William Jackson, Tiffany Duhart and Lee Brown writers/bloggers from Jacksonville and Orange Park, Florida recently participated in the Central Florida Blogger and Social Media Conference, http://www.cflblogcon.com/ which is growing as a national and international conference for bloggers. ?
CFLBCON http://www.cflblogcon.com/ is a 1 day conference in Orlando, Florida focusing on blogging and social media content creation using multileveled digital tools. ? The conference goals were to create a hyper focus on the sharing of technical knowledge, blogging expertise and expanding social media ideas for application. The growing involvement of Social Media is creating a paradigm shift in how people share information (content), receive news (local, national, international) and interact with family and friends through Social Networks; Facebook, Twitter, Nings, Youtube and other resources.
William, Tiffany and Lee represent Jacksonville and Orange Park as they travel to various technology conferences sharpening their technical and writing/blogging skills. Since 2011 they have traveled to Blogging While Brown (Philadelphia), Bar Camp Blogging and Technical Conference (Orlando), WordPress Conference (Orlando) and other venues in Orlando, Jacksonville and surrounding areas of Florida.
They are Social Media experts that enjoy sharing their collective experiences, wisdom and skills that help their community to grow in understanding the engagement and collaborative abilities of Social Media and the intrinsic value of incorporating technology in everyday life.
William Jackson, M.Ed. is a STEM Educator, Blogger and presenter on Social Media Safety, Bullying/Cyberbullying and Internet usage http://WilliamDJackson.com
Tiffany Duhart, Marketing and Outreach Consultant, is a Social Media Consultant , she provides workshops and seminars on Branding and Marketing using Social Media tools http://tiffanyduhart.com/
Lee Brown, blogs on Social and Political issues, Travel and Food http://theintellective.com/
Each are respected in their communities as writers/bloggers and deeply involved in their communities addressing social/educational issues, politics and improvements in their communities. ?
LONDON (AP) ? Market fell on Friday as investors continued to fret over Spain's finances in the run-up to a report on the state of the country's banks.
Trading was volatile, possibly due to the fact that Friday is the last day of the financial quarter, the deadline for certain trades and contracts to be settled. This sometimes involves buying and selling large amounts of stocks at the last minute in order to make a profit on a deal.
Investors were cautious over Spain, a day after the country's government announced big spending cuts it hopes will convince potential bailout creditors and investors it has a rock-solid plan to heal its public finances.
Traders are waiting for the publication later in the day of the results of stress test results into 14 of the country's banks. The tests are expected to identify a capital shortfall of around ?60 billion ($77 billion).
Rating agency Moody's is also expected to issue an evaluation of Spain's creditworthiness. There are concerns the agency will downgrade Spain's government debt to junk status.
Craig Erlam, markets analyst at Alpari, said a downgrade to junk status could "create some panic" among holders of Spanish debt.
"The positive side to this is this could accelerate the bailout request," Erlam said. The other 16 countries that use the euro and the European Central Bank are prepared to help Spain financially, should it need it, but Madrid has so far put off a request.
Madrid's IBEX index was one of the worst performers in Europe as investors awaited developments. The IBEX fell 1.7 percent to close at 7,708.50.
Elsewhere, Germany's DAX ended 1 percent lower at 7,216.15 while the CAC-40 in France fell 2.5 percent to 3,354.82. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares dropped 0.7 percent to 5,742.07.
In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average was 0.7 percent lower at 13,398.19 while the broader S&P 500 index fell 0.7 percent to 1,437.63.
In other financial markets, the euro was down 0.4 percent at $1.2849 and a barrel of oil was down 15 cents at $91.70.
Earlier in Asia, stocks had been buoyed by speculation that China's central bank will act soon to help the world's No. 2 economy.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 0.4 percent to 20,840.38. South Korea's Kospi added nearly 0.4 percent to 1,996.21. But Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost 0.9 percent to 8,870.16, sinking on a government report that showed industrial production fell a further 1.3 percent in August.
Mainland Chinese shares rose ahead of an extended holiday next week. The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.5 percent to 2,086.17 and the Shenzhen Composite Index rose 1.9 percent to 853.83.
