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Mad Cowboy Interview 02: Dr. Pam Popper
(Part 01 of 02)
MS: "How
long have you been a vegetarian, near-vegan?"
PP: "I started moving in this direction about 10
years ago. I stopped eating beef, chicken and dairy products,
eggs... all that kind of stuff, about 8 years ago."
MS: "Was there a particular event that prompted this
change for you?
PP: "I was very lucky in that my terrible eating habits,
and they were terrible until 10 years ago, had not resulted
in either weight gain or a bad illness. Now I know now
that had I continued doing what I was doing, I was on my
way to having cancer or heart disease.
What basically happened was that I was motivated by articles
I was reading that indicated my diet was 'deadly.' And
I kind of knew that anyway. I knew I wasn't doing very
well. I was really motivated because I had two kids, and
I knew they were eating like I was eating, and that wasn't
very good. So this started as kind of informal personal
research. Let's clean up my own diet, fix my kid's diet.
I got so interested in this, once I saw the difference
in me, my energy levels, my appearance, and everything
changed. I just couldn't understand why everyone didn't
know about this.
I can't say that I had some awful illness that prompted
me to do all this... it became common sense to me that
I should change my ways."[go to top]
MS: "How have your children taken
to your ideas?"
PP: "Well, it's been interesting. My oldest, who's
twenty-five, really like the vegetarian food from the get-go.
I put tofu in front of her, she'd eat it. Sunflower seeds
on a salad, great. No problems from her.
The youngest one was far more resistant, she was much more
of a garbage-eater than her sister. When Jenny, my oldest,
left home, she went back to eating terrible foods. She
gained a lot of weight. One day (you have to wait and be
quiet) she came to me and she said "the best she ever
felt in her life was when she was at home eating good vegetarian
food, and I want to get back on track," which I helped
her do. Now she's just become a vegan. In fact, she's getting
married, and one of the wedding requests is for a vegan
cake. She's really latched onto this now, and it's a very
important part of her life.
Now my youngest one we're still working on. She's in college
and having trouble adapting her lifestyle. I think the
same thing will happen to her that happened to her sister.
One day she'll kind of come to her senses and know she
needs this. She has the foundation."
MS: "So, you're more of the type of person who encourages,
rather than proselytise?"
PP: "Well, with my kids, when they lived in my house,
they ate what's in front of them!"
MS: [laughs] "So there's no menu checklist?"
PP: "I talk to parents all the time about this, that
when your kids complain or 'moan and groan' that they can't
order in a pizza, you look at them and say "I'm sorry,
but we don't do that here any more."
The other side of it that when dealing with it from a business
perspective, or when I'm dealing with friends that have
terrible habits, I have to wait for opportunities. I have
to make sure that I don't wear out my welcome, or people
won't want me around, because that's really counter-productive
to trying to be useful."
MS: "Howard's notorious for saying that you have a
30-second window of opportunity in getting your message
through to people."
PP: "The other thing that you can do, and I do this
all the time, I practice what I call "Healthside Deception." I'll
have friends over that are not on the same page with me
on "health," and serve them a fruitcake I made
with tofu. They scarf it down: "oh, it's delicious...
you were always a great cook." Then you don't tell
them until they're done that it has tofu in it. Their jaws
I like to entice people into getting interested in healthy
foods, because it really is tasty."[go
to top]
MS: "What's
you academic background?"
PP: "I have Bachleor's, Master, and Phd in Nutrition,
and a Phd in Naturopathy."
MS: "Did the degrees come from your dietary change,
or did they influence your change?"
PP: "It was both. I went back to school. I didn't
know I would end up in this profession.
Did you ever just sort of follow your gut? It was just
the right thing to do. I was about three years into how
to change my diet, I was feeling great, and just couldn't
get enough information. I was buying six books week and
reading them over the weekend. So I finally decided to
well, you might as well go to school and get some real
formal education, the anatomy, the physiology, the biology,
and all the other stuff that goes along withit. I just
stopped everything and went to school, not thinking about
what I was going to do, but knowing that I wanted to
know this information.
Once I got a couple of initials after my name, an interesting
thing started happening, and that was people started
asking me questions. They knew I was at school and they
see the change in me. It was dramatic. My skin color
changed. I went from never leaving the house without
makeup on,
to I wear no makeup on my face. People were astounded."
MS: "I don't either, by the way." [laughs]
PP: "I'm glad to hear that. [laughs] So, I mean, people
would look at me and go "omigosh, what happened to
you?" Between getting some information and the changes
in me, people were surprised. The more I learned, the
more convicted I became about my own personal choices
in terms
of my habits, the more results I got, the more I wanted
to pursue the education."[go to top]
MS: "Is a personal with a Phd in Nutrition considered
more or less qualified than a Registered Dietician?"
PP: "Depends upon where you live. Depends on who
you're talking to.
I think one of the problems that we have, in terms
of education pertaining to nutrition, is that we don't
to realize
that "dietetics" is one form of the study of
nutrition. A lot of people don't agree with it, and
I'm one of them.
So, there are all kinds of educational pathways that
utlize different philosophies.
In some states, for example Michigan, dieticians practice "dietetics" and
people like me practice nutrition with a totally different
philosophy. They don't get too involved in it, and
there doesn't seem to be as much of this kind of acrimony
and forth' about who's right and wrong.
Where I live in Ohio, we have some terrible laws here
that enable this to go on. The practice of 'dietetics'
is supposed
to be the only true form of nutrition."
MS: "That's fascinating, as I've always thought
that 'dietetics' and 'nutritionist' to be somewhat
PP: "They should be. The problem with the practice
and study of Dietetics, in my opinnion, is that it's
based on very old information. They do not recognize
a lot of
the science we now have. The agency or organization
that certifies dieticians and controls the curriculum
the schools that they attend is the American Dietetic
a very industry-friendly group. They take between $750
and $1000 million dollars a year from agricultural
organizations and corporations that manufacture food
and food additives,
in return for the opinons about subjects. You can't
take $50,000 a year from the sugar association and
say bad
things about sugar."[go to top]
MS: "When/how/why the Wellness Forum?"
PP: "I'd love to be able to tell you that I got
together with my closest advisors and hatched this
amazing plan.
But that's not how it happened! As I mentioned, I started
learning all this stuff in school, changed my habits,
and my appearance and demeanor changed. I noticed one
hey.... I was always hanging over the kitchen counter
with someone telling them how to make something with
meat substitutes,
or teaching them how to bake without oil, or talking
to them about how to relieve arthritis pain by getting
of so many animal protein in their diet, etc. Maybe what
I ought to do, since like everyone has the same bad habits
and the changes they need to make are the same, so we
need to have classes!
So I organized a little class. On Monday night everybody's
going to come over, and I going to make it organized.
I had some notes and everything. This goes on, and
soon I'm
teaching a group of people, and those people start
bring their friends, and they start bringing their
and soon my house has been taken over by this. So I
said, "Okay,
I've need to get a center. I've got to get this out
of the house."
I went a rented a center. And I'll tell you how much
I didn't really think of this as a business in the
beginning. I was there for three months, doing my thing,
and one
I was driving home and I though, "y'know, you're paying
rent... you're going to have to start charging people." It
wasn't hard, it's just indicate of how I kind of backdoored
my way into this thing."
MS: "So there was no business plan?"
PP: "I started charging people money. At that point
in time, it was self-sufficient financially, and I thinking "boy,
I've found out what I want to do when I grow up."
MS: "How long ago was this?"
PP: "This was in '97 when I opened the Center."
MS: "So you had your Phd then?"
PP: "I was in school then, still doing my school thing.
So, I could do this in Columbus and be a happy girl for
the rest of my life. A couple of my friends of mine in
other cities, who knew what I was doing, and suggested
that maybe they'd like to open one of these things, too.
I remember having conversations with them saying "I
don't know what I'm doing here, let alone teaching someone
how to do it someplace else." But I felt like we were
good enough friends, that we could try this, and if it
worked out, fine. We opened a couple of centers. "Okay," I
thought, "chain sounds good. Alright, now we'll
have a chain."
