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[This post was written for the 3rd edition of the "Where Were You?" Carnival]
The efforts of the newly-formed Bureau of Military Intelligence (BMI) ensured the Union Army its victory at Gettysburg during the Civil War. But much of the credit goes to a young African-American boy named Charlie Wright who was able to convey highly detailed information as to Confederate troop activities to my ancestor, Lt. Col. John McEntee who is my 1st cousin 4 times removed. (John McEntee is pictured on the far right in the photo above taken April, 1863 near Brandy Station, Virginia)
John McEntee was born on June 23, 1835 in Rondout, New York, the son of Charles McEntee and Christina Tremper(1). At the age of 26, he enlisted at Kingston, New York as a Quartermaster Sergeant on September 24, 1861 and was part of Company S, 80th Infantry Regiment New York. On February 18, 1862 we was promoted to Full 2nd Lieutenant with Company K. On September 22, 1862 he was promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. On October 5, 1862 he was promoted to Full Captain with Company A.(2)
In the days prior to June 12, 1863, the Union's Army of the Potomac was trying to determine whether Gen. Robert E. Lee's troops were on the move north from Culpeper or planning an attack either to the east or northeast. At midday, Gen. Joseph Hooker sent a summary to Gen. John Dix that Lee's army was stationed along the banks of the Rappahannock near Culpeper and below Fredericksburg, and that Lee's forces, along with those of Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell, Gen. James Longstreet and Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, had been there for several days.(3)
But Hooker was unable to determine what Lee's next move would be: stay put, move northward or move eastward. And Lee's actions to the north or east could have been as a general advance with all his troops, or split into several groups heading out to different routes. On June 12th, John McEntee ". . .found two Negroes who had witnessed the march – one of them a boy, but old enough to carry the organization of the Army of Northern Virginia in his head."(4)
The boy with the intimate knowledge of Lee's troops would turn out to be Charlie Wright. It was not until John McEntee had a chance to question Wright in the mid-afternoon of June 12th, that he was able to gather vital information from the boy who had been living in Culpeper for some time: "[he] saw Ewells (Jacksons) corps pass through that place destined for the Valley & Maryland. That Ewells corps had passed the day previous to the fight & that Longstreet was then coming up."(5)
Now it could be seen that Lee's forces were actually on the move northward and not stalled at Culpeper or planning an attack to the immediate east.
As was common with these types of interrogations, Wright and another young man were turned over to a different intelligence officer to see if the story could be corroborated. In this second session, not only was the information confirmed, but Wright gave exacting details such as how many days' rations were cooked, what days the troops marched, etc. In fact, Wright's knowledge has so good and committed to memory, that some have called him a "walking 'order of battle' chart."(6)
With this information, Hooker determined that Lee's forces were either going to turn east up through Manassas Gap and threaten Washington or go further north to Philadelphia. In any case, on June 13, Hooker's forces were on the march in a parallel route to that of Lee who was looking to have his troops shielded by the Blue Ridge Mountains so that he could proceed on course uninterrupted.
Without this valuable information based on Wright's knowledge, ". . . the pursuit of Lee probably would have been delayed until the force that captured Winchester [in the Second Battle of Winchester] was firmly identified as a major element of Lee's Army. That could scarcely have been done before the 17th and a pursuit that began that late might not have been able to prevent the enemy from coming through the gaps leaning to Manassas and Washington . . . departure from the Rappahannock was in time to save the army from being off balance for the rest of the campaign and that Lee therefore had a much less free hand than he was striving for."(7)
Through McEntee's efforts, and his ability to recognize the value of Wright's information, the battle at Gettysburg was not just an "accidental collision" of both sides. The Union Army could protect Washington from Lee's forces and force the Confederates to group at or near Gettysburg.
On December 19, 1864 John McEntee was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and was discharged from Company S on April 16, 1866.(8) He died in Kingston on December 19, 1903(9) at the age of seventy-eight. He is buried in Montrepose Cemetery, Kingston, New York next to his wife, Ann Eliza Dibblee.(10)
Photo taken March 10, 2008 at Montrepose Cemetery, Kingston, New York by Thomas MacEntee.
(1) 1850 US Census, <http://www.ancestry.com>
(2) Fishel, Edwin C., The Secret War for the Union – The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996, p. 293.
(3) Id., p. 437.
(4) Id., p. 535.
(5) Id., p. 438.
(6) Id., p. 444.
(7) Id., p. 535.
(8) Id., p. 293.
(9) "The New York Times," New York, New York, Obituaries, December 21, 1903.
(10) Personal inventory of New Paltz Rural Cemetery on March 10, 2008.


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Baidu Expose Suggests That It's A Lot More Involved In Music Downloads Than It Lets On
from the not-so-much-of-an-innocent-bystander dept
At first, this did seem like a typical situation seen with other online search engines, such as The Pirate Bay or even Google, where it's not really clear how Baidu could stop the searches for unauthorized music. However, a new investigative report by The Register found evidence that suggests Baidu is actually a lot more involved in the music download business than it lets on. Specifically, the search results mostly link to a mysterious network of sites that are only reachable via Baidu searches. You can't just go to the sites directly. The sites themselves have a long (and potentially growing) list of random domain names such that the songs constantly move around, and any time Baidu receives a "takedown" it can claim it complied, while the music almost immediately shows back up on the next domain in the list. Also, Baidu almost never links to other, legitimate, download sites -- preferring to point people to these sites that are unreachable outside of Baidu instead.
All in all, it certainly sounds like Baidu is a lot more involved in providing the actual downloads than it would as just a search engine.
That said, The Register's report includes a variety of unsupported statements about how this has "destroyed" economic activity in the music business. As we've seen, the music business has actually adapted to the expectation that the music itself is free in China. I recognize that it's popular for the RIAA and IFPI to make claims about how downloading is destroying the music industry, but you would think that the Register would know better.


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Many from both sides gather for negotiations
NHL labor talks resumed Monday night. So did the frustration.
The league and the NHL Players' Association met in New York at the union's request, but no new proposals were made. The NHL is urging the players to submit a complete offer if they want to move forward in attempts to end the lockout.
The sides are expected to talk again today, but NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly is not sure if the union will provide a new proposal this week.
"I'm frustrated," Daly told reporters in Manhattan.
NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr said the union tried to talk about player contracting issues, one of the other stumbling blocks to a collective bargaining agreement, but was rebuffed. Daly told reporters the league needs clarity on splitting revenues before it will move to contract debates.
The union's previous offers included a guaranteed dollar amount going to the players rather than a fixed percentage of revenue. Daly said the NHLPA must change its approach in the next proposal.
"If their proposal continues to be a guaranteed amount of players' share dollars we have told them that sitting here on Nov. 19 that's not a proposal that is acceptable to us or would ever be acceptable to our owners right now," Daly told reporters.
Under the previous CBA, players were set to receive $1.88 billion this season, which equated to 57 percent of revenues. The NHLPA has sought to retain that total, plus 1.75 percent.
The league is steadfast in its desire for a 50-50 split, and it is not willing to agree to a set dollar amount because it is unsure how much revenues will fall due to game cancellations and backlash from fans and sponsors.
The gathering, which was the first since Nov. 11, was a large one. The league was represented by Daly, Commissioner Gary Bettman, owners Jeremy Jacobs (Boston), Ted Leonsis (Washington) and Murray Edwards (Calgary), Toronto General Manager Brian Burke and legal adviser Bob Batterman.
The union, meanwhile, sent a 20-person contingent into the meeting. Eighteen players, including Martin St. Louis, Brad Richards, Vincent Lecavalier, Marion Gaborik and Brooks Orpik, joined Fehr and his brother, special counsel Steve Fehr.
The lockout, which has already caused the cancellation of 327 games through Nov. 30, will claim a high-profile exhibition contest today. One of the league's big sponsors, Kraft Canada, is reportedly set to pull the plug on Hockeyville 2013.
The annual preseason game features two NHL teams playing in a small Canadian town, and it is accompanied by a donation to upgrade the community's rink. The Sabres were part of the promotion twice, playing in 2008 in Roberval, Quebec, and in 2010 in Dundas, Ont.
