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. "And he's going to do whatever it takes to make sure that the American people are safe and secure."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Mochelle speaking another lie.
"Ignore all that other, petty stuff about Benghazi and people dying at my command. Watch while I preside majestically over official hand-wringing and distant concern over this storm!"
I'll betcha some filmmaker started this.
.........and distract a couple of mindless idiots from the abandonment, and subsequent deaths, of our countrymen in Bengahzi.
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As much of a priority that he made jobs?
So the wookie gets face time, telling us how much Obambi cares about Sandy. In the meantime, Bambi gathers with his dem and media synchophants to discuss strategy on how to best deal with the Benghazi situation.
He's given up campaigning in certain states because he knows that he can't win and he's running out of money. In the meantime, the steady 'drip-drip-drip' of information on Benghazi continues to take its toll on his electability.
Come on Barry, lower those seas, show us what you got!
Oh Good Lord. Ms. Odrama and Hussein couldn't care less about the American people. She is very transparent in her comments. I think she's more concerned about losing her free world vacations than what happens to anybody as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
I can hardly wait for The Messiah to inform everybody via teleprompter how he will make sure all of those in the Bronx and other black hoods get their gummint handouts and free cash cards.
It's gonna look like Katrina all over again. Just watch.
0bama needs to rebuke the storm, then walk on the water and lay hands on the waves and calm the sea. He is the next messiah. /not
i take this to mean moochelle is admitting satan has passed his power onto his son Barack.
Pretty much every area of NYC that is being directly affected are working class white neighborhoods and wealthy neighborhoods - TriBeCa, artsy Red Hook, Far Rockaway, Mill Basin, City Island, Bayside.
This is not Katrina. And the Bronx is less than one-third black these days.
How about we start with his letter of resignation!
Obama does his "charitable giving" by promising money from the public treasury.
It's a friggin' Cat One storm. Sheesh.
All you gotta do is lower the ocean, sugarbritches! ************* I think you misspelled it with an extra "r".....hahaha
Hell, they already have the stories written worshiping Obama's handling of the storm damage.
Didn't he make jobs a priority at one point? Something about focusing like a laser?
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After the election in Hamburg on 20 February, which has seen return to government SPD after a decade size in the second city in Germany after Berlin, the long election year in Germany meets its second meeting in land east of Saxony-Anhalt, where he will vote March 20.
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So long, Tony the Tiger. Hello, Peter the Probug.
I've posted here about how my son recognizes "Kid Marketing" at the grocery store as the hydrogenated oil and sugar-laden processed treats that are major no-nos.
Suddenly, it's getting a lot harder to say "no" to "Kid Marketing," because my son also recognizes the USDA Organic Seal. Now he says sweetly, "But Mama, it's organic! It must be good for you even if it is Kid Marketing."
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At the organic market that afternoon, he pointed at a garish orange four-pack of Lifeway Organic Probiotic Whole Milk Kefir Cultured Milk Smoothies. That particular day, I was too tired to say no …it was after all organic and it was just yogurt.
But later I realized that I already have several large containers of biodynamic yogurt in the fridge, courtesy of our CSA. And he liked that yogurt just fine. So why was he so insistent on this yogurt?
"Well, it tastes good," he responded.
I reminded him that we had plenty of yogurt in the fridge that tastes good.
"It's ORANGE. My favorite color," he announced.
"And?" I prodded.
"And it has an alien on it too!"
So I'm buying more yogurt with more packaging because my son wants orange packages with aliens? (Actually, it's Peter the probiotic bug, according to the packaging).
Look, this story is a bit embarrassing to tell, but I know I'm not alone here…am I? Tell me, what's been your experience with "Organic Kid Marketing." Are you starting to feel the onslaught too?
Or is it just the products that has me down? Perhaps. Why don't the frozen vegetables come with aliens on their bags? Works for me!
— Lynn
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March 5, 2008 6:33 am
The only kid marketing in our store is the Envirokidz brand and my kids think there cereal is akin to dog food. I have to agree that it isn't very good.
So I stick with the Cascadian Farms Honey O and granola cereal which they all like better and they don't advertise to kids.
Lucky you! Thanks for sharing! I just noticed that Honest Kids isn't overtly marketed to Kids either. I'm interviewing the CEO tomorrow and I'm going to ask him how they made that decision….I bet it was an interesting discussion! — Lynn
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March 5, 2008 6:54 am
I hear you Lynn,
I'm disturbed by the way mainstream licensed characters are appearing at Whole Foods. Once free of character marketing, now we who shop organic have the same pressures.
I've decided I'm OK with cute images on kids products. I'm not OK with characters. IF it's not a licensed character…it shouldn't be more expensive than regular organic products and …I'll just eat the kid friendly ones too- what's inherently wrong with a picture that appeals to kids – we buy yogurt with pictures that appeal to adults?
If it supports TV shows and movies and/or encourages consumerism…well then I might have a problem.
Great post incidentally – submit to skirt..I'm stumbling!
