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Before buyers spend years in a home, they'll spend critical hours in a welcome center, a sales center, or a design center. A disconnect at any one of these points can be the difference between a customer who is happy to refer friends and family and one who just wants to get the whole thing over with so they can move into their house. That's why these facilities are so important, and why The Nationals recognizes excellence in them.
SETTING THE STAGE When a developer brings an entirely different kind of lifestyle to a community, a welcome center becomes a focal point for introducing folks to what's to come. In the case of Ross Bridge in the Birmingham, Ala., market, the gold winner for best sales pavilion is also a place to help visitors connect to the past.
The 1,620-acre traditional neighborhood development takes its name from the family who had owned the land since 1858 and the massive bridge built on it by the Confederate Army as part of a rail supply line during the Civil War, says Dorothy Tayloe, sales manager for Ross Bridge. The entire development harks back to the resort days of the 1800s, when families traveled there by train to enjoy the nearby springs. Since those families' first look at the town would be the train station, the Ross Bridge welcome center is inspired by a classic station.
"The train track and railroad theme is the driving force of the design," says John Burdeshaw with Expo Displays, the Birmingham-based firm that designed the 8,000-square-foot center. "There's an actual replica of a bridge, and train track in vertical orientation is the running theme."
Greeters guide visitors through the center, which introduces them to the history of the property and the vision of the development, which includes a championship golf course and a Renaissance hotel with a spa. The center also serves as a gathering point in the community for events ranging from movies to a hometown fair, and a large town hall is available for residents to hold club meetings.
The welcome center has been a huge success, with 2,040 total traffic visits since opening in June 2005, says Margi Ingram, vice president and director of sales and marketing for builder Daniel Homes. Sales have averaged more than one per day, with no signs of slowing down.
Once sales are completed, the welcome center is scheduled to be converted to retail space. The rental income generated by that conversion will effectively reduce the cost from $222.22 per square foot to $50 per square foot.
DESIGNING FOR SIMPLICITY This year's winner in the design center category had all the judges doing double takes because it didn't look like any other design center they'd ever seen. Where were the samples? They're hidden, just the way Jim Roberts wants it.
A self-described neat freak, Roberts, president of Taylor Roberts Design Center, designed custom work spaces at his firm to keep all the samples out of sight. They're in easy reach, but they're not stacked on counters or dumped on the floor. After working out of trailers for years, he wasn't about to let his new dream office look junky.
"We went from trailer park to marvelous," says Roberts, whose Philo, Calif.–based design firm helps major builders develop specifications for their product. "We wanted to create the ideal space to work with our clients [primarily builders as well as a few custom home buyers]."
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Manfred J. Sakel, in full Manfred Joshua Sakel (born June 6, 1900, Nadvorna, Austria-Hungary [now Nadvirna, Ukr.]—died Dec. 2, 1957, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Polish neurophysiologist and psychiatrist who introduced insulin-shock therapy for schizophrenia.
Sakel received his medical training at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1925, and subsequently practiced in both Vienna and Berlin. He became a research associate at the University Neuropsychiatric Clinic in Vienna in 1933. He was forced to flee the Nazis in 1936 and completed his work at the Harlem Valley State Hospital in the United States, publishing his findings in The Pharmacological Shock Treatment of Schizophrenia (1938).
Sakel had used insulin to tranquilize morphine addicts undergoing withdrawal, and in 1927 one addict accidentally received an overdose of insulin and went into a coma. After the patient recovered from the overdose, Sakel noted an improvement in his mental state. Sakel hypothesized that inducing convulsions with insulin could have similar effects in schizophrenics. His initial studies found the treatment effective in 88 percent of his patients, and the method was applied widely for a brief period. Follow-up studies showed the long-term results to be less satisfactory, and insulin-shock treatment was replaced by other methods of treatment.

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You could say that Evelyn Ankers is still the reigning queen of classical 1940s horror fare turned out by studios like RKO, Universal and Monogram. But there were a host of femme screamtales that populated the silver screen with their unique beauty, quirky style and/or set of lungs ready to wail, faint or generally add some great tone and tinge to the eerie atmosphere when ever the mad scientist or monster was afoot. Some were even monstrous themselves…
For this upcoming Halloween I thought I'd show just a little love to those fabulous ladies who forged a little niche for themselves as the earliest scream queens & screen icons.
I'm including Elsa Lanchester because any time I can talk about this deliriously delightful actress I'm gonna do it. Now I know she was the screaming hissing undead bride in the 30s but consider this… in the 40s she co-starred in two seminal thrillers that bordered on shear horror as Mrs Oates in The Spiral Staircase 1945 and a favorite of mine as one of Ida Lupino's batty sisters Emily Creed in Ladies in Retirement 1941
I plan on venturing back to the pre-code thirties soon, so I'll talk about The Bride of Frankenstein, as well as Gloria Holden (Dracula's Daughter, Frances Dade (Dracula) and Kathleen Burke (Island of Lost Souls) Gloria Stuart and Fay Wray and so many more wonderful actresses of that golden era…
The depraved mad scientist Lionel Atwill working with electro biology pins gorgeous red headed Anne Nagel playing June Lawrence, to his operating slab in Man Made Monster 1941. Lon Chaney Jr. comes hulking in all aglow as the 'Electrical Man' which was his debut for Universal. He carries Anne Nagel through the countryside all lit up like a lightning bug in rubber armor. Man Made Monster isn't the only horror shocker that she displayed her tresses & distresses. She also played a night club singer named Sunny Rogers also co-starring our other 40's horror heroine icon Anne Gwynne in the Karloff/Lugosi pairing Black Friday in 1940.
She played the weeping Mrs.William Saunders, the wife of Lionel Atwill's first victim in Mad Doctor of Market Street 1942. And then of course she played mad scientist Dr Lorenzo Cameron (George Zucco's) daughter Lenora in The Mad Monster 1942. Dr Cameron has succeeded with his serum in turning men into hairy wolf like neanderthal monsters whom he unleashes on the men who ruined his career.
Poor Anne had a very tragic life… Considered that sad girl who was always hysterical. Once Universal dropped her she fell into the Poverty Row limbo of bit parts. Her brief marriage to Ross Alexander ended when he shot himself in the barn in 1937, and Anne became a quiet alcoholic until her death from cancer in 1966
Martha was in noir favorites The Big Sleep 1946 & Alimony 1949. This beauty played an uncredited Margareta 'Vazec's Daughter'along side Ilona Massey as Baroness Elsa Frankenstein and the marvelous older beauty Maria Ouspenskaya as Maleva the gypsy! in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 1943. Then she played heroine Dorothy Coleman in Captive Wild Woman 1943 and Miss McLean in The Mummy's Ghost 1944.
