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Wilsons Adventure
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by Richard Hawkins
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SAVE YOUR JANE!! Crashed on an island, Wilsons co-pilot Jane has been taken by the magical tribal leader. Battle your way through the fantastical creatures set against you: Avoid being trampled by Mega Pig, burnt alive by Lava Monster, Gobbled up by Sneaky Croc, or sent Bananas by silver back...


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Culinary Arts
The Cuisine and Restaurant Management and the Professional Baking and Pastry Arts programs are currently undergoing curriculum and facility revisions. Neither program is accepting new students at this time. The new programs are scheduled to open in a redesigned space in Summer 2017.
Interested students should contact the Welcome Center at (360) 992-2078 to be placed on the program's interest list.
Program updates and any requirement changes will be posted on this website, as they are available.

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Topic: Cardinal Quest 2 / Post Your Made Up Class Here!
I think one of the most neglected part in the game is the money system in which you can only buy things,
I think of a class based on money.
Stats:everything is low similar to alchemist
Starting Skills:stealing (get random amount of money from enemies) and money-throwing (cost 30 and deal 2-3 damage or distract human enemies)
Starting Items:invisible potion and 200 money
Skill Tree:greedy (get more from enemies and stealing)
discount (33% discount from scavenger)
yours is mine (you get 200 bonus money by killing scavengers)
advanced throwing (higher throwing damage)
the skill that the scavenger drops sometime i forgot its name (summons two spirits for 150 each)
sense of treasure (you locate all loots and money at the start of each floor)
filthy rich (you recover 2 hp every time you collect some money)
toughness (+4 max hp every level)
Perks:wealth (every successful steal gives you 5 morale)
more money (start with 500 money)
quick hand (easier to steal)
shining coins (your throws have a small chance to blind enemy for one turn)
all I need (collecting money grants you exp)


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"Once A Liar, Always A Liar": The Incredible (Un)Truth About Italy, Greece, And The Birth Of The Euro
The must read article from Spiegel.de:
Operation Self-Deceit: New Documents Shine Light on Euro Birth Defects
By Sven Böll, Christian Reiermann, Michael Sauga and Klaus Wiegrefe
Newly revealed German government documents reveal that many in Helmut Kohl's Chancellery had deep doubts about a European common currency when it was introduced in 1998. First and foremost, experts pointed to Italy as being the euro's weak link. The early shortcomings have yet to be corrected.
Many of the euro's problems can be traced to its birth defects. For political reasons, countries were included that weren't ready at the time. Furthermore, a common currency cannot survive on the long term if it is not backed by a political union. Even as the euro was being born, many experts warned that currency union members didn't belong together.
Pushing Ahead Regardless
But it wasn't just the experts. Documents from the Kohl administration, kept confidential until now, indicate that the euro's founding fathers were well aware of its deficits. And that they pushed ahead with the project regardless.
In response to a request by SPIEGEL, the German government has, for the first time, released hundreds of pages of documents from 1994 to 1998 on the introduction of the euro and the inclusion of Italy in the euro zone. They include reports from the German embassy in Rome, internal government memos and letters, and hand-written minutes of the chancellor's meetings.
The documents prove what was only assumed until now: Italy should never have been accepted into the common currency zone. The decision to invite Rome to join was based almost exclusively on political considerations at the expense of economic criteria. It also created a precedent for a much bigger mistake two years later, namely Greece's acceptance into the euro zone.
Of course, financial data doesn't play much of a role when it comes to war and peace. Italy became a perfect example of the steadfast belief of politicians that economic development would eventually conform to the visions of national leaders.
However, the Kohl administration cannot plead ignorance. In fact, the documents show that it was extremely well informed about the state of Italy's finances. Many austerity measures were merely window dressing -- either they were accounting tricks or were immediately dialed back when the political pressure subsided. It was a paradoxical situation. While Kohl pushed through the common currency against all resistance, his experts essentially confirmed the assessment of Gerhard Schröder, the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate for the Chancellery at the time. Schröder called the euro a "sickly premature baby."
A Miraculous Cure
Operation "self-deception" began in December 1991, in an office building in the Dutch city of Maastricht, the capital of the southeastern province of Limburg. The European heads of state and government had come together to reach the decision of the century, namely to introduce the euro by 1999.
As luck would have it, Italy fulfilled all requirements as the date approached -- surprisingly so, given that it had acquired a reputation for notoriously imbalanced budgets. But the country had undergone a miraculous cure -- on paper at least.
A few months later Jürgen Stark, a state secretary in the German Finance Ministry, reported that the governments of Italy and Belgium had "exerted pressure on their central bank heads, contrary to the promised independence of the central banks." The top bankers were apparently supposed to ensure that the EMI's inspectors would "not take such a critical approach" to the debt levels of the two countries. In early 1998, the Italian treasury published such positive figures on the country's financial development that even a spokesman for the treasury described them as "astonishing."
Snail's Pace
In Maastricht, Kohl and other European leaders had agreed that the total debt of a euro candidate could be no more than 60 percent of its annual economic output, "unless the ratio is declining sufficiently and is rapidly approaching the reference value."
But Italy's debt level was twice that amount, and the country was only approaching the reference value at a snail's pace. Between 1994 and 1997, its debt ratio declined by all of three percentage points.
"A debt level of 120 percent meant that this convergence criterion could not be satisfied," says Stark today. "But the politically relevant question was: Can founding members of the European Economic Community be left out?"
Government experts had known the answer for a long time. "Until well into 1997, we at the Finance Ministry did not believe that Italy would be able to satisfy the convergence criteria," says Klaus Regling, at the time, the Director-General for European and International Financial Relations at the Finance Ministry. Currently, Regling is the chief executive of the temporary euro bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
The skepticism is reflected in the documents. On Feb. 3, 1997, the German Finance Ministry noted that in Rome "important structural cost-saving measures were almost completely omitted, out of consideration for the social consensus." On April 22, speaker's notes for the chancellor stated that there was "almost no chance" that "Italy will fulfill the criteria." On June 5, the economics department of the Chancellery reported that Italy's growth outlook was "moderate" and that progress on consolidation was "overrated."
'Not Without the Italians'
Horst Köhler wrote to the chancellor in mid-March. Formerly the German chief negotiator in the Maastricht Treaty negotiations, Köhler had moved on to become the president of the German Savings Bank Association. Enclosed with his letter was a study by the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, which concluded that Italy had not fulfilled the conditions "for permanent and sustainable deficit and debt reduction," and that it posed "a special risk" to the euro.
At a European Union special summit in Brussels in early May 1998, Kohl felt the "weight of history" and, without further ado, provided his unreserved support. "Not without the Italians, please. That was the political motto," says Joachim Bitterlich, Kohl's foreign policy advisor.
The head of the economics division at the Chancellery, Sighart Nehring, noted in mid-March 1998 that "enormous risks" were associated with Italy's "high debt levels." The debt structure, Nehring added, was "unfavorable" and outlays would increase considerably if interest rates rose by only a small amount.
A Love for Italy
But the memo had no repercussions. The chancellor, it would seem, wasn't terribly interested in the details. There was a "built-in flexibility" among politicians when it came to the Maastricht criteria," says Dieter Kastrup, German ambassador to Italy at the time.
Italy, after all, was a founding member of the EU.
Tricks and Luck
In the end, the Italians formally fulfilled the Maastricht criteria with a combination of tricks and fortunate circumstances. The country benefited from historically low interest rates, and Ciampi proved to be a creative financial juggler. He introduced, for example, a "Europe tax" and carried out a clever accounting trick, which involved selling national gold reserves to the central bank and imposing a tax on the profits. The budget deficit shrank accordingly. Even though EU statisticians ultimately did not acknowledge this trickery, it symbolized the fundamental Italian problem: The budget was not structurally balanced, but in fact had benefited from special effects.
