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One of last year's most interesting business books was Clay Shirky's "Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age". The rise of the affluent society has left people with lots of time and talent to spare, Mr Shirky argues. For decades they squandered this cognitive surplus watching television. Today, thanks to the internet, they can also channel it into more productive pursuits.
For a surprising number of people these productive pursuits involve worrying about companies' logos. Howard Schultz, the boss of Starbucks, recently announced that his company would mark its 40th anniversary this March by changing its logo a bit. The words "Starbucks" and "coffee" will disappear. And the mermaid, or siren, will be freed from her circle.
Starbucks wants to join the small club of companies that are so recognisable they can rely on nothing but a symbol: Nike and its swoosh; McDonald's and its golden arches; Playboy and its bunny; Apple and its apple. The danger is that it will join the much larger class of companies that have tried to change their logos only to be forced to backtrack by an electronic lynch mob.
As soon as the change was mooted, bloggers started blogging and tweeters began to tweet. Starbucks.com has been inundated with complaints, such as "focus on your core business and forget this foolishness". Fox News, not normally an authority on corporate marketing strategy, has likened the proposal to Prince's decision, in 1993, to swap his name for an unpronounceable symbol, an action he reversed seven years later. The protesters have plenty of success stories to inspire their efforts. Gap, a clothing retailer, abandoned a new logo in October after a week of concentrated online hazing. Tropicana (which tried to replace its straw-in-an-orange logo with a picture of a glass of orange juice) and Britain's Royal Mail (which renamed itself Consignia) held out a bit longer but eventually had to retreat.
Why do people get so upset about such changes? An obvious reason is that so many logos and names are either pig ugly or linguistically challenged. Think of BT's "piper" logo, which looked like someone drinking a yard of ale and disfigured all things BT-related for 12 years (admittedly, Britain's incumbent telecoms firm was not too popular to begin with); or the SciFi channel's decision to call itself SyFy—a name that raises the spectre of syphilis.
Moreover, the people who spend their lives creating new logos and brand names have a peculiar weakness for management drivel. Marka Hansen, Gap's president for North America, defended the firm's new logo (three letters and a little blue square) with a lot of guff about "our journey to make Gap more relevant to our customers". The Arnell Group explained its $1m redesign of Pepsi's logo with references to the "golden ratio" and "gravitational pull", arguing that "going back-to-the-roots moves the brand forward as it changes the trajectory of the future".
Ghastly stuff, to be sure. But why do aesthetically sensitive consumers harry companies to go back to old logos rather than simply shifting their loyalties elsewhere? One answer is that people have a passionate attachment to some brands. They do not merely buy clothes at Gap or coffee at Starbucks, but consider themselves to belong to "communities" defined by what they consume. A second reason is that the more choices people have, the more they seem to value the familiar. These days there are so many choices available to Western consumers—the average supermarket stocks 30,000 items and America's patent and trademark office issues some 200,000 patents a year—that they are in danger of being overwhelmed. Homo economicus may be capable of carefully considering all available products. But poor, fumbling Homo sapiens seizes on logos as a way of creating order in a confusing world.
The debate about logos reveals something interesting about power as well as passion. Much of the rage in the blogosphere is driven by a sense that "they" (the corporate stiffs) have changed something without consulting "us" (the people who really matter). This partly reflects a hunch that consumers have more power in an increasingly crowded market for goods. But it also reflects the sense that brands belong to everyone, not just to the corporations that nominally control them.
They want your opinion, as long as it's positive
Companies have gone out of their way to encourage these attitudes. They not only work hard to create emotional bonds with consumers (Victoria's Secret is one of many firms, including The Economist, that encourage customers to "like" them on Facebook). They involve them in what used to be regarded as internal corporate operations. Snapple asks Snapple-drinkers to come up with ideas for new drinks. Threadless encourages people to compete to design T-shirts.
Starbucks has been in the forefront of this consumer revolution. It consults consumers on everything from the ambience of its stores to its environmental policies. It emphasises that it is not just in the business of selling coffee. It sells entry to a community of like-minded people (who are so very different from the types who get their coffee from Dunkin' Donuts or McDonald's) gathered in a "third place" that is neither home nor work.
