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STEUBENVILLE - Two men who were born and raised in Steubenville and went on to become Tuskegee airmen in World War II were featured in a presentation Friday at Historic Fort Steuben as part of Black History Month by their nice, Deborah Keith of Suitland, Md.
John "Ellis" and Jerome Edwards were born in the city and lived on Main Street. After their graduation from Steubenville High School, the brothers went to West Virginia State College. "Ellis" wanted to become a dentist but both brothers enlisted in the aviation program. They completed their training at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Lt. Jerome Edwards was a fighter pilot who flew the P-51 and P-40 planes in the 99th and 332nd Fighter Squadrons. Jerome was killed in Michigan when the engine of his plane failed during takeoff and he crashed.
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TUSKEGEE AIRMEN — Deborah Keith of Suitland, Md., spoke Friday at the Historic Fort Steuben about her two uncles, John "Ellis" and Jerome Edwards, left picture, who were born and raised in Steubenville and went on to become Tuskegee airmen in World War II. The program was part of Black History Month presentations at the fort./Mark Law
Lt. John "Ellis" shot down two German fighter planes on April 1, 1945, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on May 29, 1945. He flew over Korea, Japan, Italy and Germany with the 99th and 332nd Fighter Squadrons.
Keith said she remembers an early picture of "Ellis" sitting on the steps of their house on Main Street. In the picture, he was wearing flight goggles on his head.
"We knew from the beginning he wanted to fly," she said.
"Ellis" after the war became a radio announcer for a station in Washington, D.C., and was an avid ham radio operator.
Keith said reminiscing about the history of Steubenville brings honor and glory to the hometown. She hopes the legacy of Steubenville will result in future generations also striving to soar in academics and honor.
Also speaking during the program Friday at the fort was Ambrose Boiling of Weirton, whose uncle, George Boiling, was one of the original Tuskegee airmen.
Boiling said his uncle, born in Virginia, was a member of the first two classes to graduate and become members of the 99th Fighter Squadron.
Boiling said of the 1,000 pilots who were Tuskegee airmen, only about 500 saw action during the war.
Boiling is active in Tuskegee airmen reunions.
"It makes you feel good to be in the same room with them," he said.
Even though the Tuskegee airmen were experienced pilots, none became commercial pilots after the war because of segregation.
Boiling showed the 20 people at the program a picture of Marlon Green who became the second African-American to fly commercial planes in 1965.
Green flew with the U.S. Air Force's 36th Air Rescue Squadron in Japan, While on leave in 1957, he applied for a pilot position with Continental Airlines.
He was reportedly invited to be interviewed after having left blank the racial-identity question on the application.
After not getting the job, Green sued and the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 ruled he had been unlawfully discriminated against.
In 1964, American Airlines hired David Harris as the first African-American pilot for major domestic passenger airline.
Green, following his Supreme Court victory, flew for Continental from 1965 to 1978.


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Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ,Archbishop of Buenos Aires, born in 1936, has taken the papal name Francis; he is the first Jesuit pope.Damian Thompson:
Pope Francis I is a priest of holinesss and tremendous modesty of manner a man who, until now, has taken the bus to work. His challenge is clear. He needs to learn from Benedict XVI's greatest success and his greatest failure. The success was the restoration of reverent, mystical worship to the centre of Catholic life, an achievement that has inspired a dynamic generation of young Catholics. The failure was Benedict's inability to reform the corrupt structures of the Roman curia, which should be recognised as the rotten core of the abuse crisis, and which is likely to have loomed large as an issue in the conclave. The historic decision to choose a Pope from the New World will perhaps make that task easier.
By choosing the name of the founder of his community's traditional rivals, the 266th Roman pontiff the first from the American continent, home to more than half of the 1.2 billion-member church has signaled two things: his desire to be a force of unity in a polarized fold, and his intent to "repair God's house, which has fallen into ruin"... that is,to rebuild the church.
John Allens profile of then-Cardinal Bergoglio, from March 3.
Back in 2005,Bergogliodrew high marks as an accomplished intellectual, having studied theology in Germany. His leading role during the Argentine economic crisis burnished his reputation as a voice of conscience, and made him a potent symbol of the costs globalization can impose on the world's poor.Bergoglio's reputation for personal simplicity also exercised an undeniable appeal a Prince of the Church who chose to live in a simple apartment rather than the archbishop's palace, who gave up his chauffeured limousine in favor of taking the bus to work, and who cooked his own meals.
Andrew Sullivan: "Even more than his predecessors, this Pope seems an unlikely fit for Paul Ryan-style Catholics."
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Pope Francis?
A Jesuit!
Francis of Assisi? or Francis Xavier?
White pope, black pope
From far away, I think he chose the patron of Italy
Margaret - Francis George, of course.
Hard to tell the papabile from the popemobile without a program, but do I recall that he has a balance of diocesan and Roman experience?
George! The patron saint of England!!!
No experience in Rome before he became a cardinal. Doctoral work in Germany.
His family were, like many Argentines early in the 20th C., immigrants from Italy, so were he not Jesuit, I am sure we all would assume Francis of Assisi. We shall see.Age 76, which in lightof benedict's rationale for retirement is perhaps a bit troubling. Or perhaps a signal that the Conclave wishes to focus on the current issues and will trust to the Holy Spirit again when neceesary. But I found it surprising, even by such thoughts.Mark
>>Like other Jesuit intellectuals, Bergoglio has focused on social outreach. Catholics are still buzzing over his speech last year accusing fellow church officials of hypocrisy for forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.>>"In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage," Bergoglio told his priests. "These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the Church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. And this poor girl who, rather than returning the child to sender, had the courage to carry it into the world, must wander from parish to parish so that it's baptized!">>Bergoglio compared this concept of Catholicism to the Pharisees of Christ's time: people who congratulate themselves while condemning others.>>"Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit," Bergoglio said.<<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/argentina-has-very-different-papal-candid...
What a lovely man. What an auspicious (!) beginning.
Lovely gesture of asking the people's blessing before giving his blessing (not sung).That said, total surprise. 76, and the runner-up in 2005. The way out of a deadlock?Little time in Rome, none in the Curia. SJ provincial in Argentina; named auxiliary bishop in1992, Coadjutor of Buenos Aires in 1997, archbishop since 1998. Named cardinal in 2001.Francis of Assisi and Francis Xavier.Let us bless the Lord! Thanks be to God!
I liked the part in wikipedia that said he gave up the bishop's residence, lives in a simple apartment and takes public transportation. And the fact that his Dad was a railroad worker.
Francis of Assisi? or Francis Xavier?Both!
Guenois, in "Le Figaro," says that he made an impression during the congregations last week. He and Chito Tagle were the only ones who spoke from the heart...
Larry W's 'quotes' by Bergoglio should give hope to all wanting a change of STANCE. And Francis!!!!.. I hope it's after both Saints who went out and got the "new' people to embrace the simplicity of Jesus Christ. . .. answering 'rebuild my Church'
"Make [Francesco] an instrument of your peace!"
There are other quotations we can find, ones that seem less encouraging.But for now, his very moving first appearance briefly reminded me of Pope John's moonlight speech, there was such a simple and direct connection to the people in the square. At one side, a 76-year-old who will need directions to find his apartment he is so unfamiliar with Rome. At the other side, the warmest beginning note since September 1978.We shall see, et Deus providebit.
What a pleasant surprise. Frances of Assisi remember reached out to Muslims in a most poignant way. So the Muslims as well as the poor. The nuances of his words which we now read from various sources. This is a person profoundly aware of what it means to be anointed by the Lord, i. e. to raise up the lowly.
How about it? At last a Jesuit pope from Argentina where the Jesuits Reductions were established.
