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The new school year will get underway at Morenci Area Schools on Tuesday, Sept. 2.
High school—High School students may pick up their class schedules for the new year between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily at the high school office.
Students are encouraged to obtain their schedules prior to the start of school.
Middle school—Students may pick up class schedules between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. beginning Tuesday, Aug. 26, in the middle school office.
Fifth grade and new student orientation is scheduled at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, in the middle school cafeteria.
Seventh and eighth grade football practice is scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. beginning Monday, Aug. 25. Volleyball practice will begin Sept. 3. Physical forms must be on file to begin practicing. Physical forms are available at the middle school office.
Elementary school—Morenci Elementary School student packets will be available for pick-up between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. beginning Monday, Aug. 25, at the elementary school. Parents or an adult representative must pick up the information packet.
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An open house is planned for developmental kindergarten and kindergarten students at 10 a.m. Aug. 28. Any required documentation needed to complete enrollment must be turned in at this time.
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Off to a Cataclysmic Start
There is a Shared Topic at Blog Azeroth about Cataclysm first impressions that I'll leave stickied for an extra few days for those of you who want to share your first impressions about the expansion after Sunday.
I'm not going to talk about my impressions of the quests, dungeons and so on because, around this time, after WoW binging like crazy over the past few days, I don't really care. I'll probably care again in a few weeks so I'll write about it then.
If I could sum up my first week of Cataclysm in three words, I'd say: disappointing and frustrating.
I'm not disappointed about the game, but rather my experience. I feel like a hamster in a wheel, running and running and not getting anywhere. I got to 85 as quickly as I could. It took me about 30 hours of played time, which is almost twice what it took the rest of my guildies. I wanted to see what a 24 hour WoW binge was like. I'll write about it in the future, making a silly story out of it, but for now I'll stick with the short story: it sucked, don't do it. Curiosity got the best of me, but if I were to do it again, I'd stick with my original plan of play-sleepy-play-study-play-sleep. Combine sleep deprivation with mindless questing and the stress of 4 finals to cram for and you get pretty messy results.
And frustrating. I'm paranoid about being left behind. I'm always paranoid about being left behind in anything I do (comes from being repeatedly and traumatically left behind on school trips throughout my childhood), but when added to a situation where the chances of being left behind are pretty big, my anxiety goes through the roof.
I remember when Wrath dropped, I was pretty nervous and clinged tightly to the people I wanted to play with. I remember the delight I felt whenever we'd run an instance together and the devastation any time I'd miss a run. This is more or less the same, but with missing runs outweighing the doing them. I missed out on every single guild heroic first. I'll have completely forgotten about it in a month, but for the time being, it's heartbreaking.
Finding guild groups for instances is near impossible as a healer anyway- we only have two or three tanks and they'll only run with the same two healers. I have been lucky with PuGs and I really enjoyed running Heroic Deadmines despite not knowing anyone in the group. But it's not the same. The thrill I get from WoW comes from learning and wiping with people I know. PuGs give me gear and rep, but they give me very little fun. And I have seen very little fun so far this expansion.
Honestly, since Cataclysm dropped, I've rarely felt anything but stressed. Between trying to keep up with my guild and not compromising my GPA, I've worn myself thin. I'm not sure how else I could have done it- being present for guild firsts means a lot to me and is something I'm ready to fight for, but I'm starting to wonder at what cost. During high raiding times, I love being in an efficient guild that kills bosses. But at times like these, I miss being able to step away from the computer and not being panic stricken over what I'm going to miss.
Anyway, I do have a lot to write about pally healing and dungeon strategies, as well as some funny stories of my odd brain dead behaviour, but it'll be a few days yet before finals and WoW lightened up enough to let me blog.Explore posts in the same categories: Beyond WoW
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December 11, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Don't stress over it so much. There's plenty of other firsts to get.
December 11, 2010 at 10:40 pm
(sits you down, hands you a cup of tea)
Honey, nothing, nothing, especially not a game is worth getting that wrung out over.
I love WoW too, but it's only pixels. Those heroic guild firsts? Pixels. You say it's spending time with the people that makes it fun, but if those people aren't willing to rotate you in through the guild runs…well, they're choosing pixels.
To be honest, I wish Blizz would take all of the firsts out of the game. I don't understand why they encourage the super ultra hyper competitiveness that results in 20% of the player base sniping mobs and quests from the other 80% so that they can fail at making the top .001%.
Feel better. And come back and tell me what to expect when I start healing as a pally again. 😉
December 11, 2010 at 11:57 pm
I know how you feel 😦
My real life decided to get busy (moving house, organising new car, reshuffles at work) at and around the release date.
All my guildies are 85, and doing heroics and I'm 83. Sigh.
Right now, I resent people who have all the free time to play.
December 12, 2010 at 1:36 am
Awww…(offers you some tea). Please don't get yourself stressed out. It seems important but in the grand scheme of things, firsts don't mean a thing.
Although I am kinda pissy on your behalf that your guild isn't rotating you through guild runs.
On a brighter note, I healed Stonecore & Throne of the Tides tonight on my pally and it wasn't bad. A lot of moving in and out and spinning around to cast Holy Cone of Healing on the ranged – I need to get used to moving again.
December 12, 2010 at 5:18 am
I actually think the same way you do, I raced to 85 only to find myself without a group to run with as my guild seperated into cliques. I watched from the outside looking in as herioc acheivements flashed across my screen as I was stuck in pug after pug that seemed to have no concept of the healing changes and dead set on blaming me for every wipe. However, I've taken ! step back, spent some time working on trade skills rep gear and running regular dungeons with some non guild friends. I rembered that I came into wotlk a month late and didn't get left behind. It all works out. Just because we weren't there for the 'firsts' doesn't mean we are being left behind. Next time you log on, grab a cup of hot cocoa and run a 5 man for the fun of it. Hang out on vent and have a good time. Remind yourself why you like this game so much. P.S. sorry for the wall of text, but I've never wanted to /hug a blogger before :(.
December 14, 2010 at 4:12 pm
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December 14, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Heh, I'm in the opposite place where we just got to a point last night where we could start a guild run of heroics and stuff, but there are so few of us, we typically wind up with a PuG. Now that there are six of us, and two of us are tanks, it's kind of a bummer to be the one PuGing while the other 5 group together but menh. That's part of being an officer, I guess.
I hear you, though.
December 14, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Aww, I feel for you – I, too, raced to 85. I have no qualms about the 85 and group heroics, thing, though – I'm a dps, more plentiful than a healer, and I have no objections (besides the obvious) to pugging (which I have done plenty of).
My problem comes from feeling left out of 10 mans, which seem to be constructed from the same 11-12 people (this was before Cata hit, of course – I'm in a 25 man guild). Hopefully, the feeling eventually goes away. I don't enjoy feeling left out of things, as much as people are not intentionally leaving me (or anyone else) out. Makes the game not fun – it's easy to say "don't take it personally" but if it hurts, it hurts, and there's nothing that can be done about it.
But cheer up – being one of the first to 85 means that you can NOW take some breaths of fresh air and do some studying. Since I hit 85, I have been scaling back – I vow never to do that race again. 😛 Maybe we both have the same problem, hehe – try to go at whatever pace feels comfortable, and settle into a rhythm with a buddy.


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Steelers linebacker James Harrison hasn't practiced at all this summer because of a knee injury that required arthroscopic surgery last week, but he doesn't think that will present much of a problem when it comes to playing against the Broncos in Week One.
Harrison said that he will be working every day in order to test the fitness of his knee in hopes of getting on the practice field before the start of the regular season. Even if he's only able to practice for a couple of days, though, Harrison believes he'll be ready to play on Sept. 9.
"I might need a little prep, we got a couple of new things, but other than that I think I'll be all right," Harrison said, via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "You've got to get back in timing with the other guys and everything else, and a few days of practice would help."
Because Harrison hasn't practiced, the Steelers could still leave him on the physically-unable-to-perform list before the start of the regular season. They had the same option available with running back Rashard Mendenhall, but chose to activate him from the PUP list even though reports out of Pittsburgh indicate he's unlikely to play in the first few weeks. Given that, it would be surprising if they chose to take that route with Harrison unless there's another setback with his knee.


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A group led by real estate investor Nicholas Schorsch is acquiring independent broker-dealer First Allied Securities from Lovell Minnick Partners "because we believe in the alternative space," Schorsch said Thursday, in an interview with AdvisorOne.
"We looked at First Allied's business specifically for what it offers RCAP Holdings, not for distribution of product," he said. "We sell so much …, have a 51% market share and have raised probably $4 billion this year … we do not need more advisors selling our products."
