Mike Matei chooses his top 20 personal favorite NES games!
Note: Keep in mind, these are my choices at this time. On another day, in another mood I might choose a slightly different list. That's what's hard about making a "favorites" list. My opinion today might not be the same as it was in the past or how it will be in the future. That said, this list is pretty close to how I'd probably feel at any given time, even though I might swap it around a little at other points.
SMB3 is as close to a perfect game than anything else that has ever existed.
I know! It wasn't rivalled until Super Mario Galaxy 2. Except maybe, Super Mario Land 2.
I never understood why people always debate megaman 2 and 3 as the best. 3 has some of the worst weapons EVER, some are just cheap knock off's from megaman 2. Snake man, top man, wanabe metal man, the lazer. Everything feels a little off. If i had to pick the two best, it would be 2 and 4.
I loved Zelda II as well, but I think the n64 zeldas were the creepiest. There's a game I think you guy would enjoy, Solar Jetman: Hunt For The Golden Warship. It's a great game, simple, but very fun.
Another game people seem to come back to is Dragon Warrior (Quest), even Zelda II seems modeled around it because of its popularity in Japan. And what do you know, the third installment is superior! Just like Mario, Zelda and Ninj Gaiden.
My regard for Dragon Warrior 3 on the NES is the same as Mike's for Zelda!
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You wouldn't need the Bubble Lead in Castlevania 2. Holy water lets you find the false platforms in that game.
you have to continually throw the holy water. The bubble lead, would roll along the ground to reveal the gap.
Goonies II is one of the best NES games ever. I never knew it was not well received. I just thought it wasn't well known.
Mike, thanks for making this video. One of my favorites you've ever done.
Why aren't my comments showing up?
Never mind. I looks like you can't post paragraphs; you have to keep your comments short. Got it.
Thundercats came out before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
I knew you'd have Bucky, but I've got to call you out for referring to him as a TMNT clone. Bucky actually debuted the same year in the comics as TMNT, though he definitely only got a cartoon series because of how popular TMNT ended up being. Bucky is more of a Star Wars parody than anything.
Great list! I'm happy to see some love for Kung Fu and Zelda 2. My list would be similar, but I'd find room to include Kid Icarus and Jaws. I might also include Wizards+Warriors, Solstice, and Faxanadu. The only puzzle game I'd include is Wario's Woods. Also, I'd choose Ninja Gaiden 2 instead of 3. So… I guess my list wouldn't be similar at all. Anyway, thanks for the video! It was a lot of fun, and it put me in the mood to play some NES games.
Someday I'll do my own top favorite games on SNES. Just so all know and hopefully not hold it against me, I'm not a Zelda fan. I love Donkey Kong more, Bomberman and Mario. If I'm going to top a game with puzzles, it'd be an RPG game. But I want my choice to be unique and not common. I hear Zelda too many times to be considered the best and everyone's favorite and I want mine to be different.
Thank you for recognition of Ducktales Mike; a game that was nothing but fun in my youth, and one of my favorites.
Make your own maps you lazy bum! That's what I did, and Metroid is a BLAST! Great list Mike. True classics.
It's always nice to see Kirby on a top 10 or 20 list. It was a personal favorite of mine. Though I never thought it was very hard it was just a fun game to play, and the power-up variety always kept things interesting. I just wish I could keep the UFO for longer!
The Tengen version of Tetris is a lot better than the Nintendo version.


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Ben Perowsky (* 12. Mai 1966 in New York City) ist ein amerikanischer Jazzmusiker (Schlagzeug, Perkussion, Komposition, Arrangement).

Leben und Wirken
Perowsky stammt aus einer musikalischen Familie; sein Vater Frank Perowsky ist ein Bebop-Saxophonist, die Mutter Tänzerin. Mit fünf Jahren erhielt er sein erstes Schlagzeug-Set. Er besuchte die High School of Music and Art in Harlem, wo er in einem Jazzensemble der Schule Schlagzeuger war und einmal mit Dizzy Gillespie und Jimmy Heath auftrat. Auch spielte er mit seinem Vater. Dann studierte er an der Berklee School of Music bei Alan Dawson und an der Manhattan School of Music. Während dieser Zeit ging er mit den Bands von James Moody (1985) und Rickie Lee Jones auf Tournee. 1988 bis 1989 arbeitete er mit Roy Ayers, David Liebman und Richie Beirach. Seit 1990 gehörte er zu den Bands von Mike Stern und Bob Berg, arbeitete aber auch mit Jim Beard, Ronnie Cuber und Eliane Elias und mit den Musikern der Downtown-Szene. So spielte er in einer frühen Besetzung von John Zorns Masada und in Spanish Fly mit Marcus Rojas, Steven Bernstein und David Tronzo. Auch ging er mit Wayne Horvitz auf Tournee und mit John Cale ins Studio, bevor ihn John Lurie zu seinen Lounge Lizards holte (Queen of All Ears). Aus einer eigenen Band mit Adam Rogers und Fima Ephron entwickelte sich mit David Binney und David Gilmore die Band Lost Tribe, die viel Erfolg in New Yorker Clubs hatte und ab 1993 drei Alben einspielte.