In listening to commentators and reading these remarks, I'm struck by how much information Catholics extrapolate from the choice of a name and a few wispy anecdotes about a largely unknown cardinal (who was given 25/1 odds this morning on PaddyPower, below both O'Malley and Dolan). So question: To what extent has the Pope's name or his previous reputation been accurate predictors of the tenor of a pontiff's reign?
Also quite moving, the new Pope's asking those present to join him in the three basic prayers that we learned from our parents and, at least in my generation, from the Sisters.
So he's a Jesuit. I wonder how that's going down with the Opus Dei types who seem to be everywhere (infesting? No, I'll be polite)) the Church nowadays?
I hate to be the voice of negativity, but I recall reading years ago that he sided with the right wing dictatorship against activist Jesuit priests ...... http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16464-focus-was-bergoglio...
The Holy Spirit never ceases to surprise -- a humble Jesuit who chooses the name of the founder of the Franciscans. (My Franciscan-run alma mater must be in full party mode at this time.) He appears to be a man who can unite the more traditionalist Catholics with the more liberal, especially those who see the pursuit of social justice as foundational to the Church's mission. And, he "asked for our blessing." Many blessings, Francis I; you do have our prayers and our loyalty.
Wayne:St. Josephs (Jesuit) University here is Philadelphia is in full party mode too. Action News is interviewing students and they are touting the fact that the Pope Francis will be installed on the feast of St. Joseph. A tweet from the admissions department:#FrancisI studied chemistry before starting seminary. Are you a budding scientist? Study chem. at SJU! @sjuadmissionsAND Gonzaga is the top basketball team.
Crystal:He may have not done enough to prevent the kidnapping of the two Jesuits but It is said that he did a lot behind the scenes to get them released.Maybe had a Romero transformation.
This is a bit troubling about him:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jan/04/argenitina-vi..."What one did not hear from any senior member of the Argentine hierarchy was any expression of regret for the church's collaboration and in these crimes. The extent of the church's complicity in the dark deeds was excellently set out by Horacio Verbitsky, one of Argentina's most notable journalists, in his book El Silencio (Silence). He recounts how the Argentine navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship's political prisoners. Bergoglio was hiding them in nothing less than his holiday home in an island called El Silencio in the River Plate. The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment."I know nothing about the author of this piece and could not find any refutation of his charges.
Pope Francis has my prayers and may have my loyalty once he has built my trust. I am hopeful.
Gene Palumbo: you reside in Latin America. Can you shed any further light on Hugh O'Shaughnessy''s accusations?
I'm amazed by the number of amazed people on here. The new pope is an aged, white, ethnic Italian who is completely orthodox in his views about homosexuality, birth control, abortion, artificial insemination, and a celibate priesthood.Where is the surprise factor?What am I missing?
The Guardian asked me (and a couple others) for a quick reaction on the new pope and the American church; here it is:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/13/new-pope-francis-goo...
George Weigel just was on Chris Matthew's show and described Francis as a "JPII guy."What a horrible thing to say about the man!
Jim Mc,More on the Catholic Church and Argentina's "dirty war" from Wikipedia ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War#Participation_of_members_of_the_C...
Damian Thompson - bad journalism....his comments have to do with Damian's hobbyhorse; nothing to do with today's events.Rocco Palmo - really, he stretches to some centuries old competition? How shallow.Weigel on Chris Mathews - same as the two above - he mentions his own hobbyhorses; not who this man really is.El Silencio - don't think that you will see these allegations supported with any substance.Jean - your list appears correct on the surface. But, you leave out his living example of simple lifestyle in solidarity with the poor; his taking on the Argentinian government and business community in terms of capitalism, globalization, etc. In one sense, he has toed the line on sexual issues but, OTOH, he has made pastoral decisiions around AIDS/HIV, baptism of children outside of marriage that the *cultural war US bishops* would be amazed at. (and really, ethnic Italian and I am ethnically german/dutch; etc, etc. your point? He is not so much white as latino - significant difference. He is older but younger than Ratzinger at his election and hopefully he will continue to precedence set by Ratzinger so this death do us part routine will die - papacy is a servant office; a ministry - not an ontological change.Would suggest that we need to watch and learn - his pastoral sense supported by his intellectual honesty will confront these issues.
Mr. Boudway - yes, one lung was removed as an adolescent because of a serious infection. And this means what? You sound like Palmo, Thompson, and Weigel - in search of something that has little meaning.
Bill, I feared after I hit "submit" that my comment would be construed as snarky, and it really wasn't meant to be. I appreciate your insights. Perhaps I, too, will soon be amazed.
I'm trying to withhold judgment on this new pope. I felt underwhelmed when B16 announced plans to retire. I felt underwhelmed at today's announcement. For me, it's "wait and see". To be truthful, I'm not particularly optimistic, but I'm trying to withhold my lurking pessimism.
Jim McCrea:In response to your question: No, I can't. I see that the Guardian has posted this:A note of caution about a claim in Hugh O'Shaughnessy's comment piece extracted below. We have not been able to ask Argentinian journalist Horacio Verbitsky about the allegation that Bergoglio was implicated in helping the Argentine navy hide political prisoners in what O'Shaughnessy described as "his holiday home in an island called El Silencio". One of our reporters is examining the claims made by Verbitsky in his book. It appears that the island was owned by a senior Buenos Aires Catholic official, not Bergoglio, and visited by priests in the diocese. The Guardian has not seen any evidence linking Bergoglio to the hiding of prisoners on the island. We will publish a more detailed report as soon as possible.
It seems that Amnesty International did not think that Bergoglio was culpably involved in this affair. We really have to be careful especially when Amnesty International has nothing negative to say. This apparently came up in the last Conclave when Ratzinger was elected and John Allen is reported to have made a call to a Amnesty International offical who said there was not any reprehensibe action involved by Bergoglio. As Bill D points out above there are many impressive facts about the new pope.
About Bergoglio and the two Jesuits who were tortured, someone on CNN (I didn't get his name) said that Amnesty International looked into the matter and concluded there was no evidence supporting the accusations.Rick Santorum was interviewed, and he said he was "ecstatic" about Pope Francis. He even said that we should show more concern for the less fortunate. So maybe the kind Francis is having a positive effect already.About the name "Francis". If the Pope had wanted mainly to honor his Jesuit heritage, it seems to me he would have called himself "Ignatius". So I bet it's for Francis of Assisi. Also remember, Francis of Assisi was not a priest. Maybe the Pope is trying to tell us something there too -- that priests aren't the only ones worth emulating.)I was in a Chinese restaurant having lunch while watching and waiting for the announcement. Others around me were also glued to the TV, but not my Chinese waitress. She dismissed it all with a wave of her hand. But when I told her he was for the poor people and that he takes the bus to work she got excited and went off to tell the other waitresses, "He takes the bus to work! He takes the bus to work!" Ah, nothing like humility.My main concern is whether his compassion will extend to the dissidents who sincerely think that some official teachings are wrong and are doing immense damage to the Church. And is he humble enough to even consider the possibility that he might have been wrong about some things. But maybe that's too much to ask. He's old, so I don't expect he'll be pope very long.On CNN Raymond Arroyo of EWTN said that his sources said that Pope Francis is "a butt-kicker", which doesn't sound consistent with some of the other reports. Maybe they meant that he's not a patsy. Let's hope so, if he's going to reform the Curia.
P, S. Somebody has also noted that that bird on the chimney might have been a hint from Sr. Francis about what was coming. Augury is not dead!
"On CNN Raymond Arroyo of EWTN said that his sources said that Pope Francis is a butt-kicker... .What a stupid comment to make!
