospital.
The Trust's plans for the closure of Woodilee were at an advanced stage.
In April, a contract was entered into with a consortium of house builders which consisted of Cala Homes, Miller, Persimmon and Redrow, for the disposal of around 170 acres of land, in which a residential development of approximately 800 houses would be built.
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The back gates of Woodilee Hospital grounds, 2001
The Greater Glasgow Primary Care Trust requested planning permission in February, to demolish the east and west arches. In September, the application was refused , and the reasons given were that the loss of these buildings would result in a significant reduction in the heritage of the area, and that the retention of these buildings would enhance the character of the area when it is redeveloped.
In August of this year, the Greater Glasgow Primary Care Trust also applied for planning permission for the demolition of the clock tower building. In October this application was also refused on the grounds of it being a listed building, and contrary to Historic Scotland's "Memorandum of Guidance for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas".
Plans for a regeneration of the site have been developed by Kirkintilloch Initiative, which is a partnership between East Dunbartonshire Council and NHS Greater Glasgow.
The latest proposals
for the development of the Woodilee estate are to be shown to the public before
the formal planning application goes forward. Two exhibitions have been organized by the Woodilee Consortium, made up of
builders Persimmon, Miller, Redrow and Cala Homes, to show their plans for the
site of the former hospital.
Two exhibitions have been organized by the Woodilee Consortium, made up of builders Persimmon, Miller, Redrow and Cala Homes, to show their plans for the site of the former hospital.
The proposals include over 900 homes and the conversion of the listed buildings.
Also planned are a village centre with community facilities including a local shop, pharmacy, doctor and dentist surgeries, and a day nursery. There will also be public meeting rooms.
There is to be a central green area at the existing clock tower building, with play and recreational facilities. Central to these plans is the Kirkintilloch link road, which gives local access to the former hospital site, and links with the Stepps bypass leading to the M80.
Outline planning permission has been granted for the proposals for the former hospital site.
In October this year, the consortium of house builders have applied for full planning permission to enable work to be started on the proposed 900 new homes.
These proposals include the former administration block, the old clock tower and part of one of the arches being incorporated into the development for residential use.
Full planning permission was granted on 12th March, for the residential development with associated community use, class 4 business units, road network (including the widening and re-alignment of Calfmuir Road), and co-ordinated open space, landscaping, woodlands, walkways and infrastructure.
Planning permission was also granted on 20th March for the conversion of the clock tower into residential use, and demolition of the east and west arches. Part of one of the arches is to be incorporated into the new clock tower conversion.
In February, the Woodilee Developer's Consortium submitted a planning application, to amend a condition on the outline planning permission (granted on 20th March 2007) to increase the permitted maximum number of houses to be completed prior to the completion of the Kirkintilloch Link Road from 200 to 470.
Work on the link road is still ongoing.
By April this year, the east and west arches have been demolished and material from them appears to have been set aside for inclusion in the conversion of the clock tower.
All local residents received a letter from the Woodilee Village Consortium in August this year, declaring that they are ready to start building the 900 homes as soon as the link road is completed and opened. The consortium now consists of Miller Homes, Redrow, Cala Homes and Charles Church (which is a sister company of Persimmon).
The first new houses are expected to be ready by Spring 2011 and the consortium intend to start selling them off plan in October this year.
The new Kirkintilloch Link Road opened in November 2010, and has been named Initiative Road. House building is now well in progress at the former hospital site.
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My chilli plant has done very well this year and I am still getting new flowers and chillis from it. But what happens over winter, will it die? Should I bring it inside?.....What shall I do with it?
Hi Pokhim,
Chillis are a perennial plant and you can bring these inside over winter. Just pot them up give them a trim and place them on a north facing window sill and they'll be tickity boo!
Pokhim.... as above trim it back to a future leaf bud and it will over winter happily.... Word of warning if they have been outside they are v prone to whitefly which is messy more than damaging. I always use a pest stick ( don't know name) to ward them off...
Thanks! What's the best way to prune these? i.e. how much should I take off?..
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Firmware v60 Nokia 5800
- Fix battery bug (on some Product Codes)
- Fix the RDS bug (fixed in v52 but not for all Prodcut Codes)
- Fix unstoppable alarm clock bug (fixed in v51)
- Kinetic scrolling more fluid in the main menu (improved in v51)
- Increased accuracy and sensitivity of the accelerometer (improved in v51 and v52)
- Ability to turn off the camera flash during the focus
- Improve camera quality and photos compression algorithm, if possible
- Fix bug in profile editor: screen vibration level 1 is stronger then 2 (fixed in v51)
- Fix bug of denied access to messagges stored in the memory card after an USB connection
- Remember camera settings (ex: flash/noflash)
- Faster loading of the images in the gallery (improved in v51)
- Calendar notification above the contacts bar
- Better accuracy of the battery meter (improved in v51)
- Widgets and screen rotation n97-like (only if it doesn't affect battery consunption)
- Smiley support for SMS
- Search bar in the Music Player
- Fast multiple selection method in gallery, music store and other context
- Nokia Custom dictionary embedded in the firmware
UPDATE: We reporteded this post to Nokia Europe, that kindly gave us the following answer:
"Regarding your request, thank you for your interest to Nokia's products and services. Unfortunately we can not open the two links you sent us because of the proxy firm of the company; in any case we are going to refer your e-mail. As for your question about the release date of a 60 version of the software suitable for 5800 model, at the moment we have no information, but please kindly visit Nokia website."
UPDATE 2: Nokia has also released two bugfix versions (51.0.006 and 52.0.007) for v50 firmware. For further informations, follow this link.
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Sip call on menu of nokia 5800. He has sip setings but you cant use sip withot another software like fring. Thank you!
I think this request is quite personal, however you can install by your own fring, skype or the SIP software you prefer :)
i see few drawbacks one is mentioned rds bug another one is noisy camera..the camera quality should be increase in v60, despite a carl zeis lens its camera not tht good if we compare to current market handsets with similar mega pixels
Thank you SIFARAT E AZA, i've added your suggestion :)
1. Press and hold to Mark after clicking mark once!
2. Message letter counter in QWERTY mode should be on the left side above OK (check) button. Or above the button itself with some transparency!
3. More stylish light notification. Green, white and red buttons should flash like N95's side blue buttons in standby!
4. Picture smiley support in message like in its own inbuilt IM or the Nokia Supernova series!
5. Calendar notification in Contact bar above Email!
