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Maze Rattan Garden Furniture 4 Seat Square Bar Set with Ice Bucket Brown
Maze Rattan Garden Furniture 4 Seat Square Bar Set with Ice Bucket Brown
- Usually in 10 to 20 Working Days*
- Two Man Delivery £29.99
- Assembly Service (See Below)
- Removal of Old Furniture (POA)
Maze Rattan Garden Furniture 4 Seat Square Bar Set with Ice Bucket Brown
- Elegant, stylish garden bar set with square high table with ice bucket
- Made from brown weatherproof PU Rattan with Aluminium frames
- Includes 4 bar stools / high chairs with beige cushions
- Table requires simple assembly - all instructions, tool and fittings provided
- Range of matching parasols available as optional extras (see above)
- Part of the Maze Rattan Garden Furniture collection
- Includes 5 Year Warranty as standard
The Maze Rattan Garden Furniture collection is a stylish, contemporary range of PU Rattan garden furniture with a broad range of rattan garden dining sets, sofa sets, corner dining sets, daybeds and sunloungers in a wide array of styles and colours. The range includes rectangular, round, oval and square sets, with 2 seater sets, 4 seater sets, 6 seater sets and 8 seater sets. All seat and back cushions and the option to add matching parasols and bases.
- Brand: Maze Rattan
- Product Code: FLA-147510
- Availability: In Stock
- Standard Delivery: Usually in 10 to 20 Working Days*
- Delivery Upgrades: Two Man Delivery £29.99 Assembly Service (See Below) Removal of Old Furniture (POA)
We aim to deliver all items in 10 to 20 working days once the payment clears, although depending on the area most of the items are delivered in 10 days. If there is a delay we will notify you ASAP. Our delivery company will contact you to arrange a delivery date and time. Please send your mobile and landline number once you have placed the order. All deliveries are booked in 2-3 days prior to delivery so you will always know when your goods will arrive. If you have purchase garden furniture the standard delivery can arrive on a pallet. If you need help with the delivery please ensure you select the Delivery Plus service.
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Standard Delivery is 10 to 20 working days with exception to the following Brands:
- Bentley Designs: 3 to 5 weeks
- Devonshire Pine & Oak: 3 to 5 weeks (Lundy & Torridge Range is made to order 4 to 6 weeks)
- Please note that adding Delivery Super Plus on garden furniture will extend the products lead time to 3-5 weeks, due to the specilist nature of this service.
As above but also includes; a two-man delivery service, they will carry each item into the room of choice up the stairs etc. Please notify us if you prefer this service and we can quote you the price. All orders over a certain amount are automatically upgraded free of charge to two man delivery.
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We are now able to offer premium next day delivery on some of the ranges. Minimum spend required, please contact us on 01235 834831 and we can discuss in detail.
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Lead times vary for made to order furniture, for example Mottisfont Painted Pine Furniture, New Court Oak Furniture, Aquarius Oak Range etc. as advertised. Normally they are finished in 4 to 6 weeks.
All items delivered free (to UK Mainland) except in remote areas (example: Scotland) and some postcodes will incur a surcharge. Standard Delivery to surcharge zones is 3 to 5 weeks. For the following postcodes-IV, DD, PH, AB, KW, EH, DG, FK, G, KA 1-26, 29, 30, KY, ML, PA 1-19, TD, LL, LD, SY16-20, 23-25, SA. CF, NP, Northern and Southern Ireland, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Channel Islands and Scottish Isles an additional charge may apply. If you do live in any of these areas please contact us for a quote.
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To ensure your Oak Furniture is looking it's best at all times, a quick fresh coating of wax, ideally every 12 to 16 weeks, is all that is required.
On a clean dust-free surface and using a lint free cloth, apply the wax generously, firstly in a circular motion then finish off following the grain, removing any excess.
Avoid placing your reclaimed wood furniture too close to a heat source or in constant direct sunlight.
To avoid marking the surface, do not place hot objects such as pans and cups directly on the surface.
Avoid ring marks by using coasters and mats where needed. Should you spill any liquids onto the surface please remove immediately.
Where the Oak furniture is oiled finished, then a fresh court of Danish oil every 6 months will make sure your furniture looks great.
To clean your Rattan garden furniture , a pressure washer or jet wash on a wide spray can be used at a distance of approx 1m from the product. Do not aim this directly at the joints of the furniture. Alternatively it can simply be wiped down by hand.Cushions should be stored away when not in use to prolong the life of the product. If dirtied these can be hand washed with soapy water.


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January 16, 2000, Section 6, Page 52Buy Reprints
Last fall, the New York State Education Department released the results of a fourth-grade math test and eighth-grade math and language tests. It will come as no surprise to hear that the numbers for students in New York City were dreadful. About two-thirds of city eighth graders failed the English language arts test, and about three-quarters failed in math; half the fourth graders failed the math test. The results provided fuel for those who felt that New York City schools are underfinanced, that the city uses too many uncertified teachers, that academic standards are low, that junior high schools are neglected and that the tests themselves are unfair. There's some merit in all these notions. What was not said, however, was the obvious: that the city districts that performed poorly, like those that performed well, scored almost exactly as the socioeconomic status of the children in them would have predicted. You could have predicted the fourth-grade test scores of all but one of the city's 32 districts merely by knowing the percentage of students in a given district who qualified for a free lunch. Only a few dozen of the city's 675 elementary schools scored well despite high poverty rates. In other words, good schools aren't doing that much good, and bad schools aren't doing that much harm.
This is the case in virtually every big city in the country. Though over the past 35 years we have poured billions of dollars into inner-city schools, and though we have fiddled with practically everything you could think to fiddle with, we have done almost nothing to raise the trajectory of ghetto children. This is a fact, but it is one of those painful facts that it seems better to ignore. Why say anything that could discourage the children, parents and teachers who so desperately need encouragement? Why give aid and comfort to the opponents of high standards? After all, we know that some schools succeed where others fail. We know that some reforms work better than others. In a recently published book, ''Choosing Equality,'' Joseph P. Viteritti, a professor of public policy at New York University, describes the failure of one innovation after another before embarking on a defense of the one reform he believes in, school choice. Or perhaps, if the answer isn't choice, it's something else. Surely there must be some way of making a difference in the lives of poor children.
Indeed, you can't spend much time in the schools and not believe in the efficacy of reform. In the past few years, I have visited dozens of schools, almost all of them serving inner-city children and most of them exemplary in one way or another. I have been to charter schools where concerned parents and educators have wrested control of the classrooms from ineffective bureaucracies, and also to schools with effective leaders and schools with traditional curricula and schools with ''less is more'' curricula and schools with ''multiple intelligences'' teaching styles. The good news is that we know more about what works than we did even a decade ago; should what is left of the ideological fog surrounding education evaporate, we might even agree on a better mousetrap.
But how much better? How powerful can this one institution be in the face of the kind of disadvantages that so many ghetto children bring with them to the schoolhouse door, and return to at home? In ''An American Imperative,'' a minutely detailed study of educational inequality published in 1995, Scott Miller, a scholar now affiliated with the College Board, wrote that while ''some strategies for investing resources in disadvantaged children are substantially more productive than others . . . there is little evidence that any existing strategy can close more than a fraction of the overall achievement gap'' separating children with low socioeconomic status from their wealthier, largely suburban counterparts.
The idea that school, by itself, cannot cure poverty is hardly astonishing, but it is amazing how much of our political discourse is implicitly predicated on the notion that it can. The national debate over entrenched poverty virtually ended with welfare reform. We now speak of the inner-city poor as if they were a remote tribe that has not yet been exposed to the miracle of the marketplace. In November, President Clinton was able to announce his antipoverty initiative jointly with Speaker Dennis Hastert because the plan was so vague and modest -- it came down to encouraging private investment in the inner cities -- that the G.O.P. was happy to sign off on it. But the same Congressional Republicans who oppose on principal virtually all federal programs focused on the urban poor also voted to add $2 billion to President Clinton's request for Title I, the main source of federal funds for schools in high-poverty areas. George W. Bush has come out in favor of increased spending by the federal Department of Education. In recent years conservatives have come to play a critical role in the debate over inner-city schools; indeed, school reform is the one type of social engineering with which conservatives feel comfortable.
Although education is fundamentally a local issue, and national politicians can do very little about it, we will probably hear a great deal more about the schools as we enter the primary season and the presidential campaign. Bush is running as a ''compassionate conservative,'' which is to say that he cares about the poor and will not simply consign them to the whim of the marketplace. What this means in practice, however, is that he believes in school reform. Last fall, Bush seemed to be visiting an inner-city school every week; in his speeches he returns constantly to the virtues of market-driven school reforms like vouchers and charter schools, as well as to the need for rigorous academic standards for high-poverty schools.