1996 gründete er das Ben Perowsky Trio mit Chris Speed und Scott Colley, mit dem er wöchentlich in der Knitting Factory auftrat. Das  gleichnamige Album des Trios veröffentlichte er 1999 auf dem JazzKey-Label seines Vaters; eines der Stücke verwendete Hal Willner später im Film Talladega Nights. 2002 ging er mit seinem Vater und  Sam Yahel ins Studio, um das Album Bop on Pop einzuspielen. Seine Camp Songs aus 2003, die ein jüdisches Sommerzeltlager reflektieren, erschien bei Tzadik und wurde in der JazzTimes zu den CDs des Jahres 2003 gezählt. 2005 tourte er in Europa mit seinem Quartett, zu dem Chris Speed, Ted Reichman und Drew Gress gehörten. Mit Speed und John Medeski spielt er auch in Red Cred. Daneben war er Mitglied in Elysian Fields, spielte mit Steven Bernstein, Dave Douglas und Don Byron Illbient und gehörte seit 2002 zu Projekten von Uri Caine. Weiterhin ist er auf Aufnahmen von Misha Mengelberg, Michael Blake, Trey Anastasio, Walter Becker, Lizz Wright, Joan as Police Woman, Hercules and Love Affair, Antony and the Johnsons, Salif Keïta und auf Steven Bernsteins Tinctures in Time (Community Music, Vol. 1) (2021) und Good Time Music (Community Music, Vol. 2) (2022) zu hören. Zudem spielte er mit Pat Martino, John Scofield, John Cale, Marty Ehrlich und Vernon Reid und schrieb Musik für das Tanztheater.

Diskographische Hinweise
 Lost Tribe (Windham Hill, 1993)
 Lost Tribe Soulfish (Windham Hill/Highstreet, 1994)
 Lost Tribe Many Lifetimes (Arabesque, 1998)
 Ben Perowsky Trio (JazzKey, 1999)
 Bop on Pop (JazzKey, 2002)
 El Destructo Volume 1, (El Destructo Records, 2002)
 Camp Songs (Tzadik, 2003)
 Moodswing Orchestra (El Destructo Records/Royal Potato Family/Red, 2009)
 Esopus Opus (Skirt Records, 2009)
 Ben Perowsky, John Medeski, Chris Speed: Upstream (2019)

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 Lexikalischer Eintrag mit umfassender Diskographie (Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians)

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance: plunge into the atmosphere of Middle Ages
A historical novel with elements of the role-playing game, that is the correct way to characterize Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Bohemia, 1403 year. The protagonist of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance is Henry, the son of a blacksmith, who lives an ordinary medieval life. Helps his father, hustles as the maid in the inn, there he spends evenings with friends. One day everything changes: the village is attacked by enemies, parents and most of the inhabitants are killed, and Henry runs to the neighboring city to warn of the impending danger.
In the first hours of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance acts in the genre of a commoner's life simulator. Henry performs the instructions of his master, sometimes he goes to the local tavern to eat and sleeps on a straw bed.
More or less intelligible battles occur on the thirtieth hour of the game. Before that, there are a couple of skirmishes with bandits in the forest and fisticuffs for money.
The plot develops slowly, giving players an opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of the medieval Czech Republic. Henry is destined for a glorious fate: he has to avenge his parents, but this will not happen soon.
In the Kingdom Come: Deliverance at the 15th hour, the hero walks in rags with a rusty sword (which he does not yet know how to properly handle) and tries to find any extra work to buy food and clean clothes.
In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the authors chose, at first glance, not the most impressive historical period. The struggle of two brothers for the throne of the Czech Republic at the beginning of the XV century and the reformist ideas of Jan Hus against the background of civil strife. Kingdom Come: Deliverance, telling the personal history of Henry, is trying to show what the Middle Ages are and how people lived at that time.
Travelling through a massive open world, a player visits villages, towns, and castles, communicates with citizens, learns about the political life of the country. Kingdom Come: Deliverance has its own 'Wikipedia', which briefly describes all the phenomena that the player encounters during his adventures: from the taxation system to the biography of historical characters.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a considerable amount of small things that you do not notice immediately. If you appear in dirty and stinking clothes in front of grandees, it will be difficult to defend your interests. Nobody wants to communicate with a commoner in rags.
Before an important meeting, it is better to wash clothes, give them to a tailor to patch, and it would be nice to visit a bathhouse. On an extreme occasion, to wash in a tub.
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James Petigru Boyce (Charleston, Carolina del Sur, Estados Unidos, 11 de enero de 1827 -  Pau, Francia, 28 de diciembre de 1888) fue un teólogo, predicador, misionero, escritor y erudito bíblico bautista reformado estadounidense conocido por haber sido el fundador y primer presidente del Seminario teológico bautista del sudoeste.

