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Corridor Z PS4/Vita Review
Corridor Z is an endless runner game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 and PS Vita. The game is from the same developer that brought the excellent Draw Slasher to the PlayStation Vita in April 2013 followed by the equally as good Run Like Hell! to the Vita in September 2014.
The story revolves around a zombie outbreak in an everyday high school which spreads at such a rapid rate that it unfortunately could not be contained by the local authorities including the police and even the army, therefore resulting in a horde of zombies roaming the high school looking for their next victim with only a very limited amount of survivors in a race to survive by escaping the high school before they become the next victims of the zombie infestation.
The main gameplay element is survival and in order to survive your character must outrun a horde of zombies which leads to surviving through days by completing multiple objectives per day during your attempt to stay a few steps ahead of the zombies such as using any object 5 times in total, killing a total of 3 zombies, finding a page from Jill's Diary, shooting zombies a certain amount of times, collecting rations and more besides.
There are initially three people who have survived the zombie outbreak including high school students Logan and Megan as well as a member of the army named Sergeant Williams, while the enemy design includes a variety of zombies which come in all shapes, sizes and outfits. Character customisation takes place from within the armoury with each of the three core characters having three sets of clothing to choose from as there is a stock set of clothing which the characters naturally wear including Logan dressed as a jock, while Megan's outfit is that of a pom-pom girl and Sergeant Williams is in his army uniform. The alternative sets of clothing include a Ninja T for Logan which shows Mass Creation's humorous side as it has the logo of their first Vita game Draw Slasher on the front of the t-shirt and a quarterback jersey, while Megan has a trendy outfit and a Moto-R costume in the style of a Ridge Racer grid girl, alongside Sergeant Williams who has a casual civilian look with a cap, vest, jeans and boots as well as an outfit that is reminiscent of Blade. Costumes cost 100 rations each to rent or 1,000 rations to purchase the first of the two sets of clothing and 2,000 rations to purchase the second of the two sets of clothing for each character.
The environment design explains the title of the game as it is pretty much set in varying layouts and lengths of corridors with obstacles situated on either side and above to move into the path of the hordes of chasing zombies directly behind you.
Weapons are not absolutely necessary to keeping the zombies far enough behind in order to escape as there are obstacles that can be thrown in their way from either side and above, although weapons can come become rather useful when zombies are beginning to get a little too close. Weapons can be unlocked from the armoury with a pistol available from the start, although further weapons must be earned by surviving a specific number of days such as a shotgun which becomes available after surviving for three days, an SMG after six days, a revolver after nine days, a sawed-off shotgun after twelve days and a magnum after a total of thirteen days of survival from the zombies. Every weapon has their own attributes and characteristics including damage, fire rate, possibility of a headshot and ammo capacity which can all be vastly upgraded as every weapon has a maximum of six levels, starting from the first level and gradually upgrading to the best level of performance by efficiently utilising the in-game currency of rations which can be found hidden in levels and can also be earned from completing levels, although the amount of rations required to purchase an upgrade will increase as the upgrade level increases with it, while a further use of the armoury is to craft medikits from ingredients found during your attempt at survival.
A variety of perks can be equipped immediately before beginning your run which are unlocked by surviving a specific amount of days such as two days for a trip mine, five days for more ammo, eight days for a head start and eleven days for more accuracy with the ability to start with a randomly selected gun from those which have already been unlocked is available from the beginning, although perks can only be equipped by spending a certain number of rations such as 50 rations for an armed start, 100 rations for a trip mine and increasing figures of rations for further perks.
There are plenty of collectables including 36 pages of Jill's Diary, 14 audiologs, 17 clues and 5 videos with the collective purpose of providing more depth to the story which are progressively found hidden within levels as you continue to survive the zombie threat.
There is a statistics screen with a listing of your statistics that consists of statistical analysis ranging from the total distance in metres you have run; the best distance you have covered in a single run; the accumulative amount of zombie kills; the highest amount of zombie kills for a single run; the total amount of bullets fired at zombies; the total number of calories burned by each character; the amount of objects knocked over; the amount of rations collected and consumed; and more besides. The statistics screen is a great design choice as it allows you to analyse each area of your performance, so you can view if you are firing weapons at zombies more than you are knocking objects over into their path and decide to change tactics accordingly to see if it increases the distance between your chosen character and the zombies, therefore potentially increasing the length of your run.
Corridor Z supports cross-buy and cross-save between the PS4 and Vita. Cross-buy presents a superb amount of value as it means that you will be purchasing the PS4 and Vita versions of the game with just a single purchase. The cross-save functionality allows you to sync the progression of your save file from your Vita to your PS4 and vice versa, so you can start playing the game on your Vita on the way to and from work, sync your save game when you return home and then resume were you left off by loading the save game and continuing via the PS4 version. The cross-save feature is made possible by uploading your save file to the cloud on one console and downloading it from the other console.
The controls are well mapped to the Vita with the control scheme consisting of pressing X, L or R to fire a weapon at incoming zombies; pushing upwards on the left analogue stick or pressing up on the d-pad to use objects situated above as obstacles; pushing the left analogue stick to the left or right or pressing left or right on the d-pad to use objects located to the left or right as obstacles; pushing downwards on the left analogue stick or pressing down on the d-pad to pick up weapons to be able to shoot at zombies; and pressing start to display the pause menu. The touch screen control scheme provides an excellent alternative as swiping in the appropriate direction replaces the left analogue stick and d-pad controls for using objects to create obstacles against the zombies, tapping the touch screen replaces X, L and R for shooting at zombies with a weapon collected from the ground or available from the beginning of a run via the armed start perk and tapping the pause icon situated on the top right of the touch screen to display the pause menu; therefore both sets of controls are intuitive and can be utilised on the fly without having to switch between the two through any options menus.
Graphically, Corridor Z possesses the appropriate tone for such subject matter as it has limited lighting resulting in the production of an atmospheric and tense look to the surrounding environments, while animations of the characters and zombies are smooth.
The presentation of the game is solid with a great touch screen based user interface across various menus such as the main menu, armoury menus, collectables menus, settings menu and gameplay menus with support for navigation via the left analogue stick and face buttons, although it does not include support for navigation via the right analogue stick, directional pad and rear touch pad. The background of the menus consists of various areas within a confined room with a flicking light strobe dangling overhead diminishing the light in the room which ultimately sets the tone for what lays ahead in the story and gameplay.
Each character has their own distinctive voice-overs to tell the story through cutscenes and nervous comments made by characters during the intense atmosphere of running for their lives from bloodthirsty zombies as well as a voice-over narrating Jill's Diary pages, while the sound effects include running, the crashing of obstacles onto the ground and being stumbled over after they are thrown into the path of the zombies and the hungry growls of the zombies, alongside tense and climactic music.
