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Russian intelligence agents for the past several years quietly have recruited scientists to go to Iran and teach Iranian counterparts how to build missiles to carry payloads as far as 1,200 miles, Russian and diplomatic sources said.
Russians and foreigners said officials of the Federal Security Service, Russia's intelligence arm, recruited the scientists at technological institutes and weapons factories for work in Iran.
The contracts, however, were negotiated in Iran between the scientists and their hosts _ apparently to insulate the security service and the government in Moscow from responsibility.
The Iranians paid the institute or factory separately, Russian and foreign officials said.
The Federal Security Service is the successor to the KGB secret police and oversees sensitive arms factories and high-technology institutes.
The agents, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry, arranged for the scientists to leave Russia, officials said. As in Soviet times, the government restricts the travel of technicians who possess knowledge of sophisticated technology.
Russia intends to stop recruitment and curb permission for the scientists to travel to Iran, the officials said.
The curtailment follows a January decree issued by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who has long denied that it was government policy to transfer missile technology to Iran.
He and other leaders said that any leakage was purely on a free-lance basis _ the government did not break the 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime, an international accord that Russia signed and that is supposed to discourage missile proliferation.
The denials have left diplomats and some Russians wondering whether the government is willing or able to stop the flow of scientists to Tehran.
If the new policy takes hold, one reason would be Russia's view that the economic gains from technology sales would be outweighed by the possible loss of financial support from the United States and Europe, an official said. Another is the realization that Iran aims to build a missile program that eventually will make it independent of Moscow's help.


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The Webcomic Overlook #130: Ctrl+Alt+Del (Part 2)
(This is Part Two of a very special Two Part retrospective of Ctrl+Alt+Del. Please click here to read Part One.)
The sum of Ctrl+Alt+Delete's early run can easily be summed up by one of the most notorious advertising campaigns in video game history: the ad for Daikatana. So, basically, creator John Romero thought it would be a good idea to sort of do a parody of gamer talk. So he put together a simple red poster with a very simple slogan: "John Romero's About To Make You His Bitch." This was supposed to be ironic, of course.
It went over as well as you would expect.
So far, Buckley's put together a comic about gamers being moronic troglodytes, emotionally stunted man children, and gamer girls with no personality, while each parody needs to be explained over and over again while the violent punchlines are pretty much telegraphed since panel one. Meanwhile, Buckley's Mary Sue, Ethan, becomes crowned King of All Gamers, pwns all the world's religions, and envisions a story where video games can save your marriage. Ironically, of course.
That went over as well as you'd expect.
But now it's different. Now that Tim Buckley has crossed the bridge from wacky humor to maudlin drama, we're now reading a totally new comic. the upgrade that finally makes CAD a comic that deals with serious issues.
Welcome to CAD 2.0.
What's CAD 2.0, you ask? Before, when Ethan committed violence, it was a punchline. Now, people threaten to press charges. In CAD 2.0, when Ethan tries to get wacky, his antics are frowned upon. In CAD 2.0, it's wrong to make someone your bitch. CAD 1.0 was about playing video games. CAD 2.0 is about playing the biggest video game of all …
… the video game of life.
So let's take a trip down the all new, all different CAD and see if things may have changed for the better. Prepare, dear reader, to have your heart torn.
6/04/2008: I'm not going to harp too much on the blog post that accompanied the "Loss" strip. However, it does reveal two key things about the storyline to come ahead: 1.) that it's partially autobiographical, as Tim Buckley went through what a relationship that, in his his own words, "was toxic to begin with and doomed to fail regardless," and 2.) that he's going to apparently retcon everything and say that he's had this particular storyline planned for a long, long time.
That explains some of the developments this story takes … and makes them a little creepy. Like a whole page explaining that the miscarriage happened because Lilah's blood attacked the fetus? I mean, WOW. Let's just say that the classy thing to do would have been not bringing that up in the first place.
9/01/2008: The Funky-Winkerbean-ization of CAD continues beyond the Passion of Ethan. Our big friend Lucas even goes through his own mini-torture. Earlier in the series, Lucas had been dating a girl named Kate (who had met him while dressed in a fat suit, but it's best to block that stupid, stupid plot out of your mind). After sleeping with her, he discovers that he he doesn't love her (and reveals his feelings after sleeping with her again). They entered a relationship of convenience.
Now, fast forward to the present day. He finally finds out that he does love Kate, but when he goes to pour out his heart to her, he finds out she's been sleeping around. Dun dun DUN! Seriously, CAD 2.0 has swiftly morphed into a Telemundo soap opera here.
Ah, but fortunately for those of you who've been clutching at your hearts and on the verge of fainting from this particular twist, Lucas and Kate patch things up. Lucas' monologue, which include such choice lines as "I'm mad … I'm hurt, and it will take me a while to trust you again," is, quite possibly, a picture perfect template on how not to do an apology. Incidentally, this who theme where the guy is not wrong and women should feel bad for acting like women? This is not the last time we're going to see this theme played out in CAD….
10/29/2008: What Lucas is going through is but a mere fraction to the absolutely impenetrable trials and tribulations that Ethan's going through. Like the return of Christian, Lilah's millionaire boyfriend, who buys up the Gamehaven as some sort of elaborate scheme to steal Lilah away from Ethan. (Seriously.) And the introduction of Shannon as an employee to Gamehaven, who for some godforsaken reason, tries to seduce Ethan. (It turns out that this was also part of the elaborate scheme to steal Lilah away from Ethan … which at least makes a smidgen of sense.)