MS: "Would you actually call it a chain or franchise?"
PP: "It's a license. We license people to use
our materials. They go through a very specific and
training program. It takes an average of about nine
months (and can be done faster), and they can open
a Wellness
Forum Center, and offer our program and classes. We
teach them how to market themselves and how to be profitable,
because if you're not profitable, you can't stay in
So that's where the business came from, it just kind
of grew."[go to top]
MS: "You have a licensing program and a Foundation...
I'm not quite clear on the distinctions."
PP: "The Wellness Forum is a for-profit business.
And that's where we teach this classes in Columbus,
and we do programs and corporations, have licensees,
programs in other cities. We started the Foundation
about four years
ago, because I became convinced that one of the significant
issues that we're facing in this country is our children
and their eating habits, and the health problems
that are associated with their eating habits. We
have to
get to
those kids at an early age and turn around their
thinking around about this. I think the way to to
this is through
the school.
So, we started the Foundation, because if we go in
and we sell our services to the schools (the schools
no money for this), so we need to give our services
to the
school. So we got our programming qualified for "teacher's
CE" (continuing education), so that teachers
can come and learn this information and get continuing
education units for doing it. And then we make grants
to them,
that they have samples and starting kits... the things
you that you need to get children interested in healthy
It's self-perpetuating. Once we teach a teacher, they
teach this year's class, and next year's class, and next
class. So we can get to a lot of children this way.
MS: "That's extraordinary! School nutrition
has become high on the national radar recently."
PP: "It's incredible what we're doing. And we
send such a wrong message to these kids, in terms
of what
nutrition is all about, when they see the high-fat
garbage in the
cafeteria, and the soda machines in the hall.
I tell people all the time, you know, the biggest
threat to our national security, is not Osama Bin
Laden or
the Iraqis, it's the fact we are rearing a generation
children that are so unhealthy."
MS: "I think it was Dr. Neal Barnard and PCRM that
recently labelled current school lunches "Weapons
of Mass Destruction."
PP: "He was here a few days ago. We had over
550 people in attendence for him! I think it's a
very accurate
though. I'm moving closer to them all the time. I
don't care who I make angry when I say things like
that any
more. I think we need to make more people angry."[go
to top]
MS: "Tell me about the diet you're teaching.
I've read some of your materials and was really
PP: "Essentially the diet that we're teaching
people to adopt in general, is plant-based. We
don't suggest
that everyone needs to be a vegetarian. But a 90%
plant-based diet reduced down to about 10%.
To put that in perspective, we're talking about 21 major
meals in a week, a couple of them involving animal
foods. The rest of the time you're eating rice, beans,
and vegetarian foods. Paying attention to the quality
of that animal food. Getting away from the stuff
full of antibiotics,
steroids, and hormones. Getting off the dairy.
I think dairy is the worst thing you can put into your
every day. So we do stress that everybody eliminate
that. Getting away from this dependence upon packaged food,
and learning how to be a savvy label reader,
if you are
going to eat packaged food, know what's inside."
MS: "I was stunned about your information
about reading labels, shopping lists, goals...
you even
wrote about chlorinated
water and cancer."
PP: "...and getting people hydrated. Getting
them to drink enough water. Eating enough raw foods.
I mean,
most people live on dead food. It's been cooked
to death. Even if they're eating the right food,
it all cooked."
MS: "There are a lot of vegans and vegetarians
who eat, in my opinion, eat too much processed
PP: "Oh yes, there's a lot of vegan cookies
out there. But you can't live on the, well... you
but you won't
be healthy! It's very important that whatever adaptation
of this program, whether they become vegetarian
or vegan, is that they learn how to practice 'qualitative
quantitative' nutrition, in other words, pay attention
to what you're putting into your mouth. Stop practicing
'diet by exclusion,' which a lot of vegetarians
I've given up meat, I still eat junk all day, but
I've given
up meat."
MS: "I've been reading material by Jameth
Sheridan on the web recently, and he made the observation
that a lot of vegans and vegetarians define their
by what
they don't eat, rather than what they eat."
PP: "Exactly. That's the way a lot of people
define themselves and the way they chose food.
I'm eating
this because it's fat-free, I'm eating this because
it's reduced
salt... it doesn't have anything that will benefit
me, but it doesn't have those things in it. That's
what I
mean by 'qualitative nutrition,' let's take a look
at what you're
putting in your mouth that doesn't have any nutritive
MS: "Do you advocate a particular percentage
of raw foods?"
PP: "I think about 70% of the plant food you eat.
So many people go "oh my god," but it's
so easy to do. You do two things and you've got
it licked.
snacks become raw food, and your salads become
the biggest part of the meal for lunch and dinner.
you do that,
you're at 70% easily."
MS: "One of the things that intrigued me about
your program, is that you cover all aspects of
lifestyle in
your materials."
PP: "And we're doing it in a very user-friendly way.
Somebody was asked, in a newspaper article about us, why
do you think the Wellness Forum has become so successful?
Her answer was great. She said, "because they know
how to meet the public where they are, and help them start
moving in the direction of better health." And that's
very important. This all has to be very user-friendly.
People have to come to class and say: "I can
do that."
MS: "The program materials are upbeat, great
illustration, very optimistic presentation of information
lectures.. I was impressed... Who are you trying
to reach? I mean,
obviously children, but who else?"
PP: "Here's the message I want to get out
to everybody. It is YOUR responsibility to take
of yourself.
Not the insurance company's responsibility, the
medical doctor's
responsibility, federal government... it's your's.
That message needs to go everybody for two reasons:
is one. We can't afford to keep doing what we're
The other thing is: quality of life. We had a dinner
at our Center last night, with 27 or 28 people and almost
all of them had serious health issues that compromised
the quality of their life. We want to get to everybody,
and what I particularly love is when we can get somebody
who isn't sick yet, and keep them from becoming sick
we change their lifestyle first.
Everybody needs to hear this message. We're at
a point in time where, for health and financial
needs to do something about it."[go
to top]
MS: "The Wellness Forum in China, now there's
a concept...how'd it happen? (Dr.
T. Colin Campbell not withstanding!)"
PP: "How that happened was interesting.
The first person to open a Wellness Forum outside
was a Chinese-American friend of mine. When she
opened her
Center, she went home to visit her family, and
they were so excited about what she was doing
(and of
course, in
the major cities in Asia, health is starting
in decline because people are adopting these
habits of ours), and so it was suggested to her
that she maybe
she should think about opening one in Bejiing.
I was pretty astounded about that, I mean, I didn't know
what I was doing in Columbus and now I'm going to Bejiing.
MS: "So you hadn't heard of the "China Study" before
that point?"
PP: "By that time I'd read the 'China Study.'
She facilitated that, and the Chinese, in addition
to dealing
with health issues where we could be very helpful,
are very interested in education, so that's been
a successful
venture for us.
The question I've been asked a lot is "do we intend
to go into lots of other countries?" Yes,
we do, but we have to be careful that we don't
thin. Anyplace there are people who are sick
and overweight, is someplace we'll eventually
visit."[go to top]
MS: "I'm looking a document that's called the "Testimony
of Pamela A. Popper, to the Ohio State Commerce and Labor
Committee" entitled, "The Ohio Board of Dietetics
HAS Used Heavy-Handed Tactics In its Investigations." HOW
did you get involved in this one?"
PP: "Well, this is a long story. The short
version is that essentially when I started teaching
how to eat healthier in Columbus, Ohio, it never
ocurred to me that it might be against the law.
So I'm happily
my thing, and one day I got a call from an investigator
from the Board [Ohio
Board of Dietetics] who
wanted to
know what we are up to. I got checked out a little
bit, and left alone. I didn't think much of it
at the time.
About a year later, the State Investigator called
again. She came out to see me and informed me
that, unless
you are a registered and licensed dietician,
in the State
of Ohio, you can't talk about food. Some of the
things she
said to me almost had me laughing out loud. One
of them was that if I showed the movie "Diet
for a New America" [John
Robbins], that could be construed as the practice
of Dietetics because somebody might change their
habits as
a result of seeing that movie."
