Background: Drugs to protect the liver are frequently prescribed in some countries as part of treatment for tuberculosis. The biological rationale is not clear, they are expensive and may do harm. We conducted a systematic review to a) describe the ingredients of "liver protection drugs"; and b) compare the evidence base for the policy against international standards.
Methods: We searched international medical databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, CINAHL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and the specialised register of the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group) and Chinese language databases (CNKI, VIP and WanFang) to April 2007. Our inclusion criteria were research papers that reported evaluating any liver protection drug or drugs for preventing liver damage in people taking anti-tuberculosis treatment. Two authors independently categorised and extracted data, and appraised the stated methods of evaluating their effectiveness.
Results: Eighty five research articles met our inclusion criteria, carried out in China (77), India (2), Russia (4), Ukraine (2). These articles evaluated 30 distinct types of liver protection compounds categorised as herbal preparations, manufactured herbal products, combinations of vitamins and other non-herbal substances and manufactured pharmaceutical preparations. Critical appraisal of these articles showed that all were small, poorly conducted studies, measuring intermediate outcomes. Four trials that were described as randomised controlled trials were small, had short follow up, and did not meet international standards.
Conclusion: There is no reliable evidence to support prescription of drugs or herbs to prevent liver damage in people on tuberculosis treatment.


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Q: Get value from javascript into velocity I have a javascript function which returns me a value . I need to get this value in a variable of my velocity template can someone please help me .
Below is the code I am trying . I know it is not correct I am not getting the value
<script type="text/javascript">
function getCurrentUserTime(key)
{
var user;
     $.ajax({
        url: "/rest/1.0/compute/TST-30",
        type: 'get',
        dataType: 'json',
        async: false,
        success: function(data) {
            user = data.sla;
        }
     });
     return user[0].remainingTime;
}
</script>

$key="test"
#set($time=getCurrentUserTime('$key'))
$time

A: The problem is that the function is trying to return user[0].remainingTime before ajax call has completed. I recommend you handle the return value with callback:
function getCurrentUserTime(key, callback) {
    var user;
    $.ajax({
        url: "/rest/1.0/compute/TST-30",
        type: 'get',
        dataType: 'json',
        async: false,
        success: function(data) {
            user = data.sla;
            if(callback && typeof callback === 'function') {
                callback(user[0].remainingTime);
            }
        }
    });

}

getCurrentUserTime('$key', function(val) {
    // handle val
});

You can find lots of guides about using callback in javascript via google.

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Q: "No installed build tools found" error during cordova build, but build-tools are already installed I am trying to build a cordova android app in a macbook air m1 and I'm getting the "No installed build tools found" error, but build-tools are properly installed. I'm completely lost as I'm new on macos and never had this issue in linux. I'd be glad if someone could help.
The error output is:
cordova build android
Checking Java JDK and Android SDK versions
ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/Users/aurumque/Library/Android/sdk (recommended setting)
ANDROID_HOME=/Users/aurumque/Library/Android/sdk (DEPRECATED)
Using Android SDK: /Users/aurumque/Library/Android/sdk
Subproject Path: CordovaLib
Subproject Path: app

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* Where:
Script '/Users/aurumque/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/www/cordova/tuteacuatro/platforms/android/CordovaLib/cordova.gradle' line: 64

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> No installed build tools found. Install the Android build tools version 19.1.0 or higher.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
==============================================================================

2: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.
> compileSdkVersion is not specified. Please add it to build.gradle

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
==============================================================================

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 349ms
Command failed with exit code 1: /Users/aurumque/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/www/cordova/tuteacuatro/platforms/android/gradlew cdvBuildDebug -b /Users/aurumque/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/www/cordova/tuteacuatro/platforms/android/build.gradle

And this is my ~/.zprofile:
export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/zulu-8.jdk/Contents/Home

export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=/Users/aurumque/Library/Android/sdk
export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/aurumque/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

Thank you all


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Environment / Natural Resources
Update: Whale Euthanized
by Iridian Casarez
Mark McKenna
A humpback whale that was found beached just north of Samoa, California on Wednesday struggles in the surf. The whale had become tangled in fishing nets and a crab pot.
Oct. 25 UPDATE:
At around 6 p.m. last night, a veterinarian with the Marine Mammal Center euthanized the whale that was stranded on the north side of Samoa beach Wednesday morning. The decision to euthanize the mammal came after the Sausalito veterinarian conducted physical examinations and blood tests to determine its health. (After the whale's death the teams were able to confirm it was female.)
Now, the teams are conducting a necropsy and external examination of the whale to try to find out more about what happened, said Dawn Goley, Humboldt State University professor and HSU Marine Mammal Stranding Program coordinator. Once they are done with the examinations, the teams will bury the whale on the beach.
"We're really sorry it ended this way," Goley said. "But this was the most humane way to go."
A specialist from the Marine Mammal Center in
Sausalito has determined that the whale beached just north of Samoa will not
survive or return to the water after assessing its condition and taking blood
tests, Humboldt State University professor and HSU Marine Mammal Stranding
Program Coordinator Dawn Goley said.
"We're sorry for the outcome but right now we're just planning for the next steps," she said.
The humpback whale that was found entangled in fishing nets on Samoa beach yesterday has now spent more than 24 hours out of water, which may greatly impact its health and survival according to Dawn Goley, a Humboldt State University marine biology professor who also works with the HSU Marine Mammal Stranding Network.
"It's not good for a whale to be out of water, ever," Goley said. "Land and gravity takes its toll. The force of the pull of [the whale's] weight affects its organs. It's very unlikely that this whale is going to survive."
Goley was one of the first responders at the scene, coordinating with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Fisheries Services. The MMSP team had first assessed the conditions of the whale and the entanglement of the net before contacting the NOAA to make a plan on how to disentangle it.
After about an hour, using specialized equipment the teams made careful cuts and were able to disentangle the whale from the net, they then began assessing its respiration and behavior to enact the best plan to return the whale to the ocean.
As of 10 a.m. this morning, the whale was alive and moving its fins. Goley said that if the whale isn't able to swim away on it's own they will not make any attempt to push the whale into the ocean, as it is dangerous for both the whale and people. Other ideas, like building trenches, also have profound risks, she added, saying that the waves on the North Coast play a role in the danger, calling them "treacherous."
Helmet Allison Lui with HSU Marine Mammal Stranding Network throws sea water on a humpback whale that was found beached just north of Samoa, California on Wednesday.
"We've been in communication with NOAA and other organizations around the country who have had experiences with stranded whales to weigh out every option," Goley said. "It might seem like we are not doing much, but we're thinking of what's best and safest for the whale and people."
Goley said that they do not know what other factors played a role on the whale coming onto the shore. Besides the fishing net, they do not know what the whale's conditions were when it first caught on the net. Goley said she'd like to thank the community for its support and suggestions, they are taking this situation one step at a time.
"We're expecting the worst, but hoping for the best," Goley said.
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Photo By Thomas Lal
Gear ready, the North Coast's commercial crab fleet is on hold
by Nathan Rushton | Dec 12, 2019
C. Juhasz/cdfw Website
Crab Quality Delays Commercial Season Opening
by Kimberly Wear | Nov 18, 2019
Submitted By Dawn Goley
Gray Whale Found Washed Up on Agate Beach 1
by Kimberly Wear | Nov 6, 2019

