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With a wife who is a huge fan of the Harry Potter film franchise and a fan of the Lego games it was a rather obvious decision to get her the latest of the Lego Harry Potter games but does it live up to what she experienced with the films she loves?
- Excellent graphics mean that this is a great game for adults and children alike as it does not feel too childish despite being a game with Lego at its heart.
- Brilliant animation throughout the game means that you have a very entertaining and immersive experience and thanks to the bright and vibrant animations you can keep children entertained just as much as adults for hours on end.
- Hours worth of gameplay to be had means that this is a real value for money purchase.
- This game is a true movie tie in but thankfully Lego did not decide to rip people off by doing one for each film and instead have given us a huge amount of gameplay to be had thanks to years 5-7 (remembering that year 7 was split into 2 films) meaning you have a massive 4 movies tied in to one game.
- High level detail means that this game is truly tied in with the movies closely and despite it being a Lego based game you can see clearly the film locations and scenes throughout.
- Play as multiple characters and with another player (if you wish to) as you work your way through the levels and aim to complete the game.
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Overall this is a top quality game which offers up excellent quality graphics and gameplay throughout. A movie tie in that has a total of 4 films built in to it so that this game gives excellent value for money. Fun and addictive gameplay with your favourite characters from the movies means that this is a true game from those who love the films or even just those who enjoy playing the Lego console games.
My very first experience with the Lego games was with the first Lego Harry Potter game and after receiving the game for Christmas I haven't stopped playing it. Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 focuses on the last three books and films in the series. I feel it is more reminiscent to the films than the books but this may be because seeing it through game play and on-screen gives you better visuals and makes it easier to notice similarities.
The game kicks off at the very beginning of the Order of The Pheonix where Harry is being tormented by Dudley and his gang. In the evening he is taken alongside Mad Eye and Lupin to Grimauld Place where he is introduced to the rest of the Order - although he already knows most of them. One little extra feature I loved about this opening was the use of the broom which, whilst not exactly limited in the first game, is not quite as advanced as this focused on travelling through the air to get to a location rather than just solving a puzzle. I also really liked the new camera angles as this isn't just side scrolling. The plot then follows Harry going to his trial and nearly being expelled from Hogwarts however he is able to go back with his friends. Another addition I enjoyed was the small journey between The Leaky Cauldron and Kings Cross. Rather than just being transported to Hogwarts you go through the station and when you get to the other side there is a short trip up to the school which just added to the gameplay and gave you more to look at. It didn't add a lot on to the actual game but I felt it was an improvement.
One thing I did find mildly annoying was thanks to the arrival of Delores Umbridge the previous spells are disabled and you are left with a limited few however this just enables you to learn the more advanced spells that Harry and his friends learnt. The player then continues with various scenes highlighted from the fifth book which introduces the abilities of other characters. One of the newest additions to the game was the Weasley boxes which feature certain things like fireworks or sticky shoes which only a Weasley can use. If you like your trophies on the PS3 like I do then there is one to collect which involves opening a box with every Weasley. Much like the first game you unlock characters in Madam Malkins in Diagon Alley once you have found them in either Story or Freeplay mode. Like before there are certain scenes where you are forced to use other characters rather than the heroic threesome such as Dumbledore and Hagrid however you don't really get much use from these characters until you proceed to Freeplay mode as the plot generally focuses on Harry, Ron and Hermione.
Another similarity between the first and the second game is the collectables. You are once again able to collect Red and Gold bricks. The red bricks can then be used to unlock cheats to help you progress easily through the game if you wish to use them. One thing I found was that the very first few red bricks are very easy to find which can not be said for the first game. However this was quite misleading as the rest aren't quite so obvious and require a little more problem solving. There are also the Students in Peril to rescue, the House Crests to collect which unlike the first game are alot less obvious and harder to find until you begin Free play mode and of course there is the Stud collector achievements which give you 'True Wizard' status. The studs are basically the in game currency and different colours mean different amounts. The colours are no different from the first game.
Another feature you learn in the game is the ability to Duel. This is a great addition and is an advantage when it comes to multiplayer. It basically adds in a mini game where you have to match the colour to the enemies weakness to battle them. Duels seem to be more frequent than boss battles. I also found that the structure of boss battles is a lot more complex often involving puzzles to solve throughout the battle rather than just levitating something and hitting them (although you do this quite a bit anyway).
In story mode the game goes on through the sixth book where you are introduced to Slughorn, get to explore Weasleys Joke Shop, have to endure the love potion chocolates (really rather funny) and learn more of the young Voldemort's story. I do quite like the flash back scenes and quite happy that they've added a few more of these in but then again they are key scenes in the books and films. The seventh part 1 and seventh part 2 levels involve various locations such as Malfoy Manor, Gringotts, The Lovegood Residence, Hogwarts, The Ministry of Magic and Hogsmeade as you travel around with Harry, Ron and Hermione trying to solve the puzzle of the Hocruxes and The Deathly Hallows. Once completed Free Play mode becomes considerably easier as you have the spells and characters needed to progress however it is not essential that you complete Free Play mode unless you are seeking 100% game completion.
Graphically the game is attractive and has been clearly updated in this version. Some of the rendering is easier on the eye and a little more realistic however everything still has that lego charm that I've come to love in these games. There is no dialogue, which I believe is a common occurrence in the Lego games (because Lego can not speak...) which I actually find refreshing and the grunts and facial features are self explanatory. It's surprising actually how easy the game is to understand and follow when there is no use of language but then again for the most part there is a ghost that shows you where you need to go and if wasn't for him I would probably still be stuck in the Gryffindor common room. The music is enjoyable and just adds to the light hearted atmosphere.
I really enjoyed playing through story mode and I am still enjoying going over it. Because of my previous experience of the first game I did rush through story mode as I knew I wouldn't be able to unlock everything until I had the money, spells and characters needed which has probably made me miss a few things however it's a game I find myself going back to over and over again and has been well worth playing. I haven't properly experienced the multiplayer features on the game as I have no one to play with (sob) but I did experience them on the first game and found them more of a hinderence, however that is probably because my partner kepts turning me into ice...the actual function of the multplayer mode and ideas behind it are very good but they are not how I like to play games. I also like how they have added in a few extras that only certain characters can operate much like the book puzzles, key vaults and heavy pulling objects there is now the Weasley boxes and the parceltongue cabinets. This has already made my game of the year, mainly because I'm not a very good gamer and this is actually quite easy for me. I enjoy the puzzle challenges and whilst the game is not complex I have spend a few moments running around in circles casting my wand at anything that will blow up and enjoyed it very, very much. I would recommend this for any gamers, new or old, as it really is a great game that's easy to go back to over and over and over again.
