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Final Fantasy VIII Review
The first disc.
Party split ups.
The entire game.
Squall is nearing the end of his studies at Balamb Garden, a campus host to mercenary youths who study combat skills and magic as everyday course material. Here, girls can still be found gossiping in hallways, and boys picking fights over petty insecurities. For Squall, those childish urges leave him a scar, a nasty gash across the face from a rival classmates gunblade, the weapon itself a true representation of the bizarre balancing act that is
Final Fantasy VIII
. Where realistic and familiar components a blade and revolver -- combine to make something new and incomprehensible.
In its attempt to mesh the realities of high school life and military regiment,
Final Fantasy VIII
creates a premise -- like the gunblade -- beyond belief, but of rich fantasy. Squalls first mission is actually just part of his schools curriculum, a field exam where students raid the beaches of a city under military occupation. The whole segment is a complete rush, battle screen to battle screen as heroic music bites at your heels, although afterward, its back at school with an impatient and obnoxious group of kids, waiting in corridors for test results to be posted.
The game is often surreal in this way, a sort of boyhood fantasy come to life. Daringly realistic in its depiction of the growing pains of youth, but wholly unreasonable in the situations it places its cast of young adults. Childish moments during grisly missions may have you ready to flip the nearest table in disgust, and there are many. These youths showcase no qualifications to be soldiers, just the naivety of their age. Only when they are linked with whats called a Guardian Force do they become a group capable of saving the world.
These guardian beasts form whats called a Junction with their human counterparts, opening up customization options for your party. Of these, the Draw command serves most valuable, since in
Final Fantasy VIII
, enemies hold the magic. Drawing allows you to steal spells that when stored can be attached to the stat sheets of your party members. A turn based system under an active time frame; you must decide when to pull magic, and when to deal damage. The more you collect of a spell, the more it benefits the stats of say, Strength, Magic, or elemental modifiers to your strikes.
Drawing is rather gratifying, both in its colorful, sucking animation on the battle screen, and how it makes your characters stronger in the menus afterward. But it's also daunting. Each person can hold a 100 of each type of spell, so collecting maximum amounts of Fires, Blizzards, Cures, and others can become a nightmarish grind if you pursue it. And when many creatures dont bear much in the way of teeth, you dont really have an excuse not to drink your fill from their temptingly infinite reserves.
Addicting, perhaps -- raising your stats to premature levels of dominance -- but the systems fragility will take a toll on your experience in one way or another. Powerful spells can be collected at certain points in the game, such as the Life magic that can triple your partys HP amounts early on. Savvy players that figure such tactics out will later find themselves facing encounters of little value, where in fact its smarter to run away as leveling scales you with the rest of the games enemies.
Conversely, those who cant wrap their head around the freedoms of the Junction system will end up either drawing everything in sight, or clinging to what works early on summoning. This means calling an actual Guardian Force, thus a torturous, 20-30 second long cinematic attack. With Junctioning stats being the more rewarding and effective way to power, its odd the game tries to push you towards a reliance on summons at the start, providing little in the way of helpful hints to playing properly. Enjoyment is instead dependent on player strategy, both an intimidating and refreshing idea, and luckily for some not a huge focus. Large dungeons are in fact nearly non-existent, so rarely does the system get laborious.
The typical cast of intolerable child heroes also seem to have a ghost of presence, largely ignored by both Squall and the game. Never of primary concern, its as if they exist to annoy the main character. Squall is a blunt professional who hates small talk and petty social obligations, and to great relief of likely most players, he becomes agitated when you would. A relatable and adult minded person placed in absurd situations, he points out the very outrageousness of the game around him. When you feel like facepalming, you may be surprised to see Squall do so first.
Taking advantage of this amusement, the game is primarily comprised of light hearted skits, scenes of dialogue that move with very lifelike animation, obtuse Japanese humor, and fantastical set pieces. It runs with its imagination and never looks back, rampantly day dreaming. Here is a world where simple fishing towns reside on one continent, and futuristic cities, hover cars, and fluent space programs on another. It introduces huge plot elements at the drop of hat, nonchalantly informing you about its theories of telepathy, time compression, and out of body experiences. At one moment youll be hijacking speeding trains with a group of rebel misfits, and the next shooting up to orbit.
Yet often too fantastical to believe, the game seems eerily aware of its own incredibility. Even its soundtrack -- of Uematsu's best work -- is a combination of the dreamy and nightmarish. It hides something beneath its outlandish narrative and unorthodox battle strategy, something more real and down to earth. That is, a clear inspection of an introverted young adult. As if using its fictional qualities to disguise its true intentions, the game drapes Squall and the player underneath its decorative wings of fantasy. As you both take note of its unbelievable nature, you are gradually being lured out as subjects of study.
Beckoning you from your RPG is a girl, the romantic interest that takes hold of Squalls life. She defines
Final Fantasy VIII
not merely as a love story, but rather as the theatrical, musical, and visual trip it is. She resides in it as the games obsession, the
idée fixe
that tears apart the mind of a man forced into a heroic role without the mental strength to succeed in it. Always challenging his cold approach and mathematical demeanor, she annoys him as much as the others do, but relentlessly and adorably. Dismissing her as well as his own feelings, Squall takes her presence for granted; eventually finding himself uncharacteristically bereaved when she is placed in danger.
