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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 Delayed AgainWritten Thursday, July 26, 2012 By Lee Bradley View author's profile |
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 has suffered a further delay.
Originally intended for an August release, the sniper sequel was recently held back until October. It has now slipped to next year. January 15th to be precise.
"I can confirm that this is true," said Namco Bandai Partners UK marketing and PR director Lee Kirton. "We will provide a full announcement with City Interactive soon.
"It's key we all want this title to be fantastic in the genre and the leading SNIPER game for sure. The engine is fantastic and the level of polish is also key to the title's success. As soon as the official announcement through distributors is available I will provide it."
City Interactive has also confirmed the news via their official website. The move will see the game avoid several big hitters including Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Halo 4. Makes sense.
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A veritable army of kids shimmies, rocks out, dances, plays saxophones, and looks tough in the cute video for Tune-Yards' "My Country." Somehow, the idea that kids are the ones making the wild drum and vocals that fill out the edges of Tune-Yards songs sort of makes sense? Even though that's not true at all? Anyway, watch this great video:
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The Community Development Resource Agency is pleased to announce the release of the 2009 Placer County Map Book. The Map Book contains updated street and address information, points of interest, city limits and updated streams and rivers. The Map Book emphasizes parcel addresses and streets in unincorporated Placer County, but does contain information within the cities and towns of Placer County.
This year's release is in digital PDF format. The Map Book is designed to be printed at 11"x17", preferably in color. The Map Book is available for download only. It cannot be purchased. While every effort is made to place an address on parcels, it is prohibitive to place an address on all parcels due to the scale of the maps and the geographic extent of the County. Map Book Part 1 (West Placer County) Map Book Part 2 (East Placer County)


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My last post got slogged since the grammar was horrendous and I said game freaks are bad developers. The last post shows I can't brain good when I is just woken up.
My last post should have been, modernize pokemon.
There have to be ways of making this a modern game without messing with the mechanics. The games have been around since 1998 and it's barely change.
Is there really nothing pokemon fans don't want to change?
Like the grinding. How about being able to grind with online battles? More experience given by wild Pokemon battles, so I don't have to spend hours leveling. I know I'm on the outside of this now. But I would definitely play pokemon again if the grinding was seriously cut down.


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While sitting in a downtown LA studio, Soulja Boy turns to me and says, "I invented the Internet." While we both know this isn't true, his intended point runs deeper than his inflated claim.
To his credit, Soulja Boy (born, DeAndre Cortez Way) began his career in hip-hop before YouTube was invented, before smart phones were a commodity and before social media was ubiquitous. In many ways he has since become hip-hop's unofficial pioneer of the web.
Appearing on the cover of their first digital issue, VIBE Magazine referred to him thusly, "Soulja Boy is a new millennium hustler with a web army watching him swag surf." Since he began making music in the early 2000s, the landscape of the web has changed dramatically along with the music industry's approach to developing talent. Soulja Boy, already a music industry veteran at the age of 24.
Today, he has close to half a billion views on YouTube; 500,000 followers on Vine; 1.2 million on Instagram; over 4.5 million on Twitter and 8.5 million likes on Facebook.
"When they play my music video on TV, that's one time for 3 minutes. But, the Internet is 24/7. A fan can wake up at 3 in the morning and pull up a Soulja Boy video." It's that notion that fuels his aggressive video output, making it a priority to "feed the internet, whether it's a blog, 30 second trailer, or a music video -- visuals are what capture the people."
Soulja Boy's Beginnings
Like many other young artists, Soulja began selling his music on CDs at school. At the age of 14, he was given a laptop and ran wild.
He laughs, remembering, "Once I found out about the Internet I never did any of that shit again." Soulja flooded the web with music, pursuing every outlet, both social and download sites. It became his after school activity.
One of Soulja's early approaches to the Internets' publishing platforms was, if anything, unconventional. Using programs like Limewire, he'd upload his songs, tagging A-listers in the title fields (artists like, Michael Jackson and 50 Cent, to name a few), in hopes of catching a wider set of potential listeners. People eagerly -- and unknowingly -- downloaded his songs, only to realize later that it was not the King of Pops' 'Billy Jean.' However questionable this method may have been, it gained him one thing above all else: exposure. And it was more than just a few people who gravitated toward his sound.
Before it was encouraged or expected for musicians to have a digital social presence, Soulja relentlessly stayed connected with his fans. His presence on Myspace grew dramatically, laying the groundwork for a dedicated core fan base. "It's actually me, other artists have their team or label tweeting and talking to fans but I always thought it was dope to speak to the fans directly."
In 2007 he released the self-produced, 'Crank That.' His fan-base not only embraced it but made it go viral -- eventually spring-boarding him into to the mainstream. In a meeting with Interscope co-founder, Jimmy Iovine, Soulja showed him the metrics on album and track downloads, most of which could be attributed to his MySpace community. Shortly after their meeting, Soulja was signed to Interscope.
Soulja has influenced Internet-born stars like Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller and even Justin Bieber (who he is often seen hanging out with on Instagram). He developed a kind of intimate stardom we've seen become the norm, making a celeb's brand just as much about their lifestyle and swagger as their music.
When I ask him about advice for up and coming acts, without hesitation he rattles off, "Sell your content, don't put out any mixtapes. Put your music on iTunes, Best Buy, , EPs, albums. Write for other artists, produce your own records – and merch." Early in his career, his biggest mistake came from not understanding the publishing end of the music industry. Ownership of content and publishing rights is critical to artists today, he stresses. "At age 17, I signed my publishing rights away," citing one of his biggest lessons learned, and the reason he is so adamant about owning all of one's own content, something one of his colleagues, Birdman, preaches.


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Online activist, Reddit co-founder Swartz dies in US
This prompted an outpouring of grief from prominent voices on the intersection of free speech and the web on Saturday.
Aaron Swartz (26) hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of journal articles from an electronic archive in an attempt to make them freely available.
If convicted, he faced decades in prison and a fortune in fines.
He was pronounced dead on Friday evening at home in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighbourhood, said Ellen Borakove, spokesperson for New York's chief medical examiner.
Police went to the apartment after receiving an emergency services call from Swartz's girlfriend, who found him.
"Aaron's insatiable curiosity, creativity, and brilliance; his reflexive empathy and capacity for selfless, boundless love; his refusal to accept injustice as inevitable - these gifts made the world, and our lives, far brighter," Swartz's family in Chicago said in a statement on Saturday.
"We're grateful for our time with him, to those who loved him and stood with him, and to all of those who continue his work for a better world."
Swartz was "an extraordinary hacker and activist," the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an international nonprofit digital rights group based in California wrote in a tribute on its home page. He "did more than almost anyone to make the internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way," the tribute said.
Swartz was a prodigy who as a young teenager helped create RSS, a family of web feed formats used to gather updates from blogs, news headlines, audio and video for users. He co-founded the social news website Reddit, which was later sold to Conde Nast, as well as the political action group Demand Progress, which campaigns against internet censorship.
But Swartz struggled with depression. "Surely there have been times when you've been sad," he wrote in a 2007 blog post. "Perhaps a loved one has abandoned you or a plan has gone horribly awry. Your face falls. Perhaps you cry. You feel worthless."
Swartz wrote that "depressed mood is like that, only it doesn't come for any reason and it doesn't go for any either".
Among nternet gurus, Swartz was considered a pioneer of efforts to make online information freely available. "Playing Mozart's Requiem in honor of a brave and brilliant man," tweeted Carl Malamud, an internet public domain advocate who believes in free access to legally obtained files.
