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Makes 4 servings.
Whimsical little pumpkins filled with a cream soup make a perfect starter on Thanksgiving.
4 mini-pumpkins or Carnival, Sweet Dumpling,
or Acorn squashes (3/4 to 1-1/4 pounds each)
1 slice bacon, diced
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1 cup chicken broth
Boiling water
1 cup corn kernels
3/4 cup milk
Flat-leaf parsley leaves, for garnish (optional)
With a small sharp knife, cut wide tops out of the pumpkins to make bowl-shaped shells. Scrape out and discard seeds and stringy pulp. Trim all but 1/4 inch of meat from tops. Using a knife and soup spoon, cut and scrape out some of the pumpkin meat, leaving a 3/8-inch-thick shell. Shells should have about a 3/4-cup capacity.) Chop the pumpkin meat and set aside.
Microwave Directions:
Place the bacon in a 2-quart microwave-safe dish. Microwave at "high" (100%) for 1 minute and 45 seconds to 2 minutes, or until crisp, stirring twice. Remove the bacon and set aside. Add the onion and chopped pumpkin meat to the dish. Cover with the lid or vented heavy-duty plastic wrap and microwave at "high" for 2 minutes, or until soft. Stir in the flour and chili powder, then the chicken broth. Microwave, covered, at "high" for 5 minutes, or until the pumpkin is very soft. Meanwhile, pour boiling water into the pumpkin shells to warm them. Mash the pumpkin mixture with a fork to a coarse pureé. Add the corn and milk. Microwave at "high" for 1 to 2 minutes, or until thoroughly heated.
Stove-top Directions:
Sauté the bacon in a saucepan for 3 minutes, or until crisp. Remove the bacon and set aside. Add the onion and chopped pumpkin meat to the saucepan. Sauté over medium heat until tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in the flour and chili powder, then the chicken broth. Cook for 5 minutes more, or until the pumpkin is very soft. Meanwhile, pour boiling water into the pumpkin shells to warm them. Mash the pumpkin mixture with a fork to a coarse pureé. Add the corn and milk. Continue to cook until thoroughly heated.
Empty and dry the pumpkin shells. Fill with the chowder. Sprinkle the bacon on top and garnish with parsley, if desired. Serve at once.
Zucchini, Pumpkins & Squash
By Kathleen Desmond Stang
Illustrated by Diane Varney
Chronicle Books
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Reprinted by permission.
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As National Signing Day comes to a close, the Auburn Tiger's 2012 recruiting class brought in some young men who have great talent and are EXCITED to be a part of the Auburn Family. Here is the encouraging letter Coach Chizik sent to each player this afternoon:
Dear New Auburn Men,
War Eagle and congratulations on your decision to enroll at Auburn University.
Football is an important reason why you're coming to Auburn. Football will occupy a lot of your time. It isn't the most important reason you're coming here.
As Gene Chizik says, this place was great long before any of us got here. Auburn is great because of the history and tradition within her buildings. For more than 150 years students have carried books over these grounds. This place is great because of the generations of Auburn men and women who have become overwhelmingly important to this region and the world.
You, too, can do great things. Your talents are giving you that opportunity. You must only work for it. Auburn men and women believe in work, hard work.
Think about these things, work and opportunity. We know those ideas become clearer with time and experience. We hope that you'll honor those concepts because we know what they can do for you and our larger community.
Your athletic talents are impressive, but you're also coming here because the coaches believe you have equal promise as an individual. We hope that you'll honor the faith they are putting in you by choosing wisely in all things.
We want to celebrate the wise decisions you make with the opportunities before you. We cheer you on Saturdays because you represent a part of Auburn. We have the greatest hopes and expectations for you every day of the week because you ARE Auburn.
Auburn is about realizing potential. That is what we cheer for the most.
War Eagle and welcome home. Welcome to Auburn. Love it, and it will always love you.
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Alejandro Sabella will carry the hopes of a nation and a corner of South Yorkshire on his shoulders as he attempts to lead Argentina into the World Cup final.
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The 59-year-old will send his troops into battle with Holland in Sao Paulo on Wednesday evening with the biggest prize in football firmly in his sights.
It is perhaps not something he might have envisaged the day he wrapped himself around a radiator at half-time at Hartlepool's then Victoria Road home and refused to subject himself to the icy blast of a north-east winter.
