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Etsy has just announced the acquisition of A Little Market, a French company that serves as "an online destination for consumers in France looking for creative goods made by local artists and designers." Sounds a lot like...yes, Etsy of course.
Although Etsy didn't disclose the financials on the deal, The Wall Street Journal quotes a source who says that the deal was Etsy's sixth, and biggest yet.
Still, the deal is reportedly valued at less than $100 million.
"While Etsy's business in France is primarily import/export — shoppers in other countries buying from local sellers — A Little Market has been focused on domestic growth among French sellers and buyers. The mission we believe in is aligned across both platforms. A Little Market shares our strategy of supporting designers, artists and makers to start and scale their independent, creative businesses, bringing to market one-of-a-kind goods. They emphasize handmade and work to keep the buying experience human and friendly," says Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson.
A Little Market will continue to operate independently, according to Dickerson.
"Together, Etsy and A Little Market are incredibly well-positioned to reimagine commerce in France, the world's fifth largest economy," says Dickerson.
Etsy's last major acquisition was that of Grand St., a hardware marketplace, which happened back in April.
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Margaret Keane, age 87, of Russell Springs, died Sunday, February 16, 2014 at the Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington. She is survived by:
Two Daughters
- Penny Taylor of Russell Springs
- Linda Holbrook of Jamestown
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- Emma King, Mossie King, Sherry King, and Erma Jo King all of Greenup County
Other Survivors
- 9 grandchildren
- 19 great grandchildren
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at the Bernard Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Bethlehem Cemetery. Friends may call for visitation after 12:00 p.m. Thursday at the Bernard Funeral Home in Russell Springs.


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Interested in purchasing an Ammolite pendant and would like to know if the cruise ship (Princess) or what towns might carry them.
We just returned. Yes, Princess and Holland America lines have this stone in their gift shops but you will pay a premium, Premioum price there. Even more expensive in Juneao and Whitehorse. Wait until Skagway, or the excursion that has the Panning for Gold activity. Of course if you find gold you will want to buy a locket $$ and a Chain$$$! I just bought the locket, the smallest I could get.
North Pole was very fun shopping, good prices and tons of selection! Everywhere you go there's ammolite, gold quarts, and jade. With every town we arrived in the jade prices went lower and lower. Jade became lighter and lighter! If you want high quality, densely deep Jade buy early in your trip. If you are okay with a lighter green but still very beautiful, wait. You can get it in whale-tails, bears, moose, traditional shapes,pendants and earrings
There's nothing in the Mendenhall gift shops but books and videos- there was a little jewelry but it's glass, nothing special.
The shops near Denali were nice.
Holland America has a jewelry spokesperson who will educate guests on how to buy jewelry and steer you toward the stores she has a relationship with. For me, those preferrred stores were still too high so I waited, and I got all the jewelry and gifts I wanted at reasonable prices.
Be patient.
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AND CALENDAR ON THE LINKS ABOVE!RANDY'S BIO. Randy Mayfield is an accomplished singer & songwriter who has traveled extensively, both in the U.S. and internationally to more than 90 countries. In addition to his live performances in venues as diverse as the Fox Theater, Powell Concert Hall and the Sheldon Theater in St. Louis. The Grand Old Opry, the Blue Bird Cafe in Nashville & The Long Beach Arena. He has performed with artists such as Dionne Warwick, Natalie Cole, Andre Crouch, Mel Torme and opened concerts for Jaci Valasquez, Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael English and many others. Randy has also performed with Symphony orchestras in concert halls all over the U.S., Great Britain, Iraq, Eastern and Western Europe and the former Soviet Union and he has performed the National Anthem for numerous professional ball clubs including the St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals and many others. He has led chapel services for both the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball and STL Rams football teams and has performed in concert at Federal prisons and jails throughout Missouri, Illinois, Texas and California. He has performed for a numerous national conventions and conferences throughout the world. Randy has been nominated for four regional Emmy awards and has received numerous national music awards for his singing and songwriting including the Billboard Songwriting Awards and the Christian Artists "Song of the Year" award at Estes Park, CO. He has produced a number of CD's including seven CD's of his own songs that can be found on all online music sites, including "Classic Randy Mayfield," "Christmas in St. Louis," and a CD collection entitled, "The Journey." He just finished his first Children's CD entitled, "All God's Children" and he produced and performed on, "A Cardinal Christmas" for the St. Louis Cardinals and his music and charity concerts have raised over $200,000 for local and international charities and ministries. His song, "The Rally Squirrel" was heard by millions as it was featured during game 6 of the 2011 World Series on Fox Sports. Many of his videos can be found on Youtube and his music can be downloaded on CDbaby.com, I-tunes, Amazon and all online music sites. Randy's music can be heard on Youtube and you can find links here; http://www.randymayfield.com/buy-music/ Randy is the pastor of Missions & Outreach at the Central Evangelical Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, Missouri where he has served for more than 38 years. He lives in Ballwin, Missouri with his girlfriend and bride, Sharon, and they have two grown children. A daughter, Amanda and her husband Brian, who live in Alaska with their precious granddaughter, Afton, and his son Justin and his bride, Mariah who live in Inverness, California.
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BRAZIL - DECEMBER 2015HONDURAS - JANUARY 2016 IRAQ CONCERTS & OUTREACH TO REFUGEES AND MILITARY - FEBRUARY 2016 RUSSIA - COMFORT FOUNDATION & ORPHANS: MARCH 2016 PHILIPPINES - APRIL 2016 Check out this video from U-2 about my upcoming concert! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6glNYraeZ1s Here are some photos from the night! Great evening, great music and a great crowd. Thank You All! Scott Wesley Brown & Randy Mayfield sing, "Please Don't Send Me to Africa!"


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Discussion for Accidental Time Machine is at Google!August 7, 2008 at 6:37 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Everyone is invited to join my new google group, READING WITH BECKY. Please leave your email address in the comments of this post. I'm hoping that by taking this extra step–instead of making the group "public"–that I'll be able to avoid some spam. (I have had spammers sign up to Mr. Linkys before which was just very very weird!) But all book lovers are welcome.
As we transition over, I would like to place the emphasis on the group. This isn't "my" group. This is "our" group. You are an important part of the group. Your opinions are valuable; your participation is central. Without your continued time and energy, this would just be me posting about me. And that just isn't much fun!!!
All future books will be discussed via google group. Including August's selection of The Accidental Time Machine. I'm hoping that this "forum" aspect will encourage more participation.
One of the main reasons I'm happy to make the switch is that I want group members to have the freedom to post as much and as often as they'd like. A chance to lead the discussions. A chance to have a more hands-on experience. Members will have the ability to start new discussions, reply to any discussions, create new pages, and upload files to the group.
I'd also welcome the opportunity if others want to take a turn selecting a book and leading that month's conversations. I'd still join in most likely (if my library has a copy) but I wouldn't be *responsible* for the discussion so much.
You do NOT have to participate in every group read to join the group. You can join the group knowing that you'll be participating in *some* months but not in others. I don't require a commitment up front on how many you'll be participating in!
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Not true to color, but a good case
I give this case four out of five instead of five out of five stars because of the color. The cyber blue case looks like it will be a light, bright blue. In all actuality, it's a much darker metallic blue, with hints of purple. Don't get me wrong, the color is still gorgeous, but I wish the advertised color was more true to the actual color. I have yet to drop my phone, so I can't attest to how durable the case is in that manner. This is a much sleeker case than my Otter Box case; it's also much less expensive than the Otter Box cases, on sale of course. The case fits very snugly, so it takes a little elbow grease to get off and on, but that's something one should expect with a case for a phone. So far, I like the case and for 1/3 the actual price, it's a steal.
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Simple Ideas To Impress The Girl You Want
It's Not As Complicated As It Seems!