The trophy list includes 13 trophies with 9 bronze trophies, 3 silver trophies and 1 gold trophy. The easiest trophy has to be the Fresh Meat bronze trophy for being bitten by zombies just by failing to outrun them, while the harder trophies includes the Fast Food silver trophy for reaching 1,000 meters in a single run; the Deadeye silver trophy for getting 1,000 headshots; the Dear Diary silver trophy for collecting all of Jill's diary pages; and the Z-Man gold trophy for collecting all of the collectables. It is estimated that depending upon skill and a good trophy guide to provide some helpful tips that it would take between 5 to 10 hours to 100% the trophy list.
There are no difficulty levels, although the difficulty curve is clear to see as zombies start to come at you faster as you progress through the levels which can become rather hard until enough days have been survived to unlock better weaponry and sufficient rations have been earned and spent on upgrading weapons to fight off the zombies, therefore having multiple tiers of appropriately balanced difficulty levels may have made the game a little more accessible in certain objectives that are capable of being much harder than others.
There are no multiplayer features which is disappointing given the exceptional multiplayer featured in Mass Creation's previous game Run Like Hell on Vita and while that may have been a much different premise to that found in Corridor Z; an ad-hoc or online multiplayer component could have included one player as a human attempting to outrun the zombies, while the second player as a zombie attempts to catch up to the person who is trying to escape and could perhaps even extend as long as having three or four players with two humans and two zombies or one human and three zombies or vice versa with players who win when having the odds stacked against them such as three zombies against one human receiving greater rewards, alongside a pass the Vita multiplayer feature which could have seen multiple players attempting to survive for the longest duration.
The online leaderboards focuses on global rankings and friends rankings with each leaderboard containing each player's rank; name (PSN ID); and the length of their run with the positioning of each player based upon the accumulated length of their run.
The replayability stems from a variety of areas including dozens of objectives which when completed successfully will even unlock a new character, character customisation accompanied by a customisable weapons and perks loadout, upgradeable weapons via the in-game currency of rations, strategic elements regarding the most important investment of rations to improve your chances of survival, plenty of collectables, statistical analysis of your performance and competitive online leaderboards which collectively provides many hours of fun gameplay.
• Title: Corridor Z
• Developer: Mass Creation
• Publisher: Mass Creation
• System: PS4/PS Vita
• Format: PSN Download
• Cross-Buy: Yes (PS4 and PS Vita)
• Cross-Play: Yes (Cross-save)
• Players: 1 (Online Leaderboards)
• Memory Card Space Required: 328MB/Hard Drive Space Required: 1.1GB
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Jason plays all genres of games and enjoys all different kinds of experiences that the games industry has to offer. Jason's favourite PlayStation exclusive franchises throughout various eras include: Crash Bandicoot, God of War, Gran Turismo, inFamous, Killzone, Little Big Planet, MotorStorm, Resistance, Spyro the Dragon, Uncharted, Wipeout and various games that never became big name franchises. A special mention goes to Black Rock's superb Split Second: Velocity as it is rather unbelievable that it will never receive a sequel. Jason now mainly plays modern PlayStation games on home console and portably, but occasionally returns to the old retro classics on the 3DO, PS1 and PS2 such as discovering Cool Spot Goes to Hollywood 20 years after its original release on PS1. Jason is happy to see gaming coming full circle with updates for retro classics such as Alien Breed, Superfrog and Crash Bandicoot.
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Q: Code not Working : Photo Swap using Jquery I try to get the page like.It replaces images every 10 seconds,using jquery.
I put my code below.(Source Code: http://blog.tremaynechrist.co.uk/post/2011/04/17/Photofy-New-Animated-Photo-Swap-Plugin-for-JQuery.aspx)

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A: you have it run every second, change 1000 to 10000
UPDATE:
simply place your generated content before you set the options
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         var imageList = [];
         imageList = ['http://blog.tremaynechrist.co.uk/Downloads/Faces/1.jpg','http://blog.tremaynechrist.co.uk/Downloads/Faces/2.jpg',
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A: Photofy isn't currently designed for real-time image updates. This is basically because you never often stay on the page for large amounts of time, so images could change on page load. However I'm interested to add this option into Photofy later down the line.
To get the effect of this, just submit a greater amount of images than what you actually want to display. In your imageList, submit 27 images for example. Now limit what is shown by setting the imagecount to 9.
You can still randomise what images are sent to Photofy on every page load. Just get your php code to return a javascript file containing the array.
var imageList = ['/Downloads/Faces/1.jpg','/Downloads/Faces/2.jpg','/Downloads/Faces/3.jpg']; //etc

So you could now do...

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This is typical of the places Hessler likes to take his readers – that is, wherever ordinary people are eating, joking, talking, living. He spent 10 years in China after arriving there as a Peace Corps volunteer in the mid-1990s, and his books, including River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze and Oracle Bones, led to a MacArthur "genius" grant in 2011. His newest book, Strange Stones: Dispatches From East and West (Harper Perennial, 2013), is a collection of stories set in China, in rural Colorado (where he and his wife moved in 2007), and in Japan.


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Facebook needs to stick up for its users. It's past time for a public editor.
Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot of explaining to do in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It's past time for a public editor.
Facebook is facing hard questions following news that data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica deceived users and harvested information from 50 million profiles. But we already have the answer to one: Has Facebook learned from its mistakes? Nope.
That's probably because Facebook doesn't have a dedicated staffer — or public editor — looking out for the people who use the company's service. Consider this: Cambridge Analytica's data-scraping reportedly occurred in 2014, the same year Facebook made another fateful decision that it might not have if someone there was looking out for people like you and me.
After touting an "Anonymous Login" feature at its 2014 F8 developers conference, Facebook quietly killed it. That tool, hyped as part of the company's desire to put "people first," would have let users log into other sites with Facebook credentials but without sharing their data with third-party developers. The downside to developers is as clear as the upside for users. Like Facebook itself, developers have an interest in accessing as much data as possible, while users quite rightly value their privacy and want to have control over their information.
As reported by Recode, it was specifically developers' lack of interest in Anonymous Login that led Facebook to decide to kill the feature.
But Facebook never bothered to ask the users themselves. In seeing third-party developers as the "customers" for a product that didn't serve them, Facebook gave too much credence to the wrong segment of people. Users, for whom Anonymous Login would have been a boon, were overlooked and ignored.
There needs to be one person, invested with clout, operating outside the normal chain of command, to advocate for users and their experience and interests.
Users built Facebook and continue to make it valuable, but Facebook consistently takes them for granted and ignores their interests. In the Anonymous Login decision, the groups with clear representation in the process – Facebook itself and the developers it works with – came to a consensus that worked for them. Users, the third integral leg of that stool, were left out in the cold. And this continued disregard for users happened after the Cambridge Analytica crisis.
Tempting as it may seem, deleting your account won't necessarily get you out of Facebook's clutches. The company has so much information on so many millions of people that that it's better to use its vaunted network effect against it and demand inclusion in the process. There should be an advocate for users with direct access to the highest levels of Facebook: a public editor.