The company's new logo hints at a big ambition. Mr Schultz wants to burst asunder the bonds created by Starbucks's humble origins as a coffee shop. Some of his cafés are to sell alcohol as well as coffee. Many more Starbucks-branded goods are to appear in supermarkets. Starbucks is to become a force in the emerging world as well as the emerged. Such changes would be difficult even for an old-fashioned corporate dictatorship. Mr Schultz is about to discover whether they are possible for a company that has made such a fuss about giving power to its customers.
Written by Adrian Wooldridge and originally featured on The Economist.


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Important Slow News
A Commentary By John Stossel
Wars, plane crashes, mass murder -- it's easy to report news that happens suddenly. Reporters do a good job covering that. But we do a bad job telling you about what's really changing in the world, because we miss the stories that happen slowly. These are usually the more important stories.
Recently, President Barack Obama was mocked for saying: "The world is less violent than it has ever been. It is healthier than it has ever been. It is more tolerant than it has ever been. It is better fed than it's ever been. It is more educated than it's ever been."
Although these comments received criticism, he was absolutely right. Despite the current violence in the Middle East, the world today is actually less violent than it used to be. In the 21st century, about 50,000 people a year died from war -- about a third the number who died each year during the Cold War and half the number during the 1990s, a decade thought of as a time of peace and prosperity.
People today are healthier. Death rates from nearly all diseases are down so much that we now live, on average, nearly twice as long as people did just over a century ago.
People are also better fed and better educated. (Also, thanks to free markets and capitalism, people are richer. Millions lifted themselves out of poverty. Of course, Obama left that improvement out; it doesn't fit his big-government vision.)
Let's consider the other improvement the president cited: The world is "more tolerant than it has ever been." Tolerance is harder to measure than changes in poverty or deaths from war, but there is little doubt that, in America at least, people are much more tolerant.
In just a few decades, life has improved dramatically for blacks, gays and women. When I started reporting, women still had to get a husband's or father's permission to get a credit card. Gays were ostracized. Interracial marriage was still illegal in 16 states. Anti-sodomy laws were on the books until 2003.
Early last century, wife beating was routine. A North Carolina newspaper from 1913 carried a front-page story titled, "For and Against Wife Beating." Most "expert" commentary was in favor of it. One doctor argued, "Beat her, she needs it," and a female advice columnist declared, "It's well known that women love most the men who are cruel."
Today, no newspaper would do a feature story on "whether to beat your wife." Attitudes changed dramatically. But how would a reporter cover that? I suppose one might say, "Today in Pittsburgh, six people changed their opinion about wife beating." But no reporter would write that. He wouldn't know who those people were. Even if he did, such gradual change is not what people consider news.
A car crash that kills a family is terrible news. But gradual improvements in driver behavior, car and road safety, and attitudes about drunk driving should be even bigger news. Driving remains one of the riskiest things we do, but far fewer people die now.
Science that lengthens lives, innovation that enhances them, increased tolerance and fewer deaths in wars are great news. But, day by day, reporters barely cover that. Where would we point our cameras?
The news is biased not just because reporters are politically biased but because most good news happens gradually. We instinctively perk up and take notice if someone says, "The White House made an important announcement today," even if that announcement is trivial compared to slower social changes.
We use the phrase "slow news day" almost as an insult, as though important things aren't happening. This, in turn, affects the way we think about politics. While life incrementally improves, activists promoting almost any cause angrily chant: "When do we want it? Now!"
Bad things happen in an instant. The good news usually takes time. Reporters are usually clueless about it.
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump won fair and square and, as Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech, is owed an open mind and a chance to lead. It is therefore incumbent upon conservatives (like me) who have been highly critical of Trump to think through how to make a success of the coming years of Republican rule.
It begins by recognizing Trump's remarkable political instincts. As Paul Ryan noted in his morning-after olive-branch news conference, Trump heard "a voice out in this country that no one else heard." Trump spoke to and for a working class squeezed and ruined by rapid technological and economic transformation.
One of the principal tasks for the now-dominant GOP is to craft a governing agenda that actually alters their lives and prospects. In the end, it was this constituency of those left behind by the new globalized digital economy that delivered the presidency to Trump.
Nonetheless, this election was not just about the social/economic divide. It was also about the ideological divide between left and right. The most overlooked factor in the election is the continuing deep and widespread dissatisfaction with Obamaism.
It tends to be overlooked because President Obama remains personally popular (56 percent in the latest Gallup). As a charismatic campaigner, whenever his name is on the ballot, he wins. But when it's not — 2010, 2014, now 2016 — the Democrats get shellacked.