In this telling scene, Squalls crew is again ranting on about the insanely crafted conundrum of a plot that surrounds them, but here the screen fades to dark. Dialogue boxes continue to pester your view, but now scatter around Squalls thoughts. His appear squarely at the center of the screen, and are clear: this girl is all that matters now. And from here to the end, his battles will be fought over a regretful conscience. As he reaches for her the game becomes more and more incredulous, to the point of utter psychosis as you face villainess witches that drip with personal foreboding. The finale -- a chilling introspection to a repressed mind.
Indeed, theres something about the girl named Rinoa Heartily. The way she ardently struts towards your removed world of fantasy, invading it with her dark eyes and conceited smile. Pressuring you into decisions and confrontations throughout the game, she drags you from the comforts of role playing escapism and into self-analysis. In a world of elite magical soldiers, evil sorceresses, brilliant mythical beasts and time travel, she remains tangible. A comforting constant within a schizophrenic universe, she pulls you by the arm towards emotional clarity. Onto the ballroom floor and into the spotlight, I cant dance isnt a response shell accept.
This game was obtained via digital retail and reviewed on the PS3 platform. Approximately 45 hours of play were devoted to the game
Rated T for Teen, for "Mild language, suggestive themes, violence."
Deaf and Hard of Hearing:
Accessible, written dialogue.
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- Title
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- Abstract
- A challenge facing the finishing industry is to replace chrome plating since this technology has negative environmental and health effects. In the case of tungsten carbide and chrome carbide coatings, HVOF and detonation spray technologies have proven to be cleaner and more effective. In this paper, the results of a comparative investigation involve a detailed analysis of fatigue and deformation of two groups of AISI 4340 steel specimens. One group sprayed with HVOF WC-Co coating and the other group was plated with hard chrome. Rotating beam fatigue tests were performed on the coated and uncoated specimens. Optical and SEM microscopy were used to evaluate the fracture morphology. The fatigue life distributions of coated AISI 4340 steel specimens demonstrated that the HVOF coated specimens exhibited higher fatigue lives compared to the uncoated specimens.
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The death of Alex Spourdalakis is really freaking out the pharma-phunded shills, vaccine injury apologists and self-appointed advocates for themselves, who have mounted what seems like a coordinated effort to discredit Sharyl Attkisson's strong reporting on the tragedy.
What to do? Let CBS know they shouldn't listen to a half a dozen hacks who turn up like worms after a thunderstorm to try to deflect attention from the real issue -- the lack of proper medical care for children suffering -- yes, suffering -- from autism. That suffering surely includes, in many cases as in Alex's, the kind of acute GI damage that Sharyl's report showed last Friday.
You don't hear any of the shills worrying about that. Rather, they trot out the usual key words -- quack, crank, discredited, etc. -- to shut down conversation.
Maybe these geniuses could show us what a healthy gut looks like and we can compare it to Alex's.
Unlikely. Instead, these guys make it sound like the report excused Alex's death -- "his murder," as Sharyl labeled it several times -- by his mother and caregiver ("his killers," Sharyl said).
Say what?
As more vaccine court cases linked to autism emerge, the CDC starts talking about vague "environmental" causes (yes, your vaccines!) and parents (wisely) pick and choose their kids' vaccine schedule, this sad, desperate effort to shut down good reporting that veers too close to the truth gets louder.
Here's how Sharyl's straightforward reporting gets twisted. During the segment, Sharyl introduces an interview with Ari Ne'eman: "He says lack of help is no excuse for murder."
Pretty clear, eh?
But over at Left Brain Right Brain, Matt Carey chose to ignore Sharyl's words and quote the accompanying CBS Web site report: "The written article states, 'But some in the autism advocacy community take issue with the idea that lack of help is an excuse for murder.'"
Not idea wording -- all, not some, in the autism advocacy community, and every decent person everywhere, takes issue with anything as an "excuse" for murder. (Probably written by an intern after watching Sharyl's segment.) But hey, it's fodder for making Sharyl look insensitive. Carey writes: "Really? Only some? And is this somehow limited to the autism community? Ms. Attkisson, what is your position? Is a lack of support an excuse for murder?"
Hey Matt, murder is illegal. Hey Ari, this comment you made to Sharyl is the definition of a straw-man argument: "I think an ideology, a dangerous ideology that preaches that people are better off dead than disabled is what led to Alex Spourdalakis' murder."
What ideology, preached by whom?
Sharyl is up for three Emmy Awards this year, including ground-breaking work on the Benghazi attack. This after her reporting on Fast and Furious that shook things up in the Justice Department. But now, on this issue alone, she's gone completely off the rails?
I don't buy it.
So call CBS at 212-975-3247 and support Sharyl. Click CBS Feedback HERE to use their message form.
Tweet @cbsnews and @cbsthismorning, and thank the Tiffany network for not bowing to pharma's special interest errand boys, and for taking not just the death, but the life of Alex Spourdalakis seriously.
Dan Olmsted is Editor of Age of Autism.
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In the past 6 months three mothers of children with autism have tried to take their own lives and the lives of their children. Coping with a severely autistic child is emotionall exhausting. Autism parents are human and need emotional support that they are not getting. With all the focus on the children, sometimes people forget about the needs of the caregivers.
