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After all the beta patches, EA has released the long awatied patch for Battlefield 2. This patch will update Battlefield 2 to version 1.14.
- New level: Road to Jalalabaad (Conquest 16-32-64, Singleplayer, Co-op)
- New Server Option: No Vehicles mode
- The vehicle drop has been modified to help prevent exploits such as blocking enemy vehicles, destroying vehicles and commander assets, or as an alternative to artillery.
- C4 tossing distance has been reduced.
- A prone->crouch delay has been added.
- Fixed the Linux server hangs when trying to load a Special Forces Co-Op map.
- Another attempt at fixing the Red/Blue nametag bug.
- Fixed the missing server info on the map briefing screen.
- Fixed the server browser issues with updating info.
- Fixed the filter by maps size option in the server browser.
- Fixed a low reproducibility crash bug related to the vehicle drop.
- Fixed a crash in Co-op after a player is revived without a kit.
- Fixed a server crash on Linux 32 when trying to rotate maps in Coop Mode.
- Fixed the occasionnal red distance marker appearing on the ground.
- Fixed the bug that caused the player's arms to become invisible when switching weapons.
- Co-Op bot console commands now function on local servers.
- Fixed the excessive damage taken by the Muscle Car.
- Adjusted the minimum number of players to start the round on ranked servers.
The new values for 16, 32 and 64 players are 6, 8 and 8 respectively.
- Re-enabled unlocks on unranked servers.
- Commander options are no longer available whilst commander is dead.
- Fixed bug where a spawn point is shown as selected when it is not if player has spawned in during the preview round.
- Co-Op (Local Server) - Fixed the issue where no other players may join the server if the server host is kicked and banned.
- Ranked Servers now force unlocks.
- Added support for multiple gamemodes in single maplist for mods.
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Unrealistic? it's a video game moron. Go join the army and take a bullet or some shrapnel if you want realistic. Games only need to be fun.This game is a vehicle shooter. If you don't like vehicles this is not the game for you. Thanks for turning it into another pointless fps by even adding the option to remove them. Way to go EA. BF2142 can suck my ***, Quake Wars FTW.
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i dont enjoy game anymore after the patched that stopped c4 throwin, is it any better/different now, c4 wise?, only real reason i bought it, then they change it.!yes was abit gay being able to exploed them b4 they hit the ground, but was fun. then they took the fun out of it for me.
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eure seite ist grauenhaft, wenn man einen patch runderladen will kann man es nicht weil nirgends ein button zum downloaden da ist und wie bei allen anderen gibt es immer nur neue seiten oder es wird einem etwas untergejubelt was man nicht haben will. diese seiten besuche ich nicht wieder. danke für eure aufmerksamkeit


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- Jonathan Pollard has served longer for the crime he was sentenced for than anyone else convicted of like crimes.
- The United States of America made - and broke - a plea bargain agreement they made with Jonathan Pollard.
- Jonathan Pollard has no interest in remaining in America. Were he to be freed, he would come to Israel, never to return or hurt the United States.
And one last point - what Jonathan Pollard gave to Israel should have been given to Israel under agreements made between the US and Israel.
With all of that, I'll say one more thing. I don't want Obama to come to Israel. We don't need his pressure, we don't need the traffic headaches, and we honestly don't need his opinions. But if he is to come, let him at least, at very least, bring Jonathan home to Israel.
What Jonathan Pollard did - almost THIRTY YEARS AGO - was wrong. The US was wrong and perhaps Israel was wrong - but it has been Jonathan Pollard who has paid the price, far and above what should have been demanded. It is time, past time, to end this farce.
Obama - don't come...or at least have the decency to bring Jonathan Pollard home.

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The Pipeline: Seven Contenders for Calgary's Next Starter
Ryan Pike
November 21 2012 10:13AM
About two years ago, the Calgary Flames had a bit of a problem.
Star goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff had gotten up in years and was turning 34 years old. People began to openly wonder how long Kiprusoff could continue carrying the club on his back, net-minding wise. Unfortunately, the Flames didn't have much in the tank for up-and-coming goalies, save for maybe Leland Irving, who was struggling to cement himself as a number-one netminder in the AHL.
Flash forward to late 2012, and things are a bit more complicated and arguably a bit rosier for the organization.
Back-up netminder Henrik Karlsson joined the club as a 26-year-old and failed to set the world on fire in two years as Kiprusoff's back-up, to the point where the Flames actually called up Irving from the AHL and sat Karlsson when it was time for Kiprusoff to take a night off. (It has been generally accepted around hockey circles that Karlsson's time in the Flames organization is running low.) However, beyond Karlsson, the Flames now have seven other goaltenders in the system hoping to eventually replace Kiprusoff at the NHL level.
To profile these seven players, we've called upon Justin Goldman of The Goalie Guild to help us out.
"It's an interesting mix, no doubt," noted Goldman of the Flames' depth chart. "You've got some Canadian goaltenders. You have a couple of Finnish goaltenders. You've got some guys playing in the WHL. You've got some guys playing in Finland. I mean, one guy in the NCAA now with Jon Gillies. It's definitely an interesting mix."
The Depth Chart
Age: 19
Birthplace: Surrey, British Columbia
Club: Edmonton Oil Kings (Western Hockey League)
Acquired: Calgary's sixth round pick in the 2011 NHL Draft
A Vancouver kid playing in Edmonton but drafted by Calgary, Brossoit had an excellent year last season. He won 42 games and was the MVP in the playoffs as the Oil Kings won the WHL crown. He went to the Memorial Cup and wasn't great, but his underlying numbers during the regular season were so high that they had nowhere to go but down. Now an established WHL starter, he's being spelled off by the highly-touted 2013 NHL Draft prospect Tristan Jarry in Edmonton, so he should be fresh down the stretch. He's a fundamentally sound goaltender, but has shown the tendency to get on streaks at times.
"The expectations are extremely high for him," shared Goldman. "Everyone knows that he really, really developed fast, or developed to an insane degree, last season. Maybe he didn't have the kind of Memorial Cup tournament that he had liked, but if you look at it from my perspective, that's okay. It's not about winning the championships all the time, it's not about having this prestigious resume when you turn pro. It's about experience, and I think he would be the first one to tell you that down the line, when he's 23 or 24 years old, he's going to look back on that rough Memorial Cup experience and say 'I learned a lot about myself, I learned a lot about what it takes to win in the biggest games of my life.'"
Age: 29
Birthplace: Swan River, Manitoba
Club: Abbotsford Heat (American Hockey League)
Acquired: Signed to an AHL contract as a free agent
One of two veterans signed to American League deals in Abbotsford, Brust is a very interesting goalie. He's played in the NHL in the past, suiting up for 11 games with the Los Angeles Kings. He didn't exactly set the world on fire, and he's spent the majority of his 20s bouncing around the AHL, ECHL and Europe. Returning to this continent after a year in Germany, Brust has been excellent for the Heat so far. Granted, he's played four games, but his numbers are sick.
He's also one of the rare AHL netminders that is willing to throw his body around to keep the opposition off-balance. His age may make the Flames less willing to explore an NHL deal for him as they would for someone like Danny Taylor, though.
Age: 18
Birthplace: South Portland, Maine
Club: Providence College Friars (Hockey East / NCAA)
Acquired: Calgary's third round pick in the 2012 NHL Draft
He's big and he's from New England, and those two facts make Jon Gillies quite unique. He's also jumped into the deep-end of the NCAA with both feet as a starter in the competitive Hockey East conference. After winning 30 games in the USHL last year, he's playing on an arguably weaker college team but he's holding them in every game. It's rare for a freshman to jump into college and become the starter right away, but Gillies has shown he can hack it.
