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Do gemstones such as emeralds, amethysts etc have any purpose in Skyrim other than being sold for gold?
Gems are useful for smithing, as they increase the skill by quite a bit. They can be smithed into jewelry which can then be enchanted with properties that buff certain attributes (fortify light armor, extra sneaking or lockpicking percentage, etc).
Also, some gems are used during quests. For example, there is an Argonian in Riften who will ask you to find three Flawless Amethysts so that he can make a wedding ring for his lover.
As you mentioned, they can also be sold for a fair amount of gold. Keep in mind though that gemmed jewelry is more costly than just gems alone. If it's money you're after crafting jewelry and selling that would be more advantageous than selling the gems alone.
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Yes. With the smithing skill you can create gemmed jewelry like rings and necklaces that you can enchant that are useful for mages.
You're actually better off selling your gems. Smithing gem incrusted jewelry isn't worth it, you're actually at loss in comparison to how much you would make by selling the gem separately and making naked rings with your precious (silver or gold) ingots.
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Judy looked stunning at the champions ball.
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One very proud mama and rightly so!!!
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Judy should be honoured as well as Andy. A remarkable lady bringing up 2 world class tennis players (with Dad Willie as well of course!!)
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Judy should be honoured as well as Andy. A remarkable lady bringing up 2 world class tennis players (with Dad Willie as well of course!!)
They should have had a girl as well, they'd make her a Dame for sure
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I said on MTF that if Andy won Wimbledon I'd have sex with Judy.... uh oh.
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Don't think Judy will be that desperate!
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Don't think Judy will be that desperate!
No not yet lol
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Judy was on Newsnight this evening, interviewed by Kirsty Wark, talking about elitism and sexism in tennis, Andy and the referendum (hasn't decided yet!)
Twitter reaction at #newsnight was great:
Andy Murray's mum is much nicer than I imagined. #newsnight
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@judmoo on #newsnight. What a fantastic advert for confident, independent Scottish women.
Judy and Andy Murray seem clearer characters now. They've been around a long time and the commitment is clear. Great, it's clear. #newsnight
The @judmoo interview on #Newsnight was ace - reasoned, thoughtful and passionate. Can she be Sports Minister?
What a sweetie @judmoo is...Andy lucked out on the mother front #Newsnight
Dame Judy Murray... the mother and creator of champions !!...... #NewsNight
There were a few other tweets along the lines of "Both #SNP or #bettertogether would die for Judy Murray on their side.But @judmoo tells #newsnight she hasnt decided on scot independence yet", or reporting what she said about Andy, but all very positive. Lovely!
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Nice little clip that. Brought another tear to my eye when Judy said they are just as proud of Dunblane!!
Lots of love for Judy!!!
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Judy Murray is still smiling. She "can't stop" smiling. She's been smiling "all week", since that moment at 5.25pm on Sunday when her son Andy fulfilled his lifelong ambition of winning Wimbledon, and collapsed on the turf in ecstatic relief.
We've come to rely on Judy, 53, as a conduit for the sweep of emotions that go with competitive tennis. From triumph to despair she shows it, in air boxing, yelling, fist-clenching, grimaces, tears (both kinds). Before Sunday, smiles were rare. Now they're big and beaming. Her face folds easily into them, revealing a row of perfect white teeth.
"I could hear my heart beating in that final game," she says. "It was absolutely thudding. I tried to stay calm. I thought, 'If he looks up and he sees me panicking that's the last thing he needs'. And when I saw the ball going in the net, that he'd won, that was it. I was gone. I was so happy for him."
"And I wasn't even looking as he was rolling around on the ground. Leon Smith beside me was shouting, 'You have to look! You have to look! Your son has just won Wimbledon!' And I was trying to look but I was so conscious of, 'Oh God, now everyone's going to be looking at me and I'm crying my eyes out here!'"
Judy's stab of self-consciousness is surprising. It intensified, she says, when Andy, 26, fell into the crowd to be congratulated — by Ivan Lendl, his coach, by Kim Sears, his girlfriend. Every mother the length of the country was urging, between gritted teeth: "Andy! Hug your mum! Now!"
She laughs: "It didn't matter to me in the slightest but everyone around me was shouting, 'What about your mum?' I was too far back! He was standing on this canvas roof that was quite flimsy, and he could only reach over so far. And I thought, 'I'm not running down there, because that looks naff'."
Fortunately, Andy climbed back up. His first words to her were typical of the family's off-court restraint. "Hi mum," he said.
"So yes, that was nice," she says.
The difference between Judy on and off-court is stark. In the stands, labels like 'stone-faced' and 'aggressive' have been slapped on her. Boris Becker wolfishly intoned, "Judy really wants it," over her more passionate performances.
In person she is a slim, tidy Scot, self-composed and soft-spoken. She sits straight in her chair, wearing her sports kit and sipping a bottle of (Scottish) mineral water.
Her image has softened lately — not least her much commented-on hair, gone from ignored-brown to a "white hot blonde" (as described by her hairdresser). Her make-up is all smoky greys, brightening her eyes against her deep tennis tan. One senses the touch of Simon Fuller, the Beckham's Svengali, who was behind Andy's transformation from "dour" teenager into smouldering, chiselled Vogue model, three years ago.
"Oh well, no," says Judy. "I'm not glamorous at all. I think I'm just the same as I've always been. I'm perfectly comfortable in a tracksuit, or my jeans and a hoodie. I totally am."
What about the Alexander McQueen dresses and the shimmering Jenny Packham gown? "Oh, I was glamorous that night, but that's not like me, no," she protests. "They do a great job at Wimbledon. They have an assortment of ball gowns and accessories because no one knows who's going to win. That's the first time I've ever been in a long dress and it'll probably be the last."
But later she comes back to this, admitting that although she's the "same as I always was" she indulges herself a bit. "In the last few years it's probably the first time in my life that I've had some money to be able to buy nice clothes if I want to," she says. "And that makes a difference as well. And you can afford to look after yourself a little bit more."
