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Sunday Sweets: Polar Opposites
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1) This polar bear is freakin' adorable...
(By CMNY Cakes)
2) These penguins ROCK!
Well, if penguins and polar bears are so great separately, doesn't it follow that they'd be even better together?
"But, wait!" someone will say, "You can't put polar bears and penguins together! They're from different poles! They are, in fact, polar opposites."
Well, someone -- can I call you "someone?" -- I say if we can put a man on the moon, then we can find a way to get these kids together!
We just need to find a mode of transportation.
Maybe the penguins could hitch a ride with an orca:(By The Chocolate Moose)
...or grab the tail of a bright blue whale:
(By Cakes by Maylene)
A jolly gentleman with a recently emptied sleigh might stop by with friends and take a few penguins home for a visit:
Or perhaps this cool chick will take a wrong turn using Apple Maps and stumble into a penguin colony:
(Submitted by Ellie R. and made by Choccywoccydoodah)
Of course, if you think it might be too hard to get a polar bear to pull a sled full of penguins, we could always ask some sled dogs:
Who knows? They might be tired of running around Alaska.
But maybe we're being too complicated. The penguins could just hop a ship:
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They wouldn't even have to dock. Just pull up alongside a handy iceberg!
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...and voilá!
See, now that I've explained how we could make this work, it's not all that far-fetched, is it?
So the next time you find yourself taking a little vacation way up north...
(By Nice Icing)
...and you see this gang hanging out together:(By The Couture Cakery)
Chillax. It's totally cool.
Special thanks to Haiku Joy, who made a chance comment in an e-mail that inspired this post. (Your daily haikus make me snort in an emphatically unzenlike manner.)
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I considered posting this on Stack Overflow, but I figure this question is more about English syntax than programming rules for it.
So, currently I have this:
$fancyquote = preg_replace('/"\b(.*?\b.?)(?:"|$)/m','"$1"',$input);
What this basically does is look for a (straight) quote that comes right before a word character (letter, number or underscore), followed by the string in the quote, and ending with either the end of a line, or another straight quote.
So this will work with:
The man said "Hello!"
"This is a whole line"
and this:
"I am going to talk for a long time, and tell the story of my life all the way until today, but I could also tell you about today if you like.
"Or maybe not. Let me just get on with it."
But not this:
x = x' + x"
Are there any other rules for quotes in use for dialogue that I have missed?


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Hello it's been awhile
Stumbled across this forum, and recognized some names from the old days. (Scotro, for one) Hi!
I remembered the old BSDForums.org site when I saw the name. Really miss that one. I think it ran on a server in the corner of a dry-cleaning business. Is that right? Always wondered what happened to the site, and its database, which would have had a zillion great posts in it. Can that be recovered? Doubt it.
Going to end my introduction with question. I have old machines that could be put online for various purposes, but they don't have bios USB-boot support. I happened across the "plop" boot kickstart program. Does anyone have any caveats or praises for it? Since it plays at the bottom of the stack, I haven't just "dropped it in".....
The maintainer of BSDForums did not give the Administrator's the ability to disable accounts or delete spam. Trickery was involved to move spam to a subsection not viewable by the general membership. While this made the forums appear clean, the Administrator's were in a constant battle which could not be won.
Plus, the maintainer hadn't logged into his account in years. When he was eventually tracked down by a few members here, he promised that he was going to do fix a number of things -- none of which ever materialized.
So, a campaign/coupe was launched to move the community to a different site where the Administrator's would have more control on how to deal with spam -- which was a very big problem at the time. This site is the direct descendent of the earlier BSDForums community.
As for the wealth of knowledge collected in the MySQL database underlying BSDForums, the Administrator's didn't have access to it, & given that the community simply abandoned that site, a reasonable guess is that the owner/maintainer simply deleted it. I'm sure he was not going to be particularly receptive to any request (then or now...) made to him.
Yes - it's starting to comeback to me now. Such a waste! I think when everyone ditched the old forum, I just went to other forums and skipped the empty one altogether. Then I tried several times to register for FreeBSD's new forum. Finally, they took the registration, but ... for a long time, they'd let me log in but not post anything. Couldn't factor it out. They've relented on the read-only status (unfortunately for them). :-)
No - the plop boot is not FreeBSD. It's a glorified boot block shim that has USB knowledge, so can boot USB media on old machines that don't have the cojones built into BIOS.
It's closed source, at the start of the boot chain, and I'm cautious...
And yes, this is not the place to ask. It's too obscure for there to be anyplace to ask.
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What's the Fourth of July about, really?
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There's no question that a good number of people celebrating the Fourth do, at some point during the festivities, take a moment to reflect on the very reason that the holiday exists: namely, to celebrate and give thanks for the freedoms Americans enjoy. Some of us salute the Founding Fathers; some of us thank any one of a dizzying array of deities; some of us thank "the troops," past and present; some of us, simply, give thanks to our fellow Americans.
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It's America's birthday, after all, and every birthday deserves a song.