It doesn't get much more fun than this game if you like all things Lego, Harry Potter and blasting things whilst solving puzzles, as you will know if you have played other games from developer Travellers Tales - this game is more of the same and a natural progression from Years 1-4, in a good way. If you haven't played a Lego game before then you are in for a treat with this one, which in my opinon is probably the best of all the series, most of which I have played from start to finish in two player mode, this game being no exception. Having played through the entire game from years 5-7 (like in the films the final year is split into two sections), in story mode, I'm still enjoying going back through it in Free Play and as different characters to unlock and find items that I couldn't access first time around. Like the other games in the series this game has many different goals and interests which will keep you playing for a long time and it's enjoyable for both adults and children alike. If you played and enjoyed Years 1-4 then the sequel will not disappoint, though you don't have to have played the first game in order to be able to pick up a controller and start enjoying the game on its own merits.
The game follows the story of the books, and by extension the films pretty faithfully as far as I can tell - I have to admit to having given up on the both at about Year 5, but this doesn't mean that I couldn't enjoy seeing how the story ends via Lego figures. You play through in chronological order. There are humourous cut scenes to progress the story featuring Lego mini figures for all the characters - they've even aged Hermione, Harry and Ron visibly from the first game. The cut scenes can be a little slow to load but weren't over dominant in my opinion, and in HD on PS3 some of them are visually stunning, albeit a little scary to my 8 year old playing partner, who hasn't read any of the books or seen the films and proves that you can play and enjoy the games without background Harry knowledge. It does seem however that Muggles and Hogwarts are pretty well part of our national heritage and in our collective psyche, and knowing a little of the background will help you enjoy the game play, especially doing spells and the like. There's not much quidditch in this title - unlike in the first one, and Hagrid doesn't feature as much either (presumably in line with the books), both features I personally missed but I did enjoy some of the new elements in this game as I shall explain.
Though the game is perfectly playable in single player mode (you use triangle on the PS3 controller to switch between characters which you will need to do to progress through the levels), and the AI works well, having played both single and two player on this game in my opinion the latter has the edge. In co-op play the game features the split screen Travellers Tales first used in their Indiana Jones title, so if you wander too far apart you can explore the world independantly, get closer together and the screen knits back togeher seamlessly. It's clever and works well and stops you from dragging your co-player to their death or getting annoyed with each other as you can play by yourself but also team up to solve puzzles, building stairs, pulling ropes or blasting baddies.
The game sees the characters wandering around the now familiar backgrounds of Hogwarts and the like. You will need to solve puzzles, mainly blasting things and building things out of lego or using a variety of spells in order to progress through the game; like in years 1-4 there is a ghost guide to show you where to go - he leaves a trail of studs which you follow, through the scenery. This feature is good - it makes the game accessible without rendering it too easy. Other things that they have kept from the first game include the ability of some of the characters to transform into their animal selves - Ron's owl in this one is particularly cute, and like in the previous title you have to gradually acquire spells, though there are a couple of new ones, namely a water spell and blasting block spell that both new to the series and seasoned Potter Lego players will enjoy alike. The controls are intuitive and it's less tricky than you would think to scroll through spells, which vary from character to character and characters in free play, the controls have been well thought through. The music too - again from the film - as well as the sound effects are fitting and seamless, from the fanfare you get when you release a trapped student or the reassuring noise of a lego piece slotting into the right place.
Overall I found the gameplay a natural progression and satisfying as it felt like you picked up where you had left off, though towards the end it did get a bit samey - there was one too many magic duel and throwing object at boss scene for my liking, but I still found I wanted to play to the end and beyond with the free play. The developer still doesn't seem to have quite sorted out the physics of the game either - characters are still pretty poor at bouncing on things and prone to falling off things - this is pretty disappointing really, and we did find a few bugs in the game though much less than in the first title, a couple of times we had to restart a level or it froze. New features such as the Weasley boxes - these see Ron being able to put on special shoes and walk up things, in a nod to the Lego Batman Game, and the glasses you put on to find invisible lego more than made up for any repetition or slight niggles I may have had. The bottom line is it's a fun game.
Items to Collect:
Through the various levels as well as the aforementioned spells you will find you have to collect studs for use as currency, golden bricks, character studs (these can then be bought and used to play from a shop in Diagon Alley) and there are also hidden postboxes and pupils in danger to rescue (as also featured in previous games) which will allow you to unlock things like x 2 studs and an advanced guide which will tell you how many hidden items you still need to find per level. Seeking out hidden areas and items is as fun as it ever was and really adds to the longevity and challenge of the game.
Though arguably this is just more of the exact same from this series, with a few new bits, actually more of the same seems to be a good thing in this case. I, and my co-op player really enjoyed this game and we have had literally hours of fun from it, making it a bargain at the £22 we paid for it - the price on ps3 does seem to fluctuate a lot so it's worth looking around. I was hoping when I started playing this, having played years 1-4, that this game would not disappoint, it didn't and that's why I would recommend it if you enjoy this kind of game, though if you are new to Lego Harry Potter you may want to play the first game first you don't have to. Recommended, it's predictable but fun gaming from a tried and tested series.


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A whopping 71% of respondents said they felt health workers who have treated Ebola sufferers abroad should be subject to a 21-day isolation, even if they show no symptoms of the virus themselves.
Just 24 percent disagree that the quarantine should be enforced.
When split by political affiliation, 85% of Republicans support quarantine, compared to 65% of Democrats and 60% of independents. A huge 91% of Tea Party backers say they want to see mandatory government detentions.
The debate over the issue has been amplified by the case of the nurse Kaci Hickox, who threatened to sue the states of New Jersey and Maine for issuing quarantine orders which led to her brief detention when she returned from working with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.
Hickox was held for days in an isolation tent in New Jersey, then had state police deployed to monitor her at her home in Maine.
Hickox has since vowed to avoid public places, with her attorneys and the state having agreed that a temporary court order issued Friday, requiring her to submit to active monitoring in line with the federal guidelines for Ebola, will remain in place until 11:59 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, when the 21-day incubation period for Ebola expires.
The state originally issued a court order that restricted her movements and contact with others altogether, but retracted the order a few hours later. It is thought that the White House pressured the State into reversing the order.
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"One of the basic rights we inherited from the English and that we got from common law was the right of habeas corpus, to present the body." Paul added.
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"We have to be very careful of people's civil liberties, but I'm not saying the government doesn't have a role in trying to prevent contagion," Paul added. "The libertarian in me says she has to have recourse to a lawyer, to a judge, and if she is going to be confined, it has to be through a judicial process."
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ATLANTA -- The Georgia Rail Passenger Authority is asking for $4 million in next year's state budget to begin planning four inter-city passenger rail lines linking Atlanta to Augusta, Savannah, Brunswick and Albany.
If approved, it would be the first passenger-rail money earmarked beyond proposed lines connecting the Georgia capital with Athens, Macon and Chattanooga, Tenn.