This year's game was canceled because of the lockout, though the NHLPA staged a charity event in its place. Kraft will reportedly donate $1 million to minor hockey throughout Canada instead of conducting the 2013 game.
Meanwhile, former Sabres defenseman Jaroslav Spacek, who served as Buffalo's captain during the 2007-08 season, has announced his retirement in his native Czech Republic, according to Isport.blesk.cz.
Spacek spent three seasons with the Sabres after signing as a free agent in 2006. He recorded 22 goals and 98 points in 205 games with Buffalo.
The 38-year-old defenseman finished last season in Carolina after a trade from Montreal. He also played for Florida, Chicago, Columbus and Edmonton during his 13-year NHL career.
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Reality show vet and professional fame monger Heidi Montag has announced that she's rethinking the massive plastic surgery she underwent nine months ago.
The celeb tells http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/2010/08/large-1036-cover.html Life & Style that she regrets her G-cup breast implants, which have made normal life impossible. No, not because everyone is staring at her assets -- because she finds it impossible to cuddle her dogs, wear offf-the-rack clothing, or work out.
"I'm desperate to go back to normal," she tells the magazine. "I'm downgrading and going a little smaller, to a D or a double D."
Montag is reportedly looking for anew surgeon in South America in the wake of plastic surgeon Frank Ryan's death in a car crash. "I feel trapped in my own body," she told Life & Style. "There's just no fixing it.... Dr. Ryan knows the work he did, he knows everything."
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There are many wonderful things that a Hollywood filmmaker could borrow from Grand Theft Auto, including better police chases and user-controlled soundtracks, but the director of this weekend's Jake Gyllenhaal movie Source Code is snatching something else.
Here's filmmaker Duncan Jones talking to the Columbus Dispatch:
There's this infamous video game, Grand Theft Auto, where, if you're driving a car at high speed and jump out of the car and go rolling down the street, the camera stays with you. [Note from Kotaku: presumably similar to what happens in the GTA IV clip above.]It doesn't cut. I wanted to do that but actually do it with my actor.
So he leaps off the train, hits the ground and tumbles into a bloody heap at the end of it — with no cuts. It's a combination of live-action stunt work and special effects.
I hadn't seen that before, and I wanted to be the first.
We haven't seen Source Code, so we can't confirm the movie's GTA-ness. If you see the movie this weekend, let us know. And let us know if Jake re-spawns at a hospital, without his guns, a half-day later.
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Analysis of Networks in Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Research Communities: A Pilot Study
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The advancement of cyberinfrastructure (CI) in the last two decades has resulted in shift in the way research is designed and conducted, as well as an increase in the scale of collaboration. These large-scale collaborative research projects have become common practice today. While a number of studies have been done to investigate the interdisciplinarity of collaboration, structure of scientific collaboration networks, and computational reasoning of scientific collaboration networks, few have investigated the collaboration patterns around CI-enabled research. That is, these studies were based on bibliographic relationships, such as co-authorship, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling. These measures were developed before the Internet age and never tested in the CI-enabled research environment, such as national and international data repositories and collaboration technologies. Although scientists increasingly engage in data-intensive research, little is known about collaboration networks that evolve around data repositories, much less about the similarity/dissimilarity between these new collaboration networks and those surrounding publication outputs. This work provides an overview of an ongoing pilot study analyzing the diffusion networks resulting from these research collaborations, as well as the associated diffusion of knowledge (e.g., patents) for a specific instance of CI-enabled research - GenBank.


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Volume 17 Issue 11 / August 06 - 12, 2004
TIERNEY SUTTON, AND CURTIS STIGERS in Battery Park City. Sutton has Smokey alto vocals and Stiger delivers seductive visceral renditions, ranging from jazz, pop to soul. Rockefeller Park, Wed., July 28, 7 pm.
Castle clinton national monument, Battery Park City, 212-835-2789: Annual series of free music at this local monument, tickets distributed starting at 5 p.m. on the day of the show, series runs through August; July 29-Cecil Taylor, post be-bop jazz, 7 p.m., free.
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 486 Hudson St., 212-414-9419: Call about weekly concerts at the church.
The flea theater, 41 White St., 212-219-8242: Call about Roulette concerts for July, most shows are at 8 p.m., $15.
GIOVANNIS ATRIUM, 100 Washington St., 513-4133: Tue. & Thur.Latin Diva Carmen Ferros, 6-10 p.m.; Wed.Open Mic with About Entertainment, 6-10 p.m.; Fri.Elliot Paul, classic jazz, 6-10 p.m.
The jazz gallery, 290 Hudson St.: Aug. 6 & 7-Dafnis Prieto Quintet, 9 & 10:30 p.m., $15; Call about cover charges & upcoming shows.
The living room, 154 Ludlow St., 212-533-7235: July 24-The Sacred Harp Singing School, from the movie Cold Mountain, 3-6 p.m., call for information.
BAGGOT INN, 82 W. Third St., 473-6658: Live Music Nightly, call for schedule, free-$5; Wed.Bluegrass Session, 8 p.m., no cover.
THE CAJUN, 129 Eighth Ave., 691-6174: Mon. & Thur.Vince Giordanos Night Hawks, New Yorks favorite foxtrot orchestra feat. Big Band music of the 1920s, 30s & 40s, 8-11 p.m; Tue.Stanleys Washboard Kings, 8-11 p.m; Wed.Eddy Davis & His New Jazz Band, 8-11 p.m; Thur.Vince Giordanos Nighthawks, 8-11 p.m.; Fri.Canal Street Dixieland Jazz & Blues Band, 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Sat.Red Onion Jazz Band feat. New Atlantic Jazz, 8:30 p.m.- mid; Sun. BrunchFriends of Jimmy Butts feat. Doc Pittman, noon-4 p.m; Sun.The Peter Ecklund Jazz Quartet, 7:30- 10:30 p.m.
Greenwich village bistro, 13 Carmine St., 212-206-9777: Call for Whirled Music performance information & times.
Housing works used book cafe, 126 Crosby St., 212-334-3324: Call for details about the next Monthly Benefit Concert, 7:30 p.m., $20.
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national arts club, 15 Gramercy Park South, 212-222-3569: Call about current Live Music.
Pen and brush, 16 E. 10th St., 212-475-3669: Call for information about upcoming concerts..
Renee weiler concert hall, 46 Barrow St., 212-242-4770: Jan. 29-Lukas Ligeti, Electronic Percussion, 8 p.m., $10-$15.
The schneider concerts, 66 W. 12th St., 212-243-9937: Call about upcoming concert schedule.
St. Marks Church, 131 E. 10th St., 212-674-6377: Call about upcoming concert schedule.
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Washington irving auditorium, 40 Irving Place, 212-580-4177: The Greenwich Village Orchstra performing through Summer 2004; Call for upcoming performance information.
Washington square united methodist church, 135 W. 4th St., 212-998-3950: Call about upcoming Blarney Star Irish Traditional Music Concert Series.
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House prices in Belper have increased by eight per cent in the space of a year, according to latest figures.
House prices in Belper have increased by eight per cent in the space of a year, according to latest figures.
Statistics from House.co.uk said the average property price in Belper during June was £220,220, compared to £203,731 during the same month in 2013.
The rise had mainly been fuelled by a surge in the cost of terraced housing in the town - which increased by 27 per cent over the year.
A reduction in the amount of homes on the market - from 365 to 281 - had also increased demand.
Meanwhile, in a separate study conducted by Nationwide, house prices in Derbyshire rose by 10 per cent in the space of a year.
The Nationwide House Price Index revealed that the average cost of a home in the county was now £174,690 .
This compares with the East Midlands average of £154,145 - an increase of 8.3 per cent.
Despite the surge, Chris Hobson, head of information and representation at Chamber of Commerce for Derbyshire, said prices across the county were not rising on the scale of London, where property prices have risen 18.7 per cent over the past year.
He said: "It is widely accepted that rising house prices in London and the South East have been overheating the property market and it's right that the Bank of England has taken steps to contain it.
"Regionally, however, house prices have been far more stable and the impact has been less keenly felt here.
