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Bb Trumpets
Claude Gordon Selmer Bb, Serial #495, with Bob Reeves Valve Alignment
This was selected by Claude Gordon in December of 1984 while I was only 16 and still in High School. The bore is .470" with modified resistance to feel more like a medium-large bore horn. The bell has a wider taper giving a fuller sound and it is very lightweight to produce a full spectrum of color in the sound. The upper register (i.e. High E and above) feels more responsive and free blowing than any horn I have ever played. The CG Selmer allows the player more freedom and control over their sound in order to play in every setting without the need for more than one Bb trumpet.
Claude Gordon Selmer Bb, Serial #2060, with Bob Reeves Valve Alignment
Purchased in April of 1997 from Patty Gordon. This is my main horn I practice on at least 3 hours a day. It is awesome!
Claude Gordon Benge Bb, Serial #20000
Purchased July 2005 from Gary Gordon's widow. Gary Gordon was Claude Gordon's son and this was given as a gift. Gary passed away in 1988.
C Trumpet
Claude Gordon Selmer C, Serial #2164 with Bob Reeves Valve Alignment
Purchased in April of 1999. This is one of a very small number produced. It could potentially be the best C trumpet I have ever played. It replaced a Large Bore Bach with a 229 Bell and a Malone MC2 leadpipe and a Bob Reeves Alignment.
CG Personal
Rim shape same as CG Benge mouthpieces (i.e. narrow, rounded, and tapered on outside). This all results in a free blowing mouthpiece that helps to produce a full sound in all registers. I have played only this mouthpiece since August of 1984 along with the CG Selmer Bb trumpet, since December of 1984. I firmly believe that the search for the ideal mouthpiece is one of the worst traps to fall into. Correct practice on a consistent basis without changing equipment will produce consistent results and rapid progress without wasting money and time.
Bb/A Cornet
Boston 3 Star "NE PLUS ULTRA", Serial #18044, made in 1907.
This is a real cornet from the period of virtuoso cornet soloists, with .472" bore and two mouthpieces. My favorite one for the sound is twice as deep as a modern trumpet mouthpiece and has a #18 drill size. The smaller one has a #19 drill size and is a little shallower. Everything is original including the case. It was my surprise gift from my wife for Christmas of 2000.
Piccolo Trumpet
Schilke P5-4, Serial # 34612 with Bob Reeves Valve Alignment
Purchased March 2000. This replaced a Burbank Piccolo that was the only other model of Piccolo I was satisfied with. A third valve ring was added by Ron Pinc to make it similar to the Butler Guyer model.
D/Eb Trumpet
Schilke E3L, Serial # 7456 with Bob Reeves Valve Alignment
Bought from Geoff Hufford in July of 1997, previously owned by his dad, Ken Hufford.
Flügel Horn
Yamaha YFH-635T, Serial #1316, lacquer with Bob Reeves Valve Alignment
Bought in late 1986 with the help from Brad and Kacey Kintscher.
This model is no longer made and is identical to current Bobby Shew YFH6310Z model.
Herald Trumpet
Getzen Super Deluxe, Serial #86337, lacquer
Alp Horn
Stocker F#/F, Serial #9114 with a Stocker 20.5mm i.d. Mouthpiece
Miraphone BBb TE-186 (Tuba Exchange Model), Serial #15101
Conn Helleberg Mouthpiece
Previously owned by Jeffrey Allen, who was a student of a local tuba player named John Sizemore.
The funny thing is that my name is "Jeffery Allan" Purtle.
Bach 42TG with Thayer Valve and Gold Brass Bell
Bach 5G mouthpiece
Slide aligned and set-up by the Slide Dr.
French Horn
Conn 8D French horn
Giardinelli C1 mouthpiece
Other Equipment
Walt Johnson Gig Case for Trumpet
MusiChem Pro Oil Hybrid 141 A7 valve oil
MusiChem Rotory Oil with Corrosion Passivator CBPRO
Slide-O-Mix trombone slide lubricant
Boss DB88 Talking Metronome
Denis Wick Trumpet Straight Mute (first choice)
Tom Crown Trumpet Straight Mute (second choice)
Tom Crown Non Paríel Soft Straight Mute (for soft passages)
Denis Wick Trumpet Adjustable Cup Mute (first choice)
Humes and Berg Stonlined Trumpet Cup Mute (second choice)
Jo Ral Aluminum Bubble Trumpet Mute
Humes and Berg Stonelined Bucket Mute (first choice)
Jo Ral Aluminum Trumpet Bucket Mute (second choice)
Humes and Berg Stonelined Plunger Mute
Humes and Berg Stonelined Solo Tone Mute
Denis Wick Piccolo Trumpet Straight Mute
Tom Crown Piccolo Trumpet Straight Mute
Tom Crown Piccolo Trumpet Cup Mute
Tom Crown Piccolo Trumpet Copper wah-wah
Denis Wick Tuba Straight Mute
Konig and Meyer Trumpet Stands (5 leg)
Konig and Meyer Flügelhorn Stand (5 leg)
Konig and Meyer French Horn Stand
Konig and Meyer Trombone Stand
Konig and Meyer Tuba Stand
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Course objectives:
The content of this course focuses on developing those core communication skills that all lawyers need and use in their practice. In this course you will work on:
• Developing and projecting self-confidence;
• Intentionally designing the content and structure of presentations; and
• Developing, through practice and observation, a reliable capacity to perform well in a variety of speaking situations.
This course will teach students strategies for effective public speaking to large and small audiences and individuals. Specific exercises include introducing a speaker to an audience, providing a research report to a supervising attorney, responding to questions, speaking extemporaneously, persuasive and impactful speaking, and explaining legal concepts to an audience.