MS: [laughs] "...and you're still showing
that movie, aren't you?"
PP: "Oh, we still are. We're terrible lawbreakers.
So I'll try to summarize what happened.
I'm a person who, number one, understands my
rights, and number two, I have a big mouth. So
I was told
that I wasn't
allowed to do these things any more, teach workshops
and these sort of things. So I said, "well, I'm going
to continue to do it, and we're going to have to agree
to disagree." And this started a battle
that went a long time and cost a fortune to keep
in business.
As a result of this, at one time, they were going to
put me in jail for failing to comply with a supeona.
My parents were great. They were going to take
over the company, and make sure that my kids
stayed in
school. We were preparing."
MS: "Mom's a jailbird..."
PP: "The only thing we were worried about
was how I was going to get fed behind bars...
I don't
eat jail
food. Balony sandwhiches are not on my diet.
The good thing that came out of it, and there's
always something good that comes out everything,
is that
some state legislators saw what happened and
were appalled
by it and they introduced legislation....."
MS: "... basically you were harassed...
I mean the testimony is such a clear record of
PP: "...but here's what really interesting.
I wasn't the only one. Once these legislators
started working
on getting this whole situation changed here.
We found
that the Ohio Board of Dietetics had taken action
against more people than all other states combined."
MS: "An
average of 142 per year from 1996 to 2001,
with Florida being second at 19 per year."
PP: "So they went after 795 people in one six-year
period of time with 287 disciplinary actions, one of which
was the sent me a "cease and desist" order that
I couldn't put "Phd" after my name
even though I have two of them. You want to know
I found out
yesterday? The Ohio Board of Dietetics does not
have the statutory
authority to issue a 'cease and desist' order."
MS: "But they did?"
PP: "But they did..."
MS: "Are you counter-sueing? You spent some
$50k in defending your rights?"
PP: "We're going to win this battle by getting
the law changed."
MS: "That's your primary motivation. To
change the law to do what?"
PP: "So that people in the State of Ohio
have access to more than one philosophy about
As I mentioned
during this interview, the problem with dietitians,
in my opinion, is that they have one philosophy
that many
people don't agree with, this is one philosophy
of Nutrition.
The American
Dietetic Association, which supervises and
has some say in the certification of dieticians, takes
enormous amounts of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars
a year, from industry and agricultural organnizations,
so that many of their opinions are essentially paid for
by industry.
Now I don't resent the fact that they have a
trade group, and fund themselves this way, but
what I
do resent, and
what I do think is inappropriate, is that they
have a monopoly on the dispensing of nutrition
in Ohio.
It's a disservice.
Forget about the issues that affect me, it's
a terrible disservice to the close to 12 million
people who
live in this State."
MS: "What if some of your licensed people
in other States had some problems. Would you
step in
to help?"
PP: "We're the worst in the country. The
closest we every came to having this issue in
another state,
was the
Texas Legislature passed a law back when George
W. was governor, that would have essentially
made the
law in
Texas like it is in Ohio, and we were involved
in a massive campaign
to educate the then Gov. Bush, and he vetoed
This doesn't go on anyplace else, this amount
of harassement. I should say it doesn't go on
in Ohio. I've
been going to their meetings and I've heard them
say that
their investigory activity has been reduced 75%."
MS: "Oh, I'm sure they love to see you in
those meetings."
PP: "Yes, and I bring friends."
MS: "Maybe you should bring some vegan cookies."
PP: "Well, they could use them. I do bring
things because what they bring are diet sodas
and chocolate
MS: "One of things that struck me is the
similiarity to what the AMA did to Gerson back
in the '30s,
where his research was basically locked up and
he was kicked
of the country because he dare suggest that
diet has an influence on lung cancer."
PP: "God forbid." [go
to top]


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By Dominique Strauss-Kahn
These are exceptional times. Exceptional for what has happened to financial markets and for what has not happened, at least not yet, to the broader economy – the onset of a severe recession. Perhaps it was the absence of the latter that lulled too many into viewing the bursting of the housing bubble merely as a correction, the defaults in US subprime mortgages just as misfortune and the failure of important financial institutions as collateral damage. Read more

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Nokia reported a 44 percent rise in net profit for the fourth quarter, on sales that increased 34 percent. The company estimates 1.14 billion phones were sold in 2007, 40 percent of them bearing the Nokia brand.
The company made net profit for the quarter of €1.84 billion (US$2.7 billion as of Dec. 31, last day of the period reported), up from €1.27 billion a year earlier.
Sales for the quarter rose to €15.7 billion from €11.7 billion a year earlier. Growth was dampened by the weakening dollar: at constant currency rates, sales would have grown by 40 percent, the company said.
Nokia is counting on its acquisition of digital mapping data provider Navteq, and its move into the Internet services business, to drive future growth, Chief Financial Officer Rick Simonson said in a conference call with analysts.
Basic mobile phones sales now account for less than half the group's revenue, down from 60 percent a year earlier. Although sales volumes increased, the average selling price of such phones dipped from €89 to €83.
Around the world, shipments in the quarter increased 26.5 percent, with growth topping 40 percent in Asia. Growth could have been faster were it not for shortages of certain components, Nokia said. Sales fell in North America, Nokia's smallest geographic market, where shipments dropped 13.6 percent to 5.1 million phones. Nokia blamed the drop on its progressive withdrawal from the market for phones based on CDMA technology, used mainly in North America, to focus on the GSM technology used worldwide.
Nokia's multimedia division saw a 42 percent increase in sales, to €3.03 billion, and a doubling of operating profit, driven by the success of consumer smartphones such as the N73 and N95, which the company describes as "multimedia computers." It shipped over 11 million Nseries devices and over 2 million of its Eseries enterprise devices during the quarter.
New phones and multimedia devices that began shipping in volume during the quarter accounted for about 30 percent of profits and revenue, said CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
The company also saw sales more than double at Nokia Siemens Networks, its network equipment joint venture with German conglomerate Siemens.
Looking ahead, the company expects mobile phone sales to dip slightly in the first quarter, picking up to grow 10 percent for the full year. It also expects its share of that market to grow, although average selling prices will likely continue to decline, it said.
"Much work remains in order to realize our ambitions," Kallasvuo said. "We will not underestimate the competition."
Nokia will have to address its problems in North America if it wants to increase its share of the mobile phone market further, said Gartner research vice president Carolina Milanesi.
The company is working with U.S. operator Sprint Nextel to build a nationwide WiMax network, but Milanesi does not expect sales of WiMax devices to compensate for the company's falling CDMA market share during 2008.
"It's not going to happen overnight," Milanesi said.
Simonson found a silver lining to the cloud over Nokia's performance in North America: with such a small share of the U.S. market, the company has little exposure to the country's economic troubles.


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Millions of women nationwide want bigger, brighter more beautiful eyes. and to accommodate us the cosmetic industry is happy to bombard us with a plethora of eye make up products to help us achieve this, but some of these products may also offer an ugly side to seeking beauty.
"Dry eyes is probably the number one, any type of dryness to the eye can make an effect with allergies, infections." Said Donna L. Shotwell, D.O. of Sarasota.
Many women suffer dry, itchy watery eyes caused by a reaction to eye makeup, these are just a few side effect of ingredients that may not even be listed on the container.
"I think the most serious thing is definitely infections they can turn into ulcers and you can actually have loss of vision." She said.
One easy precaution to help avoid an infection is to replace your liquid eye make up, including liner and mascara. Dr. Shotwell suggested, "A nice way to remember is through each season when it becomes fall you change your mascara, when its winter you change your mascara, that way you can really protect your eyes against any types of infections.That seems to be more prone to infections than any kind of dry make up and powder"
The chemicals and ingredients may affect more than your eyes.
"Patients with reactions to make up have dry, red itchy skin" Said Sarasota based allergist, Hugh H. Windom. These are symptoms that you may be allergic to ingredients that you may never consider would be in your eye makeup.
"There are multiple chemicals in eye makeup and foundation, mascara, eyeliner even thymerasol which is in vaccines." he cautioned and here is what you can do to find out if you are allergic said Dr. Windom, "So we can patch test people to these various chemicals to help identify which substance is the trigger that causes their problem. Then they can go out and seek or avoid that particular one."