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SportsColumnistsSteve Popper
By Steve Popper @StevePopper
Poised and fearless, RJ Barrett looks like a Knicks prodigy
Knicks forward RJ Barrett (9) looks on in the second quarter on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019 at Madison Square Garden. Credit: Corey Sipkin
Updated October 26, 2019 5:16 PM
RJ Barrett found himself on an island Friday night, alone in the spotlight as he got into a defensive stance, staring down Kyrie Irving.
The clock was ticking down, the crowd was on its feet — a pretty equal number voicing support for Barrett and the Knicks even though the game was at Barclays Center. Think about what he was facing: perhaps the greatest ballhandler in the NBA, maybe in NBA history, readying to take him one-on-one in front of a crowd at full volume and even both teams' benches standing to watch, and doing it in just his second NBA game.
"It was great, especially as a 19-year-old, that's the atmosphere you want to play in," Barrett said afterward. "I'm very honored that I got to play in this game today."
Kyrie Irving #11 of the Nets drives against RJ Barrett #9 of the Knicks in the first half at Barclays Center on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. Credit: Jim McIsaac
Irving did what he does, what he has done before and will do again, dribbling Barrett onto his heels and then sidestepping back beyond the arc and calmly draining the go-ahead three-point field goal to ruin the Knicks hopes.
"I mean, he's earned it, great player, champion," Barrett said. "Great players make great plays and that's what he did tonight. Same shot he hit to win the championship against Golden State. It's tough. I was right there, nothing else you could do about that one."
Whether it was isolated against Irving on the floor or describing the scene afterward, Barrett just didn't feel like what he was, a rookie with just one year of college behind him and now in his second game. Maybe it is the pedigree of coming from parents who were athletes here in New York — his father Rowan a key piece to St. John's basketball and then playing professionally all over the world and for his country, Canada, where he now serves as general manager of the national team, and his mother Kesha was an elite sprinter raised in Brooklyn. Maybe it is growing up with Steve Nash as his godfather that prepared him.
But he has begun his career playing 37 minutes in San Antonio and 36 against Brooklyn, starting the first game at point guard — a position he has played, but is not his natural spot. He has made the mistakes that you might expect from a player this young — turning the ball over five times in Brooklyn and missing all three of his free-throw attempts. But he has also scored 21 points against the Spurs and 16 against the Nets, hit a pair of three-point field goals in Brooklyn and also took the ball to the rim intent on dunking on whoever gets in his way.
After beating his fellow Duke product, Irving, who had spoken to him at times throughout the game, had only kind words for Barrett.
"I'm in the league my ninth year now, so seeing RJ be so young and be so poised and really just play fearlessly is really great," Irving said. "Coach [Mike Krzyzewski] really prepared him for it. Like I said, I'm going to see him for a few more years in the league. I just told him to stay calm, and I'm always here. But obviously, we want to kick each other's butts on the court, and that's the way it should be."
Knicks coach David Fizdale has experimented with limited success through the first two games trying to find combinations that work among his oddly-constructed roster. But the one thing he has not done is waver at all in his faith that Barrett is ready for all of this. When the Knicks three experienced point guards didn't win the job in preseason he didn't hesitate to put the ball in Barrett's hands.
After that first game Fizdale said, "When the popcorn's popping, that kid is ready." He added Friday, "That's just how he plays. He just has a way about him. He kind of lets the game come to him. He sees the game really well. He has a really good feel for the game. He picks his spots well."
The fans in Brooklyn were chanting, "Where is Zion," at times Friday, a nod to the Knicks tanking efforts last year to secure the top pick in the NBA Draft and select Barrett's Duke teammate, Zion Williamson. The Knicks settled for the third pick and Barrett and on a team where little seems right, he is the one player who seems made for this.
Fizdale has shuttled through one combination after another, trying to find a group that works as the Knicks have fallen behind by 16 points in the opener and then 19 in the second game. They started without a true point guard in the opener and then gave the job to Elfrid Payton for the second game. But he abandoned the first plan by halftime of the opener and used Payton sparingly as the game wore on in Brooklyn, instead pairing Barrett with Allonzo Trier for an offensive boost.
Asked after the Brooklyn loss how difficult it is to figure out which point guard to play, Fizdale shook his head and said, "Difficult."
If he had a plan coming into the season, it's hard to see. Dennis Smith Jr. has shot poorly since returning from a lower back strain that sidelined him for much of the preseason, hitting just 3 of 17 in two exhibition games and then carrying it over and shooting 1 of 8 in the first two games of the regular season. Fizdale raved about Frank Ntilikina through training camp and the Knicks picked up his fourth-year extension late in camp. But he played less than three minutes in the opener and didn't get off the bench in Brooklyn.
Kevin Knox wanted to come back this season stronger and expanding his shooting. So far, so good. After shooting 34.7 percent from three-point range as a rookie Knox has hit 7 of 8 from beyond the arc in the first two games.
Steve Popper covers the Knicks for Newsday. He has spent nearly three decades covering the Knicks and the NBA, along with just about every sports team in the New York metropolitan area.


Pramika Maharjan finally found her true calling when faced with the mortal risks that far too many pregnant women face in Nepal.
"I was so upset when a woman, suffering from heavy bleeding after giving birth, had to be rushed to hospital," explains Maharjan, recalling the life-changing case she handled while working as a nurse in Nepal's remote far-western district of Doti.
Four years later, and Maharjan is one of 29 aspiring midwives studying for their dream jobs.
The new Bachelor's Degree in Midwifery, the first of its kind in Nepal, was launched by the Government in 2017. The three-year course is one part of a broader action plan, supported by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to build a professional cadre of midwives to help reduce Nepal's high maternal mortality rate, which, despite progress in recent years, still stood at 258 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2015.
In rural areas in particular, reaching health facilities remains difficult and risky for many, and there are dangerously low numbers of medical professionals and skilled birth attendants in Nepal as a whole. Up to 41 per cent of babies are still delivered at home, and only 58 per cent of births are assisted by a skilled provider.
UNFPA estimates that professional midwives could help avert around two-thirds of all maternal and newborn deaths. They could also deliver up to 87 per cent of all essential sexual, reproductive, maternal and newborn health services.
Maharjan, thinking back to her first case in Doti, aims to head out to Nepal's far reaches, where the risks for pregnant women are often the highest.
"I want to work in remote areas, where pre-pregnancy, antenatal, labour, birth, postpartum and family planning services are so limited," she says.
Maharjan and the others in Nepal's first set of midwifery graduates will enter the national health system in early 2020, and other steps are being taken to prepare for a growing cadre of skilled birth attendants.
"It's important for doctors and other healthcare professionals to accept midwives as peers and equals," explained Kristine Blokhus, UNFPA Deputy Representative in Nepal.
The key role midwifery plays was reinforced in the aftermath of Nepal's massive 2015 earthquake and its aftershocks, when midwives helped save the lives of numerous pregnant women, new mothers and their infants amid the devastation wrought in Kathmandu and well beyond.
According to Professor Kiran Bajracharya, President of Nepal's Midwifery Society which helped establish and prepare the degree programme, next steps should include setting up a recruitment, deployment and retention policy for midwives nationwide.


than any other place we know.
We are only here to visit, to pause and do our best.
But we'll meet again in glory, where the Lord will give us rest."
These words, from a poem a Marine hero wrote to his wife before he passed away, give a glimpse of the man he was.
Retired Sgt. Maj. Louis Roundtree, who passed away July 8, was laid to rest at Quantico National Cemetery on July 15. Roundtree enlisted into a Corps very different from today. He faced the hardships of a segregated nation, where anyone could die for their country, but not sit at the front of a bus.
June 25, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which allowed people of all ethnic backgrounds to enlist into the armed forces. Recruitment began one year later.
While whites were trained at Paris Island, S.C., and San Diego, "people of color" were trained at Montford Point, N.C. Headquarters and Service Battery of the 51st Composite Defense Bn. was activated at Montford Point on Aug. 18, 1942. Roundtree joined the Marines in 1948, and President Harry S Truman ended segregated units in 1949. Even with this new order, it would still take decades for blacks in the military to be part of mainstream society.
Roundtree is one of the most decorated warriors in Marine Corps history, said retired Capt. Samuel Saxton, past president of Montford Point Marine Association. Roundtree's combat awards included three Purple Hearts, three Silver Stars and four Bronze Stars. Roundtree participated in actions in Korea, Cuba and Vietnam. He was part of the landing at Inchon, Korea, as an automatic rifleman with 2nd Bn., 1st Marine Regiment, which was commanded by Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller. Roundtree's company destroyed three enemy tanks and decimated a reinforced North Korean enemy battalion. He also fought battles in Seoul and at the Chosin Reservoir and was seriously wounded in action at the battle of "Gung-Ho Hill."
Roundtree again saw action in Vietnam while assigned as an infantry advisor. In one battle his entire unit was decimated and he was listed as being killed in action. When reinforcements arrived at his unit's position and couldn't find his body or dog tags they changed his status to missing in action. Roundtree fought his way out of an enemy encirclement into the jungles and river, through and around guerrilla and North Vietnamese forces, until he managed to reach a South Vietnamese unit. Roundtree, severely injured and with only scraps of clothing left on his body, was flown to Da Nang for recovery. When his condition improved, he was flown to Saigon where he was interviewed on NBC's Today Show. Roundtree's family members and friends were shocked and elated to see him on television because they had just recently attended his funeral.
Despite seeing so much combat and being so highly decorated Roundtree was very humble, said Saxton.
"I don't feel as though I have to go around bragging or continuously speaking about what I have done," Roundtree once said. "I know what I did. My friends, fellow Marines, Army, and Navy Corpsman know the story. It is all history now and that is where I prefer it to stay. There is certainly enough going on in the world today to constantly remind each of us what we have been through in our lives and what we have had to face daily."
"Roundtree was a Marine's Marine and warrior's warrior," said retired Master Gunnery Sgt. John M. Meyers, also a Montford Point Marine.
He personified the Marine Corps values of honor, courage, and commitment, said Saxton. "He made the phrase come alive."
When I am gone, release me...let me go.
Be happy for all the years we shared.
You can only guess how much you gave me in happiness.
It's only for a while that we must part.