Originally Martha MacVickar she started modeling for photographer William Mortenson.David O Selznick contracted the starlet but Universal took over and put in her bit parts as the victim in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and in other 'B' guilty pleasures like Captive Wild Woman & The Mummy's Ghost. She was also the pin-up girl for WWII magazines.
Martha also starred in other noir features such as Ruthless 1948 and The Big Bluff 1955. She was Mickey Rooney's third wife.
Fay Helm played Ann Terry in one of my favorite unsung noir/thriller gems Phantom Lady 1944 where it was all about the 'hat' and she co-starred as Nurse Strand along side John Carradine in Captive Wild Woman. Fay played Mrs. Duval in the Inner Sanctum mystery Calling Dr. Death with Lon Chaney Jr. 1943
Fay Helm plays Jenny Williams in Curt Siodmak's timeless story directed by George Waggner for Universal and starring son of a thousand faces Lon Chaney Jr in his most iconic role Larry Talbot as The Wolf Man 1941
Fay as Jenny Williams: "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright."
Fay was in Night Monster 1942. Directed by Ford Beebe the film starred Bela Lugosi as a butler to Lionel Atwill a pompous doctor who falls prey to frighting nocturnal visitations. I particularly love the atmosphere of this little chiller with it's swampy surroundings and it's metaphysical storyline.
Dr. Lynn Harper (Irene Hervey) a psychologist is called to the mysterious Ingston Mansion, to evaluate the sanity of Margaret Ingston, played by our horror heroine Fay Helm daughter of Kurt Ingston (Ralph Morgan) a recluse who invites the doctors to his eerie mansion who left him in a wheelchair.
Fay gives a terrific performance surrounded by all the ghoulish goings on! She went on to co-star with Bela Lugosi and Jack Haley in the screwball scary comedy One Body Too Many (1944)
Bela Lugosi as half ape half man, really needed a shave badly in The Ape Man 1943, and Louise Currie and her wonder whip might have been the gorgeous blonde dish to make him go for the Barbasol. One of the most delicious parts of the film was it's racy climax as Emil Van Horn in a spectacle of a gorilla suit rankles the cage bars longing for Currie's character, Billie Mason the tall blonde beauty. As Bela skulks around the laboratory and Currie snaps her whip in those high heels. The film's heroine was a classy dame referred to as Monogram's own Katharine Hepburn! She had a great affection for fellow actor Bela Lugosi and said that she enjoyed making Poverty Row films more than her bit part in Citizen Kane! And I would be remiss if I didn't mention that she appeared in several serials, from both Universal & Republic like The Green Hornet and Captain Marvel.
Tom Weaver in his book Poverty Row HORRORS! described The Ape Man as "a Golden Turkey of the most beloved kind."
Louise Currie followed up with another sensational title for Monogram as Stella Saunders in Voodoo Man 1944 which again features Lugosi as Dr. Richard Marlowe who blends voodoo with hypnosis in an attempt to bring back his dead wife. The film also co-stars George Zucco as a voodoo high priest and the ubiquitous John Carradine as Toby a bongo playing half-wit "Don't hurt her Grego, she's a pretty one!"
Continue reading "Heroines & Scream Queens of Classic Horror: the 1940s! A Halloween treat!"


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If organ-driven jazz saw its heyday in the late '60s, nobody bothered to tell Paradigm Shift bandleader/guitarist Melvin Henderson or co-founder/organist Gerry Youngman. Both men cut their teeth on landmark records during that era but have also since then served as sidemen for some of the giants of the form, including none other than Dr. Lonnie Smith and Jack McDuff. Nonetheless, Henderson and Youngman refuse to succumb to preservationism, setting their creative sights squarely forwards, rather than backwards. And now, with a new generation's perspective, courtesy of forward-thinking drummer/composer Sean Jefferson, the band is poised to launch soul jazz into its bright, funky future while tearing up stages across the globe with boiling-hot grooves and a gritty attack that pleasantly recaptures the music's rightful street-level ambience.
Mel Henderson, guitar*
Gerry Youngman, organ*
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*Mel plays Godin Guitars & Quilter Amps | *Gerry plays Nord Organ | *Sean plays Bosphorus Cymbals & DW Drums
Released May 15, 2015.
With the release of Tour Redux-Partie 1, Paradigm Shift revisits past compositions they sometimes perform during live shows. They realize that the energy in a studio recording differs from a live performance in front their fans. P1 allows the listeners to recapture the energy at live performances at the great venues the band played while on tour.


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The final installment of Stephenie Meyers' 'Twilight Saga' has hit the screen with an audible, if Italian-accented "Squee!" here in its packed hormonal World Premiere at the Rome Film Festival. Destined to make a jillion dollars in its first six minutes of release, the film is already such a juggernaut that voicing an opinion on whether it's any good is a little like examining the fenderwork on the 20-wheeler that's bearing down on you at 100mph: it doesn't matter, because either way, you're going to be flattened. But hardy fools that we Playlisters are, we're going to damn well tell you what we think anyway: "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2" is as thrilling, scary and swooningly romantic as this series gets. But it's still dire.
Considered within the warped microcosmic universe of the Twilight films, (imagine no other films had been made, ever), 'Breaking Dawn – Part 2' has lots to recommend it, mainly that it ends this blight on our culture, if only temporarily. Haha no, seriously. Also in the plus column, here Bella (a positively glowy Kristen Stewart, who has genuinely given the series something of a meta-arc by simply growing more beautiful with each episode) finally gets to do something aside from be adored, and even participates in a fight or two (in defense of her family and child, of course, but still, where Ms. Swan is concerned we'll take what empowerment we can get). In that regard it continues the incremental upward trajectory of Bella's character from blank, self-pitying nonentity to, you know, a person of somewhat independent thought, and this can only be a good thing. It's just a shame that her power, when it is revealed (because here vamps mostly get a kind of X-Men-style power in addition to their regular ol' vampire powers), is one that requires her to pretty much stand stock still and look really hard at something while death-battles are going around her. In this arena Stewart simply hasn't had as much practice as Dakota "terrible eye make up" Fanning, and so gets a little upstaged.
Teen mother Bella Swan got vampire-ized at the very end of the last film, the wedding video known as 'Breaking Dawn – Part 1.' So now that she's an immortal, she gets to run really fast, break rocks with her fists and suppress her desire for human blood, because she's a good vampire, who won't even kill a deer to feed, she'll kill the nasty beast that's about to kill the deer instead. She also gets to have proper vamp sex with hubby Edward (Robert Pattinson), which they apparently enjoy. But freaky uncanny valley CG baby Renesmee is growing up super quick, which has two main side effects: it turns Jacob (Taylor Lautner) from being a creepy weirdo in love with a baby into being a creepy weirdo in love with a toddler really quickly, and it makes them all assume that the lil' moppet is not long for this world. The Volturi get wind of Renesmee's existence, assume she's a child vampire which is against their law, and decide to wipe the pesky Cullens off the map for good. And so the Cullens flit to the four corners of the earth to bring friends back to bear witness that Renesmee is not an immortal, she's just a regular kid with a werewolf boyfriend and the ability to project her memories through cheek-touching. Most of the friends have natty X-Men powers too.There would appear to be a battle coming.