Thanks, MC, for your thoughts, compliment, and suggestion. Hey folks, MC is an expert on marketing to children! Check out her blog at http://notquitecrunchyparent.blogspot.com
And by the way, I didn't see this product at Whole Foods…I saw it at a smaller regional organic chain (My Organic Market).
Sue on
March 6, 2008 7:38 am
Hey Lynn,
I've had similar experiences, so here's how we deal with it. I tell each kid that they can pick out one item each at the store, no questions asked (healthy, but typical kid marketed). After that, it's my choice. I find that this is a good compromise and sometimes they surprise me-organic pears or bananas anyone. However, often times I will have 2 overpriced, kid-marketed items in the cart. Sometimes, when I don't what to go through the kid-marketing run I will sneak off to the store without them.
I'm really looking forward to your interview with the CEO of Honest Kids-way to go.
Great ideas, Sue! Thanks for sharing. Just got back from meeting with him. He was way cool and the Honest Tea offices are amazing. It will be such a fun interview to share – now I gotta get to work on it! — Lynn
Kristen on
March 9, 2008 4:37 pm
Thank you for sharing this. I am relatively new to the organic scene (I started after my first child started on solids a little less than a year ago) but have always been concerned about marketing to children.
I may not be recommending anything new here, but the book Buy Buy Baby by Susan Gregory Thomas addresses the marketing issue at length and is a good motivator to avoid products, including food, that use children's characters to market themselves.
Keep up the very interesting blog!
Hi Kristen, thanks so much for stopping by and for the book recommendation! — Lynn
cheryl on
September 8, 2008 8:14 am
Hi Lynn,
I've been looking through your blog and I love it!
It's amazing how children are bombarded with ads and pressures to want what everyone else has from such a young age. I'm sorry that organic lines are jumping on the bandwagon, too.
Disney had plans to start putting characters on bags of fruit, but I haven't seen that happen yet. We shall see!
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Ancient Forest Alliance, April 15, 2013
April 15, 2013
Old-Growth Forestry "Report Card" for the BC Liberals, NDP, Greens, and Conservatives
The following is a summary on the positions of BC's main political parties on old-growth related forest policies and some additional forest policies. The Ancient Forest Alliance is calling on BC's political parties to commit to a science-based "Old-Growth Protection Act" with targets and timelines to end old-growth logging in endangered regions and to ensure a sustainable, value-added second-growth forest industry instead.
The BC Liberal Party has a long anti-environmental record in regards to the management of old-growth forests and forestry jobs in most of BC.
The BC Liberal government in general has supported and defended the large scale liquidation of old-growth forests across most of BC, deregulated numerous forestry laws that protected the environment and jobs, facilitated the massive expansion of raw log exports to foreign mills, and oversaw the net demise of over 30,000 BC forestry jobs and the closure of over 70 mills in BC.
Some policies and positions they've undertaken:
The NDP released its forestry platform today which makes no mention of old-growth protection, the environment, or sustainability. See: www.bcndp.ca/files/BG-BCNDP-130415_-_Forestry.pdf
NDP Leader Adrian Dix, during his 2011 campaign to become party leader, promised to: "Develop a long term strategy for old growth forests in the province, including protection of specific areas that are facing immediate logging plans." (see point #4 in "Ecosystem Management") http://conservationvoters.ca/past-endorsements/leadership-race-2011/ndp-candidates/adrian-dix
Several individual NDP MLA's have championed protecting specific old-growth forests while in Opposition, but at this time Dix and the NDP party as a whole have not followed up, developed any specifics, re-mentioned, or even officially adopted Dix's earlier leadership promise for a province-wide old-growth plan.
On April 13, 2013, comments by the NDP's Envirornment Critic Rob Fleming in the Times Colonist suggests the party supports scientific conservation assessments of our old-growth forests as proposed by the "Old-Growth Protection Act". See: www.timescolonist.com/news/world/ancient-forest-alliance-calls-for-science-based-forest-plan-1.109973. This is a step forward. However, the party has not committed yet to the plan's actual protection scheme that would end old-growth logging in endangered regions – the crux of the plan.
On raw log exports, the party has promised to "reduce" raw log exports, but no details have been given beyond "working with stakeholders".
The BC Green Party committed on April 14 to undertake a science-based old-growth plan to protect endangered old-growth forests, to recruit second-growth forests into becoming old-growth, and to increase the export tax on raw logs to support value-added manufacturing in BC. See: www.andrewjweaver.ca/bc_green_party_forestry_action_plan
The party is also calling for a reduction in the overcutting of second-growth forests and phase-out of clearcutting. See: www.greenparty.bc.ca/forestry
The BC Conservatives have no mention in their platform or website about old-growth protection, sustainable forestry, or anything environment-related to forestry, and as such we assume at this time that they support the status quo of large scale old-growth liquidation and raw log exports.
In fact, about the only thing mention of forestry in their platform is a statement that "the BC Liberals have shown little enthusiasm for the development of British Columbia's abundant natural resources."
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These days, modern moms everywhere are opting to keep their careers while venturing into motherhood. Petunia Pickle Bottom's Creative Director, Janelle Key, shares some insight into how she has been able to successfully balance work and home life, all with two little ones.
