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NORWALK -- After a 13-6 victory over Norwalk on Saturday, the last player on the bench for the Ludlowe football team, cleaning up garbage before filling his arms with two helmets, a hat and a few loose pieces of clothing was not a JV player but rather senior starting quarterback and team captain Matthew White.
It was apparently not enough that White threw for 121 yards while running for 61 and a touchdown or that he was lowering his shoulder, fighting for yards every time he ran. He also cleaned the place up after the game.
He made for a pretty decent equipment manager, but, according to his coach, he is kind of good at everything that has to do with football.
"Here's the thing about Matt," Ludlowe coach Matt McCloskey said. "We put him at quarterback, he's the best quarterback on the roster. We put him at halfback, he might be the best halfback on the roster. If we put him at fullback he might be the best fullback on the roster. He's a football player."
The Falcons (4-2, 3-2 FCIAC) only had the ball twice in the first half as Norwalk churned its offense up and down the field but could not score.
The Bears (2-4, 1-4 FCIAC) turned the ball over on downs after a 16-play, 8:20 drive, stalling at the 6.
After a Ludlowe punt, the Bears ran 15 plays and got down to the 13 before a fumble gave the Falcons the ball.
Not being able to punch the ball in, untimely penalties and giving the ball away has dogged Norwalk all season.
"It's just frustrating," Norwalk coach Sean Ireland said. "The things we preach, the things we practice we do OK, but when we come out here it looks like we never even worked on it."
Ludlowe took over at its 15 after recovering the fumble. White took over, busting a 40-yard run, converting two third-down passes and scoring on an 8-yard run, plowing his way into the end zone.
White said he looks for contact, rather than trying to avoid it.
"As a captain I feel more pressure on me and I love it. I like to be the leader and have the guys rally around us," White said. "I don't want to get hit, I'll give the hit. I don't want to step out of bounds."
In the third quarter, the Bears were again stung by a turnover on a bad snap out of the shotgun with Ludlowe's Stephen Zadravec scooping up the ball on the 30 and taking it in for a touchdown.
Norwalk drove down the field and scored with 13 seconds left in the game with Jeremy Linton connecting with Patrick Corley in the corner of the end zone, making it 13-6.
The Bears recovered the onside kick, but a 39-yard Hail Mary as time expired fell short and the Falcons escaped with a victory.
"It's good to get a win," White said. "We are where we want to be now at 4-2 going into our last away game. We grinded out a win and they played a great game, controlled the clock most of the first half and have some big guys on the defensive line but I thought our offensive line did a great job opening up holes for us to run."
Ludlowe 13, Norwalk 6
Records: L -- 4-2, 3-2 FCIAC; N -- 2-4, 1-4 FCIAC
L -- Matthew White 8 run (Michael Arman kick)
L - Stephen Zadravec 30 fumble return (kick failed)
N -- Patrick Corley 14 pass Jeremy Linton (pass failed)


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Revolution Ribs needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 88 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
Revolution Ribs
We are a new brand of Rigid inflatable boats primarily at this stage for the recreational boating market and ultimately moving into the commercial market also.
Our target audience covers the entire recreational boating market from those requiring a small row boat up to luxury fast rigid inflatable power boats.
We want to create a branded logo that is instantly and easilly recognisable. Portrays speed, style, elegance and quality.
1 The simple text logo will appear on the side of our boats and needs to be easily seen and recognised from a distance. It may have simple additional design elements in addition to the text, or simple text. Perhaps forward sloping to give a sense on speed?? We are not opposed to a very simple line drawn (if thats the right terminology) representation of a rigid inflatable boat being included but preferably separate to the text.
The typeface should be clear, simple and bold, please show in Black and Navy blue.
2. The second element is a stylised logo using the RR initials, perhaps with the R's opposing each other to resemble a boat moving through the water, or perhaps the Rs overlap somehow. I'm keen to see different ideas in this regard, again simplicity is the key as this logo will also appear on the boats and be sewn into seat cushions etc... Needs to be easilly replicated in many ways. It can have dimension to it for print use.
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MRP = MSS // mismatch repair proficient = micro satellite stable
"Pembrolizumab + Poly-ICLC in MRP Colon Cancer"
(That is: Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) + Poly-ICLC (Hiltonol; experimental viral mimic and broad activator of innate immunity) in MRP ( = MSS) Colon Cancer"
Only at Georgia Cancer Center, at Augusta University
"Current clinical trials are showing that patients whose tumors are mismatch repair deficient are more likely to respond to immune-boosting anti-PD-1 drugs—such as pembrolizumab—than those with tumors proficient in mismatch repair. The idea is that the greater the number of DNA glitches in a tumor cell, the more abnormal proteins it will produce—and the more abnormal proteins that are generated, the greater the odds that the body's immune cells will regard the tumor cells as "foreign" and target them for destruction. Thus far, PD-1 inhibitors have shown great promise for mismatch repair deficient cancer patients, but not for mismatch repair proficient (MRP) cancer patients.
In this clinical trial, the investigators hypothesize that treating MRP colon cancer patients with immunostimulating agent poly-ICLC will generate an inflammatory response, increasing epitope recognition and development of tumor reactive T-cells at the tumor site. However, interferon alpha and gamma produced by the poly-ICLC will increase PD-L1 expression and limit new T-cell development. Thus, PD1 blockade will increase the effectiveness of treatment with pembrolizumab."
