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If you are like me and you have read the news of late you would have come across the very disturbing news that came out a few weeks ago about the Wii U hack by a guy who goes by the name Marcan. In less than a month of the Wii U launch it had already been hacked? Yes, but the very interesting thing about the hack is that the truth about the Wii U CPU and GPU speed is now out in the open and everyone who has itched to know what was inside the console pretty much know about it now, even though we have not gotten an official word from Nintendo confirming or denying it.
What should Nintendo say? We can achieve the same level of games with a CPU that is running at 1/3 the clock speed and developers have only begun to scratch the surface of our system?
That sounds great and if its true i wonder why Reggie didn´t even state this yet.
Article is pointless.
Console gamers.. Dont care about graphics.
Nintendo knows this. They dont really care.
the wii-u can be summed up as doing more with less.
@abizz below...but wasnt every new version of the pentium class cpu a modified version of the previous one? The pentium was an enhanced 486 class which itself was an updated 386 class. Even the P2 and P3 all were enhanced versions with increased clock and cache and some new instruction traces.
That doesnt mean the original is bad in any way. so what if they took a page from intel. If it aint broke, why fix it. you can improve it but no need to fix it as "fixing it" implies it was broken in the first place.
The design obviously hold some benefits for nintendo and the programmers that know how to use it.
darthv72: No, that absolutely is NOT how CPU class upgrades work.
Every Intel chip from the 8086 to the i7 didn't change base number/brand until there was an architecture redesign. That's why they have a different number of pins, that's why they all need new motherboards to be slotted into.
They aren't "modified". They're entirely new chip designs.
wii-u is a new system it will take some time like every console to figure out the best way to get the most out of it. It will not be as strong as ps4 or next xbox but i am excited just to play nintendo's 1st party games in HD. that should be a great enough reason to buy one. when N announces a zelda game for wii-u i will buy the system
3rd party support has never been with nintendo and it won't be with wii-u either. here is a fun face the last Nintendo home console to get great 3rd party support was NES. now think about that for a second NES.
look at the lineup in 2013 most big games aren't coming out on wii-u. get bioshock,gta,tomb raider for wii-u nintendo you must
other than that give it some time for developers to figure stuff out and take it easy
Gamers care about games and IF third party games are nowhere to be found on the Wii-U, they'll not care about said console, same story with the wii, not saying it's going to happen, but if "low specs" is used again from third parties as the problem to not port games for the U, then damn, that's a mistake Nintendo said I'd fix with the Wii-U, they said they wanted to get the core-gamers this time >:(
See, the problem is that these children don't know how architecture works. Are you going to tell me that my 3.0GHz Pentium 4 HT will beat an i5-2500k at the same clock? If you said yes, then please leave now. If you said no, then re-read the article and you will understand.
That's true the i5 destroys the Pentium.
However, the thing that has everyone worried is the the Wii-U CPU, is a modified version of the same one used in Wii, which was a modified version of the same one used in the Gamecube.
It's technically an 11 year old CPU that's been modified for 3 console generations.
On top of that MANY developers have said the same thing, with a Metro 2033 dev. even going as far to say "I guess you don't need an powerful CPU for physics and AI when you're making Mario games." That's troubling.
I have no doubts we'll see some good things from the Wii-U, but here's Nintendo's next-gen console launching 6 - 7 years after the current-gen and instead of being hands down better than the current-gen, but instead there's all these rumors and speculation about how the Wii-U is a mixed boat of being better graphically, but being a dumber console thanks to a underpowered CPU.
If anything Nintendo could have copied the Xbox 360 down to the wiring, since they both have nearly identical components. They could have gone with a quad core version of the 360 CPU, a slightly better GPU, and 2GB of RAM, and still came out with a $299 - $349 console. On top of that it's using the Wii CPU+ / Gamecube CPU++, so why doesn't it have backwards compatibility with Gamecube games? If they had simply gone with the Xbox+ then all the games released for the console at launch would have ran just as good and most liekly at better resolutions and framerates than the current consoles. It makes no sense unless:
1. Nintendo's console doesn't cost as much to make as they said, which has been proven by several other sites (do a little research). So the Wii-U can make a small profit Day 1. A less expensive CPU (which can often translate into a weaker CPU), and not attempting to integrate Gamecube BC saved them money.
If that's the case then it's really sad, that Nintendo would rather nerf their system, to save a few bucks early on, than make something that Nintendo, developers, and their fans could be proud of.
I'm still interested in the Wii-U, but it's in a similar position the the Gamecube was in for me. I'll buy it at some point, and I'm sure I'll enjoy it like I did the gamecube, but it's not a must buy.
Either way nintendo doesn't push technology software wise so what does it matter how much power they have?
It matters because they have marketed and hyped it to be a super powerful console and trying to bring in "hardcore gamers" when in reality, it isn't.
People are bored of the wii's gimmicks, if they can't bring in the hardcore, they aren't going to do too well now the soccer moms don't want wiifit.
@ABizzel1 If you recall, the Wii CPU isn't bad at all. Let it be 11 years old but for one its based on the older architecture but by that sense, every CPU is usually based of some old architecture that got lots of changes to be improved. Plus the person who created the emulator for wii and gamecube actually said that although 360 runs at 3Ghz and has 2 threads, one of its cores is only 20 percent faster than one core from the wii. The wii isn't exactly 2 gamecube CPU's put together, it had architecture changes as well. People don't realize that the CPU in the wii, although low in Ghz was actually pretty fast.
It doesn't matter to Nintendo that's why they made the decision on which CPU to use.
But it matter a lot to other developers. Specifically 3rd party developers who Nintendo is suppose to try and get back on their side, or at least continue to develop for their console.
Nintendo's whole point of the Wii-U was to:
1. Keep the Wii audience, by allowing them to upgrade to the Wii-U along with all their Wii peripherals.
2. Get the core gamers and developers back in their camp with a HD console.
3. Make a console powerful enough to rival and surpass the current-gen HD console, while also being capable of holding it's own against the next-gen offerings from MS and Sony.
And they didn't live up to their goal in the eyes of many, especially people who had already wrote Nintendo off as a casual console.
True most CPU's are based on the previous architecture, but not 11 year old tech. If anything it's based on a 4 - 6 year old version of the same CPU and the difference while there, isn't a large as an entirely new chip.