After 6 weeks maternity leave and another 6 weeks of working from home with my first-born, I'll never forget the day I had to take her to a childcare provider for my first day back in the office (this was before I worked for Petunia Pickle Bottom). It was heartbreaking. Throughout her first year, I would get home as fast as humanly possible to spend a couple of hours with her before putting her to bed each night.
I was not fortunate enough to have grandparents or relatives who could help us out. My husband was working full-time, too. We asked ourselves what we really needed to do to find balance for our family, and that's when I decided to make some changes.
Ask for what you need
I was nervous to ask about going part-time, but it was important enough that I had to try. Fortunately, it worked out and I was able to keep working while cutting back a few hours. I had mornings with my daughter, and then I was off to work in the afternoon while she napped.
Get creative with child-care
A close friend had a similar parenting style, so we figured out a 'child-sharing' situation where we took turns watching the kids. My 1-year-old daughter found an adorable playmate, and I found peace of mind that my daughter was spending afternoons with a family that truly cared about her.
Learn to take turns
Finding balance is a family affair. Mothers have been historically tasked to find the balance, but this new generation of fathers is willing and able to make this a true partnership.
Last year, I started working at Petunia Pickle Bottom full time. I had a 6-year-old and a 2-year-old, and was ready for a change. My husband wanted more time with the kids, so we switched things up. We decided it was his turn to experience what it was like to stay home before this short window of time was over and both kids were in school full-time. So, back to work I went, knowing our kids were lucky enough to spend more time with their dad. It's working for us, because we've been in each other's shoes. We understand the challenges and rewards of staying home, juggling part-time and working full-time.
Set boundaries
I work in a very family-friendly environment (obviously), so I'm fortunate to be able to set schedules around birthday parties and vacations. I can leave for the all-important preschool graduation and still be back for afternoon meetings. Being able to set boundaries is one of the most important pieces of balancing work with motherhood. I'd much rather leave the office at the same time each day to have dinner with my family even if that means working after the kids go to bed or before they wake up in the morning. I'm proud to set an example for my kids (especially my daughter) that if you love being a parent and you love your job, there is room for both.


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Your students will enjoy fresh air, nature, learning, and fun on your Gilcrease field trip! Each field trip consists of educational activities, a wagon ride, and seasonal produce picking. In the fall, participants will most likely pick their own pumpkin, and in the spring they will most likely pick their own carrots—but we reserve the right to change the produce offered based on availability. Your tour will last for approximately an hour and a half. (Add another half hour if you are staying to eat your own sack lunches in our picnic area.) The "Basic Price" field trip of $6.00 per person includes the tour described above plus one apple cider per person (both students and chaperones). The "Alternative Price" field trip of $5.00 per person does not include apple cider. Teachers are always free!
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Player Studio Community Webcast Transcript
On October 4th, Linda "Brasse" Carlson (Director, Global Community Relations) hosted a webcast with Joe Shoopack (Director of Artistic Development) and Rick Reynolds (Sr. Manager, E-Commerce) to get the inside scoop on Player Studio™. EQ2Wire delivers an extensive nearly word-for-word transcript of this panel as there is so much information to be absorbed on this exciting new feature.
Quick Notes:
- Player Studio will allow players to create in-game items for EverQuest, EverQuest II, FreeRealms, and Vanguard.
- EverQuest and EverQuest II Player Studio websites have been live for several weeks now. FreeRealms will post their website of resources next week, while Vanguard is still a few weeks away.
- EQ2 Player Studio Overview
- EQ2 Player Studio FAQ
- EQ2 Player Studio How to Get Started
- EQ2 Player Studio Style Guide
These websites provide aspiring designers with a ton of information about what items they can create and what tools they need to create them
This is something we've been looking at doing for a long time. We have one of the best gaming communities out there. This is a great opportunity to let players flex their artistic skills. We've already seen great art on the forums, at Fan Faire SOE Live.
Brasse: I always had this sort of vision that if I went back and made comics, I'd have the art team sitting around going "What? You want this in another color? You want different pictures on it? Here! You do it!" and that's exactly what we're doing.
Profit Sharing
Brasse: And (players) have an opportunity to make a small profit as well. So how did we come up with that profit-sharing arrangement? Doesn't that make people really nervous on the E-Commerce side of things? (laughter) Letting other people have money?
Rick: There were some very "fun" conversations a couple of times with the executives and John Smedley in the room. We went back and forth on how much we could give (designers) and still make this work. It was great.
Brasse: As I recall, John kept pushing them to give more and more (percentage of the profit).
Rick: (joking) John would give away the whole company if we weren't really careful with it.
Brasse: The percentage is really good. Did you want to talk about that?
Rick: We really don't think that the main motivation people have for participating is the money. It's the excitement of seeing their creative work and their cool ideas in the game world around them. The first time you see one of your objects in a game, it's like a drug. It feels great. It's a mini-high of its own.
Brasse (to camera): Hello, Fun Police? Drug reference not real.