Al Gore takes a very different view of the matter -- although he, like Bush, thinks education is the main answer to poverty. Gore is in favor of high standards -- if any national figure isn't, he hasn't stuck his head up yet -- but he also wants to spend more money to fix crumbling school buildings and to hire more teachers to decrease class size. The Democrats say that the current system can be made to work with the right incentives, while Republicans think the system has to be forced to change through competition. Though largely agreeing with Gore, Bill Bradley has at least begun to create a platform that places school reform within the context of broader antipoverty policies. But no candidate can, it appears, afford to reckon with the seemingly intractable nature of inner-city poverty.
It is hard to think of a more satisfying solution to poverty than education. School reform involves relatively little money and no large-scale initiatives, asks practically nothing of the nonpoor and is accompanied by the ennobling sensation that comes from expressing faith in the capacity of the poor to overcome disadvantage by themselves. Conversely, the idea that schools by themselves can't cure poverty not only sounds like an un-American vote of no confidence in our capacity for self-transformation but also seems to flirt with the racialist theories expressed by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, who argued in ''The Bell Curve'' that educational inequality is rooted in biological inequality.
An alternative explanation, of course, is that educational inequality is rooted in economic problems and social pathologies too deep to be overcome by school alone. And if that's true, of course, then there's every reason to think about the limits of school, and to think about the other institutions we might have to mobilize to solve the problem. We might even ask ourselves whether there isn't something disingenuous and self-serving in our professed faith in the omnipotence of school.
The idea that bad schools perpetuate poverty, and that good schools can go a long way toward curing it, is quite new and, like most current ideas about entrenched poverty, dates to the civil rights era. One provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act mandated the publication of a survey ''concerning the lack of availability of educational opportunities for individuals by reason of race, color, religion or national origin in public educational institutions.''
The sociologist James Coleman was asked to head up the survey project. The implicit assumption behind the survey, an assumption that Coleman said at the time he shared, was that black children were failing because the segregated schools they attended were grossly underfinanced. Coleman found that black students were, in fact, highly segregated, but he also concluded that resources like school libraries and laboratories were distributed more equally than was widely believed and, far more startling, that ''differences in school facilities and curriculum, which are the major variables by which attempts are made to improve schools, are so little related to achievement levels of students that, with few exceptions, their effect fails to appear even in a survey of this magnitude.'' Coleman found that everything schools did accounted for only 5 to 35 percent of the variation in students' academic performances, though he did find that the figures for disadvantaged students were at the higher end of the scale. He concluded that ''the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.''
This was, if true, astonishing and deeply unsettling news. Nobody believes in school the way Americans do, and no one is more tantalized by its transformative powers. School is central to the American myth of self-transcendence, whether it's Thomas Jefferson's seedbed of the republican spirit, or the one-room schoolhouse that propelled Abe Lincoln out of frontier backwardness, or those teeming junior high schools in Brooklyn that served as the melting pot for three generations of children from Russia and Italy and Ireland. In the national myth -- and of course not only in myth -- school has the miraculous power of leveling inequalities even as it lifts everyone. And by the time Coleman came along we had come to expect far more of school than we ever had before, because we were firmly entrenched in a meritocratic culture in which the most important rewards were decided by school success. Coleman's argument that schools essentially passed along inequality was simply unacceptable, and largely ignored.
In the 1960's, the nation embarked upon a vast and utterly unprecedented national experiment in the use of schooling to alleviate poverty. Of all Washington's undertakings, the most popular, and the most romantic, was the Head Start program for impoverished preschool-age children, which continues to this day to be thought of as the one Great Society program that really worked. Head Start began in 1965, and President Johnson immediately fell in love with the imagery of little children playing with scissors and glue; he ramped the program up within the first year from $18 million to $50 million to $150 million, and he bragged that Head Start was raising children's I.Q. scores 10 points. Researchers have known from the virtual outset of the program that Head Start had no effect at all on I.Q. scores. And although beneficiaries were somewhat less likely than nonbeneficiaries to be left back, or placed in special-education classes, whatever gains children made on test scores faded out within a year or two. A 1985 study by the Department of Health and Human Services concluded that ''in the long run, cognitive and socioemotional test scores of former Head Start students do not remain superior to those of disadvantaged students who did not attend Head Start.'' A 1995 study found no difference between siblings who did and did not attend Head Start.
It was also in 1965 that Congress passed Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which provided federal funds to local school districts with high concentrations of impoverished students. Title I now reaches 10 million children, including one in every five first graders. Over the years about $100 billion has been dispensed through the program; the annual budget is now $7.7 billion, though Congress just voted to increase the amount to $9.9 billion. Until the law was amended in 1994, most school districts used their Title I money to offer additional instruction, mostly in reading, to students who were falling behind; in effect, students took an extra half-hour class in reading every day, generally using the same methods that had already failed. The Title I results are even more unequivocal than those for Head Start. A 1997 study conducted for the Department of Education concluded that ''there were no differences in growth'' between students who did and did not receive Title I assistance.
Finally, it was in the late 1960's and early 70's that desegregation moved decisively from the courts to the schools. Throughout the South, where Jim Crow had reigned, desegregation was a matter of simple justice. But in the North and Midwest, where whites as well as blacks had to be bused, and often a very long way, it was critical to demonstrate a significant benefit to black students to justify the disruption and discontent. The Supreme Court had been persuaded by the views of the psychologist Kenneth Clark that desegregation could help black children overcome the stigma of inferiority conferred by segregation. James Coleman had, in fact, found an ''integration effect,'' which he explained by suggesting that black students in largely white schools experienced ''a greater sense of control'' over their own destinies than students in segregated schools. But most subsequent studies found that the effect was only a modest one. A 1975 survey of the best-designed studies of integration's effects found that more than half disclosed ''no significant difference'' between segregated and nonsegregated black students. The Harvard sociologist Christopher Jencks concluded in his 1972 book, ''Inequality,'' that desegregation could close the academic gap by no more than 10 to 20 percent -- which struck him as too small an effect to trump the issue of parental preference. Desegregation has faded as a remedy in part because many parents, including black parents, do not feel that the disruption is worth the gain.
Head Start, Title I and a host of other programs have gone a long way toward proving one of Coleman's central claims, which is that money does not buy educational equality. Although the premise of many a crusading volume, including Jonathan Kozol's ''Savage Inequalities,'' is that ghetto schools have been allowed to rot, many of the most catastrophically failing school districts, like Newark's, spend far more money per student than do middle-class communities nearby. Labor economists have had a field day proving that school spending is not correlated with school achievement. And that desegregation never had nearly the academic effect its advocates hoped for shows that equality of educational opportunity is much more elusive than it once seemed to be.
Of course, we are talking about an enormous social experiment that is quite new; it is scarcely surprising that the first round of educational reforms didn't work very well. Thus, 35 years ago, when he compiled ''Equality of Educational Opportunity,'' Coleman naturally measured the resources that were easy to measure and that were commonly assumed to matter -- physics labs, academic curricula, teacher qualifications and so forth. It turns out, however, that some of the resources that he didn't measure, and perhaps couldn't have measured, are the ones that do make a difference. In 1981, Coleman and two colleagues published a study titled ''Public and Private Schools,'' in which they argued that private and parochial schools do a better job than the public schools do, especially with impoverished students. They attributed the difference to higher expectations and a better disciplinary environment. In the mid-70's, an education scholar named Ronald Edmonds looked for the common elements among inner-city schools that exceeded expectations. The ''effective schools'' movement, which sprang from Edmonds's research, emphasized the importance of strong leadership and an unambiguous focus on academic achievement -- findings that were not, at bottom, incompatible with Coleman's.
The schools that Coleman studied in the mid-60's differed from one another very little; now, by contrast, we live in an era of rampant educational experimentation. There is hardly anything more powerful in the literature of social policy than accounts of individual schools or school districts or pedagogical systems that defy the odds in the worst neighborhoods. The titles alone convey their inspirational quality: ''Miracle in East Harlem,'' ''The Power of Their Ideas,'' ''Every Child Every School.'' School reform suffers, even more than other forms of social intervention, from the problem of the ideal case. It turns out that almost anything can work when instituted by a dedicated principal supported by committed teachers. Jaime Escalante, the teacher celebrated in the movie ''Stand and Deliver,'' prodded his impoverished Chicano students to extraordinary achievements on their Advanced Placement math tests, but any method that depends on a Jaime Escalante is no method at all.
