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With the release of the reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street fast approaching, Daniel Farrands brings us his latest exposition focusing on the guy who's kept millions awake at night, Freddy Krueger. Farrands teamed up with Dread Central's Andrew Kasch to put together Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, a feature-length documentary about the iconic horror movie franchise.
Farrands knows what he's doing when it comes to revisiting the best in slasher series. One of his first directorial gigs was actually a mockumentary about Jason Voorhees called The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisited. The piece was separated into three parts and included on the new deluxe edition DVDs of Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter, Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. He is also responsible for the well-received documentary His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th.
Never Sleep Again will be similar to His Name Was Jason. The documentary clocks in at 90 minutes and will be narrated by ANOES veteran Heather Langenkamp. The two-disc DVD will also include I Am Nancy, a documentary written, produced and directed by Langenkamp as well as over four hours of bonus material. According to the press release from Dread Central, Never Sleep Again will be released in the spring of 2010, which I expect means it'll coincide with the release of the new film starring Jackie Earl Haley as Krueger on April 30th, 2010.
Lastly, an interesting tidbit mentioned on Slash Film; Never Sleep Again was produced by a company called 1428 Films. The address of the house that Nancy used to take down Krueger in the first film? 1428 North Genesee Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Kind of cool, right?
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KANSAS CITY - Kansas City Wizards General Manager Curt Johnson announced today schedule changes for a pair of the Wizards' 2006 home games. Kansas City's Wednesday, July 19th match against the defending Eastern Conference Champion New England Revolution has been moved to Saturday, July 29th. While the Wizards' August 26th game against Major League Soccer front-running FC Dallas has been pushed back one day to August 27th.
The Kansas City and New England match will now be played on July 29th and will kickoff at 7:30 p.m. CT in Arrowhead Stadium. The Wizards will still offer the $1 special on hot dogs and ice cream that they were originally offering for the Revolution match despite the game being rescheduled to a Saturday.
The FC Dallas match has been moved to Sunday, August 27th in order to accommodate the Kansas City Chiefs schedule. Kickoff for the August 27th match will remain at 7:30 p.m. CT.
Tops in MLS with four wins on the season, Kansas City continues play this weekend when it travels to Salt Lake City to face Real Salt Lake on Saturday, May 20th at 8:00 p.m. CT.


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VIERA, Fla. - In Davey Johnson's eyes, Stephen Strasburg had a bit too much adrenaline running through him while out on the mound today, leading to a little bit of wildness.
"Stras was too hyped up, amped up," Johnson said. "You could tell from the first pitch he threw he was loaded for bear. But other than that, everybody came through all right."
Johnson said he could understand Strasburg's emotions being high for the Nationals' Grapefruit League home opener; after all, as Strasburg said following his start, this is the first time he's really gotten to attack hitters since his five outings toward the end of the 2011 season.
"He was in such a good groove at the end of the year, but all winter long, waiting for this, to be a normal person ... he's an aggressive pitcher," Johnson said. "Boy, he's got a lot of talent. I'm sure he had a little adrenaline out there. I'm not sure how hard he was throwing, but he was amped. He settled down and really it looked like he just got loose in about the third inning. That was more the Stras type."
Johnson put some of the blame on himself for Tom Gorzelanny's poor outing today, saying a miscommunication with the bullpen forced him to leave the left-hander in the game longer than he wanted to.
The Nats' skipper intended for Gorzelanny to throw about 35 pitches and then give way to Ryan Mattheus, but the miscommunication forced Gorzelanny to keep throwing, even as Astros runners kept crossing the plate in the top of the fifth.
"Talking to Gorzo, he said he needed the work, but that's not the kind of work I want to give him," Johnson said. "I guess I'm rusty; Twelve years, no spring training. I guess I'm rusty, so put that one on me for letting him out there to take a beating. A lot of the guys were not sharp, threw a lot of pitches. Don't like to see that."
In Gorzelanny's one inning of work, he allowed a whopping seven runs, three hits and four walks.
Bryce Harper went 1-for-2 today after coming into the game in the top of the fifth inning, with the hit coming on an infield single to shortstop. Harper nearly made a really impressive defensive play late in the game when he laid out for a fly ball down the right field line, but he came up short, allowing the ball to trickle away. The play resulted in a triple for Houston's Brian Bixler, whereas if Harper had played the ball on a hop, he could've held Bixler to two bases.
Johnson was asked after the game if he would've preferred Harper to play it safe on the fly ball.
"At that point, make a great play," Johnson said. "What the heck. We're eight runs down. If we're protecting a two-run lead, probably play it a little differently. But I liked his hustle."
Dan Kolko was named MASNsports.com's Nationals beat writer after spending the last four years covering the Baltimore Ravens for MASN and also serving as the Web site's deputy managing editor. A University of Delaware graduate originally from Silver Spring, Md., Dan grew up a die-hard baseball fan and is thrilled for the opportunity to cover the Nationals. Before joining MASN, Dan worked in production at Comcast SportsNet in Bethesda, Md., and also interned at the "George Michael Sports Machine" in Washington, D.C.


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May 4, 2016
'Please help me..' begged terminal lung cancer mum ignored and forgotten by hospital staff
Mrs Yarnold and her husband, Robert, claim after just days of her being admitted to hospital with breathing difficulties she had massive bruising on her arms.
The heartbroken daughter, of Dudley, said: "I'm disgusted by the way they treated her. It was shocking.
"We all have to get old some day and she deserved to be treated with care – there was no care.
"She was crying out for help and no one would help her."


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In Huntsville Police news, on Wednesday's day shift in the 2200 block of Bobby K Marks a known suspect displayed a weapon while threatening to kill someone. A 17-year-old woman was arrested in the 100 block of I-45 South for theft and failure to identify. Also, at the same address, a 19-year-old woman was cited for theft.
On the night shift Wednesday, a 23-year-old man was arrested in the 700 block of FM 2821 West for falsification of a drug test. In the 900 block of Thomason Street, a 20-year-old man was arrested for assault in family violence-impeding breathing, interfering with an emergency call, and outstanding municipal warrants.


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PHOENIX (AP) — A psychologist believes that the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that left then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords wounded has an improved mental state but remains incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge said in a court filing Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge Larry Burns scheduled a hearing for Monday in San Diego to determine whether Jared Lee Loughner should remain at a federal prison facility in Springfield, Mo., where officials have been forcibly medicating him.
Loughner, 23, has pleaded not guilty to 49 charges stemming from the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting in Tucson that killed six people and injured Giffords and 12 others. Giffords resigned from Congress last month and continues to recover from a gunshot wound to the head.