"He's way down there on the depth chart, but he's a really good, legitimate prospect," said Goldman. "[He] has the size, has that USHL experience, was one of the top goalies there last season. And even now with Providence, as a freshman, he's stepped in and he's been huge for them."
Age: 24
Birthplace: Barrhead, Alberta
Club: Abbotsford Heat (American Hockey League)
Acquired: Calgary's first round pick in the 2006 NHL Draft
If a bolt of lightning struck Henrik Karlsson right now (and then the lockout ended) Leland Irving would be in the National Hockey League. At this point, I'm not certain if it's by default or by internal attrition. Irving bounced between Calgary and Abbotsford last year, but was generally out-played by Danny Taylor for Abbotsford. Oddly, he was good enough to keep the Calgary Flames in hockey games even though they were being out-played during his NHL stint, which is likely why the team bothered to re-sign him this off-season.
Irving has generally been excellent when partnered with a back-up who's green as grass (Matt Keetley and Joni Ortio) and wilted when pressured with a veteran back-up (David Shantz and Danny Taylor). Given that tendency, how will he fare long-term in the NHL?
And the broader question is after four full pro seasons for Irving (and part-way through a fifth), do the Calgary Flames have any better idea of his potential at the NHL level?
Age: 21
Birthplace: Turku, Finland
Club: HIFK Helsinki (SM-Liiga)
Acquired: Calgary's sixth round pick in the 2009 NHL Draft
It's doubtful there is a more perplexing goalie in the system than Joni Ortio. The young Fin jumped over the Atlantic to join the Heat last season but didn't get a heck of a lot of ice-time and struggled in his limited appearances. Eventually, it was decided that Ortio should return to Finland to get some games under his belt.
Now that the Heat have three goalies on the roster, Ortio stayed overseas and is cemented as the number-one guy for HIFK Helsinki. He's been excellent for his club so far, but will need to get more than 10 North American starts under his belt in order to get used to the smaller ice. That is, if he wants to become a Flames netminder someday.
It's getting alittle crowded in the crease, so unless somebody higher up on the depth chart falters, Ortio may not get that chance.
Age: 26
Birthplace: Asikkala, Finland
Club: Avangard Omsk (Kontinental Hockey League)
Acquired: In a trade from Montreal with Michael Cammalleri and a fifth round draft pick in exchange for Rene Bourque, Patrick Holland and a second round draft pick.
Last year it appeared that Leland Irving was the undisputed heir apparent to Miikka Kiprusoff. Then the Flames acquired the rights to Karri Ramo in the Bourque trade and everything suddenly changed.
The comparisons to Miikka Kiprusoff are pretty obvious: both are from Finland and both have extensive European experience. Both sort of bounced around the NHL and AHL throughout their early 20s. Finally, both were about the same age when the Flames acquired their rights with an eye towards stabilizing their goaltending situation (actually, Kipper was 28).
Ramo's been excellent in the KHL for Avangard Omsk and his contract in Russia is up at the end of this season, which frees him up to possibly come back to North America next year.
"They have this guy fulfilling the last year of his contract in Russia," said Goldman. "He does have legitimate NHL upside. He's a very good prospect, a very good goaltender, that has a very good pedigree under his name."
Age: 26
Birthplace: Plymouth, England
Club: Abbotsford Heat (American Hockey League)
Acquired: Signed to an AHL contract as a free agent
Last but not least is Danny Taylor. A mere two months older than Karri Ramo, Taylor has played an entire NHL period in relief with the Kings a few years ago, and has since bounced around the AHL, ECHL and Europe. Brought to Abbotsford as a stop-gap measure when Joni Ortio was sent back to Europe and Leland Irving was called up to Calgary, Taylor was fantastic last year. He has carried that performance through to this season and remains Troy Ward's incumbent starter on the farm. Everyone's been waiting for Taylor's numbers to come crashing back down to Earth, but they have yet to do so. If things keep up, he may be a candidate for an NHL contract in the near-future.
The two big questions are whether he can keep this level of play up, and which current NHL contracted goalie he would supplant.
"Calgary has a very good goalie in Danny Taylor and I am blown away that he hasn't been signed by an NHL team yet," said Goldman. "Yes, he's a little bit older. Yes, he's bounced around a little bit, but everywhere he's played, except for that really small stint he had in LA, he's been really good. He was unreal for Springfield [in 2011-12]. He stepped into some really tough situations. That team had goalie injuries all season long with Columbus and with Springfield, he just stepped in and did his thing."
Miikka Kiprusoff is 36 years old. When the 2013-14 season begins, he'll be entering the last year of his contract and be turning 37 years old in October. He's a very valuable commodity to the Flames – as the only netminder in club history to win a Vezina – but the clock is ticking on his NHL career. That's not to say the Flames are in any hurry to flip him for assets, but at some point the next Flames starter will need to be found.
There are seven players in the pipeline who could be that next starter. But with hockey and player development being as unpredictable as they are, for all we know, the next Flames starter may be somewhere else entirely.
It would be really nice to have some sort of rankings on these seven as to who they "best" goalies are now or who has the best chance to take over for ole'kip. Comparable? Upside? Was really looking for these different things even tho it is so difficult to determine how a goalie will develop.
November 21 2012, 10:37AM
Rammo might be the guy. WAY too early to tell with Brossoit and Gillies. But I don't see any of the Abby Three or Ortio ever being the incumbents to Kipper. They'd all make decent backups.
Think Calgary is going to have to go after a free agent to cement their future if Rammo doesn't pan out
And to add another thing,
Those would work perfectly with the flames home, away and heritage jerseys.
My view
Ramo is incumbent, but Gillies is the most interesting prospect we have.
I can also see Danny Taylor being given a shot as a backup. A nice Jamie McLennan like journeyman backup is needed here to help smooth the growing pains.
November 21 2012, 02:35PM
Don't count out guys like Taylor and particularly Brust, who I think plays a little like Tim Thomas. Thomas was picked up as a FA in 2002, at the age of 28, I believe. He didn't really play any games until the 2005-06 season, at the age of 31. Look at his achievements over that time. Not to bad. It old happen with our 2 guys, you never know.
Taylor was brought in before Ortio was loaned to TPS, not after. It annoyed me A LOT at the time, because I figured Ortio would be Irving's backup. Instead, he was the 3rd stringer because they brought in Taylor for no reason (as I saw it). Then, I thought he'd finally see some game action again with Irving in the NHL--instead, Taylor started EVERY SINGLE GAME!!!! and then Ortio went to Finland and started off with 2 shutouts in 3 starts.
November 21 2012, 04:35PM
Out of all those guys, Ramo seems the most likely to take over Kippers job down the road. I like the upside in both Brossoit and Gillies, particularly the American. Ortio seems like a wild card to me, but from the all the prospect updates it seems like he's doing quite good. Danny Taylor is one guy that really interests me, though. If he continues to play like he has in the AHL, he could very well be picked up by a another team next year to serve as their backup. He'd already be serving as the Flames regular backup if he wasn't on an AHL deal only.


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The Top-Seven Canucks Goal "Cellys"
Thomas Drance
January 25 2013 01:06PM
Rogers Arena Celebrates Kevin Bieksa's WCF series winner with controversial confetti.
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Exciting rookie forward Nail Yakupov scored a game-tying goal on Jonathan Quick with four seconds left in an Oilers game on Thursday night, and his over the top goal celebration has been a talking point all day Friday. Arguments about its appropriateness have since given way to arguments about the word "celly." The whole thing is, frankly, exhausting.