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Joint Letter Of Middle East Studies
The joint letter of the Middle East Studies Association and the American Association of University Professors on the killing of Iraqi academics:
'November 10, 2006
Honorable Nouri Kamal al-Maliki
Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq
c/o The Embassy of Iraq
1801 P Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036 USA
Dear Prime Minister al-Maliki:
We write to you on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and the American Association of University (AAUP) to express our grave concern over the killing of two of Iraq's most prominent academics: Isam al-Rawi, a professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Baghdad and president of the Union of University Professors, and Jassim al-Asadi, Dean of the University of Baghdad's School of Administration and Economics.
Professor al-Rawi was killed by unknown gunmen on October 30, 2006, on his way to work. Then, on November 2, 2006, in an act which many observers see as revenge for the earlier killing, unknown gunmen murdered Professor al-Asadi, his wife and son as they passed by car through the neighborhood of al-Adhamiyya.
Their murder highlights the startling fact that over 180 university professionals in Iraq have been killed since the 2003 US-led occupation and thousands of academics, teachers, clinicians, writers and artists have fled your country. We note that entire academic departments at Baghdad University and on other campuses have been forced to close down and are no longer able to fulfill their educational and research missions.
As we have previously noted, the present Government of Iraq has done little to ensure the safety of academics since it took office. A significant portion of the current violence against academics has been perpetrated by sectarian militias affiliated with the ruling political coalitions. Professors have been threatened, harmed, kidnapped and assassinated because of their actual or alleged political affiliations, or because they failed to respond resolutely to demands of students for special treatment. Communities of students are becoming politicized in a way that threatens the institutionalization of tolerance and the protection of intellectual diversity.
We ask your Excellency to recognize that the destruction of Iraq's intellectual and academic class through murder and mass exodus is a profound challenge to the future of Iraq and that you take immediate action to:
1) Secure the campuses in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq;
2) Affirm the independence of Iraq's system of higher education,
immunize it against sectarian politics as far as possible and provide
for it a budget that is institutionally protected from partisan or sectarian
pressures; and
3) Identify the murderers of Professors al-Rawi and al-Asadi and bring
them to justice.
Please know that we remain ready to take steps, together and with sister organizations, to promote programs and policies in Iraq and on behalf of the international community of scholars and researchers that will resolutely address this disturbing situation.
Juan R.I. Cole
MESA President
Roger W. Bowen
AAUP General Secretary
cc: Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie
The Embassy of Iraq
Fax: (202) 462-5066 '