It all looks really bleak for Ethan, who runs back home and doesn't find Lilah there in what I like to call Loss, Part II. But all's well that ends well. Lilah apparently only went to the airport so she could somehow have Christian hauled off by authorities. And she apologies to Ethan for not being there for him emotionally during this whole ordeal. (!!!!) OK, ending two storylines where two different women come crawling back to the author's Mary Sue and the Mary Sue's best friend (who may also be a Mary Sue)? DAMN.
Now here's a great "What If?" What if Tim Buckley had decided to let Lilah run off with Christian in the end? Granted, that might be too dark, but we sorta jumped that particular shark after the miscarriage arc started. Maybe it would be too close to what the author really experienced, and perhaps he wouldn't have wanted to go that far. Maybe it would have been just as terrible. Scratch that: it would have been just as terrible.
But you know what? It would've been far less of cheat. It would've made Ethan more sympathetic, since now he's been through some real hardship that would've forced him to finally grow up. It would've ended a relationship that wasn't too realistic in the first place. Lilah always acted more like Ethan's mom … which was never more apparent than in the CAD: The Animated Series, where there's a whole plotline where Lilah has to explain why she's different from a mother (by, appropriately by CAD standards anyway, showing him her boobs). Uggggghh.
(And YES, I did watch the entire run of CAD: The Animated Series. The things I do for you people!)
Instead, we learn that Ethan is never wrong and his "friends" should do everything to tolerate him and make his life better despite getting nothing in return. Appropriately enough, Lilah and Ethan steal Christian's tickets so they can go to Italy and get married, because, you know, everything comes to Ethan for free. This signals the blessed end of one of the worst story arcs in the history of webcomics. I know I'm missing a lot of things, such as a subplot where Ethan sadly puts away a tiny controller he had been building for "Darth McManus," but I've got home renovations to get to.
By the way, in case you were keeping a running tally, despite the marriage of Ethan and Lilah it's still not the end of the marriage arc.
11/26/2008: Ooh, the second out-of-continuity Ethan McManus in space story arc. I'm starting to understand why these are so popular. They're perhaps the most interactive a webcomic creator ever gets with his audience (except maybe MS Paint Adventures), they give Tim Buckley a break from having to try to stay current with video game jokes, and we the readers get to take a break from the forehead-slapping uber-drama. And you know what? It's still just as wordy as hell, but, you know, reams of exposition have always been par for the course in sci-fi novels. The fact that Buckley actually hand-draws his backgrounds for once is a definite improvement. I mean, sure, the spaceship is basically an obviously modified X-Wing, but STILL!
And… here's the best thing about it… it managed to kill the increasingly turgid Winter-een-mas stories! Glory hallelujah!
2/16/09: Tim Buckley seems to be expanding his scope beyond video games. There are now pop culture strips are about guys from infomercials, the UFC, and older games? But let's answer the most important question: is the punchline still really, really unfunny? YES.
3/16/2009: You know, I kinda like Ethan as the manager.Oh, sure, everything about this situation is contrived as hell. Ethan only gets the store because the previous owner had bought it from Christian and didn't want to buy it back. And Lucas forgoes his dreams of going back to college and signs on to help with the paperwork because ETHAN ETHAN ETHAN. But, it's nice to to see Ethan go crazy for legit reasons for a change, and not because, I don't know, there's not enough buttered toast sticking on the walls or some "random" crap.
8/12/2009: Just when I thought we'd turned the corner on CAD, apparently Ethan is always right and everyone should feel bad for making him feel bad. Also, this storyline gets rid of that XBox robot, one of the last vestiges of CAD 1.0, as he leaves the house so he can travel the world with his new lady love. As many have pointed out, Ethan seems to be more broken up about this than his wife's miscarriage.
9/07/2009: Huh. Nice offensive imagery there, Tim.
9/25/2009: Let it not be said that Tim Buckley doesn't listen to criticisms about his art. Today marks the day that he finally changes his art style. The "B^U" jokes end here, people. Now, it's not perfect. He still struggles with giving anyone much of an emotional range, which really stands out now that he's put more work in the detail. The Player comics look… kinda creepy now, to be honest. But I think it does look better than what came before, and the more mature style meshes well with the all-new, all-different CAD 2.0.
12/07/2009: And now we get to the wedding arc and … it's really very, very boring. Which is a surprise, considering Buckley throws everything he can into it, including a subplot about dealing with a douchebag brother and running from the Hawaiian mafia. (Seriously.) Perhaps CAD wants to preserve the solemnity of marriage? Eh. Doubtful. I mean, the marriage vows somehow include gratuitous references to video games in a pale attempt to conform to CAD's original mission statement. I have a feeling that Buckley's getting petered out on the entire thing, and he'd rather be back to writing those "Ethan McManus in Space" stories.
3/10/2010: Ethan has to draw up a contract to see his wife's boobs? Is he that unfamiliar with the concept of marriage? Also, this panel was apparently re-edited from the original, which contained no boob jokes. Because no one would recognize it was CAD if he didn't.