Calls for a public editor became more vocal after the removal of videos showing the shooting of Philando Castille and a standoff with a SWAT team in Baltimore. The company didn't have anyone in an ombudsman or "public editor role in August 2016, when scrutiny of the social network really heated up thanks to the U.S. presidential election.
We reached out to Facebook to ask why there isn't a senior person whose job is to advocate for the best interests of Facebook users as a distinct cohort. A company spokesperson said in an email that "people should decide what sort of information they are comfortable sharing with an app" and "In 2014, after hearing feedback from the Facebook community, we made an update to ensure that each person decides what information they want to share about themselves, including their friend list."
The role of public editor originated decades ago in the journalism business – you know, the one that Facebook continues to pretend it isn't in – as a way to hold media companies accountable to their readers. Public editors were given the authority to demand access to decision makers about why certain stories were told and how decisions were made. In the wake of high-profile plagiarism scandals, these roles went some way toward restoring reader faith the in journalism institutions, faith which those companies depended on for their business models to function.
Facebook should learn from that crisis of confidence.
Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, the company's vice president of augmented and virtual reality called the Cambridge Analytica fiasco a "breach of trust" and said that "if people aren't having a positive experience connecting with businesses and apps then it all breaks down." The way to do this is to make sure that the interests of everyday users are continuously, actively solicited and included in every high level strategy meeting.
There needs to be one person, invested with clout, operating outside the normal chain of command, to advocate for users and their experience and interests. She or he should have a public email address and be giving regular public updates on internal decision making. Senior Facebook officials, including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg should make themselves available to answer this person's questions. Crucially, there should be no murkiness as to where this person's loyalties lay: with users, not with Facebook the company.
In light of the news that Alex Stamos, Facebook's head of security and internal advocate for more disclosure around Russian interference on the platform, is leaving in August 2018, this role has even more urgency. According to the New York Times, Stamos's perspective was overruled by the legal and business interests of Facebook, which argued for prolonged silence.
"There was a perception of the news media as arrogant, paternalistic, and unresponsive. The news organizations that created positions of public editors and ombudsmen really reaped the benefit," Esther Enkin, president of the Organization of News Ombudsman and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News Ombudsman, told Inverse in 2016.
Arrogant, paternalistic, and unresponsive — words that easily apply to Facebook.
Users, who make Facebook the valuable company that it is, deserve a voice and a seat at the table.


Kombucha (or booch) is a naturally fermented tea drink, with a slight vinegary taste. When left to ferment in bottles for extended times, it becomes carbonated and fizzy. It contains B-vitamins and enzymes, and a high concentration of gluconic, acetic and lactic acids, as well as a number of other metabolites like glucosamine!
As a result of the acetic fermentation process, unflavored Kombucha does contain trace amounts of alcohol which generally measure anywhere between .03 – 0.1% (similar to an overripe fruit).
What is the history of Kombucha?
The history of Kombucha consumption starts with records of consumption in China, 221 B.C. It was highly esteemed for having healing properties and was even called 'Elixir of life.' Legends say that there was a doctor named Kombu who brought this fungus to Japan in order to heal a Japanese emperor.
According to the story, the emperor was healed and the fermented tea drink was thereafter named Kombu-cha. Cha is the Japanese word for tea. Other accounts report that it is named after Japanese seaweed called kombu, because the kombucha mushroom lives on water.
Regardless of which account is true, the drink became exceedingly popular in Japan. In the 19th century this tea drink became popular in Russia. In the 1920's the first studies about kombucha were published in Russia. After World War II, kombucha became much less popular due to lack of sugar and other ingredients which are necessary to grow kombucha.
Consumed as a health beverage in many countries, for centuries. It has gone through periods of popularity, such as in the 1970's, 90's and more recently.
Kombucha's popularity is mostly attributed to the beneficial living organisms it contains. In addition, it offers a tasty and healthier alternative to other sugary soft drinks on the market.
Scientific studies, support beneficial claims that Kombucha increase antimicrobial activity, reduce cholesterol levels, reduce atherosclerosis by regenerating cell walls, reduce blood pressure, reduce inflammatory problems, promotes better liver function by removing toxins, aids digestion, Alkalize's our body's internal pH levels and increases our energy levels.
What type of teas are used in Kombucha?
Other herbal teas as they may contain antibacterial properties, which work against the beneficial bacteria's and yeasts.
For decaffeinated kombucha, we also use rooibos tea or hibiscus tea (made to order). Please note, that using rooibos/hibiscus tea will not produce a fizzy kombucha brew.
What about Caffeine in Kombucha?
The fermentation process will not fully remove the caffeine content from your Kombucha brew. However, it will reduce the original caffeine content, so it will not be as strong as a cup of normally brewed tea is. Typically, literature suggests that one third of the caffeine content is left after fermentation.
What happens if my Kombucha is left alone for a Long time?
If you do happen to turn your kombucha into vinegar, do not throw it out. Simply keep some of it to use as as non toxic cleaners or diluted as a face mask.
Kombucha has a pH levels of around 3.5 or lower (2.5), this low pH range creates a vinegar and creates a highly acidic environment, which inhibits mold and other pathogens but allows the bacteria and yeast strains found in Kombucha to thrive.
The sweeter the kombucha, the higher the pH, and the the lower the pH the tarter the taste. Please note: pH levels will never fully determine if your Kombucha brew is ready.
There is currently a lot of speculation as to whether Kombucha is a prebiotic or probiotic. Science is still relatively new into research on this topic, so the jury is still out on this. Most often probiotic bacteria is derived from Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium. Lactobacillus has been identified in the SCOBY, and isolated in the Kombucha liquid in several studies.
However, there a few common probiotic yeast strains such as Saccharomyces boulardii which used to be identified seperately to S. cerevisiae, but due to their similarity it has now been classified as a strain of S.cerevisiae which is predominantly identified in Kombucha's liquid, and the Kombucha SCOBY.
Whilst every batch of Kombucha will vary in what strains are identified, Saccharomyces boulardii/ cerevisiae is one of the undisputed yeast strains that are found abundantly in Kombucha and is probiotic in nature. So we will leave it to you to decide, and science to prove in the future either way.
What bacteria and yeasts make up kombucha?
Microbial profiles of Kombucha from various origins differ significantly. This means that your home brewed Kombucha may or may not contain any, or all of the strains mentioned below.
Every batch of Kombucha is unique, and is made up of a living colony of bacteria and yeasts based on it's surrounding environment. Fermentation is not something that can be standardized. However, rest assured the acidic and vinegary environment found in Kombucha, provide a natural environment to protect against any harmful pathogens.
We have put together a list of strains that you may find in Kombucha derived from published scientific papers. This is list is not exhaustive, and cannot be relied upon exclusively, and does not constitute itself as medical advice in any way.
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Kozyrovska, N, Reva, O, Goginyan, V & de Vera, J 2012, 'Kombucha microbiome as a probiotic: a view from the perspective of post-genomics and synthetic ecology', Biopolymers and Cell, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 103-13.
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Best of luck Kathleen. You have done so much and I am sure will continue to do great things!