John O'Neill,
No one is excusing Alex's murder. But I think it is a case in which one must hate the sin but love the sinner. The mother endured her son's regression after the MMR into autism and bowel disease, caring for him every day for more than ten years. He often screamed in pain, and lashed out violently. The mother begged Loyola to help her, but they failed to do so. Of course it would have been better (probably, nothing is certain) had she given up his custody to the state and had him institutionalized. She may have feared that he would suffer even more in that case, I don't know. In a world in which high-profile murder cases often end with the murderer being freed (insert the names here), I cannot imagine that a woman whose sanity was weakened by having to deal with this horrendous situation would be convicted of first-degree murder. No one supports her murder of her son, but many of us could not swear that we might not be capable of doing the same if we had had to endure that same situation for over a decade. Not rational, not ethical, but such a situation would have killed all rationality and ethics long ago.
Hi Carol,
Indeed, and just to add to the comedy Dorit Reiss has been back in action on the web for the last week citing Orac's blog as authority wherever she goes. Not exactly a way to maintain your academic credibility!
Just to be clear, "Orac" dropping in hyperlinks to the Dog Whisperer and "What Not to Wear" in a post about Alex Spourdalakis is an example of "Preposterous Product Placement" and reveals just how phony that whole blog is.
Actually, I should have said- D'oh, the cranks whole teh people want real and honest news gambit, won. Damn.
Orac asks if Sharyl Attkisson is "feeling the heat?" They wish. It must be very disappointing to them (Science"blogs) that two major networks have not paid too much attention to their astroturfing and recognize that they do not speak for most of the viewing public. Jenny starts tomorrow (ABC). Best of luck to her and thanks, Sharyl (CBS), for your coverage on this tragic story of severe, non-verbal autism.
Faux Skeptics Make me Laugh, I respectfully disagree with you. Gorski doesn't hesitate to go after the career and reputation of other health care practitioners. That's what his blog is about. That's what he does. He professes to be pure and perfect, the possessor of true science and medicine, judge and jury over those who differ. He deserves to be professionally scrutinized.
Here is my post to CBS news:
"I am the mother of a nine year old boy who was diagnosed with autism at age 3. I just want to say thank you to Sharyl Attkisson for her excellent reporting on the autism crisis and her most recent report about the Alex Spourdalakis. Ms. Attkisson delves into the medical issues that plague our children and is the plight of so many autism parents who seek medical help for their children only to be denied. Many of these children are truely suffering. Please continue to focus on medical issues associated with autism particularly GI problems. We need the public to be aware that children with autism, like Alex, who have severe, chronic GI pain are often not being treated equally and not being given the same medical attention would be given a child without autism. This is discrimination. Sharyl Attkisson is wonderful and it is rare for a reporter to care enough to investigate and report on the medical problems that afflict our children. Her reporting serves to educate, open minds and shed light on an issue that can help truely our kids. Thank you Ms. Attkisson and CBS for airing this piece!"
Thank you,I agree with that previous comment 100%.
ATTENTION: Mr.Gorski: I need to mention that one sentence Ms. Sharyl Attkisson wrote WORTH MORE,THAT YOU HAVE EVER WRITTEN in your entire lifetime.Thank you CBS,great job.
If I was your employer I would have fired you after the first five blogs for your unethical and unprofessional communication.You have lowered yourself down with the rest of the snakes (pharma) and completely forgot your number one PRIORITY,which is to protect the children and to protect the future.Do you think you are the only one here with a professional degree??? There are many professionals and parents working day and night to find answers.Idiots like you will not stop us.The professional organizations YOU BELONG need to strip your licence.I really do not understand how you made it this far.I will do a full investigation on you.SAVE YOUR MONEY,WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A JOB.
(PS:I reserve the doctor title for caring professionals only.)
Wade you're right about CBS. Hardly ever has a network shown what severe autism even looks like! It was a tragedy that does need explaining (in court and outside of it)
About Orac- you have to wonder about some kind of class action lawsuit to do with incitement against him or Scienceblogs.
In contrast to the off-base criticism by David Gorski, et al on-line, Ms. Attkisson presented a balanced report that helped explain but did not excuse the incident. Nothing can excuse murder, but we need to understand what leads to such acts. Through Sharyl Attkisson, CBS has distinguished itself as one of the few media outlets to present a complete picture of the issues surrounding the ASD epidemic. All concerned should be congratulated for their integrity and courage.
I actually left a comment on Gorski's hate-site. It made me feel dirty dipping into that cesspool, but I felt it was important to leave this message. Let's see if he has enough courage to let it out of moderation.
"Orac, this is actually something you and I both agree on. You shouldn't attack a person's job or financial interests, no matter how loathesome you find them.
So you agree that people like lilady should be called out and admonished for contacting a school board president to get a teacher fired. Or for contacting the employers of the Patriot Nurse to do the same thing.
I guess this pity party only applies when someone does it to you, right?"
John O'Neill
No one should condone murder, and no one should condone the extreme circumstances in which this happened. For a long time the law in different countries has recognised that even with murder there are levels of culpability, but this has not happened here. Sharyl Attkisson was right to highlight it.