The budget request, approved by the authority's 13-member board last week, comes on the heels of a $26 million proposal submitted in August by the state Transportation Board, primarily dedicated to shorter commuter-rail projects, including the planned Atlanta-to-Athens line.
Besides the $4 million in planning money for the four lines, the rail authority also is seeking $500,000 to study development possibilities along the Atlanta-to-Athens line. The proposed rail corridor runs roughly parallel to Georgia Highway 316, which is being eyed as the main pathway for a potential linear research/business park.
E.H. Culpepper of Athens, who represents the 11th Congressional District on the authority, said such a park could easily include the area between the highway and rail line. It could be developed in a way that would improve upon North Carolina's famed Research Triangle, which employs about 50,000 people, he said.
''They created all those jobs within that area, but there's no living in that triangle,'' he said. ''People have to come from outside, creating real traffic problems.''
While a passenger-rail plan being considered by the transportation board calls for launching commuter service between Athens and Atlanta in 2004, service to cities farther from the capital isn't due to begin until late in the next decade. But that's still a sign of progress, said state Sen. Don Cheeks, D-Augusta.
''We are further along ... than I would have anticipated two years ago,'' said Cheeks, a member of the General Assembly's Rail Passenger Oversight Committee. ''I'm tickled to death with how fast we're moving along.''
Passenger-train travel is receiving renewed impetus in Georgia this year, with the metro-Atlanta region having been stripped of federal funding for new highway projects because of poor air quality, caused to a great extent by automobile traffic.
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''That's a fast-growing area,'' said Mosley, also a member of the legislative passenger-rail committee. ''There is a good bit of traffic.''
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It seems like Eric Wallace has been in high school forever. The 6-foot-7, 195-pound physical specimen from Glenn High School in Kernersville, N.C., emerged in the national spotlight as a freshman and now realizes that the end is drawing near for his high school career.
Wallace averaged 19 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and three steals a game this year for Glenn (19-9) and traveled the East Coast for a number of national tournaments. The four-star prospect said he was readily prepared for the schedule his team played in this season.
"It has been a big transition from last year to this year," Wallace said. "We played in a lot of national tournaments. I know I was ready for it. So was (teammates) Marshall (Moses) and another one of our players, Chris Jacobs. But going from little 'ole Kernersville to high powered national tournaments in Florida and other places, it can be a little harder to get used to."
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The solidly built wing forward knows how to bring a crowd to it's feet with his high-flying act. But Wallace said he tried to expand on his overall skill set this season. It took watching Kobe Bryant on a popular talk show on ESPN.
"I was watching Kobe on Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith and he was saying that when Shaq left he had to learn to be more of a quarterback and orchestrate more for his team, basically become that playmaker," Wallace said. "I felt like I had to do the same thing myself and become a more effective player."
With one more high school season and an upcoming year with D1 Sports on the AAU circuit, the realization that his prep career is drawing nearer.
"I'm sure it will (hit me) later, probably sometime in the summertime," Wallace said. "I know it will give me more motivation. I want to bring my overall game and go out with everything I got and close out real strong. When I'm watching the college teams on TV, it kind of hit me that I am only a year away from me being out there."
Now it is just a matter of figuring out what team he will play for on television. The options are certainly there. Virginia spent a lot of time recruiting Wallace this season.
"If anybody came to a Glenn game this year, they were probably going to see somebody from the University of Virginia. Coach Leitao has been down to a game and coach (Rob) Lanier has been down a couple of other times. They stay in touch with me a lot."
Wallace was on hand for Virginia's last home game at University Hall against Maryland. He has also been to a couple of Wake Forest games this season as well.
Baylor is shaping up to be a player in the race for his services as well. "Coach (Jerome) Tang and I have a good relationship. He's a good guy," Wallace said.
Florida has kept tabs on the four-star wing throughout the year. "They have shown a lot of interest in me since I went to their elite camp last year. They've really jumped in strong," Wallace said.
He said a couple of other ACC and Big East schools like Connecticut and Louisville are showing interest as well.
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"To look for porn, Dan, porn … porn," said Grace. Speaking of what Oscar Pistorius was using his cell phone for just before the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius is the South African amputee sprinter on trial for the murder of his girlfriend.
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Off-campus housing protested in Stony Brook
More than 100 people gathered Saturday to protest the conversion of area homes into rooming houses for Stony Brook University students -- and university and town officials say they're listening.
The concerned residents say absentee landlords are converting homes into crowded, low-rent college housing in violation of town codes.
"There is little to no concern for the neighborhood," said Bruce Sander, 58, who founded Stony Brook Concerned Homeowners to deal with the issue. "They pave over the front lawns for parking. The houses are unkempt."
Protesters held signs reading "Preserve Our Neighborhood & Property Values from College Boarding Houses" as they marched along Hastings Drive near Hilton Court.
Sander said he's been meeting with Town of Brookhaven officials to address the complaints.
"We're amazed at how many homes this is happening in," he said, estimating that dozens of homes have been converted.
Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine said he's confident that tougher code regulations aimed at curbing violations, including bigger fines and prohibitions against paving over front lawns, would be approved by early April.
"We're going to be vigorously going after these people," he said yesterday.
Stony Brook spokeswoman Lauren Sheprow said the university has begun requiring landlords to produce a valid town rental permit before listing available housing on the school's off-campus-housing website. The university is also cross-referencing its off-campus-housing lists with the town's list of legal rental units, she said.


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MEGAN Schutt's meteoric rise from club cricketer to international star was complete early yesterday when she was part of Australia's World Cup winning team in Mumbai.
The Adelaide 20-year-old made her international debut in December when she played in a low-key one-day match against New Zealand in Sydney.
But yesterday she was thrown the new ball and told to open the bowling for Australia in the World Cup final against the West Indies.
Not to be over-awed by the biggest game of her life, Schutt took two wickets as the Southern Stars won the World Cup for the sixth time.
It was the highlight of her six years of club cricket with Sturt and the past four seasons with the SA Scorpions.
"Everything is a new experience for me at the moment, it's been amazing," Schutt told The Advertiser. "Obviously I was very nervous bowling the first ball but the humidity suited my swing, I got a lot of movement and was lucky enough to get a few wickets.
"It's been a really quick process and I couldn't ask for anything better."
Schutt was told of her selection in the World Cup squad on Boxing Day and as the only South Australian in the team, spent the next three weeks training on her own before flying to India on January 25.
The right-arm medium pace bowler played in all seven games of the tournament which included a loss to the West Indies.
But the Stars got their revenge in the final, posting 7/259 before dismissing the West Indies for 145 in the 45th over.
Schutt finished with 2/38 from her 10 overs in the final which took her tournament total to 15 - the best of the World Cup.
"I didn't know that until this morning," she said. "The whole experience was amazing. A different culture and bowling in the humidity suited my swing and led to more wickets."