So let's leave aside the silliness of the plot, which has the kind of holes that the aforementioned 20-wheeler could drive through (a lot of them involving Alice and the ever-problematic seeing-into-the-future power). There's still enough terribleness here that we presume is not even carried-over terribleness from the book, from the ugly CG (the wolves are better this time out, but the fast-running vampires still just look wrong, and the baby's face is all kinds of unintentional weird), to the way the majority of the film is written and edited so that scenes often bear no relation to the ones that immediately precede, to the hilarious stereotyping of the far-flung friends (the Irish couple are dumpy and have red hair! The ladies from the Amazon are Amazons!). Lee Pace gets to have a tiny amount of fun as a vampire who actually still kills people, but there's not enough of him. Michael Sheen, too, gives it the whole ham as the head Volturi, even giving a girlish scream at one point that eerily echoed those that sounded out when Jacob (inevitably) took off his shirt.
But what of the principals? Well, Stewart and Pattinson seemed fractionally more at ease here, and after a series of affirmations of Bella and Edward's unprecedented love for each other, the spotlight is somewhat shifted off them in the second half anyway. Perhaps we were imagining it, but we'd swear their red eyes were lit with relief at the franchise's approaching end, possibly because they are both promising young actors who have been grossly underserved by these films. Lautner, not so much, but he really does get the mother of all shit jobs here: in love with a baby, getting naked in front of Billy Burke, beaten up by the paramour who rejected him and will at some point presumably become his mother-in-law — there's no humiliation this poor character doesn't suffer.
The climactic battle, when it comes, however, is surprisingly well done, and might have even served to nudge the film up half a grade if our eyes hadn't fallen out of our heads with rolling at a thing that happens at the end. It's pretty nasty too, lots of cracking spines and jaws ripped apart and stuff — you know, the kind of things vampires did back when I was kid, before they became all sparkly and looked like they walked out of an Evanescence video. It might make the PG-13 rating look a bit suspect, but it's put together with more zip and life than anything else in the series, perhaps, and Bill Condon deserves some credit. It's just a shame it's so severely undercut by the ending.
Let's just acknowledge that reviewing 'Breaking Dawn – Part 2' for this site is a no-win situation: regular Indiewire readers don't believe we should even cover it, while the fans who anxiously scour the net for early reviews rarely are those who are willing to hear a single bad word said about it, and will vehemently go three or four times no matter what is written here, or anywhere. But we did kind of love the idea of surprising everyone and suddenly saying "You know what? This is terrific!" and went in with optimism and contrarian bravado. But it's not. 'Breaking Dawn – Part 2' ends a bad series with a bad film, but in relative terms: it's better than 'New Moon' and 'Breaking Dawn – Part 1,' maybe as good as 'Eclipse,' and worse than 'Twilight,' and that's about all we can say for it. [C-]


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Some menacing skies provide a dramatic backdrop for this huge peak directly north of Deer Ridge. The 11,095' peak is not officially named but has a commanding presence. It appears to be most easily climbed from the west (the left side seen here), but the north side has a series of limestone cliffs that look technical and might intrigue and challenge climbers willing to undertake the steep, rugged approach. This view is from Deer Ridge. Gros Ventre Range, WY-- July 2009 | Image Data Image Type(s): Scenery |


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Matrox Mura Video Wall Controller Boards, M-Series Graphics Cards to Figure Prominently as High-Performance Multi-Display Solutions at NEC Showcase 2012
Mura boards to drive 4x4 digital signage video wall, M-Series cards to power productivity-enhancing portrait and landscape multi-display setups
Montreal, Canada, April 18, 2012 — Matrox Graphics announced today that its high-performance Mura MPX Series video wall controller boards and M-Series multi-display graphics cards will each be featured in a variety of environments as go-to multi-display solutions at the NEC Showcase 2012 in London on April 25.
In partnership with PSCo Technical Distribution, four Mura boards will drive a 4x4 video wall centerpiece made up of 16 of NEC's new X463UN 46-inch, ultra-narrow-bezel displays. The setup will stand 4.5 m high in portrait mode in the show's Digital out of Home zone, demonstrating the video wall's effectiveness as a digital signage solution.
Additionally at NEC, Professional Office of the Future zone visitors will see a 2x2 Mura-powered video wall leveraging an Exterity™ codec as well as a player from VisioSign. Mura PCI Express x16 Gen2 boards feature both HD resolution inputs and outputs and High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) capture and output support, with more and more pro AV integrators and customers beginning to turn to the video wall solution. A single board can be used to create small video wall controllers made up of up to four outputs, while multi-board configurations support larger video walls and anything from presentation systems in conference rooms to collaboration systems within process control.
Matrox M-Series card-powered setups will also be front and center in the Professional Office of the Future zone. Two M9125 PCIe x16 dual cards will drive a specialized desktop that will simultaneously feature four inputs on two pivoted displays using picture-in-picture. A single M9188 octal card will also power an eight-display high-resolution workstation.
For professional environments that require even larger desktop space, M-Series cards support multi-board hybriding, enabling up to 16 displays on a single computer. In the showcase's Transport zone, for example, a separate M9188 octal card will power a 3x3 flight-info display wall on a mobile trolley in conjunction with a second M-Series card, increasing passers-by's ability to see more simultaneously.
For more information about these or other breakthrough graphics solutions from Matrox, visit the NEC Showcase 2012, or contact Matrox Graphics to book an appointment in advance.
What: | NEC Showcase 2012 |
When: | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
Where: | The O2 |
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I had a Seagate 500 gb hard disk that failed on me after only 50 days of use… Fortunately I had non critical data on that disk…
So I took it for replacement. I knew that Seagate often gives "Certified REPAIRED" disks after the first failure and I didn't want to risk that.. so I asked if I could get another one instead.
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I think the downturn in the economy occurred in the year 2000, Paul told CNN, adding that there have been no new jobs since then and yet weve had a 30 million increase in population.
Just go out and talk to the people unemployment rate in the true numbers (is) over 20%, so theres been a depression, Paul said after an appearance on NBCs Meet the Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
I don't have too many issues with Ron Paul's economic / libertarian views, it's when he starts speaking about cultural issues and foreign policy that he makes me nervous.
Twenty percent is bascially stating that our economy is getting butchered. I also think it's a lot more accurate.
Addressing just the headline, Paul is right, US unemployment is right around 20%.
The problem with a libertarian and foreign policy is I have the feeling that libertarians aren't likely to appreciate the need of following a set structure of protocol to ensure that no one is offended.
