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Shares of International Biotechnology Trust Plc (IBT.L) have seen the volume moving average (VMA) climb over the past seven sessions. The stock recently touched 620.00, or a change of 2.00 from the most recent open.
Volume Moving Average, as the name indicates, is a moving average of the volume rather than the price. VMA represents the average volume over a specified period of time and can be used to chart a stock, ETF or index for a period as short as a few minutes to as long as many years. By smoothing out individual surges in the volume activity, VMA allows you to see the general trends and volume patterns of a stock or index.
A longer period VMA (aka Slow VMA – a larger number for the period) is often used to highlight long-term surges in volume. Significant volume surges sometimes precede long-term trend reversals. A shorter-period VMA (aka Fast VMA – a smaller number for the period) is often used to highlight short-term volume surges, which may precede short-term trend reversals. Watch out when selecting your period for your VMA to avoid setting your period too high or too low, as the volume will either be smoothed out too much or be too erratic for practical use.
Turning to technicals, shares of International Biotechnology Trust Plc (IBT.L) have a 200-day moving average of 595.87. The 50-day is 577.62, and the 7-day is sitting at 610.86. Using a wider time frame to assess the moving average such as the 200-day, may help block out the noise and chaos that is often caused by daily price fluctuations. In some cases, MA's may be used as strong reference points for spotting support and resistance levels. Employing the use of the moving average for technical equity analysis is still highly popular among traders and investors. The moving average can be used as a reference point to assist with the discovery of buying and selling opportunities.
International Biotechnology Trust Plc (IBT.L)'s Williams Percent Range or 14 day Williams %R currently sits at -10.00. The Williams %R oscillates in a range from 0 to -100. A reading between 0 and -20 would point to an overbought situation. A reading from -80 to -100 would signal an oversold situation. The Williams %R was developed by Larry Williams. This is a momentum indicator that is the inverse of the Fast Stochastic Oscillator.
International Biotechnology Trust Plc (IBT.L) currently has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of 150.72. Active investors may choose to use this technical indicator as a stock evaluation tool. Used as a coincident indicator, the CCI reading above +100 would reflect strong price action which may signal an uptrend. On the flip side, a reading below -100 may signal a downtrend reflecting weak price action. Using the CCI as a leading indicator, technical analysts may use a +100 reading as an overbought signal and a -100 reading as an oversold indicator, suggesting a trend reversal.
Currently, the 14-day ADX for International Biotechnology Trust Plc (IBT.L) is sitting at 18.05. Generally speaking, an ADX value from 0-25 would indicate an absent or weak trend. A value of 25-50 would support a strong trend. A value of 50-75 would identify a very strong trend, and a value of 75-100 would lead to an extremely strong trend. ADX is used to gauge trend strength but not trend direction. Traders often add the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) to identify the direction of a trend.
The RSI, or Relative Strength Index, is a widely used technical momentum indicator that compares price movement over time. The RSI was created by J. Welles Wilder who was striving to measure whether or not a stock was overbought or oversold. The RSI may be useful for spotting abnormal price activity and volatility. The RSI oscillates on a scale from 0 to 100. The normal reading of a stock will fall in the range of 30 to 70. A reading over 70 would indicate that the stock is overbought, and possibly overvalued. A reading under 30 may indicate that the stock is oversold, and possibly undervalued. After a recent check, the 14-day RSI is currently at 73.21, the 7-day stands at 85.41, and the 3-day is sitting at 97.87.


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WEST VILLAGE — How well do you really know the West Village?
A mysterious song posted online with no credits and no identifying info about Morton Street asks people to participate in a musical guessing game to identify notable neighborhood characters described in the tune.
"Ghosts of Morton Street," a ballad sung by an unidentified female vocalist and posted online, bemoans the loss of the famous figures who once populated the area, including "John with his samurai sword" — an apparent reference to John Belushi, who legend has it once lived on the street.
"Can you name the people mentioned?" the site asks, with no other details. Fliers spotted hanging from light posts in the area Monday provided a link to the website but no other information.
"People of some future day, I raise my glass to you and say, take care of this place and if we should meet, by then we'll both be ghosts of Morton Street," the song ends.
The only online hint about the source of the song can be found on the Axis Theater Company's Facebook page. The group based at 1 Sheridan Square — just two blocks from the eastern end of Morton Street — posted the link without comment.
Axis did not immediately respond to an inquiry about "The Ghosts of Morton Street."
Online commenters started taking guesses Friday about the identities of some of the cryptic past residents.
"'I'm thinking John with his samurai sword' is John Belushi," an anonymous commenter wrote. "Not sure if he lived on Morton St., but I have a picture in my mind of him walking home from an SNL taping early Sunday morning wearing his samurai costume."
Want to give figuring out the Morton Street characters your best shot? DNAinfo jotted them down:
"On Morton Street, some of the older trees are dying
In the back out long ago, I heard my neighbor sighing
Then I heard his phone ring just like in the olden days
When everybody's phone rang the same
On Morton Street, the old man died on Christmas Eve
The garage guys who mourned him said he seemed all sad to leave
He told me once my house had been a restaurant saloon
And you know once in the ground I found a spoon
Back and forth in shades of gray, those who lived here yesterday
There goes John with his samurai sword
Hear the noise from the bars at five and four
See Patricia's Ripley is just like her
See the ghosts in the eyes of the Rosenbergs
Soon I'll be gone, let go of the slender reed
My window box is empty and my garden gone to seed
But hopefully someday someone else will come along
And with a little luck, they'll sing this song
People of some future day, I raise my glass to you and say
Take care of this place and if we should meet
By then we'll both be ghosts of Morton Street"

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Used by Ryan Seacrest and other misc fags to say goodbye.
by EROCK August 16, 2004
A term used by metrosexuals to end phone conversations.
Wes: Seacrest Out
Mike: Dude, you are such a fag
Mike: Dude, you are such a fag
by Matt Roe July 21, 2005
What to say when you're finished masturbating
by WhiteBoyAmerica February 07, 2011
Expletive used by insipid radio and television personality Ryan Seacrest to describe when he is finished with a show or other activity.
Once Ryan had finished relieving his sexual needs on the cat he realized his 'catch phrase' was born - 'Seacrest Out!'
by Hugh Moore April 28, 2004
Coined by Ryan Seacrest as a "sign-off" line. Possibly inspired by the 1960's television series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", whose submarine was named the Seaview. When the captain was communicating via radio, he would sign-off as "Seaview out".
Goodnight ladies and gentlemen. Seacrest out!
by eltoro71 June 15, 2009
A way to end a conversation with your home boys; whether on the phone, texting, etc. It use to be "gay", but now it's funny and a smartass way to end the dialogue, and let your buds know that you are tired and need to hit the sack. Based on the radio DJ Ryan Seacrest's catchphrase, when he ends his show: "Seacrest Out."
I was tired of texting with Kurt, on whether Michigan State deserved to be in the Final Four, so I just ended it with "Seacrest Out."
by mike87111 March 28, 2010


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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Really Super Cuts
Jeff started a new job on Monday. On Sunday morning he decided to trim his hair to make sure he looked tidy for the big day. Jeff usually cuts his hair himself with the aid of an adjustable hair trimmer, resulting in a style we refer to as "The Matt Lauer."
I was still in bed Sunday morning when I heard Jeff calling me from the bathroom, "Honey? Honey? Bob get Mama, Daddy's freaking out a little. I'm freaking out. Honey?"
I came into the bathroom and discovered this:
Jeff had attempted to do his hair and had forgotten to put on the trimmer attachment.
"Honey? Oh my God. It's bad, right? Oh my God. I didn't have coffee yet and I just wasn't thinking and Jesus you have to fix this. I'm freaking out. I think you can fix it, right? Maybe do a fade? It's not that bad, right?"
In the immediate crisis I was of no help because I was much too busy laughing until I couldn't breathe. Also, I can trim neck hair but the "tapered fade" is not in my bag of tricks.
"I can't fix that. You need a real barber."
"It's Sunday. Isn't everything closed?"
I promised I would help, but first I tried to sell him on some new hairstyle ideas.
"The Kanye - I'm A Let You Finish":
Or perhaps "The Ron Artest" with the name of the new company shaved into his hair to show team spirit:
Once I had wiped the laughter-convulsion-tears from my eyes, I set about trying to fix things. While I was attempting a miracle, our dog wedged herself into our small bathroom and squeaked incessantly on a reindeer dog toy. Bob pulled up his new 18 wheeler and his mini-piano and played along. Jeff moaned and cursed a little under his breath. All of this combined to create optimal conditions for concentrating on the job at hand.
