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ARISE Festival Announces New Artists, Films and Presenters
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The first ever ARISE Music Festival is scheduled to take place this summer August 14 -18, 2013, in a picturesque mountain setting near Loveland, Colorado at Sunrise Ranch. The festival features 5 stages with national and internationally renowned musical acts, as well as favorite regional and local talent, a mini film series, yoga and healing workshops as well as discussion forums with global leaders in environmental advocacy. The ARISE weekend will be highlighted by performances of over 100 acts throughout 3 days and 3 nights of music plus 1 day of early camping and one decompression day. Performers recently added to the line up include: Twiddle, Octopus Nebula, The Magic Beans, Bonfire Dub feat. Bridget Law of Elephant Revival, The Grant Farm, Trichome, Ariana Saraha, West Water Outlaws, Technicolor Tone Factory and The Kirtaniyas. More headliner announcements are still on the horizon.What separates ARISE from other camping festivals of its kind is a commitment to bringing environmental justice to Colorado and beyond. Festival organizers are focused on bringing equally defining talent to the daily workshop and speaker series as to the diverse musical schedule. ARISE Festival will feature world renowned activist Julia Butterfly Hill (who first brought international attention to the plight of the world's last remaining ancient forests with her 738 day vigil in the branches of a 1000 year old Redwood tree), actress/activist Daryl Hannah (widely known as one of the world's most influential sustainability advocates), and Leilani Münter who's tagline, "Never underestimate a vegetarian hippie chick with a racecar", who has garnered national media attention for uniquely being both a NASCAR racecar driver and eco-activist. Topics addressed will include discussions on GMO's, fracking and interactive forums on health, community, spirituality, and related subjects. The ARISE Music Festival is the place to be for Colorado's burgeoning cultural creative community, nature lovers and music enthusiasts alike.Another unique element of ARISE Festival will be presenting a mini-film series in the Sunrise Ranch 400-seat Dome Theater which is situated in the center of the 100 acre festival grounds. The mini-film series will include locally produced, award-winning short film "Chasing Water", filmed and directed by native Coloradan Peter McBride (photographer, writer, filmmaker, pubic speaker, advocate of Wild Places and Flowing Rivers) who takes a soul searching, personal journey downstream to focus his cameras on the Colorado river and what becomes of the its most precious resource — water — as it supports 30 million people in the West. Festival attendees can also unite during the film showing of "THE BLOOM: A JOURNEY THROUGH TRANSFORMATIONAL FESTIVALS", a groundbreaking documentary based on the blossoming phenomenon of participatory realities which are having a profound, life-changing effect on hundreds of thousands of lives.ARISE offers General Admission All-Festival Passes, VIP Festival Passes, Super VIP Festival Packages which are all available for purchase at (will link each ticket level to their appropriate page on line) and at select local outlets. Onsite camping options for tent campers, vehicle campers, RVs and trailers as well as VIP onsite lodging (just a two-minute walk from the Center Stage Concert Bowl) can also be purchased on the festival's website. The limited VIP lodging also includes resort-like upgrades such as access to swimming pool, sauna and hot tub. Contact lodging@arisefestival.com for booking onsite lodging. For more information about the festival, all activities and to purchase tickets visit www.AriseFestival.com.Super Early Bird tickets for Colorado's newest large-scale camping festival are on sale now (this discount ends May 10th). For more information about the festival, all activities and to purchase tickets visit www.AriseFestival.com.
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U.S. Starts Withdrawing Troops From Syria Amid Confusion Over Timetable
BAGHDAD (AP) — After days of back and forth over U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pullout American troops from Syria, a U.S. military official said Friday the process of withdrawal has begun, declining to comment on specific timetables or movements.
Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group, said "the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria" has started.
"Out of concern for operational security, we will not discuss specific timelines, locations or troops movements," the Baghdad-based official said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press.
There were no other details, and it was not immediately clear how many vehicles or whether any troop units had withdrawn.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict in Syria through a network of activists on the ground, said the withdrawal began Thursday night. It said a convoy of about 10 armored vehicles, in addition to some trucks, pulled out from Syria's northeastern town of Rmeilan into Iraq.
Confirmation of the first withdrawals comes amid confusion over plans to implement Trump's pullout order and threats from Turkey to attack the Kurds, who have been America's partners on the ground in the war against the Islamic State group in Syria.
Badran Ciya Kurd, a Syrian Kurdish official reached by the AP, declined to comment about the withdrawal. Others were not immediately available.
There are 2,000 American troops in Syria. Trump's abrupt decision in December to pull them, declaring in a tweet the defeat of IS, sent shockwaves across the region and a flurry of criticism from some of his generals and national security advisers, and led to the resignation of U.S. Defense Minister James Mattis and the top U.S. envoy to the anti-IS coalition. It also led to major criticism that the U.S. was abandoning its local Kurdish allies amid Turkish threats of an imminent attack.