Biografía

Primeros años
James Petigru Boyce nació en Charleston, Carolina del Sur, Estados Unidos, 11 de enero de 1827. Se educó en la Universidad Brown con Francis Wayland , cuyos sermones evangélicos contribuyeron a la conversión de Boyce, y en el Princeton Theological Seminary con Charles Hodge, quien llevó a Boyce a apreciar la teología calvinista.

Carrera
Después de completar sus estudios en el Princeton Theological Seminary , se desempeñó como pastor de la Iglesia Bautista Columbia SC y como miembro de la facultad en la Universidad Furman. En 1859 fundó el Seminario teológico bautista del sudoeste en Greenville, Carolina del Sur. El seminario se vio obligado a cerrar durante la Guerra Civil, y durante este período Boyce sirvió como capellán en el ejército confederado y como representante en la legislatura de Carolina del Sur.

Después de que terminó la guerra, reinició el seminario y lo trasladó a Louisville, Kentucky. Enseñó teología desde 1859 hasta su muerte en 1888 y se desempeñó como presidente de la institución. A lo largo de su ministerio, Boyce insistió en la importancia de la educación teológica para todos los ministros. En un prefacio, describió su Resumen de teología sistemática, publicado el año anterior a su muerte, como sigue: "Este volumen se publica más como un libro de texto práctico, para el estudio del sistema de doctrina enseñado en la Palabra de Dios, que como una contribución a la ciencia teológica".

Muerte
Boyce murió en Pau, Francia, el 28 de diciembre de 1888. Había viajado a Europa con su familia a principios de julio de 1888 y esperaba viajar al extranjero durante varios meses. Los informes de noticias en ese momento indicaron que había estado sufriendo de gota y que mientras viajaba su condición empeoró y se volvió fatal.

Véase también

 Seminario teológico bautista del sudoeste
 Princeton Theological Seminary
 Convención Bautista del Sur

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Resumen de teología sistemática por James P. Boyce en línea
Nacidos en 1827
Fallecidos en 1888
Bautistas de Estados Unidos
Calvinistas de Estados Unidos
Fallecidos en Pau (Francia)


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"Fort Knox comes to everyone's minds, Fort Knox is a very important military base no secret there," Geitcher said. "Also, the locks. We aren't used to thinking about the locks going down the Ohio river at the beginning of the west end, those are critical places. That is only second to the Panama Canal with all the trade and barges that come through there are critical to this country. Of course, UPS facility. As I understand it every UPS plane comes from a foreign country lands in Louisville first. There are three things right there that that put us in the spotlight."
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Conrad Helmut Fritz Böcker (24 August 1870 in Leipzig – 8 April 1936 in Frankfurt) was a German gymnast.  He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Böcker had little success in individual events.  He competed in the parallel bars, horizontal bar, vault, pommel horse, and rings events.  In none of them was he among the medallists. He did, however, win two gold medals as part of the German team in the two team events, on parallel bars and the horizontal bar.