The general secretary of the Dutch prime minister and a state secretary from the finance ministry wanted to put pressure on Rome. "Without additional measures on the part of Italy to provide credible proof of the longevity of the consolidation, Italy's acceptance into the euro zone is currently unacceptable," the Dutch officials argued.
Germany's Growing Debt
Kohl, fearing for his most important project since German reunification, refused. He told the Dutch officials that the government in Paris had warned him that France would withdraw from the agreement if Italy were excluded.
The Germans were in a weak negotiating position.
The Chancellery was aware of the problem. "In contrast to Belgium and Italy, the German debt level has risen since 1994," they wrote in a March 24, 1998 memo to Kohl and Chief of Staff Friedrich Bohl. The consequences were unpleasant. "In our view, there is a legal problem in Germany's case, because the Maastricht Treaty only provides for an exception if the debt level is declining," the memo continues.
Still, the situation made it difficult for Germany to play judge, particularly given the lack of formal proof that Italy was in violation. In the spring of 1998, the statistical office of the European Union certified that the Italians had satisfied the deficit criteria of the Maastricht Treaty. This meant that there was "no longer any reason to bar the Italians accession to the euro," as Waigel recalls. After this hurdle had been removed for the Italians, "they had a sort of legal claim to be allowed to be part of the euro from the very beginning," Waigel's former top official Regling says today.
Italy Turns Away from Austerity
Many knew that the figures were sugarcoated, and that they hardly represented real debt reduction. But no one dared draw the consequences. Kohl trusted Ciampi's reassuring claims that the Italians would continue to pursue the "cammino virtuoso" ("virtuous path") they had embarked upon and would "be unrelenting in efforts to clean up the budget." The government in Rome predicted that its debt level would sink to 60 percent of GDP by no later than 2010.
Things didn't turn out that way. As early as April 1998 -- that is, prior to the official decision on which countries would be part of the euro -- there were growing indications that Prodi's coalition partners, the neo-communists, were just waiting to return to their old habits. On April 3, the German embassy in Rome warned that this risk should "not be ignored."
'A Qualitative Shift'
This didn't change after the election, either, no matter how many alarming messages Financial Attaché Stenglin sent to Bonn. On Oct. 1, he submitted a blunt analysis of the Italian fiscal policy, which he hid behind the harmless subject line "Italian Government Approves Draft for the 1999 Budget." Stenglin, who had been sent to Rome from his position at the Bundesbank, saw that the development in Italy was moving completely in the wrong direction. The Italian government's draft budget, he reported to Bonn, signified a "qualitative shift in budget policy."
According to Stenglin, the budget showed the lowest cost-cutting figures since the beginning of the consolidation course in the early 1990s. Additional tax revenues, he noted, would no longer be used solely to reduce the deficit, but also to pay for new spending, particularly on social programs.
When Prodi was replaced a short time later by former Communist Massimo d'Alema, the situation deteriorated even further. D'Alema proposed financing a European economic stimulus program through euro bonds and not factoring the associated expenditures into the national deficits.
The Maelstrom of Crisis
A few weeks before the launch of the common European currency, Stenglin's assessment of the situation took on a dramatic undertone, when he wrote: "The question arises as to whether a country with an extremely high debt ratio doesn't risk gambling away the success of its consolidation efforts to date, thereby harming not only itself, but also the monetary union." It was a prophetic remark. In the fall of 2011, when the country was pulled into the maelstrom of the crisis, the debt ratio had risen above 120 percent of GDP once again.
Meanwhile, European leaders are trying to correct the defects of the founding phase of the euro. Austerity and reform measures are being implemented in large parts of Europe, and all countries support the idea of joint responsibility for the currency. Nevertheless, the new euro architecture doesn't differ all that much from the old one.
No Solution Yet
The government files from the founding phase of the monetary union reveal that this construct cannot function. The message the documents convey is that political opportunism will ultimately prevail. A monetary union amounts to more than shifting several billion euros back and forth. It is also a community of fate. Shared money requires shared policy and, in the end, shared institutions.
The euro is now in its 14th year, and after two years of ongoing crisis, there is a growing realization in Berlin and other capitals that the status quo cannot continue. All reform efforts still resemble small steps to nowhere, and yet politicians are beginning to think in terms of broader categories as they cope with the crisis.
All of these measures boil down to individual countries relinquishing more authority and the central government in Brussels acquiring more power in return.
Incredible! And yet investors and the media hang on every word from these self-deceiving political grab-baggers. Perhaps, just perhaps, the recent elections is the beginning of a slow realization by the public that they truly have been duped from the very beginning.
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There are dozens of countries in the Orwellian Eurozone that did not have the proper superstructure to unite with Germany and France, et cetera. The entire Eurozone project is a farce perpetrated by illuminist internationalists seeking a homogenized, single system across the planet, a fusion of the soviet system and the western social-democracies, with no regard for culture or individuals, but only further control. Their house of cards must burn and their fiat deception must go extinct.
But, until then, we are in for it now as the world will bear witness to the propagandists up-on-high changing the war from Eurasia to Oceania to it-just-simply-doesn't-make-a-difference-anymore (it seems each week the fraud of Euro eligibility redirects its scopes from one country to the next) for, at the top, its all one - the total state-enterprise apparatus munches on the natural world and leaves behind a mechanical wasteland until civilization gets some real money instead of bank-turds of Fed Notes.
Whoa...politicians playing politics? Throwing math to the winds for expediency? Lying through their teeth at every turn? Whocouldanode?
"I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling going on in here."
saw what coming?
This is not a crisis of the EU. This is a crisis of civilization.
We cannot survive by repeating the status quo.
We cannot survive by repeating the status quo.
Liar! Get ahold of yourself. Listen to me man....we can AND WILL!!!
Everyone is saying "don't buy gold" but what else are you going to do with your money? This is a replay of 2008. The dominoes are falling, and it starts with Europe and will bleed over to the states. Deflation is coming. I'm with Richard Russell, I don't care if Gold is $1000/oz or $10,000/oz. What matters is what you can buy with it. I'm not keeping money in the banks.
Premiums are lower than they've been, but that will change when rush comes, and so will supply. Lots of good dealers, Tulving, Gainesville, Texas Precious Metals. TexMetals has a deal going on Gold Eagles for spot + $54, free shipping. https://www.texmetals.com/american-gold-eagle-coin-backdated.html
The situation is getting serious. Sheeple need to wake up!
You can't trust banks following the re-hypothecation and MF global scandals. They are going to be wiped out in the event that Europe crashes.
Right, PMs will drop when people (a) sell them to cover margins (b) opportunistically make money on shorting them, knowing that JP Morgan backs this play (c) governments arrange for PMs to drop to stop people stampeding for the exits. So the price will drop. As you say, what else are you going to do with your Fiat money? In the short term you will lose. But there is a chance that your cash will be totally wiped out.
If the powers that be manage to keep things together. They must eventually inflate currencies. In the medium and long term PMs will increase in value.
That is my view. Firstly, that you are hedging against a fiat extinction event and, secondly, that PMs are a good longer term investment.
You can't time the markets, or guarantee that you will be able to get into PMs later, at a lower level. Paper precious metals may fall while the physical market disconnects. I am buying into PMs as they drop. I just wish that gold would drop a bit more!
In the case of a meltdown I doubt people will sell their precious metals to meet margin calls. I think they will actually hide them from view so that they may use them as back up for whatever else may arise. Precious metals will be the only assets that are both not tied down AND not dependent on paperwork for value.
Sorry, I should have been specific and said I meant that people would sell their paper PM positions to make up margin. This will happen to them involuntarily if they get a margin squeeze anyway.