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LONDON (AP) ? A 15-year-old British schoolgirl who sparked an international search when she went missing along with her math teacher was found safe and well in France on Friday, police said.
Megan Stammers was located along with 30-year-old Jeremy Forrest, a teacher at her school, police in the southern England county of Sussex.
France's Sipa news agency said the pair were in a car when they were found in the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France. Back in the Sussex town of Lewes, Stammers' stepfather Martin expressed relief at the news.
"We just can't wait to be reunited with her. Our family are overjoyed at the outcome. As you can imagine it's been an absolute emotional rollercoaster," he told reporters.
Police say Forrest has been arrested on suspicion of child abduction and Stammers has been taken into protection. Sipa reported that she would undergo unspecified medical tests.
Stammers failed to show up for school in her hometown of Eastbourne, near Lewes, on Sept. 21, and authorities said she had been spotted on a ferry to France with Forrest the same day.
The parents of both Stammers and Forrest made emotional televised pleas for them to get in touch. Police said the two were located as a result of media coverage of the case in France.
Britain's Channel 4 News reported that the schoolgirl would be flown out of Bordeaux airport back to the U.K. later Friday.
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New study shows fear is hard to extinguish from the developing teenage brain, which may explain why anxiety and depression spikes during adolescence
NEW YORK (Sept. 27, 2012) -- A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers shows that adolescents' reactions to threat remain high even when the danger is no longer present. According to researchers, once a teenager's brain is triggered by a threat, the ability to suppress an emotional response to the threat is diminished which may explain the peak in anxiety and stress-related disorders during this developmental period.
The study, published Sept. 17 in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to decode fear acquisition and fear "extinction learning," down to the synaptic level in the brains of mice, which mirror human neuronal networks. Also, through human and rodent experiments, the study finds that acquired fear can be difficult to extinguish in some adolescents. By contrast, the study shows that adults and children do not have the same trouble learning when a threat is no longer present.
"This is the first study to show, in an experiment, that adolescent humans have diminished fear extinction learning," says the study's lead author, Dr. Siobhan S. Pattwell, a postdoctoral fellow at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Weill Cornell. "Our findings are important because they might explain why epidemiologists have found that anxiety disorders seem to spike during adolescence or just before adolescence. It is estimated that over 75 percent of adults with fear-related disorders can trace the roots of their anxiety to earlier ages."
The study findings suggest there is altered plasticity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain during adolescence, with its inability to overcome fear, says the study's senior co-investigator, Dr. Francis Lee, professor of pharmacology and psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and an attending psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
"This study is the first to show activity, at the synaptic level, for both fear acquisition and fear extinction -- and we find that while these areas function well in both younger and older mice, neurons involved in fear extinction are not as active in adolescent mice," says Dr. Lee. "If adolescents have a more difficult time learning that something that once frightened them is no longer a danger, then it is clear that the standard desensitization techniques from fear may not work on them. This new knowledge about the teenage brain's synaptic connections not responding optimally will help clinicians understand that the brain region used in fear extinction may not be as efficient during this sensitive developmental period in adolescents."
Adolescent Mice Never Lose Their Fear Response
Fear learning is a highly-adaptive, evolutionarily conserved process that allows one to respond appropriately to cues associated with danger. In the case of psychiatric disorders, however, fear may persist long after a threat has passed, and this unremitting and often debilitating form of fear is a core component of many anxiety disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD).
Existing treatments, such as exposure therapy, are designed to expose an individual slowly to the cues associated with a perceived threat. This technique is used for a variety of fears, from wartime PTSD to fear of flying, as well as serious adolescent anxiety about school, says Dr. Lee, who treats, among others, patients with PTSD acquired during the World Trade Center collapse on September 11, 2001.
Anxiety disorders are increasingly being diagnosed in children and adolescents, but the success rate of fear extinction-based exposure therapies are currently not known in this population. This study aimed to discover if they could be effective -- and why or why not.