Rick: We're basically sharing as close to 50-50 as we can with the player creator. Even though the player has to do a lot of work to create an item, has to bring a lot of inspiration to the table, the game development team still has to work with that art at additional levels to get it finished and ready, into the game, and tested. We have maintenance costs associated with running the server. As well as running the reports to run the checks to pay (designers). We figure we're doing a little bit more work than the player so splitting it 60-40 is as fair as we could do it.
Brasse: How does that compare to other companies?
Rick: I imagine Valve was disappointed to hear our percentage. We're paying more than Valve.
Joe: I can talk a little bit about what we've done on the development side to prep for this.
Brasse: I'd love to hear about that, because I was really surprised. These are big games. EverQuest is, let's face it, an older game. It's been out for 13 years. How do you amend the architecture to allow stuff from the outside and become part of that game?
Joe: This is going to be an ongoing initiative for us. We're obviously starting with a few items from each game. I definitely see that expanding as people start contributing. We'll start looking at other items, other categories that we can add. Right now if you go to the websites, you'll see that EverQuest we're doing housing items, weapons, and shields, EQ2 we're doing cloaks and housing items. We have not settled on the items for FreeRealms but they will be similar.
Joe: We're trying to provide a range of artistic expression for the users. For example on EverQuest II, for cloaks, the player can create the texture map to put on the cloak, while we'll provide the mesh for you if you don't have any 3D experience. [Ed Note: For cloaks, aspiring designers can just paint the front and back designs of the cloak in Photoshop or other paint program without any 3D knowledge or tools).
Joe: For the fully 3D items, we have links on the website to a number of places to go where you can get 3D programs. We also link to some popular websites and communities you can go where people build these type of assets for games. We have a very basic Style Guide up there now which I think we'll be expanding as time goes by. We're really excited to see what the player community comes up with.
Brasse: We've already started to see a few samples of items coming in and they're getting more and more impressive all the time. From my point of view, in EQ2, Guild Cloaks are going to become amazing. I can just see that happening. I can hardly wait to redo the inmates cloak. Oh wait. Am I allowed to submit things as an employee?
Rick: No. Employees and their families are…
Brasse: I quit, now! No, this is the best job I've ever had. (to the camera) Somebody else in the guild will have to make an awesome inmates cloak. I'm looking at you, Jen.
How the Approval Process Works
Brasse: Can you give us a bit of walkthrough about what happens? So I want to make a guild cloak (ok, someone else in my guild). What do I do? What's the process?
Joe: First you're going to go to the website. For each type of item, we're providing a file for you to download which shows you exactly the type of submission we want. The rules and guidelines are published there as well. For the cloak, for example, you'll download the OBJ file into your 3D program and you'll start from there.
Rick: When you think your item is ready, you go back to the Player Studio website and there'll be a section "How to Submit". You'll login to your Station account and it will step you through what to do. There will be some example files there that are packages that are examples of a finished item. You'll download the package that matches the type of item you're creating. Inside that package is a form that you need to fill out and put it back into the package. Once you collect all the right things into the right folders, you Zip it up and then upload it through the website.
Rick: Once we receive the file, there's still a long journey the item has to go on as it makes its way through the system. First, it gets routed to the right game's dev team. The artists and designers will look at it and discuss "Does this match our style?" "Does it have too few or too many polygons?" "Is it too similar to something else?" "Would it go with the Halloween promos so maybe we should hold it to go with that?" "Should this be something we put on NPC guards in a new area?" There are a number of things we could do with it in addition to just putting it in the [StationCash Marketplace].
Brasse: How does this feedback get back to the players?
Joe: Each team is going to regularly look at these submissions. You submit a screenshot along with your artwork and we're going to look at each and every submission, and go over them carefully. We're just excited to see some of the cool stuff that we can add to the store.
Brasse: What happens if somebody uploads (oh this never happens) an inappropriate image?
Joe: I don't think we accept inappropriate images.
Brasse: Ok but how do you send back the feedback, whether it's an inappropriate image or it's got too many polygons or let's say the style isn't necessarily in keeping with the game? How does the submitter get feedback?
Joe: On the technical front, we have the list of technical parameters. When you complete your item, double-check that list. There will be a filter so that if we say "Do not make a house item exceeding 2,000 polygons" and you submit an OBJ file with 2,002 polygons, you will get feedback that the submission failed because of too many polygons. We've really tried to keep the requirements as simple and as inclusive as possible. We're not doing complex texture maps. It's really set up for people new to 3D to be able to successfully create some assets.
Joe: As far as content related things, I'm going to turn that over to Rick.
Rick: As (the item) comes in, they have to take your art and make it into an in-game object. They have to assign a variety of parameters to it. They need to put it into the game database itself, and put it into a build. They have to test it. They have to put it into the Marketplace, make sure the name is right, the price is right, the description is there, there's a (name) credit for the creator. Let's talk about that for a second.
Credit For Your Work
Rick: You get credit for putting (an item) in. You're not going to be the only one who knows that I made that cloak. As you go through the store, one of the things you'll notice is that anything made by a player will be labeled as such. On the submission form, one of the questions is "How do you want to be credited?" It doesn't have to be your character name, it could be something else. It should not be your (real life) name. You can pick a cool designer name. We are going to have to enforce uniqueness on the names though. This is cross-platform across our games, and we don't want some to create some great items and then someone else to come in and fake being you. That's not cool.