Loughner has demonstrated bizarre behavior since his arrest. He was removed from a May 25 court hearing when he lowered his head to within inches of the courtroom table then lifted his head and began a loud and angry rant.
Mental health experts have determined Loughner suffers from schizophrenia and are trying to make him fit to stand trial. Loughner has been at the Missouri facility since May 28, and his attorneys have vigorously fought the government's efforts to medicate him with psychotropic drugs.
An appeals court temporarily halted Loughner's forced medication last summer, but the medication resumed once mental health experts at the prison concluded that his condition was deteriorating further.
After a Sept. 28 court hearing, Burns extended Loughner's detention in Missouri by another four months. His current stay is set to end on Feb. 8.
Burns said the court received a competency report on Jan. 30 from Dr. Christina Pietz, who is Loughner's chief psychologist.
"In Dr. Pietz's opinion, the defendant remains incompetent to stand trial, in particular because he lacks an adequate understanding of the nature and consequences of the charges against him," Burns wrote. "Dr. Pietz does, however, believe that the defendant has made measurable progress toward competency and that his mental state will continue to improve."
But Burns added that "the court's inclination is to extend the defendant's commitment by another four months." The judge also said that Loughner shouldn't be transported from Missouri for Monday's hearing.
A call to Loughner's lead attorney, Judy Clarke, for comment on Burns' filing wasn't immediately returned Thursday evening.
If the two sides can't agree to a treatment extension for Loughner, Burns said he would hear any objections and schedule a more substantive evidentiary hearing if needed.
Tucson-based prosecutors said in a filing late Thursday that they had "no additional evidence to offer" on the extension request and asked the court to proceed with adding another 120 days to Loughner's commitment at the Missouri facility.
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Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban was quiet throughout these playoffs--so quiet, in fact, that his near-silence became a somewhat-noteworthy story--an interesting shift from his usual, effusive sideline demeanor and his refusal to pull punches when assessing a game.
Cuban hadn't said much of anything publicly between the beginning of the playoffs and Sunday night. But after the Game 6 victory, with the Larry O'Brien Trophy wrapped up by his Mavericks, the owner opened up. He has since spoken, both to reporters and via Twitter, about a number of things--from the victory, to his feelings toward Dirk, to, yes, his uncharacteristic silence throughout the playoffs.
Unsurprisingly, Cuban's quiet demeanor was by design.
"The big mystery, huh?" Cuban told reporters after the victory. "We had just done playing Portland and going to L.A. I knew the questions everybody was going to ask. They were going to ask me about my repartee with Phil Jackson and the things I said about Ron Artest. I didn't want to get in the middle of a back-and-forth about that. And then we went to Oklahoma City and I was going to get asked about why I didn't vote to have the Sonics move so close to me. Why didn't I vote against it? Then about 2006, it didn't make any sense to say anything.
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Wakatobi's Turtle Nursery
When Mother Nature needs a bit of help, Wakatobi's caring staff play surrogate parent to sea turtles.
Sea Turtles can live to be 100 years old, but most don't survive their first few days. In the wild, the tiny hatchlings typically encounter a gauntlet of predators as they hatch and make their way from beachside nests to open water, and they remain especially vulnerable those first few months of life. When nature is in balance, this attrition is a normal part of the circle of life. But when turtles become threatened by factors such as habitat loss, or predators like fish and birds, they may need a little extra help to maintain a normal population. This is where Wakatobi Dive Resort has stepped in.
A head start for turtles
"We're delighted at finding more and more female sea turtles crawling up onto Wakatobi's beach at night and laying eggs," said nursery caretaker Sayafrin.
For the past couple years we have continued to witness increasing numbers of adult turtles on the surrounding reefs, and particularly on the House Reef at Wakatobi. And we're delighted at finding more and more female sea turtles that make their way onto the beach at night to lay eggs. One might conclude that due to the decline in habitat elsewhere, combined with Wakatobi's ongoing protective measures for our waters, the turtles are coming here to find the environment they need to thrive. Therefore, we put a head start program into place and built a turtle nursery, which is managed by resort staff, to help give these tiny ancient mariners a better chance at survival in the wild.
Recently we are finding more and more female sea turtles laying eggs on Wakatobi's beach at night. Using their hind flippers, they will dig a circular hole in the sand (typically 40 to 50 centimeters (16 to 20 in) deep). Afterward, the female fills this hole, or nest, with a clutch of soft-shelled eggs — one by one until she has deposited around 50 to 200 eggs, depending on the species. Some species, like the hawksbill turtle, have been reported to lay 250 eggs. Once the eggs are layed, she re-fills the nest with sand, smoothing the surface until it is relatively undetectable visually. The whole process takes thirty to sixty minutes. She then returns to the ocean, leaving the eggs untended.
We put a head start program into place and built a turtle nursery, which is managed by resort staff, to help give these tiny ancient mariners a better chance at survival in the wild.
When the Wakatobi security team patrols the beach at night they look for signs of new nests. When one is discovered, a small fence is erected around the nest site to stop people from accidentally walking over it and to keep would-be predators out. The fences remain in place until after the baby turtles hatch, which could take from 45 to 70 days, depending on nest conditions and temperature. Once the hatchlings emerge from their shells they make their way to the surface.
Under normal circumstances, once the baby turtles have succeeded in digging themselves out of the sand, they make a mad dash for the ocean and do not slow down until they hit open water. However, at this time their life faces its greatest perils — from a gauntlet of predators in the sand (like crabs and lizards) to birds in the air (seabirds and wading birds), and fish on the reef. But those slated for Wakatobi's nursery will take a different path.
Once signs of a hatch are noted, the tiny turtles are collected as soon as they emerge, and moved to the holding tanks. The Wakatobi nursery was created when a former greenhouse near the staff quarters was fitted with a large water tank with a seawater circulation system. The tank is divided into two sections, with one half reserved for the smallest turtles, which are only 5 to 6cm long when they hatch. The youngsters are fed a diet of salad, seagrass and a little raw fish. Water is changed regularly to keep the tanks clean, and they are moved to the other half of the tank as they grow. In all, they are kept for about a year.


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LORAIN – Police said seven young children were found dirty and neglected in a Long Avenue home on Thursday and their mother, who police said was 4-months pregnant and intoxicated, was arrested and charged with seven counts of child endangering.
Police were dispatched to the 1700 block of Long Ave. for a woman with several children who was standing in front of a home screaming at its residents. The woman, Erica Perez, 28, said someone had stolen her phone, and she wanted it back.
The residents of the home told police that no one had stolen Perez's phone and that the woman had been drinking all day and is "always drunk." Residents said Perez sits on her porch all day and has numerous visitors who drink with her.
Police continued their investigation at Perez's Long Avenue home to find seven children, ages one to nine, covered in filth and visibly neglected.