"We would not want to see the fall-out from a cap on mortgage lending or a tightening of credit conditions make it more difficult for local people to get on or move up the property ladder.".
Last week, the Bank of England announced plans to cap mortgages in an effort to "cool" rising house prices.
Prices increased by one per cent in June, compared with a 0.7 per cent rise in May.
The move came after the bank's governor, Mark Carney, warned that the housing market was a threat to the UK economy's stability, particularly "inflationary pressures" caused by soaring house prices in London, where the average house price has risen above £400,000 for the first time.
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I've gone back and forth with myself about whether or not I should write this post, but since today is Sentimental Sunday and since I am rather emotionally full right now, I'm going to go on and take the leap. It's not often that I write about my living relatives, and even less so that I do so about either of my daughters, but today, on Valentines Day, I just have to.
It's been many years since I've had a true Valentine, so the day itself has very little meaing to me. Typically, I play "Cupid" to my two daughters, and to my mother, and I usually get blessed, in return, with love tokens from my daughters, but this is often done via U.S. mail, since one is away in college, and the other lives seven hours away in NY. But this year, Valentines Day has been different. Very different. This weekend, my oldest daughter, who will be 28 years old in June, did something she's never done before. She brought her boyfriend (who she's been seeing for a little over a year) to Virginia to meet her parents!
Now, I've known this visit was coming for about two months, and I've wondered to myself it if was significant in any way. After all, my daughter's beau, an artist and lecturer, had a scheduled engagement at a college not far from here, so the two of them just coordinated this trip to coincide with that. And, although my daughter has indicated that they "get along well", and have been "spending huge amounts of time together", I hadn't heard the "L" word, nor had I been given a lot of reason to think that this one was "the one". But still, just the fact that she was bringing him here, and not just here, but also taking him (first) to Charlottesville to meet her father and his parents, led me to believe that there might be a hidden agenda...
So, anyway, the happy couple flew into Richmond yesterday morning, and, after a full day in C'ville with her paternal side, they made the 2:15 drive from there to here so that the young gentleman (whom I'll call, "H") could meet Mommy (me). We had a great night of conversation last night, during which H made himself completely at home and seemed to fit comfortably into vibe of my household. (I'd already gotten the report from my daughter's dad that the same was true at his house.) At 12:14, when I realized it was after midnight, I wished everyone a happy Valentines Day. I said I love you to my daughter, and she told me the same, and then turned and said, "I love you" to H. He responded with the same. (Alrighty then!) We then went on and proceded to visit until after 2 a.m., after which all three of us, retreated to separate rooms to sleep.
This morning my youngest daughter (my Valentine) came in, just in time to join us for a huge breakfast/brunch, which I prepared for everyone. After that, a short siesta was necessary for all, and then the young folk all took off for the mall. Next came a visit to the nursing home, so that H could meet grandma. This, too, went very well. He was perfect with her, and won her over easily. We took several pictures, including a few with H and grandma. After this came the reason for this post: I'd told the gang that I wanted to treat everyone to dinner out, so we headed to the restaurant, as planned. I was feeling very generous, so I told all to order whatever they wished, and they did. During dinner, H and my daughter were noticeably affectionate (something I've never witnessed with my daughter and any other person), holding hands and snuggling up. They each made several comments about a future together, such as "when we have kids" and things like that. I mentioned that this was the first gentleman that this daughter had ever brought home like this, and H responded that he hoped to be the last. (Hmmm...glances all around the table:)
After our leisurely and enjoyable dinner, the waitress brought the check. She laid it in front of H (assuming, I thought that he'd be paying since he was the only male at the table), but I quickly reached across the table to grab it. As I did, I noticed that there was already a credit card sticking out of the holder, and I was very confused. "How did...", I began. Somehow, H had managed to communicate to the waitress that he would be paying, and she'd already charged his credit card! I had no idea how he'd done this, until I remembered that he went "to the restroom" shortly after we'd been seated at the table. This rascal had just bought paid for dinner for four - appetizers, entrees, wine, and dessert - without me having a clue! (You have to really know me to know how hard that would be to do.) Well, after several minutes of trying to convince him that he didn't have to do that, I gave in, and the next thing I knew, I'd burst into tears! I hid behind my napkin and boo-hooed like a baby for almost ten minutes. Even I can't fully explain all of the reasons why, but something in my heart told me that my daughter had struck gold, and also, more personally, I think deep down inside I realized that this was the first time in over a decade that anyone had bought me dinner on Valentines Day.
I don't know what the future holds for H and my daughter, but I do know that today was the best Valentines Day I can remember. Not only did I get to witness my oldest daughter being treated right, but so did my youngest daughter, and that is worth the world to me. Tomorrow, when they all leave, I know that I'll still be able to feel the warmth that was shared between us all today on this FAMILY VALENTINES DAY.
Formerly, "Just Thinking", this blog presents the thoughts and experiences of a family historian working to demystify the past and uncover the stories of an elusive ancestry. NC surnames are YARBOROUGH, GREEN, HAWKINS, DUNSTON, DAVIS, BROWN, ROSS, HILL, BRYANT, and DAVENPORT in Franklin, Warren, Halifax, and Tyrrell Counties. With so much of my family's history shrouded in darkness, is my personal mission to uncover the hidden details of my ancestry and bring them INTO THE LIGHT.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Sentimental Sunday - Meet the Parents!
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"Dream drop distance has already been release in there United States there will be no more fillers in the franchise that I so love.Now Square is finally ready to release the last installment to the game. Kingdom hearts 3. but they say it wont come out until 2015 or 2016 which pisses me off and yet for square is better to keep the fans anticipated."
"The last installment to the game."
It's not going to be the last. Just the end of the Xehanort saga. This has been stated by Tetsuya.
But square enix always end their franchises with dignity. Since when were they known to rinse their IP's ?
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This was my number one reason I became a gamer. This is disappointing. I needed this game this gen.. Sigh. Well better tech means something incredible so I hope the ps4 version delivers
I wanted the game this gen as well but I gave up waiting for this gen about a year ago because if Versus isn't out there is no way they would be able to release KHIII without it being well into the next gen.
But now I'm excited. Agni's Philosophy demo gives me hope that they could perhaps make KHIII look damn close to a pixar looking movie which would be awesome. Just sucks we have to wait so much longer.
Heck yea. Kingdom hearts 3 is gonna be gorgeous.
It would be easy to follow the story if some of the handheld games ever come out on him consoles. One game on hand held one of main consoles I don't like that personally. Not everyone has a handheld but most do have home consoles
Looking forward to Hikaru Utada singing the theme song to KH3
Why are they just making the franchise SO complicated? I just want KH3 and I hope to god I understand it.
If u have played KH:BBS, KH3D, and 358/2days. You should understand it. But KH3D had way more mind f*cks than any of them.
Yeah that ending...
It is kind of hard to understand, but if you take the time to think about it you appreciate the story, the characters, and the whole series a lot more.
The thing is that I don't want to spend hundreds on handhelds that I'm not going to play, just to understand the story.
Having played every outing so far (Chain of Memories and Coded included), the plot kind of feels like the expounding of a giant metaphysical system- the characters just figures within it. I mean, lets face it, Sora isn't much of a character. He has no arc. He's just meant to represent near absolute goodness / light.
I wonder if they will get some pixar worlds this time. Theres so much potential if they had pixar worlds.
i hope that it'll be on ps3 and not on next gen consoles....
I wouldn't count on it. Development won't even start until Versus is done.
KH3 won't release until who knows when. All I know is that it wont release until after VS13 and nobody not even SE themselves know when that is coming out. KH3 is wishful thinking at this point in time.
I like the article, but it really needs a lot of proof-reading.. It bugged me quite a lot as I read.
See every time Squarenix holds back FFvs.13 for games that are not necessary at all like Lightning Returns or rebuilding FF14 it also holds back the development of Kingdom Hearts 3.
right now Nomura's probably doing the art design for FF13-4: Lighting Strikes Back.
Nomura said early 2011 that he was planning KH3. So i'm sure KH3 is a long way into post-production already, but Versus needs to be finished before they can start actually making it.
They are also probably holding back info on KH3 to prevent making the same mistake they did with Versus by announcing it too early.