He's right about this. Government statistics are a lie when it comes to unemployment and actual inflation.
Looks like Paul is splitting the difference between the Labor Dept.'s U6 figure and Shadow Statistics' figure.
You've posted a total of ten threads since joining FR in July, yet you haven't posted a single reply.
Just so you know, that's considered extremely bad form around here, and makes you suspicious in the eyes of many forum regulars.
Agree, If not more....
the Liberals Marxists, are committed to
destroying the American Middle class.
the Wealthy can move away / pay protection $$$$$
yeah, the Founders were rubes. We're better off spending hundreds of billions annually in a Quixotic bid to shape world governments. Why shouldn't we get thousands of Americans killed and tens of thousands of Americans wounded establishing 'Islamic Republics', and defending arab kings? I mean, it's not like we have to borrow trillions of dollars from other nations that don't have our interests at heart to do it or anything. What's the worst that could result?
The Ron Paul S.W.A.G. He has a job. For the government. So what does he really know? IMO, add 10 more points.
sounds pretty sane to me....
Same here. I agree with him on economics but I have to cover my face and groan when he starts pouting off about the other stuff.
Besides, this is why we need MAJOR tax reform, at least to Steve Forbes' flat-rate income tax plan. That way, businesses are encouraged to keep their liquid assets and capital investments in the USA because of being tax advantageous to do so.
Even a stopped cukoo clock is right twice a day.
After reading Richard Maybury's Uncle Eric series, and reading more and more on economics, I must say that libertarian worldview and economics is attractive and eye opening. As a coherent worldview it holds together nicely and has interesting perspctives.
I don't think the liberals WANT to destroy middle class. They just do not understand how economy works. The reason socialism took root in many countries is exactly because on surface it sounds fair and just. All one has to do is observe economies in socialist countries, and the inescapable conclusion is socialism is trickle up poverty. Formerly socialist/marxist countries are moving away from it after suffering 1st hand from its effects. Examples are China, Eastern Europe, India and others.
The problem here in US is that socialist agenda is relatively new and people have not had time to digest its wealth robbing effects. Although experience of last 3 or 4 years has started to awaken people, at least I am hoping it has.
Gee if he only got there are bad guy out there who don't like freedom in any form and want to kill us he might be a fine candidate.
Just so you know, thats considered extremely bad form around here, and makes you suspicious in the eyes of many forum regulars.
Relax. I've posted all replies and no threads, so I'll cover for him.
After all that has happened, "far out there" should be a positive.
Or we can go on electing another mainstream candidate, and keep getting what we've been getting.
I heard a similar story from a guy who opened up a manufacturing plant, and all he was looking for was people to run the automated machinery. He needed basic math and reading skills, and the pay was decent enough, maybe 2-3 times minimum. He had many applicants, but the vast majority couldn't even pass the basic math and reading skills. I don't know if he ever was able to fill the jobs.
Other areas, such as real estate, have been devastated. It's not easy to retrain, either. It takes about 10 years to master anything, and if you haven't mastered it, you're back at the bottom with the low-level people clawing your way up.
When you collect together the people who can't find work, the people who have no usable skills, the people who could take another job but won't start a career all over again, and the people who prefer unemployment, yes 20% is possible.
ahhh.....Humanism; on the march, again....
the excuse of many authoritarian systems...the Fabians
..."its' for the people...chil'ren"
Suspicious? I'd say more likely timid.
"I agree with him on economics but I have to cover my face and groan when he starts pouting off about the other stuff."
I am with you. I just shake my head and groan.
If we didn't support A-H's like the Saudis there might be a lot fewer people who want to kill us.
I wish to second Windflier's observation, and note that two hours later, there are STILL no replies from alexmai.
This poster is starting to smell bad. I don't like the smell of post-and-runners, even if (as in this case) I appreciate and enjoy the thread itself.
"He needed basic math and reading skills, and the pay was decent enough, maybe 2-3 times minimum. He had many applicants, but the vast majority couldn't even pass the basic math and reading skills."
Oh Baloney.
I know plenty of people with sharp math and English skills, drug free, good workers and eminently trainable who can't find a job because every employer wants 5 years of technical training, 10 years of experience and wants to pay a buck above minimum wage.
If you (generic, not you specifically) aren't willing to train an American before you hire someone from outside the country you deserve to go out of business. The problem isn't with the workforce, it's with employers spoilt by illegal immigrants they can abuse and fire at will and H1-B slaves who will work for less than a fellow citizen. I could point your friend to a half dozen three digit IQ folks who can learn anything and will be there on time any day, any shift, and if he wanted to he, or you, could find dozens in any city of any size.
While I agree we are facing a much larger rate today, the idea that no jobs were created since 2000 is a massive lie and preposterous idea. We saw several years of very low unemployment and high job creation. The libs tried to pretend that the slump in 08 and slide in jobs negated the previous 7 years. This is yet another example of Paul pushing liberal lies.
At least you've been talking for four years, and folks know who you are. This one's giving us the silent treatment.
How can you cover for someone who doesn't respond to straight communication? Is he your buddy or something?
Timid people don't post threads and invite direct communication.
I interpreted ElectronVolt's comment about "covering for him" as tongue-in-cheek, that is, that their posting histories were inverses, so they "averaged out".
I concur with both your points. I can't see any reason why this poster shouldn't interact with those who are replying to him/her. Nothing all that suspicious about the threads they've posted. Just their refusal to reply.
When a veteran Freeper posts and runs, I don't think twice about it, but this isn't normal newbie behavior.
I was sort of picking up that his post was tongue-in-cheek, but it's late, and my sense of humor ain't so sharp.
Yes! But, that was thru a creation of a bubble. That's the point, the larger the bubble creation, the more the suffering. As for the job creation, yes, its null and void from bad policy. Just, as the mythic wealth creation, by simply using your house as an atm. The only thing we are creating of late, is debt.
I think if he added ten percent more, there would be the beginning of real riots, not just these silly protests.
Really? islam has been trying to kill Jews and Christians for more than a 1000 years.
Yes they do, all the time. It's called growth.
By the way, who appointed you hall monitor?
Yes they do, all the time. It's called growth.
That makes no sense whatsoever, unless you're talking about a child. And no, most new members to this forum do not behave like this "all the time."
By the way, who appointed you hall monitor?
Who appointed you Chief Judge of the Forum Court? You gonna issue me a restraining order? Sheeeesh.....
A real pro would hang around a little, act friendly etc., before ramming the thermometer in.
This one is either a loner, a bit lazy, or just can't write or speak well on their own.
We've all seen a few of the latter. Often enough such individuals are found to be brittle, if one can ever draw them out.
It becomes apparent they cannot speak or write well, and they get their panties in a bunch when they or their opinions are challenged. Along with all of that, evidence of an exaggerated sense of self-importance will come to light.
