Saturday, April 4, 2009
GODFATHER 2 HITS PC,PS3 AND XBOX 360 THIS WEEK -EXCLUSIVE GAMEPLAY VIDEOS AND REVIEW

The Godfather II is a tale of two games, a blend of sandbox action and strategic resource management. The low-level mobster in you will want to parade around 1950s-era depictions of New York, Miami, and Havana causing as much wanton destruction as you possibly can, but you'll need to get in touch with your inner Mafia boss if you want to successfully progress through the story. Taking over and managing various rackets and crime rings is key, but so is keeping an eye on your own family and those of other organizations. We've had only a taste of what sort of strategic depth The Godfather II might offer in previous looks at the game, but we've recently been spending some time with a nearly complete version of this EA Redwood Shores-developed game to see how far we could dive into the Don lifestyle.
Each potential associate has a unique background and specialty, which determines his personality and class-based abilities. To give you an idea of a few specialties that exist out there, you can hire a medic who will revive you whenever you get taken out during combat, an arsonist who excels in making impromptu doorways in the sides of buildings, a safecracker who can get you some extra cash whenever you break into a business, and a bruiser who will reduce your odds of having the police called on you for random acts of violence on the street. You'll eventually be able to recruit more associates, and subsequently promote existing ones up the ranks from associate to capo to underboss. If you really want to get into the spirit of things, you can even customize each family member's clothing to give your group a signature look, like our collection of thugs clad in periwinkle leisure shirts.
Once you get your first associate, you'll need to take over your first racket, which are critical because they let you launder dirty money through a legitimate business. This usually entails finding a business controlled by another family, taking care of all of their guards, and then shaking down the owner. The last bit is especially fun because you need to rough them up to the point where they'll give in, but not quite fight back or die. Once you control a racket, you can seek out others like it for a crime-ring bonus. For example, if you control all of the prostitution rackets in New York, you'll get brass knuckles for all of your family members, and if you control all of the drug-smuggling rackets in Miami, you'll double your daily income. Each racket you own needs to be guarded against takeovers, but guards cost money that you might otherwise spend on upgrading the abilities of you and your crew, so there's a lot to consider.
Of course, you're not the only one managing the operations of a family filled with thugs and criminals; there are plenty of rival organizations out there looking to cause you trouble. Early in the game, your primary source of conflict is the Rosato family, the crew that operates the bulk of rackets in the modest-sized chunk of New York City that makes up the game's first act. You begin by taking over their businesses, but as the story progresses and the possibility of a truce becomes less and less likely, it's revealed that you need to do more than cripple their income; you need to take them out entirely.
To do this, you'll need to stage contract hits on the various family members. But it's not enough to kill them however you see fit; you need to know the right kill condition to send the appropriate message. This requires you to do a favor for people of interest, and if you fulfill your obligation (usually an act of violence on an enemy of theirs), you'll learn the kill condition. Some rivals need to be thrown from a building, some choked, and others run over with a car, to name a few.
Later in the game you'll move your operations to Florida, and eventually Cuba. The core mechanics of the game remain the same, but the scenery changes from Brooklyn townhouses to pastel-colored art deco buildings and Spanish architecture. The number of rival families you need to deal with also grows as the story expands into a web of shady alliances, corrupt government officials, backstabbing friends, and so on. Although you don't have much control of the story proper, you at least feel pretty invested in all of this crime and corruption due to your ability to strike deals with a number of government officials and keep favors from them until you find the right time to call them in. We'd like to give you an idea of how the story plays out, but with so many turns and twists, almost anything would be a spoiler.
At the heart of all of this is something called the Don's View. This is a screen that lays out the entire city in a fully movable 3D map, detailing all of the businesses, people of interest, and missions available to you. You can manage the number of guards stationed at your rackets, call in strikes on rival businesses, send your made men to defend a racket that's come under attack, and keep tabs of how close you are to controlling an entire crime ring. You can also examine the makeup of rival family trees, examining them before calling in a contract hit. Giving you a lot of ability to stretch your strategic muscles definitely seems to have been a big goal for the developer.
Altogether, The Godfather II should offer a few interesting twists on the open-world action genre that has become so common these days.
ERASE FEARFUL MEMORIES WITHOUT DRUGS
The concept of Memory Erasing has fuelled our imagiantion ever since MIB came out.But it would have been really easy if it were like a flashing device which instantly erases memory as seen in movies.Up till now, the most widely used therapy for erasing memory is extinction therapy,which works up to a point, but fearful memories often reappear,according to researchers. Marie Monfils, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas in Austin and her colleagues performed intense research in this subject.For instance,Her team first taught rats to associate a musical tone with a slight electric shock. Playing the tone with no shock generally causes rats to freeze in fear. When her team played the tone over and over again, 19 times, the rats displayed less and less fear. This is standard extinction therapy. However, a month later their fear of the tone returned, strong as ever.They also wondered if performing extinction during the reconsolidation window might lead to a permanent effect.
A new drug-free therapy wipes away fearful memories in rats and humans. The simple treatment might eventually help patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, say researchers.
