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Reviews The 27th Atlantic Film Festival
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
Lincoln Ruchti
Review by Jason W
Source 35mm print
Categories The 27th Atlantic Film Festival
Ever wonder what Napoleon Dynamite would look like at age 40? Chasing Ghosts answers this question and many others, by documenting how life turned out for the greatest gamers from the golden age of arcades. These guys were the Dynamites of 1982 in their mopped hair, hiked up jeans, and retro tees that weren't retro for the day. Weirdest of all, a lesson of this movie is that if Napoleon Dynamite had only been born twenty years earlier and was a genius at videogames, he might have gotten laid regularly by arcade groupies. Who knew players could be playas?
The film is held together by a photograph taken for a 1982 issue of LIFE Magazine celebrating these teenage superstars at the height of their skills. The photo shoot took place on the main street of Ottumwa, Iowa, the self-proclaimed Video Game Capital of the World. The town's title is not as random as it seems, as local entrepreneur Walter Day traveled the country recording high scores on machines in over one hundred arcades, before returning to Ottumwa to open Twin Galaxies arcade and begin the Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard, the official tracker of video game world records to this day.
Footage of the photo shoot is shown in the film, and it is fascinating seeing Day stand out of sight of the photographer's lens even as he beams at the accomplishment of bottling a movement that was growing at a lightning pace and yet in retrospect was only at the dawn of a lasting, ever-morphing technological and cultural movement. Ottumwa was cloud covered and cold the day of the shoot, and the finished product can easily be found online: sixteen gamers lean on six different arcade machines, finished off by five cheerleaders stretched across the bottom of the frame. It is a great photo that lived up to the magazine's name: this was life in America for many teenagers, and just as LIFE has permanently ceased publication, the reality was that every golden age has to come to an end.
By the mid-80s, the arcade boom was waning, as video consoles could be enjoyed at home for one fixed price, rather than for an endless amount of quarters. The gamers captured in LIFE were getting older, but not necessarily growing up, and Chasing Ghosts, like so many great documentaries, is about people who became famous in a specialized field, then disappeared from the spotlight just like anyone else. How did things turn out for the LIFE 16 during these changing times? In many instances, pretty well. Some faded into obscurity and forgot their storied teenage glory days entirely, a few bitterly lost touch with one another, while one or two let fame go to their head. A few others lead quiet, some would say sad existences caught between the glories of arcade game elitism and the reality that the past just ain't coming back. Walter Day, the Iowa businessman who used the inertia of arcading to build a small empire, currently dreams of becoming a musical star in his late 50s.
Chances are you couldn't identify most of these guys on the street - then or now - with the exception of Billy Mitchell, who no one forgets. Rocking a jet black mullet-beard combo into his forties, Mitchell prominently features in another great arcade doc of 2007, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Mitchell is an example of an extreme ego-maniac who believes his own hype and then some. However, whereas The King of Kong is a showdown of epic proportions, Chasing Ghosts is about no single gamer, but rather an ensemble of extremely talented gamers who made up a particular movement at a particular time in the history of gaming. If Mitchell and The King of Kong is the extreme extrovert of arcade game documentaries, Chasing Ghosts is the shy introvert that makes you feel nostalgic for a time and a place you may not have been a part of in the first place, but which feels comfortingly familiar even as you see it for the first time.
By Jason W ©2007 NotComing.com
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Born on August 5, 1994, she attended the secondary school "Giuseppe Govone" of Alba (Cuneo). Thereafter, she graduated in law at the University of Turin with a thesis in Civil Procedure of the European Union on the following subject "Lights and shadows of the European order of payment".
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Born on July 23rd 1989, he attended the secondary school "G. B. Bodoni" of Saluzzo (Cuneo). Thereafter, he graduated in law at the University of Turin with a thesis in Comparative and European Law on the following subject "The sale of good at distance – The electronic commerce".
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Amazon describes Death Magic by CS Quinn as a Short Read, in this case, it has 79 pages. Quinn lists this novel as one in the Thief Taker Series. I found the term "Thief Taker" intriguing and it took several pages of reading before I found out the difference between a private detective and a "Thief Taker." This novel was published in 2015 in the UK. Non-UK readers will discover English language items unique to the UK. For me, new learning adds value to the reading experience. In this novel, new learning is about more than just language as Quinn writes of a location, lifestyle, and history unfamiliar to the general non-UK reading public.


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The 'Shroom:Issue 127/Critic Corner
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Written by: Hypnotoad (talk)
Halloween is here, the best time of the year! Spooky stuff and candy, what a wonderful holiday! What you'll get from us here at Critic Corner this month is (mostly) a collection of haunts and horror-themed reviews. Little bit more brief than I usually am but maybe I'll sneak something more in later if I think of it, but shhhh don't tell Meta Knight (talk).
Thanks to everyone who continues enjoying Half-Baked Reviews, and congrats to Alex95 (talk) and Yoshi876 (talk) for placing in September's CC Section of the Month! Additionally, congrats to Nabber (talk) for making it onto the Staff SOTM with his Movie Review of Baby Driver!!! Also, please welcome MsRetroGeek (talk) to the team with her section G. TV!
Last but not least, next issue we will be having a 2D Game theme as well as a send-off for the Wii U, so if you want to join in please try to gear your sections for those!
Section of the Month
Critic Corner SECTION OF THE MONTH
1st Anton's Half-Baked Reviews 8 28.57% Hypnotoad (talk)
2nd Could Have Been 6 21.43% Alex95 (talk)
3rd Movie Reviews 5 17.86% Yoshi876 (talk)
Alex95 (Talk)
The Wii U qualifies as horror/tragedy, right?
Anton's Half-Baked Reviews
Hypnotoad (Talk)
Anton's back from vacation and you can bet he's terrified by that
Marioverse Reviews
PowerKamek (Talk)
The thought of Rabbids gives me night terrors
Character Review
Yoshi876 (Talk)
Teaching players to destroy pots is a fright as old as time
DragonFreak's Review Quest
DragonFreak (Talk)
Nothing to fear but fear itself
Maybe it's a meta-horror movie, 876?
G. TV
MsRetroGeek (Talk)
Cliché? Cringe-worthy? Sounds like horror to me
Written by: Alex95 (talk)
The early logo for Mario Kart 8, which looks close to the final version.
Hello everyone! My name is Alex95 and welcome to "Could Have Been". In this segment, I talk about features that didn't quite make it into a game's final release and see just how the cut content would've affected the game. The Wii U may have been a failure commercially, but there are a few games that have managed to make owning the system worthwhile. One of these games, Mario Kart 8, became the best-selling game of the console, to the point where it got an updated rerelease on the Nintendo Switch called Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I will be covering both of them this month, so let's dive right in and take a look at what could have been.
Before the game entered development, the dev team was throwing around ideas on new mechanics to include. Of them, anti-gravity and a drill attachment were the most popular, but the team instead went the F-Zero route when the drill proved uninteresting. But what if they had included it? Imaging the karts drilling into the side of a wall in order to progress or find a secret passage. Or maybe the drill could've been used as an attack, damaging karts it touches like a Green Shell would. …Actually, that sounds a little overpowered, not to mention that retro courses would have to have been completely redone in order to make up for it. And if the drill was an optional item in courses were it is required, well, then you'd be screwed. It might work as a Battle Mode item, though.
The flag-less Thwomp Ruins.
A common thing to do when developing a new game in an established series is to use older assets as placeholders until the finalized stuff is created. Kart and character noises were recycled from past Mario Kart games like Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7. The early E3 build of Mario Kart 8 showed plenty that was ultimately changed in the final game, such as the aforementioned sounds. Twisted Mansion was originally generically named "Boo House", which was probably a reference to the Ghost Houses. Some vehicle changes where present, like Donkey Kong's Standard Bike being brown instead of yellow, and the Goomba Towers in Mario Circuit were taller. Thwomp Ruins also lacked some flowers and the starting line, so maybe the players were meant to start elsewhere on the track. Most of the courses, however, remained mostly untouched between the game's reveal and the final release, which is nice I suppose, but now I can't cover them (insert sad face emoticon here). The addition of anti-gravity isn't the only mechanic that was changed, the E3 trailer also showed off some interesting changes between that build and the final. The roster was much smaller, containing twelve characters out of thirty-six, and the look of the roster is different, too, with the character simply floating off to the side rather than being placed on a pedestal. The HUD also looked different, with the minimap looking like how it did in Mario Kart 7, and the laps being limited to two rather than three. Perhaps the strangest change between builds where the items, specifically how many of them you could hold. In the original build, you could carry up to two items at a time, much like how it was from Mario Kart 64 and onward. Now the dual-item carrying did return in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, along with the return of the Double Item Boxes, but why this was cut from the original game, we may never know.