On Sunday, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said American troops will not leave northeastern Syria until IS is defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected, signaling a slow-down in Trump's initial order for a rapid withdrawal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is on a tour of the region, has also sought to reassure the Kurds that they will be safe after U.S. troops withdraw from the country.
"These have been folks that have fought with us and it's important that we do everything we can to ensure that those folks that fought with us are protected," Pompeo said of the Kurds while visiting Irbil, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, after talks in Baghdad.
After initially tweeting about the decision to bring back U.S. troops "now," Trump this week said "we will be leaving at a proper pace while at the same time continuing to fight ISIS and doing all else that is prudent and necessary!"
Kurdish officials, meanwhile, have demanded clarifications from the U.S. over its intentions. A U.S. troop pullout leaves the Kurds exposed to Turkish attacks from one side, and Syrian government troops on the other. The withdrawal benefits Syrian President Bashar Assad and his international backers, Russia and Iran, who are primed to move into the region to fill a vacuum left behind by the Americans.
Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the Americans are not serious about withdrawing from Syria.
Speaking to reporters in Moscow Friday, she said it appears to Moscow that the U.S. "is looking for a reason to stay." She said Russia has not seen public statements laying out the U.S. strategy in Syria and so cannot be sure that the U.S. is serious about leaving.
U.S. troops have been involved in Syria's war since 2014 when the first elite force arrived in the country to advise Kurdish-led fighters who were involved in battles against the Islamic State group.
Karam reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue in Beirut and Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow contributed.
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Urgent Action Update: Execution Risk for Iranian-Swedish Academic (Iran: UA 38.17)
Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been held incommunicado in Tehran's Evin prison since 24 November 2020, when he learned that his death sentence for "corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel-arz) was to be carried out imminently. In late December 2020, his family learned that Ahmadreza Djalali's execution was halted for one month. He remains at risk of execution.
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Head of the Judiciary Ebrahim Raisi
c/o Majid Takht Ravanchi
Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Phone: 212 687-2020 I Fax: 212 867 7086
Twitter: @Iran_UN
Salutation: Dear Ambassador
Dear Mr Raisi,
Iranian-Swedish academic and medical doctor Ahmadreza Djalali, who is at risk of execution, has been subjected to incommunicado detention in Tehran's Evin prison for seven weeks. In an undated handwritten letter, provided by prison officials to Ahmadreza Djalali's lawyer in late December 2020 following multiple requests to contact him, Ahmadreza Djalali wrote that he had been in prolonged solitary confinement for 33 days. His lawyer and family last saw Ahmadreza Djalali on 24 November 2020 when they were told that Ahmadreza Djalali's execution would be carried out within a week and this was the date of his last phone call to this family. In late December 2020, his family learned that the office for implementation of sentences had postponed Ahmadreza Djalali's execution for one month. His incommunicado detention raises serious concerns about the imminence of his execution given the Iranian authorities' pattern of executing death row prisoners in secret after placing them in solitary confinement and denying them contact with the outside word.
Ahmadreza Djalali was sentenced to death for "corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel-arz) in October 2017 after a grossly unfair trial before Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The court relied primarily on "confessions" that Ahmadreza Djalali says were obtained under torture and other ill-treatment while he was held in prolonged solitary confinement without access to a lawyer. These included threats to execute him, kill or otherwise harm his children, who live in Sweden, and his mother, who lives in Iran. Amnesty International has consistently held that the offense of "corruption on earth" fails to meet requirements for clarity and precision needed in criminal law and breaches the principle of legality and legal certainty. On 9 December 2018, his lawyers learned that Branch 1 of the Supreme Court had upheld his death sentence.
I ask you to immediately stop any plans to execute Ahmadreza Djalali and immediately provide him access to his family and lawyer. His conviction and sentence must be quashed, and he should be released immediately and accorded an enforceable right to compensation, as per the recommendation of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Pending his release, ensure that Ahmadreza Djalali is moved out of prolonged solitary confinement and protected from torture and other ill-treatment, and order a prompt, independent, effective, and impartial investigation into his allegations of torture and other ill-treatment. I call on you to establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.
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Why our nuclear deal with Iran is turning to dust
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Many of Europe's largest banks won't do business with Iran for fear of breaching other US sanctions, which have nothing to do with the nuclear agreement – but a lot to do with US agencies and prosecutors.
The Middle East is littered with missed opportunities, lost chances and dreams turned to dust. The Iranian nuclear deal is now heading in the same direction. President Hassan Rohani, hero of the hour and Iran's new Mr Good Guy in America, even obtained the support of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, when he signed off on the agreement with six world powers last year to reduce the country's nuclear activities in return for an end to Western sanctions. But he's beginning to look like a patsy.