The human experiment was conducted at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Weill Cornell in collaboration with its director, Dr. B.J. Casey, a study senior co-investigator, who is the Sackler Professor of Developmental Psychobiology and professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell. In the experiment, a group of volunteers -- children, adolescents and adults --wore headphones and skin sweat meters and were asked to look at a computer screen with a sequence of blue or yellow square images. One of the squares was paired with a really unpleasant sound. For example, 50 percent of the time the blue square would set off the noise.
If the participants acquired a fear of the noise, they showed increased sweat when viewing the image that was paired with it, says Dr. Pattwell. The same group was brought back the next day, and again viewed a sequence of blue or yellow squares, but this time there was no associated noise. "But teenagers didn't decrease their fear response, and maintained their fear throughout subsequent trials when no noise was played," she says. However, the researchers documented that, unlike the teens participating in this study aged 12-17, both children and adults quickly learned that neither square was linked to a noxious sound, and this understanding rapidly decreased their fear response.
The mouse experiment, which used standard fear conditioning common in these types of animal studies, obtained similar findings. Adolescent mice (29 days old) did not decrease their fear response to stimuli that no longer existed, but younger and older mice did. Interestingly, the adolescent mice never lost their fear response as they aged.
The research team then monitored the brains of mice as they participated in the experiment. With the assistance of study senior co-investigator, Dr. Ipe Ninan, an electrophysiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center who is an assistant professor of psychiatry, the research team found that the prelimbic region in the prefrontal cortex, the brain region that processes emotion, is activated during acquisition of fear, and the infralimbic prefrontal cortex is used to extinguish this fear association. While other groups have suggested that the prefrontal cortex plays a role in extinction, no one has shown that this activity is at the level of the synapse -- the connections between the neurons.
"In young and old mice, we see plasticity, which is activity in the infralimbic cortex, which helps the animals decrease their fear response when a threat no longer applies," says Dr. Pattwell. "Interestingly, we didn't witness similar activity in adolescent mice."
According to researchers there is much more to explore about the fear response and its decoding in human adolescents, such as whether genes contribute to susceptibility to altered fear learning, and most importantly, what can be done to help the adolescent population overcome fear.
"We need to investigate personalized approaches to treatment of these fear and anxiety disorders in teens," says Dr. Lee. "It is essential that we find a way to help teenagers become more resilient to the fear they experience during adolescence to prevent it from leading to a lifetime of anxiety and depression."
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The research was supported by the Sackler Institute, the DeWitt-Wallace Fund of the New York Community Trust, the Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust, the International Mental Health Research Organization, the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation, the Pritzker Consortium, National Institutes of Health Grants and a Swiss National Science Foundation Grant.
Weill Cornell co-authors are Dr. Stphanie Duhoux, Dr. Catherine A. Hartley, David C. Johnson, Dr. Deqiang Jing, Mark D. Elliott, Erika J. Ruberry, Alisa Powers, Natasha Mehta, Rui R. Yang, Dr. Fatima Soliman, and Dr. Charles E. Glatt.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University's medical school located in New York City, is committed to excellence in research, teaching, patient care and the advancement of the art and science of medicine, locally, nationally and globally. Physicians and scientists of Weill Cornell Medical College are engaged in cutting-edge research from bench to bedside, aimed at unlocking mysteries of the human body in health and sickness and toward developing new treatments and prevention strategies. In its commitment to global health and education, Weill Cornell has a strong presence in places such as Qatar, Tanzania, Haiti, Brazil, Austria and Turkey. Through the historic Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, the Medical College is the first in the U.S. to offer its M.D. degree overseas. Weill Cornell is the birthplace of many medical advances -- including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer, the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo-biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, and most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain-injured patient. Weill Cornell Medical College is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where its faculty provides comprehensive patient care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. The Medical College is also affiliated with the Methodist Hospital in Houston. For more information, visit weill.cornell.edu.
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Learning to overcome fear is difficult for teensPublic release date: 27-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Lauren Woods law2014@med.cornell.edu 212-821-0560 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
New study shows fear is hard to extinguish from the developing teenage brain, which may explain why anxiety and depression spikes during adolescence
NEW YORK (Sept. 27, 2012) -- A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers shows that adolescents' reactions to threat remain high even when the danger is no longer present. According to researchers, once a teenager's brain is triggered by a threat, the ability to suppress an emotional response to the threat is diminished which may explain the peak in anxiety and stress-related disorders during this developmental period.
