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The challenges facing the city of Lancaster in the next two years are daunting.
They include complying with the EPA consent order to replace aging and cracked terra cotta sewer lines, as well as other wastewater system improvements.
The elephant in the room, said City Administrator Flip Hutfles, is the project's $18 million pricetag.
Then, there is the daily dilemma of trying to hang on to the city's 179 employees, who are tempted jump ship for higher paying jobs elsewhere.
Within the next two weeks, Lancaster County voters will head to the polls to choose their preference in the Palmetto State's two presidential primaries.
First up is the Republican primary Saturday, followed a week later by the Democratic primary on Feb. 27. Both will be heavily watched, as South Carolina's presidential primaries are the first in the South.
There are seven days left before Lancaster city voters will choose who will fill the remainder of the late Joe Shaw's term in a special election.
The six candidates – Anthony Elder, Altheresa Goode-Howard, John Howard, Paul McKenzie, Charles Vann Jr. and Garrett Williams – spent more than an hour Monday night trying to persuade the 150-plus inside University of South Carolina Lancaster's Bundy Auditorium why they deserved the job.
Members of Lancaster City Council will start hashing out the municipality's financial issues for the upcoming year by holding a budget goal session meeting Saturday, Feb. 6.
The meeting is open to the public, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in council chambers at city hall.
"We are now 50 percent through the budget year, which means we get to start planning for the next one," said city Finance Director James Absher.
The meeting includes council discussions, as well as feedback from the city's 10 department heads.
After just one term as the District 3 representative for Lancaster County Council, Bob Bundy has decided not to run again for the seat.
Bundy, who was elected in 2012 and became council chairman in 2015, made the announcement this week. He cited his upcoming retirement from the University of South Carolina Lancaster in December and his desire to spend more time with family as reasons for the decision.
On the heels of that announcement, local business owner Billy Mosteller announced Tuesday that he plans to run for the seat.
Lancaster City Council stuck to its guns and light agenda when making new appointments to nine municipal boards and commissions at its first meeting of 2016 on Jan. 12.
Council was set to make 19 appointments to 10 total boards, but nominations for the city's planning commission were mistakenly omitted from the meeting agenda.
Since the agenda was approved prior to the votes, one appointment to the city's planning commission could not be made.
Victims of bad checks, as well as the people who write them, will soon have a new process to turn to in Lancaster County, which could save merchants money and prevent criminal records before they begin.
Known as the worthless-check unit, the initiative is one of several alternative court ideas envisioned by Sixth Circuit Solicitor Randy Newman and designed to cut down on case backlogs, criminal records and expenses for merchants.
Lancaster County Council unanimously approved the first steps toward forming the unit during its meeting Jan. 11.
On his first day as a candidate, Brandon Newton gained several endorsements from local political veterans and a room full of onlookers at the press conference announcing them.
More than 80 people showed up at the University of South Carolina Lancaster's Carole Ray Dowling Center as 21-year-old Newton officially announced he will seek the S.C. House District 45 seat.
Newton said he decided to run after S.C. Rep. Deborah Long recently announced she would not seek a fifth term.
Lancaster mayoral candidates can begin filing today for the Feb. 23 special election to replace the late Joe Shaw.
Candidates can file from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. weekdays at the county voter registration office at the Lancaster County Administration Building, 101 N. Main St. Filing ends at noon Dec. 31.
The special election will fill the remaining term of Mayor Shaw, who died Nov. 29. The term ends in 2018.
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Saguaros third baseman Mike Olt (.347/.425/.800) was 1-for-2 with a solo home run and a hit-by pitch before being lifted from Monday afternoon's game.
Olt now has seven round-trippers in his last seven games and 13 (plus 40 RBI) in 24 contests. He is averaging a home run per every 7.3 official at-bats in the hitter-friendly circuit.
The slugger now has six more home runs than second-best Robbie Grossman (seven) and seven more RBI than second-best Nolan Arenado (33).
True to his scouting report, the 23-year-old is flashing staggering power to go with a good walk rate (12 walks in 24 games) and quite a few strikeouts (31). While Olt has legitimate bat speed, the strikeout totals will be worth monitoring as he presumably tackles the Double-A level in 2012.
Second baseman Leury Garcia, who batted ninth, was hitless in three at-bats. The 20-year-old switch-hitter is 26-for-76 (.342) with nine extra-base hits in the AFL.
After playing in a handful of Liga Paralela games, right fielder Joey Butler made his first appearance for the 'big' Navegantes del Magallanes club on Monday. He contributed to the 6-4 victory by falling a home run short of the cycle––Butler was 3-for-4 with a single, a double, a triple, and three runs batted in. He also struck out once.
The 25-year-old Butler is coming off a career year in which he hit .322/.388/.493 in 113 games at Triple-A Round Rock.
The only game scheduled in the Dominican Republic––Toros vs. Estrellas––was postponed.
There were no games on Monday.
The Puerto Rican Winter League was dark on Monday.
No Rangers appeared in Monday's games.
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The Only Way Is Essex star Jessica Wright has come under heavy criticism from anti-drug campaigns after posting a picture of herself with a balloon filled with nitrous oxide gas, or as it is more commonly known "hippy crack"!
Despite nitrous oxide gas, or laughing gas to use another term for it, not actually being illegal its effects can be deadly, causing brain damage or worse from one hit, and has become a favourite way for festival goers to get high.
Jess posted the picture of herself with a balloon in her mouth on social networking site Twitter which drug organisations have slammed as being "worrying"!
Stephen Ream, director of Re-Solv, said: "Misuse of nitrous oxide has resulted in a number of deaths in the UK, and it should not be seen as harmless fun.
"It is responsible for 16 deaths in the UK between 2006 and 2009, and 52 since 1971.
"It is very disappointing to see Jess Wright promoting such a dangerous activity to her young Twitter followers."
The pictures, of which some included her on-off boyfriend and co-star Ricky Rayment, were taken at the High Definition music festival in Ilford, Essex, ten days ago, and were posted along with the caption:
"Balloons at HD fest! X."
To which one of her followers replied: "buzzing much? Haha."
Jess isn't the first celebrity lately to hit the headlines in connection with "hippy crack", which is still illegal to sell despite being legal to take – both Prince Harry and Coronation Street star Michelle Keegan (who is going out with Jess' brother Mark) have been linked to the drug which is said to have a similar effect as crack cocaine.
A spokesperson for Jess declined to comment to The Sun newspaper with regards to this report.
The Only Way Is Essex concludes its current series tonight at 10pm on ITV2/ITV2 HD.


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Piano recital
Reger 1873 - 1916
WELTE push-up player
17th October, 2008 7.30 p.m.
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The BECHSTEIN Grand belongs to the stock of the theatre.
It was the task of the company "Klavier-Zergiebel" in Rodewisch to set the grand piano in a state that would make it possible to play concerts on it.
Strings, pegs, hammers, the mechanism of the sounding board - actually everything needed for playing the piano, was replaced or repaired.