6. The * symbol that appears in the pic of the person set in the contact bar when receiving new missed calls and messages has bugs. Sometimes it doesn't appear!
7. The phone cannot set Photo Browser Beta as default photo viewer! It is not detected by default application setter in 5800! It should detect Opera Mini 5 too!
8. Homescreen widgets if possible... but it will cost us the contact bar I guess!
9. And a hardware update! Replacement of plastic lens shield with a glass one for better focus of camera and improved picture quality!
I can click better pics without the cover!!
I'm ready to pay for it!
That's all from my point of view! :P
LEE thank you for your original ideas :) i've added only the calendar one because some of them have been already fixed in the new firmware (like the letter counter) or are too hard to implement (hardware or too personal requests). However thanks again :)
i would like to have homescreen rotation
and would like to have the keys at the bottom instead of right side in the landscape mode
I agree with Lee's ideas..especially about introducing Picture smiley support in smses
A hardware update! Replacement of plastic lens shield with a glass one for better focus of camera and improved picture quality!
this is a very important one as even though we have a 3.2 MP carl zeiss lens the pictures taken with the lens cover are very bad, esp the night pics have a lot of noise.
Also the speed of rotation of the screen should be increased as its pretty slow now.
guys are you sure about this fact? it seems that photo quality it's not affected from the plastic protection by comparing some samples on my device..
Hello everyone!
Thank for replying! I'm back! Had a hard time finding this site! Now I've bookmarked it in my opera mini 5 touch browser! Lol
Emanuele try clicking pics without cover and with cover in dark condition to see the difference in quality and focusing. :)
I cannot open my orkut account after the 50v update. So I tried installing the java runtime 2 beta by nokia betalabs.
My phone is now a bit faster and I saw some new graphics interface, like while installing java apps the menu is completely different. But my phone browser is still the same. My orkut homepage never loads after signing in! My old N95 can still load the page without any new updates. Hehe... :)
And hey I tried LCG Jukebox 2.70 today and saw its homescreen widget when minimized! Its awesome! Better than the phone's music widget! I can move it and place it anywhere on the screen!
Now I'm sure 5800 can have N97 like homescreen! I'm not a big fan though. I just need the calendar notification in contact bar mode.
And few days back I came across a music app for s60 5th - piano touch.
Its faster and less laggy. But what's interesting to see is it supports multi-touch in resistive screen of 5800! It can detect a maximum of 2 different piano key press at the same time! Try it!
Somebody put this to use please! I'm out of ideas! :D
My 5800 becomes very hot while surfing net using Wifi! I guess 5800's processor is overclocked! Hehe... :P I like it! Lol
And I want visualization option in the music player. My N95 has it. I know it drains out the battery but c'mon its a music phone! We use it or not to save our battery is a different thing. We should atleast have that option for... Show off? Maybe! What about a small party? :P
Good night! :)
Thank you coming back Lee :) I had your same issue with java and had to install the beta from nokia betalabs.. About multitouch it's only a trick like in other apps, because unluckily we'll probably never have this function on our 5800 resistive screen :-( The n97 home screen it's good but n97 interface take the most of ram out of the phone, and this could lower any more our battery life.. I thank you a lot for the useful informations you gave us, i'll try soon to take pics as you suggested :) See ya soon man, Good N8!
Fixed problems with battery consumption, apart from the already discussed with the RDS.
We'll see if it is true that Nokia fixes bugs.
Where is everybody? :D
- Better HOMESCREEN. C'mon its 5800 and the homescreen sucks. Make it like N97 or something! I guess it has the capability for it.
- Longer Battery. I'm sick & tired of my phone's battery problem. Even if I'd never open my media player or any other applications, My Battery is getting over in a DAY.
- Smiley support.
- Faster QWERTY keyboard and better design.
:) Blessings.
I want in the menu bar option is not there, when to sound options screen, then hold a few seconds it appeared as new software Vmenu HanghaiMenu and can slide across the screen.
i want the "find" function to return on the music player. its inconvenient to scroll from a to z just to pick a song..
I would like the Daily Alrm problem to be fixed.
One cannot stop the alarm from the touch screen but has to press the power button. I screen unlock does not work in alarm mode.
Grazzie Raymondo
Ps man did you try to slide? We must be sure that it isn't releated to a human error.. on my device sometimes (not always) sliding doesn't work with alarm clock..
Hi Emanuele,
Slide switch you mean.
Yes of course I did.
I can assure you its not a human error, and that this problem was first noticed in ver4.
-a fix for setting priority in the Network settings, kinetic scroling had destroyed thath.
-fix short accu runtime
-option to select icons for folders(in menu)
-set maximum Volume by own
-better volumecontrol
how long will take the release of 60.0.005 firmware?
backup for calender enries n landmarks in nokia pc suite.....and
while restoring (importing)messeges to the phone the r saved 1 by 1 realy slowly with pc suite...bt while exporting it takes friction of sec .in map i cud not find auto rotate in dirctn of motion.overal phone is realy slow..and sms timer doesnt work anymore.
playlist backup problm is also der....saving web pages for ofline is nt der...der is no recent contact list for msgin so i made some grups with only 1 person n even more to send msg to all ma frnd bt der is no way to backup des grups...if nokia is changing this phones screen from resistivity scren to capacitive screen.den d public who has bought dis phon earlies shud also get it replaced......
animated screen rotation as on the N97
This is also a suggestion : they should fix The Wlan or Wifi probelm :(invalid servername)error
Since V50 i noticed some bugs/problems:
- RDS doesn't work (as in V40).
- While starting a sms if u try to choose a contact and rotate the screen, when u press ok to return to the message it gets back to homescreen.
- Accelerometer is to shaky now. Try playing acuracy games like micromaze or rescue bubbles and its almost impossible. if u lay down ur phone the ball will move by it self, in shaking pattern. run rescue bubbles, go to options and u see the calibrating option. see the ball shaking like crazy. also try program LEVEL and u see the bubbles won't stay still
- Still with the accelerometer, sometimes, mainly when battery is not full, the phone does not auto rotate when turned. all options turned on in sensor configuration and it just stops rotating...
All this things, appart from RDS, were working fine in V40.
Besides this i would like to see improvements in:
- Faster screen rotation
- Homescreen widgets (like n97 if possible)
- Faster transitions between menus
- Improvements for camera (pictures especially)
- Overall speed improvement with some software optimization.
Be good
Hi Pedro, i think that sms and shacky accelerometer issues could be easily solved with a phone deep reset (*#7370# on numpad). Remeber to backup all your data on phone memory because it will be erased.. Than check if they are fixed ;)
Ei Emanuele :)
I already tried that soft reset and hard reset, formatting memory card, start phone with or without memory card...anything...still the same. It's a firmware issue. Many people complain about the same problem. It's only noticable in V50 as in V40 everything was fine and the accelerometer was accurate. I have to restart my phone so it works fine again (sometime it still doesn't, have to restart again). Nokia guys tweaked the accelerometer parameters so it could get faster response in screen orientation but they got it wrong. Thats why we're getting some accelerometer related problems.
