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Vita Seller or Not, PlayStation Plus Offers a Stellar Lineup of Free Games
PlayStation Plus looks to be making a strong debut on Vita next week.
It has not been the most stellar of years for PlayStation Vita, a handheld system that is arguably fighting just to become relevant, let alone stay that way. Sony's PlayStation Plus service, on the other hand, turned the corner this year and has become an invaluable service for many since the implementation of the Instant Games Collection announced at E3 in June. Plus is now scheduled to land on Vita in less than a week, and while on its own it is unlikely to be a major system-seller, it does look like it'll provide Sony with another major bullet point for selling Plus subscriptions.
Sony today announced a new Vita firmware update will be released on November 19 bringing the system up to version 2.00. This will introduce some new features like an email app and the ability to transfer content to a PC wirelessly. The latter is something I've been hoping for because it will ease the process of sharing Vita screenshots.
More important than any of these smaller improvements is support for PlayStation Plus, a feature that was revealed to be coming during September at the Tokyo Game Show. Among the features Plus provides are game discounts, online game save storage (1GB for PlayStation 3 games and 1GB for Vita games), and automatic game and firmware updates. These are the sorts of features that have been available to PlayStation 3 owners for some time now, though it was debatable whether the $50-per-year fee was worth it. What turned the service around in many people's eyes, mine included, was the Instant Games Collection -- a rotating collection of games that can be downloaded and played for as long as your Plus subscription is active.
Nice as this is, especially considering the price of Plus wasn't changed, there have been some criticisms of the specific games offered, at least here in North America. As compared with Europe, some felt the Instant Game Collection focused too much on smaller, downloadable games, as opposed to retail games. That's something we probably won't be hearing in regards to the initial lineup of games being offered to Plus members with a Vita, which is about as strong as you could have reasonably hoped for.
Available to Plus members for free starting next week will be Gravity Rush, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Jet Set Radio HD, Wipeout 2048, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, and PSP title Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions. That list entails some of the system's best games (Mutant Blobs Attack is an underappreciated gem), one of the best PSP games currently available on the platform, and a very recent release (even if it is an HD remake). While I'm personally a bit miffed by the fact that these all happen to be titles I already own, this assortment nevertheless represents a solid representation of what Vita has to offer. In theory, it seems like a really nice way gateway into the platform for anyone picking up a Vita now.
There are only two problems I can see with that. While $50 to get access to all of these games and any others introduced over the next year is a good value, doing so for anyone without a Vita also requires the purchase of a $250-plus system and a memory card big enough to store the games. That mitigates Sony's ability to legitimately claim a consumer can pick up a Vita and have access to a bunch of games on the cheap -- while this is certainly cheaper than buying the system, a memory card, and each game separately, it's still a significant sum of money to invest in a Vita. While I've written about how a price cut was the wrong move, I am beginning to wonder -- with only 2.2 million Vitas sold by the end of June -- how much longer Sony can persist with the $250/$300 price point. Perhaps the impending holiday shopping season will prove to be precisely what Vita needs, but maybe not.
The other problem is the continued lack of games worth picking up on Vita. This Plus offering accounts for a good chunk of the system's must-have games, a list that is awfully short if you remove non-exclusives from the mix. As for what's coming this fall, Persona 4 Golden looks to be solid, and a pair of games also available on PS3 (PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault) might be worth a look, but the two heaviest hitters -- Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified and Assassin's Creed III: Liberation -- don't appear to be of the caliber necessary to really move systems.
I was never convinced either was guaranteed to be a system-seller, seeing as neither franchise has ever had a significant presence on handhelds, but it doesn't help their respective cases to not be blowing people away. Liberation failed to live up to its potential. Declassified, meanwhile, has been largely hidden prior to its quiet release today; based on early reports, it would seem that was done with good reason. Vita owners still have the likes of Tearaway and Killzone: Mercenary to look forward to, the latter of which will hopefully turn out better than other Vita shooters like Declassified and Resistance: Burning Skies, but the future is not as bright as it needs to be at this point.
As a result of all this, I don't see PlayStation Plus support being a driving force for Vita hardware sales. There's no doubting it's a nice perk, but a cheaper price and more high-quality, original games are what Sony needs to turn the system's fortunes around. For those who already own a Vita -- particularly those like myself who already subscribe to Plus just for the PS3 perks -- this is, however, a fantastic reason to make sure their Vita's battery is charged come next week.
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Portable Pinball MachinePosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by Hunterman328
I bought my Vita purely to play Zen Pinball 2. The system could be discontinued tomorrow and though I'd be disappointed I'd be ok, having gotten what I wanted for my money. That said, of course having other things of interest to do on the system never hurts, but except for a handful of titles there's just not much of interest out there for Vita. I don't think the future is very bright for the system, which is unfortunate because it's a nice piece of hardware. There's just not enough out there or coming soon to interest buyers enough to lay down that much money and I doubt very many more people are looking for a $300 pinball player.
EmulationPosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by chaotica
I bought my PS Vita for two reasons: Hot Shots Golf and to play my PS1 classics on it. The latter reason is more important to me.
It's nice to be able to take my old RPG's with me on the go instead of being tethered to the TV.
The release of Retro City Rampage also gave a nice boost to my system.
I can't say it's worth it to everyone, but I've been enjoying it.
oooh jjjaaaaPosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by pucacoste
i am basically in the same boat as you...
bought my vita for mlb 12 the show, which is awesome IMO, and to play ps1 and psp shit. mortal kombat and sunflowers have also held my interest. can't wait for P4G, though aye yi yi
i was a giant DS dork for years, and i haven't even touched it since i got my vita. PS+ is only making it better, especially since i don't have any of the free games listed. defo gonna be worth it for me!
this is nicePosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by Turkish1011
But as always, a system needs games. There is not a single game I want for this system, including ports. And hardly anything on the horizon - maybe Persona 4? Maybe FFX HD? Since the latter will also be released on PS3, there is just nothing to justify a purchase.