4/30/2010: We end our Tour de CAD on the Abby storyline, a.k.a. that girl he created using Google image search. Basically, Abby's cheating the system and using Gamehaven's policy against them for her own personal benefit. So… basically a female Ethan. The limited facial expressions from Abby and Ethan, by the way, register as "mildly flirtatious" rather than "thinly veiled contempt," which is what I think Buckley was going for. (Or not. Abby does complain that Ethan was sending out mixed signals, so point to Buckley I guess.) Anyway, Ethan and Abby patch things up, Lilah somehow doesn't go into a flying rage that he husband is spending so much time and passion over another woman, and everything turns out well and fine in Ethanland.
I've spent something like 6,000 words ragging on Ctrl+Alt+Del, so I think I'll close this out with something positive: Tim Buckley is probably one of the top reasons people get into webcomics at all. Maybe video game humor isn't exactly Oscar Wilde, but there is an audience and they appreciate that someone's got jokes about their hobby. And those fans? They started writing their own comics about video games. CAD even got CAD haters to start reading webcomics, because when you're devoted to hating something, you have to eventually ask yourself what you like. I've seen more than one message board thread devoted to hating CAD evolve into discussions about where the good webcomics are.
Also, I like Rob. He seems like a cool character.
So if you're reading this, Tim Buckley: your webcomic is bad, and you should feel bad … but it's so spectacularly bad that, in a way, it does come right back to entertaining, in a way you definitely never intended. Just when we thought we knew CAD, there are crazy new alleys just around the corner. Congratulations, Tim Buckley, you are the Rob Liefeld of webcomics.
Rating (2008-2010): 1 star (out of 5)
Posted on August 9, 2010, in 1 Star, comedy webcomic, dramatic webcomic, slice-of-life webcomic, The Webcomic Overlook, video game webcomic, WCO Big Review, webcomics and tagged Ctrl+Alt+Del, ctrl+alt+delete. Bookmark the permalink. 45 Comments.
"CAD 2.0 is about playing the biggest video game of all …
… the video game of life."
Also God you didn't have to read the whole thing… your brain's probably poisoned now. D;
Hence the cheesy "video game of life" line.
I guess CAD is a necessary evil then?
I guess it is important to note that most of the video game "I perfected cell shading from a Deivantart tutorial but still can't draw or write well" webcomics were inspired by CAD and try to turn out the same ""style"" (double quotes on the word so the foul thing can't escape). I think the problem is that too many people think that just because the colors and shading are clean then it looks nice.
Also, I liked that Billy Mays tribute…
I'm a little bit surprised you didn't bring up the "Abby's design was stolen" controversy. I mean, you did cover an awful lot, but that seems a bit too large to miss.
I've been looking forward to this all week. This has been excellent reading, I only wish Part II had been longer. Also, curse you for exposing me to so much CAD… I'm feeling the urge to write a few words on it myself now.
Thanks for all the hard work and humiliating drudgery you do for us… take a break and do a five-star comic next time, you've earned it.
heck yah, he does!
i just archive-binged Hitmen For Destiny which recently wrapped up, it was awesome. super-creative and really funny.
Is Hitmen for Destiny actually worth reading? The art looks really amateurish (which turned me off), but now I'm wondering if the art style is some sort of commentary or important to the story.
Surprised that CAD 2.0 have less stars than Cad 1.00
at least we can learn marketing from Buckley
Meh. Your attempt at criticism fails overwhelmingly. It's a fun comic. Stop trying to treat it like it's high art and sit back and enjoy the ride.
Or just stop reading it.
1. You don't have to worry about anyone here comparing it to "high art", none of us have made that mistake.
2. You don't have to be talking about art if you're making a critique.
3. Your attempt to discredit fails overwhelmingly in that it fails to elaborate, sort of like I'm doing now.
4. He just explained in a two part blog post why he could not sit down and enjoy the ride. He kept going because he wanted to be fair when writing this.
5. Thou hath spoken ill whislt saying nothing. Truly thou art naught but a troll to those seeking truth. Have at thee yon beastie!
Meh is a failtroll.
lol@ critisising a critic for making critiques.
What's the sound of thousands of fanboys crying, while trying to show they don't care, every time their god, Tim Buckley, is shot down with loads of facts about why his webcomic sucks? "MEH."
I was just about to rail on CAD some more… But then I saw a trailer for a movie called "Vampires Suck" on my television. It looks like a spoof on Twilight, in the same vein of "Epic Movie" and all that other garbage.
So I guess I can't hate on CAD too badly. Because as I just saw, there are far worse forms of entertainment out there.
um i come here for webcomic new and info as well as reviews of webcomics i havent read yet i was looking forward to a update why did you waste so much time on talking about CAD i mean you yourself pointed out many bad things about it and i while i dont hate CAD i fail to see the point in reading it because it is a great example of how very poor writing can bring good artwork down and every single joke he has done has been done much better else where i was hoping to see you review a good webcomic that i didnt know about and would enjoy i just dont get why you would waste so much time writing about CAD when every one has read it, including myself and feels its a waste of space hopfully your next update will be better and about something that isnt years old
Every time I see a comment like this, I'm wondering if someones secret AI-project was writing it.
"about CAD when every one has read it,"
I've never read it beyond seeing other people review it. And in-depth reviews are why I keep coming back here as my new primary webcomics blog. Well that and Websnark being damn near flatlined again…
Like any pet project, it'd difficult to simply let go. CAD is too much of a cash cow and a time-suck for TB to simply drop and pursue other interests.
It's too bad. I hate seeing webcomic artists just sit complacently and not challenge themselves creatively beyond their current definition. I'm sure TB could do something different from CAD with some depth and skill, but he's comfortable standing pat with what works for him.