Personally I love over the top goal celebrations. Hockey is supposed to be entertaining, and the joy of Yakupov's celebration on Thursday was obvious and pretty damn awesome. The paying customers at the Oilers game sure seemed to like it, and that's what really matters, no?
Anyway, I figured I'd take the opportunity to count down the top-7 best Canucks goal "celly's" (I know it's a stupid term, but who cares it's pretty funny). Click past the jump for more.
#7: The Whiffed High Five
The Sedins are, without doubt, my favorite Vancouver Canucks skaters of all time. Usually I tend to pick offensive defenseman (Jeff Brown was my favorite player from the '94 Stanley Cup Finals team, and Jyrkki Lumme is among my top-3 all time favorite Canucks) but the Sedin twins are so uniquely great, intelligent and have been a consistent joy to watch for so long that they make the top of my list in spite of myself.
One of my favorite things about the twins is how lovably awkward they are, and their whiffed high-five goal celly from the 2011-12 season perfectly encapsulates that. So it makes my top-seven:
#6: Rock'Em Sock'Em Samuelsson
This goal "celly" doesn't come with any added context, and if we're being honest, it's actually kind of low-key. But Mikael Samuelsson's air-punch homage to the Rock'Em Sock'Em robots remains a hilariously restrained and memorable goal "celly":
#5: The Tickler
Sami Salo, one of the top-ten most universally beloved Canucks players ever, scored an over-time winner with a lovely backhand deke against the Minnesota Wild some years ago. His "celly" has been nicknamed "The Tickler" and is remembered by Canucks fans to this day for its unintentionally hilarious suggestiveness.
#4: Whip It
No Canucks fan who was alive at the time - or wasn't but has spent ten minutes looking into the recent history of the franchise - will ever forget Pavel Bure's game seven over-time winner against the Calgary Flames that set off Vancouver's run to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1994.
What often goes unmentioned however, was Bure's over the top and actually quite dangerous goal celly after scoring the goal. The first thing he does? He whips his stick above his head and tosses it, before jumping up and down and hugging his teammates.
I shudder to think what the media reaction would be were Yakupov to throw his stick after scoring a big goal...
#3: "Streak Breaker"
If Alex Burrows had a sword in game of thrones: Streak Breaker would most surely be its name. This particular goal celebration has been used twice in Canucks history, both by times by Alex Burrows. The first time, he used it after scoring a game-winning short-handed goal that put an end to an 8 game Canucks losing streak in 2008:
He reprised the celly again last season, after scoring the shootout winner that put an end to the Detroit Red Wings' NHL record 23 game home-winning streak:
Stick tap to Harrison Mooney who noticed the correlation last season and wrote about it over at Puck Daddy.
#2: The Bow and Arrow.
Alex Burrows' most common goal "celly" pays tribute to his fallen friend, the late Luc Bourdon. Here's the "celly" in slow motion (well captioned by Jeff Marek and his hilarious goatee circa 2009):
Burrows explained the significance of his standard goal celebration to the Hockey News just before the beginning of the Stanley Cup Final in 2011:
Burrows says Bourdon has been with him throughout.
"He's going to help me out and help the team out. It's tough to explain," he said. "Sometimes you feel you've got a second gear, and maybe that's it."
Burrows even wondered if Bourdon played a role in some fortunate bounces for the Canucks in the playoffs, such as when Alex Edler's dump-in caromed off a stanchion in double overtime of Game 5 against San Jose. The puck found its way to the stick of Vancouver defenceman Kevin Bieksa, who sent a soft, skipping one-timer into the net while everyone else on the ice tried to figure out where the puck went.
Another odd bounce came when Burrows knocked down a clearing pass at the Chicago blue-line, put his head down and slapped the rolling puck perfectly over the shoulder of Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford, who couldn't read the shot.
"The bow and arrow is for that," Burrows said.
Hilariously, you can see him rush (and attempt to duck Daniel Sedin) in an effort to get the bow and arrow off before being mobbed by teammates after scoring the series winning goal in over-time against the Chicago Blackhawks in 2011 (fast forward to 2:40 of the video):
Explained Burrows to the Hockey News: "I wanted to get past the first guy and maybe shoot a couple into the upper deck, but I got clotheslined by the guys and couldn't." Amazing.
#1: Tiger Williams rides the stick
Oft imitated, but never replicated. Tiger Williams' legendary "ride the stick" goal celly will in all likelihood never be topped:
One of the more memorable ones for me has to be the Bertuzzi "monkey-off-the-back" when he kicked a long scoring drought...don't remember which year it was.
You missed the Cliff Ronning run across the ice in the 91 playoffs vs the Kings after the OT winner
January 25 2013, 02:42PM
If we're saying other "cellys" which I hate hearing people say, how about Max Lapierre's goal against Boston. It's sweet run across the ice.
January 25 2013, 02:58PM
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Ah, yes. My all time favourite at number one.
Tiger Williams is the only NHLer to ever score over 30 goals in a season while getting over 300 PIMs.
He should be in the Hall of Fame as the only member of the 30/300 club.
January 25 2013, 08:35PM
When did "Celly" become a thing?


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Skip to comments.Gallup Poll: Majority Now Say Gay Sex, Unwed Births, Are Morally OK
Posted on 05/21/2013 11:56:46 AM PDT by NYer
In the new survey, 59 percent of American adults answered that gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable, a 19 percentage point increase since 2001 when only 40 percent said it was morally acceptable.
Sixty percent of respondents said that having a baby outside of marriage was morally acceptable, a 15 percentage point increase since 2002 when only 45 percent said it was morally acceptable.
Of the 20 issues which Gallup asked about their moral acceptability, same-sex sexual relations and unwed pregnancies saw the greatest increases. They were also the only issues which changed from a minority to a majority of the country finding them morally acceptable over the past decade.
The other large increases in moral acceptability were: sex between an unmarried man and woman went from 53 to 63 percent, divorce went from 59 to 63 percent, and medical research using stem cells from human embryos went from 52 to 60 percent.
The only large decline in moral acceptability was for medical testing on animals, which went from 65 to 56 percent.
I wasn't asked.
I'll bet NOBODY on FR was asked.
We all know the game. It validates leftist goals to removal all traditional moral restrictions on sex-related behavior by making it seem as if the majority approve of having babies out of wedlock, 'coming out' as 'gay', so get used to it because any morality-based opposition to these behaviors will be termed as 'judgmental' and 'shoving your religion down my throat'. The clear inference is that those with traditional definitions of moral behavior should just shut up, sit down and accept what the supposed majority want.
However, I chose not to comply.
In the end, it doesn't matter what people think about these issues - only matters what God says.
Looks like the Almighty didn't get the memo from the new leftist morality definers.
In other news: "Studies Show that Frogs Don't Seem to Mind Hot Water"
We are slouching rapidly toward Gomorrah.
Then later you said "They should have asked if sex outside of marriage is morally acceptable."
I'm guessing you think the answer is yes; having sex outside of marriage is morally acceptable.
Sex results in having babies. So if its morally OK to have them outside of marriage, then it must be OK to have the sex outside of marriage in order to have them babies.
"But I don't consider (out of wedlock) childbirth to be morally unacceptable."
I do. Its morally and socially unacceptable.
Yes, well a majority of the Athenian voting populace elected to annihilate the population of Melos in 416 B.C., resulting in the liquidation of all Melian adult males, the sale of all women and children into slavery, and the confiscation of all Melian property. Athens was a democracy, an unchecked democracy.