I really hope KH3 isn't limited to only one console, I'd like it to be on PS4, 720 and Wii U instead of just PS4 which history of the franchises suggests it might. We know it can't be too far off since they announced 3D is the final spin-off before KH3. I disagree with the comment of having more FF rather than expanding to Disney's new franchises. The Disney aspects are the best part of the series. I'd love to see something from Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars in KH3. As for the comment about Sora vs. Vader, that would be amazing! I'd love to see more of Sora changing to suit his surroundings like Nightmare Before Christmas, Little Mermaid and Lion King in KH2. Imagine being Jedi Sora or Toy Sora.
So it's Duke Nukem Forever all over again?
Yes and no.
Yes for the long wait, but no for KH's having plenty of spin-offs to keep fans engaged.
But... 2015/16?
... -.- and if Versus gets delayed anymore KH3 could be delayed along with it :O! Come on SE get your act together!
If you didn't get the story, you probably weren't paying attention because you were too busy SoraxRiku-ing the whole damn game.
If you don't have handhelds for the other games, well...that's just too bad if you don't have money.
I would think that if Kingdom Hearts 3 were to be PS3 exclusive, it would be perfectly acceptable
All accept kingdom hearts 3 when it actually is all honest announced. At the rate squarenix is going i can see them going under before we see kh3. If do see kh3 before that i feel as thought it will turn into another ff13 verus
We'll just have to wait until Final Fantasy Versus XIII to come out before we get any info on KH3.
Considering square can routinely F-up a wet dream I won't hold my breath on KH3 anytime soon
jesus christ. 2015? TEN YEARS after kingdom hearts 2, they are finally releasing a full, legitimate console based sequel? i cant even be excited anymore. there is no reason why this franchise needed to skip an entire console generation.
Square enix has got to be the most incompetent, out of touch, moronic video game company on the face of the earth. im sure we can count on 5 more FFXIII sequels before kingdom hearts 3 sees the light of day. and what about FF verses? I guess we can wait 10 years for that as well. and the FFX HD remaster? maybe 5. the FFVII remake? maybe by the time im collecting social security.
Completely agree. I played the original kingdom hearts when I was 10 in 2002 and I loved it. Then, the sequel came out when I was 13 and I really liked it. Now that I'm 20 and this isn't going to release until I'm 23, I really don't care AT ALL about it anymore!
Plus, I don't even know who this Xehonort guy is everyone is talking about. I remember fighting Maleficent, and riding down trees in Tarzan Land, and really loving the soundtrack....... that's about it. To catch up on the story would take way too much time that I currently don't have.
I played Dream Drop Distance recently and barely even understood what was going on (and man, I missed Donald and Goofy). It barely even felt like a KH game to me. Not that it was a bad game in it's own right, but I just hope Square haven't ruined one of my favorite last-gen series by making it too pointlessly convoluted and confusing. A part of me is worried with what KH3 will be like.
What was wrong with going into Disney worlds to save our childhood heroes and defeat the heartless? Did it really need to be more complex that that? Were people bored by that and I just missed the memo? :(
I've played and enjoyed every game in the series and yes the newest one was weird and confusing. But the good thing is, it does kind of hint at an impending grand finale.
I could sum up the story as it stands in one paragraph but I won't for spoilers sake. Instead I will say that you need only play BBS and KH 3D from the "Spin off" games. BBS explains a lot of the ending of KH3D and KH3D has chronicles and an entire journal to fill in any missing points from previous games.
Still, not like it matters. I don't think KH3 will even be released until a good few years into ps4's lifespan and quite frankly I've given up caring. I'll play it when it releases eventually and I'll hopefully enjoy it but no fan of the series should be hyped for it as we all know its still no closer to release than it was 5 years ago!
"Plus, I don't even know who this Xehonort guy is everyone is talking about"
You know what the problem is there, they made this the Xehonort Trilogy but brought the story out more about Xehonort by the handhelds instead of telling us in KH2. Birth By Sleep, 356/2 days, KH Coded, Dream Drop Distance. I mean why the hell make Xehonort the main bad guy of the trilogy then point this out in a restricted handheld game.
We had Chain of Memories before KH2 and even then it was confusing as hell, KH2 played like you had completed KH:COM.
Seriously why put the games on a Nintendo handheld, then a Sony one, then a Nintendo one then end with the current main title games being on the PS.
What I get from it is Master Xehonort was an old bad guy in Birth By Sleep.
He then forced his heart in Terra the guy in Birth By Sleep who then became Terra-Xehanort, after that he became Xehanort who became the apprentice of Ansem the Wise.
Xehanort's heartless became Ansem who stole Ansem the Wise's identity
His Nobody became the leader of the Organization 13..Xemnas
So from here I'm guessing after Master Xehanort possessed Terra after unlocking his own heart and his original body faded away Xehanort became a new person after Terra got rid of him but then theres talk of a young Xehanort who could posess time travel elements and..............you know what forget it my head hurts
See thats just a small chunk of the story over the past three handheld games.
Ive pretty much given up on KH3. We'll probably see FF13-4 before we hear anything at this rate. Im not sure what S-E has against making money, but its a mystery!
Those people who think Kingdom Hearts 3 is coming out within this generation or who are confident it's definitely the next big Square Enix project, should sit and think about it. Nomura has expressed the desire to make it after he has finished his current projects, but nothing has been confirmed by either himself or Square. And a game, by its very nature takes years to design, create and release.
2015 for KH3 is a pipe dream unless another team is working on it. Versus XIII is not finished yet and will probably not be about until at least late next year. That means that development on a next generation KH3 (if it starts development afterwards) won't begin until at least 2014-2015. If it takes 2-3 years to make it won't be out until 2017-2018.
Sorry if any of this sounds harsh, or if it seems like I don't want the game to come out sooner, but I'm just acting realistic. The problem is not just Square Enix. It's also your expectations.
I swear i dont know which game i will see first kh3 or hl3
Lack of proper capitalization...
Elementary school grammar errors all over the place...
This is terrible. This got approved? Come on, guys.
Raise the bar just a little bit.
From the blurb:
Kingdom hearts 3. but they say it wont come out until 2015 or 2016 which pisses me off and yet for square is better to keep the fans anticipated
^ There are six mistakes here alone. Seriously, some of them, a 2nd grader knows not to make.
I think they should start including Final Fantasy worlds. Before long they'll be scraping the bottom of the barrel for Disney Worlds. (If I have to visit Olympus Coliseum ever again I'll cry)
That or they just improve the level design. Dream Drop Distance was a definite step in the right direction. Make the levels bigger, more like levels in an adventure platformer.
Thing is, plot wise, I don't really see how they'll need to visit loads of worlds in KH III. All that's ultimately going to happen is a big showdown between the 7 lights and the 13 darknesses. Why would they need to go world-hopping for that? I suppose they'll come up with something...
EDIT: Just remembered they still need to find the BBS gang...
SE are a joke. They keep making games that nobody cares about and the ones we do want stay in development forever.
I want them to work on Versus, KH3 and FF15 NOT more Lighting crap and the failure that is FF14
Ready for this?...........
Yea that just happened, THAT ONE'S FREE SQUARE ENIX
Okay so the first thing I saw in the article was the author complaining that he/she didn't want any star wars characters or marvel characters in Kingdom hearts. In the first place it is doubtful it would ever happen and if it did they would not be a boss. Disney, for the most part, lets those companies do what they want. Oh and here's another thing that proves Disney won't include them, Disney owns the company that made Pulp Fiction and I personally didn't see anything from that in any of the Kingdom Hearts games. Just putting that out there
Tron worked fine, I think Star Wars could too. Pulp Fiction ahahaha I don't think so. Marcellus' briefcase could have his heart in it or something though haha.
Someone get this guy an English lesson.
That's exactly what I'm saying. This is terrible.
More like 2025 or 2026. Square Enix can't get sh!t done.
They have a horrendous development pipeline and are led by a money hungry tool.
Unfortunate, as I would like to see this published.