Be cautious about trying on make up when shopping as you never know who was there before you, and know where to apply your liner, said Dr. Shotwell, "Eyeliner should never be applied up toward the eye it should be applied below your lash line, because above the lash line is where all the glands are and they secrete some of the tears and lots of times you get sty's and infections in those glands."
There are websites, including the environmental working groups skin deep, that rate the safety and analyze ingredients of makeup, so, there is an opportunity to weigh the risk versus benefit of lengthening those lashes or enhancing our eyelids, and then there is always the choice of facing the world bare faced, which many of us do.


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From: (Genee)
Subject: Re: Neptune, New Jersey
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 02:56:22 GMT
References: <email@example.com>
Ooh sorry, my Monmouth County Atlas only shows a 9th Ave in Neptune,
Township of Neptune. Netscape white pages also shows a 1214 9th Ave
address in Neptune. Bradley Beach and Neptune City don't go as high
as 9th.
Also go to Yahoo Maps and put in the address. You can see there is a
park nearby called Bradley Park in Neptune. So that's what your
mother is thinking of. This may help you find the right district.
The Cranky Genee
On Fri, 17 May 2002 19:51:52 GMT, "Rob Stieglitz"
<> wrote:
>I am a bit frustrated! I have been searching the 1930 Census and have been
>successful finding my families in Asbury Park and Jersey City but Neptune is
>giving me a problem. My family (Flanagan & Lorigan) lived at 1214 9th
>Avenue in Neptune but I can't find it in the Census! Is it Neptune or
>Neptune City? To complicate things more, my Mother states it was Bradley
>Beach! I have the obit and it states Neptune but I am still at a lost to
>find which District to search in the Ancestry.Com on-line census.
>Can anyone help?
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Q. According to an article I read: "Self-esteem is not a gift; it can only be earned. Affirmations, self-talk and encouragement are all useful in your quest for self-esteem, but you only develop self-esteem the old-fashioned way, "You earn it!"
As you achieve, your self-esteem grows and as your self-esteem grows you feel better prepared to face greater challenges and create greater successes." Is that right?
A. Interesting conclusion, but I beg to differ. That's a superficial way of looking at the most important aspect of our lives. Self-esteem has little to do with success, per se. It cannot be 'earned'. Self esteem gradually emerges from one's childhood experiences: how one was valued or ignored, praised or criticised, affirmed or negated. A child who is never reinforced by those who are significant to him/her grows up living in doubt, with anxieties around who they are and with issues of belonging, potential and self worth. So how children are treated in the main, whether affirmed or ignored, has a long term effect on their esteem.
We get poor self esteem when we are not treated with any value or respect, which makes us loathe ourselves, and high esteem when we are clearly valued and treated in a significant way. Above all, high self-esteem is built through love and appreciation of the self. That's the only way to negate the effects of poor childhood experiences. Without self love - accepting who we are, warts and all, without seeking the approval of others - we tend to feel inadequate, to feel pessimistic about life, to feel in terms of constant loss and negativity, instead of optimism and confidence. It really is about value.
One can be very successful without high self-esteem (attributing their success to luck, to fluke, chance, or the support of others) or be unsuccessful but still very confident and high in esteem (perhaps believing that they have not done their best, or not really caring about success itself). Such people tend to act because they want to, without caring about the result in terms of social success (example artists and independent professionals).
Does self-esteem produce success, or does success improve self-esteem?
Self-esteem does not automatically produce success, but it does predispose the person to be more of an achiever than someone with low self esteem. It all depends on the individual and his/her aspirations. Again, success often improves self-esteem, but the person has to be optimistic enough to accept that their own efforts led to their success and have the desire to repeat the performance. Most important, whatever they do has to satisfy their basic needs.
The one known factor when it comes to people and their emotions, is that the better one feels about one's self (high esteem) is the more confident one tends to feel about one's world and abilities, and the more one will be inclined to put that confidence into action to test its possibilities and its limits. Successful people are always likely to be more successful, but it really depends on the individual's aims and aspirations, the support they get (which you rightly mentioned) and the belief in themselves. Anything else about that correlation would be pure conjecture.
©Elaine Sihera (Ms CYPRAH) 2011
Emotional Health and People Management Consultant
"Respect and love begin with the self. If we have none, how can we give away any?"


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Spontaneous pacing during overground hill running
Townshend, Andrew D., Worringham, Charles J., & Stewart, Ian (2010) Spontaneous pacing during overground hill running. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 42(1), pp. 160-169.
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Purpose: To investigate speed regulation during overground running on undulating terrain. Methods: Following an initial laboratory session to calculate physiological thresholds, eight experienced runners completed a spontaneously paced time trial over 3 laps of an outdoor course involving uphill, downhill and level sections. A portable gas analyser, GPS receiver and activity monitor were used to collect physiological, speed and stride frequency data.
Results: Participants ran 23% slower on uphills and 13.8% faster on downhills compared with level sections. Speeds on level sections were significantly different for 78.4 ± 7.0 seconds following an uphill and 23.6 ± 2.2 seconds following a downhill. Speed changes were primarily regulated by stride length which was 20.5% shorter uphill and 16.2% longer downhill, while stride frequency was relatively stable. Oxygen consumption averaged 100.4% of runner's individual ventilatory thresholds on uphills, 78.9% on downhills and 89.3% on level sections. 89% of group level speed was predicted using a modified gradient factor. Individuals adopted distinct pacing strategies, both across laps and as a function of gradient.
Conclusions: Speed was best predicted using a weighted factor to account for prior and current gradients. Oxygen consumption (VO2) limited runner's speeds only on uphill sections, and was maintained in line with individual ventilatory thresholds. Running speed showed larger individual variation on downhill sections, while speed on the level was systematically influenced by the preceding gradient. Runners who varied their pace more as a function of gradient showed a more consistent level of oxygen consumption. These results suggest that optimising time on the level sections after hills offers the greatest potential to minimise overall time when running over undulating terrain.
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Purpose: Recognizing that changes in management are inevitable, Imperial Valley College (IVC) has established a succession plan to provide continuity in leadership and to avoid extended and costly vacancies in key positions. Succession planning is the process that organizations use to identify and prepare candidates for high-level management positions that become vacant due to retirement, resignation, or new opportunities. With a growing number of administrators and managers becoming eligible for retirement, programs like G.L.E.A.M. are essential in proactively preparing IVC's staff to continue meeting the needs of the community.
Succession planning will assist IVC in accomplishing the following:
What if I can't attend every monthly session?
Administration understands that everyone still has a job and a life outside of work, no one will be dropped from the program if they can't attend all of the sessions.
How would this program help me?
This is a great opportunity to learn more about how our college works and get some firsthand knowledge from the people who lead specific areas. It will also help you understand different types of leadership and more about your own leadership style. You get to have one-on-one meetings to discuss a variety of things with an administrative mentor.
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#7: Pfizer
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Performance So Far in 2012: +17%
The Big Pharma crowd has long been a mainstay among the top-paying Dow dividend stocks, and more broadly, is close friends with dividend investors. Pfizer is no exception.
Not only does Pfizer yield an attractive 3.47%, but its shares have outperformed the market despite a number of setbacks. Back in August, PFE and Johnson & Johnson shut the door on studies of IV-delivered bapineuzumab as an Alzheimer's treatment. A little more than a month ago, Pfizer reported profits that fell 14% thanks mostly to a slide in sales of Lipitor — its cholesterol drug that just went off-patent. And most recently (and most embarrassingly), Pfizer had to report the theft of $750,000 worth of gold dust at a Chesterfield, Mo., lab.
The poor earnings report knocked out gains made thanks to things like an animal health spinoff and its big leukemia drug approval in September, but shares have rebounded more than 8% from a mid-November low, thanks in part to excitement over progress in drugs treating breast cancer and preventing blood clots. Plus, there's reason to really start believing in Pfizer's pipeline.