As I worked, my biggest fear is that I would leave my sweet, handsome, husband with "The Forrest Gump":
The finished hairstyle was passable and looked like this:
The best part about the new do is that it will have completely filled in by the end of the week. (And I got breakfast in bed and a blog post out of it.)
High five.
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You are a hairdressing genius. I don't know how you saved that 'do, but you did it. Mad props Scissor Sister.ReplyDelete
Nice job! We're always getting our husbands out of messes aren't we?! They shouldn't call us wives, they should call us superheros. "And do you , Jeff, take her to be your lawfully wedded superhero?" I think it has a nice ring to it!ReplyDelete
First of all, you're amazing! I had no doubt this story was going to end in "The Moby". I have been cutting Luke's hair since forever. I did that once. Only one line on the back of his head, not a whole section, but it was still pretty bad because he wears his hair longer. I was able to fix it, sort of, but the real punchline is that I never told him.ReplyDelete
Guys are so lucky that a botched haircut grows out in a week. We could be so lucky! I like how the lack of coffee was his excuse for messing it up.ReplyDelete
Man, Lisa, "the Ron artest" idea was genius.ReplyDelete
- KnadeleDecember 30, 2009 at 9:09 AM
I hope the insurance company at the new job doesn't consider this a pre-existing condition.ReplyDelete
I know this whole scenario all too well... the freak-out shower cut that Terry impulsively decides on while I'm still asleep, the plead to fix it, and the hysterical laughter to belly ache. The only difference is that Jeff's hair turned out fine. Terry has had to sport a hat for a few days after I'm through with him. We are lucky to have men with rapid growth hair follicles I suppose.ReplyDelete
Congrats on the new gig!
oh my god. i'm screaming. that's soooooo hilarious. you kill me.ReplyDelete
HAha! I laughed so hard I just spit my sandwich all over my laptop!!ReplyDelete
Lisa, I've been meaning to post to your blog for a while (I read it every day). THIS post had me rolling--it is SO funny! Thanks for the (continuing) laughs! I hope that Jeff is enjoying his new job. You performed a marvelous "save" (no Forrest Gump there). Enjoy your breakfast in bed!ReplyDelete
I shouldn't laugh, but I so did. I am super impressed with the final turn-out. Althought the Kanye West would have worked well too.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness!ReplyDelete
I saw an amazing Jeff haircut waaaaaay back in the day when he decided that some bald patches would be the perfect accessory on tour with The Locust. I never thought he'd reprise it for the first day at a new job!ReplyDelete
Okay, I'm four and a half years late to the party but this totally cracked me up!!! You did a fantastic job.ReplyDelete
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Oct. 23, 2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (seminoles.com) – The 12th-ranked Florida State indoor volleyball team hosts in-state rival and 11th-ranked Florida in a highly anticipated match at Tully Gym on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 6 p.m.
The match will stream live on ESPN3.com, with play by play being done by Tom Block and color analysis provided by Seminole volleyball coaching legend Cecile Reynaud. Free pizza is available before the game for "Poole Party" members courtesy of Student Housing Solutions.
The matchup features two teams that enter Wednesday's contest with a combined 26-match win streak. The Seminoles (18-2, 10-1), who hold the 13th-best RPI in the nation, have two important streaks on the line. Florida State has not lost a match at Tully Gym since Nov. 26, 2010, carrying a school-record 20-match win streak at home. Florida State also has an overall 12-match win streak, while the Gators (17-2, 11-0) come in with 14 consecutive wins.
"It's always great when we have an opportunity to play a top team," head coach Chris Poole said. "It just happens to be that this is a big rival for us. (Gator head coach) Mary Wise and I started playing each other back in 1994 when I was at Arkansas and since then every year has been a battle. They are always strong matches and there is a very healthy respect between her and I and we expect a very good game on Wednesday night."
Florida State is trying to break another meaningful streak in front of the home faithful on Wednesday evening. Despite advancing farther than Florida in the NCAA postseason two of the past three years, the Seminoles have lost 21 consecutive matches to the Gators. The last time Florida State defeated Florida was on Oct. 31, 1994 at Tully Gym.
Overall, Florida leads the all-time series 35-21. The Seminoles have held match point against Florida in two of the last three seasons but have been unable to come away with a highly-sought after win.
Wednesday's match marks the third consecutive year both teams play each other as nationally-ranked opponents. The Seminoles are led by their impressive middle blocking core of junior Ashley Neff and senior Sareea Freeman. Neff is the only player in the nation who is in the Top 10 nationally in blocks per set (fifth at 1.66) and hitting percentage (third at .448). Comparing her All-America season in 2011 to this year through the first 20 matches, Neff is exceeding her blocks per set average and has 44 more kills.
Freeman has been impressive for Florida State, ranking second in the country with a .450 hitting percentage. She is one of just six Seminoles who have been named ACC Player of the Week more than once in her career, earning the weekly honor last year and again this season.
Florida State is looking to earn its first Top 10 RPI win of the year, with Florida coming in as the 10th-ranked team. According to the latest NCAA RPI figures, the Seminoles are 7-2 against the Top 50 opponents, with No. 16 Tennessee being their highest-valued win.
Both teams earned hard-fought victories last weekend. Florida State went on the road at Georgia Tech and battled back from an 0-2 deficit to win the match in five sets. Florida traveled to Texas A&M and managed to come back from the same deficit and win the fifth frame in convincing fashion, staying undefeated in the Southeastern Conference.
Junior middle blocker Chloe Mann has emerged as one of the top players across the country, leading the team with 3.87 kills per set and a .439 hitting percentage. Slovenian freshman ?iva Recek is one of the top newcomers in the nation, showing a team-leading 256 kills and a .296 hitting percentage.
The Gators rank second in the country in hitting percentage with a .312 clip, with Mann, right-side Tangerine Wiggs and middle blocker Betsy Smith all placing in the Top 50 individually.
Following Wednesday night's match, the Seminoles get back into conference play with home matches against Virginia on Friday and Virginia Tech on Sunday. Friday's match at 7 p.m. offers free tanks to the first 400 fans and is also a Seminole Spirit Rewards match where participants can earn double the loyalty points.
Sunday's match versus Virginia at 1 p.m. is the annual "Paint it Pink" match, with breast cancer awareness T-shirts available for a $10 donation. After the match there will also be a "Paint it Pink" clinic.


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After compiling our guide to the "Big Ten" media conglomerates, we shared it with cultural producers and critics in a range of fields: music, journalism, television, publishing. Following are their comments.
–The Editors
Al Franken
Al Franken is currently working on his fourth book, Oh, The Things I Know! (Dutton), due to be released in May 2002.
I'm going to use this as an opportunity to vent against something that happened about six years ago: the rescinding of something called fin-syn. Fin-syn, financial interest and syndication rules, used to prevent networks from owning more than a certain percentage of the shows they aired. For years the networks argued that they needed to own their shows in order to be profitable. Fin-syn proponents argued that if the networks were allowed to have a stake in their shows, they would abuse their power, strong-arming producers and giving favorable treatment to shows they had a financial interest in.
In 1995 the networks prevailed after years of fierce lobbying before Congress. And immediately the abuse began. At an American Bar Association dinner in 1997 I sat next to FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky and asked him if he was aware that the networks were doing exactly what they testified they wouldn't do. He asked, "What did they say they wouldn't do?"
"Oh, they said stuff like, 'We'd never favor our own shows. That'd be insane. We need to put the best shows on in order to get ratings.'"
"Oh yeah," said Pitofsky, "now I remember." Then he surprised me. Turns out Pitofsky had represented NBC during its lobbying effort. He had been one of the people saying those things. Now he wanted to know what was happening.
What was happening was that the networks were extorting studios and independents. Give us a piece of your show, or we won't air it. Give us a bigger piece and we'll give you a better time slot. They went very quickly from doing it secretly to doing it right out in the open. After all, if you're the buyer and seller of programming, it would practically be corporate malpractice not to exploit your position. The studios and independents resisted at first on principle, then caved.
Who cares? If you watch network television, you should. The same people who are scheduling the shows are making the shows, so what you see reflects the tastes of fewer and fewer people. Maybe you've noticed.
And, of course, the rescinding of fin-syn actually made this chart possible. Studios not only could buy networks, they essentially had to buy them in self-defense. Disney, Fox Studios and Paramount (Viacom) don't have to compete with ABC, Fox and CBS. They are ABC, Fox and CBS.