He'll get his time one day.
Moving into the truly unused data, there are several graphics that went unused. An icon of a Magikoopa is included, possibly hinting at its inclusion as a playable character, who was first teased at for Mario Kart 64 (more on that game at a later date). Among all the various unused trees, pipes, and a Purple Toad are some intriguing graphics of course cup icons of a Yoshi Egg, Shine Sprite, Boo, and a Spiny Shell. Their internal file names are "CupIconDLC00" through "03", so they were intended to be the cup representatives before it was decided The Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing would join. The Yoshi Egg is used as a cup icon, but with a different graphic. There is also an unused testing track that looks like an unfinished version of Mario Circuit, though it appears said version is used in the menus when you're selecting your engine speed.
The "Spiny Shell" cup would've probably been brutal.
Since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was simply a remastered port of Mario Kart 8, it makes sense to copy everything from the original game over to the new one. The icons that were used for the unpurchased DLC characters in the original game are present in Deluxe's coding, but go unused since the DLC characters are available from the start in the port. Also, the first update of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe removed, or rather corrected, one of the Inkling Girl's animations which resembled an obscene gesture, which, as you can probably guess, is not good. It's likely Nintendo didn't know of this gesture until it was brought to their attention. That's really about all that's specific to Deluxe, as it shares the same development history of the original game.
Be sure to check out our page on Mario Kart 8's development or you can head over to The Cutting Room floor for both Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for images and data of the stuff I rambled about. Until next time, see you around!
Well I'm back from vacation! Along with going to Florida to check out my new apartment, I also hung around with Weasel and 2257 (talk) at their respective places. During each of these visits I had TONS OF FUN and OTHER THINGS and also tried a whole bunch of nonsense to pack my half-baked review queue for easily a year, which will likely come in handy since around my moving date I might take a pseudo-hiatus. For this month we celebrate the anniversary of my previous vacation and subsequent review in Issue 115 by me having tried more stuff in North Carolina with the Weasel himself.
First thing up when I stopped by his place were some drinks I requested while on my way. Cheerwine is some kind of red soda thing that people in the Carolinas really like. I know my 3-part fizzy theme is over and here I am doing another soda, but having heard about it last year and not getting it I figured I should get some this time. So when I arrived, first thing I did was awkwardly get my enormous suitcase out of my car that Weasel tried to get downstairs, plopped it down on the floor, popped my shoes off, and flopped onto the couch. Almost immediately Weasel brings me a nicely chilled Cheerwine, which was very nice as I panicked to find a coaster because it was like 80000 degrees as it was technically the south and the glass was already drenched in condensation.
I'm not sure what I was expecting with trying this, because it was mostly just like…...it's a soda. That's not a negative comment, but it's more just neutral. It smells like cherry and also tastes like it, without being unnecessarily sweet like that garbage piss water Jones Soda that no one should ever consider buying ever at all because they're a disgusting elitist company. Quite the opposite, Cheerwine genuinely was refreshing and didn't leave me with a kid of sticky feeling that things like Pepsi or Mtn Dew, or more comparable the overpowering sweetness of Cherry Crush, would leave, and the flavor was pleasant without being too subtle or overpowering, and instead just tasted like cherry (despite it still technically being artificial as well), and with that being one of my most favorite flavors I feel that's a good compliment. The soda itself doesn't feel as fizzy as others and due to that it feels a lot smoother despite it still being carbonated. Other reviews I looked at just to see what other people thought all said that it was super extra carbonated so I'm not sure where they got it but it totally wasn't. I feel that drinking it out of a glass limits plenty of the negative impact a bunch of carbonation would have if you were to drink it from a cup or can, and while I'm not a glass bottle snob I would genuinely recommend buying that form.
The company also apparently produces a Cheerwine-flavored ice cream, so I know what I'll be attempting to locate next time.
Rating: Regular Corn Chex piece but from inside of a bag of Sweet & Salty Chex Mix Popped instead of Traditional
Explanation: For all intents and purposes it's basically the same exact thing, but just by virtue of the properties of what it's around it tastes just a bit different in a way that I would say is better but can be debated as not. Unlike the Chex pieces in Turtle, which are coated with a disgusting amount of sugary something, the Chex pieces in the Popped version just get a light amount of transfer sugary salty flavor dusting that only enhances it instead of overpowers and kills you. Whereas Cherry Crush and Jones Sodas overcompensate by pumping some bubbly water full of hyperconcentrated artificially-flavored sugar syrup sludge, Cheerwine is the right amount of flavoring and bubblies.
Mi Carreta, Part 2
The next day, we figured we should probably eat something, and decided to go out. We chose Mi Carreta again, the Mexican grill restaurant place whatever that was good last time. Once again I was faced with their enormous menu of easily over a hundred items, not including variations of each with options and sides, with nearly all of them either being in spanish or me just having absolutely no idea which dish was actually what. I'm sorry, I don't know the difference between an empanada and an enchilada without googling it, sue me. Also, once again, the waiter brought us an enormous bowl of tortilla chips and some dipping sauces that we gorged ourselves on nearly to the point that it became sufficient for our meal.
That day, though, I was in the mood for chicken and rice, so I scoured the chicken list for things that sounded good and whammo there was pollo mango. Grilled chicken breast marinated with special mango sauce on top, with a choice of two sides: Rice, Black Beans, Mashed Potatoes, Baked Potato, Stewed Vegetables, House Salad, Refried Beans or French Fries; naturally I chose fries and rice. When it came out, the portion size was enormous--especially the rice--but the sauce didn't come on top like it said, but in a little tub on the side. I was a little __ about this until I tried it, learning that the mango sauce was EXTREMELY spicy and legitimately made me start sweating and tears well up, so I was glad that it wasn't just drenched in it and I had the option to dip as much chicken I wanted into however much sauce I wanted. Now, I'm not someone who has historically liked spicy things, but I've been gaining a taste for it recently and I'm not sure why, but luckily eating this lined up with my taste evolution just in time for me to appreciate the flavor of this because it was pretty alright. My only criticism was that the chicken was a bit thinner and tougher than I thought it would be, but this could easily be chalked up to me just not understanding the dish in general since that's already a given.
Once we left I immediately could feel that my gut had swollen and gases were brewing, but social anxiety forced me to keep them inside as I inflated to New Super Mario Bros. U/deviantART proportions. I didn't get or feel sick, though, just an overbearing sense of fullness that I don't think I've experienced since uhhhh….I can't remember, but I totally experienced it again like about 8 days later when I got this really tasty tiramisu at Olive Garden that was about the size of my head and I inhaled it all in about 2 minutes. Since there was a whole ton I obviously brought leftovers back. They reheated well enough and were a pretty ok late night snack.
Rating: Pretzel from Hot & Spicy Chex Mix
Explanation: Similar to the rating of Hot Corn Chex Piece from last year, the Pretzel from Hot & Spicy Chex Mix is an upgrade. Not only was the quality on par with last time, it was also something I liked as a standard now astonishingly hot recreating the scene where you're flailing around with a fork in one hand and a tortilla chip covered in sour cream in the other.
Granite Falls Brewing Company
On the last day hanging out with Weasel we went out to some fancy brewery place he had been saving for a ~grand finale~. The actual building of this place was a lot larger and fancier on the inside, and I could appreciate it without a cacophony of kids screaming and local brew hipsters relentlessly attempting to show off how tight their manbun is. As we sat down the waitress came up to do the usual waitress gambit and ask what we want to drink, but she referred to me as "ma'am" and immediately got extremely embarrassed and said she was gonna reset and walked away. She eventually came back refreshed and I asked for whatever that grape alcohol drink thing was, which tasted alright.