This two-credit course is offered pass/fail only. All students will meet in a plenary session on Mondays from 4:35-5:30 p.m. that will feature lectures on a variety of oral communication topics (e.g., composition, performance, rhetorical power). On Wednesdays or Thursdays, the students will meet in small groups to perform a variety of in-class exercises featuring individualized critique.
This course meets only the first ten weeks of the semester. Each student is expected to attend all ten plenary sessions and all ten small group sessions. If a student must miss class due to illness or other conflict, make-up classes may be arranged. Passage requires active participation in class. There is no final exam.
The instructors are Professor Ralph Cagle and Adjunct Professors James Peterson and Christina Plum, all of whom have previously taught a one-credit oral communications course at the UW Law School. For more information, please email them.
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This page refers to Portfolio classic plans. If you're using Portfolio 2.0 and later, please check this section for frequently asked questions about Portfolio live plans.
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Estimates can be made in story points or time based, see Estimating and managing time budgets.
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With Portfolio for Jira, you can have one or multiple portfolio plans and each plan can be either cross-team/cross-project, or focused on a particular project. Within a plan, work items are structured into three actual levels of hierarchy:
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Portfolio for Jira allows you to import any issue type. The only explicit benefit of epics and stories is that their hierarchy is known and can be imported right away. When importing other issue types you will need to decide at which hierarchy level to import the issue (initiative, epic or story-level of the hierarchy) and select the parent item.
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ATLANTA -- The youngest of the Mets' three pitchers on Tuesday climbed atop the mound in the ninth inning, preparing to finish what Bartolo Colon started. Jose Valverde was no kid himself, having celebrated his 36th birthday last month. But compared to the others …
"I'm the youngest?!" Valverde said, his eyes growing wide. "Hooo-ly cow."
Age, of course, is but a number. And so on a night when the Braves celebrated the 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's home run record, Colon -- one of only four active big leaguers who was actually alive when Aaron hit No. 715 -- combined with 30-somethings Valverde and Kyle Farnsworth to blank the Braves, 4-0.
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"It was a big fly, but this is a big stadium," Valverde said of Turner Field, only the 14th-oldest park in the Majors. "I have a good center fielder there, [Juan] Lagares, who I know can catch everything."
"That's the way the game goes," Heyward said. "It doesn't matter what you do in your first few -- mentally, you've got to be ready to come through in that next at-bat. You've got to put the other stuff behind you. You always want to be in that spot. We did a great job of fighting to get in that situation."
Farnsworth's inning as the setup man was noticeably easier, as the 37-year-old breezed through the heart of Atlanta's order in the eighth. That put things in the well-worn hands of Valverde, who did just enough to save his 288th career game.
"The ninth inning's a tough inning to pitch," said 64-year-old Terry Collins, the oldest manager in baseball. "You find that guy that doesn't get all worked up when things are going rough, and he's done that."
Collins could have been talking about any of the three elder statesmen on his staff, considering how well they all pitched. Colon was Exhibit A, dialing his fastball into the low 90s while striking out the first two batters he faced and five in total. Though he enjoyed just one 1-2-3 inning all night, Colon did not walk a batter, and did not allow more than one baserunner in each of his first six innings.
It was not until the seventh, seemingly, that he even had to sweat. Sitting on a three-run lead, Colon recorded a pair of easy outs before giving up a well-struck single to Andrelton Simmons and an infield hit to Ryan Doumit. That brought many of Turner Field's fans to their feet, until Heyward grounded out to end the inning.
"I felt great," Colon said through an interpreter. "Especially when you face a team as tough as Atlanta, you prepare to be very tough mentally, so that's how I felt today. I prepared very, very well for this game."
The Mets took an early lead off former teammate Aaron Harang -- who, at age 35, might not be out of place at the bingo game -- thanks to two walks and a wild pitch in the third. Harang was otherwise stout, striking out nine Mets in six innings and allowing only two hits.
But as soon as Harang departed, the Mets found offensive life. Consecutive hits from Travis d'Arnaud -- who singled earlier in the game to snap a season-opening 0-for-16 skid -- and Ruben Tejada led to one run in the seventh, before Eric Young plated another with an RBI single. An inning later, the Mets parlayed their second successful replay challenge of the season into additional insurance, when Tejada singled home Lucas Duda with two outs.
That gave Farnsworth and Valverde -- the young guys, relatively speaking -- a four-run cushion.
"It worked good," Collins said. "They all did a nice job."


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From LimeSurvey Manual
- 1 Introdução - o que é o LimeSurvey?
- 2 Create a free LimeSurvey account
- 3 Start using LimeSurvey
- 4 Other LimeSurvey features - advanced users
Introdução - o que é o LimeSurvey?
LimeSurvey is a free and open source online survey application written in PHP, and distributed under the GNU General Public License 2. The software enables users to develop and publish online surveys, collect responses, create statistics, and export the resulting data to other applications. You can either install LimeSurvey on your own server (LimeSurvey CE) or you can directly start utilizing it via one of our hosting services (LimeSurvey Pro).
The following start guide relies on the usage of LimeSurvey Pro. To install LimeSurvey on your own server, check our installation section from the LimeSurvey manual.
Create a free LimeSurvey account
LimeSurvey allows every user to create a free account in order to test its features and core functions. To try it out, hover the mouse over Editions & Pricing that is located on the top toolbar of LimeSurvey website and look for the Editions & Pricing button located under the LimeSurvey Pro tab:
Four options will emerge: free, basic, expert, and enterprise. Click on the Register Now button from the FREE option box:
The next step includes filling in the following fields:
- Username: the username of your account which will also be used to access your LimeSurvey installation;
- Email: the email the activation link will be sent to;
- Password: the password of your account which will also be used to access your LimeSurvey installation.
As you hover the mouse over each field, text boxes will pop up with further details about each field. Optionally, you could also subscribe to the LimeSurvey newsletter in order to get help, tips & tricks, service discounts, and the latest news.
