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3 unique heroes fight punks, thugs & ninjas & more in this innovative brawler with tactics & RPG elements. All to save the president! Read more
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3 unique heroes fight punks, thugs & ninjas & more in this innovative brawler with tactics & RPG elements. All to save the president!
About this project
Update 10: Final Week - Announcing New Game Modes + Multiplayer!
Update 9: A dialog with Diana about marriage & game development + art behind the scenes photos
30 minutes of game footage - more to come soon!
Update 8: New locale, gameplay + wallpapers/avatars!
Update 7: More shirt options
Update 6: - Printed Art Book/Strategy Guide rewards!
Update 5: Costumes!
Update 4: Pure, uncut gameplay + Updates
Update 3: A relationship with graffiti
Update 2 : A Tale of Fighting
Update 1: In it to win it
It's 20XX and world stability is in danger. The US President Barak Orama travels to East Fulton to attend a summit at the UN, but is kidnapped during his speech.
A mysterious group, the Ninja Dragon Terrorist organization takes responsibility for the kidnapping, demanding $1 trillion for the safe return of the president.
The corrupt billionaire mayor of East Fulton, Mike Moneybags, won't let the police investigate unless the federal government pays the city billions of dollars in relief.
The dutiful chief of police, Antonio Santiago, calls his daughter and two friends to investigate in his stead. He needs to find out what is going on, although in the back of his mind, something about all of this just isn't right...
Welcome to Treachery in Beatdown City, a beat 'em up game like no other.
What makes Treachery in Beatdown City Unique?
Trailer 2!
Designed by super mega fans of brawlers: We LOVE brawlers. We grew up playing the classics: Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Guardian Heroes, The Punisher, Aliens Vs. Predator, etc. When setting out to create a new game in the genre we wanted to take the things we loved, and build on that. Also, we noticed when studying the greats that there are problems too, like brain dead enemies, overpowered moves, and gameplay that tends to favor dominant strategies that break the "fun".
We're here to reinvent the way you play a side scrolling beat 'em up because we want to grow the genre!
Tactical Brawling: Use real time movement to walk around the arena, and even use some real time attacks to break open a few garbage cans or mailboxes for health or other items. When it comes to attacking, your COMBO menu becomes your best tool.
Using a combination of Fight Points (FP) and combo meter, players of all skill types can choose up to 3 moves out of dozens of moves that will be learned over the course of the adventure to create any number of unique combinations of attacks.
Combine strikes with grapples, or do multiple grapple moves in a row. It's your choice!
Over 26 unique enemies and growing! : Enemies look different, walk differently and all have their own unique ways of attacking. The only repetition in attacks is that there are only so many ways that a person can throw a punch. Enemies range from fast and agile to slow, lumbering and extremely powerful. Some will charge you, others will play keep away.
Enemies are broken down into class types.
Grunts have regular attacks, but also usually have 1 or 2 hidden super strong attacks.
Sneaky enemies focus on lowering offensive options for players.
Grapplers focus on throwing the player.
Support characters taunt and cheer in the fight to cast buffs on your foes and give them an advantage.
Giants have super strong offense, but are often on the slower side.
These class types make fighting mixed groups of enemies a real challenge. And enemies can take on sub classes, so there can be a Giant Support with enormous amounts of HP and high evade or a grappler grunt who has strong strikes as well as strong grapples!
The possibilities are endless!
Learn a large array of new moves as the game goes on! – Moves aren't in just for the sake of adding moves, as every attack, defensive maneuver and combo is tested and included only if it adds to the fighting mechanics in a positive way.
Experimentation & creativity are key elements to the experience whereas execution is not.
Top down overworld exploration gameplay: Choose your paths through East Fulton, looking for hidden items to heal or power up your player and encounter hidden boss fights that teach your fighters even more moves!
Plus, heal your player, seek out shortcuts through densely populated areas and find files on every enemy in the game. Read those to find out enemy weaknesses and their personal stories.
Super special attacks! : It wouldn't be a beat 'em up without a super bar that fills up and allows players to turn the tide in battle. Some of these moves can even be chained from regular attacks!
A dark humor story played out in classic frame by frame cutscenes : Engage with enemies, find out the personalities behind the heroes and enemies and perhaps gain empathy for them… before having to lay a beatdown on them.
Teaser trailer from 2013, featuring a brief story introduction.
Switch characters strategically!: Each of the player characters has his or her strengths and weaknesses against every enemy in the game. Switching can be done on the overworld with the press of a button, and strategic use of each characters strengths can make a fight that would usually be very difficult much easier.
Damage taken in between fights is cumulative, so make sure to switch, or heal your character before their next fight!
Bruce Maxwell is a wealthy stockbroker with an affinity for Asian languages and culture, without forgetting his Jamaican roots. Bruce is the lightweight character, fighting with a mix of Jeet Kune Do and Capoeira filled with lighting fast punches and acrobatic kicks.
Brad "The Bull Killer" Steele is a former professional wrestler, born in Texas from a Spanish-Mexican family. Brad runs a community center in the SoNo section of East Fulton to help people in need. Brad is the heavyweight character fighting with high powered wrestling throws and heavy strikes.
Lisa Santiago is enrolled in the police academy and has an eye for forensic science. She focuses on boxing and mma, with a mix of holds and brutal kicks/punches.
Click here for a more in depth look at the backgrounds of the cast.
These are just a few tracks from the very beginning of the game, all made by the amazing INVERSEPHASE!
We started this project conceptually as a way to create something new and inventive while working other jobs in the AAA games industry back in 2009. Since then the amount of effort put in has grown significantly when we figured out that this was something people actually would want to play, and 2013 was the first full year that we were able to work on Treachery in Beatdown City in full time mode.
We spent most of that year building the core fighting system, but any good fighting system is built with tweaks to balance, as well as additions to the system. We have also gathered a lot of playtesting feedback from a large amount of people from a number of shows like PAX, Indiecade, GDC, E3 and the world's largest international fighting game tournament, EVO.
Our current progress is that we are almost done with the first level which takes a few hours to beat (longer than most full length brawlers!). The level features numerous songs, over 26 completely unique enemies and dozens of player attacks. We plan to add 5 more levels that will add at least another 20 enemies, a couple of dozen more attacks as well as more exotic locations and music to go along with them that we can't quite reveal yet.
Beyond adding content we will also be porting the game to Unity out of the Playstation Mobile framework and that, while similar, is a very different environment that will no doubt speed up our development, but will require moving over and changing the code as necessary.
Treachery in Beatdown City is all about creating a tactical brawler with fighting game elements, so of course we need the community to give us feedback on how best to tweak for balance. Every single backer will be able to play the game early, while those who want to get in extra early can pledge to gain even earlier access to in production levels to help us build the best fights possible.
