In its three qualifying sessions, Sarrazin put the No. 2 car seventh; the No. 1 entry, driven by Nakajima, took eighth in the first session.

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TOYOTA GAZOO Racing began its Le Mans 24 Hours week with a busy day of preparation in the opening practice and qualifying sessions for the third round of the World Endurance Championship.

With the emphasis firmly on set-up development and tyre evaluation over long stints rather than qualifying position, both TS040 HYBRIDs continued the constructive work started at last month's official test day.

The #2 of Alex Wurz, Stéphane Sarrazin and Mike Conway was the fastest TS040 HYBRID and earned provisional seventh on the grid, with the #1 of Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima in eighth.

Evening sun greeted the start of the two-hour qualifying as 14 LMP1 cars in a grid of 56 fought for pole position, which is awarded to the fastest single lap time from any of the three qualifying sessions.

The contest was interrupted at half distance by a red flag, reducing running time by around half an hour as safety barriers were repaired following an accident.

Around a quarter of the session remained, making for a very busy race track but Kazuki and Stéphane took the chequered flag having improved their respective lap times in the closing minutes.

A productive day delivered plenty of data and gave the team reason to believe there is more to come from the TS040 HYBRID in race trim, with more improvements targeted in Thursday's two qualifying sessions.

Earlier in the afternoon, the only official free practice of the week started on a wet track with both cars leaving the pits on grooved tyres to begin four hours of fine-tuning and analysis.

A dry period allowed the team to study the changeover point from wet to hybrid intermediate then dry tyres.

Within a few laps on slick tyres, Sébastien improved on the best lap set by a TS040 HYBRID during the official test day.

The rain returned periodically until the end of a session which was also interrupted by a lengthy red flag period.

Despite the disruptions, the two TS040 HYBRIDs completed a total of 78 laps, 1063km after a trouble-free practice.

Qualifying continues on Thursday with two more 120-minute sessions (19.00 & 22.00).

The drivers' parade in the city on Friday afternoon gives fans a chance to meet the drivers before the race weekend, which begins with a 45-minute warm-up at 09.00.

TS040 HYBRID #1 (Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima)

Free practice 1: 7th (3min 24.763secs), 41 laps

Qualifying 1: 8th (3min 23.767secs), 25 laps

Anthony Davidson: "It was nice to finally drive some laps in the dry today after the wet conditions we experienced for most of the test day.

The car felt nice to drive and we didn't have any problems, so it's been a decent start.

We have focused 100% on race performance; given what we saw at Spa and in the test we were never going to focus on qualifying.

There is still a long way to go this week and the story of Le Mans 2015 will be written on Saturday and Sunday, not in qualifying."

Sébastien Buemi: "In line with Spa, we are not on the same level as Audi and Porsche over one lap so today was all about race set-up.

Congratulations to Porsche on getting the provisional pole with a very quick lap.

We are working as hard as we can on the car to get it into the best possible condition for the race.

We did a lot of work today and got lots of information so we will be working hard to find more performance and put ourselves in the best position for the weekend."

Kazuki Nakajima: "Today we worked on our car set-up and race preparation, looking at tyre degradation and performance.

I think we found a good set-up so I am quite happy with the work we did today.

I was quite unlucky with traffic at the end of my best lap in the evening, but qualifying isn't the priority.

If the bad luck comes in qualifying, it's much better than it coming in the race."

TS040 HYBRID #2 (Alex Wurz, Stéphane Sarrazin, Mike Conway)

Free practice 1: 8th (3min 25.537secs), 37 laps

Qualifying 1: 7th (3min 23.543secs), 23 laps

Alex Wurz: "I did some work for the race and car balance is going in a good direction.

It's a year since we've been at Le Mans at night and it always takes a few laps to get your references correct, with so many reflections and lights.

You have to filter out what is useful and what is just annoying; the usual process in Le Mans race week.

The weather forecast is mixed tomorrow so let's wait and see what we get."

Stéphane Sarrazin: "The car is feeling good for the race and we worked very hard for that.

We improved the balance and understood more about the tyres, so it's been a positive day, despite the final classifications.

Porsche was very fast so congratulations to them for provisional pole position.

We didn't event go for a qualifying run as we are putting all of our effort into the race.

We'll keep working hard tomorrow and let's see what we can do."

Mike Conway: "It was good to get a few laps in the night, my first in an LMP1 here, but unfortunately we had the red flag and lost half an hour so I didn't get as much running as I hoped for.

I have to wait until tomorrow to get more track time in the night which is what I need.

Stéphane did a good job in terms of lap time late in qualifying but we were looking at the race so one-lap pace wasn't the priority."

At the season-opening 6 Hours of Silverstone, Davidson and Nakajima qualified the No. 1 car in fourth position, and Sarrazin and Conway placed the sister No. 2 car in sixth. Toyota were briefly first and second, challenging rivals Audi and Porsche before the No. 1 car finished fifteen seconds behind the No. 7 Audi of Marcel Fässler, Lotterer and Treluyer. The No. 2 car finished fourth; Conway had to enter the pit lane for a nose-cone change after running over a thin trackside bollard while lapping the No. 50 Larbre Compétition Chevrolet Corvette C7.R at Becketts corner.
 During practice for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, Nakajima collided heavily with the back of Oliver Jarvis's No. 8 Audi on the Kemmel Straight due to spray-impaired visibility and broke his back. He was not replaced by Kobayashi because the latter was unavailable, and Buemi and Davidson drove the No. 1 TS040 as a two-person entry. Starting in sixth place, they held fifth until Duval and di Grassi passed them; Conway and Sarrazin qualified in seventh. Both cars lacked the Audis' and Porsches' speed; the No. 2 car finished fifth, and the No. 1 car finished eighth with throttle and electrical problems. Nakajima was cleared by FIA medical delegate Jacques Tropenat to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans test day on 30 May, and was announced as taking part in the race four days later.


Since Wilson completed the Bachelor, Master's, and Doctoral Degrees at Harvard College and the Harvard Business School, he has published about 100 articles in professional journals and books, for which he has received many honors

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Robert Wilson studies game theory and its applications to business and economics.

His research and teaching focus on market design, pricing, negotiation, and related topics concerning industrial organization and information economics.

He has been a major contributor to auction designs and competitive bidding strategies in the oil, communication, and power industries, and to the design of innovative pricing schemes.

Robert Wilson is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, at the Stanford Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 1964.

His research and teaching are on market design, pricing, negotiation, and related topics concerning industrial organization and information economics.

He is an expert on game theory and its applications.

Dr. Wilson has been a major contributor to auction designs and competitive bidding strategies in the oil, communication, and power industries, and to the design of innovative pricing schemes.

His work on pricing of priority service for electric power has been implemented in the utility industry.

His book on Nonlinear Pricing (Oxford Press, 1993) is an encyclopedic analysis of tariff design and related topics for public utilities, including power, communications, and transport; it won the 1995 Leo Melamed Prize, awarded biannually by the University of Chicago for "outstanding scholarship by a business professor."

His work on game theory includes wage bargaining and strikes, and in legal contexts, settlement negotiations.

He has authored some of the basic studies of reputational effects in predatory pricing, price wars, and other competitive battles.