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When Stephanie Campbell emailed to tell us about her cool custom cake business, Cake Fixation, based in Redmond, we knew an interview was in order. Not only does the business name speak clearly to us, but the cakes are stunning, from delicately decorated cupcakes to gorgeous trompe l'oeil confections resembling everything from stuffed animals to sushi (above). Here's a summation of some sweet talk with Stephanie:
CakeSpy: Tell us about your cake fixation. How did it lead to starting a business?
Stephanie Campbell: Being born in and spending most of my life in Dallas, TX my fixation with sugar art didn't start out with cakes. I was originally drawn into decorating when I made a gingerbread house for a local competition. I ended up taking 2nd place and made it my goal to win the following year.
In preparing for the next gingerbread competition I discovered a local cake decorating supply store where I noticed an upcoming "Raggedy Ann Cake" course being taught by Bronwen Weber. I registered and took the class and have been hooked on cake decorating ever since.
When my husband took a new position within his company and was relocated to Redmond, WA I focused my attention on turning my fixation into a business.
CS: You specialize in custom cakes, but not wedding cakes. Why not?
SC: In addition to my cake decorating duties I am a proud mother of three beautiful children – two of which are toddler twins. Due to family obligations I keep a tight limit on the number of weekly cake orders I accept. Once the twins have graduated to elementary school I plan on expanded my business to include wedding cakes.
CS: What is the most important aspect in making a great cake?
SC: The popularity of cake decorating TV shows has raised the bar in terms of what people want in a decorated cake. Instead of buttercream cakes with roses, customers want 3D sculpted cakes and funky tiered cakes. The most important aspect of making a great cake is recreating the mental vision the customer is looking for, whether that vision is a cake that looks like a sushi board or a baseball cap.
CS: Do you feel as if baking professionally has changed your attitude toward dessert? If so, how?
SC: Professional baking hasn't changed my attitude specifically towards desserts but it has changed my attitude in how I view everyday items. I now find myself always thinking of how I can turn something into cake. I will often wonder what would this look like as a sculpted cake or how would I recreate that out of fondant?
CS: How would you describe the dessert scene in Redmond?
SC: Having lived in Redmond for just about a year now I can't profess to being an area dessert scene expert. However, it does seem that the local (Seattle and the Eastside) cupcake competition is very high while the selection of custom cake bakeries is a little thinner.
CS: How would you rate the popularity of cupcakes vs. whole cakes right now?
SC: Cupcakes are definitely the "in thing" right now and customer demand has forced me to include them in my own repertoire. I do find that cupcakes are usually ordered to compliment an over the top cake centerpiece, instead of on their own. Whether cupcakes will continue to be a high demand item or are just a passing fad I do not know, for now I am enjoying the dreamy goodness of my own southern red velvet cupcake recipe.
CS: What has you excited right now?
SC: The idea of expanding my business to the volume that would warrant investing in a fondant sheeter has me giddy. As my hands and wrists scream out in pain after a long day of manipulating fondant I dream of my shining metal savior pressing fondant sheets to perfection.
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The War of the Ring board game is a grand strategic simulation of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
While the Fellowship of the Ring advances towards Mordor, the Dark Lord Sauron tries to find the location of the Ring-bearer, and unleashes his armies against the last strongholds of the Free Peoples.
Faithful to the epic flavor of the books, characters and strongholds play a major role in the flow of the game and represent the main focus of the action. A simple and fun, dice-based, resource management mechanism is used to determine the various types of action possible for each player. Smooth, original mechanics have been devised to handle the hidden movement of the Fellowship and the Hunt for the Ring.
This enormous game includes a gameboard depicting a large color map of Middle Earth; 200+ plastic figures representing the Armies and Characters of the War of the Ring, including the Nazgl, each member of the Fellowship of the Ring, Shadow Army units, Free People Army and Leader units and Minions of the Shadow; 135 die-cut cardboard counters; 100+ cards for Events and Characters; and over 20 dice!
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Marco Maggi, Francesco Nepitello, Roberto Di Meglio
Fantasy Flight Games, Asmodee North America
John Howe
Year: 2004
Players: 2 - 4
Time: 120 or more minutes
Ages: 12 and up
Weight: 2,840 grams
All-Time Sales Rank: #218
- 1 game board
- 10 Shadow action dice
- 6 Free Peoples action dice
- 5 6-sided combat dice
- 204 plastic figures:
- 90 Shadow Army units
- 75 Free People Army units
- 20 Free People Leaders
- 8 Nazgûl
- 8 Fellowship members
- 3 Minions of Shadow
- 137 cardboard counters:
- 24 hunt tiles
- 18 settlement control markers
- 1 Fellowship progress counter
- 1 corruption counter
- 2 "leading player" tokens
- 3 "elven rings" counters
- 8 national political counters
- 71 army unit replacement counters
- 7 companion counters
- 1 "Aragorn, Heir to Isildur" marker
- 1 "Gandalf the White" marker
- 96 event cards
- 14 character cards
- rulebook
- introductory rules pamphlet
- player aids folder
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Product Reviews
Average Rating: 4.4 in 5 reviews
Is this game worth buying? Is there a reason not to buy this game? How does this game rate compared to others by complexity or time factor? I hope to answer these simple questions at the end of my impression of War of the Ring.