Formerly the Scottish national coach, she is currently both captain of the British Fed Club team and coaching British junior girls. She's been coaching full-time for nearly 20 years — and not, as it is so often said, moulding the careers of her sons (Andy's older brother Jamie, 27, is also a champion tennis player — he won the mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 2007).
"I'm very passionate about tennis, full-stop," she says. "I'm not just a mum who follows her son around the world, telling him what to do. Nothing could be further from the truth."
She does tennis's grand slam tournaments "because they last three weeks total and that's when you need family". She clarifies: "They might not need you to do much, just knowing you're there. Every top player's the same."
So why was she always singled out? "Perhaps because I coached a boy. You have fathers and sons; fathers and daughters; mothers and daughters. Mother and son: almost unheard of in top-level sport. I can't think of any other explanation."
Being the mother of all tennis mothers had consequences: hate mail. "A lot were typed on old typewriters. Old people, who thought, 'Oh my God she's shocking. Women shouldn't do that sort of thing'. They weren't into fist-pumping. They'd cut out pictures from the papers that showed me like this [she pulls a grimace]. They said I was aggressive. I'm not aggressive; I'm competitive. A big final I'll be like this [she pulls the face again]. The letters say, 'You're inciting aggression in your kids!' And you think, 'What are you talking about?'"
Some blamed the contrast between her and the middle-class Jane Henman, mother of Tim, whom she followed into the British consciousness.
"Mrs Henman is absolutely delightful," says Judy. "She's amazing. But we're very different."
Now she has fans. Her Twitter count jumped from around 20,000 to more than 80,000 followers in the months preceding Wimbledon ("I tweet rubbish, mostly about cakes"). And photographers wilfully catch her smiles. She still has her steel, though. "Experience toughens you," she says.
Young Judy, then Judy Erskine, was the Scottish No 1 in her day. "It meant nothing — no one played," she says. "I was decent, not good enough. There were no coaches — you learned by playing."
Lack of opponents drove her to tournaments abroad. "I was broken by a trip to Barcelona aged 17," she says. Money her parents wired was stolen from her bag in a packed bus, along with her passport and ticket home.
"When I got off, everything had gone. I sat on the pavement and shut my bag again and opened it again. I couldn't believe it. I was alone, I didn't speak the language." She made it back with embassy help, but "My dad said, 'Nuh. You're not doing this any more'."
She went off to read French and business studies at Edinburgh University, playing sport in her spare time. "I've never been a crazy-day person. Going to pubs never interested me, nor parties, stuff like that." (This may explain Andy's shock when she bowled into a press conference after his win at the US Open last year, flanked by Sean Connery and Alex Ferguson. "You smell of wine," he said. "He made me," Judy answered, pointing at Ferguson.)
After university she briefly tried fashion retailing, starting as a trainee manager with Miss Selfridge, and then turned to coaching. After Andy was born — 15 months after Jamie — she and her husband Will moved back to Dunblane, her hometown, to be near her parents.
She taught the boys ball games from an early age — something she is now keen to translate to other communities through her charity Set4Sport, supported by RBS. Tennis should break its middle-class constraints, she believes. When I meet her it's in a playground at Kobi Nazrul Primary School in Whitechapel, teaching very happy four- and five-year-olds co-ordination through catch ("It's Judy Murray!" "Judy Murray's here!" I hear echoing down corridors).
"This is what I did with my children. These things are free," she says, "and it gets parents involved."
Two subjects are hard for her: her divorce from Will in 2005 (they'd separated earlier, but "the boys have always had two parents"). And March 13, 1996, the day a gunmen walked into Dunblane Primary and killed 16 children and a teacher. Both sons were in the building when it happened. Today she says: "Nobody ever forgets what happened, but when people say 'Dunblane' now they think of Andy and his success. And I think that's… I'm really happy about that."
When she's not in Scotland she stays with Andy, Kim and their two border terriers in Oxshott, Surrey. She gets on with Kim (they watch The Apprentice together, walk the dogs and talk to Andy while he takes his post-match ice baths in the Jacuzzi).
How was Sunday night? It was "quarter to three in the morning before we got home", she says. Did they flop? "No! Andy wanted to watch that last game. He couldn't remember it, which is unusual for him. We'd recorded it, so that's what we did. We went through all the emotions again a wee bit. The 'Oh God, it really did happen!'"
Today, it will be five days since Andy held up the trophy, the first British men's winner since Fred Perry. And Judy's still smiling. Just thinking about it, she's smiling.
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A bit ignorant about the specifics of a divorce between previously married couples. If Judy and Will divorced, is Judy still acceptable to use Murray as her surname? Although they seem to get along pretty well so nothing wrong with that.
We don't have divorce here in the Philippines that's why I asked. Just annulment and legal separation.
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A bit ignorant about the specifics of a divorce between previously married couples. If Judy and Will divorced, is Judy still acceptable to use Murray as her surname? Although they seem to get along pretty well so nothing wrong with that.
We don't have divorce here in the Philippines that's why I asked. Just annulment and legal separation.
A lot of women will continue to use their married surname after divorce particularly when there are children involved. It's a matter of personal choice really.
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"There were things that under normal circumstances we probably wouldn't have done, but give Tri-Valley credit," said Indian Creek head coach Erin DeSantis. "They're a well-coached team with some impressive shooters, and that came back to bite us for a little bit there."
The Redskins held an 18-6 advantage after one quarter led by Bre Berryman, who scored nine of her game-high 23 points in the opening eight minutes. Kiarra Kamarec tossed in six in the quarter as well.
Berryman tallied six more in the second quarter as the Redskins held a 31-21 lead at intermission. Katie Prince kept the Scotties close with eight of her team-high 17 points.
Tri-Valley used defense to cut the lead to six at 37-31 after three quarters. The Scotties held the Redskins to just six Berryman points. Prince scored six of her own on a pair three-pointers.