I remember playing the first one when I was like 10 years old but quitting because - being only 10 years old - I wasn't chopping up enough bad guys and the RPG system was a mite too complex for my tiny attention span. Is it worth revisiting and should I be anticipating the release of this new game?
2015 or 2016!?! Jesus! as if we haven't already waited long enough.
sorry about the spelling errors guys...Thing is when I was writting the article I was so excited and mad at the same time I was payi9ng attention to the grammer.
Please also:
-Begin sentences with capital letters.
-Use capital letters in the beginning of all words within a game's title except conjunctions and articles.
-Don't put periods in the middle of sentences.
-Use complete sentences.
-Use commas.
-Use apostrophes.
-Use singular and plural words more carefully.
Is English your first language? If not, then you did a pretty good job. If your native language is English, however, there's no excuse for this, dude. You won't last long and no one will take you seriously if your articles are filled with so, so many simple errors that teachers train you to correct in elementary school. Good luck, bro.


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As I make final preparations for 1L to start (just two more months), I am curious which commercial outlines people recommend? Where do you get them? Amazon? Any feedback would be appreciated.
Quote from: FalconJimmy on June 10, 2011, 09:04:04 AMAs I make final preparations for 1L to start (just two more months), I am curious which commercial outlines people recommend? Where do you get them? Amazon? Any feedback would be appreciated.1: Take notes in class and read the cases for at least the first couple months.
2: Don't rely too heavily on commercial case briefs. They are good in a pinch, but they don't help you study for the final very well.
3: Make friends with someone (or join a club or something) that has access to some outlines from prior years. These are huge. The best way to use them is to have one with you in class and actually take notes on the outline.
4: Pay specific attention to which topics the professor spends time on. Commercial outlines are really good (sometimes better than a professor) but you won't get any points if you go off on tangents that weren't covered in your class.
5: If you are sure you will be using BarBri to study for the bar after law school, you can save on the book deposit by signing up during your first year. They have some awesome commercial outlines for all of your first year subjects, and they give them to you when you make your deposit.. I discovered this too late. A barbri rep will be hounding you when you start school, and they can answer your questions.
6: If your library has access to the CALI stuff (Computer assisted legal instruction) you should give them a try. They run you through the material, ask multiple choice questions, and explain the rules and the answers. I thought they were very helpful.
7: Use bookfinder4u.com to help you find the best price. It usually searches all the major bookstores and gives you links. (I use half and amazon most of the time)


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Why Some People Hate Sex: the Fascinating Psychology Behind Sexual Revulsion
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Mark and Stacey, an attractive couple in their early thirties, have only been married two years and they're already knotted in conflict. In our first session, Mark, an intense, athletically built man, gets to the point, "I hate it that we're such a stereotype, but it's the typical scenario of me wanting more sex than she does. We're down to once every two weeks--if I'm lucky--and it's driving me crazy. I have a strong sex drive, so if it were up to me, we'd do it every day, the way we used to when we were dating. Now, not only do I not get my sexual needs met, but I feel rejected because most of the time I get shot down when I initiate."
Stacey, slim, darkhaired, sits rigidly in her chair. "I know we don't have sex as much as Mark likes," she says, with an edge in her voice, "but for me to want to make love, I have to feel emotionally connected to him and, to be honest, most of the time, I just don't. He seems so obsessed about this issue. I constantly feel pressure to satisfy him. It's like raw sex is the only thing he wants from me. It's gotten to the point where any time he touches me I freeze up--I'm afraid to respond even affectionately because if I do, he thinks it's an invitation to sex."
"Yeah, in some ways that's the hardest part of it for me," Mark interrupts, "the way she sees me now. She looks at me like I'm one of those guys on The Sopranos. I like sex, but I'm no drooling animal. I can be romantic and I do try to help her feel close, but whatever I do does no good," he says despondently. "No matter how sensitive I try to be, it's like she has this view of me as a sex-crazed gorilla."
I ask each of them to describe what typically happens when they do have sex. Stacey says, "After some time goes by when we haven't had sex, Mark gets more and more sulky, and I begin to feel I'm like a bad, unloving wife. So I hug him or pat his shoulder or maybe just smile at him or something and, oh boy! That's all it takes--he's off to the races. I feel I can't say no again, and so we'll get in bed and start kissing. I try to be as warm as I can get myself to be; I don't want to just lie there like a dead fish. And, usually, at a certain point, I can work myself up so that I'm into it, sort of. Afterwards, I feel relieved because I know he feels happier and not so angry at me and, also, he'll back off and I won't have to do it for a while."
Mark seems not to have heard the many negative qualifiers in Stacey's description of their sex life. "That's what I don't get," he exclaims with exasperation. "In the middle of it, she comes alive and seems to like what I'm doing, but the next day she's uninterested again. If you like it, why not want more? Also, I don't enjoy the beginnings that much because I want to feel wanted by her, not like I have to kick start her engine every time. I'm not one of these guys who just wants to satisfy himself. I'm good at foreplay and I've learned what she likes."
Mark and Stacey are caught in a classic struggle, and most couples therapists have responded with a now-classic technique: get him to back off by issuing a moratorium on sex and assigning exercises that allow them to show affection to each other without any sexual expectation. Trained as a problem-solving, strategic therapist, I used to give that directive to couples and often found that it had the desired effect. It probably would've worked with Mark and Stacey, too. As he contained himself so she felt less under seige and more cared for, eventually they could've found a frequency that felt okay to each, checked off this particular glitch on their list of relationship issues, and left therapy reasonably satisfied.
I once felt an outcome like that meant I'd done my job. Not anymore. Through the years, I've come to see that this kind of technical fix, however immediately useful, is unequal to the inner complexity of people and their potential to know each other intimately.
Know Your Selves
No other area of a couple's life holds as much promise for achieving intimacy as sex. Indeed, the promise of intimacy may be as important as lust for drawing human beings toward sex in the first place. My goal now is to help partners reach the kind of soul-deep connectedness in their sexual encounters that can transform their lives and their relationship with each other.
The Latin adjective intimus means "inmost, deepest." So real intimacy means, first of all, that both partners listen deep inside--i.e., get to know their inner worlds of emotion, desire, and vulnerability--and then reveal what they've learned to each other in an atmosphere of loving acceptance. The couples I've helped reach that level of resonance report tremendous rewards for themselves and their relationships. However, as rewarding as that state is, it's also quite rare--both because of the risks involved in being that vulnerable and because knowing yourself isn't a simple task.
When people listen deeply inside, they encounter a host of feelings, fantasies, thoughts, impulses, and sensations that comprise that background noise of our everyday experience of being in the world. When they remain focused on and ask questions of one of those inner experiences, they find that it's more than merely a transient thought or emotion. Within each of us is a complex family of subpersonalities, which is why we can have so many contradictory and confusing needs simultaneously, especially around sex. American poet Walt Whitman got it right in "Song of Myself": "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" So do we all contain multitudes.
Thus, the Oracle of Delphi's admonition to "know thyself" should really have been to "know your selves." I call these subpersonalities "parts" because, when I first started doing this kind of work, that's how my clients referred to them. "Part of me wants to stay married and faithful, but another part wants to be free to get laid every night of the week with a different woman," a client might say. "I know I'm successful at my job, but there's a part of me that says it's only a matter of time until everybody else finds out how stupid and incompetent I really am," another would report. While people like parts of themselves that make them feel powerful, competent, and in control, they tend to dislike and even despise what they feel are their less attractive, more troublesome, parts. In one session, Stacey said spontaneously "I hate the part of me that's so scared to have sex with Mark." But hating and trying to get rid of parts that we don't like doesn't work. We only feel more polarized inside, and the despised part gets stronger.
Getting to know ourselves in all our multiplicity isn't an easy stroll through a familiar neighborhood. When our inner parts meet our partner's parts, the complexity is compounded, which is why couples therapy can be so difficult. Despite the fact that, like Mark and Stacey, most partners want me to get the other to change, I try to help each listen inside to discover why they respond to their mates in such extreme, and often damaging, ways.
I've found that, if I establish a safe, accepting atmosphere in our sessions, clients can have inner discussions with their parts. In a trancelike state of internal focus, they can dialogue with their parts about what motivates them to react in irrational or self-defeating ways. In listening to their parts' stories, their behaviors or beliefs become comprehensible.