According to a police report, the one-year-old had reportedly had a seizure earlier that day, but Perez said the child often suffers from seizures and he was OK and did not need an ambulance. The other children in the home said the boy often has seizures, and Perez only calls the ambulance once a week. They said the boy would stop breathing and turn blue each time he has a seizure.
According to the report, Perez's home "smelled of urine and garbage," and "there were numerous flies flying all over the room." Police also found an empty liquor bottle in the kitchen, along with a few beers.
Officer A.J. Mathewson wrote in a police report, "In my almost 13 years as a police officer, I have never observed such a filthy, disgusting, unsafe, unhealthy environment where children were being housed. The condition of the residence and children was disturbing."
Police said a single mattress was found upstairs, about the size of a small crib mattress. One of the children told police that three or four children slept on the mattress.
LifeCare was called to check on the welfare of the children. One of the medics told police she had contacted Lorain County Children Services about the residence before.
Police attempted to arrest Perez when she tried to pull away from officers. According to the report, she then urinated on herself before she was placed in the police cruiser.
Perez's sisters temporarily took the children while Children's Services investigated the matter. Perez's sister, Monica, said Children Services had already become involved, and said she thought custody was granted to her mother who lives in Florida.
The youngest child was transferred to Mercy Regional Medical Center due to his seizure. Emergency room staff said the boy's diaper had not been changed in at least four days, and he was covered in feces, peanut butter and dirt. The boy was cared for and discharged from the hospital.
Perez was transferred to Lorain County Jail and charged with seven counts of child endangering, one count each of disorderly conduct persisting, disorderly conduct by intoxication, obstructing official business and resisting arrest.


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Stop Buying Wood
Eco Brooklyn has one rule: we don't buy new wood. We buy damaged wood, salvaged wood, unwanted wood, and overstock from other Brooklyn contractors. We collect it from dumpsters.
But we won't buy new wood. Period.
It is the thorn in my carpenters' side. When they are under pressure to perform (which is always), time is tight, and I bring them a pile of dirty old warped wood they are not happy. They curse the nails that break their blades. They grumble at the time spent cutting the odd wood to shape. And they are tempted to blame the wood for anything that goes wrong.
I say "tempted" because they know it will fall on deaf ears. At Eco Brooklyn crappy old wood is never an excuse for taking longer or doing bad work. If you work at Eco Brooklyn you are expected to work better and faster than other carpenters AND turn dirty old wood into great work.
The reason for this was nicely described in an email I got today from a fellow green builder, Tim Keating of Rainforest Relief, a great organization. His comment was part of an discussion some of us were having about CO2 impact.
He says:
The Stern report also indicates that slowing deforestation is the single most cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Logging has been shown to be the primary factor leading to tropical deforestation. In Surviving the Cut (World Resources Institute), Johnson and Cabarle showed that a logged tropical forests is 8 times more likely to be completely deforested than one remaining unlogged. This was based on FAO data, which itself is very conservative. Two subsequent studies both showed that FAO estimates of deforestation need to be doubled to account for "selective" logging. That is (as RR had been saying for years), 25% of deforestation is directly due to logging (rather than 12) and once the logging roads are there, 70% of logged forests will be completely deforested within a few decades of logging.
The vast majority of high-value tree species logged in the tropics are exported (thus, their high value). That is, the demand for these woods is what is driving the initial high-grade logging. The US is the largest importer of tropical hardwoods by dollar value and currently by volume (although this will soon change as China continues to ramp up imports – but the vast majority of China's imports are processed and re-exported – much of it to the US).
Somehow, many folks in the US seem to have forgotten Economics 101: supply and demand. Well, actually, only the one side of the coin. Consumers seem to get that if they buy more widgets, there will be more made and more companies making them – and thus the price will go down – but have neglected the other side of the coin of *not buying* leading to making less.
I sure hope everyone on this list is eschewing old-growth tropical hardwoods – even those certified as "well managed" by the FSC and old-growth woods in general (that is, much of the Western red cedar, redwood, cypress, yellow (Alaskan) cedar in trade and much of the temperate woods coming from China (originating from the Russian taiga)).
True recycled plastic lumber (as opposed to wood-plastic composite lumber) sequesters carbon as well as eliminates the need for logging from 5 to 20 times over.
Tim's focus is on rainforests, but the same is true for all forests. Bottom line: the world has to reduce or reverse their consumption of live wood. This is why we at Eco Brooklyn, including the grumbling carpenters, take wood buying very seriously. We see this as a key ingredient of a green contractor.
Sure we are competing with many good contractors in Brooklyn, but we see this as simply another opportunity to become better. We can build with second hand wood and STILL do better work. We can spend more time cleaning the wood and STILL be competitive financially.
This way we allow the client to help save the world without any sacrifice – which is our goal: to make saving the world the easiest most logical thing to do on all levels.


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|Kill them! Kill them all!
|~ Alma orders Fettel to kill all the humans.
Alma Wade is the main antagonist of the F.E.A.R. series. She is a powerful demon who seeks revenge against humanity, due to their usage of her in a series of experiments and secret projects with the aim of making her powers financially viable.
Alma was a severely troubled child, gifted with tremendous psychic powers, and as a result she suffered nightmares and was attuned to the negative emotions of the people around her. At the age of only three, Armacham Technology Corporation inducted Alma into Project Paragon, where they tested her for every known psychic ability. Alma passed all tests, and, should she appear not to have any power, her father would work tirelessly with her until she was able to focus her powers and complete the objective. She was experimented on tirelessly to discover the source of her powers and how they responded to external stimuli, including being subjected to electroshock therapy.
When Alma was five, she began to fail all her tests, and it was discovered that she was purposefully failing them so that the company would stop experimenting on her. Sometime later, she started a fire in one of their laboratories. Armacham scientists began to have vivid nightmares, sudden mood changes, and delusions, and it was concluded that Alma was psychically attacking them. Soon after, Armacham made plans to keep Alma alive, but to also stop her from being able to harm their employees.
In her seventh year, Alma was recruited into Armacham Technology Corporation's Project Origin with the aim of creating psychics from a psychic fore-bearer, and to keep her from using her psychic powers against Armacham's scientists. Two days before her eighth birthday, she was put into an induced coma and locked in the Vault, a spherical structure located deep inside the secret Origin Facility, blocking her psychic abilities. A note that can be found in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin suggests Alma may have already killed at least one person before being put into a coma. As well, she is seen with blood on her legs when ATC guards transport her to the Vault. During the project, Alma was impregnated twice with clone embryos, made from her own DNA, combined with genetic contributions from various Origin staffers, including Harlan Wade.