Still in the mood for chicken, I scoured this menu as well for some kind of grilled chicken burger and wowee it had a few options that were wild and crazy. The one I selected was "Icard's Honey Mustard n' Apple Butter Chicken Sandwich, with GFB's Honey Mustard n' Apple Butter sauce", which appealed to me mostly because it also came with homemade chips and a pickle. After ordering we sat around and watched the wait staff panic about an impending large party of people coming in and trying to figure out how to coordinate it, as I remembered that I forgot to say "no tomato, please" and planned how I could skillfully remove it without the waitress seeing I had taken it off wherein I would literally die of embarrassment.
So, drum roll, food arrives and it sure is a sandwich.
It's a lot larger than what I expected, since I'm used to most restaurants not really bothering much with their chicken sandwiches and just plopping on some flimsy piece of reheated pre-cooked grilled chicken like I have at the deli I work at to use as a pizza topping. After spending a significant amount of time just eating chips and sucking down my soda I decided I should probably eat this burger since I spent like $10+ on it. Despite the GFB's Honey Mustard n' Apple Butter sauce looking like it would explode and dribble everywhere as soon as I took one bite, it was surprisingly stable, which is always worth a few points for any sandwich that has some kind of sauce on it. The color of it was kinda concerning because it appeared to be brown like bbq sauce until it was spread thinner and revealed its true self as some kinda weird green organic paste, but rather than being frightened of something new I figured it's probably because it's homemade and real and not pumped full of artificial color. It had a strange flavor that definitely was apple, but I couldn't tell it was honey mustard at all. I had no idea what apple butter even was, but apparently it's "super concentrated applesauce" which to me just sounds like they sucked out all of the unnecessary water and whatever. I'm not sure why it's called a butter, but then again there's peanut butter, so now I'm thrown for a loop that I took to IRC for a late night rambling, which I'll now share after heavily editing it:
03:45 Anton{Politoed} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_butter#/media/File:Apple_sauce_vs_apple_butter.jpg
03:45 Anton{Politoed} what is wrong with their thumb
03:48 Napalm apple butter is really good
03:48 Uniju i agree
03:48 Anton{Politoed} why is it butter
03:48 Anton{Politoed} what's butter
03:49 Anton{Politoed} there's dairy butter but then like
03:49 Anton{Politoed} butter isn't a form of something
03:49 Anton{Politoed} paste would be the word
03:49 Anton{Politoed} but why is there apple butter and peanut butter and all that
03:51 Anton{Politoed} according to merriam-webster it's a term applied to things that are buttery
03:51 Anton{Politoed} a creamy food spread
03:51 Anton{Politoed} there's just no other word for it so it's just compared to butter
03:51 Anton{Politoed} and if it's buttery it's also called butter
03:51 Anton{Politoed} despite it not being butter
03:51 Anton{Politoed} this is disgusting
03:51 Anton{Politoed} there needs to be another designation
03:51 Anton{Politoed} peanut paste
03:52 Anton{Politoed} am I the only one outraged by this
03:52 Anton{Politoed} 22
03:52 _2257 uhhh
03:52 _2257 just dont be dutch and call it apple cheese
03:53 Anton{Politoed} why do they call it cheese
03:53 Anton{Politoed} what's wrong with them
03:54 Anton{Politoed} paste pāst/ noun noun: paste 1. a thick, soft, moist substance, usually produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid. "blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste" synonyms: puree, pulp, mush, mash, blend "blend the ingredients to a paste"
03:54 Anton{Politoed} apple mush
03:54 Anton{Politoed} that's what I called it when I was a kid and still do sometimes
03:54 Anton{Politoed} tfw i was a child genius
03:54 Uniju its because they base their lives and economy around butter and the butter producers took offense to peanut butter claiming to be butter i think
03:55 Uniju why they picked cheese as the alternative is beyond me
Back to the review at hand, it was a pretty good sandwich that I actually finished all of, which doesn't happen ever--I'm notorious for getting full after only a few bites, and then asking for dessert and finishing all of that quickly. Near the end of it I was getting tired of the apple flavor and the texture of the butter paste mush slop, but it seemed to be portioned perfectly enough that I would just simply finish the meal before I grew to fully and irreparably dislike it. Granite Falls Brewing Company seems to know what they're doing when it comes to the food they serve.
Rating: Chocolate chex piece
Explanation: I had a hard time deciding on what to rate this, and almost gave it the Golden Pretzel, but I'm a bit apprehensive to toss that around. I'd probably have given it if the drinks were larger for their price or if they had pretzel rolls or something that I'm super picky about, but these nitpicks don't mean it's bad, it just turns a 110% into a 98%. The Chocolate Chex piece is a unique staple of chocolate flavors of Chex Mix, anchoring itself as a prime example of something that is good but not overloaded in excess, keeping me wanting to try more.
SUPER SCARY BONUS REVIEW WOW
Organic Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream
This isn't anything I tried while on vacation but, spoiler alert, what's Halloween without a horror story?
One day while browsing around the grocery store just for like….stuff...to blow my money on and try. Having been a fan of an organic food place in my college town that had some funky ice cream that was pretty good I wandered to the organic frozen section because sometimes they have wacky ice cream flavors that are worth a try. This time, though, I saw a chocolate peanut butter one that was on sale for a price that was a bit lower than what I usually spend on the pints that I get, so I figured this would be an ok enough thing to try to fill in a review space for an off-month I didn't have some kinda theme planned.. The brand is Arctic Zero, Fit Frozen Desserts. Fat free, GMO free, lactose free, gluten free, low glycemic, with whey protein, the full shebang. With all of this on here I'm kinda expecting all of the flavor to be sucked out and leaving behind literally just some ice chips with how accommodating they're being to basically every dietary affliction.
Guess what?! I was right!
It tastes very icey and flavorless. I'm not getting any hint of chocolate or peanut butter out of this, just freezer burn. The actual color of it looks like very diluted chocolate almond milk and that's probably what it is. Rereading the label again and I saw that it says "a blend of rich chocolate & roasted peanut butter flavor". Flavor. Key word is flavor. Here I am expecting there to be ribbons of peanut butter in it because that's my favorite part but no, nothing. I know organic peanut butter exists that fit all of the criteria listed, so why is it not in here? I also noticed that it never says it's ice cream, just that it's a frozen dessert. Feeling robbed of a satisfactory creamy experience, I could feel my life essence drained and weakened. Desperate, I hurried out to my garage where the second freezer is, swiftly but carefully tiptoeing because I was barefoot and the concrete floor is cold and dirty, knowing that there's been many nights where I've had to fend off wild animals and drunk people with my giant machete near this same area, but I also knew I could not waste any time lest my body and soul wither up into a miserable pile of unmoisturized skin like the other gluten/lactose/fat/GMO-free-by-choicers. Plunging my spoon into a gallon of off-brand chocolate ice cream because that's all my mom buys as her standards are significantly lower than mine, I gorged myself, instantly feeling my body become rejuvenated, my lips no longer dry and chapped, my hair no longer frazzled and broken, my skin now smooth and silky, and my belief that there is still some good left on this planet, however modest, replenished to continue my quest in life--reviewing nonsense and giving it an arbitrary Chex Mix-scale rating.
Later on I forced my dad to try some, and he also hated it and thought it was the worst thing ever. Validation.
Rating: Trying Turtle Chex Mix after you've found out that Chocolate Peanut Butter Chex Mix has been discontinued.
Explanation: As you sit there mourning the loss of a beloved friend--Chocolate Peanut Butter Chex Mix--you figure that trying something similar but new will help mend wounds, only to be fooled by a bitter universe once again. Turtle Chex Mix makes high promises cocoa-coated Chex, sugary pretzels, and candy chocolates, but all it does is take the perfect blend of salty, smoky, savory, and sweet that peanut butter brings and instead replace it with some fabricate saccharine sham "caramel" that undoes all of what you've treasured and works to replace all of your fond memories with nothing but trauma.