There is an overwhelming tendency in the public schools toward regression to the mean, and not only because charismatic leaders are in short supply. Thus, ''Miracle in East Harlem'' presents the moving story of administrators who, beginning in the mid-70's, produced an ''overwhelming transformation'' in America's most famously blighted neighborhood by freeing schools from bureaucracy and forcing them to compete for students, creating ''schools and a school system that put children first.'' The authors conclude that ''the revolution of District Four can become the path of the future for our nation's schools.'' Certainly public-school choice is a good idea, but since District Four finished 24th out of 32 New York City districts last year on the state's fourth-grade reading test -- slightly worse than its poverty ranking would have predicted -- either the approach itself or its application is less than revolutionary.
It is true that we know far more than we used to about what does and doesn't work. But we are only beginning to figure out how to make something work on a meaningful scale. The most intriguing development in recent years is the rise of ''comprehensive,'' or ''schoolwide,'' reform, terms that refer to models for change that incorporate a coherent and self-consistent vision of pedagogy, curriculum and structure -- a replicable, purpose-built school. There are now two dozen such models, many of which stake their reputations on their abilities to improve the performance of inner-city children drastically. More than 9,000 schools have adopted one of the designs. The most popular model among inner-city schools, and the most successful, is a reading program called Success for All, which has expanded into a whole-school reform known as Roots and Wings. The premise of Success for All is that reading is the key to success in school, and that the best way to teach reading, or any other basic skill, is to focus relentlessly on ''prevention and early intervention'' rather than on remediation. I recently spent a day at P.S. 159, a Success for All school in the supremely devastated neighborhood of East New York, in Brooklyn.
The day began with a minutely choreographed 90-minute reading class. The combined first- and second-grade ''Roots'' class is the heart of the design; these children are expected to gain proficiency in decoding skills by the end of the year. Carolyn Skolnick's class was reading a ''shared book'' about skating. This is a specially designed text that has the full narrative for the teacher and a separate, phonetically controlled text for the students; over time, the teacher's ''scaffolding'' drops away, and the children read all of the text. Skolnick read a line, and the children repeated it. Teacher and students read several pages in this fashion. Next the class practiced sounds -- phonics, to use the term of abuse. Then the children shifted to vocabulary words designed to reinforce one particular sound -- dived,'' ''beside,'' ''ride,'' ''time.'' Skolnick pointed, and her students recited. The class practiced letter recognition. Then the children paired off and took turns reading the story, the listener helping the reader over rough patches. Virtually all of the children could read the story. Skolnick handed out clipboards, and the children wrote down the names of the characters and described the setting, the ''problem'' and the ''solution'' of the story. Almost all of the children were at least minimally competent at this, too.
Success for All is about as close as schooling has gotten to the level of medicine -- to matching a treatment to an affliction. But it is a treatment, not a cure. Five years ago, 39 percent of the children at P.S. 159 were reading at grade level; after four years of Success for All, the figure has risen to 47 percent. Fifty-four percent of the kids failed the fourth-grade reading test last year. That was better than the district average, at 66 percent, but worse than the statewide average. Studies of Success for All show ''strong evidence of positive effect on student achievement,'' according to a recent report, but it's important to keep in mind the size of those effects. Other types of comprehensive reform have shown slighter effects, or none at all.
Since we don't know how much school can be made to matter, we should work to reform schools as if there were no limit to their powers to compensate for disadvantage. But we also have to reckon with how modest the accomplishments of reform have been, especially with regard to the gap between white students and poor (though not necessarily poor) black students. Although black students now earn high-school diplomas at virtually the same rate as whites -- an extraordinary achievement in itself -- they are enrolling in, and graduating from, college at a much lower rate. Despite significant gains, blacks are still scoring about 200 points below whites on College Boards. And despite improvements in reading scores, the average black 17-year-old is reading at a 13-year-old level. According to one study, the racial gap in language scores approximately doubles between the time a black student enters school and the time she leaves.
There is reason to believe that schools can make some kind of difference, but right now they are not making nearly enough.
The failure of school reform to make a significant dent in educational inequality tells us something about the nature of school, and something about the circumstances that produce the inequality in the first place. School, at least as we understand it now, is not as powerful an institution as it seems. Most children do not encounter school until age 5, unless they happen to be in an unusually rigorous preschool program. Anyone who has ever reared a child knows how immense, and lasting, are the effects of those first five years. Nor is school quite as all-encompassing as it seems: academic work typically takes up only about half the time that children spend in school. And whom you hang out with, both during and after school, can matter more than what happens in the classroom. One reason so many apparently effective school interventions fade over time, according to Kenneth Wong, a professor of education policy at the University of Chicago, is that while small children are responsive to adult authority figures, adolescents pay more attention to peers.
The question of exactly what it is that inner-city culture does to children is painful and immensely contentious. The success of those Russian and Italian and Irish immigrants three-quarters of a century ago, and of many Asian and Hispanic immigrants today, makes it plain that the issue has less to do with poverty as such than with culture -- with conscious values as well as unconscious behaviors. It was Kenneth Clark, who is black, who first popularized the phrase ''the pathology of the ghetto,'' in ''Dark Ghetto,'' published in 1965. Clark wrote bluntly about how ''the stigma of racial inferiority'' leads to self-destructive behavior, including violence, alcohol and drug abuse, family breakdown -- every social pathology save suicide. But Clark understood this damage as emotional and psychological, not cognitive. Thus, he said that desegregation, by removing the stigma, could lead to a huge improvement in black academic performance. And he railed against what he called the ''cultural deprivation'' argument, insisting that there was no reason ''a low economic status or absence of books in the home or 'cognitive deficit''' should ''interfere with the ability of a child to learn to read.''
Clark did not reckon with the cognitive harm done to children who grow up in a world without books or even stimulating games, whose natural curiosity is regularly squashed, who are isolated from the world beyond their neighborhood. A study carried out in the early 80's at the University of Kansas reached the almost unfathomable conclusion that 3-year-olds in families with professional parents used more-extensive vocabularies in daily interactions than did mothers on welfare -- not to mention the children of those mothers. Here is a gap far greater than even the gulf in income that separates the middle class from the poor; it is scarcely surprising that Coleman found that the effects of home and community blotted out almost all those of school.
Social scientists use the expressions ''human capital'' and ''social capital'' to describe and quantify these effects. ''Human capital'' was invented by the economist Theodore Schultz in 1960 to refer to all those human capacities, developed by education, that can be used productively -- the capacity to deal in abstractions, to recognize and adhere to rules, to use language at a high level. Human capital, like other forms of capital, accumulates over generations; it is a thing that parents ''give'' to their children through their upbringing, and that children then successfully deploy in school, allowing them to bequeath more human capital to their own children.
''Social capital'' refers to the benefits of strong social bonds. Coleman defined the term to take in ''the norms, the social networks, the relationships between adults and children that are of value for the children's growing up.'' The support of a strong community helps the child accumulate social capital in myriad ways; in the inner city, where institutions have disintegrated, and mothers often keep children locked inside out of fear for their safety, social capital hardly exists. Coleman consistently pointed out that we now expect the school to provide all the child's human and social capital -- an impossibility.
A great deal of social science has recently gone into explaining how differences in human and social capital account for the gap that exists before children even arrive in school. In a finding published in 1998 in ''The Black-White Test Score Gap,'' edited by Christopher Jencks and a colleague, Meredith Phillips, a group of five researchers examined the 17-point difference between black and white 5- and 6-year-olds on something called the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Equalizing black and white parental income, they concluded, would account for only about one point of the difference, since black children scored far lower than whites from a comparable economic background. Equalizing parents' years of schooling would add only another point or two (though equalizing ''quality'' of schooling would add a bit more). Between half and two-thirds of the gap, however, could be erased if you could address a wide array of socioeconomic factors that accumulate over generations -- the size of the household the child's mother grew up in, the mother's sense of control over her life, the child's birth weight. The single largest chunk, accounting for 3.5 points, is ''middle-class parenting practices'' -- reading to your children, taking them on trips, using reason rather than the flat edict.
I recently asked Edmund W. Gordon, the first research director of Head Start and perhaps the foremost black psychologist of his generation, what he concluded about the 35-year effort to conquer poverty through the schools. Gordon, a diminutive, bearded man of painstaking precision, said: ''Back in the 60's, there was desegregation, there was the War on Poverty, there was Head Start -- and most of us really thought that we were going to do it. I must say that I no longer believe that. I think that schools can be much more powerful, but I don't think they can reverse all the ill effects of a starkly disadvantaged status in society. If you go back and look at Coleman's stuff, and Bourdieu's'' -- Pierre Bourdieu, the French social theorist -- they're talking about human and cultural capital development. It seems to me that the logic of that argument is that schools work for people who have those varieties of capital to invest in it. And if they don't, then schooling is going to be greatly handicapped.''