As soon as i discovered this problem (i love rescue bubbles so i got it installed again as soon as i updated to V50) i talked to a friend who had V40 yet and got him to install the game and the level app. It worked with no problems. Then we updated his phone to V50 (he wanted kinetic scrolling in menus anyway) and installed the game again... Disaster!! The game became unplayable (issues like the ones i wrote before).
So i see it's not my phones software or hardware faults.
Thanks for your reply :)
Another bug i noticed is in profile editor. Screen vibration has 4 settings: off,1,2 or 3. Number 1 is stronger than number 2. Try it ;)
Yeah Pedro thx,
I already know it but we won't ask Nokia to fix it cuz it not so critical :) anyway thx for report it too ;)
Another one i forgot :)
(sorry for being a pain :p)
- E-mail notification remains (not always) next to battery status even if you read all of them. If phone is restarted it disappears...
If i remember anything else i let you know ;)
Pedro did you try the reset as I suggested you? Maybe you could get all this fixed in a moment :)
Yes i did. As i wrote before i tried the soft reset (*#7370#) and a hard reset (phone turned off, press green+red+camera and turn phone on). Also reinstalled firmware. Nothing seems to get it right. It's just a bad written code. Maybe they will fix it in a future firmware. All i can say is i wish i could get back in time,i would stay with V40. But please try for yourself, download LEVEL from OVI store,its free. See if you get the same thing as i do. If you can,also try micromaze or rescue bubbles or some other app or game that uses fine movements of acelerometer. If you have V50 of course ;)
Thx for reply
Sorry i missed to read a message from you ^^ Yes you are right, they did really bad with accelerometer accuracy and code.. I've never noticed it before, but bubble shake a bit on LEVEL (anyway it is quite difficult to see it).. The only way to rotate the screen immediatly (until nokia will fix the problem) is to take it exactly perpendicular to the ground... Thanks for you witness man, let's hope that at least v60 firmware will be bug-free...
I'm glad to hear that from nokia. Even if,as they say,they haven't got any new firmware yet, it seems like they hear our requests. And that's good news for us all ;)
Yes, they told the mail had been reported to "persons in charge of it" but I couldn't translate this expression well from italian so i cut it off from translation over here ^^.. However, they said only that had no information for us at the moment (because I asked for the release date :D), but i think it's perfectly normal.. If have any other information, i'll keep you up to date :)
Thank you,you're the man!
Keep in touch
Yeah!!! Nokia need to improve accelerometer. On other olds firmware works ok, but at new one is frustrating.
all i want from nokia now is
better gallery (please put the mark\unmark button in center like in n97 instead of editor)
and music search function
give us smooth rotation back
better ram and better performance
May I humbly suggest the following from Nokia on their future FW updates:
- I hope Nokia lowers the sensitivity of the auto-rotation (but it should still be fast when you trigger it intentionally), it always fires up when I don't need it.
- The web browser doesn't auto-center the text of the webpage on the screen. You have to adjust it manually.
- When in Contacts Bar homescreen, they should at least put the calendar entries below the contacts bar. Making 4 rows in all. Contacts bar-1st row; Calendar-2nd Row; Music controls-3rd Row; Shortcuts bar-4th row.
- Could Nokia make the shortcuts bar also behave like the contacts bar, instead of 4 shortcuts, why not make it 20 shortcuts which you can scroll sideways. Then they can do that also in the Contacts Bar Homescreen, where you can scroll both the contacts and the shortcuts bars. That would be fun and practical.
Just my thoughts.
If i understand correctly Nokia will release only firmware like v51, not v60, with small bug fix and new features will not appear.
I would like Nokia to put search open in the music option so that it would be easy to find the desired songs. one more which needs to be added is the multiple selection or marking option wherever required be it songs,gallery, messaging, etc. This would complete the V60 firmware along with other features which needs to be added in Nokia 5800 Xpress Music
Hey! I'm back!
Updated my phone 2 days back to its latest firmware v51! Its a minor update but still I'm excited! In fact I like all kinda firmware updates even if its plain useless. Lol :P
Nokia fixed the vibration level mismatch. And now the vibration is smoother too. And I guess they fixed the auto key press bug while typing. I hope you know what I mean! I'm not good at explaining!
And hey I never got any alarm slide off problem in the previous or the new firmware.
Nokia fixed the RDS problem too. And they fixed the accelerometer a bit. And I think the light notification can now show battery low by some weird light flickering! Lol
Hey I got one new bug just as I was typing this. My keypad vibration level decreased as my words increased! Why? I think I should stop now! My phone is telling me too! :P
Thanks for coming back, Lee. Yeah, these are really nice news... unluckly i can't try it on my own because it isn't available for my device by now... if you noticed anything else and other bugs fixed, keep us updated :) Thanks again ;)
Hi i missed a different"s vibration levels (like CX65 has eg. Standard, Helicopter, UFO, Shock, Mosquito, Train). When I turn on the silent mode I cant see a date on my 5800 desktop. To see a date needs to turn on General mode or see to calendar. Its very discomfort. I missed to a screen saver with date and time like in 6300.
I have 2 problems now with firmware v51 first the invalid server name bug with wireless connection and second i have to touch a few times the right side icons in the menu to open them!!
Ei guys what's up? :)
I updated to V51 but few things have changed for me... Vibration levels are now fixed but everyting else is the same... RDS still does not work. Even with an hard format. And yes,i have RDS where i live and had it in 5800 before V40 :)
I still get the bug with email notification that doesn't disappear and sometimes screen auto-rotation doesn't work either (especially when low on battery).
I notice an overall speed improvement.
Cya guys
How about auto word correction for the qwerty keyboard?
Mmh what do you mean exactly? Auto spell-check?
yup. since its frequent to hit the wrong key in the qwerty keyboard mode
Bungie I think that you could get rid of it after some practice... however i suggest you to try the new swipe-keyboard, that you can download for free at the official Nokia Betalabs website:
I prefer some of these changes:
-Star tag songs in the Music Player
-Next Generation Music Player (automatic volume leveling, more onscreen info, hiperlink as goto songs from this artist, add to playing queue)
-Correct the search application, it has bugs, frequently it doesn't find partial phone numbers.
-Remember camera settings (flash/noflash)
Hi Martin, thank you for your suggestions. We added the one regarding the flash/noflash issue. Other should be discussed a little before they join the list :)
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I think it's deeply hypocritical to complain about Hamilton's life style or image. He has a pop star girl friend and a puppy, so what? It does not mean he's lost focus. No one dedicates 100 percent of their time to work, so why should he? So he's hanging out with rappers, fine. Would people be complaining about losing focus if he spent that time doing charity work children instead?
This critique is just F1 being elitist and culturally snobbish as far as I'm concerned. Times are changing, Watson, like it or not. I'm not a fan of either hip hop or Hamilton, but I fail to see how his cultural preferences have anything to do with his driving. That is all.