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Electrifiers of Funk
Love Hustler
Steve Penhollow
There is much that is atypical about Love Hustler.
For one thing, the band practiced and tinkered for more than 10 years before performing its first show.
For another, the band only has two members. But those two guys make it sound like they, in the words of Walt Whitman, "contain multitudes."
Love Hustler are longtime local music stalwarts and multi-instrumentalists Adam Rudolph and Matt Cashdollar.
While it is true that Love Hustler perform electronic music, the reality of what the band does is not fully addressed by that phrase.
Yes, Love Hustler make use of laptops. But Rudolph and Cashdollar also play instruments and sing.
Love Hustler don't remix or mash-up other artists' hits. They perform originals - the sort of originals that people take an instant liking to, unless they were brought up wrong.
Rudolph and Cashdollar call what they do electrofunk, and it is as ingratiating as some club music is punishing (at least to these middle-aged ears).
Advanced technology aside, Love Hustler's music is more old school than whatever the opposite of old school is.
Love Hustler began as strictly a studio project, Cashdollar said.
"We just wanted to record as much as possible," he said.
"And have as much fun as we possibly could," Rudolph added.
Cashdollar said it took a while for the guys to figure out how they were going to pull it all off live.
"For a long time, we were thinking, 'Why don't we just teach these to a band?'" he said. "He and I were in the Freak Brothers together."
Some Love Hustler material did make it into the Freak Brothers canon, Cashdollar said.
Then, about two years ago, the guys began to slowly construct an elaborate interlinked and interlocking performance system whereby all the elements of Love Hustler could come together on stage.
"There's been a little trial and error," Cashdollar said. "Syncing the lights with it - that was all him [Rudolph]. I was on vacation. I was in Florida for a week, and I came back and he said, 'There's a light show.' And was like, 'What?'"
Rudolph said he thinks the lighting solution he came up with had never been tried before.
Rudolph worried at first whether Love Hustler - an unusual concept in the grand scheme of electronic things - could find a place on the club scene.
"I just thought the DJs were going to look down at this or any idea like this," Rudolph said.
But the management at Hush, a downtown club, was intrigued rather than incredulous and asked the band to perform last summer.
"So they took a chance on us I feel like," he said. "We were very, very gracious to them. They saw the potential and we were like, 'Yes!'"
"They gambled on us," Cashdollar said. "Usually it's a DJ or a team of DJs and that's it. But we're a band. We're a band that functions in the role of a DJ."
Watching Love Hustler perform is a singular experience. It puts a person in mind of a "one man band," the pre-digital troubadour who played various instruments simultaneously with various appendages. Cashdollar and Rudolph do a lot of different things on stage and do them all well.
Love Hustler's roots in 80s funk are unmistakable. Cashdollar cites Zapp & Roger and Midnight Star as especially strong influences.
One of the more intriguing effects of some of the band's music, especially for a person who grew up during the 80s, is that it can bring you instantly and joyously back to that era, even though you are hearing the songs for the first time.
More contemporary influences include the British band Jamiroquai and the Canadian duo Chromeo.
"Chromeo [are] a two-man band and they are literally the genre that we're doing," Cashdollar said.
"They really pushed us to want to perform it, Rudolph said, "seeing what they're doing."
Now that these men have proved definitively that Love Hustler can work beautifully in a live setting, they plan to take the band outside Fort Wayne this summer.
"We want to get the band into different environments in other cities," Cashdollar said. "We would certainly love to see this on a festival stage and not just in Fort Wayne."
The guys don't have any lofty goals beyond having fun.
"We just want to take it where it's appreciated," Rudolph said. "If you worry about the music and just being good and making sure the music is good, I think everything else just takes care of itself."
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Nürnberg 2013 Preview
W. Eric Martin
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The 64th Spielwarenmesse – the International Toy Fair in Nürnberg, Germany – took place January 30 to February 4, 2013, and this list is intended to catalog titles on display at that show.
Note that, unlike at Essen, Germany's Spiel game convention in October, many games previewed at Nürnberg won't be available for purchase immediately, instead appearing in stores over the next few months. Think of this list as a preview of what you might see appear in waves throughout the first half of 2013.
Lists from earlier years, mostly created by BaSL prior to 2011:
• Nürnberg 2012 Preview
• Nürnberg 2011 Canonical List
Edited Fri Nov 1, 2013 9:32 pm
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1. Board Game: Ab in die Tonne [Average Rating:6.17 Overall Rank:6865]
Carlo A. Rossi
Number of players: 2 − 5
Suggested ages: 6 and up
Action / Dexterity
Mechanics:
Players in Ab in die Tonne need to toss trash into the garbage bin, but unfortunately they're all a bit lazy and instead of emptying the bin when it's full, they're content to pile everything as high as possible in the hope that someone else will knock it over and have to clean up the mess.
Before the game begins, each player takes a set of cards numbered 1–10, and the forty pieces of "trash"—milk cartons, tin cans, bottles, and apple cores—are placed next to the garbage can.
Each round, players secretly choose one of the three cards in their hand, then reveal them simultaneously. In order from low number to high, each player places a number of pieces of trash equal to the number she revealed into—or onto—the garbage bin. If a player makes the garbage mountain collapse, she receives a penalty token, then empties out the bin, with the next player in that round starting with a clean bin. If someone places the final piece of trash into the bin without knocking anything over, she receives a bonus.
The game ends after the sixth penalty token has been handed out, and whoever has the fewest penalty points wins.
Other Information: • Price €25
Posted Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:22 am
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2. Board Game: Alles Käse! [Average Rating:5.70 Overall Rank:14938]
Meelis Looveer
The player mice in Alles Käse want to collect as much hole-y cheese as possible, and to do so either they can play it safe, scout the territory, and see whether the cheese they find sticks around for later pilferage – or they can take a chance on a sweet-looking chunk of Swiss and possibly end up in a trap.
The cards in the deck have 1-6 "holes" on them, with six cards in each hole denomination; on the reverse side, the cards show either cheese or a trap, with the cards showing more holes having a greater percentage of traps.
To set up the game, players shuffle the 36 cards, then lay out six cards in a row with the hole side up. On a player's turn, he rolls the six-sided die. If the number on the die doesn't match the number of holes on any card in the row, the player peeks at one of these cards to see whether it shows cheese or a trap on the reverse side, then returns it to the row. (With 2-3 players, the player also moves the top card from the deck to the discard pile.) If the number on the die matches the number of holes on at least one card in the row, the player can either:
Take one of these cards, reveal it, and place it in front of himself, or
Take one of these cards and place it on the discard pile without revealing its opposite side to anyone.
In either case, the player then fills the empty spot in the row with the top card from the deck.
If someone collects a third trap, the game ends, this player automatically loses, and everyone else counts the number of holes on their cheese cards; trap cards are worth no points. The player with the most holes wins. The game also ends if the deck runs out, with the holeyist player once again winning.
Other Information: • Price €7.50
3. Board Game: Coloretto: 10 Jahre Jubiläumsausgabe [Average Rating:6.97 Overall Rank:535]
Michael Schacht
Game play in Coloretto is simple: Either draw a card to play to a row, or take a row of cards to add them to your collection. A row can have at most three cards, so at some point everyone is forced to take a row. Once all the rows have been claimed, players start a new round, drawing or taking once again.
What are you trying to do with these cards? Collect huge sets - but only in three colors as every color beyond the third will cost you points. Jokers are highly-prized as they always match what you want, and +2 cards provide sure points, giving you a back-up plan if everything goes south in terms of the colors you're collecting.
Once only a few cards remain in the deck, the round ends and everyone tallies their score, choosing three colors of cards to score positively while any other colors count against you. Each color is scored using a triangular number system: the first card in a color is ±1 point, the second card is ±2 points, and so on. The player with the high score wins!
A two-player variant is included with some versions of Coloretto, with the only change being that rows can have only 1-3 cards placed in them, depending on the icons on the row cards.
Nordic version include extensions: 'Coloretto: The Extra Cards', 'Coloretto: The Limit Cards' and 'Coloretto for two players'.
Other Information: • Price €8
• This tenth anniversary edition of Coloretto from ABACUSSPIELE uses the artwork from the Russian edition of the game published by Lifestyle, Ltd.
Note the mysterious golden chameleon – what does it do?!
Edited Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:26 pm
4. Board Game: Samurai Sword [Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:1541]
Emiliano Sciarra
Playing time: 20 − 40 minutes
Team-Based Game
Game description from the publisher:
Samurai Sword is a game based on the proven Bang! mechanisms and set in feudal Japan. In this game, the familiar features of Bang! are enhanced by more dynamic and fast-paced game play, and thanks to a new scoring system – based on honor points and resilience points – there is no player elimination. Everybody gets to fight to the very end! Also, weapons and attacks are fused into a single card.
5. Board Game: Stop [Average Rating:4.85 Unranked]
(Uncredited)
Number of players: 2 − 10
Stop is a variation of Uno, with players trying to empty their hand of cards by playing onto a discard pile by matching the color or number of the card on top of the pile. Stop also includes a few special cards and rules to tweak the gameplay and differentiate it:
6s and 9s are considered to be identical, so a 6 can be played on a 9 regardless of the color and vice versa.
If a player has a number card identical in color to the top card, she may play it out of turn onto the discard stack.
An exchange card allows the player playing it to have everyone give their cards to their left- or right-hand neighbor.
The +X card forces the next player to draw the top card of the deck and add it to her hand. If it's a number card, she must also draw that many cards.
The +2 card forces the next player to draw two cards and skip her turn – unless she also plays a +2 in which case the next player must draw four cards, etc.
A skip card skips the next player.
A stop card, which is numbered 0, can prevent the action of an exchange, +X, +2 or skip card played by the previous player.
When a player runs out of cards, the other players score points based on the cards they still have in hand. After multiple rounds, the game ends if a player has 500 or more points; the player with the fewest points wins!
6. Board Game: Zooloretto [Average Rating:6.83 Overall Rank:748] [Average Rating:6.83 Unranked]
In Zooloretto, each player uses small, large, wild, and exotic animals and their young to try to attract as many visitors as possible to their zoo – but be careful! The zoo must be carefully planned as before you know it, you might have too many animals and no more room for them. That brings minus points! Luckily, your zoo can expand. A zoo of a family game in which less is sometimes more...
Can be combined with
Aquaretto
Zooloretto Mini
• This new "Löwenedition", which uses the publisher's 1-2-3 approach to game presentation on its back cover, includes thirteen lion tiles that can be used in place of another species in the base game or other Zooloretto titles.
Edited Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:24 am
Board Game Publisher: AMIGO
• With 2013 being an election year in Germany, in addition to the new and newly translated (and not-so-new) titles below, AMIGO Spiel is publishing politically-themed versions of popular public domain card games – Skat, Doppelkopf and Rummy – with all three items due out in January 2013.
7. Board Game: Alle meine Entchen [Average Rating:4.43 Unranked]
Heinz Meister
In Duck-A-Roo, the little ducks quack happily and swim around the pond. They all want to follow their mother in order to be good ducks, so they try to keep pushing their way to the front of the line – and with your help, they'll make it there!
To set up the game, place the twenty color tiles face down in the center of the table, then place the mama duck, with the three baby ducks in a row behind her. On a player's turn, she reveals the color of one of the face-down tiles. If it matches the color of the duck at the back of the line, she keeps the tile and scoots the duck forward so that it's right behind its mother. The player takes another turn, searching for a tile to match the color of the duck now at the back of the line. If the player doesn't find a tile of the proper color, her turn ends.
Once the final tile has been claimed from the center of the table, the game ends. Whoever has collected the most tiles wins!
Other Information: • Price: €16
Posted Fri Jan 4, 2013 6:18 am
8. Board Game: Alle meine Tiere [Average Rating:6.17 Unranked]
Reinhard Staupe
Who knows best about the animals on this planet? Who knows the solitary ones, and the ones who travel in packs? Who knows their sizes, and whether they're endangered? If you do, you'll do well at Alle meine Tiere – and if not, you'll soon learn more about the animals around us.
To set up the game, someone lays out a 3x3 grid of animal cards, then sets the category deck and the remainder of the animal deck next to this grid.
On a turn, the active player draws a category card, which shows "height", "weight", "lifestyle" or "hazard"; the former categories will show whether you need to find cards in ascending or descending order, while the latter categories will indicate whether you need to find solo/pack animals or endangered/safe animals. Choose one of the rows in the grid, then reveal the backs of the cards, which will show whether you guessed correctly. If you did, you claim one of those cards, remove the other two from play, then replace them with new cards; if not, you turn the cards face down again, and the next player tries to find a set of animals that will fulfill that same category.
Whoever is first to collect an agreed-upon number of animal cards wins!
9. Board Game: Crazy Lab [Average Rating:5.97 Overall Rank:10094]
Jordi Gené
Gregorio Morales
Suggested ages: 10 and up
Trick-taking
In the trick-taking game Crazy Lab, the players are mad scientists mixing colorful liquids to make explosive mixtures. Each card features a vial that contains several liquids – that is, colored and numbered suits – and players will collect these cards if they win the trick. Each player has a randomly-dealt public color that counts as negative points for him, and after checking his dealt cards each player chooses a secret hidden color for which he'll score positive points at game end. Finally, each player chooses two more colors that will be added to the trump deck.
Each round, a card from the trump deck is revealed, then players sequentially play any card from their hand. Whoever plays the card with the highest trump color wins the trick. But beware! Since the vials contain liquids in several colors, even if the trump is blue, you could be getting a lot of red liquid!
After all cards in hand have been played, the game ends, and whoever has the highest score wins.
Other Information: • Price: €8
10. Board Game: Five Crowns [Average Rating:6.00 Overall Rank:4079]
Marsha J. Falco
Five Crowns is rummy with a five-suited deck and a twist. The set collection aspect of rummy is basically the same, with groups of three cards in either runs or denominations making a valid meld. The twist is that in each hand the number of cards required to create a meld increases, from three cards in the first hand to thirteen in the last. The game, therefore, consists of eleven hands.
In each hand, in addition to the six Jokers, other cards are designated as wild: in the first hand 3s are wild; in the second hand 4s are wild, and so on until in the last hand the Kings go wild. (You can remember which cards are wild because it matches the number of cards in hand, i.e., in the first hand you hold three cards and 3s are wild.) A hand ends when a player can meld all cards in her hand after the discard.
11. Board Game: Gespensterturm [Average Rating:5.75 Overall Rank:14378]
Cooperative Game
It's ten o'clock, and the ghosts in The Haunted Clock Tower are ready to have fun roaming up and down the stairs rattling their chains – but they must return to their rooms in the tower before the clock strikes midnight, and you need to help them find one another so that they can go home in time!
To set up the game, players shuffle the 24 ghost tiles face down on the table and set the clock hands to 10:00. To start the game, one player reveals a tile, then the next player reveals another tile. Do the ghost colors match on these tiles? If not, advance the clock hands by five minutes, then turn the tiles face down once again. If they do match, however, the next player reveals another tile. Once again, if this tile doesn't match the others, the clock hands advance five minutes. Find the third colored ghost in the trio, though, and you get to stack them together and place them in the room of the same color. In either case, the next player in clockwise order takes the next turn.
If the players return all the ghosts to their rooms before the tower reaches midnight, they win. Otherwise, they've lost the game, and the ghosts will continue to haunt the halls of the tower, forever at unrest...
12. Board Game: Hugo: Das Schlossgespenst [Average Rating:6.42 Overall Rank:2648]
Wolfgang Kramer
Roll / Spin and Move
Although billed as a children's game, Escape from the Hidden Castle, a.k.a. Midnight Party, is actually quite enjoyable by adults as a light, fun game. Each player controls a number of guests at a party, with the number of guests dependent on the number of players. These guests start the round in the spaces of the gallery on the game board, one guest per space; this initial placement is a large part of a player's strategy.
