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If you are an entrepreneur or blogger that means you are always struggling to find the right tools for the job. So, I've decided that once a month I will cut through the BS and bring you valuable tools or services that can help get you where you want to be.
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Do you want to have a professional logo created for your brand? CrowdSpring wrote a terrific article about what consumers think and feel about your brand. Did you know?
- It only takes consumers 10 seconds to form a first impression of a brand's logo, but it takes 5-7 impressions for consumers to recognize the logo.
- First impressions are incredibly important to develop loyalty; 48% of consumers report that they are more likely to become loyal to a brand during the first purchase or experience.
So, according to this research, it's more important than ever to have a professional logo. My friend Greg at Logojoy can help!
A professional theme is also a must-have. Free themes are fine for your personal blog, but when you're trying to run a small business you are going to want to depend on a premium theme that offers so much more. I ALWAYS use the powerful Genesis Framework when I build a website followed up by a premium child theme from StudioPress.
I use certain plugins with every design. These I consider foundational plugins. You might want to check out my post There's A Plugin For That which is a comprehensive look at some of the plugins available. These plugins that I'm listing below are all free (they do offer premium services, but you don't need that)
- Backing up your site UPDRAFT PLUS.
- Security WORDFENCE
- Spam AKISMET
- Great features JETPACK
- Clean up OPTIMIZE DATABASE AFTER DELETING REVISIONS
- Caching WP SUPER CACHE
You'll also need an email service provider. TIP: If you have less than 2,000 subscribers you can use MailChimp for FREE. The free plan now includes automation. So you can have that welcome email sequence or that challenge you've been thinking about. I see a lot of people get swept up in the ConvertKit movement when really they don't need it and at $29 a month it seems like a no-brainer. Not to dis ConvertKit, it's a great program just unnecessary for the average entrepreneur or blogger.
I've always loved Google Docs, but lately, it's been hard to use if you're using the newer version of windows because you can no longer add it to your desktop files. For this reason, lately I've been turning more and more to One Note files and Word, but I still use Google Docs for so much. Microsoft (if it's not included on your computer can be purchased for $6.99 a month) Google Docs is free or you can have access to all of the APPS Google offers for $5 a month.
Images are so important in today's marketing world. According to an article I found on Hubspot:
When people hear information, they're likely to remember only 10% of that information three days later. However, if a relevant image is paired with that same information, people retained 65% of the information three days later.
So you need to find relevant images for every post, but where do you find those images? There are lots of free stock photo sites like. While using images are important using them correctly (legally) is also really important. Not sure what's legal and what isn't? Check out my post The Essential Stock Photo Guide to learn all the ins and outs.
Once you have the perfect image it needs to be resized according to the theme you're using. If you don't know that size go to SETTINGS>MEDIA and find out. Resizing used to be much simpler, but recently PicMonkey did away with their free service and now they charge $7.99 a month. Canva is a terrific choice and they have a free and paid version. If you pay a monthly charge you can save all of your branding and fonts so that they are there when you need them. I find the free version works just fine. My research found another free one called Fotor, but I don't have any experience with it. There is also a new option available for photo editing. I've used it quickly & I like how easy it is to understand and of course FREE! CanvasPrints.co.uk/photoeditor/ UPDATED 6-18-19
You have your image now you need great content to go with it. Use Grammarly to make sure your writing is mistake proof! It's an invaluable service that I use every single day. Need a place to store your notes? Try Evernote although I prefer One Note because it's easier to get to for me I like Evernote for some things. It's easy to use and offers a free version and a premium version.
Need to speed up your website? I found an amazing resource by Tung Tran at Cloudliving.com called "22 Tips To Speed Up Your Website".
Need social media automation? Try this post I recently wrote "How To Know If You Are Using The Right Social Media Scheduling Tool For Your Business"
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The latest issue of The Bridge, Messiah College's alumni magazine, is running a short article on the Song Folk, a music ensemble from the College that featured several Brethren in Christ voices.
Here's a taste of the piece:
Dwight Thomas '70 started . . . the Song Folk . . . in 1969. "During the late '60s, the church was only beginning to embrace contemporary styles in worship, and prior to the Song Folk, Messiah had no formally endorsed music group of the sort," says Thomas, who is now an assistant professor of music at Messiah. "We took our musical inspiration from a popular group of the time called the Seekers."
The article makes no explicit connection between the Song Folk and the Brethren in Christ Church — though it stands to reason that the group performed at more than a few church-sponsored events, as Messiah College singing groups were (and still are) known to do.
It would be interesting to know how conservative Brethren in Christ audiences responded to the seemingly "worldly" musical stylings of the Song Folk.
Read the whole article here. Listen to a song by the Ethnics, a similar folk group from Messiah College, here.


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China presents a conundrum for U.S. companies. It's the largest market in the world, by population, and it's consistently the fastest growing economy. There's a huge amount of money to be made there.
However, time after time, local entrepreneurs, either with or without the tacit support of the Chinese government, have found ways to fleece American companies bare. The latest company facing a possible quagmire in China is Apple, which has so far enjoyed cult status and explosive growth in the U.S with its iPhone. For two years now, Apple has sought a carrier partner in China to distribute the iPhone, but it has failed. At first, it was in talks with China's largest carrier, China Mobile, but the two couldn't agree on revenue share terms. Now Apple looks to be on the verge of signing a pretty depressing deal with China's second carrier, China Unicom.
Things are looking a little better for Google in China right now, but the jury is still out there too.
First, here's the recent background: China Mobile's executive Luke Bao announced at our MobileBeat2009 conference last month that the company was launching its own mobile application store. Since then, reports have provided more details about the plans: The apps store is coming this month, and its apps will be for use on the carrier's new series of smartphones. Those phones will be based on China Mobile's operating system, called the Open Mobile System (OMS). The OMS takes Google's Android operating system as its foundation, but builds an additional layer on top to offer additional features such as telephony, native java, CMMB/MobileTV, location based services and a customized user interface. The OMS will also send less user data (about location, etc) back to Google's headquarters than some other Android-based handsets do, we're told.
China Mobile's OMS will be compatible with all Android apps, Bao also explained at MobileBeat2009. China Mobile will also announce a way for US developers to submit apps to the OMS store. Meantime, China Mobile has been adding employees to its Silicon Valley offices recently, to make sure it has the support staff to help developers adapt. The first OMS phone to launch is the so-called "Ophone," which according to people who have seen them, look like a total iPhone rip-off in terms of design (see image below). Dell is a device maker rumored to also have a OMS phone launching with China Mobile.
This all comes after a flood of other, cheaper iPhone clones have already hit the market — none of them working as well as the iPhone, and thus creating confusion and dangerous brand dilution (the Chinese will get turned off by phones that don't work, and they may not buy the real thing when if does hit the market). One mobile professional in China, Sage Brennan, tweeted yesterday: "Tons of iPhone knock-offs in China — I recently saw one with dual-sim, 2/3 iPhone dimensions, running Windows Mobile 6. Ophone is a joke."
It doesn't help that one of Apple's secret latest models of its iPhone, still not released yet, was apparently stolen from a factory manager in China. And even when China gets pressure at the WTO to help enforce fairer competitive practices, piracy remains rampant, and there are no signs this will stop. There are an estimated 1 million-plus iPhones in the Chinese market, all of them are illegally "jailbroken." To make matters worse, Chinese users already enjoy a vibrant App Store-like experience with a full catalog of pirated, free apps via software packages from Netdragon and others. Will consumers even want to pay for real, priced apps from China Unicom after they're already so conditioned to free apps?