Description of Poly-ICLC: http://adisinsight.springer.com/drugs/800001705
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Any extension from that is low priority and "patch welcome" >>>>>>>>>> IMHO ... >>>>>>>>> The downside for Speex is the container overhead since individual frames >>>>>>>>> are very small. >>>>>>>> this is true for many (most?) speech codecs >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> also if we write our own speex encoder, it will only return one frame at a >>>>>>>> time. >>>>>>> Why would it have to? >>>>>> because the API requires it, both encoders and decoders have to implement the >>>>>> API, a video encoder also cannot return 5 frames in one packet. >>>>>> APIs can be changed but you arent arguing for a API change you argue for >>>>>> ignoring the API and just doing something else. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> If the user sets frame_size before initialization >>>>>>> to a number of samples that is a multiple of a single frame, it could >>>>>>> return multiple speex frames at once, properly joined together and >>>>>>> padded at the end. With libspeex this is very easy to do because the >>>>>>> functionality is built into the API. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I understand the desire to keep what are called frames as separate >>>>>>> entities, but in the case of Speex I see it as more advantagous to allow >>>>>>> the user more control when encoding. If frames are always split up, >>>>>>> this limits the users options for both stream copy *and* for encoding to >>>>>>> just 1 frame per packet. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If you're dead-set against this idea, then I will finish the parser that >>>>>>> splits packets in order to continue with my other Speex patches, but I >>>>>>> don't like how limiting it would be for the user. >>>>>> i am againt speex handling things different than other speech codecs >>>>>> based on arguments that apply to other speech codecs as well. >>>>>> Also iam against passing data between muxer and codec layers in a way >>>>>> that violates the API. >>>>> ffmpeg seperates muxer and codec layers, writing a demuxer & decoder >>>>> that depend on things beyond the API (frames per frame) is going to >>>>> break things. We had similar great code (passing structs in AVPacket.data >>>>> because it was convenient) that also didnt turn out to be that great >>>>> and required a complete rewrite ... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ive alraedy said nut doesnt allow multiple frames per packet, but its >>>>> not just nut, avi as well doesnt allow multiple frames per packet >>>>> for VBR and either way avi needs to have its headers set up properly, >>>>> not with fake frame size and such and flv as we alaredy know has a >>>>> issue with >8 frames per frame. All that is just what we know of will >>>>> break if you implement your hack, what else will break is something we >>>>> only would learn after some time. >>>>> >>>>> IMHO, demuxer->parser->splited frames [unless it is not possible to split] >>>>> if a muxer can store multiple frames it can merge several depending on its >>>>> abilities and user provided parameters, that merging could also be done >>>>> as a bitstream filter. >>>>> But just skiping the spliting and merging and hoping that every container >>>>> would allow anyting that any other container allowed is just not going to >>>>> work. And even more so as we already know of many combinations that would >>>>> noz work >>>> I do understand your point. There is a subtle difference with speex >>>> though. The process of merging of frames into groups of frames is >>>> something that is specified by the codec itself, not the container. To >>>> the container, it would be as transparent as for an audio codec that >>>> allows different numbers of samples/duration for a frame. Nut would >>>> support it just fine, as it does with FLAC with different numbers of >>>> samples per frame. As for FLV, it would be the same as if it doesn't >>>> allow over a certain number of samples per frame before getting choppy >>>> and/or crashing. >>> hmmm, could you quote the part of the speex spec that supports your view? >>> and provide a link to that spec. (iam asking for a quote instead of just >>> url cuz of the ML archive ...) >> unfortunately there is not a speex specification per-se, but a speex >> manual that gives some hints and guidance. the libspeex code is >> definitive reference. >> >> http://speex.org/docs/manual/speex-manual/node7.html >> >> "Sometimes it is desirable to pack more than one frame per packet (or >> other basic unit of storage). The proper way to do it is to call >> speex_encode $ N$ times before writing the stream with speex_bits_write. >> >> In cases where the number of frames is not determined by an out-of-band >> mechanism, it is possible to include a terminator code. That terminator >> consists of the code 15 (decimal) encoded with 5 bits, as shown in Table >> 4. Note that as of version 1.0.2, calling speex_bits_write automatically >> inserts the terminator so as to fill the last byte. This doesn't >> involves any overhead and makes sure Speex can always detect when there >> is no more frame in a packet." >> >> The end of the packet is able detected because it looks like the start >> of another frame, but the mode id is the terminator code. This is >> needed because a full valid speex frame can be only 5 bits. >> >> What happens when libspeex writes frames is this: >> If all the combined frames end on a byte boundary, no terminator code is >> used because the packet data will end at the end of a frame. If the >> combined frames do not end on a byte boundary, a 0-bit followed by >> enough 1's to pad to the next byte are appended. The result is that if >> there are 5 or more bits, the terminator code will be detected. > > iam not truely happy about all that but i agree that its overall alot > more convenient and simpler to keep these bit packed pieces of bull shit > together but in that case it has to be considered that this is a whole > frame and all variables have to be set accordingly. It is definitely a lot simpler. I agree it's ugly, but it all works out ok if we're consistent in the encoder, decoder, and all muxers and demuxers supporting speex. I'll send a new patch sometime soon with more documentation about how speex frames are to be handled throughout FFmpeg. -Justin


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It seems Halloween is becoming a bigger deal each year,and 2010 is no exception, as the day serves as a great excuse for children and adults alike to take a brief escape from reality.
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"I'll call you." Three little words uttered at the end of a date that no self-actualized girl wants to hear. For the inexperienced, "I'll call you" is filled with promise and possibility. Those of us more seasoned daters know "I'll call you" really means: I'm never going to call. Ever.