Thank you Kathleen for all you have done for the IPC. I enjoyed spending time with you at the Senior Mass at the ICC.
Best of luck in the future Kathleen you will be greatly missed !!!
Kathleen, it has always been great contacting and meeting you and I wish you all that is good for the future. Best wishes in everything you do!


The Tin Can Knight is very small. The Tin Can Knight is very ferocious. Is the Tin Can Knight ferocious enough to defeat his dastardly foes, the Purple Goblins*?
Jump your faithful steed over deadly boulders!
Yeah! A new game from you. I remember seeing the art, and the pixel art! This sounds really fun.
Awesome. Love the colors and the pixelly Knights/Steads. Most importantly, it looks like fun.
It's nice to work on something tiny and ridiculous after doing Star Guard for so long. Here's an early screenshot. The knight and horse jumping work, as well as boulders and projectiles. Next up comes some wonky segmented horse animation and a round of tuning.
Sparky, you are quickly becoming my new indie dev to watch. You got style man.
Hmm, this is turning out to be a nice day for indie games. First Q-Lat 3, now a new game from you (Sparky)! About K-nights!
Loving those lo-fi looks and delicate colours. And the potential of jousting sounds pretty sweet. Totally looking forward to this one. I'll be happy to Beta Test if you need me!
It's nice to work on something tiny and ridiculous after doing Star Guard for so long.
So, this is going to be a smaller game, I take it? Cools.
Yeah, I'm trying to keep this one tiny. Things are going pretty quickly. Most of the game objects are working, there's sound in the game now, and I'm starting in on level design.
Goblins are notorious for stealing other people's hats. Purple goblins are partial to hats of a martial flavor. It has been conjectured that this stems from a desire to compensate for a certain deep seated racial insecurity. Being purple has not been easy on the species.
I like the slight tinge of humor the biography has, without being outright humor.
Here's a video! This is a super funky pre alpha version, so there's quite a bit of animation and general polish missing.
I really want the combat to be fun, so I'm testing a few different systems. As always, random flashes of inspiration, well intentioned rambling, and feedback are quite welcome.
Our little knight acellerates slowly, but needs to be at maximum speed to defeat a mounted opponent. There's a little indicator sound + animation to tell us when we're safe to attack opponents. When we attack an mounted target, we unhorse our opponent (yay) but we lose a little momentum. Sometimes it's a good idea to dodge opponents instead of attacking.
There are a few different enemy attack types- lance attacks at different heights, or different weapons. Each requires a specific response. Defeating opponents is a matter of making the corect response quickly enough.
I think the varying attack category would be the coolest. Like in Zelda 2, but more extensively: you could do high and low attacks by crouching/standing up, and your shield moved with you, and the enemies did the same, so the proper way to fight was to attack the enemy where it didn't have it's shield, and prevent taking damage by putting your shield in the way of the enemy's sword. It worked quite nicely, I think.
Hemuli's idea is quite nice, and so is yours, Sparky. You are quite the talented person!
Like undertech, I love the horse's animation. The whole look of the game is great, with the sort of minimalistic pixel art and the faded background objects/people. I also like how you incorporated the tutorial into the world in a subtle way.
What Hempuli said about having various attack heights sounds good but I'm not sure that would work in a jousting context. I guess you could aim at enemies' heads or torsos? I don't know, but I like the idea.
Oh, I didn't know Zelda 2 had attack heights. Watches video.
That looks pretty neat. I really should play that game.
I think your suggestion is good. The momentum system sounds appealing, but I think it would be a bit problematic because it wouldn't always be clear how close we are to travelling fast enough.
This here is Inanimate. Common mistake.
Hats are in! Each goblin has a randomly assigned piece of headwear, which does absolutely nothing.
Today I made a magical goblin who flies on a cloud and attacks with fireballs. I originally considered a robe or a wizard outfit, but the fancy turban seemed like the way to go. His legs look weird because he was originally riding a horse, and I haven't fixed them yet.
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To create and sustain person-centered opportunities for people with special needs where they live, learn, work and play.
We see the whole person with a focus on competence and capacity. We specialize in finding the unexpected in people.
We create options based on each person's unique needs and preferences. We promote independence and success.
We find solutions. We solve problems and overcome barriers.
We respond to the changing needs of individuals, families, and our community.
We build outcome-based teams, foster collaboration, cultivate professionals and celebrate accomplishments.
We maintain supportive environments and renew them to exceed licensing requirements and state regulations.
We maximize resources, embrace the challenges of creative fundraising, and exercise stewardship focused on a positive future.
Horizons was founded in 1979 by sisters Chris and Kathleen McNaboe when they were both special education teachers. Parents of their students with developmental disabilities asked them to start an away-from-home camping experience for their children, similar to those available to their non-handicapped brothers and sisters.
Horizons was the expression of the civil rights movement as they saw it locally. During an era when many people with disabilities lived in large dehumanizing institutions or were kept apart from the mainstream of life in school and communities, Chris and Kathleen believed passionately in the capacity of their students and knew they just wanted the same things out of life most others take for granted.
At first, that meant creating the opportunity for them to head off to camp for several weeks of new adventures like their brothers and sisters. Chris and Kathleen envisioned campers with significant disabilities enjoying arts & crafts, pottery, horseback riding, swimming and boating. Others in the Human Services profession at the time were skeptical and questioned their vision. But they pushed on and cultivated partnerships, learned from experts, took risks and inspired others.
And, with the help of many talented people who shared their passion, Chris and Kathleen created a non-profit organization and opened a summer camp. It was a grassroots beginning, with forty-five campers in attendance at a rented facility. Over the years much has changed, but the heart and soul of Horizons remains the same. The focus on each person's capacity rather than disability is the essence of Horizons.
In the mid '80s, parents and case managers from state agencies approached Horizons to create Supported Living opportunities for people ready to move from their parents' homes or out of Connecticut's institutions. With the help of parents who believed in the mission, a limited partnership was formed and the current Horizons property was purchased in 1985. This transforming event enabled Horizons to do so much more. Parents told us they desperately needed respite during the year so we created "Weekends in the Country." Shortly thereafter, requests poured in and Horizons responded by developing year-round Supported Employment and Educational Support Services.
Horizons Educational Support Services provides students in their local public schools with opportunities to maximize their transition plan and realize their dreams for the future.
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Album - Tango Del Cielo
Anna Maria Mendieta, Harp and Orchestra
Review by Alison Young, The Harp Column Magazine, Jan/Feb 2021 issue.
California native Anna Maria Mendieta was raised on music and dance, playing for years as a featured soloist with Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco. It wasn't until 2004, that she discovered the thrilling world of tango, her gateway drug to the complex and feverish music of Astor Piazzolla. But to make this music her own would require not just arranging music for the harp, but acquiring some new techniques like chicchara to mimic the sizzling and aggressive technique of authentic tango orchestras.