And all of the old Iranian revolutionaries, the sons of martyrs and the war veterans and the Revolutionary Guard Corps and the managers of its billion-dollar conglomerates are turning out to have been right all along. The sanctions have been lifted – but they haven't been lifted. Western investments are not, despite all the promises, pouring into Iran because banks – especially European banks – are too frightened of breaching the rest of America's sanctions laws to do business with the Islamic Republic. Washington both giveth and taketh away; it's a slogan that every Iranian president should learn.
Mohamed Khatami was the only real statesman the Middle East produced in half a century and he was elected president of Iran in 1997. He wanted a "civil society", the nearest you can get to a secular nation ruled by Shiite democracy-necrology-government for and by the dead. But the United States treated Khatami with scorn – and so the crackpot Mahoud Ahmedinejad became the next president, a man with whose ravings America's right-wing felt far more comfortable.
Hadn't they said all along that Iran's leaders were anti-Semitic nuclear crazies, even – this from the Israelis – worse than Hitler? Now Rohani, the man-America-could-do-business-with, may lose next year's presidential election because he, too, forgot the slogan which, at its simplest, reads: don't trust America.
Iran has not been reintegrated into the global financial system – and it's not going to be – though the Chinese will be happy to do business. Khamenei's supporters are now suggesting that the Supreme Leader – not the shrewd but naïve president – is the great hero of modern Iranian history (after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, of course). The banks, he says, fear the Americans who "have not acted on their promises and [only] removed the sanctions on paper". Worse still, he's right. "Khamenei's life is the one you should be writing about," one of his believers announced last week. "He is the saviour." Yes, thanks to America.
For many of Europe's largest banks won't do business with Iran for fear of breaching other US sanctions, which have nothing to do with the nuclear agreement – but a lot to do with US agencies and prosecutors, hunting for evidence of Iranian money laundering, the financing of "terrorism" and monetary crime. The French BNP Paribas shelled out £6.3bn for its Iranian dealings a couple of years ago – over five years, along with StanChart and HSBC, the figure comes to a whopping £10.7bn.
So why should the UK's Standard Chartered, Societe Generale, Credit Suisse or Deutsche Bank line up to pay more fines just because their governments want to do business in Tehran? Some American bankers – this from the Economist – won't even hand over their business cards to Iranians. Now that's what you call fear.
But let's move, for a moment, to Beirut where the Lebanese Central Bank is caught up in a crisis with Hezbollah, the Shiite militia which drove Israel's occupation army out of Lebanon in 2000 and is now fighting and dying to preserve Bashar al-Assad's government (also, of course, under sanctions) in Syria. Whether – in Washington's eyes – the first is a greater crime than the second, the fact is that no Lebanese banks are now allowed to have any dealings, or hold any accounts involving, Hezbollah members or their supporters. Lebanese banks which break these rules will lose their right to deal in US dollars.
The Hezbollah leadership has abused the governor of the Central Bank, Riad Salameh, for bowing to America's demands, claiming that US sanctions are targeting the entire Shiite community in Lebanon. Poor old Riad is trapped – a brilliant banker who followed several pretty indolent governors, now forced to implement sanctions over which he has no power and which will destroy any Lebanese private bank disobeying the American rules imposed by the Lebanese Central Bank. Since 65 per cent of all their deposits are in dollars – and 70 per cent of all their transactions – breaking US rules means that Lebanese banks would go out of business.
The US Office of Fair Assets Control has named 99 accounts with alleged connections to Hezbollah, including charities, schools, companies and television stations. Even Hezbollah MPs, legally and fairly elected to the Lebanese parliament, two of whom are government ministers, can no longer keep bank accounts. Now you may agree that the West has every right to clip Hezbollah's millions. "Terrorists" or not, they are more powerful than the Lebanese army, widely blamed for the failure to elect a Lebanese president and dangerously involving Lebanon in Syria's civil war. For that matter, no sane Western banker or government wants to give carte blanche to Iran's armies of dodgy businesses linked to secret regime bank accounts or shady military operations.
But among the Lebanese banks obeying Salameh's US rules is the country's wealthy Blom bank; and only this weekend a 3-4kg bomb blew up outside its headquarters in the swish Verdun district of Beirut. It was a Sunday night, there were few people around – only two were slightly hurt — and the police quickly concluded it was more symbolic than military. When the Lebanese want to kill, they do so with Pablo Escobar thoroughness. But the thundering of shattered plate glass windows told its own story. Was this a Hezbollah warning? Unlikely, said some. Hezbollah are not that crude. Well, maybe.
But you can see the picture. While Iran cannot break free of sanctions from which it thought it had been unshackled, its own paid militia in Lebanon – a nation which a Shiite prelate once described as "the lung through which Iran breathes" – is being caught up in the same financial net. So it's not difficult for the Iranians to spot what they call in Persian the "dasisa" – and what the Hezbollah, in Arabic, refer to as the "muamara" – which means, quite simply: THE PLOT.