Which is a shame, because it is a damn fine piece of hardware.
I never bought Vita, and probably never willPosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by shady78
, since it looks like they got rid of the one Good Thing championing the neck-lowering system: Christina Lee on "Pulse".
AwesomePosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by SpaceMonkey
my only problem is i own 4 out of those 6 games. What really gets me is that I just bought Tales from Space like a month ago when it was on sale.
People need to start buying this system and seeing the enormous potential it has.
If Sony's selling the system at a lossPosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by vincentgoodwin
And they're expecting software sales to recoup costs...then why are they giving away all their heavy hitters?
Don't get me wrong, I'm really excited to get Uncharted and Jet Set Radio (already have Gravity Rush, Mutant Blobs, and Wipeout), but it doesn't make sense to me. What software are they going to sell to people? Hot Shots? Marvel vs. Capcom? Mortal Kombat (the best game on the system, but also only $20)? Are they banking on getting people to buy a Vita, get these free games, and then buy shoddy versions of Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty?
I mean, I guess they're expecting people to spend $130 in PS-Plus memberships and 32GB memory cards. But it doesn't look sustainable to me.
Nice dealPosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by ButterPeanut
I bought a Vita only recently and have been playing catch-up with a lot of games, so I don't already own Uncharted or Gravity Rush. I almost bought Uncharted a little earlier this week, so I feel like I lucked out with my patience here! Both those games justify the price for me, and I'm looking forward to trying other games I wasn't going to buy like Mutant Blobs. War of the Lions would also be a nice find, except I'm currently playing the crap out of its older brother Tactics Ogre at the moment!
Could anyone who knows more about this tell me if these games are offered only temporarily for download, and if so how long? Like, available for one month to download and play for free, or only 1 week? When the PP period ends, does the free downloaded version just become unplayable without paying money to "unlock" it as game purchased off the PSN?
EDIT: And E-MAIL finally! Not that I don't already own 2-3 portable devices that let me check my e-mail. It just seems convenient to hit the PS button, swap over to the e-mail app, open it, read it for 5-10 seconds to see what the e-mail was actually about and determine how soon I need to address it, and if not to just swap on back to the game I was playing. (Hopefully it won't require closing the game!) The Vita already makes multi-tasking like this just feel cool with the neat touch-screen UI, I'm looking forward to 20-30 minute play sessions that don't require keeping my cell phone tethered to me.
Enough for mePosted: Nov 13, 2012 12:00AM PST by TBIRallySport
I just bought a Vita today and plan on getting PS Plus (already own a PS3) because of this news.
There are two scenariosPosted: Nov 13, 2012 12:00AM PST by Alf_Alfa
for the Vita.
1.) Leave the price where it is at and alienate thrid party publishers more than what they already are and possibly kill your system within the first year....or
2.) Drop the price, take the initial loss to move systems, restore confidence in third party publishers and start making money of the actual licensing of games, which is what all console manufacturers do anyway.
To launch ANY...I REPEAT...ANY handheld console in todays market above 200 bucks is asking for it to fail. No handheld should ever go beyond the $150-$175 range. If a company can not make a hand held and sell it within that range, do not do it....You will fail. Simple as that.
Sony you are competing against your own home console system. Especially with the holidays coming around.
I have been a gaming enthusiast since the Odyssey and I see Sony taking the same path as Sega. If Sony keeps making these silly desicions they will become a game publisher and no longer a console manufacturer.
I have to disagree with you on one thingPosted: Nov 13, 2012 12:00AM PST by mysteriousgamer
Quote: No handheld should ever go beyond the $150-$175 range.
Ipads, Motorola Zooms, and other hand-held devices cost twice that and still sell like hotcakes. Why? Because they have killer apps.
Once Vita brings the apps (and it will), the price will seem more appropriate. The device is priced just right. PSN backward compatible, dual sticks, a 5" OLED screen, near-perfect PSP DLC gameplay, and the most powerful CPU/RAM of any hand-held. And all this is before discussing the games potential this thing has. The Vita, like the PSP before it, is a highly underrated system. It's launch was far more successful than the 3DS, a system that's doing modestly well right now despite hiccups early on (and lately as well with the XL model not including dual sticks).
The Vita will be just fine.
$150-$175Posted: Nov 13, 2012 12:00AM PST by TheSmokingManX
I don't think it's purely about killer apps, or a lackthereof. A device like an iPad, or anything of the sort, has functions that go beyond gaming (and its games can be had for far less than most games on Vita -- or 3DS, for that matter). No one is buying a Vita to listen to music, watch Netflix, or browse the web.
re:Posted: Nov 13, 2012 12:00AM PST by mysteriousgamer
Please explain to us how you know that no one buys a Vita to multi task. And, the apps commonly available on Itunes for cheap prices are, ahem, cheap games that you might play for 5 minutes then be done with.
Title of CommentPosted: Nov 13, 2012 12:00AM PST by roto13
Holy delusions.
1) Stop comparing handhelds to smartphones and tablets. Smartphones and tablets are more expensive because they do a hell of a lot more.
2) The Vita's launch was a bigger success than the 3DS' launch? Just... what? What world do you live in? That's not even close to being true. Just... no. The 3DS has, at no point in its life, reached the lows that the Vita has been struggling with since launch.