In recent years, Gordon has become preoccupied with the ''academic underproductivity'' of middle-class black students, which he attributes largely to the difference in child-rearing habits and peer culture between the black and white middle classes. These are forms of private behavior that are both overwhelmingly important and extremely difficult to reach through conscious acts of intervention. Gordon is working with black organizations ''to make it the thing to do in the black community that you spend your time reading to your kids, that you take your kids to visit colleges, that you go to the library.'' He recognizes that the same problems apply, with vastly greater intensity, to impoverished black families, but he doesn't think exhortations will do any good. Moreover, he said: ''I'm 78 years old. I want to do something where I can have some chance of success in the next 10 years. I don't know if we can do anything in that time frame at the lower economic levels.''
Nowadays we read the Coleman report as a ''conservative'' document, dashing cold water on the faith that we can diminish inequality through conscious effort, and thus end the isolation of inner-city children. But Coleman was suggesting not that we should learn to live with inequality but that we will have to look to institutions other than schools to provide human and social capital. In their review of Coleman's findings, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Frederick Mosteller, then both professors at Harvard, made this point explicitly. They cited the psychologist Jerome Kagan to the effect that ''the differences in language and number competence between lower- and middle-class children'' is ''awesome'' by first grade; the critical task is thus to change ''the ecology of the lower-class child in order to increase the probability that he will be more successful in attaining normative skills.''
How do you alter that ecology? Perhaps, they suggested, you could do more by raising families' occupational levels or wage rates than by direct spending on school. Christopher Jencks, in ''Inequality,'' adopted the more radical position that if school was only passing on and legitimizing inequality, the only solution was a socialist-style redistribution of income.
A great deal has, of course, changed since then. For one thing, at the time, Jencks argued that raising blacks' test-score performance wouldn't make much of a difference because the labor markets were so biased against blacks that academic success hardly paid off. By 1998, in ''The Black-White Test Score Gap,'' Jencks stated that for blacks, as for whites, cognitive achievement largely determines professional success; eliminating the gap would in fact solve the problem of persistent black poverty. And Jencks now says, as he did not before, that some things schools do can effect educational inequality -- but only just so far. And so, like Moynihan and Mosteller, he turns his attention to the child's ecology, though he no longer holds out much hope for large-scale social change. ''Broadly speaking,'' Jencks and Meredith Phillips wrote in ''The Black-White Test Score Gap,'' ''there are two ways of improving 3- and 4-year-olds' cognitive skills: we can change their preschool experiences and we can change their home experiences. Changing preschools is less important but easier than changing homes.''
Preschool is a device for extending the reach of school downward toward the time when the cognitive gaps are beginning to form -- a means of distributing human capital to children who grow up with little to none. That few Head Start programs have actually done this may say more about the design of Head Start than about the inherent limitations of preschool. In fact, several studies of ''model'' programs -- which typically start from birth, last all day, hire professional teachers and offer a wide range of services -- show large and lasting effects, drastically reducing placement in special education and being held back and boosting academic achievement. And a long-term study of the Abecedarian Project in North Carolina, a preschool program financed largely by the federal government, shows that children who received just such early preparation were far more likely than a control group to graduate from high school and attend college and got higher grades and better scores on cognitive tests.
Last fall, I spent a day at a preschool program in Vineland, a small town in southern New Jersey, where the population is for the most part Hispanic and black. Impact, which is largely state financed, has several advantages that would be hard to reproduce in East New York. The school sits among a series of low brick buildings in the middle of a campus setting; everything is clean and fresh. What's more, only a little more than half of the 239 students are poor enough to qualify for a free lunch, because working-class and some middle-class parents are delighted to have their kids spend the day in such a salubrious setting. Nevertheless, what's really striking about Impact, at least if you have been to a typical Head Start program, is how appealing the preschool classes look: the teachers are well-spoken professionals, the classes are small and richly stocked with books and art materials and computers and the kids move purposefully among activities. These were classrooms, not nursery schools. Even in the child-care center, each group of children has a teacher who is certified in early-childhood education.
Impact is not so much a preschool as a multipurpose social-service agency, offering year-round, all-day child care from birth, adult literacy programs, episodic health care, including mental health, and education and counseling for pregnant teenagers. It absorbs a larger portion of a child's life than a school does, and it makes a far more ambitious attempt to offer itself as a kind of alternative community. Impact has contracted with the Vineland public schools to take teenagers in the early stage of pregnancy and give them one year of schooling in small classes as well as intensive instruction in child-rearing, nutrition and health care. The girls I met represent the middle stage of the typical downward spiral of disadvantage: themselves often born to teenage mothers, they had already been left back once or twice, and some were on their second child, by a different boyfriend from the first.
Paula Bender, who runs Impact, says: ''We're in the business of trying to break cycles. A teen mother comes in. If she had stayed in her old school, she probably would have dropped out. Her child might have had a low birth weight. She can come here and get nutrition, prenatal care and education. Then we're going to take care of her baby, and make sure that any developmental lags are diagnosed and treated. The mothers are going on to high school, and we have the children from birth.''
Programs like Impact are very expensive: Bender says she is spending $8,000 to $10,000 a child, which is at least double the cost of the Head Start program down the road. Al Gore has proposed spending $50 billion a year to make Head Start-type programs available to all 4-year-olds, whether poor or not. Steven Barnett, a professor of economics at Rutgers, has estimated that it would cost $25 billion to $30 billion to offer an enriched preschool program to every poverty-level child in the country -- about triple the current cost of Head Start -- and that making such a system universally available would run into the hundreds of billions. Perhaps we should keep our expectations modest, but it's worth bearing in mind that the French have created, in the form of the ecole maternelle, an extraordinarily effective and widely admired form of preschool that reaches 85 percent of 3- to 5-year-olds. For the French, universal public education effectively starts at 3. Can we think of a good reason it shouldn't here?
An all-day, year-round child-care and preschool program -- and especially one intended specifically for the poor -- smacks of a kind of Progressive Era paternalism in which mothers are expected to yield up their children to wise professionals. Back when he was just a congressman with strange ideas, Newt Gingrich once suggested that inner-city children be shipped en masse to the equivalent of Boys Town, a proposal that makes poverty sound like a crime punishable by loss of offspring. But Gingrich understood something important: ghetto children need an enveloping environment that is secure and nourishing, as the streets and often the home itself are not. And school is not enveloping enough. You can't take children away from their mothers, but you can place them in an alternative environment for much of the day (which the end of welfare, in any case, has now made indispensable). There's a strong argument for universally available after-school activities. No less important would be the restoration of the web of church, community and police-sponsored programs that once flourished in big cities. The breakdown of families means that we have to ask more of social institutions -- and not just schools -- than we used to.
Of course we also have to ask more of the families themselves. In Jim Sleeper's ''Liberal Racism,'' the black economist Glenn Loury recalls vexing a symposium on race by saying: ''Let's talk about who's going to read to these kids. . . . How come these public libraries at the corners of housing projects aren't overflowing?'' The language of personal responsibility makes many liberals flinch, and Edmund Gordon, Head Start's first research director, is almost certainly right in thinking that middle-class parents are a lot more likely to respond to advice about child-rearing than are single mothers struggling to keep their heads above water. But if the cognitive gap between black and white 5-year-olds has to do with the human and social capital children do or do not acquire at home and in the community -- and not, or at least not principally, with racism or unfair tests or different ''cognitive styles'' -- then we can't do without the explicit language of values and behavior. We have to unambiguously embrace the virtues of a ''middle-class parenting style.'' And prominent black figures have to weigh in against the antiacademic and even ''oppositional'' peer culture that Gordon and others say is retarding black progress.
It's not impossible to imagine a bargain in which conservatives agree to pay for comprehensive institutions like Impact or for after-school activities and liberals agree to embrace the language of personal responsibility, but we would still be asking ghetto children to thrive in an incredibly adverse environment. The idea of directly addressing that environment through jobs programs, housing, health care or the adoption of ''a living wage'' survives only in the fringes of political discourse. But you cannot disentangle the objective conditions of a place like East New York from the habits and values of the people who live there. The most effective solution -- and the most unlikely one of all -- is to move families out of the ghetto environment altogether. As Lawrence Katz, a Harvard economist, puts it, ''You can't change the parents, but you can change the neighborhood.'' Katz points to the famous Gautreaux experiment in Chicago, in which families were given subsidies to move from high-poverty neighborhoods to the suburbs; studies have found that children in these families were far more successful academically than would have otherwise been predicted. Katz is now in the midst of a long-term study of families involved in Moving to Opportunity, a five-year-old program sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development that allowed a small number of families in five cities to leave the ghetto for working-class neighborhoods. Though it is too early to look at academic results, Katz's early study found very large drops in incidents of misbehavior and sizable improvements both in children's physical health and in mothers' mental health.