The only way we'll be able to launch in early 2015 is with your help.
Budget breakdown
We have already invested quite a lot of our own funds into this game, and have already paid for some of the events/talks that we will be attending this year to support Treachery in Beatdown City - the next one being GDC in March.
Besides that, Manny and I are working on the game full time, and need support to cover bare minimum living expenses for the next year.
Shawn will be creating the individually drawn art for 5 or more new levels, (which don't all take place in the city, and will even end up in areas like a desert) as well as close to 30 + new enemies, complete with new animations and profile pictures, as well as writing all of the dialog and all of the other things that will need to be taken care of.
Manny will be doing all of the coding, creating all of the new enemy behavior patterns and setting up all of the new enemy battle systems and encounters.
Between the two of them they will also be the primary QA people, with a few friends helping out with primary bug fixes and taking all of your data to tweak the game.
We will also be paying Inverse Phase for all of the remaining music that he will create.
And this is not counting Diana who donates a lot of her spare time to consult on and create all of the production art assets that you see, and other industry friends who will be helping out with copy editing on the writing.
This is all keeping in mind that Kickstarter & Amazon payments takes their fees, and reward fulfillment fees as well.
Even though we are working to get the game done by around February of next year, we will still need to work past that to give you, and everyone else, post launch support, as well.
We have new shirt ideas!
Check out the near finished art for the RAD ENOUGH tier t-shirt
Want to be on a poster? Pick up POST NO BILLS and make that happen
Want your own personal graffiti, sketched in high resolution as well as put in the game? Pick up PAINT THE TOWN
Want us to draw you, or a character you created in gorgeous pixelly goodness in a variety of stances/pixel sizes? Pick up PIXEL PORTRAIT
Would you like to help design some of the mysterious Ninja Dragon Terrorist group? Or even make a character you created into one? Pick up DESIGNER OF TERROR
Want an exclusive piece of art created just for you of a character from the game? Pick up FINE ART OF FIGHTING
Do you want to be in the game, as a super cool alt character, AND get yourself drawn in a variety of poses, AND have your own personal bio/cutscene interaction? Pick up ULTIMATE COUNTER
Shawn Alexander Allen (@anuchallenger) is the game designer, director, animator, artist, and founder of Nuchallenger. Before creating Treachery in Beatdown City Shawn worked for 4.5 years at Rockstar games where he worked on a variety of tasks, such as creating trailers, short films, cutscene cameras, writing/performing character dialog & game analysis on numerous titles spanning GTA IV, Ballad of Gay Tony/Lost and Damned, Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire, Max Payne 3 & the preliminary stages of the GTA V marketing campaign.
Shawn began doing in depth analysis of fighting in games years ago both for work and on his own time, and it became more and more evident that the only thing to satiate that would be to build his own unique brawler.
You can also read about his past in this feature on Kotaku - From Poverty to Playstation.
There is an interview on Giantbomb as well about writing in games
Shawn was also featured on the Grio 100
Manny A. Marcano (@cavaliergames) is the coder and co-designer on Treachery in Beatdown City, having initially built a prototype with Shawn in Gamemaker to make sure they both weren't out of their minds creating a turn based beat 'em up.
Manny grew up playing all manner of RPGs, beating complex games at the age of 4. He takes pride in building the stats that drive Treachery in Beatdown Cities unique battles.
Before working on Treachery in Beatdown City Manny worked at Take Two and Rockstar Games on The Darkness, Bioshock & Max Payne 3 in a number of roles.
Diana Santiago (@deeluxdi) designed Lisa, the female protagonist, makes all of the beautiful non-digital art assets for the game and serves as the producer. She also created those lenticular business cards that Shawn carries around, in case you've ever seen them.
She has her Masters in Fine Art and she is also a performance artist and co-creator of the web series Supertight. She had been married to Shawn for just 6 months before development of Treachery in Beatdown City became a full time thing, when the prototype was in full swing.
Diana was working part time while Shawn worked in AAA, but took on a full time job to keep the family afloat during development.
Inverse Phase (@inversephase) is the composer for all of the music. Previously he had music on a number of soundtracks including the Super Meatboy OST. Besides working with Shawn to develop the musical tone of Treachery in Beatdown City he also launched a Trent Reznor approved Nine Inch Nails cover CD called Pretty Eight Machine, after having a successful kickstarter to raise funds for it.
Over the year he has played excerpts from the Treachery in Beatdown City soundtrack at events like Magfest that got the crowd going wild.
If you would like to hear more from Shawn, he was on Destructoid's Sup Holmes late in 2013 and you can check out the interview below! Find out how he ended up being attacked at his Gamestop job a week before working at Rockstar games!
In order to add-on to your pledge, you can go and manage your pledge and just add the amount for any extras you want to pick up. You do not need to change your reward tier, so all Early Birds get the cheaper copy of the game.
For an extra copy of the game, add $11 ->this is a kickstarter only discount
To add on the shirt to any tier, add $22
To add the physical soundtrack CD, add $13
Risks and challenges
Game development is an often crazy event filled with technical difficulties, playtesting, bug testing, and numerous other things that can drive a project off rails and delay it substantially.
Shawn has worked on numerous projects on the AAA game level that were delayed at the last minute, as well as smaller projects that shipped on time, so the experience with shipping video games, both large and small, is nothing new.
At the same time Shawn, Diana and Manny have a lot of their own money in the project already, and have spent a lot of time on preproduction to make sure that game development can go as smoothly as possible.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
This kickstarter campaign is for the PC/Mac release of the full story for Treachery in Beatdown City.
We will make every effort to get this game on Steam.
We are also aiming for Playstation 4 and Vita as well but we can't promise that yet.
Yes and yes. Steam Greenlight has seemingly amended their terms so games that are almost finished are the only ones that can be put on the service, which puts us in a bind. We have to wait until our development is closer to complete in order to even get the game on Greenlight, but I am confident that we will make it one way or another.
Steam policy has changed and only games that are near completion may be put up on Greenlight. As this project is close to a year away, we will have to put it up on Greenlight closer to release.
We are also talking with other folks, including publishers, to get on that marketplace one way or another.
There is some minor confusion on this, and rightfully so.
This campaign is for the PC/MAC release of the full story of Treachery in Beatdown City and will include all of the great backer rewards, lots of enemies, several stages, and whatever balance tweaks that are made over the course of the year of development.
However -
Treachery in Beatdown City Episode 1 is still scheduled to ship on Playstation Mobile, which will run on Vitas as well as other Playstation Mobile certified devices, and has been feature locked for some time. It will include the 26 characters we have created, as well as the first level of the game and is set to be an introduction to the world of East Fulton. It will not include anything extra from this campaign.