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Guaman faces a second-degree murder charge, among other charges, resulting from an August 2011 crash that killed Milford resident Matthew Denice. In April a Worcester Superior Court judge ruled that Guaman was not competent to stand trial because he could not understand the legal process enough to assist in his own defense.
At Guaman's trial assignment on Thursday, his attorney, Peter Ettenberg, said he has completed classes with a law professor hired by the defense and is prepared to move forward.
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Initially, Judge Janet Kenton-Walker gave a 60-day deadline to reassess Guaman's competency after her ruling in April. At a hearing in June, Ettenberg was granted additional time and funds, including $1,500 to hire Karen Pita Loor, a criminal practice law professor at Boston University, to educate his client.
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Before Guaman's April trial, a pre-trial hearing is scheduled for Oct. 11 where attorneys said they expect the issue of competency to be resolved.
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Maloney, who has been at every court date since her son died just over two years ago, said she wants the case to go to trial.
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"Who Wants to Be a Superhero?" (Sci-Fi 7 p.m.) Who would have thought a show about ordinary people dressing up in tights and trying to act like superheroes would be so oddly touching? And yet, last season had plenty of teary moments. Let's hope this new season proves equally silly and heartfelt.
"Mind Control With Derren Brown" (Sci-Fi 8 p.m.) Derren Brown is a mentalist—that is, he claims no supernatural power but seems to possess an uncanny skill at reading people's minds and influencing their behavior. Freaky cool.
"Welcome to the Parker" (Bravo 8 p.m.) Are people so bored with their own jobs they're willing to watch shows about other people working (tattoo artists, car mechanics, hair dressers)? If so, here's a behind-the-scenes reality show about hotel workers in Palm Springs.
"Comic Con '07" (G4 8 p.m.) The hosts of G4's various and sundry shows broadcast live from day one of the San Diego International Comic Con. ... If the gods are with us, Olivia Munn will be wearing some sort of cosplay outfit.
"Doctor Who" (Sci-Fi 7 p.m.) You've been good little fanboys and fangirls this week, so I give you "Daleks in Manhattan."
"Cops" (KASA-2 7 p.m.) Can you believe this is the 19th season finale? Isn't it about time for them to start rearresting people?
"The Two Coreys" (A&E 8 p.m.) Dig out your 1986 issues of Tiger Beat, because Corey Haim and Corey Feldman are back! A&E is giving them their own reality(ish) series, in which crazy, sloppy bachelor Corey Haim moves in with stable, married neat freak Corey Feldman. ... Wait, Feldman turned out to be the stable one?
"Ocean of Fear: The Worst Shark Attack Ever" (Discovery 7 p.m.) Discovery Channel launches its 20th anniversary Shark Week with this special about the infamous U.S.S. Indianapolis incident (the one Robert Shaw growls about in Jaws).
"Six Degrees of Martina McBride" (KOAT-7 8 p.m.) Six wannabe country music singers who couldn't get on "Nashville Star" try to make it into the big time by seeing if they can connect themselves to Martina McBride using less than six people. ... Sounds awfully high concept for country music. Couldn't they just give a recording contract to the one who can throw a cowchip closest to Larry the Cable Guy?
"No Reservations" (Travel 8 p.m.) Anthony Bourdain is back with a new season of eating and traveling. Tonight, he's off to Shanghai.
"Murder" (Spike 8 p.m.) Real people are given 48 hours to solve a real-life crime. (The crimes are old and were already cracked by police detectives.) The team that comes closest to the actual solution wins a donation in their name to a selected victim's charity.
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During the 1990s, researchers found that attitudes about acquaintance rape victims improved. However, in general, college students, campus administrators, police, prosecutors, judges, and juries still overwhelmingly view and treat acquaintance rape less seriously than stranger rape, sustaining the myth that stranger rape is "real rape," while acquaintance rape is less serious and less harmful. College studies still find that many on campus, both men and women, have little understanding of acquaintance rape because, as discussed below, it is a much more complex crime than stranger rape.
Rape myths allow us to believe that a "real rape" is one in which a victim is raped by a stranger who jumps out of the bushes with a weapon, and in which she fought back, was beaten and bruised, reported the event to the police, and had medical evidence collected immediately. In a "real rape," the victim has never had sex with the assailant before, is preferably a virgin, was not intoxicated, was not wearing seductive clothing, and has a good reputation. …Unfortunately, acquaintance sexual assaults contain few, if any, of those elements. In many acquaintance rape situations, the victim had been drinking, did voluntarily go with the man to his apartment or room, was not threatened with a weapon, did not fight back, did not report the event to the police immediately, did not have medical evidence collected, and may have even had sex with the assailant voluntarily before.28
Understanding the factors that contribute to your problem will help you frame your own local analysis questions, determine good effectiveness measures, recognize key intervention points, and select appropriate responses.
Acquaintance rape is less random and more preventable than stranger rape.29 A woman's condition or behavior does not cause rape, but certain factors appear to increase a woman's vulnerability to it:
Numerous studies of campus rape have found that a small number of victims are repeat victims.39 One of the largest studies to date found that 22.8 percent of college rape victims had been victimized before.40 College women most at risk of rape are those who were previously victims of childhood or teen sexual assault.41 Prior victims are nearly twice as likely to be raped in college than those with no previous history of sexual assault.42 "Adolescent/ young adult victimization is the most robust risk factor for victimization in the college years, and victimization in one semester predicts victimization in the following semester."43 Some researchers believe that college men can sense out women who are less able to defend themselves, or target women whose behavior (e.g., binge drinking) weakens their credibility. 44
It is unknown how many college rapists are repeat offenders. Most college acquaintance rapists go unpunished (in part because reporting is so low), so the number of serial offenses are difficult to determine. However, one study found that 96 college men accounted for 187 rapes, 45 suggesting that further research may establish that serial rapists are a common component of the acquaintance rape problem. Lack of reporting complicates the problem, since it may prevent colleges from identifying and ridding themselves of their most dangerous students.
In studies in the early 1980s and 1990s, approximately one-third of college men reported they would rape a woman if they knew they would not get caught. 46 Given the number of college women raped, researchers have tried to explain the problem's prevalence:
Alcohol appears to play a large role in acquaintance rape, although it is not the cause. Research indicates that in over three-quarters of college rapes, the offender, the victim or both had been drinking. 52 Researchers provide several explanations for alcohol's presence in so many rapes:53
† Some studies have found that men (more so than women) view certain cues as evidence that a woman is interested in having sex, such as her wearing revealing clothing, agreeing to a secluded date location such as the man's room or the beach, drinking alcohol, complimenting the man during the date, and tickling the man (Abbey 1991).
†† In one study, researchers found that women did not see being alone with a man and drinking as putting them at risk. Women tended to appropriately estimate the risk to others, but not to themselves, perhaps because on prior occasions, being alone with a man and drinking did not result in rape. The researchers found that women drinkers believed they could drink a lot before being at increased risk for sexual aggression (Norris, Nurius and Graham 1999).
Research has found that when alcohol or drugs are involved in acquaintance rape—which is frequently the case—peers tend to hold women more responsible for the rape, and men less responsible for it.
College athletes are disproportionately reported to campus judicial officers for acquaintance rape.56 It is unclear whether they actually offend more, or whether students tend to report them more (perhaps angered by athletes' esteemed and privileged status). On some campuses, revenue-generating athletes (usually football and basketball players) may believe they are immune to campus rules (and sometimes are), and take advantage of "groupies" or other women they perceive as sexually interested in them.57
As for fraternities, a disproportionate number of documented gang rapes involve fraternity members. Research on reported gang rapes committed by college students from 1980 to 1990 found that fraternity members committed 55 percent of them.58 Fraternities often have a unique place on campus; they are typically housed in private residences (with many private rooms) and hold large unsupervised parties, often with free-flowing alcohol. Some fraternity members approve of getting a woman drunk to have sex. This, combined with some fraternities' emphasis on loyalty above identifying members who rape, has put fraternities in the center of controversy because a disproportionate number of reported rapes occur on their property. A number of researchers believe that certain fraternities, because of their practices, are more rapeprone† than others, placing sorority members (and other frequent women attendees at fraternity parties) at greater risk of rape. Some researchers also believe that binge drinking makes certain fraternities high risk for rape. Many national Greek organizations now require education for their local chapters concerning sexual assault and alcohol consumption, and some now mandate "dry" houses.
† Humphrey and Kahn (2000) found that college women correctly identify the campus fraternities and athletic teams that are high risk and low risk for rape, based on the type of parties they have had.
