Word: yada
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...original Doom told a rather disposable story about a space Marine posted to some kind of high-powered research facility on Mars. An experiment goes wrong, yada yada yada, and a portal to hell opens, flooding the station with demons, which the player must dispatch with an assortment of high-caliber weapons. Doom 3 tells the same story but this time treats it with surprisingly artistic tenderness. Carmack's light engine allows the game's designers to paint the story the way a film director would, with light and shadow, like a noir mystery. Scenes are lit by broken light...
...Ballet is utilized by a lot of athletes, but a lot of guys think ballet is a girly thing,” Yada said...
...Yada added he will also teach a course on international sports, like fencing and cricket, to which children from low-income areas like the inner city might not have been previously exposed...
...Yada said his school district in Newport, Ore., was so poor that school was cancelled on Fridays his senior year in high school. But he said teachers made a big impact on him by volunteering their Fridays to teach out of their own homes...
...Coming from a poor public school, a lot of kids were content with staying in town and not doing more than that. Because of the people who influenced me, I was able to move beyond that,” Yada said. “I’d like to assist these students in any way to do the same thing...