I agree that it would be silly to go out and sell your physical silver to push into falling equities markets.
Latest article on the GoldenJackass site indicates another Au cartel member is being sucked dry (of its Au!) by China and friends. How many are on the hit list?
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A late night thought.
Maybe. I was listening to KFI news in LA tonight and even they were anouncing that the recent underwear bomber was a CIA operative. There was also similar concerns aired on other mainstream media about the patsy speed freak kids and the bridge. Then there is RP and the delegates.
Might this be a setup against the FEDeral reserve and big banks by the CIA? In other words, the operations are turning the attention of the general public against the ruling Elites because the public generally assume the CIA is controlled by the banksters. Same thing in Europe.
A take down of the elite banking families by the military intelligence agencies.
"A take down of the elite banking families by the military intelligence agencies."
That is something to hope for. Jooz are at the top of these agencies, and pulling the strings, but the majority of people in military, and civilian, intelligence agencies are not aligned to the elite. Many of them must be aware of what is happening. Together they may be able to wrestle control away from the zionists.
I'm not so sure a military dictatorship would be 'better'? Especially when it is big enough to take on the rest of the world. Careful what you wish for. It may just be wishful thinking that the key people in the military intelligence agencies are well intentioned.
Political utopia, nothing more, nothing less. The precious utopia endorsed by the eurofanatics has turned into dystopia with horrible consequences and i believe we've really seen nothing yet. The worst is still to come. Yet the unelected in Brussels and the fanatics in every country refuse to admit their grave mistakes and are pushing more of the same instead. It's time for change and unraveling the euro must happen.
Go buy the dip in silver and fuck it. Just do it, it will make sense later.
What is not mentioned is how the few who said this is a sham were put to ridicule and thrown out on their asses for not caving into a state of self delusion.
Indeed, those written of as conspiracy theorists and tin foil hat wearers at the time end up being proven right a decade later. While the snake oil salesmen who sold the great lie are slinking off into the shadows as the whole thing collapses.
A familiar pattern called normalcy.
The worst is yet to come. They have yet to go full retard.
Greece should give them an opportunity.
History first repeats as a tragedy. Then repeats again as a farce
Is it a coincidence that these documents are released now? Just like that, because Der Spiegel requested it? Is this part of a prelude of Germany leaving the Euro?
As an italian, I must say it was a terrible mistake to enter the Euro, we had a very strong industrial.exporting in the northern half of Italy, even better than Germany, and with the Euro we have been choked to death because of the stupid rate of exchange with the US $.
Our exchange rate Lira-Euro was extremely low, 1927 lira for one euro, when we expected 1,550.Thjis exchange rate was reflecting the true nature of our public finance, so your argument about the political sugarcoating of Kohl and the italian accounting tricks evaporates. We were severely punished by the Euro-lira exchange rate at the start in 2002.
Since then every italian government has increased the state spending regardless of the loss in productivity and the loss in competitivity, because of mere electoralist emergencies ( to please their voters and to keep their seats and the gravy train going along ).
So Euro is doomed , a little bit from the start, but mainly out of the reckless past 10 years of excessive public spending .I look for the Euro to split in two separate currencies in 2013.Euromark ( Germany Netherlands Finland Luxemburg ) and the rest ( France.Italy-Spain-Austria -Portugal-Greece ).If the federal Reserve refrain from QE 3 , then the Euro will go down to 1,20 $/ 1 euro this summer.
Easy to blame euro when in reality you cannot just compete, regardless of currency exchange rate. Asian countries could still outbid your offers easily in manufacturing. Or you have to cut your wages by about 70 percent while your costs stay the same by devaluation.
I think the first world has to reassess its global competitive paradigm based on "international slave labour arbitrage à la Foxconn".
Do you really sincerely feel this is the competitive Ricardian model of tomorrow; where the West is run by Oligarchy empire that outsources its "R&d/design/market/finance" elitist home construct, to hardware slave labour based Oligarchy surrogates and ensures all the while the "RM/commodity extractive empires", that have their buying centres in Caymans, thru closed-shop financial corpocracies also in Caymans? Like the Oil-Seven sisters and the MIC/CIA/world security corp legacy, they will continue in FUTURE to dictate the global flow of geo-strategic events, inspite of the 2008 crash, signal of capital market deflagration and global dystopia at the very heart of the system... Its the death of democracy at home and guaranteed debt serfdom to US/Euro zone citizens; aka Greece today.
This model is totally screwed in financialised disease to its crown jewelled intimate short hairs and now pollutes the mind sets of the developing world. Witness the Exxon Play in Kurdistan that will pour oil on the Baghdad/ Kurd divide around the Irak Oil patch. Does the world need this Oligarchy power play to further twist the already deadly situation in IRan/Syria/Israel standoff; all around this vital commodity lifeline war, so vital to the west?
Don't let the EURO disease, precurser like Japan today since 1990s, of system failure on global level of PAx Americana construct, distract your vision from the fundamental debate. We cannot continue along this route. A major reset is inevitable. The only questions are when and at what price to world community? Secondary issue : who comes out on top; obviously primary issue to Oligarchs but not to the 99%.
I have a factory in India. People love Italian tools and machinery here. The stuff we get from China drops in quality every year. It is really hopeless. But Italian goods have an excellent repuation. The price is very good considering the quality.
I had no idea that Italian goods were of such high quality until I came here from Europe. I'd not bothered with them before. So I would say that the Italians can compete globally.
Probably you are speaking of Italian textile machinery, a technology in which Italy indeed is a global leader. But in a different industry (metals finishing), I've seen China blow away Japan in quality and price.
Italy competes globally in certain specialty industries, most of them situated in the Torino-Milano-Veneto axis. Collectively, though, Italy trails Germany in productivity.
If by 'productivity' you mean 'meaningless hyperactivity resembling slavery a little too closely' then yes.
The German people are no role model for anyone, especially in Europe.
Ridiculous comment Gene. I have worked on the shopfloor of German engineering companies and in the boardroom. Germans work shorter hours than Japanese or Americans, they simply work morev effectively and are concentrated. German manufacturing systems are excellent and the workplace functions unlike the UK. German companies focus on high value-added products from a technically well-trained workforce which is the difference. I think terms like slavery are completely wacko. Many of those workers achieving high productivity are Turkish or Polish - especially in car factories.
No question is more confused, in France, than the question of work. No relation is more disfigured than the one between the French and work. Go to Andalusia, to Algeria, to Naples. They despise work, profoundly. Go to Germany, to the United States, to Japan. They revere work. Things are changing, it's true. There are plenty of otaku in Japan, frohe Arbeitslose in Germany and workaholics in Andalusia. But for the time being these are only curiosities. In France, we get down on all fours to climb the ladders of hierarchy, but privately flatter ourselves that we don't really give a shit. We stay at work until ten o'clock in the evening when we're swamped, but we've never had any scruples about stealing office supplies here and there, or carting off the inventory in order to resell it later. We hate bosses, but we want to be employed at any cost. To have a job is an honor, yet working is a sign of servility. --Coming Insurrection
Not my point Sandmann. Germans are not slaves in that sense. They have, however, come be the Gold standard of what the political economy wants from all Europeans under this horrendous new religion. You can believe as you please, but I can't say the current German construct is a 'free' one.
Actually Gene the Germans fear the Anglo-Saxon way of working - the de-skilling and hire and fire. They fear "McJobs" with low wages and insecurity - and have them - the 1 Euro Hartz IV Jobs. Germany is not a pleasant society because of alien concepts such as "Shareholder Value" which means Boardroom Gluttony and Shopfloor Starvation. They have seen how it worked at Karstadt-Quelle with Sal Oppenheim and the Great Middelhoff Swindle.