And this goes double for Nintendo. We know the Wii-U CPU smokes the Gamecube's and the Wii. But it's still not the jump they should have had if they had simply went with a more moderate CPU rather than one based on Dolphin. I have no clue what they were thinking with that. It makes no sense. I don't care how much over-clocking or tweaking you do, you can't turn 11 year old tech into gold.
They could have even used an AMD-A8 APU and it would have been better than what the Wii-U is currently capable of, not to mention it's only $100 and it covers their CPU and GPU needs.
Let me say that again $100 for an AMD-A8 APU (CPU + GPU) that's superior to the PS360 and what we've seen from the Wii-U thus far, and DX11 capable. If the PS360 runs a game in 720p @ 30fps, then this APU can run the same game at either 720p @ 60fps or 1080p @ 30fps locked.
When you look at things like that it really puts Nintendo's mindset into perspective. Their CPU + GPU combo must be dirt cheap, and Nintendo would rather save $20 and be on par with current-gen, then surpass it. It completely blows my mind that Nintendo would sabotage themselves just to save $20.
NO company ever comments on these things. That's just how it is.
Move along, nothing to see here...
Nintendo is going to have the same problems with Wii u as they did with Wii once 3rd party devs don't make games for Wii u that are on ps4, Xbox,and pc... they have a machine that can compete with PS3 and 360, but that is not what there up against... they better hope being first out the gate is enough. I can think of a few games that are going to PS3 and 360 that are not on Wii u as of now bioshock infinite, metal gear rising, and the new dark souls... not good for Nintendo, but there first party games will definitely help them, they need a Zelda, a metriod, and Mariopart, that really Wow there fan base.
How about they actually man up and officially reveal these specs? In their website or the Wii U manual....
Consumers have a right to know what they are buying.
(Before you say that those buying Wii U don't care, let me say that we don't care about these stupid safety tips or legal shit, yet they still put it in there)
Nintendo hasn't revealed specs since the Gamecube. People begging for them despite knowing their policy is just idiotic.
People know they're buying a game machine. It plays games. It plays games that they like. Nintendo builds solid products. I'm pretty sure most consumers know what they're buying when they pick up a Wii U.
this isnt genesis vs snes anymore. We have moved beyond the days of figurative numbers being a representation of reality.
The nerds have grown up (myself included) with all the tech jargon and now its being simplified. Is that so bad to just see the results on screen or do you need circuit evidence to make it mean something?
I mean, how many times did we hear about the EE of the PS2 being able to power nuclear missiles? You dont need the specs of the wii-u to know it will have the next iteration of zelda or metroid or smash bros.
Yet another article to show me how terrible an aggregate site n4g is. This article says nothing new and only points out something that hasn't happened. the whole thing is 2 paragraphs and a picture. This isn't news. This is the continuation of N4g being an awful source for any actual news.
I think Nintendo doesn't have to say anything. I'ts pretty impressive that they can achieve and surpass the performance of a PS3 with a CPU clock like that!
Consoles are quitting the "horse power" race... I'm looking forward to see what Sony and Ms can achieve!
yehh . Nintendo is busy .. . and Nintendo will show this generation, what a properly equipped gaming machine is supposed to do . .. (: and NEXT GEN . . The overload of accidental dominance by Nintendo is just too alien to be reaL
You expected anything else? Nintendo plays by their own rules. And those rules are almost always really annoying.
not all the specs, only the frequencies of the CPU, GPU and Ram.
Frankly who the F cares.
It's a good system as will the others be and offer different experiences.
Go back to sleep.
Again, they pull off the same or better graphics (on launch titles too) with such "slow" hardware? Do the people who take this seriously know what or how the architecture of computer systems work?
the problem is that, this is a console, the consoles are made to work as good as possible with lower power than pcs.
That is what makes them so special, that is the reason a high pc of this day can't yet emulate PS3 and X360 games, cuz the way games and systems are engineered for those systems are way more complex than what is done on a PC.
You can easily port a game from PC to consoles but the other way around.....
To your answer, yes, it is possible to have a slow CPU and still enter the race, that is what a console is.
Nintendo knows it, and plays by that rule, now, does that affect their relations with 3rd party devs? yes, it does, does that affect their fanbase? no, it doesn't, Nintendo has a very special fanbase specially in Europe and they will stay by the nintendo's side, no matter the CPU and what not.
They enjoy the games and they get the games too.
If I had to guess, I'd say a majority of the people complaining about the hardware have no clue what any of those numbers mean. Hell, I hardly know much about hardware in that respect, but I can at least see what they were going for with the design.
The system itself is great. I've enjoyed playing on it. I skipped the Wii, and I'm happy to now have a real Nintendo console.
My only real concern is it's long term viability when the 720/PS4 come out. But even then it would only matter for multi-plats, and even then I would just buy them on whatever other system I pick up. Nintendo games are fun, even the Wii ones, and I'm happy to be able to play them again whenever I want.
A console is an investment and I would like to know whats under the hood of my purchase.
so is a pair of sneakers, have you asked nike for their chemical components of their soles?
I don't currently own Nike's, but am the type to investigate origin and material of my shoes. The result is that my shoes usually last pretty long. Does that answer your question? :3 I'm not your average consumer, but should be.
Who bought a WiiU knew what he was buying and the future of the machine.
If people hasn't understood Nintendo's business model yet...their fault.
I fully expect the Wii U to continue to do better than the 7 year old consoles
And that's why Nintendo not the Nintendo we once new. We grew up on Nintendo and loved everything about it. I even loved the Nintendo cereal. When I was a kid. But Nintendo don't care about me now. I'm grown up and want a grown man gaming system. Nintendo made there next gen console with last gen specs. I'm upset because a side scrolling Mario was fun when I was 7. Now it's boring. Zombie u looks like a low budget fps. Nintendo you suck!
Could you please let us know what you class as a grownup game?
Zombie u, call of duty, and so on. We get call of duty. Visually it's on par with 360. Which it should be, then the frame rate dips pretty bad. Why should we put up with this? Then there's Zombie u. I love the concept. My only problem is that it's an exclusive. And we all know exclusives are suppose to shine. And we all know graphically it doesn't. Lets not forget a trophy/achievement system. I love them. They make me go back and play again. Everyone needs to open there eyes. As much as I wanted to love my next gen console. I don't.
