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MW2 on PC outsold PC version of CoD4 in one week, says Infinity Ward
Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has posted on the Modern Warfare 2 boards that the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 has already outsold the PC version of the original Modern Warfare. This is despite the PC version having the smallest market share when compared to the console versions. "The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 […]
Infinity Ward receives Guinness award for COD4 world record
Infinity Ward accepted an nice little plaque from Guinness yesterday in the Activision booth at E3. The developers were awarded with the world record for "the most popular online console game" due to Call of Duty 4 being played by 13 million people on Xbox Live since November 2007. That does not even take into […]
Xbox Live Activity for the week of May 4, Halo 3 tops once more
Halo 3 isn't going anywhere. The past four weeks have proved it. Differences this week include FIFA 09 taking the seven spot away from Left 4 Dead, and the Bionic Commando demo falling off the chart and being replaced by Fallout 3. Xbox 360 Top Live Titles Halo 3 Call of Duty: WaW Call of […]
CoD4 cheater patch now live on Xbox 360
Oh you durty, durty cheaters! You can cheat no more now that the patch for Call of Duty 4 has gone live on Xbox 360. Infinity Ward comms boss Rob Bowling tweeted the news earlier saying that the game is "once again mod & hacks free." You were warned it was going to happen earlier […]
COD4 reaches 11 million unique players on Xbox Live
Infinity Ward's Rob Bowling revealed during his acceptance speech at the BAFTAs last Tuesday night that Call of Duty 4 has raked-in 15 million unique online players since launch. The split is heavily skewed towards Live. "I'm delighted that we just reached 11 million unique players on Xbox Live and we've got over 4 million […]
Call of Duty 4 stat-watch reveals over 10 million unique users
Infinity Ward's Rob Bowling has updated his blog revealing many fun facts and figures about the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare including the fact that the game has clocked up over 10 million – count 'em (no don't – ed) – users. Other states include: 71.1%, or 7,111,508 people have completed F.N.G. – That's more […]
2K and Insomniac add themselves to the no trophies list
Insomniac and 2K have added themselves to the list of developers shy on adding retroactive Trophy support, saying that neither Ratchet and Clank: ToD and Resistance: FoM will be getting patches. Earlier today, Infinity Ward said that there would be no Trophies for CoD4. Thanks PS3F. By Mike Bowden
GameStop to carry AIAS award badges
There's no stopping "the Academy". The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, organiser of the self-styled videogames Oscars, has confirmed that US retailer GameStop is going to badge games with the awards they won this week at DICE in Las Vegas at the 11th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards. This means CoD4 will now carry a […]
CoD4 DLC to contain maps, God knows what else
Call of Duty 4's been giving Halo 3 a run for its money as the most-played game on Xbox Live since it launched, so for those of you addicted to being a pretend soldier on the internet this news will come as comfort: you're about to get some DLC. "The upcoming downloadable content will thrust […]
Tiscali responds to CoD4 online play blocking
Tiscali's denied it's blocking CoD4 play deliberately, following news that the ISP wasn't allowing P2P connections at peak times. The shooter uses a P2P system for game-matching and is therefore unplayable for those with Tiscali connections during the evening. "Reports suggesting that we were deliberately blocking specific games are incorrect. We are constantly working to […]
Halo 3 most played on Live again
Everyone can breathe again. Halo 3 is yet again the most played game on Xbox Live, after being knocked off the top spot by CoD4 in the Christmas rush. For the week ending January 21: Xbox 360 Top Live Titles (based on UU's) 1 Halo 3 2 Call of Duty 4 3 Guitar Hero III […]
Tiscali blocks CoD4 online play, among others
According to this, Tiscali is blocking online play of Call of Duty 4 (CoD4) during peak times. It seems the problem's being cause by the ISP severing P2P connections during busy periods. CoD4 and other online titles use these connections for game-matching, rendering online play impossible. That report relates to the PS3 version of the […]
Treyarch gets CoD5, back to WWII?
We can't clarify any of this with Activision, but this sourceless post claims Call of Duty 3 developer Treyarch will be developing the fifth game in the blockbusting shooter series, and that the setting will be back in good ol' World War 2. We'd take this with a pretty large pinch of salt until Activision […]
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HostExchange necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 72 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Greetings! Our company, "ephex" requires an UNCODED template for our new website.
We have a brand but nothing else, and we are allowing you CREATIVE FREEDOM to come up with a colour scheme and style that will become the basis of our corporate ID.
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This is take #2 of a contest we had running for the past couple of weeks. The contest was http://contests.sitepoint.com/contests/3107Â
Our favourite entries were from Chippi, pdesignstudio and proD4u (see end of brief for links)... your challenge is to better the standard these entries set.
This company is an "umbrella" company for IT ventures, so it doesn't really have its own products, but is a stable for various IT innovation. Hence, the target audience is investors, corporate partners, prospective employees, media, etc.
The site's style should convey:
- confidence
- optimism
- innovation
- youthful vibrance(you do NOT need to use these words in the design!)
The brand can be found here:
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- about
- skill
- use
- join
- contact
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- Recent blog posts (headline list in side panel - probably RHS)
- Latest news (headline list in side panel - probably RHS)
- RSS Feed links to above
- Page updates/highlights (headline list in side panel - probably RHS)
- Graphic/Animated features (side/tower - standard 120px width)
- Newsletter subscription form (ie, input box + submit button)A good example of the type of layout we'd like is http://www.9810.rotary.org.au (which is a site we operate). HOWEVER, unlike this site we probably want the main nave to be along the TOP, with the section submenu (usually of 2-5 items) on the Left-hand-side. (I say "probably" as we're willing to be convinced otherwise if someone comes up with a better idea).