The reason is no mystery. The problem was never with Obama himself, but with his policies. Before each of those losing elections Obama would campaign saying that his name wasn't on the ballot but his policies — and now his legacy — were. The voters made clear what they thought of his policies and legacy.
Simply put, from the beginning of his presidency, Obama overreached ideologically, most spectacularly with his signature legislative achievement — Obamacare. The spike in Obamacare premiums and deductibles just two weeks before Tuesday's election proved a particularly damaging reminder of what Obamaism had wrought.
Hence the other principal task for the now dominant GOP: Undo Obamaism. Begin with canceling Obama's executive orders on everything from immigration to climate change. Then overturn his more elaborate legislative adventures into overweening liberalism, starting, of course, with Obamacare.
The promise of a Trump presidency is that, if it can successfully work with a Republican Congress, it could turn Obamaism into a historical parenthesis. Republicans would then have a chance to enact the Reaganite agenda that has been incubating while in exile from the White House.
For years Washington gridlock has been attributed to GOP obstructionism. On the contrary, serious legislation, such as Medicare reform passed by the GOP House, was either strangled in the Senate by Democratic leader Harry Reid or died by veto on President Obama's desk.
Beyond the undoing, there's now the prospect of doing. Serious border enforcement, including a wall, for example. That's not only a good in itself, it would offer leverage in a grand bargain that would include eventual legalization of resident illegal immigrants, an idea supported (according to the exit polls) by more than seven in 10 voters.
Another given is a reshaping of the currently rudderless Supreme Court with the nomination of a conservative justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia.
During the campaign, Trump's populism often clashed with traditional Reaganism. The key to GOP success is to try to achieve an accommodation, if not a fusion. Two agendas: one ideological, one socioeconomic. They both need to be addressed. Onto the Reaganite core of smaller government and strict constitutionalism must be added a serious concern for the grievances of the constituency that animated the Trump insurgency, the long-suffering, long-neglected working class.
If Reaganite conservatives want to head off wrongheaded solutions — such as massive tariffs, mercantilist economics and trade wars — they must be prepared to accept such measures as federal wage subsidies and targeted restraints on trade. This involves giving up a measure of economic efficiency. But the purpose is to achieve a measure of social peace and restore dignity and security to a stressed and sliding working class. Some might even call it compassionate conservatism.
The key to success for a Trump presidency is for the Reaganite and populist elements in the party to be willing to advance each other's goals even at the cost of ideological purity. This will require far-reaching negotiations between a Trump White House and a GOP Congress. The Republicans have gained control of all the political branches.
They have the means to deliver. They now have to show that they can.
(c) 2016, The Washington Post Writers Group. Charles Krauthammer is also a Fox News commentator and appears nightly on "Special Report with Bret Baier." Krauthammer joined The Post as a columnist in 1984, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1987.
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Taiwan and Hong Kong may be only the beginning of Xiaomi's expansion outside China. The popular Chinese vendor of low-priced handsets is aiming at getting into five more markets next year.
"This year, we will only do Hong Kong and Taiwan," said CEO Lei Jun on Wednesday. "At the same time, we will also look at next year possibly doing five other markets. This year we will look at which five markets will be the easiest to do."
Xiaomi may not be a major name outside of China, but the company has built one of the hottest smartphone brands in the country. Crowds of fans congregate for its product launches and pre-orders for the devices run into the hundreds of thousands. Last year, Xiaomi sold 7 million handsets, and this year it hopes to double sales to 15 million.
The company has thrived by selling low-priced handsets built with higher-end specs. One of its latest smartphones, the Xiaomi 2S, features a quad-core Qualcomm processor and a 4.3-inch HD screen, at a starting price of 1999 yuan (US$322) when bought without a contract.
But the secret of Xiaomi's success has more to do with tapping into its "hardcore fans" to generate word-of-mouth marketing, Lei said while speaking to journalists at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing. Xiaomi phones are loaded with a company-tweaked version of Android called MIUI. Every week, it releases a new version of MIUI, built with online customer input from a million of its users.
"When Apple develops its iOS 7, you have no idea what they will do with it before the release. It's not like that for us. We will first ask what you want," he said. "I feel Xiaomi's most important secret to success is that Xiaomi is not selling a product, but an opportunity to participate."