So what your trying to say is you think FPS games are classed as grown up games then?
COD is a port form the 360 ive not noticed any frame drop on my WiiU version but that could be your tv as well as GT5 was really bad on my old TV but when I got my new one it was a lot less.
Plus why should exclusives look so impressive at this point of the gen. I don't think ZombieU looks a bad game. its not a big step up form any 360 of PS3 games but its not a game that is a game that makes you go WOW that looks amazing its a dark horror game that should make you feel creepy.
A game dose not have to look amazing to be a go game.
MarioU is one of the best Mario games ive played but not the best looking game out there.
Back to COD again since when has COD Been a game that makes you go WOW? it has not.
Games that look good dose not make it the best game ever games that play well are.
sandman sorry you sound like a fake, i honestly dont believe u own a wii u. if you can play zombiu and really bnm about graphics, youve got to sort out ur priorities as a gamer. grow up set ur own goals and stop looking for the goldstar u got in 1st grade for good work. an achievment system would be nice but is not necessary to those with healthy self esteem. play a game over cause you enjoy it and u want to do better or just do something in it you didnt the first time around, like lose 5 survivors in the first hour of play lol, which if ur sitting there nitpicking at graphicsvcan surely happen. wii u is dope and will continue to be.
@ Sandman:
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
- C.S. Lewis
" But Nintendo don't care about me now."
Neither does Sony or MS. Grow up ;).
I can't speak for MS with all the kinect stuff they're pushing and currently just having 1 exclusive for the whole of next year...
But I can say with absolute confidence that Sony treats me very well.
What kind of kids agree with this comment?
This is the most ridiculous I`ve ever read. It must be sarcasm:
"I'm grown up and want a grown man gaming system."
I almost agreed with what you said until you got to the part about Mario not being fun and Nintendo sucking. They've just changed their target audience a little. There are still good games to be played on their systems, but I wouldn't want it as my only console. It too grew up on Nintendo and have the same memories... I'm 33.
I don't think you have grown up. I don't know who you are trying to impress with your "grown up" take on consoles but it is you who needs to get their gaming priorities straight. Age doesn't change the fact that there is something to appreciate about all types of games. Don't blame your close minded philosophy on your age or Nintendo.
Honestly what are they going to say?
The larger audience of gamers don't give a crap about stuff like this. Just about every console or electronic device like iphones, ipads, tablets, etc have been/will get hacked. That's a fact companies know and except and quiet honestly can do little about once their product gets out in the wild.
The only way Nintendo can & have been addressing this is by releasing updates that make it harder for people to play copied games. And that's the main issue console makers are focusing their efforts on.
Nobody who actually owns one cares, the only ones who actually care are those who don't really understand the ins and outs of the technology and automatically think that the bigger number is better in ALL cases. And they only care in order to back up the fact that they have no intention - and never did - of getting the console for various poorly defined reasons...chief of which is the console is "too kiddie".
Yaaaaaawn, it got boring weeks ago. Plenty of people are going to wake up on Tuesday morning to a great console sitting under their tree. They'll get it set up, start playing the multiplayer of NintendoLand, and wonder what on Earth the spec obsessed were jabbering on about. Assuming someone put the update on the system before wrapping it up.....then they'll have to wait a wee while first. Even after that, they still won't care.
What's funny is that even the hacker that first revealed these specs said that those numbers didn't matter and weren't indicative of what the system was capable of. Funny how that rarely gets reported or mentioned.
I'm really looking forward to what can be done with the controller. They had some unique things on the DS, and want to see how that transitions into a console style of play.
A cpu frequency does not determine how good it is. This cpu out performs the xbox's cpu (which i believe) is 3ghz quad core from 05, when it is only 1.3 ghz. As for the gpu it is still better than what the xbox or ps3 have to offer. That and the ram is 1gb, which is double xbox and x4 ps3s. You can say next gen is coming but the fact for the time is buy wiiu with the better hardware, graphics, and new big exclusives or buy a old console for $50 less which have old hardware and hardly any big exclusives coming out. Dont get me wrong with the older console you get great old games and a already large community, but when the new consoles come out odds are the old will be half their current price and those older great games will be to. It is smarter to buy the wiiu to be future proof.
How many times does the PS3's RAM setup need to be explained?
I'm not even going to bother.
You sure do take offence anytime someone says something negative or wrong about the PS3. Your PS3 means a lot to you huh? I just want to let you know it's ok if people don't share the same obsessive compulsive love of Sony you do. It doesn't devalue your purchase, or Sony at all. The mission you're one to protect Sony's honor, it's unnecessary. Sony's a big boy, he's got it. I just saw 2 comment's (so far) in this article where you, I guess, felt the need to swoop in and save Sony's face, and I felt compelled to say something. I hope I didn't come off as too harsh, I'm not trying to attack you. I just find it funny when people put so much stock into the "console war".
Actually, no, the Wii U's CPU does NOT outperform the 360's CPU. Which is a tri core, not a quad core. It's MUCH slower than both the 360's and the PS3's CPU. Many devs have already confirmed this.
The GPU is not faster, it's actually slower, but only slightly. The thing about the GPU is that it has more edRAM, which is very useful for developers. But even then, the amount of edRAM is still low, especially for a "next-gen" console.
Then there's the 2GB of RAM, not 1GB as you've claimed, which is also much slower than the RAM in current consoles. That extra RAM doesn't amount to much due to how slow it actually is.
The biggest problem though, by far, is the CPU. It's an 11 year old architecture. It's ancient technology, that is both slow, and horribly inefficient. It's so slow that it will bottleneck the rest of the console. It's going to limit things like AI, player count in multiplayer, physics, particles, map/level sizes, and a hell of a lot more.
Now some people have said, "Oh well the Wii U's GPU is capable of doing GPGPU. It can easily make up for the CPU". WRONG. GPGPU is a great thing to have, and yes, it CAN make up for SOME CPU related things. However, the vast majority of CPU related functions, especially the important ones, cannot be coded for GPGPU.
So it won't help much at all. What makes it worse is that the Wii U's GPU is a very low end model of it's GPU series, meaning that while it is CAPABLE of GPGPU functions, it's horrible at it and will not be useful at all.
Games will have 2 choices, focus solely on graphics, or focus solely on CPU related things. You simply cannot have both with the Wii U. The system might get by for now against the PS3 and 360, but it will be crushed and get left behind next-gen.