I was still relatively new to online dating when I met Jake. What drew me to him initially were his soulful brown eyes. His wit and self-deprecating sense of humor cinched it. Jake was also geographically desirable. He lived in the Valley, which was a big plus, because a lot of guys I met online lived in West Hollywood or Santa Monica — a traffic nightmare from Burbank.
Instead of the usual meet-and-greet for drinks or coffee, Jake suggested dinner. He said he felt "like a jerk" for having to plan the date so far ahead because of his work schedule. Was he kidding? As far as I was concerned, a man with a plan wasn't a jerk at all.
I had a good feeling about Jake, so I decided, just this once, to break a cardinal online dating safety rule: I let him pick me up at my place. Jake arrived at my door on time, and my word, he was even cuter in person. I uttered a silent prayer. "Oh, dear God, please let this be a good one."
As we approached his car, Jake didn't just unlock my door with his remote while skirting around to the driver's side. Jake opened my door manually. I think the last time someone did that was 1988.
But wait, it got better. As we pulled away from the curb, he asked — with genuine interest — "So, how was your day?" My mind went blank. He's asking me about my day? It was my best date in a year, and we hadn't even reached the stop sign on the corner.
During dinner, we easily shifted from one topic to the next. We talked about our families and our mixed ethnic backgrounds. He was Peruvian and Salvadoran. I'm Mexican and Polish. We discussed our shared love of art, photography and architecture. And once the tequila kicked in, we gleefully entertained each other with our dating horror stories. All in all, I thought it was a great date.
So when Jake walked me to my door, hugged me and said, "I'll call you," my heart sank.
As I lay in bed that night, I replayed the date over and over in my head. Did I say too much? Was being a single mother a deal breaker? Was I too old for him? Was I not his type?
There are cues that I usually notice when a date isn't going well: He makes little contact, he's not participating in the conversation, his body language is closed off, he doesn't laugh at my jokes. But Jake was easygoing and talkative, he asked a lot of questions and he seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say.
I remembered that Jake mentioned he'd be traveling over the holidays. Maybe he'll call after New Year's? He deserved the benefit of the doubt, didn't he?
The holidays came and went. I never heard from Jake. Yes, I knew I should have let it go, but we Gemini folk are curious creatures. I had to know. I emailed Jake and asked: Why say you'd call if you knew you wouldn't?
Jake replied that although he'd enjoyed our date, he simply didn't feel a connection. He apologized, saying he "wholeheartedly did not mean any disrespect by not being honest." He admitted that the end of a date was, at times, "quite a perplexing experience" and, having had experienced some "interesting reactions," he chose to avoid the "potentially awkward and unpleasant situation" by taking the easy way out.
Was Jake's "I'll call you" really any different from me emailing someone to say I didn't feel a connection? Aren't both kind of junior high? You bet. But how else can one gracefully avoid a confrontational, uncomfortable moment?
Yeah, it was a tiny blow to my ego when Jake didn't call, but I wonder how I might have felt if he'd said, "Thanks for a nice night, but I don't think this is going to work out." Truthfully, I think I prefer the little white lie.
Not too long ago, I met Ryan for drinks. He was an attractive, intelligent, hipster-nerd musician type. I definitely would've gone out with him again, but I sensed he wasn't that into me. So, at the end of our date, when Ryan bro-hugged me and said, "Take care," I smiled. "Take care" was Ryan's "I'll call you." No explanation was necessary.
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LOS ANGELES — On the morning after their first stumble of the playoffs, the Los Angeles Kings didn't work on their power play or zone coverage or breakout or faceoffs.
They practised their slant patterns, three-point shots, their headers and serves. They reported to their training compound in suburban El Segundo, where the roar from airliners at LAX is heard and the roar from the Pacific is not, and played football, basketball, soccer and table tennis. If they'd actually gone on the ice, the Kings would have completed the modern pentathlon of a National Hockey League team.
"We've been having fun here today," veteran centre Jarret Stoll said Thursday. "We've been upbeat, positive and that's what you've got to be. Sometimes you lose a game. Sometimes you lose two in a row. But as long as you come back the next day and do the right things and have the right attitude, you go from there."
The Kings finally lost a game to the Vancouver Canucks, 3-1 on Wednesday. And if they lose a second in a row Sunday in Vancouver, then the Canucks will be only halfway back from the 0-3 crypt they dug for themselves in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
It was only one game, although it will be talked to death because the NHL and arena availability set a schedule that has the Kings and Canucks playing once in six days.
Stoll admitted that's not an ideal timetable for the Kings, who failed on their first chance to eliminate the Canucks and put themselves into the second round for the first time since 2001. The Kings would rather play sooner, lest three days' worth of questions about the loss and the Canucks' potential renewal with Daniel Sedin back in the lineup and Cory Schneider in goal actually plants some doubt in the minds of Los Angeles players.
The pressure in this series — if that is the fear of losing — is still all on the Canucks, who had two chances to win one game for the Stanley Cup last June and are among the favourites again this year after winning the Presidents' Trophy.
The Kings shouldn't feel any real anxiety and apprehension unless Vancouver also wins Game 5. Then suddenly a Los Angeles franchise with a history of playoff failure is back home in front of their expectant fans, knowing a seemingly insurmountable three-love lead is nearly gone and that Game 6 may as well be Game 7.
But the idea that the Kings might crumble because they haven't won in the playoffs and just saw a 3-0 lead become 3-1 isn't very plausible when you examine the Los Angeles roster.