Apparently Dr. Jekyll AKA David Gorski doesn't think the fact that his "hobby" of attacking others as Mr. Hyde AKA Orac, should affect his job or credibility as a physician. How unprofessional and naive he is. He viciously and thoughtlessly denigrates the career and character of anyone and everyone. He dishes it out all day long, yet when someone rightly complains about the antics and harm done by his alter ego, he becomes a crybaby. This is a licensed practicing surgical oncologist? Really?
Wow, forget that second episode of Mad Men, things are hopping at RI now. Looks like in Orac's "Some Anonymous Meanie Complained to my Bosses" rant, a blast from the past showed up. He wasn't anonymous and he named others who Gorski has harmed with his "spittle-flecked denigrations" against some Darwin critics. I guess Orac has seriously pissed some people off to put it mildly. How on earth can the guy be doing all this extra- curricular activity and surgery? It's a miracle.
Also, that new bot (observing party) is really up and running I mean she is leaping into planning malicious action toward Dr. wakefield along with the others. You can't make this stuff up.
I think it all really brings home National Geographic's mission statement home- these guys are really inspiring me about the planet.
Great idea, Linda, about Sharyl doing a Skeptic report.
"DR" Gorski should be fired from his job.His patients should fire him.National Geographic needs to stop funding this stupid non-sense blog.
His peers should get this rotten apple out of the bushel before all the apples go spoiled.He brought shame and stupidity to the medical community. Lilady is a retired nurse,an epidemiologist,she is not up to date and she used to give booster shots and vaccines to thousands of kids. All of them together with their best friend dr.prOffit can go down south,take a vacation and please never ever come back.We know that they do not care about our kids,Alex or anybody.It is all about money and big pharma profit.Dig yourself a hole Orac/Dorkski or whatever who you are
and stay there with your snake (pHarma symbol)friends.
As a matter of fact, imagine if Sharyl Attkisson shined a light on so called science skeptics. That would be a good report.
Twisted is right. Dr. Gorski and his team are boldly showing their colors. Let them. CBS execs would have to be blind not to see through their crazy accusations and their attempt to side swipe the truth and replace it with their own invented narrative. Coming so close after the recent campaign against Jenny, the networks must be getting a crystal clear picture of who these bullies are and their censorship agenda, if they didn't already know. Good.
Sorry, but this is trying to excuse murder. Look at yourselves. For God's sake, look at yourselves.
I actually just read the petition against CBS. They state that the piece" frames autism as an excuse for murder." That's really twisting things. Most people have not even seen severe, non-verbal autism on tv until this and to twist what CBS and Ms. Atkinson did his way is similar to kevin O'Leary calling little Rachel Parent (the 14 year old who questions GMO's) a 'shill.' Very disingenuous and I don't think the public (or CBS) will buy it.
False Skeptics- ironic indeed that he's complaining about someone having phoned his employers but yet he encourages 'poll crashing' and censorship/hate campaigns against Jenny (Bust a Move fundraiser and The View) and now Sharyl.
I just sent my support for Sharyls reporting.
I had a long discussion with my parent's (who are in their 80s)about this story.
My son, is 27 and we have lived upstairs from them since he was 4. They know all too well the hell Autism can be.
We all agreed that until something is done to stop this scourge, there will always be parents who decide that for their child, their situation, and for themselves (for those who try suicide) that there are things worse than death.
Your child being endlessly tortured, in clear agony, with no help in sight, after crying and screaming for help, is one of those things.
No, the shills aren't focusing on the suffering much. I noticed that one of the commenters yesterday mentioned his non-verbal, severely autistic girl and even one of the commenters with autism was surprised that no assistive communication device, computer aid could seem to work. Not that some of them weren't sympathetic, but I want them to get it through their heads that autism isn't just 'autism lite.' The only good thing to come out of all of this poor young man's murder is maybe more awareness of just how severe autism can be for many. They have another petition going but hopefully CBS will have the same reaction that ABC had regarding Jenny McCarthy. Most people get the truth of what the story was about- not the 'twisted' version that they want to push with their agenda.
Jeanette-"I don't understand how these groups can ignore the picture of Alex's..."
Two reasons- shilling or reaction formation (I notice there are some fresh bots there- people who say they've been lurkers for a long time- I bet they have-hehe)
Here's what I sent to CBS: "Sharyl Attkisson is the best investigative reporter of her generation, and her coverage of the Alex Spourdalakis story is further proof of that. Back her to the hilt. Did CBS cave when Joe McCarthy went after Edward R. Murrow? (And yes, I am drawing moral equivalences here.)"
There should have been a "an his arse-kissers" in that last sentence.
Dorkski is calling out his drones and lickspittles to send in feedback to CBS to pull the report.
Mr "I don't encourage censorship unless I don't like what it says" David H. Gorski are such cowards...
What was wrong with him and why wasn't the hospital trying to figure it out? Those are the issues, not "Why wasn't Alex wearing more clothes?" His life wasn't an episode of "What Not to Wear."
Called and supported. Your article is SPOT ON!
With all of you talking about Orac AKA Dr. David Gorski's comments about the CBS report, I went over there to see what he wrote. It's hard to read because he drones on nonsensically and it gets boring fast, but I tried to find some thread of logic and came away amazed that he could turn out so many words with so little substance.