Germans LIKE the fact they make PRODUCTS - they are simply terrified of becoming like Americans or British and being turned into Commidities to be traded and discarded as Marx predicted. That is why they loathe Private Equity Heuschrecken who destroy traditional German quality by using Chinese production under German names.
Germany may be a Gold Standard - it has more family-owned businesses than anywhere else in Europe - Britain has the fewest. Germany is full of technically-drive family-owned businesses - such as the Machine-Tool Industry or food production like Dr Oetker.
'Actually Gene the Germans fear the Anglo-Saxon way of working - the de-skilling and hire and fire. They fear "McJobs" with low wages and insecurity - and have them - the 1 Euro Hartz IV Jobs.'
I sense that as well. The question is: can they offset the villianization coming from the anglo-media with some kind of political maneuvering? I don't see it. Will financialisation such them in like the rest? I can't say but the time is ripe for someone to stand their ground.
replying to your excellent quote "down here" Gene, so as not to get in the middle of a good exchange. . .
[...]In France, we get down on all fours to climb the ladders of hierarchy, but privately flatter ourselves that we don't really give a shit. We stay at work until ten o'clock in the evening when we're swamped, but we've never had any scruples about stealing office supplies here and there, or carting off the inventory in order to resell it later. We hate bosses, but we want to be employed at any cost. To have a job is an honor, yet working is a sign of servility. --Coming Insurrection
these words make me smirk in acknowledgement - as someone who was raised in the heart of capital-chasing amrka, with employee turnover as people chased the paper monies, then moved to the UK & Europe in early "working productive" years - THIS is the attitude towards having a jawb that I ran into time and again. . .
my own outcome was the deep repulsion of being anyone's employee, a desire to be free of petty dictators, and their jobsworths, a love of self-reliance. . . I've seen the bitterness and duplicity inherent (for some) in being employed in a hire- archy. . . I'd much rather work within a group of like-minded similars, or alone.
Luciano Bosis does a pretty nice job in the metal finishing department.
Italy's mistake was that the productive northern part of Italy should have broken away from the unproductive and corrupt southern part before joing the Euro.
You want to resuscitate the Papal/ Emperor wars pre-Garibaldi in Italy, on a feudal city state basis?
Just read history, after a thousand years of being rich, divided and battleground for Empires and Popes, after the French/Imperial wars of 1500s, the Italian city states were SCREWED economically.
WHY? 'Cos the nation states of Europe having emerged, fighting industrial wars using cannons and muskets, on land and SEA, could no longer be FINANCED by city republics like Venice and Florence. It needed MASSIVE economies of scale that ONLY a nation state could provide, like France and Spain/Hapsburg Empire. Mechanised Wars had become TOO expensive relative to good ole feudal crusader days. Also, Turkey was now a rival Empire and the future economic and political growth lay in the Conquest of West and far-off lands like India. So the Mediterranean region became marginalised and Antwerp/Amsterdam became the hub of the Atlantic age.
Whence Garibaldi's post-industrial knee jerk to play catch up ball with northern Europe.
And now you would like Italy to go back to those pre-Garibaldi days where southern Italy would just die and fester like a cancer on Europe's toe? Dangerous social play making Europe permanently part of THIRD WORLD. I would like to remind you the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 precisely to bring third world Sovietised Eastern Europe back into first world...
So the Europeans have every reason to be concerned about social construct in their own southern continental regions; if they don't want to hear the bells of regression toll for the whole continent, North and South! There are no frontiers in Europe. The Huns taught us that and now the German forrests have disappeared. Its autobahn all the way to Hamburg and to Vladivostock! Shoot, we are in the Internet age! And skin of colour is like chocolate cake!
This whole Euro history brings to the forefront the issue of FEDERATION. If we follow the example of American History, the US FIRST federated and built up a interstate political/legal/social construct that was integrated BEFORE building a financial and FISCAL construct that allowed the same money to circulate between say New Jersey and Louisiana; one being an industrial Northern state construct, the other being an agrarian Southern state construct.
The Euro deal went from Common Market to Common Money without going through Common political (defense/foreign policy/legal), social (Salary/Salary burden/medicare) and FISCAL federation.
You cannot have a common money without the intermediate step FIRST.
Now the nation states are paying the price for this cart before horse "short cut" integration on monetary front.
And now time has run out for retro-fixing. And the BAby of European continental integration as a stable political/cultural federation in a Global world can be lost with the bath water of a phoney monetary construct.
who cares..I am over at the SEC getting laid....http://compliancesearch.com/compliancex/sexual-misconduct-at-the-securities-and-exchange-commission-the-soap-opera-continues/
You can only trust in NATIONALISED Banks because they are the last line
Read the books of legendary Bruno Bandulet, he knew 10 years ago and wrote about this!
This is why everything must be privatized - education, highways, student loans and yes, the capital markets - even if it means creating monopolies.
Politicians will never be able to replace stockholders.
widespread private ownership of everything only works when the ownership is .. wide spread. If we jumped to that model now a handful of oligarchs would own everything - I.e same as right now but without the illusion of freedom and democracy.
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Penguin Guide
Benjamin Britten
Choral Works
Benjamin Britten could occasionally be disparaging about pre-twentieth
century orchestral and operatic composition in the British Isles, but he always
made a careful exception where choral music was concerned. In opera he regarded
it as a life's ambition to establish a genre largely missing from his native
country, but in the choral sphere he chose instead to work within a tradition,
one for which he had the deepest knowledge and respect.
Nonetheless, no tradition touched by Britten's towering musical
imagination could fail to be renewed and revitalised, and he left behind a
corpus of work which has already embedded itself deeply into the choral and
liturgical culture of all Anglophone countries. Choral music, he acknowledged,
formed the very bedrock of British musical life in centuries past, from
madrigal groups to cathedral choirs, from small professional groups to large
amateur choral societies. The selection on this disc has been chosen to
represent the breadth and imagination of his musical genius in choral music.
The first work, Rejoice in the Lamb, was commissioned in 1943 by
an indefatigable champion of new music for the Anglican church, the Reverend
Walter Hussey, in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of his church, St
Matthew's, Northampton. Britten chose to set the then recently-published
'Jubilate Agno', written by Christopher Smart in the mid-eighteenth century
from his eyrie in a lunatic asylum. Even by Britten's own standards it was a
daring choice which few could bring off with such dazzling aplomb.
This endearingly eccentric poem explores the wonder of creation from a
variety of unusual perspectives - a pre-echo of contemporary magical realism -
and allow, Britten a virtuoso display of word settings. A lyrical tenor solo
sees the wonder of God in flowers; in a plaintive treble solo the poet
considers his cat Jeoffrey, whose morning worship consists of 'wreathing his body seven times round with
elegant quickness'. In its many-faceted exploration of the wonder of God's
creation, the work celebrates music's power to heal, its restorative innocence
and its capacity to bring unalloyed delight. His contemporaries may have
dismissed Smart as insane, it seems to say, but there is a fundamental truth
and sanity which we can all access through our childlike selves. The music
itself is possessed of radiant wit and childlike simplicity but is never less
than thrilling, especially in the glorious catalogue of musical instruments
which makes up the climax to the work.
The Te Deum in C was written in 1934 for the choir of St Mark's
in London's North Audley Street, and was among the composer's very first to be
accepted for publication - albeit by Oxford University Press rather than
Britten's later publishers Boosey & Hawkes. It is in one sense at least
remarkably daring: in the opening pages it adheres steadfastly to a chord of C
major in the choral parts, and builds its musical interest without traditional
use of harmonic progression, but by use of short motifs which are constantly
reworked. The haunting treble solo
which sets the individual against the chorus is a typically ingenious idea.