Rick: When your object gets into the game, we're going to give you a complementary copy of your object on the character and server that you designate in your submission form.
Brasse: From the time that you submit an item, and assuming nothing goes wrong and it's accepted "as-is", do we even have a general time frame for the pipeline…
Rick: Months. It takes a long time and a lot of steps. There are art refinement steps. There are game design steps. There are testing steps. There are steps regarded to putting it into the right branch of the software code, and when that branch gets deployed according to software development schedules. Your object is not going to be the only thing that goes into the game on that day. It will be included in a content patch; a game update of some sort.
Joe: And obviously if you choose to make something seasonally-oriented, like if you are playing Halloween content and make a cool Halloween thing, by the time you make that, submit it… we're not going to release that in May. Don't feel restricted. We will get to it and look at it. We're always looking for cool seasonal items. If you do want to make a seasonal item, do leave a little time — not the week before the content launches for the seasonal update.
Rick: if you really are adventurous and creative, you want to go for the furniture items. They can be small, huge, complex.
Joe: I'll add to that. If you go to the website, you'll see an image of a bed there. But it doesn't need to be an actual piece of furniture. (It can be) anything to put on a player lot or in a house. It could be a crazy in-game fountain, or a piece of artwork, or a sculpture, anything you want to make.
Brasse: We've already seen what players build with existing structures and components. These are going to be truly outstanding.
Joe: I think the important thing that addresses something you said earlier Linda is, we do want to ensure that it's your own work. You don't want to find that KISS album cover and say "That's going to make an awesome cloak." That's IP that belongs to someone else.
Brasse: Gene Simmons would not be happy.
Rick: Nor would the artist who made the album cover.
Joe: So part of the submission process is, you'll be letting us know that you're responsible for the creation of the item and you haven't taken it from somewhere else. We want to respect other people's creations.
Again, if you want to create an item without building or reshaping a 3D object, go for the cloaks. You can just paint a new texture for a cloak and submit that.
Player Questions
Q: Do you have to have a Subscription to submit?
A: (referring to EQ, EQ2, Vanguard, and FreeRealms all being Free-to-Play now) We don't have subscriptions anymore. You do need a Station ID, but you can still be a free player and submit. You do not have to be a Gold member.
Q: What about use of transparency maps and animated textures, and the (file) format for the latter?
Joe: Right now we are not supporting transparency maps or animated textures. That doesn't mean we won't in the future. We're going to stay fairly simple with how these maps are addressed early on.
Q: What about particle effects, lights, etc.? If we create candles and torches, what would we need to do to produce the same result seen in other like items in the game? For example candle and torch flame animation. Also the lighting source that a result of the flame, and perhaps smoke that is emanating from objects. (Wow this is getting complicated)
Joe: Well that's a really good question because all our effects are done with in-game proprietary tools. We're not going to ask you to imitate that in a 3D program. We would have to recreate that anyway. When you submit your item, you will have an opportunity in the description of the item (or the comment field), you can detail that out. Like "I made this brazier and it would be great if the coals glowed and if there was a smoke effect." or "I made this shield and it would be nice if the iconography had a glow effect." We can't promise that we can do all the things, but we definitely want to hear your suggestions if it's effects-related to take it over the top.
Brasse: So that's all part of the polish process, then?
Joe: That would be something we add, but we want to hear from you what (the item) needs.
[Editor's Note: My personal suggestion to aspiring designers is to include a screenshot of your item that has been stylized to include any glows, lighting, and other effects that you want the item to have as a reference for the EQ2 team to draw from]
Brasse: On a few sites, not our sites, probably EQ2Wire, people were saying "Is this going to put the artists of SOE out of business? This sounds like they're going to be busier than ever.
Joe: We'll be very busy.
Joe: The thing is, the OBJ format is a very program-agnostic format. We still have to take that item, do whatever tweaks we need to do so it will run most efficiently in our engine. I don't think we'll be putting any of the artists out of work.
Rick: My friends among the artists don't seem very scared by this. They're actually really curious to see what people are making.
Brasse: It's going to be really interesting.
Q: Do MTL files need to be generated and submitted, and if so, is there a defined default for the specularity, diffuse, ambient, etc. colors for objects, or are the typical standard defaults used?
Rick: You're going to scare them.
Joe: MTL files? (incredulous)
Brasse: I know, we're getting into Greek here.
Q Continued: For example the standard default for ambience would be KA (0.2,0.2,0.2).
Brasse (to Joe): How would you respond to that, Sir, cause I have no idea what any of that just meant!
Joe: Well, it's interesting. It's obviously from someone who's familiar with 3D and 3D programs. The MTL basically describes the quality of the shader you're applying to your object. You don't have to worry about submitting or stripping out that information. You don't have to submit… We have our own shaders in-game as well. That's part of our reconstruction of the asset.
Rick: Don't put the MTL file in your upload submission.