The Freiburg company "M.WELTE & Söhne, Freiburg i.Br." (founded in 1832) is credited with the invention that allows pianists' performances, with all their changes in dynamics and rhythm, to be recorded on a paper roll by means of a hole-punching system. This music can then be faithfully reproduced in line with the original performance. Nobody has yet carried out detailed research into the exact recording process. A fire at the Freiburg factory destroyed all the documentation.
Peter Zergiebel, MASTER PIANO TECHNICIAN KLAVIER-ZERGIEBEL
|1. Silhouette D major, Op. 53,2.
composer: Max Reger pianist: Max Reger
|Welte No. 1010
|2. Intermezzo Es minor, Op. 45,3.
composer: Max Reger pianist: Max Reger
|Welte No. 1018
|3. Aus meinem Tagebuch (extracts of my diary)
Book Nr. I, Op. 82,3.
composer: Max Reger pianist: Max Reger
|Welte No. 1012
|4. Sonetto del Petrarca II E major (No. 104)
composer: Franz Liszt pianist: Rudolph Ganz
|Welte No. 3059
|5. Grande Polonaise Brillante Es major; Op. 22.
composer: Frédéric Chopin pianist: Raoul Stéphane Pugno
|Welte No. 545
|6. Impromptus Op. 90 D 899, No. 4 As major
composer: Franz Schubert pianist: Artur Schnabel
|Welte No. 383
|7. Humoresque G minor, Op. 20,5.
composer: Max Reger pianist: Max Reger
|Welte No. 1017
|8. Lyrical pieces Op. 43,1. (Butterfly)
composer: Edvard Grieg pianist: Edvard Grieg
|Welte No. 1275
|9. Concert Op. 16, A minor I. movement Allegro molto mod.
composer: Edvard Grieg pianist: Olga Samaroff
|Welte No. 1478
|10. Ballad No. 1 G minor, Op. 23,
composer: Frédéric Chopin pianist: Teresa Carreño
|Welte No. 367
11. Scherzo No. 2, G minor, Op. 31
|Welte No. 1464
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House Concurrent Memorial 2009 will be heard in the Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee tomorrow, Wednesday, April 29.
Simply put, HCM2009 recommends to the U.S. Congress that they not pass any anti-gun bills. Similar resolutions have already been passed in several other states.
This resolution sends a strong message to Congress that it needs to protect our Second Amendment rights.
Please call the sponsors of HCM2009 and your State Representatives TODAY and respectfully voice your support for this measure.
To the Congress of the United States of America:
Your memorialist respectfully represents:
Whereas, the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution provides not only for a collective right or the right for the states to establish militias, but also for the right of the people to keep and bear arms; and
Whereas, the primary purpose of the right to keep and bear arms is to protect oneself and ones family and possessions from either the private lawlessness of other people or the tyranny of government; and
Whereas, the right to keep and bear arms is also meant to protect the general private uses of firearms in activities such as hunting and in other sporting activities; and
Whereas, the United States Supreme Court, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783 (2008), struck down a firearms ban in the District of Columbia, explicitly ruling that the Second Amendment protects the right of the people to possess firearms for private use; and
Whereas, despite this ruling, legislation has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives calling for a system of mandatory federal licensing of all firearms owners; and
Whereas, the introduced legislation would require all firearms owners to apply for and carry a federally issued picture identification in order to keep any firearm in their homes; and
Whereas, this legislation would make it a federal crime to keep a loaded firearm or an unloaded firearm and ammunition within any premises, including, under certain circumstances, American homes where a child might be present; and
Whereas, this legislation specifically purports to preempt any state or local law inconsistent with it; and
Whereas, the introduced legislation, Blair Holts Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, is a direct imposition on the individual right of all Americans to keep and bear arms in their homes for their protection.
Wherefore your memorialist, the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring, prays:
1. That the United States Congress oppose the passage of the Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009, or any similar legislation, that would impinge on the individual right of every American to keep and bear arms in any manner.
2. That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.


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Monessen RB Gillaspie's exploits aren't drawing D-I coaches — yet
Clintell Gillaspie has put together the kind of football season that most running backs dream of.
He has rushed for 895 yards on only 90 carries (9.9 avg.) and has caught 24 passes for 605 yards (25.2 avg.).
In the process, the 6-0, 223-pound senior running back has also scored 26 touchdowns and added 18 extra points for a total of 174 points. He is tied with West Mifflin's Jimmy Wheeler as the WPIAL's overall scoring leader.
For all the talented running backs Monessen has had over the years, Gillaspie is the first since Bubby Holmes in 1971 to sit atop the WPIAL in scoring.
For all of his accomplishments on the field for the 9-1 Greyhounds, Gillaspie hasn't caught the attention of too many Division I college coaches.
That has Greyhound coach Andy Pacak scratching his head.
"I talked to (Pitt offensive coordinator) Joe Rudolph, who told me that Clintell ran a 4.79 in the 40 during the summer at Pitt and I think that is what has some coaches backing off," Pacak said. "But like I told Rudolph, Pitt took three kids from Clairton last year and all of them are playing and if he looks at this year's tape against Clairton, he will see Clintell running away from Clairton kids for three touchdowns and nobody can catch him.
"Clintell is a lot faster than 4.79 and he plays that way," Pacak added. "Plus, he doesn't go down on the first hit. I just think college coaches recruit on the Internet and don't go out and actually watch kids play any more. Any coach who comes to watch Clintell play would fall in love with him."
Quarterback hotbed?
Western Pennsylvania was long ago tabbed a hotbed for quarterbacks with the emergence of such players as Joe Namath, Joe Montana and Dan Marino, to name a few.
Well, the mid-Mon Valley isn't doing too badly in an effort to live up to that tradition this season.
No less than four area quarterbacks have surpassed 1,000 yards throwing this season with another possibly going over 1,000 in the playoffs, the first time in recent memory that feat has been accomplished.
The list of mad bombers includes Frazier's Charles Manack, Monessen's Noah Rullo, Ringgold's Nico Law, and Yough's Tyler Donahue.
Manack is the local leader as the Commodore junior has thrown for 1,653 yards and 25 touchdowns, having completed 94 of 166 passes.
He currently is seventh in the WPIAL in passing yardage.
Right behind is Donahue, a senior who has thrown for 1,259 yards and 15 TDs, hitting 103 of 176 passes.
Next up is Rullo, a junior who has certainly made the most of his 60 completions in 101 attempts by throwing for 1,257 yards and 18 TDs.
Law has completed 82 of 155 for 1,239 yards and 14 TDs.
The player on the cusp is Davidson. The Pitt-bound senior has thrown for 870 yards, hitting 40 of 87, with 14 TDs.
Meanwhile, Law and Davidson have already surpassed the 1,000-yard rushing plateau this season.
Play it again, Leps
Belle Vernon Area has qualified for the Class AAA playoffs for the fifth consecutive year, despite not having a record over .500.
The Leps made the playoffs the last three seasons, going in at 4-5, and finishing 4-6.
