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*String quartet arrangement of "The Love Song Never Died" by Ruby Fulton
"displayed flashes of brilliance" (Baltimore City Paper)
"Evocative no matter how you cut it." (B Newspaper)
"Beautiful!" (Washington Times)
Cameron Blake was born and raised in the small town of Rockford, Michigan. Growing up in rural Michigan meant dealing with lots of snow, cattle farms fumigating the air, and time spent with trees, grass, and creeks. Some might call these his "folk" roots. However, Cameron was also listening to his parents' records of classical music and developing tastes for composers such as Bartok, Prokofiev, and Debussy. He took a liking to the violin at the age of 12, practiced really hard, and eventually received a Master's degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
While at the conservatory, Blake lost himself in the guts and glamour of Baltimore city. He knew he needed a change of artistic landscape and like a great message from beyond; he stumbled across the music of Bob Dylan. Dylan became a major source of inspiration and if you ask Cameron any question about Bob Dylan today, you'll probably get a very thorough answer. Like his new found hero, Cameron quickly taught himself how to sing, play the piano and guitar, and began writing songs. Cameron also found a deep freedom of expression through lyric writing and the American folk vernacular. Songwriting quickly became his passion.
In 2007, he formed a band and has since written and recorded two albums: Over and Over (2008) and En Route (2009). Both received positive reviews and as one writer described it "managed to work a perfect balance of folk, pop and rock with profound lyrics that have a deeper meaning than your run of the mill love song" (Revue Magazine). En Route was selected by Tinderbox Music for a national college radio campaign, receiving heavy airplay and its single "On My Way to Jordan" took 1st place in folk on ourstage.com. The album's other single "Fit Right In" was recently set to a music video directed by local filmmaker Michael Faulkner.
The artistry and charisma of Cameron's live performances have enabled him to perform in numerous venues throughout the East Coast, Texas, Michigan and even Paris, France. Known for constantly changing the arrangements of his songs in concert, Cameron has collaborated with various musicians from the Peabody Conservatory, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and local rock, country, and Dixieland performers. Performances following the release of his debut album Over and Over earned him accolades including the 8x10 Club's August 2008 Artist of the Month in Baltimore's City Paper and 1st place among 36 competitors in Philadelphia's renowned World Café Live 'Philly Rising' Open Stage. Most recently, Cameron and his band stepped into the studios at 89.7 WTMD and delivered a stunning live set on 'Baltimore Unsigned.' With only the use of traditional instruments, the performance was described as "one of the most interesting editions of Baltimore Unsigned" by host Sam Sessa.
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Very cool. We had flowers as our cake toppers too. Here's a picture:
Green Wedding Tips for Real People
Not into researching every single invitation company for recycled paper content? Is a hemp bridal gown not your dream dress? I hear you. If you're looking for a more traditional approach to wedding planning but still want to do your ecological part, here are a few ideas.
1. Keep it simple.
Just by cutting out a fair amount of unnecessary fluff, you can eliminate a great deal of waste. Some examples would be losing the balloon arch and skipping the streamers.
2. Seed favors.
I touched on this a bit in the green gifting article, but it really was an excellent eco favor that all the guests enjoyed and commented on as being the first wedding favor they were absolutely thrilled to receive. The package was tastefully decorated with a botanical illustration of the flower and a wedding message from us was printed on the back. We had them by the sign in book, and chose a perennial so that when people went through the trouble of planting them they would be able to enjoy them year after year.
3. Consider fuel costs.
Go local if possible. However, if people are coming in all different directions, you may need to choose a central location that's a reasonable distance for everybody.
4. The all in one location.
This worked out very well for us on many levels. It was a well decorated and fully stocked for events historical mansion. You can book these things for rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, ceremony and reception. People only need to drive and park once, and since it was routinely rented out for events it came fully stocked with vintage style linens, dishes, flatware, coffee urns, cake table, serving dishes, chairs, the works. Even the seating tables came with linens and crystal oil lamps. Basically no disposable decorations were needed. We went with cut greenery and baby roses around the bottoms of the crystal oil lamps, bridal party flowers and two arrangements on the finials at the bottom of the staircase to frame the landing we had the ceremony on. All compostable.
5. Organic cake topper.
Rather than go with a large plastic cake topper that will get tossed at worst and collect dust at best, consider a simple elegant floral arrangement on the top of the cake, with a coordinating set of accent greenery around the bottom of the cake. I happened to have one of those porcelain bridal themed tea candle holders someone gave me for a shower gift that I worked in. But honestly, it would have looked just as classy without it. Several people commented that they liked the look better than the plastic ornament laden cakes. If planning an extra detail with the flowers stresses you out, just go with some additional details added in frosting only.
6. Dress options.
Vintage, something streamlined you can modify and wear again, or turning the dress into a christening outfit for your someday offspring are all ways to go. And of course, less is more.
7. Bird seed.
We had packets of this instead of rice to throw. Worked great, people still got to throw stuff at us, and the animal kingdom was happy.
8. Plantable invitations.
We didn't know about these when we had our family bash. But if we had, we would have used this idea for sure. Numerous companies are out there that will print your invitations on eco friendly paper that is studded with such things as wild flower seeds. The idea is that while they need to be able to read the invitation, it can then get planted as an additional garden resource to the seed favors. Cool, huh?
I'm sure there are more intense lists out there for researching individual companies and their products. The purpose of this piece was to toss out some simple ideas which when implemented, will let you make green wedding choices without having it be an additional stress factor. As always, I welcome any ideas and resource recommendations.
Thanks, Xin. I've been dying for some folks to start posting pics. Yours looks like a really dramatic cake, and that folding candle screen in the bac is to die for! Looks like you had a really classy event.
Yup, it definitely turned out better than I thought. We had our wedding in the gardens of an office building. We got all the flowers wholesale at the San Francisco flowermart, and the arch had some weird plant that matched the weeping willows in the background. Here's a picture of the arch:
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I think outdoor garden weddings are so beautiful. I just never muscled up the courage to risk the weather issue. But the photos from those who do are usually fantastic.