He has published approximately 100 articles in professional journals and books since completing the Bachelor, Master's, and Doctoral degrees at Harvard College and the Harvard Business School.

He has been an associate editor of several journals, and delivered several public lectures.

He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow, former officer and Council member of the Econometric Society.

The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration conferred an honorary Doctor of Economics degree in 1986, and the University of Chicago, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1995.

On problems of pricing strategy, he has advised the U.S. Department of the Interior and oil companies (on bidding for offshore leases), the Electric Power Research Institute (on pricing of electric power, design of priority service systems, design of wholesale markets, funding of basic research, and risk analysis of environmental hazards and climate change), and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (on pricing product lines in high technology industries)

With Paul Milgrom he designed for Pacific Bell the auction of spectrum licenses adopted by the FCC, and subsequently worked on the bidding strategy team, and later for other firms.

He contributed to the designs of the power exchange and auctions of ancillary services in California, and he has continued to advise EPRI; the California Power Exchange; the California, New England, and Ontario System Operators; the Canadian Competition Bureau; Energy Ministries of several countries; and others involved in the design of auctions for electricity, power and gas transmission, and telecommunications in the U.S.A. and elsewhere.

His designs of other auctions have been adopted by private firms.

He has been an expert witness on antitrust and securities matters.

D.Laws (Honorary), University of Chicago, 1995D.Economics (Honorary), Norwegian School of Economics, 1986DBA, Harvard University, 1963MBA, Harvard University, 1961AB, Harvard University, 1959

At Stanford University since 1964Director, Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics, 1993-1995

John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, 2018Designated Distinguished Fellow, The American Economic Association, 2006 PhD Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford University, 2001 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1994

Global Newton Method for Stochastic Games

Robert Wilson. Journal of Economic Theory.

January 2009, Vol. 144, Issue 1, Pages 414-421.

Sufficient Conditions for Stable Equilibria

Robert Wilson. Theoretical Economics. 2006, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Pages 167-206.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2005, Vol. 102, Issue 43, Pages 15706–15711.

Robert Wilson. Journal of Economic Literature.

Foundations of Dynamic Monopoly and the Coase Conjecture

Robert Wilson. Econometrica. 1982, Vol. 50, Pages 863-894.

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Existence of Equilibria in Auctions with Interdependent Values: Two Symmetic Bidders |

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Axiomatic Theory of Equilibrium Selection for Games with Two Players, Perfect Information, and Generic Payoffs |

Efficient Intertemporal Allocation of Risk and Return |

Axiomatic Theory of Equilibrium Selection in Signaling Games with Generic Payoffs |

Computing Equilibria of N-Player Games with Arbitrary Accuracy |

A Decomposition Algorithm for N-Player Games |

Supply Function Equilibrium in a Constrained Transmission System |

Stable Outcomes of Generic Games in Extensive Form |

Rational Cooperation in the Finitely-Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma

On The Chain-Store Paradox and Predation: Reputation for Toughness |

The Loss in Revenue From a Share Auction |

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On February 15, 2015, Carter passed the 500 career NHL point mark with a three-assist performance against the Calgary Flames in a 5–3 victory for the Kings.

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-With the win, Los Angeles improved to 89-108-28 all-time against the Calgary franchise, a record that includes a home mark of 55-45-12.

The Kings are 1-1-2 against the Flames in 2014-15 after having snapped a four-game home losing streak (0-2-2) to their Pacific Division rivals.

Thursday's win was the first home win over Calgary since March 11, 2013.

The teams will conclude the season series on April 9 at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

-Jeff Carter (0-3=3) recorded his 499th, 500th and 501st career points (270-231=501) in the win and tied his career-high in assists (third time, all this season).

He has five points (1-4=5) in the last two games.

Los Angeles is 12-0-0 this season when Carter records more than one point.

-Tyler Toffoli recorded his first career hat trick and the first by a King since Dwight King's three goals in a 7-4 victory over Phoenix on October 24, 2013.

Toffoli leads Los Angeles with 18 goals and has now registered two four-point games this season, a career high.

He has goals in three straight games (5-1=6), marking a career-high.

By assisting on Dwight King's third period goal, he tied his career high with 17 assists (17 / 2013-14).

-With 40 points at home this season (17-6-6), the Kings have the most points through 29 home games in franchise history (previously 39; 2010-11, 2005-06, 1974-75).

-By winning his 122nd game as Los Angeles' head coach, Darryl Sutter tied Larry Robinson for fourth place on the club's all-time wins list.

-The Kings lead the league with 1,785 hits.

Marian Gaborik and Kyle Clifford tied with a team-high four hits.

David Jones led all skaters with six hits.

-Los Angeles improved to 13-1-3 when leading after one period and 5-2-4 when tied after two periods.

-With his second period assist, Jake Muzzin (0-1=1) surpassed his career-high in assists with his 20th of the season (previously 19 / 2013-14).

-Dwight King (1-1=2) recorded a multi-point effort for the second consecutive game for the first time in his career.

-Drew Doughty tallied his 27th assist of the season, tying his total from last season.

– Jonathan Quick won his 20th game of the year, marking the sixth time he has reached at least 20 wins in his career.

-Justin Williams appeared in his 399th game as a King.

-Drew Doughty and Kris Russell finished with a game-high six blocked shots.

-The Kings attempted 87 shots (45 on goal, 22 blocked, 20 missed).

Calgary attempted 42 shots (18 on goal, 17 blocked, 7 missed).

-Los Angeles won 33-of-55 faceoffs (60%).

Among regular performers, Anze Kopitar won 9-of-15, Jarret Stoll won 13-of-22, Nick Shore won 2-of-5, and Jeff Carter won 9-of-13.

The Kings are scheduled to practice at 11:30 a.m. at Toyota Sports Center on Friday, February 13.

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Kempe was selected by the Kings in the first round (29th overall) in the 2014 NHL Draft.

Iafallo was signed by the Kings as an unrestricted free agent on April 18, 2017.

He would finish the 2012 playoffs with eight goals and five assists.
 During the lockout-shortened 2012–13 season, Carter scored 26 goals along with seven assists, playing in all 48 regular season games.
 In the first round of the 2014 playoffs, the Kings rallied back from a 3–0 series deficit against the San Jose Sharks to win four-straight and take the series in seven games. This made Carter one of the first and only two players (the other being his teammate Mike Richards) in history to be a part of two teams who achieved such a feat (Philadelphia Flyers in 2010, Los Angeles Kings in 2014; though Carter missed the Flyers' series in 2010 due to injury). When the Kings beat the New York Rangers in 5 games in the 2014 Stanley Cup Finals, Carter and Drew Doughty became the seventh and eighth NHL players to win both an Olympic hockey gold medal and the Stanley Cup in the same year.
 Early in the 2014–15 season, Carter was named the NHL's First Star of the Week for October 20–26 after scoring two goals and four assists in just two games. This helped the reigning Stanley Cup champion Kings maintain a perfect 6–0 record during their season-opening homestand.


On July 1, 1991, President Bush nominated Clarence Thomas, a young (43 years-old) black conservative judge, to replace retiring justice Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights icon and the Court's first African American justice.