The emerging star said that the team partied long into the night at its hotel yesterday as she managed a mere one hour's sleep.
Schutt, who completed Year 12 at Wirreanda High School in 2010 and now plays cricket full-time, will return to Australia with the team tomorrow.
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Padres look to pick up running pace
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Look for the Padres to test opposing catchers more in Cactus League play and, quite possibly, in the regular season as well. San Diego manager Bud Black said Wednesday that the team will not only look to be more aggressive on the bases this spring but will also look to steal more bases. "We're trying to instill pushing the speed component. We want to push it more than we have in the past. You've got to test your limits," Black said.
Last season, the Padres stole 23 bases in 36 attempts in the spring and then went on to steal 82 bases in 111 attempts during the regular season. Those 111 attempts were the most in Black's three seasons as manager. "There's more of a speed element on our team now than the previous three years," Black said. In 2008, the Padres stole just 36 bases in 53 attempts. In Black's first season, the Padres stole 55 bases in 79 attempts. "We have a lot more speed this year. We've got more of an on-base factor. That will be more important than anything else," Padres first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. "Our on-base percentage is going to be better, which means we're going to have a chance to drive in more runs.
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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SEOUL, April 1 (UPI) -- South Korea's Pyeonghwa Motors hopes to build peace along with automobiles on the divided peninsula through a joint venture with North Korea it says will help both nations become better off.
The automotive arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church is to open a $55 million car assembly plant on Friday in the North's western port city of Nampo, 25 miles west of the capital of Pyongyang. It is the first heavy manufacturing plant built by an inter-Korean joint venture and the biggest manufacturing investment so far in the impoverished North.
The assembly plant will be capable of rolling out up to 20,000 cars annually, which would run on the empty roads of a country with 23 million people, said Park Sang-kwon, president of Pyeonghwa -- or Peace -- Motors Corp. North Korea has only about 3,000 passenger cars, most of which come from Japan.
"Our ground-breaking investment for the North's auto industry will bring about more foreign capital investments there, which will help North Koreans understand capitalism," Park said in an interview with United Press International.
"If North Koreans can reap the benefits of capitalism though the joint venture, they would seek more capitalist solutions to revive the country's crippled economy," he said.
He said booming joint ventures with capitalist businesses eventually may reduce tension on the peninsula, which remains in a state of technical war since the 1950-53 Korean War ended without a peace treaty.
"Our investment is not only for economic benefits but also for peace promotion on the Korean peninsula," Park said, stressing peace is necessary to doing business in both Koreas.
As part of such efforts, the company plans to build a "World Peace Center" in Pyongyang in which North Koreans would be educated about foreign culture and a market economy, he said. In addition, the auto company plans to open a department store, gas stations and auto showrooms.
Hundreds of South Korean and Japanese technicians have joined with 200 North Korean workers to build the Pyeonghwa Motors Complex Factory, with construction materials entirely South Korean-made, Park said. "I witnessed a small-sized inter-Korean unification among auto workers," he said.
The car plant will begin assembling 10,000 Sienas -- a compact designed by Italy's Fiat SpA -- annually for domestic sales. Sales are expected to reach 3,000 units a year as the North Korean government has pledged to buy 1,000 cars each year, Park said. The vehicles will be sold mostly to foreigners stationed in the North, such as embassy staffers, and will be exported to bordering countries, such as China and Russia and South Korea within several years.
Some auto analysts doubt the company's claims that the project is economically viable, saying 20,000 units is very small for an auto plant.
"At least 250,000 cars are necessary for an auto plant to be profitable considering the need for economies of scale in the auto industry," said Kim Joon-kyu, a senior analyst at the Seoul-based Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association.
Another analyst said the establishment of an automobile factory in famine-stricken North Korea was an "improbable business plan."
But Park dismissed the concerns, saying low labor costs would allow his company to turn out products more cheaply.
"There are no labor unions and labor costs are low. The workers are well disciplined, clever and very quick to learn," he said. The auto plant also has geographical advantages because it is situated next to a new 10-lane highway linking Nampo with Pyongyang.
"The orders of 1,000 cars from the North Korean government alone would be enough for the company to break even," Park said, adding, "We are bound to succeed."
KAMA's Kim said if the North Korean government purchases Pyeonghwa cars at higher than market prices, just as China is doing, the company could avoid losses.
The church-owned carmaker began the auto project in 1999 when it concluded an agreement with North Korea's state-run Ryongbong Corp. Pyeonghwa holds a 70 percent stake for material investment, while Ryongbong owns the other 30 percent for offering land and labor.
Pyeonghwa has imported used Japanese cars into North Korea and refurbished them for resale. It has been selling 20 to 30 cars a month, at $10,000 to $15,000, company officials said.
The car factory is part of the Unification Church's campaign in North Korea launched in 1991 when Moon met with the country's founding leader, Kim Il Sung, to discuss business projects.
Kim died in 1994, but his son and successor Kim Jong Il has maintained ties with Moon. In 2000, Kim sent rare wild ginseng to Moon in a show of friendship. Kim Yong Sun, who handles inter-Korean relations as a confidant of the North Korean leader, attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the Pyeonghwa's auto plant in February 2000.
Government officials said Pyeonghwa's auto project would provide momentum to vitalize sluggish inter-Korean economic cooperation and a stalled reconciliation process.
"We have approved the project in hopes that it would expand inter-Korean cooperation," said an official at the Unification Ministry, which orchestrates Seoul's North Korea policy.
Kim Yeon-chul, a researcher at private Samsung Economic Research Institute, said the joint venture also was expected to help improve North Korea's economy through technology transfers from the South.
Park said he sees a burgeoning market in the communist North and added the company would develop its own model for the North Koreans in the near future.
"North Korea could be a profitable market," Park said. "Many of the businessmen seeking inroads in North Korea have no motives other than just economic profit. They are only thinking of money. But we have a philosophy in doing business in the North -- for the promotion of peace and unification. We will show the North Koreans brotherly love through this project."
UPI is owned by News World Communications Inc., a media company founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.


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The hideously deformed Miguel (Alexander Waechter) is locked up in an asylum for a few years before being released into the custody of his caring sister (Nadja Gerganoff). Manuela is supposed to handle him with kid gloves, warned that anything that'd remind Miguel of that fateful night could unravel years of intense treatment and unleash the killer within. So, Manuela naturally brings her brother back to the scene of the crime. See, that brutal murder took place at their aunt's boarding school in Costa del Sol where pin-up model types are taught to speak Spanish. Miguel can't turn his dead, soulless eyes away from young Angela (Olivia Pascal) in particular, and before you know it, all of her closest friends are getting hacked and slashed into bloody, fist-sized chunks. Guess Miguel's incestuous sister meant it when she said everything would go back to normal if only they could get rid of everyone.