Tune in next month where I review ..something! Probably stuff I tried on vacation! Also, tell me what to review next! Here's my Steam Inventory filled with games I haven't played for some ideas, but things you can tell me to do can also be movies, shows, physical actions, trying new foods, music, literally anything and I'll cover it eventually if it's not too ridiculous. Just send me a message here on my talk page or PM it to me on the forum. Don't like what I have to say? That's fine, and probably bound to happen because I've been told about how much people like Super Mario 64 and how they feel about any criticism of it! We at Critic Corner will welcome your alternate review of it as a new section for the next issue!
Written by: Rosalina1999 (talk)
Hi everyone! It is October already! I can't believe it! This year is going by fast, and Super Mario Odyssey releases next week! Anyway, it's time for me to review Mario & Rabbids: Kingdom Battle!
Mario & Rabbids: Kingdom Battle released on August 29, 2017, on the Nintendo Switch. It received pretty good ratings. It is also one of the most successful Mario Games that was not developed by Nintendo. Anyway, I'm going to explain what I like about the game first, and then what I don't like about it last.
I loved this game! It seemed like an RPG game to me, because of the HP, but it's actually turn-based tactics. The gameplay was great. It's like every Battle is a different level, and you exceed once you defeat all the Rabbids, or get to a safe point without all your characters dying. Its a different Mario Game than what I'm used to. I've never in my life seen Mario with a "gun" before. Also, I like the boss fights. Sometimes they could be frustrating, like the one from World 2-8. But once you finish them off, you get into a whole new world, similar to the Super Mario Franchise. Yep. There are so many things that I like about this game! My favorite character, by the way, is Rabbid Peach. She is so cute with that sass she has!
There is a couple of things I don't like about the game. You know about the puzzles you do when you're not battling? Some might be a little fun, but a lot of them are very tedious. I sat through one puzzle, and it took me about 30 minutes to complete it. BORING. Also, I don't like the battles where you have to get a specific character (Toadette, per say) to a safe point. It's so frustrating! They can't move very far, and on top of that, they can't jump, or hurt an enemy. The only thing they can do is move. So if they get killed, game over. UNFAIR.
I will give this game an 8.5/10. I mean, there are more battles than the puzzles and other tedious things, so this game shouldn't have a bad rating in my book. What do you guys think? Feel free to tell me! Also, the next issue is my last issue, so just a heads up. Happy Halloween!!! 👻
Written by: Yoshi876 (talk)
Roger the Potted Ghost
Roger, a scary name for a boss..
It will come as no surprise to anyone to find out that I'm a fan of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. I love all the level variety, the enemy variety, and the boss variety. Yes, you might have to beat all the bosses by lobbing eggs at them, but a lot of them have a little thing about them that makes them really memorable. Including this spooky guy, who is the one of the few bosses in that game where you don't have to chuck eggs at him. Yes, it's Roger the Potted Ghost
However, despite having this small little niche, there's not much to say about Roger. As the final boss of World 2, his fight is ridiculously easy, just push him until he falls off the edge. The only difficult thing about it are the Shy Guys on the other end who push him back, until they're taken care of. In all honesty, Bigger Boo would've made for a better world boss, and Roger is better suited to being a mid-boss.
There's also the part of how he came into being. Originally, Roger was just a flower pot, but all of a sudden a little magic made an entire creature come out of him. But if he was just a flower pot before, why did he have his own castle? Who'd listen to a motionless flowerpot? To top things off, flowerpots appear in the game, and as many of the game's bosses are based off of its enemies, it would've been reasonable to have had an enemy in there so it's logical for Roger to appear.
Roger the Potted Ghost is probably the only boss from the game that I don't actually like. He suits more being a mid-boss, and his mere existence is questionable. He was probably one of the last ideas the developers came off, considering how bland he is.
Written by: DragonFreak (talk)
Greetings all you 'Shroom readers, DragonFreak here with another section of DragonFreak's Review Quest. This is a wonderful time of year with the weather being perfect, my birthday is near the end, and to top it all off, Halloween is my favorite holiday! So you would think that the horror genre would be one of my favorite things ever, right? Well...I wish, but that's not exactly true. I was going to review a horror game for this month, but because of reason I'm not going to have enough time. So instead I'm going to mix things up a bit, and review the horror genre in general in my opinions and thoughts, because I feel like I have a fairly unique outlook on horror as a whole.
I wouldn't blame anyone for not liking horror, because it is far from a genre for everybody. You have to be in a certain mindset to consume horror media and enjoy it. For most people who don't like horror, it's because it's too intense for them. However, I have the opposite problem. Horror is usually not intense enough for me. Now I will say here that I am not a complete expert on horror media by any means, so this is based off of only my experience, but I do feel like I have experienced enough to know what I am talking about.
For me, the best type of horror are the ones that affect you psychologically. That is the horror that I hope to experience whenever I see some kind of horror media. Ones that use the many unique visual and auditory effects that can make horror so thrilling. Psychological horror definitely affects me. However, the problem is that I can quickly get used to most levels of horror, so unless the bar keeps raising on how scary it is, I just end up getting used to it, and sometimes becomes boring. Take for example the game I was going to review, Fran Bow. This game is extremely creepy and has a very good horror aesthetic. However, it uses the same kind of horror for the first chapter and a half, and because of that, I kind of got bored. It's not the game's fault, it's mostly mine. Now because of that and time I didn't review Fran Bow, but I definitely will finish playing it in the future, and maybe even review that too.
One thing in horror I absolutely hate are jumpscares. A few of them in a game or movie is fine, because it is part of the trope of horror, but when most of the horror are jumpscares, that's unacceptable. It's not that jumpscares don't get me, they are pretty effective in scaring me, but jumpscares aren't satisfying to me. Maybe this is just me, but with horror media, I expect the scaring to be satisfying in a way that makes me actually feel scared and that feeling continues on. With jumpscares, after the initial scare, I feel kind of cheated that something so simple and biological could scare me. It almost never adds to the sense of horror for me, and if not done right, it actually takes it away.
What I think is the most effective horror trope is "fear what you cannot see". I, like many people, fear the unknown to a certain degree. Knowing that there is something scary but not knowing exactly what it is can drastically increase the atmosphere and suspense. For instance, one of my favorite horror movies of all times, Pontypool, is a good demonstration of this trope. For a good chunk of the film, the setting is in a radio station in Canada. The horror is relayed through vocal accounts only, but it's up to your imagination to what it actually is visually. This anticipation is the most effective form of horror for me. Naturally, humans fear what they don't understand.
Horror is a genre that I respect. Unfortunately, because I'm extremely picky about it, it makes me less interested. But when it's done right, like the Amnesia games or with the movie Pontypool, it can lead to a fantastic and thrilling experience. I always like a good scare, so I hope this Halloween I will get just that.
The Pyramid
Ashley Hinshaw, Denis O'Hare, James Buckley, Christa-Marie Nicola, Amir K
15 (UK)
Found-footage films aren't usually that good. They come under flack for essentially being a small series of jump scares in between the mundaneness of normal life, before suddenly exploding into a farcical series of events that leads to the death of pretty much every character in the film. The Pyramid follows this formula rigidly, as well as having its own shortcomings.
The main issue with The Pyramid is how it routinely forgets that it's supposed to be a found-footage movie. It achieves impossible camera angles, and even has several slow-motion shots throughout. At least try and be the film you claim to be. The other found-footage tradition that it also breaks is having actor / actresses who are reasonably well known. James Buckley starred in the hit British show The Inbetweeners, and Denis O'Hare was in True Blood, a popular American show, so this again suspends your belief in the film.
The characters are all flimsily written as well. If they manage to have any defining character traits, they are hammered home so hard they might as well have it written on their foreheads. And because of how flimsily written they are, I have no motivation for any of them to survive. Unfortunately, the madcap ways that they die actually gives no satisfaction. So I'm sat there watching people I don't care about die in a way that ultimately doesn't satisfy me.
Does the plot manage to save it? No, absolutely not. The plot is dire, but this is probably the one bit of found-footage films that The Pyramid does right. In short, some archaeologists send an expensive robot into the titular pyramid, it gets damaged, and they have to get it. They're trapped for whatever reason, and then hunted down by the Egyptian god Anubis who desires to move into the other realm. Apparently being one of the heroes of Egyptian mythology doesn't bestow upon you a pure heart, maybe he should ask Mario for one. There are also some cat-creatures roaming around, but they're just there for jump scares and whatnot.