The more that acquaintance rape remains a hidden crime, the less incentive that schools have to invest sufficiently in its prevention. Stranger rape results in dramatic and unwelcome publicity for colleges. Administrators try to prevent such victimization by putting cameras in parking garages, running late-night student escort and/or shuttle services, deploying student patrols, placing emergency telephones throughout campus, locking buildings to prevent strangers from entering, trimming obstructive foliage, and improving the lighting in dark or less-traveled areas. The costs of these prevention initiatives far exceed the dollars spent on acquaintance rape prevention, even though acquaintance rape is a much more likely occurrence. Increased reporting—even anonymous reporting—may push colleges to further invest in more effective acquaintance rape prevention.
Colleges have a legal duty to warn students of known risks and to provide reasonable protection.59 If a crime is foreseeable, then a college can be held liable for not sufficiently protecting against it. As noted, acquaintance rape is the most common violent crime on college campuses.60 If "acquaintance rape(s) occur at predictable times and places, the school must make reasonable efforts to prevent a recurrence; and the school may be liable if it fails to deal effectively with repeat student offenders, including rapists, whose conduct eventually results in more damage."61
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It's been 10 years since an NFL team has been able to repeat as Super Bowl champions. But no champ in the last nine years has been built as well to end that drought as the Seattle Seahawks.
The Patriots were the last to pull off the double in 2003 and 2004. They did it with a then-rising young quarterback (Tom Brady), an underrated group of other offensive skill players and most important, a deep, hard-hitting defense with strengths at every level. Their leader was a defensive guru (Bill Belicihick) who fared much better in his second stint as an NFL head coach.
MORE: Best Super Bowl defense ever | Carroll in exclusive club | IMAGES: 700,000 attend parade
Sound familiar? With Russell Wilson, Pete Carroll and their dominant defense, the 2013 and now 2014 Seahawks have the formula to not only avoid the Super Bowl hangover, but to pull off the dynastic double.
The 43-8 destruction of the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII was the largest margin of victory in the Super Bowl since Dallas routed Buffalo, 52-27 a good 21 years ago. Those Cowboys repeated the next season.
While the history helps, it's the Seahawks' present makeup that makes their short-term future so promising. Before they marched in Wednesday's victory parade in Seattle, Carroll already had the team focused on next season with a Tuesday meeting. It's also nice he coaches many proud players who are driven to be among the best of all time, and not just great for one year.
"We really have an eye on what's coming, and that we don't dwell on what just happened," Carroll said on Monday. "We are in a very fortunate situation. John Schneider has done an extraordinary job of structuring this roster contractually and with the vision of looking ahead so that we can keep our guys together. One of the things that happens every so often is teams have a big fallout after they win the Super Bowl. We're not in that situation."
Schneider, the Seahawks' ace general manager, with his eye for stealing top Day 2 and Day 3 players in the draft (see Wilson, Kam Chancellor, Richard Sherman) combined with smart complementary free-agent spending (Cliff Avril, Michael Bennett), isn't facing the typical post-Super Bowl personnel nightmare.
Last year's Baltimore Ravens had to break the bank to re-sign minted Super Bowl MVP quarterback Joe Flacco, and dealt with both older stars retiring (Ray Lewis, Ed Reed) and younger stars (Paul Kruger, Dannell Ellerbe) leaving as free agents. They also had to trade wide receiver Anquan Boldin because they couldn't afford him.
The Seahawks, according to overthecap.com, could currently be as much as $2 million under the 2014 salary cap of $126 million. Their most notable unrestricted free agents are defensive end Michael Bennett, wide receiver Golden Tate, cornerback Brandon Browner and kicker Steven Haushcka.
Bennett should be the highest priority to keep their pass rush fortified. Although Tate made some key plays for them, he should be re-signable as he can't draw much bigger value elsewhere. Browner was suspended and not a factor during their Super Bowl run, and the reliable Hauschka shouldn't be difficult to retain.
It will be much harder to keep the roster intact for 2015. The Seahawks need to extend Wilson, Sherman and Earl Thomas to more lucrative contracts that will limit their spending powers elsewhere. The chances of a Super Bowl "three-peat" are none, anyway, considering not even the best past champions have been able to do it.
As for the repeat, the odds are in Seattle's favor. The team's best competition again will come from NFC West rival San Francisco. As we saw with the Broncos, the best teams in the weaker AFC, even with quarterbacks such as Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Andrew Luck, still pale to what the Seahawks will have coming back.
Linemakers: Seahawks, 49ers co-favorites for Super Bowl XLIX
While in theory every team in the league wants to "copycat" Seattle, good luck with building the same caliber of team in a short time.
After Seattle, here are the Top 2015 Super Bowl contenders:
2. San Francisco 49ers. Yes, this season's real Super Bowl was the NFC title game, and it's a good chance the hated rivals face off a third time for it all next season. The Niners' goal: Getting that game in new Levi's Stadium, and not in front of Seattle's 12th Man.
3. Green Bay Packers. A healthy Aaron Rodgers puts them in the Super Bowl mix every year, and Eddie Lacy revived the running game. The right defensive overhaul, something of which GM Ted Thompson is capable, would put them right there.
4. Carolina Panthers. Their defense isn't far behind Seattle's, with the secondary being the first upgrade. They return the coach of the year, defensive player of the year, and if they can give Cam Newton a little more help, they can soon add the offensive player of the year.
5. Denver Broncos. Even if they lose some players around Peyton Manning (Eric Decker, Knowshon Moreno), they still would have Peyton Manning. We told you the AFC was weak, and even with Manning throwing ducks, he's on the best overall team to get right back to the Super Bowl.


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Bulls-T'Wolves postgame potpourri
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Here are some postgame thoughts and observations from the Bulls' 94-90 preseason victory over the Timberwolves on Oct. 16:
The Bulls keep insisting they have time to gel before the Oct. 29 season opener and they could be right. But they obviously need to get healthy soon, if only to avoid situations like James Johnson playing point guard. Johnson also logged minor minutes at shooting guard.
"And he's never played it in practice ever," coach Vinny Del Negro said. "I had him run the point a couple plays and he's never run the point one time in practice. Lindsey's not here to help out. Jannero Pargo's playing a ton of minutes. Kirk's elbow is a little irritated so I want to get him his minutes and sit him down. Luol played more minutes than he's played so I wanted to sit him down. Brad is coming off the flu so I wanted to get him a sweat and sit him down. I was mixing and matching at the end."
Without overstating matters, throwing minor guard minutes at Johnson can thwart development for a rookie trying to master his own position. It's one of the many reasons the Bulls need to get healthy.
Out of nowhere, Tyrus Thomas launched into a passionate answer when questioned whether the Bulls need to replace Ben Gordon's missing points by committee.
"Everybody keeps saying 'making up Ben's points,'" Thomas said. "Ben is no longer a part of this team, so they're no longer Ben's points. We have to do what we have to do to win. We're not looking at as making up for Ben because Ben is gone. Ben hasn't been here for training camp. He's not going to be here this season."
This answer reveals two things -- the unity this team has shown thus far in training camp and also the competitiveness of Thomas. The fourth-year forward has undergone a transformation of sorts with reporters whose origins dated to last season -- opening up more, engaging more, thoughtfully answering questions.
Minnesota's Kevin Love broke a bone in his hand and the NBA's leading rookie rebounder last season hopes to return in late November or early December.
"Fortunately, it's my non-shooting hand," Love said.
Stats and stuff: The Bulls reverted to their sloppy ways, committing 19 turnovers. Brad Miller committed a whopping five in 20 minutes. They also struggled from the three-point line, sinking just 2 of 8. On the positive side, their defensive energy was better as they allowed just 34 percent shooting and did a nice job denying wings on the perimeter and picking up fullcourt occasionally. They also won the rebounding contest 50-48.


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Force Unleashed 2 Is Too Much
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Now I gotta Finish Force Unleashed 2 to find out the twist cuz I can't stand spoilers.
Yahtzee, im with you all the way on this one.
This is where i get bored in games.
I look forward to that day. Yahtzee was the main reason I got into this site, and I've found it to be an incredibly insightful and respectful appreciation of gaming culture. And in Yahtzee's case, with lots of swears.
OT: I can't agree with Yahtzee more. Movies and video games are supposed to be about telling a story, either with compelling settings and characters in the former, or engaging gameplay and environmental immersion in the latter. This is why I'm such a huge Myst fanboy. It's so simple. As Douglas Adams put it "A beautiful void". There's nothing there! At least, not at first glance. Play the series and (think of it what you will) there's an incredibly deep narrative being told through such simple mechanisms.