Hugo the ghost starts in the cellar, then climbs the stairs towards the gallery where the guests circle. The mechanism for Hugo's movement is simple: On a player's turn, he rolls a special die. If he gets a number, he moves his pieces; if he gets a Hugo, Hugo moves. This means that with more players in the game, Hugo moves a lot more frequently, so you must adjust your strategy accordingly.
Once Hugo has reached the gallery, the guests can start ducking into rooms adjoining the gallery to avoid him, with only one guest per room! A couple of rooms are special in that they add or subtract extra "fright points" from your score. As Hugo catches up with the remaining guests, they are sequestered on the stair steps, then in the cellar. The first guest caught "earns" the most fright points, with those caught later in the round earning less and less.
Once all the guests have been caught, the fright points are tallied. After playing a predetermined number of rounds, the player with the fewest fright points wins!
• Kramer notes in a post about Hugo's new version that the game has sold close to one million copies since its debut in 1989. He also states that this new edition of the game includes both the original Midnight Party rules as well as revised rules that change the gameplay somewhat; the game board is double-sided so that you can play the new or old version as you wish.
13. Board Game: Kuddelmuddel [Average Rating:5.60 Overall Rank:16307]
Haim Shafir
There's a big mess on the table! Who can clean up the cards the fastest, while also lining up cards that match one another?
In Connect the Thoughts – first released as Kuddelmuddel, which is German for "hodgepodge" – players try to put together chains of cards in order to score points. To set up the game, the players scatter the 80 cards in the deck face down on the table and place the bell within reach of all players. Everyone then simultaneously starts looking at face-down cards one by one. You can place the first card you see face up to start a row in front of you. To place another card next to this first one, whether on the left or right, the newly placed card must have at least one image in common with the card already in place.
As soon as a player has seven matching cards in a row, she rings the bell. If she goofed up, she sits out the round until another player creates a row; if she did everything correctly, she scoops up those cards and places them in a pile beside her while all other players reshuffle their cards into those that remain on the table.
The game ends whenever the last card is taken from the center of the table. Whoever has collected the most cards (i.e., rows) wins!
14. Board Game: SET [Average Rating:6.48 Overall Rank:1418]
Speed Matching
In SET, each card contains 1-3 objects, with all of the objects on a card having the same color, shape and shading, e.g., two purple shaded ovals. Colors, shapes, and shadings come in three different types: green, purple and red; oval, diamond and squiggle; and solid, shaded and outlined.
All players compete simultaneously and try to claim sets of cards in a single pass through the deck. A set consists of three cards that are either all alike or all different in each attribute. For example, if all three cards have the same number of objects, but three different shapes, shadings, and colors, then those cards are a set; if two of the cards have a common attribute that is not shared by the third, they are not a set.
To play, one person takes the deck and lays out twelve cards face up. The first person to spot a set collects those three cards; if the player was mistaken, then this player cannot claim a set until after another player has done so. After someone has claimed a set, the cardholder lays out three more cards. (If all players agree that no sets can be claimed, then the cardholder lays out three more cards. These cards aren't replaced after someone claims a set.) Whoever claims the most sets wins!
Looking vertically and horizontally, examples of six sets
15. Board Game: Xactika [Average Rating:5.78 Overall Rank:9117]
R. E. Falco
Xactika is an original card game that challenges players' ability to estimate the outcome of playing eight cards. You must predict the chances of being able to take the other players' cards that are laid down during each round. There is no drawing or discarding. You must predict exactly – hence the name Xactika – the number of rounds in which you will be able to take the cards played. Cards that appear too weak to take a trick initially may become strong enough to do so as the hand evolves. Players must recognize the value of their hand, not just from having the highest point cards in one of the four combinations on each card, but also from an understanding of the chances that for some of their other cards that no cards of the same combination may remain in the hands of the other players. Xactika, while of the same genre as Spades or Euchre, has more opportunity and takes a little more skill.
To play you must examine your hand to find cards in specific combinations that have values that are greater than your opponents. Some cards are sure bets, but only if you can take the lead. Other cards have a high probability of taking a trick, but this depends upon how the cards are played by others. So, careful attention must be paid to the moves of other players. You must also arrange to play your cards so that at the end of each hand you don't get stuck with a trick you don't want. The outcome of a hand is not determined until the end of the eight rounds, so each player must keep focused on the play throughout each of the eight hands of the game. Keep on your toes, and figure out how to take, as well as avoid taking, tricks. There are a number of ways to play each hand, but finding the way to make exactly the right numbers of bids is the challenge.
Board Game Publisher: Asmodee
16. Board Game: Chromino [Average Rating:5.77 Overall Rank:10589]
Louis Abraham
Abstract Strategy
Chromino – short for "chromatic domino" – challenges players to empty their hand of chromino tiles first. Each such tile has three colors on it laid out in a 1x3 row. At the start of the game, each player takes a hand of eight chrominoes and a special start tile with a wild center square is placed face-up on the table. Each turn, a player either places a chromino from his hand onto the table – with that chromino tile matching at least two colors on adjacent tiles already on the table – or else he draws a new chromino tile from the stock, playing this tile if possible and keeping it otherwise. The first player to empty his hand wins.
Chromino includes variant expert rules.
Posted Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:05 pm
17. Board Game: Dobble Kids [Average Rating:6.31 Overall Rank:4206]
Denis Blanchot
Jacques Cottereau
Spot it Jr.! Animals features the same game play as its parent Spot it! but in a simplified manner so that younger players can play, too. (Spot it! Numbers & Shapes and Spot it! Alphabet feature different images on their cards, but they have the same number of cards and the same gameplay.)
Note: some of the different editions have slightly different rulesets (see e.g. uploaded files of different versions). Some editions (e.g. Dobble Beach with its waterproof cards) even feature the aim of playing through all the minigames and the player who won the most minigames wins.
Each card in Spot it Jr.! Animals features six different animals, with the sizes of animals varying from one card to another. Any two cards have exactly one animal in common. To play, reveal one card, then another. Whoever spots the animal in common on both cards claims the first card, then another card is revealed for players to search, and so on.
Whoever has collected the most cards when the deck runs out wins!
Posted Sun Jan 27, 2013 3:21 am
18. Board Game: Spyrium [Average Rating:7.08 Overall Rank:653]
William Attia
Auction: Dutch Priority
Spyrium is set in an alternate world, an England set in a steampunk-based universe. Players build factories, needing workers to manage the production of a commodity previously unknown to us called "Spyrium". Producing Spyrium in one factory, then processing it in the next results in victory points (VPs) for that particular player. Alternatively, Spyrium can be purchased, but the material is rare and expensive, and players are constantly scraping for money.
Only those who from the beginning of the game manage to increase their regular income or their base of permanently employed workers (who can be used again and again to raise money) will be flexible enough to get their hands on the important end-of-game buildings to generate many VPs.
The circular nature of the game is flexible as each player can decide for himself when to move out of the placement phase and into the activation phase. With the two tracks in the game, those involved with delivery during the worker phase can then be used to raise money, to purchase an adjacent card, or to work on their own in an idle factory. All of these things are important, but in the end only the player who has dealt best with the lack of money, workers, and Spyrium will win.
Other Information: • Also available in French and German editions.
Edited Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:25 pm
Board Game Publisher: Cocktail Games
19. Board Game: Kaleidos Junior [Average Rating:6.74 Overall Rank:9917]
Spartaco Albertarelli
Playhouse Ltd
Ystari Games
Paper-and-Pencil
Kaleidos Junior comes with four identical sets of eight drawings, with each drawing depicting a scene packed (to greater and lesser extent) with stuff. Each player or team uses its own set of drawings, and the goal is to find as much stuff as possible in the drawing being used by each player — but first you need to know which stuff to find!
The game includes rules for three levels of players, depending on their ages. In level one, players look for items in one of thirteen categories, with the category being chosen by the spinner included in the game. Sample categories include something edible, something made of wood, something fragile, and something round. One player flips the sand timer, then everyone tries to find matching items in the drawing, covering those items with colored tokens. After time runs out, everyone reveals their answers, and for each correct answer, the player places one of her tokens in the center of the table. Players then choose a new drawing, each using the same one, and start a new round. The first player to get rid of all of her tokens wins.
In level two, players use the letters on the spinner (instead of the categories) and now look for items that start with the chosen letter. Otherwise gameplay is the same, with players trying to rid themselves of tokens.
In level three, players choose a letter, then write down answers that they find in the drawing. Each player scores one point for an answer that someone else also found and three points for an answer found only by her. Whoever has the most points after five rounds wins.
Posted Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:24 am
Board Game Publisher: Drei Magier Spiele
20. Board Game: Linus, der kleine Magier [Average Rating:6.17 Overall Rank:14230]
Wolfgang Dirscherl
While practicing his powers, Linus, the little magician, has enchanted some of his toys! Can you help him pick up these toys from the floor of his room and put them away?
To set up Linus, der kleine Magier, you shuffle 18 magnetized toy tiles (three each of six different toys) with 12 non-magnetized toy tiles (two tiles of each type), then spread them out on the table. Shuffle the 18 search cards (showing three each of six different toys) as well, then give the youngest player the Linus wooden figure, which has a magnet on its underside.
On a turn, the player looks at the top search card, then places Linus on one of the toy tiles that matches this image. Did you find an enchanted toy that sticks to Linus? Super! Keep the toy tile and the search card, then give Linus to the next player. If, however, you found a regular toy tile, leave it on the table in the same location, then give Linus to the next player, who must now search for the same item (but with the hope of finding an enchanted one this time).
Once all the enchanted toys have been cleared from the table, whoever has found the most toys wins!
Posted Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:29 am
21. Board Game: Die verzauberten Rumpelriesen [Average Rating:6.64 Overall Rank:10839]
Carlo Emanuele Lanzavecchia
Walter Obert
In Die verzauberten Rumpelriesen, the magician players want to find imps hiding in the leaves that cover the forest floor around them – but they must search carefully to find these imps so that they don't wake the sleeping giants guarding the land. Oh, and they'll need to search quickly, too, or else the giants will wake from the sleeping spell cast on them and run the searchers out of the forest. Who can combine speed, control and a good memory to find the imps where they hide?
To set up, players place the 16 imp tokens in the holes on the game board, cover these imps with the 85 cardboard leaves included in the game, then place one large wooden giant on each corner of the board. On a turn, the active player reveals a search card showing one of the imps. An opponent flips the sand timer, then the player uses her magic wand to push the leaves aside and (fingers crossed!) find the imp on the search card. She can use her wand to move the giants as well, but if they fall off the game board – or even so much as a single leaf falls – the giants awaken and chase the player away empty-handed. If the player reveals the target imp, though, she keeps the search card to record her find. After each search, players cover the board again and return the giants to their places. In the end, whoever has collected the most search cards wins!
Die verzauberten Rumpelriesen includes rules for cooperative play, with the players using their wands together to search for the imps one by one as they're revealed by the search cards. If the players find more than eight imps without the giants awakening, they win.
Edited Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:42 am
Posted Mon Jan 7, 2013 2:48 am
Board Game Publisher: eggertspiele
22. Board Game: Space Dealer [Average Rating:6.54 Overall Rank:2260]
Tobias Stapelfeldt
Action Timer
Space Dealer is played in real time to a 30-minute soundtrack (or timer) with all players playing simultaneously. Players start at their own planet with a power generator and a mine. They race to generate goods and deliver them to each other (earning victory points for both the player and the recipient) or to the neutral planets. They can also do research to improve their abilities and bring new cards into play. Everything – from generating goods to moving ships,to playing new cards – requires at least one flip of a sand timer; the catch is that each player has only two timers!
At the start of the game it seems like you have all the time in the world. Very soon, though, the game becomes a frantic race to make as many deliveries as possible!
A second copy of Space Dealer can be added to expand the game up to eight players.
Other Information: • Note that this item will not be a reprint of Space Dealer, but rather a relaunching of the game with a new title, a new game board, new graphics, and new rules. More details on all of that later.
Posted Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:18 pm
Board Game Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
23. Board Game: Letters from Whitechapel [Average Rating:7.40 Overall Rank:254]
Gabriele Mari
Gianluca Santopietro
Sir Chester Cobblepot
Post-Napoleonic
Hidden Movement
Secret Unit Deployment
Get ready to enter the poor and dreary Whitechapel district in London 1888 – the scene of the mysterious Jack the Ripper murders – with its crowded and smelly alleys, hawkers, shouting merchants, dirty children covered in rags who run through the crowd and beg for money, and prostitutes – called "the wretched" – on every street corner.
The board game Letters from Whitechapel, which plays in 90-150 minutes, takes the players right there. One player plays Jack the Ripper, and his goal is to take five victims before being caught. The other players are police detectives who must cooperate to catch Jack the Ripper before the end of the game. The game board represents the Whitechapel area at the time of Jack the Ripper and is marked with 199 numbered circles linked together by dotted lines. During play, Jack the Ripper, the Policemen, and the Wretched are moved along the dotted lines that represent Whitechapel's streets. Jack the Ripper moves stealthily between numbered circles, while policemen move on their patrols between crossings, and the Wretched wander alone between the numbered circles.
Other Information: • Probably available in a pre-print version at Nürnberg 2013. Note that the cover above is from the first edition of this game.
Board Game Publisher: GameWorks SàRL
24. Board Game: Crazy Circus [Average Rating:6.25 Overall Rank:4968]
Dominique Ehrhard
GameWorks SàRL
Crazy Circus – one of many names under which this design has been released – is a simultaneous puzzle solving game. Three animals stand on two platforms, and you are trying to change their configuration to match a target card by issuing commands like "Ma", which moves the bottom animal on one platform to the top, or "Ni" which swaps the top two animals on the two platforms. As a result, the game is a race to shout out multi-syllable commands such as the eponymous "MaNiKi", or "LoNiMaSo". The first player to do so correctly wins the target card, and whoever collects the most cards wins!
Other Information: • The production difficulties that delayed this game's release in 2012 should be behind GameWorks at this point, enabling a 2013 release.
25. Board Game: Pixelstücke [Average Rating:6.66 Overall Rank:3162]
Laurent Escoffier
David Franck
You know how to draw? Good, then PIX is a game for you as it offers a new challenge: drawing with pixels!
You don't know how to draw? Good, then PIX is a game for you as you'll draw just as well as anyone with pixels!
That's the publisher's come-on for the party game PIX, in which your "drawing" skills will be put to the test. During set-up, you'll receive a magnetic board, twenty black square "pixels" and one red pixel; one or two other players will have the same color magnetic board as you. On a round, the players holding one color of boards will be challenged to create a pixellated image of a secret word.
Once the drawing time has run out, each player will reveal her artwork in the hopes that someone will guess what the image is. Both the correct guesser and the player who created that image score points – but here's the catch: Drawings are revealed according to the number of pixels used, so the fewer pixels you use, the more likely you are to show your image first, but the less likely other players are to guess what it is. Well, maybe – perhaps you're an 8-bit wizard and others will decipher your creations instantly...