@mysterious gamerPosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by Freedom-of-69
You're an idiot.
re:Posted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by mysteriousgamer
The Vita's launch was more successful (albeit only slightly so) because it didn't fragment it's consumer base by launching at one price then suddenly lowering it. To make things worse, 3DS offered free games to compensate those that bought in at the higher price--a move that caused even more friction with those who could and could not access them and/or download them. For those reasons, 3DS' launch was abysmal. Vita's launch on the other hand suffers from what almost every system launch has suffered from--lack of good games. As I stated above, that is something that it can remedy with a stronger lineup of apps (aka: games).
re: freedomPosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by mysteriousgamer
Care to debate points or are you above having an actual discussion?
to Re:Posted: Nov 15, 2012 12:00AM PST by Alf_Alfa
The Vita's launch was more successful (albeit only slightly so) because it didn't fragment it's consumer base by launching at one price then suddenly lowering it.
Exactly how did Nintendo "Fragment" it's consumer base? Part of its consumer base, albeit a small one, bought it for 250 buckaroos.
The other (LARGER) consumer base, like myself, snagged one up on the day of the price drop.
If you think Nintendo "Fragmented" its consumer base, they moved much more systems in doing so.
I feel a price drop is in order for Sony to be a viable competitor in the hand held market. You can not offer your product for $100 or $150 more than the competitors for roughly the same item in the same market and expect to move units.
One can argue "Well Sony's hand held has better graphics,you can listen to music, watch video's, has 3g and blah blah blah"
But that is the Vitas problem. It is trying to be more than just a hand held gaming device when a hand held gaming device is all a gamer wants.
having already subscribed to PS Plus...Posted: Nov 13, 2012 12:00AM PST by AJAPAM_34
This would've been just the thing to make me buy a Vita if I wasn't poor and at university. The idea of unboxing a new system and getting almost every game I wanted for it right away is quite appealling.
I guess there's something to be said about the fact that Gravity Rush, Wipeout, and Uncharted are basically the only exclusives I want for the system right now, though.
QuestionPosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by bullet656
"Since you already have Plus, you can just "claim" these games and they'll be waiting for you whenever you get around to buying a Vita."
Has this been verified, or is it just a guess? I recently bought Plus (just yesterday, in fact) and have been leaning towards getting a Vita at some point. After hearing this news I almost ordered one last night but stopped myself because I kind of want to hold off awhile longer. I was thinking along the same lines, that I could just download them and put them on the Vita when I eventually get one but couldn't find any official word on it. I was a little frightened that they would implement some way that would limit you to only be able to download the free games directly to a Vita or something. Since I've only had plus for a single day and don't have a Vita at all I don't really have a good idea how either works, so maybe this isn't possible.
It's truePosted: Nov 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by AJAPAM_34
If you "claimed" the game you can still download it once it's no longer free, assuming you still have PS Plus. I guess they could set it up so that you can only download PS plus freebies on a Vita, but that doesn't seem like it would be very helpful to Sony.


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Published: August 26, 1996
KYOTO, Japan— Visitors to the Nintendo Company headquarters get a taste of the personality of its president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, the minute they walk through the door. The lobby, hallways and conference rooms are all bare walls and plain tiles. There are no video game machines, no posters, no Mario dolls, nothing to suggest that this is the lair of a company that provides entertainment to millions of children.
To Mr. Yamauchi, any decoration is a needless distraction. Video games, which he himself does not play, are business, not fun.
With such single-minded devotion, Mr. Yamauchi transformed a playing-card company founded by his great-grandfather into a video game colossus that at one time a few years ago was the most profitable company in Japan. But Nintendo was late with two generations of new machines, letting first Sega Enterprises Ltd. and then the Sony Corporation break up what was once its near-monopoly.
Now, the 68-year-old Mr. Yamauchi is attempting what could be his last hurrah, a comeback with Nintendo 64, a powerful new game machine that went on sale in Japan in June and will reach American stores at the end of September.
Nintendo is about a year behind schedule in shipping its machines, and there are already hundreds of games available to play on the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn. Nintendo has only three titles.
But those are odds Mr. Yamauchi likes. ''Those who believe that 'the more games the better' are just ignorant of the actual market situation,'' Mr. Yamauchi said.
Too many games means that some will be of poor quality and will disenchant consumers, he said. Indeed, he said that the whole video game business could crash next year because there are too many uninteresting games for other manufacturers' machines, just as happened in 1983, when the Atari Corporation and the business it fostered collapsed.
''The current flood of thousands of games each year is surely ruining the market,'' he said. To keep consumers hooked, he said, new game experiences different from those in the past must be developed.
Many market observers discount Mr. Yamauchi's gloomy prophecy as mere posturing. Still, the big question in the coming battle is whether Mr. Yamauchi can execute the same strategy that he used so well in the past.
Nintendo plans to tightly restrict the number of games developed for its machine to assure high quality. It also plans to develop most of the games by itself, at least initially. Outside companies can make games, but under terms that give much of the profit to Nintendo and much of the risk to the software company. Nintendo's machine will use game cartridges, which software companies will have to buy from Nintendo for prices upwards of $40, rather than the far cheaper CD-ROM's used by Sony and Sega.
In the past, when Nintendo had a near monopoly, outside companies had little choice but to go along with such terms. Now, some companies, like two of the leading Japanese game designers, the Square Company and Namco Ltd., are shunning Nintendo for Sony, which is actively recruiting developers.
''Right now, it's the other side of the coin,'' said Henk Rogers, a software entrepreneur who licensed the Tetris game for Nintendo machines. ''No one wants to be on Nintendo, so they have to be nice to us.''
But, Mr. Rogers added, ''I'm not saying they are nice; I'm saying they need to be.''
Indeed, Mr. Yamauchi's stance on outside game designers was shown last November when Nintendo first introduced the Nintendo 64 at an exhibition in Tokyo. Several companies raced to get prototypes ready to demonstrate on the new machine. But the night before the big event, Mr. Yamauchi decreed that only Super Mario 64 and Kirby's Air Ride, both developed by Nintendo itself, would be shown.