You meet her. She seems completely adorable...You really want to get to know her. And it's important that you try to give her a good impression, but you're not sure how. You're worried, nervous and totally unsure of yourself. You start making it seem so complicated!
But it's not! I should know, I'm a woman who's really fussy about who she'll date, but potentially could easily be won over should the man play his cards right and make a good impression!
Here I've listed five easy ways you can easily impress the girl you like, and you'll see it's simple, uncomplicated and not really very stressful at all, it's mostly just common sense stuff!
How To Make A Good Impression:
- Be friendly. It makes sense doesn't it! If you want to give a girl a good impression you should appear to be someone who is friendly and easy to talk to. Hold back on the flirting a little, and just be polite and friendly because you don't want to come across as sleezy. Even if by chance you only have a few minutes of conversation, you could always say something like "I'm sorry I have to go, you seem really nice, would I be able to have your number so we could get in touch again or can I give you my number?". That's brave and impressive and doesn't involve any kind of pickup line!
- Call her. If you have her number and you like her, so long as you know she is single CALL HER! It gives a good impression when you call rather than text, because the girl knows you're wanting to have a REAL conversation with her and that you want to hear her voice. But no matter how much you can't stop thinking about her, if you call or text someone you don't know very well during the early morning or during their work hours, you risk coming off as annoying. To ensure you're being respectful towards her as she goes about her day, ensure you call her after hours. Girls sometimes receive random text messages from men they've met in the past; they usually don't take them seriously and often ignore them. Don't let her put you in that category, save the texting until you know her a little better because nothing you write is going to impress her when she hardly knows you, and you may be left without a reply.
- Show thoughtfulness. It doesn't matter what your shape, height, hair color or salary is when it comes to making a good impression with woman. We notice someone who shows they are genuinely interested in us, and who take the time to make us feel special and important. So even if you're extremely shy and nervous, if you've taken someone out for dinner and you notice she's just finished her drink and you think to ask her if you can order her another one, we are impressed. You appear thoughtful, and that's what we want!
- Tell her where you're at and what kind of relationship you're looking for. If you want a female to be romantically interested in you, they need to know you're available, and what you might be looking for with them. You don't need to go into any great details about it, in fact just saying something like "I've been single for 6 months now and I'm looking for a girlfriend" should do the trick. It's impressive to woman when a man is clear about where he is in life and can say exactly what he's looking for, so we have no confusion about it.
- Show how genuine you are. Even if you don't know her very well if you're telling her about your family and introducing her to your friends it shows her she is not going to be a 'secret' and that you are genuinely interested in her. Girls enjoy getting to know your world and she will be impressed by you not being afraid to involve her with other people in your life...Giving her flowers is a good way to show your genuine intentions too!
Just Be Sincere
Ultimately, when you're trying to make a good impression, all you really need to do is be sincere in your actions and in your words, without seeming too pushy!
Good luck! And remember there's always a second chance to make a good impression!
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This is very true. These 5 things and respect are important, very important at least to me. Lovely Hub Stricktlydating:)
Hey Good Hub stricktlydating and to all the boys do all 5 of these things to a girl and she will like you and you will get her good luck to all the boys out there!!!!
Wow really cool article. I will fall for this.
I often wonder what I used to do when my main occupation was the seduction of nubile young ladies. I must have been doing something right because I had considerable success. I remember being quite nasty and forward and tried to climb aboard the first night. Faint heart and all that.
Now I am in my dotage - and for some years - I have put women on a pedestal and been rewarded by being treated like chopped liver.
I'm sorry, and I don't want to offend, but "Keep 'em keen - treat 'em mean" really seems to work with femmes.


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Berkshire Grown's March Maple Dinner 2011
It's the Berkshire food community's version of March Madness: Berkshire Grown's five-course March Maple dinner that is held annually to showcase local food and chefs. Hosted this year by Gala Restaurant & Bar at the Orchards Hotel in Williamstown, the evening began with dazzling passed hors d'oeuvres from Wild Oats Market and The Williams Inn. Peter Platt of Old Inn on the Green set the pace with a sublime first course of maple glazed smoked salmon (left). It was followed by four more delectable courses by Nick Moulton of Mezze Bistro + Bar, Chris Bonniver of Gala, Brian Alberg of the Red Lion Inn, and Joshua Needleman of Chocolate Springs. The most talked-about dish was Bonniver's creamy maple-and-bacon panna cotta that was surreptitiously spiked with pop rocks (a carbonated candy that fizzes as it dissolves in your mouth) which had people gasping in shock—and delight.
Mezze sous chef Nick Moulton, who prepared the second course (maple-cured bacon with a 60-minute Mighty Food Farm egg and Tobasi cheese foam on brioche) with Chocolate Springs founder Joshua Needleman who made the dessert (salted chocolate mousse cake with maple-glazed pecans and Sweet Brook Farm maple gelato); Williams College students and editors of the online magazine Gastronomic Gusto, Katie White & Thammika Songkaeo.
Host chef Chris Bonniver of Gala Restaurant & Bar who prepared the third course (coffee-crusted Waygu beef with smoked tomato and Ioka Farm Maple panna cotta studded with pop rocks) with Berkshire Grown executive director Barbara Zheutlin, and Gala sous chef Mike Kelly.
Sheffield corn farmers David Prouty & Bruce Howden; Berkshire Grown board members Julie Michaels and Jan Johnson with Barbara Zheutlin.
State senator Ben Downing with BG board member Tom Curtin and arts consultant Cathy Deely.
Photographer and real estate broker Jonathan Hankin with attorney Peter Cherneff; Lisa Cushman and Becky Gold.
Red Lion Inn executive chef Brian Alberg who prepared the fourth course (maple-cured Muscovy duck breast with maple-sherry dressed arugula and maple-roasted peanuts) and Red Lion innkeeper Michele Kotek.


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"Courage" -- David Ragan Signature Mustang GT
This 2014 Mustang GT was custom modified by the team of NASCAR driver David Ragan for use as a promotional car that toured around the country. It is a fitting celebration of the 50 year anniversary of the Ford Mustang and there is even a limited edition silver coin with this Collector Car on the face.
It is named "Courage" to inspire everyone who sees it to dream, and to believe in their abilities to accomplish whatever they set out to do in life.
The Flight for the Human Spirit began with a dream after pilot Michael Combs overcame a life threatening illness. He then went on to set six world records and inspire more than 29 million people to follow their dreams.
Believe us, within you lies unbelievable Courage that will rise up at the right time and carry you over amazing obstacles and through many open doors.
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Know how to tie a room together with the proper drapes and couch combo? Know how to convert a humdrum government lobby into a setting where federal employees, slogging through the backlog of veterans' disability claims, can bask amid the soothing decor?
Then you may be the right interior designer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is hiring three tastemakers for their Palo Alto digs.
The post advertising for the new positions — ranging from $81,460 to $105,897 in annual salary — calls for designers who can assist with the "furnishing, office furniture, draperies, wall coverings, finishes, colors, etc." of the facility.
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Fifty South Restaurant and Bar in Ballston Spa on Thursday (11/29) will host farmer Michael Kilpatrick of Kilpatrick Family Farm in Middle Granville, who will discuss his food and his experience working over the summer with celebrated farmer and author Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
A buffet (after the jump) featuring Kilpatrick's chicken, turkey and organic vegetables will be served from 5 p.m., and Kilpatrick will speak around 7:30 p.m. The price is $20 per person, plus tax and tip.
The restaurant is located at 2128 Doubleday Ave. (Route 50). Call 884-2926 for info or reservations.