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President Bush today nominated Clarence Thomas, a conservative Republican with a scanty judicial record on civil rights and abortion, to replace the retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court.

If confirmed, the 43-year-old United States appeals court judge for the District of Columbia Circuit would follow Justice Marshall as the second black judge to ascend to the Court.

But Judge Thomas, who has risen in Republican ranks as an advocate of bootstrap conservatism, would present a striking change from Justice Marshall, a civil rights pioneer and an anchor of the Court's declining liberal faction.

With his selection of Judge Thomas, Mr. Bush focused attention on the future direction of the Court and the political implications that the nomination might have for the 1992 Presidential election and for stirring conflict in the Senate confirmation hearings.

Mr. Bush insisted today that the nomination was based entirely on merit, but it came amid a rich swirl of political speculation.

Over the weekend, the White House had actively encouraged the impression that Mr. Bush would appoint a Hispanic judge, a step that could bolster Republican gains among Hispanic voters in Texas, Florida and California.

In choosing a black nominee, Mr. Bush seemed to be aiming toward the less ambitious goal of insulating himself against charges that he is hostile to blacks.

Response to the nomination broke along political lines, with civil rights groups and some Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee promising a tough grilling.

Anti-abortion groups hailed the choice, in the apparent belief that Judge Thomas's generally conservative views would lead him to vote for reversal of the 1973 ruling that women have a Constitutional right to abortion.

White House aides said they expected a tough fight over confirmation, but in Congress there was a widespread feeling that barring an unforeseen scandal, most senators would find it hard to vote against a black nominee backed by a popular President.

Mr. Bush said he had nominated Judge Thomas, the conservative former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, because he was "the best man" for the job.

Unlike Justice Marshall, who has long been a hero to civil rights groups, Judge Thomas has often alienated those groups with his positions opposing affirmative action, quotas and timetables.

"I don't feel he's a quota," Mr. Bush said, standing with an uneasy-looking Judge Thomas in front of the weather-beaten shingled cottage that serves as Mr. Bush's office.

"I expressed my respect for the ground that Mr. Justice Marshall plowed, but I don't feel there should be a black seat on the Court or an ethnic seat on the Court."

The President and Judge Thomas struck the theme that the White House hopes will negate the inevitable criticism by civil rights groups about the nominee's dismissal of affirmative action as "social engineering."

Mr. Thomas's life was offered as inspiring proof that minority members can pull themselves up from rough beginnings without special favors.

"If credit accrues to him for coming up through a tough life as a minority in this country, so much the better," Mr. Bush said as he took pains to characterize the nomination as one in which race was an incidental factor.

The President added with apparent feeling: "It proves he can do it, get the job done.

And so that does nothing but enhance the Court, in my view."

When Judge Thomas stepped up to the microphone, his hands clasped tightly in front of him, he had to stop speaking twice, as he tried to thank his grandparents, sharecroppers from rural Georgia, who had raised him in a tenement with no indoor plumbing.

"As a child, I could not dare dream that I would ever see the Supreme Court, not to mention be nominated to it," he said.

"Indeed, my most vivid childhood memory of a Supreme Court was the 'Impeach Earl Warren' signs which lined Highway 17 near Savannah.

I didn't quite understand who this Earl Warren fellow was, but I knew he was in some kind of trouble."

"I thank all of those who helped me along the way, and who have helped me to this point and this moment in my life, especially my grandparents, my mother and the nuns, all of whom were adamant that I grow up to make something of myself," Judge Thomas added, referring to the grandparents who raised him and his teachers in a Roman Catholic school near his boyhood home in Georgia.

He said he hoped to be "an example to those who are where I was and to show them that, indeed, there is hope."

Asked what he would say to critics who charged that he was selected only because he was black, and not because he had worked to advance the cause of blacks, Judge Thomas replied: "I think a lot worse things have been said.

I disagree with that, but I'll have to live with it."

President Bush's political strategists said he had wanted to choose a member of a minority, and all things being equal, would have preferred to choose a Hispanic judge from Texas, Emilio M. Garza.

John H. Sununu, the White House chief of staff, and Senator Phil Gramm, a Texas Republican, had argued strongly for Judge Garza, the only other judge interviewed by Administration officials over the weekend.

But in a conference call on Saturday, with Mr. Bush hooked up at his home here and Mr. Sununu, C. Boyden Gray, the White House counsel, and Dick Thornburgh, the Attorney General, hooked up in Washington, Mr. Gray and Mr. Thornburgh argued that Mr. Garza was "not ready," as one senior Administration official put it.

The 43-year-old Judge Garza, who was only recently elevated to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in San Antonio, has not yet written any opinions as an appellate judge, and his private law practice did not involve cases on issues of far-reaching import.

Today Mr. Bush seemed a bit hesitant because the direct symmetry of appointing one black to replace another left him open to charges that he was operating on a "quota," even as he is waging a bitter fight with civil rights groups, Democrats and moderate Republicans on the issue of quotas in the civil rights bill now before Congress.

But, as a senior aide put it, "Bush decided to stare down the quota concerns because he liked Clarence and he really felt he had a good record."

Administration officials felt that Mr. Thomas would attract heavy criticism from Democrats and civil rights leaders, but that two things would work in his favor: te Senate confirmed him by voice vote to the appeals court only a year ago, and his background, if not his record, will work to negate criticism from those who want a nominee who will champion the poor and oppressed.

"They can't say Clarence isn't aware of what it's like on the other side of the tracks," said one top Bush official.

In his news conference on Friday, Justice Marshall observed that race would be a factor in the nomination of his successor, but said it should not be used as "an excuse for doing wrong -- picking the wrong Negro and saying, 'I'm picking him because he's a Negro.' "

That remark was widely interpreted as pre-emptive criticism of an appointment for Judge Thomas, who was named to the appeals court by Mr. Bush in 1989 in a step widely intepreted as preparation of an eventual appointment to the High Court.

Other civil rights leaders, in interviews over the weekend, also cautioned against appointing a black with what they viewed as the wrong kind of ideology.

"You can be assured that if we get some narrow-minded, right-wing conservative reactionary to fill this seat, it will be the mother of all confirmation hearings," Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told The Los Angeles Times in an article published on Sunday.

Today Mr. Hooks was more temperate in his reaction to the news of Judge Thomas's nomination, but he still had a sting in his subtext.

"Since Justice Marshall's statement of his retirement, we have expressed the view that another African-American should be appointed to this position, making it clear, however, that it should be someone who embodies many of the attributes Justice Marshall so ably articulated," Mr. Hooks said in a statement.

Today Mr. Bush said he was troubled by the criticism of Mr. Hooks, whom he described as a friend, and said he was eager to discuss the issue with him.

During his Senate confirmation hearings for the appellate judgeship, Judge Thomas was criticized by civil rights groups as being lax in his job at the equal employment commission in enforcing bias laws to protect the elderly and minorities.

In a 1987 article for The Yale Law and Policy Review, he referred to affirmative action as "social engineering."

Today two Democratic Senators, Alan Cranston of California and Howard M. Metzenbaum ofOhio, threatened to investigate Judge Thomas's record on abortion, which is vague, and not let him off so easily on this subject as was the case with David H. Souter in his confirmation hearing.