In her latest release Tango del Cielo, Mendieta, along with a superb lineup of musicians, serves up all the fiery passion of this exceptional culture in superb form. Designed as a multi-media stage show with live dancers, the music arranged by multi-Grammy-award-winning composers Jorge Calandrelli, Pablo Ziegler, and Daniel Binelli transports the listener to the dimly-lit, smoke-filled chambers of mid-century Buenos Aires and the Old World, where the roots of this music can be found.
So it makes sense to include Asturias by Isaac Albéniz, where Mendieta displays her natural ensemble gifts, as if dancing with the orchestra. She leads as soloist, always coaxing a close, cheek-to-cheek partnership. Particularly stunning is the addition of castanets and Flamenco stamps and taps to the mix. You'll be afforded a special opportunity to hear Mendieta shine in Ziegler's mesmerizing Milonga en el Viento, a work he initially explained would be practically impossible on the harp because of its never-ending chromaticism. It would seem Mendieta never met a challenge she couldn't conquer; she manages 200 pedal changes in order to share this richly elegiac work with us, a centerpiece of the album.
The album opens with Libertango, one of Piazzolla's most famous tangos, and one that signaled his break from "music for the feet" and ushered in an era of Argentine concert music. That being said, it will be hard to sit still while listening to this arrangement by the exceptionally talented violinist and leader of Quartet San Francisco, Jeremy Cohen. Cohen's violin styling also shines with raw flamboyance in Bordel 1900 as well as the dramatic Jalousie by Jacob Gade, a work from the silent film era in which Cohen plays a violin owned by the concertmaster of the MGM Orchestra and played in dozens of films during the Golden Age of cinema.
A work almost out of character, as though a palette cleanser, is the stunningly simple yet heartbreaking Ave Maria by Piazzolla. Arranged as a harp solo, Mendieta's tender interpretation is dedicated to her deceased father. She's joined midway through by cellist Joseph Hébert, improvising as if answering her prayers for peace. It is one of the most stunning moments of the recording.
Rounding out the album is sheer genius, beginning with a short work Tientos, a short work by Raoul Laparra originally written for chromatic harp, an instrument invented in Spain in the late 16th century. The solo arrangement for pedal harp affords Mendieta the chance to contrast the simplicity of the chords with the raucous, needing-to-bust-out quality of Latin music. She uses this short work to lead directly into the finale, an original Malagueña-Milonga that brilliantly fuses flamenco and tango for an explosive finish.
A sensational journey of rhythm and sound, Anna Maria Mendieta's Tango del Cielo will continue to intrigue over many listenings.Alison YoungThe Harp Column Magazine, Jan/Feb 2021
INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN MAGAZINE
Anna Maria Mendieta - Classical Harpist Treads New Paths Playing Tango
Anna Maria Mendieta has no trouble recalling the dayspring of her lifelong love affair with the harp. At age five, her arts-loving parents (her mother was a pianist and accordionist; her father played classical guitar and saxophone) played a recording of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, and the overture swept her away.
"They told me the story of Romeo and Juliet and I remember being so amazed because you can really hear it in that music, and there's this moment where everything becomes silent and all you hear is this beautiful harp. And that's when I knew: That's what I want to play," she says. "I sat there with my ear right up to the speaker and I had them play the recording for me over and over again."
Unlike Shakespeare's infamous star-crossed lovers, Mendieta's love was requited not too much later. Her parents started her on the piano while they figured out the logistics of harp studies and found her a teacher. "My father was a great collector of instruments. He had all sorts of things, even a harpsichord! But no harp," she says. By age seven, she had begun studying the Salzedo method with Israeli harpist Efrat Laury-Zaklad at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. "I took my first lesson and I knew; clearly, there was never any wavering from that."
The towering physicality and visual beauty of the harp—and the highly-aesthetic Salzedo method in particular—have always been part of the appeal for Mendieta. The visual sleight-of-hand that keeps the audience's eyes on the graceful gestures of the arm and away from the foot pedaling action that determines the harp's key is a dance in itself. ("Now you know the secret to the long gown," she slyly whispers.) For her, the connection with dancing offers a certain familiar comfort: alongside their musical studies, Mendieta's parents encouraged their children to study dance. The family's Spanish heritage made flamenco an important point of cultural connection (one of her sisters is a professional flamenco dancer), but it was after Mendieta's career as a professional harpist was well-established that she found a new love: the tango.
Like so many people, Mendieta found the tango through the compositions and performances of revolutionary Argentinian composer and virtuoso bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla, whose nuevo tango style changed the face of both classical music and tango. Falling in love with the music and its accompanying dance, Mendieta sought out harp arrangements of Piazzolla's work. Finding none, she wrote directly to Pablo Ziegler, Piazzolla's former pianist and the preeminent composer and performer of nuevo tango, to see if he had anything that might work. No luck. "I said, 'Just send me what you have and I'll figure out how to play it,'" she says.
"People told me it wouldn't work, there was just no way. 'You can't play tango music on a harp, it's too chromatic,' they said. And it was a real challenge," Mendieta recalls. "Astor Piazzolla's music is so incredible. He uses his instruments not only as melodic instruments but as rhythm instruments. It took me many, many years to figure out how to do that on the harp. I had to change my technique in order to get the sounds. To play the chromatics, I figured out different ways to bend the notes."
Mendieta realized that the methods used by jazz harpists to use the pedals of the harp strategically to create slides and slurs could provide a basis for this new technique. This, of course, went against everything she had ever learned about the pedals: be as gentle and quiet as possible so as not to lose the clarity of notes; move feet with subtlety so as not to distract from the hands. Suddenly, she found herself using the pedals like a pedal steel guitar player would: bending her notes in real time while also getting creative with enharmonics, using them to substitute for chromatics when an extra note was needed without a pedal change. "I was also incorporating percussive sounds, like the chicharra sound of the violin [a method of playing the violin string above the bridge for a cricket-like percussive effect], but I had to figure out how to make all those imitative sounds. I just basically made it all up," she says.
Mendieta's creativity in making the tango work on the harp resonated with many of Piazzolla's former orchestra-mates and contemporaries, who found echoes of Piazzolla's own rule-breaking in this new tango frontier. Mendieta has played with a number of these musicians and has spent significant amounts of time in Argentina both studying and teaching, alongside names like Pablo Ziegler, Javier Cohen, and Daniel Binelli.
A surprising moment in Mendieta's touring concert and show, "Tango del Cielo," comes when the male principal dancer walks over to the harp and takes her hand, leading her to the dance floor. "Oh, the audience loves that, they really don't expect it," she laughs. Learning to dance the tango was, for Mendieta, crucial to understanding the deep feeling and rhythms of the music.
Even as she treads new paths in the tango field, Mendieta has not abandoned the music that made her fall in love with the harp in the first place, as the harpist for the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera and a fixture throughout the California classical scene. Her work with the Sac Phil, along with regular performances in San Francisco and Los Angeles, has made her a rare AFM triple-carder: Local 12 (Sacramento, CA), Local 47 (Los Angeles, CA), and her original Local 6 in San Francisco, with whom she first signed on as a teenager.
