There goes yet another Xbox One exclusive for 2017. Microsoft announced Crackdown 3 delayed to Spring 2018. And the collective Xbox One owner's face meets palms. Click on for the bad news.
Sorry folks, no Terry Crews blowing ish up in your immediate future! Crackdown 3 delayed to Spring 2018, officially. Originally the game was intended to launch alongside the release of the Xbox One X. However, the quality of the title was a bit suspect from all gaming journalists who got to play the title at E3. The game came under a lot of fire as it really resembles the now released Agents of Mayhem. And that game looks great. So for an Xbox One X tent pole game, I can see why Microsoft would want to keep it in the oven a little longer.
And you know what, Good for you Microsoft. That, in my opinion, is a good call. Come on folks, think about it for a sec. Would you rather get a lackluster title now or a fully formed masterpiece later? Nothing is worse than a game that looks and feels unfinished. *Cough No Man's Sky Cough*. Of cause, the flip side is that the Xbox One loses yet another exclusive game for 2017. And it's not like they're rolling in exclusives. No matter, there's a great catalog of third party titles to keep you entertained. Not to mention the growing list of indie titles. So hang tight folks, Crackdown 3 will without a doubt be better when it releases thanks to the extra time the teams will have.


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Posted: September 5, 2:33 PM
I dont think -at this point in my life- that I will ever get onto this franchise! I tried the PS2 Game back in the day that was later ported to the 3ds.. and I simply cannot get into it. I might give it one lats try
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I was wondering how big a role metal slimes would play here. Aside from giving dual attacks to each member to improve your odds, encounters with them seem like a game of chance, considering their maddening tendency to flee 33% of the time.
The "no fleeing" and "no buying things" settings seem doable, considering you can't flee boss battles anyway and crafted items are more powerful than store bought stuff.
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It's ... different. If you approach DQ like any other JRPG then you're likely gonna grow bored. You gotta come at it knowing it's a long burn and probably a bit archaic, but there is decent payoff.
The Kotaku review pretty much spends the entire time explaining that. Yeah, it's long, yeah it can be slow, but you're hanging out with your buds. Come chill!
I sometimes think nostalgia plays alot into the love of the series. I was speaking to a friend about it and realized it's a pretty hard recommendation for people who aren't familiar with the series or at the very least dont prefer old style jrpgs to modern takes on it.
I like that the series has remained pretty true to its roots rarely evolving or shaking things up to drastically. Its always been kind of a bastion of comfort for me. Jrpgs were my favorite genre until the PS2 era where stories and character became more complicated as did the game play and mechanics. I liked the simple stories and tropey characters of old games. Even final fantasy has changed drastically from those traditional fantasy games I loved as a kid.
I am sure the genre as a whole is much better now that it has evolved past alot of the old mechanics but it lost some of the charm along the way. I liked a good vs evil battle for the world, protaganists that fall into the savior tropes without a ton of subtlety or shades of grey. I like grinding and random battles and not having to worry about a ton of different systems and mechanics. Again I know I'm in the minority.
I just feel that jrpgs now are either persona type stories with a group of school kids that balance dungeons and living daily life, monster collecting games, or exploit weakness mechanics and tales style or real time combat. I know that boils alot of games down to the most basic format but that's how they feel to me and it's just never held much appeal.
I'm glad there is still a series that I can count on that plays the same as the games I loved as a kid. That said if none of the other games did anything for you I doubt this one will either, it's a very similar game just alot prettier.
I agree and I understand. I also experienced 1st hand the evolution... Final Fantasy was a beloved servies by me. But after 10.... and ell 12.... things have never ever been the same for me.
13 was disgusting IMO and I dont even know about 13-2 and 13-5
15 was OK, but id did not feel like a FF GAME.
The Tales series -is as of now- my favorite
I have tried to get into Trails of cold steel, but it is going so so
I loved Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and I CANT WAIT for the Torna expansion.
Given my limited time and backlog is one of the main reasons i hesitate to get into this game
The sound that plays when you exit an area is a riff on the original NES "stair step" descending sound from Dragon Quest 1:
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I feel like one's opinion on whether this is incredibly lazy or charming nostalgic will probably carry over the to entire game as a whole (for the record: I love it!)
Another slow burner, though not as slow burning as as Trails in the Sky.
I'm gonna go out on a limb that action tends to be more appealing to you right now than turn based games. If you want to play a Falcom game you might be better off giving Tokyo Xanadu or Ys a go. (Or, alternatively, DQ Heroes 2 or DQ Builders.)
DQ games, and the Trails series, are about the journey and not the destination. The journey may seem boring at times, and it can be, but then you'll talk to an NPC who has the worst best worst best pun ever and it'll make you smile. There's a streak of melancholy throughout DQ games that runs counter to the cheerful exterior. For instance, much of DQ7 is about uncovering tragedy. It's what makes some of the vignettes so appealing. They're games that are better on reflection. The Trails series is set in the same world and all the games lightly connect back to an overarching plot. There really isn't any modern games doing what Falcom is doing. It's unfortunate that both Falcom and DQ are trope-driven, but one has to accept that because it is what it is. (Though some of the homophobic jokes in some earlier Trails games are unacceptable to me. I've never found DQ to be as offensive.)
Honestly, if you want to get into the DQ series the best way is to play them on mobile devices. The original trilogy is especially easy to play on your phone since movement is limited and there's no camera to fiddle with. The first two games are merely appetizers, but DQ3 is where things start getting truly interesting. They play really well on mobile and allow you to quick save anywhere. It's awesome and I hope the retro, top-down 3DS version of XI gets ported to mobile one day. It would probably be the best RPG on a phone, honestly.
Bringing this back to DQXI, I'm not sure it'll be the game to get you into DQ if DQVIII didn't do it. There are some quality of life improvements the series absolutely needed, but this is very much a greatest hits DQ game. There's no major innovation here other than being a massive, AAA funded console traditional JRPG. That's pretty rare these days, but it'll probably be best on Switch where you can lay in bed with it or play on a plane rather than sitting in front of your tv.
Pokemon does the same thing. Tradition is important in Japan, so I think it's neat they continue to keep small traditions alive. It's not as if there aren't new sounds in the games (and more new music would be very welcome in DQ) but that feeling of tradition and comfort is important to many.
Heck, I'd even counter Rave's description as DQ not changing much as that was always my impression, but most of the games have shaken things up a lot while the battle system remained similar. From job systems to being Pokemon before there was Pokemon the games have mixed interesting mechanics into the games that then influence the rest of the genre.
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Anyone mind if we change the title to just Dragon Quest XI?
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If cost of entry isnt really an issue I'd say this is as good a jumping in point as any. The mobile versions of the DQ games are very good but honestly 1 and 2 dont hold up especially well. 4, 5 and 6 are all fantastic ports short of controls with 4 arguably being the most complete version of the game that's ever been available.
Most fans will tell you 5 and 8 are the series high points but 8 has a pretty awful (but still playable) mobile port. There is still no official word on a NA switch release as far as I know I'm guessing it will depend on sales of 11.
I'd recommend this over the mobile ports just to be part of conversation and hype around the new game. It's been years since we have had a new main game in the series and playing along with other people and learning new things could add alot to the enjoyment of the game. Not to mention graphically it's pretty impressive and visually you will get alot more out of this then you would those other ports.