One example is the voice recording app on Xiaomi phones, which Lei said a group of Chinese journalists helped contribute to. Following the feedback, changes were made to the app so that it will continue to record even when incoming calls come through. In addition, the phone will turn to silent mode when the app is recording.
"If you invent a feature and I help you complete it, won't you go tell all your classmates, co-workers and friends that you made this feature?" he said. "Once you participate in Xiaomi, you will like it."
The company's business model gives Lei confidence that Xiaomi can succeed in Taiwan, where its phones are being released this month. Xiaomi intends to cultivate its own fan base in Taiwan, and within one or two years the company can become a strong vendor on the island, he added.
"Taiwan has some people that don't believe we can sell our phones. But I said if I just sell one phone I will succeed. If one person uses it, then he will participate, and then his friends will too," he said. "Every user becomes your R&D, every user becomes your sales, every user becomes your friend, that's the company we want to make."
Xiaomi, however, is still considered a small-scale handset vendor in its own home country, and largely relies on online sales to sell most of its smartphones. In 2012, the company had less than a 3 percent market share, according to research firm IDC. But demand for Xiaomi phones remains high. In recent weeks, the company, which gets its phones made by contract manufacturers like Foxconn, has been fulfilling 200,000 to 300,000 orders for its latest Xiaomi handsets, but still about 2 million customers are waiting online to buy them.
The fervor for Xiaomi products has often been compared to Apple's popularity. But Lei insisted that the company was following its own path.
"We are very different from Apple and Samsung," he said. "So please don't describe us as an Apple copycat. We are not."


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Over 40 Groups Join National Day of Prayer Against Pornography Next Week
More than 40 groups have signed on to sponsor an event geared toward combating pornography in the United States.
The National Day of Prayer Against Pornography will take place next Tuesday. The anti-pornography observance is chiefly sponsored by the group Morality in Media (MIM), which is dedicated to combating pornography usage via education and the law.
Patrick Trueman, president and CEO of MIM, told The Christian Post that his group intends to make this an annual event.
"We know that, 'unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.' Thus, all the efforts of Morality in Media, and groups, churches and individuals will come to naught unless our Lord is directing them," said Trueman.
"Because the response has been so overwhelming this will be an annual event. The date may change but we will continue the effort."
Trueman also told CP that he attributed the large number of groups and individuals aiding the Day of Prayer as being in part because of Americans starting to recognize the dangers of pornography.
"There is a great awakening to the harms, spiritual and physical, of pornography," said Trueman.
"Every family is dealing with the problem and the urgency of the task is now recognized. Thus, there is a great willingness to help."
Organizations lending their support for the Day of Prayer include Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Family Research Council, the Alliance Defending Freedom and Movieguide, a nonprofit entertainment-centered ministry and publication.
Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, spokeswoman for CWA, told CP that "pornography is one of CWA's seven core issues."
"As the nation's largest public policy women's organization we could not possibly stay silent on one of the worst cultural influences that harm women and children," said Crouse.
"In addition to the degradation and objectification of the old-fashioned pornography, today's pornography is increasingly more hard-core, violent and demeaning to women."
Crouse also told CP that she had coauthored a paper on pornography, which noted 10 harms of the product, including it being addictive, its harm to marriages, objectification of women, and links to sex trafficking.
"Pornography is not protected by free speech because of its harm to individuals and communities; obscenity is a crime. Also, many people, ironically, are unaware that using pornography can lead to impotency in men," said Crouse.
"So, pornography is far from the benign behavior that far too many people in our 'anything goes' culture assume that it is -- it is actually very harmful to men as well as women and children."
Ted Baehr, founder and publisher of Movieguide, serves as a member on Morality in Media's board.
Baehr told CP that he began working alongside Morality in Media in the 1970s and felt that the event next Tuesday corresponded well with Movieguide's mission.
"We've been involved through the whole area of the media. ... This is a long, long history of involvement and understanding the influence of the media," said Baehr.


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(CNN) -- As a player who has won African and Olympic titles with Cameroon and Spanish league and Champions League titles with Barcelona as well as three African footballer of the year awards, Samuel Eto'o expects to command respect.
Barcelona star Samuel Eto'o is one of a number of top footballers who have spoken out against racism.