She gave birth to the First Prototype, the Point Man, when she was only 15 years old, and then a second, Paxton Fettel, when she was 16. Alma merged her consciousness with that of Fettel when he was 10, causing a Synchronicity Event and prompting ATC to shut down Project Origin completely and to "pull the plug" on Alma. Her life support system was removed and she died six days later. Alma was 26 at the time of her death.
F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon
The identity and mystery of Alma Wade is the very core of the game. First appearing in the introduction, Alma's presence is felt constantly throughout the game, with hints and glimpses of her life made throughout the game's use of visions and info the Point Man gathers through both Paxton Fettel and several laptops scattered throughout the game. She appears as an eight year old girl wearing a red dress and has a disturbingly blank, mask-like face almost completely obscured by long dark hair. Bloody footprints can be found in some places where she walks, and she is briefly visible on a CCTV monitor in the South River Wastewater Treatment Plant, in the same room where Bill Moody is interrogated.
Alma is seen repeatedly in F.E.A.R., often only out of the corner of the Point Man's eye, standing in the shadows or darting quickly out of sight. Her appearances are usually preceded by a static radio transmission, logged as "Unknown Origin." As her appearances are almost always accompanied by scenes of extreme violence, this rapidly becomes extremely unnerving. Sometimes all that is heard is her soft, giggling laugh, or indistinct words whispered as though in the Point Man's ear.
Twenty years after Alma's death, ATC president Genevieve Aristide reopens the Origin Facility, despite the protests from ATC scientists that tendrils of Alma's psychic powers may still be active. She sends in a team to assess the facility's condition. The team promptly disappears, killed by Alma. Genevieve sends in a second team, but they also disappear. Realizing that Alma's spirit has somehow been awakened by the reopening of the Origin site, Genevieve seals the facility. A few days later, Alma appears to Fettel and creates a second Synchronicity Event, causing Fettel to go rogue and take command of an army of clone soldiers known as Replicas.
Fettel finds and kills Charles Habegger, whom he cannibalizes in the belief that he can obtain his victim's thoughts through their flesh. He and Alma learn about a reportbeing worked on by ATC employees dealing with contamination of water in the Auburn District. The two set out to find the people attached to the report, possibly believing that they may know the location of Alma's body. They first visit the South River Wastewater Treatment Plant, where Alma attempts to kill the Point Man. Despite her efforts, the Point Man survives, and Alma becomes curious about him. She begins to appear to him randomly, always watching him, but never attacking.
Fettel and Alma then move to Armacham Technology Corporation Headquarters. In both the wastewater plant and ATC headquarters, they kill everyone present, whether these people know about Project Origin and Alma or not. There, Alma continues to watch the Point Man, and eventually learns he is her son. Soon after, Alma and Fettel learn the location of the Origin facility, and they depart from ATC's headquarters to find it. Along the way, Fettel is able to kidnap Alma's sister, Alice Wade, and kills her while Alma watches. Genevieve Aristide muses in the field guide that Alma was likely jealous of Alice due to the preferential treatment she received from their father, and so wanted to witness her death.
Inside the Origin facility, Harlan Wade releases Alma's true body, showing her to be an adult woman. Alma immediately kills Harlan, then begins to walk around the facility, expelling Nightmares wherever she goes. After she is released from the Vault by Harlan, her appearance changes to that of a naked, emaciated young woman. Soon after, Alma takes the Point Man into a hallucination, but instead it shows a memory that reveals her to be Harlan's daughter, as well as that the Point Man is in fact Alma's son. In the memory, Alma is reaching out to him, demanding that her child be returned to her, only to encounter stern resistance from her father. She appears to the Point Man, attempting to hug him, but he shoots her repeatedly, not stopping until she disappears. After that, the Point Man walks down a hallway on his way out of the building when Alma again whispers to him, saying "I know who you are" and "My baby."
The Point Man exits the building, only to be hit by the explosion from the Origin facility. The Point Man survives and is rescued by a chopper. Though her body is destroyed in the explosion, Alma manifests her appearance on the side of the chopper the Point Man is riding in, causing it to crash.
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
In F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Alma's presence is felt much more than in the original F.E.A.R., mostly due to the psychic connection she bears with Michael Becket, due to his unknowing part in the Harbinger program. This connection grows more and more over the course of the game, in parallel with Becket's telepathic signal.
Eventually, Alma begins developing romantic feelings for him - indicated by changing her appearance to that of a healthy, voluptuous woman - but because her emotions are stunted, she becomes obsessed with Becket. Unable to control her desires, Alma impulsively throws herself at him and repeatedly tries to rape him, though in doing so she inadvertently puts Becket's life at risk, due to her volatile psychic nature and unstable emotional feedback. Fortunately, he is able to drive her away before Alma ends his life.
By the end of the game, her intentions for Becket become clear: after he is strapped into the Telesthetic Amplifier on Still Island, Alma appears before him. The Amplifier begins to activate, and his mind is locked into a hallucination, where he is forced to fight Sgt. Keegan's phantoms. Whether or not this was Alma's way of imprisoning Becket, or perhaps Keegan's own nightmare world, remains to be known. During the hallucination-battle, Alma is heard vocalizing her ecstasy, and in some instances, when her psychic link is broken, she can be seen raping Becket in the chamber, sometimes even physically struggling with him in order to drive his mind back into the hallucination. At the height of the climax, Becket kills Keegan and switches off the telesthetic device, causing Alma to scream as she fades away into particulate matter.
Alma appears to him again, standing amidst a blasted landscape, heavily pregnant with Becket's child. She places his hand on her stomach as emphasis to this fact. A small voice is then heard to whisper "Mommy."
In F.E.A.R. 3, Alma is in labor with her child conceived with Michael Becket. Paxton Fettel is allegedly assisting the Point Man, however, he wishes to see his brother embrace his family's power, rather than destroy it. Alma appears before her sons numerous times, mostly in her child form, but also in her adult form. When confronted by the Creep, she reacts with intense fear, as the creature was created by the horrid memories of her late father, Harlan Wade, and not entirely of her own influence.
Throughout the game, Alma can be heard screaming as her contractions intensify, causing psychic disturbances all over the city of Fairport. At the end, when the Point Man and Fettel reach her, Alma is shown to be weak and unable to move or speak. Depending on player actions, her child will be taken from her by one of the brothers. She either disappears (and possibly still exists) if the Point Man kills Fettel, or is eaten and "killed/absorbed" by Fettel if he kills the Point Man.