For a faster registration process, LimeSurvey allows each user to sign up via their own Twitter, Gmail or GitHub account. LimeSurvey will gather the basic information that is required from your selected source.
After creating your LimeSurvey account by clicking on the SIGN UP button, you will receive an email from us. This email contains the account activation link you should click on to access your newly created account. Once clicked, you will be redirected to the LimeSurvey website, getting automatically logged in to your LimeSurvey account.
To access your survey link, you have to first create an installation. Click on your username from the main toolbar, and then go to your LimeSurvey profile:
Choose Installations from the Profile Menu located on the left side of the screen and create an installation:
You will be asked to:
- type in the Domain name (the URL link of the questionnaire);
- choose the Server location – you can pick up one of the four server locations that will suit most of your needs.
When the domain-related fields are completed and saved, the installation process will start. This will take up to 10 seconds. The installation settings page will look like this:
You can now access your server by clicking on the administration URL. To sign in to your LimeSurvey installation, use your LimeSurvey.org credentials:
Start using LimeSurvey
Once logged in, you will find yourself on the home page of your LimeSurvey installation. It contains a toolbar located on the upper-right part of the window and a set of boxes, each of them corresponding to six LimeSurvey functionalities shortcuts, situated in the center of the home page.
The toolbar contains the following options:
- Configuration: Once selected, a dialog will show up from where you can administrate your LimeSurvey installation.
- Settings: Under this tab, you may find options that can help you customize your LimeSurvey installation.
- Home page settings: Users can use this option to tweak the settings of the home page according to their needs;
- Global settings: The changes done here affect the entire LimeSurvey installation, influencing also the setting of non-superadministrator users for all users;
- Plugin manager: It allows every user to activate a series of plugins that are supported by the LimeSurvey team. New plugins can also be added to your installation.
- Users: Under this tab you may find options related to the users and survey participants' management.
- Manage survey administrators: New administration users can be added from here;
- Create/edit user groups: This function is meant to group administration users in individual groups;
- Central participant database: It permits every administrator to store the participants' information to a central table that is independent of any token table.
- Advanced settings: It includes options that are non user or settings-related. They can be used to enhance your LimeSurvey installation.
- Themes: If you would like to add/edit/delete templates, access this option. The templates allow control over the look and feel of pages of your survey;
- Manage label sets: Label sets are basically list templates where each list has a set of codes with labels and it can be used in most question types either as answers or as subquestions;
- Check data integrity: It checks the consistency and the redundancy of the data;
- Backup entire database: It is used to backup the LimeSurvey data when important LimeSurvey upgrades are pushed or when you move your LimeSurvey installation to another server;
- ComfortUpdate: It is a tool utilized to easily update your LimeSurvey installation from your web browser with just a few mouse clicks (instead of performing a manual LimeSurvey reinstallation).
- Settings: Under this tab, you may find options that can help you customize your LimeSurvey installation.
- Surveys: A survey includes via different interconnected databases: languages, question groups, questions, question attributes, answers, subquestions, default answers, assessments, quotas, quota members, and quota language settings. By clicking on the green arrow, a window with the following options will load up:
- Create a new survey: New surveys can be created and added to the surveys list;
- Import a new survey: If you want to import a survey to your list of surveys, use this function;
- Copy a survey: It allows the user to quickly copy a survey. This will appear in the surveys list from where it can be edited;
- List surveys: It allows you you to get an overview on all the existing surveys.
- Response balance: It shows the number of responses left from your subscription. Because you have access only to a free account at the moment, 25 responses per month are available to you. If you run out of responses, purchase more from the following link;
- Storage: it represents the amount of MBs that are at your disposal to store your surveys and answers.Because you created a free account, you get 10 MB storage space. If you would like to receive more storage space, choose one of the following options from here;
- Username: By clicking on it, you can either access your user preferences or sign out from your account;
- Notifications: Different notification related to your LimeSurvey installation will be displayed here.
There are six default boxes on the home page of your LimeSurvey installation:
- Create a new survey
- List available surveys
- Edit global settings
- ComfortUpdate
- Label Sets
- Template editor
Create a survey
To create a survey, click on the Create a new survey box:
The Create survey page will be displayed:
The following options will be displayed:
- Base language: It is the main language of the survey. Additional languages can be added later from the settings of the survey;
- Survey title: The title of the survey has to be typed here. It can be later changed;
- Sample question: It comes disabled by default. If you enable it, a question group and question examples will be added to your survey.
- Description: A short description of the survey can be added here;
- Welcome message: The survey participants will be prompted by this welcome message if something is typed in;
- End message: Type in a message that will be displayed to the survey participants when they submit the answers to the questionnaire.
If you are done completing the fields, click on the Save and close button located in the upper-right part of the window. You will be redirected to the home page of your recently added survey:
Create a question group
A question group is used to group different elements of a survey like descriptions, questions, and answers.
To create a question group, you have to first access the survey to which you want to add the question group. To do that, click on the Surveys button located on the top toolbar from the LimeSurvey home page:
Click on the survey you wish to add the question group to. The survey page will show up. Look for the Add group panel in the middle of the page:
The following page will be displayed:
- Title: The name of the survey group;
- Description: A short description of the question group can be typed in. It can be displayed to the survey participants if the corresponding option is enabled from the settings of the survey;
- Randomization group: This function is used when you would like to randomize certain question groups (the same has to be allocated to the respective question groups);
- Relevance equation: It is used to make survey participants answer only to certain question groups, according to their prior answers.
Once done, click on the Save and close button located in the upper-right part of the window.
To get an overview of all question groups, go to the Survey menu and click on: Questions and groups -> List question groups:
Create a question
To create a new question, you need to first create a question group. Please check the steps presented above to see how you can add a question group to a survey. Once done creating the survey group, select the List question groups button from the survey menu:
A list with the all the survey question groups will show up. Now, look in the last column. It shows you four buttons, representing the available question group actions:
- Add new question to group: It is used to start adding questions to the corresponding question group;
- Edit group: It allows the user to edit the respective question group;
- Group summary: If clicked, a summary page of that question group will be displayed;
- Delete: One option to delete the question group is to click on the red trash button.