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http://tron.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Allronix?feed=atom Allronix's blog 2016-04-29T21:45:03Z From Tron Wiki MediaWiki 1.19.24 http://tron.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Allronix/K._Flynn:_Hero%3F_Anti-Hero%3F_Villain%3F K. Flynn: Hero? Anti-Hero? Villain? 2014-01-31T04:11:58Z
Another pass on Legacy and another run through the novelization of Tron proper, and something's bothering me. There's a lot about Kevin Flynn's behavior that adds up more to a case of anti-hero or (come Betrayal and Legacy) something dangerously close to villain. Of course, part of that in Legacy are the writers; Horowitz and Kitiss run entirely on grayscale morality and characters who aren't as clear-cut on the alignment scale as they appear on first pass (just look at OUaT and LOST). That being said, here are the points bothering me about that character.

 1) He's established as a guy who has a natural gift for business, programming, and persuading others to do what he wants (Alan and Lora should have been immune to his bullshit, but look how fast he can rope them into a half-dozen felonies), but is otherwise a full-blown Man Child. His primary motivation on the first film is to get revenge on Dillinger for stealing his ideas and a ton of money. Defeating Master Control is the only way he would be able to get back to analog so he could enjoy the credit and cash. Anyone else's concerns could be a second thought at best.

 2) Even right before he makes his attempt at Heroic Sacrifice, he kisses Yori, a doppelganger for his ex-girlfriend (and who he knows is happily attached to his new Program best friend). It's very obvious he's using her as a substitute for the gal who got away (who is, from a certain POV, her mother), which kinda adds to the squick.

 3) After he does get back to analog, he proceeds to steal his friends' work (Lora's laser, Alan's Program) and conduct highly irregular and dangerous experiments in his arcade's basement, all the while lying to his friends and even his wife about what he's really up to! Seriously, these people are loyal and devoted to him and his cause. Alan keeps the pager for 21 years. Roy loses everything just as he's approaching retirement. He tells them nothing, and leaves them to unanswered questions and guesswork. Repeated digitizations could have done God-knows-what to his DNA (and by extension, Sam's), but he tells Jordan NOTHING. (Tron: Betrayal) And after all this, he thinks so little of his friends and family that he doesn't even trust them with the truth? With an "in case I die or vanish, here's some instructions?"

 4) And what is he doing in cyberspace? Millions of sentient, artificial life forms with their own society, goals, thoughts, and feelings, and he explicitly refers to their world as a "game," and "[his] gift to the world," with little if any consideration for them. Clu tells him repeatedly the place has some serious trouble; gridbugs, corruption, drive capacity, but Flynn seems to ignore it until it's literally too late. He also seems to ignore Clu's increasingly brutal behavior, again, until it's way too late.

 5) When the Isos come along, he's so delighted by them that the Programs seem secondary concerns at best. When things inevitably go south on him, he saves Quorra (last Iso), but throws millions of Program lives (including Tron's) under the proverbial bus in the process.

 6) Regarding the Isos. Yes, it was a horrible, evil, Sith-Level monstrosity that Clu committed by inciting hatred against them. The creation of Abraxas and cold murder of Radia just scratched the surface. The Iso Wars, bombing of their cities, mass genocide are even worse. However, the Grid was falling apart from gridbugs, system failures, and capacity issues before the coup (Betrayal). It went from being on the verge of irrecoverable crash to stable enough to run uninterrupted for nearly 21 years. The other disturbing element was that Flynn was delighted about the Isos, enough and go on and on about how great Isos were, how much of a "miracle" they were, his "gift to the world." The Programs get slapped with a denigrating label of "Basics," and Flynn doesn't seem to be interested in them (to the point of possibly throwing them all under the bus, Tron included, just to he could save Quorra and his own ass, as noted above). But aren't the Programs also miracles? Aren't they also life from nothing with unknown origin? Aren't they also sentient lifeforms with their own social order, dreams, sense of humor? Weren't they also worth respect? Wouldn't even the simplest accounting script like Ram rewrite everything - science, medicine, religion - just as much as an Iso could? Clu even calls him out on this and there isn't much of a reply.

 7) Quorra says he fought against Clu, but there is no evidence of it in TRON: Uprising and his idea of "fighting" in TRON: Evolution was to code up Anon to do battle for him and die to rescue Quorra.

 Even worse is that the two other main characters of Legacy are his devoted disciple (who was saved by him while millions of others were left to die or worse) and the son who has desperately wanted to find him, characters who likely have a very large blind spot when it comes to his degree of culpability. I figure that the writers were probably intending a more flattering picture than this, but add up these points, and it doesn't look good for him.

 Rebuttal? Additions to the list of disturbing behavior? Something I missed?
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This is the third and last installment in the Tron 2.0 Guide. Again, for those who have played it, please feel free to add or comment on what I marked down here, especially any notes you may have for Ghost in the Machine where 95% of it turned out to be a mind screw.

This section focuses on the characters and how they might fit into a canon timeline.

Character Notes:

Jethro Eugene Bradley:
 For the record, he never goes by "Jethro." In The Ghost in the Machine comic, he is quick to tell the shrink that even his dad calls him "Jet." First impressions are that he is a laid-back sort and mostly interested in making games, even turning down a promotion Alan was trying to arrange for him in order to become a lead programmer on Encom's next game. Scratch the surface, and Jet's more troubled than he seems. He and Alan...there's clearly a lot of love, but very little understanding. A flashback and emails indicate that Jet got into trouble in both high school and college. The high school principal remarked on Jet's tendency to make sarcastic interruptions and on his "despondent" behavior. There's also the one note from the police regarding Alan left his wallet when paying Jet's bail. It's stated in a flashback that Jet's arrest was for hacking into the school's mainframe. Jet says he did it because he was "bored," but another way to read it is that Jet became very used to shoving down his feelings as to not trouble his already-grieving father, bottling them up until they get too much and he does something stupid as a result.
 Ghost in the Machine also proposed that Jet had a much more adverse reaction to his time on the Grid than the Flynns did. The adrenaline wears off, and the implications set in. He knows now that "It's an entire universe in there...Every time you shut off your computer, do you know what you're doing? Have you ever reformatted a hard drive...destroyed an entire universe?"
 As for a Legacy fanfic writer? Well, Jet and Sam would obviously have grown up together, and probably were the type of friends that sat across from each other in a holding cell going "that was fun" at least once. If Sam's got anyone helping him with the annual stunts, Jet's on the short list. Setting 2.0 prior to Legacy would also require some fast explanation as to the setting differences and why Jet and Alan keep their mouths shut.
 Ma3a:
 Alan and Lora created the first Math Assistant (Ma1a) in 1988, and she's third in the series. In-game emails, and the casting of Cindy Morgan as her voice, imply that at least part of Lora's mind was compiled with the Program. She really plays like a benevolent and less powerful version of Master Control, giving Jet his missions and advice as she can. However, she is still very much a program. She doesn't recognize Jet as anything other than a User, and usually refers to him as "Alan-2." A revealing conversation comes about when Jet tries to explain the concept of "father" to her, and she can only understand the idea as "a previous version." Again, it's not clear if Alan compiled what was left of Lora into her as accident or by design. What is known is that the pair of them have been working on those correction algorithms for the laser, and that Alan hid them in her code.
 Mercury:
 Seriously? If someone wanted to write up the idea of some leftover Tron and Yori code going into a new Program (creating a de facto "daughter"), Mercury would be a semi-canonical way to pull it off. Rebecca Romjin is the voice for Mercury, and with the distortion they put on her voice, she still sounds like Mystique from the Singer X-Men films. She's more like the Grid types in that she's ruthless and cunning. However, when the mission required her to sacrifice herself during a reformat, she got Jet out of the way without a blink. There was some implied romantic interest between her and Jet, but there wasn't a lot of screen time exploring it.
 I-No:
 If Ram had lived to see old age, he'd be I-No. A terribly friendly and relaxed sort, he marvels at Jet's elaborate coding and addresses him as "stranger," in the same way the nice old man across the street would use "kiddo." The old Tower Guardian had been around for a long time, and even mentions that he was one of those taken prisoner by the MCP during the film's events. You can easily see him and Dumont having a quiet drink of energy and playing a friendly game of mahjong. He still is a Guardian, though. He chose to accept de-rez when the system he was on went critical.