"I think part of it is we wanted it so bad we tried to do everything at once rather than get the ball in bounds, bring the ball up the floor and set up the offense," said DeSantis. "We tried to hurry, hurry, hurry. We can contribute that to Tri-Valley because they wanted it as much as we did because if you lose you're done."
Jordyn Hendershot came up big in the fourth quarter for the Scotties, scoring nine of her 13 points, but the foul shooting of Brooke Mains kept Tri-Valley at bay. The junior guard went 7 for 10 from the charity stripe in the final stanza.
The Redskins maintained a big advantage at the foul line, where they shot 15 of 24 compared to Tri-Valley's 2 of 8 showing.
Kamarec joined Berryman in double-digits with 13 points for the Redskins. Mains scored eight and Bethany Davis added seven.
Indian Creek (16-5) advances to the Sectional Co-final to face Minerva while Tri-Valley ends the year with an 8-11 record.
"Bottom line is we've not won a sectional game in a while, and, as young as we are, to hang on and win a game like this and have the season we've had, I'm just proud of the girls," said DeSantis. "We'll regroup a little and get back to work (today) to get ready for our opponent."
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TRI-VALLEY (8-11): Hendershot 6 0-0 13, Sterling 0 0-0 0, D. Prince 2 0-0 4, Moore 1 0-0 3, Crossley 2 0-0 5, K. Prince 6 2-6 17, Dillon 2 0-0 4, Taylor 1 0-0 2, Bumpus 0 0-0 0, Vernon 1 0-2 2. TOTALS: 21 2-8 50. 3-pointers: K. Prince (3), Hendershot, Moore, Crossley.


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1934 Ford Hot Rod - First In FiberglassWritten by on May 27, 2014 Contributors: Petersen Publishing Co. Archives, Roy Robinson, Don Hale The Original Flopper Was a '34 Ford Hot Rod
Hearing John Force talk about his "ol ' hot rod" makes us wonder whether the mighty Force appreciates the close connection between his 21st-century flopper and a chopped '34 Ford built by a young hot rodder half a century earlier. Actually, Jim Lytle built his hot rod twice, using the same frame and powertrain. The only difference was its second body—and what a difference that body was destined to make, eventually. Working alone in his garage, Jim invented the one-piece, lift-off, fiberglass body in late 1963. Nobody seemed to notice until Lincoln-Mercury unleashed the controversial fleet of '66 Comet Calientes usually credited, erroneously, as the first fiberglass floppers.
Lytle 's two-stage project dates back to 1961, when a San Antonio buddy 's dad mentioned that the local airport had a couple of WWII-era Allison war bird engines. One turned out to be the rare, left-rotating Model 113 that briefly found favor with dragster racers and fans in the '50s, before NHRA outlawed aircraft motors. Offered a complete P-38 powerplant—for which GM charged the government $16,500 in 1940 dollars—for 100 bucks, the kid dropped plans to install a hot Buick V8 in his chopped sedan and determined, instead, to drop in the Allison V12.
He got it running just in time for AHRA 's '62 Nationals near Dallas. Geezers who were at Green Valley that weekend will remember the loud, all-steel sedan that filled up with death smoke mid-track, frying its single-disc truck clutch en route to a laughable 77-mph top speed. Undeterred, Jim studied the two- and three-disc systems bolted behind aircraft engines by the Arfons brothers and mentor Lee Pendleton. Then he went them all one better by building what 's believed to be drag racing 's first four-disc clutch, encased in a 14-inch-diameter torque tube that also contained the flywheel, throwout bearing, and pinion gear. The new combination ultimately rewarded its builder with a 10.56-second, 147-mph Lions Drag Strip timeslip in September 1963. Later that same day, a chance encounter with a pit vendor convinced him to park the world 's fastest sedan.
"At those speeds, the volume of air compressed inside the body was tearing it up," Jim recalled in a 2006 interview. "I lost the hood once, and the right door came open twice, at about 145. I got tired of fixing it. I 've always hated doing bodywork. I felt that the car had just about reached its potential, anyway."
Noticing a display of Fibercraft fenders in the pits, Jim asked owner Fred Karow whether it was possible to create an entire '34 sedan out of fiberglass. Fred assured him that it was, offering to sell the cocky kid materials at cost and answer any questions. "I retired the steel car that same night so I could make a mold out of it," Jim said. "I really had no choice; a draftsman making 120 bucks a week couldn 't afford to buy another '34, even at 1963 prices. Besides, the top was already chopped [6 inches]. I decided later to cut the other 6 inches so I could lower wind resistance and pop my head out the roof, where I could see."
Five months of labor and $750 later, Big Al II clocked 10.03 at 150.75, first time out. One week later, the timeslip improved to 9.62/158.45. The next Saturday, Jim thundered to a 9.31 at 163.00—easily the quickest and fastest times for any full-fendered, gas-burning vehicle. Having made a total of nine runs, all at Lions, on three consecutive weekends in July 1964, he shocked the crowd again by announcing that his baby was for sale. Before he could load up that evening, Ray Alley offered $2,000 cash—the same amount invested in the car and trailer. "I 'm really not a racer," Jim later explained. "I design 'em, build 'em, keep 'em for a year, then sell 'em to build something new."
Big Al 's new owner jazzed things up with 24 individual, full-length header pipes and a new name, P-51, for lucrative West Coast exhibition tours in 1965– '66, then resold the car and trailer to L.A. actor-stuntman Tex Collins for $4,000. Collins repainted the body candy red, re-lettered it Tex 's Twister, and ran the car locally for kicks before swapping Lytle 's bulletproof powertrain into a new '68 Mustang flopper. The '34 frame had been cut up for some other project by the time Lytle bought back his body for $500 in 1968, not long before Tex was murdered. Twenty years later, Jim personally repaired and repainted the fiberglass in Don Garlits ' shop, mounting it to a '27 Dodge frame that happened to share a '34 Ford 's wheelbase. Since 1988, Big Al II has been a popular attraction in Garlits ' Ocala, Florida, museum.