"I don't want my vote to contribute to an increasingly large and conservative anti-choice majority on the Supreme Court," Mr. Cranston said.

Mr. Metzenbaum agreed, saying, "I will not support yet another Reagan-Bush Supreme Court nominee who remains silent on a woman's right to choose, and then ascends to the Court to weaken that right."

Conservatives greeted the nomination with delight.

Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah predicted easy confirmation, saying: "This man understands the difficulties of life.

He has had a tough life but he's made it all the way.

Anybody who takes him on in the area of civil rights is taking on the grandson of a sharecropper."

Judge Thomas refused to answer questions today about his position on quotas or abortion, or even to give a personal reflection on what the Warren Court had done for minority members, saying he would reserve those thoughts for his confirmation hearing.

Mr. Bush, on being asked if he was trying to put the Court on a conservative road for decades to come, replied that he had not discussed specific issues with Judge Thomas, nor had he with Justice Souter.

"I don't know whether he'll agree with positions that our Administration takes or overthrow decisions or change positions that we think are right," Mr. Bush said.

What matters is that he faithfully interpret the Constitution, and I am 100 percent convinced that that's exactly what he'll do."

White House officials said Mr. Bush had worked from a list of names that were reviewed on a continuous basis by the Justice Department.

The short list included Judge Thomas; Judge Garza; Edith Jones, a 42-year-old judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Houston, and Laurence Silberman, a United States appeals judge for the District of Columbia Circuit.

According to a chronology provided by a senior Bush aide today, after Mr. Bush's news conference, Mr. Bush "settled upon Thomas" during the Saturday conference call at 3 P.M.

On Sunday, Mr. Bush called Judge Thomas and, the aide said, "briefly discussed the job, reiterated again how impressed he was by his record and his confidence in him."

But, the aide said, Mr. Bush "did not offer him the job at that point, but did invite him to come up here today, and as the President said, gave a fairly strong indication to him that he was his nominee."

Judge Thomas still felt tentative enough about it on Sunday that he did not tell his wife that he had received a near-offer, Mr. Bush said today.

Judge Thomas flew up to Kennebunkport in an Air Force plane today, accompanied by Mr. Gray, Mr. Sununu and Mr. Thornburgh.

Mr. Bush spent about 20 minutes alone with Judge Thomas in his bedroom, the only place he felt he could get some peace from grandchildren and aides, the President's aide said.

That is where Mr. Bush made the final offer and Judge Thomas accepted.

"I had one or two points that I wanted to make to him to see that he felt comfortable with them," Mr. Bush said.

"I wanted to be sure that he knew from me that there was no litmus test involved.

I told him, if it's not violating a privacy, that he ought to do like the umpire -- call them as you see them.

Mr. Bush said that he did not talk to any of the other candidates on the short list this weekend.

After their chat in the bedroom, Mr. Bush and his nominee joined his advisers and family for a lunch of crabmeat salad and English muffins and ice water on the veranda.

Today, after the news conference, as Mr. Bush and Judge Thomas walked back to the house, reporters called out to the judge, asking him if he played golf, one of Mr. Bush's favorite sports.

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Justice William Brennan stepped down from the Supreme Court in 1990. Thomas was one of five candidates on Bush's shortlist and was the one Bush was most interested in nominating. Bush's staff made three arguments against nominating Thomas at the time: Thomas had only served eight months as a judge; Bush could expect to replace Thurgood Marshall with Thomas in due time; and multiple senior advisors told Bush that they did not feel that Thomas was ready. Bush eventually decided to nominate Judge David Souter of the First Circuit instead, who was easily confirmed.
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Wiggins died of cardiac arrest on March 2, 2000, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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# Charles Wiggins, 72, Dies; Led Nixon's Defense in Hearings

Judge Charles E. Wiggins, a Republican congressman from California who was influential in the Watergate hearings and switched from defending President Richard M. Nixon to supporting impeachment, died on Thursday in Las Vegas.

The cause was cardiac arrest, The Associated Press reported.

Mr. Wiggins was elected to the House in 1967 from a district in Southern California and served until 1978 when he retired to resume practicing law.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

He was a senior judge at the time of his death.

As a congressman, Mr. Wiggins was considered one of Nixon's staunchest defenders.

Along with two other members of the House Judiciary Committee, he led the president's defense when the Watergate hearings began in the summer of 1974.

The strategy was to construe the evidence as narrowly as possible, require ironclad proof and propose benign explanations of information damaging to the president.

At the time, The New York Times described Mr. Wiggins as ''a silky Southern Californian who would feel at home in the pages of a Ross Macdonald detective novel.''

In weeks of closed Judiciary Committee hearings and in six days of televised debate in July, Mr. Wiggins argued that none of the evidence linked Nixon directly to a crime.

But his view changed abruptly on Aug. 5, 1974 when Nixon conceded that he had helped conceal the Watergate break-in.

The next morning, a front-page headline on The New York Times noted Mr. Wiggins's change of heart: ''Wiggins for Impeachment; Others in G.O.P. Join Him.''

The Times reported that ''Representative Charles E. Wiggins, President Nixon's strongest defender during the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment proceedings, and many other influential House Republicans'' had announced that ''they would vote for impeachment,'' and that Mr. Wiggins and members of the House Republican leadership had expressed what The Times called ''a deep sense of disillusionment.''

In a statement outlining his new position, Mr. Wiggins said there was no longer any doubt that the president had agreed to a ''plan of action'' to obstruct the Watergate investigation.

''These facts standing alone are legally sufficient in my opinion to sustain at least one count against the president of conspiracy to obstruct justice,'' he said.

Because of that, Mr. Wiggins said, he had reached the ''painful conclusion'' that it was in the national interest for Nixon to resign.

Afterward, Mr. Wiggins wrote that it had been the right decision.

''Such a conclusion was a sad and personally wrenching one for me to reach, because I regarded -- and still do regard -- myself as a friend of the president and his family and one still willing, proudly, to claim his achievements,'' Mr. Wiggins wrote.

One of his best-known rulings as a judge was in 1994, in Holmes v. California National Guard, which upheld the Pentagon's ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy.

Under the policy, the military may not inquire into a soldier's sex life unless there is clear evidence of homosexual conduct, but gays who volunteer the information can be discharged.

In 1998, when Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the consequences of perjury, seeking to stoke support for impeaching President Clinton on that charge, Judge Wiggins told the committee, ''I'd recommend you not vote for impeachment.''

He said the evidence against Mr. Clinton was vague.

Charles Edward Wiggins was born in El Monte, Calif., and received a bachelor's degree in 1953 from the University of Southern California and a law degree from there in 1956.

He practiced law in California and in Washington and served as mayor of El Monte from 1964 to 1966.

Mr. Wiggins married Yvonne L. Boots in 1946.

Judge Wiggins is survived by his second wife, the former Betty J. Koontz, whom he married in 1972; two sons, Steve, of Aspen, Colo., and Scott, of Seattle; two stepsons, Gary Burnett of Henderson, Nev., and Craig Burnett of Santa Rosa, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Darla Colton of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a sister, Lynn Burdick of Las Vegas; and 10 grandchildren.