text: OverviewBack to top Dagoba Organic Chocolate - Drinking Chocolate Chai - 12 oz. Item# :106377UPC# :810474006053 Brand:Dagoba Organic Chocolate Size/Form:12 oz. Ship Weight:0.90 Servings:23 Dosage:3 Tablespoon(s) Flavor:Chai Dagoba Organic Chocolate - Drinking Chocolate Chai - 12 oz. (340 g) Dagoba Organic Chocolate Drinking Chocolate Chai contains premium cacao powder, bits of pure, dark chocolate, cane sugar, crystallized ginger and the essence of chai to deliver a rich experience. Dagoba is dedicated to The Art of Chocolate Alchemy: transforming exceptional cacao into edible gold. Dagoba practices Full Circle Sustainability - blending quality, ecology, equity & community into each step from the rainforest to you.Aztec legend holds that cacao was brought to earth from paradise and that wisdom and power could be had by consuming the seed. 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Ashley Greene Cuddles Up to Beau Reeve Carney in Columbus Circle (PHOTOS)
Ashley Greene and Broadway Spider-Man star Reeve Carney were caught cuddling up to one another this week while strolling the streets of NYC.Columbus Circle couple alert!
The actress was all smiles as she and Reeve shopped around and ran a few errands. It was even reported that the two were kissing on the Whole Foods escalator. This isn't the first time we've seen this hot young couple showing a little PDA in NYC.
The Twilight star was seen sneaking a smooch with spidey this past November while at the Rockefeller Tree Lighting.
Us Weekly first reported that the two were dating. "Ashley has always had a crush on Reeve and he finally was into it. Ashley has been pining after Reeve for a long time," a source said.
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From Queen Archives: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon, Interviews, Articles, Reviews
Interviews > Freddie Mercury Interviews > 11-09-1974 - Melody Maker
Queen: A Seventies Bombshell
By Chris Welch
"People think I'm an ogre at times. Some girls hissed at me in the street... 'You devil' They think we're really nasty. But that's only on stage. Off stage, well I'm certainly not an ogre."
Freddie Mercury is a star, nevertheless. The first real rock supremo since Robert Plant or Rod Stewart. Exuding elan, arrogance and stagecraft he has emerged at the head of Queen to claim his crown. And step aside all ye who scoff or mock, for Queen are trundling ahead with inexorable momentum.
Freddie was shouting at me in the deserted bar of a Liverpool hotel at 11 am on Saturday. No - he wasn't expressing anger at recent MM criticism of the band. He was just trying to make himself heard above the noise of a woman sucking at a carpet full of cigarette ash, with her Holiday Inn vacuum cleaner.
"Oh my dear, she's coming this way." Freddie sighed as the din grew louder. Fastidious, elegant, he maintained an even temper, despite the ravages of last night's celebrations. Many bottles of champagne had been consumed in the aftermath of a riotous reception for the boys at Liverpool's stately, if somewhat battered Empire. Inevitably, thoughts had turned to another group of long ago, who caused similar scenes as they trod those hallowed boards. Oddly enough, Brian May, Queen's fleet-fingered guitarist, uses AC 30 watt amplifiers, just like the Beatles. But Queen's music is from the seventies - not the sixties. Cleverly arranged, carefully timed, delivered with maximum effort to create the greatest impact, it works on a young and receptive audience like a bombshell. Forget eight-year-olds screaming at the Osmonds. Their big brothers and sisters are learning how to yell again.
"Yes, I like an audience to respond like that," Freddie was saying. "Maybe we'd like them to sit down and listen to some of the songs, but I get a lot more from them when they're going wild, and it brings more out of me."
Queen are a strange, refreshing bunch. They are in that happy position in a band's story, when the first wave of excitement and success is breaking over them. Events are moving rapidly. Singles and album hits in Britain. America is within their grasp and beckoning seductively. Yet their image may have served to confuse and sow seeds of suspicion. Like any band achieving success too quickly for the media's liking, they are under fire, although they seem more disappointed with the critics than hostile. The whole situation is an exact replica of Led Zeppelin back in 1969, when they were first deluged with self-righteous cries of abuse. Perhaps Queen have gone about the business of forming a successful group with too much skill and intelligence. And yet they cannot be blamed for wanting to avoid the mistakes of their fore-bears. They have the example of the last ten years of triumph and failure in the world of rock music to study, and they have profited from the examination. Like many of Britain's most significant rock talents, Queen are collegians who have abandoned their degree courses for the lure of showbiz. Freddie Mercury in fact has a degree in graphic art. Roger Meddows Taylor, their drummer, studied dentistry and has a degree in biology. Brian may, incredibly, is an infra-red astronomer, and could become doctor if he completed his studies. When Concorde raced the sun to study an eclipse, he was in line to join the team of scientists on board. John Deacon, their bass guitarist, has a degree in electronics. If ever the band's stage equipment presents a problem, then the roadies are tempted to call on him for expert advice. Their amiable, efficient American manager, Jack Nelson is somewhat in awe of them. "Freddie designed the group's logia y'know, and he never told me. If you look, you'll see it encompasses the four astrological signs of the group. Freddie's a Virgo." Jack has managed the band since they first emerged from London's Trident Studios. "They go to Japan after they've been to the States in April. It's funny, they are the number one group in Japan, above Jethro Tull, Yes and ELP, and even Deep Purple, and they used to OWN Japan. But they've never seen Queen yet - it's all through the 'Queen 2' album." Meanwhile the vacuum cleaner roared in ever decreasing circles.
"I'm feeling less than sparkling this morning," said Freddie, who admitted that the concert had been exhausting, even before the champagne took its toll. 'Sheer Heart Attack', their third album, just released, had already received a dose of press abuse. How did Mercury react?
"The album is very varied, we took it to extreme I suppose, but we are very interested in studio techniques and wanted to use what was available. We learnt a lot about technique while we were making the first two albums. Of course there has been some criticism, and the constructive criticism has been very good for us. But to be frank I'm not that keen on the British music press, and they've been pretty unfair to us. I feel that up and coming journalists, by the large, put themselves above the artists. They've certainly been under a misconception about us. We've been called a supermarket hype. But if you see us up on a stage, that's what we're all about. We are basically a rock band. All the lights and paraphernalia are only there to enhance what we do. I think we're good writers - and we want to play good music, no matter how much of a slagging we get. The music is the most important factor. This is our first headline tour, and the buzz has got around, without any support from the media. I suppose they like to find their own bands, and we've been too quick for them. You see, when we started out, we wanted to try for the best. The best management, the best record deal, we didn't want any compromise, and we didn't want to get ripped-off. So far, it has paid off. In America, we've broken the ice already. As you know, we started a tour there last year, supporting Mott The Hoople, but Brian was taken ill and we had to come back. But we had a top thirty album hit there. We've undertaken a huge project, but it's all good fun."
How long did Queen spend in planning their project of world domination?
"You make it sound so preconceived!" Freddie protested. Mercifully the cleaning device wailed to a halt, and helped dampen a threatened Mercurial outburst.
"Believe it or not - it was spontaneous! It grew and grew, and remember, we had all been in various bands before, so we had plenty of experience of what NOT to do, and not be flabbergasted by the first rosy offer. That's how much planning went into it. This isn't overnight success you know, we've been going for four years! We just got the right people to work for us, and the right company, and it's taken a long time. And yet we've been accused of being a hype, compared to bands we've never even heard of, and then finally told that we didn't even write our own songs. That hurt. Right from the start we have been writing our own songs, and that was the whole point - to come up with some ORIGINAL songs. In this country, to gain respect in a short while seems very difficult, and the papers like to feel they have you in their grasp. Well - we slipped out of their grasp."
However, Freddie is the first to admit that there can be dissent within the group, as well as without.
"We tend to work well under pressure. But do we row? Oh my dear, we're the bitchiest band on earth. You'll have to spend a couple of days with us. We're at each other's THROATS. But if we didn't disagree, we'd just be yes-men, and we do get the cream in the end."