But then, games like these, God of War, Dante's Inferno (a travesty on so many levels), and other over-the-top-robot-punching-dragon spectacles, you lose all meaning in terms of theme, mood, atmosphere, plot, characterization, and all other literary merits. I see video games as like interactive novels, or movies. If we want video games to be considered art, like these, we need to lay off the video game equivalent of a strip club. All looks, not touching, and expensive.
YZ, does have a very valid point. Also to add is, empathy. You can't relate as much as to Kratos, compared to a Heavy Rain character. Well Gran Turismo 5 is coming out tomorrow, so try relating to a Bugatti Veyron going 400km/h!
That was actually very insightful. I don't usually expect Yahtzee to put things in layman's terms, but the message of "too much awesome" is explained very clearly.
Almost sounds like a coopted statement based on Stalin's "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million, a statistic." line. Makes sense though, and it's not like anyone is going to spend time trying to make 10 million sundaes.
It made sense in Shadow of the Colossus. In some games, like Force Unleashed, it was just "HOLY SH*T!" for holy sh*t's sake. That gets old fast, and it robs actually powerful moments of their appeal. I thought it was a pretty simple concept.
You misunderstood me.
Yes, I know anime is very broad, I watch a lot of it myself. But anime series tend to fall prey to this, particularly "run on series", or series that are "stretched" past their original script (e.g.: Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Dragonball, to a lesser extent, and despite remaining quite good, Rurouni Kenshi...etc). Anime already tends to start off on more loose interpretations of reality, and "run-on"/"never ending" series inevitably fall prey to power scaling... And an anime that started a "a bit over the top" quickly degenerates into "ridiculous super powers world-ending abominations".
Naruto is a good example. The ninjas in Naruto start out as your typical pop culture ninja: super fast, very strong, and with quite a few "tricks" up their sleeve. You had one of two "titans", but that was it.
...Halfway through the series we're dealing with monsters that can plough through an entire city in a hit, summon sand tsunamis and assorted monsters the size of mountains, to say nothing of Itachi and the Akatsuki freaks...
Dragonball is another text book example. You start with "bordering on super human" fighters, who are considered the very elite. Songoku is some sort of super human being for his capacities, and all the other "very strong" opponents he finds tend to be conquerors or leaders of armies of some kind. And these are the very, absolute, elite best. Mostly they can punch people through a wall or two, and a leap a few duzen extra feet in the air. At one point, Goku is considered some kind of absurdly rare "chosen one" for his capacity to shoot a basic fire ball (the Kamehameha).
Things quickly spin out of control after the Piccollo saga, and by the middle of DragonBall Z we're reached a ridiculous level of fighting where artists just decided "fuck it" and fights are essentially invisible, and everyone that can't fire a fireball without thinking is some kind of retarded failure.
By the depressingly bad ending of DragonBall GT, anyone that can't destroy an entire planet with a punch on a bad day is not even worth mentioning as anything other than comic relief.
It's the whole reason I've taken to watching animes that come with a predetermined beginning, middle and end. First, because the story is far more "focused", with basically no fillers, and second because there's a lower chance of running into absurd power scaling.
That said, you mixed up the "realistic" part. Things don't have to be realistic, they have to be coherent. Lightsabers aren't "realistic", but they make sense in the universe. Being able to pull down a Star Destroyer, which, by the way, is roughly a mile long by roughly 0.6 miles wide star ship that carries around an army, with pin point precision without even moving is not.
The problem isn't being realistic or not, it's when the world defines it's own realism, then fucks it right up in favour of giving everyone super powers.
Let me break this to you, from one one former fan to another: George Lucas is a hack.
Yes, I said that. George Lucas by himself is a clueless fucking hack. He has some good ideas, but he hasn't the slightest idea what to do with them. His original 3 movies become the gold they did because he was constantly riddled by technical limitations and a team that constantly criticized his insanity. These people kept him in check. These people went away after the first 3 movies, and were substituted by brown nosing fucks who were afraid to tell Georgy "...Yeah, this is a bad idea". On top of that, the original Star Wars were such a colossal hit that George became the prodigal "golden boy" of movie making. Nobody dared criticize him, and he somehow got the idea that he owed it all to himself... And that he could write... And didn't really need anyone else...
To top it all off, Georgy went from "underdog" to "monopoly guy". He went from being the guy with ideas nobody gave a chance to, to one of the big boys that could do anything he wanted, no matter how stupid... He developed a taste for money, and lost his interest in artistic integrity and the like...
The result is what you see today: A creatively bankrupt franchise milking old whore.
To me, Star Wars is Episodes IV, V and VI. With maybe some room for Kyle Katarn and the Jedi Knight series, and the first KOTOR. Everything else I've personally relayed to the garbage bin of "half baked fanfic author masturbation".
True, but there's a difference between very slow creatures that you'd have to spend your time on working to get tot he one weakpoint that can take out the monster. The beasts he spoke of are fast. And really, c'mon, the beast that Starkiller had to face was four times larger than a Rancor! And put one extra umph to the Rancor's size and it's approximately the size of the Colossus's. So, really....
So too much is too much. If you can destroy a Star Destroyer with the force alone, then there's something wrong with this picture. Never overpower the individual that's suppose to be your uber power. And yes, I know, time's changed, which means "NOW" if Starkiller is that strong and actually a part of the series, then Skywalker will eventually be ten times as powerful. Think about that...
Presumably because that gentleman had an obedience problem. An unstoppable army is only a good thing to keep around if you can control it.
That's a solid point. I'm all for awesomeness in video games, but if you want your "awesome" scenes to be memorable, it has to be something visceral, something that gets in your head in some way, like it could almost be you doing those things. The Indiana Jones analogy illustrated it perfectly.
It seems to me like the higher-ups at in the games industry have been acting like a bunch of dimbulbs over the past years. Sure, movies have always had a problem with over-sequelization, but it was never so bad as what's been happening to video games. And in the early days of the medium, "indie" movie developers were required to push the envelope of what could be achieved artistically, but eventually - eventually the industry finally grew up and moved on.
Yahtzee, I'm sure you're going to be annoyed with me for doing this, but you summed up one of my major disappoints in the prequel Star Wars movies. Return of the Jedi had an awesome space battle in it, along with a great ground battle (I like Ewoks, sorry). So, with technology the way it is now, I was gitty with joy when the prequels were released. I spent many a day wondering how they would make space and ground battles look now.
Instead, like you said, there was too much. Too much debris, too many flashes, too many explosions. I couldn't follow any of it. And, as you also pointed out, because the technology was so costly, the scenes themselves were only two or three seconds or a blinding explosion. Such a let down. So yeah, this even applies to Star Wars, although it's not the only problem with it.
They did with Bounty Hunter, and it was garbage.
Really in the sense of it all, I do agree with Yahtzee that they're trying a weeeee bit too hard to make it 'too awesome'. Kill a Star Destroyer with the will of the force alone? Desintigrating bodies with just the power of the force? Facing a beast that can eat a Rancor because it's ten times bigger than 'em? Really, too much, too much. I ended up looking over all of these, and just kinda got annoyed by it all. Besides, the cloning doesn't make a lick of sense because all the clones....
Kratos on one end, was a God once when he fought with them, became a God after his defeat and gained power through the titans, and gained it again through the use of killing the Gods the next time over. And he had the personality of Marbels. Does that make you hate him? Nooo.he was already like that from the get go, so he's uber awesome.
And reading another post. Yes, i agree, Star Wars is IV, V, VI without shame, and I'll only add like..one small series to it, addition of Mara Jade because despite anything, I like the fact that Luke is a uber power, and gets a redhead...yeah.redhead.
And I like the KOTOR series, though never got the time to play it...boo-hoo-hoo ;.;
EDIT] Oh wow, my first post actually went through. Sorry!
Does this theory work for games based in the future? Look at Mass Effect and its massive Sovereign. Sovereign is a massive alien spaceship/alien himself. How can something like that be based in reality? Or even the citadel, that was a massive and ancient space station that a long, long extinct people built that hasn't been completely destroyed by some cosmic force over the insanely long time it has been around?
Or is it just the fact that people don't know what to expect from the future, so therefore they can accept it because they just don't know that something like this could be built sometime in the future?
Actually, I kind of dread that day because he's still an amateur at game criticism. Almost all of his works are filled with fallacies, even now.
So, re-write that part of the genetic code. They did it with Jango Fett... Supposedly several duzen years before that...
Also, why not just clone your strongest loyal servant? Like Vader. Vader is extremely loyal to Palpatine. An army of Vaders would rape.
i.e.: "Cloning" became the Deus Ex Machina of Star Wars emergency plots.