But he will do so with a his former comrades in the red and white half of Sheffield firmly in his corner as he bids to complete a journey which has taken him from Buenos Aires via the Steel City to the pinnacle of the international game.
Sabella arrived at Sheffield United during the summer of 1978 as an unknown, at least on these shores, 23-year-old with manager Harry Haslam extending his search for fresh talent to South America.
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1/22 Sergio Romero
Only had one real save to make and that wasn't a difficult one. He will surely be tested more in the semi-final. 7
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2/22 Pablo Zabaleta
A relatively quiet night by his standards but still played well. 6
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3/22 Ezequiel Garay
Strong at the back and played well throughout, Lukaku did test him more when he came on though. 7
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4/22 Martin Demichelis
Superb on his first World Cup start, blocked well, tackled everything and was in good positions throughout. Top game. 9
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5/22 Jose Maria Basanta
Played well throughout and could keep his place in the semi-final on this showing. 7
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6/22 Javier Mascherano
After a mixed start, settled into the game and played well. 7
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7/22 Lucas Biglia
Did fine without any headlines. Yellow card for cynically tackle. 6
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8/22 Angel Di Maria
Started well but had to go off through injury after half an hour. 6
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9/22 Lionel Messi
Not his best night and missed a glorious chance at the death to settle it. He will need to return to his top form in the semi-final. 6
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10/22 Gonzalo Higuain
Very good performance, man-of-the-match. Took goal brilliantly and hit the bar. Was a threat all afternoon. 9
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11/22 Ezequiel Lavezzi
Did ok but not quite the attacking force that others such as Sergio Aguero could offer. 6
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12/22 Thibaut Courtois
Saved well from Messi at the end of the game but had precious little to do apart from picking the ball out of his own net. 6
13/22 Toby Alderweireld
Picked up a yellow card for poor tackle but did fine overall. 6
14/22 Daniel van Buyten
Was good at the back once again and even went up-front for last ten minutes. 7
15/22 Vincent Kompany
Another good night's work and unlucky to be going home. Put in several top blocks and tackles. 7
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The story goes that Haslam's initial target was a 16-year-old Diego Maradona, who even then ultimately proved to be outside his price range.
Former Blades team-mate Tony Kenworthy told Press Association: "As far as the players were concerned - and he did tell us the story, Harry himself - he was going to go for Maradona.
"He had seen Maradona and he was interested in him, but it was Alex that he opted for because Maradona was just a little bit too much."
The newcomer was thrust into the Blades dressing room as something of a novelty, but was soon assimilated, thanks in part to the presence of Uruguayan Danny Bergara.
Kenworthy said: "Football bridges a lot of gaps and it's easy, it's a universal place to come into - but it's an unforgiving place if you're not up to scratch.
"But Alex came in and he was such a nice guy that you couldn't help but like the fella, and the icing on the cake was that he was fantastic technically as a footballer.
"He was a pretty intelligent sort of a guy because he picked up the language, albeit pidgin-fashion, pretty easily."
Foreign imports have been credited with introducing greater professionalism into the English game in recent years.
However, Sabella's contribution on that front was negligible to the point that he refused to train on Fridays and left his preparation for games until the very last minute.
Kenworthy said: "At 2.30pm, where we would have had our massages and our ankles were strapped and you go through your routine, you would look across and Alex would be looking at the pictures in the programme.
"You'd look again at 2.40pm and Alex would still be in his suit; you'd look back at 2.45pm and he'd be changed, he'd be ready, socks rolled down, boots on ready to go out. That was Alex."
The English weather too proved something of a culture shock for a man who was quick to seek out the best source of heat in any dressing room.
Kenworthy said: "He hated the cold. At half-time, he would wrap himself around any radiator he could find in the dressing room.
"We played at Hartlepool and he didn't come out for the second half. He wouldn't come back out. He was too cold. We had to make a substitution at half-time."
But, whatever his idiosyncrasies, the Argentinian possessed a rich talent and, in his two seasons at Bramall Lane - he went on to have a third with derby rivals Leeds - proved to be a match-winner.
Kenworthy remembers a man who came to life when his side was on the ball, even in the white heat of an infamous Sheffield derby in December 26, 1979.
The full-back said: "When we were defending, he wasn't any part of what we were trying to achieve because you couldn't rely on him. But once we won the ball, we would try to get him on it as much as we could because of his talent.