Of course, Apple may not be blameless. Apple has sought total control over the management of its app store, but Chinese carriers fear they'll lose ownership of the relationship with their customers — a reasonable concern. China Mobile says it plans to give developers 70% of their sales revenue on apps sold through its Mobile Marketplace, which is exactly the same revenue share Apple gives to the developers of apps in its app store. Additionally China Mobile is reportedly going to waive fees and commissions entirely on app sales for a limited time after launches next week. If the launch goes as planned, its phones will hit the market at least a month or so before the iPhone will.
Apple is apparently in discussions with China's No. 2 carrier, China Unicom (the carrier has 140 million subscribers, which sounds like a lot, but that pales when compared to China Mobile's 600 million subscribers and 70 percent market share). China Unicom has bought five million iPhones from Apple in preparation for a September release, according to an unconfirmed report in the IB Times. The companies say they haven't finalized a deal, but the report suggests they're about to sign a three-year agreement that would give China Unicom exclusive rights to sell the iPhone in China. The key part of the arrangement, if the report is to be believed, is that China Unicom won't pay subsidies to support sales of the phone, meaning consumers will have to fork out full price, and this means sales could be tepid. Chinese consumer purchasing power is still far weaker than it is in the U.S., yet these consumers are being asked to pay about $350 for the 8GB iPhone and about $700 for the 16GB iPhone. Apple will generate roughly $100 per unit in profit, according to estimates provided by the IB Times source. That's much lower than the $400 or more profit Apple has been estimated to get from AT&T here in the U.S.
Many people may think Apple's platform is formidable and can overcome these hurdles, since it claims global leadership in the app department: It has more than 65,000 apps. It's unclear, however, how many apps an app store needs to be successful. Most of the apps on the iPhone platform are destined for obscurity; only the top few thousand will see success. It won't be difficult for Android or other application stores to replicate those top apps (developers of those apps will have incentive enough to make a version for Android).
Two years ago, several analysts predicted Apple would have far more than 100 million subscribers of its iPhone in China in 2008. We're now a year later, and not a single "legitimate" iPhone has hit the market via a Chinese carrier. It gets uglier for Apple with each day.
Will Apple become just the latest to suffer what has become a multi-hundred-year history of fleecing foreign business in China? In almost every other country, Apple has been able to sign up the leading carrier to carry its iPhone, effectively by telling the carrier: "You're just a pipe, thank you very much." In China, Apple's being spanked back: "Apple, you're just a hardware vendor, thank you very much…and we'll control the App Store and user experience, and have a gazillion OEMs lined up to jump aboard the oPhone!"
So what about Google? Well, the history of foreign business in China suggests you can do well if you're giving the Chinese something they want — by not only adapting to local market conditions, but also investing in jobs (large foreign companies such as Siemens and IBM have done well this way). But get too big, and you may draw scrutiny. Google is essentially giving away its Android operating system, as a way to realize its grand vision: Mobile phones with efficient web-based apps and browsing are good for Google's core business of serving web ads. The question is, will this investment by Google really pay off in China, or will Google simply get drubbed again — as it was when going against Baidu, the Chinese search engine? When Google launched in 2000 in China, it quickly became the leading search engine. But in part because of action by the Chinese government, it has steadily lost market share. Baidu now has 75.7 percent market share in search, compared to Google's 19.8 percent share. The history for most U.S. companies in China has sucked, and there's no sign it's gotten any better.
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Please pray for our Champions League Holiday Bible Club taking place next week. Pray that God would bring children along to the event and ask for his blessing on those organising the football and giving talks.
Other news:
As WordPress has become more Facebook friendly you can now "like" posts on Another King. You'll see the "like" button above the comments section on each post. Though I suppose I shouldn't be encouraging such time-wasting – see Dad's blog.


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First things first: please send all hate mail concerning this month's cover to my attention. Yes, I'm to blame. Yes, I know it's provocative. And yes, I'm probably going to hell. I'll say what I always say when people complain about a cover: it was the best blend of artist and technology available in one image. But, as Madonna once said, express yourself. So I await your missives.
Rather than defend myself, or perhaps more appropriately, defend Madonna for her controversial yet still glamorous crucifixion scene in her current Confessions Tour (and really, if Madonna can't be glamorous for her own crucifixion, then who can?), I'm going to talk about what any self-respecting, on-the-ball editor would discuss: a story from last month's issue, specifically, Christian Choi's piece titled, "Help and Hope in a Desperate Time: A Note From The First Behind The Scenes Grant Recipient."
Many of you know Christian as one of the top programmers in the game. What many of you may not have known until you read last month's piece was that for several years now, Christian has been suffering from severe health issues related to his spine, and as a result, serious economic issues. Behind The Scenes, the charitable program created by The ESTA Foundation, came to his aid in a time of need, and his story was a call to action, both for those in the industry who may be in financial need, but just as importantly, for those of us who could help.
We here at Live Design have been committed to supporting this very worthy cause since its inception last year. In May, during our annual Broadway Master Classes, we held a silent auction as part of our first annual Live Design Honors, raising a few sheckels for the charity (see page 12 for more details). We're also planning on another benefit/silent auction during this year's LDI Awards in October.
Many, many others are getting in the act as well. Altman Lighting, of course, threw down the gauntlet at last year's LDI with the Altman Family $125,000 Challenge, where the company matched every dollar donated to the charity in its first year. Last I heard, they were already close to hitting that goal. And last month, shops from around the New York region gathered together at an Upper East Side restaurant to watch the Tony Awards as part of another Behind the Scenes benefit.
I'm sure you're getting involved too, right? You're throwing away that nasty note you'd started writing to me about the cover, and you're writing a check out to Behind the Scenes instead. That's a much more productive way of expressing yourself, don't you think?
For more info on Behind The Scenes, go to www.estafoundation.org/bts.htm.


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For May's jewellery brand I've chosen another UK brand, the relatively new, Glasgow-based:
This brand is the brainchild of Jess Milne and was only started this year. I've bought one piece already – the Second Star to the Right Necklace, which I wore to a theatre performance of Peter Pan.
I've also got my eye on this lovely Venetian Mask Necklace.
This lamp post brooch is very Narnia.
Christmas or not, it's always a good time for a Mince Pie Brooch.
These baby dragon brooches are adorable.
Check out Pandacat Productions via the following links:
Etsy: etsy.com/uk/shop/PandacatProductions
Instagram: instagram.com/elpandacat (I particularly recommend following on Instagram for sneak peeks of new collections including a forthcoming Wizard of Oz range!)


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Android Auto album art not changing
SCFoximus posted a topic in Bug ReportsHey all, I just downloaded Poweramp this week, and it's been great. However, I finally got to use it with Android Auto today and when I skip to the next track about 50% of the time the album art doesn't change, it just keeps the art of the previous song that was playing. I've had other apps do this briefly, where it would take a few seconds to load before changing, but Poweramp didn't change the artwork until the second song ended. The quick solution I found was to skip forward to another track then go back and the art would reset. Additionally, if I skipped two songs forward instead of just one the problem never happened. Is there something I can check or uncheck in the settings to make this not happen in the future? Poweramp build: v3-build-866-arm64-play [866994-d7e07d05] Phone: Samsung Galaxy Note9 OS: Android 10
Two different album art in one album
LinkenNightmare posted a topic in General Poweramp ChatterI have an album with two side, two different album arts, and I transferred it from PC to phone and they were labelled properly with each sides has its own album arts. Just right now I accidentally changed the album art of one of the song in the album and now each sides has been affected with my action. Now the case is I deleted my music files, copied it again, and it won't detect embedded album art. I uninstalled it, cleared the cache, and made sure of my tagging format, it just won't be as usual. Please help.