Swartz aided Malamud's own effort to post federal court documents for free online, rather than the few cents per page that the government charges through its electronic archive, PACER.
In 2008, the New York Times reported, Swartz wrote a program to legally download the files using free access via public libraries. About 20% of all the court papers were made available until the government shut down the library access. The FBI investigated but did not charge Swartz, he wrote on his own website.
Three years later, Swartz was arrested in Boston and charged with stealing millions of articles from a computer archive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prosecutors said he broke into a computer wiring closet on campus and used his laptop for the downloads.
Experts puzzled over the arrest and argued that the result of the actions Swartz was accused of was the same as his PACER program: more information publicly available. The prosecution "makes no sense," Demand Progress executive director David Segal said in a statement at the time. "It's like trying to put someone in jail for allegedly checking too many books out of the library."
Swartz pleaded not guilty to charges including wire fraud. His federal trial was to begin next month.
According to a federal indictment, Swartz stole the documents from JSTOR, a subscription service used by MIT that offers digitised copies of articles from academic journals. Prosecutors said he intended to distribute the articles on file-sharing websites.
He faced 13 felony charges, including breaching site terms and intending to share downloaded files through peer-to-peer networks, computer fraud, wire fraud, obtaining information from a protected computer, and criminal forfeiture.
JSTOR did not press charges once it reclaimed the articles from Swartz, and some legal experts considered the case unfounded, saying that MIT allows guests access to the articles and Swartz, a fellow at Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics, was a guest.
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Swartz's family blamed prosecutors for his suicide. "Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy," the family statement said. "It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US attorney's office and at MIT contributed to his death."
JSTOR announced this week that it would make "more than 4.5-million articles" publicly available for free. – Sapa-AP


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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
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Snail infestastion i was moving my substrate around for a new plant and i saw dozens of snail shells beneath the surface is this bad? |
Can you describe what they looked like? They're most likely Malaysian Trumpet Snails (they're the only one's I know of that burrow in the substrate), and most people enjoy having them (and even put them in their tank on purpose). I'm one of those people :D Snails (especially MTS) do an awesome job of helping to break down organics (decaying plant matter, fish waste, etc). If you have a lot of them, it means that they're getting a good amount of food from somewhere, and perhaps an indication that you may be overfeeding your fish. |
Is that bad, well it all depends on your preference. Alot of people like them due to their burrowing nature in soil and sand substrate tanks. Some like them for part of the clean up crew. Some like them for the complete eco system which is the best of both worlds. Me personally, I don't like the look of small snails. Mainly speaking of ramshorn and MTS. Nerite, Mystery and Apple, just to name a few, don't populate like roaches. Its very unattractive to see if they get out of hand. I can't house any in my tank due to my water parameters though. I use R/O water in which strips the water of what snails need to survive. |
Be advised that RO water alone is also too pure for tropical fish. Fish assimilate minerals and trace elements through osmosis for health and well being. If you use RO water in FW aquariums you really need to add Replenish, Equilibrium and/or Fresh Trace (or other equivalent supplement) to ensure the health of your fish. Quote:
I add flourish trace elements at W/C along with the other products in that line here and there. I just don't do it consistently enough anymore, lol. I pretty much have to use R/O mainly to get neutral waters and to lower my gH. I know I have to add back for my plants to stay afloat. What I really need to do is venture over to dry fertilizers. Some day I will though. As far as the infestation you have a few options. Some better than others. Between traps and natural predators choose one that works in your favor. Examples: food bait traps and assassin snails. I will let you do the research on the methods to broaden your knowledge. |
I squish them against the side of the glass when they travel up, and feed them to the fish, and I keep mine under control that way. Just whenever you see a snail on the glass, squish it, and over time it keeps the population down. Mine are just the pesky pond snails, however. |
Bad or not is more your decision. FWIW I always get an initial snail bloom when starting planted tanks. Then a year later only a few remain. So I do basically nothing. After all they are part of a balanced ecosystem IMHO. But you may not agree with that. my .02 |
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Digital Mind Wave
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The Digital Mind Wave, often abbreviated as DMW, is the Limit Break system in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-. It consists of three reels in the upper-left corner of the screen which spin continuously like a slot machine, and eventually stop on a random selection of three portraits and a number per portrait. Depending on the results, the player receives a status buff, level up, or can execute a special attack.
Though not stated in-game, the Digital Mind Wave is a representation of Zack's thoughts, which is why his emotions can affect its results during gameplay and flashbacks of Zack's life appear when the reels spin during Modulating Phase. The English-version website for Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- explains that SOLDIER members are taught to call upon their past experiences in battle to heighten their strength and improve their skills further, namely, leveling up.
The three reels of the DMW spin automatically during battle, with each spin costing 10 SP. When the DMW spins, the left reel stops first, then the right. If the left and right portrait are the same, this initiates Modulating Phase, also known as a Limit Verge. If they are different, the center reel stops and the three numbers spinning alongside each reel also stop. Depending on the number results, Zack may receive a status buff for a short time. Once the three reels stop and any relevant effects have been applied, they begin spinning again, provided Zack has at least 10SP and is not suffering from the Curse ailment.
At the start of the game only Angeal and Sephiroth are available, while all other character portraits are silhouettes. As the game progresses, more characters will be added to the DMW. Summons can also be added by finding their Summon Materia (as key items), while the Chocobo Mode characters of Chocobo, Moogle, Tonberry, Cactuar, Cait Sith and Magic Pot also each have a unique key item that adds them to the DMW.
Emotion GaugeEdit
An important factor and feature is the Emotion Gauge, gauging Zack's own temperament and emotional condition throughout the game. Located atop the DMW's reels with an oscilloscope, these emotional states help affect the success ratio of the DMW, from placing the player at a disadvantage, to placing the player at a state with a higher chance of achieving matching numbers and portraits for status buffs and Limit Verges.
In addition to gauging Zack's current emotional state, at certain points during gameplay, Zack's emotions towards particular characters will be heightened, announced by the message "Heightened Emotions Have Affected the DMW". This causes a character's portrait to have a greater chance of appearing on the reels.
Equipping certain Independent Materia also increases the chances of certain characters appearing. These heightened factors will signify themselves rightmost of the Emotion Gauge, with the portrait of the individual in mind and their multiplied probability of Zack performing their respective Limit ability. Corresponding Independent Materia increases the characters' chance of appearing on the DMW up to 9x the normal chance.
Note that these multipliers do not increase the chances of getting a Limit Verge or Limit Break; instead, they merely change the relative probabilities of the characters.
Level | Modulating Phase Chance | Effect |
Low | 2.3% | Lowers chances of beneficial results, is a negative status cured with gaining certain level five Limit Breaks or Lucky Stars. Is inflicted by certain attacks. |
Normal | 4.7% | Standard state, normal likelihood of entering Modulating Phase. |
High | 6.3% | Increases attack power slightly, higher chances of beneficial results. |
Sky High | 7.8% | Increases attack power significantly, better chances of beneficial results. |
Heavenly | 18.8% | Highest emotion state, attack power is greatly increased, highest probability of getting beneficial results. |
Status BuffsEdit
Result | Buff |
7-7-7 | Invincibility for 15 seconds. |
6-6-6 | All attacks critical for 20 seconds. |
5-5-5 | Invincibility to physical damage for 15 seconds. |
4-4-4 | No AP Cost for the entire battle. |
3-3-3 | Invincibility to magic damage for 15 seconds. |
2-2-2 | No MP Cost for the entire battle. |
1-1-1 | Invincibility for 15 seconds. |
Result | Buff |
7-7-# | 0 MP consumption for 15 seconds. |
7-#-7 | Invincibility to physical damage for 15 seconds. |
#-7-7 | Invincibility to magic damage for 15 seconds. |
7-#-# | 0 AP consumption for 12 seconds. |
#-7-# | 0 MP consumption for 12 seconds. |
#-#-7 | Endure status for 20 seconds. |
Modulating PhaseEdit
If the left and right portraits on the DMW stop on the same character, the DMW enters "Modulating Phase," also called a "Limit Verge".