In his interview elsewhere on this disc, Jess Franco made it sound as if he'd all but disowned Bloody Moon, but I love the holy hell out of it. Franco racks up a hell of a body count, with several of the kills unflinchingly gruesome and inventively demented. One poor victim has a foot-long blade shoved through her back and out through one of her exposed breasts. Another is decapitated with a set of garden shears. The standout, though, is a gal who thinks her newfound lover is just being kinky when he ties her to a gigantic rock in the middle of nowhere. She says with a smirk that she's game for anything, but that's before she realizes that she's being fed headfirst into a stone mill's power saw.
This is a Jess Franco flick and all, so you probably don't need me to tell you that Bloody Moon is crammed end-to-end with young, impossibly gorgeous, and frequently naked women. Franco treats this slasher like more of a thrill ride, blending in the right amount of humor while keeping the scares short and visceral. Bloody Moon's stabs at suspense can be very effective -- some malevolent taunting over a set of headphones, the legendary power saw sequence, a student so busy pretending she's getting her brains fucked out that she's oblivious to the bloody corpse in the closet -- but its approach to horror generally owes more to the money shots from Franco's days in porn than the extended stalk and slash from Halloween or Friday the 13th. As many slasher tropes as Bloody Moon embraces, Franco also shows that he hasn't forgotten about where the Body Count Movie first originated, with the masked killer even rocking a pair of black leather gloves at one point. The parade of comeuppances in the finalé also feel more like something out of giallo rather than a standard issue American slasher. Bloody Moon benefits from a stronger backdrop, with its coastal resort standing out as visually more interesting than yet another remote forest. Even the movie's clunkier moments -- a laughably ridiculous styrofoam boulder plummeting down a mountain, one cornball scare with a snake and another with a cat thrown into the frame, the endless language study sequences, and, um, basically every line of dialogue -- are still a hell of a lot of fun. I wouldn't put Bloody Moon in the same league as my favorite European slashers/proto-slashers, such as A Bay of Blood, Torso, or the gloriously insane Pieces, but Jess Franco's stab at my favorite subgenre still comes very Highly Recommended.
Just look at it.
I can't get over how surreally gorgeous Bloody Moon looks in high-def. I don't know what dark, arcane magicks Severin unleashed to do it, but this presentation not only eclipses every '80s slasher I've come across on Blu-ray but just about everything else from any era. The clarity, definition, and rich detail on display throughout Bloody Moon are world-class. Its palette is strikingly saturated, especially some of the practically neon wardrobe that pops up every once in a while. There really isn't any damage to speak of, and speckling is too mild to ever get in the way. The authoring of this Blu-ray disc keeps everything nice and filmic. Its sheen of film grain is warm and unintrusive, and there's no excessive filtering, artificial sharpening, or encoding missteps to drag down the score at all. Sure, I did wish during a few scattered shots that black levels packed a bit more of a wallop, but that's not a persistent nuisance. For the vast, vast overwhelming majority of its eightysomeodd minute runtime, this presentation of Bloody Moon is as good as it gets. No grading on a curve, no "for a movie of its age and budget..." qualifications, no nothin'.
I guess I should backpedal a little, though. To try to restore Bloody Moon to its most gruesome glory, Severin had to splice in some splatter in less-than-spectacular looking footage, and...well:
Cropped and blown up from what sure looks like VHS, this only amounts to a few seconds' worth of blood and guts in all, swooping in at the tail-end of some of the most brutal kills. With as much time and effort has clearly been invested in polishing the rest of this presentation, I have no doubt that Severin didn't have any other options with these snippets of grue: that it was this or nothing. Those brief, stark dips in quality certainly don't dim my enthusiasm for what is otherwise such truly exceptional work.
Bloody Moon carves its way onto a single-layer Blu-ray disc at an aspect ratio of 1.78:1.
Bloody Moon sounds almost as good as it looks. Okay, that means you do need to shrug off the clumsily looped and even more clumsily written English dialogue that never syncs up, the aggressively mediocre score by Gerhard Heinz, and Foley work so underfunded that a relaxing fire in the drawing room sounds like someone crumpling a sheet of a paper. You can't really pin any of that on this 16-bit, monaural PCM track, though. I get the sense that every micron of fidelity that could possibly be reproduced from Bloody Moon's original master tapes is fully on display here. The low-end is healthier than I ever would've expected. The looped dialogue sounds like it hails from the early '80s, but it's reproduced perfectly. Hiss is too modest to ever intrude, and there's really only one niggling pop to speak of. Plus you're reading a review by a guy who has a bank of Moog synths within arm's reach, so the spacy bloops that herald the next kill sure do get a smile out of me too. Again, nothing but nice things to say.
The audio options begin and end with this uncompressed English track. No alternate languages, no subtitles or captions, and no commentaries.
The Final Word
Bloody Moon had me at "Jess Franco making a slasher", and it's every bit as shamelessly exploitative and dementedly fun as that sounds. Chances are that I'd be recommending this Blu-ray disc no matter how it looked or sounded, but such a truly extraordinary presentation makes it that much more essential a purchase for slasher fanatics. Highly Recommended.


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Rev. William Jenkins '36 celebrates his 100th birthday on April 29, 2012. The centenarian fondly recalls his four years at Shenandoah's Dayton campus, including memories of drama teacher Madge Keiter, roommate John Adams '37, classmates Forrest Racey '37, Julia Wynnyk Rohr '40 and Virginia Brown Camicia '39 and President Wade Miller.
Jenkins dropped out of high school at age 15 to work, yet earned his high school and junior college diplomas at Shenandoah.
"I waited tables and helped clean the kitchen to help pay expenses," Jenkins said. "I was in the chorus, sang bass in a male quartet and acted in several of Madge Keiter's plays." Classmate Forrest Racey served as Shenandoah president from 1956- 1969 and Wade Miller served as president in the mid-1930s along with his brother, Millard Miller, who served as chaplain. "I knew them both quite well," said Jenkins.
His dream was to attend medical school, but Jenkins didn't possess the financial resources. He decided to become a licensed preacher in the United Brethren Church in 1933 and was ordained in 1943. Jenkins attended Shenandoah because it was United Brethren Church affiliated and because his pastor in Charleston, W. Va., said tuition was inexpensive. Jenkins served as a minister for nearly 80 years. His career highlights included many positions within the church and service as a Shenandoah University trustee during the 1960s, when he represented the West Virginia Annual Conference.
Throughout his long life, Jenkins has seen many milestones. He was born in a log cabin in Nelsonville, Ohio, and now resides in a modern retirement community. He was born a few weeks after the Titanic sank and lived through World War I, the Great Depression and World War II. He witnessed church mergers from United Brethren to Evangelical United Brethren to United Methodist. "I always remember to place emphasis on the word "'United,'" he said.
He plans to celebrate his 100th birthday with his family (daughter Alice Hilderbrand and son-in-law) and friends from the Inn at Westbrook, where he resides.