The Wii U is a very poorly planned, and poorly thought out console. It has many capabilities, but it doesn't have the necessary power to actually UTILIZE those capabilities. Nintendo made some very bad decisions when designing the Wii U, and it's all due to the controller.
That tablet controller accounts for more than half of the consoles entire production cost. That's why Nintendo will not be selling the tablet controller in stores. If your controller breaks you will have to go directly through Nintendo to get a replacement. So while the controller is great and can make for some great gameplay, it's actually done a lot of damage to the console, and I see this coming back to bite Nintendo in the ass in the long run.
(P.S. the PS3 has the same amount of RAM as the 360. The difference is that the 360 has 512mb of shared RAM for both graphics and system. The PS3 has 2 separate 256mb RAM modules, 1 for graphics and 1 for system. Oh and also, to your comment about lots of "new big" exclusives for Wii U, and "hardly any big exclusives" for PS3/360, there are actually very little exclusives coming out next year for the Wii U, whereas the PS3 has many. The 360 I believe only has 1 big exclusive next year though, which is Gears of War: Judgement.)
did you just use the word wii u and future proof in the same sentence? that's amusing.
I can't take you seriously when you say that the PS3 hasn't big exclusives coming out. GoW, TLoU and Beyond must be a dream right? The 360 only has 1 big exclusive confirmed: GeOW but i believe that it is because MS will release their new console next year. .
if you are ok with uncharted,halo,killzone,etc graphics than you will also be ok with Wiiu. just saying. The wiiu is more powerful than ps3 and 360.
I am still amazed at a lot of the graphics that the 360 and PS3 can put out today. So if the Wii U is at minimum those graphics, that would be great. However, as developers learn to utilize the newer graphics card in the Wii U, I expect that the machine will start to look better than the other two systems.
They said the same thing about the Wii yet 99% of Wii games look like PS2 games and in some cases worse, in fact there are actually original xbox games from 2004 that arguably look better than anything on the Wii just sayin
That's because the people who developed those games CHOSE to make them look that way. Mario Galaxy and Skyward Sword are gorgeous games, as are Xenoblade Chronicles and Donkey Kong Country Returns. If those games were rendered in 1080p, they'd look like low-to-mid end 360/PS3 games.
You cannot fault Nintendo if third parties half-assed their support of the Wii.
I respect your opinion man, just a few things i wanna point out
1. I Know Mario Galaxy, Skyward Sword look good but then considering the cartoony art style of those games they better look good, that said there are still games on the Original Xbox and PC that I played way back in 02/04 that imo look as good if not better than the best the Wii has to offer
2. HD really wouldn't make that much of a difference because like i said those old games still would hold a candle if I were to render them in HD aswel so bringing up HD was kinda pointless
3. Yes you can fault Nintendo because they chose to release a relatively weak system, why would a 3rd multiplat dev put in the extra time and resources to get the best out of the Wii if it's never gonna look as good as whats on the 360/ps3 especially if that game isn't gonna sell as well as the counterpart ? and to quote what Abizzel1 quoted from Metro2033 devs ...
"On top of that MANY developers have said the same thing, with a Metro 2033 dev. even going as far to say "I guess you don't need an powerful CPU for physics and AI when you're making Mario games." ouch
1. What about Metroid Prime Trilogy, The Conduit and Xenoblade Chronicles? Halo 2 is one of the old Xbox's best looking games and it doesn't come close to any of those graphically.
2. Go on YouTube and look up Super Smash Bros. Brawl 720p emulator footage. Go look up the Super Mario Galaxy screenshots that are rendered in 1080p. Then you can get back to me.
3. No you can't because you hardly know if the system is weak. Why did the guys who made Nano Assault Neo say they could do things with the Wii U they simply could not on the PS3/360? Why will Aliens Colonial Marines look best on the Wii U?
You took that out of context. People have primarily said that the clock speed is low, which does not mean it's a weak CPU. It means the power it can provide is bottle necked to prevent burnouts.
Since we're going off word of mouth: Iwata said the Wii U's launch lineup doesn't use more than 50% of the Wii U's power. Ouch.
The Uncharted series had some moments that made me literally stop and just take in the locales. Im amazed at what Naughty Dog have done in terms of GFX with the ps3.
Most people don't really understand specs anyway.
Like yourself, we are not talking about some new microprocessor design that doesnt need to run at as high a frequency in order to outperform older designs. We are talkin about a really old design that came out in 1997 as a PowerpC 750. Thereis nothing modern or high tech about the WiiU's cpu
How does that change what he said? while your not wrong in your assessment, the fact remains that most people don't understand this stuff, which should be clearly obvious in the comments sections of these articles.
It's the same nonsense we had back when it was all about 8/16/32 bit. The bigger the number the better the machine, even though it wasn't accurate.
I didn't even say anything about the power, and who knows what IBM has done with this custom version. All we know is that the Wii u seems to be able to handle ports from 360/ps3 OK on day 1. Its possible that this is because of the newer GPU, but I would say the CPU must be more powerful than you think. This is a new custom made system after all. coders wouldn't be able to optimize fully this quickly. X86 is old as heck too, but it still works.
But anyway stop misleading people please.
I love they way people go on about specs on here. How many of you who talk about specs had a PS2 or a PSX?
Your point is retarded, cuz the ps1/ps2 had much better specs for their gen than the wii u has for its. Its a next gen consoles, with current gen specs
You know the PS1 was weaker than the N64 and the PS2 was weaker than the GCN and Xbox, right?


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Time for all you IDS guys to update signatures. The new version of nmap is out.
I am pleased to announce the Nmap version 3.25 is now available! This
new several features, including UDP-based "ping" scanning. It also
offers minor performance advantages over previous versions and
contains many important bugfixes!
I have received numerous (daily) problem reports related to compiling
Nmap 3.20 under Mac OS X. That group is either very big or very
vocal. Unfortunately, the Sourceforge "compile farm" OS X boxes I was
using are down for the indeterminate future. So if anyone can give me
a temporary account, let me know and I'll send you my SSH key. Or, if
you can fix the compilation problems yourself and send me a patch,
that would be even better .