In 2010, the Leps were 5-2 in the Big Eight Conference, but lost in the first round of the playoffs and finished the campaign 5-5 overall.
In 2009, they were 3-3 in conference play and lost in the first round to again finish 5-5.
Last season, however, BVA nearly pulled off the biggest upset of the tournament in dropping a last-second 17-16 verdict to highly-seeded Central Valley in the first round.
• Charleroi Area's Dakota Moorer ended his football career for the Cougars with a bang as he caught 20 passes for 409 yards and six TDs in the last two games.
• Although neither Charleroi Area nor California Area is opting to play a 10th game this week, a Cougars-Trojans contest at California Thursday night would have made a lot of sense.
It would have given California the fourth home game it lost during the season with Imani forfeiting and would have drawn a decent gate with two local teams playing the only game in town that night.
• Speaking of California, the school is drafting a letter to the WPIAL asking to be put back in the Tri-County South Conference when football conferences are realigned for the next two seasons. The Trojans were longtime members of the T-C South until being moved into the rugged Black Hills with Monessen two seasons ago.
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/// Social App Pheed Brings Streaming Pay-Per-View to Mobile
There's a reason social app Pheed has catered to the creative community in the six months since it launched. It's an amalgam of sites like Instagram and video and audio sharing apps, where creatives can retain rights to their content and monetize it if they want. Think of it as an all-in-one delivery system for content creators. Pheed wants to take that a step further. On Thursday, the company launched an update to its iOS application that allows Pheed users to watch streaming, pay-per-view broadcasts from other Pheed users directly from their mobile devices. Pretty straightforward: A user wants to do a live broadcast of some material. Say they've got a song to perform, or a discussion to hold, what have you. They set up the event and decide what they want to charge — if anything — for other Pheed users to view the live broadcast. The in-app payment system accepts the cost of admission and sends it to the user's bank account, and viewers are sent a reminder before the broadcast goes live. Smart. It's obviously something that could appeal to the masses of musicians and artists out there who are promoting themselves via social and apps — think of the Lady Gagas, the Snoop Doggs and others who are creating their own mobile apps to promote their albums and content — while also giving random small-timers the ability to promote their material as well. After all, it may be easy for Snoop to get his spliff-happy app downloaded thousands of times to push his new album, but the starving artist in L.A. may have a tougher time. Live performance could be a novel way to garner an audience. (I think of early YouTube stars who came from being nobodies to hosting their own TV shows.) Unlike some other more high-profile social video apps, Pheed is bootstrapped, fairly small and doesn't bankroll stars to join the service. "We've never paid anyone to join, we never gave out equity, and we're not that rich," Pheed co-founder OD Kobo said in an interview
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I like that this is a lightweight staple for work or casual outfits in the hot summer, plus works both un-tucked or tucked-in. I prefer it with pants/shorts to see the increasing stripe width detail. I got mine in-store for $18 after an extra 60% off. Measurements of XXSP are: 13.5" across shoulder, 16" armpit to armpit, 18.5" across bottom, and 22" length. Note: the narrower neck opening measures 9.75" across and may be tight for some.
I also inadvertently ordered a semi-coordinating skirt. Apparently, LOFT made a few striped pieces to be worn together as a dress or separately – a design after my own heart. I somehow selected the wrong size, so the skirt pictured does not fit. I did try on a similar elastic skirt in the right size, which fit better like this.
The skirt is a knit tee-shirt material with an elastic waist all-around. Even though this was described online, the picture made it look dressier. Maybe the key is to "fill out" the elastic waistband and gathered area, so it looks more pencil and less casual/scrunchy. You can conceal some of the elastic with a wider belt, and I will admit it's comfy on expanding waistlines. Verdict: Return. Would recommend to someone looking for a more casual striped skirt and can fill it out better (perhaps size down).
solid colors or a cute seahorse print) have a 23.75" inseam and 5.5" leg opening - I just wish those would come in a dressier material for work. Verdict: Return. Possibly suitable for someone with a shorter inseam (or someone who can pull off crops), who doesn't mind a less-fitted leg.


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/// Verizon's $1 Billion Deal Includes Streaming the Super Bowl
As Americans continue to watch more TV on screens other than their televisions, Verizon Wireless has signed a multi-year $1 billion contract to expand its service giving customers access to NFL games via their smartphones. Verizon customers will be able to stream afternoon local games as part of Verizon's NFL Mobile Package, according to The Wall Street Journal . Currently the app offers access to NFL games on Sunday, Monday and Thursday nights. In 2014, customers will be able to watch all home-market games as well as post-season games—including the Super Bowl. The deal enhances the phone and Internet provider's existing package, which allows viewers to stream games in tandem with ESPN, NBC and NFL Network broadcasts for $5 per month.
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- 1 package (15 ounces) refrigerated pie pastry
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons plus 2-1/2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/3 cup miniature chocolate chips
- Unfold pastry onto a lightly floured surface. Cut with a 2-1/2-in. star-shaped cookie cutter. Remove excess dough and reroll scraps if desired.
- Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets; brush with butter. In a small bowl, combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over stars. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
- Bake at 400° for 6-8 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove to wire racks. Yield: 4 dozen.
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A long week remains until the full story of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is revealed. Still, we've seen enough footage -- official and unofficial -- to know that what plays out will take players to new fictional territory along the lines of 24, but on an even more massive scale.
Writer Jesse Stern, who assisted the Infinity Ward creative team on the game's script, offered some thoughts on the new game in our story here.
During conversations last week and earlier this week, Stern also recalled that truth often became as strange as fiction during the development process. "When we started talking about scenarios, it wasn't so much as we were drawing directly on things that were happening in the news as it was at one point we felt kind of dialed in a scary way to things that were happening," says Stern, who is also a writer and executive producer on the CBS TV series NCIS.
"We would have a conversation about what would be terrifying in today's political landscape is, if for reasons of oil, the Russians decided to roll tanks into a former Soviet republic. And then the following week that happened in the republic of Georgia for very similar reasons we had been debating," Stern says. "So we were like, we don't want to do that, we don't want to do ripped-from-the-headlines stories. Then we started having conversations about terrorism and how scary it is the idea of what they call 'soft targets', people just getting killed in a shopping mall or a public area and about then a week after that the attacks took place in Mumbai (India). After that we stopped talking. We sent an email saying, 'Does anybody want to take a break from this for awhile?' Because it was frightening. OK, we are training ourselves to think like terrorists or like the other side. And, at the same time, we could come around and think about how do you counter that and how do you take on somebody who is using those motivations and thinking that way. We basically end up playing all sides of a war, which is not exactly comfortable. But fortunately, it makes for some fun gameplay."
How did you get connected with Infinity Ward?
"When I first signed on with CAA, (his agent Larry Shapiro, since departed to become president of Oddworld Inhabitants) threw a copy of The Sims and a copy of Call of Duty 2 at me across a conference table and I went home and they sat around awhile. Then I picked up the copy of Call of Duty 2 and started playing it and I wasn't doing much of anything, it was before I started NCIS and I called up Larry and said were you serious about this writing video games? How does that work? Next thing you know I was in a meeting with the guys on Call of Duty 4."