Yet Eto's spectacular career in Spain, where his goalscoring prowess have made him one of the world's most feared and admired strikers, has been punctuated by incidents in which he has been the victim of sickening racist abuse.
Memorably, Eto'o started to walk off the pitch in protest during a match at Real Zaragoza in 2006 after being taunted by home supporters chanting monkey noises only to be persuaded to return by his Barcelona teammates and the club's coach, Frank Rijkaard.
"I was leaving the field and if it wasn't for Rijkaard, my teammates and the referee, I would have done it," Eto'o recalls. "In that moment you start thinking whether there is something wrong with being black, you know? But I think we are all humans, everyone's blood is the same color and we all have the same heart. I don't see any differences in skin color."
While Spanish football's reputation for sophistication and flair has made la Liga one of the most attractive and marketable competitions in world football, attitudes in the stands have not always kept apace with the cosmopolitanism on display on the pitch.
Nor has positive leadership always come from the top. Real Zaragoza were fined just 9,000 euros ($13,800) for the abuse directed by their supporters at Eto'o. And in 2005, the Spanish national coach Luis Aragones -- currently steering Spain through Euro 2008 -- was at the center of controversy when he used a racist slur to describe French striker Thierry Henry, now a teammate of Eto'o's at Barcelona.
Eto'o admits that racism is so widespread in Spain that he no longer dares take his family to matches.
"Racism can happen anywhere and I don't want them to see it," he told CNN. "It's a sad situation in football. In my opinion the problem is getting bigger and the people that should come up with a solution are not doing it. So to protect my family, I don't take them to the game."
With black players regularly subjected to monkey chants in Spanish stadiums, Eto'o believes determined action is needed before verbal abuse spills over into physical violence.
"The authorities are working to find solutions. But they must find them. We can't wait until some crazy fan jumps from his seat and kills a black player before measures are taken. The players are revolted by it and we try to help each other. But the authorities must find a way to set an example."
One of the saddest aspects of racism in football is that many of those who participate in taunting colored players would never dream of behaving the same way on the street, at work or at home.
But Eto'o fears attitudes in stadiums may reflect wider social attitudes which find expression amid the passion, emotion and anonymity of the football crowd
"Football stadiums are just a reflection of what is going on in society," Eto'o says. "Many times in stadiums people just feel more relaxed and say what they think when they're somewhere else."
He believes the Spanish media has a key part to play in tackling racism in football, not just by highlighting incidents of abuse but in creating an environment in which racism in the stands is no longer quietly condoned.
"I don't make the decisions, but something needs to be done. Right now, the media here pays attention to the incidents of racism, but doesn't discuss solutions. That's the tragedy. They use these images to create an impact rather than to identify racism as a problem and to urge people to find a solution. TV has a lot of weight on public opinion and what the industry must do is make people feel a social responsibility to stop this kind of behavior."


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Treyarch Game Design Director David Vonderhaar addresses the Black Ops 2 community with a number of updates and details a few game tweaks in the latest Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 patch.
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Along with a recap of Season 3 of League Play and ways that you can get in on some Black Ops 2 community nights, Vonderhaar outlines a few key tweaks made in the latest Black Ops 2 Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 patch:
- Trophy System glitch allowing users to gain a lot of score fixed.
- Collectors Edition camo bug fixed.
- Select fire attachment bug fixed. Now remembers previous setting.
- Gameplay tuning updates: The dual wield CAP-40 is getting a nerf – total damage output decreased, as is the hip fire accuracy or spread.
Check out the full list of update notes for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 below:
Feature Improvements
- The CODcast control panel can now optionally show the overhead map in the player list in games with 10 players or less.
- Added the ability to view past seasons for all the leagues a team has been a part of in League History.
- Background Downloading has been enabled on XBOX 360.
Multiplayer Issues Addressed
- Resolved an issue where players were receiving an error message when trying to join a System Link or LAN Party lobby without internet connection.
- Resolved an issue where clients could not join a PS3 LAN Party when not connected to PSN.
- Resolved Select Fire reverting back to default settings after a round transition.
- Fixed a potential exploit using the Trophy System.
- Addressed an issue with the Collector's Edition camo un-equipping from weapons.
- Addressed an issue on PS3 with some Revolution map loading screens showing a checkerboard image and occasionally giving an error message on load after downloading the pack from the in-game Store.
- Addressed an issue with the Peacekeeper not appearing for players that join into a match that is already in progress.