Decide for yourself if it's true. But in Iran, the lifting of sanctions is a promise un-kept, the Revolutionary Guards are smiling and the nuclear deal is, surely, going downhill. A dream, in other words, fast turning into dust.
Author: Robert Fisk
Source: independent.co.uk
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Attic Threads & Quilts: Mystery Quilt Month 4 - Look Kevin, I Can Do Scrappy!
Mystery Quilt Month 4 - Look Kevin, I Can Do Scrappy!
I will be teaching 3 classes, a hands-on Feather class, a Ruler lecture, and a Background lecture/demo. If you are anywhere near Manchester, New Hampshire, come see me. I love meeting Quilters and making new Quilty friends!
Welcome back to my Mystery Quilt, "Look Kevin, I Can do Scrappy!"
Four months in and I'm still excited to say, "ALL OVER THE WORLD!!" Quilters are stitching those pesky 1/2 square triangles thanks to me. Ok, once again, maybe not just because of me, but we do have an increasing number of quilters participating in our Mystery. A guild in Canada has joined us! So keep making those 1/2 square triangles, you will need them next month.
As we start Month 4, remember - each month's directions will be posted on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, for 6 months. If you or your local quilt guild would like to use my pattern for this Mystery Quilt, please feel free. You have my permission to make copies for your guild. All I ask is that you give me credit for the pattern If you would like it in PDF format, please email me (atticthreads@yahoo.com) and I will add you to my email list.
Month 4—A Whole Lot More Easy-Peasy Piecing!
This month you will be doing more chain piecing. My only rule for myself was to not worry about my fabrics looking good next to each other. (ok, so it still couldn't be same fabric used twice in a block…) Just grab and sew. I found after about the first 3 months planning, I started getting the hang of this scrappy stuff!
Always press to the dark. I chain piece all of the sets, cut apart and then press.
Make 37 sets of dark sewn to light.
Make two piles, (A) dark-light-dark strips and (B) light-dark-light strips. Mix up the strips in each pile, remember, no 2 pieces of the same fabric in a block.
Sew a (A) strip to a (B) strip, make 39 sets.
Sew (A) and (B) strips to these sets to make 9 patch blocks.
I hope everyone is still enjoying the Mystery Quilt.
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The Metroid Prime trilogy, arguably the best gaming trilogy ever, has just been re-issued as a $20 download on the Wii U. That's a good reason for Kirk "never played a Metroid Prime" Hamilton to try them out. I had to see how that went.
What follows is an early report of Kirk's findings, an enjoyable and illuminating conversation about a game in a series Nintendo has neglected for too long. We had this chat late on Friday after having both played the first part of the first Prime on our respective New York and Oregon-based Wii U video game systems.
Kirk: It sure seems good so far! Granted, I've only played a few hours. But right from the start, it's sure of itself in that way that good Nintendo games usually are. I feel like I can relax and trust that I'm in for a good time. As long as I get my Wiimote working.
Stephen: Yeah, having to go back and play a game with a Wii Remote and Nunchuk wasn't ideal. I don't think of myself as a lazy gamer, but having to sit up straight and point that Remote? It felt weird. Maybe partially because I originally played the first two Primes on the GameCube with a pretty standard controller!
Kirk: Right, I keep thinking about how it'd be to play it with an ordinary controller. I actually think that in the long run, I'm going to really like the motion controls and that part of the issue is that I can't figure out how to re-calibrate the Wiimote mid-game. So, I wind up sitting mostly comfortably, but holding my controller at a sliiiiightly weird angle, so my wrist gets tired. But whatever, I've moved my sensor around a bit and gotten mostly comfortable. Setting it to "advanced" controls helped a lot, too.
Stephen: I think the Wii Remote Plus is smarter about keeping you properly tracked.
Kirk: Smart enough, anyway. But I don't want to get sidetracked by the pros and cons of motion controls. The game! This is apparently the greatest game ever made, right? I don't even know what I'm in for? Something like that?
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Stephen: But the thing is, back on the GameCube, Prime was specifically presented as NOT being a twitch-based shooter. That's why they have the lock-on and stuff. It's more of a sci-fi detective kind of game, after all—mixed with sci-fi archaeology.
They tried to market it was a first-person adventure. Silly as that sounds, I love the distinction, because I love the way Prime plays. You land on the planet and, for me, it's not about finding stuff to kill, it's about scanning plants and animals, reading the ancient scripts on the walls, studying the architecture, trying to figure out how this world works and how you can sort your way through it.
And, yeah, it winds up being one of the greatest games of all time.. if you're into that kind of thing.
Kirk: I do like great games.
Kirk: So far, it seems like a well-made game, but I haven't unpacked the greatness. It seems dated in some ways, but mostly has that timeless Nintendo "thing," where everything in the game feels of a piece, the feel and controls are distinctive and solid, and the whole thing is well-designed to keep me moving forward. (The scanning and the various databases feel different from other Nintendo games I've played, so that's one place it stands apart.) So far, it's unfurling organically, and I can see how it (I guess?) eventually becomes this interlocking series of tunnels and arenas, folded and re-folded onto itself.