The last line of your review is what I've been saying for the last 5 years. Tim Buckley IS the Rob Liefeld of webcomics. The bad reputation is bigger than the actual worth of the body of work – so bad in fact, that it is almost a parody of the real thing.
Truth be told, if Tim started doing Space Archaeology full-time, I would tune in regularly.
Although there is a part of me that fears he would screw it up if he made it any bigger than a side project.
Ah, CAD 2.0. Not as up to date on this as you are, but part of this period was probably one of the biggest disappointments I've had in the history of webcomics.
I used to read CAD sporadically, every now and then, not because it was an epitome of good humor, but because hey, it was a comic, it was online, and I was occasionally linked to it because it contained video game references. That was a very, very long time ago, and at some point I simply stopped caring about it.
But then… I saw the name of the comic mentioned on several websites I read. On John Solomon's "Your webcomic is bad and you should feel bad", and several other places where people were talking about how bad of a comic it was. What really baffled my mind about this was the two words everybody seemed to mention about this comic.
"Miscarriage arc".
WHAT? How could this comic have a miscarriage arc? I knew it would be bad, but I just had to click my way back to CAD to see what everybody were talking about. And yeah, I had to agree with everybody I'd seen say it: It was BAD.
Then time passed again, and I really wanted to forget that CAD existed. But a voice in my head were whispering: "Hey, don't you want to know what happens next? How does this affect Ethan and the other characters?"
"SHUT UP, VOICE IN MY HEAD," I said. "Clearly, in CAD, why would anything have any concequences at all?"
But eventually I caved. I just wanted to know if anything interesting happened at all. Though, surely, it would just be back to sex, fart and video game jokes…
WHAT? The wedding is cancelled? Huh. That's…
WHAT'S THAT? Ethan loses his job? That's unexpected…
WAIT, HUH? Lilah runs off with Christian? Really?
Could it be… That Buckley has decided to introduce the concept of concequences in his comic? Sure, it still wouldn't be my favorite webcomic, but… Everything goes wrong for Ethan, he's finally punished for his actions… Is Buckley letting him start all over, with the knowledge that he can't be a violent dumbass and at the same time be praised as a god by gamers all over the world, because the world just doesn't work that way?
As I was about to click "Next comic", I was optimistic to the future of CAD.
And then… Oh, Lilah took Ethan back, and even apologized to him for vaguely resembling a human being. And they ran off to get married. And Ethan got a video game store.
Okay, I'm not in a position to claim that I could have done any better myself, as I don't make a webcomic, but REALLY? This comic has FANS?
Making a shitty webcomic is easy. Everybody can do that. Giving that shitty webcomic a ray of hope, a moment that really looks as if it's about to move in the right direction…
And then demolishing that hope…
Is something only a very few selected people can do. Tim Buckley is one of those people.
Thanks for an awesome review, by the way.
Thank you for taking one for the team for all of us… it was hard to look at the linked comics, I can't imagine what it was like for you to read through the archives (and the animations? egad). Hope your next review cleanses your palate 🙂
I used to read CAD for the longest time. And when I see it now, I just want to kick myself in the head for ever spending time on it. But at least I can hide behind psychology: I kept reading to solve the problem of cognitive dissonance, and I suspect the same is true for a lot of its fans (and for those of other comics).
You didn't comment on Scott's complete disappearance from the strip!
Fun fact: If you inquire where Scott is (or make really any kind of reference to Scott) on the CAD forums, you will be banned immediately with no reason given.
All I can say is: Woooowww. I stopped reading CAD around 2005 or 2006 (judging from which comics I remembered from your read-through), so I missed this whole thing. I mean, I heard about the miscarriage plot (who didn't?) but had no idea what the rest of the comic was like. I'm actually amazed by just how bad it is, and what's utterly inexplicable is that this comic continues to draw plenty of readers after having long since moved away from the things that made them read it in the first place.
Seriously, what the hell guys. There are better comics out there, lots of them. Why would anyone read this?
I enjoyed reading this. I've never bothered to read much of CAD but now I feel like I don't have to and I'm still somewhat allowed to say something about it 😀
One thing tough. I don't see why people are complaining about the art. Sure I can see how it's flat and the same all the time and it lacks expression but it's good enough. This genre of comics doesn't need better art than this (okey the very early ones look Bad but most of the time it looks ok) I've seen cases of worse art in web-comics and noone is complaining about it since it's a comic that it's not "hip" to diss…
That is all. 🙂
A magnificent analysis of the comic. Very well done.
Meh, if Penny arcade has almost transcended the 'video game slacker' genre then CAD is still trying to get out out of the cacoon and transform itself. The split-second changes between maudlin emotion and peurile humour, as you've stated, don't work and this is a structural reset that just hasn't worked. I know it was always more light-hearted and goofy but clearly juxtaposing emotion into a goof-ball strip has failed.
…I've actually liked CAD. (I preface this by saying that I've only read up through the comics reviewed here, so I'm nearly a year behind.) It's pretty clear that it's hated way out of proportion with its actual lack of quality, but while it does have some guilty-pleasure aspects I actually liked at least "CAD 1.0", and can't help but think that at least some of the hate comes from bitterness related to its imitators, and from overthinking and nitpicking everything. I share "The"'s (the 9/11 commenter)'s opinion on B^U (there are comics with as bad or worse art that don't get nearly the hate), though I should say that re-reading old strips makes me notice the B^U a lot more than when I originally did, though it had already greatly improved by 2008, and I honestly don't see the 2009 change in art style you see. (One common complaint about the art is that Buckley has shown he can draw a lot better, which says to me that the fact he went with a simpler art style for CAD is probably intentional, yet no one catches on to this.)