His reason why Ms. Atkinson's report shouldn't be believed is because of her past reporting, because she is anti-this and anti-that, and besides, she knows this one and that one. I swear it felt like I was reading the ramblings of an 11 year old (no offense to 11 year olds) struggling to maintain social turf and dominance. You know, "Janie is friends with Sally, so she can't be friends with us and you shouldn't believe anything she says."
If he wasn't so disgusting, it would almost be amusing.
People are so horrified by mankind's ability to kill that they can't look objectively at what happened - they have to turn away with knee jerk reactions decrying any honest analysis as making excuses. Others are trying to avoid guilt and prosecution by deliberately confusing the issue, trying to cover up the reasons by claiming that the reasons are excuses.
Of course, there's a difference between reasons and excuses. The reason for the murder is the lack of help, the lack of support, the cruel treatment and possibly other factors unknown to us at this time. Whether the murder can or will be excused, based on those reasons, remains to be seen.
I don't understand how these groups can ignore the picture of Alex's intestinal condition, likely untreated for years, or the restraints, and particularly the day after day attempts to "anti-psychotically"--these are pills that are used, really for institutional convenience, on the failed theoretical claim that they "normalize" neurodiversity are they not?--treat what may really be going on elsewhere, very likely creating neurological addictions/alterations that Alex would then also have to deal with on top of what is seen in that picture, and call themselves advocates for the "neurodiverse."
Someones mad. Their going nuts. http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/09/05/an-anonymous-critic-complains-to-oracs-employers/
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In 2004 a review of the EPD was conducted to examine the condition of the department. This review was carried out by the Eugene Police Commission combined with 3rd parties; the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). This review concluded the EPD is in "crisis".
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so i bought a yellow tail blue damsel as my first fish for my 14 gallon tank. as soon as i put it in it hid behind my live rock. slowley it started coming out and but would hide whenever it saw any movement in the room. slowley it got more adjusted but then two days ago i couldnt not find it anywhere in the tank. I started moving the live rock around and finally it popped out of somewhere under one of them. it looked scared as hell so i did my best to arrange the live rock the way it was before and let it be. it then dissappeared under the live rock again...it has been two full days now where i havent even seen it. is this common? should i be tossing the rocks around again?
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Changing his enviroment by moving around the rocks might keep him in hiding longer. He just needs to feel "comfortable" in his enviroment. And moving all the rockwork probably stresses him out, which is bad for health of the fish.
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Matthew Rolston was discovered by Andy Warhol at an early age to shoot for Interview Magazine, and has shot iconic covers for numerous publications including Rolling Stone and Harper's Bazaar.
beautyLIGHT, published by teNeues, Available in two formats: Standard book, $75, Collectors' Edition$2500 (limited to 600 copies with a signed print)
Wallpaper* City Guides have added 10 new destinations: Delhi, Hamburg, Kuala Lumpur, Kyoto, Marseille, Montreal, Moscow, Reykjavik, Seoul, and Venice. The guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller.
Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, the editors have done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars and hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores and sites, and the most enticing architecture and design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city's landscape and the satisfaction you've seen all that you should.
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Strike a Pose documents a new extroverted architectural language. The iconographically charged scenes and futuristic spaces featured are playful and experimental and range from private residences to schools and operas, museums and interior design. Manifested in spectacular structures, eccentric forms and vivid colours, this expressive approach goes way beyond conventional stylistic and geographic boundaries.
Strike a Pose, Eccentric Architecture and Spectacular Spaces,
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How to Wrap Five Eggs, a mid-60s classic of Japanese design, is back in print. Assembled by graphic designer Hikeyuki Oka in 1965, this stunningly laid-out paean to traditional Japanese packaging is rife with sumptuous black and white photos by Michikazu Sakai of all manner of boxes, wrappers and containers that appear at once homely and sophisticated, ingeniously utilitarian yet fine and rare.
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How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging, Edited by Hikeyuki Oka.
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Expansive projects accomplished by the interdisciplinary design collective 3deluxe over the last five years. Their skillful interplay graphics, interiors and architecture to create powerful spatial situations and graphics that combines a sensitive intellectual and sensual balance. The multi-media theme world Cyberhelvetia, the interior and corporate design for the CocoonClub in Frankfurt, events and exhibitions for the 2006 FIFA World Cup as well as the corporate architecture for Leonardo are only but a few of the multitude of projects featured in this luxurious volume.
3deluxe, Transdisciplinary approaches to design, by Frame Publishers.
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Magnum will launch a towering book: New York—The Magnum Edition, on november 5th with an event at the National Arts Club in New York City.
Published by Gloria, this giant of a book, weighing in at 12Kg is book as architecture: it comes with its own base and skeletal frame. 1500 images, 756 pages, and features the most iconic images of New York by some of the most respected photographers of our times – including 28 Magnum photographers. The editon includes a silver gelatin print by Leonard Freed (estate stamped). There are only 25 of prints available worldwide.
New York contains thirty three chapters covering every aspect of the New York story, including history, architecture, design, art, fashion, music, film, television, dance, sport and 9/11.
28 Magnum photographers have work featured in the book. Some of the photographers featured in this book include Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, David Bailey, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Patrick Demarchelier, Elliott Erwitt, Philippe Halsman, Evelyn Hofer, Annie Leibovitz, Steve McCurry, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Jacob Riis, Jerry Schatzberg, Edward Steichen, Dennis Stock and Weegee among others.