The study, published Sept. 17 in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to decode fear acquisition and fear "extinction learning," down to the synaptic level in the brains of mice, which mirror human neuronal networks. Also, through human and rodent experiments, the study finds that acquired fear can be difficult to extinguish in some adolescents. By contrast, the study shows that adults and children do not have the same trouble learning when a threat is no longer present.
"This is the first study to show, in an experiment, that adolescent humans have diminished fear extinction learning," says the study's lead author, Dr. Siobhan S. Pattwell, a postdoctoral fellow at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Weill Cornell. "Our findings are important because they might explain why epidemiologists have found that anxiety disorders seem to spike during adolescence or just before adolescence. It is estimated that over 75 percent of adults with fear-related disorders can trace the roots of their anxiety to earlier ages."
The study findings suggest there is altered plasticity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain during adolescence, with its inability to overcome fear, says the study's senior co-investigator, Dr. Francis Lee, professor of pharmacology and psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and an attending psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
"This study is the first to show activity, at the synaptic level, for both fear acquisition and fear extinction -- and we find that while these areas function well in both younger and older mice, neurons involved in fear extinction are not as active in adolescent mice," says Dr. Lee. "If adolescents have a more difficult time learning that something that once frightened them is no longer a danger, then it is clear that the standard desensitization techniques from fear may not work on them. This new knowledge about the teenage brain's synaptic connections not responding optimally will help clinicians understand that the brain region used in fear extinction may not be as efficient during this sensitive developmental period in adolescents."
Adolescent Mice Never Lose Their Fear Response
Fear learning is a highly-adaptive, evolutionarily conserved process that allows one to respond appropriately to cues associated with danger. In the case of psychiatric disorders, however, fear may persist long after a threat has passed, and this unremitting and often debilitating form of fear is a core component of many anxiety disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD).
Existing treatments, such as exposure therapy, are designed to expose an individual slowly to the cues associated with a perceived threat. This technique is used for a variety of fears, from wartime PTSD to fear of flying, as well as serious adolescent anxiety about school, says Dr. Lee, who treats, among others, patients with PTSD acquired during the World Trade Center collapse on September 11, 2001.
Anxiety disorders are increasingly being diagnosed in children and adolescents, but the success rate of fear extinction-based exposure therapies are currently not known in this population. This study aimed to discover if they could be effective -- and why or why not.
The human experiment was conducted at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Weill Cornell in collaboration with its director, Dr. B.J. Casey, a study senior co-investigator, who is the Sackler Professor of Developmental Psychobiology and professor of psychology in psychiatry at Weill Cornell. In the experiment, a group of volunteers -- children, adolescents and adults --wore headphones and skin sweat meters and were asked to look at a computer screen with a sequence of blue or yellow square images. One of the squares was paired with a really unpleasant sound. For example, 50 percent of the time the blue square would set off the noise.
If the participants acquired a fear of the noise, they showed increased sweat when viewing the image that was paired with it, says Dr. Pattwell. The same group was brought back the next day, and again viewed a sequence of blue or yellow squares, but this time there was no associated noise. "But teenagers didn't decrease their fear response, and maintained their fear throughout subsequent trials when no noise was played," she says. However, the researchers documented that, unlike the teens participating in this study aged 12-17, both children and adults quickly learned that neither square was linked to a noxious sound, and this understanding rapidly decreased their fear response.
The mouse experiment, which used standard fear conditioning common in these types of animal studies, obtained similar findings. Adolescent mice (29 days old) did not decrease their fear response to stimuli that no longer existed, but younger and older mice did. Interestingly, the adolescent mice never lost their fear response as they aged.