Schorsch (left) is chairman and CEO of RCAP Holdings, which owns Realty Capital Securities, a wholesale broker-dealer and affiliate of American Realty Capital Properties (ARCP), as well as several other entities.
"It's the opposite thinking from the idea that we want more distribution. First Allied is not a top-10 distribution source for us. They only sell three products for us," he added. "This is the RCAP partnership investing in an industry we believe in.
As interests rates move higher, Schorsch says, the broker-dealer business is set to grow its profits. "We are at a vanguard tipping place. First Allied is and will continue to be completely managed by the existing executive team who have been running it under Lovell Minnick," the current private-equity owner.
San Diego-based First Allied, which acquired the Legend Group in late 2012, includes a network of about 1,500 independent financial advisors with more than 300,000 clients and over $32 billion in assets. In 2012, its revenue totaled about $233 million, with the average fees and commissions per advisor at $293,000 and average assets per rep at $29 million, according to Investment Advisor's 2013 Broker-Dealer Reference Guide.
As for why the deal is taking place less than two years after Lovell Minnick acquired a majority stake in the IBD, First Allied CEO and President Adam Antoniades (right) said, "The time frame is shorter than first contemplated, of course. But every organization is for sale—every day of the week."
With Lovell Minnick, the IBD had "a great partner that shared with us strategic thinking, fiscal responsibility and other disciplines that we will take with us for many years to come," Antoniades said.
"Like other broker-dealers, we are looking to generate a return. For us, this [RCAP deal] gives us ability to accelerate well-established initiatives through which we can drive our organization forward …To maintain our value proposition, we have to roll out specific initiatives, and [with RCAP] we can accelerate investments in our initiatives. They are passionate about our industry and the challenges it faces."
Role of REITS
"This is not nontraded REIT money" going into an IBD, said Schorsch. "It's our private capital, not investors' capital. And it's not private equity looking for a hot trade." In terms of First Allied's distribution of nontraded REITs and other alternative products, "This is governed by regulators and … represents less than $300 million" of the IBD's client assets," Antoniades said. "Independent broker-dealers' success is predicated on independent architecture. No one can force advisors to sell products."
RCAP's main role, according to Schorsch, is to provide the IBD with capital "to grow the most compliance-friendly environment it can for its financial advisors, with the best culture, technology, platform and products. This way, RIAs can get the best platform to work with their commissions business, for instance. First Allied needs capital to build all this out and support it."
Other than providing that, RCAP intends to sit back and "let Adam do his job," he says. "We did not buy First Allied to run it. We don't have time … it's purely an investment."
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The Department of Veterans Affairs will distribute more than $430,000 in stipend payments to Family Caregivers of Veterans in July. These Family Caregivers were the first to complete their Caregiver training under the program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers. The first payments to five recipients in the Houston-area were issued today.
"This is a long-awaited day for many Family Caregivers who diligently worked to achieve this landmark legislation to enhance services for Family Caregivers," said VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki. "I am proud VA can now offer direct support to the loved ones who give the Veterans we serve a greater quality of life by allowing them to remain at home surrounded by family and friends."
Family Caregivers will receive an average $1,600 in monthly stipend payments. The initial payments will average $2,500 because the first stipend checks are retroactive to the date of application. The amount of the stipend is based on the condition of the Veteran and the amount of care they require as well as the geographic location where the Veteran resides. An additional 80 stipend payments will be released from the U.S. Treasury on July 8 bringing the total to 176 Family Caregivers receiving the stipend in July.
"We continue to process and approve applications on a daily basis" said Deborah Amdur, VA's Chief Consultant for Care Management and Social Work. "It has been profoundly gratifying to receive messages from Family Caregivers about the value of this program."
Since May 9, nearly 1,250 Caregivers of Veterans who were seriously injured in the line of duty on or after September 11, 2001, have applied for the Program. A core caregiver training curriculum is a required component of the program. This comprehensive training, which was developed by Easter Seals in collaboration with VA clinical experts, has received many positive comments from Family Caregivers. In addition to the training, eligible Family Caregivers can also access mental health services and are provided health care insurance, if they are not already entitled to care or services under a health plan.
Veterans may review the criteria for eligibility and download the Family Caregiver program application (VA CG 10-10) at http://www.caregiver.va.gov. The application enables the Veteran to designate a primary Family Caregiver and secondary Family Caregivers if needed. Caregiver Support Coordinators are stationed at every VA medical center to assist with coordinating the training or assist Caregivers in locating availableservices.
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The Yolo County Gang Task Force is an alliance of peace officers, probation officers, parole agents and prosecutors whose common objective is to provide targeted intelligence gathering, enforcement, investigation and vertical prosecution in the area of criminal street gangs. The Yolo County Gang Task Force alliance is a highly specialized team approach with the goal of providing services to participating and/or requesting agencies in order to guarantee the most efficient arrest, investigation and prosecution of hardcore gang members, many of whom operate across jurisdictional lines. Consistent and detailed intelligence sharing with each agency is a priority for this unit. It is also a goal of the Yolo County Gang Task Force to collaborate with local agencies in order to provide support services to school districts in the area of education, intervention and prevention. The ultimate goal of the Yolo County Gang Task Force is to provide a comprehensive team of specialists to serve the needs of our communities in combating the rise of gang violence.
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Firefox (novel and film)
|Directed by
|Clint Eastwood
|Produced by
|Clint Eastwood
|Written by
| Craig Thomas (novel)
Alex Lasker (script)
| Clint Eastwood
Freddie Jones
Warren Clarke
Nigel Hawthorne
Kenneth Colley
Oliver Cotton
Kai Wulff
Stephan Schnabel
|Music by
|Maurice Jarré
|Bruce Surtees
|Editing by
| Ron Spang
Ferris Webster
|Distributed by
|Warner Brothers
|Release date(s)
|June 18, 1982
|Running time
|136 min
|Allmovie profile
|IMDb profile
Firefox was a Cold War era novel, written by Craig Thomas (published 1977) and a 1982 film about a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who must penetrate into the Soviet Union to steal the ultimate high-performance jet fighter-interceptor and fly it out through the Soviet air and naval defenses. In the process he must come to terms with a horrific memory of the death of a civilian that occurred during his rescue from his Communist captors in Vietnam.
- 1 Plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Themes
- 4 Feasibility
- 5 Novel v. film
- 6 Errors
- 7 Awards
- 8 References
A surprise re-activation
A Huey helicopter flies over the Alaskan wilderness, its pilots looking for someone below. That someone, Major Mitchell Gant USAF (Rtd) (Clint Eastwood), hears the helicopter approaching and instantly breaks into a dead run back toward his cabin, where he takes a shotgun off its rack and cocks it. As the helicopter lands, Gant lapses into a rehash of a nightmare that he lived through in Vietnam: shot down over the North in his A-4, he was being taken to a prison camp when two Hueys machine-gunned his captors. But what made him upset was that an overflying A-4 dropped an incendiary on the site, killing a little girl who stood around too long, watching the battle. Back in the present, Captain Arthur Buckholz (David Huffman) greets him and apologizes for the surprise.
The next several scenes are back-and-forth cuts between the conversation between Gant and Buckholz, and a briefing being run by Kenneth Aubrey (Freddie Jones) of the British SIS concerning the Soviet Union's latest fighter/interceptor: the Mikoyan-Gurevich Model 31, given the codename "Firefox" by NATO. Its capabilities seem otherworldly: total stealth capability, twin engines each delivering 50,000 pounds of thrust, combat ceiling 100,000-feet-plus, speed in excess of Mach 5 or even Mach 6 (and able to maintain it, no small feat), and a weapons and defense system able to read the pilot's thoughts and allow him to aim and fire his weapons without even having to press a button, thus affording him a 3- to 5-second reaction-time advantage over any opponent. NATO's decision: send Gant in to steal a Firefox prototype right off the Soviet development base at Bilyarsk.
Gant resents the operation, because he is being, quite simply, blackmailed, in that he has been allowed to live on government land which now will be sold out from under him if he does not agree to the mission. The NATO Air Force attache (Thomas Hill) resents it, too, because Gant has no experience as a spy and, worse yet, is subject to post-traumatic stress disorder and may crack at any time. They use Gant for two reasons only: he speaks Russian like a Russian, and happens to be a perfect fit for the pressure suit worn by the MiG-31's prime test pilot, Lt. Col. Yuriy Voskov (Kai Wulff).
Gant goes through several weeks of retraining, both in flying and in aerial combat, and briefings on his first required impersonation—as a corrupt businessman named Leon Sprague, known to be smuggling heroin into the Soviet Union. After his training is over, he is sent to London, where Aubrey gives him his final briefing on his objectives, and also hands him a one-way homing device disguised as a cheap transistor radio. What his handlers don't tell him, though, is that if anything compromises the mission, Gant will be left on his own.