I am not referring to your comments, Ann. It is the EWTN attention getting commentator.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57574147/jorge-bergoglio-who-is-the-... is the most detailed description of accusations I've found so far. Mostly ambiguous. The Argentine bishops did issue an apology in2012 for their actions during the dirty wars, collectively not personally assuming blame. Troubling, but perhaps this is a needed step toward healing for Argentina.On management, remember that the other Argentine cardinal is Sandri, one time sostuto with extensive knowledge of the Vatican's working.He has already taught forcefully on the most important topic prayer, not with words but action. Silent. The prayers everyone knows, including the one Jesus taught us. And that everyone is authorized to pray these, and to ask the Lord to bless him. If he continues to teach that message about the relationship between God and the people of the church, all amazement will be justified.
The CBS story covers the most I've seen on the "dirty war."http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57574147/jorge-bergoglio-who-is-the-..."Bergoglio twice invoked his right under Argentine law to refuse to appear in open court, and when he eventually did testify in 2010, his answers were evasive, human rights attorney Myriam Bregman said.At least two cases directly involved Bergoglio. One examined the torture of two of his Jesuit priests Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics who were kidnapped in 1976 from the slums where they advocated liberation theology. Yorio accused Bergoglio of effectively handing them over to the death squads by declining to tell the regime that he endorsed their work. Jalics refused to discuss it after moving into seclusion in a German monastery.Both men were freed after Bergoglio took extraordinary, behind-the-scenes action to save them including persuading dictator Jorge Videla's family priest to call in sick so that he could say Mass in the junta leader's home, where he privately appealed for mercy. His intervention likely saved their lives, but Bergoglio never shared the details until Rubin interviewed him for the 2010 biography.Bergoglio who ran Argentina's Jesuit order during the dictatorship told Rubin that he regularly hid people on church property during the dictatorship, and once gave his identity papers to a man with similar features, enabling him to escape across the border. But all this was done in secret, at a time when church leaders publicly endorsed the junta and called on Catholics to restore their "love for country" despite the terror in the streets.Rubin said failing to challenge the dictators was simply pragmatic at a time when so many people were getting killed, and attributed Bergoglio's later reluctance to share his side of the story as a reflection of his humility.But Bregman (the human rights attorney) said Bergoglio's own statements proved church officials knew from early on that the junta was torturing and killing its citizens, and yet publicly endorsed the dictators. "The dictatorship could not have operated this way without this key support," she said.Bergoglio also was accused of turning his back on a family that lost five relatives to state terror, including a young woman who was 5-months' pregnant before she was kidnapped and killed in 1977. The De la Cuadra family appealed to the leader of the Jesuits in Rome, who urged Bergoglio to help them; Bergoglio then assigned a monsignor to the case. Months passed before the monsignor came back with a written note from a colonel: It revealed that the woman had given birth in captivity to a girl who was given to a family "too important" for the adoption to be reversed.Despite this written evidence in a case he was personally involved with, Bergoglio testified in 2010 that he didn't know about any stolen babies until well after the dictatorship was over. (this is troubling and unambiguous)"Bergoglio has a very cowardly attitude when it comes to something so terrible as the theft of babies. He says he didn't know anything about it until 1985," said the baby's aunt, Estela de la Cuadra, whose mother Alicia co-founded the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in 1977 in hopes of identifying these babies." Nothing is simple here, and much is unknown. I just need to believe in his integrity and goodness. There is probably more complexity than we will ever learn.
I see Eduardo Pealver has started a thread on Popes and Dirty Wars.March 13, 2013, 10:09 pm
Nate Silver makes several interesting observations about the ages at which popes are elected. See "For Cardinals, Advantages in Choosing an Older Pope".http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/for-cardinals-advant...
Let's hope "the truth will out", regardless where it leads.
Helen: maybe you have never listed to Arroyo on EWTN if you think that statement of his is stupid. It is typical Arroyo.But, then, maybe I need to say: ergo ......


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@Plexi - Keep it on the druid. Holy priests are only good if they're renewing people and in a 10m this is not a good idea.
@Magic - Had some IRL stuff cast Immolation Aura. Other priorities took over. I'll be getting on this soon (soon™ ?)
Thank I also posted it in the raid forums and basically got 2 pages full of idiots that didnt know how to read.
Best was the one telling me to use the EJ Dark intent list and I had to point out that he should learn to read sincet in the EJ post he says thank you to you and links this sticky and that I had already linked and mention this post silly forum posters.
Rogues don't have loyalties, they have contracts and their blades are purchased in gold.
It's amazing how many people just read the title or skim. If you can't devote 4 extra seconds to reading more of a persons post, get back to twitter. Some moron tweeting his poops wants you to follow him.
However, a holy priest does gain a substantial amount of HPS at certain haste levels. But since he isn't casting renew enough to proc it on you, then he's not utilizing his haste as much as the spec has been simmed to gain from it.
Just before the green phase, you cast a pyro on the boss, then procc impact on the adds,
combustion, impact -> huge dps as the debuffs (doubled by combustion) get copied on all
adds. And the time between green phases suits the cooldown of combustion perfectly.
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
Anyone happens to know how the Dark Intent 9% periodic dmg buff is calculated?
For example, I went to dps a dummy and my corruption would tick for around 2319 non-crit without any buffs or debuffs. Then with only the 9% from DI added, it was ticking for 2478 non-crit.
And 2478 certainly isn't the result of 2319*1.09 (2528).
If anyone knows how it works, wtb info
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HC... if of course on HC there would be a lot LESS adds it would be different. Well anyways, I suggest to drop the issue as it does not bring the thread forward.
Balance Druids have two mechanics that are absolutely amazing for AOE.
First, is that they can pin themselves to a Solar Eclipse, which means amazing damage from Sunfire(moonfire in solar mode) and Insect Swarm. They can also just strafe a little bit to increase Sunfire damage an additional 45%.
Second, their 4pc allows them to get guaranteed dot crits on a lot of targets.
Fire mages are decent, and amazing if Combustion lines up with everything and good procs, but a Balance Druid is more consistent. In my guild on heroic maloriak 25man, the moonkins can regularly maintain 30k+, the Spriests can maintain 27-28k+, and the mages can spike between 20 and 30k+.
All you need to do is throw out Shadowflame and a couple corruptions so that they get the 3 stack more consistently.
From latest 4.1 PTR notes: Dark Intent: The friendly target of this ability now receives 1% (stacking 3 times to 3%) periodic spell damage and healing bonus instead of 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%). The casting Warlock still receives 3% (stacking 3 times to 9%).
At least its not a nerf for us
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
That's the spirit
I saw it coming! It was too powerful especially for Shadowpriests.
Sps are in a good place but even if they get lower, blizzard can re-balance them without having to taken in consideration such a powerful buff
Hey dude could you also include healers in the "Self benefit" table?
I wrote this in the other current DI thread, but as I'm not sure people will read anything except the OP there, I'll post it here for more input.
I have a little question about DI. The figures given in the DI thread can't be the same for every fight..
for example heroic Maloriak...
I was wondering, should I still be putting my DI on a shadow priest when their damage is only like 12k, almost 20k below boomkins whose spells are largely DoTs on this fight.. the Shadow Priest in the raid last night was getting annoyed that he was without the buff, when both myself and the other warlock felt it was better spent elsewhere.
I actually put mine on a resto shaman as he was tank healing and I thought it would benefit him more than the others, but if I hadn't I would have put it on a boomkin like the other warlock.


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Luxurious Old Town Apartment (59)
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Velikost81 m²
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The entrance is on the 1st floor of the building, where you'll find the living room, kitchen and one of the bathrooms. The living room is decorated in elegant tones, with modern furniture and classical wooden flooring. It has a large flatscreen TV with cable channels, a DVD player, and a USB stick to provide the broadband Internet connection.
Seating is provided by a 2-seater sofa, which also pulls out to form a double bed, a comfortable armchair and the chairs placed around the extendible dining table. 2 wide windows provide plenty of natural light, and the furnishings include a spacious cupboard, coffee table and other small tables.