"They already had a pretty detailed outline of what they wanted to do. They showed me what they had and had some difference of opinion of how to proceed and they said, 'How would you do it ? I said, 'Well, I would add this. I would lose this and I would move this over there' and I wrote up a three-page treatment of how I would just tweak the story a little bit to make it even better and then I didn't hear from them for about four months. Then I got a call one day that said, 'OK, they are ready for you now.' From the point I joined on, we really only created a few new levels and a few new characters. A lot of the things were already in place. ... This time around, we all already knew each other."
Talk about how the story for the new game developed. Its scope seems to have an even broader international scope.
We weren't necessarily planning to make it a sequel to the first game. There wasn't a lot of conversation about that. But we spent a ton of time talking about how to end the first game. We really wanted to have a cinematic ending (and) an intimate feeling. After playing this massive-scale, basically-World War III event, it's just a couple guys on a bridge and you feel connected to the guys that are there. So when we came back in after we took a little break and Modern Warfare was released and did so well and won awards, we didn't just jump right back in and say let's pick up that thread from exactly where it is because we were pretty much done with it.
But there was so much at play in the game in terms of things of an international impact and the way the actions on one side of the world impact countries on another side of the world, the way allies worked together, the way enemies are formed, the motiviations behind violence behind war ... There was a lot left to explore, threads that were just there. Ultimately, after a bunch of clear-out-your-head, throw-out-all-your-bad-idea sessions, we got to the good ones.
And I think the inspiration came from the end of that first game because it felt so intimate and personal and triumphant. But what if we come back and that was actually a loss? That was the jumping-off point. What if we didn't win? What if we lost? And that was the beginning of the world of the second game, this idea that by killing (MW villain Imran) Zakhaev, which felt like a triumph in the first game, that history had interpreted that in a different way and has shaped the present-day situation of international conflict in a different way because of how the Russians chose to remember Zakhaev and the way his death has opened the door for the next generation, the people behind him.
How does writing for a video game differ from writing for a TV series like 'NCIS'?
I think the thing that has made me somewhat comfortable with working in a video game narrative is that it sort of equates to doing an entire season of a television show. You can make an individual level feel about like the size of an episode or two. In the course of doing a whole season, we do 23, 24 episodes of NCIS each year. That is 20 hours of programming. So we are accustomed to working on a scale of that size. The difference being we start airing a TV show five to six week after we shoot it, as opposed to a video game, which we started working on this thing almost two years ago. You don't get those occasional status updates -- 'How you doing? How are we doing? Are we on the right track? What are the ratings like? -- It's a much, much longer process before things finally see the light of day. But as far as the narrative unfolding it's more similar to TV or to a big franchise motion picture, something like doing Lord of the Rings in terms of size.
Talk a bit about the characters in the game.
The coolest thing about the characters in these games is how they manage to stay alive, realistically or metaphorically. A version of Captain Price was fighting in World War 2 (in earlier Call of Duty games) and he was in the last game and I've seen a bunch of rumors that I have been entertained by that Gaz somehow survived the previous game and is back in a different incarnation in this game. (New MW2 character) Ghost is a personal favorite of mine in this game. He has the coolest face mask in this game.
The characters tend to tend to take on a life of their own. About (MW main character) Soap (MacTavish), seeing him go from basically being you in the first game with you playing as him, now he moves around in front of you (in MW2). I think two or three times when we were testing out levels, I said, 'That guy is cool. Who is he?' 'That is Soap,' someone said. I wasn't picturing him as being so cool, because I was picturing (Soap as) myself. I wasn't picturing someone so cool.
Are you working on any other video games or additional Modern Warfare chapters?
As of now, not that I know of. (The Infinity Ward) crew have been working 24 hours a day and are looking for a little bit of a break. If they want to go again, I'd be glad to go again with them. I wouldn't be surprised, but I think for now we'll all just catch our breath.
There is some talk about doing an NCIS game. There's talk of doing an NCIS everything at the moment. I think that comes with reaching No. 1, which has been something of a journey. We have had some conversations about that. I think they are looking at companies right now.
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Mike Snider began covering the video game industry during the Super Nintendo-Sega Genesis clash in 1992. An original pinball wizard, he eventually was seduced by Robotron: 2084 and Tempest. These days he is a fan of action/shooters and lives out his Keith Moon fantasies playing a mean drum kit on music games. More about Mike.
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Mews Tavern of Wakefield, Rhode Island will undergo a nine workstation installation that includes SquirrelOne Point of Sale, Squirrel Time & Attendance, Waitlist, Gift Card & Loyalty as well as Optimum Control Pro for inventory control and Mercury Payments for payment processing.
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I Want To Lose Weight
Every year thousands of people get onto diets; thousands try and fail and the older we get the more difficult it is. There are simply hundreds of diets available on the internet, from best ways to lose weight fast, can I lose weight, quick ways lose weight, which is where many go looking for that magic but often elusive formula.
The human race is built in many different forms and shapes and we all react to different foods in different ways. Some lose weight by eliminating carbohydrates; others by removing protein from their diet. There seems to be no one diet that fits all and yet there is one weight reducing diet that appears to suit a wide section of the population and I'm on it now.
The diet I am on is a study being run in six countries by the medical division of six universities – one in each country – it involves 2500 people across the participating countries/universities and its objective is to test two types of diet on people who may be prone to diabetess at some future date and are also overweight.
Moden Day Disease
Diabetes has become a major health issue in many western countries; in particular the USA, UK and Australia. The health cost of treating diabetes runs into many hundreds of millions of dollars.
Given the choice, most would prefer to be fit and looking good; being obese is no barrel of laughs, impeding as it does on our quality of life and creating a greater risk of poor health issues and a shorter life expectancy.
International Study
The study I am involved in is different from most others I have known; it is designed for the participants to lose at least 8% of their body weight in the first eight weeks. Those of us who succeed in losing the required 8% or more get to continue on a three year maintenance program.
This maintenance program is our key to success. During this time we will create a lifestyle that will help us maintain our weight and avoid or at least reduce our chances of developing diabetes.
I am told that it is in this stage of any diet that most fail. The weight is initially lost, only to be regained and often increased in the period following the first stage when the main weight loss is achieved. Without a strong awareness and determination to avoid going backwards again the old lifestyle must be left behind and a new one developed. This is achieved in maintenance.
Creating a new Lifestyle
Recreating ourselves is not easy. We need support and motivation to keep going. Will the family living at home accept a lifestyle change for the parent who is trying to maintain their new healthier weight? Will they accept a new eating regime that varies greatly from what they are used to?
I guess the secret will be to do it gradually without too much fuss; like stepping stones, take one at a time; smaller portions, more green vegetables, fruit always available. Use healthy oils for cooking such as olive oil or rice bran oil. They may be a little more expensive than the cheap oils, or should I say the unhealthy oils, but it's all about changing the lifestyle that didn't work.