And as for jump scares, in that department they're pretty poor. The occasional scream, cat darting, or the standard something round the corner. If you've seen a found-footage movie before, you know how these scares work, and in all honesty this makes all of them fall flat. The atmosphere isn't much better. Because of how flimsily written the characters, and how far suspended you are from the events, there is no atmosphere, because you don't care enough for there to be one.
The Pyramid is genuinely an awful film. It has no redeeming qualities bar the moment you clock that James Buckley is actually in. Yes, most found-footage movies are piss poor, but if you do desire to watch one, pick literally any other one. The Pyramid should have remained buried.
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Hi Guys! Geeky coming at you with a new review on a seriously cheesy video game classic anime laughably tainted by 4kids, Sonic X. The show focuses on Sonic and his friends on Earth due to a massive explosion where Sonic had once again stopped one of Dr. Eggman's schemes. Shortly after the gang meets the Thorndyke residence, where they take Sonic and his friends Cream, Cheese, Tails, and Amy into their home to let them stay there. Later in the series Sonic discovers others are trapped on Earth like Rouge and Knuckles. A portal that is eventually created that sends them back to their dimension at the end of the series. If you are someone who enjoys the Sonic video game franchise, adventure, space, romance, and friendship, while also being able to deal with a whole lot of cliché moments thrown in, then this is definitely a series I would recommend.
That being said this show definitely has its flaws. I know this is a kid's show but must it be this cringe-worthy with its dialogue? I also felt like it sort of lacked a plot a few times. There were miscellaneous episodes that just had the gang doing whatever they pleased. This seems to be a case of too many filler episodes, and not the good kind. There are also some pretty terrible characters such as Chris Thorndyke. I despised him from the beginning. There was nothing relevant about his character. Sure he was the one to give Sonic and the gang a home, but it often felt like he was getting in the way of everything. There were plenty of undertones as to Chris's so called adoration also known as love for our blue protagonist. It's almost as if they're trying to set up some sort of creepy bestiality, and it doesn't work as proven by Elise in Sonic 06.
I can't.... Why Sega why??? Burn these two with fire!!
There are some things to enjoy about this show though. I honestly really found that the voice actors and actresses had really filled their roles for being their given character for the most part. They really brought out their characters well. I really enjoyed how they mixed in some stories from the games in this show such as the Space Colony Ark from Sonic Adventure 2. That particular segment was nicely mixed into the plot of Sonic X. I also liked that they added characters within the series like Cream's robotic friend. In one episode she ended up drowning him for harming her friends, and I really felt for her. It really showed her maturing as a character when she had to understand death. Tails has a personal growth that I thought was well done in the last episode that I won't give away for those that are interested in finding out. Occasionally the show will step towards themes of death and loss, and I thought the writers really wrote it in properly.
Favorite Character
Thanks buddyMagikrazy (talk) for drawing this accurate drawing of Amy!
My favorite character in the show may not be a surprise to some of you, but I've got to hand this one to my main girl, Amy Rose. Not only was she drawn and designed very cutely in this series, but I really loved her personality throughout it. She was such a tough go-getter in this show. She always went for the things that she had wanted, which mostly consisted of trying to go on a date with Sonic. Some people may call Amy pushy or just overly obsessed over Sonic. However others seem to forget that, Sonic is the hedgehog that had saved her from Metal Sonic. She also wasn't worried about getting harmed if it meant protecting her friends. She's one determined headstrong girl who wants to strive for the things she wants.
Favorite Episode
Poor Amy worked hard on that bracelet for her love ;_;. Watch out Eggman your butt's about to get served by a mighty Piko Piko Hammer!.
My favorite episode is Amy On the Beach (Season 1, Episode 9). I love the focus on Amy, and it had such a cute plot line of Amy wanting to have Sonic come to the beach with her, Tails, and Cream. I love sweet little romantic moments. I found her fantasies to be adorable, and something that I could relate to. I also loved the part where Amy finds a couple within the beach, and how it gave her an idea to create a shell bracelet for Sonic to help him in the water. Not only does that show how caring and understanding Amy is of his fear of water, but it shows that she's willing to help her crush with his fear of dangerous terrains by giving him a good luck charm.
Later on Eggman attacks the Hotel that Chris and his two servants are visiting. Tails and Amy bust in to help out Sonic. Just as Sonic gets dragged down into the ocean by Eggman's robot, Amy uses her hammer and breaks off the rope to free Sonic. When the coast seems clear, Amy reveals the shell bracelet and gives it to Sonic. The surprised expression he gets sends my shipping heart a flight, but in my opinion the next part is even better. When Eggman comes back with a new robot, Amy's bracelet that she had gifted to Sonic breaks. This summons a very angered Amy that no one wants to deal with including Eggman himself. He gets really intimidated by her when she ends up wrecking his robot with her mighty Piko Piko hammer, and I found this scene hilarious in that sense.
This is so cannon and no one will tell me otherwise!! ^^
Amy gets launched by the robot, automatically targeting Eggman lashing out her fierce hammer skills on him making him get launched into the water. This causes Amy to fall into the ocean, and it seems as if she's about to drown. Sonic yells out her name going in after her. Everything fades out as Amy clutches to the broken shell bracelet having Sonic swim out to her. She goes through a dream of having a romantic chasing scene with Sonic across the beach, both of them merrily laughing. She's woken up by her friend Cream the Rabbit and wonders where the bracelet had gone. Crying to herself about how much that necklace had meant to her and her regards towards Sonic, the scene spans out to Sonic wearing the bracelet she had made him.
This episode was nicely planned out. I really loved how Dr. Eggman used the ocean to his advantage in trapping Sonic. This showed one of Eggman's genius moments in this series. I also love how this focused on Sonic's friends coming together as a team to try and help their team leader, such as having Tails come in and give Sonic a ring so that he can easily beat the robot that had attempted to drown Sonic. Amy played her trope just nicely in this episode, in that behind every great man there's a great woman behind them. Amy stepping up to defeat that robotic sea serpent, made me definitely think of that. It made me happy knowing that Sonic has some awesome friends to aid him in defeating Eggman, and that he doesn't have to solely rely on himself to defeat his nemesis. I also love how Chris wasn't even the main focus of this episode. Sure there were some moments with him involved, but he wasn't the main focal point. Thank god for that. Well done towards the writers for writing such an adorable and thought out episode.
To recap, I felt like Sonic X could have done a better job with the plot. There could have been a lot less filler episodes and that it shouldn't have focused so much on Chris. It's named after Sonic for a reason.
From the Geeky scale of meh to oh my gosh this exists. I'll give this show an ehh. It could use more improvement in plot and possible character dropping *cough**cough*Chris... *cough**cough*
Just as I was about to end my section a grey cloud colored kitten with a purple scarf around its neck runs in scampering at my leg. "Oh! Hello there friend. Do you have something for me?" I say automatically noticing the white envelope with a golden star attached to the front of it with the initials, N.S. written in a crafty font. Petting the kitten it nuzzled my hand allowing me to take the letter. "What's this?" Taking the piece of parchment the chibi feline dashes out the door. I automatically get intrigued by the suggestion. "Interesting".
That's about it guys! Thank you for checking out my section and don't forget to check out all of the other awesome sections in the Critic Corner.
Have an awesome day! ~
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The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has caused around 730,000 people to flee to other parts of the country. It has created enormous hardships for civilians, such as damaged homes and infrastructures, and difficulties to meet their basic needs and earn a living. To address the increasingly protracted nature of the displacement crisis, the Government of Ukraine launched, in January 2021, the 3-year "Strategy for internally displaced persons integration and implementation of durable solutions as to internal displacement". The strategy aims to improve state policy in the field of the IDP protection, with IDP integration as a central tenet.
Nevertheless, critical gaps persist: the government currently lacks data to better understand the complexities involved in supporting integration efforts. It also lacks adequate tools to measure the levels of integration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country. This makes it difficult to develop policy reform options and action plans that can guide effective responses.