In other words, they could fit right in around here, if they really wanted to. ;^)
If you spot it, you got it.
"Really? islam has been trying to kill Jews and Christians for more than a 1000 years."
no doubt. But consider that we did a lot to help grow the radical and violent strain if Islam (of course it has always existed), we supported the Muslim Brotherhood and the Taliban as counterweights against the Soviets and we still have politicians and pundits with their nose deeply stuck up the Saudi bunghole.
My point isn't that we do or don't have a problem with radical Islam (see my tagline for my personal opinion), it's that Ron Paul and other "isolationists" are at least partly right, our foreign policy, like anything else the government does, is best when it is least. Trying to ensure that other sovereign states have governments friendly to us is as likely to backfire in the long run as it is to do any good in the near term.
just my .02, but I want Washington engaging in no more intervention regafding in who rules what, where and how outside our borders than I want it manipulating our economy inside our borders.
I suspect that this one is somewhere up that alley.
Sometimes folks sign up without lurking long enough to get a feel for the community standards. In those cases, they're usually type A personalities who jump right in with both feet, and wind up having rather interesting initiation periods.
Still, I think it's odd behavior to start lots of discussions without posting a single word, or responding to direct communications.
Ok, so even though islam has been trying to kill Jews and Christians for over 1000 years, you think we have (in the last 25 years) exasperated the situation? Weird.
Bubbles are part of the system. Two dollars earned in a bubble is the same as one earned during and one after. This bubble did not start in 2000. Paul is incorrect, and is playing into leftist talking points that somehow things were great until ol' George Bush came along. The housing bubble began long before Bush's inauguration and in fact helped drive the growth of the 90s. In addition, there was an additional tech bubble in the 90s that had the same effect. The bottom line is most everyone was doing just fine until 2007 and to discount nearly full employment for a period of years is simply dishonest. In any one year if we had good GDP growth and low unemployment, chalk it up in the books as a good year for the people of this country. I am not discounting your concerns about the debt problem, and certainly the financial collapse has been very damaging. That said, our situation today would not be nearly so dire if the government wasn't heavy handed in micromanaging the economy. We'd be back on the upswing 2 years ago if the government simply stayed out of it, vowed to keep the tax burden low, and minimized the massive regulatory burden.
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Russia opened the scoring just under four minutes into the game but Canada evened the score with just more than two minutes remaining in the opening 20 minutes.
The teams exchanged goals again in the second period with Canada grabbing their first lead of the game just past the half-way point of the period on a goal by Ryan Ellis. Russia bounced back just over a minute later to even the score but Canada regained the lead less than four minutes later. Russia capped the second period scoring just before the 17:00-mark. In all the teams scored four goals in a span of 6:17 in the period.
Canada took over in the third period on a pair of power play goals by Brayden Schenn and Ryan Johansen as well as an even-strength goal by Curtis Hamilton.
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The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai invited Kunal Sinha, Regional Cultural Insight Director, Ogilvy & Mather Greater China, to contribute a chapter on connecting with the Chinese consumer to their book Orientation China Guidebook. The book has just been published and you can read the following summary or click here to read the complete chapter. Kunal Sinha provides a snapshot of China's complex consumer landscape in the American Chamber of Commerce's guidebook for companies entering China. In the chapter 'Connecting with Consumers in China', he tells them to be mindful of cultural and social diversity and illustrates how social networks provide opportunities for companionship, freedom of expression, creativity and commerce. He explains how Chinese consumers are judging multinational companies on their own terms; even as local brands are looking at expanding and deepening their relationships with consumers within China.
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Nos. 12–13: Lamb & Flag Inn
The main section of the Lamb & Flag (No. 12) has been an alehouse since about 1695, and parts of the original building still remain.
The taller, very narrow house on the left of this photograph appears to have been taken over by the pub c.1900.
Nos. 12 and 13 are each Grade II listed (List Entry Nos. 1338861 and 1047134respectively).
St John's College bought 12 St Giles from Godstow Abbey, and opened a tavern here in 1695. The college named it after the two symbols of St John the Baptist: a lamb and a flag (although only the lamb is shown on the inn's sign). Lamb & Flag Passage runs through the south side of the pub and leads into Museum Road and on to Parks Road
Hall's Brewery took a lease on the pub from St John's in 1829.
By 1963 it was a Phipps pub (a Northampton Brewery later taken over by Watneys).
In 1999 the college took back the licence and now offers financial support to D.Phil. students from the pub's profits, offering Lamb & Flag studentships worth up to £12,000 a year. The first three scholarships were awarded in 2003.
At the time of the Survey of Oxford in 1772, No. 12 was in the occupation of Mrs Hicks (with its frontage recorded as 9 yards 2 feet 6 inches), and No. 13 in the occupation of Mr Williams (with the very narrow frontage of 3 yards 2 feet 2 inches).
In the early nineteenth century many auctions (of houses, land, horses, and tolls) took place in the Lamb & Flag. The landlord in the 1820s was George Randall or Randell. He died in early 1830, his widow Ann Randall (née Kirby) put the following notice in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 20 February 1830:
By August 1840 the landlord of the Lamb & Flag was Samuel Bough, and the 1841 census shows him, aged 28, living at No. 12 with his wife Ellen, an ostler, and two female servants. The tall narrow house next door, No. 13, was occupied by a 60-year-old lady of independent means, Miss Mary Bunce, and her 15-year-old servant.
In 1849 William Bayzand, formerly of the Maidenhead Inn, took over the Lamb & Flag, and inserted an advertisement to that effect in Jackson's Oxford Journal of 8 September 1849, adding:
Well-aired Beds, extensive Stables, and Lock-up Coach-houses.— Dealer in Hay, Corn, &c.
Miss Bunce was still there in 1851, with her older sister Mrs Letitia Betts (85) and a servant, while the innkeeper next door was William Bayzand. He is described as the employer of one man, and lived at No. 12 with his wife and six children and two house servants.
By 1861 Bayzand was calling himself a "hotel keeper", while his eldest son, also William, was a cab proprietor. Miss Bunce was still at No. 13 at the age of 84: she then had one servant and two lodgers (Mrs Sarah Bowell, a "railway share proprietor" of 64, and a widowed gentlewoman of 79. Elizabeth Bliss).
In 1881 the landlord of the Lamb & Flag was John Knibbs, aged 49, who lived here with his wife, a barmaid, and a general servant. No. 13 was occupied by the tailor David Clifford and his wife, three children, his aunt, and his shop assistant, plus a cook and a housemaid.