The DMW reels take up the full screen as the center reel finishes spinning, and during this time one of several things may happen:
- A short flashback scene will play of the character whose portraits are displayed.
- One to five stills of a past scene in the game will appear.
- Chocobo Mode or Summon Mode will begin.
- "Genesis Mode" will randomly activate. The DMW will glow red, and Genesis's portrait will replace the two matching portraits while the center reel spins. This will also add Genesis to the DMW until Zack has been incapacitated, drinks the Shinra Marketing employee's sample potion, or moves onto another chapter.
Barring the DMW switching to Summon Mode, Chocobo Mode, or Genesis Mode, the center reel will spin and stop, after which the numbers will stop. If all three portraits in the DMW match, Zack will gain HP, MP, and AP; depending on the level and the equipment of a Feather Cap, the amount given will possibly break their set limits, gain a great amount of SOLDIER Points, and finally, Zack will execute a Limit Break. He can execute the Limit even while Stopped or Stunned. The level of the Limit Break depends on a number of modifiers, including the level of the Emotion Gauge, the numbers alongside the reels, and if any flashbacks occurred during modulating phase.
All Limit Breaks have a level of one to five. If the Limit Break does damage, a higher level will do more damage. If the Limit Break grants a status buff, a higher level will cause the buff(s) to last longer. Depending on the level and the kind of Limit Break performed, the Emotion gauge will lower by one level until Normal status, unless the Limit Break can bring the Emotion level to a higher state, or cancels out the reduction, keeping the status in place. Despite what it may look like, the three Digital Mind Wave reels do not act independently; a single process controls the whole task. The numbers on the reels, however, are random, with the exception of 777.
Regardless of whether the center reel stops to match the outer two, if the three numbers line up as three 7s, Zack will increase in level by one. If any two numbers lower than seven line up, the Materia in that equipment slot will level up - for example, if two 4s line up, the fourth Materia Zack is equipped with increases by one level. If all numbers match up but are not 7s, that Materia will level up by two levels, in this case, the fourth Materia gains two levels if three 4s line up.
Though it appears that leveling up is random, it is not entirely so. Zack does gain EXP for defeating enemies, but it is a hidden value. The DMW will not line up three 7s until Zack earns enough EXP for it to do so. Once Zack has enough EXP, the DMW has a chance to line up three 7s, but it is not a guarantee. For this reason, the player cannot simply level up by letting the reels spin over and over, they are still required to defeat enemies to earn EXP.
In addition to all of the above, when Zack acquires all the portraits and summons that appear on the DMW, the player receives a Fury Ring. When the player has viewed all the random flashback scenes for each character and summoned all the summons at least once, including the characters in Chocobo Mode, they receive Genji Armor. All the characters start with 10% complete, and for the six main characters, the player needs to have seen six flashback scenes in total for 100%; four count for 10% each, and two count for 25% each. Genesis is an exception and has two scenes, 45% each.
Limit BreaksEdit
If none of the special modes activate (below), the Modulating Phase will enter Normal Mode, where one of the regular Limit Breaks can be used. Regardless of modes, Level 5 Limit Breaks have a chance of increasing the Emotion Gauge by a random amount.
If the Limit Break is a single-target, a random enemy on the battlefield will be chosen. It is possible to hit long-distance targets Zack wouldn't otherwise be able to target with Limit Breaks.
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Action | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
Chain Slash (Silhouettes) | Start of the game | 48 | 54 | 60 | 66 | 76 | |
Physical attack against one enemy. | |||||||
Octaslash | Start of the game | 9 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 22 | |
Eight physical attacks against one enemy. | |||||||
Rush Assault | Start of the game | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
Two sequences of seven physical attacks, then a final diving attack. Each of the three sequences has different power and can hit a different enemy. Ignores Vitality, final hit inflicts Stun, may grant Endure status. Emotion Gauge increases by 1 for Level 5 attack. | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||
12 | 18 | 20 | 24 | 32 | |||
Air Strike | Start of Chapter 3 | 40 | 44 | 48 | 64 | 72 | |
Physical attack against all enemies. | |||||||
Lucky Stars | Partway through Chapter 4 | 10 sec. | 15 sec. | 20 sec. | 40 sec. | 80 sec. | |
Gives the critical status making all attacks Critical Hits for period of time. Emotion Gauge increases in accordance to the Level of Lucky Stars. | |||||||
Healing Wave | Start of Chapter 5 | 3 sec. | 5 sec. | 8 sec. | 10 sec. | 20 sec. | |
Fully heals HP, MP, and AP, breaks limits, heals status ailments and grants temporary invincibility. | |||||||
Meteor Shots | Partway through Chapter 6 | 44 | 48 | 64 | 72 | 80 | |
Magical attack against all enemies. |
Summon ModeEdit
At any time during Modulating Phase while the center reel spins, a blue star symbol will fill the screen. This activates Summon Mode, where the portraits in the DMW change to summon portraits and all three reels spin again. Similar to Modulating Phase, if three portraits match a summon will be called. All summons are non-elemental, despite their attack animations. Zack will still level up if the proper numbers match. There is a 12.5% base chance of activating the Summon Mode when a Modulating Phase is triggered as long as Zack has obtained at least one summon. Equipping Summon DMW Materia can boost the chance further.
Just entering Summon Mode doesn't yet guarantee that the Summon will be performed. The chances depend on the emotion gauge.
Emotion Gauge | Summon Chance |
Low | 50% |
Normal | 70.3% |
High | 56.9% |
Sky High | 93.8% |
Heavenly | 100% |
Name | Obtained | Level/Power | Image | ||||
Action | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
Hellfire | Clear Mission 8-1-1 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 77 | |
Magical attack on all enemies that ignores Spirit. | |||||||
Megaflare | Clear Mission 8-1-4 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 70 | 84 | |
Magical attack on all enemies that ignores Spirit, will raise Emotion level by one if it is a level five attack. | |||||||
Exa Flare | Clear Mission 8-5-6 | 70 | 74 | 78 | 82 | 96 | |
Magical attack on all enemies that ignores Spirit, will raise Emotion level by one if it is a level five attack. | |||||||
Zantetsuken | Clear Mission 8-1-6 | N/A | |||||
Inflicts Instant Death to all enemies. Attack is identical across all levels of power. | |||||||
Rebirth Flame | Chapter 9, Nibelheim Mystery #1. | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 78 | |
Magical attack on all enemies that ignores Spirit. Casts Raise on Zack. |
Chocobo ModeEdit
At any time during Modulating Phase while the center reel spins, "Chocobo Mode" will have a chance of activating as long as Zack has obtained at least one Creature in the reel. In Chocobo Mode the two outer portraits in the DMW change to one of the below characters while the center reel continues spinning. Similar to Modulating Phase, if three portraits match a summon will be called. Zack will still level up if the proper numbers match. In certain special battles (like against Sephiroth or the final boss) the Chocobo Mode will never activate, but otherwise its base activation rate is 9.4%, which can be boosted via DMW Materia.