Thanks for the feedback guys
Razgon
So, never been a fan of JRPG's, but this looks wonderful, so I bought it. I only played 10 minutes or so, but the controls are horrible . Since Steam wont let me see the store page, I am wondering if I can connect a PS4 controller to my pc and control it that way? It seems to be built for that controller, in that every prompt has PS4 controller buttons mentioned, instead of keybindings.
Anyways - the world seem bright and interesting and very good looking. am interested if I can figure out a good way to control the game.
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Steam updated something with controllers recently that has screwed up the way 360 controllers work by default in alot of games. Including games that used to work fine, I spent 3hrs one day trying to stop my look from drifting in Prey. Eventually I got it to work the easiest fix is to disable steam controller in big picture mode.
You can also change the dead zone for analogs if that's giving you issues. Open big picture and hit the center home button on your controller of choice and there should be default lay outs and options for the games you're playing and just generally controller settings. Track down the 360 controller if that's the one you use and try applying that setting.
This is a pretty recent and frustrating change that's taken place I'd say since the beginning of summer. I know it doesnt effect all users but it's been a pain in the ass for me. Hopefully that solves whatever issues you are having.
Ps4 and switch controllers supposedly work just as well as Microsoft controllers now so ideally they will be plug and play as well. If they dont work though you'll have to to find the settings for the controller in big picture mode (even if you dont use big picture it's the only way to find the settings). Like I said disabling the controller to work with the over lay ended up being the biggest catch all fix for me, I rarely have to muck about with settings now.
Edit-- before getting on my tangent about how much I hate how controllers work with steam now I guess I should have realized you might just be having issues with DQ11. I'm playing the game on ps4 and the camera control settings did need to be tweaked for some reason interior spaces have a lower sensitivity then exteriors. I just set my outdoor camera to 8 and my indoor 9 and everything feels fine now. May want to tweak the sound options as well since the developers thought the music should be the most prevelant sound in your house let alone the game.
Thanks Rave - Love your icon, by the way!
I just meant with this game, but I'll try plug and play although I am curious how people sit with a laptop, and play with a controller. I usually sit in a comfortably low chair, with my laptop on my, eh, lap, and play - I'd think the controller was ungainly, but we'll see.
The game itself seems quite interesting!
Posted: September 7, 11:01 AM
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Really want to play this, but I'm holding out for the Switch version. Being able to pick up and play a massive game like DQVIII on the go was fantastic, want to be able to do the same thing with XI. Hopefully it doesn't take too long, if it does I may cave and buy it for PS4 anyway.
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Posted: September 7, 12:36 PM
I'm about 10 hours in, and speaking as someone with a nanosecond attention span for games these days, DQXI is becoming more intriguing as it flows along. For me, the only slow part so far has been at the beginning when the dumbo main character doesn't have anybody else in the party to liven things up.
Now my little duo is at the haiku-talkin' village, and I'm totally on board with the plot. I will say, speaking as someone with familiarity with the DQ series the game is slow to introduce new game concepts, and the combat has been simplistic thus far. It could be due to my over-grinding each new area, a completionist habit of mine, but battles haven't been very challenging lately; I may have outlevelled the areas. For this reason I also haven't felt the need to craft much gear yet, although bashing your items into shape with the portable forge is pretty compelling.
I'm really trying to stay away from spoilers, but I did read somewhere that you can eventually swap out the main 'silent protagonist' and just use the supporting cast as your entire party, picking whoever you want to be the leader. This really appeals to me, and I hope I read that right.
You did read that right.
And if you're a completionist the game is going to be super easy for you. It's already on the easy side for DQ, but if you're grinding more than grinding-as-you-go the game is going to stay incredibly easy.
Ok officially turned off draconian difficulty, I'm 10hrs in and have been grinding pretty steady got the first real boss (2 gryphons) and it was just a little too much. With all the games coming out right now I really want to finish this sooner rather then later, I just dont have the time to grind anymore lol.
That said normal difficulty is still a bit to easy I'm over leveled now but those same bosses posed no challenge at all. Oh well. I'll play through this multiple times at some point I'll up the difficulty.
Really enjoying the crafting system so far but I'm guessing there is no alchemy pot equivalent, so is there a reason to keep old gear?
Ok officially turned off draconian difficulty, I'm 10hrs in and have been grinding pretty steady got the first real boss (2 gryphons) and it was just a little too much.
I'm guessing you discovered the rideable (hoppable?) Eggsoskeleton, did you find any new places to go with it? I didn't.
You can upgrade your gear at the cost of Pearls of Perfection, but I'm not sure by how much.
By the way, what's the best monster name you've found so far? I'm partial to the Sham Hatwitch, so cute!
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Yeah the rideable was cute, dont know if you can miss that first one since a tutorial popped explaining it but that also probably means there are more in the game:).
I'll always be partial to Cruelcumbers seeing them walking around the map is ridiculous but the Sham hatwitches or whatever are cute, love their defensive pose but the name pun is going right over my head lol.
It's not even the difficulty spike that got me it was just the resource grind, I'm using max level scale armour on my hero along with sword and board maxed also the health and support bonus both at +2. Erik is running boomerang max along with max templar and spike helmet. So it's not a gear problem it was just having to heal at the end of fighting every mob and realizing the minute I get more party members I'm going to actually have to start using healing items instead of spells so before I even did the boss fight I just said screw it I dont have this type of time if I want to play other games.
Younger me would have loved this, or the up coming switch version (when it eventually gets an official launch date) will be perfect. This is dragon quest though and there is no way I could have held out for that version.
From your experience, do you think the "stronger enemies" option just boosted the enemy's stats and damage, or did it also change the enemy's behavior? After my first 90 minutes or so, I restarted with that turned on, and I definitely feel like I am seeing enemies use medicinal herbs, buff themselves, call allies, etc., more than they did in my very limited experience with the game before boosting the difficulty.
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I think it doubles all the stats 200% boost or something I've read. I think most of the times you only see enemies use tactics like herbs and calling friends more often because they are living longer and often start faster in the turn order then your characters. I havent gone back to fight earlier monsters though so maybe they are tactically doing more I did feel like monsters were spamming these attacks every turn early on.
I'll stand by what I said earlier and say that it feels more like an old school dragon quest game with the monsters buffed. In the old games you pretty much had to exhaust an area of all town equipment and fully fight every monster until the xp gain was negligable before crossing a bridge to the next area. It's a fun mode but I'd say its artificial difficulty, seems like it's just double stats across the board and probably not balance tested since this mode wasn't even available in Japan.
The main game is VERY easy though so pick your poison. If there weren't so many great games out right now (wow expansion, monster hunter and spiderman for me) I'd have left it as is.
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I'm also struggling with the hard mode (Draconian Quest: Hard Enemies) option: I'm about 8 hours in, my characters are level 10, and I'm about to head into the first dungeon. Haven't faced any bosses yet, but can really only do three or four fights with field monsters before having to camp again.
Turned off hard mode on a whim, and of course all of the monsters were way too easy because I'm overleveled. I do enjoy a bit of grinding, but I really wish the hard mode modifiers were turned down just a little bit.