A few years ago, I spent several days at the McDonough School, an elementary school in Hartford. Despite its reputation for corporate wealth, Hartford is one of the poorest cities in the country; it was there that President Clinton recently announced his extremely modest new antipoverty initiative. McDonough's population was almost 100 percent Hispanic and black and 100 percent poor. The school was decrepit, but clean and orderly, cheerful and safe -- an oasis of purposefulness in a neighborhood so chaotic that a few months earlier a janitor was chased off a snowblower and shot outside the school's annex. The principal, Donald Carso, was the kind of irrepressible enthusiast who made a point of greeting parents out in front of the school every morning, even in the dead of winter -- a figure straight out of the ''effective schools'' literature. But McDonough was a failing school: three-quarters of the graduating sixth graders had scored at the remedial level on the state reading test. Carso said he had reached the limit of his powers. ''In this world,'' he told me, making a little globe with his fingertips, ''we're very successful. But we can't control all the stuff on the outside.''
At bottom, the reason the kids at McDonough and practically every other elementary school in Hartford were failing, while the kids in the wealthy suburbs that began just on the other side of West Hartford were thriving, was not that the schools in Hartford were bad and the schools in the suburbs were good, but that each set of children was repeating patterns, and following trajectories, established before they arrived at school. McDonough's children lived in a world bounded and defined by poverty. One teacher told me that when she talked to her sixth graders about college, they'd say: ''What's college? I don't know anyone who's been to college.'' They didn't know anyone who had succeeded in school, landed a good job, made it to the suburbs.
I met Carso because he had decided to testify for the plaintiff in a well-known desegregation case, Sheff v. O'Neill. He said something had to be done to spring the children free from the isolation of urban poverty; he played with the idea that the Hartford schools should simply be shut down, and the children dispersed into the surrounding suburbs. Carso said he never thought the litigation would solve the problem (it hasn't), but he hoped that it would at least force people to pay attention. ''We are,'' he said to me almost pleadingly, ''saying to our neighbors, 'Take ownership of our problem.'''
That is the issue: are we going to take ownership of the problem? The gulf between the poor and the well-off is much wider than it used to be, not only financially but also psychically. The memory of the Depression, with its ''there but for the grace of God'' reflex, has passed out of American politics and culture. Once it was the rich who seemed to live on an island of their own; now it's the poor. Their isolation makes them gratifyingly invisible. The drop in crime even makes the poor seem like less of a threat to the prosperous; it frees us to contemplate, along with George W. Bush, the spiritual hollowness of plenty. But here's a thought: maybe our prosperity will continue to seem hollow as long as so many 3-year-old black girls face such grim prospects.

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Posted 18 May 2017 - 09:37 AM
Posted 18 May 2017 - 02:30 PM
Haha yeah that was awesome!
Cocop pls, there's still time, take strikers out
Posted 19 May 2017 - 06:20 AM
Did you hear strikers can now roam and ground pound more than once. OP
Posted 19 May 2017 - 06:31 AM
I watched some PvP footage yesterday and it seems much more balanced and tuned for competitive games and esports. Snipers, shotguns, fusions, rockets, grenade launchers are all power weapons as they should be.
Here's the complete skill tree from reddit for the 3 sub-classes people could play yesterday.
- Press L1 + R1 to weave Solar light into blades and smite your foes from the skies
- Fusion Grenade: Explosive grenade that causes bonus damage when attached to target
- Solar Grenade: Creates a flare of Solar Light which continuously damages enemies trapped inside
- Firebolt Grenade: Unleashes bolts of Solar Light at Nearby Enemies
- Controlled Glide: Better directional control
- Balanced Glide: Bonuses to Speed and Control
- Focused Burst: Initial Boost of speed for Glide
Third Skill (Press and hold O):
- Healing Rift: Conjure a well of Light that continuously heals those inside it
- Empowering Rift: Conjure a well of Light that increases the attack power of those inside it.
Attunement of Sky Tree:
- Igniting Touch: A powerful melee ability that ignites enemies and causes them to explode
- Risen Angel: While in air, aim your weapon to hower in place for a short time. Dealing Precision damage extends this effect's duration
- Skyfire: While Daybreak is active, Descend causes explosive damage where you land
- Phoenix Dive: Hold O while in-air to quickly Descend and regenerate health
Unnamed Tree:
- Firestarter: A power melee ability that damages enemies while also increasing your movement and reload speed
- Wild fire: Engage your enemies mid-flight. Fire weapons and throw grenades while gliding
- Blazing Dash: Press O,O while midair to Dodge
- Everlasting Flames: Killing an enemy with Daybreak extends its duration
Fist of Havoc :
- Press R2 to slam the ground
- Press R1 to smash shoulder first
- Pulse Grenade: Periodically damages enemies in its radius
- Flashbang Grenade: Disorients enemies
- Lightning Grenade: Emits bolts of lightning
- Increased Height: Greater height on lift
- Catapult: Strong initial burst of momentum
- Increased Control: Better directional control on lift
Third Skill (Hold O):
- Towering Barricade: A large Barrier that can be used for cover or to seal off dangerous areas
- Rally Barricade: A small barrier that allows you to peek over while aiming down the sights and instantly reloads your equipped weapon when you take cover
Code of Juggernaut Tree:
- Knockout: Breaking enemy shields increases your melee range
- Reversal: Melee kills immediately trigger health regeneration
- Frontal Assault: A powerful melee punch that grants you increased weapon stability
- Trample: Fist of Havoc lasts longer while sprinting. Killing enemies with FoH extends the duration.
Unnamed Tree:
- Shoulder Charge: After sprinting for a short time press R1 to slam shoulder
- Aftermath: FoH disorients enemies and leaves a damage-dealing field in its wake
- Magnitude: increased the duration of Pulse/Lightning Grenades and Aftermath
- Aerial Strike: FoH deals more damage the longer it is in the air
Golden Gun:
- Summon a flaming pistol that disintegrates enemies
- Tripmine Grenade: Places a tripminde
- Incendiary Grenade: Catches enemies on fire
- Swarm Grenade: Release seeking drones
- High Jump: Double Jump with greater height
- Strafe Jump: Better directional control while in air
- Triple Jump: Upgrades Double Jump with a third Jump
Third Ability (O,O):
- Gambler's Dodge: Dodging near enemies generates melee energy
- Marksman's Dodge: Automatically reload your equipped weapon when dodging
Way of the Outlaw Tree:
- Bombs for Bullseyes: Precision Hits generate Grenade Energy
- Chain of Woe: Precision Kills increase weapon reload speed for you and nearby allies
- Six-Shooter: Golden Gun can be fired quickly up to 6 times but has a shorter duration
- Explosive Knife: Throw a knife at enemies that explodes shortly after impact when melee energy is full
Unnamed Tree:
- Line 'Em Up: Precision hits with Golden Gun increases its damage and extends its duration
- Crowd Please: Precision Hits with Golden Gun generate Orbs of Light for your allies
- Gunslinger's Trance: Enter a trance with each Precision kill, reducing the cool down of your Golden Gun
- Knife Juggler: Throw a knife at enemies when melee energy is full. A precision kill with this ability immediately recharges it.
Posted 19 May 2017 - 07:18 AM
Here's the official Activision fact sheet.
Destiny 2
Product Description
Destiny 2 is a first-person action game and the evolution of its award winning, internationally acclaimed predecessor, Destiny. With a compelling, immersive story and fresh beginning awaiting all new, returning, casual, and competitive players, Destiny 2 will deliver an experience for new and existing players to discover.
Cinematic Story with Relatable Characters
Humanity has fallen to an overwhelming invasion force, led by Lord Ghaul, the imposing commander of the brutal Red Legion. He has stripped Guardians of their power, and forced the survivors to flee their home. Players will venture out into our solar system to discover an arsenal of weapons and devastating new combat abilities. To defeat the Red Legion and confront Ghaul, they must reunite humanity's scattered heroes, stand together, and fight back to reclaim our home.
Four New Stunning Worlds to Explore with New Features
Destinations of Destiny 2
§ European Dead Zone – The largest destination yet featuring a lush forest, abandoned town, a cave system below the surface, and a Red Legion military base to explore and contest.
§ Titan – One of Saturn's Moons where Commander Zavala is regrouping at the hands of Ghaul. There is no land on Titan. Instead, players explore a series of Golden Age platforms surrounded by a rolling ocean.