Basically, it's up to you. We don't have a corporate ID, just the brand (linked above). The colours used in the brand are a good start, but you're welcome to use others. We want the site to be the basis of our corp ID, to then be used on stationery, brochures, etc.
- Remember the key themes of confidence,optimism, innovation, youthful vibrance, but bear in mind also the target audience: investors, corporate partners, prospective employees, media, etc.
- Use good FONTS! We're heavily into nice, clean strong fonts, and will be looking for good use of fonts as a factor that sorts out good design from GREAT design
- Please don't use stock photos of young smiling business-type people... that's not the type of business we are! If you must use a photo to use try this one :), however DON'T integrate the picture into the design or use it as a justification for using a lot of black and gray in the design. We would prefer the focus to be on the brand itself if anything, not photographs (we're a tech company after all, not a photographic studio).
- Try not to make the header too deep (high)... we don't want the header taking up half the page, keep it sleek and allow plenty of content above the fold.
- IMPORTANT - a common problem we saw in entries to our last attempt at this contest was an over-reliance particularly on 3d/glassy/shadow type effects. Whilst we don't have particular objections to these types of effects, where these are used they should be used sparingly to enhance an already good design, not as the major feature of the design. (Good professional designers will know what we're talking about here).Some examples of what we like:
- http://www.granitenewmedia.com (style/vibe more than layout)
- http://www.hubspot.com (also mainly for style/vibe but layout is similar to what we want)
- http://www.simplebits.com/ (vibe/layout)
- http://www.9810.rotary.org.au (mainly layout)
I know each of these contains substantial differences to each other and to what we've said we want in the brief, so please read the brief carefully and look at our feedback to other entrants. These examples are more to give you a sense of the style and "feel" we're looking for. As I said, we're leaving it open for you to be creative.
Our favorite entrants from our first attempt on this contest were:
This is take #2 of a contest we had running for the past couple of weeks. The contest was http://contests.sitepoint.com/contests/3107Â
Our favourite entries were:
For each of these entries we liked the layout and general look & feel, but the key improvements we are looking for are:
- Less reliance on effects and icons
- More vibrant colour (we're happy to see greens and oranges if used tastefully)
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I never thought things might come to such a pass that there could be a thread for dirty politics but here it is.
Fire away folks. Discuss your favorite politicians and the upcoming political scenario. Expect a lot of politician bashing too
Actually this is more in anticipation for a change in Pakistan politics. PTI has called for a HUGE rally at minar-e-pakistan at 2 pm tomorrow. Let's see how many people turn up.
Political observers will be watching this closely because this might mark the coming of age for PTI something like the PPP in 1970


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It'll be appreciated if it's come in the right context. A low-scoring game where a 60*-off-105-balls wins it by 2 wickets will have massive praise lathered on it and quite rightly.No, it does not. You'll rarely see a great primarily defensive innings in ODI's and when you do, it will likely be criticized rather than appreciated. And even more rarely will you see fast bowling with six slips in an all out attack.
I just don't see how anyone could think a good ODI doesn't embrace many different styles of batting. I'd say you just need to look at the number of different-style ODI batsmen (and bowlers) who've achieved definitively noteworthy success. Take, for example, Marcus Trescothick and Nick Knight - two totally different batsmen, but England's best 2 in the modern era. Or Graeme Hick and Neil Fairbrother - again, totally different batsmen, but hugely successful.Look, I have no right to tell you what you should enjoy or not, and I personally only really enjoy Tests, but ODI as embracing 'all sorts of styles' kind of gets to me.
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You lack the aggressive bowling from tests and the aggressive batting from Twenty20. You also lack the great defensive innings from Tests and the insanely fast paced day of cricket from Twenty20.
In the end, you're left with an aborted format with many vices and few virtues.
Anyway this is all personal opinion obviously on what each person enjoys, so it'll be hard to convince the other side.
If you really believe that, I don't know what ODIs you've been watching.And defensive and less defensive bowling.
Don't blame bad captaincy and say it means an entire format is poor.And the field placement is horrid.
Since when is "an insanely fast-paced day of cricket" considered a virtue? Entertainment value, definitely. That's it.
EDIT: Richard summed up my thoughts already.
Even that all depends on what entertains you.
I happen to be entertained by more things than the scoring-rate.
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A study by Monash University researchers has shed new light on the microscopic antennas in the kidney that are involved in the organ's repair process.
The work may be a crucial step towards a cure for polycystic kidney disease, a potentially fatal disease that affects more than one in 1000 people.
The study, led by Dr James Deane a researcher at the Centre for Inflammatory Disease at the Monash Medical Centre, showed how kidney repair processes are controlled and helps explain the cause of polycystic kidney disease.
The findings have appeared in the latest edition of world's leading kidney research publication, the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
"We have shown for the first time that the hair-like structures on kidney cells, called cilia, change their length in response to injury in human patients, growing up to four times their original length in the later stages of kidney repair," Dr Deane said.
"These hair-like structures are antennas and the increases in their length amplify the signals they send to kidney cells at vital stages of repair. We think this is how they turn off the repair process when it is complete and allow the kidney to start working normally again"
Dr Deane said that if the switching on and off the repair process is not properly controlled, rapidly reproducing cells will distort the tubes of the kidney and prevent them from functioning properly, which is what appears to happen in people that have polycystic kidney disease, a condition which is currently untreatable.
"Our research helps put a logical framework behind what is happening in polycystic kidney disease, as the mutations that cause the disease can damage the hair-like structures of kidneys cells," Dr Deane said.
"We hope that this work will lead to new ways of treating both kidney injury and polycystic kidney disease."
The kidney is made up of about a million tiny living tubes that produce urine to rid the body of waste products. The cells that make up these tubes have hair-like structures, which are two thousandths of a millimetre long and respond to urine flow by sending reassuring signals back to the cells.