Sure, the Kings went out in the first round the last two seasons and didn't make the playoffs the previous six. But only three of their skaters are in their first playoff, and seven Kings have been to the Cup final with other teams. So has their coach, Darryl Sutter. That's a lot of playoff know-how, a lot of leadership.
"I don't think playoffs are about pressure; it's about the moment," Sutter, who guided the Calgary Flames to Game 7 of the 2004 final, said during his most loquacious news conference so far. "I never looked at it as pressure. If someone's feeling pressure, that's a real negative.
"We probably played our best game (Wednesday), but we were dominated by the Sedins. Totally dominated by those players. It's not 'Why?' or 'How do you adjust?' — they're great players. They both just finished winning scoring races and Hart Trophies, so they're great players. As a team . . . you have to be aware when they're on the ice and what they do."
Henrik and Daniel Sedin, back from a concussion on Wednesday after missing 12 games, were as dynamic and dangerous together as they had been in months. That's another reason the Canucks feel hopeful.
Sure, the Kings went out in the first round the last two seasons
"They're different, for sure," Stoll said of the Canucks. "They help each other out and it gives a lot more depth throughout their lineup and a lot more confidence, too, throughout their lineup. (But) we've beat them before with a healthy (Vancouver) lineup. We expect to play better, play well and hopefully win."
Stoll was an important piece in the Edmonton Oilers' 2006 run to the final. Kings' forward Justin Williams was on the Carolina Hurricane team that beat Edmonton.
Los Angeles defenceman Rob Scuderi won a Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins, winger Dustin Penner won with the Anaheim Ducks, and grinder Colin Fraser was an extra on the Chicago Blackhawks' championship team two years ago. So the Kings have players from four of the last six Stanley Cup winners.
Forwards Mike Richards and Jeff Carter were with the Philadelphia Flyers who they lost to the Blackhawks in 2010.
"We were down 3-1 and we got it to Game 7," Stoll recalled of the '06 final. "So, I know definitely that 3-1 can become 3-3 pretty quickly if you don't take care of the right things and have the right attitude.
"That's what it's all about for us right now — the right attitude and the right frame of mind. We know we've won in Vancouver . . . and we can do it again."
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|2011-07-29, 20:28
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The thing is, despite all the bitching and crying about WoW, most WoW players like WoW. However, they are getting tired of it so they are looking for essentially a better version of WoW to switch.
Game devs are also aware of this fact, hence they try to make games that are very similar to WoW, but 'better', hoping to get WoW players to switch. However, most of these games lack polish or content, and most WoW players don't want to keep playing a WoW-like game that's not as good as WoW.
SWTOR will be their next hope of getting a WoW game that's not WoW but still WoW at the same time. With Bioware developing it, and EA dumping massive amounts of money into it, there's a good chance it'll have the content and polish to really be the WoW that's not WoW that the players are looking for.
|2011-07-29, 21:35
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The slow-clap by Ironfist is awesome.
I guess the combat reminds me somewhat of KotOR. I just am really not looking forward to having to coordinate with non-AI. Does AI do stupid stuff in any game? Yeah. But I feel like AI isn't as bad as people sometimes. I really would rather solo this game. I just want this game for the story, after all. It's the spiritual successor to KotOR, so hopefully there is enough carry-over in the gameplay to not turn me off.
|2011-07-29, 21:59
|Link #363
Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 34
Part of the fun with loot rolls was the excitement of winning the rare drops you've been grinding for days to get, minus the goddamn ninjas anyway. Maybe it's because I enjoy the gamble, but having guaranteed loot would make raids feel like farming runs rather than a effort-full attempt at better gear.
|2011-07-29, 22:38
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Did someone call a doctor
Join Date: Apr 2007
Age: 35
More accurately though for myself, I'm looking forward to being able to play an MMO with my friends who quit WoW over the years. Particularly my RL friends. Something fresh and interesting even if it only in just setting should be enough to tide us over for a couple years.
Heh, although I've been guilty of calling most of the new MMO's these days WoW clones (heavy eye-rolling in the process). I've always thought it too be a bit short sighted, all MMOs have their ups and downs. You can apply the same logic to FPS games, actually I think it's worse there, particularly the military ones where it is almost glaringly apparent - it kinda frustrates me in their similarities.
I look for 3 things 1) are my friends playing, 2) smooth intuitive gameplay (ie like WoW, or Rift), 3) Interesting story and lore. I'd almost rate 3 above 2 if it weren't for the fact that you actually have to do stuff in MMO's.
Biggest problem I see though, and you saw it with WoW, were the RP sections - like the Colosseum, admittedly that place exacerbated this problem due to its design - After watching the NPC dialog the first time people want to skip it every time after. I know they said that you can skip or something, but people are impatient. After the first wave gets through and are onto alts new players are gona miss out on the games big selling point.
|2011-08-01, 10:17
|Link #367
Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
|2011-08-01, 14:15
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Hardcore meets Casual
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Age: 30
From what I hear it's closer to a single-player game than a MMO anyway, so take that how you want...
|2011-08-01, 20:04
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blinded by blood
Sure, but the problem with online RPGs is that they don't end. There's no concrete ending. So what if the 1-50 level grind is "basically a single-player RPG?" The endgame will be stupid "don't stand in the fire" boss raids for loot to kill stronger bosses that drop stronger loot to kill even stronger bosses that drop even stronger loot to kill...
Ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
I'd really applaud Bioware if they made this game have a definite end, as in, you complete the storyline and you get a cinematic ending, just like any single-player game. And then you have the option to keep playing after the end for the poopsock endgame.
But I doubt they'll actually do that. EA would never let them--that's money escaping right there. No, I don't hate online RPGs because they're online, or because they're bad games. WoW was a good game, a fun game, and had a wonderful moddable UI.