Album art not showing in Android auto
tanglingpig posted a topic in Bug ReportsI have a large library of mp3 and flac files with album art encoded using ID3 tags. The album art displays fine in the Poweramp app and in the menus of Poweramp in android auto, but not in the main song screen of android auto. I can, however, get the art to display for an entire album in the main screen if I go into the app and manually set the album art for one song on that album to the embedded art. I can reproduce this bug in both my android auto head unit and the android auto app. v3-build-864-arm64-play Full Version Motorola One Zoom Android 9
Scaling Down Album Artwork
cyberslash11 posted a topic in General Poweramp ChatterHello. I am currently using version 3 build 860. How do I reduce the sizem of artworks? I hate how my album art looks pixeled even though the reso is high, so I am wondering how I can reduce the size of album art, which I've been able to do previously.
1-Why when I choose album art to any song only display in Poweramp player? , can you make it stick to the song, so that any player can read it 2-there is a website called yandex (https://yandex.com/images/) where you can find hi-res photos and album covers on it (example: https://yandex.com/images/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sohh.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F11%2FBlinding-Lights-The-Weeknd-11-29-19.jpg&text=the%20weekend%20bending%20lights%20album%20cover&rpt=imageview&cbir_id=2760990%2FD7hq20G26_3YRHWYJSKEeg), can you generate album covers from it it'd be awesome And I want to thank you and all of the team for your effort and I truly appreciate it, I recommended it to many of my friends and they love it Thanks in advance for your help...
Album arts manual search
sndeep posted a topic in Feature RequestsNeed an option search for an album art manually and add it to the player. Most of the time album art download feature won't work properly due to incorrect track info. So it'll be a lot useful for the user to search for the missing album arts manually within player.
High-Res Album Art from iTunes
fyourself posted a topic in Feature RequestsI don't know if I put this in proper category, as this isn't necessarily a feature request, rather adding to an existing feature. There's a website valled "itunes artwork finder" https://bendodson.com/projects/itunes-artwork-finder/ that you can use to search for and download high-resolution artwork from iTunes. It usually has the best quality/highest resolution album covers I can find. Google images/reverse image search rarely comes up with higher quality covers. It would be cool if when searching for album art in Poweramp, if it could search iTunes aswell. The developer of the site has the source code publicly available on GitHub so other devs can host it themselves, as mentioned at the bottom of the webpage: "NOTE TO DEVELOPERS: If you want to do any automation or hit the API I've written directly, please consider getting the source code I've made publicly available on GitHub and hosting it yourself. I can't guarantee uptime nor give permission for you to hit my server from your own apps so please host the code above on your own server if you wish to do anything like that." GitHub link: https://github.com/bendodson/itunes-artwork-finder
blurry Album art is blurry on lock screen (Samsung, Android 9)
Oscar H posted a topic in Bug ReportsThe lock screen feature on my Samsung A50 (Android 9) doesn't work. Cover art shows blurry, even though the album art is well embeded. Happens with every song. I tap the player on the lock screen and it show the album art, which is blurry. Album art properly shown. Lock screen. You have to tap the feature to show the album art. Album art blurry.
Album art changes
Yoshitha posted a topic in Bug ReportsAlbum art changes randomly. When I download an image to my phone it automatically becomes my album art of some songs
When I open the music player the cover from the first music is normal, but when I start changing the musics all others covers becomes pixelated. If I reopen the app without stop the music, the album cover normalize. I have covers in low resolution and high resolution, and all they becomes pixelated. More info: https://www.reddit.com/r/Poweramp/comments/d5yyyk/the_album_covers_in_poweramp_are_pixelated_my/ Pics: https://i.imgur.com/39808ya.jpg https://i.imgur.com/uZybfO8.jpg https://i.imgur.com/7r0NUmy.jpg Poweramp V3 Build 840-841 Samsung Galaxy J5 PRO Android 9
I am using an Android car stereo that uses a PX6 processor and runs Oreo. It uses some kind of deep sleep that Poweramp doesn't seem to like. Poweramp will lose the album art of the last played song although the album art jpg was not deleted. This is the scenario: Album art displays just fine. I turn off my truck and the radio goes to sleep (it doesn't completely shut down as it is ready to go a few seconds after starting the vehicle). After a few hours I start my truck up. Poweramp is still on the same song, but the album art does not display. I can swipe forward and back between songs, but the album art for the song that was active at vehicle turn-off is not displaying (all other album art is fine). I can long press on the blank album art, select album art, and there is the album art ready for me to select chose. I am not connected to wifi so the art has been there the entire time. The problem only seems to happen on the song that is showing/playing when I turn the vehicle off. After a few weeks, I wind up with a bunch of album art that doesn't display. The art is there and doesn't need to be downloaded again.... it just needs to be selected. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt
User controlled art choices
RBEmerson posted a topic in Feature RequestsSome of PA's choices for album and artist art can be frustrating. For example, Album art uses artist art while album art is either the default jagged line or something irrelevant. Similarly, album art can be irrelevant or missing. At a minimum, being to designate artist art from album art or vice versa is better than nothing. Being able to search for, and use, user selected art for the artist or album art and swap art already recognized by PA would be even better.
Album Art Compression
DELTABOLT posted a topic in Feature RequestsAlbum art should be fit if they're too large. 1280×1750. Doesn't fit fully.
Background, album art & controls disappear in playback
Jay Jay posted a topic in Bug ReportsI first noticed this happening yesterday (May 5, 2019) and it persists. During playback, the background, album art, player controls, notification bar (clock included)... everything... disappears and all I see is a solid black screen and the chosen visualization. If I tap anywhere on the screen, everything comes back as it should and after the preset time, everything disappears again and it's back to a black screen with the visualization. I attached a screenshot of what I see. I hadn't changed any of the settings so I have no clue what's going on or why it just started yesterday but thought maybe some Android system app or Samsung app updated like Samsung Experience and messed with it. I went through the settings and couldn't find anything that I thought might cause this behavior. I couldn't find a master default settings restore so I went into each of the menu items and selected restore default everywhere I could find the option, but I realize a lot of the sub menus also have restore options. None of these had an effect other than bringing the notification bar back during playback which is great but I'd really like to see the UI and album art while music is playing since I mainly use Poweramp in my car. I looked into a log cat app, including the suggested one which hasn't been updated for years. None of the apps I could find seem work unless you root and all I could see are the logs of the app and not anything to do with the device or running apps. I did find one that worked without root but all it showed was app selection, song play and selection and no system events. I thought about uninstalling Poweramp and then reinstalling it but would prefer to leave that as a last resort. If I do chose to uninstall and reinstall, will I get my full version back? I do still have the Unlocker installed. Are the hoops I have to jump through to get the full version back? My device info: Device: Samsung Galaxy S9+ OS: Android 9, Security Patch: April 1, 2019 Poweramp: V3-build-826-play (full version) Poweramp Full Version Unlocker: 3-build-301
No new album art only on Artists tab
cal79 posted a topic in Bug ReportsPaid user new to Poweramp as of a few weeks ago, coming over from Rocket Player. Added a few albums today, Download Album Art is enabled. 2/5 albums don't show art, but only in the Artists view. Yet the album art is showing in all other views. Rescan didn't help. What am I doing wrong, or not doing?? PS and if it matters: all my music is ripped from my CD collection using fre:ac. All of my legacy art was manually downloaded. I don't know if Poweramp picked up its art from that folder or downloaded it from the internet.
