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Unexpectedly, my six months old Dell Latitude hard disk crashed last night. All my post processed photos are stored there. And since those are my only copies, I hope it can be salvaged once the technician remove the faulty hard disk for me to connect it with an external casing.
Anyway, here are some pictures taken at Kenny Rogers Roasters at Subang Parade a few days back when I was having lunch there.
When Kenny Rogers Roasters arrived in Malaysia many years ago, its first outlet in Bangsar was a big hit. Firewood were used to roast the chicken which makes it tastier compared to KFC.
However, as years gone by Kenny Rogers Roaster became less popular. I even heard of stories where the chickens are no longer cooked using firewood. Putting rumors aside, I just came to know through Wikipedia that Kenny Rogers Roaster went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and was since bought over by Nathan Famous Inc. in 1999. In Malaysia, the franchise was bought over by Berjaya Group.
We took the set menu which came with a quarter chicken and choices of three side dishes. The chicken was nicely cooked with brown sauce poured over it.
And here is the Garden Salad Pasta which is one of the side dishes that we chose…
… and the White Creamy Coleslaw.
They even throw in some nice Kenny's Famous Muffins which came with the set meal and a choice of drink. Surprisingly the muffin was very good too.
Overall, I would rate this place as pretty good since I had a hearty meal that afternoon.
LG29D, Lower Ground, Subang Parade, No 5 Jalan SS16/1
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- Auto Show. this has been on my list of things i want to do and it made it to my "do it now" list. DONE.
- Bartending Class. groupon and the bartending school came through and i was able to schedule and attend a bartending intro class. another "do it now" = done.
- Chop Chop. i FINALLY cut my hair. had been toying with this idea for at least 2 years. i have a pic up on my other blog in case you're curious. link is in the sidebar.
- Money. i got my first paycheck from my first full-time, permanent job. i also got my rebate from Verizon for my Droid.
February is a short month and I spent most of it training for my job. Looking forward to fun/excitement in March. *crosses fingers*. What's new for you? What's on the horizon?

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The Future of PSYOP
I often find myself digging through information on the webs about the PSYOP community world wide and how it is doing. Majority of the time I find some links about some random leaflet drop or PSYACT somewhere throughout the world. That, or I will find links about other countries using PSYOP or examples of PSYOP, what could be taken as PSYOP, or what failed as PSYOP. Then, I occasionally find information on the purpose of PSYOP, is it actually useful? Where is the data and MOE's supporting PSYOP's role in the past 15 years. A lot of arguments go back to larger conflicts which concluded with more force on force battles, instead of this more asymmetrical environment we find ourselves in now.
So, once again this forces me to ponder upon PSYOP, it's role, and it's effectiveness. Do not get me wrong, I love PSYOP to death, and I absolutely believe it has a place. But what is the underlying issue with PSYOP, the community, and its ability (or lack there of) to truly produce rock solid quantifiable data for its work on the battlefield.
I am a history nut for PSYOP, I study it way more than I should, and I know our community history like the back of my hand from first hand experience, primary, and even secondary sources. Throughout history PSYOP has done GREAT things, however, in the past decade or so, though we personally feel we are making an impact in our AO's and AOI's, it is not noted.
Is it time for PSYOP to shift fire? It seems that following every major war or few decades PSYOP evolves. Aside from our nasty divorce in 2006 between the AC/RC components, and our god awful (failed) name change to MISO soup, we have not done a whole lot of evolving. If you check history, the U.S. Military PSYWAR/PSYOP etc... has changed at a pretty noticeable rate from WWI-WWII-Korea-Viet Nam, to the Gulf, and sense has been rather stagnate.
Our current environment is ever changing and quickly evolving, I personally fear, that unless the PSYOP community evolves quickly and expands our horizons we will quickly fall to the side and dwindle as other communities lay claim to our jobs. "But hey only we can do PSYOP" - that can easily become changed in the blink of an eye with a new approval process.
With that change, what comes? Is there actually a need? What do you suggest?
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Airborne
IMO PSYOP needs to be looking critically at 2 things:
First, how will PSYOP remain relevant in the current fight? Most folks mess up by looking at the fight as it was yesterday, instead of looking at what it is today and what it will be tomorrow.
Second, how will PSYOP prepare for future missions? Not just combat, but the full range of DoD and interagency operations. Can you bring capabilities that our country needs, and can you convey those capabilities to decision makers at the appointed/elected levels?
You can and should think about these issues/challenges, but the future of PSYOP depends on how well your branch can convey the right answers to those challenges across the Army, DoD, the Inter-agency, and the Executive and Legislative branches.
Lifes barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
I'll put this out here. Just about everything you've brought up is being addressed between the two active groups, 1st SFC(A)(P), and the Commandant's Office down in SWCS. You're in the unfortunate position of not being in the communication chain. Not your fault, my friend.
Gavin's two points are spot on, as he usually is, and are also the subject of much discussion, analysis, and in some cases action.
Send me an official email address via PM and I'll send you what I can to help get you up to speed on some of the initiatives going on in the community. Keep in mind that most of what you'll see pertains to the active side of the community. As usual the RC side is hampered by time and $$$$.
Hearts and minds? -- that's two to the chest and one in the head, right?
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
Pysop definitely needs to shift fire. How are they relegating and reconciling with afgh tribes in afgh? Id there any? What has psy/humint done for afgh. G heyve placed blame on ops and have fucked shit up. How many sigint etc are regional actors? How many know the region other than being given it by command? How many understand pashtunwali vs Islamism vs nationalism? Very few; we tend to lump everyone into one group when its a multifaceted approach. It's not Islamism in afgh we are just battling but nationalism & extremism mixed. Humint etc etc will never be profficient as they aren't 100% on ground with locals 100% of the time. Until we unfuck that it makes no difference.
Hearts and minds? -- that's two to the chest and one in the head, right?
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
The elephant in the room when it comes to shaping the psychological terrain of the battlefield, is how do we as a country combat the modern techniques used to radicalize young Muslims and how can PSYOPS help combat that? I understand Intel Oversight, Posse Comitatus etc etc.
How has PSYOP adjusted to the concept of "Human Terrain" ?
Lastly, if you are looking at ways to stay relevant, well that in and of itself tells a story.
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The larger issue as I see it. Strategic Communication across the board is haphazard and completely disjointed from the highest levels on down. It's difficult to blame the end user when POTUS, DoS, and DoD, have no effective means of synchronization. Also, you can't couch a strategic capability underneath a tactical or operational construct and expect timely or effective MOE.
That's as far as I'll go in public.
Hearts and minds? -- that's two to the chest and one in the head, right?
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
Lifes barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
Hearts and minds? -- that's two to the chest and one in the head, right?
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
This thread is so ironic, as it was the last active thread, with no additional post since January. "PSYOP" "FUTURE"?
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Airborne
What would you like to hear? RC PSYOP will remain in the stone age unless they decide to lose the chip on their shoulder about the "great divorce", pony up, and meet the active ARSOF requirements? Active ARSOF PSYOP is still couched under a tactical/operational construct that is too busy circle jerking itself into a deployed division level command to focus on growing and integrating strategic capability?
You won't get too many active folks creeping around here to voice opinions due to OPTEMPO. Trust me, they're busy.
IMHO the future is bleak unless policy is changed at the highest levels, i.e take the gloves off. That policy change would make all of the difference.
Hearts and minds? -- that's two to the chest and one in the head, right?
An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
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Google's long-running disagreement with the Association of American Publishers (AAP) over its Google Library Project has come to a close.
The basic gist of the agreement, which stopped the case going to full-on trial, is that Google's project can go ahead with access to copyrighted works.
Publishers will be able to choose whether or not their books are digitised and held in the Google Library, and it seems they can change their minds if they want as well.
The deal also allows Google to include approved books in its Google Books store, as well as allowing readers to peruse a 20 per cent sample before they buy an electronic copy.
There are other terms (likely financial) but they are confidential and therefore probably the most interesting.
Any publisher deciding not to let Google digitise its entire catalogue can still make separate deals with the tech company to digitise some books and other works.
Google's dream is to create a vast library of over 20 million digitised books which can be searched by keyword.
Publishers weren't too keen on the plans when they were revealed back in 2004, and in 2005 the AAP launched its legal case which has rumbled on ever since.
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WHEN I told my friends that I was planning a family vacation in Wisconsin, I received either blank stares or teasing comments about the admittedly unsexy specialties for which the state is known. There was mention of cows and cornfields and cheese curds. Yet Wisconsin is also Frank Lloyd Wright country, the place where he was born and reared and to which he kept returning. To travel there is to marvel at the contrast between the calm landscape and the delirious inventiveness of his work.