THE GIG: An atmosphere approaching bedlam is prevalent inside the Empire, long before Queen emit a hint of activity behind the sombre barrier of the safety curtain. Hustler have come and gone, and now the audience are hungry for action. Bad reviews? Supermarket rock? Thousands of Queen's Liverpool supporters look suspiciously as if they couldn't care neither jot nor little. They whistle and chant and clap with all the precision of the football terraces. The ancient cry of "Wally!" still heard in northern territories, echoes around the faded gilt decor. Jack Nelson is intrigued by the cry, wonders if Wally are a local group and wants to sign them, until informed Bob Harris already has a stake in the real thing. Mersey accents boom over the PA: "We do apologise for technical hitch, it's to do with the PA system and we are assured the show will start in two, three or four minutes." More whistles, as tough-looking lads in white trousers and combat jackets with ELP and Jethro Tull emblazoned on the back, pass beer bottles and conduct the audience with cheeky gestures. It's all in fun and the only mild aggro comes when the Queen's entourage from London try to claim their seats near the front. " #### off!" directs one youth as PR Tony Brainsby pleads for his seat. "All these seats are taken, up to the gentleman there," says Tony, pointing at me. Ribald laughter from the watching stalls, and repeated cries of "Ooh - Gentleman!". Grousing, the seat pirates eventually relinquish their hold, with dark mutterings of: "Alright, but we'll see you outside." The battle was in vain, for as the party took their seats, the safety curtain went up, and the audience rushed forward. Instantly the house lights went up again and the curtain jerked uncertainly down. A nervous man with face ashen of hue appeared at the side of the stage clad in incongruous evening dress, as if he were the master of ceremonies and this was old time music-hall. "There is no way we are going to start..." he began. "All you have to do is enjoy the show..." But there was a way. Somebody turned a blinding spotlight on the managerial figure, and he retired defeated, as the curtain halted in mid descent and began a jerky upward movement. Within seconds most of the audience were standing up to gaze desperately at the darkened empty stage, and there they were - shadowy figures bounding towards the waiting instruments. The lights blazed, and there was evil Fred, clad all in white, the archetypal demon rock singer, pouting and snarling:
"Queen is back. What do you think of that?"
A tumultuous roar indicated that the mob were well disposed to the idea. It was difficult to assess the early part of the band's performance because the fans with that wonderful selfishness of clamorous youth, decided to stand on their seats, their bodies screening both sight and sound. As a non-paying guest, I was not too worried on my account, but felt sorry for the kids at the back who had paid their cash. Retiring to the back of the theatre, and giving up the hard won seats, we watched the scenes of tumult, including a boy on crutches, perhaps unable to see, but desperately waving his steel supports in supplication. The band's strategy and appeal began to take shape as they tore through such dramatic pieces as "Now I'm Here", "Ogre Battle", "Father To Son", and "White Queen" from the second album. Roger's drum are the band's workhorse, punching home the arrangements, and mixing a sophisticated technique with violent attack. Roger says his favourite drummer is John Bonham. Brian is a fervent, emotional guitarist, who is like a Ronno-figure to Freddie, and is obviously a gifted musician. The onstage attention is judiciously divided between them, and when May takes a solo on his guitar, Mercury leaves the stage, only to return in a stunning new costume. Into a medley now, and apart from their slickness, and Freddie's dynamic presence, the extra power of almost choral vocal harmonies is appreciated, something that few bands with a central lead singer can achieve. The camper aspects of Queen are displayed in "Leroy Brown", a gay, dixie-land tune that Freddie insists is inspired by the Pointers Sisters. Then their first hit "Seven Seas Of Rhye" and a lunatic tempo on "Stone Cold Crazy", "Liar", and the finale from "Lap Of The Gods". Dry ice began to envelope the stage, and as red light glowed through the fog, group and audience took on an eerie aspect, like a scene from some Wagnerian forste, as arms waved like young saplings in a night breeze. Then an explosion of white light, and two red flares burn over a deserted stage. Queen have gone, signalling a desperate roar of "MORE!" After some three minutes the band responded to the insistent demand: "We Want Queen", Wally having been long forgotten. Into "Big Spender", with its slow, measured pace and finally "Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll", an apt anthem for a group of our times. The band are still developing, and their mixture of heavy rock and glamorous display might seem curious. But as Queen makes its royal tour of the land, the effect on their subjects is to inspire unmitigated loyalty. And amidst predictions of gloom for the British rock scene, it is a healthy and encouraging spectacle.


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Digital Technology opens city store
Digital Technology yesterday opened a new store on Brickdam and President of Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry Clinton Urling hailed it as an embodiment of growth for the economy.
Urling also urged policymakers to accelerate the amendment of the Tele-communications Bill that was deferred at Thursday's sitting of the National Assembly to free up the sector.
He said that as a country, "Guyana needs to accelerate the pace of ICT [Information and Com-munication Technology] development and invest more in ICT infrastructure" and build legislation to strengthen it.
Congratulating Terrence Sukhu and his wife Subrina Sukhu, the owners of the company, Urling said private sector businesses such as Digital Technology had pushed sustainable economic growth in Guyana.
Despite having to deal with rising costs of commodities, political backbiting and discord, Urling declared, the private sector remained immovable.
Terrence Sukhu, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, expressed joy at the opening of the new store, declaring it a milestone of success 11 years after the launch of Digital Technology in Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
He said the "achievement stems not only from the quality of our products but also from our sustained business success as a reliable supplier to the local market. Digital Techno-logy enjoys an outstanding reputation as a leader in the field of technology… as a company committed to promoting the interests of our stakeholders, our employees, our customers, and the local communities we serve."
Digital Technology has partnered with electronic giants like LG and Dell. "The strategic alliances with these major brands enable us to offer our clients very competitive pricing, manufacturers' warranty and value-added services on most equipment and services," he said.
Sukhu stated that Digital Technology recognised its responsibility to the ICT sector and had programmed itself not only to be a product driven company but rather an end solution provider that would persistently engage stakeholders to supply pre-sale advice and tailor specific solutions to meet their needs.
"Digital Technology will continue to deliver new technologies seamlessly to technology-driven clientele by first creating awareness of new products and services," Sukhu said.
He added that though "proud of our glorious past and present we envisage an even brighter future which will prepare us to continue to be a mainstay of life of many decades to come".
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|Healthcare Inspection - Delay in Treatment, Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
|Report Number:
|Issue Date:
|Cleveland, OH
|VA Office:
|Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
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|Office of Healthcare Inspections
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|Healthcare Inspections
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The VA Office of Inspector General Office of Healthcare Inspections conducted an inspection to determine the validity of allegations regarding a patient's care at the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center (the facility). A complainant alleged that biopsy technique and delay in treatment contributed to enlargement of a cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) lesion, affecting the patient's prognosis and necessitating extensive surgical treatment and follow-up. We did not substantiate that the biopsy technique used to obtain a tissue sample for diagnosis contributed to a CSCC lesion enlargement. We substantiated that a delay in scheduling the patient's Dermatology Clinic appointment occurred but did not substantiate that the delay affected the patient's prognosis.
We found that the following facility policies and procedures did not ensure adherence to Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requirements: (1) outlining procedures for contacting patients to schedule an appointment, (2) scheduling consults within the timeframe established by VHA, and (3) defining timeliness of response from Dermatology Service regarding consult requests. We recommended that the Facility Director strengthen local policies to include all VHA required elements regarding procedures for contacting patients to schedule appointments. Additionally, we recommended that the Facility Director strengthen processes for clinic scheduling and consult tracking and monitor timeliness of outpatient scheduling for adherence with VHA timeliness requirements.


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Edgeworth: Transcending history. A tale of Souls and Swords
Larry: And boobies!
Edgeworth: *sigh* Must you ruin every moment?
Larry: But there are-
Edgeworth: Shut up!
Phoenix: Can we for once skip all this stuff and get right into the review?
Larry: But then theres no comedy Nick.
Phoenix: Its a video game review, not stand up night at a bar Larry.
Edgeworth: So why dont you inform us all on what game it is Wright?
Phoenix: Soul Calibur 4 for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Larry: No Wii release?
Phoenix: This game wouldnt work on the Wii.
Larry: Aww
but what if I wanted to play Soul Calibur and my Xbox wasnt plugged in?