My wife commented that the music sounded like something from WW2-era Germany. You know, something that would be in a propoganda film. I informed her that was very astute based on who the composer is...
I'm slowly making my way through. Only an hour here or there. Helps keep it fresh and enjoyable. So far so good, though the fact that the game had an in-game chase sequence was just weird.
I'm about as far in as you: my characters are levels 8/9 (I think) and about to head into the first dungeon. I'm also playing with the same Hard Enemies option. I've been doing ok, but occasionally getting wiped, as with the first time I fought the Tricky Devil.
I don't know if you've used the Fun-sized Forge yet, but armor and weapon upgrades helped me a lot. After I got the Forge I managed to make a Bronze Sword +2 and a Divine Dagger +1, which noticeably increased my damage output. Even more crucially, I lucked into crafting a Scale Mail +3 for the hero.
I kind of loved the in-game chase sequence! It was definitely odd but it was also something different from previous games.
I also loved how the monsters ran from the black dragon, and how bumping into a monster triggered a fight with that monster AND the black dragon (which I was able to run from).
I know I probably could have just used evac, ran to the camp and kept grinding against those enemies until I was able to walk through the dungeon to the bosses and just ignore the mobs. The problem again for me is just the sheer grind now, I didnt have it in me. I was lvl 12 at that point and at least 10 hrs in. I keep hearing the game is like 80 hrs long and at 10 hrs most people are completing a desert dungeon. At this rate the game would have been 200hrs for me lol
I got side tracked hard by spiderman this weekend but I'm looking at almost platinuming that this week so hopefully I'll be deep into this again by the weekend.
I liked the chase sequence too, but when I got dragged into a battle by bumping into a slime I foolishly thought I could take on the big-bad. Doh! Some minor quibbles: I use first person view quite a bit, to look around at the scenery. It's too bad you can't move or even initiate conversations in first person, seems a bit weird.
Also, first world problem: on PC during load scenes I'm missing out on some of the game tips because screens load too fast. It'd be nice to have the option of clicking X to continue instead of just auto-loading.
I like how Fallout 4 rewards you for using higher difficulty, by increasing your odds of fighting legendary critters. It'd be nice if DQXI had something like this, a slight chance of finding rare loot when using Draconian modes.
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2018 was a historically bad year for Southeast Alaska's commercial net fisheries, with catches falling far below those of recent years.
The reason, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, was generally poor salmon returns to the region, particularly for pink salmon.
Seiners caught about 12.2 million salmon this season — a fraction of the 20-year average of 44.5 million, according to preliminary data from Fish and Game. (Those numbers exclude harvests at Annette Island and cost recovery harvests by hatcheries).
Seiners were hit especially hard by regionwide issues with pink salmon population, which typically make up the majority of seine harvests.
"There just weren't very many pinks that returned," Fish and Game's Ketchikan area management biologist Scott Walker said last week.
Many seiners' harvests were supplemented by higher-than-average chum salmon hatchery returns.
"If it wasn't for the chum, you'd have a bunch of bankrupt fishermen," said Susan Doherty, the executive director of the Southeast Alaska Seiners Association.
Those hatchery chum returns included that of the NSRAA-operated Crawfish Inlet hatchery near Sitka, which received many times its estimated return. The phenomenon yielded millions of pounds of chum for seiners.
Doherty added that stable chum prices helped too, but that it was still a poor year overall.
Southeast Alaska gillnetters caught about 3.5 million salmon this season, compared to a 20-year average of 4.47 million salmon, according to preliminary numbers from Fish and Game. Gillnet harvests were at their lowest since 2002.
United Southeast Alaska Gillnetters Association Executive Director Max Worhatch attributed the low harvest to generally poor Southeast Alaska salmon returns across the board, particularly for pink salmon.
Gillnetters were spared some of the pink-salmon-related difficulties that seiners experienced because gillnetters rely less on pink salmon than seiners do. Pinks make up only about 20 percent of overall gillnet harvests. And Worhatch said that gillnetters, like seiners, also benefited from good salmon prices.
But unlike seiners, gillnetters were unable to cash in on the Crawfish Inlet chum returns because of Fish and Game regulations. Worhatch said that given seiners' disastrous year, gillnetters were happy to see them harvest the chums.
As for this year's salmon escapement, Fish and Game research biologist Andy Piston said that Southeast Alaska saw mixed results. Escapement is the amount of returning fish that escape being harvested and return to their streams to spawn.
Pink salmon escapement in northern Southeast Alaska's inside waters was generally very poor, while the northern Southeast's outer coast was generally good. Escapements to southern Southeast varied but were generally average, Piston said.
As far as what those returns mean for 2020 (the next even year in pink salmon's odd-even reproduction cycle), Piston said it's important to keep something in mind: The relationship between escapement levels and returns two years later is tenuous. Returns are generally hard to predict based off of escapement. However, if escapement is very, very poor, low returns are likely.
Piston said that escapements in northern Southeast's inside waters were poor enough to suggest that returns will likely also be poor in two years.
In the other two subregions, escapement levels were such that returns are hard to predict based on escapement alone.
As for chum salmon escapement, escapement levels were great in southern Southeast, mixed/adequate in northern Southeast inside, and slightly below goal for northern Southeast outside waters, Piston said.
Piston said that the escapement-return relationship is complicated for chums as well, because returning chums can be three, or four or five years old. That means that the effects of a given year's escapement will spread out over a few years.
In other news, Southeast Alaska's 2018-19 commercial winter troll fishery opened at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday. The fishery is scheduled to run through March 15 or until trollers harvest 45,000 treaty chinook — whichever comes first.


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Learn about the life of African American abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Forten Purvis during this play written and performed by Gigi McGraw. A talkback discussion will follow the play.
Harriet Forten Purvis was an abolitionist and suffragist following the Civil War, as well as an operator of an Underground Railroad station at her home at 9th and Lombard Street in Philadelphia. Forten Purvis formed the first biracial women's abolitionist group with her mother and sisters called the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and, also founded the Gilbert Lyceum with her husband Robert Purvis. Forten Purvis was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association and she and her sister Margaretta were vital organizers of the Fifth National Women's Rights Convention in Philadelphia in 1854.
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Out of this meeting the Polish Association of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Zwiazek Polskich Kawalerów Maltanskich–the Association of the Polish Knights of Malta) was registered by a County Court in Poznań on 31 August 1920. The first Assembly General was held in Poznań on 27 June 1922. The majority of the newly admitted members were recruited from noble families of the Great Poland Province. The Assembly General decided to submit a petition to the Grand Master and the Sovereign Council for recognition of the new Association. Subsequently, a delegate of the Association, Count Bogdan Hutten-Czapski consulted the Grand Magistry. Recognition of the Association by the Grand Magistry was to take more time than anticipated however.
Count Bogdan Hutten-CzapskiThe fate of the petition of the Polish Association was clarified in 1925 when Count Hutten-Czapski received clear indication that the Association would be recognised as an integral part of the Order following compliance with several conditions. Among others these were the creation of the Statutes of the Association to conform with the Statutes and the Code of the Order, and a minimum membership. The efforts of Count Bogdan Hutten-Czapski bore fruit after his election as the President of the Association on 19 May 1926.