Here are a few thoughts:
Get in the habit of using less oil when frying; remove fat from meat before cooking it; use more herbs to spice up the taste of foods; reduce the use of sugar, salt and white flour and discourage the use of packaged meals, gradually, without making a fuss of it. Avoid buying packaged potato chips or crisps and reduce fast food/takeaway meals.Don't go after the quick ways lose weight. Do these things and you will succeed.


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large vintage monkey pod bowl made in Hawaii wooden
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This is a really nicely toned monkey pod bowl made in Hawaii. It is wooden and very large. It measures 16" from tip to tip and about 3" deep. Cross ways at it's furthest point it is almost ten inches. It is a really nice bowl with an almost tigers eye look to it and would be great for storing remote controls, candy, or any other number of things. Also great just as a presentation piece. The sticker has come off of the bottom, but this is genuine monkey pod wooden ware. Plus, I'll include a monkey pod sectional bowl. Thanks for checking out my item! View my other auctions for vintage glass, books, and other miscellaneous items.


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When you hear the word "resurrection", what's the first thing that comes to mind? Religious miracles? Zombie viruses? The end of the world?
Whatever your mental association, I'm willing to bet it's not "an emerging scientific discipline." Well, it just so happens a growing community of microbial ecologists are developing a new use for the traditionally mysticism-affiliated word. These scientists don't just study modern microbes. Nor do they fashion themselves paleobiologists. No, these people actually straddle the boundary between life and death. They resurrect. And in doing so, they hope to gain insight into how evolution occurs: from single genes to entire communities.
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Any other positive trainers of working lines?
If you work with clicker training/ positive only methods, what have your experiences been with this type of dog? How do you handle discipline? What role does exercise play in discipline and how often and how do you exercise your dogs? Where do you train?
Or if you have a show line, a rescue, a farm line like my in laws lol... Positive trainers of German shepherds?
Or those who do not subscribe to pack leader beliefs and question NILIF?
I am all for clicker training and have trained many like this for the last 15 years successfully. My only experiences with WLs are my own WD and DDog, the new pup. I have come to realize that just clicker training doesn't cut it. Especially DDog accepting being handled. Sometimes I just do it and reward him for cooperating (as if he had a choice :) ) as I am getting nowhere with clickering in some departments. DDog is in fact the first dog in all these years that I cannot easily manipulate with the clicker as I could will all other dogs I have worked with. I see the prong in his future, and would never have thought in a million years that I would ever say this. WD was more compliant but once in a while I grabbed him too after he grabbed me as a pup.
I am curious too to hear others on this topic.
Positive punishment is still positive. Does that count?
Lol I don't judge.
Not for me.
My girl also struggles with being handled sometimes, Wolfy Dog. How did you " handle" that?
As a psychology major, I smile when people know the correct terminology. I've always gotten a chuckle out of "positive only" being incorrectly said for positive reinforcement only.
Anywho. The topic... I don't have a working line, but I think it depends on the dog for this (isn't that always the answer?). I always tell people I teach with positive reinforcement only but I proof with positive punishment. I don't correct my dog unless she knows what I'm asking and has already learned something via marker training.
I wasn't a psych major, and have studied some about positive punishment too... But yes, I was incorrect. Marker only training with time outs?
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Vcommunicator Mobile Lite - Kurdish
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Vcommunicator Mobile LC (Language & Culture) has spent the last year deployed with soldiers from 10th Mountain Division, 4th Infantry Division, & 82nd Airborne. This tool has enabled soldiers to effectively communicate and reduce engagement mistakes during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Devices have also been deployed with Joint Forces to help in relief efforts in Sudan.
With its proven success and positive feedback over the last year, Vcommunicator Mobile is a proven solution for increasing the language and culture knowledge of our deployed Forces.
In this sample you will get an idea of how the Vcommunicator Mobile works. You will be able to choose a phrase and see a 3D character providing the culturally specific gesture, voice and phonetic for learning, you will see the corresponding Kurdish script, and you will get a sample of some vocabulary.
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Financial integration in European equity markets: The final stage of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its impact on capital markets
Worthington, Andrew C., Katsuura, Masaki, & Higgs, Helen (2003) Financial integration in European equity markets: The final stage of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its impact on capital markets. Economia, 54(1), pp. 79-99.
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This paper examines the extent of financial integration in European equity markets before, during and after the adoption of the single currency on 1 January 1999. Two groups of European economies are examined. The first set comprises the Member States of the European Union (EU) that participated in the euro (the Euro-11) [Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain]. The second set consists of the remaining Members of the Euro-15 [Denmark, Greece, Sweden and the United Kingdom] along with Norway and Switzerland. Multivariate cointegration procedures, Granger-causality tests and generalised variance decomposition analyses based on error-correction and vector autoregressive models are conducted to examine long and short-run relationships among these markets. The results indicate that there is a stationary long-run relationship and significant short-run causal linkages between the equity markets of both the euro and non-euro currency areas. However, while the large equity markets remain the most influential, the lower causal relationships that exist between these and at least some middle (Belgium, Spain and Netherlands) and small (Ireland, Luxembourg, Finland and Norway) equity markets suggests that opportunities for international portfolio diversification in European equity markets may still exist.
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"Cougar Town" will continue on TBS.
On Monday, the network announced it had renewed the comedy.
TBS, the network the show made the leap to after leaving ABC last year, has ordered 13 episodes for next season -- the show's fifth.
PHOTOS: Courteney Cox's 'Cougar Town'
"'Cougar Town' has been everything we hoped it would be: a smart, big-hearted, laugh-out-loud comedy that shines a bright light on the TBS brand," Michael Wright, president, head of programming for TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies (TCM), said in a statement. "This season, the brilliant cast and immensely creative production team on 'Cougar Town' have crafted their best episodes yet, and we couldn't be happier inviting them back for more."
WATCH IT NOW: Courteney Cox, Josh Hopkins & Dan Byrd Talk Moving To TBS
"Cougar Town" airs Tuesdays at 10 ET/PT, and stars Courteney Cox, Christa Miller, Busy Philipps, Dan Byrd, Ian Gomez, Josh Hopkins and Brian Van Holt.
The Season 4 finale will air April 9 on the network.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton just said that the U.S. message to al-Qaeda remains the same today, but "may have even greater resonance" in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death.
"You cannot wait us out, you cannot defeat us," Clinton said at the State Department. "But you can make the choice to abandon al-Qaeda and participate in a peaceful political process."
Please check USA TODAY's website for a full report on bin Laden's death.
The nation's top diplomat also expressed support for Pakistan, even as U.S. forces found bin Laden living in relative comfort not far from the nation's capital city of Islamabad.
"We are committed to supporting the people and the government" of Pakistan, Clinton said. "Bin Laden had also declared war on Pakistan."
The raid to kill bin Laden is a product of a "worldwide anti-terror network," and she her list of credits included President Obama, military troops, intelligence officers, and professional diplomats. She said, "this has been a broad, deep, very impressive effort."