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The federal government has been paying welfare benefits to the dead and withholding Medicare benefits from the living, according to a new report from the Inspector General (IG) of the Social Security Administration (SSA).
The report, released October 12, set out to determine whether some individuals were improperly receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments after having their Medicare benefits terminated because they were considered deceased. SSI, which provides income support to needy individuals who are aged, blind, or disabled, is administered directly by the SSA. Medicare, which provides health insurance to the aged and disabled, is administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but the SSA determines who is eligible to receive Medicare benefits and maintains the benefit records. Thus, one would expect the SSA to terminate both SSI and Medicare benefits for a particular beneficiary when the agency is notified that the beneficiary has passed away.
In most cases that is what occurs. However, the IG discovered that as of March 2012, 52 individuals were still receiving SSI benefits despite the fact that their Medicare benefits had been terminated because the SSA believed they had died.
Upon further investigation, the IG found that 30 of the 52 individuals were indeed deceased and should have had their SSI benefits terminated. "SSA overpaid these deceased individuals $405,357 in SSI payments for an average of 23 months," the report says. Thirteen dead persons had been receiving benefits for over two years; one of them had even been raking in the dough for more than three years.
The IG details just one of these cases as an example of the SSA's bungling:
SSA's records showed an individual from California died in September 2010. SSA properly terminated the Medicare record; however, SSI payments continued. According to this individual's son, his mother passed away in September 2010, and he contacted SSA to terminate her SSI payments; yet payments continued.
In May 2012, we provided SSA information to terminate her SSI payments. In June 2012, SSA corrected the records, terminated SSI payments, and determined this individual was issued $1,042 in SSI payments after death — from October 2010 to June 2012.
The SSA has since terminated benefits for 29 of the 30 deceased individuals, saving taxpayers roughly $214,303 over the next year. The remaining case is still pending.
On the flip side, 21 of the individuals the SSA had identified as deceased in Medicare records turned out to be alive — although possibly not so well. As the IG notes, "Terminating Medicare benefits incorrectly can lead to unpaid medical bills and result in the loss of other assistance programs." On average, these individuals had been denied benefits for 43 months, with two-thirds having gone without them for at least 31 months.
Again the report offers a case in point:
SSA's records showed a 68-year-old individual from California as deceased on his Medicare record; however, this individual was alive and receiving SSI payments. Because the Medicare record showed a date of death, this individual's Medicare and State medical benefits were terminated.
According to this individual, he visited a local SSA field office more than once and filed paperwork to have his Medicare benefits reinstated; however, his Medicare benefits remained terminated. As a result, this individual was unable to buy medication or obtain treatment for his emphysema.
In May 2012, we provided SSA information to reinstate this individual's Medicare benefits. In August 2012, SSA corrected the records and reinstated Medicare benefits, which had been terminated for 23 months — almost 2 years.
Based on the information uncovered by the IG, the SSA reinstated Medicare benefits for 19 living individuals; it is still reviewing the remaining two cases.
Finally, of the 52 individuals in question, one remains under investigation by the SSA's Office of Investigations because of conflicting reports concerning the individual's status as deceased and whereabouts if alive.
Why were the SSI and Medicare records for allegedly deceased individuals different? The report suggests one possibility: "In 22 of the 52 cases, SSA's records had different names, dates of birth, or gender information." Therefore, when the SSA passed along a death notice to those in charge of the SSI and Medicare rolls, the data about the deceased might match the record for one program (and thus that program's benefits would be terminated) but not for the other. "Additionally," writes the IG, "we found in some cases that SSA did not correct records when notified that a recipient was deceased or alive," as the examples cited above demonstrate.
While the SSA agreed to reconcile the discrepancies discovered by the IG, it remains to be seen whether the agency will take steps to prevent a recurrence of these problems. This is, after all, not the first time the IG has found such discrepancies. It issued a report in 2006 detailing essentially the same issues, albeit involving nearly five times as many individuals as the 2012 report.
The IG says his office's mission is, in part, to "inspire public confidence in the integrity and security of SSA's programs and operations." Reports like these, while necessary, are hardly likely to accomplish that mission.


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Zion Lutheran School in Lincoln
is participating in National Lutheran Schools Week, Jan. 27-Feb. 2,
with special activities each day and an open house on Thursday. The
theme for National Lutheran Schools Week is "Baptized for This
Moment," based on Acts 2:38-39. This theme was chosen to build on
the 2013 synodical convention theme in an effort to get schools
involved with the convention theme early in the year.
"Our sins are forgiven
in the death and resurrection of Jesus. We have received the gift of
the Holy Spirit. We can say, with Luther, 'I am baptized' and know
that 'all is well' and God will never forsake us (AE 6:365). In
strength given by the Spirit we bear witness of Christ's victory
over death. God's promises are sure. With compassion that comes from
the mercy we have received in Christ, we bind up wounds and bring
living hope in Jesus. Baptized into His body, we live together in
love, reflecting Christ's love for us."
Information on National Lutheran Schools Week is available at
Zion schedule of special activities for the week:
Sunday, Jan. 27 --
Preschool to eighth grade and faculty sing "Amazing Grace" at
Zion Lutheran Church, 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Monday, Jan. 28 --
Pajama Day. Pizza; a special reading time; Online Mission Trip
to Thailand.
Tuesday, Jan. 29 -- Shorts, Hats and
Sunglasses Day. Geography bee; make bookmarks; Online Mission
Trip to Thailand.
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Wednesday, Jan. 30
-- Special Person/Dress Up Day. PowerPoint presentation;
continental breakfast served by faculty; chapel, with all
singing "Amazing Grace"; awards; family activity; singing of
doxology; Online Mission Trip to Thailand.