Unlike books or paintings, the objects created by an architect are not always easily encountered. Most of Wright's 400-plus buildings are private homes scattered around the country and closed to the public. But Wisconsin has at least three Wright sites that are welcoming: Taliesin, his former home and studio in rural Spring Green; Monona Terrace, a convention center in bustling Madison; and the Johnson Wax building in industrial Racine. As my family and I set out to visit them, we realized we had previously been inside only one Wright building, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, a dreamy if arrogant masterpiece whose curving white walls seem designed to outshine the paintings.
Wright, who died in 1959 at age 91, just six months before the Guggenheim opened, was an elegant and imperious figure. He wore a black cape and could seem indifferent when clients complained about the water dripping onto their heads from roofs he had designed.
His own origins were modest. Descended from Welsh immigrants, he was born in Richland Center, a farm town. After dropping out of college, he moved to Chicago and eventually settled in suburban Oak Park, Ill., where he presided over a family of six children and was courted by affluent neighbors who longed to live in one of his fashionably low-slung Prairie houses.
Everything changed in 1911, after he fell in love with a married neighbor, Martha Borthwick Cheney, or Mamah. They left Chicago and moved to a hideout he built for them in the remote hills of his Wisconsin childhood. This is the house known as Taliesin, in Spring Green, about 40 miles west of Madison.
Getting there is a bit of a trek, especially if you start in New York and stop along the way to see a Cubs game at Wrigley Field, as my husband and I and two college-age sons did last summer. We flew to Chicago, took an excellent tour of Oak Park's Wright houses and then drove off for a week in Wisconsin.
Avant-garde art movements generally take root in major cities. It helps to have a dense population of young artists competing for greatness. Perhaps that's why it feels so surprising to stumble on Wright's jolting modernism in the quiet countryside. Here, amid the emerald green fields, is Cubism (evoked in the jutting planes of his houses). Here is Surrealism (note his habit of turning a homely edge into a thing of curve and whimsy). Here are buildings whose forms must have once seemed as alien in this terrain as flying saucers.
Taliesin began life as a wood-and-stone bungalow tucked into a grassy slope. Over the years, it grew into a rambling compound that is often compared to an Italian hill town. It is, all at once, a house, a laboratory and a manifesto of Prairie-style architecture. The key idea is horizontality. At a time when Americans were enthralled by ever taller skyscrapers whose silhouettes pulled away from the ground as if to escape coarseness itself, Wright wanted his buildings to look as if they had grown out of the earth.
Taliesin is also a haunted house whose history is inseparable from tragedy. Wright's affair with Mamah Cheney escalated from a local scandal into a national one, inciting a barrage of moral condemnation from gossipy store clerks in Spring Green as well as from headline writers at major newspapers. One August day in 1914, when Wright was away, Mamah and her two children were murdered by a household worker who came after them with an ax.
The incident, in which four men helping out at the house were also murdered, recently resurfaced with aching clarity in two novels. Nancy Horan's "Loving Frank" (2008) offers a memorable portrait of Mamah, a serious-minded woman who translated feminist tracts from Swedish into English. T. C. Boyle's eloquent "The Women" (2009) follows Wright through three complicated marriages and makes Wisconsin feel akin to the storm-lashed moors of Wuthering Heights.
Which is not to suggest that impulse and instinct reign at Taliesin today. The place imposes nearly militaristic demands on visitors. Granted, I did not mind donning plastic shoe covers to shuffle through the living room or surrendering my purse to minimize the possibility of grazing a wall. Such are the imperatives of vulnerable houses and historic preservation.
The only way to see the house is by guided tour. The Taliesin tours, besides being costly (two-hour house tours are $47), require constant group adherence, beginning at an off-site visitors' center, where you board a bus. It all began to seem a bit mirthless when, after leaving Wright's monkish bedroom, we were herded back onto the bus, unable to linger on the green hillside that stretched out in every direction. The brisk pace is antithetical to Wright's wise dictum: "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
A few days later, I was savoring the warmth of the sun outside a convention center in Madison. Wright attended high school and college there and eventually designed a masterpiece for the city. The Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, despite its clunky name, is an unutterably lovely building, an all-white semicircle perched on the edge of Lake Monona. The rooftop terrace juts over the water and functions as a gargantuan public plaza, complete with a cafe. Suspended between views of the Wisconsin State Capitol and the level blue stretch of the lake, the building offers a stark choice between the power of the state and the escapism of nature.
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As I took in the terrace's perimeter walls, which swoop through space as if in a practice run for the dazzling curvilinearity of the Guggenheim Museum, I found myself thinking about Wright's suspected learning disabilities. According to Ada Louise Huxtable and his other biographers, he was a poor to middling student who probably never graduated from high school. He wangled his way into the University of Wisconsin, where he lasted for fewer than three semesters.
Perhaps the insistent horizontality of Wright's work was rooted in a desire to overcome the indignity of his early academic struggles — one "reads" his buildings from left to right, as opposed to up and down. If his school assignments saddled him with persistent frustration, he turned his limitations into a strength of his art, imprinting the American landscape with bravura forms that at times seem to echo the flow of sentences across paper.
A tour of Monona Terrace costs only $3 and is offered daily at 1 p.m. The history of the building is a fascinating narrative of on-again-off-again city planning. Wright initially proposed his design in 1938. But the denizens of Madison were bitterly divided over whether to lavish taxpayer money on the work of an adulterer and a scoundrel, and the building was not completed until 1997. For this reason, some scholars characterize it as "Wright-inspired" rather than 100 percent undiluted Frank.
The last stop on our Wright tour was Racine, a factory town that has seen better times. Guidebooks tend to talk you out of visiting, perhaps because the city suffers from high unemployment; empty storefronts abound. Yet there remains one incredible draw. The Johnson Wax Administration Building went up in 1939 and continues to serve as the headquarters for the company that started out making parquet flooring in the 19th century. Free tours are offered on Fridays, and nothing about the red-brick building can prepare you for the breathtaking eccentricity of the space known as the "great workroom," a half-acre windowless, high-ceilinged space furnished with dozens of Art Deco desks. Wright designed furniture, too, and the desks are nifty affairs with wooden tops and curvy metal frames painted Cherokee red.
The grounds include a research library that is open to the public, a handsome room where biographies of Wright, scholarly tomes and historical black-and-white photographs share shelf space with displays of home-cleaning products, including antique cans of J-wax, Beautiflor ("cleans as it waxes") and Glade air freshener.
Perhaps cleaning products, as much as Wright's radical architecture, are part of the story of Utopian longing in America. The desire to live in a serene space, to make the floorboards glow and purge one's world of darkness: who wouldn't want that?
When you leave the Johnson Wax building, you exit through an indoor parking lot that amounts to an adventure of its own. The white-painted ceiling and red floor continue the color scheme of the building's interior. Blue reflecting pools amplify the sense of light. Stunning white columns flare at the top into inverted ziggurats, each a mini-Guggenheim Museum.
I paused to take photographs and e-mailed them to friends back home, thinking they would be amused to see the ethereal forms of the Guggenheim echoed in a humble garage in Racine. It was then that I realized what the famous ramps of the museum most resemble. The Guggenheim is oddly similar to a multistory parking garage.
For most of our trip, we stayed in Lake Geneva, a picturesque resort town in southern Wisconsin whose lakefront estates surface in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was not until we arrived at our hotel, the Grand Geneva Resort and Spa (7036 Grand Geneva Way; 800-558-3417; grandgeneva.com), that we realized it was slightly east of town. And not on the famous lake!
But there were compensations. The Grand Geneva, as it turns out, was built in 1968 as a Playboy resort. Our two hotel rooms (doubles start at $159) had terraces overlooking a body of water in the shape of bunny ears. The athletic facilities are first-rate; the building housing the Well Spa also features indoor tennis courts and a regulation-sized basketball court, where my sons spent many contented hours.
The Johnson Wax Building, about an hour away in Racine, is in a working-class residential neighborhood that is short on restaurants. But West Racine is an eminently historic and walkable neighborhood with century-old buildings and a population descended from Danish immigrants.
Larsen's Bakery (3311 Washington Avenue; 262-633-4298; larsenskringle.com) is a celebrated shop whose shelves are laden with local specialties like raspberry-filled kringles and poppy-seed crescents. A chocolate log beautifully decorated to resemble tree bark caught my eye. It was $2, an end-of-the-day markdown, I was told. As I paid for it, I thought it was the deal of the century, until I learned it had been only $4 in the morning.