What pisses me off about online RPGs is they are intentionally designed to be as psychologically addictive and soul-sucking as possible. They want you addicted, logged in and miserable, not having fun but unable to quit due to effort invested and changes promised, as they dangle the carrot of "game balancing patch" or "content patch" and keep you playing and paying. It's how they make money. If they actually added enough content to keep people playing purely for enjoyment above all, they'd go bankrupt. That would require new content added weekly at the very least for the most skilled min-maxers and binge gamers.
They're not games. They're digital drugs, and while I am not saying they should be banned or be illegal, I'm saying that smart people should avoid playing them. At least with a single-player game, even if you play it obsessively, you eventually reach the end and that's it. With online RPGs, the goal is to keep you paying that monthly fee as long as possible.
|2011-08-02, 03:58
|Link #370
Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
Complete Jedi Consular story @ Level 50, start Trooper
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Considering they take like 100+ hours each and there is 8 classes and than each class will get their stories expanded significantly with an expansion every 12-18 months why complain? You don't have to play this like an MMO @ all period I really don't care about raiding myself though I'll definitely be dabbling in PVP (and if its good take it more serious) but I'll mainly be playing this as a KOTOR game.
|2011-08-02, 04:12
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
|2011-08-07, 05:16
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Finally, after the longest wait, the consular update.
|2011-08-07, 06:02
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 34
Precisely the class I've always wanted to play. Always had an attraction to healing/buffing/support characters. Sure you can't deal as much damage or take as many hits as everyone else, but everyone knows that if you die, the entire party dies.
|2011-08-07, 22:46
|Link #376
Join Date: Mar 2006
I wish that Blizzard was more.....thoughtful...when it came to game balancing but as someone who has played MMO's for a long time, they're also the only company that has really ever come close to relative stability in game design, imo.
With content, again there's a few issues. For one, it's a resource issue. You can't just throw more money at it and expect content to rain from the sky. On the other hand even if you could, the reality is that unless you make it very hard the majority of the playerbase will chew through it in less than a month. Even when it is hard, the "elites" plow through it fast enough to give the rest of the playerbase the impression that there isn't enough content. "Uber guild X beat the new boss in three weeks, where's the new content devs!?" Never mind that most players are casual and barely get through content by the time the next patch is ready.
You are correct, that online games are built like carrots on a stick. This is only a problem when players look at such games as "investments" and "work" instead of paying a monthly fee to goof off and have fun.
One of the hardest things I've done in regards to gaming was to quit Everquest. All those years of character building were hard to let go of. Once I did, I realized that the only thing I'll ever get to keep from these games is the memories I make....so they may as well be good ones. In short, when it stops being fun, it's no longer "play", and it's no longer worth spending money on.
WoW's biggest problem is simply that it is old, and it is showing it. Newer games sport better features, better character customization/art/design, more intuitive gameplay, etc. WoW is now a relic of the days when it was a more polished version of Everquest. The genre as a whole is stale, but a big reason for that is technology.
What players want from a MMO: a persistent world that feels alive, where your actions have consequences and make a difference in the world and your experience in it. The sky's the limit, and not a limited sandbox with virtual boundaries of cans and cant's.
What we have in MMO's now: a glorified numbers based progression system with superficial events/choices that don't really affect the world at all. Your "hero" is just as heroic as all the other players, which would be fine if it didn't feel so homogenous and "mathy" all the time.
|2011-08-08, 05:53
|Link #377
Did someone call a doctor
Join Date: Apr 2007
Age: 35
I found it harder at the time to switch from EQ to WoW for the same reason you mentioned. But I played WoW for 6 years and only recently stopped playing. I just didn't really have the level of interest I used to, I had sort of been aware of it for a while I guess but I just kept raiding and so on because I liked the players. Although at the beginning of Cata we lost about half a dozen or so people to real life stuff which just made my lack of interest even more evident. So when the guild called for a raiding break for two weeks, I just stayed away and haven't gone back for 3 months, my sub runs out in November too.
The numbers thing has irritated me for years. I didn't really feel it was all that important in EQ - or at least not as obvious. I guess I was 15 at the time so it didn't really ring all that highly too me -even if I was a consistently high performer, as far as Bards went (5 song twisting hoo). Anyway, I kind of wish that the numbers were hidden from players or something to force the focus away from spreadsheets and the like and back into actual game play and story and taking items because they look awesome or are unique. It was a long time ago now but EQ did seem to have that.. soo many flavor items (Shawl of the Neriad, etc).
Fairly spot on with the balancing act that devs have to play too. They don't get enough credit at times, people only ever focus on the negatives.
I guess EVE is probably close to what you mention as a sandbox, but it is a numbers game. Heh economic sandbox.
Will say one thing for WoW, if you think it is a positive thing or not.. well.. that's up to you. It has "revolutionised" and pretty much invigorated an entire industry which has led us to what we have today in the form of SWTOR, and others. If we didn't have WoW I doubt there would be even half the MMO's there are today.
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Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
|2011-08-08, 06:17
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Did someone call a doctor
Join Date: Apr 2007
Age: 35
Selina yeah...
Hecklor... level 6 orc right? Or was that someone else... You went on about PVP yeah. Who was your main again? I'm sure you told me before. I seem to remember thinking you might have been in Ruined or Risen. Biggest forum troll I remember was Enigmanova.
link is the only reference I can find to you that still exists, sadly your posts are gone... but peoples still referenced and quoted you heh.