"Many a time, he'd have to put up with a man-to-man marker, and it wasn't like today. You could be heavy with your challenges and your first one was always free, so it was always the free one on Alex.
"We played Sheffield Wednesday on that Boxing Day and he came past me horizontal at eye level at one point.
"He was going to get it, but lads in the dressing room tried to look after him on the pitch because he was your little diamond. He could turn a game for you."
Sabella made his mark on and off the pitch during his time in the Sheffield, and the bonds he forged there remain intact, ensuring support from afar on Wednesday and beyond.
Kenworthy said: "What a fantastic lad. I can't say enough about him. It can't be England, so we are all hoping it will be Argentina. Once a Blade, always a Blade."
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This is an excellent effect, but, I agree with the other review, it's not needed. The gimmicks included are optional, depending on you. The only two uses for the gimmicks:10 of 10 magicians found this helpful.
1. Have the selected card be in it's exact location (right position).
2. Make it easier to load the selected card into the sealed deck.
1. I personally don't mind if the selected card isn't in the right position, because the fact that there's ONE red card inside of a SEALED deck AND it's the signed card would be enough for the spectator. Showing that it's in the right position is just an extra. When you reveal their sign card to be in the sealed deck, no one is going to ask or care what its position in the deck is UNLESS you point it out to them. So, I don't think it's completely necessary.
2. The second function of the gimmicks is to make the loading of the card easier. You can do the exact same effect, signed card to sealed deck, without the gimmicks, it's going to be a little bit harder. And by harder I mean by like 1%. Just practice the loading without gimmicks a few times and you should be fine.
In conclusion, the gimmicks aren't necessary to do the trick. Just put the gimmicks aside (don't throw them away, you paid for them), and do this with a normal deck, and end completely clean and examinable. The gimmicks are only there in case you want to use them. So yeah, gimmicks not needed.
Also, the easiest way to perform this is by wearing a jacket. I did't feel like doing this so I tried putting the deck in my backpack. It didn't work. I would have to have the audience face the complete opposite direction for them to not know what I was doing. In other words, you NEED to wear a jacket. The jacket provides the cover necessary to do the trick. If you don't have pockets, it comes with a holder that has an adhesive to stick inside a jacket of your choice. But keep in mind, the adhesive is INCREDIBLY, EXTREMELY STICKY. So, the jacket you decide to put it in, choose wisely, because you won't be able to take it out without ruining the stickiness. I don't really to this trick very much because of the jacket restriction.
Also, if you're going to buy this, buy wonder sealer first. If you don't have a wonder sealer, you will need to buy a brand new deck EVERY time you do the trick. (also get some deck seals).
So, that's pretty much it. It's a great effect, but, you don't need the gimmicks. But overall it's a nice effect.
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Let me start off by saying that I'm a HUGE fan of this effect made popular by the highly respected FISM WORLD CHAMPION Mr. Shawn Farquhar (if Shawn ever released his version of this effect, I wouldn't even bother thinking if I should purchase it or not as it's a no brainer!!!! YOU JUST HAVE TO PURCHASE IT!!!). That having been said, Mark Mason's version of this effect known as "Fully Loaded," is nothing short of a miracle! I have performed this at tables and a few times on stage ever since I've bought this (I have purchased 2 Fully Loaded sets (hey, you could always use an extra set!) on April 22nd 2013, so I've had ample time to test Mark Mason's take on this trick). Without further delay, here's my review.
After receiving my order from penguinmagic (PENGUINMAGIC.... REALLY WEIRD NAME AS THEIR DELIVERY SERVICE IS OPPOSITE TO THAT OF A PENGUIN! SHOULD REALLY BE CALLED A CHEETAH ON A JET OR SOMETHING SINCE THEY'RE SO FAST ON DELIVERING MY GOODS) I opened the box and saw my 2 Fully Loadeds neatly packaged in the box that my goods were shipped in. Grabbing hold of one of my Fully Loadeds, I inspected the cardboard, enveloped, box. The front of the enveloped box contained a loading bar with the words "Fully Loaded" written under it in yellow letters, and under that, Mark Mason's signature on the 3 of diamonds placed on top of a closed card box (there's also a description of the effect under that card box). On the back of the enveloped box is a description of the effect, again, as well as a statement that all necessary custom made gimmicks are included within the package. The back also contains a delicate tab to open the flat enveloped box. Upon opening the my Fully Loaded package, I found that everything was neatly packaged and thought out; from the gimmicks, to the included DVD, and even as far as the "coming soon" advertisement printed on the inside of the Fully Loaded enveloped box, was again, well thought out. This is exactly what I would expect from Mark Mason and his team.