Spring Green, the site of Taliesin, has few restaurants but there are wonderful one-of-a-kind motels. We stayed at the Spring Valley Inn (6279 County Highway C; 608)-588-7828; springvalleyinn.com), whose Wright-style exterior and furnishings were designed by architects at Taliesin. Breakfast, included in the room rate (starting at $90), is served in a glass octagonal room that overlooks a garden where hummingbirds and finches convene at bird feeders.
The guests were abuzz with Wright anecdotes, exchanging stories and chuckling over his behavior as if he were some impossible genius with whom they were personally acquainted. I certainly knew to whom one man was referring when I overheard him say: "One of his nicknames was Slow Pay Frank. You could never get a nickel out of him."


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Dozens were injured and one man was killed, when a school bus collided with two other vehicles Friday morning.
The crash happened at Route 173 and Kilbourne Road near Wadsworth at about 8 a.m. Friday. The bus was going westbound to the Newport Elementary School, and a Jeep Wrangler was heading southbound. A Jeep Cherokee was also hit.
The driver of the Wrangler was killed. He was identified by the Lake County Coroner as 62-year-old Philip Smith of Beach Park.
Initially, Lake County Sheriffs officials said the bus may have run a red light; but, at a news conference Friday afternoon, they said there are conflicting witness reports as to whether the light was red or not. A traffic light was only installed at the intersection in the last year, officials said.
The Lake County Sheriff's Department is doing urine and blood tests on the female bus driver as part of standard operating procedure.
During the afternoon news conference, Gurnee Deputy Fire Chief John Cavanaugh said there was a total of 39 people involved in the incident: 12 were transported to area hospitals by ambulance, 23 were transported by a school bus to a local hospital, two were transported to the hospital by a passersby, one signed a medical release at the scene and one was pronounced dead at the sence.
Twenty-five total patients — 23 children — were taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville. As of 2 p.m. Friday, only one patient remained at the hospital under observation. All other patients were discharged.
Another 12 kids and several other victims were transported to Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan and St. Catherine's Hospital in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. As of Friday afternoon, all the patients were released from both of
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A decision to delay investment in a new IT system means the taxman has a poor grasp of the billions he is owed, according to an influential group of MPs.
The Public Accounts Committee today said some £11.2bn was at risk of being lost to the Exchequer because HMRC deferred buying a new debt management system in favour of "other priorities".
"Weaknesses in the Department's existing systems prevent it from analysing debts by age and value and from calculating a taxpayer's total debts across all taxes," the PAC said.
The MPs recommended HMRC reconsider its decision and replace its debt management system.
"An effective debt management system would improve the Department's ability to recover debt by providing a profile of debt across taxes by age, value and risk of recovery," they said.
"With £11.2 billion at risk of non-recovery, the benefits of investment in a new system could easily outweigh its cost."
The PAC was also critical of a backlog of 17 million Pay As You Earn cases awaiting processing. It said HMRC should aim to clear it by March 2011.
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White Bean Purée
- 6 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 15-ounce can cannellini (white kidney) beans with liquid
- Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper
- 4 bunches broccoli rabe (rapini, 4–5 pounds), ends trimmed
- Kosher salt
- 1/2 cup olive oil, divided, plus more
- 1 head of garlic, cloves peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
- 3 tablespoons (or more) fresh lemon juice
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 8 6'–8'-long French rolls, split lengthwise
- 8 ounces thinly sliced provolone piccante or other aged provolone cheese
- 1 Fresno chile or red jalapeño, seeded, very thinly sliced
Recipe Preparation
White Bean Purée
Heat 3 Tbsp. oil in a small saucepan over medium-low heat; add garlic and red pepper flakes. Cook, stirring often, until garlic begins to turn golden, about 4 minutes. Add beans with liquid. Bring to a simmer; cook, stirring often, until liquid thickens, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a food processor; add 3 Tbsp. oil. Process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
Cook broccoli rabe, 1 bunch at a time, in a large pot of boiling salted water for 2 minutes (return to a boil between batches). Transfer broccoli rabe to a baking sheet; let cool. Squeeze dry; coarsely chop.
Heat a large pot over medium heat; add 1/4 cup oil, garlic, and red pepper flakes. Cook, stirring often, until garlic is fragrant and beginning to turn golden, 2–3 minutes. Add broccoli rabe; cook, stirring often, until stem pieces are just tender, 4–5 minutes. Add remaining 1/4 cup oil and 3 Tbsp. lemon juice. Season with salt, pepper, and more juice, if desired. Spread out on a rimmed baking sheet and let cool. DO AHEAD: Can be made one day ahead. Cover and chill.
Arrange racks in top and bottom thirds of oven; preheat to 400°. Open rolls and arrange on 2 rimmed baking sheets. Drizzle generously with oil. Spread bean purée on one side of each roll; add broccoli rabe. Top with cheese, then chile. Toast, rotating pans after 5 minutes, until cheese is melted, 7–10 minutes. Top, slice, and serve.


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WAKFU Update: 300 new Friends Info - 2012-10-25 16:00Back to list
Discover the first part of the changes that will be implemented with the next updated, deployed on October 30th.
Today we unveil the list of new features and content that will be implemented on October 30th.
The second part, listing further changes and bug fixing will be published in the next days.
Have a nice read!
Class restatDue to many changes being brought with this update, a reset of spells and attributes will be offered to all characters, with the quest "Restate of Emergency".
New TutorialWAKFU is a tactical game with a very different combat gameplay from other "classical" online games. That's why it's primordial to welcome new players unfamiliar with the turn based gameplay of WAKFU with a clear and fun tutorial, summarizing the basic rules as clearly as possible.
In this intent this update will offer you a brand new tutorial that will put emphasis on basic notions such as AP, MP, or spell casting.
From now on, right upon incarnation, Master Kano will offer you to follow, or not, the tutorial introducing you to the combat basics in WAKFU.
If you accept to follow the tutorial, Master Kano will teach you all he knows about combat. At the end of this tutorial in 10 steps, the Dark Wabbit set will be offered to your character as a reward.
But in case WAKFU holds no more secrets for you and you just wish to jump to Astrub, you will be able to decline his offer. Master Kano will then send you directly to Souls' Crossing where you can directly get back to your usual business.
Please note the following changes in this part:
- The Gemlin will no longer be awarded after your fight with the Bow Meow. To receive it, you will now have to save it in an Epic fight against Wabbits around Sokay.
- The Crazy Lumberjane will also be in this area and was significantly improved to give a first idea of group combat.
As you can see, our intention with this new tutorial is to better prepare newcomers, without making it a bother to the most hardened players.
Crafting RevampOne of the main features of this update is the revamp of craft professions linked to equipment making!
Armorers, Jewelers, Leather Dealer, Tailor, Close-Combat/Area of Effect/Range Weapons Masters are the crafters that will directly benefit from this revamp.
Modifications of the existing recipes, modification of the experience received, new recipes for the Weapons Masters, legendary recipes, but also a global rebalancing of the equipment that can be crafted, and removal of some components… Here's what you should expect, and more!
If you want to prepare yourself the best way possible, you can already find a lot of information in this devblog, written by Freyrr!
Modification of the Ecosystem AreasWe decided to improve the ecosystem areas of the game. This was already started in the last update with the modification of the monsters families of the Villages of the 4 Nations. With this new update, we will finish what we started.
And as you're about to see, we're not talking about small limited improvements!
Modification of the monsters families (Last and final)!The groups of monsters in all Amakna, Bonta, Brakmar and Sufokia will be modified.
You will find the same families as before but the groups will be built differently to improve your game experience.
And don't forget the outposts (Amaknastrub, Bontastrub, Brakmastrub and Sufokiastrub) for which the monsters will be improved in terms of level, difficulty and experience!
In these areas, you will find low level versions of the monsters you'll find in the Nations.
Furthermore, all players (subscribers or not) will be able to have a real influence on the ecosystem of these areas. It will now be possible to harvest seeds, plants them and get more in the Astrub Machines.
Quests with Kama rewardsYou will discover a new type of quests that will provide Kamas as rewards.
How will it work? Each Nation's Jonk (le Clan Member of the Villages) will have a new quest available offering Kamas, and a new treasury (they didn't have one before).
The Nation's government will be able to share a part of its savings with this new treasury, and the Challenger will also be able to purchase these quests!
When one of these quests triggers in the area, the Kamas earned by the players are taken from this fund.
This will be a new way for players to earn Kamas without having to make them, but also make the economical aspect of the game more accessible to new players!
HordesFrom now on, when the wishes of a Clan Member linked to the ecosystem are respected, a new quest will start. If the players manage to complete it, hordes of monsters will appear.