For obvious reasons the Order could not be formally represented in communist Poland, and some of its members were politically prosecuted (for example Stanislaw Lipkowski-Milewski). For this reason the activities of the members living in Poland were restricted to informal support of various charitable projects and religious matters. Very often their presence was of a moral support nature. During the dark years of Marshal Law in Poland (1981-1983), the Knights of Saint John living in the West were able to send valuable supplies of medicines, medical equipment and clothing as well as food. The Association was also an intermediary between other national associations and charities in Poland for the distribution of welfare amongst the most needy. Following the collapse of the communist regime, the First Assembly General of the Order in post-communist Poland was opened at the Royal Castle in Warsaw on 17 October 1992 in the presence of the delegate of the Grand Magistry, Count Kinsky. At this time the Association had ninety members living in Poland and abroad. (Note 6) The rebirth was crowned by the election of the first post-war president resident in Poland, Count Juliusz Ostrowski, in 1997.
Note 2. Information about F. Radziwill in S. Górzynski et. all Radziwillowie herbu Traby, Warszawa 1996, pp. 40-41. [The House of Radziwill of the Clan Traby.] This work includes full detail annotated family tree of the House of Radziwill.
Note 4. Details presented in Edgar Erskine Hume Medical Work of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem, Baltimore 1940.
Note 5. The Executive elected in 1990: President; Jan Badeni with Deputies; Władysław Tarnowski and Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Hospitaller Adam Zamoyski, Chancellor; Witold Sulimirski, Treasurer; Rafal Smorczewski. Delegate in Poland Juliusz Ostrowski of Kraków.
Note 6. The Executive elected: President; W. Tarnowski, with Deputies; A. Ciechanowiecki and J. Ostrowski, Hospitaller; A. Zamoyski, Chancellor; M. Morawski, Treasurer; W. Sulimirski, Members; J. Mycieski, Michal Radziwill and Marcin Libicki.


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Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 for Nintendo Switch is the newest entry in the Mario and Sonic series of Olympic games themed crossover releases. After the series debuted on Nintendo Wii with Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, it has seen releases on just about every Nintendo system.
For the 2020 Summer Olympics known as Tokyo 2020, Sega is back with a new entry exclusively for Nintendo Switch bringing characters from the worlds of Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario together for an adventure full of various events. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 sees the addition of 2D games taking players back to retro styled aesthetics. Here's a complete list of the 3D and 2D events in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 3D events list
110m Hurdles
Canoe Double (C-2) 1000m
Equestrian – Jumping
Gymnastics – Floor Exercise
Karate – Kumite
Skateboarding – Park
Surfing – Shortboard
Swimming – 100m Freestyle
10m Platform (Diving)
Gymnastics – Vault
Kayak Single (K-1) 1000m
Shooting – Trap
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 releases on November 5 for Nintendo Switch.
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Theater Reviews|If Douglas Sirk and Milton Walked Into a Bar and Started Trading Yarns
Theater Review | 'Whatever, Heaven Allows'
If Douglas Sirk and Milton Walked Into a Bar and Started Trading Yarns
Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows
Off Off Broadway, Experimental/Perf. Art, Play
Theater at the 122CC, 150 First Ave.
This Bud's for you, John and Doug. That's the poet John Milton and the filmmaker Douglas Sirk, the main sources of inspiration for "Whatever, Heaven Allows," the latest act of cultural deconstruction (or do I mean demolition?) from the rowdy Radiohole, an experimental theater company that breaks out the beer when it's time for a toast.
The suds flow freely in this slap-happy hybrid of "All That Heaven Allows," one of Sirk's classic Technicolor soaps from the 1950s, and "Paradise Lost," the epic poem that made Milton famous for eternity. "Whatever, Heaven Allows," at Performance Space 122 through March 14, also simulates the consumption of martinis and Jell-O shots of sticky, clothes-staining substances. But beer (Pabst Blue Ribbon, to be exact) is clearly the tipple of choice.
That's because the members of Radiohole, which has developed a hardy cult following since it began life in 1998, are proud to be brewski kinds of people, at least professionally. The Wooster Group — the venerable downtown company that is in many ways a model for Radiohole — may simulate the effects of a finely graded hallucinogen on a hyper-intelligent brain. But Radiohole aims for the equivalent of a double-six-pack buzz: a jokey, sloppy, burpy state of mind. It wears its highbrow low, and vice versa.
From left, Eric Dyer, Maggie Hoffman, Mark Jaynes, Erin Douglass and Joseph Silovsky of Radiohole in "Whatever, Heaven Allows," a riff on two classics.Credit...Ari Mintz for The New York Times
Imagine a frat house made up of maverick members of Phi Beta Kappa. Now try to imagine sitting in that select society's television room, while one member watches a classic cinematic soap opera and the other crams for a Renaissance-epic exam.
Their smart-aleck annotative asides intersect. And what do you know? Milton and Sirk suddenly seem to have a whole lot in common. I mean, think about it, dude. "All That Heaven Allows?" And "Paradise Lost," a poem about some bad angel falling out of heaven?
The correspondences in this production don't get much weightier than that. But it's fun to watch the performers here — Erin Douglass, Eric Dyer, Mark Jaynes, Maggie Hoffman and Joseph Silovsky — having so much fun themselves. (At least I enjoyed it; my theatergoing companions, accustomed to more urbane avant-garde, were not amused.)
It might help if you knew a little about the source material for this production. "Paradise Lost" explains how we got booted out of Eden by God. (Cherchez la femme, lunkhead.) Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows" (1955), which stars Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman, follows what happens to a genteel suburban widow when she strays from Eisenhower-era conformity by falling for a strapping (and younger) arborist. (Cougar alert!)
Like the Wooster Group — which practices a more sophisticated kind of genre-crossing theater in works like "House/Lights" (which combined a Gertrude Stein libretto with a bondage exploitation flick) — Radiohole makes varied and extensive use of both contemporary technology and vaudevillian song and dance.
Eric Dyer and Maggie Hoffman in "Whatever, Heaven Allows."Credit...Ari Mintz for The New York Times
"Whatever" includes some funny video sequences (love that chain-smoking deer!), clunky karaoke-style musical numbers (the Jane Wyman stand-in sings "I Am Woman") and one inspired routine involving haka, a traditional Maori dance form. Oh, yes, there are also a couple of scenes (partly performed in German) from "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul," Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1974 cinematic hommage to "All That Heaven Allows."
Does all this make you think about Milton and/or Sirk and/or Fassbinder in ways you haven't before? Nah. Uncovering Oedipal anxiety or homoerotic longings in a Sirk movie doesn't take much digging.
But you have to admit that Radiohole is a great leveler. It makes Milton sound like a Brill Building songwriter, and Sirk seem as on-the-surface as "Melrose Place." Culture don't get no respect from Radiohole, which may not be enlightening, but for a generation that's so over postmodernism, it is kind of liberating.
WHATEVER, HEAVEN ALLOWS
Written, directed and designed by Radiohole (Erin Douglass, Eric Dyer, Scott Halvorsen Gillette and Maggie Hoffman); video by Aaron Harrow; sound by Jason Sebastian. Presented by Performance Space 122, Steve Warnick, executive director; Vallejo Gantner, artistic director. At Performance Space 122, 150 First Avenue, at Ninth Street, East Village; (212) 352-3101. Through March 14. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
WITH: Erin Douglass, Eric Dyer, Mark Jaynes, Maggie Hoffman and Joseph Silovsky.