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# And then there was Shad: inside the search for the new host of Q

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Anna Maria Tremonti is one of the steeliest personalities in Canadian journalism, but on Thursday morning she allowed herself a rare Sally Field moment.

Kicking off a gentle interview with Shadrach Kabango, aka Shad, the new host of CBC Radio's Q, she admitted that she and her co-workers were flattered by the rapper's choice to join their ranks.

"The very fact that you believe that it is worth coming on board here at CBC speaks to a lot of us on the inside, makes us proud," she told him, sounding not a little bit moonstruck.

"One of my producers said yesterday, 'He likes us.'

Because, you know the CBC's been under fire.

So, your decision to come here is a big deal."

Shad replied humbly that he was honoured to become a public servant, but Tremonti couldn't resist one more self-conscious poke.

"I'm just checking," she said, "CBC is having a rough time beyond Jian Ghomeshi: massive layoffs, lots of criticism, various criticism.

You know you're at the CBC, not CBS, not BBC – you got it, C-B-C, right?"

Sook-Yin Lee, Julie Nesrallah and Brent Bambury turned up to offer advice and good wishes.

Even Peter Mansbridge contributed a pre-recorded white-man rap that left Shad briefly speechless.

If the folks in Studio Q allowed themselves a few moments of uncharacteristic giddiness, you could understand their relief.

Thursday marked 20 weeks since Ghomeshi had stepped out of the studio and into infamy, and everyone on staff was eager – some would say desperate – to begin a new chapter.

While the focus has understandably been on the former host, who faces seven criminal charges, the gruelling, unprecedented process of finding a new personality to be Q's flag bearer offers a fascinating glimpse into the stress fractures and underlying strength of the public broadcaster.

Over the past four and a half months, producers worked 16-hour days and endured sometimes crushing media attention.

Cutbacks announced last summer at the broadcaster – expected to eliminate 20 per cent of full-time jobs by 2020 – were not far from people's minds: a number of the producers are on temporary contracts.

Cluster-bomb revelations of Ghomeshi's behaviour, who-knew-what-when, roiled staff and spurred the suspension of CBC Radio's top English-language executive just as the search process was moving into high gear in January.

But if CBC is beleaguered, as Tremonti implied, it remains a lodestar for many within the industry, and candidates lined up for the job of hosting its eight-year-old flagship arts and culture radio show.

Within days of Ghomeshi's firing, even as the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto underwent a Stalinist purge to remove any sign of the former host, job queries began to flood in.

Daniel Richler, a former CBC journalist now based in London, sent a volley of e-mails to former colleagues and current executives, offering his services and inquiring about an audition.

Management was not yet ready to think about bringing in outsiders, however, so the show relied at first on a rotating cast of three regular CBC Radio hosts: Bambury, Piya Chattopadhyay and Tom Power.

As one of the first hosts to replace Ghomeshi, Power says he felt a special responsibility to staff, who were clearly in some distress.

"Sometimes in this industry, you start to wonder whether the lessons your mother had taught you about being a good, kind, honest person are beneficial, do you know what I mean?"

"You think, 'Well, maybe I should be more of a meaner person, because that will help me get ahead.'

And when I walked in there, I walked in with the utmost respect for that team, and that show, and I wanted to be kind with them, and just help them through it."

He was well liked by the staff, wound up on the short list, and said recently that even though he didn't get the job, it wouldn't be a stretch to suggest the entire experience had renewed his faith in the world.

Staff wrestled with the shadow cast over the show by their former host in both abstract and concrete ways.

In late November, Q published a blog post instructing listeners how to update the show's podcast icon on their mobile devices, because the old one featured Ghomeshi's image.

A few weeks later, the show announced its archives would be scrubbed from CBC's website and YouTube in order to give those re-creating Q a blank slate.

"We're focusing on the future," said Cindy Witten, who was then the senior director of CBC Radio Talk.

But fans were loath to see history erased like that, and after a brief outcry, CBC reversed its position.

Witten was clearly still finding her feet.

She had only started at CBC in late September; five weeks later, the Ghomeshi scandal erupted, making every day at work feel like a Tilt-A-Whirl.

On the first Monday back after the new year, CBC suspended Witten's boss, Chris Boyce, the executive director of CBC Radio, as part of the Ghomeshi fallout, and made her his temporary replacement.

"It affected the process in that I was suddenly juggling two radio services," Witten said this week.

With the end of February as an internal deadline, the search was intensifying.

Building on input from Q staff and the executive search firm Searchlight Recruitment, Witten and her managers cast as wide a net as possible, drawing up a list of about 200 people.

They then asked about 20 candidates to come into the studio to audition in a mock show process.

Candidates were asked to write an opening essay, like the trademark ones Ghomeshi had delivered (but usually not written himself).

The artist Darren O'Donnell and the journalist Thomas Rogers, who had written an article for Rolling Stone last summer about so-called "Nipsters," or Nazi Hipsters, allowed themselves to be interviewed over and over by a parade of wannabe hosts.

Some, like the New York-based author and journalist Clive Thompson, auditioned in a remote studio.

Sean Rameswaram, a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based producer with Public Radio International's Studio 360, also did an off-air audition, then was flown up to Toronto for a week-long tryout in early February.

He also conducted a panel discussion on "the whiteness of public radio" with two CBC employees who were given full rein to criticize their own employer for its relative lack of diversity.

Some candidates skipped over the off-air tryouts and went straight to on-air auditions, including Richler, who had last done radio more than 30 years ago.

He was nervous, and in the weeks leading up to his on-air audition in early February, he peppered producers with questions and ideas.

"I must say, I was quite demanding, because I felt out of the loop, living in London," he said this week.

"I knew they couldn't give me that much time, because they were working with other people."

Still, by the end of his audition week, Richler felt he had found a rhythm and was even enjoying himself.

When his final show wrapped up, he went back to his desk and – at the stroke of noon – took a swig of Jack Daniels from a flask he had brought with him from England, "in anticipation of the cold Canadian winter."

When someone on the show spotted him, he said, they opened up a cupboard and revealed a bottle of single malt Scotch.

"Apparently, when things were really bad, there were a lot of supportive people at CBC who used to bring cupcakes and muffins – and the occasional bottle of Scotch," Richler said.

No one joined him in the tipple; they still had work to do.

Producers on the show told friends they were exhausted by the hamster-wheel-like demands of working with one guest host while trying to get the next week's host up to speed.

Producers worked especially long hours prepping punk rocker Damian Abraham, but while he was a jovial presence on air he stumbled frequently during interviews and transitions.

As the revolving door of guest hosts and auditions continued, a number of U.S. stations dropped Q from their lineup, including WBUR in Boston.

While the show's U.S. distribution is not a significant source of revenue for CBC, it is used to trade for other programming, such as The World, which is co-produced by PRI and BBC World Service.

And Q's U.S. presence helps the show enormously in snagging big guests.

At the same time, listeners were offering feedback on the CBC website and with the hashtag #QTheFuture.

Some listeners suggested they turn the audition process into a reality show.

One candidate privately noted that it felt as if they had done so, and that it was not a pleasant experience.

Stand-up comic Candy Palmater, who has had a variety program on APTN TV for a number of years, said last month that she found the experience "bumpy at first," in part because she was used to writing her own copy.