I hope that clears it up.
So it appears that there are traditional JRPG menu mechanics when choosing moves. Is there a stat and skill tree system? If not, why not?
There are stats that drive everything, but there are no skill trees. Lisa, Bruce, and Brad are all set in stone. They will learn all of the same moves every time you play the game. That is, aside from hidden moves that can only be learned by fighting their rivals spread throughout the world.
Skill trees are good, of course, but the three playable characters will be unique enough that switching between them should be suitable.
I'll also add leveling will be automatic, and not experience based. This is to avoid making players feel like they have to fight everyone on each map.
How much brawler is this versus how much classic side scroller? In the video looks like PC breaks away, breaks object for health and then can return to turn based combat? How does it work?
Players move around each fight screen with full real time movement. In fact sometimes you will end up in a scrolling fight where you fight multiple enemies.
The games biggest hook is the menu based combat. But there is also a quick attack that can be used strategically as well.
Menu based attacks take FP & Combo meter to execute, and the player can pick whichever moves they have the amount of FP to use. This is always a constant.
Quick attacks are locked to a specific combo, which is achieved by tapping a button outside of the menu. These are ideal for breaking objects in the environment as they do not take any resource to do so.
Quick attacks do however take some combo meter if you hit the enemy. They also are much more prone to miss, and the combo meter used for quick attacks takes longer to refill.
Players shouldn't rely on Quick Attacks as their primary offense, but in a jam, you might want to just jam out a quick combo to see if you can beat an enemy who is bearing down on you!
How mod-able will the game be? Expansions in the old school sense with new areas, moves and characters?
Currently those questions aren't things we are looking to. The game has a finite ending, but we do have plans for some hidden goodies in it.
We are exploring the idea of making the full game's source available after we launch, or at least important bits of it.
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WEAPONIZER - Receive exclusive early access to bonus weapons - The Steel Chair, Brass Knuckles, Nunchucks, and get to vote on 3 more! These will appear in your inventory to use in fights, and also show up in breakable objects. Also includes FIGHTER'S MANUAL tier.
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FIGHTING ARTIST - Receive a lovingly laid out digital art book featuring watercolor, ink, pencil and digital art from the game as well as an in depth strategy guide detailing enemy stats, bios, and tips you won't find in the manual!
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DECKED OUT - Receive exclusive early access to bonus costumes. 3 per character: 2 shown here plus get to help design/vote on the last 1 per character!
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RAD ENOUGH - Are you rad enough to show your solidarity with the citizens of East Fulton to wear this T - SHIRT?
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PHYSICALITY - On top of showing your solidarity for the cause, receive a nice physical copy of the soundtrack.
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Get a picture of yourself, a character you created or just your name immortalized on a poster in the background of a fight stage. Warning, 8 bit stylization can be tricky for intricate ideas.
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PAINT THE TOWN - We will make some graffiti using your name, avatar or whatever you want us to or submit your own graffiti design to be pixelated and put in the game (must be your own creation). We reserve the right to reject any concepts, but will work with you to make sure you are happy.
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Have your likeness or that of a character you created immortalized in Treachery in Beatdown City style! Receive a digital sprite sheet that includes a detailed portrait, a smaller version of the portrait, as well as regular fighter style character complete with walk cycle and a couple of attacks!
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FINE ART OF FIGHTING - Receive a physical water color and ink drawing of any enemy, signed by the artist Diana Santiago!
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Designer of Terror - Help us design 1 of the Ninja Dragon Terrorist enemies! This group is so mysterious that very few people have ever seen any of them and lived.
They are known for their cross cultural garbs, and you can help design one with the team. Choose their color palette/accessories, fighting style and more!
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VAIN FIGHTER - Receive a physical water color and ink drawing of yourself done in Treachery in Beatdown City style (in an action pose if you want!) - signed by the artist Diana Santiago!
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You will receive everything in PIXEL PORTRAIT tier (sprite sheet, etc.) + you will have a bio in the game, as well as a cutscene featuring your character that you will get to help write!
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BEATDOWN TOUR Come to New York City (flight and living arrangements not included) and have a tour with the team of New York from their unique perspective. We'll even buy you lunch at one of our favorite places, Katz' deli!
These tours will begin after the game is done.
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Two new publications
Videos of the Cape Town 2013 Congress & Conference KeyPoint presentations, and most of the plenary sessions, are available on the Open A.I.R. YouTube channel.
Several galleries of photos from the Cape Town 2013 Congress & Conference are now available online on the Open A.I.R. website's Photo Albums page. The Open A.I.R. Twitter feed and #gcongress hashtag were active throughout the week.
IP Watch reports: 8 December 2013: Cape Town Conference Highlights Innovation, IP and Public Interest; 12 December 2013: Convergence of Who's Who In IP, Innovation, Public Interest in Africa; 13 December 2013: Future Scenarios, IP Tax Evasion, Informal Sector, and Patents in Africa ; 6 January 2014: Global Congress on IP And Public Interest Adopts Principles for Negotiations
Afro-IP blog posts:
Caroline Ncube: IP policies in Africa- Cameroon to Comoros
Isaac Rutenberg: Global Congress on IP in the Public Interest, Day 1|| Global Congress for IP and Public Interest, Day 1, post 2 || Another Report from the Global Congress || Day 3 (or is it Day 1?) of the Global Congress for IP in the Public Interest || Day 4 of the Global Congress on IP for the Public Interest
Aurelia J. Schultz: Users' Rights Over All?
From 9 to 13 December 2013, delegates from national and international governmental entities, the private sector, civil society and academia gathered for five days of interconnected events in Cape Town, South Africa. Hosted by the University of Cape Town (UCT), participants engaged with diverse perspectives and future scenarios for intellectual property (IP), innovation and development during the combined 3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest and Open A.I.R. Conference on Innovation and IP in Africa. These concurrent events were convened at the historic Breakwater Lodge conference centre in Cape Town's Waterfront district.
Plenary Speakers, Moderators
Click on a name below for details of her or his participation in the Congress & Conference, or find people via the Programme page.