Click on the first button and start adding your question to the desired question group. The Create question page will load up. It contains the following options:
- Code: It represents the individual question name/code with which the survey is saved in the database and can be used further in more complex and advanced types of questions;
- Question: The name of the question that will actually appear in the survey for the survey participants;
- Help: A short text can be provided in order to help the survey participants better understand the question;
- General options: The functionalities located under this option allow you to modify the most important question-related settings. It includes four options:
- Question type: Many question types can be used in LimeSurvey. To better understand them, hover the mouse over each option or read our wiki on questions;
- Question group: You can choose here which question group you would like to add the question to;
- Validation: This feature is available on all free text type or numeric questions. It is used for response validation. If the response is not validated, the user will be prompted to try again before they can progress;
- Mandatory: It is available for all question types. This setting allows you to require users to answer the question before they can move on to the next question;
- Relevance equation: It is a setting for advanced users. It is recommended to use the default value of "1" (it means that the item will be always shown);
- Advanced settings: The advanced settings are different for each question type. Please consult the documentation for your particular question type.
Click on the Save button. Once done, you will be redirected to a page that contains the summary of the recently added question:
To add more questions, click on the Add new question button located in the Question quick actions menu.
Add subquestions and answers
Different types of questions require subquestions, predefined sets of answers, both or none. For example, a question that requires the age of a survey participant does not require any subquestion or predefined set of answers. On the other hand, a simple array question requires both subquestions and set of answers.
The next screenshot contains an array-type question:
Add subquestions
To add subquestions, go to the top toolbar and click on Edit subquestions. Type in the subquestions you wish the survey participants to answer to:
Add answers
To add a set of predefined answers, go to the top toolbar and click on Edit answer options. Type in the answers:
Save the set of answers and preview the question (look for the Preview question button located on the top toolbar).
Congratulations! You have successfully created your first array-type question.
Organize questions
If your survey already contains dozens of questions, it is a time-consuming process to access each question and/or question group and edit the order one-by-one. Therefore, to quickly reorganize your questions and question groups, use the Question organizer function (Survey menu -> Questions and groups -> Question organizer).
To reorder them, just drag the question/group and drop it to the desired position. Do not forget to click on the Save button to save your changes.
Activate/Stop survey
Now that you have at least one question and question group added to your survey, you can activate it. Go to the home page of your survey by clicking on the Survey button, located on the top of the survey menu:
Check the toolbar. The Activate this survey option should be available:
Before activation, a window will be displayed, asking you about some general survey settings:
- Anonymyzed responses: This option allows you to determine whether responses to your survey are matched up with information from your survey's token table, or kept "anonymous". If you decide to enable it, your survey is set to anonymize responses - there will be no way to connect answers and participants;
- Save IP address: If enabled, the IP address of the survey respondent will be stored together with his/her answers;
- Save timings: If enabled, the time spent on each page of the survey by each survey participant is recorded;
- Date stamp: Turn it on if you would like to see the date the answers were submitted;
- Save referrer URL: If enabled, the referrer URL will be stored together with the answers.
Once you are done enabling the desired functionalities, click on the Save & activate survey button. The following message should be displayed:
Select the option No, thanks to disable the closed-access mode! In this way, everyone will have access to your survey.
Congratulations! You have activated your first survey! If you want to start sharing the survey URL, go to the home page of your survey, and look for the survey URL in the Survey summary:
Copy the link and start sharing it.
If you want to stop the interview, access the home page of the survey and look for the Stop this survey button located on the top toolbar:
To quickly see your survey statistics, click on the Survey button located on the top toolbar of your LimeSurvey home page. A list with all the available surveys will be displayed. Now, go to the last column and click on the Statistics button () that corresponds to the row of the survey you wish to analyse:
A new window with a set of graphs will be loaded up. If you want to use them in a report, scroll down and click on the Export images button located on the bottom-left part of the page. All the charts will be separately saved as .png files and archived in a .zip file.
On the upper-right part of the window, you can see the Expert mode button. Click on it in order to access more statistics-related filters.
Once you select the filters according to your desired analyses, click on the View Statistics button located on the upper-right part of the window.
According to the chosen output, the results are displayed in HTML, Excel or PDF.
Exporting the questions and responses
If you want to export the results in a different format in order to produce statistics and graphs using other apps such as SPSS, R, STATA, etc., access the survey you want to analyse. Click on the Responses button located on the top toolbar, and then on Responses & Statistics:
Now you are on the Browse responses page. Look at the top toolbar for the Export button and select the desired format you wish to export to. If you select the first option, all the availalbe formats in which you can export the data will be displayed:
Once the filters are set, click on the Export button located in the upper-right side of the window.
Other LimeSurvey features - advanced users
Check the features of LimeSurvey Pro package by clicking on the following link: https://www.limesurvey.org/editions-and-prices/limesurvey-pro/professional-features.
If further questions arise, please post them on our forum or join the IRC channel.


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There was a map named "Train Station," which was created in 2010 but was released before the New Year celebrations in 2012. After the release, a bug had been noticed; the prop of the tower could be shot through with Shaft. Two days later, the use of this bug became punishable and a week after that, the bug had been completely fixed.
In 2011, Developers decided to make a contest in which it was necessary to turn the turret constantly. A special map called Carousel was developed for this contest. It was assumed that players would not be able to use the supplies on that map (neither purchased, nor bonus boxes). The map was never released. It is worth noting that the main designer of this map was the legendary mapmaker Figishe, who created a lot of maps. Now the map is considered to be lost.