Here are the most important changes in 3.25:
o I added UDP-based "ping" scanning. The -PU option can take an
optional portlist like the TCP "ping" options (-PS, -PA), but it
a UDP packet to the targets and expects hosts that are up to reply
with a port unreachable (or possibly a UDP response if the port is
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(email@example.com) and Jan Roger Wilkens (firstname.lastname@example.com) for
reporting this.
o Packet receive times are now obtained from libpcap rather than
simply using the time the packets are passed to Nmap. This should
improve performance slightly. I was not able to get this to work
properly on Windows (either pcap or raw) -- join the nmap-dev list
if you have ideas.
o Fixed bug that caused Nmap to ignore certain RST responses when you
do both -PS and -PA.
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executed concurrently.
o I'm now linking directly to the gzip compressed version of Nmap on
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explicitly request ICMP pings (which require root privileges). Now
prints a warning and uses the normal nonroot TCP connect() ping.
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o Made Nmap more tolerant of corrupt nmap-services and nmap-protocols
files thanks to report & patch sent by Phix (firstname.lastname@example.com)
o Added some more port numbers sent in by Seth Master
(email@example.com). He has been a frequent nmap-services
contributor in the last couple months.
o Added --packet_trace support to Windows
o Removed superfluous "addport" line in the XML output (patch from Max
Schubert (email@example.com)).
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maintaining many nearly-identical functions.
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and OS scan. Thanks to firstname.lastname@example.com for reporting this.
o Fixed some compilation problems on systems without IPv6 support --
patch sent by Jochen Erwied (firstname.lastname@example.com)
o Applied patch from Jochen Erwied (email@example.com)
which fixes the format strings used for printing certain timestamps.
o Upgraded to autoconf 2.57, including the latest
o Renamed configure.ac files to configure.in as recommended by the
latest autoconf documentation.
o Changed the wording of NmapFE Gnome entries to better-comply with
Gnome's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). Suggested by Axel Krauth
For those of you running Linux/x86 w/a recent version of rpm
(www.rpm.org), you can install/upgrade to the newest version of
nmap/nmapfe by executing these commands as root:
rpm -vhU (nmap url)
where (nmap url) is one (or both) of these:
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available at: http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_download.html
For the more paranoid (smart) members of the list, here are the md5
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667106a03d49716954328e60e0f6c007 nmap-3.25.tar.bz2
73b2c2207ebd774b2a04ac50c781f9db nmap-3.25.tgz
c7e2184db1f420f9a8ecdd4a3ef12b46 nmap-3.25-win32.zip
10d43274cd0602f1ab3476dd6ca32d3c nmap-frontend-3.25-1.i386.rpm
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Ward Council Meeting
The Relief Society president serves as a member of the ward council (see chapter 4).
As needed, the bishop may invite the Relief Society president to attend some ward priesthood executive committee meetings to discuss confidential welfare matters and to coordinate home teaching and visiting teaching assignments.
Ward Relief Society Presidency Meeting
The Relief Society presidency holds a presidency meeting regularly. The president presides at the meeting and conducts it. The secretary attends, takes notes, and keeps track of assignments.
The agenda may include the following items:
Stake Relief Society Leadership Meeting
Stake Relief Society leadership meeting is generally held once a year, as explained in 18.3.11. Ward Relief Society presidencies and secretaries attend. Others with Relief Society callings may be invited to attend as needed.
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Justin Bieber Reveals Whether He Will Marry Selena Gomez
Don't expect wedding vows any time soon for Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez! The teen icon revealed in a new interview he has NO plans of getting married in the near future.
Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber may be the hottest couple in Hollywood. However, just because they're both beautiful, talented, and wealthy, it doesn't mean they're ready to tie the knot. In an interview with a French newspaper Le Parisien, the 18-year-old super star said that he's in no rush to pop the question.
"One day, I will get engaged, when I will have found the right person in five or ten years," Justin said, quickly adding, "It doesn't mean that Selena is not the right person though, she is going to kill me if I say that!"
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A Beautiful Blue for the Kitchen: Benjamin Moore's "Hemlock"
Blue is an incredibly popular color for the kitchen. While I've always liked darker blues, I think I may have found my new favorite blue hue: "Hemlock" by Benjamin Moore, seen above. Doesn't it just look beautiful in the kitchen?
Benjamin Moore's Hemlock is a lovely blue-green that pairs particularly well with silver (or stainless steel) accents. The kitchen you see here was designed by Sheila Bridges, and recently featured in House Beautiful. The cabinets are painted in Hemlock, and they play beautifully against the shimmery Torino Damask wallpaper, the stainless steel Bertazzoni range, and the white marble countertops.
Such a pretty, statement-making blue — and a little more of an unusual blue than you'd normally see in a kitchen. What do you think?
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2013-07-26 - Dutch metallers REVAMP will release their second album »Wild Card« on August 23 via Nuclear Blast.
Last week, the opening track `The Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown: On The Sideline´ was released as a digital single.
Get it on iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/revampanatomy
Today REVAMP release a new album trailer, talking about the songwriting, recording and production process.
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The tracklist of »Wild Card« reads as follows:
01. 'The Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown': On The Sideline
02. 'The Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown': The Limbic System
03. Wild Card
04. Precibus
05. Nothing
06. 'The Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown': Neurasthenia
07. Distorted Lullabies
08. Amendatory
09. I Can Become
10. Misery's No Crime
11. Wolf and Dog
Bonus track:
12. Sins
The guest musicians on the album are: Mark Jansen (EPICA), Marcela Bovio & Johan van Stratum (STREAM OF PASSION), Daniel de Jongh (TEXTURES) and… Devin Townsend!
REVAMP & KAMELOT - »Silverthorn Over Europe 2013« tour
presented by CONTRA PROMOTION & KMI ENTERTAINMENT, METALNEWS, MUSIX, EMP
03.11. D Cologne - Essigfabrik
06.11. FIN Tampere - Pakkahuone
07.11. FIN Helsinki - Nosturi
08.11. S Stockholm - Klubben
09.11. N Oslo - Rockefeller
11.11. D Hamburg - Knust
12.11. D Bochum - Matrix
13.11. B Genk - Rondpunt
15.11. NL Tilburg - O13
16.11. CH Lausanne - Les Docks
17.11. CH Pratteln - Z7
18.11. D Frankfurt - Batschkapp
19.11. D Munich - Backstage
21.11. I Trieste - Teatro Miela
22.11. SK Bratislava - Majestic
23.11. CZ Zlin - Winter Masters of Rock
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2013-08-22 02:00 - Dutch metallers REVAMP will release their second album »Wild Card« on the upcoming Friday, August 23 via Nuclear Blast.