The less-than good guys
 J. D. Thorne:
 After being passed up for Vice President of security for Encom, Thorne became receptive to bribes. When he was approached by Crown, he was all too willing to fall for the bribe and sell out Encom's security secrets. His PDA doesn't have a lot of contacts on – the pizza place, a therapist, a few work contacts, and his mom. He also had at least one cat. He agreed to get digitized, believing Alan was lying about the need for correction algorithms. Alan does not bullshit, and Thorne found out the hard way. The process was not stable, and he ended up being a personified computer virus, infecting half of Encom and turning his private server into a sickening wasteland. Eventually, his body just fell apart from all the corruption and a beating by the Infiltration Counter Programs.
 Seth Crown III (Attorney):
 Born 9-25-74 in New York City. Went to Harvard and Cambridge. He is a medium-built, sharp-dressed African-American man (voiced by David "Sgt. Johnson" Scully). He's listed in his profile as a "born leader," but he's the kind of "leader" that scares or bribes his people into complying. He's the type of guy, it seems, for whom everyone has a price. Most of his dialogue indicates that he's the guy who could probably hold a gun to someone's head and still keep his voice even. He's also the guy who keeps commenting that they "do something" about Alan, even after locking him in the storage room. One of the emails also states that he paid Alan a visit and made some "persuasive threats." Whatever those threats were, they worked.
 Dr. Eva Popoff (Human resources):
 Born 3-13-78 in Lyons, France. Graduated American University of Paris. Native language is French, but she speaks English, Russian, German, and Cantonese as well. It says she's excellent at managing large groups (herd control), but stiff with one-on-one situations. That's the polite way of saying she's the HR manager from hell. She's heavy on the "resources" aspect of the "human resources," and just a shade above Catbert in attitude. She's usually right behind Crown on the intimidation roll and the most aggressive about launching the Datawraith project – safeguards be hung. Popoff is frankly the most batshit nuts of the three, and completely shameless about the Datawraith project being able to appropriate anything from credit card data to state secrets, giving F-Con an "unprecedented influence over people and nations...erasing any who oppose us!" She and Dillinger Sr. would probably work smashingly together. Hell, if I were to give him a mistress on the side, it would be her (and I'd pity Dillinger).
 Esmond Baza (Technician):
 Born 11-10-71 in Delhi, India. Educated in Leicester, UK. His file says he's self-critical and prone to bouts of depression. What it means is that he's pretty much been bullied by Crown and Popoff to be the code monkey for their scheme. His clothing is rumpled and his shirt hangs half-open. He's easily bribed and intimidated, which means he's Crown's chew toy. Really, Baza is a weak man strung along by the nastier pair above.
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2.0's Timeline
 Tron 2.0 states that Master Control was destroyed sometime prior to Feb 1982. With the loss of the MCP, no one at Encom was able to replicate the digitizing technology. Of course, for those of us working with Legacy, the dodge involved would be Flynn still had access, but decided to keep it quiet. Maybe his pattern was stored in there and would be safe, and that he was able to tinker with the algorithms from the inside after seven years of experimenting; possibly with the Isos' help. Maybe he was about to announce that he'd solved that issue and introduce the Isos when Clu decided to take over, and this could be used as a dodge for that Idiot Ball Flynn was carting in regards to why he was making regular trips into cyberspace without anyone else. Going with this theory means his pattern was the only one that could be transported safely.

Per the Ghost in the Machine comic, Flynn went insane and vanished several years after his trip through cyberspace, with no one sure where he is. The main difference is that the last we hear of Flynn is 1999 instead of 1989. So, Legacy compliance means fudging the timeline, but the fact Flynn AND Tron vanish with no one knowing where they went? TOTALLY works in your favor.

 The other main thing you have to dodge is Lora's fate. In the Legacy timeline, she was sent to Washington DC for a contract job, and appears alive and well at the Flynn Lives event in San Francisco, still married to Alan and (apparently) happily so. In 2.0's timeline, she was killed in October 1994 when the digitizer misfired. It's implied that she was partly digitized and that what's left of her is Ma3a. Whether this was an accident or if Alan did it deliberately isn't clear. Not like I'd put either option past Mr. Bradley. If you're feeling generous, just use the "our spirit remains in every program" loophole from the movie to explain Ma3a. If you're less than generous...well, I'm sure we can think of something.

Here's the 2.0 trimeline as it appears in-game.

February1982:
-Master Control has been shut down by this point, and the secret to digitizing anything (or anyone) seems to have been lost with it.
- Flynn comes up with the idea for the Tron arcade game and asks Alan for permission to use the name.

 May 1982: Flynn replies back to Alan and Lora's request for parental leave with a note of "you guys didn't waste any time, did you?" (Ah, the marvelous Flynn tact...) And adds that he'd be honored to be the kid's godfather.

 December1982: Jethro Eugene Bradley is born. 7 pounds and 8 ounces for anyone playing along at home. Flynn jokes the kid will beat his high score at Space Paranoids within a few months.

 October 1983: Flynn gives the green light to a Tron upgrade. There's an email from Alan that indicates Flynn told him everything, and said that was worried about the digitizing tech falling into the wrong hands. Alan found the whole prospect of a human manipulating a computer from the inside "frightening."

 December 1983: Alan's been working on the Tron upgrade, but hasn't implemented it because of a slight problem...With the patch, Tron would go from fighting for the Users to "kill any User that invades the system!" (Clu would probably trade five Isos and Jarvis's left arm for that code. Would have made "Rinzler" much worse).

August 1984: The plan to upgrade Tron gets shelved by Flynn himself, ostensibly to work on restoring the digitizing technology, since the MCP's destruction set them back. Alan's mollified by the chance to be working side-by-side with Lora. Even though Alan uploads the code to the server, Tron himself has curiously gone MIA from Encom's old server. ("Flynn, you sneaky bastard!")

January 1988: Math Assistant 1 (Ma1a) is implemented. By March, it's capable of recognizing 64 voice commands.

 June 1990: Flynn steps down from Encom. Walter Gibbs Jr. Takes his place as Senior Exec VP.

 October 1994: Lora Bradly has a fatal accident in the digitizing lab due to a misfiring laser. It's implied that she was partly digitized, and that what was left of her in the system formed the basis of Ma3a (explaining why it is Ms. Morgan's voice under all that distortion).

 March 1998:
* A note from Jet's high school indicating he's in trouble for mouthing off to a teacher and sarcastic remarks in the classroom, along with "despondent" behavior.
* A note from the police sergeant saying that Alan left his wallet behind when posting bail for Jet. An in-game flashback indicates that Jet was arrested for hacking into the school's mainframe, ostensibly out of "boredom."

 Feb 1999: Jet's university grades: A in computer science, and 3 classes graded "incomplete."

 October 1999: This is the last we hear from Flynn. It's an email asking how Alan is "holding up." It appears as though Flynn's working on a screenplay about his memoirs, too. Alan jokes about who they'd cast to play his part. (Ever watch Babylon 5, Mr Bradley?)

May 2002: Thorne is passed up for a promotion to Vice President of Corporate Security. This sets up for why he was greedy and stupid enough to contact Crown and to take Crown's offer.

 June 2002: Jet starts working the game division. Judging from the emails, Alan had to talk him into it because Jet needed a co-signer for an apartment lease, and Alan wasn't going to do it unless Jet had a job.

 July 2002: Thorne contacts Crown for "freelance work."