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Q: Define statistical potential energy I am looking for a statistical method that closely relates to the idea of potential energy.
Here is a quick google definition for potential energy
"...the energy possessed by a body by virtue of its position relative to others, stresses within itself, electric charge, and other factors."
The classic example is the gravitational potential energy, for example: the higher you lift a brick - the higher the ability to do work, or apply a force on another object.
Now here is a similar example in statistics. Let's say that we are studying lung cancer and we discriminate on how many cigarettes people used to smoke. If one smokes two packs a day - it is four times more likely to get lung cancer. If one smokes three packs a day - than it is nine times more likely; hence, we can model the "statistical potential" with the function y = x^2 where x - is the number of smokes.
Note that I am not looking for a probability... it must be a positive number from zero to infinity.
The closest thing I have found that resembles my idea is Relative Risk but typically is a binary choice - the group either smokes or it doesn't.
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What is the continuous version or Relative Risk or Odds Ratio?

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Here is my take if RR and OR was not a thing
Let A be the event one smoke x-number of cigarettes
Let B the event one gets lung diseases
Let x be the number of cigs one smokes in a fixed time period
By bayes rule we have
$$
P(A|B) = \frac{P(B|A)P(B)}{ \intop\nolimits_{a}^{b} P(B|A)P(A)dA }
$$
But we need some kind of partial expectation where we can see the difference of smoking 0 to x-many cigarettes. Then
$$
V(x) = \intop\nolimits_{0}^{x} x*P(A|B) dx
$$
Where $V(x)$ we can call the statistical potential of smoking x-cigarettes
Of course we can pick proper distributions to model the events.
Now - we can see the magnitude of the expectation for $x_1 < x_2 < max_x$
This really sums up my idea of the statistical potential.
Is this acceptable?
Perhaps this should be all the way around - the expectation should be on the consequence but it makes the point
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I think I have convinced myself that RR is the way to go about. Here is the deal
Let $RR(1)$ = P(disease|smoke 1 cigs) / P(disease|smoke 0 cigs)
Let $RR(2)$ = P(disease|smoke 2 cigs) / P(disease|smoke 0 cigs) and so on

Then $V(x) = RR(x)$ = P(disease|smoke x cigs) / P(disease|smoke 0 cigs)

One can fit a function between the pairs such as in my example $y=f(x)=V(x)$
I want credit for coining the term "statistical potential energy" :)

A: If you have a coordinate $x$ that separates the states of your system, and you can assign a probability $P(x)$ to finding your system at coordinate value $x$, then you can define a kind of energy as follows. Define $E(x)$ such that $P(x) \sim \exp(-\beta E(x))$ or $E(x) = -\log(P(x)/\beta + E_0$, where $\beta$ is a constant that can be ignored for now. That gets you an energy-like thing.
But how would you use it? Would you try to define a force $F=-dE(x)/dx$? Would you like to say that the average energy $<E>$ is a constant of the system given the constancy of several intensive features, like $\beta$? Would you try to define dynamics in $x$, or kinetics? or diffusion? I'm genuinely curious where you are going with this . . .

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McNary's Reina Strand signs to play basketball at Minot State
Bill Poehler
McNary senior Raina Strand has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Minot State.
The 6-1 small forward was a second-team all-Greater Valley Conference selection as a senior after averaging 9.3 points and 6.1 rebounds.
She was a starter her
Also for McNary, senior Harry Cavell has committed to play at Seattle Pacific.
The 6-foot-7 senior wing averaged 16 points, eight rebounds, four assists and two steals per game as a senior when he was the Greater Valley Conference player of the year and was second-team Class 6A all-state.
Cavell was a two-time first-team all-GVC selection.
Senior tight end Hayden Sader has committed to play at George Fox.
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Monday Kickback Week 3: Earthquakes Lose Again
But their is still a silver lining in all this sadness
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A Pointless Season
The San Jose Earthquakes are in an extremely exclusive group after week three of the MLS season. The Quakes and the Vancouver Whitecaps are the only teams in MLS without a point after three weeks of play. The Whitecaps are just a hair ahead of the Quakes on account of them having scored four goals so far this season, the Quakes are probably going to need a couple more games to get to that mark based on their current offensive output. Both teams are off until March 30, so the battle for the bottom will have to wait a couple of weeks. Both sides have tough opponents that day with Vancouver taking on red-hot Seattle Sounders while back in San Jose the Quakes host LAFC and get a chance to show Carlos Vela everything he missed out on by signing for the So Cal team.
Crawl before you walk
With so much going wrong in the early part of the season for the Quakes it is too easy to focus on the negative. At this point talking more about what is going wrong with the team is just overkill, like Homer Simpson pounding on the Krusty Burglar in front of a group of shocked children. So much like Brian and the Monthy Python story about his life I want to look at the bright side of life (or at least this season so far). Tommy Thompson has played 153 minutes already this season, mostly coming in at the right-back position, last season he didn't play that much until June 13. Granted Thompson did miss five games due to an "illness," anyone who has seen Thompson's outfits or dance moves knows he's always suffering from illness.
"Always look on the bright side of life. Come on guys, cheer up"
The first 45-minutes were also the first time this season that Quakes fans and the rest of the league were able to see what is capable under Almeyda's aggressive man-marking style. A skilled speedster like Cristian Ezpinoza can absolutely brutalize defenses and create scoring opportunities at any moment in the match. If they could find somebody up top with speed and an accurate foot they can become a fun and exciting team to watch.
Such a radical system (in MLS terms) is going to take a while to gain traction and based on how other MLS media personalities are talking about it I don't think they believe it will ever work in San Jose. It seems like managers like Marc Dos Santos and Frank De Boer still need some time for their players to gel to their system, but the Quakes are already a doomed experiment. I still believe Almeyda's system can be successful in San Jose his current contract can possibly keep him here four years, plenty of time to make signings or start developing future talent in the academy. Those 45 minutes were a preview of what time the team can be for the next several years, we will just have to wait and see.
Wondo Watch
Chris Wondolowski last scored a goal on October 6, 2018 to put him one goal behind Landon Donovan for the all-time MLS scoring title. This season he has been given ample opportunity by Almeyda to get the record by playing him at the lone forward spot most of the young season but Wondo just can't find the back of the net. His 36-year-old frame can't seem to keep up with speedier youngsters and his knack of finding that hidden spot in the box to score from seems to be fading. I have no doubt that Wondo will break the record this season but for now we are going to have to wait a couple more weeks before the G.O.A.T. gets another chance.


Of the over 550 ornaments Starbucks released since 1995, only 25 have been from Europe. And even then, none until 2014. Asia has released 126 and North America 400, mostly being from the United States. So with 16 of those 25 being from 2018 alone, a bit of love for Europe has been shown. Two ornaments this year are from the new Milan Roastery, a metal roastery facade and a metal siren; and a general set of holiday releases including a red cup, a french press, white cup with gold trees, and a snowman plastic cold cup. But the very special release this year is a set of 10 You Are Here (YAH) Gold featuring the countries of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
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The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

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Mykologia (Prague) 2: 98 (1925)

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The small sunfish (perca sol - pumpkinseed), which is a member of the Bluegill family, have come from Mexico. They arrived in small numbers but have multiplied into millions thanks to Spain's welcoming aquatic conditions and year-round, favourable climate.