A horde is a group of monsters of the same family with a led by a higher level dominant one.
Their particularity is not only that they appear under specific conditions, but also in the items that can be received when defeating the leader of the horde, since it can drop Mythic equipment!
Horde leaders:
New Mythic EquipmentWith the new monsters herds, we decided to add about thirty new mythic equipment from level 20 to 105 on the dominant monsters!
Here's an example with the shield, Égide de Khiel (not yet translated) that can be acquired on Whisperers herds leaders: level 105, it offers +150 HP, +20 lock and +20% resist!
We also added new mythic sets in game that can be looted on dungeons bosses! Note also that these sets will be of a higher level than the level of the dungeon in which they can be looted, in order to motivate those who already completed them!
All in all, when summing up all the new features and content, this update will include more than 150 new items!
Rebalancing of the setsA global improvement is being implemented on all the ingame sets.
With this update, here are the sets that will be modified:
- Kapow Set
- Blibli Set
- Snapper Set
- Scara Set
- Mushdskito Set
- Chafer Set
- Toad Set
- Kokoko Set
- Carnivore Set
- Royal Blibli Set
- Golden Scara Set
- Black Zordfish Set
- Royal Chafer Set
- Royal Kokoko Set
- Tsar Set (changes from 3 to 5 pieces)
Most of the craft sets have also been rebalanced:
- Little Scaraleaf Set
- Bow Meow Set
- Justice Set
- Ugly Set
- Kynder Set
- Zora Set
- Pandawan Set
- Sumi Set
- Youra Peein' Set
Challenges become Environmental QuestsWith this update, challenges will be significantly modified since they will become environmental quests.
The idea is to get rid of some issues linked to challenges and make them more accessible!
Bid farewell to constraining conditions! Now, these environmental quests will trigger as soon as you enter the area. You will no longer have to register to participate: if the quest is already underway when you enter the area, you will still be able to help! Also, the beginning of these quests will no longer require a minimum amount of participants.
Rewards will still be Bronze Tokens, and character experience! The Challenger will be able to invest in cooperative quests, very interesting in terms of rewards and experience.
Finally, note that these new environmental quests will also be implemented in Astrub, to make sure that all members of our community can benefit from this feature.
Free Drago-Express!Drago-Express are becoming more accessible and free! And to make it even better, we will increase the amount of Drago-Express available in each nation from 5 to 20!
Our goal? Ease your travels in the World of Twelve and also make it more accessible to everyone. New explorers or experienced ones, nobody will have to spend a kama to travel!
Mobile Arenas: Season 2New challenges, reset of the rankings and its implementation on our website, these are the things we will implement for the season 2 of the mobile arenas!
A title will also be awarded to players with the highest rankings in the arenas.
Foggernauts for all!Don't forget that since October 16th all WAKFU players are now able to create a foggernaut, subscribers or not! This update is a good occasion to start your own and try this new class if you didn't already check it out!
New guild insignias!Let's not leave guilds aside!
4 new guild insignias will be implemented in this update! When your guild reaches a higher level, you no longer unlock new pieces of the insignias but new insignias directly, all better looking than the other!
Bug Fixing and Improvements
- Due to many changes being brought with this update, a reset of spells and attributes will be offered to all characters, with the quest "Restate of Emergency".
- Specialties: Passives will appear correctly in the « active buff » bar of the character.
- Flealine Army: Will now work correctly even if "Flea Love" is level 0.
- Dice Roulette: Finishing an enemy off will provide "Winning Streak" as intended.
- Double or Quits: The spell will now work correctly even if the target is on a Foggernaut rail.
- All or Nothing: Will no longer trigger dolls seeds indirectly.
- Revitalizing Word: Will now give a bonus of +3 to Hygiene and +4 in case of critical hit.
- Lethargy Flask: The spell will correctly apply Infection.
- Hygiene: the bug triggering a double heal/double hygiene gain if the target was in an area (like Bomb or Glyph) will be fixed.
- Drhellzerker: Finishing a fight under Drhellzerker will no longer make your character keep the combat animation after the fight.
- Enutrof's Blessing: The spell will correctly work with a character higher than level 100.
- Symbiosa: The MP will be obtained correctly during the turn of the transformation, and not the following one.
- Whip: Damages will be correctly dealt to the Sadida Totem and Vampyro platform.
- Milk Fountain: The state will correctly apply in case of critical hit.
- Runaway: The spell was corrected; the character will now run away from the enemy.
- Colonnades: Damages will be correctly dealt to the target, even if this one is hit by the second line of the spell.
- Coagulation: The armor will only absorb 50% of the damage per attack. It will no longer be possible to remove it.
- The +50% summons damage timeline bonus will now apply correctly.
- Voodoll: The totems will now disappear correctly upon death of the character.
- General: Finishing off a target from its back will provide the correct bonuses like stealing and the Stabber state.
- Execution & Torment: the damage bonus becomes a bonus to final damages.
- Invisibility: when invisible, damage to the Sram is reduced by 50%. From now on, this penalty will be reduced by -10% per enemy in the combat, after the first. If you have at least 6 enemies facing you, you damage penalty will therefore be canceled. Summons also count as one enemy.
- Specialties: Passives will appear correctly in the « active buff » bar of the character.
- Insignias worn by Foggernauts will now display correctly.
- Prisoner's Clothes will now correctly fit the Foggernaut.
- In static pose, the elements of his forearms will no longer disappear.
- From back, the color of his head will no longer flicker.
- Brushfire: Damages will now take the Foggernaut's element mastery into account.
- Fire and Oil: Damages will now take the Foggernaut's element mastery into account.
- Temporal Burn: The spell will no longer consume more than 10AP. The effects were limited to 10 AP but could still consume more. This has been fixed.
- Sinistro: AP loss will now be effective, even if the Sinistro is placed outside the dial.
- Hydrand: Damages will now take the Xelor's element mastery and mechanics bonus into account.
- The states Stunned, Zombification, Blood Cocktail and Ghoulification will be automatically removed when a character is KO'd. He will therefore be available for resurrect correctly.
New Willpower mechanicThe current mechanic will be simplified:
- We will use the following principle: Willpower increases the chance to apply or resist to a state, and AP or MP removal. 1 point of Willpower increases the chance by 1%.
- However, to clarify the role of Willpower, we will no longer use the following mechanic: the effect of Willpower will no longer be reduced by 75%, 50% or 0 depending on the type of state: gamebreaker (like: Stunned), semi-gamebreaker (like: Blindness) and normal (like: Explosion).
- From now on, the Willpower of the character receiving the spell will be subtracted from the one of the character that casts the spell. If the result is positive, the chances to apply the state will be increased. Otherwise, they will be reduced.
- Revamp of the crafting professions relating to equipment making. You'll find all the details on this devblog.
- The following recipes will now be available for craft by stacks of 5 (like breads):
- Level 5: Wheat Flour x5 (15 Wheat Grains),
- Level 15: Wheat Starch x5 (10 Wheat Straws, 5 Artichoke Roots),
- Level 25: Barley Flour x5 (15 Grains of Barley),
- Level 30: Whole Wheat Flour x5 (15 Grains of Barley, 15 Wheat Grains),
- Level 35: Pumpkin Purée x5 (15 Pumkwins, 5 Moogrr Milk),
- Level 40: Oat Bran x5 (15 Oat Grains, 15 Oat Straws),
- Level 50: Bean Juice x5 (15 Beans, 10 Buckets o' Water),
- Level 55: Rye Flour x5 (15 Rye Grains),
- Level 65: Rice Vinegar x5 (15 Vanilla Rice, 15 Buckets o'Water),
- Level 75: Popcorn x5 (15 Corn),
- Level 85: Sunflower Oil x5 (15 Sunflowers),
- Level 95: Twisted Rump Spices x5 (15 Twisted Rump Chilli),
- Level 100: Peasant Flour x5 (15 Rye Grains, 15 Oat Straws).
- The following recipes will now be available for craft by stacks of 5 (like breads):
- Seal of Companionship: its bonus will now work correctly and is changed from +10% resources received to +50%.
- Api Juice: The level 15 recipe will be available again to Farmers.
- General: all islands will now be displayed with a special icon in the world map.
- Shhhudoku's Kingdom: a Zaap was added in the center of the island.
- Sureberry Fields: it will be possible again to plant Tasteless Seed in the dungeon.
- Three Pistes & The Boarthroom: the barrels of the Three Pistes dungeon and those used by Boarnigen the Damasker will disappear correctly after being destroyed.
- Abandoned Scarapit: it will no longer be possible to pass through its entrance gate.