"Even as we mark this milestone, we should not forget that the battle to stop al- Qaeda and its syndicate of terror will not end with the death of bin Laden," Obama said. "Indeed, we must take this opportunity to renew our resolve and redouble our efforts."
Clinton also noted that bin Laden's death "came at a time of great movements toward freedom and democracy" in the Middle East and elsewhere.
"All over the world, we will press forward," she said, "bolstering our partnerships, strengthening our networks, investing in a positive vision of peace and progress, and relentlessly pursuing the murderers who target innocent people. The fight continues and we will never waver."
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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Carbon Monoxide Sensor Placement Height - Where to Mount a Carbon Monoxide Detector
A properly situated carbon monoxide sensor locationing height sounds an alarm when the gas builds up. The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that annually about 170 American residents die due to carbon monoxide poisoning. Improperly used or mechanically faulty heaters, furnaces, fireplaces and portable generators are the most common culprits.
A carbon monoxide detector measures the presence of carbon monoxide (CO) in a home's air. When the device detects the increasing presence of CO in its vicinity, it will sound a loud alarm.
The sound alerts sleeping or otherwise occupied residents of the increasing CO levels. Before the buildup reaches dangerous levels in the breathable air, they have the chance to exit the home and call for help.
The detector should be installed in the immediate vicinity of sleeping quarters with a proper carbon monoxide detector placement height. Choose a hallway wall right outside each bedroom or, if bedrooms are close together, one alarm will suffice. Remember that the detector must be able to measure the CO content of the air. Placing it out of sight behind a curtain or a piece of furniture diminishes its effectiveness. The same occurs when installing it close to a heating vent.
The actual carbon monoxide detector placement height on the hallway wall is hotly debated. Some suggest placing it near the ceiling -- much like a smoke alarm -- while others favor a location closer to the floor. Recent studies show that the density of air and CO is similar -- the gas is only 3 percent lighter than breathable air -- and, therefore, carbon monoxide detector placement height near either the floor or the ceiling is appropriate.
Areas to Avoid
Do not do carbon monoxide detector placement height within fifteen feet of heating or cooking appliances, as they may emit a small amount of carbon monoxide upon start-up. Also avoid humid areas, such as bathrooms.
CO detectors provide protection against accidental carbon monoxide poisoning not only in homes and public places, but also in mobile homes, boats and recreational vehicles. Consider the installation of an alarm wherever there is a power generator or combustion engine in operation.
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This is, of course, the basic user interface, without that secret paradigm-shifting overlay that is still a twinkle in the eye of Nokia's UI chief. He said last week that Nokia is looking to do with MeeGo what Microsoft did with Windows Phone 7 - introduce a slick, minimalistic interface, which would offer an extremely user-friendly experience, and wouldn't require staring at the screen all the time. Instead, the phone should know where you are, and what you might be doing, and adjust accordingly. Interaction with the device would be kept to a minimum via an improved notification system.
We'll see what Nokia delivers in the end, but in the meantime, enjoy the basic MeeGo as it is, with the animated icons, and the Mozilla Fennec browser.
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There is an interesting irony in the fact that a tradition that apparently once practiced child sacrifice has evolved into one in which (in certain segments, at least) is adamant in protecting the rights even of the not-yet-born. The teachings on the unborn found within the Bible are somewhat ambiguous. Exodus 21:22-25 appears to make a distinction between causing a miscarriage (treated as a misdemeanor and punished with a fine) and harm to the mother, although the term of 'miscarriage' could refer to a premature birth, in which case the language of "no further harm" would apply to both child and mother. The distinction is problematic, however, since a premature birth would almost always have died in antiquity. Leaving that passage to one side, Numbers 5:11-31 may offer the only reference to human-induced abortion in the Bible – and there it is mandated rather than prohibited.
It might be easy, on this basis, to simply argue that "Bible-believing Christians" should be pro-abortion. But I'd rather suggest that any ethical decisions we make should be based on our current understanding of the fetus' development in the womb, rather than on texts from a pre-scientific age.
At any rate, it seems clear that evidence for development in Israel's view of child sacrifice is to be found on the Bible's pages. The earliest tradition may be reflected in Exodus 22:29-30, which seems (in spite of arguments to the contrary) to mandate offering one's firstborn to God. Other laws allowed for a price for redemption to be paid instead, but that has all the hallmarks of a later legislation aimed at reforming this earlier one. It is interesting to compare Ezekiel 20:25-26 and Jeremiah 19:5 on whether God wanted this done, but Ezekiel seems to indicate that he understood it to have been God himself that tested Israel with "laws that were not good". I wonder what an inerrantist would make of that.
It is as a response to this practice, as I've suggested before, that one ought to read the story of Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac. If we go back far enough in any society, we will find practices and views that are abhorrent from the standpoint of our modern sensibilities. This is an encouraging experience – our moral sensibilities are improving, and in many societies that once explicitly endorsed the enslavement of people of a particular race, one nowadays will be challenged for even making a racist joke, never mind actually endorsing slavery. The Abraham story is to be appreciated as one of our only sources of evidence about the steps an ancient people took to change an abhorrent practice. It is for such accomplishments, and not for the common atrocities of ancient societies, that the Biblical literature ought to be appreciated.


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When the Jets signed free agent tailback LaDainian Tomlinson on March 14, 2010, the organization gained instant credibility.
Following nine historic seasons as the face of the San Diego Chargers franchise, the future hall of famer sought a change of scenery and started a new chapter of his career in New York.
Tomlinson's health began to decline during his final two seasons in Chargers blue as nagging knee injuries hampered his play and curtailed San Diego's Super Bowl dreams.
Oddly enough, No. 21's last game with San Diego came against his future ballclub, as the Jets upended the heavily favored Chargers 17-14 in the 2009 AFC divisional round.
As speculation grew that Tomlinson would not return to the Chargers, Rex Ryan and the Jets front office wined and dined the star tailback wooing him with promises of a Super Bowl title.
Tomlinson agreed to a two-year, 5.2 million dollar contract, which was modest by most estimates in spite of his best years being behind him.
While NFL pundits argued that Tomlinson should hang up the cleats, the five-time pro bowler completed a rigorous offseason training regiment to reach peak physical performance.
Fueled by doubt and cynicism, Tomlinson amassed 435 rushing yards, 95 receiving yards and three touchdowns over his first five games in Green and White. The Jets were off to a 4-1 start behind Tomlinson's brilliance, but his success was short-lived.
Over the next 10-games of the regular season Tomlinson failed to eclipse 57 yards on the ground in any game and found the end zone just three times over that span. Rex Ryan opted to rest Tomlinson during New York's regular season finale as the team had already secured a playoff spot.
Even with Tomlinson's production slipping the Jets finished the year at a record of 11-5 and traveled to Indianapolis to take on Peyton Manning and the Colts in the 2010 AFC wildcard round.