A majority of German citizens during WWII felt that the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, select physically and mentally defective persons, etc. was morally acceptable. Theirs had been a more or less democratically governed nation, and one of the most advanced in Europe. And look what happened because the people allowed it to happen by either their active support or their passive acquiescence.
This "tyranny of the majority" is exactly what the founding fathers of our nation sought counteract. That is why governmental power is divided in this nation and the Constitution of the United States is indeed an enumeration of "negative rights," as former State Senator Barack Obama correctly observed - perhaps the last time he correctly observed much of anything. It is no wonder that in his pursuit of installing "positive rights," he is at the same time systematically eroding the "negative rights (the things the government may not do!)" given us by the founders.
It is hard to believe that so many Americans can be so naive when it comes to the two things our founders knew to be unassailably true: the fallen nature of humanity and the corrupting nature of power. Put those two together, and they well knew, you have a recipe for catastrophe.
We'll have a gay ole time I guess...
We need strong Christian leadership. All of these things that are now seen as acceptable do great harm to people.
Sheep following the wrong shepherd.
Give it a break. The results may be a little exaggerated: so what? The world is changing and we are becoming the minority, rapidly. Denial isn't going to stop the trend.
Out of wedlock births are not good (although much preferable to abortion), but they don't happen spontaneously. They are the result of immoral behavior, not an immoral behavior in and of themselves.
Indeed. Solid, thoughtful leadership.
As they say, there are no illegitimate children. Only illegitimate parents.
We can only hope that Americans wake up and realize that children do not succeed in single family homes. Certainly America as a nation is not succeeding with entire generations of children being born out of wedlock. As goes the American Family - so goes America.
And that being true, we need to remember that nursery rhyme: "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage".
Anything else is morally and socially unacceptable.
So, does anyone wonder why we have such bad tornados?
Nope, the location of the jet stream and the flow of warm moist air from the gulf are plenty explanation enough.
yea lets include , Oh sex with animals, more than one wife, slutty no self respect girls being with half the football team, druggies, being naked in public, public sex.
The lefts holy grail is social issues, they care nothing about debt, spending, but mention social issues and they fight tooth and nail something our side , even some on here cant; get it into their thick heads
the lefts holy grail, they wanted to destroy America, communist rules 1963,
They knew first hand tat once morals ,went away and the family was redefined then America would go to crap and boyit did.
Why did the left get their way?
Easy the cowards on our side will not mention social issues, talk radio, Hannity and the other cowards want o talk about debt and spending, then we get those who pretend they're conservatives and want the stupid party to talk just debt and spending and taxes instead of mentioning the lefts holy grail.
How many on here actually can put their homosexuals pals to the side and not go along with their agenda, how many mention what the left is about and how and what the family really is and not what the left want it to be.
Come Thanksgiving how many times do we see some freepers saying they will not mention social issues or politics to their liberal family.
Right there is the problem, once people stayed silent for being cowardly ten the left advances their agenda
the lefts holy grail, they wanted to destroy America, communist rules 1963,
They knew first hand tat once morals ,went away and the family was redefined then America would go to crap and boyit did.
Why did the left get their way?
Easy the cowards on our side will not mention social issues, talk radio, Hannity and the other cowards want o talk about debt and spending, then we get those who pretend they're conservatives and want the stupid party to talk just debt and spending and taxes instead of mentioning the lefts holy grail.
How many on here actually can put their homosexuals pals to the side and not go along with their agenda, how many mention what the left is about and how and what the family really is and not what the left want it to be.
Come Thanksgiving how many times do we see some freepers saying they will not mention social issues or politics to their liberal family.
Right there is the problem, once people stayed silent for being cowardly ten the left advances their agenda
I don't know one person polled and have never been polled , that goes for my wife too.
Where do they poll, CA, New England and NY, NJ?
right there.
Since all these decades have gone by we can still see how the communists went to work to destroy America and for those who say do not mention social issues, then I hope you're proud of doing nothing and helping the communists destroy America, well done you ignorant idiots, you either think about your own pockets and that;s it or you have a queer pal and think they're nice so you have no problem
Hey Gallup, You're screwy.
just asked the same thing mate.
Did they poll GA, MS, AL, north FL, SC, ND, ID, or was it the usual New England and west coast and big cities.
Massive difference from the south to the foreign north east which should be another country to the rural areas and parts of the outer cities to the inner cities and yes I'll say it, many parts of black America when it comes to various issues
I won't shut up because I have a homosexual pal or know of one, I don't really because they irate me with their immature victim card attitude but I wouldn't change my views to suit them , nor will my kids and I'd like to know why are parents , not mentioning every day to their kids the dangers of the left, homosexuals and what marriage is
That's what I've always figured... high polling in all those deviant, Obama-voting blue states. Another reason I've found myself becoming more and more open to secession. I don't even want to share the same Union as these loathesome fag-marriage state pukes.
"Do you think that acceptance of homosexual-type sex acts, is conducive to the over-all flourishing of children, adults, families, and societies?
You'd get
Hmm, probably not.
That's the kind of question "Natural Law" would suggest, and to the extent that people have any experience of human nature, they'll tend to answer correctly.
I mean, even aside from Scripture (and many people are not Jews or Christians), Natural Law is a valid kind of moral reasoning, because the Book of Scripture and the Book of Nature have the same Author.
It's imprinted into our very structure, becoming apparent through honest observation and reason.
But do people not know what "Moral" means? Do they think it is just a personal opinion, and therefore, not to be "imposed" even by expressing a considered judgment?
Or do they suppose there is nothing we could call "Human Nature," that we are all just bundles of impulses, with no way to understand each other through what is common to our design?
Do people observe? (I mean observe "reality," not "Reality TV".) And do people reason? A process that requires steadily applied mental activity, persisting over a timespan of two, three minutes! Or more!
I think I see some of the underlying problems.
same here, infact it happened tomorrow I'd cheer and help them to pack as they do not belong here with their foreign communist views.
The north east is another country and should leave us alone, they're pro turd poking, pro illegal, anti family, anti tradition, anti Christian and why is it that some of those who move down here pretend they're Christian and ten push their communist views
Yes, truly sad, if true.
The entertainment industry has saturated the culture with this garbage, and too many people have taken it all in.
"I'm guessing you think the answer is yes; having sex outside of marriage is morally acceptable.
No, I was not clear.
I don't think sex outside of marriage is morally acceptable.
I don't think the baby is the immoral part, though. So I'd have been inclined to say "No, I don't think it's immoral to deliver a baby if you are unmarried."
you have a private message pal and yep I have no idea who is polled around here, as we all ask each other and know one knows anyone
Liberals have total control of voice and "expert" testimony on the consequencies of out of wedlock birth and homosexual behaviors. No mention of the poverty and the disease right now. It's like the 70's.
This will change as long as there are honest, pro-life people around. There is a silent majority who know better.
If you use the words "morally okay" versus the words "healthy and properous" you get different results. Gays live an average of 46 years because of the disease of their 'lifestyle" and the poverty and social/criminal problems of children raised without dads is clear.
Fat lie. The sex positive agenda doesn't care about "moral acceptability" They seek to end ALL moral judgments over ALL sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s).
It isn't about becoming "Acceptable". It's about ending all judgments of any kind.
It will be nice when most people go to Hell.
Plenty of out of wedlock births among blue collar to poor Oklahomans, unfortunately.
Plenty of out of wedlock births among blue collar to poor Oklahomans, unfortunately.
I not suprise NYER this might be younger generation condone this they were raised in early 2000 they probably find no problem with it
**Majority Now Say Gay Sex, Unwed Births, Are Morally OK**
Two quotes — probably I'm paraphrasing here.
"Male and female he created them." "Go forth and multiply."