§ Nessus – a strange and unstable planetoid that has been fully consumed by the Vex where players will find Cayde-6 is caught up in his own adventures in a stunning landscape of sheer walls, lush canyons, and creepy Vex caverns.
§ Io – A moon of Jupiter, where Ikora Rey has gone in search of answers. Io is the last known site the Traveler visited during the Golden Age, it's now occupied by our enemies.
All New Director
§ Your guide throughout Destiny 2 in your search for Adventures, Lost Sectors, new Public Events, and more. Players can pick a landing zone, explore, and seamlessly jump into other activities in game.
§ Shorter missions with self-contained stories for players to learn more about the Destiny 2 universe and the characters that live there.
Lost Sectors
§ Scattered, enemy dungeon layers throughout the world you can discover with unique boss enemies guarding treasure to earn.
Public Events
§ Unique, optional, dynamic combat activities that players can join on the fly as they roam around the world solo or with up to nine other players.
Action, Adventure, and Gameplay Activities for All Types of Players: New, Returning, Casual, and Competitive
Play Solo or with Friends
§ Story Campaign – Narrative of Destiny 2's cinematic story where players can also explore in Adventures, Patrols, Lost Sectors, Quests, and Public Events.
Join Friends to Complete Cooperative Experiences
§ Strikes – Three-player missions in Destiny 2.
§ The Raid – Six-player missions with incredible challenges and rewards.
Face-off Against Opponents in Competitive Experiences
§ The Crucible: Competitive 4v4 PvP Gameplay with New Modes and Maps
- Countdown is a new competitive mode where players spawn on either Offense or Defense, and when the round ends you swap sides and roles. The goal is to plant a bomb at the enemy base, and then defend it until it explodes. Each round is worth one point. First team to six wins. To revive a teammate, you must use a revive token. Power weapon ammo is only granted to the one player who pulls it. Working as a team is the key to victory.
- Midtown is an abandoned part of the City. When the Red Legion invaded, they completely ignored this sector of the City in their takeover. The Legion deemed Midtown was of no tactical importance. Lord Shaxx agrees, which is why it was chosen as a Crucible arena in the first place.
Clan Creation Feature
§ New integrated system that allows friends to bring their community and unique culture to the forefront of Destiny. Clans have been fully integrated into the game and will provide official banners, invitations, and their own rewards and experience systems for all members.
Guided Games
§ A new feature that brings solo players and clan communities together to play Destiny 2's most challenging activities including Raids, Trials and Nightfall Strikes.
Destiny 2 is Coming to PC Through Battle.net
The PC version will feature:
§ 4k Resolution Support (3820x2160)
§ Uncapped framerate
§ Full mouse and keyboard support with custom key mapping
§ Text chat
§ Adjustable Field of View
§ Detailed PC settings screen
§ 21:9 monitor support
PlayStation® Exclusive Content
At launch, PlayStation® gamers will get access to additional timed exclusive* content. More will be revealed throughout the summer.
On Display at the Destiny 2 Gameplay Premiere
The following content was available to play at the Gameplay Premiere:
§ Destiny 2's beginning story mission 'Homecoming' where your Guardian responds to an emergency in the Last Safe City.
§ A Strike called 'The Inverted Spire' taking place on the planet, Nessus, where the enemy Cabal have awoken something deep beneath the surface.
§ New Competitive Mode:
o Countdown: Plant a bomb at the enemy base, and defend it until it explodes.
§ New Competitive Map:
o Midtown: The Last Safe City, Earth
§ The PC version of Destiny 2 was running on:
o GPU: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti (Courtesy of Nvidia)
o CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2Ghz (Courtesy of Intel)
o 16GB Ram/500GB SSD/Windows 10
o Monitor: Predator XB1 27" 4K IPS with NVidia G-Sync [XB271HK] (Courtesy of Acer)
o Keyboard: Razer Ornata Chroma (Courtesy of Razer)
o Mouse: Razer Deathadder Elite (Courtesy of Razer)
o Headset: Razer Man O'War 7.1 (Courtesy of Razer)
Destiny 2: $59.99 SRP
Destiny 2 – Limited Edition: $99.99 SRP
Destiny 2 – Collector's Edition: $249.99 SRP
Digital / ESD
Destiny 2: $59.99 SRP
Destiny 2 – Game + Expansion Pass Bundle: $89.99 SRP
Destiny 2 – Digital Deluxe Edition: $99.99 SRP
Posted 19 May 2017 - 01:09 PM
I'm cautiously optimistic about Destiny 2. Most of the stuff that looks cool has already been touched upon, so I'll list a few things that look concerning:
- The European Dead Zone is supposed to be the largest area in the game, quoted as being twice the size as Destiny 1's largest area. That still isn't very big, and every other world we visit will be smaller. I'm not asking for Witcher/Zelda levels of vastness, but I was hoping D2 not being shackled by consoles with 512 MB of RAM would've allowed for more size
- There still doesn't seem like there's much to do on Patrol. Adventures and Lost Sectors sound like great additions though.
- Unless I missed something, there's no confirmation on an in-game grimoire. If I have to go to bungie.net again just to read story beats and backstory, then fuck that. Mass Effect had a huge in-game codex of voiced entries 7 years before Destiny 1 launched, and 2 didn't go through the first game's development hell. There is zero excuse for offloading it again.
- Are there only 3 new subclasses? Captain America, Wonder Woman, and Poledancer all look awesome but I'm hoping it can be expanded to two subclasses per element (so 6 total per class)
- Only one new raid. I get that the Cabal are front and center for the main quest this time around, but starting with only one piece of unique end-game content again seems a little thin, especially when raiding is (for me) the best part of Destiny.
- The least important thing here, but the graphics aren't that impressive. Again, I expected more from not being hindered by last-gen console hardware.
Posted 19 May 2017 - 02:04 PM
I don't believe there are shooters with this fidelity of graphics that have bigger worlds than this. Keep in mind that while on Patrol you can start a mission or strike so there's that to do in terms of a seamless activity in the world.
As much as I've played this game, I honestly have not read much of the Grimoire at all and I'm really not interested in it. I think if the story didn't suck so much in D1 then the Grimoire wouldn't have been much of a deal at all. I do agree with you though, if they're going to do it then it should be in-game.
I'm very happy with 3 sub-classes for each, and that is all in fact that there will be. I think it's any more than that and things start to get redundant in terms of abilities, not to mention that this is a great reason to play as the other 2 classes so you have a total of 9 sub-classes to play.
I'm very hyped for built-in clan support. Someone start designing the Ascendant Justice banner.
Crucified, his son, and I are switching to PS4. Who on here will NOT be on PS4?
Posted 19 May 2017 - 05:45 PM
I haven't decided if I'll buy the game yet. Even so, I have no idea what platform I'll get it on. Better graphics/framerate and text chat are hard to pass up, but if all my friends are on PS4 I don't see why I'd leave everyone just for those luxury features.
Posted 20 May 2017 - 07:46 PM
Kinetic nailed it. I am very, very cautious about this game and am on the fence about buying it. If I do, I will be going where ever the group is.
That said, scaling back the one group activity we could all mostly do (Crucible) to 4 people is a massive bummer.
Posted 21 May 2017 - 08:37 PM
Posted 22 May 2017 - 06:22 AM
Awesome. It seemed like a no-brainer but I needed to see it to believe it. One of my biggest concerns now out the window.
Also nice to see they're doubling down on the scannable sections of the environment. That was one of my favorite parts of TTK's quest line, finding little statues or weird vats of goop that Ghost could tell you about.
Edited by Kinetic, 22 May 2017 - 06:25 AM.
Posted 22 May 2017 - 09:39 AM
Initially, I got triggered, but now that I've watched the footage, I like the changes a lot. The roaming concepts seem to have been in the interest of seeing strikers used _at all_ in PvE, but they've also done a ton to make Strikers something other than a pile of infuriatingly broken abilities that are anything but fun to fight against in PvP: lightning grenades need to prime (as opposed to D1, where they attach and instantly shoot out a massive cone of damage that is _wider_ than the visual cone that you can see... oh and being anywhere in that massive invisible cone leaves you one shot from death). Also, there's a way smaller radius for the Fist of Havoc ground pound now and it can't insta-kill other roaming supers.