When we got married 30 years ago . My gown was on clearance. My son is now wearing my husbands tux. Our flowers ( the entire party) were done in silk flowers in baskets that were then able to be used as table arrangements at the reception and then at the peoples homes. All the Aunts baked cookies and a friend did the cake. We even had a band. A terrific group of high school kids. They even played longer because I was a new nursing scool grad and all my classmates were there. Lots of young nurses!!! WE ALL had fun . It was paid for in advance so no woories for anyone.
Haven't heard from you in a while! Good point you make about the tux. If it's a classic style and doesn't get a lot of wear, you can really get your money's worth.
"Some examples would be losing the balloon arch and skipping the streamers. "
i think, green wedding or not, that is advice everyone should live by. lol. TACKY!
We eloped--neither of us were (or are) the type to enjoy being the center of attention, my divorced parents are the Hatfield-McCoy types (got a view 5 years after we married, when my brother wed--yipes, people are still burned about that event 15 years later!). I made my wedding dress (green velvet jacket and skirt with ornate black piping, sort of Edwardian riding habit, no bustle though), he wore his best suit, we had one friend as a witness, married at our church (and gave a nice donation to the church hunger fund), ate lunch afterwards at a nice restaurant, and then drove across country to backpack and white-water kayak in Colorado. It was fabulous, everyone was wonderful to us, especially when we mentioned we were honeymooning (the kayak guides brought us a cake and champagne!), and we've never regretted it. Will be 20 years this coming September, and we still remember that honeymoon fondly.
Cool! I have several friends who are looking into doing that when they marry. I think in their case they are in their thirties or older and their financial priorities have shifted from a huge splash to a more intimate event. We married in Denmark because it was easier to function in the military system if we got the license / certificate quicker, and then had a family event back home because folks wanted to participate.
Both were fun, and we liked having the Europe event be "just for us". It can be so stressful dealing with everyone else's wants / needs / issues on your big day. So it was actually cool that we got to break it up into seaparate bits.
Your outfit sound cool, and definitely something you could wear again.
The bird seed idea is great, but it depends on your area. Sometimes the seeds are for non-native plants that can be invasive for you area. (Here in Oregon, things grow like mad and take over when they don't belong). Make sure to double check before using this as an option.
That's an excellent point. I'm wondering how many of these companies can tell you what kind of seed is in the packets they sell. Or, I suppose you could bulk buy seed that works for your area, and put it in a nice container with a scoop. Someone could be handing out the seed to everyone when read? There's probably an easier way than that . . . it's just an idea off the top of my head.
Wooow All the ideas r great.U have done nice piece of work.Thanks a lot buddy for sharing with us.
keep up the work.
We used rocks as certerpieces instead of energy intensive hothouse grown airline imported flowers.
Napkins were made of remnant cloth by aunties and are still being used by us and relatives 4 years later.
Location was a fire lookout overlooking a mountain range, lake, and miles of forest - no decorations required.
Dress was actually 2 separates picked up at 2 different shops. I don't really wear the flowy skirt, as I've kind of outgrown that dancing in the wildflower fields hippie stage, but still wear the top with jeans & skirts, very versatile.
Bridesmaids wore dress of their choice in compatible colors, groomsmen wore black pants, white shirt, black shoes (my brother wore black socks and brown sandals due to having locked his only black shoes in his locker over the weekend, but that's another story...)
Most importantly, I picked a common sense, relaxed groom who didn't worry too much about having things be traditional!

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East County sculptor designs prestigious Greenfield Prize
Date: April 30, 2009
by: Pam McTeer | News Editor
PARKRIDGE — East County artist Malcom Robertson loves to see artwork come alive in ways others may never consider.
He could paint or draw to capture the eye. But instead, he captures the imagination with works that people can literally wrap their arms around — or at least lean against.
"I've always enjoyed working with my hands and making things," the Scotsman said. "When I was in art school, I selected to study sculpture because it was physical. I thought there was a lot more opportunity to create something that people could interact with."
Some pieces depict people or stories. Others simply convey ideas, such as time and space. But Robertson's work has been installed all over the world.
Locally, he's responsible for the design and construction of the more than 18-foot "Open Book Gateway" sculpture outside the Fruitville Library as well as the giant "Shell" sculpture on Manasota Key.
His newest creation, however, meets the public on a much smaller scale, but with even larger implications.
The piece is the trophy for the newly established Greenfield Prize, an annual award that gives its recipients a $30,000 commission for a new work of art. The trophy was unveiled during an awards ceremony at Michael's on East April 22.
Two artists — playwright Craig Lucas and composer Eve Beglarian — received the award through a partnership between the Philadelphia-based Greenfield Foundation and the Hermitage, which provides living and studio space for artists.
As the first guest artist to ever stay at the Hermitage, Masterson said the trophy is meant to capture the prestige of the award and what makes the retreat special.
"For me, it was about the beach," Masterson said. "The waves keep rolling. The horizon almost looks infinite. The ideas keep rolling in like the waves keep rolling in."
A native of Scotland, Robertson never expected to develop strong ties to Sarasota when he was awarded a contract for the sculpture at the Fruitville library. He'd simply answered a "call to artists" ad, won the contract and begun to figure out the logistics of his work.
But a board member from the Hermitage Artist Retreat offered the beachfront property as a place for him to stay while he constructed the piece. For three months, Robertson lived there, soaking in the sights and sounds of the ocean.
"Being at the Hermitage, I got invited to a lot of events," Robertson said. "(It) was really a springboard for us to connect with this area."
In fact, Robertson and his wife, Kathryn, loved Sarasota so much that they later purchased a condominium in Parkridge so they could split their time between Scotland and Sarasota.
Robertson said he was delighted to still be associated with the Hermitage and to be asked to design the award for the prize.
To view Robertson's work, visit his Web site at www.malcolmrobertson.com.
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Skylar Tsutsui scored 20 points and Michele Arima added 16 points off the bench as the Carleton College women's basketball cruised to an 80-53 triumph over St. Catherine University. Tsutsui and Arima each drained a quartet of shots from beyond the arc as the Carleton College women's basketball team tied the school record with 13 three-pointers.