As clients learn to separate from their extreme emotions and thoughts (their parts) in this way, I find that they spontaneously tap into a calm, centered state that I call their Self. When this happens in a session, it feels as if the very molecules in the atmosphere have radically shifted. My clients' faces and voices grow softer and more tranquil; they become more open and tender, able to explore their parts without anger, defensiveness, or dislike. When accessing this state of Self, clients are tapping into something deeper than all these conflicting inner warriors, something that spiritual traditions call "soul."
Now imagine what it can mean for a relationship when each partner connects to such a Self. If intimacy means being able to truly know and reveal all our parts to a beloved other, then the presence of Self makes doing so possible. When they make a Self-to-Self connection, people sense at a very deep level that they aren't alone and that even their most shameful facets are loved. When, during sex, each partner can dive beneath the surface where their contending parts are creating stormy waves and into the calm depths of Self-to-Self connectedness, their bodies and souls meet and sense a oneness that's delicious and profoundly satisfying. For me, then, intimacy has two components: the knowing and revealing of one's secret parts and also the sense of awe and belonging that comes with Self-to-Self connectedness.
The first step toward that kind of intimacy involves helping each partner get to know the parts that are triggered by their problems. Because Mark and Stacey were polarized around their sexual relationship, I thought they'd feel safer doing this exploration in private. I suggested that I meet with each of them separately for a session or two. To help people find their parts, I usually begin by asking them what they think or feel about the problem they bring me. When I saw Stacey individually, for example, I asked her what she said to herself when Mark approached her for sex. "Oh no, here we go again!" she replied contemptuously. "I feel angry and helpless and just yuck! But then, I tell myself, 'God, I suppose I've got to do it or he'll make me pay.'"
I then asked her to focus on the disdainful voice. She said she sensed it in the back of her head. As she focused there, I suggested she ask it why it felt such revulsion for Mark and for sex? Putting her hands up as if to push the entire subject away, she said the voice was really disgusted by the whole thing--sweaty, naked bodies, ugly, hairy genitals, revolting fluids, and ridiculous animal noises. Stacey's face was scrunched up in a look of loathing as she spoke, when suddenly she stopped cold and put her hands over her eyes."Oh my God, it's my mother!" she cried out. "It's my mother's voice in me!"
As we explored this revelation, Stacey recalled that her mother had conveyed her own deep revulsion with all things having to do with the body and sexuality. Some schools of therapy consider a voice like that a "parental introject" or a "schema" of learned cognitions (i.e., the internalized attitudes of Stacey's mother), and would encourage Stacey to ignore or argue with it. While there's no doubt that this part absorbed aspects of Stacey's mother, I find that such parts intend to protect rather than torment. These aversive, controlling voices belong to a category of parts I call the Managers, which act to protect people from hurt and trauma suffered in the past--usually when they were very young and unable to defend themselves emotionally or even physically. There are all kinds of Managers. Some are inner critics who drive people to perform perfectly so they'll never reexperience old feelings of failure and inadequacy. Other managers, like Stacey's, are early-warning systems that operate to prevent the person from even getting near an experience that might cause harm. Sex is perhaps the area of life most prone to the meddling of overzealous managers.
Managers like Stacey's bring new meaning to the phrase "safe sex." They have to be in control of the action. They see spontaneous expression as dangerous. They don't want anyone to know about, much less witness, certain parts of you. They also don't want you to be rejected or exploited, so they keep your heart closed to others. Managers monitor the passion, affection, play, and spontaneity you express in sex. If you begin to get carried away, they might interrupt the action with distracting thoughts, suddenly erase sensation or inject pain, or make you tense and uncooperative. Managers are the ultimate control freaks.
The Return of the Exiles
If you think of Stacey's voice as an introject or a cluster of thoughts, it makes sense to try to get her to challenge or eliminate it. If, in contrast, you view it as an inner personality, you get curious about why it's in the role of puritanical mother. Rather than try to shut down this "manager-mother," I wanted to know why she had this role in Stacey's inner drama. I've found that when we approach our Managers with respect, instead of resentment and dislike, they often have good reasons for what they do. I asked Stacey to sit quietly, breathe evenly, and go inside. "Ask the mother part what it's afraid will happen if it doesn't keep you so repulsed by sex," I said.
After a moment, Stacey had a vivid image of herself as a 6-year-old girl in the bathroom. Her father was helping her undress to take a bath, and as she watched the scene play out, she could see something wrong about it. Her father was looking at her in a funny way, once she was naked, his voice sounded different, and he trembled slightly. She sensed again the fear and confusion she'd felt then--the feeling that something bad was happening, and that it had something to do with her being naked.
The 6-year-old was one of Stacey's Exiles. Exiles are often childlike parts of ourselves that carry the memories and sensations from times when we were hurt, terrified, abandoned, or shamed. Because we want to forget those experiences, we exile these parts, and our Managers do their best to keep them from ever being triggered. Whenever Mark became amorous, it began to scare Stacey's little girl, so her manager-mother went into action, damping down any sexual feelings. Unfortunately, by keeping the Exile deep underground, Stacey not only missed unpleasant memories and sensations, she also missed the most sensitive, innocent, and open aspects of herself. If Exiles carry our most rending pain, they also can give us our capacity for joy, love, passion, creativity, imagination, playfulness, and sheer zest for life. If we shut away the Exiles, we also shut away much of what gives sex, and life in general, pleasure and adventure and meaning.
Mark, too, had parts that influenced the patterns between him and Stacey. When I saw him alone, I asked him to relax and focus on the feeling of frustration he felt whenever Stacey "shot him down." He closed his eyes and said he noticed a voice saying that he needed and deserved lots of sex. I told him to ask the voice about itself. Mark smiled and said that that voice called itself "The Stud," and it looked like a very buff, very macho, very tan version of himself. Mark said The Stud bombarded him with images of himself having sex in numerous hot and ingenious ways with his wife and other women, who panted and moaned in lusty abandon. Mark said he liked The Stud and that it had a powerful influence on him. He basically agreed with The Stud that his life should be more like those images. Many men have parts like Mark's stud, but not many are so open about it so early in therapy.
"Ask The Stud," I said, "what it's afraid would happen if you don't get to have sex all the time." He soon became quiet. After a long silence during which his face betrayed intense emotion, Mark said he'd felt waves of shame as he watched an image of himself as a 13-year-old in the boys' locker room. Talking in a bare whisper, he said that, at that age, he'd had small protuberances at his nipples. The other boys had ridiculed him mercilessly, calling him "Tits," asking him when he was going to buy a bra, and telling him he was really a girl. At such a vulnerable age, this kind of abuse was deeply traumatic to a young boy's developing sense of his own manhood. It was then that The Stud stepped into its role and the devastated 13-year-old was exiled. Never again, vowed The Stud, would he let anybody doubt Mark's masculinity, and it pushed him to seduce as many girls as he could.
Since he'd married Stacey, The Stud constantly pressured him to have affairs, especially after Stacey started rejecting him. So far, he'd resisted--he loved Stacey and wanted their marriage to succeed--but he was afraid that, if their sex life didn't improve, he'd succumb.
Firefighters to the Rescue
Mark's stud is characteristic of a third category of parts that I call the firefighters.
Like the Managers, the Firefighters want to protect the Exiles, but where Managers are cautious and often very rational in their attempts to protect Exiles, Firefighters leap into action after the Exile's feelings have been triggered. Firefighters are emergency responders who come out, hoses on full blast, when we feel so bad we have to drown the flames of emotion before they destroy us. These Firefighter parts manifest as urges to binge on food, alcohol, drugs, sex, work, or anything else that offers quick relief from pain.
Firefighter sex is one way to stave off intolerable feelings. Only while having or fantasizing about sex can people like Mark feel they have value, strength, or personal agency. Furthermore, a sexual Firefighter's obsession with power, dominance, and high-voltage sensation, can make us oblivious to the human being we're having sex with. Indeed, Stacey complained that she felt that Mark wasn't really there with her during sex; he didn't seem to care who was there, as long as a compliant body shared his bed. As is true for most Firefighter activity, the irony is that this part's efforts to help the exiled 13-year-old didn't work: ultimately they backfired. Stacey repeatedly rejected Mark for his sexual boorishness, only making Mark's exiled teen more ashamed and his stud more desperate.