The project of Ricochet turret first appeared in 2009. The turret was planned to be called "Vulcan". Its shots originally did not bounce off surfaces and were blue. At that time, Vulcan / Ricochet was a machine gun, but then the idea of bouncing balls appeared, and that idea later grew into a full-fledged turret, now known as Ricochet.
When Hornet was just in the testing stage, it consisted of five parts: the central part and four side parts, each of which was below the level of the central unit, and on each side blocks there were tracks. Then Hornet changed to its present state because its design was deemed "too futuristic" and the complexities associated with gravity and traction.
Appearance of Shaft in June 2011 caused quite a furore among tankers. After the release, Shaft was bought at a rate of three pieces per second! Straight after that it was changed and paints with protection from Shaft were released. On the next day it was removed from players' Garages, the crystals were given back and the description was changed. Shaft was weak, so it was slightly improved and, before the release, there was an open testing in Test Server. On the first day of testing, the maximum damage of Shaft in aiming mode was 150 - 175 - 200 - 250 HP (for M0 - M1 - M2 - M3), on the second day was 200 - 225 - 275 - 300.
First Gold Box was worth 1 000 crystals. Initially, no one knew how, where and when this bonus would appear. First Gold Box fell on the map "Kungur" when the battle fund was 700 crystals, it was caught by player Noosya. Later, Gold Boxes began to fall almost on every map, but their value was cut to 100 crystals. Now, the drop zones of the Gold Box drop exist on all maps and the value has again been increased to 1000 crystals.
In February 2011, a special modification of Smoky was introduced. It was named Smoky XT. This modification costed about 4000 crystals. It was available for purchase only for one week. Smoky XT was better than Smoky M3 in all aspects.
In 2009, developers decided to create a turret that could deal damage to opponents and heal allies. So Isida appeared. The first concept of Isida could only heal and looked like it had three teeth, something that resembles a model from the Game «Half-Life». Isida was also able to heal itself (by firing into the void). This ability was too strong and was removed. Isida was last modified in February 2017, when the self-healing ability was removed.
During beta testing (May 2009) Tanki Online was awarded at Game Developers Conference in the category "Best Game without a publisher". This says that, while only in the test phase, Tanki Online had gained recognition and fame in the gaming industry.
In the Summer of 2012, there was a special event hosted to holding the European Football Championship. During this action Gold Boxes value was increased several times. After the action finished it was estimated that during the action players caught 90 million crystals in gold boxes - in the current economic system it is worth nearly one billion crystals!
On September 27, 2012, an extraordinary battle called «Kasim vs Sun» took place — the Community Manager of Russian community, Maksim Khusainov, and Tech Support specialist, Kseniya Ignatyeva, fought against each other on Wasp + Smoky combination. Maksim won with a score of 22:19. Tankers could support Maksim and Kseniya by acquiring a special paint in the Garage that costed 100 crystals. 47 341 paints for Kasim were bought, 18 004 for Sun and 4 844 for both players — all those who bought the paint for Maksim received 59 crystals.
Every year on October 31 Tanki celebrates Halloween. In 2012, during the action a special map was created 59 597 times, and a special gold box fell 12,008 times. There were some interesting coincidences: October 30, 2012 the 16666666th tanker registered, and the Tweet made about the special video blog was 666th. In 2014, there were 45 ghosts on a special Halloween map. On October 31st 2015, tankers spent in the game a total of 196 years, and caught 440 000 Gold boxes. The winner of the competition for the best gold catchers was the player Ti-To, who caught 195 boxes and received Viking XT and Thunder XT as an award.
The creation of the first test version of Tanki took four and a half months. First registered player who is not a developer was GlebNikitin. And the first registered account was arts80 which belongs to server programmer Alex Kviring. The first map in the game was the prototype of Tribute.
By mid-2010, there were about 200 000 players registered. On December 19, 2010 the millionth registration was achieved. 6 June 2011 - registration number 3 000 000 (the player with the nickname katyana). January 4, 2012 - seven millionth registration (the player with the nickname stepan1234567891). March 25, 2012 - the barrier of 10 million registrations was overcome (player with the nickname lYonsl). On Tanker Day 2012 there was a registration #15 000 000 (a player with the nickname adilov.amir). February 5, 2013 - twenty millionth registration (the player with the nickname tolik755). End of July of 2013 - thirty millionth registration (the player with the nickname nadja8201).
Tanki Online is most popular in Russia. This is followed by Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Germany, Moldova, Georgia, the United States and Saudi Arabia.
The most popular paint in the game is "Green", then "Holiday" and "Forester". Three of the most popular turrets are Railgun, Ricochet and Twins. Three of the most popular hulls are Hornet, Viking and Wasp.
On New Year's holiday and Tanki's birthday which is celebrated on June 4, the developer team arranges a quest called "The GAME". Winners receive a "dream tank" - a fully micro-upgraded hull, turret and paint. The winner of the event on BD TO 2014 was player KomZorg, who chose Hunter M3 Ricochet M3 and Picasso. Player SteelShark, who was winner of "The GAME" on NY 2014-2015, received Hornet M3 Hammer M3 and Picasso. Player alex7668-rak, who was the winner of the event on BD TO 2015, received Hunter M3, Smoky M3 and Nano. Player DisappearedStar, who was the winner of the event on NY 2015-2016, chose three paints instead of a "dream tank": Taiga, Raccoon and Jade.
The official VKontakte group of Tanki Online appeared in January 2011. Russian community manager Maksim Khusainov promised to take a dip in the hole if the number of subscribers in the group will be over 500 000. September 27, 2014, this mark has been passed, and on New Year Maksim fulfilled his promise - in the first v-log in 2015 he began speaking from the hole.
The game has a total of six maps with an even number of points in Control Points mode - Courage, Deck 9, Magadan, Siege, Factory and Fort Knox.
There are four maps - Canyon, Duel, Ping Pong and Hill - which do not contain a Control Points mode at all.