In the first round of the battle, Nintendo has scored well. The company said it had shipped 1.1 million machines in Japan in the first month and a half, beginning in June, and estimated that 90 percent had been sold to consumers. The company expects to ship a total of 3.6 million in Japan and one million in the United States by the end of next March. This is a much faster initial pace than that of Sony or Sega.
The strong early performance is a testament to the Nintendo 64, which can display dazzling three-dimensional images using technology supplied by Silicon Graphics Inc., the American work-station manufacturer. The Nintendo 64 handles 64 bits of information at a time, making it more powerful than the 32-bit Sony and Sega machines.
Nintendo ''basically made the industry sit up and take notice,'' said Lee Isgur, an analyst at Jefferies & Company in San Francisco.
The sales are being buoyed by just one game, Super Mario 64, which perhaps exemplifies what Mr. Yamauchi means by creating new experiences. Super Mario 64 is drawing rave reviews for its ability to let the mustachioed plumber with the red cap run in three dimensions, into and out of the screen as well as across it. Some American game magazines say it is the best video game ever.
But there is a limit to how much one plumber can do, even one who can increase his power by grabbing magical stars. It remains to be seen whether Nintendo can keep supplying such good software. Recent Japanese newspaper reports that sales are weaker than expected have driven down Nintendo's stock. The company has denied the reports, citing its own sales and earnings figures, but some retailers do say that sales of the Nintendo 64 have stalled and probably will not resume until new games appear in the fall.
''Sales stopped suddenly around July 20,'' said one Tokyo retailer, who had sold 180 of the 200 machines he had received. Another said his store had sold only 20 of its 40 machines.
But Nintendo appears to be getting more aggressive. It just lowered the American price for the machine to $200, $50 below the price in Japan and the same as the prices for the Sony and Sega machines.
It would be foolish to write off Mr. Yamauchi. ''He's a tough old bird,'' Howard Lincoln, the chairman of Nintendo of America, said. He said his boss ''doesn't think about anything except Nintendo.''


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Consider next Anthony Wedgwood Benn, a cast-iron member of the ruling establishment. Inheriting the title of Viscount Stansgate and a property to go with it, and marrying an American heiress, he forged a completely phony political career for himself under the would-be proletarian guise of Tony Benn. Doing whatever he could to transform Britain into a Soviet-style economy and society, he actually succeeded in breaking the Labour Party and unintentionally paving the way for Mrs Thatcher. A greater abuse of power and privilege is hard to imagine. Now that he has died, the BBC naturally praises him on the news and in talk shows, but mysteriously the Conservative press almost unanimously thinks he was a political giant and will be much missed.
I am not given to rude language, and so can't bring myself to quote what Kingsley Amis has to say about Wedgwood Benn in his Memoirs. The insult on page 298 of that book is one I have found nowhere else. I have reason to agree with Kingsley and object to the line taken these days in the obituaries that Wedgwood Benn was decent and meant well. Sir Oswald Mosley, the British Fascist, openly threatened me with violence for what I had written. Wedgwood Benn did it more surreptitiously. I had imagined that he had published memoirs under the title I Did It, and I wrote a spoof review of it forPunch, a humorous magazine. Peter Jenkins was a political writer on the Guardian, but in spite of that quite a friend. He didn't enjoy telling me that Wedgwood Benn had sent him round. He'd read my spoof review, did not enjoy it, and he would choose his moment for revenge. I'd been warned.


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Videos from two amateur photographers show that the smoke built with terrifying speed at the top of the building, cascading thicker from seams in windows there than from floors closer to the plane. Early on, Rajesh Mirpuri called his company, Data Synapse, coughing, and said he could not see more than 10 feet, his boss, Peter Lee, would remember. Peter Alderman, the Bloomberg salesman, also told his sister about the smoke, using his BlackBerry to send an e-mail message: "I'm scared."
Ms. Eng and the Windows staff, following their emergency training, herded people from the 107th floor down to a corridor on the 106th near the stairs, where they used a special phone to call the Fire Command Center. The building's policy was to immediately evacuate the floor on fire and the one above it. People farther away, like those in Windows on the World, were to leave only when directed by the command center "or when conditions dictate such actions."
Conditions were quickly deteriorating, though. Glenn Vogt, the restaurant's general manager, said that 20 minutes after the plane hit, his assistant, Christine Olender, called him at home. She got his wife instead, Mr. Vogt said, because he was on the street outside the trade center. Ms. Olender told Mrs. Vogt that they had heard nothing on how to leave. "The ceilings are falling," she said. "The floors are buckling."
Within 20 minutes of the crash, a police helicopter reported to its base that it could not land on the roof. Still, many put their hopes on a rescue by someone, some way.
"I can't go anywhere because they told us not to move," Ivhan Carpio, a Windows worker, said in a message he left on his cousin's answering machine. "I have to wait for the firefighters."
The firefighters, however, were struggling to respond. No one in New York had ever seen a fire of this size — four and five floors blazing within seconds. Commanders in the lobby had no way of knowing if any stairwells were passable. With most elevators ruined, firefighters were toting heavy gear up stairwells against a tide of evacuees. An hour after the plane crash, they would still be 50 floors below Windows.
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The room had almost no water and not much air, but there was no shortage of cellphones or BlackBerries. Using them and a few intact phone lines, at least 41 people in the restaurant reached someone outside the building. Peter Mardikian of Imagine Software told his wife, Corine, that he was headed for the roof and that he could not talk long, she recalled. Others were waiting for one of the few working phones.
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"Mom," Mr. Feeney responded, "I'm not calling to chat. I'm in the World Trade Center and it's been hit by a plane."