The Jubilate Deo, so often viewed as a companion work to the Te
Deum in C, was actually penned 27 years later, in 1961. In fact it was the
first fruit of a proposal from the Duke of Edinburgh that Britten should write
some music for St George's Chapel at Windsor. Nothing more of that idea seems
to have emerged except this joyous, dancing work, with its pert rhythms,
sparkling organ accompaniment and masterly word-setting.
Britten's gift for choosing imaginative and inherently musical texts is
demonstrated in Antiphon, composed in 1956 to a George Herbert poem. The
effects whereby Angels reply to Men throughout the work culminate in a climax
where the two sides appear to move apart in ever more insistent discord before
weaving their way back to final concord.
The earliest choral work in this collection is A Hymn to the Virgin, which
Britten wrote in a matter of hours at the age of seventeen from his sick bed,
during his final term at school. It sets a semi-chorus (or solo quartet)
interposing Latin texts against a fourteenth-century English poem. This
macaronic device is re-used to touching effect in the final section of the Hymn
to St Peter of 1955. Here a treble solo sings the text 'Tu es Petrus, et
super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam' against a quietly insistent,
translating chorus of 'Thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my
Church...'. Britten's life-long affection for his own Peter Pears - so much the
secure rock of his own emotional life - seems to lend this passage its own
heart-felt, deep resonance.
The Festival Te Deum was composed for a church in Swindon in 1944
at a time when Britten was more fully occupied with scoring and
orchestrating his most ambitious project to date, the opera Peter Grimes. Always
keen to seek simplicity in his music, he kept the first half of the piece in
unison. As with the above-mentioned Te Deum, Britten explores the
final, pleadingly personal lines ('Let me never be confounded') by way of a
stark treble solo against a chorus.
The composition of the Missa Brevis in D was inspired by George
Malcolm's work as choirmaster at London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral.
The sound world he developed with the boys there had a fresh, natural and
slightly harder-edged vocal timbre, quite distinct from the smooth blend
typically sought at many Anglican cathedral choirs. Britten loved it. 'The
whole choir sang with a brilliance and authority which was staggering,' he
wrote to Malcolm after hearing them in early 1959. Penned within a few weeks in
early 1959, the Missa Brevis is a delightful work for three-part boys'
voices. Its themes show a typically playful iconoclasm (for instance, the Agnus
Dei has an inescapable whiff of the cod horror movie about it), its
harmonies are joyously rich and exotic, while the rhythms pose a delicious
challenge for musically-adept choristers, with seven-in-a-bar syncopations in
the Gloria.
Just as the Festival Te Deum was written even while work
progressed on Peter Grimes, so the Hymn of St Columba of 1962
emerged during the creation of Britten's towering choral masterpiece War
Requiem. Unsurprising, then, that there are more than a few parallels in
word and musical themes between this short work, using judgement day texts by
the sixth-century saint, and the opening pages of the great Dies irae in
War Requiem.
Britten habitually paid homage to other composers by writing variations
on their themes, his Frank Bridge Variations being just one example. It
says much about his field of reference that he turned to the great
sixteenth-century Spanish composer in his Prelude and Fugue on a theme of
Vittoria, at a time when early music rarely ventured pre-Bach.
Surprisingly, this 1946 work was Britten's only solo organ composition.
The Hymn to St Cecilia was begun during Britten's stay in the
United States in the early 1940s and completed during his return on the ship Axel
Johnson in 1942. US customs officials confiscated his half-completed score
of the work just before his departure from America. Spurred on by this
unexpected loss, Britten re-wrote the first section entirely from memory and
used the opportunity of escaping from the drab company on board to complete the
The words are a setting in three parts by the poet W.H. Auden (who
regarded Britten as his protégé), with each part rounded off by an exaltation
to St Cecilia. Auden deliberately conflates his subject - the patron saint of
music - with composers and music in general, as well as with Britten himself,
whose birthday fell on St Cecilia's Day.
In the second section, Auden offers music its own self portrait: 'I
cannot grow, I have no shadow to run away from, I only play' - music is naïve,
incapable of moral growth, simply playing, wanting to be loved. In the third
section Auden widens his field of reference to the innocence of composers as a
species, including Britten himself: 'O dear white children,' he writes 'Playing
among the ruined languages,' alluding to the ongoing wartime degeneracy of
once-great civilisations, and composers' capacity to deploy the musical
building-blocks of those civilisations without political engagement - something
alien to him as a writer and artist. Britten's scintillating setting leaves
little doubt he understood and endorsed Auden's view of music and musicians,
coming to terms with his own pacifism and lack of direct political engagement.
Each section has its own unusual thematic and harmonic developments, and
the work sparkles with typical ingenuity, setting technical hurdles for choral
Moreover, the quietly passionate unison choruses of 'Blessed Cecilia…'
between each section create a strong unifying effect allowing the work to
function at a simple, hymnic level.
As music, it also functions as a hymn or pæan
to the art's
patron saint: it speaks warmly to musicians who have always delighted in its
themes, revelled in its harmonies and relished its technical challenges without
perhaps grasping the subtleties of Auden' s texts. Perhaps there is a deep
irony in this, or perhaps it is the work's deepest truth. Music is music, pure
and simple - in itself it is deeply hard to politicize. Therein lies its joy
and its universality.
Barry Holden
Rejoice in the Lamb,
Op. 30
Festival Cantata for
treble, alto, tenor and bass soloists, choir and organ Text from Jubilate
Agno) by Christopher Smart
Rejoice in God, O ye
Tongues (chorus)
Rejoice in God, O
ye Tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb Nations, and languages,
and every Creature, in which is the breath of Life. Let man and beast appear
before him and, magnify his name together.
Let Nimrod, the
mighty hunter, bind a Leopard to the altar, and consecrate his spear to the
Let Ishmael
dedicate a Tyger, and give praise for the liberty in which the Lord has let
him at large.
Let Balaam appear
with an Ass, and bless the Lord his people and his creatures for a reward
Let Daniel come
forth with a Lion, and praise God with all might through faith in Christ
Let Ithamar
minister with a Chamois, and bless the name of Him, that cloatheth the naked.
Let Jakim with the Satyr bless God in the dance.
Let David bless
with the Bear - The beginning of victory to the Lord - to the Lord the
perfection of excellence – Hallelujah from the heart of God, and from the
hand of the artist inimitable, and from the echo of the heavenlv harp in
sweetness magnifical and mighty.
For I will consider
my Cat Jeoffrey (treble solo)
For I will consider
my Cat Jeoffrey.
For he is the
servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.
For at the first
glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done
by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
Far he knows that
God is his Saviour.
For God has
blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at
For I am possessed of a cat, surpassing
in beauty, from whom I take occasion to bless.
Almighty God.
For the Mouse is a
creature of great personal valour (alto solo)
For the Mouse is
a creature of great personal valour.
For - this a true
case - Cat takes female mouse – male mouse will not depart, but stands
threat'ning and daring.
If you will let
her go, I will engage you, as prodigious a creature as you are. For the Mouse
is a creature of great personal valour.
For the Mouse is
of an hospitable disposition.
For the flowers are
great blessings (tenor solo)
For the flowers
are great blessings.
For the flowers
have their angels even the words of God's Creation.
For the flower
glorifies God and the root parries the adversary.
For there is a
language of flowers.
For flowers are
peculiarly the poetry of Christ.
For I am under the
same accusation with my Saviour (chorus)
For I am under
the same accusation with my Saviour.
For they said, he
is besides himself.
For the officers
of the peace are at variance with me, and the watchman smites me with his
For Silly fellow!
Silly fellow! is against me and belongeth neither to me nor to my family.