Joe: We're only asking for the OBJ file.
Brasse: For those of you who actually know what an MTL file is. Luckily I would never do that because I have no idea. MTL. Sounds like some kind of BLT variation.
Q: Are the Vertex Normals required in the OBJ? Some rendering engines use them, and some don't, so I usually strip them out. I did notice that vertex normals were present in the distillery object file. It never hurts to leave them in the file but it accounts for about 1/4 of the filesize.
A: This is a question for someone who is fairly well-versed in 3D as well. What he's talking about is should he strip out this vertex data to make his filesize smaller. Not necessary. The vertex data, you can define the hardness and softness of edges, so you don't want to strip that information. We actually want that information in your file.
Q: Will SOE be providing any software tools, meshes, etc. for those of us who are less artistically inclined but would like to give it a whirl?
Joe: We have a link under the PlayerStudio FAQ where we've listed a number of 3D programs and 2D programs. Some of them are completely free. Some are trial versions. We don't want to restrict you in what kind of program you're using. The format for textures (TGA) and 3D (OBJ) are fairly generic formats.
Joe: We use Maya [ed. note — a $3,500 3D modeling program], but we're not requiring you to purchase Maya to create anything. You can download a program like Blendr which is completely open source and free. You can create 3D objects in that software. The great thing is that there are tons of tutorials all over the internet. We also list a number of 3D sites and communities where you can ask for advice and find other people who are just beginning to work in 3D.
Q: Will we be able to make weapons and/or armor?
Brasse: Weapons and armor are a lot more complex. (to Joe) How long after the initial launch do you plan to introduce more (item categories)?
Joe: Right now we have weapons (and shields) available in EQ. Weapons for EQ2 require a "bone" inside the weapon, so that's something we're looking at. We haven't announced when or if we're going to make that available.
Joe: Armor is a trickier concept because it would have to be fitted to multiple player characters.
[Editor's Note: Currently there are about a half dozen base sets of armor in EQ2, with countless recolors, and since the introduction of The Shadow Odyssey, numerous "snap on" armor pieces to make different sets of armor unique even though they share the same base armor. There are 19 races in EQ2 (sorry kids, but Freebloods are just retextured High Elves). When you add male and female, that means each armor set has to fit 38 different "skeletons" or models.
Joe: We're still looking at all these things. We haven't taken anything off the table. The more people do fantastic stuff, the more likely we're going to do the background work to make these other categories available.
Rick: It's worth sometimes understanding the orders of difficulty involved. Let's say you're making a weapon in EQ2 or Vanguard. We could put one up there that has a bone in it and let you redo it. You have to be careful as you make it that the bone stays where it needs to so that it looks good in every kind of animation and size of character that might have it. It can't visually intersect anywhere or look "off". And that's just something being held in the hand and moved around.
Rick: If you look at the armor for a second, it has to cover all the right parts, and not cover any of the wrong parts, on every different race, and sometimes several body types on each race and both genders, there's a lot of complication on that. Even if all you wanted to do was take a perfect piece of armor that's been submitted and test it on every character, that's going to take time.
Brasse: (to the camera) You know there are people sitting there watching this going "Throw it at me, man. I can do this." (head nodding by Joe and Rick)
Q: How soon will international players be able to submit items for consideration? (Brasse: this is a good question.)
Rick: We obviously want all of our players to have access to this. The only thing limiting us is government laws. We're already set up to do certain things in the United States… Some of the processes and rules and paperwork we have in place to hire outside vendors can be adapted to work also for revenue sharing with players in this program. We don't have that all set up in every country.
Rick: We have to look at every single country, look at the rules of revenue sharing in that country. Is it eligible for income tax? Is there some other kind of tax? Do we have to register a certain way? Are there age limitations? What paperwork is involved? Then we have to go to our international lawyers not our normal lawyers. If we have distribution partners in those countries, or Europe, or Russia, we have to discuss it with them and make sure everyone's happy. It's going to take a while.
Rick: We're going to end up rolling out a few countries at a time as we do them, because it's so much work, it doesn't make a lot of sense to hold back a whole lot of other countries until we get all of them sorted.
Brasse: On Friday, October 18th at 10am, there will be a 1 hour Player Studio panel at SOE Live. Hopefully we'll have that livecast. We can't guarantee it but we hope to.
Brasse: We're going to have some samples that were created from our friends at the San Diego Art Institute.
Joe: Actually, they're not created by the Art Institute.
Brasse: They're not?
Joe: Individual folks.
Brasse: Who may or may not go to the Art Institute.
Brasse: We also have some directly from the player community. I've been in contact with a few of them. We've got some samples in which, for legal reasons, we're not actually allowed to show them to you. It drives me crazy because they're really awesome. You're going to have to come to SOE Live to see them. Please join us at SOE Live for this panel. Bring your questions.
Joe: We're going to have some artists there taking you through how we create some of these items too. During the panel and immediately afterwards. We'll have some artists on hand in the Battlegrounds area with a row of computers dedicated. This will happen immediately after the Player Studio panel on Friday and we may even have this at some point on Saturday.