Ahmed Abdel-Latif || Sunil Abraham || Luci Abrahams || Njoku Ola Ama || Chris Armstrong || Bassem Awad || Jeremy de Beer || Wondwossen Belete || Margaret Chon || Helen Chuma-Okoro || Gino Cocchiaro || Teshager Dagne || Shirin Elahi || Fernando dos Santos || Peter Drahos || Laurent Elder || Heloise Emdon || George Essegbey || Richard Fuchs || Michael Geist || Mark Heywood || Dick Kawooya || Bernard Maister || Erika Kraemer-Mbula || Ikechi Mgbeoji || Caroline Ncube || Herman Ntchatcho || Enyinna Nwauche || Chidi Oguamanam || Ruth Okediji || Marisella Ouma || Nagla Rizk || Britta Rutert || Tobias Schonwetter || Susan Sell || Sandy Shepherd || Ben Sihanya || Danie Visser || Jetane Weyers
The five days of Congress & Conference events featured a mix of keynote speeches to plenary sessions and specialised presentations to smaller breakaway groups and workshops. Content and presenter information for each of the presentations and workshops is available on the Cape Town 2013 Programme page, which also contains presentation slides for many sessions. Participants broke into thematic tracks in order to receive targetted presentations and to conduct in-depth scrutiny of the present status of key current strands of public interest engagement with global and national IP regimes. The five thematic tracks were : (1) user rights; (2) access to medicines; (3) enforcement; (4) openness; and (5) traditional knowledge. Participants also attended workshops proposed and convened by their fellow participants, so as to ensure that the Congress & Conference addressed all matters of current concern to the IP experts who made the journey to Cape Town.
Video Highlights
9 December 2013: Congress & Conference Opening Remarks: Tobias Schonwetter || Roundtable: iDevelopment: IP, ICT & Innovation || Debate: Copyright Legitimacy in Africa || KeyPoint: Herman Ntchatcho: The Future of WIPO in Africa || Panel: IP & Innovation in Africa's Informal Sectors || KeyPoint: Jetane Weyers: South Africa's IPR-PFRD Act || Roundtable: Ownership of Publicly Funded Research Outputs || Current Realities of Collaborative Intellectual Property in Africa: Chidi Oguamanam & Jeremy de Beer || Official Presentation of Open A.I.R. Research Outputs: to University of Cape Town
10 December 2013: KeyPoint: Fernando dos Santos: Appropriate Technologies for Africa: Towards 2035? || Drivers of Future Changes for Knowledge & Innovation in Africa: Shirin Elahi || Scenarios for the Future of Knowledge *& Innovation in Africa: Jeremy de Beer || KeyPoint: Peter Drahos: Responsive Regulation: An Optimal IP System in 2035?
11 December 2013: Welcome to 3rd Global Congress: Ahmed Abdel-Latif || KeyPoint: Nagla Rizk: IP & the Public Interest: A North African Development Economics Perspective || KeyPoint: Ruth Okediji: IP Rights & the African Innovation Paradox || KeyPoint: Michael Geist: Taking User Rights Seriously: Two Weeks That Changed Canadian Copyright Law || KeyPoint: Mark Heywood: Access to Affordable Medicines || KeyPoint: Susan Sell: Forum-Shifting & the Battle over IP Protection & Enforcement || KeyPoint: Sunil Abraham: The Freedom Continuum || KeyPoint: Chidi Oguamanam: IP "Periphery" and IP "Core": Knowledge in the (Dis)service of Public Interest || KeyPoint: Enyinna Nwauche: Communities & IP in Africa: Ownership, Openness and Collaboration || KeyPoint: Margaret Chon: Leveraging Logos for Development
13 December 2013: Track Leaders' Report Back & Discussion || Closing & Handover to Kuala Lumpur 2015 Team
Collaborative Planning
The Congress & Conference programme was developed through a collaborative planning process, via delegate submission of proposals for presentations and papers related to one of the five thematic tracks (listed above) and proposals for participant-led workshops. The approved contributions were those which addressed one of the five thematic tracks and also shed light on the overarching theme "Global questions, local answers". What is the public interest in IP? Is it similar or different from place to place? What are the local priorities among the communities you work with? How are public interest IP research and advocacy activities connected? Which strategies are most effective for achieving positive change at the global or local level?
The Congress & Conference contextualised African approaches within the larger paradigms of global public interest IP, and sought to build momentum towards more sustainable, coordinated engagement with these crucial issues. Building on the momentum generated by the 1st Global Congress in Washington, DC in 2011 and the 2nd Global Congress in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, the Cape Town 2013 theme, "Global questions, local answers", explored how public interests converge or diverge in various contexts around the world.
The Congress & Conference also featured the launch of two books on IP, innovation and knowledge in Africa: (1) a book published by UCT Press and authored by Open African Innovation Research and Training Project (Open A.I.R.) researchers, entitled Innovation and Intellectual Property: Collaborative Dynamics in Africa, and (2) a compendium of forward-looking research, Knowledge & Innovation in Africa: Scenarios for the Future.
Presenters of papers to the Congress & Conference will be able to seek publication in 2014 in one of two high-quality African academic journals. Both the African Journal for Science, Technology, Innovation and Development and the South African Intellectual Property Law Journal have issued Calls for Papers emerging from the Congress and Conference.
Planning and Management Personnel
Management and Coordination
Nan Warner, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Phyllis Webb, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Michelle Willmers, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Co-Convenors and Co-Chairs
Tobias Schonwetter, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Jeremy de Beer, University of Ottawa, Canada
Consultants, Administration and Rapporteurs
Chris Armstrong, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Nagham El Houssamy, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Elsabe Gelderblom, Farm Design, South Africa
Sarah Goodier, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Thomas King, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Jade Kouletakis, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Zuki Magwaxaza, University of Cape Town Breakwater Lodge, South Africa
Sibongile Musundwa, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Uvania Naidoo, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Themba Nqiwa, University of Cape Town Breakwater Lodge, South Africa
Kyle Rother, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Will Sapp, University of Ottawa, Canada
Kathy Page Wood, Farm Design, South Africa
Track/Activity Leaders
Open A.I.R. Foresight Scenarios
Shirin Elahi, Scenarios Architecture, England
User Rights
Sean Flynn, American University, United States
Caroline Ncube, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Delia Browne, P2PU / National Copyright Unit, Australia
Laura Czerniewicz, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Alek Tarkowski, Centrum Cyfrowe Project, Poland
Joe Karaganis, American Assembly, United States
Pedro Mizukami, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Access to Medicines
Matt Kavanagh, University of Pennsylvania & Health Global Access Project, United States
Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Uganda
Traditional Knowledge
Gino Cocchiaro, Natural Justice, South Africa
Giulia Sajeva, Natural Justice, South Africa
Host, Funders, Partners
The IP Unit in the UCT Faculty of Law served as host of the combined Congress & Conference, which was carried out in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and with financial support by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Open Society Foundations (OSF), the Shuttleworth Foundation and South Africa's National Intellectual Property Management Office (NIPMO).
The implementing partners were: Open African Innovation Research and Training Project (Open A.I.R.), the OpenUCT Initiative; the South African Department of Science and Technology (DST); the Shuttleworth Foundation; Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment; the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law; the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at The American University in Cairo; the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) at the University of Lagos; the Centre for IP and IT Law (CIPIT) at Strathmore University in Nairobi; the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore; Creative Commons; Consumers International; the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University in Washington, DC; The American Assembly at Columbia University; Google, the Access and Benefit Sharing Capacity Development Initiative; and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

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Quarterback: Zach Wade is the starting quarterback and the senior gives the Sailors' West Coast offense a dimension it has not seen in the past.