The research team then monitored the brains of mice as they participated in the experiment. With the assistance of study senior co-investigator, Dr. Ipe Ninan, an electrophysiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center who is an assistant professor of psychiatry, the research team found that the prelimbic region in the prefrontal cortex, the brain region that processes emotion, is activated during acquisition of fear, and the infralimbic prefrontal cortex is used to extinguish this fear association. While other groups have suggested that the prefrontal cortex plays a role in extinction, no one has shown that this activity is at the level of the synapse -- the connections between the neurons.
"In young and old mice, we see plasticity, which is activity in the infralimbic cortex, which helps the animals decrease their fear response when a threat no longer applies," says Dr. Pattwell. "Interestingly, we didn't witness similar activity in adolescent mice."
According to researchers there is much more to explore about the fear response and its decoding in human adolescents, such as whether genes contribute to susceptibility to altered fear learning, and most importantly, what can be done to help the adolescent population overcome fear.
"We need to investigate personalized approaches to treatment of these fear and anxiety disorders in teens," says Dr. Lee. "It is essential that we find a way to help teenagers become more resilient to the fear they experience during adolescence to prevent it from leading to a lifetime of anxiety and depression."
###
The research was supported by the Sackler Institute, the DeWitt-Wallace Fund of the New York Community Trust, the Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust, the International Mental Health Research Organization, the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation, the Pritzker Consortium, National Institutes of Health Grants and a Swiss National Science Foundation Grant.
Weill Cornell co-authors are Dr. Stphanie Duhoux, Dr. Catherine A. Hartley, David C. Johnson, Dr. Deqiang Jing, Mark D. Elliott, Erika J. Ruberry, Alisa Powers, Natasha Mehta, Rui R. Yang, Dr. Fatima Soliman, and Dr. Charles E. Glatt.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University's medical school located in New York City, is committed to excellence in research, teaching, patient care and the advancement of the art and science of medicine, locally, nationally and globally. Physicians and scientists of Weill Cornell Medical College are engaged in cutting-edge research from bench to bedside, aimed at unlocking mysteries of the human body in health and sickness and toward developing new treatments and prevention strategies. In its commitment to global health and education, Weill Cornell has a strong presence in places such as Qatar, Tanzania, Haiti, Brazil, Austria and Turkey. Through the historic Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, the Medical College is the first in the U.S. to offer its M.D. degree overseas. Weill Cornell is the birthplace of many medical advances -- including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer, the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo-biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, and most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain-injured patient. Weill Cornell Medical College is affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where its faculty provides comprehensive patient care at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. The Medical College is also affiliated with the Methodist Hospital in Houston. For more information, visit weill.cornell.edu.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian court on Tuesday banned an online anti-Islam movie that spawned violent protests across the Muslim world and gave YouTube 10 days to pull the film's trailer from its website.
The decision by a state court in Sao Paulo, home to a large Middle Eastern immigrant community, came hours after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff criticized "Islamophobia" in Western countries in a speech at the United Nations.
The lawsuit against the controversial film was brought by a Brazilian Muslim group, the National Islamic Union, against YouTube owner Google Inc for posting on the Internet a film it said was offensive and a violation of the constitutional right to freedom of religion.
In his decision, Judge Gilson Delgado Miranda said the case juxtaposed freedom of expression and the need to protect individuals or groups of people from action that might incite religious discrimination.
Miranda concluded that banning something illegal should not "offend" freedom of thought and expression, according to the ruling posted online by Estado de S. Paulo newspaper.
It wasn't the only Brazilian court ruling against Google on Tuesday. Earlier, an elections court ordered the arrest of Google's most senior executive in Brazil after the company failed to take down YouTube videos attacking a local mayoral candidate.
The legal challenges underline broader questions about Google's responsibility for content uploaded by third parties to its websites, such as the anti-Islam video, which mocked the Prophet Mohammad and sparked a wave of protests and violence in the Muslim world.
Fifteen people were killed in Pakistan during demonstrations over the video on Friday. People involved in the film, an amateurish 13-minute clip of which was posted on YouTube, have said it was made by a 55-year-old California man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; editing by Christopher Wilson)
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By Nebojsa.Nikitin on Sep 25, 2012 in Featured, General News
Baby boomers may have been a bit slow to use the internet to find a date compared to their younger counterparts, but they are catching on now in a big way now by joining an established over 50 dating site. Tens of thousands of new over 50 dating adults join an online service for the first time each month to find their mate. What used to be unthinkable for seniors is now common place.
