 managed to beat it the first time. There are no alternate story lines, no hidden endings, no rewards to unlock. There is no multiplayer, but like all other Xbox 360 games, it is Xbox Live Aware so you can know when your friends are playing and you can go join them. A major factor in reducing this problem would be the addition of multiplayer. Ubisoft needs to note the repetition in this and fix it in the sequel, and add some multiplayer game modes similar to Gears of War. VIP gametypes where on person on each team is the VIP and must be killed in order to win would make an excellent addition to this game, given the nature of running across rooftops and dropping down for a stealthy kill.
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In closing, this game would best serve someone who is waiting for another game to come out and needs something to play as filler. It can be completed in less than a week, and I doubt that it will even take that long before the gamer takes it back and exchanges it for a better title. Do not believe that the trailer for this game is how the game will actually be. Game of the Year? Hardly. It suffered from being over hyped and is now reaping the rewards of being a shallow and repetitive game.
Reviewer's Rating: 2.0 - Poor
Originally Posted: 12/12/07
Game Release: Assassin's Creed (US, 11/13/07)
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Submit a review and let your voice be heard.Why We’re Talking About Princesses: Long Island Posted on June 25, 2013 | by Lindsey Silken Since the new Bravo reality show Princesses: Long Island began a few weeks ago, many blogs have popped up in the Jewish and secular media berating the show and the network for its portrayal of Long Island Jewish women. The bloggers’ responses range from horror to amused disgust to acceptance. JTA has a whole guide to blogs about the show. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s about six twenty-something Jewish Long Islanders who live with their parents, agonize over finding a husband to take care of them, and for the most part, do not work. They seem to have been encouraged to make Judaism a big part of the show, as they are constantly touting how Jewish their lifestyle is and making a scene over drinking Manischewitz and eating Shabbat dinner. This all might sound harmless and hardly cause for alarm, if it weren’t for the fact that the women on the show are so horribly over the top in their dependency on their parents, men and money. More than that, they actively promote stereotypes about Judaism, and explicitly say that their lifestyle is typically “Jewish” and “Long Island,” when there’s nothing typical about anything they say or do. When one cast member says that she’s a Reform Jew, which means “We’re not that Jewish,” what is someone who doesn’t know the difference supposed to think? You may ask, if there’s so much already out there about this nonsense, why bother adding to the mix? Because I learned this lesson well: When something is happening that is damaging to Jews, or any ethnic/religious group, I have a responsibility to speak out. Am I being melodramatic? I don’t think New York Congressman Steve Israel (who represents the part of Long Island where the show is filmed) would think so. Yup, he’s blogged about it too:.” Thank you, Steve. Because I found the response of Emily Shire, on The Forward’s Sisterhood blog more than a little offensive. Maybe because she says she’s familiar with the types of girls portrayed on the show from her own Long Island youth, she’s now desensitized to their behavior. But I can’t really accept her passivity on the subject: “I wish I could rally more ire for this show and be more outraged, but I can only shrug and watch with the same curiosity I approach other reality shows.” While I can understand Shire does not find the show shocking, she has to imagine the repercussions it has on viewers with less familiarity with this small, not-at-all representative group of Jewish Long Islanders. Shire admits that she worries that people will think of the cast as models of Jewish women, but then she refers to Jersey Shore and says:.” Does that make it OK? What Shire is missing is the large population of our country (never mind the population of viewers in other countries who have access to the show) who know nothing about Judaism. Whether the viewer is judgmental or not, this is not the first glimpse of my religion I want them to see. Imagine if you are a Jew dating someone who is not Jewish, who perhaps knows very little about your religion. I for one would feel embarrassed if he or his parents watched this show. And while you have probably introduced your wife who is not Jewish to your culture, does it help you to welcome her into your faith when the stereotype that stands out about Jewish women is that they’re spoiled, ignorant gold-diggers? To give you a taste, in the very first episode, one cast member asks to be carried to her car after a mani/pedi (by someone who works at the shop) because she refuses to walk in shoes without heels. Of course the other side of the argument is that all of this buzz we’re creating around the show is only bringing it attention, and probably more viewers. Joe Winkler suggests on JTA that “Maybe, instead of taking up arms in boycott, we could do a lot more by just looking the other way and waiting for them to shrivel into obscurity.” And while that might be true, I’m with Israel, who says: “I will not silently tolerate a show that paints Jewish women on Long Island with all-too-familiar and painful stereotypes—money-hungry, superficial, Jewish-American Princesses.” Because I want Bravo to think again before airing another season of this show, or producing any other show that promotes such a negative stereotype of any religion or ethnicity. I’m curious what other people think? Did you watch the show? If you are less familiar with Judaism, what did you think of how the cast portrayed the religion? About Lindsey Silken Lindsey Silken is the editorial director of InterfaithFamily based in Newton, MA. She can be reached at lindseys (at) interfaithfamily (dot) com. View all posts by Lindsey Silken →A child being arrested in Nabi Saleh. Photo (archive) by Lazar Simeonov.
A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Monday accuses Israeli security forces of choking and beating Palestinian children in custody and threatening and interrogating child detainees without the presence of parents or lawyers.
HRW investigated abusive arrests of children following local human rights organizations initial reports’, which documented abuses of Palestinian children in Israeli detention.
HRW’s condemnation of the treatment of Palestinian children is in light of interviews conducted with children from neighborhoods of East Jerusalem who were detained by Israeli security forces on suspicion of throwing stones.
Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson said that "Israeli forces' mistreatment of Palestinian children is at odds with its claim to respect children's rights," adding that "as Israel's largest military donor, the US should press hard for an end to these abusive practices and for reforms."
"Israel has been on notice for years that its security forces are abusing Palestinian children's rights in occupied territory, but the problems continue. These are not difficult abuses to end if the Israeli government were serious about doing so," she said in a statement released alongside the report.
In each case Human Rights Watch documented, children were interrogated without their parent’s knowledge and without prior access to a lawyer. In five cases, children said interrogators either did not permit a parent to attend their interrogation or only allowed parents’ access at the conclusion of the interrogation.
Two 15 year-old boys and a 14 year-old girl said they were forced to sign confessions written in Hebrew, a language they do not understand. Israeli interrogators use Arabic when interrogating Palestinian children but frequently use Hebrew to document the interviews. Only 138 of 440 interrogations conducted by Israeli security forces in 2014 were documented in Arabic, according to the Israeli military.
In another documented case involving an 11 year old boy, an Israeli border police threw a stun grenade at him, put him in a chokehold, put a black bag over his head, threatened and kicked the boy prior to an interrogation.
HRW submitted its preliminary findings, including details of five of the individual cases it investigated, to the Israeli army and to the Israeli police. The separate responses of the Israeli army and Justice Ministry, failed to address the specific allegations of unnecessary force during arrest and subsequent ill-treatment, whilst insisting that security officials had adhered to the law in all cases, including informing the children of their rights.
HRW investigations indicate that existing laws are insufficient to safeguard the rights of Palestinian children in the custody of the Israeli police and the Israeli army, and that officials often adhere to legal requirements and procedures in a manner that undermines the protections they aimed to guarantee.
The report notes that confessions obtained from children in violation of their rights add to the pressure on them to cooperate in plea bargains that result in their imprisonment with reduced sentences.[
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Eli Collins commented on HDFS-2802:
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Hey Jagane,
With regard to your first comment, the goal is definitely not to have dueling proposals, the
doc ATM posted only attempts to flesh out things in the first proposal that were not covered
or left as future work. Namely, (a) snapshot creation time and memory usage should be O(1),
and (b