That leaves the bad writing, and I don't have a problem with the wall of text either (I read Order of the Stick, I guess I'm just used to wordy comics). I never really got the sense that Ethan was nearly as much of a Mary Sue as he's made out to be (friendships can be weird), or that the most infamous examples of such (the king-of-gamers and gamer-religion storylines) were really meant to be taken all that seriously (Ethan invoking his congregation to win his bet with Christian aside). (And I can attest that yes, people really do celebrate Winter-een-mas.) The one time I've really felt that Ethan was much of a Mary Sue was when Lilah ditched Christian, about which I share Olaf's opinion, but even then I could come up with a justification (Lilah still remembers what a jerk Christian was the first time), and I was actually excited that owning a video game store would force Ethan to grow up a little, and to some extent, it did. (See his insanity over trying to run the store without replacing himself, or the departure of Zeke from the strip – which I must admit was poorly written, but more because of the she-robot cliche and the over-humanization of Zeke).
As for the comic being unfunny, I beg to differ generally, but more specifically someone left a comment on that Zero Punctuation webcomics video that clarified things for me. Yahtzee had earlier written a blog post bashing CAD for over-explaining the joke by comparing CAD's and PA's takes on a similar joke, and on this occasion someone mentioned that they actually preferred the CAD version, because it was more accessible to people unfamiliar with the topic. He does sometimes misidentify the punchline, but I'd say he's gotten better at it as time goes on, and some fairly recent comics are basically Penny Arcade strips under the CAD banner (right down to, annoyingly, needing to read the news post to get the joke).
Although his public image may suggest otherwise (and is probably another major source of the hate), I think Buckley does recognize and is trying to improve on people's points against the comic, and I don't think they've ever been as bad as people have claimed. I wouldn't say we'll be going to "Misunderstood Genius of Tim Buckley" exhibits someday, but I wouldn't call him Rob Liefeld either.
I think that while the pregnancy arc was completely unjustifiable, the miscarriage strip was a reaction to the overwhelming negative reception of the pregnancy arc and a decision on the part of Tim Buckley to cut his losses on it, even if it meant stooping to a new low.

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GC09; Hands-on with Heavy Rain
Heavy Rain has got the gaming community in a spin, what with the stand-out realistic graphics, amazing sound and impressively large script.
But the game has also gained a fair number of detractors, stating that the 'quicktime event' gameplay is hackneyed and more akin to Dragon's Lair than a PS3 blockbuster.
So it was with great interest that we grabbed a DualShock 3 controller and headed off into the world of Heavy Rain for the first time. Here's the story of what it really feels like to play…
Playing as Norman Jayden, an FBI agent with an 'issue' that requires constant medication to keep in check, we started proceedings at a car junk yard. Was it raining? Of course it was…
The controls at this point in the game are fairly simple. You hold down one of the shoulder buttons and use the left stick to walk. The right stick moves the camera. No quicktime events (QTEs) to see here. Jayden has a particularly natty pair of FBI sunglasses that provide him with the ability to find clues and classify objects, with a neat 'holographic' head-up display effect, that you can put on and take off with a sweep of the analogue stick.
After meeting the owner of the junk yard, who naturally dismisses any knowledge of the car you're looking for, you move around the garage looking for clues. It isn't long before you start to find tyre tracks, traces of blood and other telling evidence. That car was here, and it looks very much like someone got into a fight.
Without giving the story away, the junkyard owner eventually faces off to you now that he has seen you have gathered enough evidence to implicate him, and this is where the mighty fight scene ensues.
The QTEs come thick and fast at this point, and the game feels no less accomplished than – for example – the boss battle sequences in titles like God of War II. During this fight, you'll also be faced with choices to make that rotate on the screen, ready for you to decide how you are going to react to certain circumstances.
Within the fight it is true that you have to be quick to press the right button or sweep the stick in the correct direction, but if you hit your marks without issue you'll be rewarded. If you miss one or two, you still have chances to redeem yourself. If you miss a few, however, it could be the end for that character, and therefore that entire chunk of script.
The key here is that Heavy Rain mixes a number of traditional gaming elements with serious aplomb. You have the kind of narrative decision making, investigation and problem solving that has been the staple of many a graphical adventure game over the years, the excitement of confrontations that could be straight out of your favourite movies and the freedom to explore your surroundings however you see fit.
The controls seem easy to grasp, which leaves you open to being able to get into the story. And that is, after all, Heavy Rain's unique proposition – the storyline. Quantic Dreams are promising that Heavy Rain will make you think and feel differently about video games as a narrative, and on the evidence of our measly fifteen-minute hands-on experience, we're inclined to think that it will do just that.


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The Application of Science to Address Management and Restoration-Related Questions in the Cedar River Municipal Watershed
Bohle, Todd
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Bohle will present: 1. Three recent studies. 2. Current understanding. 3. Approaches. 4. Available tools, models and information needs. 5. Unknowns and on-going challenges. He will sum up what has been learned: 1. Always keep focused on hypotheses. 2. Know the precision of the data to be collected. 3. Attempts to assess power of different panel designs specious without data from one or more endpoints/variables for 2 or more years. 4. Review and, if needed, update protocols annually. 5. Continuity in staff is immensely beneficial. Finally, he will review remaining challenges and unknowns: 1. Staying on top of data checking and data management. 2. Recent flood frequencies impact on assessment of between year variation in data... not to mention detection of long term trends.