On the unwed births — maybe someone else has a direct Biblical quote.
I realized a few years ago that the destruction of all sexual morality is intrinsic to communit ideology, practice and method. Why is that? I can only speculate, it would require me to write a long article.
But here may be a few salient points:
As a rule they don't believe in God, or if they claim to, it's not an actual conviction in truth. The three fathers of leftist ideology (of course there are others) are Freud, Marx and Darwin. What do those three teach us? There is no God in control, humans have no souls and are just meat machines, there is no eternal or immutable truth (ahem, other that what leftists believe at the moment...), or morality or good and evil (ahem, other than what leftists currently pronounce), and there is no purpose, plan or meaning to human life or to the universe.
So...why not just screw everything that walks? Why not just live like an animal since humans are just animals? Heck, actually worse than animals, just meat machines with electric impulses making them twitch.
Wooo Hoooo! I'm a minority!
Turn back to Christ, America!
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
It's an obviously "massaged" poll. Can't trust Gallup anymore. So many of our formerly trusted edifices are crumbling under leftist takover and being used for propaganda purposes.
I learned a lot about polls from getting the Zogby polls for several years. I just plain do not believe them any more.
You do realize that the South has higher rates of out of wedlock births than the northeast, do you not?
like I said , the south can always send the north east their diversity etc up there for them seeing as they love to shout how they love that
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I would like to see NPC's moving out of their little environment that was set-up for them. It would be exciting if we were able to encounter something that we were not expecting to see in that area.
Maybe a scout from a particular group of NPC's was patrolling or maybe an army of NPC's was trying to invade another's area.
We could just happen to run across them as they are making their way to their destination and perhaps be allowed to join up with them or be attacked by them, etc.
Originally posted by ForumPvP
This genre needs to die and born again and start from the basics and core elements which are now missing. Next step will be the search of those core elements,these GW2 and SWTOR´s etc helps in that because its so easy to notice what is missing and why MMORPG´s are dying. Like basic P&P session,DM doesnt tell to players what they have to do next ,it goes the way that player does whatever he wants.But in todays MMO´s ,these things doesnt ask anything ,these scripts and stories and limited character customisations and actions forces players to play like game commands them. By some weird powers from other dimension Blizzard might have given birth accidentally to something good with their phasing system,now imagine that in real time,when player does something which makes changes in the world then it changes for eveybody in the server,something unpredictable happens,like in P&P games happens all the time.
I agree, it needs to die. But as long as there are profits to be made from Cash Shops, Disposable MMOs are going to be all there is to play. Of course, it's possible the pendulum could swing the other way and developers would realize that Cash Shops don't make tons of money if people only play for a month.
Hi Mark,
Have been following you since the first article, each one impresses me even more.
It seems the new era of MMO,or of the entire online games, is about to begin !
Now, the question is: Who is the one to open the gate of this new era?
GW 2 or Firefall ? Or others?
GW2 did make me laugh when i was just running around watching my xp bar move up but I wasn't doing anything. I'm guessing pretty soon they will just have you hit "ctrl auto" to let the game play itself, pretty much what they did but i still have to move my mouse around a little, what a pain
Dynamic storytelling engines.
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It's increasingly clear that good PVP and a good PVE campaign in one single game is barely possible and never practical.
PVP is most of what justifies the existence of the mmorpg genre. It is ONLY the PVP people who need the first "m" in mmorpg, the "m" for "massively."
What a game needs for PVP appeal is a single pool of players to make PVP play available almost 24/7 for the people who are all about PVP. But putting them all on the same server is likely to be really bad for most of the rest of the players. A great example right now is Star Wars and the merges they are doing. They're consolidating servers to increase PVP appeal and it's making for a lot of unhappy PVE/story/morpg players.
PUG grouping for PVE/co-op story mode is the only other thing that kind of justifies the "massively" part of the MMORPG genre, but then again, that's just the way things are done once people are already inside the MMO model. Non-MMO online gaming has always had other ways to group up with random available people from a pool of available players.
So all over, the PVE players are everywhere being asked to accept 2nd tier priority status. Some of them want to be single players. Others want multiplayer, but all they need is one "m" multiplayer, not two "m" "massively multiplayer."
An MORPG is what RPG fans really want, not an MMORPG. "MMO's" are now a different sort of established genre.
The business side of things wants all of them to show up to the same game and pay monthly fees to the tune of $120 a year. Again, Star Wars is the perfect example because they stopped making KOTOR games to make TOR and are trying to draw in all the former KOTOR players. Competition says those days are fading fast.
It's kind of crazy how things are working out with Star Wars. Now the people who only wanted to play KOTOR 3 are going to get it for free, in effect subsidized by the MMO subscribers, and of course they'll be tempted with various pay virtual goodies.
Originally posted by Jackdog
interesting, I like your ideas and hopefully GW2 will led to the death of the quest hub raid end game MMO. I am really curious to see what lies in the future of MMO's. I get a kick out of it anytime anyone calls a game a WoW clone when WoW was just a polished up EQ1. For me WoW was a step up from EQ1 and now GW2 is now a step up the ladder from WoW. MMO's are a evolution, and I don't expect a major revolution in any give game. Look at it like cars, we didnot go from the model T to the Mercedes S class in one step. There were lots of little inovations along the way. GW2 borrowed a lot of it's game and consolidated tghe best parts from lots of games, however to me it is the state of the art in MMO design at the moment. I am sure in 5 years it will alos appear dated just as WoW's core gameplay design is showing it's age. The age of the end game raid design is officialy now on it;s way to extinction. I was talking with a freind on Vent this morning, he was grinding out the dailies in SWTOR while I was running up my guardian in GW2. Him and I would always run those dailies together a month or so ago. We had a system, knew every mob by heart and the only challenge was trying to beat our best time by a few seconds. I remarked to him that after GW2 I could never play SWTOR, LoTRO etc again because I feel their design is outdated now just as WoW made seem EQ1 dated and stale.
I'm still trying to figure out what was wrong (conceptually) with EQ1? It had skill-based progression, Alternate advancement, and could control how much XP I got versus AA. Let alone tons of content but I chalk that up to time. Yes there were limitations in terms of graphics, mechanics, systems but I believe they got the core right. And many of the old faus paux have changed over the expansions making it a bit more accessible while still keeping the challenge.
I dont know about vanilla WoW but WoW today does not 'evolve' what I have in EQ1. If anything it 'devolved' Quests are insanely linear (even up to MoP). The gameplay is simplistic (compared to what I have in EQ1) and there is no real challenge (save maybe some raid content which I dont play - but would argue thats more difficulty than challenge). I would say Vanguard was more a evolution of EQ1 than WoW.
I want an updated EQ, with voice (not voice overs like SWTOR) with the AI elements discussed here in this article. Give me a world to explore and options to explore in it. I like the idea of a time stream but dont see how you could create that for a game without making it phased/instanced for each user. If when we start out our game is based on our decisions, the paths of where to go (what to show) become infinite. How do you play together in a system like that? Not saying its impossible but just a valid question to overcome.
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Originally posted by GettCouped
Your idea may have some merit and I think all devs fantasize about just such content, but how could this actually be implemented. Please don't respond with the unhelpful: 'it's their job to figure this out" crap. Let's be productive and brain storm!
Pay me and I'll help.
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To those who think that hearts are no different that standard quest grinds, are you simply hopping from heart to heart? If that's how you're playing, then yes, it's not going to be a huge leap from the system that WoW popularized. However, the way I and most people I see in the world play is simply wandering into a zone and wandering around. As you explore you'll run into dynamic events and those always count towards whatever the nearest heart is.