Just entering Chocobo Mode doesn't yet guarantee that the Summon will be performed. The chances depend on the emotion gauge.
Emotion Gauge | Summon Chance |
Low | 31.3% |
Normal | 50% |
High | 70.3% |
Sky High | 85.9% |
Heavenly | 93.8% |
Name | Obtained | Level/Power | Image | ||||
Action | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
Dud (Any losing combination) | Start of the game | 1 | 1 | 10 | 100 | 1000 | |
Deals damage to Zack and inflicts Stun on him. Does set damage for each level of power. Stun lasts between 1-6 seconds depending on level. | |||||||
Chocobo Stomp | Treasure chest in Mission 8-4-1 | 48 | 54 | 58 | 64 | 72 | |
Physical attack on all enemies that ignores Vitality. | |||||||
1000 Needles | Clear Mission 10-1-3 | 300 | 500 | 1000 | 1500 | 2000 | |
Eighteen hits on an enemy. Each hit does set damage according to power level. | |||||||
Murderous Thrust | Clear Mission 10-2-3 | 52 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 78 | |
Physical attack on one enemy that ignores Vitality. | |||||||
Courage Boost! | Treasure chest in Mission 8-4-3 | 30 sec. | 40 sec. | 50 sec. | 100 sec. | -- | |
Cures Zack of Poison, Silence, Stop, and Stun. Grants three sets of status buffs that last different amounts of time depending on attack level: Endure, Barrier and MBarrier, MP Cost 0 and AP Cost 0, and Physical Null and Magic Null. At level five all buffs except Physical Null and Magic Null last the rest of the battle. | 20 sec. | 30 sec. | 60 sec. | 120 sec. | -- | ||
5 sec. | 8 sec. | 10 sec. | 15 sec. | 30 sec. | |||
Moogle Power | Treasure chest in Mission 8-4-4 | 40 sec. | 60 sec. | 80 sec. | 100 sec. | -- | |
Casts Regen on Zack, duration depends on attack level. Levels up all equipped Materia by an amount equal to the attack level. | |||||||
Item Mugger | Encounter Magic Pot in certain Missions and appease it. | N/A | |||||
Zack gains a random rare item depending on the level of the attack.* |
*Lv 1:Curaga, Drain, Graviga, Libra
Lv 2: Iron Bangle, Titanium Bangle, Carbon Bangle, Platinum Bangle
Lv 3: Kaiser Knuckles, Shinra Beta+, Royal Crown, Crystal Orb
Lv 4: Elixir x5, Elixir x10, Phoenix Down x1, Phoenix Down x3
Lv 5: Ribbon, Gold Rolling Pin x1, Gold Rolling Pin x3, Gold Rolling Pin x5
Genesis ModeEdit
Genesis Mode is a special mode where Genesis's portrait is added to the reel. This is the final check the game makes; If the game fails to enter both Summon Mode and Chocobo Mode, there is a chance Genesis Mode will activate. The base chance is 12.5%, but it can be boosted further with DMW Materia.
Genesis Mode still doesn't mean Apocalypse will activate, just as Summon and Chocobo Modes do not guarantee a move will trigger. After Genesis Mode has been activated once, Genesis's portrait stays in the reel until it is reset, such as during a storyline event or by drinking the Potion from the Shinra employee in the Shinra Building lobby.
Name | Obtained | Level/Power | Image | ||||
Action | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
Apocalypse | Defeat Genesis in Chapter 6 | 66 | 76 | 86 | 96 | 120 | |
Magical attack on all enemies. |
The Boost ModifierEdit
The boost modifier is displayed in the menu under the specific Limit Break. Under normal conditions all Limit Breaks have equal chance of activating, but it is possible to boost the chances for a certain Limit with DMW Materia. If, for example, a Limit has a modifier of [x5] it is five times more likely to activate than a Limit with [x1] modifier. The modifiers don't boost the chance of getting a Limit Break per se (they don't increase the chance of Modulating Phase appearing, for example), therefore it is futile to boost all the modifiers at once. Summon and Chocobo Mode DMW Materia not only boost their respective move, but also increase the chance of activating their mode during a Modulating Phase.
Apart from the DMW Materia, Zack gets a boost modifier to certain Limit Breaks during specific storyline events.
Event | Limit Break |
Entering Fort Tamblin | Rush Assault |
Leaving Fort Tamblin | Octaslash |
Meeting Cissnei. | Lucky Stars |
Sephiroth flashback at Sector 5 Reactor | Rush Assault |
Entering Street 0 highway | Healing Wave |
Before fighting Bahamut Fury | Healing Wave |
Meeting Cloud | Meteor Shots |
Meeting Tseng and Cloud at Modeoheim bathhouse | Air Strike, Meteor Shots |
Selling flowers with Aerith | Healing Wave |
After phone call from Aerith in Nibelheim | Healing Wave |
Before fighting Sephiroth. | Octaslash |
After escaping Shinra Mansion | Rush Assault |
Meeting Cissnei after escaping Nibelheim | Lucky Stars |
Seeing Angeal in Gongaga Village | Rush Assault |
Flashback ScenesEdit
During Normal Modulating Phase (not during Summon or Chocobo Mode), the player has a chance of witnessing certain flashback and "behind the scenes" events that add percentage to the character portraits in the DMW menu, and once the player has 100% on every portrait, they receive Genji Armor. Summon and Chocobo portraits only need for their move to be used once during battle to get 100%, but the character portraits start at 10% and the player must fill the rest of the 90% by viewing the random flashback scenes during Modulating Phase. Every character besides Genesis has six scenes: four 10% scenes and two 25% scenes. The scenes become available as the player progresses through the game, and some scenes are only unlocked near the game's end.
Whenever the player witnesses a scene that grants 25% toward DMW completion, they are guaranteed to perform the Limit Break at the end of Modulating Phase. The same happens if the player gets five "poster cards," although the image flashbacks do not count toward DMW completion and aren't character specific. The 25% flashback scenes also raise the Emotion Gauge by one.
Below are the chances of triggering the random scenes during a Normal Modulating Phase.
Emotion Gauge | 10% scene | 25% scene |
Low | 5.6% | 3.9% |
Normal | 11% | 5.9% |
High | 20.7% | 11.7% |
Sky High | 38.3% | 23.4% |
Heavenly | 25% | 50% |
Below are the chances of triggering the random scenes during Genesis Mode. Genesis has only two scenes, 45% each.
Emotion Gauge | 45% scene |
Low | 7.8% |
Normal | 11.7% |
High | 17.6% |
Sky High | 27.3% |
Heavenly | 50% |
Zack's Final StandEdit
During the scripted battle, Zack's DMW reels break as voiced scenes between his friends play, whose portraits are replaced with a white silhouette.
The reels break in the following order:
- Sephiroth, Cissnei, Tseng
- Angeal, Cloud
- Aerith
- Genesis's reel is never shown.
Zack will also not get any buffs from the DMW during the battle.
The director of Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, Hajime Tabata, has mentioned in an interview that once it was decided Zack would be the game's protagonist, the nature of his story barred the development team from utilizing the traditional party system as in Final Fantasy VII. In order to make controlling of a single character into an exciting game, the base structure of the Final Fantasy VII battle system was used with strong action elements added to it.[1]
The element of luck was designed into the Digital Mind Wave to prevent battles from becoming repetitive. Both Yoshinori Kitase and Tetsuya Nomura are enthusiastic about pachinko, a type of Japanese slots machine, and were discussing if there was any element of it that could put into the game.[2]
Other appearancesEdit
Dissidia Final FantasyEdit
Sephiroth is able to use Octaslash as an HP attack, executing a sequence of five swift sword slashes while charging forward.