Embedded album art is sometimes corrupted
pafb posted a topic in Bug ReportsHello, In some cases, embedded album artwork is displayed corrupted inside of Poweramp, even in when I have not transcoded the file for use on my phone. The very same files display their album art correctly within foobar2000, but in Poweramp, the embedded album art only renders the first few rows of the image before it turns into blank grey. In this particular case, every file of a MP3 album has the same embedded image (manually via mp3tag) and each file shows the same corruption. There is no front.jpg or similar in the directory that they reside in. Perhaps Poweramp has issues reading ID3v2.4 tags? I've experienced this before in the past and cannot recall if those files were also ID3 (MP3) or VorbisComments (FLAC/OPUS). After a bit of further experimentation, it seems the problem is more to do with the actual transferring process, as deleting the files, full rescanning, and re-transferring the files seems to have fixed the problem. I'm not sure if it's Windows' fault for transferring poorly or something to do with Poweramp reading incorrectly. I did resave the tags (without changing them prior to re-transferring) in mp3tag to rewrite/refresh the tags and perhaps that helped too, but all this time foobar2000 has had no issue displaying the artwork as it should be. It's a bit unclear what the issue is, all I know is that on occasion, I've experience corrupted embedded album art in Poweramp. I haven't thought to test albums that exhibit this bug in another player but I will do so next time. Is this a known issue? I would submit a test file but after re-transferring the files, the bug is no more. Screenshot of corruption (notice the rows of pixels stop rendering). Thanks. Moto G4, v3-build-820-play
This is a very tiny issue and I think it's easy to fix. I store each my albums in a whole wavpack file with embedded cuesheet and album cover art. The cover art is detected when using foobar2000 and it is indeed detected by Poweramp in the "album" page. However, every single track in the album doesn't show the embedded cover art (as the attached image shows). Please add the feature that the embedded album art is shown by default of single tracks in an album file with cuesheet.
album art Animated GIF support for album art
smatter posted a topic in Feature RequestsA gif support would enable us to have cool animated lockscreens and animations playing in an album in-app
visualisation info bar on top of Album art is really very irritating...there is no point covering album art...(shown in the pic attached) is there any way it can be removed?
Hi, I've been using Poweramp for years now mostly with the same collection of music. I recently purchased and downloaded some new songs and thought I would update my library with those songs. So I transferred them to my phone and then used the rescan library functionin Poweramp. Some of the songs show the album art and tag info, but quite a few of them do not. A lot of the songs in my library show the song title, but no album art and the artist is listed as "unknown artist," and the album is listed as "unknown album." I'm slightly perplexed, as I verified the tags are correct on my computer and then also verified the same thing for my phone by using the view folder interface from my phone's corded connection to my laptop. I also opened up Google Play and looked at my library in there and all the tags and album art are displaying correctly. This issue seems to be specific to Poweramp. I've seen some other topics with this issue, but I couldn't find any resolution. I'm using an HTC 10 with Android 8.0.0. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Edit: My album art is all embedded, I don't use the download album art function.
Change playlist album art
Pranshul posted a topic in Feature RequestsThere must be an option to change album art of created playlists
Many phones don't have this feature, it would be great if you could add it manually, to change the Lockscreen wallpaper to the current playing song.
Album art duplicates
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Excerpts from a chapter of my long essay: In the modern era, the marked influence of nominalism in theorizing about sovereignty can be seen in the thought of the controversial German constitutional scholar Carl Schmitt, who, following Bodin, postulated that sovereignty is not a function of the general rule but of the exception; that is, that it is primarily a question of who exercises the power to make exceptions. Thus the famous first sentence in his short but illuminating treatise on political theology: "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception."[1] For Schmitt, at the heart of the issue of who is the true sovereign is this:
the concrete application, and that means who decides in a situation of conflict what constitutes the public interest of the state, public safety and order, le salut public, and so on. The exception, which is not codified in the existing legal order, can at best be characterized as a case of extreme peril, a danger to the existence of the state, or the like. But it cannot be circumscribed factually and made to conform to a preformed law.[2]
Thus, when Schmitt says that the test of the existence of a state of necessity, of an emergency in fact "involves a specifically juristic element,"[3] he means exactly that – there can be no law limiting the discretion of the ruler to decide the point, or to declare who is an enemy of the state and who is not; in other words, the ruler is the law herself.
This indivisibility of the power to decide the exception from the power to decide what is lawful sets itself against the liberal constitutionalism of Schmitt's day – one can immediately think of the doomed Weimar Republic – which sought to set in place a system of checks and balances in government designed to curtail the arbitrary exercise of power by the ruler.
Schmitt deploys the thought of Bodin and other seventeenth-century natural law scholars against that system, saying that sovereignty cannot tolerate a situation where at times it is the prince that rules and at others, the people (as when the prince must first consult the people before deciding in a situation of extreme urgency). Indeed, in his argument that only the sovereign has the "monopoly to decide," Schmitt echoes[4] the nominalistic voluntarism of an earlier era founded on a revolutionary theological conception of the Divine Will: All law is "situational law."
The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision. Therein resides the essence of the state's sovereignty, which must be juridically defined correctly, not as the monopoly to coerce or to rule, but as a monopoly to decide. The exception reveals most clearly the essence of the state's authority. The decision parts here from the legal norm, and (to formulate it paradoxically) authority proves that to produce law it need not be based on law.[5]
Thus Schmitt cites Hobbes in his formulation of sovereignty as pure and unbridled "political decisionism": autoritas, non veritas facit legem.[6] Indeed, it was Schmitt who postulated that
[a]ll significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development – in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent God became the omnipotent law-giver – but also because of their systemic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for a sociological consideration of these concepts. The exception in jurisprudence is analogous to the miracle in theology. Only by being aware of this analogy can we appreciate the manner in which the philosophical ideas of the state developed into the last centuries.[7]
The omnipotent God become the omnipotent law-giver. It was, in Schmitt's terms, a turn from the theological to the secular, but one that Milbank would say, was actually occasioned by the nominalistic turn in theological thinking itself, beginning with the Middle Ages, in the voluntaristic thought systems of Scotus and Ocham.
In an insightful and important piece exploring the theological roots of the concept of sovereignty Govert Buijs revises Schmitt's original secularization thesis, saying that while indeed, the justification used for the political order shifted from the theological to the secular, sovereignty itself was not a "secularised" theological concept or rather "there seems to be a kind of back and forth between theological and political experiences." [8]
The over-all result may well be a secularized political order, but while this secularization is in some respects theologically grounded, in other respects it is an unintended consequence of certain theological insights, and in still other respects a result of a quite purposive process of secularization. Implicitly following Milbank's own intellectual trajectory, Buijs outlines how as a concept sovereignty was deployed to carry out the secularization of the political sphere.Buijs' "archeology of sovereignty" uncovers the following "layers of meaning":
The first element concerns unifying a realm and organising it into one political entity. The second element is the presence of one subject, one representative centre of power, one agent, who has his/her place vis-à-vis this entity, for example to issue laws. The third element of the concept of sovereignty concerns its voluntaristic overtones. Sovereignty is mostly couched in terms of a will, of an almost personal character. The fourth element is the territorial limitation. Compared to older symbolisms like the Sumerian King List…the modern notion of sovereignty seems rather awkward: the highest power, but only in a limited territory. It is somewhat like calling a person "world famous" in his own village.[9]
Here, again, nominalism identified with the theological thought of Scotus and Ockham has had three important implications on the spread of secularization in Western society.[10] The first is that nominalism led to a voluntarist conception of law and government, where both, formerly regarded as a reflection of divine reason, now came to be considered as matters based solely on an essentially arbitrary decision (quia voluntas est voluntas).[11]
This voluntarist element is fully present in the systems of Bodin and Hobbes, says Buijs. The consequences of the nominalistic outlook is especially "weighty"[12] in the author of the Leviathan, whose universe seems to be characterized entirely as a clash of wills now given absolute freedom.