While it's still basically quest-based, it is a more fluid and dynamic experience.
GW2 didn't change anything, and showcased that their system made for a laughably worthless and easy experience that was about as rewarding as:
'Kill 10 mobs, gain 49 levels and go pvp since it's all we have in the game!!"
when it all came down to it..
That would surely make a solid improvement on the genre..
I also have always enjoyed the wild outdoor adventures the GMs weaved more than the dungeon crawls themselves. The dungeon crawls, in fact, felt way too "gamey" to me, if that even makes sense seeing as we're talking about a "game" to begin with!
I guess what I mean by "gamey" is that they didn't have enough of a context to me, and you could see almost the insides of the system showing, the cog wheels spinning.
That's also my main problem with GW2's dynamic events. Nice change of pace from quest hubs, but to me the whole thing ends up lacking context. The quest hubs have an easier time with context. Maybe that's because they do "progression" better, which is good for stories and stories are good for (or at least a straightforward way of) providing context.
If it changed everything, which it didn't, then this first step in the right direction can still be improved upon quite a bit.
Some of the DE's just seem to repeat themselves over and over. There's certainly room for improvement there, not even mentioning bugged events. The scaling needs to be finetuned so that you don't get one-shot by a mob you were doing fine against two steps ago, just due to stepping into a lower scaled area and suddenly having to deal with a mob that is 5 levels above your level.
The events need to scale better if they affect the world enough to give problems to players entering the area for the first time.
Being pushed back by a strong current is somewhat lame as well, but you can't have everything.
Other than that few, make that no, real complaints about the game.
You keep saying GW2 changed everything. It hasn't. It may have given some new ideas for next generation games to consider (most successful games offer something ) but it has changed nothing at all. Even what it has affected won't be apparent until the next NEXT generation of games.
If it succeeds as a truly long lasting money-making venture for ANet is what will determine if other companies view it as 'the way to go' e.g. a change determining model.
Personally I think the MMO genre should just give up and die.
GW2 brought a lot more to the adventure than most point out. Yes the dynamic events weren't all I had hoped for, but the fact that I do not have to run around and back again and around and back again to a bunch of (!) and (?) makes me very happy. The other thing that GW2 changed is a world that feels more alive than any other MMO I have played in the last 7+ years. They put more time into their random NPC voice acted chit-chat than most MMOs put into their entire quest line stories. If you play take the time to listen to the npc conversations through out the zones and cities. A lot of it even gives you some lore.
I would love to see events actually permanately change the world around me. When I adventure in the world and help to liberate a town or rescue prisoners I DO NOT want to see the same prisoners spawn right where I set them free. I know this may take some magic and creativity to accomplish, but it is not impossible to do. I want to feel like my efforts actually made a difference.
I would love to see more MMOs go the path of what Neverwinter is trying to offer the players and hopefully expand on it with the player generated content option.
But, for this gamer, GW2 changed enough to make me feel like there is more than the old and failing themepark option Blizzard keeps rehashing and spewing out to the masses.
I don't think that you asked the right question. I think in order to answer the question "What's next?" properly, we need to find the answer to the question "Who changed?" Did we the player base change? Have we outgrown our 1st love? Is that initial thrill of the genre gone from our hearts like a 1st kiss never to be experienced again? Or is it more like someone came along and smacked our beloved in the head with a "nerf bat" and now, they have suffered trauma with personality changes and they aren't the same person we once fell in love with?
If the real answer is closer to the 1st scenario, then the genre is dead, at least as we know it. But if it's the 2nd, that's easy to fix.
I don't get this article. Sorry. Sounds like you want a linear, prescripted game experience that is best left to solo RPGs. Events triggered by some personal chronology, rather than geagraphy? What?
I've been a fan of GW2 for a long time and have already logged over 330 hours since the game went live. I've been saying for months now that though I love the game and it has indeed ushered in a new era for MMO game design, the game is not perfect and there is much room to improve on the game's design and even the implimentation of the game's intended design.
You are right that time needs to factor into things, but not the way you seem to suggest. There still needs to be a world to explore with towns, villages, farms, orchards, ruins and other PoIs along the way. There should be Dynamic Content tied to locations in the world, or, tied to NPCs that live with in the world. What's missing from GW2, or at least not seen nearly often enough, is NPCs that go about a daily routine, with events that are spawned when certain NPCs happen to converge at the right place at the right time.
There needs to be more branching event chains that interact with the states of other event chains. The Dynamic Events themselves need to be more dynamic, in that the script can branch and change based on other conditions that may or may not exist at the time.
There also needs to be even more Dynamic Events off the beaten paqth that are triggered by character actions, or even just the arrival of player charcters; or, better yet, events chains that actually play out in out of the way places, whether or not players are around.
One problem with GW2 has been the number of broken events in the world. Why DEs aren't built with more state checks to autocorrect for events getting snagged is beyond me. I'm still loving the game, but the percentage of stuck event in some zones is having a very detrimental effect on the way people are able to play the game and the stcuk events seem to be training people to not bother with events that lack some clear sign, from a distance, that they are actually progressing.
Future games will need to feature more events. More events allows for more conditional events. Branching event chains that can interct with other event chains and also are altered based on some daily schedule of NPCs in the world is the future that GW2 points towards, but does not (yet) achieve.
Complex Systems are prone to "breaking down", so robust "error correction" is also going to be a necassary programming evolution for games centered around dynamic content. There needs to be programming for each event to correctly detect a "stuck" state and fix it.
The more complex the interactions, the less predictable the world becomes, which is great for players, but a bit scary for developers, who are used to always having fairly fine control over a game's content and the ways that content forces players to play. The eventual evolution is going to be an extremely dynamic world that will more often than not rpoduce events that even surprise the developers.
Want to know more about GW2 and why there is so much buzz? Start here: Guild Wars 2 Mass Info for the Uninitiated
Originally posted by RefMinor
It didn't change everything, so the premise of your question is incorrect.
I love your posts Ref !
In case anyone was curious, one of our designers describes a little bit of what Firefall is trying to do to advance dynamic events:
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There are some enticing match ups but so much is riding on Robin and Usopp defeating Trebol and Sugar. If they can manage that and the toys return to their former selves then the Donquixote family is in trouble. Trebol or "Trevor" as one translation named him must be very strong and his glue glue powers are definitely going to be tricky. Usopp and Robin will have to fight smart and keep him from getting too close. The intel that the dwarfs might have could be the key to stopping him.
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Hundreds of people came out to watch it, some were even dressed for the occasion.
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Jose Mourinho has confirmed he expects to return to England when he leaves Real Madrid - but not to join Manchester United because he expects Sir Alex Ferguson to carry on until he is 90.
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Mourinho has fallen out of favour with the media who follow the Spanish giants, and, it is rumoured, many of his senior players.
The former Chelsea boss played down the depth of his so-called crisis.
However, ahead of Wednesday night's Champions League encounter with Manchester United at the Bernabeu Stadium, Mourinho said a return to England was on the agenda.
"Are you worried with my crisis? I am not," he said.
"But I will go back to England after Real Madrid. We will see (when that is).
"I love everything (about England). England will be my next step."
Mourinho has been heavily linked with Manchester City and Chelsea recently.
It has also been felt he would be of interest to Manchester United, even though club ambassador Peter Schmeichel has said the former Porto coach is not under consideration.
Mourinho doesn't see himself being installed at Old Trafford either, mainly because he expects Ferguson to continue for a good while yet.
"No," he said, when asked if he could replace Ferguson.
"I don't believe so.
"I think we have to end our career at the same time. Him at 90 and me at 70."