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- the Japanese clubs of Sakuragicho and Yamato held their first WASPA events and the future looks bright for the circuit in Japan;
- the Belgian club of Wamme also joined the circuit with some exciting events with 6 and 12 players;
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|New active club in Belgium, welcome Wamme SC
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In 1958, the towns of Williamstown and Lanesborough signed a regional agreement, forming a partnership that allowed the two towns to join in building Mt. Greylock High School. The agreement lays out the rules that govern the school district and its financial policies. The towns revise the agreement at town meetings as often as necessary in order to account for changing populations and enrollment numbers. This year, as the school district is preparing for a major capital project, the new school building/renovation, the district is revising the agreement in order to modify the apportionment of funds.
At the moment, the agreement uses a five year rolling average of student enrollment from each of the towns to calculate the apportionment for the operating budget. However, capital projects such as the current proposed building, are apportioned to the two towns based on a fixed ratio at the time of bonding. According to Mark Schiek, the chair of the school building committee, "In an attempt to make the apportionment more equitable due to changing populations and enrollment numbers, the School Committee, responding to a request by the Town of Lanesborough, decided to propose altering the Regional Agreement to make capital project apportionment also based on a five year rolling average of student enrollment." In order for the new changes to be included in the revised agreement, both towns will have to approve the proposed revisions. On November 17, Williamstown held its special town meeting to vote on the changes. Carrie Greene, a member of the school building committee reported that, "220 people checked in/registered to vote at the Special Town Meeting last night, though there were quite a few more people in attendance. The motion passed unanimously." Lanesborough will hold its special town meeting on the 1st of December at 6:00 PM.
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Cracked Tooth Syndrome
For about three months George (not his real name) has sometimes been experiencing sharp pain in a lower right molar when he bites into something hard. For the last two weeks, the pain has been getting worse and has been become a long lasting dull pain after he chews. He likes to chew ice and knows he grinds his teeth at night. Now he has a constant ache from the tooth.
X-rays were taken of the teeth on the lower right side. No cavities or any gross abnormalities were present. A bite test was done. George was asked to bite down repeatedly on a special "bite stick" that is placed on different parts of the lower teeth. Whenever he bites on a cusp of the lower first molar, he experiences some pain. But he gets a sharp "twinge" of pain when he releases pressure on the tooth. Intraoral camera that magnifies the image forty times reveals a crack line at the same cusp. When ice is applied to the crack, there is extreme sensitivity. The diagnosis is "crack tooth syndrome." Whenever pressure is brought to bear on that cusp, the crack is minutely opened. When the pressure is released, the snap back motion introduced pain to the "pulp," or nerve of the tooth. Bacteria and oral fluids continue to flow into the pulp continuously. Eventually the tooth will probably abscess. If the patient is seen in time, and a crown is placed on the tooth, generally the situation is corrected. Sometimes the nerve will abscess even with treatment. Such cases may require root canal treatment. The sooner a cracked tooth is restored with a crown, the less the risk of root canal treatment. Needless to say, see your dentist at the first sign of biting pain.
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Summary: The insurer refused to advance claimant $10,000 on permanent partial disability benefits. The insurer argued claimant failed to provide justification for the advance, contending this was required during mediation and, more generally, as justification for her request.
Held: Where the insurer did not demand specification for the request during the mediation process, the Workers' Compensation Court does not have jurisdiction to entertain the present complaint about lack of specificity during mediation. While section 39-71-2401(4)(a), MCA (1993) references providing a specific demand prior to mediation, the remedy for that failure is provided in the mediation statute and requires decision by the mediator. Contrary to the insurer's argument, there is no statutory requirement that claimant provide justification to the insurer for a lump sum request for permanent partial disability benefits. The only criteria mentioned in section 39-71-741(2), MCA (1993) regarding approval is whether a settlement amount is inadequate. The insurer's request for dismissal is rejected; the WCC will review claimant's request for advance with regard to whether the amount is adequate.
The petitioner (claimant) in this matter seeks a $10,000 partial lump-sum advance of the permanent partial disability benefits due her. A review of the voluminous filings in this case shows that the amount of the benefits due her are not in dispute, rather the respondent (insurer) resists any partial lump summing and requests that the matter be dismissed on account of claimant's failure to provide it with a detailed justification for her lump-sum request. (Defendant's Motion for Summary Ruling and Reply Brief in Support of Defendant's Motion for Summary Ruling.)
The insurer argues that even though the parties mediated the claimant's lump-sum request the petitioner nonetheless failed to comply with mediation requirements since she has never provided respondent with a detailed justification for her lump-sum request. It relies on section 39-71-2401(4)(a), MCA (1993), which provides that prior to mediation,
The insurer's argument is without merit. Initially, any objection to the sufficiency of the claimant's demand should have been presented in the first instance to the mediator. Section 39-71-2401(4)(c), MCA (1993), provides:
This Court does not have before it any dismissal by the mediator or any order of the mediator denying a request to dismiss. Thus, it lacks jurisdiction to entertain the insurer's challenge to the sufficiency of the demand.