First, I must state that I was very thrilled when I first read about this game. I was very tired of the Risk-ee hype eaters offered up by Hasbro gang. I am not knocking these games, for in some ways they actually mimic each other on a basic level that War of the Ring even uses. I think for children, the "Risk Rings" games are a nice introduction to the genre of wargaming. I must say however, I am not a very big fan of the Risk battle system. I am therefore not a fan of all the games that use this system either... and there are way too many. This alone makes War of the Rings stand out among the competitors (a new battle system).
War of the Rings, on its best note, gives the player a real feeling of desperation from both sides of the fence. For the Shadow, there is a constant clicking of the "Ring Time Bomb" moving forward in an attempt to blow the top off of Mount Doom. For the beleaguered people of Middle Earth, there is a gut-wrenching feeling of the many many sacrifices needed to get the fellowship to Mount Doom. And, somewhere in between, there is the struggle which is the heart of War of the Ring (the actual War).
The game requires one to commit resources to two different goals. Win the War or Get/Destroy the Ring. It is very hard to move one goal ahead without hindering the other. Fortunately, the game mechanics can force a player to go in a less predictable direction for better or worse. Quite often the player controls the weighty decisions fully, but on other occasions things can slip away (including ringbearers, nazghuls and a future king).
Overall, the Shadow player drives forth like an invincible juggernaut while the People of Middle Earth stand like pins in a bowling alley. There is no one that can stop the Shadow from his lofty targets. The Free People of Middle Earth delay, fight and die. It would seem nothing can stop the Shadow forces from winning the game except this small tugging that grows stronger every step the Fellowship moves to Mordor.
Beware to a Free People's player that stands up against the forces of Sauron and Saruman on the battlefield. In capable hands of a Shadow player, the forces of Evil will make short work of very defiant large army.
Though both forces can get reinforcements from their "pools", only the forces of Shadow get to put their recently fallen back into their "pool" to be used once more. The Free People have a finite pool for their forces, and once that pool is empty, the country is exhausted with no hope of maintaining a war of long attrition.
A player that plays War of the Ring will learn after a few games that there are cards that can put the fear of Gandalf back into the Shadow player. However, these conditional cards can be weathered if the Shadow player proceeds more cautiously.
In many games that I played, it seemed that the Fellowship was an excellent bargaining chip for the Free People in conducting a better positioned war. The Fellowship's vicinity to victory dictates the strategy and desperation of the Shadow's final moves. In essence, the Fellowship's progress determines the level of risk that the Shadow player must take. Sometimes the Shadow player will make attacks that are not in his favor, but if he or she doesn't make those attacks he or she will lose anyway. A Felllowship in Mordor makes the Shadow player rush his game, while a Fellowship still muddling in Lothlorien leaves the Shadow player ample time to muster overwhelming forces.
Is this game worth buying?
You betcha, but it is for players who like wargames and Lord of the Rings.
Is there a reason not to buy this game?
Despite what previous people have said about the plastic miniatures, I found my first impression to be not so much in love with them. Though they are detailed, the 3-4 colors that these miniatures came as are not very helpful other than telling the difference between bad guy color and good guy color. I found it hard to look at, and I decided to paint them all. After painting them (and the pneumonia that I suffered from breathing that crap) I can fully say I am floored by the excellent detail they have (which only painting could bring out). I do recommend painting them, but not to the detail that I did (if you do it yourself). If you do want all the finery to show through, I would pay someone else to do it if you make 60k or more a year. Why that number? I figure that anyone who made less would save money doing it themselves, and anyone who made more should not suffer the damned lessons that I endured.
The game is a 3-4 hour wargame, but is easy to set up if you have your minis painted. The length of the game is no problem for me, and I do believe this isn't a problem for most boardgamers.
If you don't have that kind of time... probably don't buy it. If you are squeamish to spend so much time seeing that the figures get painted (however you do it), I can firmly say it is worth the cost. I figure 800 dollars is a fair price to have these miniatures painted by a professional. As I said before, if you can do it yourself, then you will learn over time just how 800 dollars figures into my 60k theory.
The Complexity of the Game?
In my opinion, this game has a lot of facets to know all at once. These facets are all necessary to play the game. Quickly after the first game, I found that I was doing very little referencing. My idea of a complex game is one that requires me to look at combat tables, random effects, range of unit, provisional turns, etc. War of the Ring pretty much has everything on the board. So, once you learn the mechanics and rules, you are pretty much looking to the rulebook for special case questions. Naturally, once all those questions are answered, the games move faster each time.
There is a learning game one can "quick play", but I find that these quick play games have you learning a game wrongly. When you have to play the real game finally, you must throw out some of the quick play rules that you learned. You basically developed some bad rules habits (which you will confuse with the real game) in your haste to play a half-baked version of the game you really want to play.