Picture of the Lamb & Flag in 1907
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Occupants listed in censuses and directories |
Date |
12 St Giles |
13 St Giles |
By 1823–1840 |
Lamb & Flag: |
? |
1840–1841 |
Samuel Bough or Bow |
Mary Bunce |
1841–1848 |
Lamb & Flag: Richard Gurden |
Mrs Letitia Betts |
1848 |
Lamb & Flag: Thomas Harris |
? |
1849, 1852 |
Lamb & Flag: William Bayzand |
John Looker,
Attorney |
1861 |
Mrs Mary Bunce |
1866–1867 |
Lamb &
Flag:Thomas Wood |
1869–1871 | Miss Procter |
1872–1876 |
David Price
Clifford |
1880–1882 |
Lamb & Flag: |
1883–1887 |
William Herman |
1889–1893 |
Lamb & Flag |
D. P. Clifford |
1894 |
J. F. Furby |
1898–189 |
Hatch & Co.* |
1900 |
Lamb & Flag Inn John Rhodes (1889–1910) Lamb & Flag Hotel Frank J. E. Richards (1925–1929) Landlords not listed in directories after 1956 |
* After 1899, there are no listings for No. 13, suggesting that it was taken in to the inn next door that year. Between 1937 and 1955, however, it was also the office of the Registrar of Births & Deaths for the Oxford sub-district, before it moved across the road to No. 42.


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Can I visit campus?
The Office of Graduate Admission encourages all potential applicants to visit campus. Visits are available by appointment, and special visit opportunities (like the Graduate Open House) are also available. If you can't make it to campus, consider attending an online information session or one of the National Portfolio Day events or an in-person information session. The Office of Graduate Admission also conducts Online Information Sessions for prospective students who cannot visit campus.
Can I meet with faculty?
Faculty are not available during campus visits due to their commitments to current students. However, faculty do represent their programs at the Graduate Open House--this is best opportunity to interact with graduate faculty members in person.
Do you offer portfolio reviews?
Portfolio reviews are not available during campus visits, but the Office of Graduate Admission does attend the National Portfolio Day events with alumni representatives. In September and October, select faculty participate in the Online Graduate Portfolio Review, an opportunity to submit work online for short feedback from graduate program directors themselves.
Do you offer on-campus housing for graduate students?
A limited amount of on-campus housing is available for graduate students (approximately 20 beds). Graduate students receive private bedrooms in apartment-style housing with 1 to 3 roommates. When completing the online application, be sure to indicate your interest in on-campus housing if you would like to receive more information.
Can I apply after the deadline has passed?
Certain programs do accept applicaitons after their published deadline. For a full list of updated program deadlines, click here.
Should I apply early?
The Graduate Review Committee does not begin reviewing materials until after January 15, so there is no particular advantage to submitting an application early. Certain programs accept applications through April 1. In that case, submitting your application as soon after January 15 is recommended for priority scholarship and admission consideration.
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The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Art program considers applicants for spring admission provided studio space is available. Post-Baccalaureate spring applications are accepted from September 1 through November 15 on a rolling basis. However, no other graduate programs are able to offer spring admission.
Can I apply to multiple programs?
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Can I study in multiple programs?
Admission offers are made on a program-by-program basis: it is not possible to 'double major' or simultaneously enroll in multiple programs. For example, if you apply to Hoffberger and Mount Royal, you will receive two separate notifications, one from each program.
Can I study part time?
Each graduate program at MICA has a set structure: full-time, low-residency or part-time online. Students are required to abide by their program's structure. Most MICA programs are full-time. On the list of programs, low-residency and part-time online programs are identified in parenthetical after the program name.
What application materials should I send in hardcopy?
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In most cases, no. Non-native English speakers are required to submit a TOEFL or IELTS score, and MBA/MA applicants are required to submit a GRE or GMAT score. The Teaching (MAT) program has unique academic pre-requisites. However, graduate study at MICA does not require applicants to have earned a specific type of bachelors degree or have maintained a certain GPA. Be sure to review the procedures and guidelines for your program of interest to verify exact requirements.
Can I re-use materials from a previous application?
The Office of Graduate Admission can re-use certain application materials for one year. Letters of recommendation and transcripts can be moved into a new application. However, other materials (and recommendations and transcripts older than one year) cannot be re-used and must be re-submitted. Candidates interested in re-using materials should first submit their application, then contact the Office of Graduate Admission at firstname.lastname@example.com with an exact list of materials to be moved forward.
Do you conduct admission interviews?
Most programs conduct a version of admission interviews, ranging from formal in-person conversations to less formal telephone interviews. The interview process generally takes place in February and March. It is very important to note that not all finalists are interviewed: if you are not contacted about interviewing with graduate faculty, that is not an indication of your final decision.
When will I be notified of MICA's decision?
Decisions are released as soon after the scholarship juries as possible. In general, you can expect to receive your official notification via post in mid-March. International candidates, and candidates with overseas addresses, will receive email notification of their decision.
If accepted, can I defer study for a year?
In general, deferral requests are discouraged. However, graduate program directors do consider deferral requests on a case-by-case basis. A written request must be made to the program director. The Office of Graduate Admission cannot guarantee that deferral requests will be approved.
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Are there special application requirements for international students?
All non-native English speakers are required to submit TOEFL or IELTS scores to demonstrate English proficiency. If you are a non-native English speaker, but English was your medium of instruction (indicated on your academic transcript), the TOEFL/IELTS requirement is waived. If you have completed more than 2 years of degree work at an English language institution, the TOEFL requirement is also waived. Additional materials are required for the I-20 application, but they should not be sent until after you have been notified of your admission status.
Do you offer conditional TOEFL/IELTS admission?
Unfortunately, no. All international applicants are required to satisfy the TOEFL/IELTS requirement prior to enrollment.
What percentage of MICA's graduate community is international?
Currently about 20% of MICA's graduate community is made up of international students.
Are there special awards for international students?
The Office of Graduate Admission does not offer special awards for international students. As a private college, we are able to consider both international and domestic students equally for scholarship funding.
Financing Graduate Education
How much is tuition?
Tuition for the 2013-14 academic year is $39,400. Updated tuition for 2014-15 academic year will be released in early 2014. The Office of Graduate Admission generally recommends budgeting approximately $50,000 per year (when fees, supplies, housing, utilities and all other expenses are taken into account). Low-residency and part-time online programs have unique tuition structures. To see the current costs for each program structure you can click on the appropriate link under Tuition & Fees to the left.
Do you offer scholarships?
The Office of Graduate Admission is pleased to consider all applicants for merit-based scholarship funding. No additional materials are required: by applying for a graduate program, you are applying for scholarship consideration. We are able to offer most candidates some form of scholarship funding, usually ranging between about 15% and 60% of tuition. Admitted candidates will be notified of their scholarship award at the same time as their acceptance.
Do you offer any full tuition awards?
The Office of Graduate Admission is not able to offer full tuition awards. In order to maximize scholarship offerings for as many students as possible, the largest award is generally around 60% of tuition.
Do you offer additional financial aid?