Gant lands at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, blusters his way through an unannounced customs search, and manages to leave the airport—with the "radio." He takes a taxi to his rooms at the Hotel Moscow, puts the "radio" into his pocket, and waits.
In the meantime, at KGB Moscow Center on Dzherzhinskiy Square, Colonel Kontarsky (Kenneth Colley) of the KGB finalizes his plans to safeguard the MiG-31 prior to its trials the next day in front of the Soviet First Secretary. He also orders his second-in-command, Dmitri Priabin (Oliver Cotton), to arrest some underground members at dawn, but not to move before then. Kontarskiy in fact knows all about the spy network funnelling information from Bilyarsk out of Russia—but even he does not know what the CIA and the SIS really have planned.
Change of identity
That night Gant walks out to the Krasnokholmskiy Bridge, under instructions to be there at precisely 10:30 Moscow time with the KGB shadowing him. There he meets the real Leon Sprague (George Orrison), plus his Moscow network escort, Pavel Upenskoy (Warren Clarke), and two of his confederates. Upenskoy orders Sprague to take Gant's cigar away from him and start smoking it—and then, before Gant's horrified eyes, whips out a pipe and clubs Sprague to death. He then demands that Gant surrender his false papers, which he plants on Sprague before throwing him into the Moscow River. The four men then race to the Paveletskaya Metro station, where Upenskoy hurriedly briefs Gant on his next impersonation: as Michael Lewis, American tourist registered at the Hotel Warsaw. The four then board a subway, though Gant nearly misses it, because his bad dream of the burning girl returns at just that moment.
The four ride the train to another station, but when they arrive, the KGB is all over it. A KGB plainnclothesman challenges Gant for identification, and Gant barely manages to convince him that he is who he says he is, and has to feign illness on account of the "rich food" at the Warsaw Hotel. Upenskoy, dissatisfied, sends the flustered Gant into a nearby men's room to "get yourself together." But another KGB plainclothesman (Eugene Lipinski) follows Gant into the restroom, challenges him again, and then says that his papers are not in order. The plainclothesman reaches for his gun and Gant reacts instinctively, ultimately killing him.
Upenskoy, rushing in at the last minute, is horrified. He now tells Gant to move quickly to the exit and angrily assures Gant this papers are, indeed, in order. Gant manages to leave the station, but only by cutting in line and acting like a clueless American. He, Upenskoy, and Upenskoy's colleagues barely manage to get to street level before whistles blow below, indicating that the KGB have found their dead detective.
Depart from Moscow
Upenskoy takes Gant to a warehouse belonging to a light-delivery service, where Upenskoy gives Gant yet another identity: that of Boris Glazunov, resident of the Mira Prospekt and employed as "driver's mate" to Upenskoy. The next morning, a telephone rings—just once—and Upenskoy tells Gant that they must leave at once, because "KGB assigned to the plane" are coming for Upenskoy. Upenskoy gives Gant a gun with orders not to use it unless absolutely necessary.
Kontarskiy, meanwhile, has word that Priabin has already picked up the real Boris Glazunov (Barrie Houghton) at his apartment. Therefore, the man in the van with Upenskoy is an impostor. Curious, Kontarskiy orders a KGB tail team not to arrest Upenskoy but to tail him at a distance.
Upenskoy and Gant manage to get through a checkpoint, where they know that they must "pose" for a photograph that will be sent to Moscow Center. Afterward, Upenskoy tells Gant that Boris Glazunov was picked up, and that Gant needs to realize that he is now a man of mystery. Upenskoy has decided to assume that the KGB will merely wait to see what develops as they try to identify Gant, who to them is simply someone who pretended to be a Russian driver's mate for some reason still unknown to them.
In the meantime, Sprague's former business associate identifies the body of Sprague but notes that he was badly beaten, almost as though his assailant wanted to obscure his identity, a thing that Police Inspector Aleksei Tortyev (Hugh Fraser) is very curious about indeed. Kontarskiy is also curious, and demands to know who the mystery man is with Upenskoy, and why an old man (Czeslaw Grocholski) arrested at the warehouse took a poison and the others are "holding out." Kontarskiy still refuses simply to arrest Upenskoy, because he wants every member of the spy network, no matter what—this although his officers now suspect that the mystery man is a foreign agent. Priabin is also present, and voices his suspicion that Boris Glaznov, now their prisoner, is totally ignorant of the identity of his substitute and perhaps even of the substitution.
Upenskoy reaches Gant's next rendezvous point and orders Gant to jump from the van while it is in motion as soon as they round a curve. Gant thus succeeds in getting onto the ground while Upenskoy leads the tail car away. Gant jogs down an incline and meets his next contact: a Dr. Semelovskiy (Ronald Lacey), project scientist assigned to the MiG-31 program. Semelovskiy hides Gant in his trunk and prepares to drive in to Bilyarsk.
At Moscow Center, Boris Glazunov, refusing to the end to talk (or perhaps, as Priabin suspects, not knowing what to say or even what the KGB wants), dies under torture. Kontarsky, monumentally chagrined, now orders Upenskoy's van stopped.
Penetration of Bilyarsk
Oblivious to any of this, Semelovskiy gets Gant inside the Bilyarsk compound (excusing his tardiness by pretending to have a dirty engine) and drives him to the scientists' quarters, where Gant now meets Dr. Pyotr Baranovich (Nigel Hawthorne) and his significant other, Natalya (Dimitra Arliss), who offer him his first meal of the day. Meanwhile, Upenskoy gets into a gunfight with the KGB tail team and manages to kill them—but not before they wound him. He crashes his van, abandons it, and sets out on foot, knowing that his life is forfeit.
Baranovich outfits Gant as a Soviet Air Police officer and briefs him on how to bluff his way through a security gate, and on the location of the hangar and its facilities. He also tells Gant that he knows that he will die after Gant escapes with the plane—but any resentment he might feel toward the British SIS for ordering him to sacrifice himself, pales before his resentment of the KGB for making that sacrifice necessary, and for denying him his freedom.
At Moscow Center, Aleksei Tortyev asks Priabin to do him a favor: to ask for an identification of the man who landed at Sheremetyevo Airport posing as the dead Sprague. Tortyev thinks that this man is a foreign agent who substituted himself for Sprague. The technicians then surprise Tortyev and Priabin by saying that the man at Sheremetyevo is the same as the man who posed as Boris Glazunov and got out of Moscow on the way to Bilyarsk!
Natalya brings word that the guards at the gate have been reinforced—and almost has a heart attack to see Gant outfitted as a Soviet Air Policeman. Baranovich reveals more dire information: that the program has not merely one prototype, but two, and Baranovich intends to sacrifice himself by destroying the second prototype. Gant must, therefore, get the first prototype out of the hangar as soon as he hears the fire alarm. Baranovich also briefs Gant on the directions that he must fly in, and the Firefox' weapons (four air-to-air missiles, two 50-millimeter cannons, and two flak layers, called "rearward defense pods" or "drone tail units") and thought-activated control systems—but also says that in order to work it, he must "think in Russian" and not try to think in English and translate.
Dmitri and Tortyev continue to discuss their lead. Tortyev then suggests that Dmitri look, not for a seasoned spy, but for "a young fit man with brains"—i.e., an astronaut or a pilot. Dmitri agrees and commences a systematic search of their thousands of files on astronauts, Air Force pilots, etc.
Gant manages to get inside the security gate and even takes it on himself to order an extra K-9 patrol to search the forest bordering the fence. He then walks through the hangar and sees the Firefox for the first time. A colonel (actually Kontarsky, though neither man knows the other) accosts him, and Gant apprizes him of his orders to the K-9 unit to search the forest. Gant then moves to the pilot's dressing room, and waits there for Voskov, whom he knocks senseless, binds, gags, and stuffs into a locker, having decided not to kill him because he, Voskov, "didn't do anything." Gant then goes into the showers and waits, at one point having to demand that he not be disturbed when other security personnel challenge him for identification. Gant is, of course, now impersonating Voskov. (Kontarsky has in fact realized that his mystery man has penetrated the installation and ordered a search.)
Back at Moscow Center, Priabin has now identified Gant from the pilot archive. He warns Kontarsky, who then orders the arrest of Baranovich and the others—but just then the fire alarm rings, because Baranovich and Semelovsky have started the fire that they hope will destroy the second prototype. The fire is put out before it can do any such damage. Semelovsky is shot down at once, and Baranovich mnanages to get off one round with an automatic before he and Natalya are also gunned down. The last thing that Baranovich sees, however, is a black pressure-suited figure making its way to the first prototype.