Fish don't have to be big to cause havoc. Numbers count more in nature than size. Sunfish average just 0.05kg in weight but have caused immense damage to native Spanish fish stocks through competition for food and habitat. Its young grow much quicker than native fish fry and therefore deny food to competing species. Juvenile sunfish eat fish eggs of every native fish species by the tonne.
Buscalo readers will be familiar with the story of a neighbour, but never themselves, releasing goldfish and other tropical species into local irrigation channels when their own garden pond has become overcrowded.
If brown trout can thrive in a drain or ditch – trout are very sensitive to pollution and low oxygen levels, then so can most other fish.
It's possible for just a handful of invasive fish to conquer the whole of Spain in two decades. There are two reasons. Spain's extensive system of irrigation channels and canals connect up a region's main waterways, rivers and reservoirs provide an eco highway along which fish can colonise new territories. Constant spawning conditions, in a warm climate boost numbers.
All release of non-native fish into Spanish continental waters is considered illegal, unless the government has given permission. And the government has made errors of judgement.
Lousiana Red crayfish from the United States were introduced as a cash crop, under licence in the 1970's but were found to be too bitter for the Spanish palette. From a single point of distribution, in Andalusia it has spread more than 700km in less than five years. It has displaced the native Spanish crayfish from lakes and rivers and it eats the stems of young rice plants, a huge commercial crop in València and Catalonia.
Andalusia has created a plan for the control of invasive fish species. It's called Plan Andaluz Para el Control de Especies Exóticas Invasoras. A decision has been taken to eradicate carp in the Reserva Natural de Laguna de Zóñar by the environment agency (Medio Ambiente de Andalucía), in collaboration with the Córdoba University.
In this instance common carp have been thought harmful to the local habitat because they are believed to have decimated submerged and semi-submerged aquatic vegetation. This was creating serious problems for a site recognised as of regional and international importance for bird life.
Rain fell recently: eventually filling everyone's buckets. Rivers that had ran dry for the last nine months (barrancos) will now be re-colonised by barbel, a migratory fish and carp – a very adaptable fish.
Nature follows a cycle of events. You will be surprised how quickly the environment recovers. During dry periods, large carp hold up in drains and ditches off the main channel. And wait for rain.
However natural water supplies will be put under even greater pressure when Murcia plans to kick start the property market by planning construction of four major new large towns.
This economic initiative is unsustainable and it will result in further degradation of the environment. Investment in de-salinisation plant and modernisation of fifty year old irrigation techniques is expensive. For example, València's ground water has been sufficient for its own needs but is polluted through industrial neglect.
The Spanish economy's claim on natural resources will produce, in the near future, further dry river beds for longer periods of time. There is enough water for everybody.
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Ridley Scott's 8 Underrated Films That Deserve More Love
Published by Lindsey Huston at Thu, 18 Aug 2022 at 12:04:23 | Category: Movies
Ridley Scott has been filming feature films for close to half a century, as evidenced by a particularly busy 2021, which saw two of his films released just months apart. (Close Runner, the first Alien, Gladiator, and Thelma & Louise, to name a few).
But with such a wide variety of films, it's understandable that not all of Scott's films have been winners. Even those that were somewhat successful or critically acclaimed have faded under the radar, turning into cult films years after their initial release, if they're lucky. They deserve their time in the son.
'The Last Duel' (2021)
The Last Duel is a historical epic that was one of the most unfairly overlooked films of 2021, and it therefore has to be included among Ridley Scott's most underrated films. It is a powerful, brutal, and difficult-to-see story about revenge and the mistreatment of women in medieval France, which has relevance in many ways today.
The way The Last Duel travels back in time without relying on true events to reflect on the present is one of the reasons it is so interesting. The film also helps, playing a series of events three times, each from a totally different perspective, before the truth is revealed in the last of those perspectives, which is also fantastic; how the film could not even win an Oscar nomination remains one of the greatest mysteries of 2021.
'Matchstick Men' (2003)
Matchstick Men is in the no man's land when it comes to its age. By any stretch of the imagination, it isn't nearly recent enough to be considered a "new" film, but given it's still under 20 years old, it doesn't seem like it's been around long enough to be a classic.
Even if it were a little older, it may not be a "classic," yet it is a decent crime film that feels unique within Ridley Scott's filmography. It's a mostly comedic crime film about two con men and the difficulties that arise when one of them is suddenly reunited with his teenage daughter. With actors who are perfectly in their element, you're in for a good watch.
'Kingdom of Heaven' (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven is one of the most famous scale epics in recent memory, eclipsing the genre in itsheyday in the 1950s and 1960s. The action scenes are stunning, making for an enthralling film.
The main reason why Kingdom of Heaven is a lesser-known Ridley Scott film that isn't often included among his greatest works is because of its theatrical release. When first released as a theatrical cut, it ran 144 minutes, but it ruined the narrative's flow and left too many things unanswered.
'Alien: Covenant' (2017) and 'Prometheus' (2012)
Prometheus and its sequel, Alien: Covenant, are underrated in the traditional sense, but the latter was a modest hit and created quite a stir at the time of its release, as a result of Ridley Scott's return to the Alien franchise, which he started back in 1979.
Perhaps Prometheus was overlooked as an Alien prequel when that wasn't the focus of the series; rather, fans seemed to dismiss it as an imitation of what they'd seen before. Both deserve a little more respect...or at least a little less scorn than they have ever received in the years since they were released.
'American Gangster' (2007)
In recent years, true crime stories have certainly not dwindled in popularity, nor have biographical films about real-life figures. Denzel Washington is still an actor who was popular in 2007.
So a little it's strange that a crime film based on a true story with a solid central performance from Denzel Washington has been mostly forgotten about, but that's the situation American Gangster is caught in. Hopefully, it won't disappear completely because it holds up well and earns its long runtime with an ambitious and engaging narrative, simply because there's already so much good stuff in there.
'The Duellists' (1977)
The Duellists is Ridley Scott's first feature film, and while it may be far from his finest, it's still a striking first film. It follows a conflict between two French officers who have been duels for many years, yet neither has ever surpassed the other, and the result is that all of their disagreements continue to grow.
It also has some very pleasing visuals, strong attention to detail, and solid action, which are constantly present in many of Scott's later films after The Duellists.
'1492: Conquest of Paradise' (1992)
1492: Conquest of Paradise was created to commemorate Christopher Columbus' 500th birthday, and this is precisely what the film is about. It takes a romantic, almost mythical, approach to history, painting Columbus in a heroic light and shying away from his darker aspects, making it a difficult film to put down.
When presented as a specific historical portrayal, it largely works, as it's visually stunning, brilliantly scored, bursting with engaging, moving scenes, and feels suitably mythological. It's entirely understandable that 1492: Conquest of Paradise would have been considered one of Ridley Scott's best films.


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United Way CEO announces retirement, thanks growing 'family'
Updated July 18, 2021 | 6:40 am
David Ross
The United Way of the Ohio Valley recently announced the retirement of longtime president and CEO David Ross, who started with the organization in 1996 when their office was in the basement of the Executive Inn.