 August 2002: Alan announces that with Ma3a's computational ability, the laser may be capable of digitizing organic matter again.

 November 2002: Thorne sees Alan run the "orange test" (zapping an orange through the system) and reports it to F-con.

 December 2002:
* Walter Gibbs Jr. starts laying groundwork for the merger with F-Con
* J. D. Thorne (Encom's security officer) is approached by to make it a more hostile takeover.
* A gossip email from an "Olivia" to "Nick" says the CFO of Encom is in trouble for misappropriation of funds.
* Alan tries to talk Gibbs Jr. out of selling.

 March 2003: The events of the game.
* There is a note in there of Alan trying to contact Flynn using a home address, but there's no indication that Flynn's there to use it.
* A note from "Patrick" (Games department head) to Alan saying that Jet is more than pulling his weight and will be bumped up to lead programmer for their next title.

 September or October 2003: The Ghost in the Machine comic
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Greetings!

As many know, there were two sequels to Tron: Tron Legacy, which is canon, and the 2004 first-person shooter Tron 2.0, which has unfortunately been declared "non-canon," and downgraded to apocrypha.

However, that does it a great disservice as 2.0 has a rich array of characters, weaponry, scenarios, and situations to add to the greater whole of the setting. Furthermore, there is only a single detail that puts the timelines in direct conflict. Otherwise, the events of Tron 2.0 could be ported into Legacy-compliant fanfic with very little trouble. In fact, it is not uncommon to find a nod to Jet or Ma3a inside what is otherwise straight-up Legacy scenarios.

This is half-review and half analysis of Tron 2.0, with an emphasis on what fanfic writers will be able to strip mine for their own purposes. Walkthroughs and Let's Play videos will also give you a view of the game canon.

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Tron 2.0 came out in 2004, and was probably a test-run for Legacy. The plot of the game itself is that a rival company called Future Control Industries (F-Con) is looking to buy out Encom for the digitizing tech. They plan to use it to digitize groups of elite mercenaries into DataWraiths so that F-Con can obtain and control anything from credit card numbers to state secrets. Those who control the data, controls the world. The F-con CEO is never seen, but Word of God says it was Dillinger Sr. the fact that he is not seen can fit in with "The Next Day" canon of Dillinger Jr. addressing his father (or what he thinks is his father) through a computer interface.

 As far as F-Con knows, the only obstacle is Alan Bradley, who has been working obsessively on the digitizing algorithms since his wife's untimely death and close friend's disappearance several years earlier. (No matter the time line, life sucks for him.)  He's hidden the data somewhere, but no one but him knows where. F-Con has been trying to work on the same technology on their own, but they haven't perfected it. Digitize a human without the proper corrections, and the end result is a virus-infected, barely-sentient monster. They digitized the traitorous J. D. Thorne into the system, and he's become a living virus, infecting Programs by the score.
 The virus infested Programs go insane, and become Z-lots, fanatically loyal to "Master User Thorne." While the Z-lots are infesting Encom's systems, the terrible trio of Crown, Popoff, and Baza pay an unfriendly visit to Alan Bradley to intimidate him into handing over the digitizing tech. An unsuspecting Alan is on the phone to his son, Jet. Jet hears the struggle, races downstairs, and Ma3a turns the laser on him.

Once in the system, there isn't much for characterization. Jet's aided by a Byte sent by Ma3a. Byte is very sarcastic and fairly oblivious to danger, while Jet is in over his head and just wants to find either Ma3a (to get home) or his dad (to help out). Worse, the Z-lots focus on him as a powerful Program to assimilate and the ICP (Infiltration Countermeasure Programs) think he caused the corruption!

Jet fights his way through several levels, but is eventually arrested and taken before the Kernel (pretty much your stereotypical "General Hardass" type). A mysterious Program (later revealed to be Mercury) talks him into putting Jet on the Game Grid. Queue three rounds of lightcycle races (which are a pain in the ass with this game). Mercury is current champion of the Games, and she uses a Flynn-style trick of making an escape route. In her case, she shoots down a guard tower to make a ramp of fallen debris over the wall. Jet dodges his opponents and vaults over the wall, meeting up with Mercury.

Mercury is a rather sultry, self-confident warrior program, and only knows her User as someone named "Guest." She teaches Jet how to turn his lightcycle rod into an improvised weapon. She isn't sure if she believes Jet is a User, but senses there's something "special" about him. They split up to try and find Ma3a. Que more fighting until the Kernel declares the system a loss and engages a reformat. Jet is able to find Ma3a and head for an escape, but Mercury is caught in the reformat.

 Jet is taken to Alan's home computer. Ma3a finally explains what the heck she was thinking when she zapped Jet – a User would be the best chance of clearing the corruption from the system. She also suspects something in the Tron Legacy code (no relation, but worth a chuckle) will be able to help. Lucky for Jet, Alan is an archive nut. What else do you expect from a guy who probably still uses an abacus to balance his checkbook? There are three emails on Alan's system regarding a certain security program we all adore. Thing is, Alan had an upgrade almost ready, albeit one with a few bugs. Curiously, as he was about to apply that upgrade, the project was suspended....Flynn's orders. (Y'all went the same place I did, didn't you?)

Jet leaves and gets on a packet transport back to the Encom system. In the 2.0 universe, Recognizers have been re-purposed into mass transit. Of course, you could always say that it's just the obsolete models that got re-fitted. He goes through the power routing system to get the archaic 1982 server back online (lots of brawling and jumping, not much plot), and then it's out of frying pan and into the fire with a Seeker. Think those sandworms from Dune colored a sick pink-purple and shooting freaking lasers from their orifice.
 Well, he takes out that and gets dropped into the ancient server.

Here's where life gets interesting. The Tower Guardian, I-No, is an extremely pleasant guy. He also lets it slip that he was one of the Guardians the MCP kidnapped at the end of the first film. It's not a stretch to see him being BFFs with Dumont. He curiously mentions that while the legacy code is on the server, Tron himself retired, then vanished from the old server shortly after Master Control's defeat and that no one knows where he is. (Oh, REALLY now? Flynn, you sneaky son of a bitch...). Thing is, there are also a gauntlet of tanks to run, which Flynn programmed to be indestructible and read-only (Flynn, you idiot!). So Jet runs the gauntlet, heads into the heart of the server, and has to overclock the thing into self-destruct to get Ma3a and download the legacy code. The predictable results occur of the system shaking itself apart. However, he does reach Ma3a, I-no and the Legacy Code (which looks like a golden sphere). Jet gets the code, and escapes with Ma3a, but the old Guardian chooses to stay with his system to the end.

Next stop is the internet, which looks like Coruscant. Jet and Ma3a need a compiler to help them with the Legacy Code. They find one, but he isn't strong enough. And it seems that every Program around has heard of Tron. His conspicuous absence is also a topic of speculation, but the man...er script himself has passed into the status of legend. The low-level compiler recommends heading to the Progress Bar. Unfortunately, there's an onslaught of Z-lots and Jet has to hold them off. After the fight, he meets Mercury, but she doesn't know who he is and her personality is gone. She's been re-installed from backup. After Jet fights off more Z-lots and a Rector script (think a wraith that spews the virus, infecting Programs in range), a grateful citizen gives him the permission to enter the Progress Bar.