Jim Lytle lived long enough to bask in belated credit for his contribution to motorsports history. Of particular satisfaction was an August 1989 meeting in the Dearborn office of another drag-racing pioneer, Fran Hernandez. Fran had risen to the top of Ford 's Experimental division by January 1964, when Big Al II debuted at the Winternationals car show. Jim knew that factory bigwigs with Ford 's Custom-Car Caravan were seen examining the brand-new body, elevated above the chassis and revealing a wing-nut mounting system. Twenty-five years later, Jim was still hoping one of them would cop to copying his concept. "I never expected Mr. Hernandez to recognize my name, but he took the call immediately, and invited me to schedule a visit. In his office, Fran admitted that those guys noticed Big Al at the L.A. show, and liked the idea. He also said that a year later, they came under heavy pressure from upper management to build something to counter all the attention that Chrysler 's '65 altered-wheelbase cars were getting."
Jim 's friends have said that these admissions seemed to dissolve, finally, the giant chip on the shoulder of a guy who 'd often complained in person and in print about being overlooked by history. He needn 't have worried. Before Jim Lytle left us in December 2011, at age 75, he left us undeniable evidence of his role in Funny Car evolution. In rescuing and restoring Big Al II, he was preserving his own legacy, along with one historic hunk of fiberglass.
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Jim's '58 Caddy did double duty as tow vehicle and push car. During one of Big Al's three Lions appearances in July 1964, announcer Tim "Weed" Kraushar hopped a ride.Lytle narrowed the stock frame but retained Ford's 112-inch wheelbase and front suspension, minus brakes. Designed for twin-engine P-38s, GM's Allison V12 displaced 1,710 cubes, weighed 1,250 pounds, and produced approximately 1,000 ponies at the conservative 3,000 rpm favored by a low-buck hot rodder who couldn't afford any breakage. About 90 percent of the engine was either magnesium or aluminum. Note the dual exhaust ports feeding 12-into-one headers.Big Al's final resting place, fittingly, is the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing. Big Daddy came up with an Allison V12 to complete the display.Here's the display that caught the attention of FoMoCo executives at the Winternationals car show staged in conjunction with NHRA's '64 season opener. Exactly two years later, Lincoln-Mercury introduced the one-piece, fiberglass bodies that rendered "real cars" obsolete. Interestingly, those '66 Comet shells were not initially hinged at the rear; rather, they lifted up and off for access and servicing, just like Big Al.In 1986, Jim was in the process of returning Big Al to its original, running condition. However, the scarcity and skyrocketing cost of Allison parts like this carburetor ultimately forced him to settle for the nailhead-Buick powertrain that still sits beneath the restored body.None of the big-name Gas Supercharged teams were willing to grudge-race the quickest, fastest full-fendered car of 1964. Pappy Hart was able to arrange this one-shot match between the biggest and smallest engines at Lions one Saturday night. Lytle's 2,000hp V12 easily overpowered the Gigolo's Pontiac four-banger.


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WINTERSVILLE - They call Mike Smith the "cross guy," but he's anything but angry.
In fact, the distribution coordinator for the "Jesus Is Risen" cross campaign launched by the Weirton Ministerial Association in 2011 is delighted the effort has expanded this Lenten season into Wintersville neighborhoods.
On Saturdays during Lent, volunteers have been going door-to-door in targeted areas of the village with residents asked if they'd like one of the 2-foot plastic crosses that are blank on one side, but bearing the "Jesus Is Risen" message on the other.
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EFFORT EXPANDS — Mike Smith of Weirton Covenant Church is the distribution coordinator for the "Jesus Is Risen" cross campaign launched by the Weirton Ministerial Association in 2011. This year the effort has expanded into Wintersville neighborhoods on Saturdays during Lent and will continue tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as volunteers go door-to-door in the Wintersville area from Crossroad Christian Church, 110 Springdale Ave., to the Bantam Ridge Road area. -- Janice Kiaski
The outreach continues from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday as volunteers concentrate on an area that extends from Crossroads Christian Church at 110 Springdale Ave. to the Bantam Ridge Road area, according to Smith, an elder at Weirton Covenant Church.
"The cross project was birthed during the Easter season of 2011 by Pastor James Foglio of Weirton Covenant Church and president of the Weirton Ministerial Association. The concept is simple but effective - to place a 2-foot cross with the words 'Jesus Is Risen' on it in as many yards as possible," said Smith.
"The crosses have been made available to the public now every year since," Smith said. "The first year, we saw 3,800 wooden lath crosses distributed. Now, with a lot of help and three citywide distribution efforts, more than 16,000 crosses have been distributed," he said of the crosses that are now plastic with black lettering.
Volunteers conducted citywide distributions in Weirton and then last year in Steubenville. This year, attention turns to Wintersville.
"Through the assistance of various pastors and their churches, through the efforts from the Weirton Ministerial Association and the Valley Pastors Network, we been able to join together with groups of people on the six Saturdays during Lent and go door-to-door making crosses available to whoever wishes to participate in the project," Smith said.
Volunteers will assemble Saturday at 10 a.m. at Word of Life Church, 565 Lovers Lane, Steubenville, before making their final push in Wintersville. Anyone who'd like to help is welcome to do so, Smith said.
Those receiving the crosses are instructed to place the cross in their yard on Good Friday with the white side showing, then flip it to the "Jesus Is Risen" side on Easter morning on their way to church, Smith explained.
The crosses are free but suggested $5 donations are accepted, according to Smith, who said $1 from each donation made for a cross goes to charity. For the Wintersville distribution, the charity is Urban Mission Ministries. On the Weirton side, it benefits an international mission called Causelife, "a movement of people dedicated to providing the most essential need to human life - water," according to promotional literature. "By raising awareness and implementing solutions, Causelife provides clean, safe water that changes lives and transforms communities."
Beyond the distribution, anyone interested in obtaining a cross can contact Smith at (304) 748-4422. Any donations are welcomed at P.O. Box 128 Weirton WV, 26062, with checks made payable to the Weirton Ministerial Association.