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Wade steps in for Cole Blower, who earned Daily Pilot Newport-Mesa Dream Team and first-team All-Sunset League honors after throwing for 1,212 yards and 14 touchdowns, with five interceptions as a senior last year.
Wade's backup will be sophomore Cole Norris.
Running backs: Brinkley said the team's biggest offensive loss was Titus Hasson, a Dream Team tailback, who rushed for 1,023 yards and 11 touchdowns as a senior last season.
The Sailors will have a healthy Talalelei Teaupa. He missed most of last year when he broke his collarbone during a practice before the season.
Teaupa, a 5-11, 187-pound senior, is the lead running back, while junior Garrett Hall and senior Alex Flores expect to spell Teaupa.
Chance Siemonsma is a sophomore back Brinkley said he likes.
Marty Taylor, a 6-1, 203-pound senior, is the fullback. Junior Jack Storch is Taylor's backup.
Receivers: The top wideout in the area is Landon Gyulay, a Dream Team and first-team all-league performer last year.
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Truxton earned the junior varsity MVP award and he'll line up on the opposite side of Gyulay.
Riley Gaddis, a sophomore, has impressed Brinkley. He filled in for Gyulay when the returning starter dealt with hamstring issues.
Tight end: Senior Alex De Soto, a 6-foot, 246-pounder up from JV, gets the starting nod.
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Offensive line: The Sailors lost a talented left tackle in 6-5, 290-pound Sam Bush, who transferred to Mater Dei after he made the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Underclassmen first team for sophomores last season.
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(May 02, 2012) Since November 2011, the Chinese government has faced strong criticism due to media reports of a number of fatal school bus crashes that resulted from passenger overloads and the use of substandard vehicles and unqualified drivers. In one of the accidents, 21 kindergarteners were killed in a nine-seat minivan, illegally crammed with 64 people, that collided with a truck. A month later, 15 children were reported dead after a school bus in which they were riding rolled over when the driver lost control of the vehicle. (Andrew Jacobs, Half-Filled School Bus Crashes in China, Killing 15 Children, THE NEW YORK TIMES (Dec. 13, 2011).) In order to curb increasing public outrage and prevent future tragedies, the State Council enacted the Regulations on the Administration of School Bus Safety, which came into effect on the date of promulgation, April 5, 2012. (Xiaoche Anquan Guanli Tiaoli, the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China website (Apr. 10, 2012).)
A school bus in the new Regulations is defined as a passenger vehicle with seven seats or more used for the purpose of transporting students receiving compulsory education (mainly primary and junior middle-school students) to and from school. (Id. art. 2.) Under the Regulations, local governments at the county level and above are the competent authorities in charge of school bus administration. Their tasks include (1) formulating and adjusting locations of schools in their administration jurisdiction to ensure that students will go to school in their own neighborhoods or in boarding schools, so as to reduce risks arising from long bus rides; (2) setting up routes and station sites for the convenience of students who require transportation; and (3) providing students in rural areas with access to school bus services (SBS). (Id. art. 3.)
Schools, public enterprises, private enterprises and even individuals are all permitted to provide SBS in accordance with laws. (Id. art. 9.) However, a service provider must obtain a license before rendering SBS, based upon its meeting a list of conditions. That is, the provider must have:
- satisfied the national standards for safe school buses and obtained a motor vehicle inspection certificate;
- registered with the traffic control department of the local public security organ;
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- set up a reasonable and feasible scheme for running SBS, including the determination of routes, hours of operation, and the location of bus stops;
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By authority of the Regulations and shortly after their promulgation, the State Administration for Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine, coupled with the Standardization Administration of China, jointly issued two related documents: the "Safety Technique Specifications of Special School Buses" (Specifications (promulgated on Apr. 10, 2012, and effective on May 1, 2012) [in Chinese], Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) website) and "The Strength of Student Seat Systems and Their Anchorages of Special School Bus" (promulgated on Apr. 10, 2012, and effective on May 1, 2012) [in Chinese], MIIT website). These documents set forth measurable national standards of technical specifications for school buses, applicable not only to vehicles for primary and junior middle school students, but also to those that transport pre-schoolers above three years of age who are not explicitly protected by the Regulations. (Id. & Specifications, supra.)
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After all was said and done the case of wine had been drunk and nothing was left on the skull but teeth and eyeballs. Admirable accomplishments both, completed in less than an hour and all before 10:30a. Once the meat was removed Quealy rubbed it in salt and spice and wrapped it around the tongue, trussed it, portioned it, and sous-vide low and slow... real slow, for what would ultimately be 48 hrs.
Mark from South Texas Heritage Pork, based just up the road near Floresville, donated the head and ran us through what got him into business: "Wanted better options," he said... "A better product for my family." Not, I'd imagine, entirely dissimilar to what gets most of these independent operations started. But keeping them going is up to us, and since the best way to preserve is to consume, here's a list of restaurants that enable the consumption...
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Rihanna Slams Report Admitting She Provoked Chris Brown to Hit Her
E! Online is reporting that RiRi slammed MTV Canada on a story they ran which quoted a tweet from Rihanna's official Twitter page, allegedly from the singer, where she admitted she provoked Chris Brown on the night he attacked her.
The tweet said, "I admit it. I provoked Chris to hit me. It was not entirely his fault. #ImSORRY"
The 23-year-old-singer took to her Twitter page and gave MTV Canada a piece of her mind, "@mtvnewscanada are u f**king kiddin me?????? You're supposed to be a RELIABLE source for news on music and this is the bulls**t u post??"
MTV Canada later tweeted a retraction to the story saying, ""#Rihanna fans. We were reporting on a story that was posted on several sites today. We had no intention to be salacious."
Brown physically attacked Rihanna in 2009 and later pleaded guilty to assaulting her and publicly apologized for the incident.
He underwent court-ordered domestic violence counseling and spent six months doing community service.
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- Friday 24 JuneBy ttrexxxLow Ranked Vote downVote upReport this
da... yea... women do that all the time
- Friday 24 JuneBy themeeker
I have no doubt that she got mouthy and copped an attitude on him, but that still doesn't mean she deserved to get hit.
- Friday 24 JuneBy themeeker
BUT, if she is stupid enough to go back to him, whatever happens to her is her own fault. She knows what he is (we all do) and he will do it again.
- Sunday 26 JuneBy joan
Lets face it, Rihanna is a fool and she and this fool Chris Brown deserve each other and neither deserves to have a career anymore. They are two mixed up spoiled brats.