I get what you're saying about it being more an adventure game than an action game. It's certainly grabbing me more as the former than as the latter. Some of the action isn't entirely smooth for me, yet, partly because I'm still adjusting to the controls, and partly because it's difficult to pull off reaction-based shooting with muddy, low-res textures. Those big flying bee creatures, in particular, kinda blend into the background. And I had to laugh that one of the first mini-bosses I fought in this alleged masterpiece was a "charging bull" monster that I had to dodge, then shoot in the back after it crashed into the wall behind me. I guess that wasn't as hackneyed when this game came out.
But yeah, the exploring is great. Am I crazy in thinking that the map is exceptionally good? I'm already using it constantly, when most 3D video game maps take forever for me to figure out.
Stephen: I hear you about that first mini-boss. In fact, I think that the fight against the little flying creatures right before you get the first missile container is pretty poor, too. Again, the game wasn't originally designed for twitchy pointer controls. It was single-analog. You used the GameCube controller's c-stick to change weapons; you could only do free-looking if you stood still and pressed a button. The action was very much about locking onto an enemy and shooting it, strafing it as you locked on. That first mini-boss was likely a way to teach you how to lock on effectively. Because, really, the game wasn't a test of your physical reflexes; it was a test of your mental agility—your ability to figure out which weapons, items and visors to use and how to eventually get everything out of each of the game's rooms.
Have you noticed buzzing sounds or low hums in a lot of the rooms you're in? They represent hidden things in the rooms, and you really have only finished a room once you've pretty much quieted the room down. What they're doing is asking you to pay attention, to look at everything, listen to everything and then act.
Given that that's their design, they have to do a couple of important things. One of them is to give you a very clear and comprehensible map, which they do. It makes a lot of sense, loads fast, is easy to zoom and rotate and is well-marked. Two, and way more important, is that they have to give you rooms—a world, really—that are full of interesting and distinct things to look at and listen to. And that is where I think the game finds the most success.
The game's art and sound design are nearly unparalleled in gaming. I marvel not just at how well the game holds up visually but how much of that is due to the studio, Retro's, masterful illustration of each room. This is a game where even the hallways are interesting to look at and tell some sort of story about the culture that carved them.
If the art direction isn't doing it for you, you're not going to like the game. But I do hope you've picked up on that, that every room is distinct. I don't think they repeat anything other than doors in terms of the assets they use from room to room.
Kirk: The audio is incredible. And Kenji Yamamoto's music! Both just so, so good. As I was escaping the pirate ship in the prologue, I was certain the "Escape!" music was playing a busy signal. I have a note that says "Is this a busy signal?" And it totally is, check it out.
So good! Not many video game soundtracks are that good.
I'm sensing some of the smart things you're talking about with the design and how it signposts things, but not all of it. Lots of games have lifted that sort of design, obviously, in the years since Metroid Prime came out. The idea of walking into a room, seeing a door you can't open and thinking "Okay, I'll just come back and open it when I'm able." But Metroid has an unusual amount of subtlety going on with all that. It's a remarkably subtle game in general, really. I'll have to pay more attention to the audio cues you're talking about—I'm sure there are a lot I've been missing.
Have you found yourself approaching the game differently now than you'd imagine I am, as a newbie? Do you do some things first, since you know what's coming, or is the path the game carves for you generally still the thing to stick to, at least at first?
Stephen: I have the advantage of knowing how much I can't do yet. Like most of those audio cues? You can't do anything about them. Now that you'll be listening for them you'll notice where they are coming from, and you'll realize how many parts of the rooms that you're in are out of your reach.
And this is where Metroids make or break players, because some gamers loathe the concept of having to backtrack. Me? I love going back to one of the game's starter areas, now with a radically different power set, and getting past previously un-passable obstacles.
Kirk: Oh yeah, I'm the same way. Partly because games have trained me to be, I think!
Stephen: One huge thing that will be lost on you is the historical impact of the game for people who grew up with Nintendo.
Kirk: It comes across, at least a bit. You mean that it's a FPS?
Stephen: You had all these 2D games in the NES and SNES, right? Mario, Zelda, Metroid were three of the top games.
The N64 comes around, PlayStation is already clearly beginning to kick Nintendo around, and yet Nintendo figures out this thing where they can take a beloved 2D franchise and through the magic of polygonal graphics, put you in. Mario, but in 3D! You are IN the Mushroom Kingdom.
And so they do this for Mario and make arguably the best game ever. Then they do it for Zelda and top themselves, some would say.
But they go the whole N64 era with zero Metroid games on console.
And then they go to the GameCube and we're in the moment of GTA and Final Fantasy X and all that, and Nintendo finally brings Metroid back, but... as a first-person shooter... largely developed by Americans.