With a week off, Tomlinson had an extra pep in his step carrying the ball 16 times for 82 yards including two touchdowns as New York avenged its AFC Championship game loss from a season ago. Fresh off the 17-16 upset over Indy, Tomlinson ran ten-times for 43 yards and a touchdown in New York's 28-21 triumph over the top-seeded New England Patriots.
The Jets playoff run would come to a halt during the AFC title game in the Steel City as Pittsburgh rode a 24-0 halftime lead to a narrow 24-19 victory.
Trailing 24-17 with 7:44 remaining in their season, the Jets faced a critical 4th-and-1 from just outside the 1-yard line. Tomlinson took the handoff and leapt toward the end zone, but he was stymied by the combination of Casey Hampton and Brett Kiesel; denying New York the game-tying score.
With the book officially closed on the 2010 season, New York regrouped and set their sights on a Super Bowl berth that eluded them the previous two seasons. 2011 was a rollercoaster year for the Jets as they endured two separate three-game losing streaks en route to a middling 8-8 regular season.
Tomlinson was no longer the feature back as the Jets thrust third-year tailback Shonn Greene into the starting role. The Jets ranked 22nd overall as a rushing offense producing a shade above 105 yards per contest.
Tomlinson rushed just 75 times for 280 yards and only one touchdown. Gang Green utilized him as receiving option out of the backfield as Tomlinson hauled in 42 receptions for 449 yards and two touchdowns.
With the Jets plagued by locker room turmoil, New York missed out on the playoffs for the first time under head coach Rex Ryan. Tomlinson's two-year contract expired without his Super Bowl promises being fulfilled.
Once again, Tomlinson is a free agent and his return to Green and White is in serious doubt. With his legacy as a hall-of-fame running back secured, it's still unclear whether the star halfback will retire or make one final Super Bowl push.
If 2011 was the end of Tomlinson's career as a New York Jet, it was certainly a miserable exit for one of the NFL's living legends.
Rick Laughland covers the New York Jets for Greenandwhitereport.com
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Olympus Whistleblower Speaks Out
Last year, Olympus CEO Michael Woodford discovered shady financial dealings within the company that reached all the way to to the top of the corporate ladder. When the board of directors found out that Woodford knew about millions of dollars in hidden investment losses, they promptly fired him, setting off alarm bells in the media and throughout global financial markets.
A Westerner at the top of a Japanese multinational company was almost unheard of at the time. But instead of ignoring the revelations of financial crimes at Olympus as many before him had done, Woodford spoke out. In November 2011, Woodford told The Takeaway, "When you start to get back answers...If I then just became passive and didn't do anything with those answers, then I would have become complicit. And I couldn't do that."
When all was said and done, it turned out that Olympus had covered up losses of more than $1.5 billion over a number of years.
Woodford's new memoir, "Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower," chronicles the ordeal.
Woodford tells an anecdote from his teenage years, when he once stole some money from his mother. "She simply told me that she'd seen that I'd taken some money from her purse and if she couldn't trust her own son, who could she trust in this world. And it made an impression on me."
"A lot of people look at whistle-blowing as a squealer, as a snitch," Woodford says. "What I wanted to do in this book was to tell people of the challenges which you'll face and really ask people how they would react in the same circumstances."
"The choices were very simple," he says, describing the moment when he realized that there were some very bad things happening within the company for which he was responsible for as the CEO. As far as Woodford was concerned, this was a black and white case - to keep silent would be to condone something which he knew was wrong.
"Fraud happens everywhere," Woodford says. "The difference is, when it comes out in Japan, it's like Alice in Wonderland. The way the company was allowed to deny the undeniable, and the Japanese media was almost like the PR office for Olympus."
"That's one of the problems for Japan, it hasn't got a media which is willing to confront and challenge and probe," he says. The Japanese shareholders were similarly afraid to challenge the Olympus institution - though billions of dollars had been lost, Woodford felt in the "deafening silence" of the Japanese shareholders that he was still not getting their support.
Nevertheless, Woodford is now fully recovered from the scandal, just a year after its unraveling. "This idea that whistle-blowers will never work again, or it always ends in tears," Woodford says, is nonsense. "I've come out of it."
Having received numerous awards, and job offers, as well having successfully published a well-reviewed book, Michael Woodford is a testament to the fact that "It doesn't have to end in tears."


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Available now on: XBL Indie Game Marketplace
You remember those definitive 2d space shooters around the time of the NES era? Both arcade and retail classics such as Asteroids and R-type have left their mark of nostalgia on any gamer from that time period. Something about going back to play these titles makes you feel like you're 8 years old again, and with that, brings a flood of emotions you had back then. The enjoyment of that new upgrade and extra life you dodged 17 comets to get, or the frustration of making it all the way to a boss only to be decimated and have to start the level(s) over. All of these feelings and experiences over the years have molded us into the gamers we are today. So when I heard about the indie project PowerUp from Psychotic Psoftware, my hopes we're very high to have that rush of feelings again, and minus one or two minor hiccups, it delivered on all fronts.
One man, UK indie developer Mike Hanson posted his idea for PowerUp early this year on Kickstarter with the goal of raising 5k for the software needed to complete the game. In just 30 days and with over 280 backers, he was able to accumulate enough to push the project onward. After much hard work, sweat and tears, we fast forward seven months and PowerUp launches for XBL on 09/13/13. Though the game is not really ambitious in bringing many new innovations to the genre, it definitely hit the nail on head for both fun and re-playability.
There is not much story to the game aside from a pretty lengthy intro screen, but without spoilers, the jest of it is that you are the last human alive trying to escape from enemy space. It does not have any voice acting attached other than the generic sounds you get when you obtain that next orb or switch weapons. That being said, the absence of such makes you feel more immersed into the experience of Hanson's interpretation of older classics.
The difficulty settings of the game make this a title something that can be enjoyed by gamers of all ages. They range from Easy ebing the most simple, to the appropriately named Psychotic being the hardest. From what I can tell, the difficulty has little to do with enemies being harder, but more to do with what your starting equipment is. For instance, in Easy you start out with 10 lives and in Psychotic you only have one. This plays a big role as the game offers a decent array of upgrades but one of the only things you cannot obtain is extra lives; what you start with is what you got. This also has a hand in how the re-playability becomes such a factor. Taking a page from the old school games, if you die, you're dead and must therefore start the whole game over. Aside from the chase of that new high score, there are also new paint jobs you can obtain by either time spent playing the game or by beating the game on different difficulties. One of my biggest quarrels is that there is no online leaderboard so you and you friends can't compete. It only tracks the highest score achieved and you cannot even put your initials next to the score to claim it. Not a deal breaker by any means, but something to be longed for.
The graphics are very crisp in most areas but lacking in others. Though the game is a 2d side-scroller, most all elements of the game are rendered in 3d to give it a more up-to-date feel. However, again staying true to the classics, the text sequences are accompanied by 16-bit looking characters. The graphics and gameplay in general really shine with the ship's weapon upgrades as they make you feel crafty in certain situations. PowerUp has 5 different weapons for your ship, all of which do different things (forward, backward, etc.), and an array of other goodies like shields and speed boosts. With the game having a nice balance of both the old and new techniques, it should hopefully be enough to make PowerUp stand out amongst the crowded XBL indie marketplace. Hanson says he also has plans for future releases on both iOS and Andriod, which if done right, might hit home with a lot of casual gamers as well.