This freedom expressed in unfettered will, Buijs notes, was previously unthinkable, inasmuch as the universe before them was conceived of as a closed rational order.[13] Second, there is now no avenue for appeal beyond the lawgiver. In Bodin,[14] this is especially prominent. While the human lawgiver is still bound by the laws of nature and divine law, he has become the only available standard, inasmuch as God has been turned into an inscrutable higher being to whom there can be no access. While nominalism made possible the criticism of the established order, it can only do so without an available higher standard to measure the existing order.[15] Hence:
The potentia absoluta does not provide for a standard to measure the actual order. He who has the power at the same time has the ius non appelandi. Hobbes, a self-proclaimed nominalist, articulated this in the very concise formula auctoritas, non veritas facit legem. So doubt about the existing order is the only thing left without there being a basis for this doubt in the (inner) experience of a superior order.[16]
The third consequence of nominalism is the rise of contractualism. While the theological version of nominalism still held to the covenant as an all-encompassing ontological category, its appropriation by Hobbes et al., called for its radical transformation involving the contract as a substitute.[17] While in the Judeo-Christian covenant, trust is the basis, in contract, fear of the consequences is the primary motivation. "So the contract symbol is the nominalist covenant washed in late-medieval and early modern fear. It is the mutually agreed ceasefire between otherwise inscrutable wills."[18]
Buijs quotes Hobbes thus: "Fear and I were twins."[19]
The sovereign exercises his rule "in the name of…(something higher)…" However, the distance between the sovereign and this higher authority is virtually abandoned, for no one else has access to this higher authority in order to "check" the claims of the lawgiver. God has become inscrutable, legibus solutus; He hides in the darkness of his potentia absoluta. He cannot be appealed to – and the same applies to the sovereign.[20]
Buijs' account provides a philosophical explanation to Koskenniemi's "pre-history" of international law, which challenges the standard account that puts the birth of modern international law in 1870 as a mere continuation of earlier efforts by the first thinkers and practicioners of the craft, "namely, to bind European sovereigns to a universal rule of law"[21] by developing a new idea of statehood opposed to the absolutist raison d'etat.[22]
In this prehistory, read at a commemorative colloquium on the Italian thinker Alberico Gentili, Koskenniemi continues the reconstructionist historical project inaugurated by his book The Gentle Civilizer; in fact, in this essay, the Finnish scholar argues, following a detailed study of French and German writers who theorized on the limits of the power of the Sovereign Prince or King, that contrary to standard histories,
[N]o continuous tradition of international legal thought existed from early modernity – Gentili, Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, Vattel, however one wants to date the moment of inception – to the 20th century. What we read in standard histories, is a myth. Nineteenth international lawyers imagined a history to what they were doing because that was the habit of a historical age. What we have, instead, is a literature on the government of modern states that occasionally deals with the external aspects of government – war, treaties and diplomacy.
`But these are not understood as a "legal system" somewhere outside statehood, with the point and purpose of limiting the negative effects of State policy. Instead, they are part of a functional notion of territorial rule the point of which varied over [time] from "conservation" of the realm to the "perfection" of its people. The "functional" notion of sovereign power implied the presence of epistemic limits to State policy that provided ample room for debates about wise policy. But it did not presuppose (but rather rejected) the existence of an international normative order from which those principles could be deduced.[23]
Hence, Koskenniemi could also write that for the great German natural lawyer of the period, Samuel Pufendorf, the sovereign is simultaneously free of the law and bound by it at the same time. For Pufendorf, writes Koskenniemi, positive law as decreed by humans are but rules of the supreme sovereignty concerning the very things that subjects are bound to observe as matters of the welfare of the state. Meanwhile, the sovereign is also answerable to natural law, to promote the good of the people by creating the social conditions that make it possible for individual pursuits to be realized – a duty that is inherent to the meaning of sovereignty.[24] Koskenniemi explains further thus:
For Pudendorf and the whole system of reason of state, positive law cannot possibly constrain the ruler in his pursuit of salus populi. It is part of the definition of positive law to be an assessment by the sovereign of what is needed to bring it about. The potential danger of princely arbitrariness is met by Pufendorf through the distinction he makes between the prince's private and his public will, and the way he reads the latter as normative because representative of the (enlightened) will of the population. This allows the social collectivity to emerge as the State at the centre of analysis, as the manifestation of sociality in political life.[25]
As Pufendorf has written, "it seems most suitable to define the state as a composite moral person whose will, a single strand woven out of many people's pacts, is considered the will of all, so that it can use the strength and the faculties of individuals for common peace and security."[26] Read from the lens of Buijs' account of nominalism, this pre-history of international law simply meant this: whatever limits early thinkers placed upon the power of the Sovereign were what natural and divine law called for; yet it appeared that it was up to the Sovereign to say what these limits were.
Hence the Finnish scholar can validly argue that the French raison d'etat thinkers, far from arguing against the legal, actually believed that the Sovereign Prince was bound by it; except that the legal was identified with the Sovereign Prince, as expressed in Bodin's firm belief that the ruler rises above custom and the fundamental laws of the realm, which he considered to be a higher constitutional principle. [27]
The Sovereign Prince was subject to one else but to the demands of his office and above all to God (and therefore to both divine and natural law, both of which are anyway emanations of the Divine, according to the theologies of the day). True, no else was above the Sovereign except God; but since God had become inscrutable, it was up to the Sovereign to say exactly what God demanded of the ruler. In other words, justice is what the Sovereign thought it was.
With the shift to a supposedly scientific, neutral and objective (but ultimately stoic) natural law that subsequent thinkers espoused, the notion of state sovereignty would become effectively "naturalized" and yes, "secularized."
In fact, by the time of Louis XIV, Koskenniemi argues, jurists, "reaffirmed the divine right in a way that did away with their ability to articulate limits to Royal authority. Even as they followed Bodin by limiting absolute authority by reference to its function – the sovereign's duty was to God and to his office – they rejected any institutional oversight as incompatible with it."[28] This line of thought would serve as the foundation to legal ideas that put up the State as a distinct political entity, and the notion of "State interest" as an "overruling political ratio – a confessionally neutral justification for governmental action, connoting the interest of the system of territorial government itself."[29]
(photo inset: the original graphic to Thomas Hobbes' famous political treatise, The Leviathan) __________________________________
[1] Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on Sovereignty 5(George Schwab, ed. 2006).
[2]Id. at 6.
[3]Schmitt, supra note 299 at 13.
[4] In fact, we can say Koskenniemi's discussion of the pre-history of international law echoes the assertion by Schmitt that " the seventeenth –century authors of natural law understood the question of sovereignty to mean the question of the decision on the exception." Id., at 9. See IV Koskenniemi, Prehistory, infra note 319.
[5] Schmitt, supra note 299 at 13.