Interestingly, Alma's appearance and mannerisms are changed drastically in F.E.A.R. 3, with her child form appearing to be much older than in previous installments, as well as having a bloodied face, sleeveless red dress and brown shoes, as compared to her previously seen clean face, long sleeved red dress and bare feet. The reasons for this change are unknown. Her adult form also has much longer hair than in other games, dragging on the floor behind her as she walks. F.E.A.R. 3 is the only game where Alma is never heard to say anything, despite being quite vocal in other games, and where Alma is never seen attacking or killing anyone. Unlike previous games, Alma is not the main antagonist of F.E.A.R. 3, nor even technically an antagonist, as she never attempts to kill or harm the protagonists. Alma appears fewer times than she did in the first two games, as it is mostly focused on The Creep.
Powers and Abilities
Alma is capable of linking her mind with Fettel during a Synchronicity Event, in which she is able to use him as a means to take her revenge; this is clearly shown in the intro of F.E.A.R., where she whispers to Fettel to "Kill them. Kill them all.", and then frees him from his cell. Among Alma's other powers, she is able to kill people with a psychic attack that literally liquefies all their flesh, leaving behind only a charred, blood-drenched skeleton, something she does several times during the course of the games. She can also create a number of different hallucinations that are true and surreal, and can take the Point Man into her dream world where she is even able to summon malevolent phantoms.
Alma also seems to display other powers associated with the mind. It is assumed she can perform pyrokinesis, as seen during one encounter when she sets off fiery explosions through an entire corridor, hurling the Point Man through a window. It can also be inferred that she has some level of telekinesis, as random objects move with her approach, or even in her absence. It is important to note that the Point Man may be simply hallucinating, an effect of Alma's psychic abilities.
The alternate world that exists within Alma's mind is known as the Almaverse. This world is characterized by red and orange hues, as well as floating silver and gold particles. The Almaverse reflects Alma's viewpoint of the world, changing seemingly ordinary and commonplace things into monstrous entities and visions. Characters whose minds are being overtaken by Alma's psychic influence will often see the Almaverse, rather than reality. In F.E.A.R. 3, the Almaverse begins to bleed out from Alma's mind into the real world, overtaking it with each contraction she suffers. With the Almaverse comes an array of monsters borne of Alma's tortured psyche, including the Scavengers, monsters created from Alma's memories of her time in the Vault.
Because Alma's psychic powers have been degenerated and especially inflated due to her physical death as a result, she's capable of warping the very fabric of reality via her psionic abilities, known as Psycho Warping. With this ability in her hands, she has the utter capability of manifesting illusions that turn out to be true, and as of mentioned earlier, she caused the Almaverse within her mind to spill out into reality.
- Alma is named after the character Alma Mobley in Peter Straub's novel Ghost Story.
- "Alma" is a word in the Latin languages Spanish and Portuguese that literally means "soul" — an appropriate name, given her character.
- Alma is referenced in the 2012 horror film, The Cabin in the Woods. In the film, a girl in a white dress is seen liquefying a security guard while singing "Hush Little Baby." The scene is an exact mirror of Alma's attack on the guards in F.E.A.R.
- Alma most likely had blue eyes in life, given that both of her sons, her father and her sister all have blue eyes.
- As tragic character with history of being mistreated that led them snapped that they unleashed their destructive gifts, Alma is very similar with Fabrication Machine and in lesser extent, Sachiko Shinozaki, Carrie White, Aggie Prenderghast, and Alessa Gillespie.
- The most distinctive similarities between Alma and Sachiko was Alma's own child appearance in the first game, because their clothings were similar.
- Distinctive similarities with Alessa are both have a parent never mentioned (Alma's mother and Alessa's father) and suffered great abuse at the hands of the other, and the two later use their psychic powers to take revenge on those who caused their suffering. Both exhibit immense psionic powers, including the ability to create monsters from the depths of their minds. At the age of 7, it was decided they would be used to give birth. The two of them were forcibly impregnated through unnatural means and were still adolescents when they gave birth (Alma 16). It's also important to note that both Alessa and Alma delivered newborns to the protagonists in the endings of their respective games before disappearing. Coincidentally, both their names start with 'Al'. In personality and physical appearance, Alma is very closely matched with the film version of Alessa, who is much more emotionally unstable and vengeful than her game counterpart. Like Alma, the film version of Alessa also appears as a child throughout the film, until near the end, where she is seen as a badly injured adult woman. This even inspires a fan art that portraying them confronting each other.
- What Alma shared in common with Fabrication Machine is their tormentors forced them to harnessed their gifts for warfare purposes due to the said gift more potent than conventional weapons with one way or another(Alma's psychic powers that enable her to creating monsters such as Scavengers of Phantoms while Fabrication Machines's high-intelligence allowed it to create war machines like Steel Behemoths).
- WatchMojo.com listed Alma Wade as #3 on their Top 10 "Female Video Game Villains" list.
- Alma has some similarities to the Resident Evil 7: Biohazard main antagonist Eveline.
- Both appear as brunette-haired little girls, although in reality they were something far more dangerous (Alma being a psychic ghost girl, and Eveline being a prototype infiltration bioweapon).
- Both had elements of telekinesis and telepathy and were capable of forcibly manipulating people into doing their bidding. The difference however lies in mechanics and source of their powers: Alma's powers were clarified to be potent psychic abilities that made mankind's current doomsday weapons pale in comparison, whereas Eveline's powers comes from bio-engineered mind-controlling Mold that can be manipulated to simulate psychokinetic force.
- Both, despite being very dangerous and insane characters, were ultimately tragic villains.
- Coincidentally, both characters were also in part created by the same person, Richard Pearsey.


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The SMS and MMS Toolkit is a software development kit (SDK) to enhance an application or script with SMS, MMS and Pager functionality. SMS messages can be sent using a GSM/GPRS modem, an SMPP provider, an HTTP compliant SMS provider or using a standard dialup or fixed-line SMS modem. MMS messages can be sent via a GSM/GPRS modem (MM1), an SMTP server (MM4) or an XML/SOAP compliant provider (MM7).
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This document describes how the SMS and MMS Toolkit can be integrated into Visual Basic .NET projects.
Download the the SMS and MMS Toolkit from the ActiveXperts Download Site and start the installation. The installation guides you through the installation process.
Launch Microsoft Visual Studio (for instance 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2005') from the Start menu. Choose 'New' from the 'File' menu and click on 'Project'. In the 'New Project' dialog, select a Visual Studio template (for instance: 'Console Application'). Select a name for the application (for instance: 'DemoApp') and a name for the solution (for instance: 'DemoSolution'). Also, select the directory where you want to store the project (for instance: 'C:\MyProjects):
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Now that a new project has been created, you must add a reference to the SMS and MMS Toolkit in the project to be able to use the the SMS and MMS Toolkit objects. To do so, choose 'Add Reference...' from the 'Project' menu. In the 'Add Reference' dialog that pops up, select the 'COM' tab and select the ActiveXperts SMS and MMS Toolkit Type Library' as shown in the following picture:
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Click 'OK' to close the 'Add Reference' dialog.