- Kilpatrick Farm Spinach dip served with Sheldon farm potato chips
- Kilpatrick Farm Turkey fajaita soup
- Kilpatrick Farm Turkey Tetrazzini (Battenkill cream, Kilpatrick farm carrots, parsnip, greens (instead of peas) and Pleasant Valley farm onions and garlic served with gemeli pasta)
- Kilpatrick farm chicken cassoulet
- Sautéed Kilpatrick Farm spinach and greens in garlic olive oil
- Kilpatrick Farm Roasted root vegetables
- Kimchi using Kilpatrick farm napa cabbage and it is SPICY
- Vegetarian Pad Thai
- Kilpatrick Farm Organic greens served with macerated Kilpatrick Farm beets and chocolate chevre
- Apple crisp made with Saratoga Apples
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Law counting prisoners towards population in home community could redraw districts in Dems favor
LATFOR should use the results of the Assembly's study as they continue the redistricting process. The Daily News wrote about the study on how to count prisoners for purposes of redistricting.
ALBANY - Prisoners in New York can't vote, but they may decide which party controls the state Senate next year.
A new law now requiring prisoners to be counted toward the population of their home community - rather than where they are serving time - could dramatically alter the political landscape of more than a dozen upstate districts.
That's because state officials will redraw legislative and congressional districts based on 2010 Census Bureau population figures in time for the 2012 elections.
And prisons disproportionately dot upstate New York - while the majority of inmates committed their crimes in urban areas.
The Daily News has learned Assembly Democrats will unveil a study today showing that 12 upstate GOP Senate districts and one suburban Democratic district will each lose at least 1,000 people without the inclusion of inmates at local prisons.
"The chips fall whatever way they do," Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said.
Silver defended the new prison-counting law and denied it was passed for partisan purposes last year when Democrats controlled the Senate and the Assembly. Republicans have since retaken a 32-30 advantage.
"These are the facts according to the law and not done for political partisan advantage at all," Silver insisted. "It impacts some of our closer [Democratic seats] upstate negatively."
The Senate GOP has sued to strike down the new law as unconstitutional.
"Regardless of the outcome of this lawsuit, we're absolutely confident that New Yorkers will vote to keep Republicans in the Senate majority in 2012," GOP Senate spokesman Scott Reif said.
"Why would anyone want to return to the scandals, overspending and high taxes Senate Democrats were known for?" he added.
But with each Senate district required to have at least 312,550 people, political pros say the number of districts in typically conservative rural areas - which have already been hit by population losses - could shrink dramatically.
Conversely, the number of districts would grow near urban centers, like New York City, which are dominated by Democrats.
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Will Dell'Olio Delight Or Disappoint?
Strictly: Will Dell'Olio Delight Or Disappoint?
We took almost a thousand bets on how many points Nancy would get last week and expect to beat that this week. Despite the 'Champagne ban' the early money suggests that Nancy will produce another nasty display and she is 5/6 to score 18 or less. Amazingly Audley, not Nancy, is the favourite to go at 6/5 with Nancy 7/4 and Dan Lobb 7/1.
"To date Nancy has looked truly terrible, but she has had a couple of decent excuses which could perhaps explain her performances. One thing that is for certain is that our punters are not convinced it will be third time lucky," said Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams.
Nancy Dancing Score Week Two: 5/6 18 or less, 5/6 19 or more
50/1 Nancy To Sue A Judge From Strictly For Defamation
Strictly Second Elimination: 6/5 Audley Harrison, 7/4 Nancy Dell'Olio, 7/1 Dan Lobb, 9/1 Lulu, 10/1 Rory Bremner, 33/1 Robbie Savage, 33/1 Anita Dobson, 40/1 Alex Jones, 40/1 Russell Grant, 66/1 Chelsee Healey, 66/1 Harry Judd, 100/1 Jason Donovan
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Things often get complicated in bidding for a major city contract. In the competition for snow removal contracts at the city`s airports, the complications have outlasted the bidding.
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i was also inducted into the lambda alpha beta chapter of the Anthropology Honor Society. I got a groovy card and a certificate. I don't really know what it means to be whatever I am now. In fact, I think it is just a thing to say that you are and has no real meaning or impact. Kinda like Shriners. Or maybe not, cuz Shriners get to drive around in go-carts at parades and they get to wear fezzes (sp? fezi?). More like a member of Congress. Yeah, definitely congress.


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April 24, 2014 – At the CFPB forum on the mortgage closing process Wednesday, bureau Director Richard Cordray
on CFPB's planned "eClosings" pilot program to help consumers through the process.
Speaking at the event, held in Washington, Cordray said the program is part of the bureau's larger "Know Before You Owe" initiative and is an attempt to use technology to help consumers closing mortgages.
"There are several ways that eClosings can pave the way for a more efficient process that is also more empowering for consumers," Cordray said. "Electronic documents can make early delivery more convenient and simple – giving the consumer time to read the documents, consult with family members or professionals, and ask the lender questions … And shifting to an electronic process should lead to greater consistency and accuracy, since automated processes can make it easier to detect discrepancies."
Cordray released the guidelines for the program, which he said will launch in the coming months. NAFCU member Mountain America Credit Union was on the panel of industry and regulatory representatives. Mountain America was the first financial institution to close a Federal Housing Administration insured loan with e-signatures.
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CFPB to further consolidate and simplify the mortgage disclosure documents required at loan closing to make the information easier for consumers and lenders to understand.
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We realized over the past week that we haven't really done any charity releases since our last collaboration with the Mockingbird Foundation.
Since we opened 3 years ago, the gallery has raised over $150,000 for various charities around the world. It's something we have been doing since our first show at Bottleneck and we couldn't thank everyone enough who has helped out so far.
Today, in memory of David Bowie, we will be releasing "Ziggy" by John Keaveney.
The 16 x 16 inch giclee print will cost $35 each and be a timed release starting today at 12pm eastern and ending tonight at 11:59 pm eastern. The number of the edition will be determined at the end of the sale.
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Here at Good News Stories we like to bring the latest good news from around the World, here is a selection of uplifting news stories that we have come across in the last month. With help from Reddit's Uplifting News.
A dog that was overlooked by 14,000 potential owners has found a home in County Durham, the Dogs Trust has said.
Jed, a seven-year-old lurcher, had been with the trust in Sadberge, Darlington, on-and-off since he was four months old.
After they saw an appeal on the BBC website, Jed was given a new home by Ian Woodcock and Elizabeth Marsh.
The couple said he was settling in "really well" with the family and they "absolutely adore him".
The trust said he had been taken in by several families in the past but in each case, due to their circumstances changing, he had to be returned.
Jed now enjoys long walks on the moors, snoozing by the fire and helping Mr Woodcock with the gardening.
A black Labrador named Eclipse just wants to get to the dog park. So if her owner takes too long finishing his cigarette, and their bus arrives, she climbs aboard solo and rides to her stop – to the delight of fellow Seattle bus passengers.
KOMO-TV reports that local radio host Miles Montgomery was amazed to see the pooch get off the bus, without an owner, at a dog park last week.
The dog and her owner, Jeff Young, live right near a bus stop.
In Young's words, "She's a bus-riding, sidewalk-walking dog." Young says his dog sometimes gets on the bus without him, and he catches up with her at the dog park three or four stops away.
Bus riders report she hops onto seats next to strangers, and watches out the window for her stop. Says commuter Tiona Rainwater, "All the bus drivers know her … she makes everybody happy."
A Metro Transit spokesman says the agency loves that a dog appreciates public transit.
Right before Christmas, Warner Bros. quietly gave "Harry Potter" fans what was, for some of them, a long-wished-for gift. In a letter to Andrew Slack, the founder of the Harry Potter Alliance, Joshua Berger, the company's president for Harry Potter Global Franchise Development, announced, "By the end of 2015, and sooner when possible, all Harry Potter chocolate products sold at Warner Bros. outlets and through our licensed partners will be 100-percent UTZ or Fair Trade certified."