[6] Id. at 33
[7] Schmitt, supra note 299 at 36. That is, what is lawful is decided by the one who has the authority (the power ) and not by the one who possesses the truth (the lawful sovereign). On this point, see the essay of the independent Islamic scholar S. Parvez Manzoor at http://www.algonet.se/~pmanzoor/CarlSchmitt.htm <last visited Aug. 27, 2008).
[8] Govert Buijs, "Que les Latin appellen maiestatem": An Exploration into the Theological Background of the Concept of Sovereignty" in Sovereignty in Transition 235 (Neil Walker, ed. 2003) [hereinafter, I Buijs, Concept of Sovereignty]. But Derrida follows Schmitt's formulation. He says: It was in the beginning, a religious concept, that is, God, the Almighty, is sovereign…So here you have a concept which is in principle secularized, but for which the secularization means the inheritance of theological memory. It is a theological phantasm or concept. When for instance Carl Schmitt says that all the political concepts, all the concepts of the political, in the Western society are theological concepts secularized, that is what he means: that our culture lives on secularized sacred concepts, secularized theological concepts. Jacques Derrida, A Discussion with Jacques Derrida, 5 Theory and Event 49, (2001), quoted in Peter Fitzpatrick, "Gods Would Be Needed…": American Empire and the Rule of (International) Law, 16 LJIL 434-435, (2003)
[9] I Buijs, Concept of Sovereignty, supra note 299 at 236-237.
[10]Id. at 235.
[11] Id. at 251.
[12] Id.
[13]Id. at 248, citing Louis Dupre, Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture (1993).
[14] As Van Creveld says of Bodin's intellectual project: "In a world where God is no longer capable of providing a consensual basis for political life, Bodin wanted to endow the sovereign with His qualities and put him in His place, at any rate on earth and as pertained to a certain well-defined territory." Martin Van Creveld, The Rise and Decline of the State 177 (1999), quoted in I Buijs, Concept of Sovereignty, supra note 299at 232.
[15] I Buijs, Concept of Sovereignty, supra note 299at 252.
[18] Hence, the international legal order of states could then be described in nominalistic terms as the state of nature characterized by a certain agonistics – or struggle – between and among the wills of monadic individual states. This is a constant theme in realist accounts of international relations.
[19] Id.
[20] Id.
[21]IV Marti Koskenniemi, International Law and Raison D'Etat: Rethinking the Prehistory of International Law 1 (March 2008) [hereinafter, IV Koskenniemi, Prehistory].
[22] Id.
[23]IV Koskenniemi, Prehistory, supra note 319 at 2.
[24] Id. at 25
[25]IV Koskenniemi, Prehistory, supra note 319 at 2.
[26] Id, quoting Punfendorf DJN Bk VII Ch 6 § 2.
[27] Id. at 5.
[28] Id. at 8. Koskenniemi cites the period's most prominent natural lawyer, Jean Domat (1625-1695), who held that all human beings, including the King, was bound by certain universally valid principles of divine and natural law, yet also believed that this in no way conflicted with the view that the French King was absolutely superior to any secular authority. Id. at 9.
[29] IV Koskenniemi, Prehistory, supra note 319 at 5.


text: 7th November 2017 Perspectives What is a Blockchain Fork? This article covers blockchain forks in a non-technical language: Learn what forks are, why they happen, and how to deal with them. Blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are large ledgers of transactions. New transactions are added to the ledger in batches of thousands of transactions which are called blocks. Each transaction is actually a small computer program which can execute many kinds of behaviour, but most of them simply say "Move X amount of currency from account A to account B." Certain rules apply to both transactions and to blocks. For instance, one rule in Bitcoin is that the total data size of all transactions included in a block can be no more than 1 megabyte. Rules are enforced collectively by nodes and miners in the network. Nodes are computers connected to the internet that keep an entire copy of the blockchain ledger, and nodes receive, validate, and relay transactions to other nodes in the network. Miners are nodes that also spend computing power towards finding the answer to a cryptographic puzzle that allows the miner to create the next block. If a miner finds the answer, then the miner creates a new block of transactions and publishes it to the network of nodes and miners, which in turn will add the new block to their ledger. Breaking the Rules If someone tries to break the rules, their transactions or block will be ignored by the rest of the network. For instance, if a single Bitcoin miner solves the puzzle and decides to create a new block with a size of 2 megabytes, then all the other nodes and miners in the network will ignore this block because it does not comply with their version of the rules that says blocks can be maximum 1 megabyte in size. But perhaps the miner thinks that the rules would be better if they allowed for 2 megabyte blocks, so he continues to think of his 2 megabyte block as valid, and now he begins his attempt to solve the next cryptographic puzzle that will allow him to add another block on top of his first 2 megabyte block. Eventually he will solve the puzzle and can now add another block to his first 2 megabyte block, so that we now have two 2 megabyte blocks on top of each other. However, because our miner is the only one thinking 2 megabyte blocks are valid, the rest of the network had continued to work on 1 megabyte blocks. The structure of the ledger would now look something like this: This is called a fork, because what was before a single chain of blocks is now forked into two chains. (Technically, it's also called a fork even if there is no split in the chain but just a significant rule change that all agree to follow. In this article we mean a splitted chain when we mention forks.) Lone Cowboy or Large Revolution? If our 2 megabyte miner is acting alone and is the only one to see 2 megabyte blocks as valid, then nothing else will happen. Everyone else will continue to operate on the 1 megabyte chain and ignore the 2 megabyte chain. While this can technically still be called a fork, it has no economic significance for anyone but the single 2 megabyte miner. But what if a significant share, say 20%, of nodes and miners join to validate that the rules should be changed to allow 2 megabyte blocks, while 80% remain in favor of keeping the 1 megabyte block rule? Then we have a fork likely to be of some economic significance. When many people view the 2 megabyte blocks as valid, then they also see transactions included in 2 megabyte blocks as valid. So for instance a coffee shop that accepts 2 megabyte block transactions will be willing to sell you a cup of coffee for a transaction received in a 2 megabyte block. Two Currencies Replace One But the coffee transaction may only be in a 2 megabyte block. It may never be included in a 1 megabyte block on the competing fork. So in one fork of the ledger, the coffee merchant got paid. In the other fork of the ledger, he never got paid. The result is effectively that we now have two versions of currency where before we only had one: People can now get paid in both "Bitcoin version 1MB" and "Bitcoin version 2MB". With two different currencies, the market can also determine two different exchange rates for the currencies. An imperfect but helpful comparison is when an exchange traded stock splits into two and the two new stocks represent different capital classes (for instance they could have different voting rights in the company or different priorities for dividends). Intuitively we would expect the total value of the two new currencies to equal the value of the old one currency. So if "Bitcoin before fork" was worth 1,000 USD, and "Bitcoin version 1MB" becomes worth 800 USD, then we would intuitively expect "Bitcoin version 2MB" to be worth 200 USD. However, we have seen that this is often not the case, and it may be because scheduled forks create uncertainty: Will there be technical problems when the fork happens? Which fork(s) will exchanges, payment providers, and others adopt? For instance, if the fork turns out to be technically successful, then that removes uncertainty from the market and may be one factor in driving up the combined exchange rate of both new currencies. On the other hand, if the fork is a technical failure, that may push down the price of one or both of the new currencies. What Does this Mean for Me? If you hold digital currency from before the fork in your own wallet, where you can access your own private keys, then you can also access both new versions of the currency after the fork. Though it may require that you import your private keys into a wallet that supports both versions. If you hold digital currency in a hosted wallet or an exchange where you cannot access your own private keys, then it is up to the wallet provider or exchange to decide whether you can access both new versions of the currency. Look for answers on their website or ask their support team. Some forks implement full replay protection which means that when you make a transaction with version A of your currency, you can be sure that no transaction is made with version B or vice versa. But with forks that implement no or only partial replay protection, you risk creating transactions on both chains at the same time which creates confusion and potential economic losses. If you want to retain control of both versions of your currency, then be very careful when creating new transactions after these types of forks and seek further information about the properties of the fork. Are Forks Good or Bad? The first major fork to happen was in Ethereum in 2016 which resulted in the two forks of Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. Before this event, many perceived forks as something to avoid at all costs that could have catastrophic consequences. By now we have had a few forks without catastrophic consequences, so the fear of forks have diminished somewhat. However, most agree that forks create confusion, technical challenges, and economic uncertainty, and are best to avoid when possible. Some new experimental blockchains such as Tezos suggest formal governance structures on the blockchain as a new way to decide upon which new rules are adopted as a way to decrease the risk of forks happening. How these new ideas work out in practice remains to be seen. But ultimately it is good that if all else fails and it seems impossible to reach consensus, people that do not like the current rules have the option of peacefully seceding and creating their own alternative fork. Users and markets can then "vote with their feet" and use the version which works best for them. This article was written by Coinify Co-founder and Blockchain expert Lasse Birk Olesen. Are you looking for related content? Read our company statement on the upcoming Segwit2x fork. Image credits: Geralt (Pixabay) and Coinify To learn more about blockchain applications across different industries, visit Coinify Newsroom.