Against this background, the Danish Refugee Council and the Danish Demining Group (DRC-DDG) initiated, in July 2020, a project titled 'IDPs Integration Support Initiative in Ukraine'. The project focuses on strengthening the capacity of the Ministry for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine (MRTOT) to lead the evidence-based policy planning towards the integration of IDPs. It furthermore aims to provide technical assistance to the MRTOT to design indicators to measure IDP integration in Ukraine, based on national and international good practices.
JIPS' support to national government and NGO partners in Ukraine
JIPS has been requested to provide technical support to DRC, MRTOT and their project partners, which are local research institutions, to refine the above-mentioned measure for local integration of IDPs in Ukraine. This includes providing technical input to the methodologies, tools and reports from a desk review of local integration case studies; an assessment of local integration criteria and indicators relevant for Ukraine; and a review of the resulting recommendations to the MRTOT that will shape the Ministry's measure of local integration. An on-site mission is envisaged, but will depend on partner needs and restrictions linked to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Our work builds directly on the experience and lessons learned from the recent durable solutions profiling in the Luhansk Oblast (check out our related country page and the profiling report for more details). We will also draw on the International Recommendations on IDP Statistics (IRIS), which propose two different measures to help determine for statistical purposes when an IDP has overcome key displacement-related vulnerabilities:
A composite measure that can inform the estimation of the IDP population stock and
A 'progress measure' that can inform prioritization of response across the different durable solutions criteria (learn how the two measures came about).
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A capacity building and exchange workshop designed and facilitated by JIPS in November 2020 brought representatives from all project partners together to discuss the two different types of measures outlined in the IRIS, and to review their relevance for measuring local integration in Ukraine. The discussion was contextualised by a presentation of the MRTOT on their strategy for IDP integration. This set the ground for a subsequent working session, where we jointly reviewed a draft concept note on measuring integration of IDPs developed by the MRTOT.
Government representatives participating in an interactive exercise to contextualise indicators for the displacement situation in Ukraine.
Key recommendations resulting from this workshop pointed to the need for contextualising the solutions measure, based on how partners plan to use the evidence-base, and for jointly defining and agreeing on the benchmark and target for each solutions criteria and indicator. They also underlined the importance of a clear and agreed-upon definition of IDPs, distinguishing between de jure and de facto IDPs as well as considering, in separate reporting, IDP-related groups (also refer to the IRIS, section B.1).
Building on the recommendations that resulted from the workshop and were positively received by the MRTOT, DRC will further support the Ministry with the finalisation of the measure of local integration. JIPS will continue to provide technical expertise in this process.
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A cruise buddy of Lorraine's was told this story by a friend of hers who once worked at the cruise terminal – and swears it to be true.
The agent immediately called her supervisor who in turn notified the ship's doctor of the situation, and, after examining the elderly man, the Doctor advised the teens that not only did "Grampa" not belong on a cruise, he belonged in a hospital.
"Mom" was contacted by terminal security, the plot unraveled, the teens were escorted from the terminal by police, and Grampa was returned to his nursing home.


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Unlike some of her continental European counterparts, the Westminster monarch and her representatives retain substantial "reserve" or "prerogatives" that can only be exercised in cases of extreme urgency or constitutional crisis (e.g. Australia 1975, Grenada 1983, Solomon Islands 1994), usually to maintain parliamentary government. In such cases, a lack of public understanding of the Constitutional Convention can lead to controversy. When the Whitlam government was impeached in Australia in 1975, for example, Governor General John Kerr was widely blamed for its intervention in the supply crisis, much to the confusion of British and Canadian constitutional experts. Instead, some of these authorities, such as Lord Hailsham (the former Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom) and Senator Eugene Forsey (Canada`s main constitutional authority for the Crown`s reserve powers), argued that responsibility for the crisis in Australia and its outcome should have been attributed to the then Leader of the Opposition. Malcolm Fraser, who was politically responsible for both the denial of supplies and the immediate crisis, and who was formally responsible for Whitlam`s removal under the Westminster conventions on the exercise of reserve powers. Based on this controversy, legal commentators have since argued that public understanding of the Crown`s constitutional role must be improved if monarchs themselves are to survive the legitimate exercise of their duties in times of crisis. The United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms are all constitutional monarchies in Westminster`s system of constitutional governance. Two constitutional monarchies – Malaysia and Cambodia – are elective monarchies in which the leader is regularly chosen by a small electoral college.
An absolute monarchy is a form of government in which a king or queen rules with totally unchallenged and uncontrolled political and legislative power. Based on the ancient concept of the "divine right of kings," which suggests that kings derived their authority from God, absolute monarchies operate according to the political theory of absolutism. Today, the only remaining pure absolute monarchies are Vatican City, Brunei, Swaziland, Saudi Arabia, Eswatini and Oman. With the exception of post-war Italy, no modern, democratic constitutional monarchy voted to abolish it, but Greece voted against restoring its constitutional monarchy after the overthrow of the military government. There are sixteen constitutional monarchies under Queen Elizabeth II known as the Commonwealth Realms. [19] Unlike some of her continental European counterparts, in Commonwealth realms the monarch and her governors general have significant "reserves" or "prerogatives" that can be exercised in cases of extreme urgency or constitutional crisis, usually to maintain parliamentary government. One case in which a Governor-General exercised this power occurred during the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975, when Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was removed from office by the Governor-General. The Australian Senate had threatened to block the government`s budget by refusing to pass the necessary allocation legislation. On November 11, 1975, Whitlam intended to call a semi-senatorial election to break the deadlock. When seeking the Governor General`s approval for the election, the Governor General removed him as Prime Minister and shortly thereafter installed Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser in his place. Fraser and his allies acted quickly before all parliamentarians learned of the change of government, and the governor general dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.
Fraser and his government were re-elected with an overwhelming majority. This led to much speculation among Whitlam`s supporters as to whether this use of the Governor-General`s reserve powers was appropriate and whether Australia should become a republic. Among supporters of constitutional monarchy, however, experience has confirmed the value of the monarchy as a source of checks and balances against elected politicians who might seek powers beyond those conferred by the constitution, and ultimately as a safeguard against dictatorship. Today, the world`s 43 constitutional monarchies are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, an intergovernmental support organization of 53 countries headed by the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom. Some of the best-known examples of these modern constitutional monarchies are the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, and Japan. The most important family of constitutional monarchies in the world today are the sixteen realms of the Commonwealth of Nations, all independent parliamentary democracies under a common monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II. Unlike the UK, almost all other Commonwealth countries have drafted constitutions with complex processes of constitutional amendments. Through political crises, peaceful draft constitutions and international debates, the Westminster Conventions on the Constitutional Monarch have acquired a much clearer definition in the other fifteen kingdoms than in the United Kingdom. In many of these constitutions, the monarch or representative of the crown is considered an integral part of the executive and legislative branches of government, and this position is at least partially expressly protected by the written constitution. Although many left-wing parties past and present in Europe contain anti-monarchical factions, few have so far openly declared their preference for total monarchical abolition, instead using their power to restrict and reform supposedly "undemocratic" or "partial" elements of the monarchy.
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Do you feel as though you have some issues that could put you in the red flag range during your next DOT exam? I am here to coach you through it.
There are some do's and don'ts that you need to put in your action plan. This is especially important when seeing a company doctor or a doctor whom you don't know and, more importantly, who does not know you.
First, lay off energy drinks or over-the-counter cold medication for 24 hours before the exam. These products can raise the blood pressure 20 points on each end. For example, a normal blood pressure of 120/80 can become a pressure of 140/100, or a 140/90 will rise to 160/110, which will turn a non-hypertensive driver into a permanently restricted one or, in the latter case, disqualified.
Get a good night's sleep and get up early so you are not rushed.
Take your medicine as soon as you wake up in the morning. This is especially important if you are on blood pressure medicine or diabetes medication. You should also bring all medications in their original bottles to the DOT exam to show to the doctor.
Hygiene is very important. If you or your breath smells like fertilizer, this is a big no-no. So be Mr./Ms. Clean for the exam.
Don't eat a big meal before the physical, especially if you are diabetic. This triggers a spilling of sugar in your urine. That leads to a blood sugar test and possibly getting an A1C test by your family doctor, disqualification pending treatment, or a restricted card.
Take any current compliance letters for special illness or medications from your doctor. You should also have copies of your most recent lab tests. Keep a medical log. This impresses doctors the most.