Ross said there was only one constant at the United Way: change. He attributes both the organization's and his success to the many individuals he encountered along the way, all of which he has declared family.
"I knew I began to understand what it meant to be part of the United Way when I attended an awards dinner, and they asked a few of us to introduce our families to the audience," he said. "For whatever reason, I was there alone, and when it was my turn to speak, I simply said my United Way experience had taught me that you all are my family."
Ross' first mentors were Ron McCraken and Joe Overby, who provided valuable lessons about nonprofit work. He said their message was always that it's not about the staff, rather the volunteers who govern the United Way.
"For the first 6 months or so, I thought I had made a mistake as the United Way processes seemed so foreign to me," Ross said. "United Way works on a larger scale than many nonprofits and has a larger reach in our communities than I realized. Slowly, I began to catch on and realized there really was a method to the United Way madness."
Ross reminisced about the many "phenomenal" board of directors that the organization benefitted from during his tenure. He said that many of the board members juggle jobs, family, and other obligations to make their United Way experience a priority in their life.
"I admire these people who financially support the United Way and work on committees and volunteer their time and talent to help. They are the ones who are the driving force behind its success," Ross said.
He also praised the many corporate, union, and community leaders that partner with the United Way to do some "amazing work."
"Over the years, many have advised me, chastised me, and guided me through difficult terrain. In 25 years, every time I have asked for help, I've received it," Ross said. "Our community leaders are responsive, thoughtful, and act with the people in mind. While we may not always agree, I believe they are doing the best they can to move our communities forward in ways that make sense to them."
Ross proceeded to thank the United Way's partnering agencies as well as its substantial donor community. He said the support of these entities was constant during seasons of calm or during a disaster.
"One agency can't help everybody and address every issue, but I am proud of our past, present, and future partner agencies. They all benefit from mission-driven and selfless staffs and leaders that propel their clients to meet the challenges of the future," he said. "Our donors don't just give until it hurts; they give until it feels good, and they have taught me the difference."
Under Ross' leadership efforts, United Way raised and invested more than $50 million in the community; established agencies such as Building Stronger Families and dental clinics; supported a statewide 2-1-1 network; and formed progressive partnerships.
But that's not how Ross chooses to measure success.
"I think about how thankful I remain when minutes after the tornado of 2000, when I was onsite at the heavily damaged Hospice office, and then minutes later at the OMU Customer Service Center, to learn loved ones had survived and were safe," he said. "I think about tomato day when a local farmer had 'a few tomatoes he wanted to donate,' and the next day we hand-delivered 1,000 cases to those in need.
"I once heard Dennis Wheatly say, 'the double win is when I help you win, I win too,' and I have found that to be true; if you want a win-win in your life, try the United Way."
While Ross looks forward to some time off, he hopes to remain a pivotal part of the community by continuing to grow his already big "family."
"Each of you, whether you are a corporate representative, a volunteer, or a person receiving services, you are all part of the United Way's and my family," he said. "You have been the source of some of the greatest joys in my life — I thank God for you often, and you are my family."
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08/04/2017 11:04 pm ET Updated Aug 08, 2017
A Hard-Fought Victory To Restore Tribal Land Faces New Threat In Trump Era
What happened to respecting Native American sovereignty?
By Chris D'Angelo
WASHINGTON — Along with being a self-proclaimed champion of public lands, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke vowed to be an advocate for America's indigenous communities and their right to self-determination.
"Sovereignty should mean something," the former Montana congressman told the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs during a January confirmation hearing. And after being sworn in, Zinke issued a statement in which he said "our sovereign Indian Nations and territories must have the respect and freedom they deserve."
But a major change to the Department of the Interior's Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations, which addresses the widespread problem in Indian Country of land parcels being owned by sometimes hundreds of tribal members, is the latest example of Zinke and the Trump administration not living up to their promises to native peoples, former Interior officials say.
The Land Buy-Back Program targets land fractionation, which can threaten tribal sovereignty. As parcels of land granted to tribal members in the 1880s have been handed down from one generation to the next, ownership has been divided, or fractionated, among the heirs. With so many shared interests — in some cases, parcels have over 1,000 owners — lands have become all but impossible to use. Through the program, the federal government purchases fractional land interests from individual owners and restores tribal jurisdiction over the land.
The Interior Department announced a "revised strategy" Monday that it says "will more effectively allocate" the remaining $540 million from the landmark settlement in Cobell v. Salazar, money to be used to buy the multiple titles to individual land parcels. Not mentioned in the release, however, is that the decision cuts dozens of tribes out of the program entirely.
The proposed change to the program "represents everything that Indian Country has come to fear from Secretary Zinke's leadership," said one former Department of Interior official who requested anonymity to comment candidly. It's "a solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist; an effort to undermine an Obama Administration initiative for the sake of being contrary; and a move that will widely impact Indian communities without any formal government-to-government consultation," the former official said in an email.
The Interior Department did not respond to HuffPost's requests for comment.
An indigenous activist waves an upside-down U.S. flag with an image of Sitting Bull on it during a protest march and rally in front of the White House on March 10.
The Land Buy-Back Program kicked off in 2013, the fruit of a 13-year class-action lawsuit against the federal government. Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana, and several other Native Americans filed suit against the Interior and Treasury departments in 1996. The plaintiffs argued that the federal government had mismanaged Individual Indian Monies accounts — in which the government deposits money collected from activities on land held in trust for Native Americans, including timber sales, agricultural leases and oil, gas and mineral production — shortchanging Native Americans by $150 billion. The case was ultimately settled in 2009 for $3.4 billion: $1.4 billion was divvied up among more than 300,000 individual plaintiffs and $1.9 billion was set aside for the purchase of fractional interests from willing sellers at fair market value, with the land ultimately to be turned over to reservations.
The Land Buy-Back Program has been widely viewed as a success, both in terms of helping to restore the relationship between the federal government and indigenous tribes and promoting economic growth in Indian Country. The program has paid out $1.2 billion to landowners at 45 locations in the last four years, consolidating more than 700,000 fractional interests — a 23 percent reduction — and transferring over 2.1 million acres back to tribal governments, according to the Interior Department.
Nevertheless, Interior's Associate Deputy Secretary Jim Cason — who has been compared to James Watt, President Ronald Reagan's controversial interior secretary — has labeled the program a failure.
At a May hearing of the House Committee on Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs, Cason described it as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" that "has made relatively little progress in resolving this ongoing problem." And he said the way the Obama administration ran the program made it "a very good deal for tribal leaders."
"I don't think there's any tribal leader that would say, 'Gee — I don't want free money,'" he said, seeming to ignore the fact that Native Americans were the original occupants of these lands, that the lands were forcibly taken from them and that the settlement belongs to indigenous tribes.
Former agency officials HuffPost contacted took issue with both Cason's statements and Interior's recent decision to narrow the scope of the program.
David Hayes, the Interior Department's deputy secretary under President Barack Obama, said the Cobell settlement is "historic and important" for both the government and Indian Country. Cason's comments, he said, "greatly disrespect" efforts to "right the historical wrongs that were addressed in the Cobell litigation," as well as the memory of Elouise Cobell, who died of cancer in 2011.