Thursday, Jan. 31
-- Blue and Gold School Colors Day. Spelling bee; science fair;
open house; Online Mission Trip to Thailand.
Friday, Feb. 1 --
Freaky Friday. Movies in the afternoon.
Saturday, Feb. 2
-- Pancake and sausage meal.
Sunday, Feb. 3 -- Student-made
bookmarks handed out at Zion Lutheran Church.
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Reed, meanwhile, is struggling to get the ship's spatial torpedo systems fully functional. Archer agrees to drop out of warp for a little target practice, but it does not go well - the torpedo bounces off the asteroid they are aiming at and careens back towards Enterprise, causing more frustration. Indeed the only person who seems to be having a good time in Phlox, who is fascinated by the behaviour of the crew.
Eventually, they chance upon an alien spacecraft sitting in space. There are biosigns aboard, but attempts to contact the ship fail. T'Pol suggests ignoring it, reasoning that the aliens must not want contact, but Archer insists on stopping to investigate. He leads a boarding party to the ship, including Hoshi even though she complains that the environmental suits make her feel claustrophobic. Once aboard, they make a horrific discovery - the crew are all dead, hung up on hooks and connected to some sort of device that seems to be draining fluid from them. T'Pol suggests abandoning the ship, reasoning that the crew are beyond any help. Archer reluctantly agrees and continues on course.
Hoshi feels guilty about her performance on the ship, pointing out to Phlox that she "screamed like a twelve-year-old" on seeing the alien bodies, something nobody else did. Phlox wonders if perhaps she would be better off going back to Earth, though Hoshi is reluctant to do something so drastic.
Archer is also having second thoughts, wondering if leaving the alien bodies in the ship was the right thing to do. He feels like they turned tail and ran when the right thing to do was stay and get involved. Although T'Pol argues that doing so would be against the code of behaviour the Vulcans have, Archer points out that Humans also have a code of behaviour - one he broke. He orders Enterprise back to the alien ship.
They return tot he alien ship and check it over more carefully. Hoshi is able to work out a way to send a distress call in the alien language whilst Phlox investigates what is being done to the alien bodies. He finds that whoever conducted the massacre was apparently trying to collect a substance called triglobulin from them.
As they investigate, a powerful alien vessel arrives and attacks. It disables the Enterprise's engines, brushing aside their attempts to stop it. T'Pol scans it and finds that the power signature matches the devices draining the bodies on the ship they have been investigating. It seems the perpetrators of the massacre have returned. As the ship approaches, another vessel drops out of warp - this one matching the technology of the first ship they encountered. The newcomer communicates with Enterprise but seems to be angry - Hoshi thinks that the Captain is blaming them for the attack on his comrades, rather than the real culprit. Hoshi tries to talk to him but her translation program won't work, and the attempt only leads to more anger and confusion. Her confidence is shaken but Archer insists that she disregard the computer translations and try to talk directly to the alien Captain. She does, overcoming her doubt and convincing him to scan the alien ship and compare the power signature of the alien equipment to the attacking vessel - proof that it rather than Enterprise is the aggressor.
Both the alien ship and Enterprise attack the "Space Vampire" ship, and their combined attack destroys it. The ship remains in the area for while, making a friendly First Contact with the aliens - a species called the Axanar. Afterwards they continue on course, making a small detour to find a suitable planet to drop Sluggo off in a new home.
These are meant to be the brave and bold pioneer days of Humanity. Surely it would have been better to depict them as being overly brash and confident, as being the kind of people who go out determined to kick over all the anthills and stick their noses in where they shouldn't - only to learn over time that a bit of discretion now and again is the way to go.
The Space Vampires are also kind of silly. Their MO is absurd - they disable a ship and attack it, fair enough. They kill the crew, fair enough. But why leave them aboard their own ship and just go away? The Vampire ship is pretty big, surely it has more than enough space to hang the bodies up somwhere and do your thing to them. Then you can just continue on your way to look for your next victims, no need to tie yourself down to coming back to the scene of the crime, so to speak. It's a stupid way to do things, and it's only like that so that they can spin out the story they want with Enterprise being blamed in a showdown finale.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The crowd outside Istanbul's main airport initially numbered about 100. But as news came that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plane was approaching from Tunisia on his return from a four-day North Africa tour, his supporters came in droves.
Traffic came to a standstill and people crammed into any available space. It was a loud and boisterous show of backing by more than 10,000 followers of Erdogan, who for perhaps the first time in a decade of power appeared vulnerable after a week of protests challenging his rule.
To his pious and conservative base, the three-term prime minister deserves respect for raising Turkey's international profile, improving their standard of living, cleaning up hospitals and providing better services. They adore him for curbing the powers of Turkey's secular military and for standing up to Israel when they felt Palestinians were oppressed.
Here's what some of his supporters from Ankara's Sincan neighborhood, which is a major ruling party stronghold, have to say: THE CAR WASH EMPLOYEE Ramazan Usur, 52, is the only breadwinner in his family. He has three children — something he knows Erdogan would approve of.
Usur said it's thanks to Erdogan that his family is able to live "in luxury" despite earning a minimum wage. The prime minister, Usur said, is the only leader "for our country and the party." "He is a great man, he is the greatest master, he is our emperor," Usur said.
"He works day and night for his country. What else do they want from him?," he asked of the protesters. THE GROCERY SHOP MANAGER Sait Demirel, 38, is married and has three children. "The protests aren't about the environment anymore," he said, as he supervised his employees offloading watermelons from the back of a truck. "We are hearing that the protesters are hurling rocks and stones at police."
Demirel supports Erdogan, but doesn't agree with all of his policies. "I don't drink liquor, but if someone wants to drink it then no one should try to prevent that," Demirel said, referring to a law that would restrict the sale and promotion of alcoholic drinks.