Union membership has not only afforded Mendieta performance opportunities, networking, a safety net, and the knowledge that there were people who had her back, but also a wealth of opportunities to develop personally as both a performer and a business professional through the extensive continuing education programs on offer. "Local 47 in particular has that great new building and they offer so many interesting workshops—all kinds of things, from technology training to tax information, as well as every kind of music you can imagine."
With COVID threatening the livelihoods of so many artists (and the venues in which they play), Mendieta sees the AFM as crucial in helping musicians stay connected, sharing ideas and inspiration and outside-the-box thinking, and lobbying for survival.
Personally, Mendieta spent the shutdown finishing the Tango del Cielo album that she's had on the back burner for years. It was partially completed but never quite finished due to near-constant performances and teaching.
"I just had not found the time to finish it," she says. "So early on, when it seemed like things might be closing for a week, maybe two, I decided to take the opportunity to go into the studio and finally finish recording my parts, and I'm so glad I did because mixing them—which I did digitally with my producer—gave me something to do in those early weeks, and I did finally get the whole thing finished and released!"
Megan RomerInternational Musician Magazine, Feb 2021
What Anna Maria is doing with the harp and tango is fantastic! And the audience loves it!Pablo Ziegler2018 & 2006 Grammy Award winner for Best Latin Jazz Album & Best Tango Album
After listening to her solo I decided that harp is one of the best suited instruments for tango.Igor PolkTango Noticias Magazine, Chicago
"...with Anna Maria, alone her talent is remarkable. When the talents of Tango Del Cielo are added, you have a show that will keep the audience smiling - and buzzing - for weeks!" Joan Gilner Wildflower Music Festival, White Mills, PA
"…an exceptional soloist, harpist Anna Maria Mendieta, was even more impressive. A charismatic player, she ranged through her instrument: exquisite, finger flicked dustings up and across the strings; or guitar-like strums, crisp and percussive; or rich-blooded low notes or brilliant high ones. The interwoven sound of Mendieta and the orchestra was luminous…"
(Review was selected by the League of American Orchestras for international attention in a featured article)Richard ScheininSan Jose Mercury News
"The American Harp Society's big conference was an incredible experience…an opportunity to hear the world's best harpists… let me mention one enchantingly wonderful group, Anna Maria Mendieta and her ensemble. While the music was fantastic, a complete surprise was when the dancer extended a hand to harpist Anna Maria and she accepted. Wow, the music went on, the dance went on, then he escorted her back to the harp for the finish. I was glad I hadn't skipped that concert."Kathy Chalie, Chapter PresidentAmerican Harp Society


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Saudi Prosecution Seek Death Penalty For Human Rights Activists
3 Sep, 2018 in Current Events / Saudi Arabia by Katrina Hope (updated 500 days ago)
Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five human rights activists who have been in pretrial detention without legal representation for over two years. The activists are currently being tried for their peaceful activism by Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court (SCC), a terrorism tribunal which has been […]
Ongoing Genocide Defended By Nobel Peace Laurite
3 Sep, 2018 in Current Events by Callum Foote (updated 500 days ago)
Aung San Suu Kya, Myanmar leader has defended military actions taken against the Rohingya people during a lecture in Singapore on the 21st of August. Aung San Suu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 after taking a stand against the undemocratic military junta that controlled her country at […]
A Lack of Accountability: Israel Closes Probe into Black Friday Attack
3 Sep, 2018 in Current Events / Middle East by Maura Koehler
This past week, Israel made the decision to exonerate themselves from a deadly attack on Gaza in 2014 that left a number of Palestinian civilians dead. During the incident, now known as 'Black Friday,' Israeli forces used airstrikes and a mass of artillery behind the shield of the Hannibal Directive […]
Macron Meets Qatari Emir, Calls For End Of Blockade
3 Sep, 2018 in Current Events by Victoria Vera
A little over a year ago, four Arab countries- Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt- imposed a land, air, and sea blockade on the country of Qatar as they accused the nation of supporting terrorism and destabilizing the region. On the 6th of July, French President […]
Afghan City Of Ghazni Suffers Assault By Taliban Fighters
3 Sep, 2018 in Afghanistan / Current Events / Middle East by Sanghoon Oh (updated 500 days ago)
On August 17, Taliban insurgents overran the provincial capital of Ghazni, leaving 14 security forces killed and 20 injured. While US forces provided air support in a government led a multi-pronged counterattack leaving an estimated 150 insurgents killed, there are conflicting reports of whether they were ultimately successful in retaking […]
Iranian-British Woman Returns To Iran Prison
3 Sep, 2018 in Iran by Hallie Kielb
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who was arrested in Iran in 2016 on spying charges, was asked to return to prison after a three-day temporary release this Sunday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given a five-year sentence following accusations of spying by Tehran's Islamist regime during a holiday in Iran that she claims […]
UN Investigation of the Rohingya Crisis
3 Sep, 2018 in Myanmar by Colin Tait
The United Nations called on Myanmar officials to face genocide charges for heinous actions taken against the Rohingya people for the first time. According to Al Jazeera, a UN investigation uncovered that since August 2017, the armed forces of Myanmar forced roughly 700,000 Rohingya to flee the country breaking international […]
Trump Cuts Over $200 Million in Palestine Aid
3 Sep, 2018 in Current Events / Israel / Palestine by Camille Bouvet-Boisclair
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HHS Proposes Substantial Changes to Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Regulations
Nicholas Francis Alarif, James Cannatti III, Tony Maida, Daniel Melvin, Joan Polacheck, Monica Wallace
The Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) proposed changes to the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and the Civil Monetary Penalty Law, released Wednesday, October 9th, as part of the Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care, would represent some of the most significant changes to these laws in the last decade. This high-level overview addresses noteworthy changes and next steps as the healthcare industry continues to navigate the transition towards a value-based healthcare delivery system. In-depth analysis on key provisions will follow on McDermott's Regulatory Sprint Resource Center.
On October 9, 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published proposed changes to the physician self-referral law (Stark Law) (Stark Proposed Rule) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the Beneficiary Inducement Civil Monetary Penalty Law (CMPL) (AKS Proposed Rule).
The proposed rules represent some of the most significant potential changes to these laws in the last decade. HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan said that they "would be a historic reform of how healthcare is regulated in America." This On the Subject provides a high-level overview of key provisions in the proposed rules.
The "Sprint"
The Stark Law and AKS Proposed Rules have been promulgated as part of HHS's "Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care," which was launched in 2018 with the goal of reducing regulatory burden and incentivizing coordinated care. As part of this initiative, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) began scrutinizing a variety of long-standing regulatory requirements and prohibitions to determine whether they unnecessarily hinder the innovative arrangements that policymakers are otherwise hoping to see develop. The agencies took the step of formally seeking public input on this topic by issuing requests for information (RFIs) in June and August 2018.