- Crackapult Range: it will no longer be possible to pass through the rock of the second room and avoid the fight.
- Wagnar's Castle (third room): A Transcendent Eniripsa entering on one of the "Death" cells of the Borbats will be killed instantly.
- All monsters groups of Amakna, Bonta, Brakmar and Sufokia have been rebalanced to improve your game experience. They will be composed of the same monster families as before, but in a different way. For example, in the Ronwen Sly in Sufokia you will be able to face Gobballs and Albatrocious in the same fights!
- Monsters no longer have perception, except bosses, who will have a Perception equal to 0,5 times their level.
- [New]Hordes: when the ecosystem wishes of a Clan Member are fulfilled, a quest will trigger. If the players complete it, "hordes" of monsters will appear. A horde is a group of monsters of a same family led by a dominant monster. When defeating the "leader" of the horde you will have chances to loot mythic equipment.
Boowolf family:
- Rebalancing of their stats and damages (more elements, emphasis on their weaknesses and elemental resists, increase of their initiative),
- Better visual effects for some spells,
- Optimization of their AI,
- Added a family state (only in the dungeon) giving a bonus to damages of the monsters depending on the amount of players in the fight, and a wisdom bonus,
- Added a state "Bleeding Injury" on the attacks of the "Were-": each attack will weaken the targeted player,
- Added a state "Lunar Protection" on the Boowolfine and Priestesses: they will become invulnerable when a moon is in the fight,
- They will reward you with more experience.
Crobak family:
- Rebalancing of their stats and damages (more elements, emphasis on their weaknesses and elemental resists, increase of their initiative),
- Better visual effects for some spells,
- Optimization of their AI,
- Added a state "Wind Soul" to the Crobak which gives them 10% chances to rebound a spell,
- Added a heal effect on the spell "Lucky Crobeak",
- Removed the spell KamaVacuum from the Snoofle to replace it with another spell more interesting in terms of gameplay (see next point),
- Added a spell KamaVacuum to the Snoogle: it will allow him to drain life from a target to the Crobaks,
- They will reward you with more experience.
- Boowerewolf: HP will change from 930 to 970.
Master Shhhudoku:
- He will now have dialogues,
- Summons of his opponents will stop attacking him when he becomes invincible (when he is on his organ). They will instead target other enemies still in the fight.
- Whispered Crackrock: will now cast its spell Rockochet correctly.
Monks family:
- Their family state giving a bonus to damages depending on the amount of players in the fight, and a wisdom bonus, will only trigger in their dungeon.
- They will reward you with more experience.
Ghouls family:
- Their family state giving a bonus to damages depending on the amount of players in the fight, and a wisdom bonus, will only trigger in their dungeon.
- They will reward you with more experience.
- Ogrest's Cult: If a Sram member of the Ogrest's Cult is in contact with one of his teammate, and has nothing to do, he will no longer cast "Diversion" on this one. This should help him not spending his WP for nothing.
Ultimate Bosses
- Excarnus, Milkar and Black Crow: Since last update, all monsters have Parry in fights. This had consequences on the balance of the fights. That's why we decided to remove Parry on these 3 monsters in order to adjust their difficulty.
- [New]Quests with Kama rewards: Integrating a new type of quests providing Kama rewards. Each Clan Member in the "Village" areas will now have a new quest offering Kamas, and a treasury. The Nation Government will be able to spend part of its income in this new treasury, and the Challenger will be able to purchase the quests. It will trigger in the area and the Kamas received will be taken from this treasury.
- You-Goh!: The icons of these exploration quests will display correctly in the "Headquarter" area of Amakna and Bonta Wild Prairie.
- The Whispering Island: The dialogue relating to this quest will no longer be available to character below level 95.
Al Howin:
- Al Howin quest: steps have been clarified to make the quest more accessible.
- World map: a token has been added to identify the location of the Wabbit Cemetery and the dungeon in Astrub.
- Achievements book: The Al Howin achievement has been modified. The step "kill 15 Gobballs" has been replaced by "Complete the Al Howin dungeon with 6 players". The two other steps "consume 5 Al Howin lollipops" and "consume 5 Al Howin candies" stay the same. The reward of this achievement is still the Witch Insignia.
- Al Howin Pumpkwin: Will be tradable and no longer limited to the Garden Haven-Gem. It will be possible to place it anywhere in your Haven-Bag.
- Al Howin Candy: The Critical Hit penalty will only apply during the next fight, and no longer during the next 15 minutes. Its recipe will now be displayed (it will no longer be a secret recipe): Piece of Pumpkwin x1, Bucket o' Water x1, Al Howin Lollipop x1.
- Al Howin Candy and lollipop: Will now be tradable.
- [New]Become Regional Quests: challenges turn into Regional Quests that will trigger directly upon entering the area. You will no longer have to register to participate: if the quest is already underway, you will be able to contribute. Also, starting these quests will no longer require a minimum amount of participants. Rewards will still be Bronze Tokens, and character experience. The Challenger will be able to invest in cooperation quests providing good rewards and experience. These Regional quests will also be available in Astrub.
Mobile Arenas
- The ladder will be reset.
- A title "Champion of the Arena" will be offered to the players with the best rankings.
- Rankings will also be available on the official website.
- Insignias: 4 new insignias will be available. They will be available from guild level 8 (Presplak), 10 (Chaferion), 14 (Draconic) and 17 (Samoussai). The old insignia will still be available at guild level 1. They will all be available integrally (and no longer separated in pieces).
- Uniforms: stars and gears symbols will now display correctly on the guilds' capes and standards.
Revamp of the tutorial:
- From now on, upon incarnation, Master Kano will offer you to follow, or not, the tutorial teaching you the basics of combat in WAKFU.
- The Gemlin will no longer be awarded after a fight against the Bow Meow. To receive this pet, you will have to rescue him from Wodents close from Sokay.
- The Lumberjane will also be close from Sokay. Its difficulty has been significantly improved: you will now have to find a group to face her!
- General: A phoenix (respawn point) will be available in Incarnam, next to Sokay.
- General: All players (subscribers or not) will be able to have a real influence on the ecosystem of the outposts (Amaknastrub, Bontastrub, Brakmarstrub and Sufokiastrub). It will now be possible to harvest seeds, plant them and get more in the Machines of Astrub.
- Monsters: Monsters in the outposts (Amaknastrub, Bontastrub, Brakmarstrub and Sufokiastrub) have been modified in terms of level, difficulty and experience reward. You will see new low level versions of the monsters in the Nations.
- General: with the revamp of the beginners' zones, the Border Controls will be removed from the World of Twelve! With the arrival of quests with Kamas rewards and the addition of an ecosystem in the "Village" areas of the game, they were deemed no longer necessary. The goal is to facilitate the mobility of new players between nations.
- Drago-Express: will now be free and 20 per nation (instead of 5).
- It will no longer be possible to import Farmer crops of level 65 to 90 in the Turfo Canyon: you will have to find the area that can now receive them!
- It will no longer be possible to import Herbalist plants of level 65 to 90 in the Jumpin' Jungle: you will have to find the area that can now receive them!
- The wishes gauges of Billon Stroud (Ronwen Sly) will be balanced separately. Due to this modification (and also the groups rebalancing mentioned in the "Monsters" part of this changelog), Gobballs seeds will also make Albatrocious appear in this area in order to keep interesting groups of monsters. Snappers will have to be planted with their own seeds.
- Steamulating Shore: the Molluskies gauge will be easier to balance.
- Taxes: To help the economy, the minimum taxes applied by governors have been decreased from 10% to 5%.
Improvement of the government popularity interface:
- Popularity displayed: "Popularity: % actual",
- Modification of the pop-up concerning a deposed government: "Popularity -70%: Government deposed",
- Modification of the pop-up concerning an appreciated government: "Popularity +70%: Governor statue in the Headquarter",
- Modification of the pop-up on the popularity of the government: "Score" is renamed "Popularity" and the percentage is removed to only display the amount of players that gave their opinion.
- Permissions: removing an individual access to the Haven-Bag will now work correctly.
- Crates will be visible again in Haven-Bags.
- It will be possible to delete dummies in the inventory.
Ogrest Chaos
- Frequency: To make them more present and oppressing, the frequency of Ogrest Chaos has been doubled!
- Resources linked to the Chaos: They will no longer appear on cells allowing teleportation to another area (like the cell teleporting you to the entrance of a dungeon).
- Monsters: Killing members of Ogrest's Cult will no longer provide Stasis gain.
[New]Mythic equipment:
- Added around 30 new mythic equipment from level 20 to 105 that can be obtained by defeating hordes leaders.