text: GWU law professor Spencer Overton, speaking on Common Cause's election day media briefing, predicted provisional ballots cast by voters whose registration is challenged will be the likeliest cause of serious election snafus. The law doesn't lay out specific ground for these challenges, nor clear guidelines for evidence or investigation–how is a judge to verify whether someone actually lives at a given address? Finally, the deadlines for counting as well as verifying these provisional ballots vary widely. In Florida, there is no deadline, but they'll start counting them tonight; in Ohio, they have two weeks! "There's so much play in the joints…it's very probable that partisans can manipulate things," Overton said, directing us to Ohio State University law school's excellent election law site, which carries news updates, judges' decisions and legal analysis.


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Follow along with Krissy Jones, co-founder of New York–based studio Sky Ting.
Let's face it: Some mornings are just rough. But if you have a mere 10 minutes to spare, this gentle yoga flow can make over your a.m. routine.
In the video above, Krissy Jones, yoga instructor and co-founder of New York–based studio Sky Ting, leads a quick sequence of postures to wake up your body and your mind.
The flow starts gently, as you've just rolled out of bed. Starting on hands and knees, inhale as you arch your spine, and exhale as you round it. Repeat the movements a few times, "getting the spine nice and pliant," Jones says.
Next, flip your wrists backward to open up the joints, as well as the forearms and collarbones. This opens up "space that's compressed for most people who do computer work—or will in the day to come," Jones says. No text neck here!
Now it's time to wake up your lower half: Move into downward-facing dog, pushing through your hands to create an inverted V shape with your body, with a slight bend in your knees and your hips high. If you notice discomfort or pressure in your wrists, shift more of your weight to your legs and hips, Jones says. Pedal your feet to open up your hamstrings before straightening out into a high plank, lowering onto your belly, bending backward into cobra position, then pressing back to child's pose.
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For the next several minutes, get ready to flow a little quicker through three-legged dog, chaturanga, lunges, and twists to continue waking up your body, before landing in a series of stretches to open your spine and your sides.
You'll wrap up the 10 minutes lying on your back on your mat, knees bent and touching, with one hand on your belly and one on your chest. Take a few deep breaths, roll onto your side, and sit up. If you have a few more minutes to spare, Jones recommends meditating now—or get started on the rest of your day feeling a little more ready for it, she says. Namaste!


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End of my Mythic Journey
It is with heavy heart I report I am leaving Mythic Entertainment. I have worked with Mythic since 2007, and it quickly became my family. I have made long-lasting friendships with a wide variety of people, thanks to my employment here; friends, not only with those I worked with, but also with fans and players of the game.
These last few years in particular have been very rewarding for me, particularly with respect to the player base – We started communicating more directly with players, bouncing ideas around in "hypothetical" dev discussions, and got a much better idea of where the player base was head-space wise.
Being more collaborative with the players resulted in some amazing development cycles. I'm by no means saying everything was perfect – there was a lot I could have done better, in hindsight, but I think we really managed to take some giant steps forward as well, as non-perfect as those steps may have been.
As I look back over my time with WAR, my only regret is not being as involved with the community as we have been over this last year. I have done some of my best growth, thanks to the fires the community lit under me.
My heart breaks to walk away from WAR, and from my family at Mythic… But the time to go, and explore new growth and new career possibilities, has come; and though it does hurt to leave, I have nothing but love for my Mythic family, and for my WAR player base brothers & sisters.
Thank you all for some of the best years of my life… and I'll see you on the battlefield!
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Best of luck to you.
Grakulen thanks a lot man, much appreciated 🙂
Good luck to you Keaven
Keaven, you will be missed. Here's to running into you in virtaul future. Good hunting and best of luck where fortunes find you. – Grimm
Thank you Keaven for all see you see you (of the French comunity)
Good luck Keaven. Best of luck in everything you do.
Sorry to see you go Keaven, you have done a great job listening to a sometimes difficult community and changing the game for the better. All the best in the future with your career, friendships and family.
Will miss you Keaven! You most definitely went above and beyond the call of your job title. It's great how connected you were to the community, and I value that greatly. I hope that you keep that connection, and wish you all the best in finding a company which recognizes you for the dedicated individual you are.
Your willingness to communicate has been greatly appreciated. You will be missed. Best of luck.
You will be missed, best of luck to you!
I hope you could find another Job in EA ?
If no, is it announced the end of WAR ?
Na chwile obecna gracze trailowi moga bawic sie w war na T1 chaos oczywiscie zaczynaja tam wszystkie rasy bez wzgledu na to czy maja subskrypcje czy sa trailami …doprowadzilo to do tego ze t1 elf / green sa tak naprawda pustymi lokacjami na ktorych nic sie nie dzieje…przez takie zalozenie i blad developerow gry nastapil brak plynnosci graczy między tierami gdzie T2 jest lokcja z bardzo niska iloscia graczy a praktycznie ich brakiem sytuacja ma sie nieco lepiej w T3 bo gracze z39 lv maxuja tam revon i nie nabijaja 40 lv by nie zablokowac sobie lokacji 3Tierowych no i duzo liczba graczy na t4. t4 nas nie interesuje bo najwazniejszy jest sam poczatek gry by zachecić nowych graczy to war… niestety T1 chaos jako open zone nie spelnia tego zalożenia gdyż sam obszar rvr jest zbyt maly i monotonny i po za zdobywaniem 3bo co 10 min nic sie tam nie dzieje nic nie oferuje ..gracze ktorzy chca sprobowac war niemaja okazji poznac mechaniki gry i jej zalorzeń niemaja okazji pograc w duzych Wb pozdobywac zamki w bardziej klimatycznej lokacji przez co szybko zniechecaja sie do war… juz na samym poczatku samego trailu a co za tym idzie niechętni sa do kupienia subskrypcji gdyz na dobra sprawe T1 nie oferuje graczon niczego nie daje tego tzw przedsmaku tego co powinno byc dalej a czego i tak nie ma bo t2 jest pusty.