Dissidia 012 Final FantasyEdit
Sephiroth retains Octaslash as an HP attack, which has had its exact properties re-balanced but is otherwise the same attack.
Pictlogica Final FantasyEdit
Final Fantasy Airborne BrigadeEdit
- Ability Cards
- Legend Cards
Final Fantasy Record KeeperEdit
Final Fantasy Trading Card GameEdit
One of Zack's cards can use both Rush Assault and Meteor Shots. For the discard of a Zack card and two Fire CP, Rush Assault deals 8000 damage to a Forward of the player's choice. Meteor Shots requires the discard of a Zack card, two Fire CP, and Dulling Zack, and deals 4000 damage to all the opponent's Forwards.
Non-Final Fantasy guest appearancesEdit
Ehrgeiz: God Bless the RingEdit
The original appearance of Meteo Shots, Zack executes it identically to Cloud's Meteorain, leaping up and sending meteors at the opponent.
Kingdom Hearts seriesEdit
Zack is able to use an attack similar to Meteor Shots when fought in Birth By Sleep, sending a barrage of large meteors at the player. Zack's D-Link deck contains the ability Slot Edge as a reference to the slot machine mechanic of the DMW.


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U.S. officials said that one Air Force member has been reprimanded but cleared of any violations of the Military Code of Justice. And final decisions are pending on two Navy sailors, whose cases remain under legal review.
U.S. Southern Command, headed by Gen. Douglas Fraser, conducted the investigation into the military members' involvement in the April incident, which brought shame to the elite presidential protection force and unearthed revelations of other episodes of misconduct within the Secret Service.
The military service members, all enlisted personnel, were assigned to support the Secret Service in preparations for a visit to the coastal resort of Cartagena by President Barack Obama. All of the military had behind-the-scenes roles and were not directly involved in presidential security.
The U.S. officials spoke about the investigation on condition of anonymity because the results have not been released. Military officials were expected to brief Congress members on the matter.
Of the nine who were given administrative punishments, three have asked for courts martial, which would provide them with a public trial to contest the decision, U.S. Southern Command said in a statement. Military members have the right to turn down administrative punishments and instead seek trial.
A dozen Secret Service officers, agents and supervisors were implicated in the Colombia scandal. Eight have been forced out of the agency, three were cleared of serious misconduct and at least two employees are fighting to get their jobs back.
The misconduct became public after a dispute over payment between a Secret Service agent and a prostitute at a Cartagena hotel on April 12. The Secret Service was in Cartagena for a Latin American summit before Obama's arrival.
All the alleged activities took place before Obama arrived in Cartagena for meetings with 33 other regional leaders, but the scandal overshadowed his visit.
In the military, nonjudicial or administrative punishments can take a wide variety of forms, from docking service members' pay or confining them to quarters to assigning them additional duties for a certain length of time. In some cases, administrative punishments can be career-ending, or delay or prevent promotions.
Written reprimands often are letters placed in service member's files and would suggest a less serious offense. Initial reports suggested that some of the military members violated their curfew, but no other details were released.
Defense officials have said that Fraser was chosen to handle the investigation and hand out the punishments because the incident happened in his command area and that it would ensure that the discipline was equal across the services.
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Sea Kings rout Colonists, 35-0
NEWPORT BEACH The no-huddle offense is known for scoring points in a hurry. Corona del Mar put its in overdrive during the second quarter Thursday night against Anaheim.
That's when the top-seeded Sea Kings scored their first 21 points in a 69-second span of the CIF-SS Southern Division first-round game at Newport Harbor High, all the points they needed in 35-0 victory.
Corona del Mar advances to play the winner of tonight's game between Estancia and Los Amigos in the second round.
Quarterback Cayman Carter was the architect of CdM's attack, completing 20 of 30 passes for 280 yards and two touchdowns. He hooked up with sophomore running back Cole Martin nine times for 147 yards, most on bubble screens that left Martin wide open.
"Every week he's gotten better and better," Corona del Mar coach Scott Meyer said of Carter. "He has a great understanding of the offense. We've seen all year, with his legs running the ball and throwing the ball, he's a threat as a quarterback back there."
After a rapidly moving first quarter in which the Sea Kings (9-2) missed a 36-yard field goal on their only drive, Corona del Mar running back Kai Wilson scored on a 5-yard run for a 7-0 lead in the opening minute of the second quarter.
The Colonists (5-6) then lost a fumble on the ensuing kickoff, and Corona del Mar quickly capitalized with Martin scoring on a 1-yard run. The Sea Kings then tried an onsides kick, and Ryan Griffin recovered for Corona del Mar at the Anaheim 43-yard line.
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"He's a running back," Carter said of Martin. "So when he gets out there in space he can really run the ball."
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Redbox Mulls Low-Cost Video Streaming Service
A Redbox spokesman confirmed that a survey had been sent to customers with questions regarding a low-cost streaming service option. Even so, he told PC Magazine the survey shouldn't be interpreted to mean Redbox is planning to launch a streaming service: "It's not necessarily an indication of something that Redbox is interested in doing…. Redbox certainly understands that the entertainment model is continually evolving."
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Random rantings and ravings about the Los Angeles Dodgers, written by a small consortium of rabid Dodger fans. With occasional comments on baseball, entertainment, pop culture, and life in general.
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text: Yoshida: PS3's The UnderdogLeigh Alexander7/30/08 5:20pmFiled to: SonyPS3Shuhei YoshidaSquare Enixps3136EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink New president of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida is reflecting on the company's underdog years in a new interview with VentureBeat. Interestingly, he credits getting Square to get on board with PlayStation with Final Fantasy VII with the largest share of the original console's successful entry into the market. Discussing how third-party relations — the management of which was Yoshida's prior role — saved the Playstation, Yoshida said: Advertisement We didn't have a first-party operation. Our success had to come from the third parties. It was really fun. Namco was a believer because on Super Nintendo they had no outlet for their 3D arcade technology. We really targeted them as a launch partner. The biggest challenge was to get Square and Enix to make games for PS. We had to prove ourselves and it took a couple of years. They made the decision to make games like FFVII. So then I got to move to product development. Now, though, when asked if the PlayStation 3 is the underdog again, Yoshida sees shades of the past: Advertisement Yes. We were not taken seriously by the industry at first. Because I was there at the time, the difficulty with PS3 reminds me of our roots. We should work with our partners and find out what consumers and developers want. It's an interesting issue in an era where third-party exclusives are becoming an endangered species, and El Savior Squeenix has gone Xbox 360 with Final Fantasy XIII. Q&A: Sony's new worldwide game studio chief recalls the humble underdog years [VentureBeat]Reply136 repliesLeave a reply


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Two Assam Rifles personnel and a five-year-old boy were injured in a fierce gunfight between paramilitary forces and insurgents in Manipur's Chandel district bordering Myanmar, official reports said on Monday.
The suspected People's Liberation Army militants were detected by personnel of the Assam Rifles on patrol at Khoibu hill village under Tengnoupal police station, about 150 km from Imphal, and there was an exchange of fire lasting an hour on Sunday evening, the reports said.
Two securitymen and the boy, identified as T Mosel, were injured and a house was destroyed in a grenade explosion during the encounter after which the militants escaped, the reports said.
Clothes were recovered from the encounter site, which was still cordoned off Monday morning. The injured were hospitalised.