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German male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics
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NATO's war – Boomerang against the West (Part B)
30. April 1999 by JO Leave a Comment
TFF PressInfo 66 – April 30, 1999
Originally published here.
Serbo-Croatian version here.
12. An increasingly authoritarian West
Look at the 'Letters to the Editor' section of various influential Western dailies, watch debates on television, listen to new questions being asked by journalists. Surf Internet, read list servers, websites and discussion groups and one thing is abundantly clear: ordinary citizens throughout the West are increasingly skeptical. They see the ever widening gap between NATO and State Department news and other news. Many feel that bombing innocent civilians is just not right; common sense also tells that this is not the way to create trust between Albanians and Serbs – or for that matter between any conflicting parties. It all militates against all we know about human psychology.
The longer it takes, the more likely the momentum of that public protest. NATO country citizens will begin to ask: if a mistake like this could be made in this important field, are other mistakes also lurking in, say, globalization, in the more or less forced democratization, in the zeal with which Western human rights are used as a political tool? If we can't trust NATO, can we trust the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, can we trust our own governments after this? Can we believe in security a la NATO and in further NATO expansion if this is what NATO does?
Government decision-makers meet these challenges either with silence or with counterattacks: we are at war, this is not the time to question and split our own ranks, fifth column activity cannot be tolerated. We must achieve our goals, no matter the cost. Too much is at stake. In short, democracy, the freedom of expression and the open society, the public discourse itself could well be curtailed in the West as this situation becomes more and more desperate. Quite a few media people already seem to practise self-censorship.
Also, let's not forget that those who say that Milosevic is a new Hitler are leaders of countries which actively seek a kind of world dominance (economically, militarily, politically and culturally), which violate international law, which demonize a nation (Serbs, not Jews), and which possess mass destructive weapons. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Conflict analysis, Media criticism, Peace-prevention, Prognosis Tagged With: a weaker OSCE, a weaker UN, consequences of bombing Kosovo, imperial overextension, imperialism, KLA, NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, NATO's bumbing bunder, UCK
NATO's war – Boomerang against the West (Part A)
"NATO's war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) is not comparable with the Vietnam war, with bombing Iraq or throwing cruise missiles on Sudan or Afghanistan. In a more fundamental way, it threatens major Western institutions, economies and Western leadership. With that much at stake, Western governments have long forgotten what the original problem was. Perhaps this is the reason why NATO now defines itself as a player that does not negotiate and thus has only the hammer left in its toolbox. That's the opposite of statesmanship," says TFF director Jan Oberg.
"Whether or not we support NATO's bombing, we must be aware of the risks and potential costs to the West itself. Our politicians seem not to be aware of how big they could be. Therefore, I believe it's time to show some civil courage and engage in solid damage-limitation both for the Balkans and for ourselves, otherwise this could go madly wrong," Oberg warns. "The critical 'boomerang' effects I mention in this PressInfo and PressInfo # 66 do not have to happen, but they are probable enough to merit serious consideration – and more so with a ground war approaching."
1. NATO's credibility seriously impaired
After March 24, there must be serious doubts about NATO's identity as a defensive alliance, as an organization for peace and stability. – Instead of seeing military targets, the Western audience sees bridges, schools, villages, media stations, factories, government houses etc. being destroyed. – NATO has handled its information dissemination in a way that makes even convinced pro-NATO people and media skeptical. – The successive calling in of more planes, helicopters and forces indicates a lack of advance planning, and there is no unity in the alliance about what to do after bombing. – The alliance created the humanitarian catastrophe it aimed to prevent, it ignored warnings that NATO bombs would make Serbs expel every Albanian they could find. – Europe, if not the entire international system, is indisputably less stable after March 24 than before. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Conflict analysis, Prognosis, The larger framework Tagged With: Clinton, consequences of NATOs bombing of Yugoslavia, EU common foreign and security policy, Jan Oberg, new Cold War with Russia, US leadership
The West is in moral trouble if there is an ethnic cleansing plan – and if there isn't
"We are told there the West knew already last autumn that President Milosevic had a plan to ethnically cleanse all Albanians from the Kosovo province. However, while it is true that Yugoslav forces have exploited NATO's bombing campaign to drive out Albanians in a way and to an extent that must be morally condemned, the unproved allegation that there existed a plan tells more about NATO than about President Milosevic – and what it tells is not to the advantage of the former," says TFF director Jan Oberg.
"The disgusting expulsion of Albanians from Kosovo can't be defended. The Yugoslav authorities who carries it out or lets individuals do it, can not defend such human rights violations with reference to NATO' bombing. Sure, Serbs will see NATO's destruction of Yugoslavia as work commissioned by Kosovo-Albanians/UCK, but it is anyhow up to Yugoslavia to fight NATO, not to take revenge against those who are innocent civilians.
Having said that, NATO and the West can not be trusted when it seeks to legitimise its Balkan bombing blunder by insisting that it has "evidence" of an ethnic cleansing plan but has still not provided the slightest evidence. Here are some reasons why this is utterly irresponsible and, thus, undermines NATO credibility – and the credibility of a free press that does not ask more critical questions:
First of all, we never heard anybody talk about such a plan before NATO's bombs started falling. Second, the argument for bombing was related to whether or not Yugoslavia would sign the Rambouillet Dictate. We never heard anybody saying that NATO would bomb Yugoslavia should they carry out an ethnic cleansing plan.
Third, if such a plan was known already during autumn, how could the West invite representatives of a killer regime to Paris? How could the US send ambassador Richard Holbrooke to Belgrade to try to make a last-minute deal with such 'a serial cleanser' President?
Fourth – and worst, perhaps of all – if the West knew of such a plan why did it do absolutely NOTHING to plan for the humanitarian emergency it would cause? Why did the West/NATO not actively threaten to prevent it OR initiate bombings much earlier? Isn't it simply too immoral to know about such a plan and do nothing?
Fifth, if Milosevic, Serbia or Yugoslavia wanted to get rid of all Albanians, why did they choose this particularly awkward moment [Read more…]
Filed Under: Conflict analysis, Media criticism, Nation and state, Peace-prevention, Prognosis Tagged With: autonomy, Bill CLiton, Determined Falcon, early warning cleansing in Kosov, ethnic cleansing, ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, FYROM, General Shelton, James Rubin, Jamie Shea, Joschka Fischer, Julian Peal Yates, Kosovo, Kosovo secession, Lewinsky, Macedonia, Madeleine Albright, Milosevic = Hitler, Milosevic the serial cleanser, NATO in Kosovo, Nyrup Rasmussen, Ohrid Agreement, OSCE Verifiers mission, plan for genocide, Tony Blair Kosovo, UCK
NATO mistakes take more lives than the Serb-Albanian war did
According to the Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs, around 300 civilians have been killed between March 24 when NATO's bombing campaign started and April 13. These civilian casualties are related to places such as Aleksinac, Pristina, Kursumlija and Grdelica Gorge.
Two days ago a refugee convoy was hit, killing some 60 Albanians. Thus, due to NATO's mistakes about 350 civilians have been killed in 24 days. That is an average of 15 per day.
The war between various Yugoslav/Serb forces on the one hand and the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK or KLA) broke out in February 1998. Thus there were 13 months of warfare in Kosovo, or 395 days. The international community estimates that 2.000 – soldiers and civilians – were killed. That is an average of 5 per day.
About 250.000 people were estimated to have fled their homes during the 13 months of war, but remained predominantly within Kosovo and Montenegro. That is an average of 632 per day.
Since NATO began bombing, the figure has risen to perhaps as many as 750.000 outside and an unknown number inside Kosovo. Thus if 500.000 refugees have been added in 24 days, that makes an average of 20.833 per day.
These refugees run away because of a) Serb ethnic cleansing of Albanians (as a reprisal of NATO's bombing in support of Albanian interests) b) because of NATO's bombs and c) because of the regular warfare between Yugoslav military and paramilitary units and UCK. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Conflict analysis, Media criticism, Peace-prevention Tagged With: Kosovo refugees NATO bombs, Milovan Djilas, NATO killed in Kosovo, NATO killed in Serbia, refugees from NATO bombings Kosovo
The information war about Kosovo
"Most people around the world probably think that war and media are separate. When there is a war, the media tell us about it as objectively as they can under the often difficult circumstances. But in today's information society, every war is two wars: that on the ground and that in the media. Weapons communicate and communication is a weapon. We must ask what interests determine what we are told and what we are not told?
The history of warfare makes one thing abundantly clear," says TFF director Jan Oberg, "namely that we can safely assume that we are not told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In NATO's war with Yugoslavia, there is reason to paraphrase Hamlet – 'there is something rotten in the state of the media.'
This is what you can read about the use by the United States of information in times of war:
"Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations planned to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behaviour of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. PSYOP are a vital part of the broad range of US political, military, economic, and informational activities. When properly employed, PSYOP can lower the morale and reduce the efficiency of enemy forces and could create dissidence and disaffection within their ranks. There are four categories of military PSYOP; strategic, operational, tactical, and consolidation. PSYOP, which are used to establish and reinforce foreign perceptions of US military, political, and economic power and resolve."
Other countries work with PSYOP, too. Let's remember that when we watch television. And let's ask some questions when we do:
• IS THERE A LARGER STORY BEHIND WHAT WE SEE ON THE SCREEN?
Balkan conflicts not only have a Balkan but also a world order dimension. For instance, did you ever hear about the National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 133 entitled "United States Policy towards Yugoslavia" labelled "SECRET SENSITIVE"? A censored version was declassified in 1990 and largely confirmed NSDD 54 from 1982 the objective of which included "expanded efforts to promote 'quiet revolution' to overthrow Communist governments and parties" while integrating the countries of Eastern Europe into a market economy.
• WAR REPORTING – BUT NO CONFLICT JOURNALISM
Media tend to focus on today's 'story.' But there is a larger frame [Read more…]
Filed Under: Media criticism, Security theory, The larger framework, Threat analysis Tagged With: collateral damage, conflict journalism, electronic warfare, Internet warfare, Jamie Shea, Kosovo, Kosovo propaganda, Kosovo PSYOP, media war, military information, NATOs 6000 bombing sorties over Yugoslavia, no smoke without fire, NSDD, peace jourbalism, peace reporting, PSYOP, Serbia, source check, war public relations, war reporting
Covering up NATO's Balkan Bombing Blunder
Av Jan Oberg
"Western leaders are busy re-writing history to justify their Balkan bombing blunder. The change in information, rhetoric and explanations since the bombings started on March 24 is literally mind-boggling. Most likely they fear they have opened a very dark chapter in history and may be losing the plot.
One way to make failure look like success is to construct a powerful media reality and de-construct real reality. That's the essence of media warfare and that's what happens now," says TFF director Jan Oberg.
"For instance, you must have noticed that the The Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA or UCK, which existed some weeks ago and allegedly participated in Rambouillet now suddenly never existed. The 13-months war in Kosovo/a also conveniently has been expurgated.
The last few days President Clinton, prime minister Blair, NATO General Wesley Clark, foreign secretary Cook, foreign minister Fischer, secretary Albright, defence minister Robertson and other Western leaders have explained to the world why NATO bombs Yugoslavia. They made no mention of KLA or the war. Their speeches are surprisingly uniform. Their main points are:
• We have evidence that Yugoslavia, i.e.President Milosevic had a plan to ethnically cleanse Kosovo/a of all Albanians.
• One proof of this plan is that some 700.000 have been driven over the borders; it would have been many more, if not all 2 million Albanians, had NATO not taken action. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Conflict analysis, Diagnosis, Nation and state, Peace-prevention Tagged With: Bill Clinton, bombing in the Balkans, Holbrooke, Ibrahim Rugova, KLA, Kosova, Kosovo, Kosovo Albanians, Kosovo Serbs, Milosevic, Milosevic is a new Hitler, NATO's bombing blunder, NATOs bombing of Kosovo, NATOs bombing of Serbia, peoples in Kosovo, Pristina, Tony Blair, UCK, Wesley Clark