- Added new mythic sets that can be obtained on dungeon bosses. Among them you will find the Imperial Gobball, Imperial Tofu, Imperial Blibli, Ivory Zordfish, and even Imperator!
The following weapons and equipment have been rebalanced:
- Hushed Scepter: Damages will be changed from 40 to 45,
- Murmurderer: Damages will be changed from 59 to 54,
- Gravel Gavel: Damages will be changed from 51 to 76,
- Whispery Hand: Damages will be changed from 81 to 75. Its bonuses will now be: +40HP, +32 INI, +2% CH, +1 Mechanics, +20% Water-Type damage,
- Moowolf Finery: Its bonuses will now be: +105 HP, +40 Lock, +25 INI, +4% CH, +16% Earth/Fire-Type damage, +15% Resists.
The following sets have been rebalanced, you will be able to discover all the modifications directly in game:
- Kapow Set
- Blibli Set
- Snapper Set
- Scara Set
- Mushdskito Set
- Chafer Set
- Toad Set
- Kokoko Set
- Carnivore Set
- Royal Blibli Set
- Golden Scara Set
- Black Zordfish Set
- Royal Chafer Set
- Royal Kokoko Set
- Tsar Set (changes from 3 to 5 pieces)
- Little Scaraleaf Set
- Bow Meow Set
- Justice Set
- Ugly Set
- Kynder Set
- Zora Set
- Pandawan Set
- Sumi Set
- Youra Peein' Set.
- Battered Hushed Set & Worn Hushed Set: Once merged, the level of a set equals the one of the lowest level item. That's why these two sets will now be level 117. As a reminder, since the last update you were able to merge/unmerge a set no matter your level. If you were level 15, nothing can prevent you from merging/unmerging a set level 117.
- Shield in Briefs: Will no longer appear blurred in combat.
- Tofu Dumpling: Will be usable again.
- Limes: Will work again as intended.
- Fire of Love: Will be acquirable again in Bonta.
- Baby Grougal Stuffed Toy: Will now be tradable.
- [New] Recall potion: It will be obtainable on a Consumable Machine for 1 Bronze Token. It will also be craftable by Chefs (Recipe level 15: Bucket O'Water x5, Intemporal Dust x1, Canoon Powder x1). Upon consumption, you will be teleported to your last save point (last Phoenix used).
- Sacred Scepter & Nun Scythe: To keep a cost coherent with the one of same type weapons, it will be changed from 4 to 5 AP.
- General: Animations and behavior of all the pets now have sounds!
- Clawbot: Is now tradable.
- General: Publication of the new edition of the Gazette.
- State "Bound": will now have the correct sound.
- Bonus display: All bonuses (buffs) of your character will now be displayed on the top part of your screen.
- Parry bonus: Those brought by equipment will be correctly displayed in the pop-up "Total bonus/penalty" of the character sheet.
- Character display: Icons above the characters (group, government, outlaw) will now display correctly when using the attractions.
- State "Ghostly Stupor": Under this state, all characters will appear again as Ghostofs.


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Ahhh.... What's better than a cup of hot chocolate in a cold winter night? I just adore this stamp! =) There will be a mini version of this stamp being release December 1st, too!
This image is called Henry Mouse with Large Teacup and it's stamped on PTI's Stamper's Select White cardstock. It's then colored with Copic markers and cut and embossed using a Labels One die. This will be the stamp that I am giving away, so don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win! =)
I stamped one of the scrips from Essential Backgrounds - Text Style on the card base with VersaMark ink before I attached one of the patterned papers. The sentiment from Very Vintage Christmas set is also stamped before I embossed the card front with a snowflake embossing folder. The card is then spritzed with Mister Huey's Calico White mist for a subtle "snowy" look. The patterned paper is from Season's Greetings collection by Echo Park.
That's all from me. It's time to send you to Angie's blog! I can't wait to see what she created for the blog hop! Again, remember to leave comments along the way. Each design team member will be giving away the stamp that she featured and in the end the super sweet Karharina is giving away a yearly subscription to the StampKit 2012!!! WOW! How awesome is that? You have until December 5th 3am PST (December 5th, 12PM GMT+1) to finish the hop. So go on and keep hopping! =)
cardstock: (kraft, white) Papertrey Ink
rubber stamp: (Henry Mouse with Large Teacup) Whiff of Joy Stamps
clear stamps: (Essential Backgrounds - Text Style) Whiff of Joy Stamps, (Very Vintage Christmas) Waltzingmouse Stamps
patterned paper: Echo Park
dye ink: (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko
archival ink: (Jet Black) Ranger Industries
specialty ink: (watermark ink) Tsukineko, (white mist) Studio Calico
accents: (red, green buttons) Papertrey Ink, (paper doily) Wilton, (embossing folder) Provo Craft
fiber: (button twine) Whiff of Joy Stamps
die: Spellbinders
tools: (die-cut machine) Provo Craft, (sewing machine)
other: (foam tape) 3M, (foam squares) Recollections
Copic used:
Henry: E35, E33, E31, E30, R22, E95, E93, E000
teacup: E53, E51, E50, R39, R27, R24, YG67, YG17, YG13, E59, E57, E55
marsh mallows: W1, W00, 0
stool: R39, R27, R24, C7, C5, C3
card size: 5 1/2" x 4 1/4"


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PARIS (Reuters) - Steelmaker Mittal, which acquired France's Arcelor in 2006, is no longer welcome in France due to years of broken promises, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg said on Monday, intensifying the row over plans to close two furnaces in northeastern France.
Montebourg's attack on ArcelorMittal ISPA.AS risks exacerbating tensions in a dispute that is central to Socialist President Francois Hollande's efforts to save jobs and reverse years of industrial decline.
It came after Montebourg, one of the most left-wing ministers in the government, said last week that France could nationalize the company's Florange site on a temporary basis while the government tries to find a buyer.
ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, has said it will shut down two blast furnaces at Florange from December 1 unless the government can find a buyer to operate them.
"We no longer want Mittal in France because they haven't respected France," Montebourg said in an interview with Les Echos business daily published on Monday.
He said Chief Executive Lakshmi Mittal had told "shameful lies" since 2006 about the group's plans and had not kept his promises to the French government.
"The problem with the blast furnaces at Florange is not the blast furnaces at Florange, it's Mittal," he said.
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Montebourg did not elaborate on his comment. It was unclear whether he meant that the government would consider taking over the more than 100 ArcelorMittal sites in France - or simply wanted to raise pressure on the company as the deadline looms.
The fate of Florange, situated in the former heart of French steelmaking country, became a symbol of France's flagging industry during campaigning for the May election and is now a test of Hollande's promise to reverse the decline.
Failure to save jobs at Florange would add to a list of industrial shutdowns, including a Peugeot PSA (PEUP.PA) production site near Paris, and risks deepening fears in the public that the government is powerless to save jobs.
Unemployment is at a 13-year high of over 10 percent and October jobless claims due on Tuesday are expected to show another increase.
A spokeswoman for Montebourg was not immediately available to comment. ArcelorMittal, which employs some 20,000 people across France, declined to comment.
Last week Montebourg said the government had received two offers from buyers interested in acquiring more than just the two blast furnaces, but gave no further details.
ArcelorMittal has denied having received any such offers.
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This may not have hit your radar when it happened, and even if it did, you might not have given it a second thought. But we did, my friend, we did. In 2005, the Spitzer Space Telescope (launched in 2003) beamed back conclusive proof that the Milky Way isn't the simple spiral galaxy you've seen illustrated your whole life. It's really a barred spiral galaxy. So instead of elegant arms coiling out from a central sphere, there's a big fat bar across the middle, and the arms of our galaxy sprout from either end.
Now, scientists had been debating this possibility and trying to come up with decisive proof one way or the other for years. And when they did – not much happened. Some mainstream news outlets gave it a little airtime, and the astronomy community talked it up for a while. Once the space devotees all knew about it, everyone else continued on in blissful ignorance, not knowing they were imagining the galaxy they lived in all wrong.
From geography to physiology, there are many examples of people collectively doing it wrong by learning fiction as truth. Here are 10 of the biggest errors walking around masquerading as well-known facts.
Mount Everest Is The Tallest Mountain in the World.
Mount Everest is one whopping big mountain, but is it the tallest in the world? In fact it is not. A mountain is highest in regard to how far it soars above sea level. But technically it is tallest from base to summit. And Mauna Kea kills it at being the tallest.