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Ceremony Takes Place in Atlanta, Saturday, January 25th at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
The Trumpet Awards Foundation presents the 22nd Annual Trumpet Awards, a milestone feat that pays tribute to a group of history-making honorees who are slated to receive the 2014 esteemed Trumpet Award. The honorees join a list of some of the most celebrated personalities in this nation and abroad. The 22nd Annual Trumpet Awards black-tie ceremony will be hosted by Melissa De Sousa, known for her performances in The Best Man, The Best Man Holiday, and The Ron Clark Story; and Laz Alonso, known for his starring performances in Fast and the Furious, Jump the Broom, and is soon to be seen in a lead role in Sony Screen Gems' Battle of the Year. The Trumpet Awards show will be held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta on Saturday, January 25, 2014, with the Red Carpet at 2:00 p.m. and the Awards Show taping at 4:00 p.m.
The weekend of events and activities, held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in downtown Atlanta, begin on Thursday, January 23 with the Prayer Breakfast, scheduled for 8:30 a.m.; High Tea with High Heels, scheduled at 12:30 p.m. and the Race Relations Symposium scheduled at 6:00 p.m. An induction of ten new footprints will be placed into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame. This induction ceremony is scheduled for Friday, January 24, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, National Park Service, located at 450 Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, GA). The program preceding the induction ceremony will be held at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Footprints of Civil Rights Leaders Placed in Historic Site During Annual Trumpet Awards
Footprints of ten new revered civil rights icons will be added to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame during the 2014 Trumpet Awards events. This induction ceremony is scheduled for Friday, January 24, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, National Park Service, located at 450 Auburn Avenue (Atlanta, GA). The program preceding the induction ceremony will be held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The ceremonial host for this year's occasion is Frank Ski with WHUR FM (96.3) Radio in Washington, DC. The program and unveiling of the footprints are free and open to the public.
The 2014 honorees in this distinguished group include Bishop John Hurst Adams, the Honorable Roy Barnes, Dr. John Carlos, Dr. Tommie Smith, The Honorable Perry Gladstone Christie (Prime Minister of the Bahamas), Dr. Norman C. Frances, Harry E. Johnson, Sr., Representative Calvin Smyre, Thomas N. Todd and Rev. Jasper W. Williams, Jr.
The International Civil Rights Walk of Fame was created in 2004 to give recognition to the foot soldiers of justice who sacrificed and struggled to make equality a reality for all. This extraordinary display has become one of the most visited tourist attractions in the city of Atlanta and has enriched the heritage of the civil rights movement. The shoes used to create the footprints will also be on display during the unveiling program.
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How Is This Possible? It Just Is.
I got to do something really cool last week. I produced a 2 hour long live online web show. We had six bands, live and semi-live. A host and two guests who co-hosted.
I've worked at 5 VMAs in various positions (talent escort, running like a crazy person for performance approvals, red carpet interviews, once shadowing the show's main talent exec) and 5 mtvU Woodie awards (again talent escort, identifying red carpet bands for the press, random running around, oh and I developed the concept for that whole show) so I'm not unfamiliar with the large scale live production with semi-live elements, but I've certainly never produced one entirely on my own. Making a rundown was more of a trip than I can tell you and it was pretty fun when the whole thing got thrown out the window and I started making it up as we went along.
But here's what struck me the second I put my comms on: I had only met most of the crew that day and was having a hard time telling their voices apart. Because they were all men. No one had a problem recognizing my voice. I was the only woman on the headset. After the fact I realized all the bands on the show were all-male also. One of our guest hosts, who showed up unexpectedly and jumped right to work in front of the camera, was a woman. The demo for this show was by and large young females.
The production crew being all male is largely unremarkable, to be honest. You'll get a female producer or director now and then, but by and large the crews most places I've worked have been all male. Except when I was in college and worked as a live camera operator for our local NBC affiliate on the local news. Of the 3 cameras, 2 were manned by women. Our director was often a woman, who let me also learn the chyron equipment. It is certainly avoidable if you put enough effort into it but that was the only experience I have had where production was even near to equal, when it came to gender. And it was in the summer of 1999.
At any rate, after last week's event I got to talking with one of the guys on the production and we developed a show idea we want to pitch to VH1. Maybe I'll insist they hire an all-female camera crew for that.


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It's Fashion Week in some little burg off on the East Coast so it's Fashion Week in the center of the universe as well (that's here in case you were wondering).
My eldest daughter, Rebekah, once asked me a question. She was standing at the top of the stairs and my other 2 daughters were at the bottom of the stairs near me in the living room. She asked, "Dad, is it ok if I get my belly button pierced?"
Hmmmm….this has got to be a trick question I think to myself. If I say yes, then obviously the other two girls hear it and will then feel they also have permission to have that done when they are Beka's age. If I say no it sets up an argument about piercing and style that will likely go on for a long time in the household considering the 2 younger girls are only in middle school. Hmmm…how to respond?
First, I thought about what I had preached to so many of my conservative church-going friends who were parents. How often had I said, in response to them complaining about their kids' styles, "Do NOT destroy the relationship with your child over style. They want to dye their hair purple? When are they EVER going to be able to do it if not in high school? They want to wear what most everyone is wearing? It does NOT mean they are a slut. It just means they want to be a member of a tribe. Chill out and save big battles for big issues, not shoe styles."
Then I thought about what I had told my own children many times. I am fine with you wearing and accessorizing whatever you want. Any style is ok as long as it's not permanent (i.e. tattoos, they can get those when they are over 18 and out of the house if they want), dangerous, harmful or hurtful to themselves or others, then I am fine with it. IF, however, I find that your character and behavior goes south I reserve the right to investigate whether your style has anything to with it. If it does, then that style will have to go or be modified.
So, now was the moment of truth. Was I going to practice what I preached with Rebekah? My response was, "Well, I think I would want to go to a doctor and ask what he or she thought of belly button piercings, I would research it, I would find out if there were big infection problems, etc. If that all came back ok, then I would let you get your belly button pierced."