That figure is Gant, who, like a man knowing what he is doing, walks over to the waiting plane, climbs aboard, hooks up, and starts going through a very accelerated pre-flight checklist. Someone challenges him for identification, and Gant first waves him off, and then, with a hand over the man's face, throws him off the small ladder leading to the cockpit. Gant hurriedly completes his checklist—but when he raises his visor, Kontarsky recognizes him at once and orders the doors shut. Too late—Gant starts the engines and taxis out of the hangar at high speed. As the First Secretary's car arrives, Gant taxis to the end of the runway, and then takes off. Upenskoy watches Gant fly overhead and then, with the K-9 patrols ready to apprehend him, shoots himself.
Gant first makes a deliberate close pass at an Aeroflot Ilyushin-model airliner (apparently a close copy of the Boeing 727). He then proceeds to dictate a cockpit monologue—which turns into a dialogue with the First Secretary (Stefan Schnabel), who tries to persuade Gant to turn back and surrender, which Gant will not do. Gant finishes his conversation and then turns eastward, toward the Ural chain. The Soviet chiefs of staff, meanwhile, scramble all their air assets on the northern and southern borders and alert the Red Banner Fleets Northern and Southern. And in a NATO war room, Aubrey and Buckholz realize, with great joy, that Gant has achieved liftoff.
First Battles
Gant reaches the Urals, and then makes his first mistake: impelled by insatiable curiosity, he test-flies the Firefox at supersonic speeds, seeking to test the power of the plane and its Terrain-Following Radar system. This allows the Soviets to realize that he has misled them, as the Air Force chief-of-staff, General Vladimirov, has already realized, knowing that Gant was simply too good to blunder into an Aeroflot's flight path by accident. Vladimirov then orders an elaborate plan to trap Gant at the northern end of the Urals, over the Gulf of Kara. The Soviets think they have succeeded when they detect explosions over the Gulf (and so do Aubrey and Buckholz), but in fact Gant has merely tricked the Soviets into downing one of their own planes, using the thought-controlled arsenal for the first time, and to good effect.
But Gant wastes his advantage by overflying an ELINT trawler. Vladimirov now sets up an ambush with a Soviet guided-missile cruiser—but Gant defeats that ambush, too, destroying two MiL-24 Hind helicopter gunships, knocking out two missiles with one of his flak layers, and simply outracing two more missiles until they fall into the sea.
Voskov, now recovered, takes a final briefing from the First Secretary before taking off after Gant. Word comes that Gant has defeated the Russians yet again, and now Vladimirov plans to intercept Gant just short of the polar ice pack.
Gant now has another problem: he is running out of fuel, though he at least knows where his refueling point will be, since the homing device activated before he engaged the cruiser.Gant gains altitude and proceeds to glide in—and barely makes it to an ice floe before a US Navy Ohio-class submarine breaks through it. That, then, is his refueling point. He lands on the floe and taxis to the submarine, whose crew proceed to refuel him and replace the two missiles he has used.
Two Hinds make radar contact with the Americans and fly in to investigate. The Americans hurriedly finish the refueling and rearmament, steam a runway, and see Gant off before they then set up a mock weather station for the Soviets to reconnoiter. But what they don't know is that Vladimirov, loudly insistent, has prevailed upon his colleagues to send the second MiG after the radar contact.
Final battle
And so, after Gant takes off, he finds himself having to avoid two missiles that seemed to come out of nowhere—and then spots the second Firefox in his mirror. The two aircraft then get into a dogfight, using missiles and cannon and trying to fly a slalom race through ice canyons. At one point, Gant goes into a flat tailspin and barely manages to pull out of it—and Voskov, out of respect, salutes Gant one last time before dropping in behind Gant. Voskov is by now out of missiles and tries to shoot Gant down with his 50-millimeters. Gant, having to remind himself to "think in Russian," manages to introduce one final order: to lay flak. Voskov's plane sucks the flak in through its jet intakes, and blows up. Gant, relieved, sets a course for home.
- The United States Air Force
- Clint Eastwood as Major Mitchell Gant USAF (retired), former member of the Aggressor Squadron, and former attack pilot in the Vietnam War.
- David Huffman as Captain Arthur Buckholz, his handler.
- Thomas Hill as General Brown, who directs Gant's retraining in aerial combat
- Michael Currie as Captain Seerbacker, commanding an unnamed US ballistic-missile submarine
- James Staley as Lt. Cmdr. Fleischer, his executive officer
- John Ratzenberger as MCPO Peck, his chief-of-the-boat
The Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom
- Freddie Jones as Kenneth Aubrey, chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Stefan Schnabel as (presumably) Leonid Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (never specifically identified)
- The Soviet Army Air Forces:
- Alan Tilvern as Kutuzov, Chief Air Marshal
- Klaus Löwitsch as General Vladimirov, officer-in-charge of trying to stop Gant from escaping
- Kai Wulff as Lt. Col. Yuriy Voskov, chief test pilot
- The Committee for State Security
- Wolf Kahler as Yuriy Andropov, Chairman
- Kenneth Colley as Col. Kontarsky, officer-in-charge of security for the MiG-31 development project
- Oliver Cotton as Lt. Col. Dmitri Priabin, his second-in-command
- Eugene Lipinski as a KGB agent who challenges Gant and gets himself killed for his trouble
- The Moscow Militia (i.e., police):
- Hugh Fraser as Chief Inspector Aleksei Tortyev, investigating the murder of Leon Sprague
The Anti-Soviet resistance:
- Nigel Hawthorne as Dr. Pyotr Baranovich, chief project scientist for the MiG-31
- Dmitra Arliss as Natalya, his significant other and assistant chief project scientist
- Ronald Lacey as Semelovskiy, another project scientist
- Warren Clarke as Pavel Upenskoy, a delivery-van driver
- Barrie Houghton as Boris Glazunov, his regular driver's mate, for whom Gant is substituted to get him out of Moscow
- Czeslaw Grocholski as an old man who ultimately commits suicide to avoid interrogation-under-torture
- George Orrison as Leon Sprague, an American businessman whose identity Gant steals to get into Russia
Spoilers end here.
The Cold War
The Cold War is the foremost theme, as is the long-held suspicion that the Soviet Union was quite capable of developing advanced weapons. In point of fact, the Soviet Union did develop what might best be called a preponderance of familiar weapons. But in 1976, with the defection of Lieutenant Viktor Belenko at the controls of his MiG-25 Foxbat, a dedicated interceptor, the United States learned that the Soviets, while clever in the use of the technology that they commanded, were scarcely capable of developing advanced weapons. This might have inspired overconfidence and led the Defense Department under President James Earl Carter to announce, rather rashly, their intention to develop Stealth weapons. The fictive Firefox is the ultimate stealth weapon—generating no radar return even when extremely close at hand—and is also faster, and has a higher combat ceiling, than any aircraft that the Soviet Union (or the United States, for that matter) ever designed and developed.
By way of explanation of how the Soviets could develop such an aircraft, at least a generation ahead of the Americans, Stefan Schnabel's First Secretary tells his air chief marshal that
|the Americans are simply paying the price for too many years of softness—paying with an act of desperation, such as this one...They know the potential of this aircraft; they know what it means. I would imagine that, had our positions been reversed, we might have acted similarly.
The character is correct: the Soviets did attempt to act similarly, and their successors, the leaders of the Russian Federation (whose current chief is a former KGB apparatchik), continue to do so at the time of this writing (July 14, 2010). However, the film also illustrates the innate Russian paranoid ideation about being invaded, in that Air Chief Marshal Kutuzov expresses his suspicion that
|this could all be an elaborate bluff by the Americans to distract us from looking to the north, while this single aircraft attempts to escape to the south.
Furthermore, Barron[1] points out that the MiG-25 (which Thomas used as his inspiration) was very well-designed, given the limitations of Soviet technology. It was also designed for a specific mission: to intercept B-70 bombers. Congress canceled the B-70 program, but the MiG-25 remained (and was redesigned to become a two-seater, which is the actual MiG-31).
The only true flaw in this film, regarding the notion that the Soviets could so outpace the West in weapons development, is that it specified no time frame. It does suggest that Firefox was three years in the making, and Aubrey gives this indication of how complacent the West had become:
|When the first rumors began to filter out of the Soviet Union some three years ago, our theoretical weapons strategists stood before NATO command to explain, with much confidence, that it would take the Soviets a minimum of ten years to develop a Mach 5 aircraft with thought-controlled weapons systems. I stand before you today to explain, with much regret, that they were wrong.
True enough, the Soviets could never have built anything like Firefox in the year of the film's release, let alone the novel's release. But that does not mean that the Soviets would not be capable of building an aircraft like Firefox today, did the Soviet Union still exist. The world perhaps has Ronald Reagan to thank that no such project as Project Firefox ever began, much less came to fruition.