Packaging Score: 10/10
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Before I begin, I need to make clear that you will need your own decks of cards for this effect. Within the Fully Loaded package, you will receive exactly what you need in order to accomplish this effect. The so called "locking" and "unlocking" gimmicks as well as the "overlap" gimmick and even the deck holder (mentioned in Penguinmagic's description of this product) are ALL EXTREMELY WELL MADE and TRULY UNIQUE, but are rather unnecessary for this type of effect (although these custom made gimmicks do aid in making this type of effect slightly easier, however, that having been said, if you do choose to use these gimmicks, then you won't be able to repeat this type of effect for the same crowd of people (if you own this, you will know exactly what I'm referring to) unless you choose to do this without the gimmicks or to use the gimmicks later on in your performance). The preparation found on the DVD (I know I should be starting another paragraph for this, but what the hey lol) was not too bad! Mark Mason shows you EXACTLY what to do as if you had ZERO experience in magic what-so-ever and the contents on the DVD are SO WELL ORGANIZED that it's IMPOSSIBLE for one to not make sense of something!
Materials/Gimmicks Score: 10/10
Preparation (DVD): 10/10
This... Is where I ran into some issues as it's not as practical as it may seem. This effect is moreless a special, one time effect, that takes some time preparing (unless you're a psycho and manage to prep and somehow carry more than enough stuff to do this more than once). When using the custom supplied gimmicks, I have found this type of effect to be relatively fast and easy, but man... This effect takes up a lot of essential pocket real estate and requires one to wear a blazer. Also, when this effect is being performed, the deck is examinable, up to a certain degree, and there is no instant reset if you were to do it again. Still, I really love the concept as well as the effect and because of that, I have found a more practical method (upon experimenting) that requires absolutely no gimmick and a full proof method for handing out the card box and the deck both before and after the effect (my method is 100% examinable whereas Mark's method is 90% examinable). Regardless of my 100% examinable method, the practicality for this type of effect moreless remains the same; I've decided to save this type of effect for those "special occassions."
Practicality: 7.2/10
WOW.... Regardless of it being a table, or on stage (I've never done this for walkaround due to practicality, mainly regarding the reset for this trick) this trick just BLOWS THEIR MINDS!!!!!!! Words cannot describe how amazing this type of effect is to an audience except the audiences' reactions! When this effect hits, it HITS THEM HARD!!!!!! Not only is a shuffled up deck magically put back in new deck order, but THE SPECTATOR'S SIGNED CARD IS FOUND TO BE IN THE EXACT POSITION OF THAT NEWLY ORDERED DECK!!! Oh ya.. AND IT'S A BRAND NEW, SEALED DECK OF CARDS WITH THE STICKER/CELLOPHANE AND EVERYTHING INTACT!!!! OH AND YES, THE SPECTATOR CAN EXAMINE, OPEN THE CELLOPHANE, BREAK THE SEAL AND DO EVERYTHING THEMSELVES!!!! IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE AND MIND BOGGLING TO THE AUDIENCE!!! I KNOW THIS FOR A FACT, AS ADULTS MY AGE ARE JUST JAW DROPPED (LITERALLY JAW DROPPED) AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS EFFECT!!! When I did this on stage, my random volunteer was just WOW and the audiences' reactions were just out the door!!! I even overheard someone in the audience state that they don't need to even look at the deck beforehand because it was passed around on stage and verified by everyone else!! (Also, they've probably come to realize that this isn't your normal "pick a card, any card trick" and you'll find it XD).
Performances/Reactions Score: 12/10 (Reason: Just look at all the capital letters found within that last paragraph LOL).
If you're one of those performers looking for a trick that could be performed straight out of the box, then this isn't the trick for you; however, if you're a performer looking for that special one time trick that will knock your performance out of the park (and you also wouldn't mind some preparation prior to your performances) then this is definitely one trick you should consider! Despite some issues in regards to practicality, THIS STILL GETS MY MOST HIGHEST RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!!!! MARK MASON AND HIS TEAM HAVE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB AND HAVE PRICED THIS PRODUCT AT A VERY REASONABLE PRICE!!!!!