Also on this floor, there is a fully-equipped modern independent kitchen, with everything you need to make your self-catering stay a relaxing one. The equipment includes cutlery and crockery, fridge-freezer, oven with hob, extractor, microwave, kettle, coffee-maker, blender, dishwasher, washing-machine and a small kitchen table with chairs, as well as plenty of storage cupboards. Finally on this upper floor, there is a full bathroom with bathtub, bidet, WC and wash-basin
Downstairs, on the ground floor of the building, we find the two bedrooms and main bathroom. The master bedroom is elegantly furnished and the modern decor provides a homely sleeping space. The double bed sits just below the window and has reading lamps on each side. There is a desktop and chair, and a wall-mounted electrical radiator for heating
Next door we find the second bedroom with its wall of mirrors which makes for a very special ambience. The bed pulls out to provide adequate sleeping space (160cm x 200cm) for 2 guests, and there is a chest of drawers for storing clothes. The bathroom suite on this floor is spacious and includes a bidet and stand-up shower unit with a hydromassage column. The owners promise a superior service and dedicated attention to all guests.
This apartment is located in the traditional Old Town district of Alfama and very close to several emblematic sights such as the famous flea market at Campo de Santa Clara or the National Pantheon. You can enjoy a trip on the Nº 28 Tram which stops just 1 minute away from the property, or stroll along the narrow cobbled streets, discovering the small local shops, view points with magnificent views of the river or traditional taverns and restaurants.
Alfama is the oldest and one of the most traditional districts of Lisbon. The best way to get to know it is to get lost on the narrow cobblestone alleyways, and explore the patios linked by countless stairs going from the hill of the St. George Castle to the River Tagus. Here you can find small grocery stores, flowered patios, Fado restaurants and taverns and a local populace that sit outside in the the summer with tables and chairs and grill sardines in the streets.
Lisbon International Airport is just 20 minutes away by car and the nearest Metro station (Blue Line) and Rail station is Santa Apolónia just 700 metres away. Enjoy your stay.
Please note that from the 1st of January 2016, Lisbon City Council will be charging a city tax of EUR 1 per person per night which is not included in the total price and should be paid during check-in. This tax is charged to guests aged 13 and older. It is subject to a maximum amount of EUR 7 per guest.
No pets or smoking allowed.
Not advisable for persons with reduced mobility
Check-in and check-out may be changed by request.
Baby cot and car seat available by request.
Please note that from the 1st of January 2016, Lisbon City Council will be charging a city tax of EUR 1 per person per night which is not included in the total price and should be paid during check-in. This tax is charged to guests aged 13 and older. It is subject to a maximum amount of EUR 7 per guest.
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Ein wirklich schönes und geräumiges Apartment mit zwei gut ausgestatteten Badezimmern. Sehr schöne Lage mit Bars, Restaurants, kleinen Läden und Anschluss an die öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel in fußläufiger Entfernung. Der Gastgeber Rui ist äußerst freundlich und zuvorkommend, erklärt anhand einer selbstgefertigten Karte die Umgebung, hatte einen Präsentkorb mit Wein u.a bereit gestellt und hat uns am Tag der Abreise zum Flughafen gefahren; ein Trinkgeld hierfür lehnte er ab. Alles sehr gut organisiert, ich kann Wohnung und Gastgeber nur weiter empfehlen.
We had wonderful time in Lissabon! Apartment was very nice, in the centrum of Lissabon, perfect for city trips and close to nice restaurants and caffe bars, in lovely Bairro Alto quarter. Our host was very simpatic and useful we had everything what we need. In Lissabon was very hot and we did not even use any air-conditioner because the walls of house were so thick that we had very nice temperature inside. Our bed was also very good.
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Very nice & clean locatioan near the airport.
"Casa do Sol" have charm in a best place of Lisbon, Alfama. The flat have eveeything to be good and is located in a silence neighbourhood and good transport conection. Bruno is a Perfect contact and he've a lot of tips from Lisbon. VinhoVerde...simply Perfect!!!
The appartment is located in a pleasant neighbourhood of Lisbon. It a spacious appartment with enough room for 4 people and a nice little garden. The equipment in the kitchen, expected for a longer stay, is limited. The appartment is located in an older building, which on one hand creates a nice environment, but it can be noisy depending on the activity of the neighbours. And as we experienced in other appartments in Lisbon the beds are of a relative poor quality, good enough for a few days but less appropriate if you stay longer.
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I can recommend the apartment of Roger. Central location. Short walking distance to the city and Metro. Check-In was very good and on time, we even got a google map link with good nearby restaurants. Communication and support was perfect.
Only the cleanliness of bathroom (shower) and the kitchen cabinets could be better. John
Nice apartment with all you need, right in the centre so you can walk most. A (e-)bike rental just around the corner.
The shower suffices but could do with a renovation.
The neighbourhood is quite lively at night, so when you like silence have your meal outdoors until at least 10 pm. Bedroom has double glass.
Our cabdriver had difficulty finding the address (even with GPS) and he may find it easier to go to the tram 28 stop on Praca Martim Moniz, near the hotel.
We had a very pleasant stay in this lovely Apartment. It was 100 % clean and tidy when we arrived.
We were met at the airport by Patricia, our very nice and helpfull host. She took us directly to the Apartment where we also were greeted with a botlle of local red wine :)
The apartment is warm and sunny and is located very near the Sé Cathedral, a walk of apx. 20 minutes to Rua Augusta, the main shopping street.
Only thing to keep in mind is that it is an attick with slanted walls !!
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Go to Settings --> Location & security settings --> Set up screen lock --> None.
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Use the app called "no lock". It will allow you to toggle between having a lock screen and having none.


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-A small city with tons of detail especially INTERIOR locations.
-Lots of interaction with NPCs and stores outside of missions. Even stuff like sitting down on a couch, in a chair, etc.
-More RPG and customizability options.
-More quick, fast, arcade style controls. Niko felt like a tank.
-Return of climbing but add diving, swinging off of pipes, etc. Thinks Mirrors Edge meets GTA.
-Destructable environments & lots of NPCs to run over.
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I really want, modern day setting, improved graphics, improved gameplay and improved physics.
More realistic people, facial movements like L.A Noire would be amazing. (this Should happen.)
More realistic weather, include mist on especially gloomy days.. maybe more detailed clouds? GTA really looks great in the wet on a grey day.. Add some puddles! that splash people on the sidewalk.
More realistic car damage.
More vehicles. and i want vehicles with hydraulics back. and bring back police bikes..... off road vehicles would be nice like buggies, farm vehicles and jeeps etc.
In car view, where you can see the characters hands on the steering wheel. (not needed, but this has always been my favorite driving view on games.)
Vandalism.. i Definitely want to smash up cars with bats again, i also want to smash windows with bricks, bats etc.
I want to beable to hang out of a car window and swing a bat/knife/hammer etc.. while being a passenger in a moving car. (maybe? its not needed, but it would be great.)
Return of weapons such as chainsaw, hammer, big knives etc.. (maybe even a make-shift flamethrower, like a deodorant can and a lighter or something, that would be good.)
2 player offline.
2 player online. (this is strong wishful thinking but imagine how sick it would be.)
Parking spaces and garages were it saves your car, and if you loose it on a mission or out somewhere an identical cars re-appears at your garage, and to get rid of a car so it never saves again, just park it out of the garage or out of the parking space and save it again so its not there.
Improve the cover system, make it easier more efficient and less awkward.
CCTV cameras? (not needed... but it Might be good.)
Being able to choose a colour at the pay n spray.
Large trucks, 18 wheelers?
I want rampage back.
Keep the unique stunt jumps!
I want to beable to drug deal from any car ANYTIME i want lol. it would be just like the ice cream truck missions on vice city, with some normal car.. which would be better. sometimes i want to park up and beep my horn at the seller/buyer, sometimes i want to meet someone on foot.