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text: The First Test Run Of Okami Was "Incredibly Boring"Brian Ashcraft11/05/09 1:00amFiled to: hideki kamiyaOkamiCloverPlatinum GamesCapcom131EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Hideki Kamiya, designer of Bayonetta, created Okami back when he worked at Capcom's Clover. In the recent issue of Famitsu (translated by 1Up), Kamiya looks back at making Okami.AdvertisementWhen I first started talking about it with [producer Atsushi] Inaba, the only starting point we had for Okami was a game that depicted a lot of nature," he told Famitsu. "I couldn't say 'I don't know if this'll be fun or not' because than nobody on the dev team would be enthusiastic about it, so instead I was like 'This is gonna be great! I know it will!' So eventually the discussion shifted to a wolf running around, and we made this minute-long video depicting a wolf running through a field and trees sprouting up behind him and I told the team 'See, isn't that neat?'"There was no story at the time and no gameplay system. There was an original concept — depicting the splendor of nature.Advertisement"Our first test run was incredibly boring to play," he continued. "I was grinding my teeth at night, I was so worried. At one point, we were so far off-track that it had turned into a simulation game — you had hexes and trees sprouted on them. It was total garbage. A couple of devs said to me afterwards 'Something was definitely wrong with you around that time, Kamiya!'"Read more in the link below.Platinum Games' Kamiya Reflects on Bayonetta, Okami [1Up]Reply131 repliesLeave a reply


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Hey, I have been to that shop. I think the prices on that guy are pretty high. The best armor I have found is by a guy named DCORP and he is on Theed. I have the WP somewhere.
LLC = Laser Lightning Cannon - A KILLER weapon for Bounty Hunters.
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Hey, I have been to that shop. I think the prices on that guy are pretty high. The best armor I have found is by a guy named DCORP and he is on Theed. I have the WP somewhere.
LLC = Laser Lightning Cannon - A KILLER weapon for Bounty Hunters.
WOOT!!!! hit LLC 3 tonight just need to finish that out tthat then have 8 more to do and I'm master bh. wonder what i'll grind next
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--Shipwrights will build and sell all ships (not the vet ship though) - this is a new starting profession
--The 3 pilot classes take no skill points. Progressing in them allows you to modify your ship more
--you will no longer need to wait for shuttles! Now you can take you own ship between planets.
--You get loot and credits for blowing up stuff in space
--Ithorians are going to have bonuses to strength and maybe mind
--The Y-wing IS NOT going to be a multiplayer ship initially. MAYBE some time in the future.
--The game looks great, gameplay seemed OK.
Cool I was wondering where you had run off to. I no w have Arii and Oume in the guild and finished out LLC 4 and bh pistols 3. Basically havin ablast but can't find any stinkin loot kit parts other than that it's been pretty fun
I will be on with a vengance tonight. I struck up a deal with an armorsmith for the new wook armor. I need to get him 20k Endorian Wooly hide tonight. It should be quite the evening. I really can't wait for that armor, then I can finally take some damage.
Alura is now a Master Musician. So far I have Master Dancer and Master Musician. I'm aiming to get Master Entertainer next and then Master Image Designer.
Not the most exciting professions, but I want to get them before I continue towards Tera Kasi Master.
In Boston.
No SWG.
Please send help!
Crazy what the heck are you in Boston for? Almost got the weapons side of BH done finishing out carbine 4 tonight then doing investigation
I was in Boston for work. I am in New Jersey now - until Tuesday - for a family reunion.
I do miss the game, I have my 3 sets of armor all ready and sliced, and I want to try them out.
You guys want to do a guild hunt for Krayts on Thursday? I think we can do it now, expecially if Oume can heal us.
Sounds like fun. I'm up for it. currently i'm at 0-4-4-4 in bh so my weapon skills are pretty decent


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Can recovery survive cutting the deficit?
WASHINGTON At the core of Washington's exasperating budget debate lies a confusing disconnect. On the one hand, we're urged to reduce huge and endless budget deficits, which are said to threaten a future financial crisis. The Congressional Budget Office's latest projections – released this past week – envision $7 trillion worth of deficits over the next decade, a figure that could, under plausible circumstances, exceed $9 trillion. On the other hand, we're cautioned against doing too much deficit reduction too quickly because steep spending cuts or tax increases might undermine the weak economic recovery. In effect, we're instructed both to reduce the deficits and not to reduce them.
The contradiction is one reason the budget debate perplexes and paralyzes Americans. We are getting a lot of conflicting advice. Can the different goals be reconciled? The answer is "yes" – at least on paper, though perhaps not in the real world. At a recent briefing, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf did as good a job as anyone in explaining how.
The CBO's analysis epitomizes the "on the one hand, on the other" dilemma. The CBO has consistently warned that the large federal debt poses long-term dangers. Its latest report echoes those fears. By 2023, it projects that the publicly held federal debt will reach almost $20 trillion, nearly double 2012's $11.3 trillion. Debt as a share of the economy would rise from 2012's 73 percent of gross domestic product to 77 percent. As recently as 2007, the debt/GDP ratio was 36 percent.
The debt buildup, the CBO says, poses three dangers. The first is the financial crisis: Lenders might flee from buying Treasury debt. Second, large government borrowing could crowd out private investment and jeopardize future gains in living standards. Finally, the high debt might limit government's ability to borrow heavily if a new need arises – from war, an economic crisis or natural disaster.
So, the message is clear: however painful, get a handle on the debt.
But the CBO also warns that drastic debt reduction might backfire by harming the recovery. Even the relatively mild measures enacted for 2013 will retard growth, says the CBO. Recall what these are: the end of the 2 percentage point cut in Social Security payroll taxes; the cuts in defense and nondefense discretionary spending mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011; and tax increases imposed on high-income households (mainly singles with incomes above $400,000 and married couples with incomes exceeding $450,000). In 2013, the CBO projects that the economy will grow 1.4 percent. Without the deficit-reducing measures, growth would be about twice that, it reckons. The difference is worth about 2 million jobs in 2013, according to Elmendorf.
The exit from this dilemma, Elmendorf suggested, is to time deficit reduction with a strengthening private-sector recovery. As private spending improves, cuts in government spending or tax increases would threaten the economy less. Elmendorf argued that the transition from government-generated to private demand is now occurring. Americans have paid down loans; they have more leeway to increase everyday spending. Rising home values and stock prices have boosted confidence. Employment is increasing. State and local government spending is stabilizing. "We see momentum building," says Elmendorf. The CBO has economic growth picking up to 2.6 percent in 2014 and then averaging about 4 percent through 2017. Unemployment falls from 2012's 8.1 percent to 5.6 percent by 2017 (annual averages).
So the conflicts can be reconciled, with one big "if." The private sector's recovery has to be vigorous enough so that deficit reduction's dampening effects can be absorbed without causing a new recession. After nearly four years of lackluster growth – even with massive doses of "stimulus" from the budget and the Federal Reserve – this remains a crucial unknown.
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(Kitco News) - The new chief executive of Newmont Mining Corp. (NEM) says the company is continuing efforts to curtail costs and has reduced consolidated spending in the first quarter by 13% from the same period a year ago.
The average per-ounce cost of gold was up in the January-March period from last year, but this was blamed in large part on the impact of lower output. Meanwhile, the company remains on track to begin production at Akyem in Ghana late this year and is also looking to transition into higher-grade ore in Batu Hijau in Indonesia in 2014. Both should improve free cash flow in 2014 and 2015, officials said.
"Our primary goal is to build a more resilient business," said Gary Goldberg, president and chief executive officer of Newmont, in a Webcast in conjunction with Newmont's first-quarter earnings report. "This is more important than ever given the increasing volatility in the gold sector. To reach this goal, we will continue to focus on profitable production, sustainable cost improvements, better mining fundamentals and building only the best projects."