Far I am in
twelve HARDSHIPS, but he that was born of a virgin shall deliver me out of
For H is a spirit and therefore he is God (bass solo)
For H is a spirit and therefore he is God.
For K is king and therefore he is God.
For L is love and therefore he is God.
For M is musick and therefore he is God.
For the instruments are by their rhimes (chorus)
For the instruments are by their rhimes.
For the Shawm rhimes are lawn fawn moon boon and the like.
Far the harp rhimes are sing ring string and the like.
For the cymbal rhimes are bell well toll soul and the like.
For the flute rhimes are tooth youth suit mute and the like.
For the Bassoon rhimes are pass class and the like.
For the dulcimer rhimes are grace place beat heat and the like.
For the Clarinet rhimes are clean seen and the like.
For the trumpet rhimes are sound bound soar more and the like.
For the TRUMPET of God is a blessed intelligence and so are the
instruments in HEAVEN.
For GOD the father Almighty plays upon the HARP of stupendous
magnitude and melody.
For at that time malignitv ceases and the devils themselves are
at peace.
Fur this time is perceptible to man by a remarkable stillness and
serenity of soul.
Hallelujah from the heart of God (chorus)
Hallelujah from the heart of God, and from the hand of the artist
inimitable, and from the echo of the heavenly harp in sweetness magnifical
and mighty.
Te Deum in C,
Festival Te Deum, Op. 32
for choir and organ
We praise thee, O
God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.
All the earth
doth worship Thee, the Father everlasting.
To Thee all
Angels cry aloud, the Heav'ns and all the Pow'rs therein.
To Thee Cherubim
and Seraphim continually do cry,
Holy! Holy! Holy!
Lord God of Sabaoth!
Heav'n and earth
are full of the majesty of Thy Glory.
The glorious
company of the Apostles, praise Thee.
The goodly
fellowship of the Prophets, praise Thee.
The noble army of
Martyrs, praise Thee.
The Holy Church
thro'out all the world doth acknowledge Thee;
The Father of an
infinite Majesty;
Thine honourable,
true and only Son;
Also the Holy
Ghost, the Comforter.
Thou art the King
of Glory, O Christ,
Thou art the
everlasting Son of the Father.
When Thou tookest
it upon Thee to deliver man,
Thou didst not
abhor the Virgin's womb.
When Thou had'st
overcome the sharpness of death,
Thou did'st open
the Kingdom of Heav'n to all believers.
Thou sittest at
the right hand of God, in the Glory of the Father.
We believe that
Thou shalt come to be our Judge.
We therefore pray
Thee, help Thy servants,
Whom Thou hast
redeemed with Thy precious blood.
Make them to be
number'd with Thy Saints in glory everlasting.
O Lord, save Thy
people, and bless Thine heritage.
Govern them, and
lift them up forever.
Day by day we
magnify Thee, and we worship Thy name ever world without end.
Vouchsafe, O
Lord, to keep us this day without sin.
O Lord, have
mercy upon us.
O Lord, let Thy
mercy lighten upon us, as our trust is in Thee.
O Lord, in Thee
have I trusted, let me never be confounded.
Jubilate Deo
O be joyful in
the Lord, all ye lands, serve the Lord with gladness and come before his
presence with a song. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God:
It is he that
hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his
O go your way
into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise;
be thankful unto
him, and speak good of his Name.
For the Lord is
gracious and his truth endureth from generation to generation.
His mercy is
everlasting, for the Lord is gracious.
Glory be to the
Father, and to the Son; and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.
Antiphon, Op. 56b
Chorus: Praisèd be the God of love
Men: Here below,
Angels: And here above:
Chorus: Who hath dealt His mercies so,
Angels: To His friend,
Men: And to His foe:
Chorus: That both grace and glory tend
Angels: Us of old,
Men: And us in th' end
Chorus:The great Shepherd of the fold
Angels: US did make
Men: For us was sold
Chorus: He our foes in pieces brake:
Angels: Him we touch;
Men: And Him we take
Chorus: Wherefore, since that He is such,
Angels: We adore,
Men: And we do crouch
Chorus: Lord, Thy praises should be more,
Men: We have none,
Angels: And we no store
Chorus: Praisèd be the God alone,
Who hath made of two
folds one.
(George Herbert)
A Hymn to the Virgin
Of one that is so
fair and bright
Velut maris
Brighter than the
day is light,
Parens et puella:
I cry to thee,
thou see to me,
Lady, pray thy
Son for me,
Tam pia,
That I may come
to thee, Maria!
All this world
was forlorn
Eva peccatrice,
Till our Lord was
De re genetrice.
With ave it went
Darkest night, and
comes the day
The well
springeth out of thee.
Lady flow'r of
Rosa sine spina.
Thou bare Jesu,
Heaven's King,
Gratia divina:
Of all thou
bear'st the prize,
Lady Queen of paradise
Maid mild, mother
(Anonymous, c. 1300)
Missa Brevis in D, Op. 63
Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison.
Lord, have mercy
upon us.
Christ, have mercy
upon us.
Gloria in excelsis
Deo, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
Laudamus te,
benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te.
Gratias agimus
tibi propter Magnam gloriam tllam.
Domine Deus, Rex
caelestis, Deus Parer omniporens.
Domine Fili
unigenite Jesu Christe. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.
Qui tollis
peccata mundi, miserere nobis, suscipe deprecationem nostram.
Qui sedes ad
dextram Patris, miserere nobis.
Quoniam tu solus
sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe.
Cum sancto
Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris, Amen.
Glory to God in
the highest and on earth peace to men of goodwill.
We praise Thee; we
bless Thee; We adore Thee; We glorify Thee.
We give thanks for
Thee for Thy great glory.
O Lord God, heavenly
King, God the father almighty.
O Lord the only
begotten Son, Jesus Christ. O Lord God, lamb of God, Son of the Father.
Thou who takest away
the sins of the world have mercy upon us and receive our prayer.
Thou who sittest at
the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us.
For thou only art
Holy, Thou only art the Lord. Thou only, Jesus Christ, art most high.
With the Holy Ghost
in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
Sanctus, sanctus,
Dominus Deus,
Pleni sunt caeli
et terra gloria tua.
Hosanna in
Holy, Holy, Holy,
Lord God of Hosts.
Heaven and earth are
full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Benedictus qui
venit in nominee Domini.
Blessed is he that
cometh in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the
Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei, qui
tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Dona nobis pacem.
O Lamb of God, who
takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Grant us peace.
Hymn to St Peter, Op. 56a
Thou shalt make
them Princes over all the earth:
They shall
remember thy name, O Lord,
Thou shalt make
them Princes.
Instead of thy fathers, Sons are born
to Thee:
Therefore shall the people praise
thee, Alleluia.
Tu es Petrus, et
super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam. Alleluia.
Thou art Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my church. Alleluia.
A Hymn of St Columba
Regis regum
prope est dies
dies irae et
tenebrarum et
Regis regum
dies quoque
maeroris ac
In quo cessabit mulierum
amor et desiderium
nominumque contentio
mundi hujus et cupido,
Regis regum rectissimi.
King of kings and of
lords most high, Comes his day of judgement nigh:
Day of wrath and
vengeance stark,
Day of shadows and
cloudy dark.
King of kings and of
lords most high.
Thunder shall rend
that day apart,
Wonder amaze each
fearful heart.
Anguish and pain and
deep distress
Shall mark that day
of bitterness.
That day the pangs
of lust will cease,
Man's questing heart
shall be at peace;
Then shall the great
no more contend
And worldly fame be
at an end.
(Attributed to St.