"I think Erdogan, sometimes, can be overly reactive," he said. THE CAR MECHANIC Father of one, 27-year-old Yasin Bagci, works for minimum wage as a car mechanic and takes care of his family. He said they "suffered" economically under previous governments.
"Erdogan's government solved most of these problems," Bagci said. "We still have problems that should be solved but there is no other person who can govern this country as well as Erdogan." Bagci said Erdogan has "all that it takes to be a leader. He stands behind his words. He is a straight talker."
The protests were innocent in the beginning, he believed. "It was about protecting trees but turned into something else later on," he said. "If our leaders had listened to these people in the beginning the incident wouldn't have grown so much. Both sides should have listened to each other."
THE KEBAB SHOP CHEF Serkan Tosun, 31, has a wife and child and makes a living from his small kebab restaurant. Tosun agreed with Erdogan that there are "provocateurs among the protesters." "Those people who don't know what they are doing there shouldn't try to create a rift between us and our prime minister. They are being used by some forces," Tosun said.
Tosun didn't mind that the prime minister can sometimes be abrasive. "He only reproaches people when they deserve to be. He doesn't reproach his people, he reproaches his opponents who have nothing to do except mill around."
Tosun said life is much easier under Erdogan's Justice and Development Party. He gets bank loans much faster and his family gets good health care. "In the past, you had to wait 15 days to see a doctor, now you can go and see any doctor," he said.
The alcohol ban was introduced by Erdogan for the good of his own citizens, Tosun said. Had the prime minister landed in Ankara instead of Istanbul, he would have been among the group that rushed to the airport to greet Erdogan.
Associated Press writer Suzan Fraser contributed to this story.


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Al-Qaeda's leader said the military coup that ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi provides proof that Islamic rule cannot be established through democracy and urged the Islamist leader's followers to abandon the ballot box in favor of armed resistance.
In a 15-minute audio message posted online late Friday, Ayman al-Zawahri also lashed out at the Egyptian military, the country's secular and liberal elites as well as the Coptic Christian minority, accusing them of conspiring against Morsi solely because he was an Islamist.
Egypt's army ousted Morsi, the country's first democratically elected leader, on July 3 after days of mass protests demanding the president's removal. The coup has divided the nation into rival camps, with an array of liberal and secular Egyptians supporting the military's move and Morsi's supporters and Islamist allies rejecting it.
"We have to admit first that legitimacy does not mean elections and democracy, but legitimacy is the Shariah (Islamic law)… which is above all the constitutions and laws," al-Zawahri said in comments addressed to Morsi's supporters.
He condemned the Brotherhood for having "tried its best to satisfy America and the secularists" by relinquishing "jihad," usually invoked by al-Qaeda to mean armed struggle. He also noted that Morsi's government was overthrown despite its acceptance of Egypt's landmark peace treaty with Israel and security agreements with the United States — both of which Islamic militants sharply oppose.
"You forgot that democracy is the West's monopoly and it is allowed for those who belong to the Islamists to benefit from its fruits only on one condition — you be a slave for the West's ideology, action, policy and economy," he said.
Al-Qaeda and other Islamic extremists roundly reject democracy as a Western-imposed system, and oppose it on the grounds that it puts man's laws above those of God.
Turning to Egypt's military, al-Zawahri, who is Egyptian and grew up in a Cairo suburb, accused the army of being a pawn of U.S. interests.
"The Americanized army, was raised by America's aid, training courses and exercises and their allegiance was bought to fulfill the Americans' orders and protect U.S. interests as well as maintain the security of its foster child, Israel," he said.
He said Egypt's secular camp forgot democracy, elections and the peaceful transfer of power and resorted instead to the "Americanized military to overthrow the Egyptian constitution."
The message's authenticity could not be independently confirmed but was posted on a militant website commonly used by al-Qaeda. It was produced by the group's arm, As Sahab.
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So I've been on the road and away from this blog. Let's recap what we've learned so far before we go on with our discussion of how to produce eSports tournaments.
1. You want to get a job in eSports. I've suggested you invent one instead.
I've suggested to you that jobs in eSports are few and far between and are largely awarded to the most qualified, experienced applicants. You therefore face a Catch-22: you need experience in eSports to get a job, but until somebody hires you, you can't get the experience you need.
How do you get around this problem? My advice to you is to be entrepreneurial, and build an eSports venture of your own. This doesn't have to be an empire: just something that demonstrates your talent, drive and initiative. Build a local eSports club at your high school or college. Hold a BarCraft or organize a local tournament or LAN. Start small, on your campus or in your city. Event organization is a learned skill: you will be doing a lot of juggling, managing people and resources. If you demonstrate that you can successfully produce a local event like this, you are much more likely to be hired by a large commercial eSports organization. Besides, building communities is fun—it's a great way to connect with like-minded eSports fans.
2. Treat your new venture more like a business and less like a hobby.
In an earlier post, I gave you some gentle warnings: events take money, which means fundraising, bookkeeping, negotiation, licenses and contracts. It may even mean taxes, insurance, lawyers and accountants. Treat your venture seriously. Run it like a real business.
In fact, get a business mentor—perhaps the parent of a friend or a relative—who is experienced and can help guide you in the creation and operation of your microbusiness. You will be amazed how open and helpful experienced business people can be if asked. You will be amazed how interesting the process is.
3. Recruit co-workers and create an organizational structure and explicit goals.
In my last post, I interviewed the Rosen brothers of the Texas eSports Association about how they produced their hugely successful grassroots eSports event, the LoneStar Clash. I chose the Rosens because they are college students, without particular experience or connections in eSports, who have managed to produce a series of amazingly professional events. If they can do it, so you can you.
