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Numbers this year.
After more than a year since its debut in stores, Battlefield 3 is still one of the most played FPS in the world.
The merit of DICE is without a doubt to have been able to offer additional content to the title are able to keep the interest that is added to the support provided by the Swedish team to the community of players. But how many and how they are distributed across platforms?
It deserves it over Modern Warfare to be honest. I don't like the way BF3 does DLC, I don't care for EA, and I wish some things could be done differently about it... Yet BF3 is still the best FPS military game out there. You actually feel like it's a war going on with all the explosions, building destruction, wall and cover damage, tanks/choppers/jets, giant maps, etc.
This is coming from someone who tends to NOT like FPS games of this sort.
When I try playing it only shows a few servers with people playing. I tried clearing the filters and no luck. The only 64 player match isn't even a match with vets stomping the newbs in the spawn. So I gave up on the game.
I can see why you didn't like the DLC, mainly cause most of them sucked except for the "Back to Kirkland, and Aftermath" DLC. As far as "How" they do there DLC, I love it. It insures that you'll be playing there game for a year+, something other FPS struggle with. Other titles become stale with there DLC cause it just new maps, but BF3's DLC adds, new war zones, new vehicles, new weapons, and new experiences.
But hey, that just IMO...
@ flankhim
I'm really confused by that. Maybe because you have absolutely no dlc? Even that shouldn't make a difference since a lot still only have B2K.
Make sure under amount of players select ONLY 48 and 64. That seems to make a big difference for me sometimes. Then of course once the server list pops up sort it by the amount of players.
All I play is hardcore which is supposedly even more limited and I can find about 5 or 6 64 player rooms that are close to being full around the clock.
And that is limited to a searching within the US and Canada....
@snookies & Flankhim
I understand your hate for dlc the way they do it.
I would like to let you know i bought the game for 50 bucks and it included bf3 and all 5 expansions.. .or is it 6 i dunno.
but for the money. this is the deepest game i have ever played in terms of sheer content.
every level is meticulously crafted piece by piece, there are SO many guns vehicles, gadgets, attachments, scopes, upgrades, tactics, gamemodes, maps, its fukin bonkers.
I have played at least 200 hrs of bf3 and just the other day i ended up in a map i had never been to before. not to mention the sheer size of each map. you have so many choices that you never really get bored, so you mastered c4 well why not attach it to your buggy. or your helicopter or your buddies helicopter. or your mav, or your eod bot or your boat, or your jet or your apc, or your tank. why not parachute into a building you wouldn't otherwise have access to.
ive never felt i got so much value from a software purchase period. though i dont like origin i must admit they really have a cash cow with bf3 its just an ace in the frakkin hole.
as for server browser dude you have to scroll down for the page to load more results. you can do that scroll down thing almost forever without filters and youll keep getting more results, once you feel you have enough results return to the top of the spreadsheet and click the titlebar of the category you would like to see the most of. for example players click on players and it will arrange them from most on top to least on bottom,, click again and it will arrange them vice versa.
I guess now we know which console version they'll be focusing on more next time.
Thats bullshit. Heres the server browser with vanilla maps only and 48+ players server. http://tinyurl.com/bf3serve...
@ Enemy
'I guess now we know which console version they'll be focusing on more next time.'
Let me play 'EVIL's advocate' since these are YOUR words.
Are you insinutating that the console that generated more sales should get more focus next time?
That's hilarious because the article is only talking about registered Battlelog members who were online a year later. (Totalling only 1 million B-log members across ALL platforms) Which us Not even close to the true amount of Console gamers who bought BF3.
Remember last year when even the leading Battlefield blog sites were reporting that the Xbox 360 was the leading seller of BF3 for ALL platforms. (I can't make this up)
'Battlefield 3 Xbox 360 sales top PlayStation 3 and PC combined'
'It's clear that the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3 has taken a considerable lead, outselling the PlayStation 3 and PC versions by a huge margin. In fact, the Xbox 360 version outsold the PS3 and PC versions combined.
•Xbox 360: 2.2 million
•PlayStation 3: 1.5 million
At the end of the day, BF3 ultimately did over 6 million on both consoles and who knows where the sales are at now that the premium edition is being sold digitally on both Xbox Live and PSN.
But, let's keep it real, it's a year later.
The top 3 games on Live are Black Ops II, Halo 4, and Minecraft (which is over 4 million sold on XBLA).
Even so Battelfield 3 is still in the top 10 on Live (it's been at #8 in the month of December)
Can't wait for the 2013 Battlefield 4 vs. Modern Warfare 4 head to head battle this November. Should be fun..
I dont know what your talking about i have at least 10 or more 64 player servers up when i search and their are far more than that up. It all depends on your connection. 100's of servers come up but my ping is really high on some of them. All so the search engine doesnt update very fast. I may pull up 10 64 player conquest servers in range of me but i have like 20 others i have saved in my history or favorites that are full and running.
i stopped playing bf3 once the dedicated servers were gone, having alot of servers run buy ignorant little brats that will kick you for killing them, or being the top player was annoying. Every night I would get kicked minimum at least once in like a 1-2 hr span.
Just goes to show where the more mature gamers really are.
While I agree that XBL is plagued with screaming mic kids, your comment wasn't all that mature, so you shouldn't talk in behalf of all these "mature gamers" you speak of.
Wow. The fact you have more agrees than disagrees is depressing. Are people really that stupid? So now we are judging what games are more mature than others?
Also, take into consideration that Sony has no killer FPS online on the PS3. Xbox has Halo 4 and Halo Reach taking huge numbers. Fact.
Hey that 50 year old man is playing kinect with his grand-daughter, how immature /s.
How so... the numbers here are only those that registered on P-stats.com and do not reflect the total amount of players playing BF3. Only those registered for the stats service. So those NOT registered wouldn't reflect.
It is like trying to count the number of players that bought the game by the amount of purchases on Amazon. And totally ignore the buyers who don't use the Amazon purchase service.
So, I'm not allowed to say my view on this topic?
You stated your opinion, and I'm going to respect that instead of calling you immature, unlike what you did.
Your disagree's says it all.
Lol, mature gamers in BF3? This is the trolliest, spammiest, commocoziest, campiest game you can buy. If you want a game with mature players, your best off avoiding twitch shooters and looking into strategy games or just games where you have to think.
That is because Battlefield is specifically designed to create the precise effect of a...well...a battlefield. COD on the other hand goes for the 'one man army' effect where every single gameplay mechanic is structured towards a much faster pace and the game coming down to body bags.
ARMA 2 is another battlefield esque game, then there is Planetside 2 which is 10x the size of battlefield with thousands of players in one game, highly recommended. Yet enjoying all these different types of games, I still think COD has something to offer, 10 minutes, get in, get out, no other game (Unreal Tournament does it quite well too) does it better.
I couldnt agree more! I only have consoles so I cant play ARMA or Planetside (have read reviews on both and they look awesome), but Battlefield is great for hunkering down for a good long competitive gaming session on a weekend. But CoD definetly offers a fun fast paced way to relax for a half hour before bed or something. There's definitley room for both games in the collection of a true competitive shooter fan.
I think your comment is also probably one of the more sensible comments Ive ever seen on this site, regarding the comparison of FPS games.
i played bf3 & cod, cod is so damn addictive,bf3 is sadly not although as you said it is indeed the more realistic fps war game out of the 2.
This isn't even accurate information. PS3 has the most players. Almost twice as much as PC sometimes. 360 is behind PS3. PC is dead last. I've been using this site for quite a while and PS3 always has the most. PC always has the least amount of players.
I've seen PC have the most concurrent players plenty of times. Depends on the time of day.