The U.S. Department of Transportation today awarded the City of San Francisco and its partner UC Berkeley $11 million to fund six innovative projects aimed at reducing traffic congestion and creating a safer and more efficient transportation system.
Freeway traffic congestion in San Francisco.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the award at The White House Frontiers Conference hosted by President Barack Obama to explore the future of innovation.
The six transportation initiatives funded by the grant will be implemented and operated by the Municipal Transportation Agency in partnership with the San Francisco County Transportation Authority and UC Berkeley with the support of San Francisco's newly created smart city incubator, Superpublic.
Shaheen, a pioneer in shared mobility, is co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center in the Institute of Transportation Studies and an adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering.
"This vision will leverage notable support from our private sector partners, which provided over $103 million in matching funds," she added.
The funded programs will create new connected high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes for public transit and carpools; dedicated curb space for pick-up and drop-off by carpools and ridesharing services; smart traffic signals to reduce congestion and improve safety; a connected, electronic toll system for the congestion pricing program at Treasure Island; and deployment and testing of electronic, autonomous shuttles serving intra-island trips on Treasure Island.
The award comes from the Transportation Department's Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment program, a competitive grant program for the development of large-scale installation and operation of advanced transportation technologies to improve transportation safety, efficiency, system performance and infrastructure return on investment.
For more detail, see the San Francisco Chronicle article.