"This was a settlement that was endorsed by Congress and that was designed to help address a fundamental problem in fractionated ownership in Indian Country, and returning lands that were essentially useless and tied up … back into the control of sovereign tribes," Hayes said. "You can't get more fundamental in terms of sovereignty than that."
"Denigrating the notion of a settlement and the purpose of the buy-back program is disturbing," he added.
Elizabeth Klein, who served as associate deputy secretary under two interior secretaries, Sally Jewell and Ken Salazar, told HuffPost the program is complex, often requiring difficult decisions be made. The Obama administration understood $1.9 billion would not be enough to solve the problem, but its approach was to open the program to as many tribes as possible, she said. In May 2016, it expanded the program to include 105 tribes, up from the 42 it initially identified in November 2014. As of last month, 45 tribal nations had either accepted or received offers.
The Trump administration's new implementation schedule, however, includes just 20 reservations or tribal territories, including 12 where landowners previously received offers. Five reservations are located in Zinke's home state of Montana.
The move summarily removes more than 50 tribes from having a chance to benefit from the program.
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Former Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes says a "primary test" for the Trump administration is whether it engages government-to-government with Native Americans on federal decisions.
In its announcement, Interior said its revised strategy is based on several factors — including the complexity of the land ownership, cost and something it called "tribal readiness" — and followed "extensive analysis and feedback received from tribal leaders and American Indian landowners." It said it "will continually assess progress and may revise the schedule or add locations as capacity and resources allow, depending on the results achieved."
"If your goal is to repair a damaged relationship that's existed for decades if not centuries with tribal governments and tribal people, this doesn't strike me as the way to do it," Klein said.
Keith Harper, an attorney who represented the plaintiffs in the Cobell case and later served as a U.S. ambassador under Obama, said the change is "significant," "ill-informed" and "undermines" the deal the federal government agreed to.
"I think the most problematic part of this is that it only considers the interests of the department, and that was not the initial intent of the settlement," Harper said.
[If] tribes were dropped from the plan without consultation that would not, I think, be consistent with the early promises of the administration to fully respect sovereignty. David Hayes, former deputy secretary of the Interior Department
A former Interior official told HuffPost there was no consultation with tribal leaders about the changes.
Instead, they received letters from Cason, addressed "Dear Tribal Leader" and sent out less than an hour before Interior published its press release online. In the letter, shared with HuffPost, Cason said he recognizes "some of you will be disappointed" and that "several tribes commented that they have invested energy and resources in preparation for implementation of the program." However, the agency's analysis showed that the new direction "most effectively maximizes the remaining dollars."
Hayes said the "primary test" for the Trump administration's relationship with Indian Country is whether it engages government-to-government with tribes on key federal decisions. He said he was not aware of the details surrounding the administration's decision, but "if tribes were dropped from the plan without consultation, that would not, I think, be consistent with the early promises of the administration to fully respect sovereignty."
HuffPost reached out to several tribes cut from Interior's list. Two, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the Kalispel Tribe of Washington, responded. Kimberly Teehee, the Cherokee Nation's vice president of government relations and Obama's senior policy adviser for Native American affairs, said her tribe was not consulted. Like others, it received a letter outlining the revised strategy and list.
Given previous outreach by Interior's Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, Teehee said, the Cherokee Nation had a certain "expectation" that it would have an opportunity to participate. There are unique federal laws that apply to the Cherokee Nation, and the tribe had been working with the office of Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) to find a way to fully access the land buy-back program, she said.
Teehee added that she found Monday's announcement "concerning"; however, she remains hopeful that the agency will revise its schedule to again include the Cherokee tribe.
A representative of the Kalispel Tribe said it would not be able to comment due to summer schedules and the kickoff of its annual powwow.
Klein sees this week's announcement as part of an emerging trend of "knee-jerk reactions" from the Trump administration that target Obama-era policies and programs. This is also not the first time Zinke and the Trump administration's commitment to Native Americans has been called into question.
In March, following months of protests in North Dakota near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, thousands of demonstrators, including members of dozens of indigenous tribes, marched in the nation's capital against the Dakota Access Pipeline and President Donald Trump. The demonstration came after Trump signed an executive order aimed at pushing the controversial project forward and the Army approved a final construction permit. Seeming to ignore the concerns of Native American groups and environmentalist, Trump stressed that the project would create "a lot of jobs, 28,000 jobs. Great construction jobs."
In May, members of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition — a group of five Native American tribes that petitioned the designation of Utah's Bears Ears National monument — traveled to Washington, D.C., to demand the administration meet with them and hear their concerns about its controversial plan to review monument designations. While Zinke subsequently sat down with members of the coalition, he ultimately recommended that Trump shrink the boundaries of the 1.35 million-acre Utah monument — a decision the coalition called a "slap in the face to the members of our Tribes and an affront to Indian people all across the country."
Zinke caused a similar stir last weekend during a visit to Nevada, where he toured Gold Butte and Basin and Range national monuments as part of his monument review. The Las Vegas Review Journal reported that Zinke backed out of meetings with local Paiute tribes, Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) and others who want to see the monuments remain intact.
"[It] felt like empty promises from the government … for him to dismiss us as Native Americans, not just my tribe but the Las Vegas tribe," Darren Daboda, chairman of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, told the newspaper. "We sort of felt like we're treated like second-class citizens."
And while Zinke has spoken about the need to improve Indian education and health care, the Trump administration's budget proposal calls for slashing the budget of the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs by more than 10 percent. That includes a $64.4 million cut to Indian education programs.
If approved, it would "absolutely decimate Indian education," Ahniwake Rose, executive director of the National Indian Education Association and member of the Cherokee and Muscogee Creek Nation, said at the time.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated the location of the Kalispel Tribe. It is located in Washington, not Montana.
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Medical Examiner's office cremated wrong person: report
by: Narmeen Choudhury
Posted: Jun 16, 2014 / 06:36 PM EDT
Updated: Jun 16, 2014 / 06:46 PM EDT
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Many unclaimed bodies buried on Hart Island in the Bronx perhaps don't belong there or perhaps they were misplaced.
The blame according to a recent report is landing Chief Medical Examiner's office.
One unclaimed body was accidentally cremated, when instead someone else with the same last name was supposed to be cremated.
In another situation, a body was sent to a local medical college for dissection for students. Luckily, that mistake caught in time and the body was returned to the ME's office before any cuts were made.
Charles Eric Gordon, an investigative attorney who often acts as a consultant for these kinds of cases, sat down with PIX11 Monday.
Gordon says he knows of at least 26 instances in which the ME's office did not properly make an attempt to notify family.
He adds that he believes there are more cases out there — all because there seems to be horrendous record keeping.
"This is no way for somebody to end up. If somebody wants to donate their body to science that's their business . It shouldn't be decided [for me]," Gordon said. "If somebody wants to be cremated then they should be cremated under the right name and not the wrong name."
In a statement, the Medical Examiner's office said in part, "We are aggressively evaluating our mortuary operations citywide for quality assurance and quality control purposes, including comprehensive root causes analyses. We cannot comment further at this time."
On Tuesday, the family of Aura Ballesteros, whose body was taken to a medical school without consent, will be speaking to PIX11.
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