The calm manner of the staff could not contain the strain. Laurie Kane, whose husband, Howard, was the restaurant's comptroller, said she could hear someone screaming, "We're trapped," as they finished their final conversation. Gabriela Waisman, a conference attendee, phoned her sister 10 times in 11 minutes, frantic to keep the connection. Veronique Bowers, the restaurant's credit collections manager, kept telling her grandmother, Carrie Tillman, that the building had been hit by an ambulance.
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In fact, Andrew Rosenblum, a Cantor stock trader, thought it would be a good idea to reassure the families. With his wife, Jill, listening on the phone from their home in Rockville Centre, N.Y., he announced to the room: "Give me your home numbers," his wife recounted.
"Tim Betterly," Mr. Rosenblum said into his cellphone, reeling off a phone number. "James Ladley." Another number.
As the list grew, Mr. Rosenblum realized that 40 or 50 colleagues were in the room, having fled the smoke. "Please call their spouses, tell them we're in this conference room and we're fine," he said to his wife. She remembers scribbling the names and numbers on a yellow legal pad in her kitchen, as the burning towers played on a 13-inch television in a cubbyhole near the backdoor.


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terribly copywriting, good concept. why not couple your strong-ish visual with "Back in the 50's, it wasn't oil prices that caused riots." -- Your giving too much of the payoff to me early on... let ME reach the conclusion. It's more memorable that way, and it shows your target audience that you UNDERSTAND them, as opposed to assuming they NEED your help.
here's a good example of the same problem: http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/durex_maze -- the line "NO EXIT" completely ruined the ad for me. It's like durex assumed I was too stupid to get the joke.
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Expansive Visions: GW Collection Past, Present, Future
Organized by the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery and presented at the
GW Museum and The Textile Museum
Art collections are made up of more than just objects; they consist of stories of people, cities and institutions. The George Washington University began building its collection of art in 1821. It now owns more than 4,000 drawings, paintings,
prints, photographs and sculptures. This exhibition presents highlights of GW's collection specifically selected to trace the university's history and evolution as a presenter of contemporary art as well as an institution of training for artists
and humanists now and in the future; a charge made more tangible through GW's recent merger with the Corcoran School of Art and Design. Presented in addition to the exhibitions at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, this selection is an opportunity
for the public to view works from the university's collection in a different setting.
Works in the exhibition include works by Washington Color School notables such as Gene Davis, Howard Mehring and Alma Thomas; alongside newer acquisitions from artists such as Michael Craig-Martin, Robin Rose and Susan Roth. Included is an
interactive timeline demonstrating the almost 50 year impact of the Dimock and Luther W. Brady Art Galleries to the history of art in D.C.
This exhibition is organized by the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery with the support of the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum staff. Partial support for the exhibition was provided by the Frances and Leonard K. Burka
Fund for the Arts, the Friends of the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery and Meredith Mickelson.
A lecture on Art in Washington in the 1960s will be given by Meredith Mickelson on July 14, 2016 at 4:00 pm. More details can be found here
GW Collection Pops-Up in 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue!
For a limited time, works from the GW Permanent Collection are on view in a space in 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, a DC Landmark listed in the US National Register of Historic Places. Chosen to complement Expansive Visions: GW Collections Past, Present, Future
- currently on view in the GW Museum and The Textile Museum. That exhibition presents selected highlights of GW's collection that trace the university's history and evolution as a presenter of contemporary art.
Building Knowledge: Traditional African Art from the GW Permanent Collection
MPA Building, 1st floor cases
Through July 15, 2016
This exhibition highlights examples of traditional African art from the GW Permanent Collection, the majority of which was assembled from the gifts of just a handful of donors in the 1970s, with little information accompanying them. Since
that time, the study of African art and culture has progressed a great deal with new interpretations, and students and scholars have contributed to the information on the collection's pieces extensively.
The discovery of a large Makonde "Tree of Life" sculpture found in collection prompted us to highlight other African pieces from the collection and conduct more research to build on the information we have. You can follow along with us
during the research process on Twitter @BradyGallery with #MakondeToL and on our blog Found In Collection.
Toyokuni ga: Japanese Woodblock Prints by Utagawa Kunisada
MPA Building, 2nd floor cases
Through August 1, 2016
Image: Utagawa Kunisada, An Elegant Swordsman at Suma, 1853 [detail], woodblock print,
20-1/2" x 15-1/4". Gift of Dr. Stuart A. Umpleby, 2002.
The George Washington University Permanent Collection, P.03.8.6.
Along the Eastern Road: Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido
August 24 - December 2, 2016
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858) lived in the midst of the Edo era and was known as the foremost artist of the topographical landscape. His artistry, recorded in a brilliant woodcut series, portrayed scenic views along the famous "Eastern Road" that
linked Edo (Tokyo) with Kyoto, the ancient imperial capital of Japan. Hiroshige traveled along the historic Tokaido in 1832 and visited the fifty-three towns and villages that dotted the road. The route was traveled by merchants, religious pilgrims, and tourists,
not to mention processions of the daimyo and their retinue. Hiroshige relished portraying all types of people: the aged, the beautiful, the busy merchant, and the lofty Samurai, and all were schematically represented with great wit and gentle compassion.
Along the Eastern Road: Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
The Other 90%: Works from the GW Permanent Collection
March 16 - June 3, 2016
Image: Norman Rockwell, Portrait of a Man, c. 1929, oil on canvas, 34 x 20 inches. Gift of Frank B. Hand, Jr.
Coloring Pages: Works from the Corcoran Collection of Artists' Books
January 19 - March 25, 2016
With winter now making its appearance, we look for other sources of warmth in these sometimes-dreary months. Artists' books from the Corcoran Art & Design Collection showcase color and color imagery in the pages of their work. Some stories are told
completely through color; others, though they might use muted palettes, create a sensation with words that paint images of colorful scenes. These bright pages serve as a complement to the exhibition Color Bloc: Paintings by Elizabeth Osborne, on view in
the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery through February 26, 2016.