In addition, Duel is the only map that is not available to be played in both Capture The Flag and Control Points modes.
The most capacious map is Dusseldorf, holding a massive 40 players, Berlin goes next with 36 players max, while Lost Temple and Madness have 32 players max. In turn, Lost Temple is the largest map, Berlin is just a little bit behind, and Dusseldorf closes the top three. The smallest maps are Island, Duel and Ping Pong.
In the summer of 2014 the Football World Cup was held in Brazil, and Tanki could not stay away from the event. In the action called "Football Frenzy" players could purchase one of the 32 paints, symbolizing the participants of the World Cup. Those who bought the paint for winner of the championship were given back a 50% of the crystals spent on purchases during the promotion. Total number of paints bought is 555,502, including for Russia - 111 000 (the most popular paint), for Germany (the winner) - 38 007, for Argentina - 17 641, for the Netherlands - 15 465. The least bought paint was the paint for Côte d'Ivoire - only about 1,000. About 887 million crystals were returned to tankers.
In 'The GAME' of May 2013, the prize for those who successfully solved all of the puzzles was a temporary paint called "Storm" with 15% protection from all turrets. At the end of the quest, 9636 tankers got the paint.
A long time ago Railgun was called Fear Machine, Ricochet could've been called Vulcan, Hornet could've been called Raptor, Viking could've been called Centurion, and Hammer could've been called Magnum. As for the Vulcan, the game designer Semyon Strizhak (known as Hazel-Rah) jokingly promised that "the turret will never be named Vulcan, otherwise I grow two additional fingers on the hand."
Spectator mode wasn't in the game from the beginning. The first clan war broadcasted using spectator mode was the quarter-final of the upper bracket of TOF Dream Team III between the teams "International" and "Tyazhelo i Slozhno" (which means "Difficult and Complicated").
In the summer of 2015, the team of Tanki Online visited the gamescom game exhibition in Cologne, Germany. In honour of this event, a map named "Cologne" was introduced, on which Gold boxes worth 2000 crystals fell. During the event, 191 million crystals fell in Gold Boxes and the map was visited by about a million players.
In many maps you can find rusted skeletons of Titan + Firebird combination: It is a tribute to the players from pre-rebalance era, according to which Titan + Firebird combination was considered the most absurd and useless combination of turret and hull.
Tanki Online's birthday is considered to be June 4, 2009 - the date of the start of the open beta testing. The first player to have reached the highest rank (at the time it was Marshal) was the legendary T7000. In April 2010, a Chinese server was started. On 16 April 2014, Tanki Online was launched in Brazil. First Generalissimo in the Brazilian community was the player limadj2 — he reached 1 400 000 experience points on 2 September 2014, spending about four and a half months to get to the highest rank. As a reward for his speedy passage, limadj2 received a fully micro-upgraded Viking M3, Ricochet M3 and Zeus.
Sometimes in holidays and special celebrations, funds in the game are increased. The biggest funds in the game were five times the normal fund on August 2, 2015 in honour of the 50 000 viewers who tuned it to watch the eSports finals on Tanki Online's Twitch channel.
On May 9, 2015 there was a pass "Endless Supplies", which costed 70 and could be bought until a restart on May 10th. On that day it was almost impossible to find a player who was playing without three supplies activated at once - except for those who played in PRO-battles with supplies disabled.
During the Christmas holidays 2014-2015, an entrance from North Korea was registered in Tanki Online. It's known that access to the Internet is severely limited in North Korea. Who could it be?
During the Christmas holidays 2014-2015, there was a special promotion in which you could hire unique XT versions of Railgun and Hornet and a special paint, Frost - which had 20% protection from all turrets. Railgun XT and Hornet XT had a 50% boost over normal Railgun and Hornet. The special items were in the game for twelve days and you could hire these at any time during the twelve days. The price started at 150 000 crystals for Railgun XT M0 and an additional 50 000 for each modification, which gave you the item in your garage for the whole twelve days. Each day after, the prices were reduced by approximately 30%.
Deathmatch (DM) is the most popular game mode, amounting to 42% of all battles created. It is followed by Capture the Flag (CTF) with 33%, Team Deathmatch (TDM) with 14% and Control Points (CP) with 11%.
Forester is the most popular of all the paints. In December 2015, the paint was used in battles for a total of 1 258 208 hours. That is equal to 137 years!
Sandbox is the most popular map in Tanki Online. In 2015 alone, players created a whopping 7.7 Million Sandbox battles.
Not everybody knows about the special Moonwalker paint. It was added to the game during the Farewell to Moon Silence map event, and was available for purchase until its very end. The map doesn't exist in the game any more, but the paint does.
If two discounts are applied to an item, they don't add up. Here is how it works:
The first discount is applied to the item, and then the second discount is applied to the already discounted price. For example, a 20% personal discount and a 25% sale from a promotion would give you a total of 40% off, not 45%.
Active supply indicators on top of other players' tanks were only added into the game half a year after supplies were launched. Before that, you had to guess whether an enemy had Double Attack/Double Armor activated.
Nauru, Kiribati and Guinea-Bissau are the three countries with the smallest player population. In fact, there is only one tanker living in each of these three countries according to statistics.
Mammoth could have had a different name. While the heavy hull was still in development, the name "Goliath" was seriously being considered by the developers.
Not all Generalissimos were Field Marshals and Commanders before reaching their rank. Before the 17th of December 2012, the highest rank in the game was Marshal. When the new ranks were added, many Marshals had more than 1 400 000 experience points.
petraz was the first tanker who managed to get on top of Rio's skyscraper. He did it on the 1st of April 2014, during the event for the launch of Tanki Online in Brazil.
There are several phrases written in Persian in the map «Iran». The one on the blue flag in the center of the map says "We've been through a lot to reach the peak of the mountains". The small writing on the houses can be translated as "We live not for ourselves, but for the greater good", while the sign on the gate simply says "Welcome".