Compared to my favorite games:
Some games get unbelievable hype before they come out, especially if they are about a popular subject or theme. War of the Ring got more hype than any game in recent memory. Playtesters howled its praises; and once the game came out, it slowly grew in popularity until it reached its current spot of #3 on the top rated games at BoardGameGeek, with over 100 people giving it the perfect "10" rating. I was intrigued, not just because I was a fan of the books and movies, but because of the massive amount of plastic pieces that came in the box. The game just exuded the "cool" factor, and I was eager to get my hands on a copy.
Now that I have a copy, I can state that the hype was not unjustified. While not a "10", I rate the game a "9.5" as it's near perfect. The theme is evident throughout the game, and the designers have managed to present us with a fair, balanced, fun game. As of this writing, there are at least fifteen reviews on the internet, so I'm not going to focus on rules of this game (all twenty-three pages of them). Instead, you can find out the details of the game from another review - I'll just focus on my thoughts of the game...
1.) Miniatures: My, how Fantasy Flight Games just keeps getting better. From no miniatures in Twilight Imperium I, to the terrible plastic miniatures in Twilight Imperium II, to the marvelous, soft plastic miniatures in this game, the amount of miniatures is staggering, rivaling that of an Eagle game; and the detail on them is very well done. If you head to the internet, you'll find tons of articles and pictures detailing how to paint them. I'm afraid that my skills are sorely lacking in this regard, but that doesn't sadden me; because even in their unpainted form, the miniatures still look great on the board. The game provides counters to use if the miniatures crowd up too much room on the board, but I've only used them in one situation; because the miniatures provide such a wonderful visual of how the game is progressing.
2.) Dice: I have found the dice system absolutely incredible. From the dark side having an overwhelming amount of dice, showing their sheer physical dominance, to the makeup of the dice the light side has more versatility but has a harder time getting their armies to move. Having the Dark side sacrifice a number of their dice to put them in the "Hunt for the Ring" box is very thematic. Yes, as Sauron you want that ring; but if you waste too many resources chasing it, you won't put enough pressure on the good forces. Meanwhile, the Light side must agonizingly decide just how many dice to devote to moving the Ring and how many to move those crucial companions.
3.) Companions and Minions: I seriously think that in a game, the less experienced player should play the Dark Side. This is because while the evil player certainly has a lot of decisions to make, they aren't as difficult as the forces of good. Hardest of these decisions are the companions. Leaving a lot of companions with the party means that the hobbits are less susceptible to the ring and helps absorb damage from the dark side. At the same time, keeping too many companions allows the Shadow to send greater hunting parties, and sending the companions away from the party can crucially help the light side - especially Gandalf and Strider, as they can "morph" into their more powerful counterparts. The extra dice they provide are SO crucial to the Free People. Knowing where to send the companions (should Gimli activate the dwarven nation?) is crucial, but the choice to split them off from the party is agonizing. This doesn't belittle the Evil Player's choice of when to reveal the Witch King. Sure, the guy is massively powerful, but he activates all the good nations. Reveal him too early, and you hurt yourself. Reveal him too late, and he doesn't do much good.
4.) Political System: This is another tremendous mechanic. I really enjoy how the Dwarves and northern armies are basically out of the game, unless the Light player goes to extreme ends to get them involved. The Shadow player has crucial decisions in the beginning of the game. Does he attack Gondor, Rohan, or both? It's probably best to only attack one nation, as the chance of the Free People spending precious actions to get the other in the war is fairly small. Yet unless Gondor and Rohan unite, they will be eventually swept away in a tide of Orcs. If the Shadow player refrains from attacking too many players, they can keep some of the nations out of war for a good part of the game, tying up many crucial units. At the same time, it would be useful if the Free People could get the Elves into battle quickly, in order to allow their strong forces to stem the flood of evil. As the Free People player, it can be frustrating (true to theme) that they have so many pieces on the board yet can only use a fraction of them. I love the thematic flavor of this (even while complaining about it during the game.)
5.) Chit Pool: More games should involve a chit pool - Air Barons does it, as well as a few other games, and it just makes things a little more exciting than merely rolling the die. The fact that each player can add tiles both helpful and destructive to the pool makes the Hunt for the Ring that much more interesting.
6.) Hunt for the Ring: This is a huge part of the game, as the Free People's only real viable strategy is to get that ring into Mount Doom. Sometimes the good guys can get so caught up in defending their bases (and it really cannot be ignored) that the ring can sit still; but it must keep moving, or all is lost! The hidden movement track is a unique mechanic that allows players to not have to spend precious time tracking where the hobbits are moving via pencil and paper. It also allows the good guys to have a bit more leeway as to where they send the hobbits. True to the book - going over the mountains at the beginning is easier but longer, while going through Moria is quick and deadly. The Shadow player can divert Nazgul to hunt for the ring; but their use in battle is extreme, and shifting them away can cause some of his battles to drag on longer than they should.