I want to beable to deal different types of drugs.. also being able to buy drugs from other people.. to sell... drugs dealers should try and rip me off sometimes and run with my money or something aswell, maybe sometimes pull a knife or gun on me (maybe even making new contacts randomly.. i heard you can do this on china town wars, iv never played it, but it makes me really want to)
I want to start fires. (wishful thinking?)
Being able to carry more weapons, maybe you can click left to get to the weapon category like usual. but then click down to scroll through the different types of that weapon.
If your going to have DLC for the new GTA dont do it like you did for the current GTA.. were all the new content is seperated between games.
Someone who has a disc version of a DLC, should still beable to play in the same online games as people who dont have the DLC.
A more fluent and brutal fighting system like we saw on the warriors, also stuff on the floor should be used as a weapon to.. like the warriors... fighting on gta is really slow and boring and you cant kick someone on the floor very well at all, the warriors had a great fighting system. we need lots of different fighting moves / punches / kicks / tackles etc etc to keep fighting exciting and varied. but we dont want anything over the top or unrealistic.. just pure brutal fighting.. kicks to the face, people gettin flung to the ground, tackled, mad punches etc.
We NEED to beable to tackle people who are running away and fling people to the ground while running etc. and we NEED more melee weapons definitely. Plus we need more group fights that dont involve guns happening.
Mugging people would be nice. taking peoples money, phones or MP3 players.
Raids on shops like smash n grabs and robberies were you run out with the till or the money...
Robbing houses.. like on san andreas.
Riot police and rioting? maybe even an online mode called riot? Tear Gas would be sick. (wishful thinking)
Car customization.
I want to ride a bicycle again!!!!!
Skate/BMX parks?
I want to beable to play pool/snooker, poker, air hockey, darts, bowling, arcade games etc etc still.
I want a 6 star army response again.
I want functional fire escapes.
Maybe the return of planes would be nice.
Keep prostitutes, add Pimps.
Keep things like ATMs, car wshes, toll booths, clothing stores, gas stations and add resturants, barbers, betting shops, liquor stores, hardware stores, gyms, pawn shops and other things like that to improve atmosphere.. make sure there functional.
Pedestrians turning into the gas stations and buying fuel would really improve the atmosphere of the game.. imagine jumping in their car and driving off while they go and pay for their fuel.
Ability to buy an MP3 player on the game so you can listen to music on foot, and skip the song easily some how... you could listen to radio songs on the game and listen to songs saved on the console harddrive, itll have to be for BOTH consoles though. players character should take out headphones when spoken to or when fighting or when needed in general. (its a maybe, not really needed but this would be good.)
I want drive-bys and people hanging out of the car again shooting.
I want to call up some back up again. and i want to give my back up orders like on the warriors.. such as attack, smash stuff.. follow, spread out, hide.. etc.
Less police patrol in some areas, theres to much police everywhere sometimes makes it so you cant have fun, we need areas so bad police dont patrol there (Ghettos/Slums/High Rises etc.) And police shouldnt turn up to a crime scene just seconds later like they often do. unless they generally are just passing by.
Police shouldnt know where i am at all times, sometimes when i comit crimes the police magically know exactly where i am even though no one is around.
Police should have flash bangs or smoke grenades maybe? when im hiding in a room, taking cover against a wall for example. police just pour into the room and they are just obviouse targets and they get killed immediately. they should have ways of getting us out of our camping spots.
I want to steal cars in different ways, like maybe pick the lock somehow or pry the window open and unlock the door. but i still want to just smash the window like normal.
Different animations for stealing cars and climbing fences to add variation. (Not needed, but it should happen)
Casinos would be nice.
More street racing.
When im being chased or shot at, my character should react to things quicker and more urgently.. i hate the way when im being shot at my player still climbs fences and steals cars like nothing is happening. he needs to be in a rush sometimes!
Game space wasted by TV shows and content should be used for more radio songs and shows... i dont want to watch GTA TV, but i Do want to Steal GTA TV's.
I want a shopping mall.
Body parts need to STOP going through walls! and the end of some guns!
Groups of people who cause trouble and gangs and other people who comit crimes.. at night maybe more groups come out and stand on the corner you know?
We need more focus on gangs! street gangs and organised crime gangs, maybe mark their turf on the map like san andreas. i want gang wars! and neighbourhood turf wars!
I want another dirt track for dirt bikes etc.
People walking dogs, guard dogs.. street cats, birds etc etc (maybe make it so you cant kill these animals) maybe have rats you can kill, maybe even wildlife in the country side (another wishful thought, but it really should happen.)
More realistic shop faces and building windows... this will Greatly improve the atmosphere and overall look of the game. the 2D blur on buildings is really a let down.
I want stealth... like manhunt.
Bigger map!! gta 4 is really small.. really really small... need more and bigger residential areas of all kinds, general city. and there needs to be less sea / water.. And bring back the country side!!
Local shops and stores in residential areas that are easy targets to rob, pedestrians on the game should use these shops aswell.
You can call a cab which is good... Also you should beable to take a bus.. and you should beable to walk around on a train and even fight on a train etc etc..
Better character customization would be really nice.. and Very detailed and much better character customization on online player, we need ALOT more clothes, more shoes, a lot more and much better/normal hats (wooly hats, baseball caps, bandannas, beanie hats) and ability to choose skin colour, hair styles (selection of simple shaved hair, more then 3 options of dreadlocks, afros And cornrows... selection of normal hair, selection of long hair, and bald.) choices of facial hair and hair colors. (shades of blonde, brown, ginger and black maybe as options, to avoid ridiculous characters.) and Plenty of faces to choose from, and maybe the ability to change/choose facial features, also things like glasses and maybe piercings and tattoos. i want lots of choices in character customization. although i dont want online players characters looking like jokes i know it would be easy for R* to pull off.
Maybe even the ability to choose a mask and a pair of gloves to carry with you at all time and put them on when you want quickly during the game. and then take them off when you want.
Police should have spike strips.
Police should fine me for minor offenses, like scraping their car or bumping into them, instead of trying to arrest me.
I want purchasable properties again. and more purchasable things in general.
If someones hood is up it should blow down while they run and they should put it back up... and sometimes hats should get hit off from peoples heads, and glasses.
Walking around with weapons out or a mask on should raise suspision with the police and police should be more realistic and less gun happy.
Making posses on online play like red dead.
Make online play smoother and improve the quality of it.
More graffiti, bigger graffiti, varied graffiti.. etc etc so the same graffiti pieces dont get repeated throughout the hole level. i also want to do some more graffiti myself.
Night time should be darker, deeper and more threatening. crime should raise at night.
Also street lights, shop lights neon lights and car headlights should illuminate the area a lot more with a lot more brightness.. we need emphasis on well lit streets/main roads (which could be safer the majority of time) and dark alley ways and streets (which potentially could be dangerous)
Detailed, realistic nice looking trees and plants, trees suitable for the PS3/XBox 360. better trees will Greatly improve the atmosphere and look of the game.
I want the paramedic, fire truck and taxi side missions back and the pimp side missions. and Keep the cop car side missions!
Running people over on GTA is amazing! i want it to be just as good or even better!
More things to do on online free roam so people are encouraged to do something other then just constantly killing people in 1 spot, maybe introduce drug dealing as a side mission... so many possibilities.
Sort spawning out for online play on the next GTA.. people spawn right next to the person that killed them in the first place like 5 seconds after theyve been killed.. not good.
Give XP out on online modes for kill assists.. and maybe close calls? close escapes? or leaving someone injured.. even on free roam.. and XP for teaming up and robbing shops? free roam challenges like on red dead etc.. make things more fun.
More incentive to level up online, we should unlock guns to start off with on online free roam.. and armour, like red dead. we should also maybe have the ability, to add unique marks to our online characters, like adding a scars on the characters face or arm etc where we want.. people with scars or something like this would be prestige for example? and it should take a long time to unlock the ability to have a scar... maybe even have this system for the tattoos online aswell.