On top of your code, type the following line to use the SMS and MMS Toolkit namespace:
Imports AXmsCtrl
In your Main function, declare and create the following object for GSM:
Dim objGsmProtocol As SmsProtocolGsm = New SmsProtocolGsm()
Insert the following line to declare and create the SmsMessage object:
Dim objSmsMessage As SmsMessage = New SmsMessage()
Insert the following line to declare and create the SmsConstants object:
Dim objSmsConstants As SmsConstants = New SmsConstants()
You can now send and receive SMS messages.
The following code shows how to send an SMS message using a connected GSM phone or modem:
Imports AXmsCtrl Module Module1 Sub Main() ' Create instance of COM Object Dim objGsmProtocol As SmsProtocolGsm = New SmsProtocolGsm() Dim objSmsMessage As SmsMessage = New SmsMessage() Dim objSmsConstants As SmsConstants = New SmsConstants() ' Device Settings objGsmProtocol.Device = "COM1" ' Message Settings objSmsMessage.Recipient = "+31647134225" objSmsMessage.Data = "Hello World !" objSmsMessage.Format = objSmsConstants.asMESSAGEFORMAT_TEXT ' Set Logfile objGsmProtocol.LogFile = "C:\SMSLog.txt" ' Send the message ! Console.WriteLine ("") objGsmProtocol.Send( objSmsMessage ) If objGsmProtocol.LastError = 0 Then Console.WriteLine ("") Console.WriteLine ("Your message was delivered successfully") Console.WriteLine ("") Else Console.WriteLine ("") Console.WriteLine ("Sending message failed, Error code = {0} ( {1} )", objGsmProtocol.LastError.ToString, objGsmProtocol.GetErrorDescription(objGsmProtocol.LastError)) Console.WriteLine ("") End If End Sub End Module
There are many working samples included with the product. You can also find them on the ActiveXperts FTP site: ftp.activexperts-labs.com/samples/mobile-messaging-component.
The the SMS and MMS Toolkit project ships with a set of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET samples, including samples for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET. The projects are created with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
Users with a later version of Microsoft Visual Studio can open such a project. The Visual Studio Conversion Wizard will guide you through the process of converting the project to the version used.


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Though a person's tolerance might increase after drinking regularly, when the liver fails to process excess amounts of alcohol, it makes you vomit.
Yes, alcohol is also a poison. Your body will be able to process it only if you drink small quantities of it. In some people who are intolerant to alcohol, certain symptoms of alcohol poisoning might also occur.
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Diplomatic gestures from Washington and Tehran are raising the possibility of a meeting between President Obama and Iran's new leader.
The White House says there are no current plans for Obama and Iranian President Hasan Rouhani to meet at the U.N. General Assembly later this month.
But Iran's decision Wednesday to release eight political prisoners is being viewed as an attempt at outreach to the White House.
If a meeting occurs, it would fulfill Obama's 2008 campaign promise to engage with Iran.
"There is an opportunity here for diplomacy," Obama told Telemundo on Tuesday. "And I hope the Iranians take advantage of it."
The White House confirmed Wednesday the two leaders have exchanged letters in the first direct contact since diplomatic relations were severed in 1980 during the U.S. embassy hostage crisis.
"In his letter the president indicated that the U.S. is ready to resolve the nuclear issue in a way that allows Iran to demonstrate that its nuclear program is for exclusively peaceful purposes," White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
"The letter also conveyed the need to act with a sense of urgency to address this issue because, as we have long said, the window of opportunity for resolving this diplomatically is open, but it will not remain open indefinitely."
Rouhani followed suit with an NBC interview that aired Wednesday evening in which he promised that his administration would never develop nuclear weapons.
The Iranian president also told the network he has full authority to make a deal with Washington, a nod to concerns the Obama administration would be wasting its time because Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the country's supreme leader.
"From my point of view, the tone of the letter was positive and constructive," Rouhani told NBC.
"It could be subtle and tiny steps for a very important future. I believe the leaders in all countries could think in their national interest and they should not be under the influence of pressure groups. I hope to witness such an atmosphere in the future."
Democrats say Obama is ideally suited to take advantage of any opening to avoid a conflict with Iran.
As a presidential candidate in 2007, Obama said he'd meet with the leaders of Iran, North Korea and Syria without preconditions.
He faced strong criticism at the time from his main primary challenger, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonGOP rushes to cut ties to Moore Papadopoulos was in regular contact with Stephen Miller, helped edit Trump speech: report Bannon jokes Clinton got her 'ass kicked' in 2016 election MORE, who called him "irresponsible" and "frankly naïve."
Obama echoed the same sentiments in his 2009 Cairo speech. He vowed to "extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." That speech was a major factor in the decision to award him the Nobel Peace Prize that year for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
"He actually campaigned on, 'We need to talk, even to our enemies,' " Rep. Gerry ConnollyGerald (Gerry) Edward ConnollyLights, camera, SCOTUS Bipartisan pair wants commission to oversee Iran deal Dem lawmaker warns of 'political and moral limitations' to working with Trump MORE (D-Va.) told The Hill.
"And he was criticized for that. He took some heat for that. Hopefully, Rouhani will take note of that and take advantage of an opportunity that may not be repeated any time soon."
Connolly predicted Obama would be extremely wary of reaching any deal with Rouhani unless he had assurances the Iranian president could keep up his end of the bargain.
Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, who also modeled himself as a reformer in the 1990s, soon lost power and influence to conservative clerics, dooming any hope of better relations with the U.S.
"We have seen leadership changes in Tehran to no avail before," Connolly said.
Republican critics say Obama has been hoodwinked before.
When North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il died in 2011, his son and successor Kim Jong-un also sent signals that he wanted to re-engage. North Korea froze nuclear tests and invited U.N. inspectors back into the reclusive country. The Obama administration responded by offering 240,000 tons of food aid, but within months a North Korean satellite launch had effectively nixed any chance of warmer relations.
"We've seen this before with North Korea," Sen. John McCainJohn Sidney McCainGOP rushes to cut ties to Moore GOP strategist: 'There needs to be a repudiation' of Roy Moore by Republicans World leaders reach agreement on trade deal without United States: report MORE (R-Ariz.) told The Hill.
He called Obama's last-minute gamble on a diplomatic solution to Syria's alleged chemical weapons attack a "disaster of historic proportions."
Sen. Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin GrahamCNN to air sexual harassment Town Hall featuring Gretchen Carlson, Anita Hill Trump wrestles with handling American enemy combatants Flake: Trump's call for DOJ to probe Democrats 'not normal' MORE (R-S.C.) said the only response Obama has received in exchange for his outreach efforts from Iran so far is that "they've given us the finger."