The Progress Bar is a cousin of the End of Line; a place for the Programs to relax, have a drink of energy, and hang out. There's also a compiler for those who want to use his services to upgrade. The DJ...well, he's no Daft Punk. So, Jet asks around and finds a tune most of the Programs would like played. While everyone's on the dance floor, he gets the code compiled. The code itself goes into Ma3a. (However, Jet also volunteered to be a host for it! If that's not fanfic fodder...) The corrupted Thorne shows up and Jet had to hold him off while Ma3a is compiling to Tron Legacy Code code into her system. Worse, No sooner has that code compiled than Jet gets a video message from Alan warning him not to do it! Remember that bug from earlier? Yeah, Alan never worked it out.

Ma3a proceeds to go bonkers and kills Byte in the process. Jet hops on his light cycle and hauls ass. Just as he's managed and escape, a Seeker grabs Ma3a. After that, Jet fights his way across a remote node to get to Thorne's secure server so he can unlock the door to Alan's makeshift prison.

Back at the F-Con labs, it's explained that Alan hid the algorithms for the digitizer in Ma3a, explaining why Jet suffered no ill effects from the digitization. F-con sent the Seeker to appropriate her for the DataWraith project. An Encom employee (they're merging the companies) also expresses worry that several Encom employees, including Thorne and the Bradleys, have gone missing. The F-Con guy ignores the Encom one. Worse, Alan gets caught outside the storeroom. Crown, the nastiest of the three F-Con goons, decide to make and example/test of him and throw Alan in front of the digitizer, zapping him into the system. This, if one is genre-savvy, was probably F-Con's dumbest move, next to locking a computer genius in a storage closet full of discarded computer parts...After they verify Alan is still alive and reasonably intact after zapping him, they prep the first batch.

Jet finally gets in contact with Alan, but Alan looks different. In fact, he looks like he borrowed his security Program's old duds and looks ridiculous in them. Strangely enough, both Jet and Alan lose the glasses when they hit cyberspace, but it doesn't seem to impact their vision. They're both on Thorne's server – a glow in the dark apocalypse that makes Za'ha'dum look like a vacation spot. So while Alan hides from corrupted Programs (he's unarmed), Jet sides with the ICP Programs to fight off the virus. They'll need to find one another and then find Ma3a, as she had the algorithms to get them home. Thorne probably knows how to get to the F-Con servers and where they'd hide Ma3a, so they need to find him before the ICP units do. Eventually, Jet battles his way up to the system's core. Thorne's there, Alan's there, but so is the ICP Kernel, and the Kernel just wants to de-rez Thorne outright – cannot blame him one freaking bit! However, the Kernel allows a one-on-one battle with disks to determine the winner. Jet dispatches the Kernel, but Thorne is on the verge of death. Before the poor bastard finally dies, he tells the Bradleys that his PDA has a dial-up connection that bypasses the firewall.

 Jet gets uploaded to the PDA, but the PDA is junk; Alan has to be left behind. From inside Thorne's PDA, Jet has to turn everything on and put such a drain on the memory and power that the OS decides to cry "uncle" and push him to the F-Con server. All well and good, now all Jet has to do it bring Alan over. Brawling his way through Fcon's sockets, he finally knocks down enough of them to take down the firewall. Here is his first encounter with datawraiths. They're neon purple, masked, and can appear and reappear at will. They also don't speak, instead emitting an eerie clattering noise that Rinzler would only make on his worst day. The Programs are actually terrified of them. Configuring and aligning the socket rings, the connection is made, and Alan's through! Cut to the F-Con lab (http://www.visualwalkthroughs.com/tron/lostalan/lostalan.htm) where they're freaking out about not being able to locate Alan in the system and that there seems to be another someone helping him.

 Jet clears the area of Datawraiths and F-Con ICP units for Alan to follow. They discover the mobile server F-Con plans on using to deploy the Datawraiths across the internet go steal information they oughtn't have. Alan takes a look at the schematics while Jet goes to take out the server's docking clamps. Jet heads to the tethers and Alan contacts him. The server is powerful, but unstable. They're going to crash it from the inside. Jet wonders if they'll go down with the ship. To Alan's credit, the idea of a heroic sacrifice never crosses his mind. The plan is to destabilize the server, grab Ma3a, and get out before it crashes. (Apparently, that "dying heroically" nonsense is Flynn's tactic, not Alan's!). Meanwhile, it seems that when Jet de-rezzes a Datawraith, the corresponding mercenary is dumped back at F-Con's digitizer lab. They finally figure out that there really is another User in the system helping Alan out. And while the wraiths at least survive long enough to get to a doctor, we have no idea whether or not they remain alive for long.

 Jet takes out the docking clamps, fights off a squad of Datawraiths, then heads to the cargo bay. More Datawraiths and another Seeker wait. He takes those out and hops a transport to the server itself. Fighting his way down to the server's core, he starts engaging a series of override circuits until the server starts to take down functions to stay online. He then finds Ma3a and Alan, surrounded by ICP guards. Again, Jet dispatches those. Alan takes over trying to debug Ma3a while Jet heads to the stabilizers – once those go down, the server is history. To do so, it's another lightcycle chase against Datawraiths in training and they consider five of them to one opponent perfectly valid odds. Eventually, Alan is able to send Mercury to distract some of them enough for Jet to get off the training grid.

 And that's when the Terrible Trio at F-Con decide they're going to win the Darwin Award and go in themselves! Baza balks, but Crown uses his usual combo of bribe and bully to get Baza in on this insane stunt. They get digitized...but Alan's freed Ma3a. The Terrible Trio became corrupted in transport.

 Jet is able to get into the command module and start the system crash. Again with the horde of Datawraiths and ICPs trying to stop him while the place is literally falling apart around his ears. Just as he reaches the digitizer stream to go home, he sees Mercury. She's sad to see him go, and comments that the Program world is "too crude and rudimentary. " He tells her to save herself, and she promises she will. Ma3a activates the beam and Alan steps inside. Unfortunately, when Jet does, the Terrible Trio are right behind him.