The exhibit displays only a sampling of artists' books from the Art & Design Collection from the Corcoran. These and many others can be viewed in the Special Collections Research Center at GW's Gelman Library. Visit http://library.gwu.edu/scrc to find out
Color Bloc: Paintings by Elizabeth Osborne
December 9, 2015 - February 26, 2016
Image: Elizabeth Osborne, Audrey in Profile, 2014, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. James A. Michener Art Museum. Museum purchase funded by Bonnie O'Boyle and the Mandel Society for Art Acquisitions and partial gift from Locks Gallery.
Veils, blocks, bands and wavy strokes of color are the hallmark of Elizabeth Osborne's paintings. Whether fully abstract or punctuated by the artist's treatment of the figure and objects, Osborne's paintings
show a skillful handling of color and command of her technique. Osborne typically paints on a canvas laid on the floor. This technique enables her to perfect a wavy brush stroke, which has become her signature.
The rich color juxtapositions and linear compositions evident in her work can be likened to Washington Color School painters such as Gene Davis, Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.
Osborne was a professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1963-2011 and has influenced a generation of painters and artists. The Brady Gallery exhibition is derived from the Veils of Color
exhibition organized by the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Unique to the Washington show, loans from the artist and
Locks Gallery in Philadelphia round out the exhibition. The Friends of the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery
provided partial funding for the exhibition.
Absence/Presence: Selected Contemporary Photography
August 26 - November 20, 2015
How does one measure emptiness and can it be measured? Images that are devoid of people give us a taste of what we leave behind when we take a step away: an abandoned bowling alley, a
stark prison cell, or an empty desk. They imply a sense of absence, but they are far from empty and the human presence is visible and felt. Featuring works from the GW Permanent Collection and various
lenders, this exhibition explores the traces of human presence left behind in 'unpeopled' photographs of interiors and other spaces, whether temporarily empty, permanently abandoned, or made to appear
so by the photographer's viewpoint or photographic processes. Artists include Nancy Breslin, William Christenberry, Cynthia Connolly, Lisa Tyson Ennis, Frank Gohlke, Dean Kessmann, Bridget Sue Lambert,
Dan Lobdell, Pablo Maurer, Andrew Moore, E. Brady Robinson, Lee Saloutos, Katherine Sifers, and Trine Søndergaard.
Partial funding provided by the Francine Zorn Trachtenberg Photography Fund and the Friends of the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery.
Above left: Andrew Moore, Bowling Lanes, Governors Island, NY, 2001, Chromogenic Print, 40 x 50 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery. Above right: Nancy Breslin, Queen Mary II, Deck Chairs, 2015,
ultrachrome pigment print, 15 x 15 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist.


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Puneet Rajkumar-Ramya Honoured With State Awards
The revised list of the Karnataka State Film Awards for the year 2010-11 has been announced. Power Star Puneet Rajkumar and Sandalwood Queen Ramya has bagged the Best Actor and Actress awards for their movies - Jackie and Sanju Weds Geetha, respectively. Director Dorai Bhagwan, who headed the committee, has announced the revised list of the State awards.
Early this year, the first list of the State Awards was objected by Basant Kumar Patil and actress Priya Hassan for including the cinematographer Ashok Kashyap in the committee when the movie Super was in the list. Ashok was the cinematographer of the movie. Following which the High Court had issued stay order for the State Awards in June 2013.
Ace actor Shivaram has been awarded Dr Rajkumar award for his contribution to Sandalwood. Director Bhargava has bagged the Puttana Kanagal Award and Housing Minister Ambareesh has won Dr Vishnuvardhan award. It is reported that Best Actor award includes Rs 20,000 and a silver medal, which weighs 100 grams.
The main highlight of the list is Thamassu, which was directed by novelist Agni Sreedhar. The movie has won three awards - Second Best Movie, Best Screenplay (Agni Sreedhar) and Best Supporting Actor-Female (Harshika Poonacha).
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I've opened Ticket #1292 at the WordPress Plugins Trac system, reporting both problems.
I've opened Ticket #1292 at the WordPress Plugins Trac system, reporting both problems.
@dglingren Great! Hopefully this fix will get rolled in to the next release. I am having the same "Sorry redirect not created" issue on a Windows-based box, but strangely not seeing the error on a *nix-host (same versions of WP and plugin). That is strange since the PHP/MYSQL stuff should cause same success/fail.
Thanks @dglingren
I'm with @Sith Lord Goz though as my plugin works without applying this fix.
I do think than there is an issue further back in the code, relating to the Groups and their association with a redirection item.
It may be a version-related issue of some sort. I should have posted this information in my initial report:
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.2.14 (Win32)
MySQLClient API version 5.0.51a
I'm on Windows as well
Thanks for the debugging work. I didn't see this thread (nor the plugin trac ticket, which seemingly does not get emailed to me). Fixes will be in the next version.
Looks fixed with v 2.2.5
I have Redirection v. 2.2.5 on WP Multisite 3.1.
I am still receiving the "Sorry, but your redirection was not created" when trying to create new redirections.
I tried looking at the redirect.php code as was mentioned earlier in this thread, but the $regex and last_access lines look like they have now changed and I don't think I want to follow the suggestion made earlier.
Any ideas why I might still be getting this error?
In the pluging settings, what do you have under Groups and the WordPress module?
There is currently nothing listed under the Groups section or the Modules section.
When I try to add a group or module, nothing happens. It replies that I have not entered anything.
Although some people have reported the new version fixing their issue, I think there is still a problem deeper in the code relating to groups and their association with a redirection item.
Rich do you have access to the WP database via phpmyadmin or equivalent?