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TCU's Kipper picked up by Angels in ninth round
ANAHEIM -- The Angels selected right-hander Jordan Kipper in the ninth round of the 2014 First-Year Player Draft on Friday, giving them six pitchers within their first 10 picks by the time Day 2 came to a close.
Kipper, a junior at Texas Christian University, is listed at 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, and is coming off a season that saw him go 8-2 with a 3.01 ERA in 15 games (12 starts), striking out 65 batters and walking 14 in 68 2/3 innings. Prior to going to TCU, Kipper played two seasons at Central Arizona College and was taken by the Phillies in the 30th round of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft.
Kipper mostly utilizes a sinker and slider, with velocity ranging from 88-93 mph, and can throw strikes with both pitches.
"Nothing really overwhelming, but he just pounds that strike zone," Angels scouting director Ric Wilson said. "He's got a big history of throwing strikes, and he fits in with what we're trying to do."
The Draft concludes with Rounds 11-40 on Saturday. Exclusive coverage of Saturday's Draft starts at 10 a.m. PT on MLB.com.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy has dropped a legal suit against the Getty Museum after the richest U.S. art institution agreed to return 40 items Rome believes were stolen and smuggled out of the country, the culture minister said Thursday.
After a 15-month battle of wills between the government and the Los Angeles-based museum, Getty will send most of the disputed items back by the end of this year under an agreement Rome said was good for both parties.
"From the moment we closed the deal we confirmed that we were pulling out of the legal case," said Francesco Rutelli, Italy's deputy prime minister and culture minister.
In Los Angeles, Getty Museum director Michael Brand welcomed the agreement and said he was looking forward to collaborating on a new program with Rome of loans and joint exhibitions which was part of the agreement.
"I don't have any worries about the gaps (in the museum). We could have some amazing things come into that space. It will be extraordinary to have 40 new objects coming in. It is sad but at the same time it is exciting," Brand told Reuters.
"It is very gratifying to have reached the final conclusion," Brand said.
The items to be returned are housed at the ancient Roman style Getty Villa in the beach city of Malibu. The Villa was reopened in early 2006 after a nine year renovation and is dedicated to the study of Roman and Greek antiquities.
Brand said the 40 disputed items were among 1,200 artefacts on public display at the Villa from a total of about 2,500.
The agreement has no direct impact on the trial in Rome of the Getty's former curator, Marion True, who is accused of conspiracy in trafficking stolen Italian antiquities.
Getty is the third U.S. museum to strike a deal with Italy to return antiquities that Rome says left the country illegally, often after being dug up by "tomb raiders."
Under a 1939 Italian law, ancient artefacts from digs belong to the state. Antiquities excavated after 1939 can only leave the country on loan.
Both New York's Metropolitan Museum and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts have returned suspects pieces, but the Getty deal is the biggest to date, with ancient artefacts that include decorated jars, fragments of frescoes and statues.
A 2.2-metre (seven-foot) 4th century B.C. marble statue of the goddess Aphrodite, which Getty bought for $18 million in 1988, will remain on display in Los Angeles until the end of 2010 after which it will be shipped to Sicily.
"The Italians have offered to lend us something of equal importance", Brand said. Details of the loans have yet to be discussed.
Italy employed legal threats and diplomatic pressure to seek the return of 52 items. Getty was initially prepared to send 26, and the deal covers 40.
The Getty and Rome agreed to defer further discussions on "Getty Bronze," also known as the Statue of a Victorious Youth, while its provenance is being ruled on by an Italian court.
Rutelli said Italy's campaign against smuggled art should make it more difficult for art smugglers to sell their loot.
"Anyone who still thinks they can plunder the world's heritage ... now knows that they are confronted with a solid cooperation between scientific and political institutions, the great museums, archaeologists and scholars," he said.
(Additional reporting by Jill Serjeant in Los Angeles)
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We've been comparing the Galaxy S2 (S II) with many new and upcoming smartphones and at the moment the S2 seems to be the one to beat. Today we want to take a look at the Samsung Galaxy S2 vs. the Motorola Droid X2, another dual-core handset, and we also have a video to round things off.
We've written countless articles about the Galaxy S2 and most recently published a U.S. release roundup with the information we know and think we know so far. It should be coming to at least three carriers in the US, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, rumored from next month. You may also be interested in our recent video comparison between the Galaxy S2 and the HTC Sensation 4G and our Galaxy S2 review roundup. The Droid X2 on the other hand, is already available on Verizon and recent articles have included asking readers if they're interested in this Android handset, details of price and release and then a look at its fast processor.
Taking a look at specs then we know that the Samsung Galaxy S2 has a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16 or 32GB storage, and a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display. It runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has an 8-megapixel rear camera with 1080p HD video capture as well as a front-facer. By comparison the Droid X2 has a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB storage and a 4.3-inch qHD display. It also has an 8-megapixel camera but no front-facer and was released with Android 2.2 Froyo but will get a future upgrade to Gingerbread. Although the specs for the Droid X2 then are impressive enough, we'd say at first glance it's pipped by the Galaxy S2.
Over then to Brandon Miniman of Pocketnow who has conducted a video face off of these same two handsets. The video (which you can see below this story) shows details such as boot up time, web-browsing performance, benchmarks and more. The processor gives overwhelmingly better results in benchmarks and tests for the Galaxy S2 but Pocketnow points out the HDMI output on the Droid X2 is a nice touch for multimedia users. The higher-resolution on the Droid X2 also came in for particular praise although the Galaxy S2's has also been lauded in reviews. If you want to understand more about the different displays, another of our articles particularly looked at the Galaxy S2's Super AMOLED Plus display against that of the HTC Sensation's qHD display (the same as the Droid X2's).
It's another fascinating look at two notable handsets but the Galaxy S2 once again comes out on top, as in so many other comparisons. That said, the Droid X2 has a lot to offer and of course pricing and personal choice will also come into the equation. What are your thoughts on these two dual-core smartphones? Will you be purchasing either of these, another Android or maybe you're waiting for the Apple iPhone 5. Let us know with your comments.


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At what age does child support cease
The divorce took place prior to 1991. At that time the decree said child support was to be paid until the child reached emancipation - no age was stated. Which age of emancipation is the legal age when child support ceases to be payed - the emancipation age at the time of the divorce in 1990, or the current age of emancipation?
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Setback for Israeli teen in kidney transplant
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A kidney transplant for a teenager who traveled from Israel to Minnesota for the procedure has hit a snag.
Fifteen-year-old Sarah Zalaznik and her mother say they flew to Minneapolis for the teen's transplant because of the reputation of surgeons at the University of Minnesota's Amplatz Children's Hospital. Initial tests showed the 32-year-old donor was a match. But upon further testing, the girl's surgery on Friday was scratched.