At the time of Peter the Great, the Menshikov Market was on the place of this garden. Then there was a deserted cobblestone square named Rumiantsevskaya in 1818 when an obelisk was installed in its center.
An architect N.N. Kovrigin planned the garden according to the laws of symmetry.
Officially the garden was named Rumyantsev, but it always had the second name: Solovyovsky, which was popular among the citizen.
Marble vases were on the alleys of the Rumyantsevsky garden from the side of the Neva river, a musical pavilion was built in the fence: it was a platform on a high granite basement. Two fountains were installed in the center of the garden, designed by D.I. Jensen.
In 1939 the garden was called Ploshad Shevchenko (the square of T.G. Shevchenko).
In 2001, the garden was returned to its original name.


The Distributor Rotor distributes the spark from the coil to the spark plugs in your car. It does so in the correct order and time which allows your car to start. The rotor is a part of the distributor and it is found under the distributor cap.
When considering vehicle maintenance, one should have the distributor examined, the cap and the Distributor Rotor whenever you have your car tuned up. Over time the heat and high voltage can take a toll and cause the Distributor Rotor to be ineffective.
When your car has trouble starting, experiences backfiring or you hear pinging or knocking it is time to check your distributor cap and rotor. Continuing to drive your car when your Distributor Rotor or cap is ineffective will do more harm than good to your ignition system.
Often times you will find that the cap is cracked or broken. In this case the odds are good that there will be carbon buildup on the rotor as well. Replacing your Distributor Rotor can be done on your own with the use of your vehicles owner manual. You can save yourself a lot of time and money as long as you follow the manual and make sure to get the right distributor for your particular vehicle make and model.


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Leicestershire Solicitors appoint new litigation specialist
Lutterworth and Hinckley-based Headleys Solicitors has strengthened its team with the appointment of a new litigation solicitor.
Sarah Pears joins the firm's Lutterworth head office and will work alongside head of litigation, Paul Kalaher to support caseloads. Qualified since 2004, Sarah originally trained with a practice in her home town of Bromley before relocating to Leicestershire and continuing her litigation career at Bray & Bray. Sarah's specific areas of expertise encompass insolvency, neighbour & property disputes, contract disputes, partnership & shareholder disputes, consumer rights and landlord & tenant matters.
"I was attracted to Headleys as they have a really strong reputation locally and are well-known for being friendly, approachable and pragmatic," said Sarah. "The challenge with litigation is helping someone from the start when they know something isn't right and seeing that through to a successful conclusion and with a firm like Headleys, clients work with the same personnel so there is complete continuity of service over a case, which is really reassuring."
Established since 1928, Headleys provide quality, trustworthy and considered guidance across a full range of legal disciplines. Principal, Rod Stephenson commented: "Our civil and commercial litigation work has been rapidly increasing following some really successful resolutions. The time was right to bring in additional expertise for this area of the practice and Sarah was the ideal candidate; we're confident she will be an asset to the team."
Away from work, Sarah lives in Market Harborough, enjoys fitness and spending time with her husband and three young children.