Domestic applicants should complete the FAFSA form to be considered for federal financial aid. The most common form of aid for graduate students is student loans, which most MICA students rely on to fund their education. There are agencies and financial institutions that will issue loans to international students, as well. The Office of Graduate Admission recommends researching other scholarship and grant opportunities early in the admission process.
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Here's this week's What It Means:
1) What a month Jason Dufner is having. Wins New Orleans, gets married, wins again at the Nelson. Damn. Hottest golfer on the planet for sure. The birdie putt on 18 to win the event over Dicky Pride was so pure — right in the heart.
Hey, as Jim Nantz and Nick Faldo said on the end of the CBS broadcast — maybe there is something to this laid back attitude. It's working for Dufner, and who knows where this road leads to next.
2) Good to see Dicky Pride in contention again. He is THE prototypical journeyman, and one has to hope that his par putt on 18 that nearly forced a playoff leads to good things as time goes on.
3) Phil Mickelson made a Sunday charge before a couple late stumbles coming in. He's playing better. A major is looming. The one he's always wanted. The U.S. Open. Watch out!
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I'm okay with this, it's always Darkspear Alliance killing people at the Dark Portal before they load in anyway.
Pvp does not include the world getting 1 shotted by a single man. Just saying lol.
I'm watching his stream on Twitch right now, lol. Death to Alliance!
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Kinda hard when he runs various programs to make you lag while he has no issues. It's gotten to the point where once he's in a zone you can't do ANYTHING because 1) it takes upwards of 5 secs to cast anything, and 2)You're usually dead before you even see him (again because of the lag).
And PS it IS griefing when he deliberately camps an area he knows you HAVE to go to, ie The Shrine. His favourite spot is the coin turn in lady, especially on a Tuesday.
The confusion caused when one's mind
overrides the body's basic
desire to choke the living shit out of
some jerk who desperately needs it
What does it matter if it's multiboxers? If it was 40 separate players would you be complaining about group play?
Look at it this way... you are 15 bucks to them... that multiboxer is 600... now who do you think blizzard would want to keep around? Someone who gives them the typical amount of money? Or a single individual who gives them 40x the normal amount? They won't ban the dude, at the very worst, they'll notify him via in game GM and tell him to knock it off, but he'll continue and they won't do anything. This isn't griefing and I'm tired of people using that in WoW when it's meant for minecraft... there is no griefing in WoW, because it's a game based on War. Do you think rome stopped raiding towns/cities just because the villagers said this isn't fun??? Hell no, they continued on w/ the war. WoW is in the same boat... if you don't want him doing what he's doing, then form your own group to slay him and his 39 companions.
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You're lying, don't need to impress anyone on the internet bud.
Most likely the wisest Enhancement Shaman.
You can report that as disturbing the server. Think it like a organized grifing to make money out.
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Most likely the wisest Enhancement Shaman.
Hardly. Outside of BG's, it's entirely possible to /follow without a problem, and in fact /assist macros still function and work exceptionally well for multiboxing. As it is, I 5-boxed a few months ago. Nothing serious, only questing the Tauren start area for guild XP. I built myself an addon to automatically setup the macros and drop them onto action buttons (since I'd be deleting the characters and recreating them a lot of times) and I used another addon to handle automatic hand-in of quests.
The addon I built also evolved a lot to include blocking guild invites (and ignoring the person) from others not in MY guild -- which is basically just me, as well as automatically pick quest rewards. It dropped quest-use items onto a taskbar button meaning I'd press the keybind once and all characters would use the item.
There are also certain settings in game that make multiboxing so much easier, allowing you to interact with a target and move-to-mouse. There's certain... side effects of these settings that means it'd be extremely easy to automate gameplay (I opted not to go that far as it's not worth risking my account, though I've always had the want to see if I could make it work purely as proof and not for actual use).
Using a key broadcaster (entirely legitimate), the addons, I easily and effectively controlled all 5 characters. If I'd opted to PVP on them, knockbacks wouldn't have done anything to counter the characters. It may have been more difficult to control them in a BG, but it wouldn't have been any different to control them out in the world whether it was PVE or PVP.
Eventually, it got so efficient that I could roll out 3.6M Guild XP in just under 9 minutes and repeat this indefinitely. In the same breath, it'd be possible for me to effectively rack up HK's for hours. I've found players don't respond like they used to, so it's actually very rare to see people wanting to fight against a group. The 'best' part of all this - it's entirely game-legal. As long as you're playing the characters (i.e. 1 hardware event for 1 in-game action), and your addons are only making use of in-game functions, there's nothing that can be done against a multiboxer by Blizzard. The only people in power to do anything are the players. Now, if they're griefing excessively, that's another story -- that falls under it's own topic and doesn't apply exclusively to any individual or group, and Blizzard can jump in but generally they can't tell a multiboxer not to multibox "just because".
No such programs exist, not in the scope of MMO's anyway. In order for those programs to work, you've got to have 1 of several potential situations;
A) You've installed a client application [that accepts commands from the internet] to their computer
B) You know their IP address
In situation A, the client will report it's location/IP to a remote server or even to another client (technically speaking). The server or other client will then be able to perform numerous actions by sending a simple command. These commands can be anything. For example, I built a remote control that allows me to control my Windows PC from my Android tablet. The commands it sends are pretty simple and the remote functions perfectly fine. For example the command for locking my system is "LOCK_SYSTEM" (or something along those lines). I could very easily change that to say "YerALizardHarryLol" -- it's only a small code change, and the result remains the same.
I could very easily expand this to do many different things, including;
- Creating network lag by downloading large amounts of data
- Create disk latency by reading and writing streams of data
- Cause FPS problems by creating an 'invisible' window that renders lots of 3D cubes (or such)
- Change power consumption settings in Windows to make your CPU only run at 5% of it's maximum speed
I've actually used that last option when I needed to leave my PC on overnight and it wasn't clocking down correctly. All of those are moderate though, there's a lot more that could be done that would leave the system outright unstable.
In situation B, the attacker/multiboxer knows your IP address. The problem with this theory is that in MMO's or any client-server system, client IP's aren't presented to other clients unless it's specifically built to do so. They're presented to the server but not to the clients. The data you receive in the game comes from the server, NOT directly from another client. If we were talking P2P, then I'd perhaps agree that's what they're doing, but it's not a P2P game.
The attacker/multiboxer experiences the exact same lag as you. OR your system is simply incapable of handling the data. It's not them 'using magic wizard programs to cause magic wizard lag for everyone else', it's simply the nature of the situation.
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Im sorry, but...
PvP realm. End of discussion. Need an AH, Vendor or whatever, go find them in Pandaria or one of the 5+ other cities you have at your disposal.
I'm mostly curious how the OP thinks that 40 multiboxers are 'lagging' a server "24/7". One person playing 40 accounts (which I kinda doubt) or 40 people playing individual accounts, it's still 40 accounts online. The software required to multibox has absolutely zilch, nodda, nein, no impact what so ever, or else Blizzard would put a stop to multiboxing. Which, the last I heard, they didn't really care, other than removing the /follow ability in BGs.