Rather than join a site that has all age demographics, many older singles are deciding to join age specific sites. One reason to do so is to avoid dealing with younger age groups who may only be interested in finding a ?cougar? for a short term sexual based relationship.
As people age they tend to want to find a mate who is more serious about committing to a long term relationship.
One of the most popular dating sites for baby boomers is one that is celebrating it?s sixth year online: Over50Match.com. The owner of Over 50 Match dot com, Tim Phelan, says he knows senior online dating works from personal experience. ?I myself, have met some terrific women online.
In fact it is now my preferred way to meet women by far. Plus, I personally know many people who have found their husbands, wives, boyfriends or girlfriends through an online dating service. Plus, I?m sure everyone by now has a family member or friend who has met a mate online.
This is one of the reasons I believe that the older population is feeling better about using the internet to find someone.?
Phelan then goes on to offer a few valuable online dating tips for seniors: ?What makes it work for me is the convenience aspect and the large pool of women to choose from now days. I just sort through the profiles, work on my profile, send out some messages and wait for responses. Patience is so important.
Also, when looking at the profiles of others I noticed I was drawn to those who spent time and put thought into writing about themselves and uploading photos. So, I did the same and I found out I had more success after doing so.?
Over 50 Match dot com is dating site for seniors that is free to join and has been online since January 2006.
Matt Hamill's return to the Octagon was less than thrilling. Hamill may have won his first post-retirement bout with a decision over Roger Hollett, but he didn't win many fans with the slow, plodding bout. The crowd at UFC 152 in Toronto booed the bout, and the fight was panned on social media.
One of the notable tweets about how boring the fight was came from UFC fight Vladimir Matyushenko:
Damn! Even injured I could beat @hammerufc and @rogerhollett together! What a weak fight!
At one point, it was supposed to be Matyushenko in the cage with Hamill. The fight that was originally made for UFC 152 was Hamill vs. Hollett. However, Hollett was still under contract with Bellator. Matyushenko stepped in to fight Hamill, but then tore his Achilles' tendon in training. Hollett had his contract situation cleared up, and was brought back into fight Hamill.
But even with his torn tendon, Matyushenko thought he could still bring a better fight than the one he saw on Saturday night.
It would be wise of anyone who reviews Tokyo Jungle to set the tone by opening with a bizarre occurrence they experienced during their time with the game. Who wouldn?t be immediately hooked or, at the least, intrigued when they hear you can play as a baby chick and stealthily kill a rabbit while it sleeps? Or what about the time I was a gazelle just trying to search for food?I ran into a pack of beagles who wanted to eat me for food, so I double-jumped to safety onto the tops of buildings where I immediately ran into a saber-toothed cat that took a couple swipes and killed me. These happened to me less than an hour into playing Tokyo Jungle. I haven?t even mentioned the moments you experience as a lion or a pig or even a raptor (yes, a raptor). The simple possibility that any of these things can happen should be enough to pique your interest. If not, then read on and maybe I will make a believer out of you.
Stated plainly, Tokyo Jungle places you in the lives of one of dozens of different animals trying to survive a version of Tokyo that has been devoid of humans for years. You won?t immediately know what happened to all of the people, but the game does a good job at slowly revealing details over time. The lack of people has caused all domesticated animals to roam free; even zoo animals have broken free and escaped into the streets. As each animal has its own unique place on the food chain, it is up to you adapt and survive?and surviving is the name of the game in Tokyo Jungle.