Newmont, the largest U.S.-based gold producer, reported first-quarter earnings of $315 million, or 63 cents a share, down from $490 million, or 97 cents in the year-ago period. Adjusted net income was $354 million, compared to $578 million a year ago.
"Lower production was the most significant contributor to lower adjusted net income," Goldberg said. "Weaker average realized gold and copper pricing also played a role. These factors are partially offset by lower advanced projects and exploration spending."
Gold production of 1.165 million ounces was down 11% from the year-ago quarter, although copper production rose 9% to 38 million pounds, Newmont said. Gold and copper sales of 1.142 million ounces and 31 million pounds were down 11% and 16%, respectively, from a year ago. The company cited lower grades and recovery at Carlin and a lower grade at Twin Creeks in Nevada, as well as shipping delays that meant lower concentrate sales.
Still, Newmont maintained its guidance for full-year gold output at 4.8 million to 5.1 million ounces, while copper guidance was left at 150 million to 170 million pounds.
"In particular, we expect a stronger second half of the year led by improved mill throughput in Nevada and new production at Akyem in Ghana," Goldberg said.
Akyem "remains on schedule and on budget for first production by late 2013," he added. Officials said workers are completing construction of a mill and putting in power lines. Ore already has been stockpiled.
Newmont reported costs applicable to sales of $758 per ounce for gold and $2.19 for copper, up 22% and 11% year-on-year, respectively.
"Lower production volume accounted for nearly three-quarters of the increase in CAS from Q1 2012," Goldberg said. "Other factors included higher input costs, which were basically labor, energy and the new carbon tax in Australia."
The company said its "all-in sustaining costs" rose to $1,086 per ounce in the first quarter as output fell. This was $1,115 on an attributable basis. Still, the figures were near the lower end of the company's guidance for the year of $1,100 to $1,200.
The company's consolidated spending was down by $217 million in the first quarter compared to a year ago, Newmont said. In addition, capital expenditure guidance was lowered by $100 million and is now between $2 billion and $2.2 billion. The capex spending cuts include a mill restart and some underground work in Nevada, based on the economics in the current price environment, Goldberg explained.
"We're taking a very hard look at all of our sustaining capital expenses, where we might be able improve and where we might be able to defer," he said. The company was already studying ways to reduce costs even before the sharp decline in gold prices earlier this month, officials said.
Newmont last week announced a second-quarter dividend of 35 cents per share of common stock based on the average London p.m. fixing of $1,632 per ounce in the first quarter. The dividend will be payable on June 27 to holders of record as of the close of business on June 12.
"Our dividend is stable compared to the first quarter of 2012 and represents a payout of just under half of our adjusted net income," Goldberg said.
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On June 27, a Federal Court judge ordered a trio of companies, including Singaa Enterprises (Canada) Inc., to pay $2.5-million to Louis Vuitton and its co-plaintiff, Burberry Ltd., for trademark infringement. Two years ago, a Vancouver warehouse belonging to Singaa, a company specializing in counterfeit designer handbags, was busted by private investigators working for LV. Although the award is a miniscule fraction of the global trade in phony designer wares, it is also the largest of its kind to be imposed in this country, sending notice to both the purveyors of fakes and those who buy them that trademarks will be respected. Among the fashion and design cognoscenti who would never dream of buying sham goods, however, the point is rather a moot one, as they have largely moved on.
In the eyes of this new breed of style elites, sporting designer labels – whether bona fide or bogus – just isn't stylish any more.
To them, it's the luxurious feel of a textile or expert cut of a jacket, the expensive mechanism on the flip side of a Longines Column Wheel Chronograph watch, the hidden detail or obscured flourish that only the bearer knows is there that counts.
Stealth style, in other words, is the latest mark of luxury, the new badge of cool. If you've got it, it's no longer necessary to flaunt it.
"While luxury goods in fast-growth markets, such as China, Russia and the Middle East, are driven by a more conspicuous consumption, luxury demand in many Western markets is more discreet," says James Lawson of Ledbury Research, a U.K. agency focused on the wealthy and their buying habits. "This may partly be a result of the aftermath of the recent financial crisis. But is also due to a longer exposure to many of these designer-label products, making the luxury consumer more discerning."
Instead of flashing a pair of double Cs, the ubiquitous LV pattern or a gold-plated Medusa head, today's most discerning fashion and design fans rest content in the knowledge that their good taste is discernible only to them. In the past, the subtle or concealed flourish – sumptuous lining, luxurious trim – was a hallmark of the most expensive men's wear, but this type of anti-statement statement can now be seen in all manner of upmarket wares, from jewellery to home furnishings to eyewear.
"To me, style is hidden luxury," says Jason Kirk, maker of Kirk Originals, high-end fashion eyewear worn by the likes of Oasis, U2 and the actor Samuel Jackson. The frames in his Saturn line, launched last year and available in Canada through select opticians, including Karir in Toronto, look handsomely staid on the outside, but offer flash in the form of glittering surfaces on the inside: Clark Kent meets Elton John.
"It's all about tailoring a sense of personal expression," the British-born designer, who is based in France, continues. "Our customers are not interested in wearing a label. They are independent free-thinkers wearing something they love, something that represents style as subtle and well-made."
Since the 1980s heyday of screaming status symbols, the mass production of goods bearing designer stamps by both counterfeiters and the design houses themselves has dispelled their aura of exclusivity, of unmatched extravagance. The new luxuries, especially in the view of younger aspirants, tend to be in limited supply, less obvious in their appeal and more likely to provide an emotional experience for the consumer, offers David Pike, a Toronto university student and fledgling fashion photographer who shoots for B-insider, the Hudson Bay Company's new online fashion and style guide.
For Pike, true style is a "private sort of enjoyment," barely discernible to the outside eye, that is best represented by selvedge denim, a highly durable cotton twill used to make high-end jeans costing upward of $150 a pair. Brands as niche-market as Naked & Famous and as mainstream as Levi's have discovered it, but it's not the price tag or label alone that makes them covetable: Selvedge denim is almost always sold as unwashed jeans and denim fanatics like Pike will go months if not years without washing a pair to give them a personalized, one-of-a-kind look.
"Each pair represents an investment of both money and time," Pike says of the jeans, which also have a unique band visible only when the cuffs are rolled up. "I prefer selvedge denim over having multiple mass-produced washes and styles of jeans. How they fade is unique to how an individual wears them. They become personal according to how one breaks them in."
The concept of luxury as something not readily seen, as something enhancing an individual's private enjoyment of an object also motivates Crabtree & Evelyn creative director India Hicks, whose new line of fine jewellery (available at Holt Renfrew in September) features whimsical embellishments on the backside of pendants and on the inside of bracelets. Her inspiration was twofold, encompassing both the archival monogrammatic designs of her late father (legendary English decorator David Hicks) and the Indian jewellery passed down to her by her mother, who first acquired it when Hick's grandfather, Lord Mountbatten, was Britain's last viceroy in India.
"Indian jewellery is famous for being as richly adorned on the front as well as the back," Hicks says. "It's embellishment that only the person wearing the jewellery knows is there."
If this brand of subverted, perhaps even subversive style has precedent in other cultures, it also spans them, as the furniture designs of Mexico's Joel Escalona (www.joelescalona.com) demonstrates: His eye-catching contemporary offerings boast, among other touches, shockingly colourful interiors behind their glossy black facades.