Yahtzee makes a solid point once again. It instantly brought the Darth Maul/Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon fight to my mind. I remember thinking how stupid it was for its absurdly over choreographed nature. They looked like they were dancing, not fighting. Luke vs Vader from the original trilogy had so much more emotion and realism behind it and it was all the more interesting for it.
well by the official canon luke was supposed to the be the strongest jedi ever bar none, and i doubt he could destroy the death star just by thinking about it, but then again i never read the eu books and other crap lucas put out.
I feel the same way about some game guns.
I'm sorry, your testicle powered thirty barreled lightning shooting shotgun bazooka artillery cannon... thing is cool and all, but I prefer my assault rifle with a scope.
if you watched his review of Just Cause 2 and read the Dead Rising 2 extra punctuation you'll see that he REALLY enjoyed just cause 2, so obviously it wasn't too much
Just Cause 2 provides a level of spectacle that i find very awesome.
Alright Yahtzee, I hope you realize that I'll be bringing this article up the next time you complain about a game being too realistic.
I also now know that you like Escape from Butcher Bay.
5 out of 6 people missed the articles point (again). Honestly, I think Yahtzee should just write a swear dictionary, cause I honestly think he's wasting his time...poor man.
Empowering is fine, but the key trait that two of them SHOULD share is that the fights fee like something is happening, something is really going down, there is a challenge. Kratos may be a death machine but when he's fighting something so incredibly huge, we should be given the impression that it can actually beat him, that it is a challenge in some way other than just in gameplay. But nup, Kratos just uses the magic powers of rage to tear through his opponent like a hot knife through butter. That certianly empowers, alright, but if there's no real conflict or challenge other than "how fast can Kratos kill this giant guy?" in the storyline, then there's no reason to give a shit. It's not about fear, it's about offering something that the player sees as... I dunno, genuine. That was his point about CGI scenes, they may have a shitload of cool stuff but in the end, having all that stuff packed into one place and having the actor go about something so incredibly unreal in a way that is simply unbelievable is the problem because suddenly, there's no reason to care, nothing to get inside your head because it's all so clearly fake.
Shadow of the Colossus managed to make the giant enemies seem believable in a way which makes your character seem average and unskilled. God of War should have tried to make the giant enemies believable in a way that still makes Kratos seem like a rage-filled nutjob. As it is, Kratos just seems compeltely unstoppable, and that removes and traction the situation might have had with the player's involvement in the scene.
There is a lot of very well-constructed criticism thrown at him, but most of the things people say seem to come down to not grasping some of the subtleties and reasoning behind what he's trying to say.
And now, to go off-topic!
The sad part is, it isn't even something anyone wants from a Deus Ex game. Even Invisible War gave you stealth options, but having the new guy spin round a room slicing up armoured guards with arm-mounted swords simply does not make any sense, in a way that cannot be chalked up to the hardware limitations of the pervious games and also removes the need to take any alternate paths. Confronting, say, 5 enemies head-on was pretty hard in the original despite the player character being, apparently, a walking example of the height of technology, and a bona fide superoldier.
Now we've got this bloke pulling stuff completely out of his arse to do things which people don't even want from a Deus Ex game, long before humanity develops the tech to come anywhere close to that kind of performance. I'm all for new direction, but if old JC pulled off even half of that shit, everyone who knows him would respond with "JC, what the FUCK was that, man?" before then going on to remind him that killing all who stand in his way makes him a bit of a reprehensible fucker.
Then, IRL, it would be trashed for being yet another mindless shooter stanking up the market and it never would have gotten two sequels. I'm worried that this might happen to the new one, because putting "Deus Ex" in the title of the game sets a standard people will expect of it, namely, creating an atmosphere of tension and paranoia in which the player feels like an incredible supersoldier but still needs to use their skill, cunning and intelligence to make the right choices, allowing them to use whatever their specialties are to get through a level, one way or another. If new guy can just kick the shit out of a load of enemies without even handling a gun, then where's the point?
If we're supposed to accept that this guy fits with canon, then I also expect to hear this in the original game: "man, all our augmented agents sure are a piece of shit compared to those guys we had fucking ages ago. What happened to them? did we suddenly just forget how to make our agents really badass?"
I had to look this one up to make sure...
"Gun barrels can only burst by having some obstruction in the barrel or by overloading with powder. Any gun barrel can be burst by misuse or by carelessly loading smokeless powder, but no barrel will burst by using factory loaded ammunition, provided there is no obstruction or foreign substance inside the barrel. When a gun barrel bursts at the breech or chamber, it is caused by an overloaded shell, and when it bursts in the center or near the muzzle, it is caused by some obstruction, such as a dent, snow, water, etc."
In the third movie, there are like billions of these small colored explosions.. with no point of origin or any effect on the battlefield whatsoever. Just more s--- to distract the viewer. IIRC On Kassyk they were green and on the other planet they were pink-ish.
When the power level is just too high, we just cant connect with the hero/story/world anymore. How can you justify that a trooper/door/boss is any problem whatsoever when you can force a billion-ton ship to crash where you want, at will. At that point just give us the "YOu WIN" screen and its over. There is no credible challenge that can meet that kind of power without being a god of some sort.
Ladies and gentlemen I present the quote of the week.
don't bother. the game is absolutely terrible. just watch the endings online and spare yourself the wasted time.
that actually would have been anakin who would have been the strongest jedi ever -- he was just constantly conflicted and never reached his full potential.
luke became the strongest light jedi ever before he died of old age. i believe the strongest sith was exar kun, but i could be wrong on that.
i like to say that nobody hates their fans quite as much as george lucas does.
Hence why I love it when MoH made it about 2-3 different squads, and then endgame wasn't abotu saving the world
I want everyone to have a gander at Super Robot Wars, any of them really but I feel Alpha 3 makes it's point the most felt, now these games are by no means 'contained' it's a big universe spanning war between some of the most over the top robots in all of existance. But it works in THAT setting and even with your army the final battle still feels FINAL. Your cast come from every different walk in life, a highschool student who stumbled into this mess by accident, trained soldiers, those related to tragedy, an alien general, a cyborg and his AI robot compatriots all fueled through sheer determination. And yet they present this in a way that for this universe? it's believable.
I can believe that Shinji Ikari isn't a total wuss who's going to cry because the people around him are good, positive people acting as friends and mentors. I can accept that the premier Super Robot Pilot Kouji Kabuto can sit down and have a nice chat with Amuro Ray. Because even though there as different as night and day the universe makes it believable.
Now 'Believable' isn't the same as 'Realistic'.
I can BELIEVE that an alien race named the Balmarians actually exist in this universe with there own alien social structure and unique tech level. And I can believe that they present a threat to the heroes of the game. I am not under any illusion that it's 'realistic' it is NOT realistic for a delivery boy no matter how good a martial artist he is would ever be allowed to take his giant robot to go beat aliens. It's not realistic that so MANY fantastical varied robots can all exist with such varying tech levels.
Why use GM's when you have Jeigans? How is Daitarn 3 a 120 foot tall transforming death machine when a gundam is only 18 feet? and how can they fight along side Arm Slaves which are only a measly 8 or 9 feet tall?
But we accept it because the universe makes it believable, even if it's unrealistic.
In Starwars I can accept that a paladin with a laser sword can fight a deathknight with a laser sword. you made it believable even if those weapons could never really work and people could never really have those powers.
The Death Star destroyed by 1 ship and a missile? completely believable even in real life when such a huge target could be taken out by a single ship.
Force powers I'll buy, hell I even buy Cade Skywalkers healing/harm powers in the Legacy comics because it seems believable siunce NOBODY TREATS IT AS NORMAL, they treat it as a frightening force that should not be tapped and is so far off the slippery slope that it's not worth considering.
Cade can't kill an entire army, he's swayed more between the sith and jedi than most people sway between different meals for dinner and yet it's believable because deep down he's a frightened guy running away from his fears rather than confronting them.
Think of Megas XLR or One Piece, neither of them is 'Realistic' but both are 'Believable'
... well okay One Piece has the Cyborgs which STRETCH Belivability but for the most part it weeves a darn good narrative.
Megas is cheesy and over the top and is in no way realistic. But the characters, there interactions make it seem believable.
TFU and it's sequal weren't 'Believable' and when your not realistic or believable you have nothing.
People said he liked Shadow of the Colossus for the huge boss battles, but within SotC it was believable that a guy, frail and weak but cunning could take down something so large it was beyond scale.