Maybe online perks?... nothing ridiculous though.. just simple slight things like.. every1 gets a choice of 2 perks.. the choices could be.. infinite sprint for example.. or extra ammo... we DONT want anything stupid like extra health, or commando pro, or a live grenade dropped after death, or faster cars... things like this will just ruin the game.
Maybe the ability to allow people who make online gangs / clans to wear their own gang colours.. certain clothing items like a basic hoody, t shirts, jumper, basic hats and bandannas you should beable to choose a colour for. make sure the basic clothes dont have a logo on them or anything.
Clan tags online.
I want to play basketball agen.
Ability to taunt people would be nice.
Busy beaches? people having picnics in the park? ability to play beach volley ball would be nice.
Maybe pedestrians could react to situation more realistically and verbally and interact with eachother more naturally and more often.. maybe reactions to events like yelling for other pedestrians to help or telling people to run or shouting and running to help. (wishful thinking?)
We need elderly people, elderly people with walking sticks, we also need groups of friends walking and talking together, and romantic couples holding hands while walking in the park/streets etc. we also need groups of gangsters gathering once again. Aswell as random people walking around randomly. this will improve the atmosphere of the game.. and include fun opportunities to spoil peoples day.
Other people need to be drunk at night time.. groups of people need to be going on nights out.. fights, muggings, general drunkenness.. vandalism.. should all go up at night.
When pedestrians drop their mobile phone, groceries or shopping bags they should pick them up again, not just freeze awkwardly, then continue walking like nothing happened... (Unless suddenly their life gets threatened in some way and they get suprised).
People should get injured.. and after a while should limp or hold their wounds. untill they get a medic box or go to the hospital or ring an ambulance.
People should do activities, go to work, get lifts with people, go to the city etc. only some cars should drive around aimlessly, just cruising about..
Maybe the jetpack could make a return?
The night club scene should be returned, that is really good on the balad of gay tony.
Running should be faster and funner and jumping fences and foot chases should be improved and more adrenaline packed, running downstairs needs to be improved, it needs to be faster.
Better AI so cars dont crash and people dont behave as weird as often as they do.
A fame/respect system, other people have mentioned this recently.
Maybe the ability to push objects such as cars? off the edge of cliffs?
I want trains online.
I want a 3 lane free-way back.
We need less buildings dissapearing.
We need less cars dissapearing and we need traffic to be realistic.. sometimes roads seem dead on 1 side and very busy on the side your on.. like the game cant load more or something.
Hotels and bed and breakfasts to save your game, or maybe even the ability to sleep rough in the streets on a park bench or a derilict building to save your game would be good.
List of cars to import/export
Chop Shops, places to take stolen cars and strip them for cash.. also a place to crush cars.
Pedestrians should park their cars more often, and return to them and drive of more often.
Bring back the car bombs from GTA3.
I Definitely want to hold people hostage. maybe even force somebody in a car and drive off lol. (Is abduction to far for GTA?.... uhhmm.. naaaah i dont recon abduction is to far for GTA.)
Picking up dead bodies and putting them in the trunk of your car would be nice.
Some messed up, brutal, secretive, inbred hillbilly hick type gang / family in the deep country side.. in the deep sticks they should suprise us and try and kill us.. they should set traps too lol.. (Maybe? its not needed, but imagine how sick it would be)
1 last thing... you should beable to get really drunk and still beable to fight.. i dont like the way you cant fight while your really drunk, it would be funny to have drunken bar fights and drive of drunk, you also should beable to shoot and throw while really drunk... (drink driving on GTA 4 is spot on, really good.)
And anything you can do on single player, you should beable to do on online play free roam, such as mug people rob houses rob stores, walk in a train go to a nightclub, get drunk etc etc all that stuff.
........... A Grand Theft Auto Zombies mode!!!!.... imagine it, you could have seperate modes were your stuck in a house maybe fighting them off.. but the free roam online play zombie mode would be INCREDIBLE. specially if you could still loot shops and all the stuff i listed above lol. just with really fast aggressive mental zombies everywhere, which come in hordes at frightening rates around the city. (this 1 is huge wishful thinkin lol.)
Some of these ideas i think are a must. but some i just think might be good... its a long list lol.
Eat, sleep, Gta!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Phoenix, Az
Posts: 48
Idk if anyone said it already. but exploding headshots like vice city.
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Germany
Posts: 2
My Wishlist for the next GTA Game would be as following:
Something like the Big Bang Cheat from Vice City.
More Weapons.
The Hydra Jetpack like in San Andreas.
A more modern looking Rhino Tank.
Some Firework Rockets.
Ability to go in every Building you want to go in.
Some BMX Bikes like in San Andreas.
Some Skateboards.
A Skatepark like in San Andreas.
More Airplanes and Helicopters.
A Theme Park with Rollercoasters and other Rides that are not closed down like in GTA IV.
Some cool Car Cheats!
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 112
Some stuff I want in GTA V:
- Policebikes
- Better handling in vehicles
- Bring back bikes =)
- Ability to customize your character, like train to get buffed up, eat much and you get fat and so on, ie take that stuff from SA and add that you create your character in the beginning, like in Fallout: New Vegas for example.
- More stores, buildings, malls and such there you can go in, buy clothes, weapons, cars and much more.
- Be able to buy homes, cars and other things so that you actually use the money you earn/steal.
- Bring back tractors and the ability to hook up trailers to trucks and so on.
- More places to bring girlfriends.
- More girlfriends/boyfrinds.
- Be able to speak to more peds,npc's and much more sidemissions.
Prolly forgot a lot of things i want tho
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Location: San Jose, CA
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Things I want:
1) more planes
2) some county areas like they did in San Andreas - it would give it a change up of being in the city all the time
3) Sheriff Vehicles with Sheriff Station
4) More interiors to walk into
5) Motorcycles
6) Traffic more unique instead of seeing the same vehicles over and over
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 112
Some more stuff i just thought of:
- Refueling, that means all vehicles could run out of fuel and you must fill them up.
- Rent rooms in hotels, sleazy motels and such.
- Take a prostitute to your apartment/hotel/motel and just not do it in the car.
- Invite friends/girlfriends over to your house for party, movienight and so on.
- More interactions with the environment, such as much more open shops, bars, clubs, electronic stores and more.
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Hi!, I'm Peter, I was visiting this forum during many months.
Just now I decided to start on it. I only want to say hello to this forum users.
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IMPROVED MULTIPLAYER INTERFACE AND SCORING SYSTEM PLEASE! (a.k.a. Save us from the top ranking cowards)
Hi everyone (just registered and writing my first post)
-I have loved every GTA game from GTA III through GTA IV.
-I have always just played on Playstations 2 and 3.
-I always played GTA for fun (though the online scoreboard is fascinating it turns great players into idiots)
From the first time I played GTA III it has been my personal opinion that GTA (any version which happens to be the latest) is simply the best computer game EVER. It has always been a lot of fun to complete the story mode several times and the side missions of earlier versions often gave players lots of additional fun apart from the fun they had in the first place, just roaming around and exploring. However, by far the most incredible addition to the longevity of a game in this series in my opinion, has been the online multiplayer capability of GTA IV. And though I have my dreams and hopes about what weapons, vehicles and destructabilities and what not should be in GTA V, I find them all insignificant compared to my hopes for improvements of a couple of multiplayer features.
The first thing that annoys me is the multiplayer lobby and I'm speaking PS3 here, as I've got no clue how this works on other platforms.. The worst thing about it is that the ONLY way to get rid of a passive host, is more than 50% of the players kicking him/her. The problem here is that more often than not, more than 50% of the players who joined have not figured out how to kick the host or perhaps don't even know that it's possible. Anyway, the result of this players often waste a LOT of time waiting for a game because some inconsiderate clown went to lunch or something while hosting a game. What we need in the new multiplayer lobby is an "auto kick feature" which will automatically either kick a passive host or pass on the role of host to another player, after the host has been inactive for say 2-3 minutes. There could be made other improvements to the multiplayer lobby, but none would be as urgently needed as the one I just described.