Phoenix: You could try actually plugging you Xbox in
Edgeworth: Or you could try Soul Calibur Legends for the Wii.
Larry: Oh God no!
Edgeworth: Okay then, I see no reason to complain.
Phoenix: Anyway, oddly enough this is the 5th game in the series.
Larry: What? Was there a Soul Calibur 0?
Phoenix: Not quite. The first game in the series was called Soul Edge, which was released in arcades, and then ported to the Playstation under the title Soul Blade. Soul Calibur was a sequel to that game, and so on.
Larry: Then why were the sequels after that numbered?
Edgeworth: That doesnt matter right now! If you want answers then go and look them up when this review is over!
Phoenix: Well its worth noting that were not big fans of the Soul series.
Edgeworth: SOME of us arent fans of video games in general.
Phoenix: Well the ones of us who arent as civilised have only really played Soul Calibur 2 on the Playstation 2, Gamecube and Xbox.
Larry: Nick! You never played Soul Calibur 3?
Phoenix: I think Maya rented it once
it was okay I guess.
Edgeworth: The fact of the matter is: Like all of our reviews were not going to compare it to the games that came before it. Were just going to review it as a game on its own.
Phoenix: Okay, now that thats out of the way lets-
Larry: I just realized that this is our first review of a game that isnt on a Nintendo consol!
Edgeworth: Ignore him Wright. Hes just wasting time.
Phoenix: Lets get on with this review. Lets start with the story, or lack thereof.
Edgeworth: Indeed, there is very little to the plot this time around.
Larry: But its a fighting game. It doesnt need a story, it just needs a lot of: HI-YA! WA-CHA! TEY-YA! *swings an invisible sword around*
Phoenix: Over the top demonstration aside, Larrys right. With fighting games people arent looking for a deep story, theyre just looking to beat each other up.
Edgeworth: Well thats true I suppose. Anyway, this game does have somewhat of a plot: All the characters are fighting for one of two swords, either Soul Calibur or Soul Edge, or both. They either want to use them to take over the world, save the world, destroy the blades, etc. There are a couple of characters who are after something different, but thats what the majority want.
Phoenix: Now, the game does have a story for each character in Story Mode but theyre not very in depth.
Edgeworth: Unless you count the back story it gives you on whats happened to them since Soul Calibur 3.
Larry: Yeah, but I dont want to have to read through a wall of text when Im playing a fighting game. I just wanna get in there and whoop some ass!
Phoenix: Again I wouldnt put it that way but Larrys right. Most people playing the game dont want to have to read that much into it.
Edgeworth: Well its not as bad as the Weapon Master mode in Soul Calibur 2, which was more or less a novel
Phoenix: Yes, but we said we wouldnt be comparing them.
Edgeworth: I think a little comparison is necessary, Wright.
Phoenix: Hmm
you might have a point.
Larry: Theres not a lot more we can say on this section is there guys?
Phoenix: I dont think so.
Edgeworth: Some of the characters have pretty interesting back stories, but its pretty much the same story for everyone.
Phoenix: Id say we give a 4 here.
Larry: What?! Come on Nick, give it SOME credit!
Phoenix: What would you rate it?
Phoenix: That doesnt really add much
Larry: Okay, 4.5 then!
Phoenix: Deal.
Edgeworth: I suppose I could settle for that.
Phoenix: Now gameplay, the most important aspect.
Larry: Its freaking sweet! You run around smashing people to bits with your weapon of choice!
Edgeworth: The gameplay is
what youd expect from a Soul Calibur game.
Larry: Whats that meant to mean?! Its awesome!
Edgeworth: Im not saying its not fun, Im merely saying its pretty much the same formula as the previous games.
Phoenix: But thats not a bad thing. You cant really alter too much when it comes to fighting game sequels.
Edgeworth: I didnt say it was a bad thing!
Phoenix: Its the standard slash you opponent until they fall formula, but there are some new features this time around.
Larry: You can strip the ladies this time around!
Edgeworth: What hes trying to say is that you can break your opponents armour if you hit them hard enough this time around. There are three separate sections, the head, body and legs, each will break depending on where you hit and how many times you hit it.
Phoenix: Another new feature thats worth mention is the Critical Finish.
Larry: Oh, thats freakin sweet!
Phoenix: Basically a Critical Finish is a super move a character can perform that can finish their opponent off in one move.
Edgeworth: So its like the Final Smash in Super Smash Brothers Brawl?
Phoenix: Not quite. Once this move has been initiated theres no way to stop or avoid it, and its guaranteed to finish off your opponent. With some Final Smashes you can avoid them or they might not deal a finishing blow.
Larry: Thats right! Once I hit that left shoulder button its all over!
Phoenix: Its not as simple as that, in fact its actually quite tricky to use it. You have to wait till your opponents Soul Gauge turns red, then you have to attack them while theyre guarding until you break through their guard, then press the left shoulder button. At least thats whats worked for me, I dont know if theres any other way.
Larry: It is pretty awesome, but its kinda cheap in a way. No matter how high your opponents health is, it will finish them off. It can be really annoying in a 2 player match.
Edgeworth: Have you by any chance been beaten like that in an online match Larry?
a few times
Phoenix: We would mention the Soul Gauge but in all honest I just dont get it.
Edgeworth: Neither do I.
Larry: Me either.
Phoenix: As for gameplay modes, in single player you have Story mode, The Tower of Lost Souls mode, Arcade mode, and Training mode.
Edgeworth: In Story mode you must fight through five stages.
Larry: Yeah, only five! That sucks!
Edgeworth: Whats worse is that the both the third and final stages are the same for all characters. In the third stage you fight one of the bonus characters-
Larry: You mean clone characters!
Edgeworth: If you want. On the final stage youll either fight Siegfried, Nightmare or Algol depending on the character youre playing as.
Phoenix: This mode is kind of interesting, but if you look at it in the long run its just Arcade mode with some cutscenes and tag battles in certain stages.
Larry: We should have probably mentioned tag mode before.
Phoenix: Oh right. Well tag mode is pretty self-explanatory. You can basically play as 1 to 3 characters at a time and tag in them in or out with the right shoulder button. With this you can perform even bigger combos then you can with 1 character.
Edgeworth: However this function is only available on The Tower of Lost Souls mode, and at certain parts with certain characters in Story mode.
Larry: Thats gay
Phoenix: As for Arcade mode, its the same as in Soul Calibur 2, except you fight Algol at the end with everyone and theres no Destined Battles.
Edgeworth: Though I think Story mode makes up for that.
Phoenix: But thats not to say its not a lot of fun.
Larry: What about The Tower of Lost Souls mode?
Phoenix: Well apart from having one of the most cliché names ever, in The Tower of Lost Souls you can choose to either Ascend, or Descend. In Ascend modes you go up a series of floors fighting battles against many opponents and fighting certain bosses when you come to certain floors.
Edgeworth: In this mode you can earn items if you meet certain conditions.
Larry: Yeah, but they really difficult to meet and it doesnt really tell you how.
Phoenix: Also in this mode you might have to K.O. your opponent a specific way in order to move on.
Edgeworth: On most floors you can use 2 and sometimes 3 characters at a time, this comes in handy because your health doesnt restore between each floor.
Phoenix: In Desend mode you can pick 2 characters and you basically have to fight waves of enemies while going down floors.
Edgeworth: I found this mode to be tricky at times, but its still a lot of fun.
Phoenix: Yeah, its just too bad tag team isnt available in multiplayer mode.
Edgeworth: There isnt much to say on that mode. You can either have a Standard Match where you and another player just fight each other, or you can have a Special Match where you get special status depending on your weapons and armour.
Phoenix: Its a lot of fun playing with a friend. Maya and I had a good laugh smashing each other to pieces.
Edgeworth: I suppose you two would enjoy that sort of thing.
Larry: Boobies!
Phoenix: ?
Edgeworth: ?
I havent said anything in a while
Edgeworth: >
Phoenix: A-anyway
this game includes an Online mode.
Edgeworth: For those who dont have any friends to play the game with
Larry: Why are you looking at me Edgey?!