Soothing Mist:"Healing them for a minor amount every 0.5 sec, until you take any other action."
Jade Serpent Statue: "The statue will also begin casting Soothing Mist on your target. healing for 50% as much as yours. "
[What's half of minor?]
"Statue casts Soothing Mist at a nearby ally for toddler healing."
http://www.twitch.tv/preparedwow this guy does
Multiboxers are fine. You would have been stomped either way regardless whether it was 40 players or 1 multiboxer with 40 accounts. Also 40 characters isn't going to lag the server. Get out of here.
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There are people who spend thousands on a single comic book for their collection not to mention the multitude of other hobbies that are significantly more expensive than multiboxing in wow.
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So if someone forms up a raid for world pvp that is griefing as well? No.
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Griefing is a player construct not recognized by Blizzard in any way whatsoever. Being a jerk isn't against the rules. Pvp isn't against the rules. Multiboxin isn't against the rules. Get the fuck over it.
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So go to another city. Problem solved. Oh wait that doesn't involve endless mindless bitching. My mistake.
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It already is "officially sanctioned". World pvp isn't against the rules and certainly not on a pvp realm. It doesn't matter if it involves multiboxers or not.
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Blizzard doesn't recognize the term "griefing" and if they didn't want players to kill NPCs they wouldn't be killable. Simple as that.
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So not only is world pvp against the rules but aoe spam is as well? You might want to read over the rules again as you are talking out of your ass. Also 40 players doesn't lag the server, it lags your computer. It isn't Blizzard's problem if you play Wow on a toaster.
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And yet "griefing" isn't against any rules. Pvp problems have pvp solutions. There are also solutions that involve doing such simple things as going to another city or playing another character or any number of other solutions that don't involve whining incessantly over things Blizzard has straight up said aren't a problem and won't be changing.
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It is allowed because what multiboxers do is no different than what a group of normal players do. It is irrelevant if abilities are cast at exactly the same time. If 40+ players are casting something at you all at once or one right after the other, either way you are dead.
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That's nice. You and I both know my point wasn't "world pvp is totes a bad thing blizzard just bein' mean." It's the fact that a single person is using extrodinary means only available to those who spend an entire rent check's worth of money each month to have an advantage against far, far beyond 99% of the other players.
My point was, Blizzard says his method isn't prohibited in the current version of the ToS.
Now, if you want to argue whether or not it should be, that's a different discussion and has very little to do with "world pvp" amongst players with one account each.
Soothing Mist:"Healing them for a minor amount every 0.5 sec, until you take any other action."
Jade Serpent Statue: "The statue will also begin casting Soothing Mist on your target. healing for 50% as much as yours. "
[What's half of minor?]
"Statue casts Soothing Mist at a nearby ally for toddler healing."
For the millionth time, 40 players absolutely do NOT lag the servers. Are you kidding me right now? Are you saying all high pop realms are in a constant state of being lagged then?
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The fact remains people make the money to be able to do things like this all the time whether you want to believe it or not. It isn't your money anyway so why do you care?
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As per Blizzard, yes it does. In fact this is how pvp has worked in every mmo since long before Wow.
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So turn it in the next day. You may "have" to go to the shrine but you don't have to stay there. If he is there causing trouble then leave. It seems like the only person causing any problems for you is you.
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Or maybe just maybe it is allowed because multiboxing has always been allowed in pretty much every mmo since before Wow. Nothing a multiboxer does is special or unique that a group of normal players can't already do themselves. That is why it is allowed. Stop with the greed bullshit.
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World pvp still isn't against the rules. Ever think to consider the reason ticket times are bad is because of people like you who report for everything even when it isn't an actual violation?
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It doesn't matter. If 40 players or 1 multiboxer decides to kill you, you are going to die. Period. End of story.
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You can debate it all you want but as per Blizzard's rules, what multiboxers do is perfectly fine. Get over it.


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Get the Settlers: Heritage of Kings v1.04 Update Patch off WP (12mb)
Version 1.04
- Ubi.com Ladder Support
- Support for Ubi.com ladder added. You can now play 1 vs. 1 and 2 vs. 2 ladder matches via Ubi.com.
- Improvements
- Stability of multiplayer mode improved.
- New Ubi.com chat command "/send" added. E.g. "/send MyFriend Hello!" sends the message "Hello!" to the user "MyFriend".
- Command line option "-debugscript" added. When this option is specified an error message box will be shown when a script error occurs.
Version 1.03
- Bug Fixes
- - A security problem with the network module is fixed.
Version 1.02
- Improvements
- In multiplayer mode there is now a color that indicates whether a player can join a game or play with another player.
- After disconnecting from a game, the player does not need to log back on to Ubi.com any more.
- The ubi.com account is used on all ubi.com in-game screens.
- Walls look better in Fog of War.
- Bug Fixes
- Pilgrim's bomb is not removed by a building or his own cannon any more.
- In multiselection, Pilgrim's cannon does not cause Salim to move any more.
- The mini map always shows battle signals at the correct positions.
- The bug when selecting Pilgrim's cannon causes an excecption in certain circumstances is fixed.
- The occasional freeze when the auto cannon loses its target does not occur any more.
- When several heroes are selected Salim's trap does not cause a crash to desktop any more.
- All technology tooltips are now correct.
- When using the "blessing" of the church, only the correct workers are blessed.
- Double clicking serfs near the edge of the map always selects only the serfs displayed on the screen.
Version 1.01
- Gameplay Improvements
- Improved cavalry balancing.
- You can cycle through workers without bed or farm.
- Heroes are immune to "Fear".
- Heroes' special abilities are usable when they are part of a multi-selection. In the German version, the keys you need to press for this are "ö" and "ä".
- General Game Improvements
- Border scrolling is disabled in "rubber band" selection mode.
- The building site animation is only active if the building is really being built.
- Saved games are sorted.
- New Content
- With this patch, we deliver a new multi player map: Winter Realm. Have fun!
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that - in rare cases - caused the game to crash when converting serfs into militia.
- Points in "Point Game" are counted correctly in team games.
- The "rubber-band" selection will remain active when the mouse is moved over the interface.
- Clicks on the heroes' buttons are no longer ignored.
- Dario's "Sentinel" ability no longer reacts to dead heroes.
- Soldiers affected by Dario's fear no longer chase other units without attacking them.
- Fixed the "Screenshot function".
- Fixed a bug in the ambient sound volume control.
- Ambient sounds are no longer played indefinitely.
- Helias no longer converts dead units.
- Fixed a problem with RefreshForce.
- Known Issues
- Some improvements and bug fixes do not apply if saved games from earlier versions are loaded.
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