7.) Cards: The cards allow the game to have more thematic flavor than a simple war game would, introducing elements like the Ents, Shelob, Tom Bombadil, to the game, where miniatures for these folk would have just gotten too cumbersome. The card's usage accurately reflects the theme of the book, in my opinion, and playing the right card at the right time can drastically effect the game. The cards also have a dual-use, where players can use them in battle. This causes a player to choose between the usefulness of the card as an event, or the help it would do them in battle. My only complaint about the game actually comes from the cards. A player who has played the game has a leg up on those who haven't, simply due to the knowledge of what's on the cards. For example, if a Shadow player doesn't know anything about the Ent cards, they might leave Saruman undefended, assuming that the Light forces are too weak to break through. The Ent cards could then wipe out Saruman, hurting the Dark player considerably. If I'm the Shadow player, however, I know these cards exist and will make sure that Saruman is NEVER left undefended. This probably means that the first game of any player is going to be a learning game.
8.) Battles: The battle system, while interesting, isn't anything spectacular, but it works. It allows for a maximum of five dice to be rolled at a time, and the leaders play a powerful role. At the same time, the siege system is much more interesting. It allows the Free People to hole up in a secure spot but forces them to just sit there, taking hits until they are wiped out or rescued (highly unlikely).
9.) Victory Conditions: The game is like a complicated race. The Shadow is racing to destroy as many Light Strongholds as they can, while the Light side is struggling to get the Ring in Mount Doom. The Light side military victory (while non-thematic) is practically impossible, but they must do their best with their forces to tie up the Shadow player as long as possible. It's all a race with that accursed ring!
10.) Rules: The rulebook is very detailed and long; but after a careful reading or two, the game is fairly simple. At the same time, the game does take a while to explain; even when I explained it the third time to a group, it still took me twenty to thirty minutes before they had a general idea of what was going on. There are PILES of helpful downloads on the internet; and I recommend finding a good one, because you will find yourself referencing it a lot. Everything on the board is fairly clear; but some things like the symbols on the tokens on the political track aren't labeled, and only a Tolkien fanatic would know what they stood for.
11.) Artwork: A quick note on the artwork - it's beautiful and very true to the spirit of the books. From the hefty box, to the rulebook, to the huge game board, to the little tokens - everything looks and feels Tolkien.
12.) Fun Factor and Time: The game is a LOT of fun, especially if you're a Tolkien fan. Games come down to the wire; one of my games ended as the hobbits teetered on the edge of Mount Doom about to cast the ring in. The game is lengthy, running three to four hours; but it's an involving game, and watching the events unfold is interesting. The game follows the general path of the book, but there's enough deviation for the replayability factor to be high. It's a tremendous two-player game (works well with four) and satisfies even a war-game hater like me.
If you like Tolkien, light war games, or just good games in general, then this is one for you. Yes, it's long and fairly complicated, but the experiences it will provide are worth it. I know it's not for everyone; many folk who prefer light, fluffy games will be overwhelmed by this heavy, heavy game. Yet if you have any interest at all, pick it up; it certainly will provide one with enough fantasy war to last a long time. This, in my opinion, is the definitive Lord of the Rings game. Knizia's is fun and interesting; but to get the full experience of the books, look no further - the superlative game has arrived.
Tom Vasel
"Real men play board games."
I've played War of the Ring twice now, and I'll add my thoughts to those contributed below. First, this game can be played as a multiplayer, but the simple truth is that it is much better - and quicker - as a two player game. Also, plan to spend the day with the game the first time you play it, it will set you back five to six hours. Having said that, the second play clocked in right at three hours and therefore I anticipate it being a 2 1/2 to 3 hour game for EXPERIENCED players, as advertised. The mechanics are actually very straightforward once you are used to them, but there is a lot of dice rolling to be done and players will often ponder a moment or two before deciding their next action.
Concerning the game itself, there are so many choices to make but they all fall into two basic categories - moving the fellowship to Mordor and the military battle for Middle Earth. The designers did a fabulous job with this, a player who neglects either will pay dearly if their opponent senses the lack of balance. For the Free Peoples, it is possible to win a military victory by taking a few key strategic sites (more likely earlier than later in the game). But this is difficult to do if the Dark Servants see this coming. Delivering the Ring to Mordor appears to be (believe it or not) the simpler of the two tasks. For the Dark Servants military victory will be had, the question is how long will it take before the forces of good are overwhelmed. The Dark Servants must also actively hunt for the ring, for if they don't Frodo will be in Mordor before the military campaigns have run long enough to engulf the remaining Free armies. It is also posible, though quite difficult, for the ring to corrupt the ring-bearer (and the forces of Sauron play a role in this) and thus claim a victory for Sauron in this fashion, but the military path is the more straightforward of the two.
Sound like the books? The designers have done a great job of matching the story to the game. This game is similar to other card- driven wargames, but delivering The Ring adds an element and a strategy that completetly separates it from other games. And unlike other seemingly interminable wargames (I love East Front for example, but I do have a wife and two kids....), this game can be completed in a long evening if two players know what they are doing. As mentioned before, if you are just starting out with it try the game on a Saturday. If time is an issue or you just want to get a feel for the game opening the box on a weeknight will work. Once you are beyond the learning curve I think you will find it is an outstanding, and quick for games of its type, two player game. Highly recommended for wargamers, not recommended for non-wargamers.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Advertisers who try to entice customers with promises that their products are "green" or "eco-friendly" could quickly get in hot water with regulators if they cannot prove it, the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.