Rick: If you're too shy to ask a question in front of the big panel, you can take them up one-on-one with the artists. You can ask your question from the artist(s) for your game.
No SOE Livecast next week as we'll be at GDC in Austin and then getting ready for SOE Live 2012!
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Thank you for transcribing this! Oh and for trying to save all the forum info 😀
Feldon, how the hell did you sit through all that and not kill yourself?
Feldon, how the hell did you sit through all that and not kill yourself?
I make sure not to have any sharp implements on my desk before transcribing a webcast. That was one of the more involved transcripts I've done. I'm not sure enough people read them to justify the 3 hours it takes.
I just want to drop in and say that I read through this as well, and I really appreciate you taking the time to do it!
It's times like this I wish a program like Dragon Speaking Naturally would work better for different voices and in a group situation like this . . . and be able to recognize each voice and label who said it.
There's a million dollar idea if I could only get it to work.
Thanks for this, Feldon. The Live Cast site is blocked at work and it gives me something to read at lunch time.
Big ups to you for them mentioning this website during the interview!
I'm not sure enough people read them to justify the 3 hours it takes.
All of us who read this at work and cannot watch the video thank you profusely.


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Some folks were a little perturbed by a WCCO-TV tweet posted on Wednesday, Jan. 9. The TV station sent out this teaser on the social media site Twitter for a story about St. Paul's Blue Door Pub opening a Minneapolis location: "Do you love the @bluedoorpub but hate St. Paul? You're in luck!"
Folks fired back at WCCO, saying the tweet slighted St. Paul, which led the station to backtrack with this tweet: "Clarification: If you love the @bluedoorpub AND you also love St. Paul, you're already in luck."
WCCO management had this to say about the original tweet: "WCCO does not feel that way and we don't want to imply at all that people wouldn't want to go to St. Paul. We love the people of St. Paul and hopefully our coverage reflects that. We've taken steps so that this doesn't happen again."


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Oklahoma State Representative Jeffrey Hickman has introduced HB 2134, which lowers the number of signatures for a newly-qualifying party from 5% of the last vote cast to exactly 5,000 signatures. Hickman has served in the legislature starting in 2004, and in the last session of the legislature was Speaker Pro Tempore. He is a Republican from Alva. Thanks to E. Zachary Knight for this news.
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Now, if we can convine the Senate to amend its bill to reflect the 5,000 signature requirement and pass both version, we will be good to go.
Oh my that would be fantastic.
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Anger at plan to redraw French map
The French government's plan to redraw the national map and merge regions which have had a strong identity for centuries has drawn fierce criticism.
The proposal, announced today, would decrease the number of administrative regions from 22 to 14.
France now includes the 22 regions, 100-plus departments and no fewer than 36,000 towns - all with administrative layers that French President Francois Hollande says are a bureaucratic burden.
Among the proposed mergers, which some critics compare to feudal forced marriages, are the combination of Alsace and Lorraine, High and Low Normandy, and Champagne-Ardenne and Picardie in the north.
Among the fiercest opponents are politicians, many of whom will vote on the plan in parliament, who stand to lose their jobs in regional elections next year.
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Serhiy Eremenko was sent to Holland as a prisoner of war, but escaped with the help of a colleague and taught music in the Dutch underground. After the war he became a well-known music teacher in Holland, played in a symphony orchestra, and conducted a string orchestra.
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The Mets thought they could get away with using Miguel Batista as a spot starter today against the Giants and Lincecum. They thought wrong. All us fans saw this coming, though. He only lasted 3.2 innings and was blasted for six runs, three earned, seven hits, two being homeruns, walking three and striking out two. I somewhat understand moving Santana back to Tuesday, but Batista starting? I still don't get what the Mets see in him as a reliever. Yeah, he did decent in his few appearances with them last season, but he shouldn't be on that mound in inning one. The Mets basically handed the Giants the win with this one. Batista gets smacked with the loss and now has a 6.23 ERA. At least it's still lower than Lincecum's.
Acosta finished the fourth inning for Batista and then Terry Collins handed the ball to the Taxi guy, Jeremy Hefner. The youngster pitched three great innings, allowing three hits, and walked one, but he did his job and kept the gap where Batista left it. Welcome to the ball club, Hefner. Parnell and Ramirez round out the next two innings with no runs allowed.
The boys keep hitting, and keep sitting on the bases. Despite eight hits and six walks, the Mets left 25 men on base. This is just unacceptable. These men need to touch home in order to win. Today the big offenders were Wright with six, Duda with two, and Ike Davis with a whopping eight men left on base, including two bases loaded situations. They combine for 0-10 and sixteen men left on. Wright crashed today, Duda still struggling, and Ike…well you gotta think that maybe this Valley Fever is really affecting him, as his average is .138 and had a very costly error today.
Kirk and Murphy continue to do well with two hits each. Tejada and Thole each get a hit and Tejada's defense is just impeccable.
Josh Thole has now reached safely in all 14 games this season in which he'd had a plate appearance.
Jason Bay's seven game hit streak comes to an end as he gets out in his one pinch-hitting at-bat.