When we uncover the dance of parts within and between members of a couple, we see many vicious cycles. The aggressiveness of Mark's stud triggered Stacey's Manager, which further triggered his stud, and so on, with disastrous results for their sex life. An Indian proverb says when the water buffalo battle in the marsh, it's the frogs who suffer. As Mark and Stacey's protective parts became increasingly extreme, the Exiles in each of them were increasingly wounded. My experience is that until each partner can care for and heal their own Exiles, these battles will continue. So I asked Mark how he felt about his young teen, and Stacey about her 6-year-old girl. Predictably, Mark was ashamed of the boy and didn't want to remember what he'd felt like. "That was all a long time ago," he said with a dismissive wave of his hand, "and I can't see any point in talking about that now." Similarly, Stacey was irrationally critical of the little girl. "She must've done something to make my father change like that," she said stubbornly.
It's very common for people to fear or dislike their Exiles initially. So I ask a client to find the rejecting or fearful voice that dislikes the Exile and politely ask it to just step back or relax for a bit. Sometimes it takes several requests for it to step back, but when it happens, the client's feelings toward the Exiles change dramatically from disdain and anger to curiosity or compassion, from fear to a sense of peace and confidence. When I ask clients what this calm, compassionate part is, they often reply with something like, "This isn't a part like those other voices. This feels more like who I really am, like my real self." It seems that as people separate from their parts, their Self spontaneously emerges.
Once a client shows more qualities of Self, I ask him or her to enter the scene that an Exile is stuck in. "Can you go into that locker room and be there in the way that boy needed someone to be there at the time?" I asked Mark. Even after 20 years of doing this kind of work, I'm still awed by the way people unerringly know just what to do to heal these wounded inner parts. Mark said that as he approached the 13-year-old, the boy looked up with fear and embarrassment, thinking that this strong, athletic man would also make fun of him. Instead, as Mark played the scene, he sat down on the bench a few feet from the boy. He gently told the boy that there was nothing wrong with him or his body, that the appearance of his breasts was due to hormonal changes and they'd soon look perfectly normal. Other boys were also insecure about their bodies, Mark pointed out. "And anyway, I love you," he said to the boy. At this, the boy dropped his guard and burst into tears. Mark put his arm around the boy and took him out of the locker room, to a safe and pleasant place in the present--Mark visualized taking the boy canoeing on a nearby lake that he and Stacey often visited.
Meanwhile, Stacey went through a similar process. She helped the little girl out of the tub, carefully folded her in a fluffy, warm towel, and, embracing the girl, told her that she'd done nothing wrong. Whatever happened was her father's problem, not hers. Stacey, too, brought the girl into a safe and comfortable setting--to the living room couch--where she folded her arms around the little girl as she read her a story, while the sun streamed through the window.
After people compassionately witness their past in this way and retrieve the Exiles that are frozen there, they feel far less vulnerable. Consequently, the parts that guarded those Exiles are freed from their protective roles. The inner, reactive voices--explosive anger, self-hatred, anxious vigilance, compulsive behavior--transform into valuable helpers. A chronically suspicious, distrustful inner voice, for example, becomes an accurate intuition, helping the person sense who's safe to open up to, but no longer automatically closing off to everyone or keeping him in a fog of paranoia. A carping inner critic becomes a supportive voice urging the person to keep trying rather than constantly beating her down. After rescuing his 13-year-old, Mark focused back on The Stud, who was relaxed and smaller, less musclebound. Similarly, when Stacey returned to her manager-mother, the part was willing to reconsider the beliefs it had taken on from her mother, now that it didn't need to keep the little girl safe. These are the beginning steps in the process of transforming inner parts.
The Exiles of both Stacey and Mark carried feelings of worthlessness and self-loathing, and believed that they were fundamentally flawed and unlovable. Stacey's little girl craved the tender affection and protection that a father is supposed to provide--and, in fact, that's what she wanted from sex with Mark. She was drawn to him in the first place because of his strength, competence, and apparent self-confidence--his take-charge personality seemed to promise perpetual safety. Stacey's Exiles would only let her enjoy sex that was cozy, warm, adoring, and not terribly erotic; they were frightened by insensitivity, crudeness, or, often, even unashamed lust.
Mark's Exiles, meanwhile, couldn't at first believe that a woman as pretty and vivacious as Stacey would find him--a weak, "effeminate," 13-year-old--attractive. Because of the Exiles' own fears and anxieties about his manhood, he only let another person have access to him through sex--but sex was also the way he reassured himself that he was really a man. As a result, men like Mark become highly attached to and possessive of their current lover while constantly looking around for another. Since Mark and Stacey had Exiles that were extremely needy and full of impossible expectations of the other, and Managers and Firefighters that strongly provoked the other's protectors, their sex life was doomed from the start.
Healing Together
After Mark and Stacey made peace with their inner exiles in private sessions and, consequently, were each less vulnerable and reactive to the other, I brought them together for a joint session. I told Mark and Stacey, "No wonder you feel so hopeless. You never had a chance for real intimacy. As you heal these parts we've found, you'll finally have a chance."
In the joint session, my role is to help them remain Self-led as they speak to each other. When I notice that either of them has been hijacked by a part, I encourage them to focus inside briefly and then come back and speak for their parts rather than from them. When a partner speaks from the Self about its parts, the other partner is less likely to be triggered and more likely to hear the message.
Mark and Stacey nervously shared with each other what they'd learned in individual sessions. It was extraordinarily touching--as it often is when embattled couples begin to thaw out--to see Stacey tell Mark with unfeigned emotion how sad she felt for that young boy who had been so cruelly humiliated. "I can understand now why you feel so driven, and why my rejection hurts you so much," she said, looking him deeply in the eyes. Mark said he'd never known about the old incident with her father, and now it made complete sense that she'd cringe when he pursued her. He knew what it felt like to be hounded. The quality of the conversation between the two of them was soft and hesitant, but direct.
Stacey asked Mark if he was willing to be patient around sex while she continued to work with her own inner parts--several other Managers had surfaced in therapy. Mark said that he'd really try to let her be in control of that arena, which would be easier now that he knew himself and his stud better. Both sighed as they began to understand that this was only the beginning of a long process. This was different from any conversation they'd ever had. They'd felt closer and more real to each other than any other time during their marriage.
Self-To-Self Connection
Once couples get a taste of what real Self-to-Self connection feels like, they're eager to keep going, particularly when they see the barriers to their own freedom fall away. Over the course of a year, working with their parts, sometimes individually, more often in front of each other, Mark and Stacey reported continuing changes in their sexual and nonsexual lives together. Each was becoming a different person with the other; in fact, they were becoming a lot of different people with each other in ways that increasingly energized, touched, and delighted them both.
As the polarization between parts diminishes within a person, so it diminishes between partners. Stacey was no longer afraid of Mark's stud. In fact, she was surprised to discover a formerly hidden "hot babe" part of herself that could sometimes meet or even exceed the energy of Mark's stud. Mark said that whereas all his previous sexual experience had been dominated by his stud's frenzied aggressiveness, now he'd come to also enjoy the softer, slower kind of sex that Stacey preferred. His stud was less agitated and more sensual. It no longer hijacked him and took him away into fantasy worlds, so he was more responsive to Stacey's moods.
What most surprised this couple was discovering how moving and powerful sex was when they allowed their more vulnerable parts to be present--those parts that they'd previously barricaded behind various protectors. No longer terrified, wounded victims, the Exiles began to exhibit their capacity for openness, innocence, sensitivity, and childlike pleasure. "You know," Mark said, "sometimes when Stacey and I are together, I feel like that embarrassed 13-year-old kid I used to be. I even let myself act as if I'm more like I'm 8 or 10, or even younger--all bouncy and eager the way I was then." To his wonder, when he let himself feel young, vulnerable, and a little awkward, rather than cleaving to the old image of a technically perfect sexual operator--Stacey responded with loving warmth and laughter, kissing and stroking him as if he were her beloved child. While feeling highly charged sexually, he also felt, for the first time in his life, utterly cherished and nurtured.