The Daily Mission that is completed most often in the game is "Finish First in Battle". It is followed by "Collect Repair Kits" and then by "Collect Speed Boosts".
The total amount of crystals earned as rank-up rewards from Recruit all the way to Legend is 354 010. Almost half of those are earned from the last 5 ranks.
XT turrets and hulls are elite items that have a unique appearance. However, it is important to note that they only differ from their original counterparts by looks, and not by any extra, higher or better statistical values. For example, there is no difference between a Thunder M3 and a Thunder XT M3 except for the new additions onto the turret. The same goes for hulls, such as Hornet M3 and Hornet XT M3.
It is important to consider that you can get these versions of turrets and hull from a total of three ways:
- Getting them as a reward by completing a special Daily Mission,
- Buying them in the Garage for 500 000 crystals with an active Premium Account, and
- Winning them in promotions and contests held by the developers.
Here are some important facts regarding XT equipment:
- Once bought, an XT item will remain in your Garage forever.
- Micro-Upgrades and Speed-Ups discounts do not apply to XT items.
- Alterations can't be equipped with XT items, even if you have already bought one for the normal version.
List of Current XT Equipment
Firebird XT
The unique Firebird XT is embellished with a unique ornament, styled after the head of a fire-breathing dragon with burning eyes.
Price: 500 000
Thunder XT
The exclusive Thunder XT will give you the feeling of slipping into the skin of a seasoned northern predator.
Price: 500 000
Vulcan XT
A unique version of Vulcan, different from its standard counterpart thanks to its truly special looks. The turret is covered with golden armor plating resembling snake skin. These aggressive looks are finished with two extremely rare rubies that look like the eyes of an ancient beast.
Price: 500 000
Railgun XT
The unique Railgun XT is notable because of its side pattern styled after an eagle's head, with a very distinctive predatory beak.
Price: 500 000
Wasp XT
The elite Wasp XT is special due to its unique side ornament, resembling the wings of an ancient dragon.
Price: 500 000
Hornet XT
The elite Hornet XT is unique in terms of its looks. Its staggering armor plates resemble the wings of a bird or prey, stressing the hulls dynamic and elegant looks.
Price: 500 000
Viking XT
The exclusive Viking XT is memorable thanks to its exterior, featuring a distinct armor pattern that conveys northern strength and stability.
Price: 500 000
Mammoth XT
This elite Mammoth XT is special due to its unique texture. The hull is covered with additional golden plating that symbolizes the stability and unprecedented protection of this extremely heavy tank.
Price: 500 000
History of XT Equipment
Smoky XT
On February 12, 2011, there was another special event, themed at celebrating the 1 500 000th player to register in the game. For Valentine's Day, a special new turret called «Smoky XT» came out. It was more expensive and more powerful than the regular «Smoky» turret. For a week, every player ranked Warrant Officer 1 or higher could buy this turret, and use it until February 22. On the next day, the damage from «Smoky XT» was increased and two more days were added to the event. This caused a huge rift between players (as there weren't any events like this before). In the game and on the forums, «Smoky XT» became the most popular topic of discussion. On February 24, 2011, at 8:00 AM Moscow time, the turret was removed from players' Garages forever.
First Appearance of Railgun and Hornet XT
For the New Year 2014-2015 celebration events, it was possible to rent a unique set of items. These were the elite and exclusive, Hornet and Railgun XTs. All modifications from M0 to M3 - depending on the rank - were available, with improved characteristics and unique appearances. The cost of rent was initially very high (half a million crystals per set of M3), but declined every day until the end of the campaign - on the last day of the holidays prices was a hundred times lower than at the start of sales. On January 12, 2015, the rental period ended, and New Year's elite items were removed from the store and Garages.
Second Appearance of Railgun and Hornet XT
Around six months later, on July 14, 2015, Railgun and Hornet XTs were added back to the game (albeit only in the M3 version and with basic characteristics) to become rare unique prizes for Generalissimos (and later, only Legends) for completing a special Daily Mission. The first lucky person who collected both items was the German player I.ReSpAwN.
Appearance of Thunder, Firebird, Wasp and Viking XT
On September 10, 2015, Thunder, Firebird, Wasp and Viking XTs was added into the game - which could be obtained by completing a specific Daily Mission. These versions differed from their original counterparts only by looks, and not by any extra or higher statistics.
Alternate Way of Obtaining XT Equipment
On October 21, 2015, Premium Accounts were added into the game - and with the addition came the ability to buy XT items in the Garage for 500 000 crystals! So, instead of playing loads of hours in order to complete the special missions, you could now save up and buy the item you'd want for crystals.
Appearance of Vulcan and Mammoth XT
On December 25, 2015, Vulcan and Mammoth XTs was added into the game - which could be obtained by completing a specific Daily Mission or by purchasing them in the Garage. These versions differed from their original counterparts only by looks, and not by any extra or higher statistics.


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Setting Yourself Up for Good Luck
Experiencing good luck is intermittent and random. However, you can better position yourself for encountering it more frequently.
We've all benefited by happenstance and strokes of good luck. The shop profiled in this story was fortunate enough to establish a mutually advantageous relationship with one of its biggest customers at just the right time. Rather than renewing its lease at its existing location, the shop moved its operation into the customer's facility. One way the shop benefited was closer proximity to manufacturing activity. In turn, the customer no longer had to ship its heavy workpiece blanks some 60 miles to be machined. Both now realizie greater sales, too.
Although luck is inherently random, there are ways to better position your shop for serendipity. Networking, both interpersonally and electronically, greatly increases the chances that you'll meet the right professional at the right time. Consider these worthwhile networking tools:
• Trade organizations—Industry groups such as NTMA, PMPA, AMBA and NAM offer a way to network locally, regionally and nationally with other shops and potential customers. They also serve as conduits to enable members to share best practices and solve common problems.