EA favors sony because activision favors MS. maybe if MS was throwing some bones at EA it would be different
but now my main point you look at 2012 and PC had the most hardcore games and the best games yet console only gamers think pc gaming is dead because of piracy(when games sales were really high too).
for psn or xblive to compete with going digital day one they have to look at Steam and see how the structure works, steam has sales throughout the week. yet when a game/dlc comes out its regular price with no bonus credit towards future games, and after 3-4 months of games/dlc prices never go down. its like publishers forgot and sony and ms stopped caring.
why you think counter strike still sells till this day?
castlevania lords of shadow has 2 dlc packs for $9.99 each and game is about 2-3 years old yet both those dlc packs still regular prices.
i am hoping both ms and sony looks at steam/origins and see how digital distributions suppose to be done. selling games log after release for regular price isn't gonna get it done
also to me fellow pc gamers, i would like to ask that you not show up on each article just to say pc is better. there are some genuine great games on consoles only. don't be so close minded enjoy games no matter the platform
I Got all the dlc for 25 bucks because i ordered mine from India lol. Untill EA fixed that proxy glitch but i dont care i got premium for a steal lol and my whole giantbomb guild of 250 players lol.
You should give Planetside 2 a go on the PC. It is like BF on steroids and F2P.
Huge maps with thousands of players and hundreds of vehicles.
Love me some PS2! It has probably been the game I have played most since I started playing it in September.
Hell I love bf3 but after purchasing Aftermath I have only played it for a hour or two. It isn't bad but all I could think about is the fact that I wanted to be playing ps2 instead :P
If you're trying to play PS2, START PLAYING ASAP! Double xp is going on until Jan 2nd and that will really help you gain some much needed certs.
PS2 is not a game. It is a game system. And if you are playing BF3 then you are likely playing it on a PS3 NOT a PS2.
Noob not knowing anything about games.
Planetside 2 = PS2 in this case
What? 14 agrees and 1 disagree to OP.
I create a reply basically just agreeing and a hour later 0 agrees and 2 disagrees?
Is n4g troll central these days? lol
You more or less implied that PS2 was so much better, that it wasn't worth playing BF2, even if that wasn't your intention.
The OP just said "If you like this, you'll also like this" but said that it was F2P and more large ("on steroids").
The best part about PS2 is that it's free! And I disagree, its not like BF3 on steroids. Its more like MAG and BF3 on steroids.
Do you need like some game cards or big harddrive for that game?
PS3 wins again :)
u forget pc which always wins in performance, player numbers and graphics
What is the prize? Also, Xbox 360 gamers have Halo 4 right now and Halo Reach and Halo 3 for great online shooter satisfaction.
thats funny cause the other night at my friends house it showed on halo 3 that there were 0 players online. literally 0 then we tried reach and there was 1236 players online and this was at like 8 pm. so mainly just halo 4
Sorry but consoles loose, 24 max players cap is like a graveyard, pc version is the only one worth playing
Wii has the best graphics.
i think you mean the wii u. And you would be correct.
PC has the higher online users for BF3 than PS3, yet the PS3 automagically wins? This is probably the most retarded shit I've heard in a long awhile. Says the dumb fanboy with an Uncharted 3 avatar. Stupid saps like you soured the PS3 for me and drove me back to PC gaming.
This goes to show how marketing and getting exclusive DLC (timed or full) actually helps. It's no secret Microsoft has aligned themselves with Call of Duty while Sony has made agreements with EA's Battlefield 3.
Kinda misleading. They are only talking about registered Battlelog users. I don't know about PC, but you are never forced to sign into Battlelog in the console. Its not talking about sales or actual players playing the game. It sold about 12 million combined between the two consoles , and 3 million on PC but only 1 million players? No, thats just registered Battlelog users.
Maverick is right. People registered for battlelog do not mean a thing on consoles. I would say 75% of the players on the consoles are not registered. I like to look at some of my stats after a match on battle log. There are not many battlelog users on the xbox when I look at my games. At least acourding to vgcharts xbox has 6.57 and PS3 has 6.14. We all know how crappy Vgcharts is but no other side keeps track of games sales that I know of.
The article has some info, nothing usefull or relivant to how well the game is doing though.
BF3 is awesome
7 days and 14 hours of game play logged in, love this game.
360 multiplayer climate has at least 3 other shooters eating BF3s pie ( Halo 4, Gears 3 and COD) so this isn't that surprising to me.
really? thats surprising.
happy new year everyone
Not surprising since LOTS of people got a gaming pc just to play this game
Umm no actually PS3 has the most players. PC is dead last. Even behind 360.
Does having multiple accounts on the PS3 contribute to the amount of "registered users" on BF3?
I have 3 accounts on the PS3 and each one has a different user.
Wait So you purchased two additional online passes to play bf3 On ps3?
Wow you just blew my mind.
Happy new year
I also have 3 Premium memberships.
Well...not ME. I have 1. My brother in Law has one and my brother has another.
All on my PS3.
So I am guessing that yes, it does count as 3 even though only 1 of us is playing at a single time and only 1 copy was purchased.
No the online pass is open to all usernames on your ps3. U can have multiple accounts on just one online pass. Try it.
the online passes doesn't always work for all other user names on a PS3, example is White Knight Chronicles 2 where you have to buy multiple passes just to play online with multiple accounts on a single PS3 :/
I didn't realise that Xbox only lets you have one account per console.
Uh, do your research.
Accounts are "FREE" on the PS3 so it's easier to create multiple accounts.
On the 360 you NEED a gold membership for each account.
So to break it down to you, on my 360, my brother in law and my brother use MY account since they don't want to pay for a gold membership thus the "registration" only counts as 1 for BF3 on the 360 while on the PS3, since you can crate as many accounts as you want, there are then 3 on my PS3 but my brother and brother in law wanted their own characters and not have to use my account.
Hope you understand now.
Thanks for your useless comment and simple minded comment.
Horrible feature but i'd expect most families to have their own accounts.
Well at least PS3 users know what the superior FPS game is, not including the PC users of course. Just comparing the two consoles.
Really? Because COD is the most played game on PS3 just like it is on 360.
But COD is trash. Jersey Shore was the most watched show at some time. But all this proves is that many of my fellow Americans are damned fools.
I have to agree with donbear. Casual human beings are interested in the stupidest crap.
Ps3 users don't have the likes of Halo 4 to play so that might be one possible explanation for the smaller numbers?
Septic, if I could play Halo 4 on PS3, I'd play the hell out of it, yes, but don't degrade the influence of BF3 on PS3. It's really that awesome.
I would rather play Killzone 2 or Uncharted 2 multiplayer than COD oops I mean halo 4
SO your agreeing that the 360 players actually have a better opinion by playing Halo 4 over BF3?
I mean since you clearly see legitimacy in metacritic you must now believe your opinion is inferior to those who would prefer to play Halo 4 over BF3?
No but him trying to justify the reasoning behind Xbox players not playing BF3 is laughable. BF3 is a more mature FPS whereas games like CoD and Halo are targeted towards the casual/younger audiences who can just pick up a game and be semi good at it. I mean we all know most of the Xbox community is full of teenagers who yell at the mic.


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Experience now tells me that no building can contain the legendary persona of Willie Nelson. I say this in spite of the fact that, when photographer Griff Smith and I idled backstage of the new Night Life Theater in Carl's Corner on I35E just north of Hillsboro, the space seemed big enough to handle most any event.
No one enjoys working like Tony Bennett does. The American music icon drew an amazingly diverse crowd to San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium not long ago — all ages seem mesmerized by his beaming, exuberant, stage presence that radiates the pleasure he takes in the crowd and in performing.
Sunday morning. 8 am. The topic is "Food as Art." And the venue is the self-service "gallery" in the Whole Foods flagship Austin store between 5th and 6th at Lamar. Warning: the exhibit is only good for about 20 minutes, so you have to be quick.


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Three more suspects arrested after 'unrest' in Charlottesville
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WSET) -- Four people have been arrested in total after the incidents in Charlottesville on Saturday.
A hospital official says one person has died and 19 were injured after a car plowed into a group of protesters and two state police troopers were killed after their helicopter crashed near a golf course in relation to the Unite the Right Rally.