- Resolved an issue on Drone where the automatic doors at the weapon plant would trigger/destroy Lethal Equipment.
- Addressed an issue with the highlight for the Dual Band Scope on players equipped with certain weapons.
- Fixed an issue with the planted bomb disappearing at the "B" site on Hydro when the water floods.
- Addressed an issue with the VTOL Warship not destroying if hit when exiting the map.
- Players will now be able to complete the Shredder Scorestreak challenge using a Death Machine from a care package.
- The Stealth Chopper no longer counts towards completion of the Chopper Hunter challenge.
- Resolved an issue where planted Riot Shields were not getting destroyed by the gondolas in Downhill.
- Resolved an issue with C4 and Bouncing Betty's killing players on contact.
- Fixed an issue where the Combat Axe would sometime destroy the Guardian.
- Addressed a missing image issue with the Medals section of the Combat Record for new players.
- Players with Hard Wired equipped will no longer lose their Care Package if throwing it while an enemy EMP Scorestreak is active.
- Fixed an issue with bomb plants being automatically aborted while a Care Package or Hunter Killer Drone is equipped.
- Addressed a graphical issue with the small thumbnail CODTV videos on PS3.
- Hosts can now kick players in Custom Game lobbies.
- Hint text for the Camera toggle in the Live Stream menu updated to include support for the XBOX 360 Kinect sensor.
- Videos being rendered in the Theater will no longer be automatically canceled when the controller disconnects.
- The CODcast UI is now displaying the flag for the Flag Carrier in the Objective column.
- Addressed a button mapping issue in the Emblem Options menu.
- Resolved an issue with the red crosshair appearing in the Target Finder when targeting an enemy equipped with Cold Blooded.
- Fixed an issue with the stats tracking for the Executioner's Accuracy in the Combat Record.
- Resolved an issue with the Mission Complete trophy on PS3.
- Fixed an issue where the Friends List showed a joinable/green arrow icon for players who were not playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
- Resolved an issue where the turret in the northern building on Turbine would become unusable.
- Addressed an issue with the Lightning Strike Scorestreak if the player had the tablet out during a host migration.
- Fixed an issue with some weapons having invisible magazines from 3rd person animations during an automatic reload.
- Resolved an issue on XBOX 360 with backing out of a Guest Account sign-in.
- Addressed an issue where the game would sometimes crash after repeated host migrations.
- Fixed knife lunge launching players on the Express map.
- Fixed an issue where the player could get an empty War Machine or Death Machine when switching classes at the start of the match.
- Addressed a loss of functionality for the player and guest when switching between Multiplayer and Zombies and having the guest switch back to Multiplayer.
- Match clocks in Multi-Team and Free-for-All games modes no longer continue to tick down in Theater when a CODcast game is paused.
- Resolved an issue where planting a Claymore in front of a crouched player with a Riot Shield would cause the Claymore to fly across the map.
- Resolved a couple of overlapping UI issues when CODcasting.
- Players can now turn the Voice Icon On/Off when CODcasting a match in Theater.
- Freed up some additional memory when transitioning from Zombies to Multiplayer to improve stability on PS3.
- Addressed an issue on PS3 with the Calling Cards not sorting properly after unlocking them.
Gameplay Balancing
Spawn System Improvements:
- Reduced the weight of positive team spawn influencers on owned Domination flags. This reduces cases in Domination where players may spawn near their team but also near danger.
- Added more spawn points to Hijacked for Demolition and Kill Confirmed, which improves the spawn-picking algorithm on that map in those game modes.
- Adjusted spawn influencers on Standoff for improved spawn-picking algorithms in all game modes.
- MSMC: Recoil has been increased.
- MSMC: Hip fire accuracy has been slightly reduced.
- PDW57: Recoil has been increased.
- PDW57: Hip fire accuracy has been slightly reduced.
- KAP-40: Dual wield damage reduced.
- KAP-40: Dual wield hip fire accuracy has been reduced.
- MMS: Cold blooded now renders enemies almost completely invisible to MMS.
- QBB-LSW: Medium range damage increased.
- HAMR: Medium range damage increased.
Assault Rifles:
- FAL OSW + Select Fire: Damage reduced when firing full auto.
- SMR + Select Fire: Damage reduced when firing full auto.
- Type 25: Move speed increased.
- Type 25: Medium range damage increased.