The Rosens indicated that they began their eSports adventure by holding a campus meeting to determine the potential size of their local community. From there, they recruited fellow students to help staff and build their event. The Rosens were inventive about finding fellow gaming fans and didn't limit themselves to a single group or a single campus. They put up posters and announcements at universities, high schools, game shops, comic book stores, vocational and tech schools, high tech companies, and incubators. They made postings on popular forums like TeamLiquid.net and reddit.com/r/starcraft. They arranged for their meetups to be calendared in campus event pages. They reached out to existing eSports groups and BarCrafts in their area and partnered with them. They saturated their region in every way they could think to expand participation in their events.
The Rosens organized their core community group, the Texas eSports Association, like a company. They assigned specific titles to fellow volunteers, and held them accountable for specific tasks. They made sure everyone met as a group regularly—at least once a week, with many sub meetings during the week for special focus groups. They encouraged, mentored and inspired their group to think big and to think quality. They identified key volunteers who were especially good at working with others, or who had special talents or experience, and held them accountable for meeting specific goals by specific dates. They called out and publicly recognized good work.
Building a local community and producing a tournament event was a major undertaking, and the Rosens said they had to treat it like a job, working on some aspect of their event every day for months.
4. Maintain excellent communication.
According to the Rosens, more than 70 people worked to make LoneStar II happen. Managing that many people required not only a formal organizational structure but an excellent communication system.
In additional to holding regular meetings, the Rosens and TeSPA established a number of online hangouts to facilitate dialogue within the group: a website, Skype threads, a closed Facebook page, a newsletter. They also compiled an email list of local eSports community members, so they could gauge the potential size of a prospective audience, continue to recruit talent, and keep local gamers informed of their activities.
5. Start modestly and iterate, learning as you go and amassing resources and experience.
The Rosens worked their way up to the LoneStar Clashes by first producing a series of smaller events. They started small, to keep themselves from getting into financial or logistical trouble. They began with a borrowed venue, borrowed internet, and borrowed equipment (they used their own computers and their university gave them free space). They bootstrapped their first tournament event with cash from ticket sales and registration fees. Then they rinsed and repeated, producing a series of events (at least one per semester), that slowly upped the ante in terms of cost and sophistication—making each event bigger and better than the last. This allowed them to learn from their mistakes, generate cash, acquire better and better equipment, and test the skills and commitment of their co-workers. This also ensured that they had a proven track record of successful events--including photos of happy crowds, and historical viewer metrics--when they finally approached sponsors about financing larger tournaments.
6. Establish internal experts within your group.
There was a lot to learn along the way. Early on, the Rosens assigned a dedicated team of volunteers to focus on conquering the technical issues associated with livestreaming a tournament event. That group did nothing but test, test, and retest their equipment setup in the months preceding their event to ensure there would be no hiccups during broadcast.
The Rosens assigned additional internal experts to advise them on how to market to sponsors, design promotional materials, create a website and publicize the event. Yet other teams focused on recruiting players and casters and arranging hotels, meals and pleasant meet and greets in Texas. This was particularly important, because the Rosens wanted participants to return for future events.
7. Learn to network locally and nationally.
The Rosens and their group had to learn how to network, in order to recruit the best players, casters and sponsors and stay abreast of technical developments in the field. Networking also brought them to the attention of national eSports groups, who soon recognized that the competency of the TeSPA team. In fact, a number of TeSPA members have subsequently worked or volunteered at major pro league tournament events around the country. So bear in mind that networking can be a helpful foot in the door if you are seeking a career in eSports.
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Novgorodnôv´gərət [key], city (1989 pop. 229,000), capital of Novgorod region, NW European Russia, on the Volkhov River near the point where it leaves Lake Ilmen. Novgorod's industries produce chemicals, fertilizer, and wood and food products. It has a major tourism industry.
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museum city until World War II, when it was held by the Germans (1941–44) and suffered great damage. Chief among the losses was the 12th-century kremlin, on the left river bank, containing the Cathedral of St. Sophia (founded 1045). On the right bank, the former commercial center, were numerous medieval churches and a museum of old Russian art. Many of the damaged buildings have been restored, but their frescoes are lost.
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Efforts by the US military to equip the batwinged B-2 "Spirit" Stealth bomber with a huge penetrator weapon - suitable for use against underground Iranian nuclear facilities - have been delayed.
Flying the unfriendly skies in 2011?
The Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a huge, 14-tonne steel pencil containing a relatively small 2.5-tonne explosive charge. Dropped from high altitude, it strikes at supersonic speed with terrific force, punching through many metres of concrete or earth protection before exploding.
Very similar weapons - for instance the British "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam" penetrators - designed by legendary bouncing-bomb boffin Barnes Wallis of Dambusters fame, and termed "earthquake bombs" - were used against hardened Nazi targets in World War II. An even bigger design, the colossal 20-tonne American T12, arrived too late to see action. The only significant enhancement boasted by the 14-tonne MOP over the 1940s models is precision guidance, which should mean that far fewer weapons and bombers will be needed to eliminate a target.
In the event of America deciding to take military action against Iran's nuclear programme, MOPs dropped from B-2s would seem like one of the least-worst options. The high-flying stealthy bombers would probably be able to penetrate Iranian air defences without a major battle, and the MOPs would be able to wreck even deeply-buried targets like the uranium-enrichment centrifuge bunkers of Natanz.
The effort to develop the MOP and get it deployed aboard B-2s has been underway for some years now. The US government assigned extra funds to speed things up earlier this year, but nonetheless Reuters is now reporting that the delivery date has slipped 6 months to December 2010.
"Funding delays and enhancements to the planned test schedule have pushed the capability availability date to December 2010," Tara Rigler, a Pentagon spokeswoman, told the newswire.
The MOP has been used in successful test drops already, but only from older B-52 Stratofortresses. A raid on Iran by B-52s would probably involve more fighting and casualties than one by Spirits, and Pentagon spokesmen have confirmed that the Stratofortress will not be the operational platform for the weapon.