For a first time project from a new company, PowerUp is great installment into any gamers library. It delicately walks the line of old and new and will surely draw you in with its charming arcade feel. And for just a $1 on XBL, you definitely can't go wrong!
IGN Blogger Score: 8/10
+ Re-Playability
+ Classic Feel
+ Good Difficulty Settings
- No Leaderboards
- No Voice Acting


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Essential No. 1: Creating Exceptional Value
When I moderate CEO panel discussions on The 7 Essentials, the CEOs invariably make practical suggestions that stun the audience. "Why didn't I think of that?" or "I am going to try that tomorrow!" are candid responses I frequently hear. There is one panel discussion that really stands out for me that proves how a company can achieve exceptional growth by focusing on delivering a highly differentiated, valuable set of benefits.
Selim A. Bassoul serves as chairman and CEO of Middleby (MIDD), a member of the select set of companies that have achieved high revenue growth through both the 2002 and the current recession. His company is the leading value-added manufacturer (No. 1 or 2 in market share in each product category) of ovens and ranges used in commercial restaurants, institutional kitchens, and food packaging. Middleby's customers include restaurants such as Panera Bread (PNRA), Dunkin' Donuts, Subway, Papa John's (PZZA), and Morton's The Steakhouse (MRT).
When Bassoul took the reins at Middleby in 1999, revenues were $132 million, which shrank to $100 million by the start of the 2001-03 recession. "We had very limited resources and capital, we were running out of cash, and we were highly reliant on three customers that generated more than 60% of our sales," Bassoul remembers. "We lacked innovation, and the products we were generating or creating were very 'me-too' kitchen products across a very broad range, including mixers, refrigerators, and ovens. Roughly 30% of the orders were not shipped on time. You could say we had a case study of a lousy company."
No Quibble Warranty
Bassoul recounts that Middleby desperately needed to find one or two market differentiators. "We needed to build the premium brand in order to be No. 1 in our category, so we focused on ovens and backed it up with a 'No Quibble Warranty.'" The company will take back any piece of equipment, for any reason, no questions asked. "The goal is to meet or exceed a customer's cooking and service expectations," says Bassoul. "While Costco (COST) and Nordstrom's (JWN) are two of the few companies that offer 'no questions asked' warranties, ours was even more compelling since returning a kitchen is a lot more costly than returning a shirt!"
Another point of differentiation: Middleby's tests each oven before it is shipped. "This creates an internal incentive for us to ensure that premium quality is built into everything we do: engineering, production, installation and service," says Bassoul. "This may sound basic but is not done by all our competitors."
Middleby's growth turnaround incorporated more than operations excellence and an industry-leading warranty. Bassoul focused on transforming Middleby's value proposition. "Our sales team focused on building relationships with new and current customers. I called on our competitors' customers, not to sell them, but to find out why they bought our competitors' products and to listen to their insights about the market."
During the turnaround timeframe in 2001, Bassoul says he heard two things about his competitors' restaurant customers that seemed directly related to his business: Restaurants were cutting back on food costs, and the trend of casual dining-out was growing every day."
What Women Chefs Want
Based on the information he got by talking with his competitors' customers, Bassoul decided to redefine the brand around more casual dining and put all of Middleby's engineering focus on the innovations required to make energy-efficient ovens. He also learned that more than half of the chefs were women. The company formed a Women's Chef Advisory Council to find out about their unmet needs.
Female chefs wanted ovens that were lower in height so they could use the top shelves, they wanted them to be self-cleaning, and more energy-efficient. "We moved from the male-centric 'make it bigger and more powerful' to redefining the benefits desired by the majority of our chefs," Bassoul says. "What we were doing was completely different than anything Middleby's competitors were doing—and that's exactly why we did it."
Combined with a new product line of ovens with features more friendly to women we focused on casual dining leaders, partnering with YUM! Brands' (YUM) Kentucky Fried Chicken to introduce grilled chicken and providing ovens to Dunkin' Donuts and Subway. All are now our Marquee Customers."
Bassoul continues to learn from customers who don't buy from Middleby: what his competition is doing, identify new niches around unmet customer needs, and why and how his company is not meeting their needs. "This may seem counterintuitive, but your competitors' customers can be more frank and honest with you than your current customers," Bassoul observes. "They are not sensitive to hurting your feelings—they tell it like it is."
Insights to Actions
Ask yourself and your management team the following questions:
• With customers redefining their needs and desired benefits for the challenging times ahead, how can your service or product become the most-desired in your industry or market category?
• Are you meeting with and listening to your best customers and those of your competitors? If not, what will get you started? If you are, what advantages have you identified that will redefine what "exceptional value" your company can provide?
• What actions could you take to create an improved or new "exceptional value" differentiator for your company?
Here are three actions you can take to transform your value proposition to create exceptional value for your customers:
1. Interview Your Competitor's Customers
Follow in Bassoul's footsteps to interview your competitor's customers to identify market trends, understand new business needs, identify your company's opportunities to serve new customers or better serve the ones you have lost. Often this can be done by the CEO or another company leader who is not charged directly with making sales. Utilizing senior leadership communicates the importance of the interview, an orientation to a broad business discussion, and one that is likely to produce action.
2. Just Ask for Time to Listen—Don't Focus on Selling
It may seem intimidating to ask a competitor's customers to meet and discuss their insights. Just ask for time to listen.
Advises Bassoul: "Prior to meeting, I simply tell them, 'I am here to make the industry better and would like to understand how to make my company better as well. Would you mind sharing your wisdom and insights' I find customers are always flattered that I take my time to meet with them in person. Just ask and take time to listen."
He says that by talking to non-customers, Middleby realized that it could go after a new market by adding electronic ignition to its ovens. "That opened up a set of new customers who turn off their ovens at night." And any company that currently isn't a customer is a potential future customer.
3. Turn Feedback Insights into Action
Whether you identify the need to form a customer advisory council, add new features, or improve level of service levels, be sure that these actions will address unmet needs. Often such actions don't require too much investment. And these customers could end up participating in an advisory council or try out a new version of your product or service.
Viewing growth opportunities through the lens of your competitor's customers can be more important than listening to current customers. Capture the 1+1=3 effect by listening to your competitor's best customers in addition to your own. Do you need proof? Middleby has grown from $100 million in 2001 to over $657 million by second quarter 2009. Bassoul's company turned in a remarkable 30% growth rate through the 2008-09 recession.
The next article will focus on Essential No. 2: Identify a High Growth Market Segment. If you want to to measure your company's performance against each of The 7 Essentials, take the free scorecard. Talk to Dave at twitter.com/davidgthomson or visit www.blueprintgrowth.com.