Environmental and consumer groups have long been frustrated by advertising that touts products as good for the environment when, in fact, they often are not.
The commission, which enforces rules against deceptive advertising, warned companies that they should make environmental claims - such as "compostable" - for their products only if they can prove that they are true and if they are significant.
The FTC in particular urged advertisers to stay away from terms including "green" or "eco-friendly" on the grounds that broad claims are extremely difficult to prove.
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said the guidelines, which were last revised in 1998, will bring a significant change to the marketplace.
"Most marketers are honest. They're not in the business of lying to consumers," he said.
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In the guidelines, the FTC said it could go after companies whose claims are literally correct but misleading - for example a company that says it has doubled the recycled content of a product when that content has gone from 1 percent to 2 percent.
"The guides advise marketers not to imply that any specific benefit is significant if it is, in fact, negligible," the FTC said in its notice of adoption of its revised Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims.
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William MacLeod, a partner in the advertising practice of the law firm Kelley, Drye and Warren LLP, praised the revised guidelines as having "a great deal of new and useful advice."
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In the Nov. 4 article "Kids to 'occupy' Fun Zone, Corona del Mar High School student Courtney Brown's grade level was incorrect. Courtney is a junior.
More than 50 students, mostly from Corona del Mar High School, waved protest signs and collected signatures on a petition to preserve the Balboa Fun Zone as the open house for the upcoming ocean-themed educational and entertainment center ExplorOcean — which is slated to replace a portion of the Fun Zone — went on.
"I think it's a cool attraction, but this isn't the place for it," said junior Courtney Brown, 16, who organized the rally. "We don't want new and shiny. It will take away the charm."
The Newport Harbor Nautical Museum plans show one block of the Fun Zone area, around where the carousel used to be, built into a three-story, ocean-themed museum with an extended dock for the Ferris wheel and a new children's play center.
Students held signs that said "Keep our Culture Alive," "Leave our Fun Zone Alone," and "Don't Harm Our Charm," and tried to talk to, and pass out fliers, to passersby. The students collected more than 90 signatures Saturday afternoon.
Courtney, who took a guided tour through the ExplorOcean preview center with Newport Harbor Nautical Museum President Rita Stenlund, said she likes the idea of it. Just not at the Fun Zone.
The students weren't the only ones.
James Pobog, 60, who started the online campaign to save the Fun Zone, came out to support the students and found the turnout "astounding." He said he hopes this will spread the word.
"I think raising the awareness of the surrounding area is what this is all about here," he said.
Stenlund, though, saw herself and the students on the same page and the rally as a chance to communicate to them.
ExplorOcean will revitalize the area while keeping the carnival atmosphere, said nautical museum spokeswoman Anne Warde.
"I think it's a terrific opportunity to unite on a common goal," Stenlund said. "We all want to create a vibrant feel on the Fun Zone. The museum feels a great responsibility to do that."
CdM junior Olivia Ford, 16, said she has seen the plans and said although its being described as "putting the fun back in the Fun Zone," it's really taking away the area's charm.
"This place is really important to a lot of people and I just hope they know that people don't want it here," she said, adding later, "I hope they get the message."
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While we do accept submissions with graphic violence, we don't accept "snuff" - i.e. death & extreme torture with the aim of sexual titillation. We generally do not accept submissions of nonconsensual sex in which the "victim" gets absolutely no sort of thrill or enjoyment from the acts, or is seriously and /or permanently physically harmed/abused.
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3 U.N. peacekeepers kidnapped between Israel-Syria
UNITED NATIONS Armed men broke into a U.N. outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three U.N military observers, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday.
Herve Ladsous told a group of reporters that the unarmed observers were held by the Syrian men for about five hours and released unharmed Wednesday morning.
It was the third abduction of U.N. peacekeepers in the tense region since March and underlined again their vulnerability in the spillover of the conflict in Syria, which is now in its third year.
Ladsous called the latest abduction "a very serious incident ... that illustrates the very difficult conditions that now prevail" in and around the area separating Syrian and Israeli forces which is supposed to be free of armed groups.
The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned the abduction of the three observers by "a group of anti-government armed elements" who also looted the observation post. In a statement Thursday evening, the council called on all Syrian parties to cooperate with U.N. peacekeepers, ensure their security, and enable them to operate freely.
Ladsous said that early Wednesday morning, a group of unknown unarmed men broke into U.N. Observation Post 52 in the area of separation and abducted three members of Observer Group Golan, which is part of the U.N. Truce Supervision Organization, known as UNTSO.
They were released unharmed about five hours later and returned safely to the observation post, where they were met by the head of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force, known as UNDOF, Ladsous said.