Conclusion: I'm still giving this a 10/10!!! XD
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This trick is a bit pricey, but the gimmicks, explanation, and routine are well worth it. I enjoy Mark's tricks--they are always quality items, well explained, and very commercial.3 of 3 magicians found this helpful.
If commercial and easy-to-master are not your cup of tea, yes, take the other reviewer's advice and seek out his recommended products.
I am completely satisfied with the purchase (much thanks to the Penguin staff)!
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 26th, 2013
What you get is an elaborate method to AID you in doing the trick. The truth is, it is not that hard to do without the gimmicks just using ungimmicked cards to do the same thing. I will not say do not buy this, but if you do, do what I did and put the gimmicks aside and perform this with a 100% examinable deck with no gimmicks. Greg Gleason's version on Theater Close up 2 is better. I expected more. But Mark's routine that is on the demo is taught on the DVD so that could be a plus if you want to learn that.4 of 7 magicians found this helpful.
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Well i think the dvd is ok nice aproach to the trick, the gimmick you receive will confuse you and its great quality.1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
But you can performe this effect the same way without the gimicks, so the deck whould be examinable and you can do it with any card not nessery the 8 clubs.
So i think its a great method but its not needed to be a gimmicked trick.
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Great trick. Excellent method. Easy to do. I only gave it 4 stars because of the fact you can't examine the deck after.1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
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I've seen many magicians do this type effect over the years, but I was never able to figure it out. Now Mark Mason has given us a powerful way to accomplish the magic without too much work involved. The gimmicks included will confuse you completely until you watch the DVD. It all makes perfect sense then. Mark does a great job teaching this and going into the setup. You will have some pre-show work to do, and performing this more than once per night will require you to have several boxes set up beforehand (it's not necessarily something you can reset between table-hopping). Still, it's not impossible, and Mark even goes into the "card in mouth" routine he does in the demo video in case you want to use it.1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
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I buy Fully Loaded becuase i see shawn farquhar on Penn and Teller show. The only defect of this gimmick is that the deck after the performance cannot be completly examineted from the spectator but i develop a new method after i see the DVD so it is very useful. Now i perform this trick without the gimmick and after the performances the deck can be examinated from the spectator. In my opinion the jacket isn't essential, i am be able to do the trick using the pocket of the jeans.
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Absolutely love it.
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- "If VY is the starter and he was healthy enough to be the No. 2 QB last Sunday, then he was healthy enough to start. Someone is sending VY a message here: lets call it like it was." -- SN commenter 81WASIV
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Did you forget I have no Cap Number?Also you didnt put any of the blame on Kerry why do i get all the blame when we failed but none of the credit when we win!
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Valve Anti-Cheat, abbreviated as VAC, is an anti-cheat software developed by Valve Corporation as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. During one week of November 2006, the system detected over 10,000 cheating attempts.[1] As of July 2014, it is estimated that over 2.2 million Steam accounts have been banned by the system.[2][3]
When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection.[4] It may kick players from the game if it detects errors in their system's memory or hardware. No information such as date of detection or type of cheat detected is disclosed to the player. After the player is notified, access to online "VAC protected" servers of the game the player cheated in is permanently revoked and additional restrictions are applied to the player's Steam account.
In 2001, Even Balance Inc., the developers of the anti-cheat software PunkBuster designed for Counter-Strike and Half-Life mods, stopped supporting the games as they had no support from Valve. Valve had also rejected business offers of integrating the technology directly into their games.[5][6]
Valve started working on a "long-term solution" for cheating in 2001.[7] VAC was first released with Counter-Strike in 2002, during its initial release, it only banned players for 24 hours.[8] The duration of the ban was increased over time; players were banned for 1 year and 5 years, until VAC2 was released in 2005, when any new bans became permanent.[9] VAC2 was announced in February 2005[10] and began beta testing the following month.[11] On November 17, 2006, they announced that "new [VAC] technology" had caught "over 10,000" cheating attempts in the preceding week alone.[1]
During the early testing phase in 2002, some information was revealed about the program via the Half-Life Dedicated Server mailing lists. It can detect versions of "OGC's OpenGl Hack," OpenGL cheats, and also detects CD key changers as cheats. Information on detected cheaters is sent to the ban list server on IP address 126.96.36.199 on port 27013,[12] which was later changed to 27011.[13] There is also a "master ban list" server.[14] RAM/hardware errors detected by VAC may kick the player from the server, but not ban them.[15][16]
Eric Smith and Nick Shaffner[17] were the original contacts for game administrators. In February 2010, the VAC Team consisted of Steam's lead engineer John Cook and his team of 16 engineers.