She listened, turned and walked towards her room and said, "That's cool. I don't really want to get it pierced, I just wanted to see what you would say."
That cracked me up.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman, who limits his piercing activity to using skewers for shish kebobs.
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In the town of Anse-a-Veau in rural Haiti, basic household goods such as vegetable oil, batteries or spaghetti were hard to get – until a small Oxfam-supported shop opened recently. Simple projects like this strengthen the rural development that is key for rebuilding Haiti.
Marie Carole Boursiquot is one of the women who ran Oxfam's first community canteens in Port-au-Prince in Haiti after the earthquake. With her entrepreneurial spirit and Oxfam's livelihoods grant, she is starting to regain her own means of subsistence.
Port-au-Prince: Thousands of earthquake survivors living in camps are vulnerable to landslides and flooding due to hurricanes, according to an evaluation of camp sites carried out by international agency Oxfam.
10,000 food kits with local agricultural products have been distributed in many Haitian cities. Oxfam favors this approach in order to encourage local production, which is key to the revitalization of the economy.
Oxfam has been working hard to get a resettlement site ready for the first people to arrive, installing latrines, showers and water bladders. Thousands of people must be relocated due to the high risk of mudslides after the January 2010 earthquake.
Clotide Anilus, a 38-year-old mother of three, is one of the beneficiaries of Oxfam-funded community canteens. Through these canteens, Oxfam provides free hot meals to 4,500 earthquake survivors in the area.
Port-au-Prince: Three months after the catastrophic earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, an in-depth survey of over 1,700 Haitians shows people's top priorities for reconstruction are jobs and schools.
The Haitian government must ensure new camps are ready to receive earthquake survivors before more evacuations take place. Agencies are rushing to prepare a new site in time for people who must be relocated due to the high risk of mudslides.
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- Member, Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies 2011-2018.
- Member, Senate, Wilfrid Laurier University, July 2002-July 2006.
- Member, The Senate Committee on Information Technologies (SCIT), November 2000-2005.
- Member, Petro-Canada award committee, June 2005.
- Member, Senate Internal Grants Committee, Wilfrid Laurier University, Sept 2002- Sept 2005.
- Member, The Grace Anderson Award committee, January 2003.
- Member, University Research Professor Selection committee, 2002.
Faculty of Science committees:
- Member, The Admissions and Student Liaison Committee starting April 10, 2003 to December 31, 2004.
Member, Prowis steering committees, 2001, 2002, 2003 and conferences 2000,2001, 2002
- My students Participated in the Poster Sessions: Derek Morin 2001, Paul Carter and Hayden Lau 2002, Jeff 2004, Dan 2005, and Jeff Armstrong 2008.
Physics & Computer Science Department:
- Member, PTAC 2011.
- Member, Department Appointment and Promotion committee 1999-2011. (every year)
- Acting Chair, Jan 2005-Feb 2005 and June 2005; June -Aug 2004, and December 2004; and June 2003.
- Member, Department curriculum committee, 2002-2005. (3 years)
- The department CO-OP Coordinator summer 2003- to summer 2005 (3 years)
- The Project Coordinator 2003-2005 (3 years)
- Member of the CAS Contract Academic Staff Hiring Committee 2004-05.
- Proposing a new course "Design of Control Systems" and helping in the new Photonics program through the curriculum committee.
- Helping in the pre-registration.
- In Aug 1999, I was able to get a donation of 10 licenses from ALTERA for the VHDL design tool valued at $24,000 us dollars, in addition to my copy $2000 and hardware. This was used in the CP120, CP/PC319 and CP464 courses.


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What ever your learning style - listening, reading, viewing, or a combination of both, this article will help you to communicate with fellow CBers (ClassBlogmeisters). This link will bring you to 743 Blogspot in Colorado. Please choose a class color, skim the blogs, find some to reply to. REMEMBER: log in to your page first, so that you create a hyperlink back to your own page.
Text of Voki: This voki will teach you how to make comments on blogmeister. First you need to log in to your page. So choose your class from the pink frame on the right. choose your own page. log in. Put your blog identity in the login box and your password in the password box. Hit enter. Now that you've logged in, blogmeister will automatically make a hyperlink back to your page. Now lets practice. So visit someone who has made their seven random facts. You can do that by clicking seven random facts under teacher assignments in other purple frame on the left. Either link will do. Someone's random blog page will open. Under the title you see when the article was posted, and the word comment. Click on the word comment. The add a comment tab appears. Click on it. Since you logged in to your page, your blog address is already posted. All you need to do is comment, and fill in the captcha code. It is case sensitive. Then hit submit I know the captcha code is hard to read. If you make a mistake, the page will refresh with a new code. Your comment will not be lost. You will see a message telling you that your comment has been sent to the teacher for approval. As soon as its approved it will appear on the bloggers page. Your blog name will allow that blogger to visit your page and comment on your work. We will go over this in class, and if you would rather see than hear instructions, See the movie below. Did I need to say that to return to the homepage, click on my name? Let me know if I need to redo or add to the voki/imovie instructions. Or any helpful ideas you may have. Do this by commenting on my page.
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1. Go to Voki.com
2. Log in. The email is firstname.lastname@example.com and the password is lawnstudents. (no space between words).
3. Click the "remember me" box if it doesn't already have a check mark.
I have a link to a FlipShare book I made a few years ago for other librarians. I should have included the tip that you should write 'Phone-et-ack--ly", that is, instead of writing a word correctly, write it so the voki can pronounce it.
Warning: I do check Vokis, and did tonight. This news is going to make a few people nervous. It should.