The Proposals
The Proposed Rules reflect a coordinated effort between CMS and OIG to address various challenges to the transition to value-based care. Both agencies clearly recognize that the two laws often operate in tandem, but they also emphasize that they are distinct and separate enforcement vehicles. Thus, in some instances OIG's proposals may be more restrictive that CMS's, and both agencies state that the AKS may act as a "backstop" to protect against arrangements that meet a Stark Law exception but are nonetheless considered abusive. CMS also proposes to remove compliance with the AKS as a requirement from several Stark Law exceptions, further underscoring the laws' separateness.
The Stark Law Proposed Rule includes new exceptions designed to enable value-based care arrangements and proposes a long list of additional changes to the Stark Law regulations intended to address many of the most challenging aspects of Stark Law compliance. Among the most noteworthy proposals are the following:
New Compensation Exceptions
Value-Based Care Exceptions. CMS proposes new exceptions for value-based care arrangements that satisfy a series of requirements, depending on the level of financial risk undertaken by the parties to the arrangement.
New Exception for Limited Remuneration to a Physician. CMS proposes a new exception to protect compensation not exceeding an aggregate of $3,500 per calendar year if certain conditions are met.
New Exception for Cybersecurity Technology and Related Services. CMS proposes a new exception to protect arrangements involving the donation of certain cybersecurity technology and related services.
New Defined Terms and Regulatory Modifications
New or Modified Definitions for Key Stark Law Terms. CMS proposes new definitions of key concepts, including commercial reasonableness, the volume/value standard and fair market value, in an effort to establish clear bright-line rules. CMS also proposes to modify the definition of designated health service (DHS) to make clear that an inpatient hospital service is only DHS if the furnishing of the service affects the amount of Medicare's payment to the hospital under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System. This change has the potential to dramatically reduce the number of hospital claims that may be tainted by a prohibited financial relationship between a hospital and a physician where the physician is not the admitting physician.
Clarifications to "Group Practice" Requirements. CMS proposes clarifications to the regulations defining a "group practice" for purposes of the Stark Law, including revisions that make clear that group practices may not use DHS-specific pods for purposes of distributing DHS profits.
Modifications to Various Compensation Exceptions. CMS proposes a series of modifications to various compensation exceptions, including the space lease exception, recruitment exception, fair market value exception and others. Most, though not all, of these modifications appear intended to liberalize their requirements.
Temporary Non-Compliance. CMS proposes to expand the 90-day grace period for certain writing requirements.
Period of Disallowance. CMS proposes to delete the goal posts for when an entity would know the period of disallowance has ended.
Clarification for Electronic Health Records Items and Services. CMS proposes changes to the exception, including modifying the physician contribution requirement and permitting certain donations of replacement technology.
The AKS Proposed Rule also includes many important proposals that would modify existing AKS safe harbors, create new AKS safe harbors and create new CMPL exceptions. We have identified those proposals below along with brief descriptions of some of the changes they would involve:
New AKS Safe Harbors
Value-Based Arrangements. OIG proposes to create three new safe harbors to protect certain remuneration exchanges among certain individuals and entities in a value-based arrangement. The three new safe harbors would vary in terms of the type of remuneration that could be provided, the level of financial risk the parties assume and the types of "safeguards" OIG proposes to include.
Patient Engagement. OIG proposes to protect furnishing certain tools and support to patients by certain individuals and entities to improve quality, health outcomes and efficiency.
CMS-Sponsored Models. OIG proposes to protect certain remuneration provided in connection with certain models sponsored by CMS, thereby reducing the need for HHS to issue individualized fraud and abuse waivers for each model.
Cybersecurity Technology and Services. OIG proposes to create standalone protection for donations of cybersecurity technology and services.
Modifications to Existing AKS Safe Harbors
Personal Services and Management Contracts Safe Harbor. OIG proposes to add greater flexibility for part-time and outcomes-based arrangements by, among other things, removing the part-time schedule requirement and the aggregate compensation set-in-advance requirement, which resulted in this safe harbor having limited practical use.
Local Transportation. OIG proposes to expand and modify mileage limits applicable to rural areas and for transportation related to patients discharged from inpatient facilities.
Electronic Health Records Items and Services Safe Harbor. OIG proposes to extend protection for certain related cybersecurity technology, update the interoperability provisions and make the safe harbor permanent by removing the "sunset" date.
Warranties. OIG proposes to protect bundled warranties for one or more items and related services.
New CMPL Exceptions
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Beneficiary Incentive Programs. OIG would codify the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 statutory exception for ACO Beneficiary Incentive programs for the Medicare Shared Savings Program.
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Universal Orlando Florida: What to Do With Younger Kids
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I'm a parent. I have two kids. I know stuff. Lots of stuff. Parenting is hard.
Based on my own experiences, if I had to pick between Disney World and Universal Orlando, I would choose Universal Orlando. I believe that Universal has built upon the precedent set by Disney and improved the theme park experience in every way. Where Disney feels outdated, Universal is new and better, from the rides to the park's layout to the food.
Universal Orlando is a great family experience, but if you're traveling there with younger kids, there are places to go that are better than others and rides that are more appropriate for children. My kids were three-years-old and five-years-old when we visited, and my review is based on that trip.
Just a note: we did visit just before the opening of Diagon Alley and the Hogwarts Express, so those are not included in this review. However, we did visit Harry Potter World in the Islands of Adventure extensively.
Things to Consider When Visiting Universal Orlando
Helpful Apps. Download the wait time app.
Time of year. It can get pretty hot in Florida.
Season pass. Are you going to go more than once in a year?
Stay on site (if you can). Convenience is king.
Free Shuttle. At least stay at a hotel with a free shuttle
Buy tickets online. Free coupon book.
Check the height restrictions. Don't let your kids get bummed out.
Consider the express pass. No pesky lines.
Use the single rider line. A great way to avoid waiting.
One park pass or two-park pass?
Universal Orlando: A Tale of Two Parks
Having just visited Disney World the day before, the differences between the two theme parks was immediate upon entering. Universal Orlando is just a better design all around, though it does reflect changing tastes, specifically in that it's more commercial.
We did drive to Disney World instead of taking a shuttle and that experience wasn't pleasant. At Universal, we took the hotel shuttle, which was nice. It dropped us off right at the front entrance, which isn't the entrance per se, but the people mover that takes everyone from the parking lot/shuttle drop-off to the Universal Citywalk part of the park, which then leads to the entrance to the two Orlando parks: Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios.
Universal Orlando's commercialism is reflected in Universal Citywalk in that there are food and drink establishments there that most patrons have frequented, like Starbucks. While sometimes such partnerships can detract from the overall experience, it gives Universal a more modern feel. It also provides customers with some degree of confidence that Universal has good dining options, which it does.
Universal Citywalk then splits customers apart, sending them off in different directions depending on which park they want to visit. To me, this made the park feel noticeably less crowded. Knowing that all those people coming over from the parking lot wouldn't necessarily be bumping into me inside the park gave me a confidence boost that I might not be waiting forever in lines.