In July 2010, several players who successfully used information leaked from Valve to increase their chances of finding a rare Team Fortress 2 weapon/tool called the Golden Wrench found themselves banned by VAC.[18][19]
As of July 2014, unofficial sources estimate that over 2.1 million Steam accounts have been banned by VAC.[2][3]
In February 2014, rumors spread that the system was monitoring websites users had visited by accessing their DNS cache. Gabe Newell responded via Reddit, clarifying that the purpose of the check was to act as a secondary counter-measure to detect kernel level cheats, and that it affected one tenth of one percent of clients checked which resulted in 570 bans.[20][21][22]
As of May 2016, the system began banning accounts that were registered with the same phone number.[23] Additionally, a phone number that was used on an account at the time it was banned will not be allowed to be re-registered on other accounts for three months.
The system has been criticised for failing to detect the LMAOBOX cheat for Team Fortress 2 until May 2016, which resulted in a spike of bans.[24]
In February 2016, Valve announced plans to introduce a machine-learning approach to detecting cheats in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and that an initial version of the system was already in place, which would automatically mark players for manual detection by players through the "Overwatch" system. [25]
Valve rarely discusses the software, as it may help cheaters write new code or conduct social engineering.[20]
The software sends client challenges to the machine, if the appropriate response is not received, it is flagged as a possible violation. It uses Signature Scanning to detect possible cheats when scanning the computer's memory and processes, an incident report is created whenever an anomaly is detected, it is then compared to a database of banned applications and/or analyzed by Valve's engineers. The engineers may inspect the code and run it on their own copies of the game. If the code is confirmed as a new cheat, it is added to the database of cheat codes.[26][27]
According to Steam's lead engineer John Cook, to stop the anti-cheat software itself from being exploited, "The software is constantly updated and sent down in small portions for the servers as needed, so hackers only get to see small portions of it running at any particular time. So while they may be able to work around pieces of it, they can never hack everything."[27]
Valve also accepts submissions of cheat programs and cheat websites from players through the official Steam Forums. Players may also report players they suspect of cheating through their Steam Community profile, although players are not banned from these reports alone.[28]
If a cheat is found, the player's Steam account will be flagged as cheating immediately, but the player will not receive any indication of the detection. It is only after a delay of "days or even weeks"[4] that the account is permanently banned from "VAC Secure" servers[28] for that game, possibly along with other games that use the same engine (e.g. Valve's Source games, GoldSrc games, Unreal engine games). Valve never discloses which cheat was detected. Players have criticised the system for taking weeks to months to ban cheaters.[29]
Large numbers of flagged accounts may also be banned in "waves".[30][31]
Additional restrictions
Players that are banned face additional restrictions. Steam Family Sharing allows users to share their video game library with another Steam user to download and play, but games that the player is VAC banned from cannot be shared. If a user shares their games with another user, then cheats or fraud are detected on the recipients account, the original owner of the games being shared may be VAC banned and the sharing function revoked.[32][33] Banned users can also not contribute to the Steam Translation Server project, that allows users to contribute new translations of Steam and its games.[34] Users banned from a game are not allowed to refund it.[35]
Over 300 games support VAC, players that are banned from the following games face additional restrictions:[36]
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Counter-Strike
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
- Counter-Strike: Source
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Day of Defeat
- Day of Defeat: Source
- Deathmatch Classic
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
- Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
- Ricochet
- Team Fortress 2
- Team Fortress Classic
Mods based on the games above may inherit VAC support from the host game.