I have access to phpmyadmin for my WP database.
I know it's a pain just now but try adding this stuff manually.
Have a look at the wp_redirection_modules table.
You should at least have 1 entry for type="WP", name="WordPress"
(if not then the plugin has not installed/initiated correctly)
Note the ID of that entry and create a new row in the wp_redirection_groups table.
module_id=1 (or whatever from wp_redirection_modules)
Now switch back to WordPress and see if you can add a new redirection item.
If not then back to phpmyadmin and create the following in the wp_redirection_items table
last_access="0000-00-00 00:00:00"
Once created you should be able to edit that in WordPress and create new redirection items.
Let me know if this helps.
Hi Wil,
Thanks for the phpmyadmin instructions.
I am using WP 3.1 multisite, and for sites that I had already made redirections (with the earlier version of the plugin), I can make new redirections with no problem.
However, on one of my sites I had not made redirections before, and it is on this site that I am getting the "Sorry, but your redirection was not created" error.
I was planning on using your steps above, but how do I know I am applying the steps to the specific site within my multsite system?
Thanks for clarifying.
I'm running Redirection 2.2.5 on WP 3.1.3 and facing the same problem. I cannot create any module, neither any redirection. I followed instructions suggested by many helpful people, but couldn't make anything work. Because there is no table created by the plugin. I uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin several times but no success. There is no table item that could be used by the plugin.
I wonder if I should create my own tables so that plugin could make use of them or wait for an update?
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Rack (web server interface)
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Rack provides a modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses it unifies the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (called middleware) into a single method call.
Rack is used by many Ruby web frameworks and libraries, such as Ruby On Rails and Sinatra. It is available as a Ruby Gem.
Rack has already inspired a JavaScript framework[1] (jackjs) and a Perl one (Plack), a Common Lisp one[2] (Clack), and has resulted in the Ruby developer quasi-standard of "rack-compliant".[3]
It was also cited as an inspiration for OWIN.[4]
Example application[edit]
A Rack-compatible "Hello World" application in Ruby syntax:
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- Perl Web Server Gateway Interface
- Python Paste
- Smalltalk Seaside
- FastCGI
- Java Servlet
- Server-side JavaScript
- Apache JServ Protocol
- ZeroC Ice
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- ISAPI Internet Server Application Programming Interface (Microsoft)
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- ^ Pancake: How To Stack and Loosely Couple Rack-Based Webapps Together. Rubyinside.com (2009-12-04). Retrieved on 2013-09-20.
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Having Carnivores as Pets
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Hello! I wanted to see everyone else's opinion on this particular subject. I have two fuzzy friends (ferrets). Ferrets are carnivores and they can't really have veggies at all. If given too much vegetables, it can cause a deadly intestinal blockage! Their ideal diet consists of raw meat or meat-packed kibble. I have heard of people veganizing their fuzzies. However, it has caused shorter lifespans and problems in the long run. So, I do feed my ferrets meat based kibble. My opinion is that it isn't my ferrets' faults that God made them carnivores. I do not want my ferrets to die because of my personal diet. I know my opinion. I want to hear everyone's opinions. (This is in no way intended to start a war.)
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@Dagmar, I buy pre-made kitty food because I'm too lazy to make my own (haha!), and I'm afraid I'd somehow mess it up. Making your own is much cheaper, but if you're like me and like it all ready to go for you, this is the kind I use:
I thought the price was nuts, not so much now that this one 40 lb. bag has lasted me so long and still is mostly full. I feel good knowing that I'm doing the best I can for my kitty and other animals. Plus, look at those flavors! Is that not awesome? Cheese burger and pasta. Yum!
Here's another option I had looked into: http://store.nexternal.com/vegancats/vegecat-kibble-mix-by-hoana-p4.aspx
I was just way too confused with the recipes for it, and I know that most of the ingredients aren't available near me. It might be a great option for you, though!
PETA posted a blog with more info on veggie pet food:
I looked into it a lot and I felt like the Evolution was my best option (they have wet canned food too). I don't know of many other vegan friendly pet foods unfortunately. If any one else does, let me know so Sage and I can give them a go! 🙂You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
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@hakred What do you feed your cat. I have kinda wanted to get vegan food for my itty bitty pretty kitty.You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
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Feed it the diet it needs to be happy and healthy and live. Simple.You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
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@NicoleLynne, … now you do! My kitty is vegan. 🙂You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
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Oh my .. Feed the ferret the best way you can.. it's kind of like cats I don't know of anyone who feeds a cat a full vegan meal 24/7 every single day. I know on animal planet they said cats couldn't.. but that doesn't mean cats shouldn't be here. I think ferrets are too cute & I wouldn't kill it which I doubt you will consider that anyway .. But I wouldn't beat yourself if you can't keep a ferret vegan….You must be logged in to reply to this topic.


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Skip to comments.Cause of Brain Freeze Revealed
Posted on 04/23/2012 4:04:02 AM PDT by shove_it
Most people have likely experienced brain freeze the debilitating, instantaneous pain in the temples after eating something frozen but researchers didn't really understand what causes it, until now.
Previous studies have found that migraine sufferers are actually more likely to get brain freeze than people who don't get migraines. Because of this, the researchers thought the two might share some kind of common mechanism or cause, so they decided to use brain freeze to study migraines.
Headaches like migraines are difficult to study, because they are unpredictable. Researchers aren't able to monitor a whole one from start to finish in the lab. They can give drugs to induce migraines, but those can also have side effects that interfere with the results. Brain freeze can quickly and easily be used to start a headache in the lab, and it also ends quickly, which makes monitoring the entire event easy.
The researchers brought on brain freeze in the lab by having 13 healthy volunteers sip ice water through a straw right up against the roof of their mouth. The volunteers raised their hands when they felt the familiar brain freeze come on, and raised them again once it disappeared.