"He's trying to reach out. It's not working," Graham told The Hill. "This is really clear to me that the Iranians are playing a game with us, just like [Bashar] Assad is playing a game with us [in Syria]."
The hawkish senator told reporters on Capitol Hill this week that he's preparing a resolution giving Obama the authority to use force against Iran if talks over its alleged nuclear weapons program collapse. Graham made it clear he was unimpressed by Rouhani's overtures to date.
"No gesture, no statement, not releasing prisoners — none of that means a damn thing to me," Graham said. "What I'm looking for is a change in their nuclear program that's verifiable."


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They called it Satan's Circus, a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the 20th century, murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel. But when, two weeks later, an ambitious district attorney charged young policeman Charley Becker with ordering the murder, even the denizens of Satan's Circus were surprised. The handsome lieutenant was a decorated hero, the renowned leader of New York's vice-busting Special Squad. Was he a bad cop leading a double life, or a pawn felled by the sinister rogues who ran Manhattan's underworld?
With appearances by the legendary and the notorious, Satan's Circus brings to life an almost-forgotten Gotham. Chronicling Charley Becker's rise and fall, the audiobook tells of the raucous, gaudy, and utterly corrupt city that made him, and recounts not one but two sensational murder trials that landed him in the electric chair.
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"Engrossing, well-researched....Immerses readers in the corrupt hurly-burly that was old New York." (Publishers Weekly)
"New York, N.Y"
Having grown up in NY and an avid reader of Pete Hamill, I was interested about this side of Manhatten and an era I knew nothing about. It was a little slow in the beginning and difficult to keep track of the characters, but it caught my attention towards the middle and it was delightful to listen to. Maybe a little overdone on detail but the individuals eventuallylly come to life and I found myself relating to them, of course not in character, but by being overwhelmed by a society out of control, power run amok and being trampled by the system and people interested in only themselves, their achievments and personal success. Certainly not an original concept but one played out in a unique
corner of society. I ended up having compassion for the victim, though certainly not an admirable person, and his loyal, loving wife, and of course the proper disdain for the system and the injustice it perpetrates to self serve individual desires. Not much different than the world of today and our self serving politicians and political figures, but a different and unique scenario.
just a great book to liten too. filled with history of a police departments progression. i liked the little facts that were picked up along the way and the reader was easy on the ears.
A compelling story well read.
Satan's Circus tells the story of the only police officer ever executed in the USA.
The moralistic streak that hit this country didn't exist in Satan's Circus and it seems that everyone pretty much knew and let it slide.
As much political history as true crime story in this book we learn that the complaints of today are the same as it ever was.
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Koolkat, there is a universal problem with your game threads, such that I'm not surprised that they go unoticed/closed most of the time.
For starters, you have AWFUL presentation. The information you are providing on the game is really bare-bones, it doesn't tell us anything about your game to begin with, and it's just unappealing.
Second, your "story" is a joke.
You are a new Trainer, yeah, you get the idea.
Not only is this sentence grammatically incorrect, it's probably one of the worst ways you could introduce your story. This makes you sound unmotivated, and if an audience thinks you are not motivated to support your own project, so will they be unmotivated. You need to sell yourself better.
The game starts with Oak's intro. Then you go to his lab grab your Shinx and a back door key to the lab, and POOF, there you go on your long journey through the Hyriquo Region defeating new Gyms, (PTCs) and eventually the Pokemon League. Idea gotten? Great.
No... I don't get the idea. What is the Hyriquo region? What is Prof. Oak doing there? Why do I want to set on a journey? You need to tell this like an actual story and not just a description of what technically goes on in the game.
Now onto your screenshots... Ugh. They are all poorly mapped and the tiles are misused, but that's not the essence of the main problems with your game threads, so if you really want details, ask me.
I'm sorry if I sounded harsh to you, but this is a reality check. You really need to put more effort in your game posts, otherwise the only person who will pay attention to it is a mod who's job is to lock threads that don't comply with the forum guidelines.
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Man Killed Near Capitol Had Record, Carried Assault Pistol
Friday, July 17, 2009
A motorist fatally shot by police in a gunfight near the U.S. Capitol late Wednesday afternoon had a record of arrests on drug and assault charges and was armed with a compact, pistol-like assault weapon capable of rapid fire, authorities said yesterday.
D.C. police identified the dead man as Kellen Anthony White, 27, whose last known address was in the Brandywine area of Prince George's County. A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing, said White had "a lengthy record" of arrests and was carrying a weapon known as a MAC-11.
He was shot by U.S. Capitol Police about a block from the Capitol after officers tried to make a routine traffic stop, said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a Capitol Police spokeswoman. While fleeing, White "nearly ran over two officers," then shot at several officers after his car crashed into a police cruiser, she said.
Two officers suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene, Schneider said.
The incident began about 5:15 p.m. in the 100 block of Massachusetts Avenue NW when White, in a white Mercedes-Benz, fled "at a high rate of speed, driving erratically and dangerously," and struck an officer on foot outside Union Station, Schneider said.
During the chase, the Mercedes struck a parked car on New Jersey Avenue NW, then hit a police cruiser. When officers ordered White to drop his weapon and show his hands, White began shooting, Schneider said. She said at least two officers fired back.
White was pronounced dead at Washington Hospital Center.
The shooting is being investigated by D.C. police. Spokeswoman Traci Hughes said the results of the inquiry will be turned over to the U.S. attorney's office for review.
At the time of the shooting, the Senate was conducting a confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's Supreme Court nominee. There was no indication that the shooting was related to the hearing or any government business, officials said. Schneider said the Capitol was safe throughout the incident.
The D.C. police official who described White's weapon said investigators found no record of outstanding warrants for White's arrest. The official also said the Mercedes was not a stolen vehicle. As for why White did not stop for police, the official said he might have been worried that officers would discover the MAC-11 in his car.
Terrance W. Gainer, Senate sergeant-at-arms, said in an interview that "more than several" workers at the Capitol complained in e-mails that authorities failed to warn them promptly Wednesday of what was happening near their offices.
"We will continue to work on a more timely dissemination of information to you," Gainer wrote in an e-mail reply to the employees.
"Because we have been attacked in different ways up here in the past, people take it seriously," Gainer said in the interview. "Clearly, the balance I need to strike is between getting information out that assuages people's fears or concerns, and distinguishing that from taking time to satiate things they're just curious to know.
"What'd I'd like to tell everyone is, if you haven't been told to do something differently, then continue doing what you're doing, and we'll get the information to you."
Staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.