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This is the text of the Voki: Hello students. Please read the article below to see what you are doing today. I'd like to give you instructions on how to embed code. I see Insidious has done it already. If you want cyber pets, go to bunny hero labs. Make your pet. choose other sites. Click copy button. Go to the blank article. Not graphic, use text. Paste your code. Save and request publishing. I need to approve it and I'm not here but I'll do it over the weekend. Please read the article below (7 Random Facts)and comment on the students blogs. You can also customize your own templates and colors, and comment on other Jamestown Student 7 Random Facts (visit 6F1 and 6F2. Have fun, experiement, enjoy I will try to post your work over the weekend. Cyberpets - BunnyHerolabs.com
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If you visit 743 Blogspot and scroll down, on the left frame, to Teacher Assignments, you can see some of the student's responses. Please comment, and you will be contacted back. You can also leave comments on your classmates pages, or 6F1 and 6F2
The students are in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I don't know if they are affected by the flooding but it would be kind of you to ask about it. We too had terrible consequences from our 100 year flood, and you might want to share about that as well.
Please check your spelling and grammar, take your time to create a thoughtful response.
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Excellent work on your i-movie projects. Three videos completed thus far and more to come. In the spirit of our work, kind comments and thoughtful critiques are appreciated. Amazing how weeks of work, writing, and filming get compressed into a minute and a half. Note on the use of music on these videos. Most are from I-tunes iMovie library. The songs used in 3 videos I believe are fair use and not a violation of copyright as defined in section 110 of Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code. Those movies have a limited life and will be deleted by the end of school year 2014. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html


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The Greenfield Redevelopment Authority is organized according to the provisions of the General Laws of Massachusetts, Chapter 121B Section 4 as amended. The GRA is committed to urban renewal projects.
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Director : Ruben Fleischer
Screenplay : Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick
MPAA Rating : R
Year of Release : 2009
Stars : Jesse Eisenberg (Columbus), Woody Harrelson (Tallahassee), Emma Stone (Wichita), Abigail Breslin (Little Rock), Amber Heard (406), Bill Murray (Himself), Mike White (Gas Station Attendant), Derek Graf (Clown Zombie)
Sometimes I wonder if George A. Romero had any idea what he was doing back in 1968 when he unleashed Night of the Living Dead on the world. Did he have any clue that he was creating what would become one of the most malleable of horror subgenres? Granted, zombies had existed in the movies prior to Romero's grisly little black-and-white shocker, but the idea of hoards of the living dead surrounding and eviscerating the living was a brilliantly horrific and utterly new idea, one that has spawned innumerable copycats and knock-offs and, in recent years, parodies, most notable Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004), whose fine balancing act of comedy and horror I was sure had driven the last nail into the coffin of zombies as anything other than comical. Yet, just like their relentless quest for human flesh, zombies have persisted, given new life by the concept of the "fast" zombie introduced in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later (2003), which also used the idea of an infectious contagion, rather than mysteriously resurrected corpses, to create its zombie throngs.
Which is where Zombieland comes in. Penned by television scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and helmed by first-time feature director Ruben Fleischer, it is an assured riff on zombie traditions, smartly playing the most basic concepts of the genre absolutely straight (the desolation of the post-zombie-apocalyptic world, the ravenous horrors of raging flesh-eaters, etc.), but allows us to view them through a deadpan ironic lens, thus casting the horrific in an undeniably comic light. The story is narrated by a young man named Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), who admits that he is an unlikely survivor given that he is wracked by phobias and so antisocial that he rarely ventures outside his apartment. Yet, it is those very traits that have helped him survive the zombie apocalypse, which he helpfully explains in voice-over as a set of rules he has developed that increase his chances of survival (e.g., stay in good cardiovascular shape, always check the backseat of your car, make sure a zombie is really dead when you shoot it, beware of bathrooms, etc.). Eisenberg, who has perfected the art of the sincere, nervous young man in films like Roger Dodger (2002) and Adventureland (2009), is an immediately likeable protagonist, and his descriptions of common-sense survival have a wonder comic edge to them without slipping too far into self-conscious "rules of the game" satire (in this way the film plays like an abridged visualization of Max Brooks' amusing book The Zombie Survival Guide).
Columbus, who is so named because he is traveling to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, hitches a ride with another survivor, Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), so named because … well, you see the pattern. Tallahassee is in every way Columbus's opposite: Played by Harrelson as Mickey Knox's less sociopathic cousin, Tallahassee approaches his survival in the zombie apocalypse with both brute force and the undeniable sense of glee that comes with writing your own rules. Where Columbus treats survival as an intellectual exercise in rationality and practicality, Tallahassee goes about it like a wrecking ball, simply bulldozing over any zombies that get in his way with the assortment of weapons he keeps in the back of his SUV.
While in a grocery store looking for Twinkies (Tallahassee's one obsession), they come across two more survivors: a young woman named Wichita (Emma Stone) and her preteen sister Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), whose accomplished con artistry has helped them survive, but also keeps them at a natural distance from anyone else. This leads to one of the genuine surprises of Zombieland, which is how well the four main character cohere into an unlikely family of sorts. The film's brawny mixture of comedy and horror keeps it fast and furious, and its depiction of a world with no rules gives it a sense of anarchic wish fulfillment (who hasn't wanted to trash a cheap souvenir shop or grab any Hummer you can hotwire?), but the gradual emotional connections forged among Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock give it a surprising amount of heart.
Fleischer approaches the material with an anything-goes visual dexterity, epitomized during the Metallica-infused opening credits sequence, which captures various shots of horrified victims attempting to flee ravenous zombies in extreme slow motion that simultaneously heightens both the abject terror and the comic absurdity of it all. Fleischer doesn't shy away from the gore, but instead relishes the gooey and the gross as yet another avenue for turning our expectations inside out. The film is never particularly scary, although there is a great jump moment in a flashback sequence depicting Columbus coming face to face with his first zombie, which is unfortunately his hot neighbor (Amber Heard) who comes to him for solace after a homeless man tried to bite her (and apparently succeeded). Instead, Fleischer builds tension and suspense, particularly in the climactic sequence at an amusement park in Los Angeles, which finds Wichita and Little Rock trapped on one of the rides with an ocean of zombies beneath them and Columbus and Tallahassee racing to their rescue (granted, this situation develops from positively idiotic behavior on the part of the two girls, but by that point in the film you just have to go with the flow).