So you have this very weird back-story, all these reasons to be skeptical, but the magic of the game for people who had been on that journey is that they do that magical thing again. They take a character and a world you only ever saw in 2D and they put you in it.
In fact, they put you even more in it, by putting you in Samus' suit!
That's hugely impactful and might be akin to finally going to the movie version of a novel you loved.
But, you, Kirk, you didn't read the Metroid novel, so you're like, whatever.
Stephen: The space station prologue is a terrific microcosm of the game, though. It doesn't teach you backtracking, but it really sets the Metroid mood. You'll fight a little, explore a lot, and you get to be a cool, silent lady bounty hunter in the process... though I guess there's some looping back in it... not quite backtracking.
Kirk: I do get that part of it—I wasn't a Nintendo Kid growing up, but I played Metroid on Game Boy, and loved the heck out of it. I can get how people would've thought it was amazing to step into Samus' suit, to see through her visor. Plus, the game does a really good job of putting you in the suit in subtle ways. The way she uses her other hand to steady her gun arm when she shoots, how it places various things around on her HUD.
Samus really is a fascinating character. So many thinkpieces have already been written about her, and I wouldn't dare try to add anything substantive at this point, but I do get a sense of her character from small things in the game. Related to that, a question: Do you think that the text that pops up when you scan something is her? Or is it just her computer? I keep feeling like I'm getting a small sense of her personality from each of those blurbs, but maybe I'm misreading it.
Stephen: Oh, I don't read those as her. I read them as her computer or the spaceship (maybe one and the same). I am a scanning maniac, by the way.
Kirk: I keep forgetting to!
Stephen: I don't know why I love scanning. I'm not usually a lore person.
Kirk: Maybe because they make it active?
Stephen: Yeah. Maybe it's because you get the lore with little interruption.
Kirk: So all Dragon Age had to do was make your Inquisitor take out a magnifying glass in every scene and manually dig up lore entries. Problem solved!
Stephen: Yeah, that'd be nice. The scanning teaches you a lot more about the world.
Kirk: The scanning is indeed cool. I played a bit of Hunters on DS a looong time ago, and I remember finding the scanning charming even in that game. I like games where you can hit a button and get a "new" view of the world you're already in. Which makes me think... was Metroid's scanning visor a precursor to Arkham Asylum's detective mode? It'd be interesting to look at all the ideas this game had that turned up in later games.
Stephen: Hunters was horrible. It's barely a Metroid game.
Kirk: Ha, I thought people liked it! I didn't play much.
Stephen: But you know the lead game designer and art director of the Prime games made that Batman Arkham Origins Vita/3DS game? Which is why it's so Metroidy. Not as good a setting or moveset, though, so I didn't feel like they got to strut their stuff as best they could.
To wind things down, let's discuss the magnificence of the morph ball. You're essentially also playing one of the, if not the, finest Transformers games ever made.
Kirk: Yeah, the morph ball is great. I just re-got it, and am glad to have it—though I already miss the ability to blow things up while in ball-mode. I like that it makes the game into a hybrid first- third-person game, which opens up all sorts of different possibilities for puzzles and exploration. Halo sort of did the same thing in 2001, but the third-person camera wasn't something you could toggle on and off like you can in Metroid.
Stephen: Yeah, it's a credit to them that they pull off the morph ball without making the whole thing look absurd. It's one of the last vestiges of the goofy movement ideas you'd get in 2D games that was effectively brought into 3D gaming.
I wonder if you noticed some half-pipe-looking parts of the rooms you were in. Imagine if there was a way to use them with the morph ball. Hmmm. You have so many awesome things to discover!
Do you think you'll keep playing?
Kirk: I do! You know me, I've always got too many things to play, but something about having this entire trilogy right here is too enticing. Not only does it feel like an important missing piece in my "I can't believe you haven't played that" backlog, it sounds like all three games are really fun. So yeah, I'll keep playing as long as I'm having fun, which I sense will be until I finish.
Do you think you'll keep playing? If so, maybe we can circle back once we've both played more.
Stephen: Yeah, I usually don't re-play old games, because I'm skeptical about my enjoyment of them and am convinced that most older games were products of their time that have been improved upon in terms of design and hospitality to the player. But I've loved my return playthrough of Majora's Mask on 3DS, and I'm delighted with my time back in Metroid Prime. I've tried to go back to them before and always stopped somewhere in the first game.
I know that Prime 2 is the least-loved entry of the series, but I remember liking it the most (of course). It has the most visually-striking area of the entire series and also the most unusual visor mode that I can't wait to re-experience.
I want to play all three all over again, so, yeah, I'm back in—if a bit bummed that I can't play these Wii U games on the GamePad with the dual-analog controls. Oh well.
Let's definitely do this again when you're further in. How about this. Let's not do it again until you see Samus' face. That's a teaser for you!