UNTSO, the first U.N. peacekeeping mission, was established in May 1948 to help supervise a truce after an Arab-Israeli war that followed the breakup of Palestine into two states. According to the U.N., its military observers, numbering about 150, have remained in the Middle East to monitor cease-fires, supervise armistice agreements, prevent isolated incidents from escalating and assist other U.N. peacekeeping operations.
UNDOF was established in May 1974 following intensified firing on the Israel-Syria border after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war to monitor the disengagement of Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and Syria wants the land returned in exchange for peace. It currently has a little over 1,000 troops.
Ladsous, the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping, did not say where the three military observers were from but the media in New Zealand reported that one was a New Zealander.
Ladsous said the U.N. has temporarily adjusted the operational activities of UNDOF "but I believe that implementing the mandate of 1974 remains crucial for the whole region."
The first abduction of 21 Filipino peacekeepers from UNDOF on March 6 was by the Syrian rebel group, the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, which held them for three days. Another group of four Filipino peacekeepers from UNDOF was abducted by the Yarmouk rebels on May 7 and released Sunday.
Ladsous said it wasn't known which Syrian group abducted the three UNTSO observers.
The buffer zone between Syria and Israel had been largely quiet for four decades, but tensions have increased as the conflict in Syria has escalated. One result is that several countries that have contributed troops to UNDOF have pulled out their soldiers.
The Philippine foreign secretary has said he would recommend withdrawing Filipinos from UNDOF but the final decision is up to the president.
Ladsous said the U.N. his trying to keep the remaining troops.
"We are in close contact with the troop contributors with a view to retaining their active support because they are crucial," he said.
A U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of an announcement, said about 150 troops from Fiji will replace Japanese and Croatian contingents that left.
Ladsous reiterated that his department is doing contingency planning for a possible U.N. peacekeeping operation in Syria after the fighting ends, working in close consultation with Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy.


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The VA Angels, one of the leading entrepreneur investment groups in Canada, is opening a chapter in Kelowna.
The group's new chapter here opened this week and its first business forum is set for Nov. 15.
"Kelowna and the Okanagan is fast becoming one of the next big business centres in Western Canada with the addition of new universities, colleges and incubators and given this activity a centre for entrepreneurship," said Randy Thompson, VA Angels founder and chief executive officer.
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We have discussed several real world examples captured in the wild. Now let's take a closer, more detailed look at an incident. In this case, we deliberately infected a honeypot system with a fast-flux agent. The system was contained in a controlled Honeywall environment. The malware we used was called weby.exe and had the MD5 hash 70978572bc5c4fecb9d759611b27a762 . The binary was executed in a sandbox environment with a Honeywall gateway providing data control and data capture capabilities. Post-infection analysis of the captured system and network data identified the following activity:
1. First, the system resolved the domain name www.google.com. This is most likely a basic Internet connectivity check. The malware component needs to first determine that it has access to the Internet and DNS is resolving.
2. The malware binary then registers with its owner. This is performed by connecting to a virtual web host with an HTTP GET request and a URL query string that contains information about the infected host. This is not a Command and Control (C&C) channel, instead it is nothing more than an announcement to the malware administrator that another victim system has been successfully infected. The HTTP GET request was submitted with the following form (query string named variable values are omitted). The complete HTTP GET request is shown in Appendix C, where we show a full example of a registration request by a flux-agent.
http://xxx.ifeelyou.info/settings/weby/remote.php?os= &user= &status= &version= &build= &uptime=
3. The fast-flux registration server (mothership) response to the announcement/registration step is "Added Successfully!" This we perceive to mean that the infected system has been successfully added to the fast-flux service network. A new victim is standing by for malicious duty.
4. The next step is for the infected system to obtain a configuration file by hourly polling of a settings file on a remote web server. This is where the flux agent learns details including what ports to bind and where the mothership is located and which incoming traffic will be redirected upstream to the mothership. In this case, the fast-flux agent submits a HTTP GET request to another virtual web host that only happens to share the same IP as used by the registration interface.
For which the server responds with what appears to be a consistent 197 byte binary/encoded configuration response. We are still attempting to reverse engineer complete details of this session. For full packet payload of the binary/encoded configuration response, please refer to Appendix D.
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Each year, the Graduate School would offer up to ten Dean's Fellowships to assist with the recruitment of highly talented applicants to Michigan Tech's PhD programs. Dean's Fellowships provided partial support for the recipient's first year in a PhD program. The support included a stipend supplement of $2,000 per academic-year semester (fall and spring) as well as full summer support (stipend plus minimum full-time tuition [one-credit] and fees).
The primary goal of the Dean's Fellowship program was to support Michigan Tech's strategic plan goal of being an inclusive and welcoming campus for faculty, students, and staff who bring rich, diverse perspectives to our teaching, learning, and research. The Dean's Fellowship was intended to contribute to the development of a diverse academic community, including future faculty and others who will be leaders throughout their professional careers.
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- Student has applied to and been accepted into a PhD program (full-time and on campus) at Michigan Tech.
- Student is a US citizen or permanent resident.