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Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
I was Cagalli from Concept, and a lot of people thought I was in Ruined (elitist douches with guild enforced forum bans lol) or from Blackrock. Funniest part was when they thought I was that guy from Blackrock (some warlock beginning with I) because I used his pic of his group beating that RP server to make fun of them lol. I remember when my arena team (Norako, Elendril etc) and friends run into him in WSG and were like "Kill hecklor!!" lol.
I'm pretty sure the old school Horde pvp players knew, they knew I was pissed at me and Elendrils Concept WSG groups getting cockblocked by that new batch of Horde PVPers. And hecklor was always giving props to them, shitting on the new guys and mentioning how they called Concept gear scrubs and some of the guys in that were in the best ranked arena team on the server. (and we were pretty scrubby too lol).
Still think Elendrils the best mage I played with, I remember he smashed me and Houndus for an hour straight in duels when he had a pve fire raid spec on and we were both using the top frost pvp spec. And than a year later Houndus becomes one of the best mages in the battlegroup... that guy was crazy, I remember he and 2 friends went to a different battle group, convinced them they were from a top European raiding guild here to show them how to pvp and than easily took the Merciless Glad ranking for 3v3. Quality play and trolling lol.
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In public, Russia has joined the chorus of nations condemning the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on its people and rebel forces. But behind the scenes, Moscow remains one of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's closest allies, and the reported arrival of Russian troops in Syria this week may have been orchestrated to drive home that point.
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This pie is my one last nod to summer baking, before my thoughts turn to more autumnal flavours. There is something very homely, yet at the same time elegant, about a lattice topped pie.
Normally I will use tinned peaches, but I think here you really need the fresh as you need them to bake down and release juices into the honey; I'm not sure that tinned peaches would behave the same way.
Here are the peaches cooking in honey and cinnamon. It looks a lot but it does cook down quite a lot and you end up with a quantity just enough for a generous pie (the ONLY kind of pie worth having!):
I cannot recommend the "boiling water" tip enough for peeling ripe peaches. The reason I usually use tinned peaches is because they are smooth and perfect, whereas when I've tried to peel a peach it comes out looking somewhat butchered. Look how perfect these are:
Simply pouring boiling water over the peaches and leaving them for one minute has a magical effect – rinse the peaches off in cold water and the peel almost falls off between your fingers. One of those strangely enjoyable tasks!
The lattice top isn't as scary as you'd think as long as you're methodical and alternate which strips of pastry you lift. At this point I had planned on photographing the progress of my lattice on the pie....however, moments before I started to make the lattice I had dropped almost a pint of thick double cream into my fridge and it kindly decided to pool under the crisper drawers; an area you can only access by removing most of the shelves in the fridge. On the plus side, I did surprise (impress?) myself with just how many swear words I know. Consequently, because of my cream fuelled rage, I totally forgot to take photos. But there are lots of useful aides on youtube and I really liked this one.
I used this pastry wheel to get the nice edge to the lattice strips. One wheel is plain, the other crimped. I was in a "crimped" sort of mood so went for that!
This was a lovely pie/tart – the gentle spicing and the honey mixed with peach juice gave an almost fruity butterscotch element. If you don't fancy a lattice top you could make a 'solid' pastry lid or cut shapes of pastry and just lay them on the top.
For the peach filling:
7-8 fresh ripe peaches, peeled, stoned and sliced into wedges
5 tablespoons runny honey
100g caster sugar
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 ½ tablespoons plain flour
For the pastry (this is comfortably more than you will need, simply either freeze any leftover pastry or make some bonus jam tarts):
500g plain flour
250g unsalted butter, diced
2 teaspoon milk or water (I used milk)
2 eggs
To sprinkle on top of the pie for baking: a handful of caster sugar
To serve: custard or thick cream
Start by making the peach filling: if your peaches won't peel easily, pour boiling water over them, leave them for a minute or so, then remove them from the hot water, run under the cold tap and voila – easy peeling! You could also microwave them for 15 seconds then leave to stand for 2 minutes before peeling – I haven't tried this method though.
Place the peach wedges (aim to cut each peach into about 12 slices, more if you can) in a pan along with the honey and cook over a gentle heat until the peaches soften and the honey thickens. Stir occasionally; it will take about 10 minutes.
Stir in the sugar and cinnamon.
Add the flour gradually until the liquid starts to thicken – you might not need it all - and bring the mixture back to a simmer.
Simmer gently until the flour has thickened the liquid – this will take anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes.
Remove from the heat and leave to cool.
Spoon into a container and cover with clingfilm.
Refrigerate for a minimum of 4 hours or, ideally, overnight.
To make the pastry: pulse the flour and butter in a food processor until you have crumbs.
Add the egg and milk and pulse again until the pastry clumps but does not form a ball – be careful not to overwork it.
Tip the dough onto a sheet of clingfilm and kneed it just enough to form a ball.
Cut the ball in half (make one half a bit more generous than the other), then for each 'half' - flatten, wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Roll out the larger half of chilled dough between two sheets of clingfilm. I didn't need to add any extra flour. Use one sheet of the clingfilm to lift the pastry to line a 25cm pie pan or a loose bottomed flan tin.
There is no need to grease the pan as the pastry is buttery and will not stick.
Press the pastry into the pan and trim off any excess pastry.
Preheat the oven to 200˚C/fan oven 180˚C/390˚F/Gas mark 6.
Spoon the chilled peach filling into the pie case.
Roll out the remaining ball of pastry and cut 14 strips approximately 2cm wide.