- Friday 24 JuneBy Ananda
Why is it that we don't want to admit what many of us already know? That women routinely provoke and even physically attack men, and then call the police when they respond. Sure, some women are purely victims in domestic situations. But more women than anyone would care to admit hide behind the "a man should never hit a woman" BS in order to get away with being physically abusive. Its a known fact, and women should stop it!
- Friday 24 JuneBy ROB
Agreed. I do feel chris brown went over and above reasonable self defense and he deserved what he got as far as his legal issues and bad PR. I don't doubt Rihanna was instigating and being physically and verbally abusive. Both of them need to grow up and be accountable and Mr.Brown needs to work some more on controlling his temper for his own good. A second time will finish him.
- Friday 24 JuneBy Ms. Ann
My bestfriend's wife hits on him all the time. All he does is stands there or he walks away. The last time she got angry with him, she flew into him like a rabid dog and bit his arm leaving a scar.
He only walks away each time. She knows he will not hit her back. I am afraid she is going to hurt him worse because of this.
What is he supposed to do? You know men will not admit to being hit by women. And if he does report it, who will they believe? A 6'2" man or a 5'6" woman?
- Saturday 25 JuneBy ilea
Mrs. Ann, has your friend ever considered divorce, are there children involved, and if so, does she hit them, cause if there are kids and she hits them, he could report her for that, and authorities would be more likely to believe that she also hits him. I feel bad for your friend, and Rhiana {sorry if I mispelled that} and any man, woman or child that is abused.
- Friday 08 JulyBy CANDY
I agree with you!...This is why I lost respect for Rihanna because she knew darn well that she was also at fault and let
Chris take all the blame and his career was down for a bit there. She should have admitted that she had a lot to do with what happened. I do not agree with what Chris did but she let him take the fall...
- Friday 24 JuneBy jim williams
FACT TRUTH NO MAN BEATS A WOMAN NO MATTER WHAT SHE DOES ,so I guess I am saying chris brown is no man.Don't care what she did or did not do. she did not deserve to get beat .All you young punks who disagree are just as stupid as he was.
- Friday 24 JuneBy Freddricka
Grow up. Humans respond with human emotions, whether it be to walk or away or defend themselves when they feel threatened. It's called fight or flight, look it up. If a man is being verbally or physically attacked by a woman, he will respond in one of those two previously mentioned ways. That doesnt make him less of a man, it makes him human. Humans make mistakes. No one,whether they be male or female, should put his or her hands on another human.He was wrong and so was she. I'm going to need you to stop viewly men and women stereotypically and start viewing us all as humans. Thanks for your time.
- Friday 24 JuneBy PsychkdHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Oh, I guess he is just a product of society so we blame the victim. Following that logic, a woman deserves to be raped because of the way she dresses? It's always someone
else fault.
- Friday 24 JuneBy Chris
Why are these two idiots still relevant at this point? (rhetorical question)
- Friday 24 June
Rihanna does not know, that no matter what, no woman deserves to be hit. It does not matter what she did, or said, real men never hit, ever. If anything, she may have made him break up with her, thats the only thing a man has the right to do to any woman, leave her alone, and dont look back, if she makes him want to hit her.
I used to feel sorry for her, until I read this, the girl is not too bright.
- Friday 24 JuneBy chris
Oh please. Get off your moral superiority soapbox and own up to the fact that there are no "real men," just an image of what YOU think a real man should be. Stupid liberal.
- Friday 24 JuneBy effuspamHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
@Chris: the irony being that it's not liberals who have an exacting standard that men must follow.
- Friday 24 JuneBy llamammama2
great.....now she's pissin' me off
- Friday 24 JuneBy Doc
And this is why he NEEDS TO stay FAR, FAR, AWAY from her!!!!!
- Friday 24 June
I dont think what chris did was right but he is a man and he took his punishment no one wants to be hated by millions of people and known as "the beater" i honestly think she did kinda provoked him to do it and everyone just went with what Rihanna said and not chris rihanna isnt just the victim she had her parts too and she's just tryin to play the victim again
- Friday 24 JuneBy JANE
Man, he keeps throwing tantrums and acting like a child when he doesn't get his way. You think this is a person who has earned redemption?
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Sleeping Dogs on the PC has some exclusive graphical bonuses – and not like stickers to slap on your rig, mind you. United Front Games' PC port will launch with a high-resolution texture pack for those crisp visuals, and support for multi-monitor displays. (But will it run on Batman's setup?)
If you pre-order Sleeping Dogs through Steam ahead of its August 14 launch, you'll get 10 percent off the final asking price, bringing it down to $44.99. Finally, Square Enix has also released the minimum and recommended specs for Sleeping Dogs, which we've gone ahead and published below the break.
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Visiting Port Arthur on cruise ship..
If I walk from the historic site to Point Puer...can I get access to the boys prison site or is it blocked off for tours only
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My Singaporean partner would like to spend 7-9 days in Sydney. He loves playing golf and exploring interesting places, foods,.... Could anyone please recommend some?
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I have just received a job offer from UTAS. In making my decision to move, I wondered if anyone could give me some pros and cons of living in Hobart specifically and Tasmania in general. If there are any Scots out there who have done this already - I would particularly love to hear from you! I really want to take the leap and have an exciting adventure, but I have never lived outside of the UK before and so I am slightly terrified...
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We are a family of four and we will be arriving Hobart Airport on 25 Dec 11PM. I am looking to reserve hotel rooms either near airport or at the city centre.
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I am staying on Hamilton Island for a few days and would like to do the Salt Water Crocodile Safari from Airlie Beach. How easy is it to get to Airlie Beach from Hamilton Island Marina and how long does it take....thanks.
Hi from South Australia, checking some websites it appears you are changing to a different format. Once I arrive at Central from the airport, where can I buy the Seniors day pass? If i want the new Opal ticket for Seniors does it apply to interstate visitors? Looking at the web it seems to include only NSW card holders.
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We have booked Lindrum Hotel a studio room this coming February. Can anyone recommend this ? Apparently the reviews that I have read are that the hotels is very noisy with traffic or poor views If you choose a quiet room.
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Taking my 3 year old daughter and my wife from tumult to cooma, what are our options?shelter should we get stuck or breakdown?
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I intend to travel to Gold Coast, Melbourne next year June with my mum ( wheelchair bound ) and 2 children ( 16 and 23 ). I have couple to questions to ask:
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2) Is the public transport user friendly ( since my mum is wheelchair bound )?
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I am planning to travel to Sydney in by the end of the year, so would like to know what are the best things to do there? Can anyone who have prior experience share?