Chapters have been written by the cream of New York literary talent including Ric Burns, Anthony DeCurtis, Don DeLillo, Paul Goldberger, David Halberstam, Pete Hamill, Michael Kantor, David Remnick, James Sanders, Gay Talese, John Updike, EB White, Colson Whitehead and Tom Wolfe.
New York—The Magnum Edition, $4000, Limited Edition of 25, Published by Gloria, for Magnum
House of Concepts presents the legendary Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands' leading institution for developing design talent that has produced a veritable who's who of the country's creative scene. The book not only features the school's graduates and their work, but also gives insight into the conceptual design for which the Netherlands is famous. The exciting visual content is complemented by extensive interviews with renowned alumni such as Jurgen Bey, Richard Hutten, Joris Laarman and Judith de Grauw as well as Jeroen and Joep Verhoeven.
House of Concepts: Design Academy Eindhoven, Edited by Louise Schouwenberg, Gert Staal, Joost Grootens
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
A journal of Alyssa Bustamante matter of factly described how she killed 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten in October 2009 and described the experience as 'ahmazing,' according to testimony Monday in her sentencing hearing.
Bustamante, now 18, pleaded guilty Jan. 10 to second-degree murder for the Oct. 21, 2009, killing. Two days of hearings have been scheduled before Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce imposes a sentence, which could be up to life in prison with a possibility of parole.
Alyssa's attorney, Public Defender Donald Catlett, said it was their intent to show Joyce that the severe emotional damage she suffered growing up in a broken home helped lead to the events of October 2009.
He said they also would show that her age and development may have led to her actions, as well as her struggle with severe mental illness for more than two years — and that her family had a history of dealing with that disease.
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Nicholas DodziukUSA (1976)
Nicholas Dodziuk is the son of an artist and a mathematician, so it's no wonder he is able to combine creativity and precision in his work. Dodziuk got his first taste of good design at an early age from an Alvar Aalto table among his family's furnishings. "I was always enchanted," he says of the table, "with its relationships of parts to the whole, and how it seemed to work differently than other pieces of furniture." Then one day he got his hands on a Sony Walkman ("the first product that just blew me away," he recalls), and his aspirations as a designer were set.
Raised in New York, Dodziuk graduated in 1998 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in industrial design. From there, a Fulbright fellowship took him to Germany, and upon his return in 2000, he worked as a freelance designer for companies such as Unilever and Sony (in the post-Walkman era).
In 2003, Dodziuk joined forces with Jeffrey Bernett at Consultants for Design Strategy in New York, and they have since collaborated on projects for B&B Italia, Bernhardt, Boeing, Herman Miller®, Knoll®, Teknion and, of course, Design Within Reach. Their awards include the Best of Neocon Silver in 2007 for the Dividends Horizon collection from Knoll, Best of the Year award in 2010 from Interior Design for DWR's own Raleigh Sofa and Best of Neocon Gold in 2013 for Teknion's Fractals.
Dodziuk names "real life observed behavior" as an inspiration for his creative process. "Once you dig deep enough into both stated and unstated needs," he says, "rarely are there any bad ideas to work from." He believes good design improves quality of life. "Design has to solve problems and capture the human spirit at the same time. It has to accomplish both if it is going to contribute to the common good."
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Designer ProteinsResearchers have successfully designed entirely new proteins based on biological principles
As we learn more and more about proteins and how they work, we naturally have the desire to use this knowledge and do some tinkering of our own. Since the early 1980's, scientists have been using the ever-expanding understanding of protein structure and function to redesign existing proteins, and more recently, to design entirely new proteins.
Designing Proteins
As scientists began this quest, they quickly found that proteins are more complicated than they might seem. The different types of amino acids, each with their own chemical features, work together to coax a protein chain to fold into a compact stable structure. A collection of carbon-rich amino acids, like leucine and phenylalanine, are usually placed inside the protein, all chosen to lock perfectly together. On the other hand, charged amino acids, such as lysine and aspartic acid, are typically spread across the surface to make the protein soluble in water. Hydrogen-bonding amino acids, such as serine and asparagine, are dotted in strategic places to tie different portions of the chain together. Finally, the odd glycine or proline is added to redirect the chain in the proper direction.
Negative Design
This combination of favorable forces locks the protein chain into a stable, compact structure. But this is only the first step in protein design. In order to design a protein that will successfully fold, you also need to make sure that the protein only has one stable structure. If there are any other ways to fold the protein, they will compete with your desired structure and spoil the construction. So, it is not enough design a stable protein structure...you also need to design a protein that is unstable in every other conformation.
Proteins from Scratch
Building on decades of protein structure research, scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington in Seattle have successfully weighed these positive and negative design elements to create an entirely novel protein. They started with a fold that had never been seen in nature, shown here on the left. Then, they used a computational method to design a sequence of amino acids that would adopt this fold. When they built this protein, which they call Top7, they found that it folded up and adopted exactly the structure they designed, as seen in PDB entry 1qys .