The new procedure relies on a quirky property of memories called reconsolidation. The process of jogging a memory – with an emotional or sensory jolt, for instance – seems to make it malleable for a few hours.
Potent drugs that block brain cells from making new proteins can erase fearful memories during this window. But these chemical are toxic, and wholesale memory erasure could do more harm than good, says Karim Nader, a neuroscientist at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who performed some of the drug studies.
But What Happens when nightmares reappear?
Schiller and Elizabeth Phelps, neuroscientists at New York University, tested whether they could block human volunteers from recalling a fearful memory. In this case they paired an electric shock with a blue square on a computer screen.Schiller and Phelps measured tiny, imperceptible changes in sweat – a well-documented fear response – in roughly 80 volunteers.
As with the rats, repeated exposure to the blue dot during the reconsolidation window seemed to block the fearful memory from returning.
Parallel Memories?
Despite proof of principle experiments in rats and humans, Monfils says researchers should proceed with caution in applying the new findings to treating PTSD or other anxiety disorders. Some people's reconsolidation windows may be longer than others, and people respond differently to stressful situations.
Baitullah Mehsud claimed responsibility for New York shootout


PAKISTAN NEWS (inserts news from New York): Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader today claimed responsibility for a shooting incident yesterday at an immigration services office in New York that claimed 14 lives.
Baitullah Mehsud claimed that the attack was launched by a Pakistani man and one another unidentified man.
Baitullah Mehsud said, "I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to US drone attacks." He said this through telephone from an undisclosed location.
Chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban (Pakistan) warned by saying, "such attacks would continue" to avenge missile strikes by US drones in tribal areas and "brutalities in Palestine."
Baitullah Mehsud also mentioned that he had said a few days ago that his militants would carry out attacks on the soil of America.
This claim by Baitullah Mehsud came hours after a US drone attack in North Waziristan tribal agency that killed 13 people. The drone attack also killed women and children.
New York News: About yesterday gunman attack in New York, authorities in New York said that a man armed with two handguns killed 13 people at an immigration services centre there before turning the gun on himself. The gunman was believed to be of Vietnamese-origin.
Also Read: BREAKING NEWS FROM NEW YORK (NY): Gunman takes hostages in NY state
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Friday, April 3, 2009
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Clean chit for Jagdish Tytler in 1984 anti-Sikh riots by CBI
Today the CBI in a court in Delhi pleaded that the case against Jagdish Tytler be cancelled. The court in the capital of India put the report for consideration on April 9.
There were protests outside the court premises by hundreds of Sikhs as the CBI decision was made public on Friday. The gathered Sikhs raised slogans against the Congress government, the CBI, Jagdish Tytler and also against other senior Congress leaders like Sajjan Kumar and Kamal Nath for their alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Counsel for the ‘84 anti-Sikh riots' victims H S Phoolka accused CBI of being "hand in glove with Tytler." He said that there may be serious flaws in their report and that is the reason why the CBI does not want the report to be shown.
The counsel also alleged that Tytler was aware of the report of CBI much before the final report was laid down before the court.
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Berita Terkini - Indonesia vs Malaysia Marak sampai di Facebook , Wadohh!!!
Berita terkini - Kamis, 2 April 2009, mengenai Indonesia vs Malaysia Marak sampai di Facebook", seperti yang di kutip dari detip ,berita terkini mengenai aksi saling melecehkan antara Indonesia dan Malaysia. Kemudian, beberapa orang membuat sebuah kelompok 'Ganyang Malaysia' di Facebook. tak mau kalan ,pihak Malaysia pun membalas dengan 'Ganyang Indonesia'. Duh!
Antara Malaysia dan Indonesia mempunyai hubungan yang unik. Di satu sisi kedua negara ini adalah saudara serumpun. Di sisi lain, kerap ada sentimen Indonesia versus Malaysia yang dihembus-hembuskan. hehehe, buat nak bangsa (indonesiaku) jangan sampai teradu domba ya....
Melalui fasilitas Groups di Facebook. Segelintir pengguna internet asal Malaysia dilaporkan telah membuat kelompok bernama 'Ganyang Indonesia!!!'.
Isi dari, grup 'Ganyang Indonesia' agaknya didirikan sebagai reaksi atas grup bernama 'Ganyang Malaysia'. Sang pembuat grup Ganyang Indonesia pun nampak penuh marah dan dendam dalam deskripsi tersebut.
Kata-kata kotor, caci maki dan umpatan menghiasi deskripsi tersebut. "Kalau nak lawan, 'no holds barred'. Lihat macam mana kawan kawan kita dari Ganyang Malaysia!!! maki hamun orang Malaysia. Tak pe rakan rakan, biar indon tunjuk dia ***, kerana dia memang ***! GANYANG INDONESIA!!!"
Binatang babi jadi ikon. Di 'Ganyang Indonesia', Babi ditampilkan dalam bentuk kartun sedangkan di 'Ganyang Malaysia' berbentuk foto olah digital.
wah..wah..wah..untuk anak bangsa tumbuhkan rasa nasionalisme...dan jangan mudah terpancing. Berita terkini mengenai "Indonesia vs Malaysia" sering terjadi dan bahkan sekarang Indonesia vs Malaysia Marak sampai di Facebook .