- SCAR: Long range damage increased.
- SWAT-556: Long range damage increased.
- M1216: Medium range damage increased.
Sniper Rifles:
- Ballista + Iron Sight: Idle sway reduced.
Zombies Issues Addressed
- Resolved several issues with exploitable areas in the Die Rise
- Resolved several exploits in Green Run
- Resolved network/connectivity issues that could occur in the frontend and lobbies.


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Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn't all he's botched up: his girlfriend Chris is tired of waiting for him to marry her. When he gets a hot tip on some Nazi spies operating in Washington, D.C., he convinces Chris to help him break the story so he can get his job back. The pair soon find themselves in several awkward predicaments as they track the criminals down in a night club, a burlesque show, and face a final showdown at a beauty salon.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Diversified manufacturer Eaton Corp. said Monday that its pending acquisition of Cooper Industries PLC has received regulatory approvals from Chinese and European officials, putting it a step closer to closing.
The deal has now received all of its required regulatory approvals and been approved by the shareholders of both companies. It remains subject to customary closing conditions, Eaton said.
Eaton agreed in May to buy the Dublin, Ireland-based electrical components maker for about $11.46 billion, in a move designed to expand its reach in the global electrical power and distribution business.
Under the agreement, Eaton would acquire Cooper by forming a new holding company incorporated in Ireland, to be renamed Eaton Corporation plc.
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On 12 December 2001, with resolution 56/93, the United Nations General Assembly decided to create an ad hoc office to promote the elaboration of a text for an international convention against human cloning, and recommended that the office continue their work the following year as a work group within the Legal Affairs Committee of the UN Assembly.
The working group, which convened during the 2002 General Assembly, decided to continue their consultations into 2003, placing the matter on the agenda under the title "International Convention Against Human Reproductive Cloning�?. In September 2003 Costa Rica prepared a draft for the Convention, extending the prohibition to all types of "human�? cloning – and therefore even therapeutic cloning – obtaining support from, among others, Italy, Spain and the United States of America. At the same time, to avoid the affirmation of a prohibitionist set-up of a convention proposal, a group of member states guided by Belgium prepared a draft agreement to ensure that the final convention included reproductive cloning exclusively and not therapeutic cloning. Participants in this group also included Brazil, China, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The discussion to the Legal Affairs Committee of the General Assembly at the Sixth Committee in October 2003 radicalised the fronts, making a compromise impossible. On 6 November 2003, Iran, in the name of the states of the Islamic Conference Organisation, introduced a motion for not putting the Costa Rica proposal to vote until 2005; the reference text was approved by only one vote: 80 votes in favour, 79 against and 15 abstentions. With a surprise attack from the prohibitionist front, during the plenary session of the General Assembly it was decided to resume the debate in Autumn 2004. In the meantime, the new Spanish government changed its position, but Germany rushed to join the prohibitionist front, fortified by the fact that the Vatican obtained special status as UN observer. In view of the resumption of the debate in the General Assembly this year, thanks to its status as consultant at the economic and social council of the UN, the Transnational Radical Party and the Luca Coscioni Association organised a meeting during the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva with Luca Coscioni, Marco Cappato and European and American scientists and researchers, during which an international appeal was launched to the Secretary General and to the UN member states. At the beginning of June, the group of legal consultants of Asian countries called a meeting of experts at the UN library, coordinated by the Genetics Policy Institute in which Christopher Reeve also participated. During coming weeks the international appeal will be one of the tools for world antiprohibitionist mobilisation on scientific research. Further information on UN events is available at http://www.un.org/law/cloning by Marco Perduca * Marco Perduca is Member of the Board of the LCA and the Transnational Radical Party representative at the UNTags: Old


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The Eli Manning era with the New York Giants may be coming to an end.
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The Giants announced on Tuesday the two-time Super Bowl MVP was being benched for the first time in more than 13 years so they could evaluate the other quarterbacks on the roster over the final month of a lost-and-injury-filled season.
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Manning expressed his unhappiness but once again he played the good soldier, voicing his support for veteran Geno Smith, who will start against Oakland on Sunday.
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"It's not a preseason game where you are going to start to the half, the next week a quarter, a series, that's not fair. That's not fair to me, not fair to Geno, not how you play. You play to win. When you are named the starting quarterback you think it's your job to go win the football game.