It's the sort of victory that, in the past, might have been the result of a pressure campaign by trade advocates or union groups, employing the language of globalization and living wages. But Warner Bros.' commitment to new standards for cocoa production grew out of pressure from and dialogue with "Harry Potter" devotees who wanted to see the franchise live up to the ideals their fictional hero fought for. The win comes after four years of organizing. And it's a fascinating symbol of what activism might look like when it's animated by fiction rather than political parties and when fans form coalitions with devoted advocates.
When Slack and his co-creators founded the Harry Potter Alliance in 2005, they were animated by the idea that J.K. Rowling's novels, inspired both by her own experiences with poverty and her work at Amnesty International, could be a powerful source of moral precepts and ideas about how to build a more just world. They made videos about Walmart, comparing the corporation to Voldemort, the "Harry Potter" novels' totalitarian villain, and started a large book drive. But over time their ambitions grew, applying a similar approach to Suzanne Collins's dystopian exploration of inequality, "The Hunger Games," and considering how alliance members might be convinced to move from what Slack refers to as "charity and acts of service" to more direct advocacy.
"It's all well and good to send the silver parachutes," Slack told me in an interview last week, referring to the care packages that "Hunger Games" characters can send participants during televised fights to the death, "But the Games are still the Games."
Teenager Jamal Rutledge was being booked after his arrest when the officer processing him collapsed and clenched his chest in pain. Apparently, there were no hard feelings on Rutledge's part, because he immediately did all he could to alert officers nearby.
He kicked the facility's security fence to make noise and yelled out for help. Officers quickly responded by cutting off officer Franklin Foulks' vest, performing CPR and using a defibrilator to stimulate Foulks' heart.
Rutldege's actions, back in September, helped save Foulks' life. Now the Fort Lauderdale Police Department is honoring him and the other officers for their actions.


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DALTON, Mass. — Scott Berliner was pressured but not beaten today as he held on for a four-stroke victory in the Northeastern New York PGA Stroke Play Championship at the Wahconah Country Club.
Berliner, assistant pro at McGregor, won his fourth straight Stroke Play title, but it wasn't as easy as it could have been. He had a five-stroke lead after shooting a 4-under-par 67 in the first round.
Berliner had a bumpier second round, finishing with a 4-over 75, but no one overtook him as he finished 36 holes at even-par 142. Peter Gerard, head pro at Mill Road Acres, got to within one shot with six holes to play but bogeyed the 13th, which Berliner birdied.
Gerard finished tied for second at 146 with Taconic's Josh Hillman, who shot the best round of the day, an even-par 71.
Scott Berliner (McGregor), $2,000 67-75—142
Peter Gerard (Mill Road Acres) , $1,225 73-73—146
Josh Hillman (Taconic), $1,225 75-71—146
Milton Torres (Pittsfield), $850 74-74—148
Bob Mucha (Greenock), $750 72-78—150
Anders Mattson (Saratoga National), $600 77-74—151
Steve Mazzariello (Stockbridge), $600 76-75—151
Paul Jaycox (Cobleskill), $450 79-73—152
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Frank Mellet (Colonie) 75-78—153
Kevin Hughes (Saratoga Polo) 75-79—154
Tom Siddon (Massena) 80-74—154
Brad Stewart (Wahconah) 81-75—156
David Strawn (Cranwell) 77-79—156
Tom Sullivan (Wyantenuck) 80-77—157
Glenn Davis (Albany) 76-82—158
Steve Plata (Saratoga National) 83-75—158
Peter Egazarian (Wahconah) 81-78—159
Ian Breen (Colonie) 80-80—160
John Souza (Stadium) 81-79—160
Steve Vatter (Capital Hills) 79-81—160
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I can't believe it's taken me this long to do Violet's four month post. She was four months old on March 11, ten days ago. Just goes to show how crazy busy this girl keeps me. I've been trying to get her on a feeding and nap schedule, which has been a lot harder than I anticipated. Some days she'll nap an hour, others only a half an hour, which throws everything off. We've had a bedtime and bedtime routine established for quite some time now, which has been working great, but for some reason a daily schedule has been difficult. We do have a bit of a routine (awake for two hours, nap, eat, repeat) but the times never really line up. More important than a set schedule for me is just following her natural hunger and sleepiness, so maybe that will just have to work for now.
This month, Violet:
Giggles at everything, it's the CUTEST!
Is exclusively breastfed.
Weighs 13 pounds.
Is 24.5 inches long.
Had her first fever :( it was only 101 the day after her shots, but still so sad to see her not feeling well.
Can roll belly to back and back to belly.
Will scoot in a full circle if laying on her back.
Went on her first little staycation to my dad's house in Chandler for a few nights.
Also went to the Phoenix Zoo.
Is in 3-6 month clothing and just switched to size 2 diapers.
Puts everything in her mouth: her hands, her toys, our hands!
Wakes up 1-2 times a night to eat.
As Violet grows, I really miss her being a tiny, squishy newborn. But even more than that, I love seeing her grow and her personality shine through. She's such a loving little girl, who loves attention and cuddles, which is great for Joe and I ;)


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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SAExploration Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAEX, OTCBB: SAEXW) today announced the signing of a three year strategic cooperation agreement with COMESA to jointly source, acquire and process 2D and 3D seismic data. SAE and COMESA will leverage the respective strengths of the partnership to source and conduct new transition zone and shallow-water projects within Mexico, along with data processing opportunities in South America, which are deemed mutually beneficial to both parties.
Under the terms of the agreement, both companies will share their expertise, resources and technologies in an effort to pursue and fulfill new seismic projects in the region. All project awards earned through this partnership will be contracted separately from this agreement on a project-by-project basis. Joint business development efforts are currently underway.
Brian Beatty, President and CEO of SAE, commented, "We formed this partnership as a response to the increased level of interest in exploration activity within Mexico and the need for enhanced data processing in South America. SAE's expertise in logistics and seismic acquisition services in combination with COMESA's superiority in seismic operations, technology and data processing and interpretation presents a tremendous amount of combined experience and knowledge to the market, enabling us to further solidify our expanding customer base. We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with a well-established and seasoned provider of proven and integral exploration solutions."
Adan Oviedo, President of COMESA, commented, "This partnership will complement COMESA's current capabilities to develop new projects in South America in order to consolidate international operations and diversify clients and markets, according to COMESA's Business Plan."
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Are Bond Funds Safe as Interest Rate Rise?
A key tenant in properly managing your investments is to maintain a well diversified portfolio. A well diversified portfolio usually contains a mix of stock or stock mutual funds and fixed income investments. Stock mutual funds are long term investments that can provide you with growth over a long period of time. Fixed income investments can provide you with short term liquidity, income, and a buffer against stock market volatility. Bond funds have long been a staple in most fixed income portfolios. However, with the threat of rising interest rates, many bond funds may no longer provide the stability you are seeking in the fixed income sleeve of your portfolio.
Interest rates, after dropping close to all time lows, have begun to increase. The bond market had experienced what is commonly referred to as a 30 year bull market. Until recently, interest rates had been steadily dropping since the 1981. As interest rates fell, bond owners experienced a corresponding increase in the value of their bonds. Generally, when you buy a bond and interest rates decrease, the market value of the bond will rise. On the other hand, if interest rates increase, the market value of the bond will drop. If you hold an individual bond to maturity, assuming the issuer does not default, your entire principal will be returned, regardless of the prevailing interest rate.
Many investors prefer bond mutual funds over individual bonds because they provide greater diversification, liquidity and professional management. However, recently bond funds have experienced decreasing yields. As bonds within mutual funds mature, they are replaced with lower earning bonds. In an environment of increasing interest rates, another major concern is the potential loss of principal. If many investors decide to sell their bond funds, the fund managers may be forced to sell individual bonds at an inopportune time. The manager may be forced to sell bonds before maturity, at less than the face value.