The Q crew, she noted, "has been writing for one person for 10 years, and now all of a sudden they're in this horrible position where they're writing for somebody different every week."

Alone among the candidates, the irrepressible Palmater seemed to take naturally to the reality show aspect of the casting process.

She read the comments left for her on the Q blog, and even found some of the unsolicited advice to be helpful, including one listener's suggestion to forego softball questions.

Throughout her five-day run, and in the weeks afterward, she asked fans to send e-mails and tweets to CBC expressing their desire to see her land the permanent gig.

It apparently worked: By the middle of February, Witten and a small inner circle had settled on a short list that included Palmater, Richler, Rameswaram and Power.

It also included Shad, who had particularly impressed the managers with how quickly his interviewing skills had improved during his five days on air.

While the executives and producers were also impressed by some of the journalists, such as Rachel Giese, Witten and the others ultimately felt they wanted to go with an artist instead.

"We were struck by the connections that the artists and the creators made with the guests," said Witten.

"So we took that fork in the road, and felt that was delivering the most interesting revelations."

Within CBC, it was widely believed that diversity would be an important part of creating the new Q – not just in the choice of its on-air host, but the staff as well.

In fact, says Witten, it is an important value for the entire network.

Two weeks ago, as she wrapped up a presentation to CBC's board of directors about her plans for the radio services, she raised the issue.

"What I said was, diversity is foundational to everything we're trying do.

We're not going to be successful, we're not going to be relevant, we're not going to reach more people if we aren't paying very close attention to diversity."

The shortlist was tested with an online panel of 1,000 respondents, who were asked to comment on the candidates' star power as well as their gut reaction to them.

Executives at Public Radio International, which distributes Q to more than 100 stations in the U.S., were asked to listen to the five hosts and provide feedback – PRI is hopeful that Shad's appointment can get some of the stations that dumped the show to pick it back up again.

CBC executives also quietly shared the short list both with people outside and inside the broadcaster.

In the end, it was Witten who made the call.

"I would say a lot of data fed into it, a lot of people fed into it," she said on Thursday afternoon.

"At some point, things start to coalesce in your belly, and you're starting to feel the choice, you're starting to feel the decision.

Spirits were high in Studio Q on Thursday morning, but by the afternoon, as Shad arrived for yet another media interview, he was carrying a Starbucks cup and looking a little worn.

He settled in at a conference table on the third floor of the Broadcast Centre, in an abandoned quadrant of the offices which layoffs had rendered surplus.

The place was under renovation, and to be leased to a new tenant.

Shad was trying to set realistic expectations.

He noted that he would spend weeks in training before his debut show, a live extravaganza at the Glenn Gould Theatre on April 20.

"There's opportunity for improvement in every area," he said, noting that he expected it would take six months before he and the Q team would really start to gel.

Late on Thursday, Witten was sounding cautiously optimistic about the future.

"I think he's going to be good, and then I think he's going to be great."

Was she pleased with how the last four and half months unfolded?

Witten breathed deeply, then replied: "I'm pleased with the outcome."

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"The Producers" was the first ever Korean network drama to air in the Friday-Saturday time slot, which was usually reserved for late-night comedy shows; network dramas had previously been strictly divided into weekday and weekend programs.

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# 'Producer' set with stellar cast, creative team

As the final cast and staff for upcoming TV series "Producer" (working title) has been confirmed, featuring star actor Kim Soo-hyun and mega-hit screenwriter Park Ji-eun, industry insiders are dubbing it "the most anticipated show" of 2015.

Reports speculate whether the new series will follow up on the sensational pan-Asian success of "My Love from the Star," the 2014 drama written by Park and starring Kim as an irresistible extraterrestrial.

After a one-year hiatus from the small screen, Kim is to portray a rookie television producer this time in "Producer," which will depict the dynamic work and life of television network employees.

In the lead are actor Cha Tae-hyun, well loved for comedic portrayals in box-office hits such as "Scandal Makers," as a veteran producer of variety entertainment shows and actress Gong Hyo-jin as a music producer.

Popular singer-songwriter and actress IU will play a diva-like top celebrity singer.

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The collaboration of these two industry big names has garnered much attention, especially since director Seo has previously focused on comedy and variety shows, as opposed to dramas.

"Boundaries between genres are disappearing," KBS entertainment department head Park Joong-min told PD Journal newspaper.

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The stretch from Friday into Saturday is a breakthrough as well, since network dramas until now have been strictly divided into weekday and weekend shows.

"Producer" will begin shooting in late March and air in May on KBS2, reports said.

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Alexis Kennedy, co-founder of Failbetter Games and the creative director of "Dragon Age: The Last Court", joined BioWare as its "first ever guest writer" in September 2016.

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# Failbetter Founder Alexis Kennedy Writing For BioWare

By Adam Smith on September 12th, 2016 at 11:17 am.

It was a sad day, for me, when Alexis Kennedy left Failbetter.

The creators of Fallen London and Sunless Sea built their games on some of the strongest and most idiosyncratic writing games have ever been host to, and I hoped we'd see more of Kennedy's words sooner rather than later.

The good news is that Failbetter's foundations seem sturdy enough that Kennedy's absence may be felt but won't leave an enormous gap, and we're already seeing him work on some exciting projects.

First, there was Stellaris, and now Kennedy has announced that he'll be the "first ever guest writer" at BioWare working alongside Mike Laidlaw and Patrick Weekes.

Kennedy describes the assignment as a guest writer sting on "a significant piece of content", but can't say which game he's actually working on just yet.

Failbetter do have an association with Dragon Age, in the form of browser-based Inquisition precursor The Last Court.

That was a Failbetter game in a Dragon Age costume, even being built with the studio's text-happy Story Nexus engine, but this new assignment seems much more likely to be part of a Full Fat BioWare project.

Could it be a segment of Mass Effect: Andromeda, or will it be a portion of whatever is next for Dragon Age?

In the meantime, I enjoyed these notes from Kennedy on writing for Stellaris, and the challenges involved.

It contains hints as to the kind of thing we should expect from his work on Paradox's sci-fi strategy game and is also a good insight into how working as a writer for a game actually plays out.

"If a narrative event runs as an interrupt, make sure the first sentence is a grabber.

When you're playing Stellaris, you spend much of your time with the (real-time) game running at high speed, mentally juggling multiple goals, waiting for a planet to get colonised or a fleet to reach its destination.

If a window pops up to say SOMETHING SOMETHING FLAVOUR, it's immediately tempting to mouse over the reward and click 'OK' without following the detail.

The first sentence needs to justify its presence – give the player a cue for urgency ('EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE on Pharos III'), for exaample, or just a strong image.

I like the intro for one of the vanilla events in Stellaris: "Immense, ragged planes of shadow drift across Pharos II's face."

"I tend to prefer evocative real words or phrases.

The corpse I put in Stellaris, for instance, is the Messenger.

You can overdo this (and I have overdone it sometimes), and invented words, especially if they have some aesthetic or etymological relevance, are fine – like the Cybrex in vanilla Stellaris, or peligin [from pelagic/fuligin] in Sunless Sea.