Sarah's mother, Dassie Zalanik, tells KMSP-TV the additional testing showed the donor was incompatible.
The family plans to stay in Minnesota for now, hoping for a donor match.
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Q. This has been the scariest week of my life. I suddenly developed very high blood pressure (195/118) and had to go the emergency department.
I'm a student and had bought a ton of black licorice, the really good imported kind. I had been eating it when I studied and didn't realize my blood pressure had begun to rise. When it felt like my heart was going to explode, I decided to check my blood pressure and found it was sky high!
I was put on hypertension medications: first, a beta blocker that did nothing; then an ACE inhibitor (ditto) and a water pill. The diuretic brought my pressure down after several days. Eventually it got my pressure down to 87/63, which is too low. Now my pressure is back to normal without medicine.
I could not understand what was happening. I eat a low-fat diet and I'm not overweight. I don't smoke or drink. It wasn't until afterward that my brother told me he thought it was glycyrrhizin toxicity from licorice. I could not BELIEVE it could be so harmful.
Today, my blood pressure is fine without medication: 107/70. I'm never eating licorice again.
A. Too much licorice can raise blood pressure and lower potassium levels (Clinical Chemistry, Dec. 2009). Your brother is right that glycyrrhizin in natural licorice is the culprit.
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Tell CNN to Make a New Year's Resolution: Keep Away From the Anti-Gay Industry
CNN has long been one of America's most respected journalistic organizations on many issues, but for several years, it has had a giant blind spot when it comes to issues that impact the LGBT community. On December 21, John King USA ran a segment featuring Peter Sprigg from Family Research Council, but there are countless other examples. Out of a desire for 'balance' on these issues, CNN turned - as they often do - to the anti-gay industry to provide the counterpoint. Except all too frequently, the network doesn't book these people because they provide any actual expertise or experience on issues that impact LGBT people; their only qualification is that they are anti-gay.
We're all familiar with New Year's Resolutions – things we pledge to do to improve ourselves in the coming year. The new year is a fresh start; achance to start anew, down a better, healthier path. Most of us have a vice or two we'd like to give up, a few pounds we'd love to shed, or an area of our lives that we need to organize.
Just like us – the media needs to do a little housecleaning. Namely, it's time for outlets to finally drop several hundred pounds of unhealthy weight, which they've been carrying around for years, in the form of anti-gay activists.
During that John King segment on the pending repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and its implementation, King featured openly gay former service member Alex Nicholson, alongside Sprigg, who is a "senior fellow for policy studies" at the Family Research Council.
Nicholson's qualifications were clear. As an openly gay, former Army intelligence officer, he gave firsthand accounts of how the policy played out in the day-to-day lives of gay and lesbian service members.Sprigg's qualifications, however, came exclusively from his job at the Family Research Council. There, Sprigg has worked to advance some of the most hurtful, dangerous, and demonstrably false notions about the lives of LGBT people that our country has seen in recent years. And yet, by pairing him with Nicholson in this segment, CNN told its millions of viewers that both of these men should be seen as equally valuable to this discussion.
Is it important for the media to take these groups on? Of course it is. But that's not what CNN and other media organizations are doing when it invites these groups to take part in otherwise reasonable discussions. The media is elevating their hurtful messages and attitudes to the level of rational discourse. The media is saying that people like Alexander Nicholson, who can speak to real-life experience and firsthand facts, need to be "balanced" by people like Peter Sprigg, whose claim to fame is arguing that being gay should be outlawed. If CNN wants to interview a gay person who believes being straight should be outlawed, THEN Peter Sprigg would be an acceptable "balance."
CNN and the rest of the media are doing nothing but exposing their viewers to dangerous anti-gay rhetoric when they invite members of these anti-gay groups onto their programming. Starting in 2011, this needs to stop.
Many of us who make New Year's Resolutions can run into trouble figuring out where to start. So the attached petition makes this a very, very easy resolution to keep. Tell the media that if they can't find someone who isn't part of the anti-gay industry to discuss an issue that involves the LGBT community, then the "other side" of that issue isn't one worth hearing.
For more information, visit www.glaad.org/tellcnn.
Allison Blakely
Emily Atkinson
Latha Nair-Erickson
Deepa Agarwal
Michelle Jaconi
Marcela Salazar
Sarah Holbrooke
Pamela Sellers
Maria Ebrahimji
With the new year upon us, I am asking you to make a resolution to keep anti-gay groups off of your airwaves.
When a story impacts the LGBT community, think about how you would treat the story if it impacted any other group of people. If you were running a story about education, would you seek out the opinion of someone who hates teachers? If you were running a story about agriculture, would you invite a guest who believes farming is a sin? Of course not, yet the anti-gay point of view is one you seek out regularly.
These groups, whose only qualification is their animosity towards LGBT equality, bring absolutely nothing of value to your airwaves – and by inviting them on, you're only lending them your credibility and elevating their messages. If you are seeking a second opinion on issues of LGBT rights, I ask you to stay away from members of the anti-gay industry, and instead consult actual experts. No matter what the exact topic, you should always be able to find a professional who can offer something beyond animus. Educators, scholars, consultants, psychologists, military historians, medical professionals – no matter what field your story is related to, you can always find an actual expert who can bring something of real value to these conversations.
In this New Year, I am asking you to please stop giving these anti-gay activists a platform for their false and dangerous messages, and instead give your audience the information they need.
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***See the original press release HERE.***
August 29, 2013
Joint Statement from Common Council members Jim Bohl,
Robert Bauman and Tony Zielinski
It has been brought to our attention that a number of channels in the local Time Warner Cable "basic" package will be shifted to the digital tier next month, meaning that most Milwaukeeans without a newer model television will need to obtain a digital to analog converter box in order to continue to view the entire basic cable package. We are both frustrated and perturbed by this news.
It seems to us this is yet another means for this provider to reduce service levels under existing packages, or to nickel and dime its customers into paying higher cable bills if they want to retain these 11 channels. The company is offering to provide a free digital to analog converter box to anyone who requests it by November 11. But by the end of 2014, those customers taking advantage of this
purportedly "free" service have been told they will find an extra $0.99 tacked onto their monthly bill as a result. How is this gimmick anything other than a bait and switch, and how long can customers expect that fee to remain at an even $0.99 before it, too, jumps up in cost?
Let's not minimize who it is that will be most impacted by this move on Time Warner's part either—people with older model televisions who only subscribe to a basic cable package. In short, this cut in service will have a disproportionate effect on residents within the city of Milwaukee.
Of course subscribers to the basic cable package could just opt to stick with their old TVs and forego the digital to analog converter box altogether. But they will be missing out on Milwaukee's City Channel, the Weather Channel and a number of other options that used to be included as a part of their "basic cable," analog subscription. Simply put, they will be getting less service for the same amount of money. And by losing the City Channel from their basic, analog cable lineup, they'll be cut off from their local government as well when, frankly, we should be doing everything we can to provide more convenient access to the activities of government. After all, convenient access is the best means of creating transparency and accountability in government.