• Trade shows and open houses—Events such as IMTS not only present new equipment and technology, but also give you the chance to make new business contacts. In fact, a recent post-show survey reveals that 62 percent of IMTS attendees made new contacts during the show. Similar benefits can be realized at smaller-scale equipment manufacturer open houses.
• Shop open houses—Leading shops use customer tours as a marketing tool to showcase their in-house capabilities as well as the pride they have in their employees and overall operation. There's clear value in showing customers the advanced equipment and processes you have to produce parts accurately and effectively.
• Customer communication—Frequent communication with current customers is perhaps the best way to keep your shop at top of their minds in the event they need additional machining help. Staying in touch also gives you the opportunity to tell customers about new capabilities you have added, which could lead to more work.
• Social media and online presence—Websites and blogs enable you to establish a necessary online presence. On the other hand, the various social media outlets enable you to interact with the manufacturing community in a more conversational way.
Networking can be challenging simply because basic shop responsibilities absorb so much of your day. But being proactive at putting yourself out there can lead to chance connections that can make it all worthwhile.


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During the test period, Circuit City found an increase in customer traffic, so it hopes that joining the used game market will help boost the corporation's image among gamers. "We want to be competitive on pricing," Irynne MacKay, a senior VP in charge of gaming, said. And, while used games sell for a much lower price, they provide a much higher profit margin. Currently the North American used game market is dominated by GameStop/EB Games, which offers the service across all of its over 4,700 locations.
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Musicians in the West End production of War Horse are seeking a court order preventing the National Theatre from replacing them with a pre-recorded soundtrack.
All five were made redundant from the show's New London Theatre run last month after the NT terminated their contracts.
The NT, which also has productions of the multi-award winning show touring the UK and the US and another playing in Berlin, says it made the decision for artistic and financial reasons.
Today, at London's High Court, James Laddie QC, acting for Neyire Ashworth, Andrew Callard, Jonathan Eddie, David Holt and Colin Rae, asked Mr Justice Cranston - who revealed he had not seen the show - for a temporary injunction preserving the status quo until the case can be tried.
The musicians, who were engaged in March 2009, were given 11 days notice and continued until recently with the "charade" of turning up at the theatre and being turned away again, he said.
"The claimants have not accepted this breach of their contracts, and have elected to affirm their contracts. They have at all times made it clear that they remain willing and able to attend work and to perform their obligations under their contracts."
The NT first said it planned to move to recorded music in late 2012 and the musicians' role was reduced after March 2013 to three or four minutes until stopping altogether on March 15.
In its letter to them last month, the NT said: "The reason for your redundancy is that we wish to bring the London production into line with other productions of War Horse that now exist, and this is the wish both of NT management and the creative team."
Mr Laddie said that the musicians were not asking to go back to the pre-March 2013 position but to where they were a few weeks ago: "Even a small walk-on role is better than nothing. It is perhaps an indication of how tough the musical world is that they are happy with that - happy being part of an ensemble, being associated with War Horse and picking up regular wages week in week out.
"All of those are reasons why they want to keep the contract alive."
Mr Laddie said they had not just suffered financial losses but also the loss of security, interest and pride which came with being engaged in a runaway commercial and critical success to which they had made a major contribution.
They were familiar with the arrangements and capable of adapting their performances to take account of any alterations in artistic direction.
"As at April 1 2014, their roles within the show have not been replaced by actors. Further, their instruments remain in the band room.
"There is no reason why they cannot be reinstated with ease, and there would be no displacement of any other performer when doing so. They would require only a single short rehearsal.
"The cast and crew of War Horse are likely to be delighted to welcome them back."
He said that it was practically unthinkable that any other production in which any of them might work would enjoy anything like the success or longevity of War Horse - and their case was that they were entitled to remain with the show until the end of the production.
"Given War Horse's extraordinary success, that is not likely to happen any time soon."
David Reade QC, for the NT, said it appeared to be the musicians' case that they were entitled to remain part of the play even where there was no role for them in it.
The company was permitted to terminate their contracts in circumstances where there was no longer a need for their services because there was no longer to be an orchestra as part of the production.
As shown by the Lawrence Olivier and Tony awards it had received, War Horse was a play that had music - rather than a musical like Phantom Of The Opera.
Although there was a score, the band was only visible on stage for a very small part of the play and any music played was mostly piped in from a different room.
"As such, the orchestra was not an integral part of the play, and indeed there is no live band in any other production around the world."
If the order was granted, it would impact on those involved in the artistic and creative direction of the show, who had as much right to freedom of expression as the musicians.
As of March 17, there was a new cast and the show was staged and lit without the presence of musicians.
"I am told it takes seven weeks to rehearse a three-hour play so the suggestion it could be restored in a few hours when people's roles have been tracked is frankly naive."
The NT did not question the musicians' ability but believed that a live band did not provide the same quality of performance as could be achieved through the use of recorded music and professional actors.
It also enabled savings to be made which allowed the budget for live music to be deployed where it had the greatest impact.
If the musicians were reinstated, their presence would be imposed on the production "under sufferance" and there could be no suggestion of any "kudos" in being part of the play in those circumstances.
The judge said he would give his decision next Tuesday morning.


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CBS has landed Eddie Murphy and Shawn Ryan's Beverly Hills Cop TV series, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Eddie Murphy teaming with The Shield creator for Beverly Hills Cop TV show
The network has given a pilot production commitment to show, which will be a sequel to the movie trilogy about Detective Alex Foley (Murphy), focusing on Foley's son Aaron, also a police officer in Beverly Hills. As previously reported, Murphy and Ryan (The Shield) will executive-produce, and Murphy will reprise his role as Foley in the pilot.
Murphy has been trying to get a Beverly Hills Cop TV series produced ever since a planned fourth movie fell through.
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