Perhaps one of the best things about the game is how intuitive it is to just pick up and play. A brief tutorial introduces the concepts of eating, fighting, sneaking, and mating which all can be accomplished through a few presses of the face buttons. Whether you are a predator that eats other animals or a plant-eating grazer, you must never go hungry or you will slowly lose life and eventually die. However, you must always be on guard because other animals are hunting for food whether it is for your own prey or you. By keeping your distance and hiding in tall grass you will be able to avoid detection and keep safe. Since your animal only has a lifespan of 15 years (each year is about a minute in real-time) you must continue your legacy and gameplay by mating. By eating and leveling up enough you can impress the prime female which will net more children and, in turn, more lives. When starting a new generation some of stats will pass on so you won?t feel completely underpowered. Seem like a lot? It isn?t, especially when you spend some time in survival mode.
Surviving isn?t as easy as you might think
Survival mode is where you are going to spend the bulk of your time in Tokyo Jungle. In this mode your task is to survive as long as possible racking up survival points. Though you get points for ever year you survive and the amount you eat, the most points will come from challenges. Every time you start a game you are given a certain amount of tasks to complete whether it is to mark multiple territories, start a new generation, or enter a new area. The only way to expand your collection of playable animals is to complete certain challenges in survival mode, giving you plenty of reason to come back and improve. I was surprised at how difficult surviving in this game is?especially when you play as something like a baby chick?because the game doesn?t throw the same challenges or scenarios at you all the time. The map of Tokyo never changes which helps you get acclimated with the world and where the best places are to hide and eat. While you must adapt to the fact that an area that used to be populated with chickens is now full of hyenas, you have the previous knowledge from all your past playthroughs to assist you in the best course of action. You get this sense that with each new death you are getting better and that?s never a bad feeling.
Since no one wants to play the entirety of Tokyo Jungle as a small animal, survival points are used to unlock new animals that you have opened up by completing challenges. All this creates a chain of progression where you build upon your own experience to open up new parts of the game. If that isn?t enough incentive then you can play for high scores so your name will be at the top of online leaderboards; bask in glory as your porcupine did the best out of everyone else?s. One thing I thought would get on my nerves after long periods of play was the music. As it turns out, I began to enjoy it. It shifts between Nine Inch Nails-esque industrial music to some slightly more vibrant electronic/techno beats. There?s going to be people who downright hate it but it truly does fit the atmosphere of a ruined Tokyo.
My biggest complaint about survival mode is that you must play it a lot to unlock every chapter in the story. You do that by finding various archives that slowly explain how and why humans are no longer around. In a way, seeing the story to its end is completely dependent upon how much time you want to invest in going through all the animals and completing a lot of challenges; which in its own right is very time consuming. When digging into the story, however, you are given a charming and hilarious tale from the perspective of different species. There is a lot of fun to be had in experiencing the tale of a pampered dog as it acclimates to a new world. Even a pack?s bloody quest to retake stolen territory is handled with an appropriate amount of care. It is a great strength when the game can not only be funny but sincere without going too overboard in an experience that is inherently over the top. And just in case seeing animals tear each other apart seems a bit too gritty for you, then just dress them up in a tuxedo or straw hat. Yes, there are costumes and pieces of equipment for your animal that not only provide laughs but boosts to your base stats as well. It is a detail like that which makes the game that much better and layered (it?s just too bad the equipment degrades if you take too much damage).
Up close the game looks very dated
Technically speaking, the game does have some flaws?none of which take away from the experience at all. Let?s just get it out of the way: the graphics aren?t great. They really do look straight out of a PS2 release especially when it comes to the animal models. Yes, the graphics are lacking by today?s standards but it is one of those things that only becomes noticeable close up and is immediately forgotten because you are too busy trying not to become food. Occasionally there will be issues with sneaking due to the somewhat dated and untrustworthy mechanic. Sometimes sleeping enemies will be alerted to your presence when you were sneaking from a distance and they might also be really skilled at detecting you in the cover of grass. Other times a member of your pack might get stuck or a random object or animal will block your way. Despite all this I never encountered anything that broke my game. However there is a particularly annoying loading/saving screen that you have to see whenever you start a new game, die, or even save during survival mode; actually, saving during survival mode will take you right back to the main screen which is puzzling.