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2009 Brass in Concert Championship - Postcard from Gateshead
It's all about having a good time in Newcastle's Bigg Market as well as The Sage at Gateshead's. And girls with little covering and Tricky Dicky are still the star attractions.
Packing them in: Just the odd seat left at The Sage this year
Picture: Ian Clowes
Further pictures at:
http://www.pbase.com/troonly/2009_brassinconcert
The good folk of the North East certainly know who to have a good time – whatever their age.
Although it's unlikely that not too many who made the trip to pack out The Sage in Gateshead on the weekend would have been the same people who shoehorn into Newcastle city centre on a Saturday night, the indigenous appetite for entertainment seems to be the same. It's in their DNA.
However, the trip back to the hotel after Saturday's evening Gala Concert was something you wouldn't forget in a hurry.
Newcastle's nightlife is like a Hieronymus Bosch painting come to life.
Here the inverse rule of thumb appears to be the colder the weather the less clothing you wear – especially if you are, shall we say, ladies of the more Ruebensian figure.
The flotsam and jetsam of celebratory Stag and Hen night's wobbled bleary-eyed onto the dark streets; hair-gell and cheap perfume, knock off designer shirts and skirts the size of an anorexics belt.
Fun and games, beer and kebabs and thumping music to destroy your remaining brain cells. The yellow jacketed police look tired and fed up, the taxi drivers weary and frightened, the revellers looked as if they could have partied all night.
Gateshead pin up boy: This year Dicky will be wearing...
Up the road, the warm, friendly atmosphere created by the middle aged brass band lovers at of The Sage may have been a world apart from the alcopop fuelled excitement and ear piercing music of the Bigg Market, but you suspect that quite a few years back many of those now enjoying Black Dyke on top form where once swilling a few too many pints of Newcastle Brown Ale and enjoying the delights of Noddy Holder and Slade in their pomp.
They've just grown a bit older and a little less mobile. The only small belts you got to see at The Sage were the elasticised ones holding up sensible beige Marks & Sparks trousers on men of a certain age.
Despite that, the audience at Brass in Concert, just like that in the Bigg Market, still knows what it likes – and that invariably features the pin up boy of banding entertainment – Richard Evans.
He is, as Frank Renton so neatly revealed, the brass band version of Bruce Forsyth – especially as this year he took to the stage in white bow tie and black tails – like a bearded Fred Astaire.
The man can do no wrong here and the unsuppressed groan of disappointment that met the announcement of Brighouse in fourth place said a great deal in so many senses. Some of Dicky's musical jokes are now almost as old as Brucie's one-liners, but for this audience he is still the 'Entertainment King'.
With Frank Renton he knows just how the DNA of the Brass in Concert audience is constructed – and the pair together work like Professors Crick and Watson in bringing it to life.
Crick & Watson? No - Wormald and Fernie look at the contest DNA
The mix of Latin big number, lachrymose solo, swagger march, slapstick comedy and big thumping finisher are the building blokes on which he works his magic (helped by bouncing off Franks clever interjections, which makes for a bit of a double act no other MD can hope to match).
It's tried and tested, and it works a treat.
Blank expressions
If and when Tricky Dicky decides to hang up his boots (and with his energy levels it seems he can party for longer than most down in the Bigg Market) the question will be, who will be able to take his place in the audience's affections?
Looking at the blank expressions on the faces when something a little too new and innovative is tried (the blankness on countenances after Rothwell's Torstein Aagard-Nielsen piece was rather like those found on the faces of Newcastle United fans when they were told about Mike Ashley's idea to rename St James Park), it won't be one of the conductors on show on Sunday.
Next man in line? Dr Childs could take over Dicky's mantle
The man most likely
No. The man most likely to take over the mantle was the man who was not in competition at all – Dr Nicholas Childs.
It is unlikely that he will do so with his own band under his wing, but the way in which he gave the audience just what they wanted on Saturday night with a Black Dyke programme that pushed just the right buttons, was a masterclass in prescriptive music making Dicky couldn't have bettered in his prime.
Gateshead map: Rothwell's master plan for an entertaining night out?
He has won the contest before of course (twice in fact) and as much as the organisers would love to get Dyke to compete, you sense that the thought of them putting their concert reputation on the line is as likely as batch of hen night party girls wearing sensible shoes and a cardigan for a night on the Newcastle town.
It would appear that the good folk of the region might just have to go without that particular bit of goodtime entertainment for some time yet.