Denotes GoldSrc games, if a player is banned in one of these games they are banned from all of them.[28]
Denotes Source engine games, if a player is banned in one of these games they are banned from all of them.[28]
Denotes games that have a stricter policy of having all servers VAC protected, and additionally bans players for editing of any game files except config files.[28]
Denotes games that face digital goods restrictions if the player is VAC banned.[37]
Social impact
The user's Steam profile is also marked with "ban(s) on record", which is publicly visible and cannot be hidden. An analysis of 43,465 users that had been banned between April 2011 and October 2011 showed that the more VAC banned players a user is friends with, the more likely they will also be VAC banned themselves in the future. After they were banned, they lost more friends, were more likely to increase their privacy settings and also had more VAC banned friends than non-banned players.[38] Banned players are also sometimes referred to as going on "VACation".[31][39]
Banned players are also excluded from competing in most electronic sports tournaments. In 2014, professional player Joel "Emilio" Mako was banned during a live stream,[40] he initially denied using a cheat, claiming it was caused by "a friend of his played on one of his smurfing accounts which mail is linked to his main account"[41] Then in 2015, he admitted to using a cheat.[42] Hovik "KQLY" Tovmassian, Simon "smn" Beck and Gordon "SF" Giry were banned shortly before they were scheduled to play at DreamHack Winter 2014.[39][43] The ESEA League claimed the bans were a result of working with Valve directly.[44] Hovik "KQLY" Tovmassian admitted to using cheats.[45]
Locked Items
When users are VAC banned, the items that they have in their inventory for that game, such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or Team Fortress 2 will be locked into the users account. They cannot trade those items or sell them on the market, which prevents the users from making profit and gifting another copy to an alternate account to cheat on again.[46] The most expensive inventory that has been VAC banned is around ~$20,000.[citation needed]
False-positive detections
There have been cases where VAC has banned users for false positives.
- There are eight recorded instances of incorrect detections, which were fixed and rescinded:
- VAC1: On its initial release, VAC would issue bans for faulty memory. Valve quickly updated VAC to only kick for faulty memory.[47]
- VAC1: Running a VAC-protected game through the Cedega software compatibility layer for Linux.[48]
- VAC1: An apparent server-side glitch on April 1, 2004.[49]
- VAC2: Over two weeks in July 2010, approximately 12,000 owners of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 were banned when Steam updated a DLL file on-disk after it had been loaded into memory by the game. Those affected received a free copy of Left 4 Dead 2 or an extra copy to send as a gift.[50][51][52]
- VAC2: In January 2011, owners of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 or Call of Duty: Black Ops were banned due to their computers being infected by the trojan Win32/Spyeye.H.[53]
- VAC2: In June 2011, an unknown false positive detection caused a handful of Team Fortress 2 owners to become banned.[54]
- VAC2: In February 2014, a number of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players were falsely banned, the bans were eventually reversed.[citation needed]
- VAC2: In June 2016, several hundred Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players were falsely banned by TimerResolution. They were reversed.[55][unreliable source?]
- There are three recorded instances of game plugins that are not considered cheats triggering bans or kicks. These are:
- VAC1: HLamp, which allowed the user to control Winamp from the game's interface.[56]
- VAC2: Some Half-Life modifications, such as Paranoia[57] and Half-Life FX which made changes to the engine's renderer that propagated to multiplayer games. This triggers a kick.
- VAC1 and VAC2: sXe Injected, an anti-cheat system for Counter-Strike.
See also
- ^ a b "Steam Message". Steam Update News. November 17, 2006. Retrieved December 11, 2002.
- ^ a b "gameME - Make gaming competitive! - Bans". TTS Oetzel & Goerz GmbH. January 2, 2013. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
Total Bans: 2,110,153 Players
- ^ a b "See the VAC status of any Steam account (Counter Strike, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, etc)". Surian and AnAkIn. January 17, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
Total Banned: 2124373
- ^ a b "I've Been Banned". Valve Support FAQ. January 23, 2008. Retrieved September 18, 2008.
- ^ "Punkbuster to stop HL/CS development".
- ^ "Punkbuster Retires From HL".
- ^ "Eric Smith, Valve, HLDS mailing list, October 2001".
- ^ "Online cheaters face games ban". BBC News. August 29, 2002. Retrieved August 23, 2006.
- ^ "VACBanned - Information".
- ^ "Steam - New Counter-Strike: Source Map Coming Soon". Steampowered.com. February 11, 2005. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ^ "Steam - Update". Steampowered.com. March 25, 2005. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ^ "Eric Smith, Valve HLDS Mailing List, July 2002".
- ^ "Eric Smith, Valve, HLDS mailing list, August 2002".