Tokyo Jungle is one of the more unique games to come out on PSN in recent memory. For that reason alone it is worth checking out. It excels in all the right places that a game should. It is challenging, but fun with plenty of reason to come back for more. Its dated look could have signaled a disaster but instead PSN users have a game that is intuitive from the start and only gets better. Whether ?animal survival? becomes a new genre or not remains to be seen, but anyone who treats themselves to Tokyo Jungle will be in for something great.
Tokyo Jungle is out exclusively on the Playstation Network on September 25th for $14.99
GAMING ILLUSTRATED RATINGS FOR TOKYO JUNGLE (PS3) REVIEW
9.5
Gameplay Easy to pick up and play but hard to truly master, the intuitive controls and mechanics make this game shine
7
Graphics You can't argue that the game looks dated but the look doesn't take away from the fun
9
Replay Survival mode could last you a long time especially if you want to unlock everything, the fact that it is fun only helps
8.5
Story Sometimes funny, sometimes touching and you will feel compelled to find out why the humans are gone
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world.
"I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000," Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to applause.
"I invite the Taliban brothers and the al Qaeda brothers to join me in this blessed mission."
A spokesman for Pakistan's prime minister said the government disassociated itself from the minister's statement.
While many Muslim countries saw mostly peaceful protests on Friday, fifteen people were killed in Pakistan during demonstrations over the video.
People involved in the film, an amateurish 13-minute clip of which was posted on YouTube, have said it was made by a 55-year-old California man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.
Nakoula has not returned to his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos since leaving voluntarily to be interviewed by federal authorities. His family has since gone into hiding.
In the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Saturday, thousands of Islamist activists clashed with police who used batons and teargas to clear an unauthorized protest. In Kano, northern Nigeria's biggest city, Shi'ite Muslims burned American flags, but their protest passed off peacefully.
The demonstrations were less widespread than on Friday, but showed anger still simmered around the world against the film and other insults against Islam in the West, including cartoons published by a French satirical magazine.
Showing continued nervousness among Western governments, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called on Muslim countries to protect foreign embassies.
"The governments in host countries have the unconditional obligation to protect foreign missions. If that doesn't happen, we will emphatically criticize that and if it still doesn't happen it won't go without consequences," he told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday
Germany's embassy in Sudan was stormed on September 14 as was the U.S. mission in the capital Khartoum where there were deadly clashes between police and protesters against the film.
MILITIA OUSTED IN BENGHAZI
In the Libyan city of Benghazi, a crowd forced out an Islamist militia some U.S. officials blame for a deadly attack on the U.S. consulate during one of the first protests, on September 11.
Ansar al-Sharia, which denies it was involved in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, quit the city after its base was stormed by Libyans angry at armed groups that control parts of the country.
That might go some way to vindicate U.S. President Barack Obama's faith in Libya's nascent democracy where Ambassador Christopher Stevens had worked to help rebels oust Muammar Gaddafi only to be killed in a surge of anti-Americanism.
"It's the view of this administration that it's a pretty clear sign from the Libyan people that they're not going to trade the tyranny of a dictator for the tyranny of the mob," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
"It's also an indication that the Libyan people are not comfortable with the voices of a few extremists and those who advocate and perpetrate violence, to drown out the voices and aspirations of the Libyan people." [ID:nL5E8KM49W]
In Egypt, the leader of Egypt's main ultra orthodox Islamist party, that shares power with the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood, said the film and the French cartoons were part of a rise of anti-Islamic actions since the Arab spring revolts.
"A new reality in the Middle East has emerged after the toppling of autocratic regime of Hosni Mubarak and others through democratic elections that brought newly-elected Islamist governments," Emad Abdel Ghaffour, leader of the Salafist Nour Party, told Reuters.
"There are interest groups who seek to escalate hatred to show newly-elected governments and their Muslim electorate as undemocratic," he said.
Nour, whose party is the second largest in parliament and plays a formidable force in Egypt's new politics, said President Mohamed Mursi should demand "legislation or a resolution to criminalize "contempt of Islam as a religion and its Prophet" at the U.N. General Assembly next week.
(Reporting by Jibran Ahmad in Peshawar, Pakistan, Anis Ahmed in Dhaka and; Tom Cocks in Lagos; Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by Sophie Hares)
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