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Bank Secrecy Act Modernization Likely to Increase BSA/AML Enforcement, Including From Larger Whistleblowing Awards
Matthew Levine | JANUARY 13, 2021
AML, BSA, CFT, Financial Institutions, OFAC, Whistleblower
2020 saw a substantial amount of enforcement activity in the BSA/AML/OFAC area. Even prior to last month's enactment of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (the "2020 AMLA"), conventional wisdom favored an increase in enforcement activity by regulators and prosecutors for violations of laws in these areas under the incoming Biden Administration. [See Division F]
The 2020 AMLA just gave this area of enforcement a significant shot in the arm. In an era where federal legislation has become rare, this dramatic change to the Bank Secrecy Act's ("BSA") anti-money laundering provisions establishes new beneficial ownership reporting requirements; modernizes the scope of the law to cover entities that provide certain digital asset services; and requires the U.S. Treasury to establish BSA/AML/OFAC priorities to guide firms and regulators alike, among other things.
Whistleblower Awards
While the law builds out policy through regulations to be issued, a number of the 2020 AMLA provisions are likely to have an immediate impact on enforcement. One such provision is the enhancement of the BSA's whistleblowing provisions – Congress sought to model this expansion to some extent on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's quite successful whistleblowing program. Under the 2020 AMLA:
Where a Justice or Treasury Department enforcement action results in a penalty exceeding $1 million, the Treasury Secretary "shall" pay an award of up to 30 percent of the collected amount to a whistleblower who "voluntarily provided original information" that leads to the successful enforcement action.
Previously, an award under the existing BSA whistleblower program was discretionary and generally capped out at $150,000 – thus disincentivizing the plaintiff's bar from pursuing these contingency cases. Given that some enforcement actions in recent years have resulted in penalties in the tens or hundreds of millions – or even billions, the new potential recoveries are a game changer.
The possibility for a large whistleblower recovery is enhanced because the AMLA 2020 potentially doubles the maximum statutory penalties for repeat offenders; a good number of the largest financial institutions have already been prosecuted civilly or criminally for BSA violations.
The law further strengthens the whistleblowing program by including robust anti-retaliation protections for whistleblowers, including allowing for the filing of a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor and, where there is no determination by DOL within a prescribed time period, the opportunity to file an action in federal court – a potentially favorable forum for these plaintiffs.
The number of financial institutions subject to the requirements of the BSA is also expanded to include entities engaged in the exchange or transmission of "value that substitutes for currency." Thus, the potential for the whistleblowing awards grows alongside the explosive growth in cryptocurrency businesses.
Mid-size financial institutions actually may be more vulnerable to the effects of the whistleblower provisions. It has often been the case that these firms do not have as robust compliance programs as larger institutions, and also have ended up in the cross-hairs of federal regulators less frequently.
What Financial Institutions Should Do
All covered financial institutions should commit to taking a serious look at their BSA/AML/OFAC/CFT programs to ensure they meet the pillars of the BSA and OFAC's Compliance Framework, along with the new provisions of AMLA 2020. For example, institutions should consider conducting an updated risk assessment and targeted gap analysis aimed at meeting the requirements of the law's new provisions.
A timely review of technology, governance, policies and procedures, internal audit and other controls will ensure that an institution is prepared to meet the regulatory expectations of federal and state agencies in light of the law's changes. Any such review should extend to the firm's whistleblowing program as well. This is an often-overlooked pocket of compliance, especially for smaller and mid-size institutions. Even for smaller firms, a successful whistleblowing program can catch compliance or fraud issues early; identifying them too late can lead to substantial regulatory fines, payouts in litigation, or even more serious consequences. Where an institution does not possess sufficient in-house expertise in designing and implementing these programs, outside firms that understand regulator's expectations can offer substantial assistance with creating a right-sized program.
AMLA 2020 adds a number of effective measures to a regulator's enforcement toolkit, and with the expectation of enhanced enforcement under the Biden Administration, it is not alarmist to say the time is now to begin a clear-eyed look at the efficacy of an institution's current compliance program.
This post is tagged: AML, BSA, CFT, Financial Institutions, OFAC, Whistleblower
Matthew Levine
President, Financial & Regulatory Compliance Services
Matt Levine served as Executive Deputy Superintendent for Enforcement for the New York State Department of Financial Services. In this role, he supervised investigations and enforcement actions, including matters involving money laundering, terrorist financing, cybercrime and cybersecurity, virtual currency fraud, market manipulation, and consumer fraud, as well as monitorships implemented by DFS. Matt is a former federal prosecutor and trial lawyer with significant experience involving financial markets and regulatory matters. For nearly a decade, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, first in the District of Columbia and later in the Eastern District of New York. There, he served as Acting Chief of the Business & Securities Fraud Section, supervising federal prosecutors conducting securities fraud, money laundering, cybercrime and other white-collar prosecutions.