Well, since Yathzee is talking about a sci-fi game and the sci-fi genre includes futuristic stuff, I'm gonna say yes, this covers futuristic games. As for your other questions:
Let us look at the history of star wars (the movies)
Episode 4: NO mention of the force giving telekinetic powers. "It guides us"
Episode 5: Yoda pulls a star fighter out of the swamp with great effort. Luke pulls his lightsaber from the snow with great effort... I know, budding appretice, but still)
After that it's basically playing a big game of "I one up'd you bitch!" until starkiller reaches all the way into fucking space and rips a star destroyer out of the skies... This man couldn't beat the emporer or vader? COME ON!
Vader is all machine. THe force flows through all living things, hence why Anikin Skywalker lost so much power when he lost his arms and legs and had them replaced with metal... I mean... Spoilers... Oops...
And if you can rip a star destroyer from the sky, you can crush a man like a fucking bug... But they had to make epic fight sequences
If he's an amateur, you're not even in scratching distance of him.
To put this into perpective, can you imagine playing Grand Theft Auto 4 as the mayor of SimCity? No, you can't. You can't imagine that kind of gritty realism when you're conjuring up tornadoes. The struggles in Max Payne become laughable. When you're a god among men, there are no interesting men.
Totally agree.
Fortunately, I don't think it's a common problem with video games. It does happen in titles like God of War because they are over the top by definition... I'm worried a bit about Deus Ex: Human Revolution, because it's one of those games which seem to work backwards in time. Human Revolution is a prequel, but the trailer alone features technology that is too advanced for the first game, and even the second. What, did they suddenly forget all about those cool upgrades and just started over? Like in Star Wars during the Empire era? Strange stuff, that.
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Re: Problem inputting data into a table that is larger than a window
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- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
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works on version: 6.0.2 "6.0 for Microsoft Windows (32-bit) (February 7, 2008)" Daniel Bob F wrote: > On Jun 10, 1:40 am, dh <d... at metrohm.ch> wrote: >> Hi Bob, >> >> this behaves as expected: >> >> Table[InputField[],{i,75},{j,2}]//TableForm >> >> You should give an example of your problem. >> >> sincerely, Daniel >> >> Bob F wrote: >>> I created a table with about 75 rows and 6 columns and all cells are >>> in a 16pt Times Roman font. It is larger than the window it is being >>> displayed in. When I try and input data into the bottom rows of the >>> table Mathematica automatically scrolls the window to the top of the >>> table, and now the row I was inputting data into is no longer visible. >>> The cell that the table is in is a "Text" cell style. No matter what I >>> try, it keeps scrolling to the top of the table. Any ideas on if this >>> is a bug or a feature or what I can do to keep it from happening? >>> Thanks... >>> -Bob >> -- >> >> Daniel Huber >> > > Just open a blank notebook. Create a text cell and put a couple of > lines at the top. Then below these lines of text, in the same text > cell, insert a 75 row by 6 column table (using the menu command > Insert, Table/Matrix, New, specify 75 rows and 6 columns (draw lines > between rows, draw lines between columns, draw frame are all selected) > and then click OK. Make sure the window is shorter than the table in > case you have a really big monitor and the window fits entirely on the > screen with the entire table visible. Then just scroll down to the > bottom row and type in anything and the first character you type the > window automatically scrolls to the top of the cell but the input > still goes to the cell you started typing in - you just cannot see it > because it is off screen. I can post the Mathematica code, but it's so > simple to show, I don't think it's needed. This is Mathematica 126.96.36.199 > on Mac OS X 10.4.11 if it matters. Thanks > > -Bob > -- Daniel Huber Metrohm Ltd. Oberdorfstr. 68 CH-9100 Herisau Tel. +41 71 353 8585, Fax +41 71 353 8907 E-Mail:<mailto:dh at metrohm.com> Internet:<http://www.metrohm.com>


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Australia are ready for a trial by spin during their tour of the United Arab Emirates, opening batsman David Warner said.
Warner's reputation, forged initially in Twenty20 cricket, is for blitzkrieg batting at the top of the order and he has a strike-rate in excess of 140 runs per 100 balls in that form of the game.
But in the UAE, in limited-over games against Afghanistan and Pakistan and on pitches expected to help spin bowling, the left-hander expects a completely different challenge.
"Everyone says we struggle against spin and we know they (Afghanistan and Pakistan) are going to have a lot of spin bowling," Warner told reporters.
"In Darwin on pre-tour training we had a fantastic set-up with (batting coach) Justin Langer who arranged for wickets to be turning and challenging and our batters took a lot out of that.
"The boys challenged themselves and we got through it pretty well and now we're looking forward to that challenge."
Australia will play seven matches in the UAE with a one-dayer against Afghanistan in Sharjah on Saturday followed by three ODIs and three Twenty20s against Pakistan.
Pakistan's commitment to test Australia with spin is highlighted by their selection of five slow bowlers in a 15-man squad - Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Malik, Mohammed Hafeez and Abdur Rehman.
"I'm coming up against these bowlers and I haven't really faced them (much) before," said Warner. "I haven't faced them in turning conditions and I'm looking forward to it.
"The challenge for me is to keep rotating the strike. I can't just go 'three dot balls and I've got to hit a boundary'.
"If I do get bogged down for three balls I can't just try to hit it out of the park and get a soft dismissal. That would put us in a tough situation and it says I'm not playing for the team," added Warner.
Afghanistan will be playing only their second ODI against one of cricket's established sides after facing Pakistan in February, a match they lost by seven wickets.
"It gives them a chance to see where they are against the rest of the world," said Warner. "We've maybe slipped down the rankings but it gives them the perfect opportunity if they can knock us over to say 'we can beat anyone in the world'.
"We are not going to take them lightly. We know what they are capable of over here."
Australia ready for trial by spin: Warner
Australia are ready for a trial by spin during their tour of the United Arab Emirates, opening batsman David Warner said.


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Several times a week I'm asked for my predicition on how this season will end for the Phillies. It happens on radio shows, on television, via email, and occasionally while I am waiting in line for a Hoagie. Two months ago, I would provide an answer and pretend like I knew what I was talking about. Now, however, I happily admit that I have no bleeping idea. A couple of weeks ago, I was starting to think that maybe, just maybe, the Phillies offense was what it was, and that things were not going to get better, and that even the overachieving pitching staff wouldn't be able to overcome the deficiencies the team had displayed at the plate.
I thought this after the Dodgers swept the Phillies, and Mets took a 2.5 game lead in the National League East.
But then the Padres series started, and for whatever reason I got the feeling that this team was not, in fact, finished. I remember sitting in the dugout at Petco Park for the first game against San Diego and being amazed at how loose the players and coaches seemed. They were coming off a four game sweep at the hands of the Dodgers, had fallen as far out of first place as they'd been in quite some time, yet had an air about them. I was talking to one of the Phillies PR people and I told him that I had a feeling they were about to go on a run. Seven out of the next 10, I said. Turns out it was nine of 11.
So now its time for the Mets, and I was just asked 45 minutes ago what I think, and to be very honest, I have no clue whatsoever. If somebody binded my hands behind my back and walked me to the edge of the Ben Franklin Bridge and forced me to make a prediction under threat of my life, I would say that the Phils and Mets will split, that the offense will jump all over Pedro tonight -- he's due for a stinker -- and then get shut down by Santana tomorrow night. And then on Thursday as they fly out to Chicago everything will be back where it began.
But don't take that to the bank by any means.
I appeared on Daily News Live yesterday and had the chance to speak with Fox's Ken Rosenthal, who is always pretty plugged in when it comes to the Phillies. One topic he broached was the possibility of trading Ryan Howard in the offseason. He didn't say the Phillies were likley going to make a deal, or even that they should make a deal. Just that they "could explore" the possibility. Now, a lot of things could happen in the offseason. The state of New Jersey could break off into the ocean and we could all have beach front property by this time next year. But a lot of what Ken said makes sense: Howard could command upwards of $14 million next season. From a contract standpoint, his trade value will creep downward as he grows closer to free agency. And he has obviously struggled this season.
That said, the Phillies have in many ways built this team around guys like Howard, at least from a marketing standpoint. Yeah, he has struggled this season. But he is also among the league leaders in home runs and RBIs, and if he can accomplish that in a year in which he is hitting under .230, there's no reason to think he won't continue to do it for the forseeable future. This guy has a chance to put up some record home run and RBI numbers, and I'm sure a lot of people would like to see him do it in a Phillies uniform.
What do I think? I think its way too early to even be talking about any of this. Lets see what happens over this next month, first.


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After months of controversy, the owner of St. John's Health Center said it plans to sell the landmark Santa Monica hospital to Catholic chain Providence Health & Services.