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Deep-seated disparities caused FFW-Osborne Clarke merger talks to fail
Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) and Osborne Clarke have similarities and differences. The former is still more politically heated and divided than gentlemanly Osborne Clarke, despite FFW's efforts in recent years, but their clientele would have complemented each other well, especially in corporate.
News of the collapse of merger talks was thus met with both shock and a sense of inevitability. On paper the deal was a goer on the basis of clients and numbers, but it was hard to imagine a fractured partnership combining with a calm and sober one.
On announcing the end of negotiations the firms cited "differences between the two firms' operating models". Osborne Clarke managing partner Simon Beswick said the pair had a "fairly similar vision of where we want to be", but noted there were "some differences in our approaches". Michael Chissick, acting managing partner at FFW, talked of a "number of essential differences, including those between both firms' international structures".
Chissick's last point does not refer to the firms' dedication to their non-UK businesses. Both
are well-covered in Germany. Osborne Clarke has Spanish and Italian offices, while FFW boasts Brussels and Paris, but Osborne Clarke is planning to open in both of these locations soon. And both are now in Silicon Valley.
In truth, the "differences" are things you do not see from the outside but are clear as day to a management board. Osborne Clarke has two partnerships, one for the UK and another for Germany, and a Swiss Verein on top, while FFW is a single partnership. Also, FFW sources highlight difficulties bedding in the Munich and Düsseldorf team that joined from Howrey in 2011. They are understood to have been expensive hires and were only brought in due to the drive of a certain London partner known for his influence on management.
Of the four who joined, two – Germany head Joachim Feldges and fellow patent partner Jochen Herr – have left recently, joining Allen & Overy and Baker & McKenzie respectively.
FFW may have a single partnership, but it has its share of cross-Channel intrigue.


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San Francisco's Magic Theatre-the Bay Area's prime purveyor of new plays-is on a roll with a series of popular "festivals" that showcase the work of important, often marginalized playwrights. This month, the 33-year-old mid-sized theatre takes on its most ambitious project yet: a Festival of Playwrights in Danger. Collaborators on the event-a high-octane two weeks of staged readings, post-show discussions, and musical celebrations-are PEN USA (which suggested some of the playwrights and helped track them down), Amnesty International, and the American Civil Liberties Union.
"The Magic likes to explore, through workshops, foreign writers whose plays we might want to produce," explained Laura Hope Owen, the Magic's literary manager and the festival's coordinator. "Festivals are also a good way to highlight neglected writers, and to provide a development arena for playwrights."
Among the festival's featured playwrights are two Nigerians: Wole Soyinka (now living in Atlanta), who was jailed from 1967-'69 for alleged political activities, and once again after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986; and Ken Saro-Wiwa, hanged by order of the military dictator of Nigeria in 1995 for his outspoken efforts to safeguard the rights of his people, the Ogoni, whose oil-rich land has been exploited by multinational corporations.
Other playwrights include: Algerian Abdelkader Alloula, who like Saro-Wiwa, was killed in his native country, shot by Islamic fundamentalists in 1994; Egyptian feminist Nawal el Sadaawi, imprisoned from 1980 to 1982, as a critic of the regime of Egypt's then-president Anwar Sadat, and Chay Yew, whose plays were banned in his native Singapore because he presents gay characters as normal people. At home, Yew was followed and his phone was tapped. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he directs the Asian Theatre Workshop at the Mark Taper Forum.
Also represented is Eduardo Pavlovsky, a psychiatrist who played a part in Argentina's independent theatre movement until the 1976 military coup. Forced to leave, he returned in 1981 with a group of Argentine playwrights determined to defy the regime.
There's also Bosnian Serb Goran Simic, who dared to remain in Sarajevo with his Muslim wife when fighting broke out in 1992. He wrote poetry and news there, even as many artists fled. He now lives in Toronto.
Finally, there is Dublin-born Margaretta D'Arcy, who was imprisoned in Armagh in 1980 for opposing the British government's treatment of political prisoners in Northern Ireland.
In this festival, as Owen pointed out, the writers, and the context in which they wrote, are more important than the plays themselves. "In other parts of the world," she noted, "there are different forms of storytelling that might be hard for our audiences but that caused a stir in their land of origin. So our artistic criteria [for this festival] had to be different. For example, Alloula's play, Lajwaad (The Good People), is a parable-a different type of play than what we're used to here." To make the readings as authentic as possible, the Magic hired directors who know the country or the playwright, or who have expertise in the politics of the area.
Thus San Francisco's Arab-American theatre company, Golden Threads, will perform el Sadaawi's autobiographical Twelve Women in a Cell, under the direction of Torange Yeghiazirian. And San Francisco's Iranian group, Darvag Theatre Company, will take on Alloula's black comedy Lajwaad, which was written in Arabic; Bella Warda directs. Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, who has lived in Nigeria, will direct Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers, set in a rural village. Members of the comic, politically radical San Francisco Mime Troupe, under the direction of Greg Tate, will appear in Saro-Wiwa's comedy The Transistor Radio, which won the BBC African Theatre Prize in 1992.
Other directors include Magic artistic associate Kent Nicholson (Goran Simic's latest work, an absurdist comedy called Wind in Uniform); Mary Coleman, a longtime Magic associate (Chay Yew's lyrical A Language of Their Own); Roberto Varea (Pavlovsky's dramatic monologue Potestad (Impunity)), and festival co-coordinator Virginia Reed (D'Arcy's satirical The Little Gray Home in the West, written with British dramatist John Arden).
As Magic Theatre artistic director Larry Eilenberg explained, it is no one play that has endangered any of the writers; rather it is the way they have chosen to live and write. The writers' commitment to their principles is matched by the Magic's: Facing a paucity of grant funds to stage works by foreign writers, the artistic staff lowered their sights somewhat-mounting less costly staged readings rather than more fully developed workshops-but remained firmly committed to the project.
Although the focus of this festival is on foreign writers, the Magic views the plight of playwrights in danger worldwide as quite relevant to American artists and audiences. After all, American playwright Terrence McNally's play Corpus Christi, depicting a homosexual Jesus-like figure, created a furor recently when the Manhattan Theatre Club tried to mount it. Religious right-wingers issued serious threats to the playwright and to some of the theatre artists involved (MTC, initially wavering, proceeded with the production, and San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre will produce it next season).
"It's easy to become cynical and not believe that what you write matters," observed Owen. But the Magic Theatre believes it does indeed matter.
Playwrights in Danger Festival runs Apr. 21-30, with matin e and evening performances, discussions, music, and other events, including a "Playwrights in Danger Slam" on Apr. 28, featuring readings from plays, prison correspondence, and other materials written by playwrights in danger. Magic Theatre, Building D, Fort Mason. (415) 441-8001.