City officials say 15 others were injured in the protests, but not when the car crashed.
Charlottesville police Chief Al Thomas says a 32-year-old woman was killed and her death is being investigated as a homicide.
The Ricmond FBI Field Office, the Civil Rights Division, and the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia have opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances of the deadly vehicular incident as well.
Chief of Operations Gequetta Murray-Key with the Albermarle-Charlottesville County Regional Jail identified the suspect behind the car-ramming in Charlottesville as James Alex Fields, Jr.
Fields, 20, is from Maumee, Ohio.
A woman who identified herself as the mother of the man accused of driving his car into a crowd of peaceful protesters says he told her he was going to the rally.
Samantha Bloom, of Ohio, confirmed details about her son's car and his trip to Virginia, saying she received a text from him last week that said he'd gotten some time off from work and was going to a rally.
The Virginia National Guard was brought in to help police clear the area and three people were arrested after causing unrest following the declaration of an unlawful assembly.
Troy Dunigan, 21, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
Jacob L. Smith, 21, of Louisa, Virginia, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault & battery.
James M. O'Brien, 44, of Gainesville, Florida, was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed handgun.
State Police said no booking photos were available of the three arrested.
President Donald Trump condemned the violence in Charlottesville hours before he addressed the incident during a press conference in New Jersey on Satursday afternoon saying:,"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides."
The organizer of a rally, Jason Kessler, said he disavows the violence that eroded it.
Kessler said in an interview Saturday evening that whoever drove a car into a group of counter-protesters "did the wrong thing." He said he was saddened that people were hurt.
He also criticized law enforcement's response to the event, which was dispersed before speakers could take the stage.
He said they did a poor job controlling the chaos to allow free speech.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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High bar for ACA success stories
Here's the challenge the White House faces in telling Obamacare success stories: Try to picture a headline that says, "Obamacare does what it's supposed to do."
Somehow, the Obama administration and its allies will have to convince news outlets to run those kinds of stories — and to give the happy newly insured the same kind of attention as the outraged complainers whose health plans were canceled because of the law.
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That's a complicated task. Loud and angry usually trumps contented and grateful when it comes to sound bites, and news organizations will have a high bar for anecdotes that reflect well on the new law, given the prevailing narrative surrounding its disastrous debut.
And yet, the success stories do exist. For all the problems with the health care rollout and the disruptions the Affordable Care Act has caused, from canceled plans to "sticker shock" from people who are disappointed with their choices, there are also people who are getting exactly what they're supposed to get: better prices and more stable coverage of their pre-existing conditions.
( Also on POLITICO: Full health care policy coverage)
So the administration and congressional Democrats are trying to spread the word of the "Obamacare winners" in any way they can, looking for the formula that will help those anecdotes compete with the "victim" stories — and give the media a hook that's compelling enough to tell the success stories without looking like they're soft-pedaling the law's problems.
The catch, of course, is that the problems with the rollout are sure to continue, and they'll get plenty of attention when they do. It's also a rule of storytelling that the unexpected always makes a better story — and "people couldn't keep their health plans because of Obamacare" is always going to be a twist that commands more coverage than "people gain health coverage because of Obamacare."
Even if the Obama administration succeeds in steering more attention to the successes, like the people with pre-existing conditions who are getting better deals now, that may not make a big difference to the mindset of the majority of Americans who already have health insurance through the workplace, who just want to make sure their own coverage won't be affected.
( Also on POLITICO: The 2014 Obamacare tax wave)
Middle-class Americans have now "gotten the impression, rightly or wrongly, that they're going to be worse off" because of the effort to help sick people, said Robert Blendon, an expert on health care public opinion at Harvard University. "The stories have to be about middle-class people who have better coverage, who are paying less, and who already had coverage prior to Jan. 1. … Those stories may be less exciting, but those are the stories that are going to move the needle."
Democratic strategists, however, are convinced that the natural cycles of media coverage will allow the success stories to gain some traction, since the period from October to December was so completely dominated by the storyline of the broken website and the disruptions to people who already had individual health insurance.
News organizations don't want to look one-sided, so "since the media spent a lot of time digging out stories of canceled plans, we assume they'll make the same effort to dig out other people who have been helped," said Democratic pollster Mark Mellman.
Mike McCurry, who served as White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton, agreed that news organizations might feel a need to "even the score" — but added that it will be a huge challenge to reverse the "failed rollout" narrative and that the White House should expect their efforts to be hit and miss.
( PHOTOS: 12 Democrats criticizing the Obamacare rollout)
"Communicating the positive is always a challenge but you take it one day at a time and try and invent a new angle every day, which I am sure the White House will do … some days the press will buy it, other days not, but batting above .350 is always good," McCurry wrote in an email.
The White House has been holding daily press calls featuring people who have gotten health insurance at better prices than they used to have. Democratic leaders have been encouraging rank-and-file lawmakers to circulate their own stories, including ones that have been collected by Senate offices and outside groups. Enroll America, a coalition of groups that has been promoting the law, has been collecting success stories and making people available to the media to talk about their new coverage.
"We don't expect this effort to solve the challenges we face with the public's perception of the Affordable Care Act, but this will provide the administration and the law's supporters on the Hill the opportunity to do something for the first time: give Americans the chance to speak firsthand about being able to buy quality, affordable insurance because of the Affordable Care Act," said one White House official. "And in the coming weeks and months, as more Americans buy insurance and see their coverage kick in, we will continue to find opportunities to help share their experiences."
( Also on POLITICO: Ron Johnson sues over Obamacare)
So far, the results have been mixed. A Friday White House press call, featuring a Florida lawyer who chatted at great length about his new Obamacare coverage, got a writeup in the Miami Herald — but a Georgia woman who talked about her coverage on a similar call got just a passing mention in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Enroll America has had some success promoting newly insured people, and new Twitter accounts like "ACA Success Stories" have been circulating stories as well.
But before the latest campaign was launched, congressional Democrats have made mostly clumsy efforts, when they've made them at all. They've told vague, unverifiable stories of constituents with first names, but no last names, writing letters about how happy they are with their coverage. And they've told those anecdotes at congressional hearings, where the stories disappeared without a trace behind all the testimony about the rollout problems.
That's a far cry from the aggressive way Republicans and conservative organizations approached the "victim" stories, talking up every canceled-plan story they could find and setting up online strategies to collect others, like tea party websites and Glenn Beck's #InsuranceCanceled hashtag. (And some people promoted their own stories, reaching out to POLITICO with their canceled-plan and "sticker shock" problems without any prompting.)
( PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
"It's like the ACA and its benefits have been the best-kept secret in the world," said Rita Rizzo of Akron, Ohio, who recently gained health coverage with her husband, Lou Vincent, who has been uninsured for nearly a decade because of his pre-existing conditions. "They should have given it to [Edward] Snowden — then we'd get the word out."


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Greetings Tegestologists!
if you are a beer coaster collector, please take a look at my website http://www.beercoast.com
A little over two years ago I started up this new website.
George Barone, the proprietor of Coastermania had sold his collection
With George's blessing and approval I started beercoast.com
and started converting the coastermania information to a new database-driven website.
This new site has a number of features for members:
- over 30,000 coasters are on file for the United States and Canada
- Every coaster, ever produced by a brewer
- enables you to track your collection inventory - online.
- Members have entered about 195,000 coaster inventory records so far
- performs a want-list comparison with other members who have coasters to trade - in a few seconds!
- Search capability by coaster code, text or brewer name
- Brewer lists of those that have produced coasters - can be sorted by name code or city
- Enlarged images of coasters to show detail and fine print
- browse coasters for free - sign up as a member top use Search, inventory and other features)
- Not only am I a collector, I do all the website programming myself, and I am adding new features all the time.
I am considering enabling the site to track other collectibles such as caps, crowns, labels etc. using all the features that beercoast.com provides, such as inventory and want-list comparison. I am open to suggestions and feedback.