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2013-07-19 16:30 - Dutch metallers REVAMP will release their second album »Wild Card« on August 23 via Nuclear Blast.
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The Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal is currently embroiled in controversy, after Artistic Director João Ribas resigned over alleged censorship of a Robert Mapplethorpe show. "The proposal of the exhibition was to present the works of an explicit sexual nature in an area with restricted access, given the tenor of several exhibited works and being that Serralves is an institution visited annually by almost a million people of all backgrounds, ages and nationalities, including thousands of children and hundreds of schools," the institution said in a statement. "The foundation considered that the visiting public should be alerted, in accordance with the legislation in force." Read More »
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IF A TREE FALLS in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? That's one of life's existential questions. In the case of a 250-year-old coastal Douglas fir that was blown down in a West Marin forest 10 years ago, no one may have heard it fall, but a lot of people are going to see and experience it a decade later.
When the Exploratorium opens in its new home at San Francisco's Pier 15 on April 17, two halves of the majestic tree, a section of its trunk and its gigantic root system will be the showcase exhibit, working title "Tree Experience," in the new East Gallery, one of six galleries in the Exploratorium's new bayfront home.
The design team that created "Tree Experience" wanted something spectacular to greet visitors to the capacious East Gallery, an 8,000-square foot space that will focus on the life sciences.
When the magnificent old tree was discovered lying on a West Marin hillside, Marshall tree supplier Evan Shivley tipped off the exhibit team at the Exploratorium, knowing that it was the kind of sensational specimen they were looking for.
"I had envisioned what this exhibit would look like inside the museum," said installation artist Michael Brown, the lead designer. "We just needed to find the right tree."
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"I live in Marin and I see big trees all the time," she said. "But when I encountered this tree, I said, 'Wow, that is life on a complex and grand scale.' This tree came from a couple of cells and hundreds of years later it's this enormous organism that's very sculptural and beautiful. Even as a jaded biologist, it gave me pause."
When the tree's various pieces are mounted on steel plates, the exhibit will weigh more than nine tons, and its Medusa-like tangle of roots will soar 13 feet above the gallery floor.
Visitors will be able to sit between the two sections of trunk on a bench made of the tree itself, a design aimed at creating an intimate, contemplative space.
"When you're between these two log halves, you'll feel as if you're sitting inside the tree, looking at the rings and the beautiful grain," Brown explained. "It will reveal things that you might not normally pay attention to."
Estimated to have once been more than 200 feet tall, the tree was knocked down by powerful winds on private land near Olema. Because of the angle of the slope it fell on, the tree's trunk, five feet in diameter, was elevated off the ground above a creek, preventing insects from crawling inside it and damaging the wood and beginning the process of decay.
For the Exploratorium team, the tree's enormous, lacy roots were its biggest selling point. They had what Brown describes as "dramatic punch."
"A root ball with arms that are reaching out to the sky was one of the dramatic things we were looking for," he said. "Once the exhibit's in place, we can talk about how these roots held that tree up for more than 200 years until some crazy wind storm knocked it down. It will be like a doorway to a larger story that we hope will inspire people, so that the next time they walk in the forest, they'll have a little more knowledge than if they had not had this experience at the Exploratorium."
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The spending blueprint Ryan released Tuesday would balance the federal budget by 2023, relying in part on the tax increases and Medicare savings that Democrats championed but Ryan railed against on the campaign trail last year. It also recycles proposals to "strengthen" Medicaid, food stamps and Medicare by capping federal spending on them and giving recipients more flexibility. Promoting innovation in those programs would be welcome, but Ryan's budget would cut costs at the expense of maintaining the federal safety net and Medicare's guarantee of affordable coverage for all seniors.


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Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children: Chapter 2
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Background
- Chapter 3. Sources and Pathways of Lead Exposure
- Chapter 4. The Role of the Pediatric Health-Care Provider
- Chapter 5. The Role of State and Local Public Agencies
- Chapter 6. Screening
- Chapter 7. Diagnostic Evaluation and Medical Management of Children with Blood Lead Levels > or = to 20 µg/dL
- Chapter 8. Management of Lead Hazards in the Environment of the Individual Child
- Chapter 9. Management of Lead Hazards in the Community
- Appendix I. Capillary Sampling Protocol
- Appendix II. Summary for the Pediatric Health-Care Provider
- Tables
- Figures
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Chapter 2. Background
The blood lead level considered to indicate lead toxicity has progressively shifted downwards.
In general, children are more at risk for lead exposure than adults.
Large numbers of children in the united states continue to have blood lead levels in the toxic range.
This Chapter describes the health effects of lead on children and fetuses, the metabolism of lead, and the demographics of lead exposure in the United States. It explains why the definition of childhood lead poisoning is being revised.
Effects of Lead on Children and Fetuses
- Lead affects virtually every system in the body.
- The blood lead level considered to indicate lead poisoning has fallen steadily since the 1970s.
- Blood lead levels at least as low as 10 µg/dL are associated with adverse effects.
- Although the effects of low-level lead exposure may not seem severe in the individual child, on a population basis they are extremely important.
Lead is a poison that affects virtually every system in the body. It is particularly harmful to the developing brain and nervous system of fetuses and young children. The adverse effects of lead on children and adults are summarized in Figure 2-1.
The risks of lead exposure are not based on theoretical calculations. They are well known from studies of children themselves and are not extrapolated from data on laboratory animals or high-dose occupational exposures.
Levels of Concern
Since 1970, our understanding of childhood lead poisoning has changed substantially. As investigators have used more sensitive measures and better study designs, the generally recognized level for lead toxicity has progressively shifted downward. Before the mid-1960s, a level above 60 µg/dL was considered toxic (Chisolm and Harrison, 1956). By 1978, the defined level of toxicity had declined 50% to 30 µg/dL. Figure 2-2 shows how the federal definition of an elevated blood lead level has changed over the years.