Posted 22 May 2017 - 09:42 AM
Probably double-dipping (PS4 and PC)
Posted 22 May 2017 - 02:49 PM
Initially, I got triggered, but now that I've watched the footage, I like the changes a lot. The roaming concepts seem to have been in the interest of seeing strikers used _at all_ in PvE, but they've also done a ton to make Strikers something other than a pile of infuriatingly broken abilities that are anything but fun to fight against in PvP: lightning grenades need to prime (as opposed to D1, where they attach and instantly shoot out a massive cone of damage that is _wider_ than the visual cone that you can see... oh and being anywhere in that massive invisible cone leaves you one shot from death). Also, there's a way smaller radius for the Fist of Havoc ground pound now and it can't insta-kill other roaming supers.
Strikers were completely broken in PvP and almost useless in PvE, that juxtaposition was hilarious. They changes they're proposing look solid but I would've been okay with that subclasses being thrown out entirely. My biggest hope is for Bungie to find a way to make PvP weapon adjustments without diminishing them in PvE, which was a huge problem with every fucking patch they put out while I played, and apparently during the 2 years I didn't as well. Shotguns and fusion rifles not named Sleeper Simulant are shooting feathers in Destiny 1.
Posted 27 May 2017 - 07:58 AM
I mean, Patrol was just there for mat/ammo grinding anyway... The changes sound nice, but it's clear that the direction of the series is not toward open-ended exploration, but instead aimed at instance-based dungeons, etc. I haven't touched the series since raid #2 - have they worked on loot distribution at all since then? It was by far my biggest gripe with the game. I know they were doing some kind of bartering system for Exotics so that's definitely a step in the right direction. Now if only there were more than four locations and a single raid... Is that the full list, or are there more to be revealed?
It's too bad we can't have cross-platform profiles... My wife will definitely want to play on PC, but I figure everyone here will probably do PS4...
Posted 29 May 2017 - 11:12 PM
- There still doesn't seem like there's much to do on Patrol. Adventures and Lost Sectors sound like great additions though.
Don't worry, there's way more to do. We'll see how long it takes folks to burn through the content, but compared to D1 there's definitely a lot more there.
Posted 01 June 2017 - 01:10 PM
Don't worry, there's way more to do. We'll see how long it takes folks to burn through the content, but compared to D1 there's definitely a lot more there.
Are you able to comment on raids/strikes at all? They were by far my favorite part about the originals but I always felt there were too few...
Posted 02 June 2017 - 01:56 PM
They used the verbiage 'Raid' (singular) throughout the announcement, but there are also 2 confirmed DLC's. If the Osiris DLC has a Raid, I will shed tears of nerd joy.
Posted 12 June 2017 - 06:58 PM
Alright, so what platforms are you guys getting this on?
Can't wait for all multiplayer to be unified so we don't have to go through this shit every goddamn time.
Console betas* in July, PC in August.
Edited by Drew, 12 June 2017 - 06:59 PM.
Posted 13 June 2017 - 05:54 AM
I think everyone is now on PS4, Crucified and I were the last ones left on xbox and we're switching.
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The Press Pilot 150 from Toledo Integrated Systems, Holland, OH, can be used as a stand-alone control or integrated with other automation equipment such as tonnage monitors, die protection, programmable limit switches and PLCs, for maximum flexibility. Dual processors provide the necessary redundancy and control reliability that meet or exceed ANSI B11.1, OSHA 1910.217 and CAN/CSA-Z142-02 standards.
Simple integration can be accomplished with one of the firm's TPC (total press control) packages: DPPlus TPC, Press Attendant TPC, Co-Pilot TPC or Maximizer TPC. Features of the Press Pilot 150: plain-English fault/prompt messages, Ethernet connectivity, brake monitor and inputs for as many as four operator stations. For ease of installation and to address a variety of applications, the control can be configured to be resolver-, encoder- or cam-based.
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If you want a camera that takes great photos and has a larger-than-normal optical zoom range, the 8X-optical-zoom Kodak EasyShare M580 ($170) fits the bill. It's one of the best point-and-shoot cameras we've tested this year in terms of exposure quality, and it's incredibly easy to use. Its ease of use and sub-$200 price, however, come at the expense of manual controls and exciting in-camera features.
The lens of the 14-megapixel M580 starts at 28mm for wide-angle and zooms all the way up to 224mm at full telephoto. The M580 is completely built for automation, and the camera does a good job of it. The Smart Capture mode identifies the scene automatically and adjusts the camera's settings for the situation. When you attempt to shoot a macro, it automatically turns to the macro scene mode, and in general it's smart enough to choose the best scene mode to handle your shot.
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However, when we used the camera while out and about, the M580 tended to suffer from shaky or blurry images. Kodak lists this camera as having "image stabilization" but doesn't specify whether it's optical, mechanical, or digital stabilization. From the looks of the pictures, we're guessing it's digital stabilization, as that's normally the least-effective form of in-camera stabilization.
Although the M580 handles video well, you can't use its optical zoom while shooting. The camera captures 720p high-definition video at 30 frames per second, saved as .MOV files. In our lab's subjective tests for video, the camera bested most of its pocket-megazoom competition, turning in a video-quality rating of Very Good.
Here are the sample clips we recorded for our subjective video evaluations, under bright light and low light. Select 720p from the drop-down menu in the lower-right corner of each player to see each clip at its highest resolution.
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(CNN) - While the two might never face each other on an election ballot, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton narrowly edges out former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in one new poll: Americans' most admired woman.
In a new survey by Gallup, 16 percent of Americans named Clinton as the woman they most admire, while Sarah Palin won the admiration of 15 percent. Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and first lady Michelle Obama come in at No. 3 and No. 4 with 8 percent and 7 percent respectively.
Other women making the list with 1 percent each include former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, poet Maya Angelou, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Tiger Woods' wife Elin Nordegren.
"Hillary Clinton has now been named Most Admired Woman 14 times since 1993, spanning her career as first lady, New York senator, and now secretary of state," Gallup states. "The three times she has not finished first during this time, she earned second place (to Laura Bush in 2001 and to Mother Teresa in 1995 and 1996)."
Meanwhile, President Obama is clearly America's most admired man this year, with 30 percent of those surveyed naming the new president. Former President George W. Bush comes in a distant second with 4 percent while former South Africa President Nelson Mandela scores 3 percent in the poll.
Tied at 2 percent each are talk-radio host Glenn Beck, Pope Benedict XVI, the Rev. Billy Graham, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
At 1 percent each are Arizona Sen. John McCain, former President George H.W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, and embattled golf legend Tiger Woods.
Gallup notes that "Billy Graham and Queen Elizabeth II have been the two individuals with the most top 10 finishes on the Most Admired Man and Woman lists, with Graham doing so a record 53 times and the British monarch achieving that distinction 42 times."
Gallup surveyed 1,025 Americans from December 11-13 and the poll carries a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
what some people don't seem to understand is that admiration, sometimes, has little to do with accomplishment. if it were so, then our current president wouldn't ahve garnered the kind of support he did. palin may not be the most politically accomplished individual, but she has managed to connect with some americans, therefore, it is not unsual that she has ranked so high in this poll. those who dismiss palin out of hand are simply reacting in an irrational and emotional manner, much in the same way that others responded to the secstate during the campaign.
Hillary? Ya gotta be kidding!
If this is true it just shows how stupid liberals are!
As a Canadian the very thought of Sarah Palin being elected to the highest office scares the living crap out of me.
I would like to know how this woman could handle what your President currently has on his plate. She quit being Gov, yet I am amazed that some would put her in office tomorrow a place which is far beyond her intellect and depth.
This show's how truly great Sarah Palin is. The State Run Media is constantly grabbing their ankles and shilling for the Communist Democrats, and Sarah Palin still ties dead-eyed Hillary.
Democrats are idiots and followers.
Republicans are smart, free thinkers!
To all you socialists with your head in the sand, KMA. Billary, Oprah, Bama's.....whatever? You have to be kidding me. Cry baby, ignorant, uninformed, uneducated trash, you will find out what the MAJORITY has to say next year you fools.....and no phony elections will buy your way in this time.
From bug eyed Pulosi to diaper boy, one more nose hit for the road Al Franken, what an embarrassment to this once democracy. KMA.
How could you even compare Palin and Clinton. Clinton is a brilliant leader. Palin. Well she is just plain stupid.
This is like comparing apples to oranges.....
Way to go, Hillary! You deserve it! Happy New Year to you, bill and your family!
Answer to DAN: Of course Sarah does not let her husband walk all over her. She, is and always has been the "Breadwinner" in this family!
Sarah Palin compared to Hillary Clinton??? What has Sarah done? Bored a bunch of kids, made a complete idiot of herself in the '08 campaing, and oh yes she sees Russia from her kitchen window!! Hillary Clinton is an accomplished scholar, articulate Secretary of State, and is able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Ms Clinton makes this country proud, and is a great representative of the U.S.A in the world stage. Sarah???? Stay in Alaska and hunt some moose, and we'll all be better off!!!!