Smith said any Christian group or church interested in hosting a distribution can contact him in planning for next year's outreach. He also said he is available year-round to speak to churches and organizations about the cross campaign.
In addition to the cross distribution, the second-annual Easter Cross/Cause Life Walkathon will be held from 9 a.m. to noon April 19 at the Greater Weirton Event Center with all proceeds benefiting Causelife's efforts to provide clean water wells in countries around the world needing humanitarian aid.
"The walk is a 2-mile walk through downtown Weirton," Smith said, noting the individual who raises the most money will win a Sherwood DVR home entertainment system.
"The cross project concludes with an annual community sunrise service held at the Serbian-American Cultural Center located at 1000 Colliers Way in Weirton," Smith said. The service is from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. "All are invited to participate together in celebrating 'Jesus Is Risen,'" he said.
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Thomas gets the call as Wilby tops Hearts
WATERBURY — In the traditional Thanksgiving Eve matchup, Wilby claimed its second straight victory, 46-8, over Sacred Heart on Wednesday night at Municipal Stadium's Ray Snyder Sr. Field. The Wildcats captured the Granato-O'Brien Bowl for the fourth time in five years over a Hearts squad that dressed only 18 players.
"It feels good to win," said Wilby coach Geno Capuano. "My hat's off to Sacred Heart; they played their hearts out. To do what they've done this year with the amount of kids they have is incredible."
But the night belonged to the Wildcats (5-6), particularly senior running back Jacob Thomas. Thomas made his impact from the get-go, rushing three times for 68 yards and scoring on a 42-yard run on the game's opening drive. Thomas finished with 18 carries for 248 yards and four touchdowns, earning himself Wilby's George Tirado Offensive MVP Award for the game.
"This game means a lot to me," explained Thomas. "I wanted to finish my career with a win, so that's huge for me."
Thomas also had touchdown runs of 4, 23 and 1 yards.
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"Last year, a lineman scored for us (in this game)," said Capuano. "But this year they all wanted to give Jacob the ball."
Thomas gave all the credit to his linemen: "They open the holes for me, I just run through."
Thomas was one of two weapons in the Wildcats' two-pronged attack. The other was David Hills, who carried the ball eight times for 131 yards and two scores, including a 37-yard touchdown run with 8:23 remaining in the game.
It capped the Wildcats' scoring for the evening and was a great way for Hills to end his football career at Wilby.
"They both ran well tonight and left it all on the field," said Capuano of Thomas and Hills. "They knew it was their last game, and they ran like it.
Hills was awarded the game ball during the closing ceremony.
"David gives his all every game and never complains," Capuano added. "I'm really going to miss him, and I wanted to reward him for all of his hard work."
Bryan Bellanilla was the recipient of Wilby's Joe Parisi Defensive MVP Award for his play. Bellanilla recorded two sacks, three tackles, four assists, a fumble recovery and a hurry to lead the Wildcats defense.
With Wilby leading 30-0 at halftime, the Hearts made some noise in the second half. David Whitney, the Hearts' defensive MVP, recovered a fumble to hand the ball back to his team and set up a Jae'quan Robinson 2-yard touchdown run. The Hearts recovered the ensuing onsides kick, but Wilby's defense dug deep and finished the game strong. Wilby recovered two fumbles and stopped Sacred Heart on downs on the final three drives for the Hearts.
Robinson led the Hearts (0-11) with 17 carries for 52 yards and was his team's offensive MVP, while Quincey Williams added nine rushes for 50 yards.
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NEW ORLEANS -- The musical chairs of conference realignment has come to New Orleans. Tulane University is joining a cadre of school bolting from Conference USA to join the Big East.
The school is expected to make a formal announcement at 1 p.m.
According to multiple reports, Tulane will join the conference in all sports. Also reportedly exiting from Conference USA are SMU, Memphis, Houston and Central Florida.
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Aleks could have a career on the catwalk if the whole football thing doesn't work out
I raced across the tarmac to snap the guys as they landed on their way back to their cars after the vital win at St James' Park in May.
Everyone thinks that Mario is the only trickster on the training ground but Yaya gives him a run for his money
Just before the last game of the season Joe was given the award for most Premier League clean sheets
I stopped photographing the football after Edin scored and kept my camera on Mancini and this was my reward: pure relief and emotion on his face
Having access to all areas enabled me to get this shot which proves that photography is about more than pin sharp or technically well lit shots - it's all about the moment and this one says it all
Keeping distance but keeping an eye on what's going on produces intimate shots like this one out of the madness and excitement of the dressing room after a game
I had to include a cup lift - I stepped out of the way of the world's press to allow the some early shots but I managed to get this from a side view of that wonderful moment
After the trophy lift the boys celebrated in the dressing room - I love this shot of Mario as he is so genuinely happy and has such a great smile
Pablo asked me to take this shot of the boys posing as models on the back of the bus and I love the result - the sun came out just as I snapped this one.
I was so honoured to be allowed to share this day with the team on the bus, I also loved how the backroom staff were following us around the streets of Manchester on their bus - look out for Lombardo enjoying the sun
There is nothing as impressive as a stadium full of City fans but this pictures shows how impressive it can look for other events, such as the Coldplay concerts last summer
The boys are shown here training at the base of the Alps on the pre-season tour of Austria with the ski jumps as an incredible backdrop
Sergio called to mind a small boy with a new Christmas present the way he was so excited by his bike which he used to get from the hotel to training everyday in Austria
One of the most memorable aspects of the trip was how hard Carlos worked - he was last to leave everyday and here he is on a massage bed after a hard training session
Mayhem and hysteria followed the team's every move in the Far East - here is Vincent Kompany with the Premier League trophy
Carlos visited local soccer schools and was brilliant at interacting with the children, as you can see here
I live in Manchester but I've never seen rain like at the Bird's Next Stadium in Beijing - here, Mancini returns from thanking the fans at the other end of the stadium
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies on
Thursday hosted Adam Sieminski, administrator for the US Energy
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Key findings from the study are:
Strength in developing countries. China and India are responsible for the
majority of new energy consumption due to growing populations
and economic expansion. Energy efficiency is
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consumption growth, the administrator explained.