- Student has been offered at least three years of support by the accepting department or graduate degree program. Support can be from a combination of internal and external sources. Funding provided through the Dean's Fellowship program will supplement funding from another source (including internal funds) for the fall and spring semesters of the student's first year but will provide full support (at the minimum level) during the summer semester following the student's first academic year of study. Support may be terminated at any time if the student fails to make satisfactory progress toward their degree.
- Student has been assigned a faculty mentor who will provide guidance as soon as the student enters Michigan Tech. The faculty mentor need not necessarily be the student's research advisor, but the mentor must be able to provide guidance that will assist the student in making good progress toward their degree from the time that the student matriculates at Michigan Tech.
- The department or program has a formal peer-mentoring program in place. Peer mentors should provide new students with information about the graduate experience at Michigan Tech. Peer mentors should make new students feel "at home" in graduate school at Michigan Tech and in the local community.
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Students must be nominated for the Dean's Fellowship by the chair of the department or the graduate program director of the unit that has accepted the student. Nominations are due by March 15 each year. Nomination files will consist of the following:
- The student's M-number. The Graduate School will pull a copy of the student's application file from their files.
- A copy of the student's acceptance and offer of support letter.
- A statement by the department chair or graduate program advisor identifying the name of the faculty mentor and peer mentor that will be assigned to the student once s/he matriculates at Michigan Tech.
- A statement of how the student will contribute to the goals enumerated in Michigan Tech's Strategic Plan.
The deadline for nominations of students is March 15 by 4 p.m. Submit complete applications to the Graduate School (electronic copies in PDF format are preferred).
The credentials of nominees will be reviewed by a faculty panel convened by the dean of the Graduate School using the criteria listed below. Each nomination will be reviewed on an individual basis using a holistic approach. The goals of Michigan Tech's strategic plan will guide the evaluation process. Additional criteria will also be considered during the evaluation of nominees. These include:
- Is the nominating department taking steps to encourage applications from and participation by members of groups that are currently underrepresented on the Michigan Tech campus?
- Are PhD students in the nominee's graduate program publishing in peer-reviewed journals and making presentations at national and international professional conferences?
- Is it likely that the nominating department or graduate program will continue to supplement the student's stipend and provide summer support using funds obtained from external sponsors, research incentive accounts, the Michigan Tech fund, or departmental funds?
- Does the nominee have an outstanding academic record?
- Does the nominee have an ethnic/cultural background that is underrepresented in their discipline and/or is the applicant a first-generation college student?
- Has the nominee demonstrated a commitment to diversity in their professional, personal, or educational endeavors (for example, by participating in activities that address racial and gender disparities and/or race relations in the US).
- Does the nominee have family or individual financial status that would make it difficult to continue in graduate school without financial support from the University?
- Will the nominee's background, life challenges, or life experiences bring a unique prospective to the academic program to which s/he is applying?
Following review of the nominees' qualifications, the panel will recommend to the dean of the Graduate School that each student 1) receive a Fellowship, 2) receive a Fellowship if sufficient funds are available, or 3) not receive a Fellowship. The dean of the Graduate School will review the panel's recommendations and make the final decision about each nominee. The number of Fellowships ultimately awarded will depend on the size and quality of the pool of nominees and on the funds available to support the Dean's Fellowship program each academic year.
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4 Indian-origin persons among worst tax cheats in UK
Eleven people of Asian-origin, including four of Indian descent, are among 32 persons figuring in the rogues' gallery of Britain's top tax criminalsof 2012.
Among the 11 people of Asian-origin, four of Indian descent are Davinder Singh Dhaliwal, Sandeep Singh Dosanjh, Navdeep Singh Gill and Ranjot Singh Chahal, according to a report in the Guardian.
The tax office posted pictures of 32 tax cheats - A rogues' gallery of Britain's top tax criminals of 2012, ranging from cigarette and alcohol smugglers to professionals who set up complex avoidance schemes for the rich, the daily said.
This is the first time such a list has been published online by HM Revenue and Customs.The 32 tax cheats were last year sentenced to a total of 155 years and 10 months behind bars.
They include four men jailed for a total of 21 years and three months for one of the biggest alcohol smuggling frauds uncovered in the UK, worth 50 million pounds a year.
Among the four is Davinder Singh Dhaliwal. In another case, a gang of three - Sandeep Singh Dosanjh, Navdeep Singh Gill and Ranjot Singh Chahal, set up a chain of bogus companies to trade fraudulently in EU emissions allowances - known as carbon credits and cheated the HMRC to the tune of 38 million pounds in VAT.
Dosanjh received 15 years imprisonment, Gill 11 years and Chahal 9 years.
Six people of Pakistani-origin figuring in the rogues' gallery are Mohammed Shabir Karim, Imran Bhatti and Kamran Bhatt.Another Asian involved was Murugasan Natarajan of Sri Lankan descent.
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NHL 10: Being David Steckel
Career modes in sports games can dangle the carrot of being a superstar in front of your eyes, but the reality is often much different.
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Busy week sees Activision's action RPG sequel and EA's arcade-style racer slide into stores with Scribblenauts, NHL games, Wet, PC ports of Batman, Red Faction, Resident Evil 5.
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