Mets have lost five of their last seven games. They are no longer the undefeated Mets in the first four games of the season.
Following the game, the team demoted RHP Jeremy Hefner and activated infielder Jordany Valdespin, who will be active for game 2 of today's double header
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Ike Davis is just not being Ike Davis. 0-4, two Ks, an error, and left eight men stranded.
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When Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Loven rescued Hope in January 2016, the frightened and emaciated 2-year-old weighed just 10 pounds. Now, just three months later, the little boy is 24 pounds — and playing soccer with friends. "He loves eating real food like rice and beans, but dislikes snacks," Loven's husband, David Emmanuel Umem, tells Us Weekly. "He loves building little houses with soil and drawing pictures."
Hope was found roaming the streets of southern Nigeria after his family abandoned him because they believed he was a witch. The child — naked, riddled with worms and close to death — had been surviving on food scraps for eight months. Loven shared a heartbreaking photo on Facebook of Hope sipping from a bottle of water — and the post quickly went viral, gathering thousands of likes and comments. Within two days, Loven and Umem's organization, African Children's Aid Education and Development Foundation, received more than $150,000 in donations for his care.
Now, Hope lives with 35 others in an orphanage run by Loven and Umem. "All the other children are so protective of him, especially the older ones," Umem tells Us. "Initially Hope was aggressive with everyone, but we have gained his [trust]. Now he is so happy." Though Umem describes Hope as "bold and active," he says the toddler suffers from developmental delays as a result of being malnourished. "He plays with toys … that will help him learn the alphabet and numbers," Umem reveals.
Loven set up her charity in Nigeria to help young people who have been accused of witchcraft. "I traveled alone to Nigeria where I met children who had been tortured and beaten almost to death because they were accused of being witches and therefore left alone on the street," she told Huffington Post UK in February. "What I saw was so barbaric and terrible and it left a deep impression on me."
According to UNICEF, belief in witchcraft is widespread in Africa, and those most likely to be accused are boys with physical deformities or conditions such as autism. The Washington Post reported that in the southwestern Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom, there are an estimated 15,000 children who had been labeled witches and abandoned on the streets.


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Monday, 11 September 2006
The Nashman Studies of Motion 12: Tabing Ilog
Isn't this a pretty sight? Lambingan sa damuhan.....
In our maternal home in Benguet, there are lots of small streams, gullies, and even underground waterways where I used to spend the whole day pretending I was an archeologist or adventurer looking for lost treasure. The water was always nearly freezing but it was so clear and refreshing that I'd skinny dip till my skin wrinkled from the prolonged immersion in water. Either that, or my little pipi shrunk back into my body because of the cold and I was left with what looked like a malformed vagina. By then it was time to go home and have Benguet coffee by the fireplace. (Yes, I started drinking coffee when my mom was still preggers with me.)
In Baguio, we lived next to a creek that straddled the barangays of Brookside and Trancoville. This is shitty water. In fact it's a frigging canal. And it's kinda sad that it's such a polluted waterway since on both banks are student dorms. You would expect that university students had enough brain cells to realise that a creek is NOT the proper place to throw used tampons and other rubbish.
Here in Middle Earth, amazingly the weather for the past two days has been sunny and warm. So I reclaimed the innocence of my youth by abandoning all inhibitions and played with the water like it was the 80s again.
O diba? Ang laba sa Tide with Calamansi and Tawas and Chlorox, super puti. Mr. Ajax would be proud. Actually detergent has nothing to do with the otherwordly whiteness of my frocks, I'm just really angelic. Mas maputi pa kay Legolas yan, shet.
Page 54 of the Catalog. Shirt: Magsasaka-style White Camisa de Chino (P99, Jockey), Trousers: Retro Checks (P250, ukay ukay)
The Nashman does some Redneck Dancing: If it hadn't been for cotton-eye joe/I'd been married long time ago/Where did you come from?/Where did you go?/Where did you come from cotton-eye joe?
Jesus showed The Nashman where the rocks were and they both walked on water. And so it was written in the Holy Texts: Jesus stood just outside the boat and said Yo Peter, what took you so long? Light up the barbie and start grilling those fishes, I is hungry ayt. Tonight we're gonna convert some hoes in Galilee.
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[O diba? Ang laba sa Tide with Calamansi and Tawas and Chlorox, super puti. Mr. Ajax would be proud]
there is no mr. ajax, only mr. Clean!
- 9:17 pm GMT
- Alternati said...
Lambingan sa Damuhan was renamed Kangkangan sa Kangkungan.
Blasphemy!!! the text says "convert some bitches in Galilee" not hoes!
Commend the photo fairy for great shots.
- 8:46 am GMT
- En said...
AY! sayang!
...di nadulas :p
- 12:36 am GMT
- The Nashman said...
Hoy Engot,
I may be a hobbit but I don't have hobbit feet noh! I is surefooted
Sa kankungan? Hmmm....when I think about it, I guess it's more comfy to make hay on kangkong than on grass (makati sa pwit)
Gawd, I'm old wala nga palang Mr. Ajax. My memory is shite.
- 7:59 am GMT
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