In addition, producer and director Clint Eastwood wished to illustrate the reason for the Cold War, and the evil nature of the "evil empire," the characterization given the USSR by then-President Ronald Reagan. The scenes involving the customs search, the walk to the bridge, Gant and the dissidents evading the KGB in the Metro station, the no-knock arrest and ultimate beating death of Boris Glazunov, and especially the testimonies and ultimate deaths of Upenskoy and Baranovich provide ample evidence.
Dealing with shell shock and self-doubt
Eastwood's use of the subplot involving Mitchell Gant's post-traumatic stress disorder, and its manifestation at unpredictable times, may have begun as a plot device to excuse a disastrous incident (i.e., Gant killing the agent in the restroom of the Metro station) and a near-disaster at the Bilyarsk base (i.e., almost failing to escape with the aircraft when the base personnel are distracted with the execution of Baranovich, Natalya, and Semelovsky). This theme could have been developed much more than it actually was. (Rumors have it that Eastwood blamed the budget overruns for the special effects for the compromises in quality in other aspects of the film, and swore never to produce and/or direct a special-effects film ever again. But perhaps Eastwood ought to have laid the blame with screenwriter Lasker, who neglected to expand upon Thomas' original material as much as he might have.)
Nevertheless, Mitchell Gant is a typical Clint Eastwood hero—a man wrestling with inner demons and who learns to conquer them in order to do the job at hand. Furthermore, Gant does develop significantly as a man, in that his personal demon—the memory of the burning girl—pales in comparison, not only to the job he has to do, but also to the sacrifices that Pavel Upenskoy and Drs. Baranovich, Natalya, and Semelovskiy are willing to make. Baranovich impresses Gant the most, willing as he is to give Gant a successful send-off knowing that he will surely die afterward, if not in the process.
|Mr. Gant, you are an American. You are a free man. I am not. There is a difference. If I resent the men in London, then that is a small thing compared to my resentment of the KGB.
Furthermore, Gant is a metaphor for the West itself. Firefox is set in a world that includes a West monumentally consumed with collective self-doubt, and doubt even about its proper place in the world. For reasons having to do with proper narrative economy, Craig Thomas never explores this as he might, because he creates no character who would be fully in touch with the kind of collective self-doubt that might cause voters to elect governments, in the US and the UK, that would allow the West to come to the pass of having to steal a major prototype from the Soviet Union, instead of worrying about the Soviets stealing an American or British prototype. In short, Thomas did not bother to write in an analog of the late Jack Anderson, or the present-day Maureen Dowd, E. J. Dionne, or Anthony Lewis—and perhaps Thomas could never have imagined a Markos Moulitsas. Instead, all of Thomas' characters are drawn from the ranks of "those who know what needs to be done," and the settings take place either in Gant's Alaskan wilderness retreat, various training bases, the hotel in which Aubrey gives Gant his final briefing—and the Moscow and Bilyarsk sets and every set in between. In short, Firefox takes place on the battlefield or in the training facility, and not on the roiling college campus or in the liberal coffee shop.
And thus Gant himself must be the sole metaphor for an American, or other Westerner, who wonders whether the Cold War was worth fighting. Gant is uniquely qualified for this: shot down over Vietnam and taken prisoner, he witnesses the horrific death of an underage civilian in the course of his rescue. He spends years running away from this memory, feeling that he cannot possibly justify his own continued existence, if such a death was required to ensure its continuance. Gant must get past this attitude, just as the West must turn aside from the attitude of self-flagellation that pervades it today.
And that the Soviets know this is made obvious. The First Secretary, of course, highlights American softness. Their problem is that they think that all Americans are soft. For example, the First Secretary sarcastically says,
|Mister Gant, as you will be aware, I am not interested in the life of one rogue pilot with a poor health record.
Such arrogance will, of course, cost the Soviets dearly by film's end. The reason: the only officer to appreciate fully that Gant is a much better pilot than anyone is giving him credit for is Vladimirov, who first realizes, to his regret, that he himself underestimated Gant with his first stratagem. Vladimirov spends the rest of the film playing a desperate game of catch-up, which he ultimately loses.
Firefox as an aircraft
The Soviet Union actually did build a MiG-31, but it was not such an otherworldly craft at this. This aircraft, codenamed "Foxhound," was an updated version of the MiG-25 Foxbat.[2]
The hypersonic Firefox has a striking resemblance to the North American XB-70 Valkyrie, albeit scaled down to a fighter. The elevation views of Firefox resembled those of the American F-15 Eagle, but the plan reveals a delta-wing configuration with a pair of forward canards. Warner Brothers built nine models of the Firefox to various scales. Two of these, which were radio-controlled scale models, were actually airworthy, though no one attempted to build or fly a Firefox model at supersonic speeds.[2] The actual airworthiness of the Firefox airframe design was initially a matter of no small controversy—but the commercial availability of a radio-controlled scale model settles all doubt that such an aircraft would have been not only airworthy, but at least as maneuverable as it was depicted in the film.[3]
Stealth technology
Firefox was, in theory, the Soviets' only attempt at developing a stealth weapon. The actual theory of stealth weaponry is to use an airframe with an absorptive surface and a shape designed to reflect as few radio waves as possible. But Firefox appears to use a highly sophisticated radar jamming system that somehow gives Firefox absolutely no radar signature. That would probably have been beyond even an American aerospace contractor at the time, or even today.
Hypersonic flight
Firefox would also have been the first hypersonic aircraft. Such an aircraft would almost certainly have required a superconducting ramjet or SCRAMjet engine. Such engines are only now under test by NASA and were not even contemplated in 1982—and almost certainly, the Soviets could never have developed such an engine. Their previous attempt to develop a super-fast rocket engine, for the MiG-25, resulted in an engine that could at best propel the aircraft at Mach 3.2, at the cost of the total wrecking of those engines, requiring replacement.[1]
Moreover, if Firefox did fly at hypersonic speeds, it would leave no sound trace at all. Yet the depiction, including the special effects, are more consistent with ordinary supersonic flight, with its sonic-boom effect, not to mention the compromise of Gant's position when he foolishly test-flies the Firefox at supersonic speeds while in a region that he had been told would be thick with listening posts.
Weapons and defense
Firefox's weapons were conventional enough: four air-to-air missiles, two 50-millimeter cannons, and two flak layers of undetermined type. In fact, the missiles are described as compatible, and thus interchangeable, with those carried by the MiG-25 Foxbat. Since the story suggests that the same design bureau designed both aircraft, such a substitution is feasible.
Firefox's main defense, aside from the flak layers, is its unrivaled stealth capability and tremendous speed. In fact, MiG-25 missiles would probably be inferior to Firefox missiles, for this reason: according to Barron,[1] the combat ceiling of a MiG-25's missiles is 27,000 meters, and the combat ceiling of the Firefox would be nearly 33,000 meters.
On one occasion, a guided-missile cruiser fires four heat-seeking missiles at Firefox. Gant destroys two by laying flak and simply outruns the other two, which lack the speed to catch Firefox in a tail chase. Barron[1] reports that Viktor Belenko, the Soviet pilot who escaped with his MiG-25, told the Central Intelligence Agency that a MiG-25 would not be able to intercept an SR-71 Blackbird recon plane (maximum speed: Mach 3) for the same reason: its ceiling was higher than the combat ceilings of the MiG-25 and its missiles, and the missiles lacked the speed to catch an SR-71 in a tail chase (and lacked the guidance capability to compensate for a high closing speed if fired head-on).
Thought-controlled weapons
Firefox also carried what would best be described as an Electroencephalographic Decision Estimate system for the arming, targeting, and deployment of its weapons. Visual Decision Estimate systems are now under development, designed to read a pilot's iris contractions and eye movements in order to determine which target to shoot at and when to shoot. But no contractor, as far as is known, is currently working on an Electroencephalographic Decision Estimate system. (The description in the film of "sensors in [the pilot's] helmet" can only refer to an electroencephalogram.) However, scientists experimenting with monkeys were first able to train one to operate a candy dispenser with its thoughts alone, after first training it to move a triggering lever while recording an EEG trace, and then setting the dispenser to operate in response to the EEG impressions alone, while disconnecting the lever. (In fact, the subject learned quickly that the dispenser was operating before it had the chance to touch the lever, and thereafter it left off moving the lever and grew accustomed to triggering the dispenser by merely making a decision.) More recently, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh trained a monkey to operate a simple crane with its thoughts alone. Last month, that same team trained their monkey to operate an even more sophisticated crane with its thoughts, and perform tasks as complex as retrieving an object with this crane.[4] More recently, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced their intention to test human-worthy prosthetic limbs designed to integrate fully with the patient's brain.[5] The interface involved is actually a physical connection of a microprocessor array with the central nervous system, but a noninvasive interface, involving a helmet rigged to take a continuous EEG, would also be suitable to control a prosthetic limb—or the weapons aboard a high-performance fighter-interceptor.