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Will the Coronavirus Pandemic End the EU Experiment?
Phil Butler - April 21st, 2020 12:09 pm
Will the EU flag come down across Europe?
The European commissioner for the economy, Paolo Gentilon says it will take an additional €1.5 trillion ($ 1.63 trillion) to keep the EU afloat in the wake of COVID-19 devastation. The commissioner told EU leaders in a summit on the coronavirus crisis, that the European Union urgently needs financial injections to "deal with this crisis".
As we already know, Europe is going through the worst crisis since WWII, an economic and social slowdown that threatens the union of European states. In his statements before the summit, commissioner Gentiloni cited an International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast, saying the EU could see an unprecedented 7.5 percent drop in GDP this year. In 2009, during the global financial crisis, the EU's GDP fell by only 4.4 percent.
The EU commissioner also rejected the idea of common Eurobonds advocated by his own nation and consistently opposed by Germany. He called the approach "backward-looking," adding that Europe has had "enough of that." To avoid the fallout from the crisis, Europe instead urgently needs "a common tool to fund the reconstruction," he said.
Also in the news, Eurogroup – the finance ministers of the Eurozone nations – have so far allocated only €500 billion for funding medical expenses and assisting small and medium-sized enterprises, leaving Europe in need of around €1 trillion more. According to Gentiloni the clock is ticking on these issues:
"We cannot wait until the virus 'makes peace' with us before we rebuild. The reconstruction must start now, in spring, in summer."
Since this mini-summit, Gentiloni did an interview with German daily Der Spiegel in which he claimed the union would not fail:
"Certainly in the early days, we had big problems with coordination. Other countries, as a matter of fact, ratified the closure of exports for medical material. The message of solidarity wasn't sufficient, at all. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen rightfully recognized that. But this has changed."
He did warn that the differences between the various economies could spell doom if the situation is not addressed properly. Many EU nations face a far more grim short term future if Brussels does not step in to support them. He went on to tell the German magazine:
"We run the risk that the differences between the economies of the eurozone and in the internal market become too great, and both fall apart. This would really be a big problem for Germany."
Germany and other central European nations have long been criticized for keeping the most benefits out of the EU experiment, and the COVID-19 catastrophe is the biggest test over for the league. This Harvard Business Review report reveals some harsh truths about European economies like that of Greece, and how the coronavirus pandemic will ultimately affect weaker states.
"Understanding the Economic Shock of Coronavirus" frames Greece as a so-called "L" shaped economy from the 2008 catastrophe where capital inputs, labor inputs, and productivity are repeatedly damaged. The Harvard experts say Greece and other such EU countries now face an even more dire situation. The think tank of the Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) offered this via Reuters:
"Greece's economy will contract by about 5.0% to 9.0% this year under baseline and adverse scenarios, hit by lockdown measures to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus."
If this happens, the civic push for Greece to leave the EU and public debt behind will be irresistible. For over a decade the Greeks have suffered unrivaled austerity and more. What's about to happen is framed by Lucas Guttenberg, the deputy director of the Jacques Delors Centre, a think tank in Berlin:
"Clearly, it is no one's fault," he added, "but if some countries come out of this much stronger than others, that is going to politically undermine the European project as a whole."
Southern and Eastern Europe face crippling economic depression at the worst possible time. Spain and Portugal are run by left-wing governments deeply critical of the European Union. Italy was about to write off the EU experiment before Germany and others abandoned Italians to the COVID-19 fates. Most Greeks believe Germany still owes them for World War II savagery. Romanians and the Baltic nations are in the midst of pushing back at Central powers' leveraging them. Meanwhile, Russia and China loom large as new partners toward prosperity.
The outlook for the European Union does not look positive. Southern Europe seems unified in its response to the real inequality of economic and social dealings. At a critical time, Europe failed in the same way America under Trump failed at coordinating against COVID-19. The European Union is supposed to have been built up institutional cooperation across economy, politics, and culture. But the end product seems disjointed, unresponsive, useless against the real threat of a pandemic or any other real crisis.
Unless Germany and the other Northern European members can find a cohesive remedy soon, one of humanity's best-intended experiments will end in absolute failure. This pandemic could end up being more destructive than the great recession, the migration crisis, and Brexit combined.
Tags: Brexit, Brussels, Coronavirus 2019, COVID-19, EU, EU economy, EU survival, European commission, GDP, germany, great recession, Greece economy, Harvard Business Review, IMF, Italy economy, Paolo Gentiloni
About Phil Butler
Phil is a prolific technology, travel, and news journalist and editor. A former public relations executive, he is an analyst and contributor to key hospitality and travel media, as well as a geopolitical expert for more than a dozen international media outlets.
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Cameras roll on What Would Sal Do?
The cast for the half-hour comedy series was also revealed Wednesday, which will be shot and set in Sudbury, ON.
By Julianna Cummins
Super Channel, New Metric Media and DHX Media have announced production has commenced in Sudbury, ON on What Would Sal Do?, and also revealed the cast for the half-hour comedy series.
The eight-episode What Would Sal Do? stars Dylan Taylor (Rogue, Covert Affairs, Slasher) as Sal, along with Jennifer Dale (Of Unknown Origin), Ryan McDonald and Scott Thompson (Hannibal, The Kids in the Hall), with Kaniehtiio Horn (Hemlock Grove) appearing in a recurring role.
The modern-day parable is set in Sudbury, and follows the story of underachiever Sal and his friends and family after he finds out he is the Second Coming of Christ. Production in the series is set to wrap by Sept. 15 and will bow on Super Channel in spring 2016.
What Would Sal Do? is executive produced by Andrew De Angelis, who also wrote and created the series. Other writers on the show include Kurt Smeaton, Mark Forward, Alex Levine, Mark DeAngelis and Brandy Hewitt. The series is produced by Toronto's New Metric Media, in partnership with DHX Media and in association with Super Channel. Executive producers for New Metric Media are Mark Montefiore and Patrick O'Sullivan. De Angelis is repped by Meridian Artists. Samir Rehem serves as director on the series.
Alex Levine, Andrew De Angelis, Brandy Hewitt, DHX Media, Dylan Taylor, Jennifer Dale, Kaniehtiio Horn, Kurt Smeaton, Mark DeAngelis, Mark Forward, New Metric Media, Ryan McDonald, Scott Thompson, Super Channel, What Would Saul Do?
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The Akwa Ibom Sate Government has debuked rumours of renaming the Godswill Akpabio International stadium in the wake of the change of political allegiance by the former Governor.
A statement issued by the State Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Charles Udoh attributed the false report to the handiwork of some unscrupulous elements. According to the Commissioner, the report is not only false but mischievous with an intent of misleading the unsuspecting public and generating skewed sentiments.
Charles Udoh went further to state that the Udom Emmanuel led Government of Akwa Ibom State is laden with high level of integrity and would not descend to such lowly levels of renaming the stadium.
He reiterated the State Government's commitment in continuing its single-minded pursuit of the avowed goal of people-oriented governance and sustainable development of Akwa Ibom State, adding that the Akwa Ibom Project is beyond any personal interest.


