Re: Alley Cat 1984 Download Movie
Latrina Cobbett
Alley Cat is a 1984 American action film directed by Victor M. Ordonez, Eduardo Palmos, and Al Valletta (all under the alias Edward Victor) and starring Karin Mani and Robert Torti. Mani stars as a young female martial arts expert who becomes a one-woman vigilante against a local street gang.
During 1984, TSR published no fewer than four solo adventures, the majority of which were designed for use with the Basic and Expert rules sets (no surprise, given how well they were apparently selling at the time). The only one written with AD&D in mind was Midnight on Dagger Alley by Merle M. Rasmussen, best known as the creator of Top Secret. The module is the first solitaire "magic viewer modules," so called because it makes use of a strip of transparent red film to read text and maps that have been printed in such a way as to be otherwise illegible. It's a clever solution to the problem posed by the invisible ink modules released in 1983: ensuring re-playability. Unlike its predecessors, Midnight on Dagger Alley is presented in such a way that it can be used multiple times. However, it would seem that the module was not all that well received among potential customers, as TSR never produced another adventure like it.
A player of the module chooses one of three pre-generated characters, a lawful neutral human monk, a neutral evil half-elf assassin, or a neutral elf thief. Two things immediately stand out about these characters, beyond the fact that they are all level six. The first is that they all possess thieving abilities to some degree. The second is that none of them have a good alignment (and indeed one of them is explicitly evil). This surprises me in retrospect, since the Silver Age is when TSR began to worry about "angry mothers from heck" and how they viewed the content of Dungeons & Dragons. In this context, Midnight on Dagger Alley a little like a throwback to the pulp fantasy roots of the game.
In Orwell's nightmarish world of "1984," Winston Smith struggles with life in an alternative reality, where the authoritarian Big Brother government controls the populace with an ever-watchful eye. Free thought is banished and compliance is enforced through mass surveillance.
"When Orwell conceived of mass surveillance, he had no idea how much further we would go in just a few short decades. Our modern context has radically changed the perspective and message of '1984' ever since."
"That alone makes the ideas of '1984' important," he said. "We're often willing participants, almost unconscious about the kinds of technology we freely accept into our lives without any debate or skepticism.
"As time passes, the story of '1984' becomes more relevant," he said. "It's easy for leaders - even regular people - to buy into a philosophy that 'if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.'
"But '1984' warns us that it's a little more complicated than that, and that buying into mass surveillance is a slippery slope to more authoritarian governments. The scary thought is that Big Brother governments are not sudden. Big Brother doesn't simply show up and kill anyone that opposes it. Rather, they start small: re-educating and dehumanizing to cultivate compliance."
Though there's no heavy adult content, "1984" does contain some themes that are not intended for younger audience members, including unsettling concepts about authoritarianism and some scenes that might be considered frightening or disturbing.
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This game involves the use of the Nintendo Light Zapper, and has, truly, no plot. You are in the police station doing target practice, either with three targets at a time with at least one innocent person, or in an alley with both good and bad targets in windows and walking on the sidewalk. Then there's Trick Shot, where you shoot the cans, trying to make them land in a slot for points, or at least not let them fall to the ground.
The name, and likewise the gameplay within, are a reference to an FBI-owned training facility in Quantico, VA called "Hogan's Alley." The Alley is actually a cluster of several complete, but functionless, buildings and streets meant to train federal agents in urban scenarios, sometimes employing firearms and cutout targets as in the game. Part of the real Hogan's Alley can be seen in the beginning of the film Silence of the Lambs.
Committed to its patrons, the Alley will tape a performance of 1984 and provide access to current ticket holders as well as others interested in viewing the production. Subscribers will be sent a password protected link to view the performance.
In 1984, Fuller was dragged into an alley in Washington DC and brutally beaten to death. The high-profile trial sent eight men to prison for life. But their convictions may soon be overturned by the supreme court. How did the case wind up here?
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Alley, the Minnesota health care trade association, announced that Larry A. Kuusisto, Ph.D., has joined its Alley Institute as Director of the Minnesota Palliative Care Partnership. The Partnership is an alliance of four leading health care organizations: Allina, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Fairview Health Services, and HealthPartners.
Dr. Kuusisto will work with the Partnership to examine and advocate for the integration of palliative care services, by both improving current practices and incorporating palliative care into new settings. Palliative care is medical care provided by an interdisciplinary team focused on the relief of suffering, and supports the best possible quality of life for patients facing serious life-threatening illness, and for their families. Dr. Kuusisto has been an educator and an advocate for complementary health care practices for twenty years. He is a postdoctoral Fellow of the Minnesota Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Clinical Research at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Kuusisto has been a member of the Medical Alley Board of Directors since 2001.
Alley Institute is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization under the Medical Alley trade association umbrella that focuses on grant-funded projects, workforce and scholarship efforts. Don Gerhardt, CEO of Medical Alley states, "Dr. Kuusisto is a strong new addition to the Partnership team. His experience in the health care system is a great fit with the Partnership as they work toward impacting this highly important and growing sector of our health care system." The Partnership is co-chaired by MaryAnn Stump, R.N., Vice President, Strategic Innovations, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Mark Leenay, M.D., Medical Director of Transitions and Life Choices, Palliative Care, and Hospice Services, Fairview Health Services. Dr. Leenay states, "Palliative care is patient and family-centered care. It is both a philosophy of care and an organized system for delivering care. The strength of the Partnership allows us to examine new integrative approaches, and we welcome the sustained efforts of Dr. Kuusisto to demonstrate Minnesota's leadership." Dr. Kuusisto replaces Patricia Drury, who served as the Director of the Partnership through July of this year.
In the fall of 2003, the Partnership published a white paper on palliative care and the case for including expanded palliative care in the menu of health benefits offered by employers. In February 2004, the Partnership changed its name from The Minnesota Partnership to Improve End of Life Care to its current name. This change recognized the growing importance the Partnership places on state of the art palliative care, not just at the end of life, but throughout the course of a serious chronic illness. The Partnership continues to work in several areas aimed at expanding access to excellent palliative care for any who may need it. In January 2004, Allina Health Services, a Minnesota-based self-insured employer who is a member of the Partnership, began offering a palliative care benefit to their own employees and their dependents. On June 1, 2004, a large Twin Cities hospital began offering a very similar employee benefit and it is the Partnership's goal that several other organizations will also offer a similar new benefit by the end of the year.
The Partnership, with the Minnesota Department of Health, previously obtained grant support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and launched the Minnesota Commission on End of Life Care. The Commission's work culminated in 2002 in the development of Five Guiding Principles for End of Life Care and a report offering numerous recommendations for specific community actions to improve end of life care. The Report can be viewed on the Partnership's website . In 2002, the Partnership chose Alley Institute, as its new partner and fiscal agent.
Founded in 1984, Medical Alley is a non-profit trade association comprised of well over 400 member organizations in the health care industry. The Association's mission is to serve as a collaborative forum that promotes an environment to enhance innovation in health care. Medical Alley membership includes medical technology manufacturers, health plans/insurers, pharmaceutical and bioscience companies, hospitals and clinics, academic/research institutions, and health care service and consulting companies of all sizes. For information about Medical Alley, visit or call 952-542-3077.
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