Made in Mexico City but available through select retailers across Canada, Escalona's cleverly "quilted" Rocky line, for instance, consists of a bar unit, TV cabinet, wardrobe and dresser characterized by vivid red linings visible only when their doors and drawers are opened. The same type of peek-a-boo opulence defines his Brick collection, which disguises bright yellow insides.
Even if a product isn't one-of-a-kind, "the belief that it was made only for you" is what appeals today, Escalona says.
Among the bigger luxury-goods brands, secret indulgences do exist: Christian Louboutin footwear is defined (famously now) by its vibrant red soles, while Louis Vuitton offers exquisitely subdued finishes, such as Taiga and Epi, in addition to its iconic Monogram.
But the very notion of labels contradicts the essence of stealth design, which is also hard to counterfeit, too.
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Problems of competence-based nurse education
Ashworth, P. and Morrison, P. (1991) Problems of competence-based nurse education. Nurse Education Today, 11 (4). pp. 256-260.
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The system of nurse education in the UK is undergoing a radical shake-up. Many new courses are being designed and implemented along the lines of the Project 2000 framework. New curricula and course structures are required to meet the changing role of the nurse of the future. Many curriculum design teams are adopting a competence-based model of curriculum to meet these needs. This approach is receiving central encouragement (UKCC 1986). In this paper it is argues that this strategy is faulty and ill-conceived; the inherent difficulties of the competence-based model of curriculum design are highlighted. These issues are of fundamental concern to nurse educators and students in the UK.
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Frontier: Elite II (Amiga CD32)
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Frontier: Elite II is, of course, the sequel to Elite and it continues in much the same way. You have a ship and limited funds, and nowhere to go but out into space. Trade, fight, hunt criminals, work for the various governments, anything goes in Frontier. There are few, if any, limits on what you can do or where you can go. And Frontier's universe (with approx. 100,000,000,000 planets and moons) is so big you'll never see the end of it.Screenshots
There are no Amiga CD32 user screenshots for this game.
There are 63 other screenshots from other versions of this game or official promotional screenshots.
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Alternate Titles
- "FE2" -- Common Abbreviation
Part of the Following Groups
- Elite series
- Gameplay feature: Mining
- Gameplay feature: Photography
- Gameplay feature: Slavery
- Games with classical music
- Games with included books (fiction)
- Games with manual lookup copy protection
- Genre: Simulation - Space trading and combat
- Merchant / Trade-oriented games
User Reviews
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Critic Reviews
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) | Jun, 1994 | 4 out of 4 | 100 |
Amiga Format | Jun, 1994 | 91 out of 100 | 91 |
Amiga Games | May, 1994 | 89 out of 100 | 89 |
Play Time | Jun, 1994 | 89 out of 100 | 89 |
Megablast | Jun, 1994 | 86 out of 100 | 86 |
Amiga Joker | Apr, 1994 | 86 out of 100 | 86 |
Power Play | Jun, 1994 | 84 out of 100 | 84 |
Video Games | Jun, 1994 | 75 out of 100 | 75 |
Joystick (French) | May, 1994 | 65 out of 100 | 65 |
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1001 Video Games
Frontier: Elite II appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.Development
It took David Braben five years to develop Frontier: Elite II. He started programming it on Commodore 64 but eventually continued the development on Amiga computers instead, as the C64 was not only becoming out of fashion, but had way too many technical limitations for this type of game.Extras
The PC version had a huge star map and a coupon for a Frontier: Elite II T-shirt.References
- The docking sequence for spaceships in this game is a near perfect imitation of the one showed in the movie 2001 - A Space Odyssey. The "medium"-sized space station (that is: the "circle" or "ring") is nearly identical to the 2001-Station. You may also listen to the same music (Blue Danube waltz) while docking. In addition to the docking sequence at the space stations. Some of the planet bases are identical to the Moon base in 2001.
- The PC version of contains a reference to the then upcoming Transport Tycoon. Some of the advertising hoardings in space ports announced "Coming soon... Chris Sawyer's Transport Game" ! Why the connection? Well, Chris Sawyer did the PC conversion of Frontier: Elite II back in 1992/3.
Contrary to many peoples beliefs and circulating rumours, the Thargoids (the superior alien race from the first Elite game) and their ships do NOT exist in Frontier: Elite II, and it is not possible to get the Thargoid ship.David Braben didn't exactly help killing this rumour when he claimed that there indeed was a Thargoid ship to be found somewhere in the galaxy. No-one has ever found the ship however, and it is believed that this was just a trick by Braben to keep people playing the game.
Frontier: Elite II has been both hacked and modified since it's release by players, programmers and hackers, and even the game program code lacks any trace of a Thargoid race or ship, so it's pretty safe to say that there simply doesn't exist one.
Version differences
- The CD-ROM version of this game was totally bogus. They just took the disk version (700kb), decompressed it (to then 900kb) and pressed it on a CD. Nothing else. No intro cinematics, simply NO bonus material whatsoever - just the 900kb .exe file on a whole CD. They even "forgot" to add the contents of the second floppy which included five or so savegames which could help beginners a lot.
- The PC version featured added texture-mapping on some polygons for enhanced graphical details, something which did not exist in the original Amiga version.
- Amiga Joker
- Issue 02/1995 – #2 Best Genre Mix in 1994 (Readers' Vote)
- PC Player (Germany)
- Issue 01/1995 - Least Quantity of Data on a CD-ROM in 1994
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- Issue 02/1994 – Dumbest Copy Protection in 1993
- Retro Gamer
- October 2004 (Issue #9) – #20 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)
Related Web Sites
- Frontier Astro (Fanpage with game information, tips and additional materials.)
- Frontier: Elite II (Frontier: Elite II Frequently Asked Questions (Answers from David Braben))
- The Elite Club (Where you can download Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, now released as shareware)
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It was January 21 1956 when Daniel Barenboim made his debut at Wigmore Hall. The teenage prodigy's first steps on to the international music scene feel an age ago now, and over the 40 years or so since Barenboim last appeared at the hall those early years of his career in London have largely receded from view.
It was a quite a coup for the Wigmore to get him back for a solo recital. Having played the two Liszt piano concertos with Pierre Boulez at the Royal Festival Hall on Monday, Barenboim stayed on for this programme featuring a pair of Schubert piano sonatas – an intimate postlude to his UK visit, at least in theory.
Those who were at the South Bank concert will have been forewarned what to expect. A huge premium is placed on finger-perfect accuracy and tonal polish among pianists of the younger generation, but Barenboim has no patience with any of that. He presides with magisterial authority at the piano, dispensing right notes and wrong notes with equal aplomb, elbowing awkward technical passages roughly out of the way, and leaving the music free to sweep along on a grand tide of emotion.
Each of the two sonatas that he chose – the G Major D894 and C Minor D958 – became an epic journey. True, the rhythmical lumps and bumps in the G Major did hamper the message getting across, but it was hard to resist the unashamed grandeur of Barenboim's conception. On paper, the sonata alternates between passages of expansive lyricism and homely charm, but Barenboim does not "do" homely. Everything was either sublime or heroic. Even the sonata's final wistful pay-off became a momentary vision of paradise. The classical conflicts of the C Minor sonata roused him to a higher level of accuracy. Even minor themes here plumbed depths of tone, passing accented chords rattled the foundations, and the sonata as a whole felt like a courageous assault on Olympus. The Wigmore does not often entertain playing on this scale.
At the end, Barenboim was presented with the first ever Critics' Circle Outstanding Musician Award and gave a gracious speech, reminiscing about his early days at the Wigmore – a fitting end to this long-overdue return appearance.