The next thing I think should be revised about the multiplayer part of the game is the scoring system. Now there's probably a lot of people who'll think I'm a son of a bich, but nevertheless... -My claim is that the scoring system turns most players with aspirations of a top-50 ranking into a bunch of p#ssies! It will hurt their ranking if they lose games, but not when they leave games, so what the scoring system entails is that these very able players only finish games which are a walk in the park for them to win. It doesn't bother me much that the top 50 players mostly plays Mafiya Work like a bunch of whimps if they're okay with doing that to achieve a high ranking instead of enjoying the game as such. What's annoying is how it affects other players to have a handful of very able (some downright unbeatable) players spending a lot of time playing multiplayer games they're only willing to finish, provided that they're facing considerably less skilled players who aren't a match for them. Most of the top 50 ranking players are never fun to play with whether you're a newbie who won't even get a glimpse of who killed them, or a more experienced player like me who can, at best, make these guys leave the game. I can't remember the last time I've seen a top-50 ranked player NOT leaving a multiplayer game when he's realized that he could not win.
I have no idea how the new revised multiplayer scoring system should work, as you score money in some game modes, whereas it's different in races. But to start with it would be great if leaving a game would hurt your online rank as much as losing the game. For sure it would be unfair and frustrating to get "penalized" this way if the internet connection is dodgy and you lose connection, but I think it would still be preferable to a scoring system which awards players for playing like a bunch of whimps who only plays against defenseless newbies or leave games before they finish if there's actually a challenge in winning. Another idea I could think of is to base the amount experience players score, on a comparison between your own level and the level of the opponents you defeat in the game. This would make it immensely rewarding for a newbie to get the drop on a "Rockstar" and the guys wearing the gold star would progress very slowly and have to play 10 times longer to get ahead if they were only fighting/racing against lower level players.
As soon as Rockstar has made features in the next GTA that makes it faster to get rid of inactive hosts and included a scoring system that awards players for playing the game and not focusing on finding the least challenging opponents available, I would like Rockstar to re-introduce the jetpacks, tattoos, SA-health/build system, diving in water and a lot of other things... -But they're all so insignificant compared to the above.
I hope what I tried to explain made sense to you guys...
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I loved being able to rob stores in Vice City so I would like to see that return, but mix it up a little bit.
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Even though I know the game is almost finished, I still think they can consider these ideas for the next GTA game, whatever that might be.
-Make the strippers boobs and ass jiggle when they move. To add realism. ...*cough*
-It would be cool if Rockstar can put Secret Societies in the game and you have the ability to join one through initiation. You would have an upper hand when it comes to working in the underworld.
-Put a real bigfoot or ratman or ratface in the next game this time. Geez. I spent 30 minutes looking for the rat thing one night. 30 minutes of my life, wasted.
-I loved the train systems in San Andreas! Bring that back why don't cha?!
-Make the next game PS3 move compatible. It would be cool if you can lift objects and throw them on your opponent by using your real hands. Punching your opponents anywhere on their body would be neat too.
-Don't put Lady Gaga songs in the game! Please!!
-The ability to recruit people to your street gang.
-The ability to play musical instruments. It would be cool to play in a band to a sold out crowd in some stadium. It would be a cool mini-game.
-Bring the RPG gameplay back.
-Bring basketball back, but make it fun to play this time.
-The ability to eat a lot of food, gain weight and charge at people with your big fat stomach!
-The ability to eat other people. Silence of the Lambs style!
-You should be able to watch the Spice channel on your TV.
-More easter eggs.
-The ability to pee in the toilet like in Duke Nukem 3.
-Not enough ninjas.
-The main character should either be Mexican, Italian, Irish, British or African American this time.
-The game should be based in Los Angelos. But if the game was based in Vice City, then that would be okay.
--Bring back gangster rap and alternative rock radio channels.
-Put Kanye West in the game and let there be a mission where you have to cut him up into tiny, little pieces with a machete!
-Have the ability to put yourself in the game with that PS3 camera.
-It would be nice if Sam and Dan Houser would put themselves in the game. Find them in some cabin in the wilderness and have a beer with them!
That is the list. Byeee.
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I'm hoping for DirectX 11 support or at least 10.1. I hate the fact that even some new games are DX9 only.
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Definition of clearance in English:
noun[mass noun]
1The action or process of clearing or of being dispersed: cleaning of the machine should include clearance of blockages there will be sunny intervals after clearance of any early mist
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- Factors that may limit the usefulness of tanks in clearance operations include the following.
- When all pedestrians are agile and complete their crossing early in the clearance interval, vehicles can continue through the crossing without waiting for the green signal.
1.1The removal of buildings, people, or trees from land so as to free it for alternative uses: slum clearance accelerated during the 1960s [count noun]: forest clearances
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- It will become a criminal offence to carry out damaging works such as road building, tree clearance or pond drainage without the consent of English Nature.
- She aids him in everything from land clearance to castle building.
- The extensive sale of royal forests and land clearance for agriculture also had their effect on the oaks.
1.2 (also house clearance) The removal of contents from a house: the sheriff's officers supervised the house clearance [count noun]: antiques wanted and clearances undertaken
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- The house clearance, which will be filmed for the television show, will be held between 1.30 pm and 5pm.
- There must be one at one of those house clearance places, and it suddenly occurred to me that it was a slightly better storage solution than stacking my stuff behind a chair.
- The house clearance store was at the far end of the corridor: a narrow shop front which opened into a warehouse piled high with old furniture.
1.3 [count noun] (In soccer and other sports) a kick or hit that sends the ball away from one's goal: Nilsson made two goal line clearances to keep out Tottenham's attackers
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- However, if luck had to be on their side they would have won by a least another five goals as the crossbar and goal line clearances saved the home side from a hammering.
- For the next five minutes it was all Stretford and it was down to some goal line clearances and the post to keep the score at 1-1.
- Around ten minutes into the second half, a testing series of corners was swung in underneath the cross bar requiring four goal line clearances in a frantic few minutes.
1.4 [count noun] Snooker The potting of all the balls remaining on the table in a single break: a plant which let in Hendry for a clearance of 96
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- He then swept 4-2 ahead aided along the way by a 32 clearance and a break of 48.
- A 117 clearance then put him a frame away from victory.
- But when he completed a clearance of 142, worth £3,000 as the highest break of the tournament, it looked as if he would coast to victory.
2Official authorization for something to proceed or take place: the aircraft hadn't got diplomatic clearance to land in Mexico
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- If the project gets clearance from the authorities concerned, the matches could be held during December and January depending upon availability of players, the sources said.
- Don't abandon your shelters until you're given clearance by the local authorities.
- If you believe your husband is sincere in his permission, then you have a kind of moral clearance to proceed, if you choose to.
2.1 (also security clearance) Official permission for someone to have access to classified information: these people don't have clearance
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- I managed to get some information with my security clearance before I went on the run.
- We're going to be here for several hours and then we are going to have to provide security clearance that is acceptable to the FBI, whether we go back to the UK or on to Washington.
- Only people with classified security clearance were allowed to go inside the room.
2.2Permission for an aircraft to take off or land at an airport: he took off without air traffic clearance
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- If the airport is open and the tower gives the aircraft and the pilot clearance to land, then the pilot makes the decision whether or not he thinks it's safe.
- He had to get the Air Traffic Control clearance and he had to communicate it.
- The aircraft received clearance for take-off to Los Angeles at 7.45 am on Tuesday.
2.3 (also customs clearance) The clearing of a person or ship by customs: when you arrive at the continental airport you will be required to obtain customs clearance
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- Neither had obtained prior entry clearance to the United Kingdom as required.