Some analysts have suggested that less-powerful air forces like those of Israel could mount an effective raid on Iran's nuclear complex. Such an operation would involve large numbers of aircraft, a tough battle with Iran's Russian-supplied defences, serious risks of failure and certainty of major diplomatic protests - not just from Iran, but also from countries overflown by the raiders.
The arrival of MOP-armed B-2s on the international scene can be expected to figure large in the deliberations of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when it happens, and perhaps also in the government councils of North Korea. ®
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On the Senate's farm bill progress.
"We'll have a meeting with (Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom) Harkin to see where he is and bring him up to speed on what we've done. From his remarks, it appears he's getting a chance to look through the bill. It seems he's seeing some things he likes and I'm hopeful (the Senate Agriculture Committee) will have a process to get them fairly close to where we are. That would mean the conference wouldn't be so difficult.
"We've got ag (appropriations) on the floor shortly and we wish the Senate well. We hope they look at our bill closely. There's a lot of good policy work in there and we've blazed a trail for them."
Sen. Harkin has said he doesn't expect loan rates to change. Also, what about payment limits?
"He'll have to have the same discussions I had with the Southerners. Frankly, I think we've gotten them as far as they'll go on payment limits. I know others are out there pushing political-type deals in that area. Generally, if you're on a political or ideological (bent) what you end up with is nothing.
"We now have a $500,000 hard cap on people that aren't farmers. That's a big deal. It isn't as far as some wanted. We got rid of the triple entity rule and this is real reform. But you can't do everything at once. You've got to work through things.
"And there's a lot of money invested in agriculture. There's a lot of concern by people who have a lot of money on the line that we not screw things up. I think we've gone as far as we can on payment limits.
"The direct payments are political reality. The South doesn't want to go there and (Harkin) will have to deal with the politics of his committee."
More on the elimination of the three-entity rule and how new legislation would help agriculture policy reformers.
"It'll make it easier for (payment reformers like the Environmental Working Group) to trace payments. It'll make things more transparent. And that's a good thing.
"They put out this information and the big-city editorial writers and others that weigh in have no clue about what's going on. These payments follow production agriculture and I have no apology for that.
"That's what it's supposed to do, how it's designed. It isn't a social welfare program. It's a risk protection safety net that production ag needs to operate.
"If there's not a viable net and crop insurance program (farmers) can take to the bank to get their financing, we'll end up vertically integrating crop ag like we have meat ag. That's not what I want and isn't what we should do.
"We've answered the critics and they won't like that answer. But they're on some social engineering/money-raising deal. It isn't helpful to agriculture, in my opinion.
"As I said in the response (an) editorial the other day: those of us in farm country don't know about the big city and we aren't about to tell them what to do. But these big-city editorial writers and others don't have a clue about agriculture and they should keep out of our business. We'd all be better off."
If it takes until October to complete the new farm bill, will a short-term extension of the current farm bill be needed?
"No. It's happened before. We've even gone into the next year without having to extend. The real issue is the farmers need to know what the program is in order to make planting decisions and to get financing from their bankers.
"If we get this done by November, it's still early enough for the Southerners to make planting decisions and work with bankers. Beyond that, problems are created for people in the South."
On crop insurance.
"On (July 30), I spent one and a half hours with (USDA's Risk Management Agency, which oversees the crop insurance program). We'll immediately do some oversight, looking into crop insurance. There is more information we need to know.
"Now that the House Agriculture Committee has the farm bill passed and is waiting on the Senate, we won't be sitting around. We'll be getting to work on oversight, as we said we would. We'll spend August looking into crop insurance and getting on solid ground so everyone can agree on the facts and implications of the changes in the farm bill. It's fair to say none of us are totally sure if the number is right — too high? Too low?
"Crop insurance comes up for authorization next Congress. The work we're doing now will be the foundation for reauthorization next year.
"Premiums have gone up significantly in certain parts of the country. The way the system works, we've seen a significant increase in compensation to agents and companies with what appears to be not much change in the amount of work they have to do. That's what's at issue and we're trying to figure out what the facts are.
"There are folks that think we ought to look at the whole (crop insurance) system and potentially change the structure. I'm not sure I'm there yet but there are people looking into it. That discussion may be better left to reauthorization."
On the recent WTO case brought against U.S. cotton.
"We don't agree with the decision. Again, it's countries manipulating things by picking dates that make us look bad and aren't tied to reality.
"Some of us have some real problems with how the WTO is operating by allowing this sort of thing to happen. They'd better be careful because there's less and less support for the whole WTO trade regime. Not only is that in Congress, but in the ag committee.
"If they keep going and the WTO allows (such) manipulation, they could blow this whole thing up. At some point, if this WTO thing isn't a straight-up deal, they'll have a big problem with me. People need to understand that."
On some senators' unenthusiastic reaction to the House farm bill making tax provisions on foreign corporations an offset.
"The House has a bill that's paid for and has passed. If they don't like the way we're doing that, we'll talk about it in conference. I'll say the same thing I've said to the Republicans: if you don't like what we're doing, offer an alternative.
"I happen to think this shouldn't have been done in the first place, that we shouldn't have U.S. government employees negotiating treaties with foreign corporations allowing them to pay less taxes than people in the United States. I have a real problem that we're doing that in the first place and I have no problem ending it.
"As an old CPA that used to rail against this stuff when I wasn't in politics, I'm very much in favor of getting rid of a lot of the manipulation allowed in the foreign trade arena. And it's a (continuation) of the problem I have with the whole regime of the USTR and State Department, Treasury (Department), WTO and all those that want to put us at a disadvantage."
On standards of Chinese imports and how to pay for ramped up inspections.