Have a CPAP machine? Bring it and your compliance letter to the exam. Remember, CPAP machines are a prescription just the same as a medication. Some doctors can read your CPAP data card, although not many do.
If you have to catch a bus to a new hire physical, be sure to be early. You don't want the stress of missing the bus on top of everything else. Otherwise, be sure to arrive at your appointment in plenty of time. You don't want to be in a big rush or tired when you're doing vision and hearing tests.
Once you are at the clinic – and this one is very high on my list – treat the staff with courtesy. If you treat the technician or nurse badly, the doctor will know and you will not be given the benefit of the doubt.
Remember, most restricted DOT medical disqualifications are the decision of the doctor. This means the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration allows the doctor a lot of discretion in determining whether you get a card or not.
So be nice. I kick at least two to three drivers out of my clinic each year for disrespecting my staff. Don't go into a medical office and expect to be seen right away. A long wait at the doc's office is par for the course. And if a drug screen is needed, you may be a little uncomfortable, even mad. Here's where you need to "chill" and think about the most fun or pleasant thing that has ever occurred in your life.


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Mansaf – Known as the national dish of Jordan, mansaf is a meal that totally sums up the culture of Jordan, its generosity and hospitality, and the love for lamb and yoghurt. The dish includes lamb that's cooked until fall apart tender in jameed (a type of dry goat yoghurt made into a gravy), and served with rice, more jameed, and topped with pine nuts. What's also fascinating is how mansaf is eaten, off a communal tray, with balls of lamb and rice rolled into ones hand, and consumed without touching your fingers to your mouth (demonstrations provided for this one).


As much of the poker world knows by now, Martin Jacboson won the 2014 WSOP Main Event along with a $10 million prize. In the end, the Swede faced off against Norway's Felix Stephensen in a heads-up battle that only lasted an hour.
Most regarded Jacobson as the best live tournament player among the 2014 November Nine members. However, it's still quite amazing that he won the Main Event, given that he had the second-smallest chip stack coming on to the final table. Perhaps it's even more incredible that he was here at all when considering that Jacobson appeared destined for a culinary arts career.
Long before he ascended to poker stardom, Martin Jacobson was an aspiring chef. He worked long nights in a Stockholm restaurant while honing his cooking skills. During this time, he also played online poker after shifts ended late at night because there was nothing else to do. However, the goal for Jacobson was always to land a good chef job above playing poker for a career.
Eventually, his dream came true when a top-notch restaurant in Barcelona offered Jacobson a job. But in what turned out to be a blessing in disguise, a contract issue nixed the deal and he was left searching for a new pursuit. Seeing as how he'd already begun developing his poker skills late at night, Jacobson started taking the game more seriously.
It didn't take Jacobson long to experience success on the live felt since he finished third in the 2008 EPT Budapest Main Event ($247,668). The following years would bring more great results with runner-up finishes at 2009 WPT Venice ($319,518), 2010 EPT Vilamoura ($378,706) and 2010 EPT Deauville ($762,185). Jacobson continued churning out more large cashes over the years, until netting his biggest score by finishing sixth in the 2013 WSOP $111,111 One Drop High Roller ($807,427).
Of course, all of Jacobson's previous scores pale in comparison to his haul from the 2014 Main Event. An elite player who'd never actually won a major tournament title – but had come close many times – Jacobson finally broke through to win the world's most-prestigious tourney along with $10 million. And if there were ever any doubt that Jacobson would have been better off being a chef, there's no question now that he chose the right career in the wake of the botched restaurant contract.


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Michael Whitbeck gets interviewed by Adam Lesner about Uberwriter. Adam is a loan officer with Michigan First Mortgage and is an a passionate advocate for the borrower and devotes his website www.balancedprocess.com to the education and support of those seeking home financing. Adam recently discovered UberWriter and interviewed Michael for his website. See what others have to say about UberWriter.


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The Ruins in Talisay
The Taj Mahal of Negros
Built in early 1900s, The Ruins is a testament of love of Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson to his wife, Maria Braga.
Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson is a sugar baron, the owner of 440 hectares of sugar farm in Talisay. When the baron traveled to Macau, he met Maria Braga, a Portuguese who will later be his wife.
Their marriage gave them 10 children (having a lot of children before is a sign of wealth). On Maria's 11th pregnancy, she had an accident which eventually led to her and her baby's death.
The grief of Don Mariano incited the birth of the mansion. As a testament of his love for Maria, he built the Mansion in the middle of his estate. He got the designs from Maria's father, a ship captain who travels from Europe to Asia. When the mansion was done, it was considered as the largest residential structure in town. The baron also imported the furniture from abroad as well as the fountain in front.
The mansion is of Italianate style of architecture with neo romanesque columns. The structure is made of Grade A concrete with egg whites to make it shiny and smooth. It even feels like marble when you touch it.
One of the daughters of Don Mariano designed the garden. She also planted imported lilies near the fountain. As it was a big garden, so they hired a Japanese gardener.
Later on, it was speculated that the gardener was an informant to the Japanese Soldiers. In the midst of World War II, there were talks that the Japanese soldiers wanted to make the mansion their headquarters in Negros. So to renounce the Japanese occupation in the Philippines, Don Mariano decided to burn the house down.
From the tour guide's account, Don Mariano ordered the people to put gallons of gas inside the house but the gas wasn't enough to burn the flooring which is made of 2" thick of wood. So to add more power to the fire, they included used cooking oil with the gas.
The neighbors said that it took 3 days for the fire to die down.
That's the history of The Ruins in Talisay.
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Telephone: 63.34.4764334
Email: ruins@theruins.com.ph
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Property Owners Owe Duty of Reasonable Care to Neighbors in Maryland if Circumstances Create Hazard
In June of last year we reported an affirmance from the Maryland Court of Special Appeals holding that a property owner owes a duty of care to the owners and occupants of neighboring properties to use and maintain that property in a reasonably safe manner so as to avoid harm to neighboring properties. Where the particular use or condition of the premises is not inherently or unreasonably dangerous itself, the fact finder determines if the duty has been breached if there is evidence that the owner knew, or reasonably should have known, that a dangerous use or condition existed. The Maryland Court of Appeals has agreed with the intermediate appellate court's reasoning and affirmed the verdict that now exceeds $1.5 million with costs and interest. The decision will be published and is precedential.
The 44-page, unanimous opinion by Judge Booth opens with the famous quote from Smokey Bear: "Only You Can Prevent Wildfires." A footnote explains that the Smokey Bear public information campaign by the U.S. Forestry Service is the longest running marketing campaign in U.S. history and the current slogan has been modified from the 1947 original: "Remember … Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires."
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At trial, the jury found in favor of three subrogating insurers and the neighboring property owner for a verdict in excess of $1.3 million. On appeal, the intermediate appellate court affirmed. The court acknowledged that no Maryland case had addressed the specific issues before it in the context of a fire caused by a condition (mulch) that is not itself inherently dangerous but rather is considered to be normal, absent extraordinary circumstances. The Court of Appeals agreed with the court's "well-reasoned analysis" and affirmed. In particular, the Court of Appeals stated:
We disagree with [the Union's] assertion that the Court [below] created a "new duty" to be imposed upon property owners. For at least the past 80 years, this Court has recognized that the ownership, operation and maintenance of property come with the common law responsibility to use reasonable care so as not to cause harm to the neighboring property owners. The duty recognized by this Court is not dependent upon the presence of a particular type of material, or the occurrence of a particular type of activity. Rather, a duty may arise when, viewing the totality of the circumstances, there exists a hazardous condition and the property owner was on notice of the hazardous condition.
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The court also rejected the contention that expert testimony was required in the case. In the footnote referring to the Smokey Bear quote, the court noted that Smokey Bear has been warning the public for years not to throw smoking material into combustible materials such as brush or leaves. As such, it was within the common knowledge of ordinary people that discarding cigarettes into combustible mulch is a fire hazard.
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CODA Drives its First All-Electric Vehicle
March 13, 2012 March 14, 2012 RMN News Automotive, China, CODA, Electric Vehicle, EV
The first fully assembled CODA – a silver all-electric sedan with a 31 kWh battery pack –drove off the final assembly line. The occasion kicked off the final assembly of CODA Automotive's first all-electric 2012 CODA five passenger sedans that will be sold in California.