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Cyber-Panic! The (Surveillance) State of the Union
By raincoaster on January 20, 2015 • ( 4 )
This is our second guest post by Joe Fionda, actor and activist.
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President Obama is set to go before congress for the State of the Union and argue for reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). He will be doing so in front of the same body of Senate members to whom it was disclosed last week, that the White House was coordinating with the CIA to hack. Yes, your tax dollars at work: the White House and CIA conspired to hack Senate computers & staffers to prevent the disclosure of war crimes; you remember, those war crimes in which the CIA was anally funneling hummus to the indefinitely-detained prisoners of the "War on Terror." Nor should any irony be lost pointing out that the driving public force pushing reform of the CFAA, ie the hack of Sony, is being pushed along by allegations that the perpetrator was North Korea, the attribution of which was only possible for the government to make because the NSA hacked North Korea first, one of the many US government-backed hacks which we only know about because of Edward Snowden's disclosures.
In case you haven't been paying attention, things are a bit silly; by "silly" we mean that the government's digital hypocrisy is folding in on itself. Yes, the CFAA is badly in need of reform, as an alarmist law signed into being in 1984 by Ronald Reagan after he saw the movie War Games, before the internet as we know it even existed. It means that proverbial Windows Update is at least a quarter-century overdue.
But this revision is a literal doubling down of the government's already misguided heavy- handedness, which seeks to double the length of sentences for hackers to make them face more time than most rapists. The revisions do not substantially help define what the key phrase "exceeding authorized access" means, other than insofar as it relates to the alleged hacker's knowledge of whether he or she knew that their actions were improper. With the arbitrary damage figure being set as "over $5,000" as a felony trigger, any potential hacking accusation could be considered felonious if the victim simply claims over the requisite amount for a felony, or decides they want to shell out a ton of money to contractor buddies for DDoS mitigation consultants. This is a godsend to the consulting industry. The revisions to RICO (the racketeering statutes designed to prosecute mob figures such as John Gotti) would make the government's wet dream of charging groups like Anonymous with racketeering come true. With the horrible Citizens United decision turning corporations into people with the stroke of a lobbyist-funded pen, they, too are also given the same victims' rights as an individual human being, but with infinitely more legal & technical resources. No doubt, if a corporation were to be charged with a hacking RICO offense, they would likely be able to negotiate their way out of meaningful criminal penalties, as has been the case for major financial institutions involved in the economic crash of 2008. The ones we bailed out, remember?
There is much missing from the CFAA revisions that would greatly improve the safety and security of these persons whom the law allegedly seeks to protect; specifically, the protection of the citizenry from the government itself and its endless phalanx of contractors. The government has constantly been arguing for the need for backdoors, the ability to hack targets and the need to be able to otherwise engage in criminal acts, and absolutely no edits have been proposed in regards to CFAA for exemptions for law enforcement. Thus, the government would continue to essentially have no accountability for their own access fraud simply because they are the government. Remember Nixon? "If the President does it, it's not illegal." American victims of foreign hackers, who may be outside of the reach of American law enforcement due to lack of extradition treaties but nevertheless using the same technology, don't appear to have any substantial avenue of recourse for losses incurred by foreign actors. Nor are there apparent provisions for citizens to 'hack back' when the hacks in question do not merit the time or resources of law enforcement.
Even though the 3rd Circuit of Appeals smacked down the Justice Department for venue impropriety in United States v. Auernheimer for dragging weev all the way from Arkansas to New Jersey, no effort in the proposed revisions seem to indicate that the critical issue of prosecutorial venue is being addressed. In weev's case, the number of victims in New Jersey was statistically minimal, and the conviction was overturned. In a similar case involving the New Jersey venue & AT&T, Lance Moore, a young Las Cruces, NM man who was accused of leaking a confidential AT&T document to Lulzsec, was driven to suicide before trial. The US Attorneys in the district of New Jersey for that case, Paul Fishman and Gurbir Grelawi, faced absolutely no public consequences in light of the identical venue-related issues. Moore's case would almost certainly have been vacated on thanks to the 3rd Circuit's ruling United States v. Auernheimer. Nor despite overwhelming public outcry, did Massachusetts US Attorneys Carmen Ortiz or Steven Heymann face any consequences for driving Aaron Swartz to his own suicide. Nor has the FBI had to face any for their role in helping to socially engineer the hack of Stratfor by using informant Sabu to direct and outsource the rest of the incomplete job from another hacker to Jeremy Hammond, who completed the assignment as agents watched over Sabu's back. That case later lead to journalist Barrett Brown's prosecution for simply trying to report on it. Brown remains in custody awaiting sentencing.
Forget the argument that the new revisions would criminalize security research and journalism. Any bill proposed to revise the CFAA that doesn't include provisions to address our government's responsibility for it's own hacking and helps restore individual privacy is at best a farce, at worst a decree that The People are to continue to be subject to an awful national security theater where we are to stand naked before its tyranny. If the government previously hacked North Korea and then claimed they couldn't stop North Korea from shutting down Sony Pictures Entertainment because they got to their payment systems, and the government couldn't stop this from happening if they had advanced warning, should the government making this declaration be on the hook for the work stoppage those of us have had to deal with in the film industry?