Columba (521-597))
Hymn to St Cecilia,
Op. 27
In a garden shady
this holy lady
With reverent
cadence and subtle psalm,
Like a black swan
as death came on
Poured forth her
song in perfect calm:
And by ocean's
margin this innocent virgin
Constructed an
organ to enlarge her prayer,
And notes
tremendous from her great engine
Thundered out on
the Roman air.
Blonde Aphrodite
rose up excited,
Moved to delight
by the melody,
White as an
orchid she rode quite naked,
In an oyster
shell on top of the sea;
At sounds so
entrancing the angels dancing
Came out of their
trance into time again,
And around the
wicked in Hell's abysses
The huge flame
flickered and eased their pain.
Blessed Cecilia,
appear in visions
To all musicians,
appear and inspire:
Daughter, come down and startle
Composing mortals
with immortal fire.
I cannot grow;
I have no shadow
To run away from,
I only play.
I cannot err;
There is no
Whom I belong to,
Whom I could
I am defeat.
When it knows it
Call now do
By suffering.
All you lived
Dancing because
No longer need it
For ally deed.
I shall never be
Different. Love me.
O ear whose
creatures cannot wish to fall,
O calm of spaces
unafraid of weight,
Where Sorrow is
herself forgetting all
The gaucheness of
her adolescent state,
Where hope within
the altogether strange
From every
outworn image is released,
and Dread born
whole and normal like a beast
Into a world of
truths that never change:
Restore our
fallen day, O re-arrange.
O dear white children
casual as birds,
Playing among the
ruined languages,
So small beside
their large confusing words,
So gay against
the greater silences
Of dreadful
things you did: O hang the head,
Impetuous child
with the tremendous brain,
O weep, child,
weep, O weep away the stain,
Lost innocence
who wished your lover dead,
Weep for the
lives your wishes never led.
O cry created as
the bow of sin
Is drawn across
our trembling violin.
O law drummed out
by hearts against the still
Long winter of
our intellectual will.
That what has
been may never be again.
O flute that
throbs with the thanksgiving breath
Of convalescents
on the shores of death.
O bless the
freedom that you never chose.
O trumpets that
unguarded children blow
About the
fortress of their inner foe.
O wear your
tribulation like a rose.
Blessed Cecilia,
appear ill visions
To all musicians,
appear and inspire.
daughter, come down and startle
(W .H. Auden)
The words for Hymn
to St Cecilia have been reproduced by kind permission of Faber and Faber.


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uhm yeah, but they own tho JP-Logo, all the characters and the whole setting???
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uhm yeah, but they own tho JP-Logo, all the characters and the whole setting???
Yo, what about the license-problems that let Jurassic-Park-mod for crysis fall back to an Multiplayer-Game???
Didnt they say that the studio that owns the licence said they dont accept JP-mods as fan-art? Or did I get that wrong??
Enterprise? Cmon, no Alien or Predator-Fan wants to see an Enterprise-Map. Star Trek is the stupid family-compatible alternative for Alien, much worser than Star Wars!
Pretty good mod though, nice work. Good to see that AVP2 is not dieing...
I've read the poster and it isnt that "revolutionary", for me it sounds way too ambitious and Multiplayer if not perfectly balanced Co-op is very often nothing but chaos wich kills any atmosphere. I kinda think this would end up like that!
Besides I really think there are way too much Zombie-Mods for Source and CryEngine out there, its really enough!
I just can agree with all the others here, get a small project and dont overrate it so much with praising your projects.
So many Zombie-Mods, I dont think this will be THAT REVOLUTONAIRY, cause the whole concept is getting to be unoriginal and boring.
Just play Left 4 Dead 1 and soon 2 and DO SOMETHING NEW!
Also most of the so ambitios and so revolutionary mods tend to be never released, so I definetly wont track this...
Funny, we got now 2 Multiplayer-Coop-games in the Jurassic Park universe.
The JP-Mod for crysis is now taking the very same direction after also stopping making an SP-Game.
You know what? Why dont work together and make a bigger mod for both movies, maybe the unreachable SP-Jurassic-Park-Game is going to work in this way???
Well I understand your problems and dont wanna pass sentence on you, but HELL, I WANT A SP-GAME-EXPERIENCE FOR JURASSIC PARK!
My last hopes are on Jurassic Life, but to be honest I really doubt they will release it one day! Its such a shame!!!
In fact I hate multiplayer this mod is not so interesting for me anymore.
I dont know if anyone has posted this here before:
When you wait a bit after the final sequence and "X9" appears on the screen, go to the place where the crates fall down and break the crate, then you can walk through an secret area where all the memories are resumed.
Both issues are really great, cant wait for the third one.
Why do some people say that handle with care is depressing or touching? Yes it delivers some emotions, but I think the whloe thing is more satiric. The message is: The only way to live in an marriage succesfully is to repress all memories and emotions that are uncomfortable, if you fail, the marriage is done. Kind of cynic I think, I like it! Cause everyone know you shouldnt repress anything cause its not healthy.
When the mod finally comes out you will be old enough to buy a new one :)
Well, please dont put too many things from the novel in the game. 90% of the Jurassic-Park-Fans love the movie and not the book or doesnt even read it. I wouldnt want to see any giant mosquitoes because thats pretty out of touch of what the movie feels like, same thing would be a volcano-level like in Far Cry. New dinosaurs are ok but keep it close to the movie, please!
Man, this mod has really a good design. The more I see the more I like it.
Did you guys ever thought of making an Indie-Game of it? I mean there should be no content from the original game anymore and the license for the Engine shouldnt be that expensive anymore. Because Zombie-Games are kind of in right now maybe there would be a possibility to put in on steam or D2D, like sell it only digital for a few dollars? I dont know how things like that work, just an idea. What do you think?
Hi! First of all I love your work and I`m really looking forward to it. I liked trespasser too but I´m still waiting for a good Game with up to date graphics of the first and best movie!
BTW I found another JP-Mod based on the Source Engine wich could be great too.
Here is the link:
I would be interested what you think about it! Are they doing a good job?
Can you tell me how long the mod will be? How many levels will it have and how many hours will it cirka take to play it through?
Cool, thanks!
Yo cj, got an few questions.
First of all im really looking forward to your mod, there is really a need for good Zombie-Shooters for PC!
I found some infos of a cancelled game called "City of the dead", and when i looked at some screenshots, i saw that some of them are quite similiar to the screns of your mod, also the setting of an abandoned isle and some weapons are the same. I don´t know is somebody asked this before, but have you tried to recover some maps of that cancelled game or did you took over some parts of the settings and story, and if so, how much?
Heres the link to that screens:
Look especially at image 6 and compare it to your image called "dragunov"!
I also wanna ask if there is an Hospital-level in your mod, cause i love the depressing atmo of an hospital especially in an Zombie-game :).
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I am devouring this game! I love it. I was never a fan of Turn-Based-Strategy-Games, Never tried a pokemon Spin-Off before. However, this game changed my opinion of both.
What makes Conquest different from other SRPGs is that all of the pokemon characters are instantly recognizable. You as a player are instantly invested in the well being of your pokemon team.
Each of the gold warriors has a personality, but you don't see much of it in the Main Story episode. Maybe future games could be more plot driven, but this IS a pokemon games, so...
Since all of the silver warriors have a unique name and their pokemon teams are remembered throughout all the 32 episodes, it would be nice if they all had different sprites. Their names are all Japanese, so I mostly recognize them by sight - but some of them look the same, so that causes confusion.
Only now are FAQs being written about the game on Gamefaqs, but they are nowhere near complete. In the future I would like to see the kind of Mathematical Deconstruction of the games mechanics to know exactly how the game works. (like the Conquest effects of poison, burn, sleep, confusion.) Also, If we knew what factors contributed to the raising of a pokemon's Attack, we could learn how to evolve a pokemon faster.