Harry Potter World: Hogsmeade in Islands of Adventure
We made our way to Harry Potter World first. Hogsmeade, which includes a replica of the town along with Hogwarts, is located at the farthest end of the park from the entrance in Islands of Adventure. If you think of Islands of Adventure as a clock with the entrance at 6 o'clock, then Harry Potter World is at 12 o'clock.
Anyway, since my five-year-old thinks he's Harry Potter and that he'll actually be attending Hogwarts, that's where we went first, as if disabusing him of this notion weren't already hard enough.
If you're in any way a fan of J.K. Rowling's wonderful novels, then Harry Potter World is equally wonderful. You can enjoy the experience without going on a single ride, though the rides are quite a lot of fun, particularly Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. However, this is a ride for adults and is most easily accessible by taking the family on the Hogwarts tour and then going on the ride as a single rider, that way mom and day can both go as there's a waiting area for just such a practice.
The only ride appropriate for kids is Flight of the Hippogriff, which is a small rollercoaster, though even it was a bit intense for my two kids. There's also the experience of Ollivanders, where you enter and an actor pretending to be Mr. Ollivander selects one child to receive a wand (not for free, apparently). It's a lot of fun.
Another thing that's great about Harry Potter World is the food. The Three Broomsticks was actually a good restaurant. And nothing beats a cold glass of Butterbeer, perhaps one of the best drinks on earth.
Seuss Landing in Islands of Adventure
The Dr. Seuss part of Universal Orlando, called Seuss Landing, is one of the first things you're likely to see when entering Islands of Adventure as it's just to the right past the entrance. It's also probably the main feature of Islands of Adventure that appeals specifically to younger children. My children could ride every ride there with one exception: my three-year-old was not tall enough to ride the train that goes around a track over the area. It had a 40-inch height requirement. I'm not exactly sure why as it wasn't that fast or have any hills.
The Cat in the Hat ride is probably the best one for the whole family. It's inside and kind of similar to rides at Disney like The Little Mermaid. There's also a carousel and a the One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish ride, which is a turning ride where you sit in a fish and you can control whether it goes up or down and if it avoids getting wet or not.
Really, the best thing about Seuss Landing is the architecture and layout of the area. It's very colorful and evokes the spirit and joy of the books almost perfectly.
On the bridge between Jurassic Park and Harry Potter world.
The Cat in the Hat ride is one of the many good rides for kids in Universal Islands of Adventure.
Jurassic Park in Islands of Adventure
Neither of my kids has seen "Jurassic Park" but both of them like dinosaurs, so there's some appeal to the Jurassic Park area despite the potential pitfall of scared children. That being said, we spent only a little time there. There are two rides in the area: the Pterandon Flyers and the Jurassic Park River Adventure.
My son fascinated with a feature of the Dr. Seuss area.
The former is actually more appropriate for small children, yet we didn't go on it. We ended up on the latter as it had the shorter line. Only my five-year-old was tall enough. He enjoyed the ride mostly because I think he had no idea what he was getting into. It gets a bit intense toward the end as you'll see in the video and it has a big drop at the very end.
It's raft ride through a dinosaur habitat that starts out calm and fun and goes awry toward the end. My five-year-old enjoyed it even though it was a little scary and he even went on it a second time, though he seemed more frightened the second time through.
Rides with the Biggest Wait Times for Kids
Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringots
Minion Mayhem
Popeye and Bluto's Bilge Rat Barges
The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man
We spent considerably less time in Universal Studios than we did in Islands of Adventure because of Harry Potter World. However, what time we did spend in Universal Studios we really enjoyed and during the trip, my three-year-old became somewhat obsessed with the minions from "Despicable Me" and the Minion Mayhem ride is in Universal Studios (though we didn't brave the lines for it).
My three-year-old became obsessed with minions on the trip.
The Simpsons in Universal Studios
The Simpsons area in Universal Studios has a feeling similar to Seuss Landing in Islands of Adventure in that it's kind of an immersive experience, meant to make you feel like you're in that world. As a matter of fact, a lot of the areas in Universal try to do that and most are successful.
Neither of our kids watches The Simpsons yet, so they weren't that engaged. However, my oldest did go on The Simpsons Ride with me, which is a 3-D motion simulator that is quite intense. Even though he said he enjoyed it, I probably wouldn't take him again.
One of the things that Universal does on The Simpsons Ride that it does throughout the park is make the line experience really fun and that's the case with The Simpsons Ride. Before you even get on the ride, you get to experience quite a bit of Simpsons fun. A more kid-friendly ride in this area was Kang and Kodo's Twirl and Hurl, which isn't nearly as hurl-inducing as the title might suggest.
What's the Best Attraction for Kids in Orlando?
The Simpsons area in Universal Orlando is a lot of fun.
Shrek 4-D in Universal Studios
Both my children are familiar with Shrek, however, and they had a great time watching the Shrek 4-D experience. The Shrek 4-D experience is similar to other 4-D theater experiences where you watch a movie and stuff happens in the theater, like fog or rain. I think Shrek sneezes during the film and suddenly the audience is all wet - that sort of thing. The Shrek 4-D experience also adds the element of the theater seats moving. So when somebody is riding a horse in the movie, the seats move up and down.
Both kids enjoyed seeing the film and enjoyed even more meeting the characters, who were hanging out right near the theater. I'll also just add that we did go on the E.T. ride as well even though neither of my kids has seen E.T. While it seems dated, it was fun.
Meeting Shrek and Princess Fiona.
How many days do you think my family with both a six and eight-year-old need at Universal Orlando Florida?
You're asking how many days to spend at Universal Orlando Florida and you have a 6 and an 8-year-old? Well, it really depends on your budget and how much they love Harry Potter. I would think 3 days is the minimum. If you really want to relax and have the budget for it, I'd stay a week at an on-site hotel so you get express passes and can take your time. Check out the club room options. We go with our kids and stay in a club room, so breakfast and dinner are included in the room price. With four people staying in one room, it ends up saving a lot of money.
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3 years ago from Colorado
I'm sorry this took so long to answer, but it depends on the child. My kids are into Harry Potter and are 5 and 7. They love Universal. If your kid is into Disney stuff, I'm sure Disneyworld would be great.
sbutter
Don't know if you will get this now, but which park would you recommend for 5 year old boy, IOA or US? We only have one day, I'm not sure we can get through it all, especially with Diagon Alley being added.
Nyesha Pagnou MPH
Thank you for such an informative and interesting hub with great photos. Voted up, useful and interesting.
Thanks for reading, Michael. I really hope the information proves useful. There were definitely things I wished I knew before I went, but still had a great time.
Michael Kismet
5 years ago from Northern California
Great Article! I gleaned much information that will serve me well while I'm in Florida with my nephews for work training.
Also the poll you have, I would never go to Sea World again, after watching the documentary, BlackFish. I was planning to write a hub about Sea World's treatment of these amazing and highly intelligent beings, I would get too emotional.
But I digress, amazing job on this hub, very well put together.


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