Amazing Alpha Helices
A popular approach to protein design is to start with a natural protein and make changes from there. Many groups have focused on a particularly stable structure composed of alpha helices. The GCN4 protein, a transcriptional activator from yeast, contains two chains that are linked together with a leucine zipper, a special sequence that forms an alpha helix with lots of leucines on one side. The leucines are spaced perfectly so they can zip together, gluing the two alpha helices together, as shown on the left from PDB entry 2zta . Taking this as the start, many groups have designed new proteins based on this principle. Coil-Ser (PDB entry 1cos ) is composed of three short protein chains that form alpha helices and then associate into a tight bundle. Alpha3D (PDB entry 2a3d ) is composed of a single chain that folds into a bundle of three alpha helices connected by short loops. RH4 (PDB entry 1rh4 ) was designed, by careful choice of the amino acids on the inside, to remove the characteristic twist of alpha helical bundles--notice that the alpha helices are tipped differently than in the other structures. Finally, researchers are now designing new functions in these artificial proteins, such as adding binding sites for metals in the protein DF2 (PDB entry 1jmb ).
Exploring the Structure
One goal of protein design is to create
mini-proteins for use in biotechnology and medicine. Several groups have created
mini-proteins by taking small, stable domains out of natural proteins and then
redesigning the amino acids to stabilize the desired fold. Two examples are
shown here. The basic fold of TC5b (PDB entry 1l2y ) was taken from
a protein found in Gila monsters, and then truncated and redesigned for better
stability. It has a tryptophan at the very center (shown with a star) surrounded
by prolines that together stabilize the structure. Pda8d (PDB entry 1psv ) and FSD-1 (PDB entry 1fsd , not
shown) take their folds from a zinc finger, and were redesigned so that zinc was
no longer needed for folding. Notice that it has a cluster of carbon-rich amino
acids at the center (shown with a star), and lots of charged amino acids
decorating the surface.
These pictures were created with RasMol. You can create similar pictures by clicking on the accession codes here and picking one of the options under View Structure.
Additional information on protein design
J. S. Richardson and D. C.
Richardson (1989) The de novo design of protein structures. Trends in
Biochemical Sciences 14, 304-309.
W. F. DeGrado, C. S. Summa, V. Pavone, F. Nastri and A. Lombardi (1999) De novo design and structural characterization of proteins and metalloproteins. Annual Review of Biochemistry 68, 779-819.
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Keep Filter, Lights on During LR Curing?
I am curing my live rocks and cycling the tank. Should I keep the filter and lights on?
Lighting is better left off during the curing process unless you have hitchhiker corals that require light. The lighting may help to encourage coralline growth during this period, but may also serve to encourage undesirable algae growth as well, especially with the excess nutrients available during the curing process. Remember that you want the bacterias to feed on the nutrients and repopulate the rock. Filtration is also not necessary at this point. The live rock should be your primary source of filtration, so just keep adequate flow within the tank, and let the Live Rock do it's job.
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How should I circulate the water? I didn't buy a pump for the airflow yet. Can I just run the filter and take the cartridge out? That way the water circulates but there is no filtration?
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A non-Jewish slave belonging to a Jew is a slave for life unless the master puts out the slave's eye or tooth, for the Torah has ruled: "If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye. And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth" (Exodus 21:26-27). The sages ruled that it is not only the eye and the tooth which lead to freedom, but any exposed limb, like the eye or tooth, would lead to freedom for the slave if the master destroys it.
There was an incident in which the elders of the city did not come to hear the speech of the sage Rav Hisda. Rav Hisda, who was very zealous about the Torah's honor, asked his student, Hamnuna, to go to the elders who were absent from the lesson and excommunicate them. Rav Hamnuna went to the elders of the city and asked them "Why did you not come to Rav Hisda's lecture?" They answered: "Why should we go if when we ask him a question he cannot answer it?" Rav Hamnuna asked them "Have you then asked him a question which he could not answer?" The elders of the city asked him this question: If a master castrates his slave, does the slave go free? What are the issues under debate? Are the testicles considered exposed limbs like the tooth or eye, for which the slave goes free, or are they considered hidden limbs for which the slave does not go free? On one hand the testicles are exposed, yet on the other they are hidden within the scrotum. Rav Hamnuna did not have an answer for them. The city elders told him: You should not have been called Hamnuna, but Karnuna, one who sits at the street corners instead of being a scholar. Rav Hamnuna went to his teacher, Rav Hisda, and asked him the city elders' question: are the testicles considered exposed limbs or hidden? Rav Hisda answered him that this question is based on a disagreement between early sages -- according to one sage if the master castrated the slave by cutting off the sexual organ, which is considered an exposed organ, the slave goes free. According to another sage, Rabbi Judah the Nasi, the testicles are also considered exposed organs for which the slave goes free. A different early sage, Ben Uzzai, added that the tongue is also considered an exposed wound for which the slave goes free. The scholars asked: If so, because Ben Uzzai added the tongue, this means that according to Rabbi Judah the Nasi the tongue is considered a hidden limb, yet he explicitly stated that the tongue is considered an exposed limb. Answer: Rabbi Judah the Nasi also ruled the tongue to be an exposed limb for which the slave goes free; Ben Uzzai considers the testicles to be hidden limbs and the tongue to be an exposed limb.