The researchers monitored the blood flow through their brains using an ultrasoundlike process on the skull. They saw that increased blood flow to the brain through a blood vessel called the anterior cerebral artery, which is located in the middle of the brain behind the eyes. This increase in flow and resulting increase in size in this artery brought on the pain associated with brain freeze.
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Why was good money spent on this stupid study?
What moron couldn't put together the fact that a sinus headache and brain freeze have the same effect on a person?
It is not news that increased blood flow to the brain causes migraines. An old time 'remedy' used to prevent or moderate migraines is putting your hands in warm water to divert the blood flow to your hands.
Ice cream headaches HURT! Where did they get the volunteer masochists for this study?
The Best Part about a Brain Freeze is how good your head feels AFTER the pain stops. But it don't last long.
I guess that explains why pressing your thumb against the roof of your mouth can stop a Brain Freeze!
An older and just as useless cure is leeches and blood-letting.
Funny you posted this. I applied numerous times over the past three years to do a study on "The Effect of Incandescent Light Mandatory Usage and the Incidence of Visual Acuity Diminishment From 2013 to 2050." Nobody got back to me until the third time and I was told in vague terms ' Shut up, a..hole. We ain't interested'. I only asked for $30,000,000. Figured I'd be dead before they asked for it back.
Hey idiot, migraine, sinus headache and brain freeze are all physiologically the result of stimulation of the same nerve bundles. The study is stupid, because the authors should have done their homework and read the older studies from twenty years back, instead of re-inventing the wheel.
Pimping for research dollars. I wonder why this is even a story since we have known for some considerable time that brain freeze is caused by increased blood flow as the body tries to warm the area then the reduction of the flow as the precursor, cooling, diminishes.... the reason brain freeze actually happens after the cold is applied and not when it is applied.
I hate idiots.
Prevent brain freeze, suck your slurpy slower.
He's immune. You gotta have a brain.
THis explains why teenage boys have very few migraines.
After having suffered migraines and sinus headaches most of my life, I know that they are not the same.
This makes no sense from a thermodynamic standpoint. The flow doesn't increase due to cold. If anything the blood vessel becomes constricted due to the drop in temperature and the flow of blood staying the same (heart keeps a pumpin) increases the pressure against the vessel wall which then pushes against the surrounding area.
It also explains both the thumb against the roof (someone else noted) which cuts off the flow thus limiting the pressure buildup further up the chain - and the 2nd way I know of which is to place a cold item on your forehead which constricts an adjacent area limiting the impact to the first.
cold increases flow...right
They still love you anyway.
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Did they study liberals to confirm this?
Yeah, why?
Hot tea works much better for me when I start getting migraine-y.
I accidentally used a photo with a Getty Images copyright, which is verboten on FR. I asked the mod to delete the post which he or she did. Don't need to cause legal issues for JimRob.
Ahhh Sooo.
Too bad, it was right on target.
And all this time I thought the pain from brain freeze was the cold stimulating the maxillary branch of the trigeminal nerve, thus causing a neuralgia... hmmm, learned something today
I've had some who suffered from migraines say hands in the water helped prevent / ameliorate their migraines.
They were studying cause not effect. And migraines, not sinus headaches.
Hadn't thought of this but I have had brain freeze and sinus headaches for years. I can control brain freeze by not instigating it with extreme cold but the sinus headache rolls on it's own and I can't predict it.
I do know that caffeine helps with sinus headaches.
So does throwing up (maybe that takes the pressure off of the thing they mentioned). And, yes, I have hurt enough to provoke vomiting.
Caffeine (with pressure on system) works, too.
Had never heard of this; good to know it now so I don't have to vomit to take the pressure off.
Although the study may sound silly to you, it has indeed contributed to our knowledge base about how the brain works.
Having been a life long sufferer of migraines, I appreciate any advance towards finding their cause and a treatment to prevent them. While it's been long known that migraines are caused by vascular activity, it's still not known what causes that. Only time and more studies are going to figure it out.
And, BTW, as is often the case, research into one subject can lead to insights into something completely outside the scope of the study. This may be one of those examples.
More good ideas; thanks.
The only difference I've noted is that brain freeze is pretty short.
Migraines can last what feels like forever.
Does anyone get visual distortion as a precurser
to migraines?
When ever I get one, the first thing that happens is
I get a shifting band of rainbow light across my vision,
like looking at a CD or something, if I take a BC powder
or a large coffee, it will fade and I won't have a
headache but if I do nothing oh my!
Yes I get rainbow drift, colored light shimmers and auras as well as see dark bird like figures swooping around. I also hear a rushing water effect like standing at the bottom of Niagara Falls. They have discontinued my migraine medicine, no longer manufactured. :(
Midrin was the best med for me but it was discontinued in 2007. Two of those before lying down and I slept off most of the headache.
That's what I use...same effect too. 2 pills at onset, and then within an hour I'd be woosey enough to sleep a bit.
Even with that though, I generally feel like crap the rest of the day.
I used to do more than put my hands in warm water. I would sit in a very hot tub of water until my skin, that was under the water, turned bright red. That seemed to help. If it was a tension headache I would float (as much as possible, in a hot tub of water.
Last time I tried to refill it, I was told it is no longer available. No one makes it now because under newer FDA guidelines it doesn't have proper approval for use and it's too costly for the drug companies to gain necessary approval for continued sale.
I just checked the last bottle I had refilled...says Migrin...hadn't noticed that before.
What do you use now?
I have tried all kinds of prescription and over the counter meds but nothing worked as well as Midrin. Looking at the info on Migrin-A it seems to be the same components that are no longer available as Midrin. I will call my dr in the morning to tell her! Thank you!
Most welcome!
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