Zombieland arguably comes off the rails a bit during an extended sequence in the middle when the main characters find themselves in the palatial Beverly Hills mansion of a certain Hollywood actor; it is the one point in the film where it wears its postmodern comedy a little too proudly on its sleeve and takes a broad approach to physical comedy that undermines its more sophisticated balance of the gory and the droll. That misstep aside, Zombieland manages to successfully rework the familiar in a way that pokes fun at its living-dead predecessors while also recognizing the underlying sense of dread that has allowed the genre to thrive for nearly four decades. It doesn't break any new ground, but the pleasures it offers suggest the underlying importance of the one new rule that Columbus learns via Tallahassee: You gotta enjoy the little things.
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Extension > Food > Food Safety > Preserving and preparing > Vegetables and herbs > Pickled hot peppers
Pickled hot peppers
Recommended Processes
Boiling water bath
Half pints or pints, 15 minutes
Hungarian, banana, chile, jalapeño- 4 lbs. hot long red, green, or yellow peppers
- 3 lbs. sweet red and green peppers, mixed
- 5 cups vinegar (5%)
- 1 cup water
- 4 tsp. canning or pickling salt
- 2 Tbsp. sugar
- 2 cloves garlic
Yield: About 9 pints
Caution: If you select hot peppers, wear rubber or plastic gloves while handling them or wash hands thoroughly with soap and water before touching your face.
Wash peppers. If small peppers are left whole, slash 2 to 4 slits in each. Quarter large peppers. Blanch in boiling water or blister in order to peel (see instructions for blistering in "Marinated Peppers"). Cool and peel off skin.
Flatten small peppers. Fill jars, leaving a ½-inch headspace. Combine and heat other ingredients to boiling and simmer 10 minutes. Remove garlic. Add hot pickling solution over peppers, leaving a ½-inch headspace. Adjust lids and process.
Reviewed by Suzanne Driessen, University of Minnesota Extension educator, 2010.


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December 8, 2013
The Marathon County Health Department has seen nearly 200 confirmed cases of whooping cough since January. The normal number is 12 in an entire year.
Whooping Cough is highly contagious and is a respiratory illness. For adults it may seem like a bad cold, but for infants and children it can potentially be deadly if not treated quickly.
Ruth Marx, an Epidemiologist says, "During an outbreak like this we ask parents if kids show symptoms of persistent coughing to keep them home from school and call their doctor for an evaluation."
Booster shots are now available for adults, but health specialists recommend that your children also receive a shot to keep from spreading the illness.


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(Eintritt frei | admission free)
The Chicks studios are the stages, institutes, streets, theaters, shacks & palaces around the world. The High Art has seldom gone so messy & the Low is always high, dressed up or without dress at all, mixed into an Audio / Visual triggering frenzy of loops & cut up performances, one could ask " where are the shackles?"
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We've known for a long time that Mars has volcanoes; after all, Olympus Mons on the Martian Tharsis shield is the largest volcano in the solar system.
But there may have been a more powerful menace lurking just below the red planet's surface eons ago. A paper published last week in Nature (though the authors first reported about it in March at 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference) claims to have found evidence of supervolcanoes on Mars.
On Earth, a supervolcano is far larger than a regular volcano; they have huge chambers of magma that can be dozens of kilometers across (like under Yellowstone). They build slowly over hundreds of thousands of years, and erupt catastrophically, and can change the landscape and climate of nearly the entire planet.
In the northern hemisphere of Mars is a series of craters that have been thought to be from impacts. Mars is littered with impact craters, since it has little atmosphere and no running water to erode away ancient features. But the craters in question, most notably Eden Patera (85 by 55 kilometers in size, or 53 by 34 miles), are a bit odd. The entire area is actually lower than average, literally sunken, which is consistent with a supervolcano; once the magma under the surface erupts out, the ground around it collapses to fill the empty space.
Other features make it suspiciously un-impact-like. The crater isn't round, it has no rim, no ejecta (material blasted out from impact), and no central peak (which are common in large craters, like Tycho on the Moon). There are substantial flows of lava around the area, and more evidence of ancient volcanism. Also, benches, or flattened rings around the inside of the crater, are present, and these are common in volcanoes as lava lakes subside.
If Eden Patera (and several other craters seen in the Arabia Terra region of Mars) are in fact supervolcanoes, this changes how we see ancient Mars. Olympus Mons, for example, probably built itself up over eons with big eruptions, but not catastrophic enough that it blew itself apart. That's why it grew to such enormous size; 600 kilometers (370 miles) wide and 22 kilometers (14 miles) tall- Mars also lacks plate tectonics, so a single volcano can just sit in one spot and grow ever larger.
But supervolcanoes explode. Gas dissolved in the magma is pressurized underground, but once it hits the surface it expands violently, creating a massive explosion. This would have distributed volcanic output like ash for thousands of kilometers across the planet. In fact, fine-grained volcanic deposits have been found across the equatorial regions of Mars that are most likely from volcanoes, but no source volcano has ever been found. Moreover, the deposits are layered, which is expected as well from episodic supervolcano explosions. Similar features are seen on Earth.
It's not certain that these craters are in fact supervolcanoes, but it would explain a lot. As we investigate more of Mars we're sure to find features that were previously unknown, and our view of the red planet will no doubt continually evolve. Perhaps we'll find evidence to support this idea of supervolcanoes; perhaps we'll find contradictory data. Either way, the only way we'll know is to keep exploring, keep looking around, and keep learning.
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VIDEO: College basketball player hit by police officer while crossing street
An Ohio college student is recovering after she was struck by a police car.
Viral video: Auburn fan's Christmas light show features Iron Bowl radio call
Auburn fan Robert Burton of Fayetteville, Ga., went all out to combine his holiday decorating with a celebration of the Tigers' Iron Bowl win over Alabama. His Christmas light display includes a radio call of the final play in one of college football's most dramatic finishes.
Judges deny chimpanzees 'personhood'
Three lawsuits filed last week that attempted to achieve "legal personhood" for four chimpanzees living in New York have been struck down.