China and India accounted for 25% of the
global energy consumption, but their share will increase
to 34% by 2040, with Chinas energy consumption at twice
the level of the US.
China is expected to remain as a coal-based
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electrical power generation. However, China does have plans to
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possible 160 gigawatts of capacity.
Crude oil. Non-OPEC nations are increasing
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from Brazil, shale oil in the US, oil sands in Canada, and
conventional and unconventional resources in Russia.
Sieminski contends that Brazil needs to be better
organized in its plans for deepwater. According to the EIA
study, 115 million bpd production output by 2040 is possible.
The long-term view is that it is not a production problem to
meet 115 million bpd; rather, the problem is demand. New energy
efficiency requirements will decrease energy needs by developed
nations; thus less energy (crude oil, natural gas and coal)
will be needed
Natural gas. This hydrocarbon is the fastest growing fossil
fuel. Consumption will increase from 60Tcf ― 300 billion
cfd (Bcfd) ― in 2010 to 500 Bcfd in 2040. Much of the new
natural gas consumption will be by non-OECD nations with 300
Bcfd. From the supply side, Russia and the US will be major
In closing, Administrator Sieminiski listed the key
uncertainty factors that could further change the
forecast. Those include:
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The only place that comes to my mind is looking for an international penpal, getting to know each other and using a chatting service that allows you two to call using a webcam.
That way you can also "choose" a Cantonese speaker, and considering those sites, also with similar interests that you have.
One strategy I use is shopping whenever I can at shops with Chinese speaking proprietors (Fast-food, groceries, restaurants, anything). I use a bit of Chinese, this generally interests them, and you will find that you have a small conversation with this person every time you go there. (Incidentally this is also a great way to get discounts :)
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Just recently found this language learning social network http://polyglothub.com . You can find there those who will be willing to practice with you Chinese (their native language) in exhange of your own. Success!
If you get cable or "direct" TV, you can get a Chinese language channel, even in Utah.
That won't help your speaking (unless you choose to "mouth" along with the program). But it will help your LISTENING, and provide a good foundation for speaking later.
I can advice you to try Polyglothub.com - a brand new langauge learning social network concerning on communication as main strategy. There you'll be able to videochat with your language partners right on the site with no need to use Skype or any other third party videochating software. Wish you success in your langauge learning process!
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Peyton Manning runs like a man crossing a highway in a bathrobe. But running is not what you pay Peyton Manning to do. You pay him to throw a football. You also pay him to manage a football game—when to accelerate the pace; when to slow it down; when to rearrange the plan at the line of scrimmage; chatting, pointing, unhurried, the opposite of nervous. Manning's body may be aging and surgically reengineered, but there's great value in the discipline he brings. Football is chaos. Peyton Manning is not.
Now he is with the Denver Broncos. It's amazing how fast we've accepted it, acting if it's not deeply strange to see him in orange and blue, which it is, especially to him. We're become such bloodless observers, coldly accustomed to the migration of players, even ones who spent most of their professional career lifting a single city, as Manning did until earlier this year in Indianapolis. We're supposed to be totally fine about Manning's helmet now having a horse's head, and not a horse's shoe. Come on, we're told. This is a business. Everybody eventually gets a new job, a new desk, a new company handbook! Don't be naive.
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Still, it's weird. It definitely felt weird here in Gillette Stadium on a drizzly, chilly October Sunday, where the Broncos and their hosts were trying to punch over .500 for the first time since Week 1. This used to be a giddy showdown: Manning and the Colts versus Tom Brady and the Pats, with New England coach Bill Belichick manically trying to undo the Hall of Fame quarterback who wasn't his own. The competition had yielded some memorable feasts, including a pair of AFC championships, and there was a belief, at least offensively, that professional football didn't get any better.
Those days are not these days. Manning is now 36. Of course, Manning looked 36 when he was 21. There was always something grown up about Archie's middle son, even when he wasn't playing for money, and that suspicion proved true when Indianapolis selected him first in the draft and Manning embarked on a career that would yield gargantuan numbers and a Super Bowl title. Manning's levelheaded aura is probably one reason he became such a believable television pitchman, endorsing credit cards, automobiles, cellphones, consumer electronics, sports drinks, cookies and pretty much everything not sold at Victoria's Secret. Whereas Brady, with his angular good looks and supermodel spouse, projects a cosmopolitan air, Manning is the quarterback next door. Brady will meet you in St. Bart's. Manning will loan you a rake.
As everyone knows, Manning's 2011 season was undone by a neck injury that required surgery, and the Colts sunk to their pre-Manning depths, low enough to qualify for the top spot in the draft and fetch acclaimed Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. This made Manning expendable, something he'd never been in his career, and there was a prolonged, heart-achey saga in Indianapolis that felt a lot like high-school sweethearts breaking up, if high-school sweethearts got paid eight figures a season. Manning wound up in Denver, seduced by fellow all-timer, John Elway, chasing him in a private jet. But there were doubts: Did Manning still have it? Was he even the greatest Manning? In the afterglow of the New York Giants beating New England in another Super Bowl, Peyton Manning was (briefly) demoted to being Eli Manning's older brother.
So far this season, Manning has appeared effective—not quite his old self, but still enough of his old self to put him in the upper reaches of NFL quarterbacking. Sunday, however, was mostly a clunker. Manning played well when he got the rock—he finished 31 of 44 for 345 yards and three touchdowns—but Belichick's strategy was to defend Manning by keeping him off the field. Brady and the suddenly run-crazy Patriots administered one clock-inhaling drive after the next, including an epic one to begin the third quarter that gave New England a 24-7 lead. Manning was sacked and fumbled on the very next series, and the Patriots pushed it to 31-7. That was pretty much that.