Lay the longest strip across the centre of the pie and work outwards ensuring you have a regular under/over pattern. If you need more help then there are many guides on youtube – this is a good one.
Brush some milk, or beaten egg over the lattice top and sprinkle with a handful of sugar.
Bake for approximately 30 minutes, or until the pastry is golden and cooked.
Leave to cool, in the tin, on a wire rack.
Serve either at room temperature with thick cream, or warm with custard.
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Preston — A Preston City Fire Department volunteer firefighter has been disciplined and has agreed to pay restitution for using a firetruck to draw water from a Preston Plains Water Co. hydrant and filling a private pool on Overlook Drive.
First Selectman Robert Congdon said he received a letter of complaint from Preston Plains Water, a private company that serves subdivisions in the Preston Plains area, that a volunteer firefighter drew water from a hydrant three times to fill a tanker truck. An estimated 10,000 gallons of water was used to fill a private swimming pool. It was not the firefighter's pool.
A water company official met with Congdon and Preston Fire Chief Tom Casey to discuss the issue. Casey told Congdon the firefighter has received unspecified discipline and agreed to pay the $74.20 cost for the water. All firefighters will receive training on the department's policy that firetrucks are not to be used for private purposes.
Congdon said the town's two fire departments have a policy that no firetrucks are to be used to fill swimming pools. The practice — which used to be done for donations to the department — takes trucks out of service and risks damage to the trucks or the homeowner's driveway, he said.
"I think that's a prudent policy," Congdon said.
Casey declined to identify the firefighter and would not specify what disciplinary action was taken.
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Toad-ally Out of Control
by Fiona Bayrock
Out of hundreds of toad species, only one lives in Australia. Don't feel sorry for the people "Down Under," though. Most Australians will be quick to assure you that one toad is more than enough, thank you very much.
Australia's toad is the cane toad, Bufo marinus, also called the marine toad or giant toad (the largest specimens are the size of dinner plates!). This wart-covered amphibian, described as "ugly, even by toad standards," is native to South and Central America. It first arrived in Australia in 1935, as a shipment of 102 toads imported from Hawaii. Farmers in Puerto Rico had successfully used cane toads to control beetles that were devastating sugar cane crops. Australian farmers hoped that the cane toads would do the same for them.
Toads Take Hold
However, that's not how it turned out. What no one had realized was that the cane toads in Puerto Rico stuck around the sugar cane fields eating beetles because Puerto Rico is such a small island—there wasn't very far that they could go. In Australia, cane toads were enticed by the vast land, rich in habitat and food, that lay beyond the cane fields. The toads multiplied and expanded their territory, moving into new areas at a "maximum of 40 kilometers per year," says Dr. Michael Tyler, environmental biologist at Adelaide University. They are currently as far south as Sydney, and halfway across the wildlife-rich north coast. Tyler expects that "in time they will extend to Derby in Western Australia."
Where cane toads are established in Australia, there are ten times as many per square kilometer as in the cane toad's native Venezuela. After less than seven decades, the cane toad population in Australia has reached hundreds of millions. That's a lot of toads! In urban areas, they are a nuisance, congregating under lampposts to catch insects attracted to the light, invading gardens, getting into pipes, laying eggs, and leaving a roadkill mess.
A Tad of Good News
The good news for native species is that cane toads don't appear to be out-competing them for habitat or food. "Toads are often present in such huge numbers that it is hard to believe that they would fail to displace any native species that were around," notes Professor Tyler. "But there rarely seem to be many native species competing with them."
Native frogs have several things going for them that could save them from being wiped out in areas invaded by cane toads. Many occupy different habitat niches. For example, arboreal (tree-dwelling) frogs live above the ground-dwelling cane toad, and cane toads don't have the ability to shut down during the dry season as native frogs do. Also, cane toads can breed year-round, so they are not competing with native species for breeding areas during a limited season.
Double Danger
Cane toads do impact native species in two other ways—by eating them or being eaten. Most animals that attempt to eat the cane toad die from a lethal cocktail of poisons in its skin and concentrated in protruding glands on each shoulder. When the cane toad is handled roughly, such as when caught in a predator's mouth, the toad releases the poison, sometimes squirting it as far as one meter. The venom is highly toxic. The Cairns Frog Hospital reports snakes found dead with whole cane toads still in their mouths, dead within minutes from choosing the wrong meal! (No joke. There really is a frog hospital in Cairns on the coast of Northern Queensland, Australia, that serves as a help and research station for sick frogs and those that are not normal.) Animals that depend on frogs for their diets are particularly susceptible to poisoning—snakes, turtles, goannas (lizard), and jabiru (large stork)…even crocodiles! Biologists are especially concerned about species already in decline, such as the northern quoll and other marsupials.
Terrible Toad Dreams
The situation is an ecological nightmare. In March 2001, the cane toads reached world heritage–listed Kakadu National Park, home to a rich diversity of life. Some species in the park exist nowhere else on Earth. Biologists are monitoring the situation closely as the cane toads reach ideal conditions (year-round water) for the first time.
Why has the cane toad been so successful as an invasive alien species? In a word, "adaptability." Its natural habitat ranges from tropical to seasonally arid. "For a species of animal to exist in such a remarkable range of environments," notes Dr. Tyler, "it must be extremely adaptable, and tolerant to a variety of physical conditions." The cane toad, for example, has the ability to lose and regain up to half its body weight in water without dying.
Cane toads eat whatever is available that fits in their mouths, mostly insects, but also mice, birds, small reptiles and marsupials, frogs, smaller cane toads, and even dog food!