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Range of Effects of Lead
Very severe lead exposure in children (blood lead levels > or = to 380 µg/dL) can cause coma, convulsions, and even death. Lower levels cause adverse effects on the central nervous system, kidney, and hematopoietic system. Blood lead levels as low as 10 µg/dL, which do not cause distinctive symptoms, are associated with decreased intelligence and impaired neurobehavioral development (Davis and Svendsgaard, 1987; Mushak et al., 1989). Many other effects begin at these low blood lead levels, including decreased stature or growth (Schwartz et al., 1986; Bornschein et al., 1986; Shulka et al., 1989), decreased hearing acuity (Schwartz and Otto, 1987), and decreased ability to maintain a steady posture (Bhattacharya et al., 1988). Lead's impairment of the synthesis of the active metabolite 1,25-(OH)2 vitamin D is detectable at blood lead levels of 10-15 µg/dL. Maternal and cord blood lead levels of 10-15 µg/dL appear to be associated with reduced gestational age and reduced weight at birth (ATSDR, 1988). Although researchers have not yet completely defined the impact of blood lead levels <10 µg/dL on central nervous system function, it may be that even these levels are associated with adverse effects that will be clearer with more refined research.
Studies of Low-Level Lead Effects on the Central Nervous System
The concern about adverse effects on central nervous system functioning at blood lead levels as low as 10 µg/dL is based on a large number of rigorous epidemiologic and experimental studies. In particular, recent cross-sectional and prospective studies have provided new evidence about the association between low-level lead exposure and child development.
Several well-designed and carefully conducted cross-sectional and retrospective cohort studies in many different countries have been conducted (Lansdown et al., 1986; Fulton et al., 1987; Fergusson et al., 1988; Silva et al., 1988; Bergomi et al., 1989; Hansen et al., 1989; Hatzakis et al., 1989; Winneke et al., 1990; Lyngbye et al., 1990; Needleman et al., 1990; Yule et al., 1981; Lansdown et al., 1986; Hawk et al., 1986; Schroeder et al., 1985). Figure 2.3 shows the mean intelligence quotient (IQ) scores (in most cases adjusted for potential confounding factors) achieved by children with different blood lead levels from several of these studies. Some inconsistencies can be found in the results of these studies, but the weight of the evidence clearly supports the hypothesis that decrements in children's cognition are evident at blood lead levels well below 25 µg/dL. No threshold for the lead-IQ relationship is discernable from these data.
Most investigators report lower IQ scores among the more highly exposed children but these differences have not uniformly reached statistical significance (that is, p<.05). One way to synthesize the data from different studies is meta-analysis. Recent evaluation of 24 major cross-sectional studies provides strong support for the hypothesis that children's IQ scores are inversely related to lead burden (Needleman and Gatsonis, 1990).
Although available evidence is not sufficient to conclude that lead-associated deficits are irreversible, a recent followup study reported that the educational success of a cohort of young adults was significantly inversely associated with the amount of lead in teeth they shed as first and second graders (Needleman et al., 1990). In this study, dentine lead levels above 20 ppm were associated with a seven-fold risk of not graduating from high school, a six-fold risk of having a reading disability, deficits in vocabulary, problems with attention and fine motor coordination, greater absenteeism, and lower class ranking. Although dentine lead levels did not correspond in any simple way to blood lead levels, the available preschool blood lead levels of the more highly exposed children averaged 35 µg/dL (Needleman et al., 1979). Increased circumpulpal dentine lead levels (>16 ppm) have been linked to higher rates of learning disabilities in a recent Danish study as well (Lyngbye et al., 1990).
To address methodological limitations of cross-sectional studies of lead and child development, a number of prospective studies were begun during the 1980s. Blood lead measurements were begun during the prenatal period and continued for several years, along with assessment of development. In several but not all cohorts, prenatal exposures have been associated with slower sensory-motor and delayed early cognitive development (Bellinger et al., 1987; Bellinger et al., 1991; Dietrich et al., 1987; Ernhart et al., 1986; Dietrich et al., 1991). With low postnatal exposures and favorable socioeconomic conditions, some of these early associations may attenuate as children grow older (Bellinger et al., 1991). In addition, several studies have noted that children's cognitive performance in the preschool period may be associated with early postnatal lead exposures (McMichael et al., 1988; Bellinger et al., 1991). It will be necessary for these prospective studies to follow their respective cohorts into the school-age years in order for the full implications of these early patterns to become clear.
Questions are frequently raised about the practical significance of the difference frequently observed between the IQ scores of more exposed and less exposed children. For the previously described population of children studied by Needleman et al. (Needleman et al., 1979), a shift in mean IQ score of 4-6 points as a result of lead exposure was associated with a substantial increase in the prevalence of children with severe deficits (that is, IQ scores less than 80) (Figure 2-4). Similarly, in this population the shift was associated with an absence of children who achieved superior function (that is, IQ scores greater than 125).
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Absorption of Lead
Children are at higher risk for lead exposure because
- They have more hand-to-mouth activity than adults.
- They absorb more lead than adults.
Many factors can affect the absorption, distribution, and toxicity of lead. Children are more exposed to lead than older groups because their normal hand-to-mouth activities may introduce many nonfood items into their gastrointestinal tract (Lin-Fu, 1973). The efficiency of gastrointestinal absorption of lead in food and beverages in children has been estimated to be around 40% (Ziegler et al., 1978). From experimental studies, gastrointestinal absorption of lead from nonfood sources is decreased in the presence of food (Rabinowitz, 1980). Efficiency of absorption is probably also affected by the particle size and form of lead (Barltrop and Meek, 1979). Deficiencies in iron, calcium, protein, and zinc are related to increased blood lead levels and perhaps increased vulnerability to the adverse effects of lead (Mahaffey, 1981; Mahaffey and Michaelson, 1980).
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Blood Lead Levels In The United States
- Large numbers of children continue to have blood lead levels high enough to cause adverse effects.
- Substantial progress has been made, however, in reducing blood lead levels in the United States.
- Lead-based paint remains the major source of high-dose lead poisoning in the United States.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry estimated that in 1984, 17% of all American preschool children had blood lead levels that exceed 15 µg/dL (ATSDR, 1988). Although all children are at risk for lead toxicity, poor and minority children are disproportionately affected. Lead exposure is at once a by-product of poverty and a contributor to the cycle that perpetuates and deepens the state of being poor.