Phoenix: Unfortunately I havent been able to set up Xbox Live yet, so I cant comment on lag issues or anything like that, but I think it was a good move including it.
Edgeworth: I dont even own an Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3, I had to play the game at Wrights office.
Larry: But what were you REALLY doing there Edgey?
Edgeworth: Dont encourage the yaoi fangirls Larry!
Phoenix: *sigh* The final mode worth mentioning is the Character Creator mode.
Larry: Oh yeah! Thats awesome! You can create your own character!
Phoenix: You can also give the characters youve unlocked different armour, weapons, hair styles, etc.
Edgeworth: More equipment becomes available when you get honours for doing things.
Phoenix: This mode is a lot of fun, but Id say its a bit TOO detailed, especially for somebody who isnt that creative (like me
). But Maya had a lot of fun making her and I one it, and she even managed to make the Steal Samurai.
Larry: I made myself too. I also took all the armour and clothing off the ladies.
Edgeworth: You would
Edgeworth: That wasnt a compliment!
Larry: D:
Phoenix: Youre a sick man Larry
Edgeworth: Oh come off it Wright! I saw you did the exact same thing on your copy of the game!
Phoenix: I
no I didnt
Edgeworth: Dont even think of telling me it was Maya.
Phoenix: I
d-downloaded them from Larry via Xbox Live
Edgeworth: OBJECTION! You just said you havent been able to set up Xbox Live, Wright!
Phoenix: ACH! Wait
arent I suppose to be the one pointing out contradictions?
Larry: Okay guys I think weve talked enough about gameplay now. Final score? For me it would be a 9.
Phoenix: Only a 9?
Larry: Well its pretty awesome, but I would have liked to have seen the tag feature on multiplayer mode.
Phoenix: Fair enough.
Edgeworth: Id knock off another point for story mode being too short.
Phoenix: So an 8 then? Do we all agree?
Larry: I guess
Edgeworth: Yes.
Phoenix: Okay, graphics. The graphics are really good; especially in the cut-scenes in Story mode (too bad most of them are stock footage).
Edgeworth: Theyre pretty good
Larry: Pretty good? The amazing!
Edgeworth: Theyre not the best Ive seen on this consol, but theyre not bad in any way. But some of the backgrounds on the stages looks very
Phoenix: But to be fair thats only in very few of the stages.
Edgeworth: True.
Phoenix: I also felt that the Soul Calibur characters kind or stood out in the Star Wars stages, and vice-versa.
Larry: I was wondering when we were going to get to that.
Phoenix: The Star Wars characters and stages?
Larry: Yes.
Phoenix: I guess nows as good a time as ever to mention them I guess.
Larry: For this game theyve got Star Wars characters as the guest characters. Yodas on the 360 and Darth Vaders on the PS3, though now both of them have become downloadable content on the others version
kinda taking the fun out of having two versions
Phoenix: And Darth Vaders secret apprentice from the game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is on both versions.
Larry: Yeah, I always wondered Why did they put him in?
Phoenix: It was to promote the game before it came out.
Edgeworth: What I dont understand is why they put Yoda in. Why not Luke Skywalker?
Phoenix: I suppose they though it would be cooler to put Yoda in.
Larry: That little bastards as cheap as anything! You cant vertically slash him-
Edgeworth: You mean horizontally slash him Larry.
Larry: Tomato tomarto Edgey!
Edgewoth: No, they mean two different things.
Larry: Anyway you cant grab him either!
Phoenix: Anyway, now that Larrys done ranting about Yoda can we get back to talking about the graphics?
Edgeworth: Over-all Id give the graphics an 8.
Phoenix: Fine, now music.
Larry: You didnt ask my opinion on the graphics Nick!
Edgeworth: Lets be honest, nobody really cares for it Larry.
my fangirls do
Phoenix: *ahem* The music in this game is pretty good. It suits the game quite well.
Larry: Yeah, but its not really my taste in music though.
Phoenix: Mine either.
Edgeworth: Really? This is one of the few video game soundtracks that I actually enjoy.
Larry: Wow. Edgeys found a video game soundtrack he likes? Now I KNOW the apocalypse is coming.
Edgeworth: Shut up Larry!
Phoenix: Well for this section Ill give it a 9. Its good, it suits the game, but like we said its just not our taste in music.
Larry: I agree.
Edgeworth: Well I would have given it a 10 myself, but I suppose I could settle for a 9.
Phoenix: Now voice acting.
Edgeworth: This was really good. The voices suit the characters quite well and they all did a great job with all the grunts, groans and screaming.
Larry: There is the option to change their voices to Japanese for those lousy English language hating weeaboo communists.
or those just curious as to what the Japanese cast sounded like
Larry: Them too.
Phoenix: 10?
Larry: 10.
Edgeworth: Go on then.
Phoenix: Okay then, Larry you sum it up.
Larry: Alrighty then.
- Story: 4.5
Pro: Pretty interesting back-stories.
Con: Pretty much the same story with everyone..
- Gameplay: 8
Pro: Kept a lot like the games that came before it with some great new modes.
Con: Tag mode should be available in multiplayer mode. Story modes too short. Yoda is freaking cheap!
- Graphics: 8
Pro: Looks amazing, also: HUGE BOOBIES!
Con: Star Wars characters stand out, but to be fair that does add to the comedic value. Some backgrounds look plain.
- Music: 9
Pro: Suits the game.
Con: Not our taste in music though.
- Voice acting: 10
Pro: Voices suit the characters.
Con: None.
- Overall score: 8
If you have a 360 or PS3 you HAVE to have this game! If youre a Soul Calibur fan you HAVE to have this game! Some say its not as great as Soul Calibur 2, but we strongly disagree.
Phoenix: Yeah, personally we think this ones the best, but thats just our opinion.
Larry: Now if you two will excuse me, Ivy calls.
Phoenix: Er
better be heading off too
Edgeworth: Just admit youre leaving for the same reason he is Wright
Phoenix: Now Ill show you! *points finger* OBJECTION!
*A huge OBJECTION speech bubble comes out, killing Edgeworth instantly*
A preview image will be uploaded later.
At long last, here it is: A new PEL review. The first PEL review on a game that's not on a Nintendo consol. Hope ya like it.
Inspired by Psyguy's 1019 reviews, which are far superior to mine.
You can find the original 1019 reviews that inspired this here: [link]
Also make sure to check out Psyguy's site there's lots of cool and funny stuff on there: [link]
At long last, here it is: A new PEL review. The first PEL review on a game that's not on a Nintendo consol. Hope ya like it.
Inspired by Psyguy's 1019 reviews, which are far superior to mine.
You can find the original 1019 reviews that inspired this here: [link]
Also make sure to check out Psyguy's site there's lots of cool and funny stuff on there: [link]
Query: What character is best for beginners?
Larry needs to stop ogling Ivy's cleavage if he's ever going to get a girlfriend. Oh wait, it's Larry. He'll be lonely and single forever!
And I want to see that Objection critical finish in the actual game!
I say the PEL review should be of The Force Unleashed. I'm sure Phoenix, Larry, and Edgeworth would have a wonderful time...at least until the game gets so frustrating they call in Franziska to whip the disc. o_O
And I want to see that Objection critical finish in the actual game!
I say the PEL review should be of The Force Unleashed. I'm sure Phoenix, Larry, and Edgeworth would have a wonderful time...at least until the game gets so frustrating they call in Franziska to whip the disc. o_O
Nice, I'm wondering if anyother charaters forum there games will cameo.
I love the way you do these and KAT reviews. And like others have said, good job on the ending!
Long but entertaining, very good review
OBJECTION! lol great review
Hehe... Nick stole the "Objection!" from Edgey.
That "Objection" thing would DEFINITELY be Phoenix's Final Smash....xD I'd like to see that someday! Too bad it probably won't happen....
P.S. Thanks for not encouraging the Edgewright fans--God knows we don't need any more of them....*stormcloud over head*
P.S. Thanks for not encouraging the Edgewright fans--God knows we don't need any more of them....*stormcloud over head*
Great review Jack. I loved the ending!