But this is the first work I've done that's going to be localised, and I didn't want to make life any harder for the translators than necessary.

"So I favoured poetry over neology: the Coils of God, the Horizon Signal, the Worm-in-Waiting.

I'm reasonably confident those phrases will be memorable."

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An artist going to work for a corporation that pumps out lowest common denominator targeted garbage.

What EA/BioWare have done to the Mass Effect and Dragon Age sequels is like what that lady did to that painting Fresco of Jesus.

The lowest common denominator had no interest in the painting until it became a dumb meme.

However talented he is, and he is extraordinarily talented, I hold little hope that his talent will shine through in any BioWare product aimed at the safe middle-ground.

At least at Paradox, there's a chance he could be allowed to fly but at BioWare he'll just be churning out extraordinarily well written and extraordinarily boring and normal tropes.

To put it another way, there is simply no chance that a game like Sunless Sea would ever have been made by a company like BioWare as it exists, today.

Sunless Sea appeals to such a tiny and specific audience and, even to that audience, it is still an acquired taste.

The writing is also extremely risky, touching on topics that would never fly in any corporate board-room.

BioWare: "cannibals are bad because they're cannibals, obvs."

Sunless Sea: "let's actually explore cannibalism a little.

It's pretty unfair to accuse Bioware writing as being boring and normal.

The games as a whole definitely do aim for the middle of the mainstream but there is some weird shit in there.

Iron Bull in DA:I, the evolving setting of DA2.

Finding it hard to come up with examples from ME but I'm sure they are there. >.<

A recent Sunday Papers linked to an article all about identity in DA:I: link to giantbomb.com

God knows these games have issues but your description of the writing seems overly simplistic and wrong.

Also there is a cannibal in DA:O and he's a decent sort.

If you haven't played the text game Failbetter made for the launch of DA:I you should, it's very good.

I'd say that stuff like the genophage is a pretty daring topic to tackle in a game.

If Bioware *were* so safe and middle of the road, why on earth are people so damn angry about their games?

Hate it or not, stuff like the infamous ME3 ending was not the product of a corporate boardroom, but of individual authors working in secret.

The argument here isn't even internally consistent.

It's tempting to confuse the criticism here, but ME3's ending/writing was lambasted because it was terrible, not because it was breaking the mould in any way.

And personally, "three-choice ending with strong colors" sounds pretty safe and worn for RPGs these days, even if it was a purely creative decision made internally at Bioware.

A lot of it comes down to the pre/post-EA thing.

The ME universe was created back when BioWare was still independent, ditto for DA.

The problem people have is really with the impact of EA on BioWare's work.

I guess I could have made it four with BioWare, but somehow it just didn't feel right.

Also a sad day for cannibalism around the world.

To be honest I'm finding it very hard to see how Kennedy can hope to improve the literal dark pit that has become Bioware these days.

When they started making sequels for ME and DA it all went downhill fast – Oh so very fast

I liked Bioware's writing, I liked Alexis Kennedy's writing, Alexis Kennedy likes Bioware's writing.

So looking forward to what he can contribute.

I think he would be a good pick for Andromeda and hope he will be given enough creative freedom to make something great of it, time will tell !

My money is on Andromeda DLC, aka an essential part of the game that should've been shipped with the original like ME3's DLC.

And I see some hate for recent Bioware games here… Pretend like their endings don't exist, and ME2/3 have some good writing IMHO.

But if Bioware really wanted good writing,they would just contract Obsidian.

Words cannot describe what I would give for an Obsidian ME game.

That's what I'm thinking too, it's far too late in the cycle for him to be writing for the actual game.

Some sort of storyfilled DLC like Leviathan (which I liked a lot).

Ugh more cliched and herd mentality stuff about BioWare.

Some of us enjoyed their recent games and some of also find Paradox's titles overrated snoozefests.

Pillars of Eternity was also a giant bore-fest with bad combat so I would not want to see a Mass Effect game done by Obsidian unless I really want to have a 45 minute conversation with an NPC before anything happens.

Well, ufortunately I have to agree to a certain degree here.

Still, Bioware basically IS another word for mainstream these days.

And the mainstream ever washes away so much originality.

You have bad opinions about video games, but hey… that's OK.

Unlike Bethesda, at least Bioware actually attempts to add a narrative to their games.

It's mostly devolved into "save the world/galaxy and try to get laid" at this point, but it's something.

Obsidian does their best work when someone else lays the groundwork for them, and they build a story around it.

It softens Obsidian's bad habit of putting in 10x more rambling than gameplag…

It's lovely that writers I enjoy are getting work

However I'm not buying another bioware game after DAI until they learn how to actually make the gameplay engaging (or even tolerable)

If he's working with Mike Laidlaw (creative director of Dragon Age) and Patrick Weekes (lead writer on Dragon Age) it's safe to say he's working on Dragon Age.

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History.:2010s: Muzyka and Zeschuk's departure, "Mass Effect" on hiatus, "Anthem".

Aaryn Flynn remains in charge of BioWare Canada (Edmonton and Montreal) and Jon Van Caneghem, the head of Victory Games and Waystone Studio (also parts of the BioWare label).
 After acquiring and dismantling LucasArts, The Walt Disney Company announced in May 2013 that Electronic Arts will produce future "Star Wars" games, "in addition to the BioWare team, which is already developing for the Star Wars franchise." In November 2013, teaser images from the next instalment of the "Mass Effect" series have been released. At E3 2014, BioWare Edmonton announced working on a new (unnamed) original intellectual property in addition to continuing their established series. Another new IP, titled "Shadow Realms" is an episodic 4 vs. 1 story-driven online action role-playing game, and was announced on Gamescom 2014. On 9 February 2015, Bioware Austin announced that development on "Shadow Realms" would not continue.
 Casey Hudson, the creator of the "Mass Effect" series, left BioWare in May 2014, while Drew Karpyshyn, writer of "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic", returned in 2015, "Dragon Age'"s writer David Gaider left BioWare in January 2016. Chris Wynn and Chris Schlerf, both of whom had an important role in the development of "Mass Effect: Andromeda", left in December 2015 and February 2016 respectively.


The "five-string, funk-R&B" bass line was played by Ethan Farmer, and the drum fill, "an 80s kind-of snare with a big reverb on it," was inspired by John Mellencamp's "Jack & Diane".

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Carly Rae Jepsen released her third album, Emotion, in 2015.

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It initially held the hook "warm love feels good" to which Batmanglij misheard as "warm blood", sticking as its main motif as he was drawn to its physical rather than abstract connotations. Jepsen explained: "The more we chipped away at it, we couldn't get away from how much better 'blood' felt and how realer it was. It's almost like that warm skin or that feeling of intimacy." The song has been noted for its experimental vocal effects, with Batmanglij scattering distorted vocal cuts throughout, a "creepy" quality that the pair immediately liked. Elsewhere, sections of "Warm Blood" were sung in a lower pitch ; Jepsen was to re-record these parts as she came to the session with "shot vocals", however its "smokier" quality abandoned these plans. Brad Nelson of "The Guardian" compared Jepsen's performance to that of Ezra Koenig's "machine-produced flexibility" on the Vampire Weekend song, "Diane Young". In a session with Tavish Crowe, the closer "When I Needed You" was written to process a break up where Jepsen realizes the faults of her seemingly "perfect" relationship: "[...] but in order to stay in it, I would have to be quite a different person than who I naturally am [...] and that sacrifice didn't seem worth it in the end." Dan Nigro and Nate Campany composed the "happier-sounding" instrumental, to which Jepsen felt a sense of catharsis in concealing a "very serious" emotion. Ariel Rechsthaid reworked the chord progression in order to invoke a sense of "desperation", droning through it with a series of bell notes that made the composition sound "a little bit more somber".