The mischievous grin that accompanied the words underlined the playful nature of Mourinho's character that still exists, despite the simmering unease with which he dealt with so many questions that came from the Spanish press.
"'Daddy' is smiling," said midfielder Michael Essien, who clearly holds Mourinho in great affection, having followed him to Spain from Chelsea.
"He is always happy. I have never seen him sad."
Nevertheless, Mourinho is under immense pressure to win this tie, which he believes "the whole world is watching".
For, with the La Liga title on its way to Barcelona, it is hard to see Mourinho surviving much longer if he fails in the quest to land a record 10th Champions League crown for Real.
"There are great clubs in the world who have never won this competition," he said.
"Real Madrid have won nine, I have won two. Real Madrid wants to win its tenth. I want my third.
"If it comes this year good. If not, I will try again next year.
"I don't think I will end my career with only two titles."
Even Mourinho accepts the championship he fought so hard to wrest from Barcelona's control is heading back to the Nou Camp this season.
Yet he insists that does not mean beating United is beyond his Cristiano Ronaldo-inspired team.
"It is easy to play against big opponents and big teams," he said.
"We are finding it harder to play against smaller opponents, against whom we have lost so many points.
"We were in a very difficult Champions League group, with Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund, and we knew from day one we could be out. We had to play at top level to finish first or second.
"This is the history of our team and tomorrow is the biggest opponent."
However, there is no escaping his fractious relationship with those who follow Madrid's fortunes so closely, and the lack of understanding for his plight, as he pointed out when asked to comment on the Spanish newspaper depiction of Wayne Rooney as a "hooligan" on Tuesday morning.
"I didn't read it," said Mourinho.
"I don't know if it was written in that context, calling him a hooligan, or completely different.
"But if I can say one thing on behalf of Rooney, I was called worse than that, week by week."
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The first pram-friendly café in Belgium! With a boutique dedicated to children and a unique space for numerous themed workshops.
The 'Café-Poussette' ('Pram Café') is a cosy space for young and old where every detail has been thought of with families in mind. It is run by Haricot Magique (Magic bean), a non-profit organisation.
The Café-Poussette's plus points
- 'Parking' for prams,
- High-chairs and baby and child-friendly toilets,
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Simple and chic, the Kenneth Cole Reaction Wear the Glam is a must have this season! This beaded sandal is perfect for your summer vacation!
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Philips' Hue is a wireless lighting system that connects to your home network and can be controlled by an app. Alice Truong reports.
Let's not fool ourselves. The best way to live an eco-friendly lifestyle is to get rid of the excess. Putting that aside — I do write a gadgets column after all — this week's Surf Report commemorates Earth Day, which falls on Monday, by scouting for great green gear.
A bright idea
Once an ordinary household object, today's bulbs are brighter than ever — and I mean that in every sense of the word. With incandescents doomed to become relics of our future, brilliant options have emerged.
Philips' Hue is an exemple of home lighting's spectacular evolution. Connected to a wireless network, Hue affords you more control over a light bulb than ever thought possible. A smartphone app and online portal lets you remotely adjust the brightness, fine tune the color and turn the system on and off. Who knew light bulbs could be so fun?
The $200 starter kit comes with three color-changing LED bulbs and a bridge that links up to 50 bulbs to the wireless network. With additional bulbs sold for $60 a piece, outfitting a large home with these high-tech lights will come with steep costs. If it's any consolation, these 600 lumen bulbs (equivalent to about 50 watts in brightness) use 80 percent less energy than a comparable incandescent bulb.
Setup is remarkably simple: screw in the bulbs, plug in the bridge, launch the app and connect to the bridge. Within moments, your lights (and walls) are changing colors like a frenetic chameleon. You can use a photo to color a room by dragging pins to different points in the photo, each bulb displaying the pin's corresponding color. I must note though that it doesn't handle all colors equally well. The warmer end of the spectrum is so vivid it might make you think it's sunset, but blues never look anything like the sky, more like a cool white. As a matter of fact, there's much of the color space Hue can't address, affecting primarily blues and greens. Different lighting "scenes" can be set on a timer, useful when you want to look like you're home when you're actually not. In addition, Philips has pre-programmed light recipes that are optimized to enhance different activities, such as reading and working.
What's perhaps most exciting is Hue's potential. Developers are welcome to use the public API to create their own apps. One such example is Ambify, a $2.99 app built by an independent developer in Stuttgart, Germany. Ambify syncs the Hue bulbs to a playlist, visualizing music in real time. It's remarkable how a home office can turn into a discotheque in a matter of seconds. Stay tuned for new lighting possibilities.
Hue, which is sold through Apple, will be available for pre-order from Amazon on Monday. In addition to iOS and Android compatibility, an app for select Kindle models will also be released then.
Keeping cool
Up to half of our energy bills can be attributed to heating and cooling, but Dyson's new fan heater could cut them by a fraction. You just have to get over its upfront cost first: $400.
Ouch. Like much of Dyson's lineup, the lure with the AM05 Hot + Cool is partly because it's a beast of a machine and largely because of its drool-worthy looks. The bladeless fan uses what the company calls Air Multiplier technology to project air quickly and evenly throughout a room. Dyson says this is the fastest way to heat up a whole room while using 30 percent less energy than conventional fan heaters. Its ability to project cool air makes this a year-round appliance, but it's certainly no replacement for an air conditioner. However, when used in conjunction with AC, you can lower energy bills by 20 percent, the company says.
The key to its efficiency is a smart thermostat that automatically turns off the unit when the room has reached the target temperature you set, activating again if the room temperature changes. While it's in standby mode, the AM05 is extremely low energy, drawing less than a watt of power. It's not just the machine itself that's green. Even the packaging is, made of at least 85 percent recycled cardboard.
RELATED: 11 tips to cut back your fridge's energy consumption
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Back to earth
There are many reasons to love Papernomad.
The Austrian company creates a line of iPhone, iPad and MacBook sleeves made of eco-friendly materials: a paper composite outer shell, wool felt lining and organic hemp pull tag with hidden magnetic closure. Because the exterior comprises layers of paper and biopolymers, this provides a blank slate for doodling, essentially making this case as unique as you are.
Given the short lifespan of gadgets (it's inevitable that the iPhone 5 will be replaced by a new shinier model soon), most plastic cases will outlast our electronic devices. Papernomad ($40-$70), which is distributed in the U.S. by Griffin, takes a different approach. The water-resistant sleeves are designed to outlast your devices but not the end of time. When you've moved on to your next Apple gadget, you have other options besides tossing your case in the landfill. Papernomad is currently undergoing tests for proper documentation, but it has claimed its sleeves will biodegrade over time.
Fighting vampires
Just because you've gone to sleep doesn't mean your gadgets have. They're slowly siphoning off power, even when turned off.
Addressing this vampire power is Belkin's Conserve Switch AV ($50). Like most surge protectors, this 10-socket model protects your entertainment system from frying. But the Conserve Switch AV, which also provides coaxial protection for cable and satellite connections, also comes with a remote that lets you wirelessly turn off connected devices from 60 feet away. The remote can be mounted on a wall so it acts like a light switch, but Belkin recommends you hit it only after every device has been powered down.
There are, of course, some devices that need continuous power, such as modems, routers and DVRs, so two of those outlets are always on. The lower-end Conserve Switch ($40) has only eight outlets (again, two always on) and no coaxial protection, but the sockets are spaced better for bulky chargers.
Green backpack
You can find green elements throughout House of Marley's products. The brand, founded by Bob Marley's son Rohan in 2010, started off by selling yet another line of celebrity headphones but has since expanded into accessories, such as watches and bags.