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Three simple criteria for movies - this opened my eyes! I'd been unaware of how under-represented women are in movies. It seems women mostly appear as unnamed extras, unimportant by definition.
The Bechdel Movie test is just
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it2. Who talk to each other3. About something besides a man
IconsFewer than two women in this movieThere are two or more women in this movie, but they don't talk to each otherThere are two or more women in this movie, but they only talk to each other about a manThere are two or more women in this movie and they talk to each other about something other than a man*
Here are a few that surprised me:
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The sick part is that most "chick flicks" don't pass this test.
Huh? Why did The Hobbit surprise you? It's an adventure story set in a medieval world, in which most women didn't have much of a role in society, outside of the home.
You shouldn't be so surprised that most period movies won't have much in the way of female characters, much less interesting interaction between them. It kind of sucks, but women were treated like shit throughout most of civilized human history. You're only likely to get anything in a period drama with a female protagonist. Like I said in my first comment, the sad part is that even those sometimes fail the test.
Personally, I've been pushing for more real female characters in video games. I'd love to see a female protagonist in a Grand Theft Auto game, for example, and have e-mailed them about it. For most story elements in a typical GTA storyline, the sex of the protagonist isn't a major factor, and I think writing one around a strong, female lead would be awesome.
You wouldn't even have to adjust things much, for the dating component of the game. Just introduce lesbian options to the dating pool, and make any storyline love-interest a bit more ambiguous. Gay guys and women can hook up with the male love-interests, and men and lesbians can go for the female ones. Bisexuals can ... well, do whatever they're in the mood for, at the time.
I like how you aptly stated "most of civilised history". This is very true... civilisation equals patriarchy and religiosity. Before that point in history, before males discovered that patriarchy and religion could dominate and hold power of large swaths of people, the relationships between males and females were much more equality based, AND they spent much less time in each other's intimate company.
To ondoe sexism in this world takes much more than removing white Jewish males from Hollywood, and it takes much more than equality in the work force. To unravel sexism means to unravel several thousand years of "civilised" thinking. That is a mighty task. For what is civilisation other than a stiff male rule of law dominating extremely large masses of H.sapiens?
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At ZiggityZoom we are always touting the fun and creativity kids can have playing dressup. And it's not reserved for just costumes at Halloween either. We've fallen in love with these dorable dressup sets from Land of Nod, which they have appropriately called "Wear the Wild Things Dress-Up set."
Kids can mix and match these animal sets or wear a shirt that co-ordinates with the color of the animal to look more "animal like" and realistic. We can't decide which animal is our favorite. Each dress-up set comes with a detailed felt mask, mittens and a tail! Sets sell for $24.95.
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Glenwood turned the ball over three times leading to 14 points and Harlan used a balanced offense to hand the Rams a 42-6 loss in Class 3A, District 8 football on Friday.
The Class 3A state ranked No. 7 Cyclones wasted little time jumping on the 0-2 Rams, marching 63 yards in just four plays and a little over a minute on the clock to go up 7-0.
Luke Schafer threw for a school-record seven touchdown passes and the East Mills football team defeated Stanton for the first time in four years with a dominating 48-12 victory on Friday in the Eight-Man, District 8 opener for both teams.
"These kids that are seniors, when they were freshmen they got torched pretty good by them and it was closer their sophomore year and then last year, I think they felt like they out-played Stanton and kind of blew it," said East Mills coach Kevin Schafer.
The Glenwood Girls Cross Country Team placed seventh at the Clarinda Cross Country Meet last Tuesday.
Shenandoah-Essex was the team champion with 65 points. Griswold was second with 74 points. Glenwood was led by Carlie Cooper who finished 10th. Lizzy Young was 16th and Morgan Naughton placed 27th.
Villisca swept East Mills 25-21, 25-19, 25-13 in Corner Conference volleyball on Thursday.
"The first two games were neck and neck before Villisca pulled away the last four or five points," said East Mills coach Connie Viner-Blank. "We have to minimize mistakes late in the game."
The Wolverines (1-7 overall, 0-3 in the conference) were led by Amanda Bazer's seven kills. Jessika Lynn added three kills and seven digs and Zoe Frink had three kills and four digs.
The Glenwood volleyball team got its first win of the season last Thursday at the Omaha South Triangular.
The Rams (2-1 overall, 0-1 in the Hawkeye 10 Conference) downed Omaha Roncalli 25-12, 24-26, 25-17 in match one.
Emily Blum led Glenwood with six kills against the Crimson Pride. Grace Newman was 19-of-20 serving with four aces, and McKenna Henze had 18 assists and was 9-of-9 on the serving line.
The Rams defeated the host Packers 30-32, 25-9, 25-10
The East Mills football team capped a perfect non-district season with a dominating 55-6 victory over Lenox on Friday.
The game was halted in the third quarter after lightening was spotted in the area. Due to the mercy rule the game was ruled a completed game.
Luke Schafer had another strong day under center for the Wolverines, tossing five touchdown passes for the second straight game and finishing 9-of-17 passing for 206 yards and no interceptions.
The Glenwood girls and boys cross country teams kicked off their season with the Co-Ed Ram Invitational on a hot and muggy evening at Glenwood Lake Park last Tuesday.
COUNCIL BLUFFS - Conventional football wisdom says if you can run the ball and stop the run you will be successful.
The Glenwood football team had trouble running the ball and stopping the run, and the Rams' success against Council Bluffs St. Albert followed suit with conventional wisdom in a 35-7 loss at Al Leber Field in a non-conference game called with 5:38 remaining in the game due to lightening and storms in the area.
Clarinda defeated Glenwood 22-25, 25-14, 27-25 and 25-15 in the season-opener for both teams.
"I was extremely proud of my team tonight," said Glenwood coach Kara Huisman. "We did not let ourselves becomes victims when Morgan Lucy went down with an ankle injury. We passed the ball extremely well and had great opportunities to score."
Glenwood was led by Grace Newman with 14 kills and eight digs.
MALVERN - The East Mills football team broke open a 6-6 first quarter game by scoring 44 of the next 52 points in a 63-26 non-conference victory over Adair-Casey on Friday.
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The Opinion Tribune is your source for local news, sports, events and information in the city of Glenwood and Mills County, Iowa.


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This category includes air transport unions, railroad unions and merchant marine and longshoreman's unions.
By far the largest player: the Teamsters Union. The Teamsters primarily represent workers in the airline and freight industries. As is typical of labor in general, transportation unions give the majority of their campaign contributions to Democrats, although they tend to give a higher proportion of their money to Republicans than do other unions.
During the 2014 election cycle, transportation unions contributed over $13.4 million to federal candidates, parties and committees. Of this amount, 78 percent went to Democrats. The Teamsters, National Air Traffic Controllers Association and Air Line Pilots Association each spent near the $2 million mark on contributions during that cycle.
The legislative agenda of transportation unions is similar to that of the labor movement in general: fair wages, worker safety, job creation and the promotion of products made in the United States.
During President George W. Bush's first term, the Teamsters notably sided with Bush in support of oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The union saw the proposal as a way to create union jobs and decrease U.S. dependence on foreign oil. But the Bush/Teamsters romance didn't last long. The union opposed several of the Bush administration's high-profile agenda items, including the Central American Free Trade Agreement (commonly known as CAFTA), which passed Congress in the summer of 2005.
The industry spent almost $11.9 million on federal lobbying in 2014. The biggest spenders included the Teamsters Union, Air Line Pilots Association, United Transportation Union and Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union -- each over $900,000.
Transportation-related legislation frequently mentioned in 2014 Teamsters Union lobbying reports included the Drug Free Commercial Driver Act, Safe Freight Act and Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act.
-- Alex Lazar
Updated September 2015
Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics.