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Q: Changing the order of widgets according to current page? I would like to change the order of the widgets, for instance:
Front-Page:
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Single Post:
Recent Comments
Recent Posts
Is it possible to achieve this?

A: Use Widget Logic « WordPress Plugins with PHP Code Widget « WordPress Plugins to use multiple widgets with the same function in one sidebar. Or create another sidebar and use the same widget in each; check the twentyten or twentyeleven themes for the sidebar and functions.php code.

A: Why not just create different sidebars or the two pages.  One for front page and another for single posts?
Or in your your sidebar.php (or whichever template file is calling the widgets) you could use conditional code:
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As Ilhas Cayman participaram dos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2000 em Sydney, Austrália.

Países nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2000
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package ru.stqa.pft.addressbook.generators;

import com.beust.jcommander.JCommander;
import com.beust.jcommander.Parameter;
import com.beust.jcommander.ParameterException;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;
import ru.stqa.pft.addressbook.model.GroupData;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created by zhur198 on 2/9/17.
 */
public class GroupDataGenerator {

  @Parameter (names = "-gc", description = "Group count")
  public int count;

  @Parameter (names = "-gf", description = "Target file")
  public String file;

  @Parameter (names = "-gd", description = "Data format")
  public String format;

  public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException {

    GroupDataGenerator gererator = new GroupDataGenerator();
    JCommander jCommander = new JCommander(gererator);
    try {
      jCommander.parse(args);
    } catch (ParameterException ex) {
      jCommander.usage();
      return;
    }
    gererator.run();

//    int count = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
//    File file = new File(args[1]);
  }

  private void run() throws IOException {
    List <GroupData> groups = generateGroups(count);
    if (format.equals("csv")) {
      saveAsCSV(groups, new File(file));
    } else if (format.equals("xml")) {
      saveAsXML(groups, new File(file));
    } else if (format.equals("json")) {
      saveAsJSON(groups, new File(file));
    } else {
      System.out.println("Unrecognized format "  + format);
    }
  }

  private void saveAsJSON(List<GroupData> groups, File file) throws IOException {
    Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().create();
    String json = gson.toJson(groups);
    Writer writer = new FileWriter(file);
    writer.write(json);
    writer.close();
  }

//    Close writer with "try" functionality
    private void saveAsJSONTry(List<GroupData> groups, File file) throws IOException {
    Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().create();
    String json = gson.toJson(groups);
    try (Writer writer = new FileWriter(file)) {
      writer.write(json);
    }
  }

  private void saveAsXML(List<GroupData> groups, File file) throws IOException {
    XStream xstream = new XStream();
    xstream.processAnnotations(GroupData.class);
//    xstream.alias("group", GroupData.class);
    String xml = xstream.toXML(groups);
    Writer writer = new FileWriter(file);
    writer.write(xml);
    writer.close();
  }

  private void saveAsCSV(List<GroupData> groups, File file) throws IOException {
    System.out.println(new File(".").getAbsoluteFile());
    Writer writer = new FileWriter(file);
    for (GroupData group : groups) {
      writer.write(String.format("%s;%s;%s\n", group.getName(), group.getHeader(), group.getFooter()));
    }
    writer.close();
  }

  private List<GroupData> generateGroups(int count) {
    List<GroupData> groups = new ArrayList<GroupData>();
    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
      groups.add(new GroupData().withName(String.format("test %s", i))
              .withHeader(String.format("header %s", i)).withFooter(String.format("footer %s", i)));
    }
    return groups;
  }
}