I am trying to plan my trip from the UK to Austrailia for up to a year and moving on to Thailand. I have done a fair amount of research but wanted any helpful info from experienced travellers, I backpacked through Italy last year but only for 4 weeks so any information is appreciated, I will be travelling with my boyfriend and we have no ties back in the UK so not exactly sure how long we will stay away for, please help! With anything!
I intend to travel to Gold Coast, Melbourne next year June with my mum ( wheelchair bound ) and 2 children ( 16 and 23 ). I have couple to questions to ask:
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I am planninga trip to Australia for the november and I saw that you can either fly to Alice Springs or Uluru and they are about 500 km far. I would be going mostly to visit Uluru so may be I should fly there and not to Alice Springs but I saw there are really a few accomodation in Uluru. I have 4 days to spend there, would you raccomend to stay in Alice Springs and take a tour to Uluru or sleep there and may be stay 3 days instead of four?
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Butterfield Stage Route is a 12 mile point-to-point trail located near Gila Bend, Arizona. The trail is good for all skill levels offers a number of activity options.
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I understand that an effort is being made to get it opened soon. By Arizona OHV Assn, off top of my head so don't hold me to that
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A musician and singer since childhood, Nicole Ratté evolved in different styles before developing a true passion for jazz. At home on the stage, she is known for her warm and effervescent presence and her light and sensual voice. Her performances include her favourite jazz standards, with some special arrangements of well known French and Quebec songs. Featured outstanding musicians are: Jean-Pierre Allain on piano, Normand Glaude on bass, Denis Ouellet on drums and Mike Tremblay on saxophone.
Nicole is one of the voices of Big Band Caravane and performed with them at the Ottawa International Jazz festival in 2005 and at the National Library in February 2007. She sings regularly on local stages with several of the best musicians in the area. In 2006 and 2007 and 2008, she appeared with her quintet at the Ottawa Jazz Festival, at the "Casino du Lac-Leamy Sound of Light", at "L'Outaouais en fête" and at many other venues and events (Hilton, Civilisation Museum, National Gallery, War Museum, Congress Centre, Monterey Inn, Maison Maxime, Petit Chicago, Café Paradiso).
After a childhood full of music, from classical piano to rock guitar and from church organ to flute ensemble, she studied piano and cello. Since then, she has been involved in several musical and vocal groups. She performed interesting roles in the vocal group Top Passion - a producer of musicals on the local scene and sang in several small vocal ensembles, such as the a cappella jazz quintet "C'est What?" (from Manhattan Transfer to Take 6), which began her passion for jazz. She has coordinated and taken part in numerous musical projects over the years with symphonic orchestras, concerts bands, big bands and many others.
Nicole also teaches vocal jazz, piano and voice with her communicative enthusiasm. Her jazz workshops are now generating new jazz vocalists and new jazz fans.


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The Saint Lucia Tourist Board (SLTB) has launched Saint Lucia Agent Months (SLAM) to bring travel agents to Saint Lucia through October. Designed for travel agents to experience the destination first hand, the promotion includes booking incentives, special rates on accommodations and 50% off airfares on American Airlines.
"We continue to offer programs such as SLAM to strengthen the Tourist Board's commitment to our valued travel agent partners as we work together to increase arrivals to the island," says Nerdin St. Rose , Vice President Marketing & Sales for the Saint Lucia Tourist Board. "It is important the agents experience the island first hand and we look forward to welcoming them with our warm hospitality."
The island will be even more accessible for travel agents and their clients with JetBlue offering daily non-stop flights between New York 's JFK International Airport (JFK) and Saint Lucia 's Hewanorra Airport (UVF). Additionally, all carriers to Saint Lucia offer better connectivity to major gateways.
Participating SLAM hotels include Bay Gardens Beach Resort, Calabash Cove Resort & Spa, Coconut Bay Resort and Spa, Coco Palm, Discovery at Marigot Bay Hotel, Fond Doux Holiday Plantation, Habitat Terrace, Harmony Suites, Morgan Bay Resort, Royal by rex resorts, St. Lucian by rex resorts, Smugglers Cove Resort & Spa, Stonefield Estate Villa Resort & Spa, Windjammer Landing and Villa Beach Resort.
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Teacher in Focus: Catherine Cathey
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Catherine Cathey teaches fourth grade math at Eastside Elementary School. She has been teaching for 16 years. She taught middle school for three years in La., and the rest have been at Eastside.
Why did you become a teacher?
In college chemistry class at LSU, I had to explain what microorganisms were to children. I enjoyed it and decided to go into education.
What is the best part about being a teacher?
When the students get it and the look on their face, you can feel it - their success. Helping them succeed and having them begin to see math as not so bad.
What is the best part about being at Eastside?
We are like family out here. If something happens, you know you have people around you who will help.
Do you have a family?
I've been married for 13 years, and we have three kids.
What do you for fun when you're not teaching?
Work in the yard and spend time at the soccer fields with my kids. We travel a lot and are trying to get the kids to see as many places as they can. We just started sailing, too. My husband always wanted to do it.
If you were not a teacher, what would you be doing?
Some kind of event planning. I enjoy doing it for the school and asking people to help.
What is the one thing you want your students to learn?
To build their self-confidence, so they have a foundation to feel like they can success.


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Covered in soft-focus watercolor blooms, Mulberry's printed jersey T-shirt is a chic and modern way to flaunt florals. Showcase this pretty piece against your favorite skinny jeans, adding a sporty coverup when the weather cools.
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- Desktopography 2015 Submission Submission for the 2015 release of Desktopography. 2015 Creative Direction, Digital Art, Visual Effects
- 3n2 2015 Product Catalog Illustrations made for 3N2 Sports 2015 Product Catalog 2015 Digital Art, Graphic Design, Illustration
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A magazine spreads for the sports brand 3n2 featuring the Pulse shoe.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by lizard INCREDIBLE SHRINKING SHOWER CURTAIN! I wish I had read these reviews on this shower curtain before I bought it in the store. For I too am a victim of the incredible shrinking shower curtain, unfortunately it was in my guest bathroom and so I had it for a year before I had to wash it :( June 26, 2015
Rated 1 out of 5 by queencitychic shrunk terribly! I followed the washing instructions perfectly. Even dried on extra low. Still shrunk by 6 inches. Going to be returning. Who wants a white cotton shower curtain that you can't wash. February 27, 2015
Rated 1 out of 5 by LaurenNOLA So Disappointing It seems like I'm in good company here. I had a similar situation as everyone else. I washed the shower curtain and it shrunk a good 6 inches! The quality of the fabric is nice and the price wasn't bad. So, I will now be using this as a painting drop cloth. :( March 17, 2014
Rated 1 out of 5 by Mickey67 Very Disappointing! I loved this shower curtain and purchased a second one for my bathroom closet. They look amazing and very classy in my bathroom. When the curtain on the shower was washed it shrunk so much that it is significantly shorter than it was or should be! It looks ridiculous and now I have to buy a new one but how would I wash the new one to keep it looking nice if it is going to shrink again? I really don't want to have disposable shower curtains at this price. Such a disappointment! October 3, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by discovertoday Shrunk Followed washing directions to a T and this still shrunk what seems to be at least a foot shorter. Hoping they accept returns since this is not a consumer error. September 10, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by ANNITHINK Utterly Disappointed... One of the main reasons I selected this shower curtain was because of the length and I have always loved the waffle weave fabrics for shower curtains, but the first time I washed it the thing shrinks over a foot!!! I even followed all the cleaning instructions, cold water, delicate wash, dry low heat and I even ironed the thing. I would not recommend this curtain at all if you are looking for length, not only did it shrink but it unraveled like crazy along the sewing sems. Now I have to buy a new one, because I can not look at this shrunken unraveled mess of a shower curtain for too long. :( October 13, 2012
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Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, some (most) members of Congress and big banksters around the globe are breathing a sigh of relief today. A poll shows most Americans are now blaming President Barack Obama for killing the economy.