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VisionTek Radeon HD3870 X2 Overclocked Edition Review
A magnitude of enthusiasts would love to have a multiple GPU solution for their machines. The problem is that many of them cannot or will not because multiple cards take up too much space, power, and money. But what about these new single cards with dual GPUs on them? The all-new VisionTek Radeon HD 3870X2 Overclocked Edition video card claims to pack unbelievable performance and it probably consumes less power than a multiple video card setup. This 3870X2 from VisionTek is, without a doubt, the best single card from the ATI side of the coin. How will it compare against tough competitors such as the nVidia 9800GTX?
VisionTek is one of the most popular manufacturers of ATI graphics cards and it continues to provide quality, reliable, and innovative products to its customers. I find that the cooling solutions that the company comes up with are unique and work very well. Hopefully, this Radeon HD 3870X2 Overclocked Edition won't be any different in regard to cooling. Now let's take an in depth look at everything this card has to offer and see if it truly is the best single video card available.
Closer Look:
The VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Overclocked Edition video card comes packaged in a sleek box that is fairly long but not very deep. On the front and back of the box, you'll find the key features of the video card proudly displayed. If you want to find the specifications or the system requirements, just look on either side of the box to find them neatly organized and easy to read.
The VisionTek 3870 X2 is held securely in place by white foam and is wrapped in an anti-static bag to ensure the card doesn't get exposed to any static during shipping. Before we take a look at the card, let's take a glance at the accessories. Included is a driver CD, a "Ruby ROM" disc, an installation guide, HDTV breakout cable, VGA to DVI adapter, DVI to HDMI adapter, 4-pin molex to 6-pin power adapter, and an S-Video cable. Not too shabby, huh?
Let's take the VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Overclocked Edition graphics card out of the box to get a closer look at it!


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Why Retaining IT Executives Matters
EUC with HCI: Why It Matters
Businesses usually shed talent to reduce overhead during an economic slowdown. Despite the subsequent infusion of talent into the employment pool, many companies hunt for skilled workers at a frenzied rate and, surprisingly, cry that they can't find the talent they need.
One reason for this contradiction is that many employers have not groomed and trained their employees for larger roles. As a result, they've created a chasm between employees and management.
Another problem is losing valuable employees to advancement opportunities at other companies. Recession or not, employees are jumping ship for better opportunities.
Lack of advancement is one of the primary reasons for employee turnover--a fact exploited by headhunters looking to "poach" disenchanted employees stuck in dead-end jobs. When I ask employees and business leaders what they look for in a new opportunity, rarely is "money" given as the reason someone considers leaving their employer. The answer is almost always the lack of career advancement opportunities.
"I have left a job and have known many who have left their jobs because the hope for advancement was limited or nonexistent," says Pete Murray, formerly a technology service manager with Goodyear. "It just doesn't have to be that way!"
Small firms feel the pain, too, particularly when they begin to grow. For years, Brian Dixon, health IT manager, and his colleagues at Regenstrief Institute, an Indianapolis healthcare organization, explained the risk to top management, but only now are they starting to listen.
"We started with an employee survey of our programmers, analysts, software engineers, project managers, IT support and help desk folks," Dixon says. "We asked a lot of questions about staff satisfaction (job, morale, if one is listened to by others, compensation, if the organization is a good place to work); management (whether our management team has made decisions that positively affect the organization, responds to internal issues appropriately, provides leadership); training and skills (access to opportunities for improvement and the tools needed to do your job); equity (I am treated fairly); communications (too little, too much); and environment (harassment, diversity). For each area, we used a five-point Likert scale to measure responses."
This brought the issue to the surface very quickly. In response, Regenstrief had several meetings with managers to discuss the outcomes of the surveys, and established a committee to work on solutions. "We are now working to change annual reviews to include career paths," Dixon says, "and top management is listening to our ideas on how to foster an environment that allows employees to grow into new roles in order to stem the tide of unhappy campers."
If this is such a widespread, common issue, why do companies shed their training experts during tough times? The simple answer is that executives believe they must drive down costs; everything else is secondary, as far as they're concerned. Pressure from investors to see a return on their investment--no matter what the cost to the overall health of the organization--also drives executives to make these short-sighted decisions. Amazingly, 60 percent of all companies have no succession planning of any kind, according to the Society for Human Resource Management in Alexandria, Va.
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Lowe's to hire 54,000 workers for spring season
ATLANTA (AP) - The home improvement retailer Lowe's plans to hire 54,000 part-time workers this spring, and company officials say they expect 9,000 of the jobs to become permanent positions.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/XYWrYA) that the company's hiring plans reflect a gradual turnaround in the housing market, a rebound in the economy and an improving job market.
The Mooresville, N.C.-based company has 63 stores in Georgia. The company will hire around 26 workers per store for the spring and summer.
Lowe's employs about 8,500 workers in Georgia. It has a distribution center in Valdosta, and another distribution center will open in Rome later this year.
Executives with the company say workers being hired include cashiers, lawn and garden specialists, loaders and stockers.
Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.ajc.com
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Jarvis Cocker: From Pop Star to Preservationist
He's been called a "national treasure" in Britain, he's made numerous and well-remembered European TV appearances, and the BBC aired a documentary in 2006 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his most famous song. In America, however, Jarvis Cocker is mostly known as a relic of the 90s Britpop era, but a closer look at his career reveals his quiet and persistent influence on fashion, the arts...and even historic preservation.
Jarvis Cocker was born in the 1960s in Sheffield, an industrial city in South Yorkshire, England. The area was largely working class, and in 1984, local coal miners went on strike to protest the mine closures and job losses that were happening at the time. Over 25 years later, the strikes are still understood as an example of Britain's endemic class struggles. When Jarvis Cocker formed the band Pulp in 1978, he may not have been particularly interested in politics, but his songs would eventually reference and respond to issues of class that played out in the background of his Yorkshire childhood.
Pulp's most famous song, Common People (released in 1995) is a highly stylized narrative about the culture gap between working class and wealthy people. It's also an icon of mid-90s Britpop, a musical movement that diverged from the decade's overriding grunge style and rather favored slick, catchy melodies and sarcastic, witty lyrics. As a pop star, Jarvis Cocker's style was individualistic — he wore skinny suits and extra-large glasses. "He's eccentric, he's a complete one-off, totally idiosyncratic," Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand told the BBC during the making of The Story of Common People.
His charismatic personality and imperfect, gangly appearance appealed to interviewers and TV producers, and after his career with Pulp ended in 2002, Cocker went on to record solo albums and participate in projects related to art, culture, and design. Eurostar enlisted him to be their "cultural ambassador," promoting museums and arts venues in major European cities. He's hosted a television program on Outsider Art, he has a Sunday BBC radio show, and he's made cameos in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox.
This year, he recorded an album (downloadable for free here) for Britian's National Trust. National Trust: The Album features a series of soundscapes recorded at historic sites, from a 17th-century house that's rumored to be haunted to the 1930s-era billiards room of a historic mansion. He told The Independent, "I hope it has the feel of one continuous journey and conjures up an image in the mind's eye of the places featured. I also hope it could inspire the listeners to then visit the sites for themselves."
Respect for history and cultural heritage is a thread that can be followed from the lyrics of his Pulp songs to his recent work with organizations like Eurostar and the National Trust. Cocker has used his distinct style, as well as the force of his personality, to draw attention to everything from cross-cultural art "happenings" in London to the formal gardens at Powis Castle in Wales. For more on the projects mentioned above, click through the links below.
• JarvisCocker.net
• The Story of Common People from TripWire
• Jarvis Cocker Curates National Trust Album from The Independent
• Jarvis Cocker Launches Eurostar Culture Connect
• Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service on BBC6
• Jarvis Cocker Talks About Outside Art from The Times
• Mark Twain
• Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis
• Ernest Hemmingway
Photos: Screenshot from video for Common People by Pulp (1), Subterranean Tourist Board used under Creative Commons License 2.0 (2), Pulp Promotional Image via Wikipedia (3), Pulp Different Class Album Cover via Wikipedia (4), Jarvis by Jarvis Cocker from Amazon.com (5), James Long used under Creative Commons License 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons (6), Olaf Tausch used under GNU Free Documentation License via Wikimedia Commons (7), Boaz Sachs used under Creative Commons License 2.0 (8), Fantastic Mr. Fox via IMDB (9), Mike Mantin used under Creative Commons License 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons (10)


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NBC, which begins broadcasting NASCAR races in 2015, will launch a daily weekday 30-minute motorsports show starting the Monday after the Daytona 500.