Or was it? Deep in the game, there were flashes of Manning's vintage self, as he engineered a pair of drives that brought the Broncos within 10 points. After a fumble by Patriots running back Stevan Ridley, Manning seemed poised for another touchdown—and the whiff of a tantalizing comeback—when Denver's Willis McGahee fumbled deep in New England territory. The end.
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If the Internet is to be trusted (and we don't see why it shouldn't be), the best way to solve a movie mystery once and for all is to argue about it incessantly in blog posts, message boards and chatrooms. If you don't believe us, do a Google search for "Inception ending" and see what comes up (we dare you). Or, simply wait 10 minutes after this article is posted and scroll down to see what our own comments section is saying.
Some movie and TV mysteries, however, weren't intended to be mysteries at all, and often are just the result of the director getting cute at the last minute. These mysteries are often plainly explained in the script, and while the answers aren't always definite, they are surprising. Like ...
#7. Pulp Fiction -- What's in the Briefcase?
The Mystery:
In case you forgot, the beginning of Pulp Fiction isn't just John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson driving around talking about foot massages and foreign fast food. They're out for a briefcase filled with ... orange light, apparently.
And the perfect British spy novel to read on the toilet
Many, many movie fans have seen the long, drawn-out theories about the film in general, and that's not even touching what's inside the briefcase. A popular theory says it's Marsellus Wallace's soul, while others claim that it's simply whatever you want it to be.
A posthumous L. Ron Hubbard novel? Thetans? Tropicana?
According to Tarantino, it's just a MacGuffin, something to drive the plot along. Meaning that it's not important, so really, we shouldn't even be talking about this.
What the Script Says:
But Tarantino's co-writer, Roger Avary, says that when they wrote the script for Pulp Fiction, it was diamonds.
Not soul-capturing diamonds. Not a giant diamond that shoots lasers. Just plain old diamonds. Why didn't they just show that? Because Tarantino had just used a case of diamonds as a major plot device in Reservoir Dogs, and he and Avary agreed that it was "too boring and predictable" to do that again. So they decided not to show them, thus giving the whole thing an air of mystery.
"I'm getting tired of my diamond mountain. Bring me a shrunken monkey brain!"
But they had to be hinting at something, right? Because of the orange glow that poured from the interior any time it was opened? Actually, that glow is nowhere in the script. Avary says: "...somebody had the bright idea (which I think was a mistake) of putting an orange lightbulb in there. Suddenly what could have been anything became anything supernatural. Didn't need to push the effect. People would have debated it for years anyway, and it would have been much more subtle."
Because Quentin Tarantino loves subtlety.
#6. The Sopranos Finale -- Did Tony Soprano Die?
The Mystery:
The ending of The Sopranos is either the best or the worst series finale in television history, depending on whether the person you ask likes staring at a blank screen or not. The show ends with Tony Soprano and his family munching on onion rings in a diner, with a suspicious-looking guy in a Members Only jacket sitting nearby, then getting up to go to the bathroom. The last shot is of Tony's face looking up at the door as his daughter enters, and then ... nothing. Blackness.
And no comfort except for the last bars of Don't Stop Believin' echoing through your head
Creator David Chase refuses to reveal what happened after that. So ... does the black screen mean Tony took a bullet to the back of the head? Was the Members Only guy a hit man sent after Tony? A federal agent? Or just a guy with diarrhea who felt self-conscious about going into a restaurant only to use the crapper?
What the Script Says:
To our knowledge, the script for this episode has never been leaked or released. We haven't read a word of it.
But actor Matt Servitto has.
Along with a whole lot of scripts calling for "angry bald dude who can't take any more of this shit."
Servitto played FBI agent Harris for six seasons of The Sopranos, and after a cast screening of the last episode, he talked to reporters about the script, revealing that the final scene continued after the cut:
"In the script, the scene in the diner went a little further ... The gentleman sitting at the counter was much more mysterious, almost like he's walking to the table to shoot Tony, and then end of script."
So, wait, the guy comes out of the bathroom and walks toward Tony? That would have made the scene like 90 percent less ambiguous, and according to Servitto, that's exactly what was supposed to happen. He told another reporter: "The scene cut as the guy was advancing towards him, as if he was about to shoot Tony. It was, I think, less ambiguous that Tony was going to get shot."
"He was also carrying a huge bazooka, but I have no idea what that means."
Of course, that doesn't mean it's 100 percent certain that the guy did shoot Tony. Maybe he was approaching him for a different reason. Maybe he wanted an onion ring. Either way, it's clear that this man was up to no good -- something the final version of the scene leaves out.
#5. Cast Away -- What Was in the FedEx Box?
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All through the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks' character (Chuck Noland, a FedEx worker stranded on a deserted island) holds on to a single unopened package: He resists the temptation to open it for four years, carries it with him when he sets off on a dangerous raft trip across the ocean, and finally delivers it at the end of the movie. And since there's nobody home at the time, we never find out what's inside.
But never mind -- it's the product placement that really matters
But the mystery of the package goes deeper than that -- for starters, there are two evocative angel wings drawn on the surface of the box. At the beginning of the movie, we see a woman in Texas welding giant wings out of metal and sending a similar package to a naked cowboy in Moscow. What the hell was in there?
A cult is in there. A naked winged cowboy cult
Robert Zemeckis has remained coy about it, sometimes joking that the package actually contained a waterproof satellite phone -- which for all we know might be a real possibility, since Chuck never opens it anywhere in the movie ...
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... except in the deleted scene in the script where he totally does.
The third draftf of Cast Away has a few key differences from the finished movie: Wilson the volleyball is actually a soccer ball, Chuck's relationship with the Helen Hunt character is slightly different, and there's a lot more "insane guy on a raft talking to himself" dialogue.
He also called for Wilson for seven entire pages.
The package, however, is exactly the same as in the finished movie: the same angel wings, the same woman at the beginning, and the same insane resolution to deliver it no matter what. And then, on his 1,000th day on the island, Chuck goes "eh, what the hell" and opens the box. So what's inside? This:
"Oh, this would have made the last three years of crushingly lonely and desperate living somehow more bearable!"