"This is an incredibly exciting day for the CODA family and the EV community," said Mac Heller, executive chairman, CODA Holdings. "Since day one, we've been dedicated to designing an electric car that provides the amenities that the American driver has come to expect, such as range, torque, and value. This car symbolizes our commitment to accelerating the adoption of EVs."
With the initial assembly of the glider chassis and Lithium-ion battery pack conducted in China, all research and design, marketing and sales are conducted at the company's global headquarters in Los Angeles.
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And Honda has delivered 2013 Fit EV battery-electric vehicles to Google and Stanford University as a part of the Honda Electric Vehicle Demonstration Program. (Read: How Google Drives Honda Electric Vehicle)
The CODA will be soon available for purchase at dealerships throughout California: CODA of Silicon Valley, run by Del Grande Dealer Group (DGDG in Northern California; Marvin K. Brown Auto Center in San Diego; and various locations in the Los Angeles region that will be announced soon. As production increases, additional dealerships in the state and beyond will be announced, said the company Monday, March 12.
The 31kWh 2012 CODA comes at a price of $37,250 and can go up to 125 miles on a single charge. In California, federal and individual state savings and credits may bring the price down to $27,250, the company expects.
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Dedication of the Rich Guadagno Memorial Trail
by Pam Gluck with American Trails
The 1,000th National Recreation Trail dedicated to refuge manager killed on United Flight 93.
Rich Guadagno Memorial Trail, Oregon
tags: birding, conservation and environment, memorial, preservation, wildlife and habitat, backcountry
O. L. "Leff" Moore and the Development of the Innovative Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Area
O. L. "Leff" Moore was the "father" of the Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Area, the most innovative motorized trail system in the eastern United States. Leff was the recipient of the 2008 Hulet Hornbeck Award at the 19th International Trails Symposium.
tags: off-highway vehicles (ohv), economic, travel & tourism, memorial
Ron McKinney - Goodbye to a Great Friend and Leader
Ron was an avid snowmobiler and ATV rider who worked for the Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources. Ron was a leader who knew that the State Trails Program exists only because of Wyoming's snowmobile and ORV riders who fund it.
tags: memorial, snowmobile
Monty Montgomery, Ozark Greenways
Past President of Ozark Greenways, Monty Montgomery, passed away on August 19, 2018. He was an avid supporter and longtime friend of Ozark Greenways. He inspired countless individuals to explore our beautiful Ozarks through bicycling, hiking, and running all while promoting fun and fellowship.
Mary Anderson, REI
Mary Anderson, Co-founder of REI
A Tribute to David Burwell
by Chuck Flink with Greenways Incorporated
David Burwell was a cofounder of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and one of the most influential champions for trails and greenways. He later established the National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse and founded the Surface Transportation Policy Project.
tags: memorial, rails-to-trails
Gudy Gaskill, the Mother of the Colorado Trail
Gudy is credited with being the Mother of The Colorado Trail, now 567 miles between Denver and Durango.
tags: memorial, huts and backcountry shelter systems
Tom Neenan
Tom was instrumental in founding the non-profit Iowa Trails Council in 1984. He made the first application for acquisition of an abandoned rail bed in Iowa and continued to negotiate, acquire, and establish trails for many years.
Remembering Deb Hubsmith
Deb Hubsmith founded and guided the Safe Routes to School National Partnership for nearly 10 years. She started as a grassroots advocate and co-led the development of Marin County, California's Safe Routes pilot program.
Susan "Butch" Henley - American Hiking Society Staffer and Trail Supporter
Always known by her trail name after through-hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1978, Butch served both on the board and staff of the American Hiking Society. For many years she was a familiar participant in initiatives and committees supporting policies and funding for trails.
James L. Oberstar - Congressman and Advocate for Trails and Bicycling
Congressman Jim Oberstar was a supporter of the Recreational Trails Program and a sponsor of the transportation bills which included funding for bicycle and pedestrian programs as well as trails.
Remembering Joe Shoemaker: Colorado Greenway Visionary
American Trails and the trails community nationwide mourns the passing of Joe Shoemaker in August 2012.
Hulet Hornbeck, Trail Activist and Land Acquisition Specialist
Hulet was a long-time American Trails board member. He created his legacy through trails during 20 years of land acquisition for the East Bay Regional Park District. His intellect, kindness, public sense of stewardship and humor was an inspiration to us all!
Mark Hufeisen — Virginia State Parks Trail Builder and Manager
Mark's expertise on a wide range of subjects from construction to trail development to horse training will leave a very tangible legacy. He took a fledging rail-to-trails project, New River Trail State Park, and made it one of Virginia's most visited and most supported state parks.
Fran Wallas— Tennessee Trail Writer
Since 2005 The Tennessee Conservationist magazine featured Fran Wallas' "Great Hikes in Tennessee State Parks" in each bi-monthly issue.
The Bridge Builders Art: A Tribute to Carroll Vogel
Carroll Vogel showed us that in the world of suspension bridges we are still looking for the boundaries, we are still finding new structures, applications, and uses of materials.
Merle D. Grimes— A True Friend of Greenways and Trails
Merle Grimes planned and helped develop greenways and trails in Atlanta, GA and on the Island of Kauai as well as many projects in the Denver area and the South Platte River Greenway.
Jon McBride— Montana Smokejumper and Trails Steward
Jon McBride founded the National Smokejumper Association's Trails Program. Under McBride's leadership during the past 10 years, former and current smokejumpers rehabilitated well over a thousand miles of trails for the Forest Service and the National Park Service.
Austin Helmers, Alaskan Trails Advocate and Forest Service Veteran
After 40 years with the U.S. Forest Service, Austin Helmers' second career was his passion for hiking and making sure Alaskan trails rights of way were not lost.
Art Cowley— Father of the Ouachita Trail
Art's claim to fame in the Ouachitas was working out the plan in the early 1970's for the Ouachita Trail.
Dale Shewalter, Founder of the Arizona Trail
Dale was known as the "Father of the Arizona Trail" and guiding spirit for the Arizona Trail Association. Dale had a vision of a continuous path across Arizona, and in 1985 he undertook a journey on foot across the state.
tags: memorial, desert trails
John C. Roth, a Person who Built Connections and Moved Dreams Forward
A Missouri trail advocate, John Roth was a volunteer with the US Forest Service for several years. He is best known for his tremendous work on the the planning and development of the Ozark Trail.
Brian O'Neill - the longtime superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area who helped transform the Presidio and other military bases into parkland.
Tammy Jamieson - Advocate for Parks, Trails, and Open Space
by Robert Searns with Robert Searns & Associates
Tammy left a lasting legacy in the parks, trails and open space features that she created during her tenure.
Jessica Terrell, Trails Activist and State Program Manager
Jessica had been the state trail coordinator for the Department of Natural Resources in New Mexico, and held the same position in Missouri. She was proud of being selected to participate in the American Frontiers Expedition team.
Dale Lloyd, Advocate for Trails and Snowmobilers
Dale Harvey Lloyd was the husband of Kay Lloyd, who served as American Trails Chair for several years. Dale, like Kay, was an avid snowmobiler and advocate for trails of all kinds.
George's Send Off
George was an avid equestrian and advocate for the preservation of public open space and trails. His work in the 1940's in Contra Costa County, CA became the model for the California State Riding and Hiking Trails Plan and later led to California State trails acts in 1945 and again in 1974.
Bill Bliss Rides into the Sunset
In 2006 Bill received the Lifetime Service Award from American Trails. He conducted a never-ending crusade for safer trails, bicycling, and bicycling facilities.
Remembering Bill Spitzer, Park Service Mentor
The trails community lost a great friend with the passing of Bill Spitzer.
Lu Schrader, West Virginia Trail Advocate
Lu Schrader founded the the West Virginia Trails Coalition and was a key player in the first WV Statewide Trail Plan. Lu was also the driving force behind the creation of the Trace Fork Canyon Trail near Charleston.
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Naval sculptures are part of USS San Diego Memorial along San Diego's Embarcadero trail