Thus the concept of a "thought-controlled arsenal," while clearly ahead of its time in 1982, is well within the realm of possibility today. Such a system would indeed grant its pilot/operator a 3 to 5 second reaction-time advantage over any opponent not similarly equipped. And, as is depicted in the film, the pilot would not need to press a button. He would need merely to form a thought, in the form of a command, and instantly activate a monitor, select a missile and its target, and fire that missile in less time than the pilot would take to utter the phrase "Fox One" or any similar tactical catch-phrase when pressing a firing switch today. Nor would a designer necessarily have to limit an EDE system to fire-control alone; he could also link the engine throttles, flight controls, and autopilot to the EDE system, thus making the entire aircraft an extension of the pilot in every sense of the word.
Whether the pilot would necessarily have to think in his accustomed language is an open question. One could as easily train a pilot to visualize pictographic symbols that could substitute for natural-language commands. In that manner the EDE system would be instantly usable, with no required pilot-specific adaptation, by any pilot, no matter what language he spoke. That Clint Eastwood's character was required to "think in Russian" was merely a plot device, though it was perhaps used to better effect in the motion picture than in the novel. (Gant tries to think in English to give the order to lay flak, and the system stubbornly refuses to respond until Gant remembers Baranovich's advice to him—just in time.) However, the EDE system could also have a deliberate feature requiring pilot-specific interpretation, in order to secure the aircraft against theft. But that would have created an untenable situation for Gant, because Voskov, the test pilot, would be the only man alive who could have flown either prototype.
A delicate intelligence operation
Craig Thomas, the original author, obviously theorized that a large-enough organization would be slow to realize that a major penetration was under way, and would also be overconfident and careless. Many people say that this was the exact posture of the United States intelligence apparatus on the occasion of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
|Remember that you are playing on their only real weakness. Because of its sheer size, the KGB is sometimes slow to awaken. It is like a monster—if you walk by it quietly enough, it will only lift an eyelid and sniff at you. But if you awaken it...!
Gant succeeds because the police do not regularly communicate with the KGB (which is why they do not realize until far too late that the man who flew into Sheremetyevo Airport as "Leon Sprague" is the same man who departed Moscow as "Boris Glazunov" the next morning), and also because Kontarsky, his principal opponent on the ground, is determined to round up everyone himself and does not take definitive action until suddenly Gant is taxiing the Firefox out of the hangar faster than he can get the door shut on him. As strange as Gant's success might seem, one can never forget the success that nineteen Arab terrorists had in killing 3000 people in four airliners, seven commercial buildings, and the very headquarters of the US Department of Defense. (That they failed to destroy the Capitol or perhaps the White House is only because a group of passengers sacrificed themselves in an attempt to re-commandeer their own flight when they knew that it had been hijacked and was on a deadly errand.)
Pavel Upenskoy succeeds in delivering Gant to Bilyarsk because he is as ruthless as any Arab terrorist has been shown to be, quite willing to kill a colleague when called for, and in the end, willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. Indeed, his ruthlessness is a match for that of Kontarsky, the more remarkable because he is a civilian. Gant perhaps demonstrates a similar ruthlessness: he orders a K-9 patrol in the very area of the forest where Upenskoy is likely to be skulking about and trying to stay ahead of the authorities, knowing that he might thereby be the instrument of Upenskoy's death.
Baranovich also demonstrates a willingness to lay down his life in order to ensure freedom for an entire world—and also an almost Quixotic desire to take down as many of his enemies as he can on the occasion of his inevitable death. While he is no Samson, he does succeed in his ultimate aim: getting Gant aboard Firefox so that Gant can steal it.
Novel v. film
The film and the novel do differ in a number of minor points. Boris Glazunov is beaten to death by two interrogators instead of one, and originally Gant does kill Voskov, only to face a second prototype flown by Voskov's younger counterpart, a Lieutenant Tretsov. Obviously Alex Lasker, who wrote the script, sought to cut down on the excessive plethora of characters. Lasker also cut out a scene in which Gant's refueling stop on the ice floe is rammed, and Captain Seerbacker's crew must hack a runway out of a rille that the collision forms in the ice. That aside, Lasker follows Thomas' prose word-for-word except for some minor corrections in the interest of believability, perhaps reflecting knowledge that Thomas might not have had when he wrote the novel.
According to the fan site, the publisher of the novel originally illustrated its cover with a drawing of a MiG-25, but subsequently changed the cover art to be in keeping with the design that the Warner Brothers art department and special-effects shop invented for the film.[2]
The correct title of what was once the most powerful office in the Soviet Union was General Secretary of the Communist Party, not First Secretary.
The Firefox film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for its year.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Barron J, MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lieutenant Belenko, New York: Bantam Books, 1980.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 MiG-31 Firefox Online Resource, 2001-2010. <http://thinkinrussian.org/index.cfm>
- ↑ RCPowers MiG-31 Firefox model. Has an embedded video of a demonstration flight.
- ↑ Riddle W, "Monkey Mind Control Evolves with Elaborate New Robotic Arm", Switched.com, 4 June 2010. Accessed 13 July 2010. <http://www.switched.com/2010/06/04/monkey-mind-control-evolves-with-elaborate-new-robotic-arm/>
- ↑ Drummond K, "Human trials next for DARPA's mind-controlled artificial arm," Wired, 15 July 2010. <https://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/human-trials-ahead-for-darpas-mind-controlled-artificial-arm/>


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I went back to American ConquestThe Knights of Gareth are Eternal
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I bought a switch a few days ago. Have been enjoying that.Give me an Old Luke skin, and we will be best friends. He is the only one I plan on buying with real $. :-)
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1. The Three Shadow Sirens are actually named Beldam, Vivian, and Marilyn.
2. In Twilight Princess I found a Poe in Hyrule Field, but the sun came out before I could fight it, so I had to wait it out.
I played Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time before going to bed.
- I got lost looking for the next time portal... and then I went up stairs.
- I went through Yoshi Village, and met Yoob.
- Those cloud covered enemies are annoying.
- I'm not good with dodging, and I have problems with pulling off some attacks.
- Yoob is supersized by the Shroobs, and eats Baby Bowser, the Mario Bros., and their past selves.
- I explore Yoob's insides, and near the entrance there are three color changing switches (one of them is blocked off), and I couldn't find out what to do.
- I find a block with a light flying around it, and I tried everything to try and grab it, I then checked online and you have to let Baby Mario jump up after Mario jumps to reach it (note: I needed to look up a video to find it).
- I defeated Summerside, and it was difficult.
- I learn the Bros. Ball, and unlock a secret area, the sewers.
- After exploring the sewers, I follow a mysterious man to his secret hideout.
and he has fury!
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I played Super Mario Odyssey, but I forgot most of what I did, but I think it's coming back to me.
I grabbed a few moons in the Sand Kingdom. I met Peach, found "the one ring to rule them all" (well, the wedding ring that was once stolen by Bowser), I raced the Koopa freerunners (and it wasn't that difficult), I found a secret cavern, talked to Toad, completed Koopa Tracing (now, on the first attempt I got 98 points when I needed 80, and when I needed 90 there were a few attempts in a row where I got around 80), I then found a few more moons, revisited more areas, and returned to the Odyssey. I didn't like how many moons I had, however, so I went to the Lost Kingdom to find a quick one.#JoinTheBuzz
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I played Overcooked and it was difficult, the trick is that you have to be more prepared than Batman... or play with others.#JoinTheBuzz
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7141 posts MemberAdding CTR Nitro Fueled for me
absolutely love it. So nostalgicPSN: ibrajoker591
I ended up trying Borderlands 2. Fun game, and I'm not even a looter shooter fan.The Knights of Gareth are Eternal
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I found a cheat in Smash Bros were you just restart the game after a challenger then play another match and a challenger will appear after that, every time.Give me an Old Luke skin, and we will be best friends. He is the only one I plan on buying with real $. :-)
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I finally went back to Star Wars Battlefront 2
- The new HvV is fun but (too) short.
- In the first match I was Luke and, since I no longer have to hold off on fighting certain enemies (so I don't steal someone else's target), I announced that "Now there is no code of honor to hold me back!"... and then Darth Vader chopped my head off seconds later. Also, I couldn't beat Rey to the killing blow once when we happened to tag team somebody.