Harvard study finds diet changes gut bacteria within a day
A change in diet quickly alters the types of bacteria living in the human gut, a finding that suggests this rapid adaptability to different foods can be used to control illnesses tied to stomach microbes, researchers said.
Personal genetic tests face sharper scrutiny after 23andMe
23andMe Inc.'s clash with U.S. regulators over the direct sale of its gene analysis service to consumers signals stiffer oversight of thousands of tests in an industry predicted to increase fivefold in size.
Minnesota college student survives night on porch in subzero temperatures
A University of Minnesota Duluth student suffered severe hypothermia and could lose her hands after she passed out on a freezing porch in subzero temperatures with only a jacket and boots to protect her from the cold.
Santa's wish: Marry me
A Massachusetts firefighter surprised his girlfriend this week by suggesting they dress as Santa and Mrs. Claus for his fire department's annual children's Christmas party, then popped a stunning marriage proposal in full attire.
Twitter reacts to Time's Person of the Year
Time has announced its Person of the Year for 2013: Pope Francis. The announcement, seen live on the "Today" show Wednesday, generated immediate reaction on Twitter. Here is a sampling.
VIDEO: Interpreter at Mandela memorial called a 'fake'
The head of the Deaf Federation of South Africa said the sign language interpreter on stage during Tuesday's memorial for Nelson Mandela was a fake.
Rape victim plans lawsuit against Facebook
A rape victim said she plans to file a lawsuit against Facebook for refusing to voluntarily remove a fake page created in her name by her rapist and posting nude photos of her to it.
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Timing is key to developing Oxford United's youngsters: Wilder (From The Oxford Times)
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Timing is key to developing Oxford United's youngsters: Wilder
9:20am Friday 27th September 2013 in Sport By David Pritchard, Chief Sports Reporter covering Oxford United. Follow us on twitter: @oxfordmailoufc. Call me on 01865 425458
EVER since Oxford United formed a development squad for the first time this summer there has been a clamour from supporters to see more of the young players appear for the first-team.
Those in favour may get their wish at Hartlepool United tomorrow, with injury and suspension combining to rule out a host of senior players.
With extra loan signings not an option, Chris Wilder will promote several youngsters to make the trip in their place.
The U's boss admits there have been times this season when teenagers on the bench could have been given more of a chance, but stressed it was down to a question of balance.
"Timing is massive," he said.
"Certain players we possibly could have (brought on), but we chose not to because we've got to marry up not only the development of those players but also the result.
"I'm ultimately responsible for the result so I have to make sure I get the balance right.
"They have done well and are getting vital experience, when two or three years ago they wouldn't have been anywhere near our first-team.
"Now the philosophy of the football club is to promote.
"They are getting vital experience whether they are training with us or playing development games.
"But this development squad is in its infancy. It's not been going for four or five years, so we are ironing out bits and pieces.
"The recruitment will get stronger and the players will get better, but the most important thing is the timing.
"It's important that the coaching staff get that right."
Josh Ruffels, Callum O'Dowda and Ryan Williams have all been handed their first-team debuts this season and all are likely to be in the squad tomorrow.
With at least half a dozen teenagers making the trip, there is extra emphasis on the remaining old heads in the camp.
Wilder spoke to the group in training yesterday to highlight the importance of their role.
He said: "We did have a chat with the experienced boys and said 'you have set the standard all season'.
"The others take their lead off them in training, how you are on the coach and how you go about your business and perform on Saturday.
"When you have lost senior players, those are the boys that have to lead the line, give a bit more and take a bit more responsibility.
"The likes of (Johnny) Mullins, (Michael) Raynes, Tom Newey, David Hunt, Ryan Clarke and Danny Rose I'm sure will relish that."
With the exception of Dave Kitson, who is only suspended for one game, United are set to be weakened for at least the next fortnight.
Wilder thinks it will be a case of gritting their teeth and weathering a difficult spell before returning to full strength.
He said: "We have to keep grinding away and digging in there. It happens through the season at various times.
"Over the last two or three weeks it's hit us pretty hard.
"But in adversity we're looking for players to come through and show all the characteristics we've shown all season."
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962The much-anticipated definitive account of China�s Great Famine�� An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China�s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early �60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as �the three years of natural disaster.� As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together the events that led to mass nationwide starvation, including the death of his own father. Finding no natural causes, Yang attributes responsibility for the deaths to China�s totalitarian system and the refusal of officials at every level to value human life over ideology and self-interest. Tombstone is a testament to inhumanity and occasional heroism that pits collective memory against the historical amnesia imposed by those in power. Stunning in scale and arresting in its detailed account of the staggering human cost of this tragedy, Tombstone is written both as a memorial to the lives lost�an enduring tombstone in memory of the dead�and in hopeful anticipation of the final demise of the totalitarian system. Ian Johnson, writing in The New York Review of Books, called the Chinese edition of Tombstone �groundbreaking . . . One of the most important books to come out of China in recent years.� � |
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If you're reading this- PM me your HUD files dude!
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Almost there, almost zero GUI clutter in the play area, just like I always wanted it. Still have some room to play with.
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What do you use for those top/mid/bot buttons? Are you using bard UI for just that?
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In the run-up to the release of Splash Damage's team-based shooter Brink, there has been an odd reluctance to state plainly what, at heart, the game is about.
Perhaps it's because Brink's heritage lies in the mod scene, where its fundamental ideas were beaten into shape by amateurs. Or maybe it's because Splash Damage's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, with which Brink shares its basic approach, sold only modestly. Or has it been fear on the part of publisher Bethesda that the team-based shooter at its core isn't quite enough to raise blockbuster expectations on its own?
Instead, there has been much talk of parkour, with videos of free-running experts launching themselves over virtual crates, in the hope of lending an air of street chic to the hype. There have been tourist guides to the setting: the futuristic floating city The Ark, a final refuge for mankind whose offices and corridors furnish the game's maps.
There's been the focus on the divisive and unique character designs: Gears of War marines redrawn by a 19th-century Punch cartoonist, with an exaggerated gauntness and muscle. Most recently, there have been the in-depth tutorial videos discussing high-level tactics and the intricacies of Brink's strategic game.