Rick Allen, who will anchor the NBC broadcast booth, will be the host of the "NASCAR America" show, which will air at 5 p.m. weekdays on NBC Sports Network starting Feb. 24.
DAYTONA: Schedule, start times | PHOTOS: 2014 Media Tour
NBC NASCAR analyst Jeff Burton, as well as TNT analyst Kyle Petty, drivers Bobby Labonte and Ken Schrader and crew chief Frank Stoddard, will rotate as guest analysts. NBC motorsports reporters Marty Snider and Kelly Stavast will be on the show daily for news updates.
NBC's IndyCar play-by-play voice Leigh Diffey also will serve as a host of the show. IndyCar and Formula One talent for NBC — Wally Dallenbach, Townsend Bell, Steve Matchett, David Hobbs and Will Buxton — also will contribute.
Both of NASCAR's current television partners, Fox and ESPN, have weekday NASCAR shows. Fox's "NASCAR RaceHub" airs daily on Fox Sports 1 while ESPN has "NASCAR Now" on ESPN2.


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The most important fields of a signature are the object expr and env.
The object expr is the expression of the object which this is the signature of (or the closest approximation, if the object is not written in E), except that the method and matcher bodies have been replaced with UnspecifiedExpr, a new EExpr introduced for this purpose, and the auditors (
implements clause) have been eliminated.
The environment field contains a Scope with bindings for every free noun in the object expr. (These will mostly be guards.)
(REVIEW: This proposal therefore exposes every object mentioned in a parameter list. Is this too hazardous? (MarkM feels that the simple rule of "everything between the braces is public" (i.e. from the { of the object to the { of a method) helps.) Are there practical ways to reduce the potential harm from mentioning authority-bearing objects? (User:Kevin Reid,User:Markm,User:dtribble have discussed this 2008-08-14 and decided that nothing need be done.))
The supers field lists additional signatures of protocols which this object also implements, such as by
extends, or explicit protocols.
The miranda signature field holds a signature containing the miranda protocol in use by the E implementation hosting the object whose signature this is. This is the means provided for E programs to see the miranda protocol, and it replaces TypeDesc's approach of including the miranda MessageDescs in every __getAllegedType TypeDesc. It also might be used to detect un-translated mismatches between E system versions.
(NOTE: A planned extension is to allow type-parameterized protocols. This will be done by allowing nouns not bound in the env, but bound by a parameter list instead. Such a signature responds to get/N returning a concrete protocol.)
Maker protocol
(XXX there is no way to specify the mirandaSignature.)
asType() :Guard
Returns the Signature guard, which all products of this maker pass.
run(objectExpr :ObjectExpr, env :Scope) :Signature
As run/3 but with the supers field being
run(objectExpr :ObjectExpr, env :Scope, supers :List[Signature]) :Signature
The specification for this message has not been written.
- Signature: getObjectExpr() :ObjectExpr
Accessor; see state description.
- Signature: getEnv() :Scope
Accessor; see state description.
- Signature: getMirandaSignature() :Signature
Accessor; see state description.
- Signature: getSupers() :List[Signature]
Accessor; see state description.
(REVIEW: Should this be a ConstSet instead of a ConstList?)
- Signature: getFQName() :String
Returns the fully-qualified name constructed from the environment's FQN prefix and the object expr's pattern.
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MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE -- I never signed on with Brinks, but was passed to them after Moni sold the company. Today I received a letter from Brinks, stating from now on my monitoring fee went up $3.00 per month and extended service plan is $50. All of which I never agreed to. My alarm went off, and I never got a call, and when I called them, I got a recording saying we're closed on Sundays. My question was then who is monitoring on Sunday? I'm trying to find another company, any ideas?
The Brinks customer service representative was extremely pushy and unhelpful. I called to get some pricing information for my fiance and I to discuss later that night, and the representative spent the entire phone call collecting my contact information (not once did he ask for my fiance's info) and then he immediately went into scheduling a technician to come out. I told him that I don't need to schedule a technician until I find out about what type of services they offer without a landline and what are the price differences of those services. I specifically wanted more info about the cellular system because our neighborhood has spotty signals.
He then tried to push me into committing to a deal on an IP internet connection system, an offer that "is only good today." I said that I needed to discuss any commitments with my fiance first because his name would go on the account (he's the official home owner), and that I was only calling for pricing information. I couldn't have a decision until tomorrow. To this, he responded that he "needed to wrap this up since [he's] not allowed to spend more than 5 minutes talking with a person who is not the direct decision-maker." Um... excuse me? What kind of customer service is this?
He was clearly only interested in making a sale - I even said that I would call him back directly for the sale if he would just answer my questions! Or that if he had to go, perhaps he could transfer me to another representative to answer my questions. He repeated that he needed to speak with my fiance for anything further... Why??? We don't have an account with them, so I wasn't asking for my fiance's confidential info... I just wanted PRICES!
For the record, I was the one calling for information because my fiance works 60+ hours a week and he doesn't have time to waste with rude customer service reps. (Sadly, that responsibility falls on me!) Needless to say, I told the representative "Never mind", and that we won't be needing their services after all.
I agree - Beware of Brinks!!!! Their business tactics are completely unprofessional. I have a VOIP phone that I switched to after the alarm was installed. It is not compatible with Brinks so I called them in July to verify with their support line. They stated that I needed them to install another component and in addition I would have to sign up to a contract extension. I declined and requested to drop the service so they prompted me with no billing for three months and then I could call back and decide about the installation of this component. I never called so knowing that they could not monitor the system they decided to start the billing again.
I did not notice my statements until January that this was occurring. Each month of billing was @ $27.99. I called again to request the closure of my account and to try to collect some of the months they billed without being able to perform any services, but they refused. They don't even prorate the service like all other service carriers. I confirmed the cancellation one day after a new month of service started and they billed me for the whole month. I would never do business with them. They also make the alarm sound at the middle of the night if you do not continue with the service and there is no way to permanently stop it.
You will be woken up every night to disable it. This is planned, I guess they feel if you are not going with their service you should not be able sleep at night. Another bad thing with their service is that it does not actually do any monitoring so if someone was to cut your phone line Brinks would not even know about it. I had to let them know that they had no connectivity to my unit. Overall they are a deceptive company, you can read many other customer dissatisfaction online. Also the alarm doesn't work all the time and they refuse to acknowledge this.
CHARLETON, WEST VIRGINIA -- Shop, Shop, Shop, before you choose Brinks Home Security services for your home or business. When your contract runs out & you terminate your services Brinks dials into your system and programs your system totally useless. You can't even use the system for personal use unmonitored if you choose to. They program false reporting codes to pop up in your security keypad that routinely set off the alarm usually late at night and this will happen every 24 hours unless you resubscribe to their overpriced monitoring service or totally render system useless by powering down system never to use again.
Just about all other home security companies equipment will belong to you after your contract ends & you are able to at least use system for your own personal security monitoring but not Brinks. No other security monitoring company service is compatible with the Brinks equipment..... Horrible Horrible Horrible Company to do business with. Think more than twice before choosing Brinks Security.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- If you are contacted by Brinks Home Security that there is an intrusion in your home and they state: "We have contacted the authorities", What they are actually stating: "We have our reference number; if nobody shows up we have our reference number." On two separate intrusions the authorities never showed until I personally contacted them. When I brought this to Brinks attention, guess what? We have our reference number. So... if I am laying dead in my home, Brinks will say... "Well we have our reference number." But, according to their commercials... they say: "We are calling the authorities and they are on their way."