The duration of a bond fund is a measure of it's sensitivity to changes in interest rates or interest rate risk. For example, if the duration of a bond fund is 5 years, and interest rates decrease by 1%, the value of the bond fund should rise by about 5%. If interest rates increases by 1%, the value of the bond fund should drop by 5%. Short term bonds have a lower duration and long term bonds have a higher duration. You can find the duration of most bond funds at Morningstar.com.
With the threat of higher U.S. interest rates, consider moving your longer term bond funds into short term bond funds or international bond funds. For greater security of principal, move your bond funds into an FDIC insured CD ladder or equity indexed CD. Bond funds usually represent the safe portion of your portfolio, and some of your principal may be at risk as interest rates rise.


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Elder Scrolls Online Put Back And Dumbed Down
I often wondered why Troy opened their gates to the great big wooden horse that let Odysseus's Warriors into the city. I mean, who wants a great big wooden horse anyway?
The developers of Elder Scrolls online have managed to do a great "Trojan horse" trick today. Disguising two pieces of awful news as something good.
Elder Scrolls Online is coming out for PS4 and Xbox1
My opinion of that is (most sarcastic voice) "Great, Whoopee dooo" ,(I couldn't care less). Or could I?
Well, here's the problem. Proper MMOs with the right level of depth and tactical gameplay do not translate very well to game pads. They are limited by the control method. It's why, despite Oblivion and Skyrim being excellent games, they are not a patch in gameplay depth on a fully online RPG. A gamepad just doesn't have the buttons and control surfaces are available at any point in time to play tactically.
Just think of the tactics involved in a game as outwardly simple as targeting in Warcraft.
You want separate buttons to switch to target, target of target, the target of the focus and the focus of the target. Sounds complicated? It's all second nature once you get into some serious instances, and, if you want to be effective it is absolutely essential.
Well, something like that is about half the buttons available on your average joy pad. Once you take basic movement running and jumping and a button to "attack" that's about your lot.
But the real Trojan horse here is the fact they put the game back six months. It was due for a Fall 2013 release it is now due for a Spring in 2014 release. I am face-palming as I watch all the fan boys whoop and holler out about how great the graphics are, in a game where the graphics have already been demonstrated many times over and the ones demonstrated here look no better or no worse than the ones you've seen many many times before.
Ignoring the fact that this game will now be a "whack a mole action RPG".due to control restrictions.
Likely little more than Diablo three in first person?
And with the likely tactical and strategic depth of a spit puddle.
Those who are keen to play this dumbed down rock of a game will now be obliged to wait an extra six months to get their hands on it.
I was one of those who was going to be interested. Not any more.
Battlefield Always OFFLINE Requirement Stuns Player Base!
The rumour mill has it that the latest release of Battlefield, the much anticipated Battlefield 4, will have an always off-line requirement.
The software director at "Electragic Arse" stated:
"We understand that our traditional user base has been used to Battlefield being an online game. However, we are looking to leverage the power of peoples PCs.
The average home PC is a "multiple of computing power" greater than the tiny fraction of our limited and continually shifting server base that we could dedicate to an individual gameplay. ** (see below)
Much more powerful for instance than Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. It makes great sense to leverage this power to get the most for people's gameplay experience"
It is understood that, when the game starts it will do a check to make sure that the user has no Internet connectivity. Using special propriety technology the software will see if there are any WiFi signals in the area, and the game will not be able to start until all of these are closed down.
"We need to keep gameplay integrity. Online players will often look to cheat, or do not play the game in a way which users would like to see it played. In a real battlefield you will very rarely see people spinning around or bunny hopping all over the place.
However in previous Battlefield games the practices of lobbing grenades over walls, bunny hopping, spawn point ganking and other spoiler tactics were common. It seemed a logical thing to do would be to remove the online element of the game giving individual players just the experience that they wanted."
There is already been a huge backlash to this decision by "Unelected Farts" by the traditional Battlefield community.
Steve Madeupname, a hacker from New York has already posted a video which shows how easily Battlefield 4 could be run with an ethernet cable plugged into a computer.
"I was playing an early Beta version of Battlefield 4, and I thought, 'let's just try plugging my ethernet cable in'.
I did, and got a full 45 minutes playing before the software discovered this and kicked me out. It seems clear that the always off-line requirements is only there to prevent people from getting together in large groups and using "Felchertronic Tarts" own servers to bitch about what damn awful company they are on in-game chat."
The press drone countered with
"Thousands of people already told me (in a dream) that they love this new idea. I don't have their names and addresses or anything, in fact it might have just been trapped wind all along. Still, you can't prove otherwise. but I'm sticking to "thousands" because I'm sure that's the case."
She continued;
"I'm very rarely wrong about these things. In fact, if I stick my fingers in my ears close my eyes and shout really loud till everyone else has shut up or run away in tears… I've discovered that I'm never wrong about anything… ever "
The press secretary at "Bellendfrottering Tarts" has since been quoted as saying that, while it could be possible for Battlefield for to run with Internet connectivity, it had never been part of their "vision" for this new iteration of the top-selling first person shooter game.
"We want our FPS to stand out form the other 22,634 FPS's due out…in April 2013 and taking out many of the features people loved will really make it stand out from the crowd"
** It stands to reason that even without global internet lag (meaning each calculation might have to travel thousands of miles from PC to server and back making the very idea of server based gameplay for complex operations from hundreds of thousands of people at the same time… a complete joke) We would effectively have to provide a super computers worth of resources here at our server centre for every online player.
If the resources we were offering PER PLAYER weren't greater than their home PC's – what would be the point in doing it at all?
We'd effectively need to be buying a super computer dedicated to every player that might be online at once out of the goodness of our heart.
Not messing with a well established idea against the fan bases wishes does not fit in with our "Buy an IP, destroy and simplify the gameplay, milk it till even the die hard fans are fed up, then ditch it" philosophy.
Roll Of Honor! RIP
Westood Studios? Bullfrog (sob)? Origin Games (no more Ultima)? Maxis, Bioware, Mythic Games? See ya DICE studios So long Criterion Games.
Yup – here at Craptastic Moneygrabbers (doesn't rhyme any more but who the frick cares) with us it's all about the cash and f%^k the loyal customers
Electronic Arts. Destroying Good Developers And Great Franchises For The Past 10 Years
Simcity And Electronic Arts Cover Up Lies With More Lies
Can EA upset more customers? Can they ruin more franchises? Can they use the cash made from their sports annuals and Battlefield to destroy even more fondly remembered IPs? Is their any depth to which this company will not stoop?
Electronic arts making the claim that Simcity required – absolutely REQUIRED always online connection to be functional.
The initial lie came from one Lucy Bradshaw:
"With the way that the game works, we offload a significant amount of the calculations to our servers so that the computations are off the local PCs and are moved into the cloud. It wouldn't be possible to make the game offline without a significant amount of engineering work by our team."
Then people noticed that you could just unplug the internet connection, and at least as far as a single city went, the game would carry on for 20, 40 sometimes 60 minutes. No function of single city play seemed to be
effected at all.
Oh yes.
Also it was noticed that on re-plugging the internet lead it would take less than 3 seconds for the game to start working again, and the internet lead could be unplugged again for 20, 40 or even 60 minutes.
Notice a pattern in the times as well?
Blocks of 20 minutes
Suggesting (but not proving) that the intervals had nothing to do with the game actually requiring an internet connection, but more that a check was made every 20 minutes for a connection to the EA servers and that certain in game activities could prevent that check being required for another block of 20 minutes. Maybe if you were actually placing a building and had it on your mouse pointer when the 20 minute check game it would postpone this requirement for another block of 20 minutes. Just a guess here.