But what has somehow been missed in the marketing bluster is that Brink is a game of cops vs. robbers.
Yes, the S.M.A.R.T. system used to move your character through the environment is fluid and fascinating, allowing you to climb up and over obstacles in search of the quickest route to your objective. Yes, the Ark provides some interesting locations. There's no denying that Splash Damage has refined the genre by way of a host of fine-level design details here.
But it's important to be fully aware that Brink is Reds vs. Blues, Cowboys vs. Indians, Resistance vs. Security. There are eight men on each side, whether you're playing online or alone – and it's not quite as complicated as it's been made out to be.
The game does its best to convince you otherwise. Lured by the promise of a bonus 1000 experience points, you start by watching a long, overly technical set of videos which seek to introduce Brink's class system, free-running model and objective-based play.
The developer seems concerned that the learning curve is going to be too steep for most, or that all of its ideas need to be communicated in the first five minutes. But a non-interactive film makes a poor opening, and has the opposite of the intended effect, introducing mild panic and a sense of confusion from the off.
What should have been Brink's inaugural tutorial is tucked away inside the first Challenge Room, a smart, straightforward micro-mission that introduces you to the four character classes, their abilities and the kind of objectives you'll encounter as you try to defeat the opposing team in the 12 missions that comprise the main campaign.
Brink doesn't distinguish between single-player and multiplayer, or co-op and competitive play; it's all part of this campaign. You join seven others (players, bots or a mixture, depending on your preference) working to complete a set of linear objectives (breaching doors, stealing data and escorting valuable cargo) while the opposing team attempts to thwart your plans. You can choose whether your opponents are human or AI, too.
The four classes are the Soldier, able to rig explosives to blow up doors; the Engineer, who can deploy turrets, defuse explosives and fix vehicles; the Medic, who can revive fallen team-mates and increase the maximum health of those around him; and the Operative, able to disguise himself as an enemy and hack terminals.
During the course of a mission each class type may be required to complete a primary objective. An effective team will enjoy a balance of classes to benefit from each unit's buffs, but weapon choice and offensive shooting capability is consistent across them all.
It's a smart decision, since it means that you can slip seamlessly between Medic, Solider, Engineer and Operative without any change to your preferred style of gunplay. Command Posts enable you to switch class on the ground, especially useful when playing alongside AI - you'll want to take the primary objectives into your own, more capable hands. The AI's performance is mixed; you won't want to trust it with these, but it does provide decent enough back-up to finish the campaign solely alongside bots if you want to.
It's always clear where your current primary objective is, and you can move through the (primarily indoor) environments either by taking the corridors and staircases or, if you hold down the L-bumper, free-running up columns and hauling yourself onto ledges. Holding up on the d-pad brings up a radial interface listing your current objectives, and you can pick the one you want the chase, your character shouting your intention to team-mates without anyone needing to use the mic.
It is, rather obviously, imperative that you work as a team. In a match between two teams of eight humans, the side that moves as a team rather than a loose collection of individuals will effortlessly overpower its rival.
One core difference to the majority of squad shooters is Brink's RPG character development. Every positive action in the game is rewarded with experience points. On levelling up, you're awarded credits, which can be spent on a variety of performance-enhancing abilities.
The majority of these enhancements are modest or specialised, such as shooting a grenade while it's in the air, or scavenging equipment from downed enemies. Where there's a more serious upgrade, it comes with a counterbalance; learning to fire your secondary weapon while incapacitated reduces the amount of 'downed' health you have, for example. A few abilities, like the Engineer's capacity to erect auto-targeting defence turrets, are critical upgrades that can turn the course of a match. But on the whole, the RPG metagame has been skilfully designed so as not to upset balance.
The campaign tells two stories: that of the Ark's Security forces trying to bring order to the city and that of the Resistance, a group of disgruntled residents hoping to flee it. There's no room for narrative flourish within the missions themselves, which are so intently focused on game mechanics that cut-scenes would irritate rather than enrich. Instead, the story is told entirely through optional intro scenes and fails to gain much of a foothold in the mind.
The campaign is a slim package, with just six missions assigned to each faction and two bonus 'What If?' missions for each side. In many cases, the missions on each side mirror one another, which can leave you feeling somewhat short-changed when both sets are complete.
You get additional content in the form of four challenge rooms. Each of these introduces a different aspect of the game: one for objectives, one for free-running, one in which you must escort and protect a repair robot, and a tower defence stage in which you play as the engineer laying turrets to fend off waves of attackers. Each challenge has three levels of difficulty. It's a strong area of the game that feels a little under-developed, and a more comprehensive set of challenges would have been welcome.
Likewise, there's some concern that Brink will fail to provide ongoing incentives over the long haul. It's telling that the achievement for developing a character to Rank 5 is titled "Time to start a new character". It won't take too long to max out one character's abilities, leaving you with the sense that you've 'won' everything the game has to offer.
Of course, the idea is that you continue to play the game competitively online for its own sake as the months roll past. But any title that introduces an XP system as its core economy sets up the expectation that there is an eventual endgame, and Brink's extrinsic rewards dry up too soon.
A free play mode allows you to set up your own bespoke matches across any of the eight maps in the game, playing objective or time-based games with a variety of options to tailor the set-up to your own taste. Online, you can only ever play against players of your own rank or higher, so the focus is always on improving yourself - but it would have been nice to have a little more flexibility with skill-based matchmaking.
Nonetheless, Brink is an exceptional team shooter, smart, supremely well balanced and with a unique, exciting art style. Splash Damage struggles to ease the player into its workings – evidence, perhaps, of the studio's background creating free mods for hardcore Quake players, who never needed much hand-holding.
But the clean menus and HUD have a slickness and simplicity of interaction that elevate the squad-shooter genre to a new level of style and polish. Likewise, in moment-to-moment play, this is often a more engaging, tighter experience than Valve's Team Fortress 2. For those who can leap that first hurdle, Brink should run and run.
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