Two bottles of salsa verde. Also, a note from a woman named Bettina begging her husband to come back, apparently hoping some spicy condiments will do the trick. Chuck looks at the bottles, reads the note, then puts everything back into the package and continues carrying it with him. It makes absolutely no difference. This could've perfectly been a deleted scene in the movie itself.
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The draft clears up another mystery not everyone might have noticed: Why does Chuck drop off the package in a house in Texas if it was going on a plane headed outside the U.S.? Chuck's friends at FedEx actually tried to find the recipient but couldn't locate him, so Chuck decided to return the box to the person who sent it in the first place. At the end of this draft, Chuck talks to Bettina, who tells him that her husband (the naked cowboy from the beginning) was a jerk, and she doesn't mind that he never got the salsa.
On the other hand, the kid who didn't get his volleyball was completely devastated.
#4. Lost in Translation -- What Did Bill Murray's Character Whisper at the End?
The Mystery:
In Lost in Translation Bill Murray plays, essentially, himself as a washed-up actor named Bob Harris on a business trip in Tokyo. (We'd like to point out that this is obviously not true to life, as Bill Murray remains the greatest actor in history.)
Forced to star in wacky Japanese commercials and sit through blisteringly weird interviews, Bill, er, Bob encounters Charlotte, a young, free spirited girl fresh out of college played by Scarlett Johansson. Over the next few days, they form a bond that has to end when Bob heads back to the good old USA. The film throws a lot of hints that Bob is in love with Charlotte, and she him, but, sadly, Charlotte is already married to John, played by the evil businessman from Avatar.
Avatar , like Lost in Translation, also featured culture
shock and alienation in a distant land, but with more blue people and tree-nuking.
In the end, Bob and Charlotte embrace one last time, he whispers something in her ear, and they part, leaving the audience to debate what, if any, future their relationship has.
What the Script Says:
Truth be told, Bob's whisper isn't even in the script. The plan all along was to have Bill Murray ad-lib it. But what is in the script is what's really going through Bob's head in their last few moments together.
Specifically, it says that Bob wants to tell Charlotte he loves her ... but he never does. Bob totally chickens out, they hug, and that's it.
To be honest, it's kind of amazing he showed that much restraint.
But what about the whisper? Now we know it wasn't anything romantic, but what did he say? Was it some truth about the universe? Some in-joke? "Want to go mess with random college students later?" Turns out, several people with way more time than us have attempted to decode the whisper using audio-processing software -- and some have gotten pretty close.
The first part could be anything, really, but after watching the video it's hard not to hear "... go to that man and tell him the truth, OK?" at the end. And that doesn't sound like something a guy would say to move a relationship forward, unless he's actually proposing a threesome. A threesome with the bad guy from Avatar.
"Scarlett, I'm leaving you. I got a better offer."


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Whether your dog accompanies the family hunting, or just hunts down backyard creatures, he will more than likely be exposed to ticks. Ticks carry disease from one pet to another and have been known to transmit disease to humans.
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There are several diseases that ticks can transmit to your dog that affect his blood cells. These diseases include those caused by the Bartonella microorganism, the Babesia parasite, and Ehrlichia/Anaplasma. Symptoms of these blood-borne diseases include fever, anemia and weight loss. Some also affect the joints. Treatment includes antibiotic therapy, and blood transfusions for the more severe cases.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
A common disease is Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), transmitted by the American Dog Tick and the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Tick. The microbe that actually causes the disease is also a rickettsia called Rickettsia rickettsii. RMSF is often manifested by neurological signs (dizziness, seizures), as well as muscle and joint pain. There is antibiotic treatment for this disease, but dogs with severe neurological problems may not recover completely.
Lyme Disease
The most common disease caused by ticks is called Lyme disease, named after the town in Connecticut where it was first diagnosed in the 1970's. A tiny, common deer tick (also called the black-legged tick) carries the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria that cause the disease. The deer tick must be attached to the host for 24-48 hours for the bacteria to be transmitted. Dogs show several different forms of the disease, but by far, the most common symptoms are a fever of between 103°F and 105°F, shifting leg lameness, swelling in the joints, lethargy, and lack of appetite. Unfortunately, symptoms do not usually appear for two to five months post-exposure.
Lyme disease responds readily to antibiotics, but damage to joints can be permanent. There is a vaccine available, but it does not ensure total protection. Both Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Lyme disease are transmissible to humans via ticks.
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All in all, it is much simpler to prevent ticks from attaching to your pet or to be diligent about removing them when your pet is in high tick areas such as forests or fields. With the advent of
once-a-month topicals and
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Tick collars containing Amitraz have been shown to be an effective addition to tick control.
Lyme vaccination in tick-infested areas is also a great idea. There are several
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You may have heard by now that Ubisoft's Watch Dogs won't be a strictly solo affair when the game launches at the end of May this year – up to eight players will be able to roam around a single online connected world, each of whom will be able to hack one another in an expanded game of 'hide and seek,' and while details are still a little thin on the ground, it's become clear that players will be able to drop in on one another without other players even realising it.
The development team knows that some players might not want others to sneakily appear in their game worlds, and during a Twitch livestream event Watch Dogs lead designer Danny Belanger confirmed that you'll have a choice over how you interact with players online, saying:
"All the online activities are just part of the menu. They're a choice. But if someone is not into that, they can totally turn it off."
"There's also something important called the shield. If someone comes into your game, they can't come in right after so you can't be spammed in that way — unless you become aggressive and you start going into other people's games. Then you really become available. But it's just a player choice in the end."
You can see an example of this multiplayer hacking in practice in a previously released gameplay video below:
The option to toggle multiplayer options and customise your experience is an extension of the development team's desire to create a game where players have ultimate choice – a philosophy we learned about during our own interview with Danny Belanger late last year where he previously said that multiplayer will be customisable based on your own tastes.
Watch Dogs is out on May 27th around the world on PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 – are you back on board after an extended period of silence following the game's delay last year?
Source: Polygon