How do they know that? They don't, because they are actually concerned about their reference number. Think about the money you could be saving. Just go and purchase some nice security bars or a surveillance cameras. Guess what? You will not have any intrusions, you will still have your personal property and your insurance premiums will not go up. Because with Brinks their primary concern is their reference number and the money you are paying for a service not being rendered. For the stress and inconvenience they should be held accountable for implying a service that does not exist. I wonder where the liability would be if I was killed?
ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- Stay away from this company as far as you can. After using Brinks for +3 years, I just discovered that my contract terms were horrendous, emphasis on "getting you coming and going". My initial contract period was 3 years. Since I didn't notify of cancellation +30 days prior to my anniversary date, I was locked in for another 12 MONTHS! Brinks retains ownership of the equipment, requiring you at cancellation/termination to either pay some outrageous amount ($500 per customer rep, but not specified in my contract) or allow Brinks to come and physically remove most system components. So WHY PAY 50% more than competitors?
Brinks charges outrageous rates to repair your system (even though they continue to own the stupid thing). These are LABOR CHARGES (roughly $90/hour). If you sell the property being monitored and the new owners do not sign up for Brinks service or you simply terminate your service, you are required to pay Brinks for service for the remaining life of the contract (REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY DO ANYTHING AT ALL FOR YOU).
There is no other way to describe this but DECEPTIVE and DISHONEST.
Other companies (we have Ackerman here in Atlanta) install the system and let you pay as you go - i.e. the system belongs to you and you can leave at any time (to switch to another monitoring service). BRINKS = EVIL. Stay away from them. I recommend talking to regional/local companies who can provide the same type of equipment and service under FAR BETTER TERMS.
PROS: Good installer, Decent monitoring service, Decent customer service. CONS: DECEPTIVE SALES PRACTICES ("It's good that Brinks retains ownership of the equipment - no cost for parts" with no mention of what happens when you terminate service, emphasis on the $500 charge or visit to remove the system components leaving holes in your drywall), No mention of auto-renewal for 12-mo periods, etcetera.
DECEPTIVE CONTRACTS - Read the fine print, they are liable for nothing and you (Sucker) are caught between a rock and a hard place. You also get nothing for paying 50% higher than competitors for monitoring (that costs them virtually nothing). LIQUIDATED DAMAGES (Right to demand that you pay unearned revenue per stated life of your contract, right to force you to pay for the system or allow Brinks to remove it - BTW any repairs to cover drywall holes are your responsibility.) Our smoke detector has apparently never worked
HOUSTON, TEXAS -- My husband recently purchased new windows for the house, so we were looking forward to reduced electric bills this summer. Brinks installed a home security system in June, and our electric bills were higher than they were last year. We didn't think the two might be related until we had our a/c checked. The technician pointed out gashes in our ductwork due to cables being dragged carelessly over them, and one duct IS COMPLETELY KNOCKED OFF having been stepped on by the Brinks installer.


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1948 Mickey Mantle High-School Junior Yearbook
Starting Bid - $200, Sold For - $823
High-school yearbooks of celebrities have long been a popular field of collecting. The high-school yearbooks of the greatest American icons have an especially broad appeal. Presented here is one of the more desirable examples in the world of sports: Mickey Mantle's 1948 junior yearbook from Commerce High School, located in Commerce, Oklahoma. Titled Bengal Tales, the yearbook pictures Mantle three different times, most prominently as a member of his junior class. Mantle is also pictured as a member of the football team (group photo) and a member of the basketball team (group photo). This yearbook has a special significance to Mantle's career, as such an important part of the Mantle legend is the attention his ball playing received while he was still in high school, and his signing to the Yankees' minor league team in Independence, Kansas, just weeks after graduating in 1949. Less than two years later, direct from the plains of Oklahoma and Commerce High School, Mickey Mantle conquered New York and the world both with his charisma and his playing. As far as celebrity yearbooks go, Mickey Mantle's is a classic, and it is also naturally rare, as Commerce was a very small school, with only forty-two students in the 1948 graduating class. (The entire student enrollment in 1948 was 201.) The name of the original owner, Louise Welch (she was in Mantle's junior class), is written in ink a number of times on the interior. The leather-bound book (8.5 x 11 inches) displays heavy wear, including partial separation of the covers from the spine and a large water stain that affects nearly every page. Unlike most yearbooks, this example does not feature interior inscriptions to a particular classmate, but does include a few stray notations on some of the pages. In Good condition overall. Reserve $200. Estimate $400+. SOLD FOR $823
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Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
I made 3 jams containing different berries:
- Blueberry Rhubarb Lime Jam
- Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
- Sea-Buckthorn Jam


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
VISUAL JOURNALISM: The Artist as Reporter - Part 3
Richard Gangel, the art director of Sports Illustrated from 1960-1981, encouraged reportage drawing. He sent artists all over the world to cover topics such as golf, spring training in Florida, and football.
Gangel sent Bob Peak on an assignment to travel with the Shah of Iran during a tiger hunt.
Peak said it was his most exotic assignment as well as his most rewarding: "To do pictures for this assignment I spent seventeen days on horseback (the grandstand at the racetrack was my only previous relationship with horses)..."
"... lived in the Shah's hunting palace..."
"... had eight-course meals at dusk in tents with Persian rugs."
"It was an unbelievable experience – exhausting physically, but an emotional skyrocket. I did some sketches on location, but one doesn't sketch well on top of an Arabian Steed, so I took a couple of thousand photographs. The days and evenings kept me so busy that I didn't have the pictures processed until my return to New York."
"There a case of dysentery, picked up by drinking from a sparkling, apparently harmless stream in Iran, put me in the hospital."
"Ninety percent of the drawings were done on butcher's paper with watercolor and crayon while I was flat on my back. The finished art in this case is hardly discernible from the on-the-spot sketches."
"Although I worked largely from photographs, I could never have understood the fantastic color and uniqueness of this subject without having experienced it myself. Reportage of this kind is one of the most valid functions of the illustrator."
*Bob Peak quote from the 1967 Famous Artists Course Book
Austin Briggs traveled to Idaho to follow a group of elk hunters for this series in 1962.
The feature was printed as a portfolio with the text consisting of Briggs talking about his experience on the trip.
Continued tomorrow.
* Daniel Zalkus is an illustrator with a passion for on-the-spot drawing. You can see some of Daniel's own excellent work at his website.
* The Bob Peak scans in today's post are courtesy David Apatoff
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a tremendous collection. i wonder if the ipad will somehow bring this type if on location drawing back.ReplyDelete
It's interesting how different Austin Briggs work is in today's post when you compare it to the stuff from Monday.ReplyDelete
Tomer, maybe Asif? interesting that you mention the ipad as a location vehicle. didn't even think that but well i guess you can say it is already here with George Columbo's NYer covers. Though that to me is more of a painting of a spot used for atmosphere. More of a fine art feel than reportage. But would be cool to see artists doing reportage series on the ipad. hummm...ReplyDelete
Leif and Daniel,ReplyDelete
You have done a tremendous job illuminating the often unknown and under-explored world of reportage illustration.
Your scholarship honors the illustrators you mentioned, as well as other great on-the-spot illustrators like David J. Passalacqua, Feliks Topolski and many others.
The legacy of Reportage Illustration lives on in the teaching of Dalvero Academy (http://dalvero.wordpress.com/) as well as the work of Veronica Lawlor, Margaret Hurst and Studio 1482 (http://www.studio1482.com/).
Dalvero Academy and Mystic Seaport have a show of Reportage art called: "Restoring a Past, Charting a Future" – The artist/illustrators from Dalvero documented the restoration of the worlds last wooden whale ship - The Charles W. Morgan.
For more info, visit http://dalveromystic.com.
We love your series. Thank you!
I'm glad you're enjoying the article this week. It's funny that you mention Topolski's work. Be sure to look for tomorrows post.