On a series of floating platforms, he battles the three of them, eventually knocking each one off and into limbo. As the last one is defeated, the digitizer kicks in and he arrives, safe, at F-Con labs. He's a little shaken about the whole thing, and comments that he'll never drop another laptop again. Alan retrieved Ma3a and Mercury managed to escape the server. As for the Terrible Trio? They're on a ultra-secure external hard disk, and Alan will try to do what he can for them...but it seems he's not in a big hurry to do so. F-con's mysterious overseer (again, implied to be Dillinger Sr.) threatens revenge, but the Bradleys walk out of the lab and away from the computers for a while.
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After months of fretting that the NFL lockout would cancel football season, and cause the collapse of American civilization as we know it, it's all been settled, and the 2011 regular season is under way. But while Bills fan are once again deluding themselves into thinking they actually have a shot at the playoffs, the rest of the pigskin world has a different concern: what to make of the Philadelphia Eagles' herpes-ridden, dog-electrocuting, rape stand enthusiast Michael Vick.
The number of stories pointlessly pontificating about Vick has been ridiculous. From a glowing GQ profile that stopped just short of calling him the second coming the Christ, and ESPN actually putting a white Michael Vick on their front page (which, even by their extreme publicity-whore standards, was moronic beyond belief), everyone wants to give the world their long, bloated opinion about Vick (including me, evidently).
Specifically, a ton of sportswriters want to let us know that it's totally okay to like him now. He's super-duper sorry about killing those dogs, and he double pinky swears he won't do it again. Here's the thing: I'm not judging those who want to root for Vick. With all the slaughtered animals I eat at McDonalds, I'd be a hypocrite if I did.
What bugs me all the useless attempts to moralize liking him. Look, we like the dude because he's good at football. Period. The fact he can run fast is the only reason we're even discussing this. I know this because when Vick first got out of the joint, he sucked beyond belief. He was useless even as a third-string quarterback, and he had all the mobility of Drew Bledsoe if he wore cement shoes. As a result, he existed quietly, and no one was writing bloated pieces letting us know just how tight Ron Mexico was with Jesus.
But now he's playing well, and we want to enjoy it. The problem is, we feel bad about liking someone who brutally murders animals just because he's good at his job. So we get these needless pieces about how Vick has changed. I'm not even saying he hasn't. I don't know the guy. I just don't think it matters. Sports fans a long history of rooting for scumbags, why attempt to justify it now?
Just look at the Dallas Mavericks in this year's NBA finals. Everyone was all-too-willing to forget that Jason Kidd, their washed-up starting point guard, is one of the most notorious wife beaters in sports. Why? Because everyone was too busy loathing the ultra-douchebaggery of Lebron James to remember or care.
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When 4-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith stubbornly refused to wear his hearing aid, his mother decided to bring out the big guns.
Born with no right ear and partial hearing loss in his left, the Salem, MA boy refers to his hearing device as 'blue ear' -- and while it's helped him immeasurably, Anthony suddenly decided that since superheroes didn't use hearing aids, neither would he.
That prompted his mother, Christina D'Allesandro, to email Marvel comics in a desperate attempt to prove to her son that superheroes were, in fact, just like him.
To her surprise, they responded almost immediately. The comic giant sent Christina an image of a 1984 comic starring Hawkeye, who temporarily lost part of his hearing due to an errant arrow and for many years wore a device not unlike Anthony's.
"Anthony said, 'Oh my gosh, he's wearing a hearing aid!' And he wouldn't let it go," she said in an interview with Fox Boston.
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Army North's CSTA puts Nevada CBRN team through paces
January 29, 2013
LAS VEGAS - As part of a U.S. Army North technical proficiency exercise, a small team of specialized Nevada National Guard Soldiers and Airmen assisted local Las Vegas police and firefighters in investigating a possible chemical or biological incident Jan. 24 at the Las Vegas Reserve Center.
The 22-man team of Army and Air National Guard service members, who serve with the 92nd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team had just returned to Las Vegas from service during the 2013 Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C., when they got the call for assistance from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's all-hazards multi-agency operations and response unit, known as ARMOR.
During the early moments of the exercise, Clark County firefighters and Las Vegas police had "rescued" a number of people from an auditorium when a hidden device kicked on. First responders suspected that it may be emitting chemical or biological agents, so the Guard team was called in to take samples and identify the potential threat.
"Through the technical proficiency exercise, the civil support teams are required, every 18 months, to validate that they are able to accomplish their mission," said Conrad Striegl, a division chief with Civil Support Training Activity, U.S. Army North. "This is the culmination of months of training for the team and coordination with Las Vegas, Clark County and Nevada law enforcement and emergency agencies."
Nevada's WMD-CST is one of 57 such specialized Guard teams around the nation that provide support of civil authorities in the event of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents by deploying rapidly to assist local first responders in determining the precise nature of an incident, provide expert medical and technical advice, and help pave the way for the identification and arrival of follow-on military support.
For the exercise, Sgt. Anthony Sarmiento and Staff Sgt. Michael Noyes, both of whom are survey team members, geared up in fully-encapsulating chemical entry suits to enter the auditorium and to take samples from what was believed to be a possible nerve agent being emitted from a device under the projector table.
"I love this job," said Sarmiento, a native from Las Vegas and former military policeman. "It gives me the opportunity to serve full time in the Guard, working for my community."
Noyes, who moved to Las Vegas from Omaha, Neb., to take the job, agreed.
"I like this job because it's what I'm trained to do, and this is the best team in the nation," said Noyes. "Civil support teams offer chemical Soldiers the opportunity to work in high-tech environments and to stay up-to-date on the latest developments in the field."
Army North's support and training is crucial in ensuring that his team is prepared, said Lt. Col. David Sellen, commander, 92nd CST.
"For us, this is really our report card -- validating our mission essential task list," said Sellen. "We walk away knowing we can accomplish the mission when called upon. We talk about citizen-Soldiers -- this is the epitome of it, working with local first responders to keep our community safe. This is our neighborhood; this is our state."
The proficiency exercise was an introduction to the unit for Spc. Jessica Menendez, who recently arrived at the 92nd CST from a job as a supply specialist in the 422nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion.
"I saw a posting, and since I'm trained as a chemical specialist, I'm interested in working in my field," said Menendez. "In the National Guard, a normal chemical job is making sure everyone has a protective mask and that it seals properly. This is more hands-on, interesting. And I think it's more rewarding. Not only am I active (duty) now, I'm serving in my hometown."
The civil support teams can detect nerve, blood, choking, blister and other chemical agents, including volatile organic chemicals; alpha, beta and gamma radiation and individual isotopes; analyze viruses, toxins, bacteria and other biological agents; and assess the atmosphere for oxygen, carbon monoxide, toxic industrial chemicals and the lower/upper explosive limits.
To prepare for the training proficiency exercise, trainers from Army North's CSTA conducted collective lanes training with the unit Nov. 26-30 at Henderson and Pahrump, both in Nevada. The lanes training involved a complex set of tasks from evacuation and decontamination to sampling, identifying threats, assessing consequences and advising responders.
"Our goal is to train hard and make it challenging in order to best protect the American people and our way of life," said Bill Havlic, deputy director, CSTA.
The Soldiers and Airmen of the 92nd CST stay busy.
"We are on missions about two weeks of every month," said Sellen. Besides responding to incidents, including hoaxes, the team supports many high-profile events with the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, the Professional Bull Riders, the National Finals Rodeo, Miss America, the International Basketball Federation and many others.
For the Army North trainers conducting the exercise, one priority - safety - stood out as they evaluated the civil support team as it conducted its mission to sample and identify the hazard, preserve the crime scene, and advise responders on medical treatment and mitigation.
"Safety is our number one objective: keeping citizens safe and keeping emergency responders safe," said Todd Chance, exercise director, CSTA.
The unit will receive a detailed report from Army North, where it will be evaluated in every facet of the mission, from response time and deployment to an analysis of unit tactics, techniques and procedures, equipment, capabilities, communications, safety, and many other facets, and the team will be rated "trained," "needs practice" or "untrained." Copies of the evaluation will be sent to Nevada state agencies and state Army and Air National Guard leaders.


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In the first of its summer shows, 3 Up Front Extra arrives with Mustard Sport correspondent Michael Bailey joined by Norwich Evening News columnist Ian Clarke to look at the managerial situation rumbling on at Carrow Road.
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