The hospital has been at the center of an intense competition that featured bids from UCLA Health System, other Catholic hospital chains and Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong.
After weighing the offers, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System in Denver said Friday that it was entering exclusive negotiations with Providence, which owns St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and four other Southern California hospitals.
Michael Slubowski, chief executive of the SCL Health System, said Providence was an ideal choice because it's the largest provider of Catholic healthcare in Los Angeles County with a strong network of hospitals and physicians.
"Partnering with Providence will place St. John's on a sustainable path forward," he said.
The proposed deal for the nonprofit Catholic hospital is still subject to approval by the California attorney general's office and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Financial terms were not disclosed and St. John's parent company said there was no timetable for finalizing the sale of the 266-bed hospital, which has long catered to celebrity patients such as Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Maria Shriver.
Providence spokeswoman Patricia Aidem said, "We're honored that we were selected and we are looking forward to sitting down to negotiate." Providence declined to discuss its bid further because negotiations are ongoing. The Renton, Wash., nonprofit company runs 30 hospitals in California and four other states.
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which had indicated support for Soon-Shiong's bid, nevertheless welcomed the news. In a statement, the church said it was pleased that both parties are "committed to continuing the tradition of community-based Catholic healthcare at St. John's."
All this comes several months after an ugly management shake-up at the hospital. In November, its Denver owner abruptly fired most of the local board members and ousted the top two executives. Soon after, the company began fielding offers for St. John's.
A wave of consolidation has swept across the healthcare industry in recent years, stemming in part from new financial pressures from the federal healthcare law. St. John's, like many stand-alone community hospitals, had struggled to compete without ties to other healthcare providers. Such collaboration is considered crucial to get patient referrals and to gain leverage with insurers.
This week, Soon-Shiong, a doctor and former drug-company executive whose net worth tops $7 billion, went public with his own bid for the hospital. His proposal also had the backing of the hospital's foundation and its medical staff.
Soon-Shiong had committed $100 million to St. John's over the years and already has his name on several buildings there. He has been spearheading several ambitious projects there on genomic research and other medical advances. Soon-Shiong couldn't be reached for comment Friday.
Donna Tuttle, chairwoman of the St. John's hospital foundation, supported Soon-Shiong's bid, and she said she would urge Providence to consider teaming up with him.
Providence is "not my first choice. I don't know much about them," Tuttle said. "I think of Patrick as a visionary, so we are wondering if there is any way to bring them together."
Tuttle said she was relieved the bidding group including UCLA was not picked. She and others in the community had expressed concern that taking over St. John's would give UCLA too much market power on the city's Westside and limit patient choices.
That proposal called for UCLA to operate St. John's and for ownership to be held by two large Catholic hospital chains, Ascension Health Alliance in St. Louis and Dignity Health in San Francisco.
St. John's, founded by nuns during World War II, reported losses of $21.9 million for 2010 and $12.8 million for 2011, state records show. Slubowski had said that depreciation on new buildings accounted for most of those losses and that the hospital generates positive cash flow.
"With the most extensive network of Catholic hospitals and physicians in the region," Slubowski said, "Providence is well positioned to succeed."


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GoDaddy Boycott Fizzles; Twice As Many Domains Transfer In As Out
from the not-sustainable dept
Either way, it appears that for those who were hoping for a big boycott on Thursday, that didn't happen. I'm sure some SOPA supporters will use this as fodder to suggest the whole effort was a failure, but that's ridiculous. The whole thing still got a large company that was a huge supporter of these terrible bills to switch its position and recognize that it can't run roughshod over the wishes of its customers. It also helped draw more attention to the overall issue, and helped in getting other companies to back away from supporting the bill. It also got some attention among elected officials about how supporting this bill could get the internet activated. It may not be enough to kill the bills yet, but more politicians are aware of the issues. All in all, getting GoDaddy to change its position was a huge victory against SOPA and PIPA, but remains just one battle in a long and still ongoing war.
Update: There are a bunch of comments insisting that this can't be true, and I'm happy to see more data. NameCheap claims that it had 32,000 domains transfer in, and it's true that Daily Changes isn't a perfect proxy for domain transfers -- but it's a pretty good one. Some are suggesting that delays in processing will show more transfers over the next few days. We'll be watching. It's possible that there were a lot more transfers, but just because people want it to happen, doesn't mean it actually happened. Update 2: NameCheap says in the last week they've received around 80,000 transfers.


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Hey all. Well, in the state of NM, there is a complex process involved in renewing a level one license in which one has to turn in a portfolio/dossier in order to keep one's license after so many years. There was a problem with the submission of my dossier, and as of mid June, I will no longer have a teaching license in NM. Not entirely sure what my next step is careerwise. Having been in education for the past 9 years, I don't have any experience in any other career field that might help me get a new job. Please keep me in your prayers.
Lord, have mercy!Is there there no way of appealing?Can you resubmit for next year?Praying you find something to keep you going until it's all cleared up.
I got nothing.
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Lord, Have Mercy!Are you unable to resubmit?This is of special interest to me as I plan a career in education within the next few years.
I am a former teacher and I know people who have gone through the same thing.Get on the internet and look up the qualifications for getting certified in all 50 states. Some states, like yours, are inflexible and rigid. Others (like Montana) are quite flexible and not nearly as bureaucratic. States vary WIDELY and there is no logic to it. For example, I have 10 years experience and a Master's degree in South Carolina. When I was originally certified way back in 1989, I got an endorsement to teach English and Social Studies in grades 6-12. However, a couple of years ago, South Carolina created a separate "Middle School Certification" for grades 5-8 and said that the Secondary School Certification would now only cover grades 9-12. If you wanted to teach Middle School, (even if you had 10 years experience and had been teaching Middle School for 5 years already) you had to take the Praxis Exam and score at least 165 on it to maintain your Middle School Certification. (A score of 165, by the way, is the SECOND HIGHEST score required by any state in the nation. Only Ohio requires a higher score.) Anyway, I took the Praxis test twice and scored 163 the first time and 161 the second time. So I lost my teaching job at the Middle School. (I was teaching 8th grade English.)Now if I had had a job teaching 9th grade English or above, I would have been able to keep it, because I am still certified at grades 9-12. If I were teaching in neighboring North Carolina or Georgia, I would have been able to continue teaching 8th grade because they don't require a score that high. Heck, if I wanted to teach Middle School in New York or California I would qualify, but not here in my home state. Isn't bureaucracy wonderful? And people wonder why so many teachers leave the teaching profession. LOLHowever, don't despair. Things will work out. You are in my prayers.
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On the wall of his office in downtown Tallahassee, Ion Sancho, the county supervisor of elections, has a large aerial photograph of the state Capitol and surrounding buildings taken during the thirty-six-day battle for Florida that followed the 2000 presidential election. It's one of those photographs that become more revealing the closer you look. Lined up on the western side of the Capitol are the television trucks that took up their positions on the morning after the election–directly in front of then-Secretary of State Katherine Harris's ground-floor office windows–and that, by Thanksgiving, appeared to have become a permanent part of the landscape.
What the occupants of those trucks couldn't see, but what Sancho now points out with the morbid enthusiasm of a tour guide at Dallas's Dealey Plaza, was the daily route taken by Harris's secret Republican Party minder, a lawyer and lobbyist called Mac Stipanovich, who sat with her throughout the ballot battle and guided her every move so they could, in his words, "bring this election in for a landing." Stipanovich, as Sancho shows me, parked in a lot on the other side of the Capitol and then took an underground passageway beneath the building so the media could not see him come and go.
On the roofs of two adjacent buildings, Tallahassee's City Hall and a State Senate office complex, black-clad police snipers are clearly visible. "Just in case those pesky voters got out of hand in their demands to have their votes counted," Sancho comments sardonically. Curiously, their guns are pointing not at the Republican-controlled state legislature, or even at the streets, but rather at the State Supreme Court, six of whose seven members at the time were Democratic appointees. The court's rulings in favor of full manual recounts in contested southern Florida counties provided Al Gore with his strongest lifeline in the closing stages of the electoral battle and were consequently denounced as intolerable partisan interference by armies of lawyers and spokesmen for the Bush campaign.
These days, the Florida establishment's guns are pointing–metaphorically, anyway–at Sancho himself. The issue is not that he is a Democrat in a GOP-controlled state. On the contrary, as a conscientious election administrator he keeps himself rigorously above the partisan fray. The problem, for Governor Jeb Bush's administration, is that Sancho is one of the few election supervisors who actually takes his job and his civic responsibility seriously. And that has put him front and center in the battle for fair elections–not only in Florida but across the entire country.