This is so exceptional. Sketch Crawl on steroids. These guys did great work and Gangel was a terrific art director. So fresh and powerful. What about Al Parker's Monaco GranPrix series?ReplyDelete
Thank you both! Gave you guys a shout out in an article about the show. Great, great article! Sometimes it feels like reportage art exists in a void. Daniel, your series provides an eloquent and necessary context.ReplyDelete
Thanks Alex! I love on-the-spot drawing and I'm happy to write about it. Hopefully it'll get people to see what's been done in the past and see the possibilities in it.ReplyDelete
Then again I'm biased because I do reportage drawing in my own work too.
I like the way Peak used little vignettes opposite the big rectangular images in the Shah hunting assignment.ReplyDelete


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Ken Block style. That guy is cool and so are his Spy signature shades.
think twice...
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
well...I was totally excited to get a pair of there awesome looking shades...
Since I reside in Croatia at the moment I took me a great deal to order them from you guys, and then for my uncle to bring them over to Europe a few months later.
Love them, they are light, fashionable...cool looking...however...I'm disappointed with the quality of the lens itself...
I'm a OAKLEY fan...had about 3 pairs until I decided I'll give a try to spy's (this came from the fact that I have a pair of superb SpyOptic snowboarding goggles and I"m more than happy with those in every aspect)...but to be honest I'm not happy at all with the quality of the lens...the frame is ok...even thought if you drop them (as I have) it shows instantly....
Would I recommend them...well...yes...if you are not a hardcore adrenaline junkie...but rather a "smooth operator" that will sit and have coffee all day long checking out chicks at the beach...
I think I'll stick to OAKLEY or Rudy Project in the future.
p.s. all heads up for the customer service, delivery and support to guys and gall's @ Backcountry.com though
Spy Helm
I love these.
Best shades yet
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
I am an Oakley fanatic. I own more pairs than any one person should, yet I wear these Spy's EVERYDAY. I used to own the Oakley Holbrooks's... the Helm's kick the Holbrook's butt.
These are also my go to running shades. They don't bounce and work much better than any athletic fitting pair. Plus I look super cool.
They are lightweight, durable, stay on your head when you walk inside and put them up, amazing in any light condition, I could keep going... These things have been dropped too many times and are hardly beat up. There may be a few scratches but I guess that's to be expected with the amount that I put these through.
They haven't broken or bent on me yet (I've sat on them in my car, had them shoved in my bag, dropped them countless times). You'd think I'd be more careful but sometimes I just forget they are on my head!
I've been told they are too big for my face. BUT I do not care one bit. :) They are so comfy and the color kicks BUTT. Plus there's the added benefit of no one being able to see me stare at them. The lens is killer.
Rad Sunglasses For stylish people.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
These glasses are awesome. I got the FADE TO BLACK Rolling Hills/Bronze-Green Spectra colorway and they look awesome. If you like bright glasses these are for you. Great optics as well. Not too big not too small.
Radical Shades
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
- Fit: True to size
My boyfriend loves these sunglasses (especially because they have Ken Block's number on them). They fit perfectly, and you can switch up the color on the sides of the frame too!
Cool Looks, OK Optics
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Usually, people shop for sunglasses based on looks. So, if you like these then you like these. They are slightly bigger and more square than Oakley Frogskins. A little smaller than their Holbrooks. The frame construction is fairly sturdy. I worry about the interchangable ear pieces though. The earpieces snap on and off sliding over a small ball bearing type plastic nub. If you swapped the earpieces consistently, I think the nubs would rub off and no longer hold the ear pieces to the frame. Also, the lens optics are a little sub-Oakley quality although they are MUCH better than cheap-o imitators like the Neff Daily Shades. Overall, I am very happy with the glasses, I am just partial to Oakleys construction and lenses when paying the same price. On sale, I would give these 4*'s and prefer them over the above Oakleys. If you need another celebrity face to look at, you can also find these on Aaron Kauffman in this seasons (3) Fast 'N Loud series.
Perfect Summer Shades
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Picked these up this past May to be my everyday around-town pair of glasses. They're super light-weight and stay put on my face pretty darn well for a non wrap-around style frame. The styling is spot on, the frames aren't obscenely large but are bigger than a traditional Rayban, a perfect middle ground in my opinion. Construction is just nylon grilamid so they don't have the acetate feel that a lot of people love. Doesn't bother me personally but they aren't going to be an especially tough frame. That being said, I haven't been gentle on these glasses and the are holding up just fine. The lenses seem to be a bit prone to collecting dirt and fingerprints, so be prepared to have a cleaning cloth handy if you like your lenses to be spick and span. My only concern with this frame is the removable temples, I'm just not sure how many times the hinge and temple pieces are going to be able to handle he removal process. You just have to be very deliberate and careful while switching the temples. Solid overall piece, would recommend to anybody looking for some casual and stylish eye-wear.
Great glasses! Fits a medium sized face
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
- Fit: True to size
I've got a small face that usually makes most shades look huge on me. However, these glasses do a great job of a fitting most faces and look great. The overall quality of the glasses is good, but not great. So far I have dropped them while biking/hiking a few times and they've held up without any scratches. Still I wouldn't be careless with them!
FADE TO BLACK Orange Crush/Bronze-Orange
Man these glasses are cool. The design is really great and I'll probably buy a few more in different colors. These are well built glasses and the colors are outstanding!
...one of my favorite songs!
These don't fit to my face like i wanted and they feel REALLY cheap for a $100 dollar pair of glasses. Very disappointing.
Victor, ID Trailride
Right before we set out on a trail ride up into the Tetons in Victor, ID. Rocking the Spy Helms in Blk/Gry
Spy Helm
I purchased these glasses in the Black/Grey colorway and love them. Spy did a great job of putting their unique touch on a classicly styled frame. I love wearing them while riding my street bike and they have also worked great on the inside of a helmet while dirt-biking. These are my daily shades that look great!!
the high cost of steeze
There's a lot to really like about the Helm - pretty sweet color options, nice lenses, on-point branding, and the cool earstem interchangeability (bear in mind that not every pair comes with extras - look for "With Extra Set" in the title). The retro, squared-off flair (definitely dig the keyhole nosebridge) is also very on-trend, and is quite similar to the Oakley Holbrook and the Electric Knoxville, though the Helm lens profile is a few millimeters taller. That being said, while the construction and the quality seems fine enough, I think the Helm is a tougher sell than some of Spy's other offerings at this price point. The finish on the matte colorways is admittedly a little rough around the edges, and I'm also not crazy about the fit - seems like with the lightweight nylon grilamid construction and the hinge design, the frame would be quite a bit more flexible than it is, but the frame width and earstem angle isn't quite ideal for those with slightly wider heads. But at the end of the day, the Helm looks totally awesome and that was probably the whole point for Spy all along, so I'll just shut up now.
* you can swap out the earstems, but their attachment points aren't any different than the Oakley Frogskin (who does NOT advertise this interchangeability), and I would assume this could increase the likelihood of breakage if not done correctly every time
* $5 from your purchase of the "Keep a Breast" colorway (which comes in a fun, limited-edition "I love boobies" microfiber case) goes to the non-profit's education and awareness programs designed to "inform young people about methods of [breast cancer] prevention, early detection, coping and support."
Ken Block wears his Signature Helm Livery Sunglasses
Block'd Outta Luck
Ordered the Ken Block Livery Helm's only to have my dreams crushed by Dogfunk when they shipped me the Primer Helm's instead and then ran out of the color I originally ordered after they told me they'd ship out the right color.....wtf? Still a solid pair of sunglasses.They're comfortable and the lenses are dope and they kill the sun for sure. The extra temple pieces are a nice touch so you can switch out the color.It is somewhat nerve wracking though, prying them off the plastic knobs that holds them on. I can't imagine you switching them out more than 3-4 times without breaking something. Gonna be sending these ones back and ordering somewhere else. Later Dogfunk.
Ken Block + SPY
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