It took longer for Stacey to let herself feel that vulnerable--her distrust was very intense. Eventually, however, she could let the little girl out in a nonsexual context during sessions, becoming playful in a funny, slightly silly, way. Later, the little girl began to spontaneously show up in their bed. As the little girl took part in sex, Stacey said she felt the same kind of total love and acceptance from Mark that he'd reported from her when his boy was present. They both found humor and playfulness moving seamlessly from their nonsexual to sexual lives and back again. They teased each other during the day, which often became a prelude to sex.
One of the enormous advantages of this kind of free-flowing give-and-take of parts between a couple is the variety and richness it brings to their lives. Stacey remarked one day toward the end of therapy that what she loved most about their new sexuality was the unpredictability of it. For the first time in her life, she was no longer trying to control every aspect of their sexual encounters and, instead, could let any part of herself spontaneously emerge in her body during their lovemaking. The appearance of a part in her often elicited a new part in Mark, so sex, which had been a predictable deployment of stereotyped parts, became an improvised and often astonishing dance in which neither one knew in advance who would show up. This meant for Stacey that she'd suddenly find herself moving in ways she'd never moved before and saying words she'd never said, and all the different parts seemed to find great joy in finally expressing themselves as openly and physically as they wanted. She constantly expected to berate herself for acting so brazenly, but the torrent of criticism from her Managers seemed to have dried up. She still occasionally felt embarrassed the morning after, but that didn't last long, since Mark seemed so happy about it all.
Mark and Stacey were also experiencing more and more Self-to-Self intimacy, although they'd have been puzzled by what I meant, if I'd told them this. I don't talk very much about the Self with clients; before they've done much work with their parts, it might sound incomprehensible to them. Afterward, they know and experience Self-to-Self connection without having to name it. Clients still in thrall to their parts, manifesting in extreme and polarized form, or couples who mostly see only angry, resentful, dependent, jealous, self-pitying parts in each other, may not know there's anything like a Self within them. But the simple process of learning to help a part "step back" before they talk to each other allows the couple to experience a few minutes of agenda-free, open-hearted curiosity about the other. Fleeting as they are, such moments inevitably create an almost palpable sense of connection that wasn't there before and can carry them through ensuing "parts wars."
Enough of these moments and a couple begins to know that, whatever stormy melodrama roils the waters of their relationship, it cannot interrupt a deeper, more enduring current flowing between them. When your partners hold Self-to-Self connection, parts can come and go spontaneously within both, without eliciting the old fears, angers and misunderstandings, because each of them senses the calm, abiding presence of an essential "I" in the storm. That connection forms a loving backdrop to a couple's sexual experience that makes it safe and wonderful for any part to come out. It's the safety of the Self-to-Self connection that allows the delicious surrender to the sexual process.
Once a couple has tasted Self-to-Self intimacy, they know that whatever tempests they find themselves in aren't the essential reality of their connection. No matter what the parts are saying during these inevitably rough times, the couple knows that sooner or later they'll again speak to each other in their true voices. And when that happens, each loses a sense of lonely separateness, and, at some level, experiences a state of union and oneness. They sense that both of them are part of the deep ocean, not the isolated waves. Both are home.


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After its release, the generals received a generally positive. Based on 34 reviews, Metacritic gave score 84/100 which includes a score from IGN 03/09/10. Generals also awarded the 2002 E3 Game Critics Awards' Best Strategy Game Award ".
One review noted that the generals are the game Command and Conquer real-time strategy first that does not include cut scenes full-motion video to tell stories and this is set out in the inter-face is unique and the mechanization of building a base that has the characteristics of all the title C & C RTS before.
Generals use the machine "SAGE" (or Strategy Action Game Engine) and the first game Command & Conquer real-time strategy that fully three-dimensional.
A Generals expansion pack, Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour, was released on 22 September 2003, the deepening of the story-line generals. Unlike Generals, Zero Hour Features restore full motion videos in the series.
Zero Hour get the same reception as the generals with an aggregate score of 85% and 84% from Game Rankings and Metacritic.
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Command and Conquer: Generals has better graphics than the previous version of Command & Conquer (Red Alert).
Command and Conquer: Generals is a strategy game where you will be challenged to build a military base camp to battle with your opponent.
Starting from the building, making the troops, and set the attack. Command & Conquer: Generals has better graphics than the previous version of Command and Conquer (Red Alert).
Command and Conquer : Generals
Command and Conquer series was first developed by Westwood Studios between the years 1995 - 2003, further development was taken over by Electronic Arts with the liquidation of Westwood Studios in 2003.
The first series was launched globally on August 31, 1995 and renamed easily the Command & Conquer. The first series is based on a strategy game that was developed previously by Dune 2. This series was first segmented to Anglo-Saxon audience, which is then translated into different languages including German, French, Spanish, Korean and Chinese.
This series is primarily developed for personal computers running Microsoft Windows operating system, although some titles also have various versions of video game consoles and Apple Macintosh.
This game series developed in various versions starting with Tiberium Wars is also developed for the Xbox 360. Another loose game, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, is also developed for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
In 1999, the U.S. marketer and developer Games , Electronic Arts purchased Westwood Studios. Westwood closed in 2003 and merged into EA Los Angeles is the center of a game developer serial Command and Conquer ahead.
Some of the original developers Westwood survive at EA Los Angeles, but most of the form Petroglyph Games.
On July 2009, Command and Conquer franchise consists of eight games and ten packets of expansion (expansion packs) with sales of more than 30 million units worldwide.
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Multitasking Is Our Main Activity
from the learn-to-love-it dept
Multitasking is not a distraction from our main activity, it is our main activity.That's a nicer way of saying what we said a few months ago. The "inefficiencies" from multitasking aren't a bug. They're a feature. Cowen goes on to explain it using the analogy of a long distance relationship compared to a stable marriage:
A long-distance relationship is, in emotional terms, a bit like culture in the time of Cervantes or Mozart. The costs of travel and access were high, at least compared to modern times. When you did arrive, the performance was often very exciting and indeed monumental. Sadly, the rest of the time you didn't have that much culture at all. Even books were expensive and hard to get. Compared to what is possible in modern life, you couldn't be as happy overall but your peak experiences could be extremely memorable, just as in the long-distance relationship.The full piece is much longer, but beautifully written and quite convincing.
Now let's consider how living together and marriage differ from a long-distance relationship. When you share a home, the costs of seeing each other are very low. Your partner is usually right there. Most days include no grand events, but you have lots of regular and predictable interactions, along with a kind of grittiness or even ugliness rarely seen in a long-distance relationship. There are dirty dishes in the sink, hedges to be trimmed, maybe diapers to be changed.
If you are happily married, or even somewhat happily married, your internal life will be very rich. You will take all those small events and, in your mind and in the mind of your spouse, weave them together in the form of a deeply satisfying narrative, dirty diapers and all. It won't always look glorious on the outside, but the internal experience of such a marriage is better than what's normally possible in a long-distance relationship.
The same logic applies to culture. The Internet and other technologies mean that our favorite creators, or at least their creations, are literally part of our daily lives. It is no longer a long-distance relationship. It is no longer hard to get books and other written material. Pictures, music, and video appear on command. Culture is there all the time, and you can receive more of it, pretty much whenever you want.
In short, our relationship to culture has become more like marriage in the sense that it now enters our lives in an established flow, creating a better and more regular daily state of mind. True, culture has in some ways become uglier, or at least it would appear so to the outside observer. But when it comes to how we actually live and feel, contemporary culture is more satisfying and contributes to the happiness of far more people. That is why the public devours new technologies that offer extreme and immediate access to information.
Many critics of contemporary life want our culture to remain like a long-distance relationship at a time when most of us are growing into something more mature. We assemble culture for ourselves, creating and committing ourselves to a fascinating brocade. Very often the paper-and-ink book is less central to this new endeavor; it's just another cultural bit we consume along with many others. But we are better off for this change, a change that is filling our daily lives with beauty, suspense, and learning.