"If you are going to play a little bit, I didn't think it was the right way to play," said Manning, who became the Giants starting quarterback 10 games into his rookie season in 2004, which was about a month or so before Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz turned 12 years old.
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Manning's voice broke when asked how this one hurt, noting it was one of his hardest days as a Giant.
"It's been a hard day to handle this, but (I'll) hang in there and figure it out," he said.
Manning spoke with the media for less than four minutes. He then took his backpack and left the locker room.
McAdoo said he made the decision to start Smith over the weekend, and co-owner John Mara and general manager Jerry Reese were in agreement.
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"This is not a statement about anything other than we are 2-9, and we have to do what is best for the organization moving forward, and that means evaluating every position," Reese said in a statement.
"I told Eli this morning that an organization could not ask for anymore in a franchise quarterback. He has been that and more. Nobody knows what the future holds, but right now, this is what we think is best for the franchise."
McAdoo, the second-year head coach, said the organization needed to learn more about Smith and rookie third-round draft pick Davis Webb in the final weeks of the season. Smith took four snaps in a blowout loss to the Rams. Webb has not played.
McAdoo refused to say if this was the end of the Manning era.
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"I have a lot of confidence in Eli as a player, as a quarterback," McAdoo said. "But at this point, it's my responsibility for the organization to make sure we take a look at Geno and at some point take a look at Davis and give them the opportunity to show what they can do."
Manning and Smith were told about the decision on Tuesday, and later the team was filled in.
McAdoo also plans to give Webb an opportunity, but probably not this week. Manning, who recently passed the 50,000-yard mark, will be the backup.
Webb called Manning the best teammate he has ever had.
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"If you had a Mount Rushmore of not only New York Giants, but New York athletes, he'd be on it," Webb said.
Manning's streak is the second-longest streak by a quarterback in NFL history, behind Brett Favre's 297.
Manning has started every Giants game since Nov. 21, 2004, when he took over for veteran Kurt Warner in the 10th game of his rookie season.
Manning has also started 12 postseason games, and twice led the Giants to Super Bowl victories.
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Warner, now a NFL Network analyst, criticized Tuesday's decision by the Giants and said he was happy that Manning said he didn't want to start to protect his streak.
"This is so much bigger than Eli Manning," Warner said. "This is about an entire organization that has gone sideways. If you've got one guy that represents what this organization has been about and the character and the success of this organization, it's that guy that has been under center in Eli Manning. He's never done anything but show character and do things the right way."
A second-round pick in 2013, Smith signed with the Giants as a free agent in the offseason after being released by the Jets. He played in only two games in 2016 with his season ending with a major knee injury.
Smith told Manning that he supports him and has his respect.
"This guy has done a tremendous job in this league," Smith said. "He has done a bunch of things for this organization and none of that can ever be taken away or forgotten. This is a business and it's tough. My number is up so it is my time to go out there and do what I am supposed to do and make sure I get the job done."
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Manning holds almost all of the franchise's major passing records. This season, he has thrown 14 touchdown passes and seven interceptions. He will turn 37 on Jan. 3.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.


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CRS: Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami: Humanitarian Assistance and Relief Operations, March 21, 2005
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Title: Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami: Humanitarian Assistance and Relief Operations
CRS report number: RL32715
Author(s): Rhoda Margesson, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Date: March 21, 2005
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- This report summarizes the extent of the disaster and relief effort. It includes descriptions of how the U.S. government responds to disasters in general and of the situation in the affected countries.
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CRS: Military Operations: Precedents for Funding Contingency Operations in Regular or in Supplemental Appropriations Bills, June 13, 2006
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Title: Military Operations: Precedents for Funding Contingency Operations in Regular or in Supplemental Appropriations Bills
CRS report number: RS22455
Author(s): Stephen Daggett, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Date: June 13, 2006
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- Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress has appropriated $331 billion for military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Of that amount, $301 billion, or 91%, has been provided either in supplemental appropriations bills or as additional "emergency" funding in separate titles of annual defense appropriations acts. A recurring issue in Congress has been whether funding for ongoing military operations - such as those in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere - should be provided in supplemental appropriations bills and in additional "emergency" accounts, or should instead be considered as part of regular annual defense budget requests. This report briefly reviews the main precedents, including funding for the Korean conflict, the Vietnam conflict, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991, and various smaller military contingency operations in the 1990s.
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