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I'm new here.My husband and I have been TTC for 3 years and counting. We've done 6 cycles of Clomid and 2 cycles of Femara & Ovudril with IUI. Still not pregnant. Decided to take a month or 2 off to recover from stress and financial issues. Insurance does not cover anything for us. I am the first in my family to have trouble. So frustrating!! Hoping that talking about it with you all will help.
TTC for 3 years & counting
i can offer no scientific help, 4 boys, and 1 recent loss at 16 weeks in utero. BUT, i can say i admire your determination!! the child that you get, by any means you and your hubby decide, will be such and angel for the both of you!! sometimes waiting, makes it that much more sweeter! i had horrible morning sickness, hated it. told my hubby, i don't think i can do this. you will be joyful for all syptoms of pregnancy after wanting them for so long! it will be beautiful!!
i send you baby dust, good luck and wishes for your baby!
keep us updated!!
Wife to the BEST, Mommy to the BEST!!
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Chance, 1 1/2 years. ^Angel Baby^ March 09 @ 16 weeks
Thanks so much for your support. You have your hands full for sure. Hope I will get there real soon.
brandib52 - This is a great place to "chat" things out.
My DH and I have been trying almost 5 years. In the beginning, it was 6 months of Femera with my GYN. Then to a Fertility specialist with 8 IUI's with Chlomid, Femera, Ovudrel, ect. In between those, a laproscopy (endometrios results), and an HSG. Those 8 IUI's were over a period of 3 years. We took breaks. (I had to accept that it was okay to take breaks). It is financially stressful and we even went through some "dry spells". But you know what, we just kept talking, trial and error and so far we're making it and our marriage is growing stronger. Anyway, not to tell you my life story but you aren't alone and I've made some great friends on here just chatting things through. You'll be amazed at how many people are in the same boat as you. My DH and I are not pregnant...yet...doing our first IVF in April and very nervous.
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Brandib52--I know how it feels being on this long road. We have yet to be successful. IUI's did not work for us. IVF has suceeded in 2 pregnancies, but both miscarried. Still going through the second m/c. The frustration can get overwhelming. I go back and forth daily as to whether I want to continue. Insuance covers none of what we have done so far. It all takes it's toll. We are also taking a couple months off and focusing on getting healthy--diet, exercise, etc. These boards are very supportive and a great place to go for support. Welcome. Drop me a note if you want to talk.
Hello girls! I've been married for going on 5 years and having been ttc for about 4. Had an mc in 05. Tried clomid about a year and a half ago with no pos results. Had an HSG in jan they said everything looked normal and my tubes were open. Went to a fertility clinic in Feb and learned I had a polyp in my uterus that was acting as an IUD. Yeah! I was shocked. Anyway, I had it removed about 3 weeks ago and my doc agreed that we should try on our own for a couple of months and if nothing then we'll go back for an IUI. Sooo I'm hoping and praying that that was the problem. Now I'm just waiting for AF to start. I've found this board to be very supportive. It's nice to find and talk to girls that are in the same boat. To know that you're not alone. Of course I'm surrounded by pg friends.
Brandi - Have you had an HSG done or hysteroscopy? That sucks that insurance doesn't cover anything. I think that is so wrong. Because we can't have children the normal way it's like we're being punished by not having insurance help. My insurance pays 85% but a lifetime of 10,000. That sounds like alot but if we have to do IVF it's not much. Ugh! I feel ya girl!
Itz - 4 boys!!! Whew you do have your hands full.. I like your names. Tallon and Kalen very different. Good luck to you. I'm sure you will have no problems. Hopefully you'll get a little girl! =)
JoJo - Good luck with your IVF! My FS said that with endometriosis the only way is with IVF so baby dust to you. I hope it works. That's too bad that you had to go through all those unsuccessful IUI's. I can't even imagine. Glad you and your hubby are so strong. Sounds like he's a great support system.
Sarah - I'm so sorry to hear you had another mc. I've read your posts on other bulletins and I was happy to hear you were pg. What kind of tests have you had?? I'm sure all of them. Do they have a theory of why? Maybe it's a good thing that you're taking a break. Stress can play a big factor.
Well girls I would like to keep in touch with all of you. Good luck to you all and baby dust!!
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Hello, I'm new. It's inspiring to read your everyone's journeys. My husband and I have been trying for two years with two miscarriages. I frequently wonder how much longer I can take the disappointment. How do you keep up beat?
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Sept~ I try to remember that it will happen when it is time. It took me a long time to get my first BFP and I know that it will happen again. With everything that I have been through I know it will be worth it in the end. Don't get me wrong I do have bad days when all I do is cry. You just have to make sure you have a good support system there for you when you need them.
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You are not alone.
In June, DH and I will have been trying for 3 years. We had breaks along the way, including one 4 month "break" when DH broke his leg last year. Today we did our third non-medicated IUI, and we are hoping for the best. We have never been pregnant.
We've done the full battery of tests except the laproscopy. DH's sperm count is somewhat low, but he's on new drugs that seem to be producing terrific results after just one month. Our insurance covers very little of the bills, and over time the bills keep adding up. And, I'm not working now so we have one income.
I turned 36 in February, and I feel the clock ticking. We wanted two or three children, but realistically we may have to accept one or none. As Catholics, we are uncomfortable with IVF, so IUI is our final step. There is nowhere to go from here.
Long term infertility is frustrating and it can be very hard to remain optimistic. No one who hasn't gone through this longterm can truly understand. I watch the "Actively Trying" board a lot and I see posts from gals who are frustrated after 8 months. 8 months! Not to diminish their hurt, but once you begin measuring your disappointment in years, things are much more serious. I take comfort in the knowledge that having waited so long for a child, we have learned much patience. That patience will help us to be better parents in the end.
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I know how frustrating this can be. I have been TTC for over 6 years. Sometimes, okay most times, I just want a answer. I have insulin resistance that can affect getting pg, but I have all the "normal" woman things. I ovualate, AF is always on time, etc. DH has been checked twice and is fine. We are out of options. Did I mention that I will be 39 next Thursday?
I wish that insurances helped pay for treatments. We wish so much that we could do IVF.
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NTS Reports 2Q 2012 EBITDAS Increase Of 36.7% To $2.9 Million
RevenuesRevenues from the Company's Fiber-To-The-Premise ("FTTP") business grew 48.4% to $4.5 million in the second quarter ended June 30, 2012, as compared to $3.0 million for the same prior year period. FTTP revenues represented 29.9% of consolidated revenues for the second quarter of 2012, as compared to 21.6% of consolidated revenues for the second quarter of 2011. Sequentially, FTTP revenues grew 10.8% in the second quarter of 2012 as compared to FTTP revenues of $4.1 million in the first quarter of 2012. Consolidated revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2012 were $15.1 million, a 7.0% increase compared to $14.1 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2011, mainly attributed to the growth of the Company's FTTP business. Sequentially, consolidated revenues increased slightly from $14.9 million in the first quarter of 2012. For the first six months of 2012, revenues from the Company's FTTP business grew 43.4% to $8.6 million from $6.0 million in the first six months of 2011. Consolidated revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2012 were $30.0 million, an increase of 5.8% compared to consolidated revenues of $28.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011. Customer Expansion The Company's total number of FTTP customers as of June 30, 2012 was 8,516 compared to 6,111 FTTP customers as of June 30, 2011, representing an increase of 39.4%. Average Revenue Per User for all of the Company's fiber markets is approximately $413 per month for business customers and approximately $100 per month for residential customers. The construction of the NTS FTTP network has continued as scheduled. The FTTP network build out is financed by $99.9 million in funds from the Federal Broadband Stimulus Program, of which 45.9% is in the form of grants and 54.1% is in the form of low cost long-term loans.
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