Here's the deets: Above sea level, Mauna Kea (in Hawaii) is only 13,799 feet (4,206 meters). But when you count the crazy enormous portion of it that's underwater, it's 33,465 feet tall (10,200 meters). Everest, that snobby little upstart, is only 29,029 feet (8,848 meters) above sea level, with none of it below sea level [source: Mitchinson and Lloyd].
But the shame doesn't end there. Mount Kilimanjaro hasn't taken the stand yet. Kilimanjaro is 19,340 feet (5,895 meters) top to bottom. So it's not as tall as Everest – but Everest is surrounded by the rest of its friends, the Himalayas, all of which are collectively growing by a quarter of an inch per year and pushing Everest's summit higher. Kilimanjaro, on the other hand, is solitary, rising out from the relative flatness of Tanzania all on its dramatically striking own [source: Mitchinson and Lloyd].
Body Heat Dissipates Mainly Through the Head.
You lose most of your body heat through your head because there are so many blood vessels in your scalp. Or because there's not a lot of fat between your scalp and your skull. Or because there's a lot of circulation keeping your brain warm. Or something. At least, that's what we've all heard. That's why you need to wear a hat in the winter: Otherwise you'll catch cold.
But, the sad truth is, you lose just as much heat per square inch through your head as you do through the rest of the body, a fact that would become abundantly clear if you ever tried to scrape the frost off your windshield while naked. (We don't recommend trying that experiment.)
So if you're out on a wintry day and you notice that your head seems to be particularly cold compared to the rest of your body, it's probably because your head is bare, and everything else is sensibly bundled up. Putting on a hat will fix that problem.
It's less likely to keep you from catching a cold, though.
The Great Wall of China Is the Only Man-made Object Visible from Space.
The Great Wall of China gets a double whammy on this myth. You can see other man-made objects from space (especially when the part of the Earth being viewed is awash in the artificially illuminated glow of nighttime). It's also pretty hard to pick out the Great Wall of China from any space-based locale. In low-Earth orbit, it's next to impossible to see it with the naked eye. Even with a fairly hefty camera lens, it's still challenging to tell if you're looking at the Great Wall or not.
There are a couple of reasons this pseudo-fact is so far-flung. For one, its history dates back to well before the Space Age, so no one knew enough to nip it in the bud straight off. And for another, the Great Wall of China is, well, a giant wall. Being hundreds of miles long, it's understandable people would assume it sticks out like a sore thumb from space.
Yes, the Great Wall of China is very, very long. It's also built from rocks collected from all over the local landscape – in other words, ones that are usually the same color as the wall itself. So unless China decides to give the wall a makeover and paint it hot pink, it's going to remain fairly hard to spot from space.
Glass Is a Slow-moving Liquid.
You may have lived for field trips as a kid, looking forward to a whole day of out-of-school fun and exploring. That is, until you got started on a tour of some musty building that seemed, well, boring. Not even the tour guide's explanation of how the glass in the wavy, uneven windowpanes has slowly flowed downward over time could keep your attention.
Liquid windowpanes? No.
Rather than the (magical-sounding) slow drip of centuries, the reason old glass windows aren't perfectly even and clear is because of how they were made. Until the early-mid 1800s, most window glass was made using a process called the crown method. The glass was blown, flattened, heated and spun, yielding a sheet that was relatively cheap to produce. It was also rippled and thicker in some places than in others.
In other words, the windows looked that way when they were installed, and they look that way now. No downhill liquid flow is involved. (And if you're really wondering: Glass is an amorphous solid. Learn more about it in "What makes glass transparent?")
Mother Birds Will Abandon Babies if You Touch Them.
You're out in the yard and you see a distressing sight – a baby bird is floundering around on the ground, looking like it's desperate to get in the air, but it can't despite all its efforts. Suddenly, out of your peripherals, you spot a cat readying for a pounce. Sacre bleu! You rush over to scoop up the little bundle of feathers, take it into the house, and try to remember how to assemble a shoebox nest to serve as a habitat for your precious little find. You'll raise it yourself until it's ready to fly.
While this is wrong on several levels, it's not because you touched the bird.
Baby birds usually don't leave the nest until they're ready (or at least readyish) to fly. But, just like how well you drove during your very first driving lesson, they typically stink at flying at first. So needless to say, they suffer a few false starts and end up on the ground, whining like a teenager who wants the keys but hasn't completely got the hang of which is the gas and which is the brake.
But that doesn't mean the fledgling's parents aren't supervising their offspring. They're probably in a nearby tree, shuddering as their little dunce forgets all the lessons they taught it. And if you leave the baby bird alone, chances are they'll be there soon to smack it upside the head and tell it to pay more attention during the next round of flying lessons.
As for the scent issue – birds just don't smell too well. A few species are an exception, but chances are vastly greater that the little chirping ball of fluff won't suffer if you need to move it to the other side of the fence from where your dog plays. Plus, its parents have invested way too much time and energy raising it to just scoot off at the first opportunity, no matter how the little guy smells.
Different Parts of Your Tongue Detect Different Tastes.
Lots of people think different parts of the tongue are fine-tuned to detect different tastes. The tip of the tongue is where you get your cupcake on, the sides are where the salty taste really hits home, bitter's in the back, and in between is the sour zone. This "fact" was the prevailing notion for a very long time. It has persisted in spite of millions of kids in health class insisting that the wooden spoon just tastes like wooden spoon, no matter how they lick it.
More recently, however, we've found out that the whole zones theory was pretty much bologna. (That would be the umami talking. More about that in a sec.) It turns out people can sense different tastes all over their tongues. There are a few outliers, but for most people, them's the facts.
Then there's the fifth basic taste that doesn't get a lot of PR, and that's umami. Auguste Escoffier, the pimpest chef in 19th century France, concocted this fifth wheel in the palate party. Foodies swooned over it – it's been described as savory and meaty – but scientists stuck to the sweet/salty/bitter/sour taste tetrahedron.
Even though umami was a familiar taste in Japan, the "fifth taste" idea didn't get much traction there, either. That is until Kikunae Ikeda, a whiz-bang Japanese chemist, decided to get to the bottom of what umami was all about. He figured out the taste came from glutamic acid, and he called it the Japanese version of yummy.
No one at the time believed him, though, and it wasn't until the end of the 20th century that scientists decided to look into it. They realized Ikeda was right all along.
People Thought the World Was Flat Before Columbus.
Christopher Columbus' crew had a lot to be worried about as they set sail. There was the possibility that they might wind up with scurvy or meander into a vengeful weather front, and of course there were all those warnings about where there be monsters.
But falling off the edge of the planet? Not so much. The idea that Columbus was endeavoring to attempt the unimaginable, defy all existing scientific precedent and become an international celebrity for not toppling off the world is false.
People have known since the learned and logic-laden age of the Greeks that they lived on a great, big globe. There were lots of obvious clues, like the way ships sailed over the horizon.
There were many objections to Columbus' plan to reach the East Indies via a somewhat novel route, but a tragic (and expensive) plunge into the abyss wasn't one of them. Most contentious were the logistics. Given the estimated (and not too shabby) size of the globe, there were steep odds his ships wouldn't successfully reach their intended destination. In the 1800s, the "knowledge" that our goofy, dark-ages ancestors had just up and forgotten the shape of the thing that they lived on started to circulate.
Deoxygenated Blood Is Blue.
Everybody has veins snaking up and down their bodies, and those veins are blue. So it stands to reason that whatever magical and mysterious substance courses through those veins (all right, fine, it's just boring, old blood) is, as a matter of course, blue.
But no! Once your blood has stopped by the bank (your lungs) and picked up a withdrawal of cash monies (oxygen) it's flush with greenbacks (bright red blood). Once it's spent a night on the town (circulated through your body), it returns with a massive hangover (the blood has turned dark red) and it goes to curl up on the couch (take another pass through the heart).
Basically, the veins are blue thanks to a trick of the light, not the color of what's inside them.
Chameleons Change Color to Blend in with Surroundings.
Chameleons are one of the five coolest species in the world. That's a fact.*
They're wicked awesome for a number of reasons: their funny, little two-toed feet, their uber-mobile eye cups, their super curly tails and their other exciting physical embellishments. What's probably best about them, though, is their polychromatic flare. But all those changing colors, unlike what many people believe, usually don't have a thing to do with blending into their surroundings. It hinges on the particular species, of course, but they're usually pretty well camouflaged to begin with. If they need to visually merge into the background, they can just stick with their normal coloration.
Instead, chameleon color-changing is typically triggered by physical, physiological and emotional changes. If they're feeling fussy, say angry or afraid or combative, they'll change colors using their chromatophores. They'll also change colors as a way of communicating in various manners (insert romantic music here) and to pick a fight with a competitor. Light and temperature play a big part, too, in how these little fancy pantses look.