There must be public input on the legislation, as well as realistic remedy and relief for what is considered "hacking". There must be a conversation most of all, because it seems that heavy-handedness and sentencing coercion are not going to solve the real problems the real world faces when it comes to our cyber-legislation.
Joe Fionda is a New York based Italian-Irish American actor and associate producer of The Hacker Wars. When he isn't creating lulz for film & TV he is editor & tech ops for globalrevolution.tv.
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This is straight fuckery. Lance Moore suicide is in no way shape or form related to this att bullshit. Please remove this.
This article is seriously garbage and ill informed. Lance Moore's suicide has nothing to due or linked with the impending trial. Remove this fuckery.
I think you're misinterpreting what was actually said in the article. Maybe try re-reading it before re-re-commenting. We won't be removing the article.
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It's been a busy first week hopping around to different cities by van and plane. After about 28 hours of travel time, we finally landed in Delhi last Sunday. Tushar's cousin Anu was nice enough to help us get around the city and set up at a hotel, right after gorging on our first full Indian meal at an upscale food court (where we were each patted down at least twice before entering). We visited the Indian Institute of Technology, where Tushar's dad Vikram taught, and spent the afternoon catching up with his college friend Arun, during which time we discovered from Tushar's mom, Bina, that Vikram had written down a lot of original jokes on paper (note: find these in Huntsville!).
Later in the day we made a short flight to Lucknow, Bina's hometown, where Tushar's cousin Anshu and wife Alankrita were extremely generous, letting us all stay in their 10th floor condo in the city. On Tuesday in Lucknow, Tushar consulted an astrologer who, after complex computer and handwritten analysis, was able to give us a soft date for his wedding: JUNE 2016! (Bride TBA)
By late afternoon we were in a van for the 4-hour drive to Pyagpur, Vikram's home village. By American standards, the traffic in India is a legitimate clusterfuck, or what Tushar refers to as "a casual game of chicken." The zero-sum game always tends to work out though, as everyone acts as a team player to avoid collisions between any number of bicycles, vans, cars, pedestrians, trucks, rickshaws, wagons, scooters, and motorcycles all vying for just enough room to keep traffic moving at all times. In Pyagpur, we were graciously taken in by Tushar's great uncle and other relatives and family friends of his father. We were treated to a full spread of home-cooked dishes, and all the chai (and more) than we could ask for. Temps got down to the high 40's (Fahrenheit...still holding on to some American ways), so we all gathered around a late fire, where Jamey serenaded the group with his ukelele. The next morning we made more tours of the village, and of course, we couldn't leave without consulting another priest about Tushar's future. The verdict? Marriage even sooner than the astrologer predicted! At this point, just be on call for a wedding on any given Saturday night.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Denying climate change or being indifferent to its effects are "perverse attitudes" that block research and dialogue aimed at protecting the future of the planet, Pope Francis said on Thursday.
Francis, a strong defender of environmental protection, made his comments in a message to ministers meeting in Bonn to work out a rule book for implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to move the world economy off fossil fuels.
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Discussion in 'Tomcats' started by TMP, Feb 16, 2014.
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Eleazar Venzor, 33, math teacher & coach (girls track & freshman boys basketball) at Bowie High School, El Paso ISD, El Paso, Texas, "allegedly having an improper relationship with a student"
El Paso Times: Bowie HS teacher arrested for alleged relationship with student (Feb 15 2014)
Eleazar Venzor, 33, was arrested Feb. 7 following an investigation by El Paso Independent School District police that began Jan. 24 after administrators received a tip, officials said ... He resigned on Jan. 28. On Feb. 7, Venzor was arrested on a charge of improper relationship between educator and student. He was released from the El Paso County Jail that same day on a $7,500 bail, according to a jail records.
KFOX: Police arrest Bowie High School math teacher and coach (Feb 14 2014)
Eleazar Venzor, El Paso, Texas, Bowie High School, El Paso ISD
TMP, Feb 16, 2014
KTSM: Police arrest former teacher for alleged improper relationship with student (Feb 14 2014)
The district said it removed Bowie High School teacher, 33-year-old Eleazar Venzor from campus and launched an investigation after someone reported the situation on January 24. It said Venzor resigned four days later and then district police arrested him last Tuesday.
KVIA: Bowie High School teacher arrested for alleged improper educator-student relationships (Feb 14 2014)
The school district received a tip about Venzor on Jan. 24, 2014 and said he was immediately removed from campus. On Jan. 25, EPISD police picked up the investigation ... After EPISD Police obtained a warrant, Venzor was arrested and booked into the El Paso County Jail. He has since posted bond and is awaiting an unknown court date.