Anyway – about the same time a hacker called Azzer managed to get into the Simcity console and just turn off the requirement for internet connectivity altogether! He also managed to crack most of the games code that limited the city size (Simcity has tiny cities – barely hamlet sized)
Here's where the story turns to farce. Faced with countless people now unplugging their internet connections and proving the single city aspect of the game definitely does not require an internet connection. Faced with video proof of the console features which lay lie to the claims of massive server side computation support requirements. Bradshaw does not back down. She gets out her bullsh!t shovel and keeps digging.
"From the ground up, we designed this game with multiplayer in mind – using new technology to realize a vision of players connected in regions to create a SimCity that captured the dynamism of the world we live in; a global, ever-changing, social world… We also made innovative use of servers to move aspects of the simulation into the cloud to support region play and social features."
Your SimCity Saves Are Not "In The Cloud" They Are Saved On Individual Servers And Are NOT Transferable Between Them. Does Bradshaw Even Know What A Cloud Service Is?
It Seems Not!
Azzer responded by saying:
"All the server sends to your client, is some very basic data about each city – how much power they have available, how much spare fire trucks, you know – that sort of stuff. It's minor, and it's sent as raw numbers. Your client then just goes 'oh there's XXX power spare from city Z.' It's that simple."
But this seems to contradict the claims from Maxis that the servers are, "using new technology to realize a vision of players connected in regions to create a SimCity that captured the dynamism of the world we live in." How does Azzer respond to that? "The server side calculations are all, frankly, rubbish." Ah. In his opinion, clearly. "Every bit of it," he continues. "The only 'good' they do at the moment is for a multiplayer region – they are just a way for my city to tell your city how much power I have spare, and update that data every few minutes while I play. A middleman of sorts."
In fact, Azzer thinks that even despite this, the tech isn't nearly as good as it should be. "The servers are terrible, the MySQL set-up sloppy, and they are trying to handle all of the saving server side ("the cloud") which is bogging them down constantly – they aren't optimized for how many simultaneous cities are connected at once. Hell, this "cloud" saving isn't even very clever is it – if you change servers, all your saves are gone. They don't even "cloud" your saves between their own servers."
Azzer explains that the only other role served by the servers – beyond the obvious "fluff and guff" as he calls it of invites, chat, leaderboards, etc. – is to prevent cheating. "Most of the processing work is probably their attempts at anti-cheat stuff, checking a city doesn't do… something… at an unrealistic speed."
As we've repeatedly pointed out, while not offering an offline version of SimCity is entirely Maxis's call, our issue this week has been withtheir claiming it would be near impossible, rather than their simply believing it undesirable.
So how simple does Azzer think getting an offline version going might be? "They could make an entire region single player offline with absolute ease. It would be as simple as coding in a switch saying, 'Is this person playing single player? Take the power values of each city from local memory instead of ask for it from the server instead.' The only thing missing is saving to local hard drive – but let's be real, the code for saving your city already exists, I can't imagine even that would take more than an hour to put into the client (and it probably already exists in the client for development builds), plus a little bit of time for the UI elements for Save/Load."
"For an offline mode," he continues, "instead of asking EA servers how much power is available from a fellow city in the region, it will simply have it in memory, as a small handful of values from another city. No live calculations done on them. Just raw values, all the EA servers send anyway. And as you'll only be playing/simulating one city at a time in offline mode (cities you don't play are "frozen in time") – those values of how much spare power, resources, etc. other cities have won't even need updating, until you change cities."
But how exactly would that work? If those cities are frozen, resources won't be renewed, nor depleted? "Let's say you and I play in a region together," says Azzer, talking about the regular online game. "You build a town that has lots of power and water (water is a consumable just like coal) and spare fire trucks. I build a big casino city with lots of criminals. You go offline and don't play for a whole week, but I keep playing for an entire week." Okay, with you. "During that week, my client will keep telling me stories about fire trucks coming to help me from your city, I'll keep getting water from you, I'll keep getting power from you – of a 'set amount' dictated by how much you had spare when you last logged off. This is all processed by my client, not by the server. All the server did was tell me 'X fire trucks available, Y water available, Z power available, from city with the name ABC,' as a raw list of values. When you log back on, your water levels will be exactly as they were when you last logged off, because EA's servers were NOT doing any processing, and my client only affects the city I am simulating."
The question is why are Maxis and EA continuing to talk nonsense. Provable and repeatable evidence exists that lay lie to all these assertions of server requirements – yet they plough on defiance of all evidence, all logic and demonstrable proof that what they are saying is untrue. Why?
WarZ Sales Stopped By Steam
First there was Arma, then there was Arma II and its expansions, then there was DayZ, a survival zombie game based on the Arma II and expansion engine, then another company called Hammerpoint jumped on the bandwagon and released a game called WarZ that looked very (very) similar indeed..
WarZ came out yesterday, indeed, I was about to buy it yesterday, I read some terrible reviews. But seeing as it was less than $15 I thought "what the hell" lets buy it today. I went back to Steam to buy it, the day after release. It was no longer listed as a "new release", very unusual for a piece of software just 24 hours after official release day. So I typed WarZ into the search box at the top of Steam and sure enough it came up, but there is now no link to buy it. I have a quick look around on various forums and find that Steam have decided to stop selling it.
Don't know what the real issue is here, there are allegations of all sorts of things going on and, as somebody hasn't played it yet I can't comment one way or the other.
But it does seem a bit of a shame doesn't it? Survival horror sounds great to me, minecraft's basic "swords and fantasy" premise has bored me to tears with its constant "armour and wizards and zombies" junk. I wanted something more to date. Looked like this is going to be it.
Whatever you did wrong Hammerpoint, it looks like it's meant the end for War Z
Shame on you, Shame for you I suppose. See you on the other side.
Steam Green Light Promotes More Dirge
I don't know about you, but I'm getting a little bit frustrated with Steams Green Light indie game promotion system.
For those of you who don't know, the ubiquitous online content distribution and digital rights management platform Steam has, for the last few months, had a system whereby independent game designers can promote their wares subject of them being approved by both steam and a certain number of Steam's users voting for their product.
I'm certain that being on Steam will have a great benefit for many tiny development houses.,Having your software promoted on a platform where literally millions see it every day is got to be good for sales, but am I the only one getting sick to death of seeing the same sort of title promoted over and over again.
While there are some fantastic imaginative titles on their, games that offer unique approaches and add something different and new to the canon of games available, most of those that get released all picked up by this platform or three very specific and very minority sub genres.
Platform Games.
Really? More platform games?
Yes I understand ever since Super Meat Boy and VVVVVVV there have been twists on a very old and jaded formula. But now the Green Light system is full of people jumping on the bandwagon with bolt together, "colour by numbers" – " cookie cutter" platform games that look as dull as ditch-water.
Minecraft Clones.
Don't get me wrong, I love minecraft. But why does every clone have to be a more or less exact copy. The zombies, skeletons, armour, crafting table, the same game mechanics left click, right click, break and place block. These aren't clones these are absolutely 100% copies of minecraft. Why are there so many of them, why is no-one bothering to take the genre on a little bit?
Rogue likes.
I love rogue like games, I played net hack for years, spin-offs such as Diablo (at least in its first two incarnations) were fantastic but now about every fourth game on Steam Green Light system is a Rogue like. Bored bored bored.
Commercial games.
Why are there games from Electronic arts on a green light. Isn't it meant for independent developers? What is the point of that? Valve do it as well with remakes of Portal and Counterstrike. This sullies the whole idea of an independent only platform. Sneaking in huge studio productions under the radar. Not good steam, not good.