Berita bola dan info bola
Mendocino Citizens Forgot to Ask About Depleted Uranium
Mendocino questions Navy plan to increase training off Pacific Coast
By GLENDA ANDERSON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Published: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 9:14 p.m.
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U.S. Navy representatives got an earful of concerns Tuesday night in Ukiah when they presented details of a plan to increase military training and tests along the Pacific Coast from Washington to Northern California.
“For hundreds and hundreds of years you’ve been practicing (war),” said Mendocino Coast performance artist and anti-war activist Sherry Glaser-Love. “I think you’ve got it down.”
“Practice for peace,” she told the trio of Navy representatives led by John Mosher, an environmental project manager for the U.S. Navy.
Nearly 100 people attended the informational meeting, held at the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors chambers. The meeting was held to gather public comments on a pair of studies examining the environmental impacts of the Navy’s plan to increase training along the northern Pacific Coast.
Their concerns ranged from sonar’s effects on marine life to pollution and noisy jets.
The Northwest Training Range Complex is one of 13 Navy training and testing areas. It is comprised of individual areas that include 122,400 square nautical miles of ocean, 34,000 square miles of airspace and 875 acres of land.
The Navy wants to increase the number of training exercises in the area to ready troops for combat. The activities include airplane and submarine operations and testing of sonar, minefields and bombs.
About 90 percent of all the training exercises and testing takes place in Washington, much of it around Puget Sound where there is a Navy base, Navy officials said.
The Navy’s impact report admits the activities have adverse impacts on marine life, but doesn’t expect them to kill any marine mammals.
It does project that whales, porpoises, seals, sea turtles, fish, seabirds and marine invertebrates could be adversely impacted by sonar activities. Sonar testing has been linked to mass die-offs of whales.
The Navy training range has been in existence since at least World War II, Mosher said.
The training area’s southern end is Mendocino County’s northern border with Humboldt County. It does not extend into Mendocino County, Mosher said, attempting to clear up one of many apparent misinterpretations of the draft impact report.
Some people at the hearing were worried the Navy planned to extend its activities to the Bay Area because of a map designation officials admitted was a confusing attempt to provide area residents with a landmark.
“Are we next?” asked coast resident and publisher Beth Bosk.
There also was some confusion about who was responsible for low-flying jets that reportedly frightened residents and scattered livestock near Petrolia in southern Humboldt County. Brian Wauer, a project operations specialist with the Navy, said the Navy doesn’t fly jets in that area.
“They’re not part of this complex,” he said.
Issues of pollution from military activities, past and future, also were raised.
“Life began in the ocean. Life is now dying in the ocean,” said Antonia Lamb. “The Navy needs to clean up its mess.”
Mosher said the Navy knows it has made mistakes in the past. He said it’s working to clean up past pollution and to create cleaner technologies for the future.
“We value the environment we live in,” said Mosher, to snickers from the audience.
The U.S. Navy is accepting written and electronic comments on the environmental study until April 13.
Researcher Michele Van Hoeck contributed to this report. You can reach Staff Writer Glenda Anderson at 462-6473 or glenda.anderson@pressdemocrat.com
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MILITARY WILL BE TESTING DEPLETED URANIUM TOO!
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The US GOVERNMENT/INDUSTRIAL MILITARY COMPLEX is AT it AGAIN! TheY ARE TO USE Oregon, WashingTON, California AND parts OF IDAHO for their CHEMICAL WARFARE training! GUESS who the GINEA PIGS ARE? US all us that live in any of these states! AND all the animals, fish EVERY LIVING CREATURE is going to be POISONED by these evil people
Here is the release:
Northwest Training Range Complex
The Northwest Training Range Complex consists of numerous individual training areas that stretch from Washington to Northern California. Extending 250 nautical miles (about 288 miles) west from the coastline into the Pacific Ocean, the Northwest Training Range Complex encompasses more than 126,000 square nautical miles of ocean area. The range complex also includes more than 34,000 square nautical miles of airspace. The land, air, and sea components of the Northwest Training Range Complex provide the space and resources needed to realistically train Navy Sailors and aviators to achieve and maintain Fleet readiness.
Background
To keep up with advances in technology and new national security challenges, the U.S. Navy occasionally must reassess and alter its operations, including its methods of testing weapons and training Sailor and aviators within the Northwest Training range Complex. These change in the level and type of training and testing activities are called the Proposed Action.
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and Executive Order 12114, Environmental Effects Abroad of Major Federal Actions, the Navy is preparing an Environmental impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS) to evaluate the potential environmental effects of maintaining Fleet readiness to support current, emerging, and future training activities. Furthermore, the Proposed Action serves to implement range enhancement within the Northwest Training Range complex, thereby ensuring fleet requirements are met.
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Poison Dust
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What Are We Doing to Our Own Loved Ones?
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