Moreover, claimant is not required to provide a detailed justification for her lump- sum request. She was injured in 1993. Section 39-71-741(2), MCA (1993), governs her request. It provides:
The section expressly provides for a partial lump-sum advance. Unlike the provision set out in subsection (3) of section 39-71-741, MCA, which pertains to lump summing of permanent total disability benefits, it does not require the claimant to justify her request.(1) In inserting specific justification requirements with respect to lump summing of permanent total disability benefits, and omitting any similar requirements with respect to lump summing of permanent partial disability benefits, the legislature has indicated that no justification is required. "It is a rule of statutory construction that the express mention of one matter excludes other similar matters not mentioned." Helena Valley Irrigation District v. State Highway Commission, 150 Mont. 192, 198, 433 P.2d 791 (1967).
The only ground for disapproving a partial lump summing of permanent partial disability benefits is where "the department determines that the settlement amount is inadequate." § 39-71-741(2)(c), MCA (1993). Claimant's lump-sum request has evaded Department review on account of the insurer's failure to agree to her request, however, the Court must apply the same standard. Thus, the only issue presented is whether the requested amount is inadequate.
The insurer's motion requesting dismissal of the petition is denied. This matter shall be tried in Kalispell during the week of September 15, 1997. The only issues to be tried are whether the $10,000 requested by claimant is inadequate and whether she is entitled to attorney fees and a penalty.
DATED in Helena, Montana, this 13th day of August, 1997.
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1. Section 39-71-741(3), MCA (1993), provides:
Permanent total disability benefits may be converted in whole or in part to a lump sum. The total of all lump-sum conversions in part that are awarded to a claimant may not exceed $20,000. A conversion may be made only upon the written application of the injured worker with the concurrence of the insurer. Approval of the lump-sum payment rests in the discretion of the department. The approval or award of a lump-sum payment by the department or court must be the exception. It may be given only if the worker has demonstrated financial need that:
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A 64-year-old Mira Loma man was arrested on suspicion of robbing a Riverside bank on Friday, Oct. 26, and confessed to knocking over the same bank only a month earlier, Riverside police said.
An employee of the Premier Service Bank at 3637 Arlington Ave. reported to police at 10:12 a.m. that the bank was being robbed. The robber fled on foot, but police found a man matching the description nearby. Witnesses identified the man as being the robber, a news release said.
The man, James David Grijalva, confessed to the robbery and two additional bank heists, police said. One robbery was of the same Premier bank on Sept. 6; the other was on Aug. 30 at a Chase bank in Jurupa Valley.
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Range Rover Evoque–Live Reveal brings back Land Rover badge & a little more
So Land Rover just officially revealed the 2-door Range Rover Evoque at the Paris Auto Show. It was short and sweet and didn't reveal too much new info. But there were two interesting things.
First, they did not show the 5-door model and said it wouldn't be shown until later this year. For those who can't wait, here's a video of it showing off on the Nürburgring:
And a picture of a dealer preview via Autoblog:
Second & actually more surprising, the vehicle they showed actually did have a Land Rover badge on the right-hand side of the rear tailgate. So maybe they aren't going to forget the brand. I would have put up a screenshot but they still haven't put up the replay of the video. Here's a shot posted by Stuart Schorr, Vice President, Communications & Public Affairs, Jaguar Land Rover North America:
Funny thing is, not even a real Range Rover has a rear badge anymore…
You can watch a replay of the reveal here:
And Phil Popham did say it would start at £35,000 – I can't remember if that was new info or not?


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{Matthew 26:36-46}
Yesterday we talked about Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey…what we celebrate as Palm Sunday. There are so many events that took place as Jesus journeyed to the cross, and each piece was extraordinarily important in the picture that God Himself was laying out for all mankind. Jesus riding into the city on a donkey was the beginning of the last few days of Jesus' life, it was marked with worship and celebration of their King…only for it to give way to His crucifixion.
Jesus' time in Jerusalem was spent with His disciples, pouring out the last of the words He could offer before His death…events like the last super were revealing of the events that were about to take place and the first communion with Jesus Himself breaking the bread and passing the cup.
Today though, I want to take you to the garden.
What happened in the garden was important, at the this point Jesus is "sorrowful and troubled," lets think about this…when a sacrifice was given for sin, the sinner would lay their hands upon the sacrifice in order to "transfer" their sin to the sacrifice. Jesus was no different, as our ultimate sacrifice the sins of the world, present and future was on the back of Jesus. The moment in the garden when He is praying, the cup that He is about to drink of is sin.
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An unexpected late afternoon phone call began the association between a remote Nickel producer and an Australian, mid-tier engineering consultancy. Chief Operating Officer Jim Allan of SOTO Consulting Engineers listened intently as his caller anxiously described a worsening situation that if left unchecked, could lead to a catastrophic failure of an essential asset at a Nickel refining plant in New Caledonia.
The depiction given to Jim that afternoon was of a Boiler in structural distress. The power station of the Nickel refinery needed to partially shut down as damage and danger increased daily as it remained online.
The engineers of SOTO in Wollongong NSW would likely only consider the Pacific islands as a holiday destination and not a location where a massive Nickel refinery was in danger of suffering potentially catastrophic damage to part of its infrastructure…One of its primary Boilers had developed cracks in the vessel shell and was in distress.
In the phone call, the Director of Supply & Logistics urgently sought expert engineering support to aid Koniambo Nickel SAS (KNS) and requested the on-site attendance of a senior structural engineer from SOTO Consulting Engineers to assist the site engineers to develop a scope of work, determine solutions and identify the deliverables necessary to overcome the structural defects in the boiler structures.