- In the fourth match I was Kylo Ren and Anakin was running from me, so I chased after him and announced "one day you will become Darth Vader, but until then I'm gonna kill you!" and after winning with 30 health I walked away saying "Gotem."
- In that same match I had a few bouts with Han Solo. The first memorable one was when I had him cornered, Kylo said "you have lost" and I was about to use frenzy to finish him off... but then he shot me in the face, the second I got him with frenzy, and finally I was hit in the head with detonate charge, and Kylo Ren's corpse fell into that bottomless pit in the second Death Star.
- I played some Starfighter Assault.
- Finally I played four matches of CS, oddly enough I do better with Anakin now than I did before, and though I like the new ground phase, the ship phase ends too quickly, and I hope that it either goes back to normal or has the timer doubled from launch levels once things are sorted out.
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I played a two games yesterday.
The first game was Star Wars Battlefront II
- I played HvV, and I finally found a good Iden strategy... sniping (didn't say it was an original one)
- I played Starfighter Assault, and the glitch where my ship exploded happened once, but it was mostly fun (and before that some Strike).
- I played a really long match of Capital Supremacy, where we went to the ship three times. I played as every unit except for the Assault, Officer, and Specialist (since I wanted to stick to the Heavy) & Yoda and Chewbacca (since I completed their non score related challenges, and didn't want to waste the BP). The enemy formed an impenetrable wall of Droidekas around the second detonator, and then they boarded our ship and won.
- I played the first VR mission, and it was irritating, but I think I could circumvent the difficulty by getting an office chair.
- I got everything in the Lost Kingdom.
- And, I think I got everything in the Ruined Kingdom, but I apparently missed some hint art here and there (there's 19 in the game, if anyone is curious).
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I just played a few missions in Transformers: Decepticons for the Nintendo DS, and it was fun.
I wanted to name my character Megazarak (after the OTFCC villain), but it wouldn't fit, then I wanted to name him Sideways (after the villain from the Unicron Trilogy), but it was off by one letter, so I dubbed him Sidious (pretty self explanatory).
I played my first few missions, but I must give you a warning. Though combat is simple, if you're threat level raises too high you will be swarmed by Autobots, and the more you kill, the more show up, so if you decide to level up a lot before moving on "welcome to die," thankfully your progress (such as levels and scanned vehicles) saves, and changing vehicles will completely lower your threat level (but you can't do that in missions), and if you're low on health you could shoot at trees and occasionally they will drop items that you could use.#JoinTheBuzz
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I played some more Breath of the Wild, and I got all the shields from Selmie (shield surfing is fun and easy if you use the right route), and made my way to the Hebra Labyrinth, I actually managed to flurry rush, and I entered the shrine. Finally I warped back to Kakariko Village, to speak with the Great Fairy. Next I'll go on the next shrine quest before I have to find more, and go back to Hebra Mountain.#JoinTheBuzz
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1628 posts MemberUnwarycoin wrote: »I played some more Breath of the Wild, and I got all the shields from Selmie (shield surfing is fun and easy if you use the right route), and made my way to the Hebra Labyrinth, I actually managed to flurry rush, and I entered the shrine. Finally I warped back to Kakariko Village, to speak with the Great Fairy. Next I'll go on the next shrine quest before I have to find more, and go back to Hebra Mountain.
I love that freaking game.2
I played Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Sonic Forces yesterday.#JoinTheBuzz
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I played Sonic Forces at around midnight, and I'm still not good at speed running the final boss, nor am I good at SOS missions (well, I'm good enough).#JoinTheBuzz
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Best game.1
Awhile back I played Goosebumps the Game for the Xbox One, and Breath of the Wild.
I found a shrine in the ruins of Castle Town, ran to Rito Village, and finally solved the Rito Song (But I needed a guide to find out how to finish it, since I didn't know when the time was right). Then, I warped near Selmie's to find the door, but instead I found North Hebra Mountain, my shrine radar was going crazy, and I finally found the door on the mountain. After looking it up online, I was able to oven the door, and find the last of the leviathan bones to boot.#JoinTheBuzz
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Awhile back I played some more Sonic Forces and Breath of the Wild.
In the former I'm improving at the final boss. In the latter I traveled from Hebra to Hateno Village, along the way I found some some shrines, the annoying snowling game (it took so long to get the best prize that I depleted the Master Sword, broke most of my weapons, and had the Master Sword recharge), grabbed a dragon horn, found a snow covered village, completed Leviathan bones, traveled with my horse Lanayru (which is the correct spelling for the land, not what I named Epona in Twilight Princess HD), and I grabbed a star fragment. Once I made it to my destination, I bought and fully furnished my house.#JoinTheBuzz
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I just finished playing Kirby 64: the Crystal Shards by completing its third world and collecting the remaining crystal shards (before that I played Battlefront 2), and it was annoying (I died a few times, especially on the last level).#JoinTheBuzz
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (2019) by Jersey Jack Pinball. Oh man, this brand new game is so fun. All the best lines and scenes from the film are here, easily one of my childhood favorite films...."You're turning violet, Violet!" When the ball is in the pop bumpers, the oompa Loompas begin to sing, and the longer the ball stays in there, the longer they sing. it's hilarious. Anyone got 10 grand I can borrow to put this in my living room?
I played some more Transformers Decepticons yesterday, but today I learned that I can't complete it due to it being tied to Allspark Wars.#JoinTheBuzz
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Yesterday I played Battlefront 2 and Hyrule Warriors.In Hyrule Warriors I finally confronted Ganondorf, the level started mentioned how Link was getting overconfident and charging into hordes of enemies, and I found it funny because that's pretty much what the game is all about. I also played the game as Impa and Fi, and with Impa I fought Ganondorf at the keep he emerges from and near the end I stun-locked him against a wall just by shooting him with arrows.#JoinTheBuzz
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I played the next level in Hyrule Warriors, and here are four things to note.
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Unwarycoin said:I played the next level in Hyrule Warriors, and here are four things to note.
1. I found where Link's heart container was after I beat the stage, so I couldn't get it.
2. I got my first 8-bit weapon.
3. Volga is insanely difficult, the second and third times I fought him he nearly decimated me.
extra. As Midna, I was down to about three hearts, so I ran away to look for hearts and Volga randomly died by my hand (even though I retreated).
4. Cia's attacks are really disorienting if you get hit by them.#JoinTheBuzz
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I'm having less And less time for video games, but when I do have time to play I'm still hitting MK11 online and some Battlefront 2 with my girlfriend. I want to finish my RAGE 2 and DOOM games though.1
I played some Battlefront 2 and Hyrule Warriors yesterday.
I had a great match with Maul yesterday, I got 5 spin attack kills, most of which on accident!
In Hyrule Warriors I decimated hordesas Ganondorf!#JoinTheBuzz
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Yesterday I played Battlefront II and Splatoon.#JoinTheBuzz
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Yesterday I played Battlefront II and Splatoon.#JoinTheBuzz
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2538 posts MemberI've been playing some BF15, Smash Bros, and Cuphead.PSN: this_old_mouse1
Yesterday I played some Super Mario All-Stars and I only made progress in Super Mario Bros & The Lost Levels, I tried Super Mario Bros 2 & 3 but it was a disaster (blue flowers that trap you, Red Birdo, and Boom Boom are all horrible.), the next I played Kirby's Dream Course... and I needed the help of a guide to get a gold medal on the first course, and it still took awhile.
Finally, I just finished playing Battlefront 2, CS was fun until it crashed on Naboo (also I got frustrated in HvV and played some Blast before that).#JoinTheBuzz
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I've played a few more games over the past few days. (Not in order, probably)
- Battlefront 2
- Breath of the Wild, where I found Terry Town, a few mini-bosses (including a run in with the Igneo Talus on a small platform), a Goron to help build the town (I checked Goron Town, but a guide said I needed to go to the south mine, but I didn't find the secret treasure, and the Goron kid is pretty articulate when you find his treasure), ran back to Terry Town, found some silver enemies, nearly died a few times, and now I'm off to Gerudo Valley.
- Lego Star Wars II for the DS: this game is a bit weird, you have to be right next to someone to swap characters, you can't break stuff in the hub world, trying to exit Wi-Fi mode softlocked the game on the "would you like to connect" tab because it wouldn't let me exit or confirm, the bit crunch I heard about is noticeable, and C-3PO looks weird up close.