The cane toad is what scientists call an opportunistic breeder. This means that it is not limited to a particular breeding season, but can choose to breed when conditions are right, regardless of the time of year. It can lay its eggs in practically any type of water—even a temporary puddle or swimming pool will do.
A large egg clutch (25,000 to 30,000 eggs once a year), rapid development, a long life span (up to 16 years in captivity), and having no natural predators also contribute to the cane toad's success as an alien species.
Tough Toad Lessons
There is much to learn about how cane toads affect native species, where the toads will spread, and how to control them (see sidebar). Despite millions of dollars spent on research, the cane toad remains unstoppable. But things are not all gloom and doom in this losing battle. Parts of Australia will remain toad-free due to unsuitable temperature, water availability, altitude, and other factors at some locations. And a few animals appear to be adapting. The keelback snake seems to have the ability to detoxify cane toad venom, and the water rat, ibis, and crow, among others, have learned to flip the toads over to avoid the poison.
The lessons learned from the cane toad experience have come with a price, though. Life has changed forever in Australia. As Professor Tyler predicts, "Cane toads will become the dominant form of life in Australia."
Made the List!
The Invasive Species Specialist Group of The World Conservation Union (IUCN) maintains a list of "100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species." Both the cane toad (Bufo marinus) and the American bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) made the list.
Another Alien Invasion
by Fiona Bayrock
Green, moist-skinned aliens with big, bulging, gold eyes are invading the west coast of North America. No, it's not some science fiction tale. It's a true story. The alien is a frog—the American bullfrog, to be exact. And it's a space invader extraordinaire in wetland habitats from British Columbia to California.
The bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) is native to eastern North America, but is an alien, or non-native, species on the West Coast. It was introduced from the 1890s to 1940s to meet the demand for frog legs on restaurant menus.
The bullfrog has flourished and spread. Native species such as red-legged and yellow-legged frogs have been eliminated or seriously reduced in many locations, their habitats taken over by bullfrogs.
Doctoral student Purnima Price at the University of Victoria is studying the impact of introduced bullfrogs on red-legged frogs and Pacific tree frogs on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. She sees evidence that bullfrogs are out-competing and displacing these native species. "Once bullfrogs get established, they pretty much clean out the competition," she says.
Certainly, as the largest frog in North America (8 to 20 cm), the bullfrog has a physical advantage over native species at all life stages. Bullfrogs lay about 20 times as many eggs, and bullfrog tadpoles and adults prey on native frogs and tadpoles.
There is little doubt that the bullfrogs are running rampant in some areas, but even in these areas scientists are cautious about blaming native species declines on bullfrogs alone. Human disturbance also plays a major role.
More study and close monitoring is required to better understand the relationship between the invasive bullfrog and native frogs. Meanwhile, the invasion continues.
Biological Control for the Biological Control?
by Fiona Bayrock
Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia have spent years looking for biological methods to control invasive cane toads. It's proving to be a difficult task. The trick is finding a way to do it without killing off native species.
CSIRO researchers looked into the possibility of infecting toads with a fatal, exotic ranavirus—a non-native virus that infects amphibians, reptiles, and fish. They abandoned the idea in 1998, when they found that it killed a native frog species as well as cane toads.
Gene technology also looks promising. The hunt is on for a gene critical to toad development that could be "switched off" to prevent metamorphosis—the changing of a tadpole into an adult frog. "If the toads don't reach adulthood," says CSIRO's Dr. Tony Robinson, "they won't be able to reproduce."
Dr. Alex Hyatt at CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory thinks that a ranavirus inserted with the development-controlling gene can be used as a biological "taxi" to deliver the toad-specific gene. "The cane toad should see the gene product as a foreign entity and initiate an immune response against it," says Robinson. "Such a response should interfere with metamorphosis." Keeping the safety of other species in mind, Dr. Hyatt notes, "We will weaken the viruses so that other amphibians and fish will not suffer from the normal effects of the virus, if infected."
Another possible idea involves pheromones—chemicals used by some animals to attract mating partners. In 1999, Paul Wabnitz of Adelaide University discovered that at least one species of frog uses pheromones. "There's a possibility that cane toads also excrete a sex pheromone," he said. If a pheromone chemical can be isolated, it could be used to disrupt the toad breeding cycle by confusing or trapping toads to prevent them from mating. However, there has been no funding to test the theory.
Whichever way you look at it, it'll be years before biological controls are available for use. As Dr. Hyatt says, there's no "quick fix."
The distinctive calls of alien bullfrogs and cane toads sound nothing like those of the native frog species around them. The cane toad sounds sort of like a telephone dial tone: "brrrrr."
- marsupial:
- Mammal of the order Marsupialia, which includes kangaroos, bandicoots, and wombats, and whose members are found principally in Australia and the Americas.
- protruding:
- Sticking out from a surface.
- How would you describe the relationship that cane toads have with the Australian environment–mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic? Why? Write a sentence or two to explain your answer.
[anno: Cane toads have a parasitic relationship with the Australian environment. The cane toads eat many of the native plants and animals and often poison predators trying to eat them, so they don't offer much benefit to the greater food web.]
- If the Australian government could find a natural predator for the cane toad, do you think the government should import that predator to Australia? What might be the benefits and the consequences of importing a natural predator for the cane toad? Write a few sentences to explain your answer.
[anno: Answers will vary but could include that the benefit of bringing in a natural predator would mean a reduction in the cane toad population. This would help other species to increase their population. A consequence of bringing in a natural predator might be the creation of another situation like the current situation with the cane toad, in which the animal that was supposed to fix a problem causes another problem.]