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Inspections of accessible plant elements were completed in six days with significant issues determined. The principal source of defects throughout the structures were found to be associated with thermal expansion and inefficacy of expansion joints, resulting in excessive forces via downward and upward vertical expansion.
To prevent possible catastrophic failure of the Boiler, remediation of apparent thermal expansion issues were urgently required. This requirement led SOTO to utilise their Advanced Analysis team to conduct modelling and global analysis of the ducting, cyclone and seal-pot utilising Finite Element Analysis (FEA) thereafter applying the results as an input to determine rectification solutions.
Koniambo management invited the Principal Engineer of SOTO to collaborate on-site with their engineers in developing a scope of work for the boiler remediation process. This scope included a global structural analysis using FEA to determine stress affected areas and methodology to overcome the issues caused by the stressors. The summation of the analysis by SOTO was presented to the site engineers with its conclusions aiding to further refine the steps in the remediation project being planned for mid-year 2016.
Although SOTO had been unknown to Koniambo prior to the phone call by the Director of Supply & Logistics, he and his company placed their belief in the specialised capabilities of SOTO Consulting Engineers to provide excellence in thermal structural analysis combined with pragmatic engineering for effective solutions to the potentially devastating issues surrounding their Boiler.
At Valè in Gore, New Caledonia, SOTO are recognised after completing several Advanced Analysis assignments including an undersea, ocean-outfall pipeline and other studies related to overland pipelines also SOTO had previously been invited to bid on refractory design for major CBR vessels at Valè.
Earlier this year, SOTO being a member of AUSTMINE took part in a mission to NC Nickel Industries to meet and interact with senior representatives of Eramet-SLN, Valè and Koniambo and visiting the operations of these three majors. The AUSTMINE members met with AUSTRADE representatives and Mr Paul Wilson, Australian Consul-General, to discuss methods of developing business in New Caledonia with a chain of opportunities being presented.
Over the last five years or so, SOTO has sought to understand the drivers of the New Caledonian economy and to seek opportunities to service the Nickel industry. By continuing to forge new relationships with the people of New Caledonia, SOTO can provide very responsive and cost effective design engineering services to the Nickel refiners while augmenting their own engineering capability.
Information and contact with SOTO Consulting Engineers can be made through our website www.sotogroup.com.au or email to < firstname.lastname@example.com.>


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Give the skins a thorough wash (I scrub them), put 2-3 cms of water in the bottom of a pot and add a cinnamon stick, a sprinkle of mixed spice & some star anise.
You can add some honey if you have a sweet tooth (or your kids do).
Cook on a medium heat stirring every 2-3 minutes.
Cook on a medium heat stirring every 2-3 minutes.
This will take 2 minutes to prep and around 10 minutes to cook for 5 apples and gives you a super easy way to eat an apply every morning without even trying. In fact, 30 seconds in the microwave from the fridge gives you an awesome warm base for some oats or muesli and a bit of yoghurt - it really does feel like apple pie for breakfast.
I never go a day without eating fruit as I love it so much, especially at breakfast.
How do you get your daily fruit?
Have you ever quit fruit as part of a sugar-dropping regime? I could never!
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The PML-N government and Punjabi nationalists seem to be under considerable pressure as the demand for a separate Siraiki province is gathering momentum in southern Punjab but this was most crooked and uncalled for response that could ever come from anyone with even the slightest political wisdom. PML-N leader was obviously trying to get back with the PPP. It may be noted that PM Gilani has suggested the creation of a new province in southern Punjab and PPP manifesto committee is deliberating to make it a part of the PPP manifesto for next elections.
No Sindhi would have any objections if Shahbaz Sharif, other PML-N leaders and Punjabis as a whole turn into nationalists but all the Punjabis and others should understand that Sindh and PPP are not ONE and the same. They are two separate entities. PML-N can't and shouldn't get back with the PPP by hurting Sindh. It must agree or disagree with the Siraiki people's demand for a separate province with the force of arguments and not by playing tit for tat, conspiratorial and ugly politics.
PML-N should also realize that with this kind of politics they will be completely routed out from Sindh and their aspirations to become a "national" party or to form next government will die for ever.
Do they understand that this is exactly what PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari wants the PML-N to do? Are they willingly falling into the trap set by Zardari's PPP? Do they realize that with this kind of politics, they will forever become a Central Punjab party? Are there any sane elements in PML-N who would rein in Shahbaz Sharif and the likes of him in their party? Guess not. Good luck to them on their journey to doom.
In 2002, the Saraiki nationalists claimed that there are over 30 million Saraiki speakers in Pakistan, mostly in southern Punjab, and also in the adjacent parts of Sindh and Balochistan provinces, mainly based in the former princely state of Bahawalpur (princely state).
Beginning in the 1960s, Saraiki nationalists have sought to gain language rights and lessen,what the nationalists propagated as, "Punjabi control over the natural resources of 'Saraiki' lands". This has led to a proposed separate province Saraikistan, a region being drawn up by activists in the 1970.The 1977 coup by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, a centralist ruler, caused the movement to go underground. After his death in 1988 allowed the Saraiki movement to re-emerge openly with the goals to have a Saraiki nationality recognised, to have official documents printed in Saraiki, a Saraiki regiment in the Pakistan Army, employment quotas and more Saraiki language radio and television.


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