"Now that we're freed up a bit, I've instructed my staff to look into this. We don't have jurisdiction over the FDA. We feel the USDA is doing a pretty good job because they inspect a plant before allowing imports to come over. That isn't the case with the FDA.
"Some people are looking into trying to beef up (import and plant inspections). We'd have to add inspectors at the border. That would cost money and some suggest it should be paid for by U.S. taxpayers. I am totally, unalterably opposed to that outrageous idea.
"What I'm interested in is placing a fee on imported goods at whatever level would pay for the inspections. If no one else does it, I'll put a bill in to do this.
To bolster his claim that farmers won't stand for a tax increase to pay for farm programs, USDA head Mike Johanns said he's the most in-touch with farmers in history. Peterson's reaction?
"(Johanns) needs to get out and talk to farmers a little more. I haven't found a single farmer that has a problem with the loophole closing we put in the bill. In fact, once they understand what it is they say, 'Why haven't we been doing this in the first place?'
"I do know there are number of Republicans that have caught holy heck back home from their farmers because they voted against the bill and using the tax offset as an excuse.
"I think (Johanns) is totally misreading this. He's coming to my district on (and, from what I'm hearing he'll get an earful. "I'd have to respectfully disagree with (Johanns). In my opinion, he isn't in touch with farmers if that's what he thinks."
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NEW YORK – The 2014 NHL Draft Lottery, a weighted system to determine the order of selection for the first 13 picks of the 2014 NHL Draft, will take place Tuesday, April 15, at 8 p.m., ET.
The League, in cooperation with TSN, will announce the results of the Draft Lottery live during a 30-minute program produced and televised by TSN in Canada. The special presentation also will air in the U.S. on NBCSN and will re-air on NHL Network U.S. at 8:30 p.m., ET.
Thirteen of the 14 Clubs not qualifying for the Stanley Cup Playoffs – or the Clubs that have acquired the First-Round drafting positions of those non-playoff teams – will have a chance at winning the right to the first overall selection. The New Jersey Devils will not be eligible to win the Draft Lottery and will select 30th overall in the First Round.
The odds of winning the Draft Lottery are determined by the teams' regular-season point totals. The Lottery-winning team will draft first overall, with the remaining 12 teams that are eligible to win the Lottery slotted in reverse order of their regular-season point totals. The First-Round drafting positions of the 16 Playoff-Qualifying Clubs (picks 14-29) will be determined by the results of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
To ensure that the odds of all 13 Clubs eligible to win the Draft Lottery are enhanced equally to reflect the Devils' situation, the Draft Lottery this year is being modified as follows: the Devils will still be included in the Draft Lottery drawing on the same basis and with the same odds that would have normally been assigned to the Club based on and consistent with its regular-season finish. However, in the event the Devils win the Draft Lottery, an immediate re draw will be conducted to select a different recipient of the first overall selection in the First Round. The same process will be conducted as many times as necessary to ensure that the first overall selection is awarded to a team other than New Jersey. The Devils will be entitled to the 30th selection overall in the 2014 NHL Draft (the last pick in the First Round). The Devils are not permitted to trade or transfer their right to the 30th overall selection.
Based on team finish, the percentage chance of being selected in the Draft Lottery is:
|Buffalo Sabres - 25.0%
|Toronto Maple Leafs - 3.6%
|Florida Panthers - 18.8%
|Winnipeg Jets - 2.7%
|Edmonton Oilers - 14.2%
|Anaheim Ducks (from Ottawa) - 2.1%
|Calgary Flames - 10.7%
|New Jersey Devils - 1.5%
|New York Islanders - 8.1%
|Nashville Predators - 1.1%
|Vancouver Canucks - 6.2%
|Phoenix Coyotes - 0.8%
|Carolina Hurricanes - 4.7%
|Washington Capitals - 0.5%
The 2014 NHL Draft will be hosted by the Flyers at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia from June 27-28. It will be the first time the city and facility host the NHL Draft.
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|Effect on Draft Order
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|Los Angeles
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|Retained 1st selection
|D Chris Phillips
|Retained 1st selection
|C Joe Thornton
|Tampa Bay
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|C Vincent Lecavalier
|Moved from 8th to 4th
|RW Pavel Brendl *
|NY Islanders
|Moved from 5th to 1st
|G Rick DiPietro
|Moved from 3rd to 1st
|LW Ilya Kovalchuk
|Moved from 3rd to 1st
|LW Rick Nash **
|Moved from 4th to 1st
|G Marc-Andre Fleury ***
|Moved from 3rd to 1st
|LW Alex Ovechkin
|C Sidney Crosby
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|D Erik Johnson
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|RW Patrick Kane
|Tampa Bay
|Retained 1st selection
|C Steven Stamkos
|NY Islanders
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|C John Tavares
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|LW Taylor Hall
|New Jersey
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|D Adam Larsson
|Moved from 2nd to 1st
|RW Nail Yakupov
|Moved from 2nd to 1st
|C Nathan MacKinnon
* NY Rangers obtained Chicago's pick in a trade (via Vancouver and Tampa Bay). The Rangers selected RW Pavel Brendl fourth overall.
** Columbus obtained Florida's pick in a trade. The Blue Jackets selected LW Rick Nash first overall.
*** Pittsburgh obtained Florida's pick in a trade. The Penguins selected G Marc-Andre Fleury first overall.
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The partnership was initially established through the Mitsubishi Corporation Fund for Europe and Africa (MCFEA) – a charitable trust established by the company to promote environmental and social projects in those regions – and an engagement program for employees of Mitsubishi Corporation's offices in Europe was initiated in the same year. Since then the partnership has grown in the U.K., and new relationships have been established between Earthwatch Japan and Australia and the Mitsubishi Corporation offices in Tokyo.
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