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- CareerExploration.com -
Careers List
Police and Detective Career Description
Police officers protect lives and property. Detectives and criminal investigators gather facts and collect evidence of possible crimes.
Police officers protect lives and property. Detectives and criminal investigators, who are sometimes called agents or special agents, gather facts and collect evidence of possible crimes.
Police officers, detectives, and criminal investigators typically do the following:
Respond to emergency and nonemergency calls
Patrol assigned areas
Conduct traffic stops and issue citations
Search for vehicle records and warrants using computers in the field
Obtain warrants and arrest suspects
Collect and secure evidence from crime scenes
Observe the activities of suspects
Write detailed reports and fill out forms
Prepare cases and testify in court
Job duties differ by employer and function, but all police and detectives write reports and keep detailed records that will be needed if they testify in court. Most carry law enforcement tools, such as radios, handcuffs, and guns.
The following are examples of types of police and detectives:
Detectives and criminal investigators are uniformed or plainclothes investigators who gather facts and collect evidence for criminal cases. They conduct interviews, examine records, observe the activities of suspects, and participate in raids and arrests. Detectives usually specialize in investigating one type of crime, such as homicide or fraud. Detectives are typically assigned cases on a rotating basis and work on them until an arrest and trial are completed or until the case is dropped.
Fish and game wardens enforce fishing, hunting, and boating laws. They patrol fishing and hunting areas, conduct search and rescue operations, investigate complaints and accidents, and educate the public about laws pertaining to the outdoors. Federal fish and game wardens are often referred to as Federal Wildlife Officers.
Police and sheriff's patrol officers are the most common type of police and detectives, and have general law enforcement duties. They wear uniforms that allow the public to easily recognize them as police officers. They have regular patrols and also respond to emergency and nonemergency calls. During patrols, officers look for signs of criminal activity and may conduct searches and arrest suspected criminals.
Some police officers work only on a specific type of crime, such as narcotics. Officers, especially those working in large departments, may work in special units, such as horseback, motorcycle, canine corps, and special weapons and tactics (SWAT). Typically, officers must work as patrol officers for a certain number of years before they may be appointed to a special unit.
Transit and railroad police patrol railroad yards and transit stations. They protect property, employees, and passengers from crimes such as thefts and robberies. They remove trespassers from railroad and transit properties and check IDs of people who try to enter secure areas.
Police and detective work can be physically demanding, stressful, and dangerous. Officers must be alert and ready to react throughout their entire shift. Officers regularly work at crime and accident scenes and encounter suffering and the results of violence. Although a career in law enforcement may be stressful, many officers find it rewarding to help members of their communities.
Some federal agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Secret Service, require extensive travel, often on short notice. These agents may relocate a number of times over the course of their careers. Some special agents, such as U.S. Border Patrol agents, may work outdoors in rugged terrain and in all kinds of weather.
How to become a Police and/or Detective
Education requirements range from a high school diploma to a college degree. Most police and detectives must graduate from their agency's training academy before completing a period of on-the-job training. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, usually at least 21 years old, and able to meet rigorous physical and personal qualification standards. A felony conviction or drug use may disqualify a candidate.
Police and detective applicants must have at least a high school diploma or equivalent, although many federal agencies and some police departments require some college coursework or a college degree. Many community colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities offer programs in law enforcement and criminal justice. Knowledge of a foreign language is an asset in many federal agencies and geographical regions.
Fish and game wardens typically need a bachelor's degree; desirable fields of study include wildlife science, biology, or natural resources management.
Federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation also typically require prospective detectives and investigators to have a bachelor's degree.
Many applicants for entry-level police jobs have taken some college classes, and a significant number are college graduates.
Candidates for appointment usually attend a training academy before becoming an officer. Training includes classroom instruction in state and local laws and constitutional law, civil rights, and police ethics. Recruits also receive training and supervised experience in areas such as patrol, traffic control, firearm use, self-defense, first aid, and emergency response.
Federal law enforcement agents undergo extensive training, usually at the U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, or at a Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
The median annual wage for police and detectives was $65,170 in May 2019. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $37,710, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $109,620.
Employment of police and detectives is projected to grow 5 percent from 2019 to 2029, faster than the average for all occupations.
While a continued desire for public safety is expected to result in a need for more officers, demand for employment is expected to vary depending on location, driven largely by local and state budgets. Even with crime rates falling in recent years, demand for police services to maintain and improve public safety is expected to continue.
Agent, Criminal Investigator, Detective, Detective Sergeant, Fugitive Detective, Fugitive Investigator, Investigator, Narcotics Detective, Narcotics Investigator, Police Detective
Related Occupations
First-Line Supervisor of Police and Detectives, Fire Investigator, Criminal Investigator and Special Agent, Police Patrol Officer, Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff
The trade associations listed below represent organizations made up of people (members) who work and promote advancement in the field. Members are very interested in telling others about their work and about careers in those areas. As well, trade associations provide opportunities for organizational networking and learning more about the field's trends and directions.
American Association of Police Polygraphists
Fraternal Order of Police
International Association for Identification
International Association of Arson Investigators
NADDI
International Game Warden Magazine
Police Chief Magazine
Police Magazine
Whether on foot, wheels, or horseback, detectives and police officers are alert for any threat to public safety, ready to respond at a moment's notice when a need occurs. Police and sheriff's officers protect lives and property. They respond to emergency and patrol their assigned area for signs of criminal activity. They wear recognizable uniforms, and may conduct searches and arrest suspected criminals. Some officers specialize in one type of crime, such as narcotics. Detectives and criminal investigators, or agents, gather facts and evidence of possible crimes. They conduct interviews, observe the activities of suspects, and participate in raids and arrests. Detectives often wear plain clothes, and usually specialize in investigating one type of crime, such as homicide or fraud. Transit and railroad police patrol railroad yards and transit stations to prevent thefts and protect property. Police and detective work requires patience, and paperwork; officers document every incident in detail, and must be ready to testify in court. Most officers carry law enforcement tools, such as radios, handcuffs, and firearms. Police and detective work can be physically demanding, stressful, and dangerous; injuries are common. Despite working shifts around the clock and dealing with life-threatening situations, officers must stay calm, think clearly, and use good judgment at all times. Most positions require graduation from a law enforcement agency's training academy and extensive on-the-job training. Police officers and detectives need a license to carry firearms and enforce the law. Typically, candidates must be U.S. citizens, at least 21 years old, and in excellent physical and mental health, with no felony convictions.
Content retrieved from: US Bureau of Labor Statistics-OOH www.bls.gov/ooh,
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Thousands Stolen from Pizza Fusion Fundraiser for Family of Two Boys Killed
Organic restaurant in Mesa, Ariz. striving to re-raise money stolen from fundraising event for Mesa family of boys killed
Mesa, Ariz., January 27, 2009 – Pizza Fusion (www.pizzafusion.com), a new organic restaurant in Mesa, is turning to the community for support with re-raising the $8,000 it raised Saturday at its grand opening, which was stolen during a burglary later that night. The money was going to support the Smith family who tragically lost two young boys, CJ (6 years-old) and Nolan (11 years-old), in a drunk driving accident earlier this month.
"I can't begin to explain the mixed emotions of anger, sympathy, and sadness I feel right now," Jennifer Parks, managing partner of Mesa's new Pizza Fusion and cousin to Tracy Smith, states. "Frank and Tracy's spirits were lifted high by the outcry of support at our grand opening Saturday, only to have it taken away from them later that night. It's heartbreaking. We're asking the community to show their support, once again, in recouping this money as we aim to re-raise the $8,000 for supporting the Smiths' medical expenses."
The Smith parents are still recovering from medical injuries due to the accident. The father of the two boys, Frank Smith, must undergo eye surgery to attempt to save his vision, while the mother Tracy has a broken pelvic bone and other medical concerns yet to deal with.
After the money was raised Saturday night, Pizza Fusion was broken into sometime between 12:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. on Sunday. The burglars broke into the adjacent unoccupied building to Pizza Fusion, before breaking through the drywall to gain access to Parks' office, where the money was being stored. Two suspects were caught on tape via security cameras. Police are investigating
"Our hearts go out to the Smith family and their tragic loss," Vaughan Lazar, president and co-founder of Pizza Fusion, explains. "It's difficult to comprehend how someone could be so heartless during a time of need, like this. All the Pizza Fusion restaurants are pulling together in a national effort to support our Mesa location in recovering the money lost for this worthy cause. Our goal is to see if we can double what was taken. This is the best way to show people good will can't be stolen."
Pizza Fusion has partnered with Wells Fargo, which has setup a fund for the Smith family. To make a contribution, simply visit www.pizzafusion.com to donate via credit or debit card. Furthermore, donations may be dropped off at any Wells Fargo via check made out to the Tracy and Frank Smith family fund. Donations are also being accepted at Pizza Fusion's Mesa locations, at 5735 E McKellips Road; open from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
For more information, please visit www.pizzafusion.com or call the Mesa location at 480-832-5200.
NOTE: Surveillance video of the robbers is available upon request.
About Pizza Fusion
Founded in the best interest of the individual and the environment, Pizza Fusion combines a fresh, organic menu with an industry-leading environmental approach to restaurant service in chic dining destinations built to LEED certification standards. Pizza Fusion specializes in a full-service approach to gourmet pizza, ciabatta sandwiches, salads, desserts, and organic beers and wines, all in their purest form – untainted by artificial additives, such as pesticides, preservatives, antibiotics and hormones. With numerous franchises opening across the U.S., Pizza Fusion is pioneering the organic and environmental restaurant movement as the most eco-friendly restaurant in America. For additional information, visit: www.pizzafusion.com.