Cokfudge The word of the day
So, you wanted to know what "cokfudge" meant? Maybe someone used it as "The word of the day on Facebook and said "Look it up"
So you did – and – well – you ended up here looking for the definition of the word – well here it is.
Cokfudge Defn: A made up word or phrase placed on Facebook for the purposes of proving just how quickly you can get a blog post indexed and ranked number one in the search engines – as long as it's for a word that you've just made up and didn't exist before 11:34 on a Thursday night in November 2012.
Or – How to be first in a competition with only one contestant
Or – How to increase (slightly) the visitor numbers to a new blogpost using nonsense mini meme's
That's Cokfudge!
Good To See K.P Playing For England Again
At four o'clock tomorrow morning UK time England take the field against India in a series they are not fancied to win. After all the trials and tribulations of summer, KP is due to be back in their ranks. Fulfilling his destiny batting at number four. For many he is the only player in the side with the ability to take on the Indian spinners at their own game.
However, in a recent interview he was concerned that his brain might get in the way of what he wanted to do.
"Like, I might want to hit the ball but my brain might be saying no lead this one alone and wait for the next one – brains are like that aren't they"
let's hope he gets it all sorted out in his mind before tomorrow morning. England expects!
I've Quit SWTOR
Got an email this morning from Bioware. Read it, answered it. Just doing that made me think about SWTOR, and think that, in short, I wasn't actually enjoying the game. In fact I didn't even want to play it, more..if it was the only game on my HDD I would probably just go for a walk.
Shame – I waited years for it, but it's as shallow as a puddle of pi$$. Here's what I wrote anyway.
Sad to say, I'm not really enjoying SWTOR at the moment. The buzz wore off very quickly (a few days) and I'm left with quite a hollow feeling towards ther experience. Here's why that is (for me at least);
The story for Jedi Consellor is a little repetative
- Go to planet one – then do the following;
- Quest line to find and help Jedi Master with disease
- Quest line to help locals with group of "insurgents" or "imperial agents"
..when finished..Goto planet two and start again.
The user interface hinders me a little, nothing is where I would find it intuitively. I find myself healing a recently beaten mob rather than my companion sometimes, all sorts of things I don't like about the interface (it's too BIG for a start – it's like a 5 year old child's toy) Really needs to be customizable.
Character customization.
CC seems underdeveloped. I am very limited in what I can wear, and despite buying new items every few levels my character's "look" is more or less unaltered. I see other JC's running around, and they all like just like me. I don't feel like a hero, or even an individual, I feel like "Jedi Counsellor Clone 3354b"
Crafting is dull. I can craft a whole list of virtually identical mods for armour and weapons. They all look the same, and no-one (not even me) can find any use for them. I can stick them on the the trade for 500 credits an no-one wants them
"xxxxx mod 9" looks exactly the same as
"xxxxxx mod 8"….. and despite keeping my crafting up with my character levelling, I have yet to find an item I craft that I actually have a use for myself – i.e is even marginally better than a mob drop I have already found or someone else has found and put on the Gal trade network.
Crafting itself is uninvolved. It's not a sub game, it's not a challenge, What it is is being interrupted during combat when one of your companions comes back and sats "Here's your stuff" and just pressing "Make this" or "go there".
The only slight interaction I have is to ensure that I have enough of the vendor sold re-agents in stock or storage. There are these descriptions of the missions your companion is oging on "Visit a deserted spacecraft and see if they have XXXXX" but after the first five goes… you just press the button
That is 100% of your crafting experience in a nutshell..press a button to send a companion off…. wait 20 minutes till he or she comes back….then press it again.
Should be interesting. But it's not. There is not enough data to make informed stock choices or to "play the market". I perhaps spend 40% of my solo time at end level in other MMO's playing the market. It's great fun. Sure EvE and some other games (PotBS) have really good involved economics tied in with harvesting and crafting, but even WoW, Aion, Rift and FFXI have a fun factor. X-faction trading, storage and logistics etc.SWTOR has none of this, or at best very stunted and unerdeveloped trade and trading tools.
Grouping takes so long, and with so few people looking to run any particular flashpoint or heroic, I have just given up on it. I am planning to give multi (or at least dual) boxing a try, as the lack of community means I am missing so much of the content I might well enjoy - I might buy a standard retail copy and give it a go for a month. But eventually I see me leaving SWTOR in a few months for a game with more scope (more involved trading and commercial aspects, better and more involved crafting)
At the moment there is not enough depth to make the game a stayer for me. I can quite happily solo while a community builds up, but all I'm doing is grinding quests. No secondary professions, dull crafting, dull trading and awkward interface, coupled with a plot line (for JC's at least) which just seems to be an endless repeat of the same tasks – just with the level numbers changed. If I have to "Save another Jedi Grand Master" …Arrrggggghhhh!
I understand SWTOR is a "theme park" and I have no issue with that. WoW is a theme park, Aion is a theme park, FFXI is a theme park I love those games. But they seem to have a lot more "rides" than SWTOR.
With a real lack of involvement and depth in crafting, trading, sub professions etc, SWTOR is like a theme park with one ride..levelling.
- Group finding (Flashpoints and Heroics being missed due to no groups and very few flagged as LFG)
- GUI customization (lack of) Poor GUI, targets, etc all in fixed and none intuitive places
- Professions (dull, uninvolving "click button – wait – click again")
- No "Extra" professions to kill time when soloing. As you don't even craft personally. If your not levelling – your doing nothing – and that's not good at all.
- Trade Network (dull, no incentive for engrossing trading/stock play – no economic tools)
- JC plot line repetiton (Save Jedi Grand Master, goto planet two – rinse and repeat)
- CHARACTER APPEARANCE CUSTOMIZATION (Limited in what I can buy – and no matter what I DO buy I end up looking 99% the same)
You'll see from my stats that I'm playing less and less. I'm hoping for big news on improvement soon. Story alone is not going to make up for lack of varied gameplay elements. And I'm not that impressed with the story (for JC at least)
I'm paid up till mid April, and sadly I think that will probably be the end of my time with SWTOR unless there are really big improvements. ESSP with more involved and varied gameplay elements added.
I expect you'll get more money from me though. Mass Effect 3 in a few weeks etc.
I'm not sure MMO's are going to be your strong point though. Too much emphasis on story and not near enough "game" to go with it.
Oh well
Imagine "Blizzard Focusing on Games"..(rather than customers)
So, some people are ranting like crazy..others seem pretty cool with it.
No Blizzcon in 2012 of course.
Blizzcon Cancelled SHOCK NEWS
It's rare that I have news as amazing as today's. But Blizzard has officially announced that there will be no Blizzcon in 2012.
A spokesman for the company cited the release of three games in this financial year as a reason why the company said they did not have the time for resources to put on a major events such as Blizzcon.
Diablo III, Mists of Pandaria and the new Starcraft game are all being released in the next 8 to 10 months.
Ok so they have a lot to finish and promote, but surely, with a high profile games being released now is exactly the time you would have a major event to promote them, wouldn't you?
An event which guarantees tens of thousands of visitors, a huge boost in publicity and is already established in the calendar of many gamers throughout the world.
Don't forget, taking a break of the year and sometimes completely lose focus, people will find something else to do to that particular week and it may not come back with the same pizzazz as it left with.
I put a link to the official statement in the image with this post, I'm just off to have a couple of very strong coffee to get over the shock.
Diablo III Beta Patch 10 Test Live Tonight
As those of you who've been following the progress of Diablo III through its various trials and tribulations. You will be well aware that the non disclosure agreements for beta testers was lifted some months ago.
As of now patch 10 for the latest beta client has just been released. And tonight there is an opportunity to see it being played live. In lieu of those few who have managed to make the closed beta this could be one of your last opportunities to judge yourself how well the game's progress since the early videos were well touted on Youtube.