Local governments used to have a say in which cable companies did business with their residents. Just a few short years ago, municipalities had the authority to offer franchises to cable companies. Then, the state butted in with the so-called "Video Competition Act," took over the franchise process and absconded with the franchise fees that municipalities used to collect; yet the state has done very little to ensure that residents' complaints about cable companies have been adequately addressed. It's a safe bet that we wouldn't be seeing these sorts of shenanigans from Time Warner Cable if they were still accountable to the City of Milwaukee for their franchise.
Time Warner Cable says they are shifting more channels to digital in order to free up more bandwidth and offer more services to their customers. But in the end, it's Time Warner Cable that benefits the most, and Milwaukeeans who lose out.


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Re: Bubble Wrap [On, August 30September 5]. John Powers article about liberal political writing curiously leaves out the two best left-liberal magazines, The New Republic and The American Prospect. Both are reasonable, well-written, highly regarded, and consistently able to demolish conservative arguments and politicians. Perhaps he ignored them because they undercut his entire thesis on the superiority of right-wing political writing?
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Paul Staniland
Its never much fun being the sober one the guy at the party who doesnt feel like doing what everyone else is doing. He has opinions, principles. Hes old-school, and although everyone seems to respect him, hes a bore, a party pooper, and chances are hell leave alone. I agree with you, Mr. Powers, The Nation needs a tune-up. But to promote The Weekly Standard by pointing to the rags having more fun is a waste of your papers paper. Of course theyre having more big fun on the right people always have more fun when the party favors are limitless, when youre kicking ass and taking names. Its sexy, its powerful, its a party. I just hope there are enough back issues of The Weekly Standard to soak up the inevitable mess when the partys over.
Benny Koldyke
Los Angeles
I dont read The Weekly Standard (nor do I drown kittens), but surely theres no mystery about why right-wingers are happy. If I owned the government, ruled the courts and controlled the major media outlets, Id be the life of the party too.
Ira Hozinsky
New York City
What Powers seems to be saying is that the right has mastered the triumph of style over substance and the left has failed to keep pace. Its not a pace that I, or many other readers of The Nation, wish to keep in step with. I like gray, print-filled pages, jam-packed with substance. I like muesli. I like dreary and exhaustive, at least when it comes up against snappy and pointed. I dont need to be entertained by political information, or seduced by humor into a fascist sensibility or a leftist sensibility, for that matter. It is not the job of a political weekly to go after a larger market share, only to make enough money to stay alive and to continue to print the truth, or their opinionated version of the truth. Ill take the comprehensive over the shrill any day, and I dont need my news of the world encapsulated into a headline, or a glossy condensation.
Carl Wyant
Beverly Hills
Why is The Weekly Standard more fun than The Nation? Why is Chaplins The Great Dictator more fun than Triumph of the Will? There are funny left-wingers, like Al Franken. But thats just it: If youre a funny left-winger, you can get a job writing for TV or movies and fit right in. Imagine how uncomfortable life in Hollywood would be for a Weekly Standard writer. These are people who go home for supper and prefer to sleep with their own wives.
So John Powers can relax: The lefts political journals are unreadable, but they own the major institutions of culture academia, TV, film. And culture is ultimately more important than politics, as Pat Buchanan told us in 1992.
Robert Stacy McCain
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Folks on the right and that includes former liberals who just got tired of being preached to, messed with and scolded by leftist anal-retentives richly enjoy the behavior of leftists to promulgate what has become a narrow-minded agenda driven by junk science, attempts to convert desires to rights, hatred for conservatives, and massive loads of personal guilt about the trivial and inconsequential. Such bloated targets are simple to puncture and it is easy to do so. And tremendous fun.
John McCall
Los Angeles
In Davis to the Uninsured: Let Them Eat Dodger Dogs [August 30September 5], Marc Cooper says, When sacrifice is forced upon all of us, are we being asked to save every single Service Employees International Union â (SEIU) job at the possible cost of imploding the entire county health safety net? Lets hope not.
Id say, Lets hope so. Lets not cut any SEIU jobs. These union workers presumably have benefits arising from their jobs. They have families they provide for with their wages and benefits. Thus, when you look deeply into this, they and their families are actually contributing to keeping government costs down. If anyone needs job security, its service workers. If they have their jobs eliminated, they will not be temporarily inconvenienced. They will be financially devastated. They will be forced to line up alongside all the other indigents at the free hospitals and health-care facilities because they no longer have insurance or incomes. What then? More patients coming to places that employ fewer service employees. Who is going to take care of them? Who is going to clean up after everyone whos still employed goes home?
In Merry Olde England, the government despised Robin Hood. In 21st-century America, the government is Robin Hood. The liberal social modus operandi is Take from the haves (you cant even call them rich anymore, because rich is quickly coming to mean anyone with a job) and give to the have-nots. Marc Cooper would take away the very jobs of the haves making them have-nots to give a little more to the existing have-nots. Which is utterly senseless.
Jeff Bates
Public school custodian and member of SEIU Local 517M
Owosso, Michigan
Marc Cooper, channeling charity hucksters like Sally Struthers, is trying to shame us with the old socialist lie that Just pennies a day could save these wretched folks. So its just the price of a Dodger dog this month, is it? And what is it next month, Marc? Just another 50 cents a gallon at the pump and, what the heck, a few more one-time-only $3,500 fees for the privilege of buying certain cars? Or daring to own a starter home, or build a small business, or have any other modest success? How much will be enough, Marc?
Tony Blass
Many thanks to David Ehrenstein for getting, saving and now revealing the goods on Joseph Epstein [Sexual Snobbery, August 30September 5]. When a hit-and-run author such as Epstein and his claque have so consistently published homophobic sneers and then tried to cover them up, theres nothing wrong with turning a book review into an exposé in order to correct the historical record. On the contrary, theres everything right about such a departure from journalistic conventions. Bravo to Ehrenstein for not forgetting, and not letting us forget.
William B. Kelley
Chicago, Illinois
A column about next springs L.A. city elections [Autumn Follies, September 1319] should have said that Tony Cardenas lives within the boundaries of the newly drawn 6th Council District.


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The fourth decade of apartheid Two opposing forces struggle for the soul of Thami, a young, brilliant black man. His teacher insists that education, even the inferior "Bantu" education he is forced to teach, is the way to liberation. But Thami has begun to listen to angrier voices...
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In my opinion, the biggest problem always was the skill system. There's ZERO incentive to replay the game with the same class. A fundamental flaw that's so painfully obvious to anyone with the slightest understanding of the genre.
Conclusively, the designers of Diablo 3 did NOT understand the genre.


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