- ^ "Eric Smith, Valve, HLDS mailing list, February 2003".
- ^ "Eric Smith, Valve, June 2003".
- ^ "CS-Nation". Archived from the original on June 19, 2003.
- ^ "CS-Nation-the future of Counter-Strike". Archived from the original on November 18, 2003.
- ^ "TF2 Engineer Update Gets Serious – VAC Bans Issued". DeviceMAG.
- ^ "Golden Wrench Scandal – Team Fortress 2 Golden Wrench Stolen". Top Tier Tactics.
- ^ a b "Valve, VAC, and trust". Reddit.
- ^ Warr, Philippa (February 18, 2014). "Valve couldn't care less what porn you watch (Wired UK)". Wired.co.uk. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ^ Chris Scullion Games Editor, CVG UK Follow @scully1888 (February 18, 2014). "Valve rejects claims it receives players' browsing history - CVG US". Computerandvideogames.com. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ^ http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/04/valve-steps-up-counter-strikes-anti-cheat-measures/
- ^ http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/05/valve-finally-cracks-down-on-one-of-the-biggest-team-fortress-2-cheats/
- ^ Prescott, Shaun. "Valve wants to take a 'machine learning' approach to Counter-Strike anti-cheat". PCGamer. PCGamer. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
- ^ Autonomic and Trusted Computing: 4th International Conference, ATC 2007, Hong Kong, China, July 11–13, 2007. p125
- ^ a b "Steamed: Valve Software Battles Video-game Cheaters".
- ^ a b c d e "Valve Anti-Cheat System (VAC)". Steam Support. November 15, 2006. Retrieved December 23, 2006.
- ^ "Rust's new anti-cheat system is working - but Facepunch are "never going to be finished fighting"". PCGamesN. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ^ Ms. Smith (February 16, 2014). "Some gamers steamed over alleged Valve anti-cheat DNS spying". Network World.
- ^ a b Nathan Grayson. "A Lot Of Cheaters Just Got Banned From Counter-Strike". kotaku.com.au.
- ^ "Steam Family Sharing". Valve Corporation. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
- ^ Maiberg, Emanuel. "Steam Family Sharing now available for all users". PC Gamer. Retrieved July 5, 2014.
- ^ "Steam Translation Server - Welcome". Translation.steampowered.com. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ^ "Steam Refunds". Retrieved June 3, 2015.
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FSF Announces New Executive Director: John Sullivan
"I'm looking forward to working closely with FSF president Richard Stallman and our board to advance the goals of the free software movement. I'm very thankful to Peter for his effective leadership in our advocacy campaigns and in our efforts to build resources for free software." ~John Sullivan, Executive Director Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Earlier this week, the FSF announced Sullivan's appointment as its new Executive Director. Sullivan who has been with the FSF since 2003 says he is interested in promoting free software adoption in public and educational institutions as well as making GNU and the rest of the free software movement a welcoming and positive place for everyone.
In his reflections over the past six years, Peter Brown, former FSF Executive Director notes, "I would like to sign off with a message of support for my successor John Sullivan, who is awesome! He will be a great ED for the FSF, and I thank him for all the support he gave me over the years. And thanks to all the staff at the FSF who have worked so hard and made it such a fun time for me."
More information can be found on the Free Software Foundation website.
Issue 28: GIMP Handbook 4th Ed./Special Editions
Buy this issue as a PDF
OpenSUSE Site Hacked
News site for the openSUSE community falls victim to a Wordpress exploit.
LibreOffice Goes Online with 5.3 Release
The source code is available online.
Microsoft Brings Clear Linux OS to Azure
One out of three virtual machines on Microsoft Azure Cloud run Linux.
ASUS Announces a Single-Board Computer
The form factor of the board makes it a drop-in replacement for Raspberry Pi.
Red Hat Releases RHEL 6.9 Beta
Makes it easier for customers to move workloads into container-centric applications.
SUSE Working on a New Operating System Called MicroOS
SUSE's answer to container-centric operating systems.
Biggest Kernel Release Ever
Linux 4.9 is the biggest release in terms of number of commits.
CentOS Linux 7 (1611) Released
The latest version of the official RHEL clone is here.
openSUSE Rolls Out 42.2 Leap
New release targets Linux professionals.
Cutting-Edge Fedora 25 Released
The Fedora project adds Wayland and Gnome 3.22


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