Personally I'm looking to see more depth in the game. A jazzed up Diablo II is not what I'm after it all, I have Titan Quest, Torchlight and several other games in my drawer to scratch that itch..
I'm looking for real characterisation, progression, teamwork and a hell of a lot more than just spamming two or three attack keys over and over again.
Anyway, follow the link here and judge for yourself tonight.
4.3.2 Patch Delay. Poor Old Hunters
So patch 4.3.2 is likely to be delayed.
For most people this is probably fine. It's just a 3rd tier update with a few balancing tweaks after all.
Notice the hunters changes though. All positive. Black Arrow effect roughly doubled, deterrence effect increased and Lock and Load is not halter by arcane shot (which might fundamentally change a hunters PvE rotation)
Full notes below.
World of Warcraft Patch 4.3.2
- Classes: General Vengeance is no longer triggered by receiving damage from other players.
- Druids The Tier 13 Balance Druid 4-piece bonus now also increases the damage of Starsurge by 10%, in addition to its current effect.
- Hunters Aspect of the Hawk now grants roughly 35% more attack power.
Deterrence now also reduces damage taken by 30% while active.
Black Arrow now ticks every 2 seconds for 20 seconds, as opposed to every 3 seconds for 15 seconds. The total damage dealt by the ability is unchanged.
Lock and Load no longer benefits Arcane Shot, nor is it consumed by Arcane Shot.
- Mages Fireball damage has been reduced by roughly 6%.
Pyroblast damage has been reduced by roughly 6%.
- Paladins Holy Radiance now costs 40% of base mana, up from 35%.
- Priests Mass Dispel should again prefer dispelling targets that have magic effects that can be dispelled.
- Dungeons & Raids You can now form same-faction raids with Real ID friends, allowing you to enter Raid Finder in groups larger than 5, run older normal or heroic raids, or participate in Battlegrounds. You will not yet be able to run normal or heroic Dragon Soul with cross-realm raids of Real ID friends.
- Several typo fixes and clarified descriptions have been added to the Dungeon Journal entries for Dragon Soul.
- Players can no longer win multiple copies of the same item on a single Raid Finder boss kill. For example, a player who chooses Need on two set piece tokens or two weapons and wins the first, will not be eligible for the second on that particular boss.
Blizzard Investors Call Early February. Titan, Diablo, WoW
Like most major software companies, particularly those affiliated to large distributors, Blizzard have an obligation both to their partners and to their shareholders to periodically appraise them of their situation.
One of these "Financial calls" is due in the next few days, and it comes at a very fluid time for the software developers.
Blizzard are expected to announce the release of Diablo III very soon..
Mike Morhaime is widely expected to use the upcoming call to make a release date announcement.
But for those of us still playing World of Warcraft, the financial situation of Blizzard has a much deeper interest, and one that I've not seen reported elsewhere.
As most of you are aware, there is a project on-going at Blizzard called "Titan" and this has been described as a " new casual role-playing game".
That's the title that baffles me. Any game where I have to pay a monthly description I would expect to play for many hours per month to get value for my subscription fee. I'm not sure where the word "casual" comes into it?
More importantly even than that is that reports over the last three months have been that up to 1.4 million subscribers have cancelled their Warcraft craft accounts.
While this still leaves Blizzard with a game many times more popular than any other MMO on the market, it does represent a huge and very rapid drop in subscription. Let's face it, WoW is now over seven years old and at its very heart a lot of its infrastructure is pretty dated..
This is never more apparent than when creating a new character with one of the original races. The rather gormless looking caricature faces for humans, dwarfs and gnomes, not to mention the very limited choices in facial features is the first indicator that this game is based on a very old platform.
Of course like most people we value depth of game-play above visual aesthetics, but there comes a time when you really are stretching the elastic, and something needs to give.
I predict that this next economic update from Blizzard will at least hint at a change to the subscription style that they operate or, conversely that following the Pandaria update, Warcraft will undergo a massive and fundamental change in engine and design.
Of course there is a third option, that Warcraft will gradually be phased out, going free to play in the next 18 months or so to make room in the market place for "Titan".
Here at Wowgoldeliteguide we will have the full update after the call the call
Ultraxion References Skyim. Homage or Insult?
It's a question that might take some answering, When does a homage turn into an insult?
Quite a while now we been aware that Blizzard were considering adding references to Skyrim, a single player role-playing game from rival company Bethesda Softworks.
Some of the trash mobs that raiding parties had to encounter before doing the Ultraxion content were named or referenced the story and characters from Bethesdas record-breaking game.
I have scoured the net and not seen any representatives or anybody involved with the production of Skyrim complain about this idea at all, yet in the Blizzard forums there seems to be quite a heated debate about an "implied insult".
Think of it this way, if you did not realise that other people were insulted by this would you consider it as an insult at all, or simply a homage to another game?
I'm firmly in the second camp, Warcraft has often cross-referenced popular culture in the past, and there is no direct competition between WoW and Skyrim.
One is a massively multiplayer game, the one a single player only.
In fact if anything, they probably compliment one another in keeping the "swords and sorcery" theme alive. I won both – as do many people I know. I am not choosing one over the other, they are quite different and…..oh well
Sadly, (in my opinion anyway), Blizzard seem to be considering removing or changing this content.
The spoilsports and killjoys win again.


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Mr Bush, who is the frontrunner to win the Republican party's presidential nomination next year, refused to intervene after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted on Wednesday night to allow the execution of Stan Faulder to proceed. An appeal to the US supreme court remained Faulder's last, slim hope as last night's deadline approached.
"Obviously our hopes are dwindling, but they are still there," said Faulder's lawyer, Sandra Babcock, who has campaignedand acted on his behalf for seven years.
"He's at peace. He's ready. He doesn't want to die. He was calmer than I was," said Canadian consul John Morrow, who visited Faulder yesterday morning, only hours before the condemned man was to be taken to the death house at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas.
Faulder was convicted of killing Inez Phillips, a wealthy oil heiress, 75, during a bungled robbery in Gladewater, Texas, in July 1975. Phillips was stabbed and suffered a fractured skull during the attack. After his arrest, Faulder, a native of Alberta, was not asked and did not disclose that he was a Canadian citizen.
The authorities in Canada - which has no capital punishment - became aware of his case only in 1990 and lodged a protest with the US state department arguing that Faulder had been denied his rights to consular visits and advice.
"In the case of Mr Faulder, I have seen no new evidence that questions the jury's verdict that he is guilty of this crime," Mr Bush said. As governor, he has the power to delay the execution for 30 days.
Faulder's conviction has been a cause celebre for several years in Canada, which abolished the death penalty in 1976. The country's generally friendly relations with the US can also be highly sensitive - and the Faulder case has touched a nerve.
In several official protests to Washington, Ottawa has claimed that Faulder was denied his human rights because he was never informed he could have consular advice and visits before his 1977 trial. No Canadian has been executed in the United States since 1952.
The most recent official protest came this week when the Canadian foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy, urged the US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, to intervene..
Protesters mounted a vigil on Faulder's behalf outside the jail, where the execution was due to take place some time after the passing of the 6pm local deadline last night (midnight BST). Demonstraters also gathered outside the US embassy in Ottawa, where there is widespread support for Faulder's case.
In Geneva, the United Nations human rights commissioner, Mary Robinson, issued an appeal yesterday to the US government and to Mr Bush to halt the execution. On Wednesday, the Vatican's nuncio to the UN also appealed for clemency.
Faulder suffered brain injuries in 1941 when, as a four-year-old, he fell out of a moving car. His lawyers argue that his injuries mean he should not be labelled as a sociopathic murderer who is likely to kill again, as his trial was told.
Texas easily leads the capital punishment league among the US states. It has already executed 13 people this year, and last year executed 20. Governor Bush has rarely intervened.