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WTO Director General Praises Samoa Agriculture Products
By Kolotita Talatalaga
APIA, Samoa (Samoa Observer, Dec. 3, 2012) – Honey and coconut oil could be the next best thing for Samoa's exports. That's the opinion of the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Amomuaaletuiatua Pascal Lamy.
In the country for a one-day visit on Wednesday, Amomua told the Sunday Samoan he was impressed by the companies he visited which included Yazaki Samoa Ltd, CCK Ltd and Women in Business Incorporated.
But he was particularly pleased about plans to develop honey and coconut oil.
"Honey and coconut oil is something where Samoa has a specific advantage," he said.
"The conditions in Samoa are good for producing these products – it's good for exports and you get good prices on markets which consume these products."
Amomua was equally excited about Samoa's future in the WTO. Samoa's accession to the WTO means exporting goods like honey and coconut oil will be easier, he said.
Trade, he pointed out, is designed to increase social welfare and reduce poverty. This is the sort of core belief that unites all of WTO members, including new members like Samoa.
"Our first mission at WTO is to make sure that as many markets are open for as many goods where countries can benefit from an export occasion," Amomua said.
WTO also promotes specific market access for least developed countries by providing duty free/quota free market access for exports over least developed countries. For example, even if a country can export duty free/quota free but 'bumps' into a "specific sanitary rule", it will prevent food, meat and other products from entering a market.
"We have to make sure that these non-tariff measures are not obstructing trade," he said.
To benefit from the open markets, Amomua said Samoa has to take advantage of the availability of its tradable goods and supply as much as it can.
"Because Samoa has now joined the WTO, Samoa does not have a market access problem," he said.
"That part of the equation is gone. The remaining problem is in growing the supply capacity of Samoa's people, to produce more products like honey and coconut oil; to raise good added value where the markets are open and where markets are in demand for these products."
There is not a trade problem in Samoa, Amomua said. "The problem is supply," he said.
But WTO does not help a country increase supply, Amomua cautioned.
"We are here to facilitate trade; but it's up to the locals to work on the resources you have in order to make the products," he said.
"You have the resources, you have the people, you now have the markets – it in your hands... we create assurance the market is there."
Amomua said the Samoa joining the WTO is an "investment" and membership means the WTO will ensure our exports will not be unfairly discriminated.
"If you're not a member of WTO, any country can do whatever they want with your trade," Amomua said.
"On the contrary, if you are a member of WTO, there are sets of rules and exports cannot be obstructed for reasons which would be unfair – it's a sort of insurance policy against unfair protectionism."
Amomua said the WTO can help Samoa by ensuring that products from Samoa can penetrate markets – whether developed or developing – in the best possible condition.
"We can help Samoa's exports by making sure that other obstacles which Samoa would have to face, are streamlined and are the same for other countries too," Amomua said. "This is what we can do on the market access side – we can facilitate and ease products from Samoa; penetrating foreign markets."
Another way WTO benefits Samoa is through the facilitating of 'trade capacity building'. Amomua used the growing honey industry in Samoa as an example.
"What I saw with the honey here is that you can produce honey in good conditions, and you can reach to some markets," Amomua said. "However, in some markets there will be expensive processes Samoa would have to go through, to make sure the honey is in prime condition for export – this is a way WTO can help."
The benefits may look attractive, but were some challenges Samoa had to face to gain WTO membership. Amomua said in order for Samoa to join the WTO, it had to take a number of commitments on the stabilization and the opening of its market.
An update had to be carried out on a number of rules, legislations, and regulations to do trade.
Controversially, this saw the ban on turkey tails lifted; however, Amomua said these changes are "good for Samoa."
"There are some areas where Samoa had to change certain standards to adjust to WTO standards," Amomua said. "But for the price of this, you get advantages on the export side. Your own exports will not be restricted by certain rules - which is always possible if you are not a member of WTO." WTO hopes to eventually include all countries in the world.
"We are nearly there – there will probably be 160 countries by sometime next year, which leaves very few countries outside. We cover 97 per cent of world trade," Amomua said.
Asked about his one-day visit, Amomua said he enjoyed Samoa very much and was grateful for the experience.
"I heard about Pacific Island hospitality and about your traditions of welcome," he said. "I've been very impressed and moved – there are smiles everywhere, which I think is the brand name of your country."
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Height: 6-3 Weight: 195 lbs.
Born: December 22, 1949 in Swainsboro, GA
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Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 32 (3081st overall since 1950)
7-time Pro Bowler & 3-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
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Marilyn's story
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"I have not heard of any other city just freely handing out money. Most cities are working hard to be responsible and efficient with the money that has been given to them."
Lorraine Boissoneault's book chronicles expedition recreating early French explorer
There were three farms showcased near Findlay two weeks ago by the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture for following current nutrient management practices in the Lake Erie watershed.
Metals and oil go up, cattle go down
NORWALK — The 2016 Lake Erie Junior Golf Association (LEJGA) schedule has been released with 17 overall events on the calendar.
Mystery writer finds success with "Chocoholic" series
The story of many frustrated homeowners
"Anyway, China building a military — oops, logistics — base in Djibouti, along with staking claim to the South China Sea by building islands in order to test international reactions to its attempts to extend its "Made in China" territory, leaves no doubt that China is working on becoming a global military superpower one day."