For three years, Obama and a complicit media have done a good job of blaming Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, for the dire state of the economy. After all, the meme goes, Bush spent money willy-nilly, cut taxes and got us into expensive wars. But Obama has spent more money and started more wars than Bush. So now there's a new scapegoat.
The aforementioned group of elites and their string-pullers are quite happy with the news because, as long as Americans remain in their stupor, nothing will change. Americans will blame this President or that, but they will never go to the root of the problem for a solution. And it's a problem that must be removed root and branch.
That's why they're working so hard to defeat Ron Paul. He knows where the problem lies, and he's said he's willing to remove it root and branch.
The problem is the Federal Reserve and its insidious inflationary policies. Not one person in a million understands this.
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Some Americans call America a republic. After all, Benjamin Franklin responded to the question about the new government as he left the Constitutional Convention in 1787 by saying, "[It's] A Republic, if you can keep it." And Article 4 Section 4 of the Constitution guarantees each State a Republican form of government.
But most people now call America a democracy. They are wrong, but not for the reasons you may think. They are wrong because America is fascism under the feel-good misnomer of democracy. It is simply Nazism with a pretty face.
The rule of law is gone. Our lawmakers make laws for us to live under while exempting themselves. They game the system. Many enter the Congress as paupers and leave rich. The rich get richer. How that happened was hidden for years by the corporate media.
Now, everyone knows what we have said for years: The President and Congress are owned lock, stock and barrel by Wall Street and the big corporations. They play for pay. And they stack the deck against the American people.
We know they (legally, though immorally) trade in the market on insider information. You and I would go to jail for this. Members of Congress apologize, feign contrition and say they will pass laws so they won't do it again. But there is no recompense, no repentance. The fox is guarding the henhouse.
But the light is shining on them now. The Internet has allowed the free flow of information to make this possible. No more can the corporate media hide the malfeasance of governance from us. So they are working on laws to kill the Internet, too.
Unfortunately, many people see but they still do not comprehend. Goldman Sachs rules the world, but most people are clueless.
Paulson, Robert Rubin, Jon Corzine, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, European Central Bank Governor Mario Draghi and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti are just a few Goldman alums.
Where they go, money-printing follows. Congress bailed out Goldman Sachs and their bankster buddies to the tune of $700 billion in TARP. Now we know Bernanke also handed out trillions of dollars more to banks in the United States and abroad without so much as a "by your leave."
The Federal Reserve is a criminal enterprise. Congress is an accessory and a criminal enterprise in its own right.
Is there a Presidential candidate saying this? One only.
Money-printing is a gangrenous rot on society. Fiat money steals wealth like gangrene steals life. It spreads throughout the system slowly, but surely.
It allows the government to play Santa Claus and spread wealth around to its criminal partners and create a growing dependent class of takers. It gives more and people take more until the system inevitably collapses. See Greece, Italy and Portugal for examples.
Meanwhile, the gang of thieves in government finds new ways to spend. It matters not which Party controls the purse strings. Then, government cries about the spending and tells the people they must sacrifice for the good of society. They imply that massive debt is the people's fault, and that the producers must produce more so government has more to take from them and spread around to their buddies and the "less fortunate" — a group that their policies helped to create and enable. The War on Poverty has been underway for almost 50 years. Is the end near? No, there is more poverty than ever.
Federal debt is a world-class delusion. There can be no debt when fiat money can be printed ad nauseam and to infinity. Ask yourself: If you had the power to print money as needed, would you have debt? Certainly not, no matter how much you wanted to buy. And neither does the Federal government.
The deluded fall into that trap every time. Right now, the debate in Congress is about how a payroll tax cut will be paid for. It's doublespeak, and the populace falls for it again.
Class warfare is ginned up over such nonsense as this. This creates the diversion the criminals need to continue their enterprise.
The government propaganda machine corporate media continue to say there is no inflation. Most people who are products of the government non-education system don't even know what inflation is, but they accept that there is none. They see prices rise, and the corporate media and criminals in government tell them prices are going up because all corporations are greedy monsters.
But inflation is not the same thing as rising prices. Rising prices are symptomatic of inflation. Inflation is money-printing. It's an increase in the supply of money. It's a reduction in the value of those strips of paper that you carry in your wallet.
Inflation steals the wealth of the saver. It punishes those who are doing what the old-timers told us we should be doing: saving our money, paying as we go and staying out of debt. No matter where you hide your money, inflation steals it from you.
But the banksters benefit in many ways: They get to spend it first, before the economy is flooded with new, less valuable dollars; they use it to prop up the market, so they can play both sides against the middle; and they lend it to borrowers who can't pay it back and then steal the borrowers' collateral. The Federal Reserve — which is neither Federal nor holds reserves — benefits because it lends to banks at rates below 1 percent and pays 2 percent or more to borrow it back. But it's not anything of substance. It's just digits on a computer screen.
Americans continue to seek a culprit, but they are looking in all the wrong places. They blame the pretty face and the daily orator.
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The TWU Veterans Committee will once again support Operation Military Embrace's annual "Operation Free PX" drive, which collects clothing, household items and funds for wounded warriors recovering at San Antonio Military Medical Center in Texas. Each year, TWU locals from around the country donate their time, resources and generous gifts to benefit nearly 21,000 soldiers and their families during the holiday season.
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President Harry Lombardo is proud to award this year's Michael J. Quill Scholarships to several deserving students. Since 1970, TWU International has held an annual drawing to provide college tuition assistance to the deserving children of hard working TWU members.