HA! What Sarah Palin has achieved, she has achieved ON HER OWN. She did not have to rely on an influential spouse to get her jobs and honors. If Hillary clinton had not attached herself to Bill Clinton's backside like the blood-sucking leech that she is, no one would know who she is. She would be, AT BEST, a no-name divorce lawyer somewhere in the Chicago suburbs. Sarah Palin is BY FAR the most independent, intelligent, and admirable of the two......NO CONTEST!!
How can 16 percent of women even admire Sarah Palin? akk 😛 Hilary Clinton is way above her, and a lot more smarter, there not even comparable. Hilary Clinton tops it.
I would certainly hope so.There is no comparison between Clinton & Palin.Sec.Clinton is an intelligent woman......Palin....not so much!!
Well the results really are a no-brainer but the thing that I find most encouraging about this is that it isn't Oprah, Ellen, Paula, or any other pop superstar. Ms. Clinton is a woman of substance and whether people agree or disagree with her positions is immaterial. This just seems like a very mature result.
Hillary is best........always was and always will be .....
I like her in the Secretary of State role ... she has done a great job for us ... and will continue to be best.
Everyone else, Sarah Palin is the worse......... nice job ... I forgot you are not working... hmmm................ great resume building. your book has a lot to be desired for ..............as are your ambitions!
Way to go Hillary 🙂
The maturity of Democrat supporters on this board makes me understand why 2009 was the most pathetic political year in history.
Another thing to consider is the dates of the poll: December 11-13. That was a weekend. Polls taken on weekends favor democrats by a few points. I'm not sure if the results were adjusted, it doesn't say in the details.
Hillary Clinton is just as wacko as Sarah Palin. There was the "vast right wing conspiracy" out to get her. She went to Kosovo under"heavy fire" when records show the fighting was nowhere near her location. Finally, staying with philanedering Bill indicates to me that she is a "needy" woman undable to stand on her own. I really don't believe she's as intelligent as she seems to think.
Anyone who admires Palin has got to be insane in my book! Do the people who voted her as most admirable actually pay attention to what she says and does?
To all the Republican fools who think that people don't like Palin because she is a threat to us are completely twisting the reason. We don't like Palin because the woman can't even put a coherent sentence together. She has no substance in thoughts except for a few memorized talking points. She really is an imbecile.
How do you respect someone who quit as a governor to pursue money and her extended-by-the-media 15 Minutes of fame?
To: jack, new york, new york....he writes, "you wanna know what the joke is?
even after the media in general, cnn and all you yahoos have pummeled palin every chance you all had, the american people have voted her the most admired woman, with hillary clinton, who gets nothing but good press, scoring above her by a statistically insignificant margin. go palin!"
My response: It shows how stupid you and the rest of Americans who 'adore' Palin really are! Scary.........
Maybe because Clinton is Secy. of State she barely edges Palin. Clinton will be running in 2016 after a one term Obama presidency and a subsequent Republican administration. Democrats will lose the Senate in 2010 and barely hang on to the House.
Any poll that lists Tiger Woods' wife Elin Nordegren as one of the most admired women can't really be taken too seriously.
I see the left is out in full force–hated Hilary when she ran against BO–but now love her –what a bunch of losers....Sarah–2012


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text: Share: August 15, 2010 Energy Black Gold?Oil: We're running out of it. It makes our country vulnerable to foreign powers. Burning it causes irreversible harm to our environment.And where are our elected officials? At home, on leave, enjoying vacation.This was a discouraging summer for the environment. As the world approaches the peak production of conventional petroleum — the maximum annual rate at which we will ever extract crude oil from the Earth — and the price of gasoline rises above three bucks a gallon, you'd think we might have a plan for what will be the next fuel that powers our society.Up until now, the only plan has been to look in increasingly difficult places to find more oil, like under a mile of water in the Gulf of Mexico. See how well that worked out? Or we could extract oil from nonconventional sources, like the oil sands of Canada, with huge impacts on air and water pollution. Believe it or not, companies are still pursuing these precarious avenues to fossil energy.As the supply of home-grown petroleum dwindles, the world's oil market depends on Middle Eastern countries, many of which harbor factions striving to bring down Western society.And each gallon of gasoline we burn adds nearly 20 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Collectively, petroleum products are responsible for about a third of our nation's carbon dioxide emissions, which lead to global warming.We know too much to justify inaction. Scientists show huge agreement on the reality of human effects on climate and the economic, social, and health impacts that will follow. We are fast approaching the point where our emissions of carbon dioxide will make undesirable climate change inevitable. No reputable scientist questions this — and more often than not, prominent naysayers are motivated by politics and industry payroll.Have we done anything about any of these problems? No. Without the needed 60-vote majority in hand, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was forced to postpone action on both the climate bill and a smaller, watered-down energy bill before the Senate left for summer recess. Clearly, the business-as-usual lobby has prevailed in the halls of Congress and amongst the U.S. electorate, which seems unconcerned about all these problems.This past week, reports from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration suggested the oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon well was fast dissipating from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Yet, many officials admit they don't know where it went. Despite extensive work by Samantha Joye, a marine biogeochemist at the University of Georgia, showing the presence of an underwater plume of oil, NOAA has only grudgingly admitted its existence. Aided by the use of toxic dispersal agents, this plume of oil has the potential to mix globally, affecting marine ecosystems everywhere.Many senior officials in the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency have testified that maintaining the supply of oil from the Middle East and dealing with the effects of climate change are among the largest security risks facing this country.Melting Arctic ice, rising sea level and the potential for global crop failure create the potential need for U.S. military interventions worldwide and compound the costs of doing such operations. Climate change is not only a problem for tree-huggers.There is a better way. For a small fraction of what we have spent on the Iraq war, we could have started a massive research and development effort to improve the efficiency and lower the costs of solar power for electricity and improve the efficacy of biofuels to power our cars and transport. Funding for these efforts and general deficit reduction could derive from a tax on carbon-based fossil fuels, rather than a cap-and-trade system that simply ensures all the fossil fuels we know of will eventually be burned.Realizing these better ways to power our society will require us to upset the lobby of entrenched businesses that benefit from continuing in the old ways. The power grid must be decentralized from large electric utilities. The cost of gasoline should reflect the true costs that our society pays to keep the oil flowing from the Middle East. Only then will the new ways of achieving prosperity without irreversible environmental impact be within our reach. Share: Feature Problems point to oil's impact › August 15, 2010


text: Red Bulls Academy's Chris Gloster named to 2016 NSCAA Youth Boys All-America Team Tweet © New York Red Bulls Academy defender Chris Gloster has been named to the 2016 Youth Boys All-America Team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) as one of the top forty players in the country. READ: NSCAA Announces Youth All-Americans and Players of the Year Chris Gloster, a native of Montclair, N.J., is a member of the U.S. U-17 Residency program in Bradenton, Fla. The defender played with the U.S. U-15 Boys National Team in 2015. In the fall portion of the 2015-16 USSDA season, Gloster started all 11 games for the Red Bulls U-16s before joining the 2016 Spring Residency program. Gloster has been a mainstay for the U.S. U-17 team, and recorded an assist in their last game on November 6. He also played one game this season for Red Bulls II, starting and playing 87 minutes. Back to news


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2) Andre Nickatina/Smoov-E The King & Mr. Biscuits (I-Khan Dist.)
3) Big Rich Built to Last (Big Rich Music)
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Special thanks to Luis at the San Francisco store for this week's top five chart. Beyond the top five, Luis notes that, "Then there's the Kanye, Curren$y and Damu the Fudgemunk, which is super dope!" The latter is also a favorite of DJ Inti at the Berkeley Amoeba, where it was a hip-hop chart contender last week. The latest SF Amoeba chart includes some local Fillmore district SF flavor from both Big Rich and Andre Nickatina. His latest outing is a joint project with his regular studio collaborator, the Tennessee to The Bay transplant Smoov E, who also sometimes goes by the name Smoov Biscuits. That explains the title of their new joint release, The King & Mr. Biscuits, which appears on Nicatina's label, I-Khan Distribution. The eleven track album features great tracks such as "For The Green (Remix) and "Genuine Draft (Remix)."
Andre Nickatina & Smoov-E "Genuine Draft (Remix)"
Meanwhile, Big Rich, who last year dropped Heart Of The City, is back with his impressive latest two-part release. Built to Last (Big Rich Music) is both an album and a documentary (CD + DVD) from the successful SF artist who has had a mixed year. Musically, he's kept busy and been artistically satisfied, he says, having spent the greater part of 2010 out on the road.


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