The song called "Beautiful Mess" was performed by Russian-born Kristian Kostov and reached 2nd place, Bulgaria's best ever result.

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The EP peaked at No. 1 on the Danish and Dutch iTunes Album Charts while the feature single, "Shackled Up" made it to No. 1 on the Danish iTunes Singles Chart and No. 4 on the Dutch iTunes Singles Chart.
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He was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week after the 21-16 win against the Los Angeles Rams, completing 17-of-38 passes for 285 yards and 3 touchdowns, including the 41-yard game winner to wide receiver Hassan Jones with less than a minute to play.

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Walter Payton scored two touchdowns today, setting a record in the process, to lead the Chicago Bears to a 20-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Payton rushed for one touchdown and caught a 9-yard pass for another.

The first score, 1-yard dive gave the 33-year-old veteran a record 107th rushing touchdown, breaking a tie with Jim Brown.

But Payton, the league's career rushing leader, gained only 24 yards in 15 carries.

Payton's running mate, 23-year-old Neal Anderson, broke a 27-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, while gaining 115 yards in 16 attempts to lead a sputtering Bears offense guilty of two fumbles and two interceptions.

The Bears clinched it when Mike Tomczak hit Payton with the 9-yard touchdown pass with 3:20 left in the game after Tomczak had connected on a 46-yard pass to Willie Gault.

The Bears are 2-0 and Tampa Bay dropped to 1-1.

ATLANTA (AP) - Scott Campbell passed for two touchdowns in his first Atlanta start and Gerald Riggs scored on a 4-yard run with 6:47 remaining as Falcons scored an upset.

The margin came as a result of a botched extra-point attempt after the Redskins' second touchdown.

A bouncing snap by Jeff Bostic couldn't be handled by his holder, Eric Yarber.

Campbell, elevated to the starting spot after David Archer failed to generate any offense in a 48-10 loss at Tampa Bay last week, completed 17 of 35 passes for 271 yards.

Randall Cunningham threw two touchdown passes and the defense intercepted three passes, made three sacks and recovered two fumbles as Philadelphia rallied for the victory.

The Eagles trailed by 10-0 after the first period.

But a 30-yard field goal by Paul McFadden and Cunningham's 19-yard touchdown pass to Mike Quick and 25-yard pass to Kenny Jackson triggered the team.

The Saints were held to 32 yards on the ground as they slipped to 1-1.

The Eagles held hard-running Rueben Mayes 20 yards on 13 carries.

Jerry Rice caught a 25-yard touchdown pass from Joe Montana with no time remaining to give San Francisco (1-1) a stunning victory.

Rice outjumped a rookie cornerback, Eric Thomas, in the end zone to make his dramatic game-winning catch.

A tactical error by the Bengals (1-1) gave Montana the chance for his game-winning third touchdown pass.

The Bengals were protecting a 26-20 lead and had the ball with 54 seconds to play at their own 45-yard line.

Boomer Esiason, the quarterback, ran three times, losing 10 yards as the 49ers used their timeouts.

The Bengals then took a delay penalty with 6 seconds left, putting the ball on the 30, and choose to run on fourth down.

James Brooks had a 5-yard loss on the play, stopping the clock on the exchange.

That left Montana two seconds to work his magic.

He lofted the ball to Rice, who went up and cleanly caught it in front of Thomas.

The rookie cornerback also had been burned twice for touchdown passes in the game.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rusty Hilger passed for 234 yards and one touchdown and Marcus Allen rushed for 79 yards and another score as the Los Angeles Raiders overcame a 7-6 halftime deficit to win.

The outcome left the Raiders with a 2-0 record while the Lions fell to 0-2.

Hilger, who completed 20 of his 39 passes, put the Raiders ahead for good with a 14-yard scoring pass to Dokie Williams at 2:14 of the third quarter.

The touchdown came shortly after Williams recovered Karl Bernard's fumble of the second-half kickoff at the Detroit 23-yard line.

Lionel James returned a punt 81 yards for a touchdown and ran 7 yards for another score for San Diego.

San Diego grabbed a 28-0 halftime lead, converting two St. Louis turnovers into 14 points, with Chargers linebacker Billy Ray Smith producing an interception and a fumble recovery.

But the St. Louis quarterback, Neil Lomax, who completed 32 of 61 passes for 457 yards and three touchdowns, rallied his team to all of its points in the second half.

Lomax's 17-yard touchdown pass to Stump Mitchell with 1:48 remaining completed a 10-play, 80-yard drive and was the fourth straight scoring drive for St. Louis.

Lomax had one more chance and took the Cardinals to the Chargers 5.

He then threw three incompletions and, on fourth down, a wide-open Earl Ferrell dropped a pass at the goal line.

The victory gave the Chargers a 1-1 record.

Wade Wilson's third touchdown pass of the game, a 41-yard bomb to Hassan Jones with 30 seconds remaining, gave Minnesota a dramatic victory.

Wilson, the long-time backup who is starting place of the injured Tommy Kramer, drove the Vikings 80 yards to the winning score.

Down to their last gasp with a fourth-and-16 situation at their own 25 with 1:10 remaining, Minnesota stayed alive when Wilson connected with Jones for a 20-yard gain and a first down.

Moments later, Jones got behind a Los Angeles cornerback, LeRoy Irvin, and hauled in the winning pass at the Rams goal line.

Wilson, who completed 17 of 38 throws for 285 yards, had thrown touchdown passes of 8 yards to Carl Hilton and 46 yards to Anthony Carter in the opening half, was frustrated by the Rams in the second half until the closing minutes of the game.

The Vikings improved their record to 2-0, while the Rams dropped to 0-2 as their offense sputtered and stalled again.

His best game was the 27-24 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he completed 24-of-36 passes for 236 yards, one touchdown and 2 interceptions.
 In 1985, he was diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus type 1. He appeared in 4 games, with his only start coming in place of an injured Kramer against the Philadelphia Eagles, where he led the team to one of the greatest comebacks in franchise history. The Eagles held a 23-0 advantage with 8:23 minutes to play. Wilson directed 4 scoring drives, that included 3 touchdown passes to achieve a 28-23 victory, tallying 13-of-27 completions for 187 yards and 3 touchdowns.
 In 1986, he appeared in 9 games, that included 3 starts in place of an injured Kramer. He was named NFC Offensive Player of the Week in the season finale 33-17 win against the New Orleans Saints, after replacing an injured Kramer and having the best game of his career at the time, completing 24-of-39 passes for 361 yards and 3 touchdowns. He was mostly the backup quarterback until 1987, when Kramer started 5 games to Wilson's 7 contests, including the playoffs.