The Lively Up Leather Backpack is no different. Made of hemp, organic cotton and recycled plastic bottles, the bag uses eco-friendly fabric washes, inks and custom-molded metal plates. Even the packaging is a nice touch, composed of pulp, recycled plastic and recycled paper.
When it comes to looks, this one is a winner with its svelte physique and leather accents. There aren't a ton of pockets, but the ones that exist are highly functional: a zipped front compartment, padded laptop divider and tablet pouch in the main compartment, and a surprisingly deep quick-access pocket on the side of the exterior.
To make you feel even better about carrying this backpack around, a portion of proceeds will go to 1Love, a charity strongly tied to House of Marley that works with nonprofit partners such as Save the Children and charity:water.
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Ryka Desire Slip-On Lightweight Running Shoe - Womens
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Add a little zip to your step with the women's Desire lightweight running shoe from Rykä! With a comfy glove-like fit, this slip-on sneaker has the features you've always desired for your workouts!
This women's running shoe is best for the neutral runner.
- Breathable mesh upper with synthetic overlays for stability
- Slip-on design
- Bungee lacing
- Pull loop on heel for easy on/off
- Padded collar for comfort
- Soft fabric lining provides a glove-like fit
- Removable Ortholite® cushion insole inhibits odors and helps wick away moisture
- High rebound foam midsole for lightweight cushioning
- Deep flex grooves for added flexibility
- Rubber pods on heel and toe for traction and durability in these high-wear areas
- Weight: 5.05 oz. (women's size 7)
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First, let's take a look at the iPad 2 announcement call.
Interesting Things from the iPad 2 announcement
- Steve Jobs presented it.
- iBooks has hit over 100 million books downloaded. Random House coming to iBooks.
- 200 million Credit Card accounts across iTunes, App Store, and iBooks.
- 100 million iPhones sold.
- 15 million iPads sold. $9.5 billion in 2010. Greater than 90% market share. Samsung not doing well.
- iPod, iPhone, and iPad as the three pillars of Apple post-PC. Are Apple conceding they lost the PC wars? Why focus on post-PC?
- 65,000 apps for the iPad. 100 apps for Honeycomb Tablets.
- $2 billion paid out to developers selling apps in the App Store.
All very impressive. Just show iPad 2 already.
The iPad 2
- All new design. Completely new.
- New, faster chip. The A5. Same power usage as A4.
- Dual core processor. 9 times faster graphic performance. Apple does know how to explain things simply – surprising that very few other tech companies use language like this.
- Front and rear facing cameras.
- Built-in gyroscope.
- A third thinner than iPad 1. iPad 2 is 8.8 mm thin.
- Lighter at 1.3 pounds.
- Same 10 hour battery life.
- Available in black and white and for Verizon and AT&T.
- The same exact prices – starting at $499. That's really, really disappointing. You have got to be joking – After selling 15 million iPads you still couldn't cut prices. This pretty much means little to no threat to Kindle or Nook Color. The lighter weight makes things a bit difficult but the price is a huge barrier.
- Ships on March 11th. Wow, that's quick. On March 25th it ships in 26 more countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and UK.
It's not really all that much of an improvement. It's better than the iPad, and it will definitely be hard for rival companies to catch up with the iPad 2. However, the price is the same. The dual-core processor and the dual cameras are the only things that scream out at you as big additions.
iPad 2 Software and more
- Accessories – HDMI video out with up to 1080p for $39.
- Smart covers that bend and fold around iPad 2 and use magnets and can be used as a stand. They cover just the front. The cover is $39 for polyurethane and $69 for leather. For covers that only cover the front. Strange.
- iOS 4.3 comes with faster Safari performance. Some things I have no idea about – iTunes home sharing, AirPlay improvements, mute switch can now be used for orientation.
- PhotoBooth for iPad 2. It's like one of those apps that lets you make funny faces. Don't really know what to say.
- FaceTime. I guess we'll be seeing millions of ads for this soon enough.
- iMovie. Share your videos in HD and it has multitrack audio recording. The rear facing camera has HD video recording at 30 fps.
Implications for Kindle
At $499 for the cheapest iPad 2, there aren't very many implications.
Size is now lighter at 1.3 pounds, but the Kindle is still much lighter at 8.7 ounces. iPad 2 is thinner at 8.8 mm but it's the largeness of it that was the issue, not the thickness. iBooks getting Random House is a bit of a threat but Random House is moving to the Agency Model and committing mini-suicide – So, again it's not as big an issue as it might have been.
Note: The 30% tax is a big deal – However, that affects Kindle for iPhone, and not Kindle.
There really aren't any big threats for the Kindle here. Rival Tablet makers and the Kindle Tablet now have a higher bar to meet. For the Kindle there's no tangible threat here.
Implications for Nook Color
Again, the $499 price makes iPad 2 not much of a threat to Nook Color. At $249 (till tomorrow morning $200 at B&N's eBay shop with a coupon code) the Nook Color is still much better value for money.
It's a bit of a disappointment. If Apple had priced iPad 2 at $399 it would have forced Amazon and B&N to cut the prices of Kindle and Nook Color. Now we'll have to wait for some other catalyst.
Apart from the dual core processor and the dual cameras, don't really see anything worth calling a conference for. Here's the screen (from the iPad 2 specs page) –
- 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
- 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
- Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
An improvement on the iPad, and not much of a threat to Kindle and Nook Color.


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UPD (University Police) were flying by so I slow crossed 'em huge just to piss 'em off.
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Steve Madden Sheek Wedge Sandal
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The Steve Madden Sheek has details for days! From the studded trim on the raffia wedge to the strappy two-tone look, this gorgeous wedge sandal will help you to rock your trendy summer look effortlessly.
- Canvas and leather upper
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I should be....doing the housework.
Merry Christmas to all...
I should be...getting ready for work.
Merry Snowy Christmas
Love & Peace to the World
I should be..... cleaning the kitchen..
Merry Christmas to all...
I should be...sleeping
Merry Snowy Christmas
Love & Peace to the World
exactly what I'm doing...per usual.
I should be cleaning the kitchen and doing washing
Steph xx
So excited for christmas 2012
I should be washing the dishes
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
I should be eating- I'm starving!
The holly's up, the house is all bright, The tree is ready, the candles alight; Rejoice and be glad, all children tonight.
I should be on vacations!!
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless us!! Everyone!!''
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Wheatland Tube names general manager for fence, galvanized mechanical products
Wheatland Tube Co., Chicago, a division of JMC Steel Group, has announced that David Devine has joined the company as the general manager for fence and galvanized mechanical products.
Devine has more than 19 years of experience in the mechanical tube market. Most recently he served as national sales manager - energy solutions for Atkore/Unistrut Construction, where he was in charge of the design and build of structural racking systems incorporating galvanized mechanical tube and custom roll-formed profiles. He also has held regional and national sales roles within the mechanical tube and construction sales divisions.
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No mention of Ojomo among the DL.
No one remembers who came in second.
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Football has been very, very good to us.
Even though 2013-2015 were 3 losing season's, we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
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2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!! & NE
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The University Drive location of Wings 'n More will serve as the host this winter for the Gary Blair Radio Show and the Billy Kennedy Radio Show.
The Blair show runs from 6-7 p.m. while the Kennedy show is from 7-8 p.m. Both air locally on News/Talk 1620 WTAW with the Kennedy show appearing on the Texas A&M Sports Network (check local listings).
The shows include in-depth interviews with Aggie players and staff, a look around the SEC and reflections on the 2014-15 campaign.
Fans are invited to come out to join the coaches and meet the Aggies as they talk all things A&M basketball.