- The container has since arrived in Valparaiso where they are awaiting customs clearance.
- A widower, he wanted my help in getting entry clearance for his second wife, from Pakistan.
2.4 [count noun] A certificate showing that customs clearance has been granted.
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- Obviously, these clearances were granted in order to gain propaganda mileage for the elections.
2.5The process of clearing cheques through a clearing house.
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- For more than 11 days the six banks were excluded from the daily inter-bank clearance of cheques.
- While I was waiting for the last item to go through cheque clearance I put a paperback book up, just to try the market.
3Clear space allowed for a thing to move past or under another: always give cyclists plenty of clearance
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- The wire rings add just enough space to create enough clearance between the boards, while still allowing us to put 16 boards in the lunchbox.
- Those 14 record entries are the most in history by a woman and included the first ever clearance of 6 feet.
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Are there any studies about the long term effects of having high expectations of oneself on one's happiness? Does crashing after failing to reach unrealistic goals significantly impact long-term happiness?
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There are definitely studies on this, but I don't have the references at hand. I've heard about this in the online Harvard courses on positive psychology by Tal Ben-Shahar.
In terms of "crashing", there are studies about baseline-happiness, showing you bounce back up after a setback, and back down, after a positive event, like winning the lottery. Only intrinsic perspective changes can increase or decrease your base-level of happiness.
He also talks about a study showing "pessimists" are better at estimating their short and long term success rate. And "optimists" are bad at estimating short term, but good at estimating long term success. The interesting thing is, the pessimists set lower expectations, and their base-level of happiness remains. The optimists have higher expectations, and try until they succeed. The increased belief in their own efficacy, and resilience in the face of a set back, helps to increase their base-level of happiness.
On the other side of the coin, he stresses the importance of "realistic optimism". He says the keys to success are a combination of optimism, passion and hard work. Only optimism (high expectations) is not enough. A quote, by approximation, by Maslow:
You can look into the Stockdale paradox.
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I have an alps touchpad on my laptop. It never got detected as a toupad in ubuntu <= 11.04. Finally with 11.10, it finds it as a touchpad and in the mouse config I can see a touchpad tab.
Changing the settings in the mouse config do nothing.
xinput -list gives:
Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)
↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
↳ HP Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
↳ PS/2 Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
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When I
xinput set-int-prop 12 252 8 3.5
It changes the touchpad sensitivity. So I gather the system is using the PS/2 mouse driver to control the touchpad. Disabling the PS/2 mouse disables the touchpad. Disabling the AlpsPS/2 glidepoint does nothing.
When I do
dmesg | grep -i input I get:
[ 17.613230] input: PS/2 Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11
[ 17.638723] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input12
So this makes me thing the PS/2 mouse drivier is loading first, thus using those drivers instead of the touchpad drivers.
blacklisting psmouse disables the touchpad.
I am now out of ideas on how to get my touchpad behaving as a touchpad. More specifically I want to disable it as I type, increase sensitivity and have side scrolling back.
Unless someone has other thoughts...how can I change the order it loads the devices...make it load the touchpad first? Or is there another solution?


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I have been recently wondering what is a (or even the) "correct" generalization of the notion of an operator norm to nonlinear operators?
Please excuse the naivete of my question; if you think that question will benefit from being made more precise, then I will appreciate help towards making it so.
Because I lack formal education in mathematics, I might be missing something obvious or well-known here. Could somebody point me in the right direction, and let me know what are the key concepts to think about when defining operator norms for nonlinear operators?
Some vague ideas that occurred to me:
Linearizing the operator (locally), so the essentially traditional operator norms of the linearized operator could be considered? This sounds very unsatisfactory though.
If $A$ is a nonlinear operator for which we can sensibly define $\log A$, maybe that helps in tackling the nonlinearity.


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What's the purpose of sacrificing animals in Jewish tradition/law?
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Quoth Rabbi Kornfield (from http://www.shemayisrael.com/parsha/kornfeld/archives/vayikra58.htm):
There is also an idea, found in the Zohar and later kabbalistic and chassidic literature, that each of the major types of animal life "evolves" spiritually from the corresponding "face" of the Chayos Hakodesh (a type of angel described in Ezekiel ch. 1 passim). The Chayos are described as having four "faces": a lion, a bull, an eagle, and a human being. The lion's face, then, is the spiritual source of all wild animals, the bull's face of all domesticated ones, and the eagle's face of all birds.
When we offer a sacrifice, the physical substance of the animal or bird goes up in smoke. This represents how it is spiritually elevated and goes to "feed" the corresponding "face" of the Chayos, thus bringing down more Divine largess to that category of creature (and thereby to us, who depend on them for food and other uses).
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What should I wear to maximize my Magic Find? What specific items are ideal for a Magic Find-optimized build? Does any one particular class have better class-specific items with increased Magic Find?
Maximum soft capacity for magic find in 2.0.1. remains at 300%...Soft capacity is the maximum % of magic find that player can accumulate with items on him and follower,it does not include buffs and bonuses.
Hard capacity is calculated maximum possible magic find.Which was at 680% prior to the 2.0.1. Since then paragon levels don't reward magic find anymore,nephalem valor is removed from the game and monster power level doesn't increase magic find(it does give you better legendary items but it is not calculated in magic find) we are left with:
Making hard cap for MF 355%
This ~50% MF reduction would seem drastic,but i doesn't really matter that much anymore since MF in 2.0.1. is almost useless because your magic find now affects :
For more info on gear slots and items you should check Wikwocket's answer which stays pretty much valid except for nephalem valor. Writing more detailed and updated list of best possible items for magic find really doesn't matter anymore,even if you managed somehow to get more than 300% MF from items it wouldn't count,and i really doubt someone would sacrifice all the stats for mere max 35% MF on Legendary/Set items.
As of patch 1.0.4 the maximum Magic Find is now capped at 300%. The only exception is Nephalem Valor which can bring the total Magic Find to 375%.
Pre-patch info:
Here is an attempt at a max-possible magic-find percentage:
Gear slots:
Total: 410%
Notable Legendaries with magic find. Note you can equip followers with them too:
Overall, to maximize profit, I think you would do better optimizing for your class's DPS stats, and adding in as much gold find and magic find as you can without hurting your kill rate or survivability.
You should always wear items with the highest % magic find you can.
Magic Find is an affix just like anything else, and since the vast majority of Diablo III loot is random, so too is the Magic Find you will, well, find.
Discounting the legendary items (the only class-specific items with pre-defined stats), because they are hard to come by, we are left with the entire array of basic items useable by any class that can have the +magic find affix.
Now, scanning the list of magical affixes that are floating around (like this one), there are two separate (but identically named) affixes, one for Amulets, and one for Ring/Armor/Offhand (Essentially, everything but weapons). So right there is a big clue that no class gets better magic find for its class specific items - because everyone's class-specific armor is still armor, they share the potential for the lower-magnitude "Find Magic %".
So if you want to wear the highest % magic find you can, and no exclusive items are better at that, what else is there left to do?
Well, the thing about % magic find is that it's taking up an affix on your items... which means any item with % magic find on it is makes your character less powerful than an equivalent item which rolled +damage or +armor instead. If your character is dying, you're not finding any items, so to maximize your chance to find items, you want to find the sweet spot between your maximum % magic find and your "not dying to monsters" state.
Finally, once you hit level 60, seek out Rares and Champions for Nephalem Valor. Nephalem Valor is a stacking buff of % magic find, and there's no penalty to it (though if you change spells you lose the buff).
NOTE: As of 1.0.4 magic find is no longer averaged across a party.
If you have high magic find, go solo.
Magic Find is averaged across a party. If you've got 300% magic find, and your partner's got a measely 10%, you guys are at at effective 155% magic find.
protected by Drake Jul 9 '12 at 7:43
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