*Chameleons' rank as one of the five coolest species in the world is not, in fact, a fact. Although it is very, very likely.
Humans Have Five Senses.
We hear what you're saying. We see your point of view. We feel your pain. Also, you smell bad and possibly taste funny, the latter of which we don't intend to test.
But if you believe these are the only five ways you can detect information about your environment or alterations to your person, we're going to punch you in the face. There. Boom. You will feel it thanks to nociception, the ability to sense pain.
There are lots more, too, although the lists vary and the final number-of-senses tally is in great dispute. There are several boring ones that your body does without you knowing it. So let's skip those. More interesting is proprioception, which helps you pass the "close your eyes and touch your nose" test. Basically, it's what lets two parts of your body connect without visual confirmation. If you're (successfully) rubbing your eyes in disbelief, you used proprioception to do it. If you accidently smacked yourself in the forehead instead, you experienced a proprioception fail.
Apart from those, hunger and thirst can count according to some, as can feelings of hot and cold. Itch, interestingly, is apparently independent from both touch and pain. It's annoying on so many levels!
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Author's Note: 10 Completely False 'Facts' Everyone Knows
This article was pretty cool to research and write. I came away with a sense (Ha! Did you see what I did there?!) that many of these "facts" are just things we take for granted without giving them much thought. But that if we did give them more thought, we could probably reach most of these conclusions on our own. However, thanks to me, you have now given them more thought but without having to bother with coming to the correct conclusions all by yourself. You're welcome.
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- Clark, Josh. "Why does orange juice taste bad after you brush teeth." HowStuffWorks.com. (Sept. 9, 2012.) https://www.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/orange-juice-toothpaste.htm
- Devitt, Terry. "Galactic survey reveals a new look for the Milky Way." University of Wisconsin-Madison. Aug. 16, 2005.(Sept. 9, 2012.) http://www.news.wisc.edu/11405
- Gould, Steven Jay. "The Late Birth of a Flat Earth." (Sept. 9, 2012.) http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/SS05/efs/materials/FlatEarth.pdf
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 2:46 am
Post subject: what do you mean when you say you want to become breatharian
what do you really mean when you say youre trying to, or want to eventually
become breatharian
i dont really know what it means anymore, but it just sounds really mundane and short-reaching to me anymore. please dont get me wrong, I dont mean to say that against anybody. thats just how I personally feel about it for me.
to me its like saying that you want to be free of food and the
urges, thoughts, boredom, eagerness, stresses, problems, low/bad energies, feelings, emotions, cituations, cravings, drives, impulses and whatnot,
that eventually lead you to eat the food----- but then youre still in this limited human fleshandbone body?
Because if thats the case, then whats left to life here, in your flesh body? What are you gonna do wheres the fun? cause when i stop eating and start cleansing n flushing n fasting, my body completely loses the will to do absolutely anything, even lying down-back on bed and trying to get comfortable is tiring as heck.. but i donno if its always gonna be that way for me or what... who knows..?
i mean if you think your still gonna be or wanna be in this body, you might as well let yourself enjoy beautiful food and playing the rest of the humble human game and that simple beautiful, pleasant, sensation-filled life.
----- but dontcha think theres more to existence, and Experience, and this game of ghost-in-the-shell?
Dont chyou really mean that you eventually-----
after completely cleaning n clearing out your body and youre so many days or weeks into a fast
----- want to have this sudden utmost beautiful episode where you finally magically transcend your current body,
and you can then become whatever form/body you want, do what you want with your newly realized limitless creative powers and elemental manipulation, go where you want
[other worlds/universes/dimensions]
and have any experience you want..
in other words, feel like returning to our original godly state before we started this earthly game of amnesia/forget and rediscovery/remembering who we are??
Because thats how I feel. I want to be a magical delicate wispy body of smoke.
Lovepeace.befree. rlly,litrlly.beFREE.becomewhatchyouwant.gowhereyouwant. Do whatchyouwant.
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Excellent! I actually did want that simple human life but when food really stopped agreeing with me, i stopped wanting the worldly stuff. Sometimes I'm getting frustrated and wanting to turn this all off so i can go enjoy the senses again but it's so painful.
I also stop wanting to lay down and be in comfort etc. I just sit up and meditate. I walk around too. But yeah, there are no activity like desires. I constantly feel sexual energy moving up my chakras and begin to love all. So yes, i think everyone returns to their God like self. Im just not sure if everyone stays there.
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i love my food and do want to live that simple happy life in this body in a perfect natural world, but my body has never agreed with it at all, of course
all my changes in the last four years cause i was eating all sorts of shick like most people, but even now-----as a low-fat high-carb vegan with my clean fresh fruit and veggies that rush right through me with little effort because of their loose fiber-----i am still hit just as hard by food, with major sneeze attacks everyother day, mucuous comin up and out all the time, tired kidneys, sore knees, stressed out allover my body, full-heavy-grounding feeling, helplessness.. all that goes away when im into a fast. too long a fast though is a little to tiring for me but ive been thinking that i can just push into in if im in the right cituation and environment..
the world isnt the way i would like it to be for me to live in because of gooberment/cities/office and anything that has ever comefrom it and because of this whole modern fake society/civilization. those things put way too many stupid pointless obstacles for me to happily live the life of an ordinary man of the earth, so thats why i want to become all godly again and start turning this shick around and cleaning the sludge off this poor beautiful earth..
maybe all the bad whacked up fruhcked up energies in the world have been pushing some of us to refine and eventually get off food so we can all become godly again and show the evil or stupidthoughtlessheartless elite fruhcks controlling the world whos really in charge. the LOVE!CLEAN PURE GODLINESS!NATURE!SPIRITUALITY FREEEDOM!
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Haha everything goes right through me as well. Leaves me with inflammation, cycling thoughts etc. My family tells me Im bipolar because my moods change with food. If i try to explain this i am then blamed with an eating disorder.
I saw the quote "live free or die" on the back of a quarter and knew in my heart that the "dark side" such as the illuminati and so forth, are actually hinting at us, like you say, to change things. I do believe that everything is light, even though it doesn't always appear that way
I also wonder where my siddhis developed, that seem to come to me totally naturally. And how come there are monks in Tibet etc who work for years at becoming breatharian, and the people that may have never wished for this, get it naturally? It's quite interesting.
I think one you disappear from this plane you go do work "behind the scenes" in different dimensions.
Supposedly this translates to the NewEarth that eckhart tolle talks about
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yup, i get the racing cycling thoughts to. its just so busy up there all the time with food. and once i start to lay off a little, the racing thoughts settle down too.
and gosh you hit the nail on the head for me. that frase "live free or die" lives within me. that is my purpose. if i cant always live absolutely completely free in any and every way, like a bird or any animal in the wilderness, with no restrictions, judgements, harassments, or obstacles of any kind from anybody, then i will shed my current myself, and take on a more powerful form and break the interferences back down so i can enjoy my simple life again. i would like just the natural tribal lifestyle
[cob/straw hut/house, bushcraft/toolmaking, firemaking, gardening, fruitforestbuilding etc]
, and that is enough challenge for me in this world
yeah ive thought about the monks in tibet too. i think it takes alotof various hard emotional experiences in life for your heart and mind to start evolving and vibrating higher and faster so you can then see and experience beyond all this. i think it takes getting slapped around alot by the world, abuse, getting pissed off, anger, struggles, hardships, stresses, failures, worries, misery, drivencrazywantingtotearyourownhairout, disappointment, suffering, sorrow, doing what you want, witnessing alot of horrific stuff, sensitivity, vulnerability, discomfort, feeling energies, getting your heart torn out, crying your heart out, desperation, helplessness, feeling grey and bleak, wanting to die,, wanting to escape, scratching your nails against the wall, trying to break through, dreaming, really feeling your heart and what it is, beautiful tragic experiences that
make you feel
your heart. accepting your owntruths and desires. being yourself. becoming a child again......................... standing out in the rain, staring bleakly, wanting to melt into it.. heheh ;}
i think alot of these monks already come from these calm lives and are asked to wear these robes all day and to practice certain things, certain times of the day, certain times of the week, like a schedule, only have the limited foods the temple has on hand, reside in the same place all the time, accept some gurus truth and not realizing their own, , forcing themselves to become something or fit in some form....hmm but i do get, now that ive written that, i could see how that may drive somebody crazy and torment their head and heart enough to be able to start vibrating and wanting to escape out of this world and feel a way out through their heart...
but i wouldnt think it happens that often for monks.. i think they dont mind all that temple lifestyle or dont really think about it all that much..
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