- Finally I played Lego Dimensions: I finally got to try the 2016 Ghostbusters story and the RIP stone is weird, (I'll get into it in more detail later, but if you are in the yellow or pink dimension, and you have a character in the other dimension, you could see their spectral image, which is color matched to the reality they are currently in.), I failed Rule Breaker in Level three, and I was one minikit away from completing the final level in full, but Rowan grabbed me before I could actually look (also, there's a good stud grinding spot, at the aqua build instead of using I think to put it out, try doing it with a water squirting character. They'll never permanently go out, but they'll keep giving you studs). I then explored the hub world and I was one collectible away from completing the collection quest... and when I was about to find it, it reset, so I had to start over. Then two other quests wouldn't even work, so I had to shut down the console (before that, I had to patch an interdimensional device for a hub world quest, and here's the weird part. If you played the game, you'd know that you're in a floating chunk trapped in a dimensional rift, the yellow rift has the original Ghostbusters mention that they're trapped, implying that it really is floating on the cusp of oblivion, but the other reality has humans trapped by the "Pulsebusters," which in itself is funny because an NPC will ask if there's an alternate reality where they're the ghosts and the ghosts bust them, which is oddly close to this, but anyways once you free the humans they leave the firehouse... implying that they are actually in their home reality, but you only have access to a single area.), I eventually decided to just complete the world... but Kevin needs something done for him that requires a mission impossible character. Then I got the last two rule breaker bricks I have access to (since I apparently didn't get it in The Final Dimension, but I managed to complete it without using the starter characters). The game also crashed a few times, and I was logged out of Xbox Live twice, but on the bright side my Xbox 360 works again!
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Just got back from 4 days of pinball camping in the Rockies. A generator 100 feet from camp, and the machines only about 30 feet from the fire. The sound of the creek drowned out the sound of the gasoline generator. What a blast. Pinball under the stars, man. We had Iron Maiden (2016), Corvette (1994) and Honey (1972 electro-mechanical). I haven't been online since last wednesday, and it feels good. This is a pic I took as we were leaving. This is near Frisco, CO."Rise."3
I played Star Wars Battlefront II and Ducktales: Remastered
In the latter game I explored the Moon and Transylvania, and found their heart containers.
It's weird seeing the older incarnations after watching the newer show, and I thought this Scrooge seemed kinder... until he was willing to abandon Fenton, who is currently trapped on an alien spaceship and was probably going to be killed and eaten, I'm pretty sure.
Also, I think Transylvania has great music.#JoinTheBuzz
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What about Mind games?
I forgot to mention that Scrooge said he didn't believe in vampires, and coming from him I believe him (nope), and when I saw the skeleton enemy I said "it's Shy Guy" when it reminded me of Dry Bones (it's like that time AntDude saw Spyro in Crash Twinsanity and said "it's Sonic," only that was intentional and funny and this was me confusing the undead koopa with a guy wearing a mask).
Also, I played Sonic Unleashed, and first I played Arid Sands night Act 1, and that was a frustrating experience. First, I got stuck because a purple barrier wouldn't despawn, so I had to restart, then I went to a side area with a healing wizard, some lizards, and annoying red wasp enemies, I died a lot to them and then I didn't even have enough health because of the fight before that, so I decided to move on (thankfully the game saves collectibles even if you restart the stage or die and go back to an earlier checkpoint). Then I took on Arid Sands day Act 2 (which, I believe, is a DLC stage) and I learned that I'm bad at quick time events in this game, and the stage was 90% those. Then I tried to find the Act 1 day stage, but when I saw it I found that I completed it (with an E rank), so I took on the boss, who was simple but I took too long to complete it for an S rank and still didn't get all the medals. Finally I talked to Brenda.
P.S. I first explored the area and tried to take pictures, but Sonic kept attacking people, I was wondering why until I realized I kept pressing X instead of Y (as the QTE comment above alludes to, me pressing the wrong button is apparently a running gag.)#JoinTheBuzz
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511 postsEA Moderator › EA ModeratorI've been playing Apex Legends and Madden. Will probably start playing Red Dead 2 since I haven't even launched it since I bought it during a PS store promotion.2
I recently played BOTW and my trek through Gerudo Desert was an annoying series of events.
I kept seeing red and black birds that I could take pictures of, but they either kept flying away, my camera wouldn't identify them until they flew away, and one time they were near an electric Lizalfos that I had to get rid of before it scared off the birds... but I got a head shot and it barbecued all of them, I never did get that picture. Then I went looking for a Gerudo whose name ends in son in Gerudo Town, but when I couldn't find her I checked the northern ice house, and when that didn't work so I checked online and it said she was at an oasis, so I checked the southern oasis but planned on stopping at the bazaar, well I didn't get to the bazaar and I didn't find her at the oasis, but I did find a Moldulga so that's two down. I finally found her at the bazaar and then I set off to Terry Town, but I saw a dragon when I made it to the temple of time, so I tried to get to Lake Hylia But he flew off before I could get to him. I then went to an enemy outpost and took them out. After that I quit for the day.#JoinTheBuzz
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I just got back from Battlefront 2.
- First I played some Blast.
- Then I played around of Strike.
- After then I played Capital Supremacy and here it goes, the first round was on a ship phase and I wasn't able to do anything so I quit and when I went back the next round was on Kamino, but it was almost finished, I even used the "uh oh" emote because we boarded the ship and it was almost captured. Next was Geonosis and it was epic! I scored a lot of kills, played as every reinforcement type that wasn't a hero, and they got on the ship twice but we booted them off and then we boarded their ship and decimated them, I even scored a kill as Grievous (I got gunned down but was able to take one of them out with thrust surge, I tried to use claw rush afterwards but then I died. I probably should have used unrelenting advance instead). Next I quit to avoid Naboo, and was sent back to Kamino, this time as the Droids and I almost called my enemy a clanker, they managed to board the ship but we forced them out them out and managed to board them, I even activated the first detonator and we kept it active, when the other one blew up I shot the sky like in a western movie (or like G2 Optimus). Finally I went to Geonosis and I got a few passionate strike kills and two heroic might kills with Anakin, we also boarded the clanker's ship and blew it up in one try, I even got 5th place on the leaderboard.
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I just finished the Flower Cup 100cc in Mario Kart 8 (I played this game to take some photos), and I only had to restart it once.#JoinTheBuzz
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order.
I.e. the good Avengers game.1
Unwarycoin said:I just finished the Flower Cup 100cc in Mario Kart 8 (I played this game to take some photos), and I only had to restart it once.
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Last night I played BOTW, and I did more quests surrounding Terry Town, I warped to the Lost Woods because I found a Blupee (but I forgot to talk to Hetsu), I warped to Rito Village and the guy I needed to talk to was there, I found the last Great Fairy (but I didn't have enough rupees so I sold some items and went back, also this was before warping to Lost Woods), entered the Forgotten Temple, rode my horse, and fought some enemies.I also depleted the Master Cycle Zero.
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People who have Nintendo Switch!
Where are you getting them? I found a guy selling one, no games for 200. Is that good? I want to start playing the switch.
ResistanceRodian said:People who have Nintendo Switch!
Where are you getting them? I found a guy selling one, no games for 200. Is that good? I want to start playing the switch.1
ResistanceRodian said:People who have Nintendo Switch!
Where are you getting them? I found a guy selling one, no games for 200. Is that good? I want to start playing the switch.
Last night I played some more Lego Star Wars II, and I would have got undefeated in chapter 3 of A New Hope if I didn't get shot while dealing with the ridiculous carrot platform.#JoinTheBuzz
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Yesterday I bought a lot of games at a retro store and tried Sonic Lost World for the Wii U & Transformers for the PS3.
I got the game because it was the Deadly Six Edition, and I was wondering if the code worked, and it did! I had a hard time figuring out how to do a multi-attack (and died a few times in Nightmare Zone), but then I figured out that you had to hit the jump button to do a homing attack, not Y (I tried it at first, but I don't think it worked). I also completed the Yoshi's Island & Zelda Zones.
In Transformers I beat my way through Level 1 as Blackout. I wasn't feeling it at first, but it's fun to beat up building and Autobots as a destructive force!#JoinTheBuzz
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I had a lot of fun playing Left 4 Dead 2 last night.The Knights of Gareth are Eternal
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I've played a few games since my last post. First was the Battle for Bikini Bottom and Breaking Da Rules combo pak for GBA, then in BOTW I finished "From the Ground Up" and witnessed a wedding, from there I recreated Mipha's weapon and placed it in Link's house, finally I played Tak and the Power of JuJu for the GBA, and I tried to play it first but it didn't work. I was able to fix it thanks to advice from someone at Steam. I completed the first two worlds, with help from a guide to ensure I don't miss anything.#JoinTheBuzz
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643 posts MemberI had some time away from battlefront 2 for two weeks and I finished Mario Odyssey, Kamiko (small indy game on the switch for 5 bucks), Pokemon Let's Go Evee and Bayonetta (I'm doing a second run now).The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. - Qui-Gon Jinn
Never tell me the odds. - Han Solo1
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