Substantial progress has been made in reducing blood lead levels in U.S. children. Perhaps the most important advance has been the virtual elimination of lead from gasoline. Close correlations have been demonstrated between the decline in the use of leaded gasoline and declines in the blood lead levels of children and adults between 1976 and 1980 (Annest, 1983) (Figure 2-5). Levels of lead in food have also declined significantly, as a result both of the decreased use of lead solder in cans and the decreasing air lead levels.
Lead-based paint remains the major source of high-dose lead poisoning in the United States. Although the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) limited the lead content of new residential paint starting in 1978, millions of houses still contain old leaded paint. The Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that about 3.8 million homes with young children living in them have either nonintact lead-based paint or high levels of lead in dust (HUD 1990).
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Airway Heights takes first steps towards new government building
August 30, 2012
By JAMES EIK
Staff Reporter
Airway Heights is in the formative stages to begin replacing some of its government buildings, some of which have been in operation for over 50 years, since the city's incorporation.
To start the process, the city is accepting statements of qualifications for a multi-use building somewhere within city limits. The building would serve to unite several city operations including City Hall and the fire, police, municipal courts, parks and recreation and the building/planning departments.
"This is an opportunity to upgrade our facilities," Fire Chief Mitch Metzger said.
Metzger is serving as the project lead for the moment, after proposing it to the City Council earlier in May of this year. The biggest issue facing the city, he said, is simply the amount of space.
Airway Heights' Fire Department doesn't have bunks for prospective volunteer firefighters seeking to join as resident volunteers, doors often open to hit vehicles and lights on the fire trucks can easily be knocked off if they hit the garage roof. The department even needed to build a wall in the station, just to bring it up to code.
Likewise, parks and recreation department isn't able to host concurrent programs and running between the Building Department's location and City Hall can be inefficient for some members of the public seeking to pay permit fees or conduct other business with the city.
The best solution, based on some consultation, was shown to be creating a new structure instead of remodeling five separate buildings. Just to update lighting in each current building, changing to more energy efficient sources, it would run around $20,000.
"We'd get more bang for our dollar by building something new," Metzger said.
Discussions of funding for the project, at this point, haven't entered into the conversation. The city will receive qualification statements from architectural firms until Sept. 27, and then meet with them throughout next year. Once a plan is developed, it will be presented to the public through a series of events and forums.
Architects, Metzger said, will be able to provide a general idea of how large the multi-use facility would be. From there, the city could look at public land it currently owns, or conduct the proper procedures to purchase a new location.
"Until we know what the footprint is, we're not sure where it will be," he said.
Metzger thinks the end of 2013 or the start of 2014 could see some tangible results to proceed to that point, knowing the approximate size of the building.
"Once a conceptual price is in place, then we'll be able to sit down with the public," he said.
Even if the best case scenario went through, a facility wouldn't see construction until 2015 or 2016. Decisions on the fate of current buildings would be place in the hands of the City Council.
Metzger, aside from providing his services as fire chief, has previous experience as a general contractor on the west side of the state, particularly with Boeing.
On the part of the Fire Department, Metzger said a new location along Highway 2 would be beneficial for responding to calls. He also suggested that the building could become something of a community hub by having separate spaces for a coffee shop or copy company, encouraging residents and others to use the building on a regular basis.
In the end, Metzger's goal for the project is to provide better service across the board for residents.
"We want a building that will give a good return to the citizens of Airway Heights," he said.
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In the wide world of movies and television, the words "international production" often seem to mean something akin to "free vacation."
I exaggerate. There is work to be done. Still, in comparing the level of on-screen talent with the glorified B-movie that is NBC's imported, summertime Eurozone-trotting cop show "Crossing Lines," the thought springs to mind.
The series comes from Ed Bernero, who co-created the very solid "Third Watch" and the Munich-based Rola Bauer, who was an executive producer on the frequently daffy Ken Follett adaptations "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End." A co-production of France's TF1 and Sony's AXN, a worldwide network of satellite and cable channels, it's just the sort of easy-to-read action adventure that plays well in multiple markets and has made Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis global superstars in a way that, say, Liev Schreiber will never be.
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We begin with the familiar TV sight of a woman getting dressed — "Like all good stories, this one starts with a beautiful woman," rasps weary narrator former police Det. Carl Hickman (William Fichtner) — followed by the too-familiar sight of that woman running for her life, followed by the less familiar sight, for American viewers, of the Eiffel Tower, seen in the distance from the park where her body was found.
This being summer and yet, for many of us, a time in which vacations will be only vicarious, that in itself is a welcome sight. (I was grateful even for the few snatches of French that were spoken.) Based in Czechoslovakia, the series shot in Prague, Paris and Nice to represent a host of other European locations.
Hickman, whose NYPD career ended when a suspect shot him in the hand — he can't hold a gun, or a pen, and survives on morphine — has been living in Amsterdam, I assume because the drugs are easier to come by, picking up trash in an amusement park. (He has a seemingly endless supply of morphine patches, which he regularly slaps upon his chest in a sweaty panic.)
It is here that he is approached by Major Louis Daniel (Marc Lavoine, French actor and pop star), the Jim Phelps of the piece, to join the brigade of super-cops he is assembling to catch a cross-border serial killer (note minor resemblance to FX's "The Bridge," coming soon to your television). They have been hanging out in the Hague, in the basement of the International Criminal Court, whose sponsorship they court.
Marquee name Donald Sutherland, who is in what one might call the triple-scale session man period of his career — arrives, plays the part perfectly, departs — is the ICC official Daniel must persuade (to persuade other ICC officials) of the wisdom of this enterprise. Auden is quoted here, for intellectual respectability.
The rest of the team, introduced by their forensic specialties in a scene that plays almost as a parody of scenes in which team members are introduced by their specialties, are themselves an international production, for maximum market penetration: German high-tech guy (Tom Wlaschiha), Italian undercover expert (Gabriella Pession), French analyst (Moon Dailly), Irish weapons fella (Richard Flood), British interrogator (Genevieve O'Reilly). Except for Hickman (the man who can read a crime scene like a book) and Daniel, they are young and totally hot.
Though constructed from off-the-rack tropes and predictable dialogue, the show also keeps moving forward, causing its characters enough trouble that you feel compelled to stick around at least to see how they get out of it. And suddenly you find that an hour has gone by, and you have burned your dinner.
'Crossing Lines'
Where: NBC
When: 9 p.m. Sunday
Rating: TV-14-LV (may be unsuitable for children under the age of 14 with advisories for coarse language and violence)
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