You never did fix Shamans!
Nobwaart I know 🙁 We were about to start a series of career updates when they pulled the rug out from under me. We were starting with Sorc and Bright Wizard, if I remember correctly, but Shamans were on the list of things to address.
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Happy Thursday and HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! I hope you're all having a glorious day.
I'm super excited to unveil my second project for the Mark's Finest Paper Scrapbook Challenge. It's so much fun being on a design team, and the other 2 ladies on the team have made things a lot of fun!! This week in honor of Valentine's Day, the theme is Love and/or Valentines. And this week, you also get another shot at winning the super cute Sand Dollar stamp set!
So, as you probably saw above, I made a two page layout this week. I cheated a little (shhh, don't tell!) by using an AWESOME page kit from Quick Quotes that I picked up at their Warehouse sale a few months ago. The colors and the hearts on the page just screamed at me to find some cute pics of my daughter and her boyfriend, so those are the lovely faces gracing my pages.
This was a really cool page kit to play with because each of the half-hearts on the edge of the pages open up to reveal more photos or journaling or whatever you would like to put inside. You can even slip your pages down into their plastic page protectors, cut a slit where the heart would go, THEN insert the heart and adhere it. That way, when you're flipping through your scrapbook, you can open the heart to see what's inside without pulling the page out of it's plastic sleeve. Cool right?
I just love the colors on these pages. Yup..I'm a purple girl! Below, you can see a close up of the stamp I used on the second page that's currently available in the Mini Christmas Wishes set over at Mark's Finest Papers, A Heinrich Co.
I hope you guys will join in on the fun challenge this week over at MFP!! You have until next Wednesday to link up.
Happy Scrapping! ~Amy E


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Cheese Soups
On New Year's Eve Lee and I enjoyed Wisconsin Beer and Cheese Soup for dinner. I mentioned it to Mike and he asked me to send him some :). I told him I'd give him the recipe, so I'm posting it here for him and anyone else who likes rich, delicious hot soup. It's popular in restaurants here in Wisconsin and this particular recipe is my own version of the cheesy delight.
WISCONSIN BEER AND CHEESE SOUP (12 servings)
- 1/2 pound butter
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 quart milk
- 1 quart chicken stock
- 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- Tabasco to taste
- 12 ounces beer (Amber is good)
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- pepper to taste
- salt to taste
- 1 pound shredded medium cheddar cheese
- 1/2 pound shredded swiss cheese
In saute' pan melt butter and add flour. Whisk and cook over low heat for about 10 minutes to cook the rawness out of the flour. Don't brown it. Set aside. This is your roux.
In soup pot heat the milk and stock nearly to boiling but do not boil it. Lower the heat and add tabasco, worcestershire, and beer. Add cream and seasonings. Continue to heat and whisk but do not let it boil. Slowly whisk in the roux and continue to heat and whisk until thickened. Gradually and slowly add shredded cheeses, using low heat. Let each addition melt completely before adding more. If your soup gets too hot the cheese will separate and your soup will be ruined.
Garnish with any of the following: croutons, green onions, crisp bacon, parsley, or whatever you like.
There's another cheese soup that is a big family favorite. I worked for years at our local hospital and this soup was served in the cafeteria there. I was happy to find the recipe in the book that came with one of my kitchen appliances back in the '80's. I've been using this recipe ever since. It's also lots easier and less "putzy" than the beer and cheese recipe.
CANADIAN CHEESE SOUP (4-6 servings)
- 2 medium carrots, cut in 1″ pieces
- 2 stalks celery, cut in 1″ pieces
- 1 small onion, quartered
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 2 cups milk
- 1/4 cup flour
- 2 1/2 cups cheddar cheese cubes
Finely chop carrots, celery and onion in food processor. Put into large sauce pan with stock and cook until vegetables are tender. Combine flour, milk, and cheese in food processor and process until smooth. Add slowly to veg mixture in pan, whisking continuously. Cook until thick.


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A good while back, I railed mightily against outlines. Though more specifically, I think my railing was about the idea that you SHOULD outline if you want to write a good book. I still gnash my teeth at such "rules." My feeling is if you are an otherwise successful, productive writer, you should keep doing whatever it is that's helping you get there, whether you're making a copious outline or flying by the seat of your pants. I know writers on both sides of the divide, and no one is "right."
Over the years, though, I've noticed a shift in my work habits as I've started to add more to my plate. My basic commitment at the start of every year is to finish at least two novels and a half dozen or so short stories. And in order to do that, I have to put a bit more forethought into my projects. Recently I just completed my first book written completely to an outline. But before I get to that, I will lay down my typical process, which goes something like this:
1. Have vague notion in head. Could be anything from a weird concept or philosophy, a striking bit of scenery, a quirky bit of dialog, or a very strong image of a character personality trait. Write a few pages. Then stop.
2. Take a step back, see if it grows legs. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I normally have to turn things around in my head for a few hours or even a few days, weeks, or even months. Sometimes I forget all about it. Other times, it lingers, and usually when it does, I know I've probably found something. Usually at this stage, I'll talk about the concept with someone, like a writer friend or my husband, and it will knock a thread loose that I can follow.
3. Write a little more. Sometimes that thread starts spooling out pretty steadily and I find I can more or less carry on until the end of the first act. Sometimes it comes with fits and starts. Anyway, I usually get a good way along before I have to take a few minutes to start getting my thoughts together about how the rest of the story is going to unfold.
4. Start outlining in the second act. I write down important dates. When is the story taking place? When does a pivotal event happen? When were characters born or when did they die? Sometimes that's relevant info. I also will plan out the next several chapters, usually bullet points for particular beats I want to hit through the middle part of the book as well as a very rough sketch of the third act and the ending. At that time I'm also assembling a list of revisions I'll need to do in the earlier parts of the book, usually to sew up plot holes that opened when I changed something, or additions to a character's background or motivations or some other miscellaneous bits.
5. Officially map out the third act and ending. Sometimes I stick with that ending, sometimes think of a new one as I'm working that I think would be better. There have been books that I knew the ending almost right out of the gate, and everything I've written has been in service of that desired outcome. Other times, it's completely inverted. I have no idea what the ending is really going to be until I've actually walked in a character's shoes. I will say that often times I have far more grim and gruesome endings in mind for characters only to find that by the time I get there, I find I'd rather have them live or find some kind of redemption. And people say I'm sick and twisted . . .
By the time I finish with this process, I have a very lumpy piece of fiction that has about three or four more rounds of editing and revision before I can slap a happy sticker on it. It usually needs more subplotting and character fleshing. It's also usually a great deal shorter than I'd like it to be.
Now to the book I wrote via an outline, which was really just a numbered list of short chapter summaries. You can make your outlines however works best for you. The informal method seems to suit me best.
Anyway, I knew I had to change things up with my process for BLIND SPOTS, because I wanted to make sure I had it done and to my agent in a certain period of time. By outlining the whole thing, it allowed me to know approximately how long it would take to finish as well as ensure that I wouldn't run into any brick walls that would stall my progress.
Let's talk about the pros to working with an outline first.
1. Energy Level/Momentum. My chief concern about outlining has always been that I would wear myself out writing the outline and have nothing left for actually creating the story. This actually happened to me the first time I wrote an outline for a book several years ago. A book I (shocker) didn't finish. Surprisingly that didn't happen at all with this story. Maybe it's because ever since I had that problem, I've become a far more practiced writer. Also, I wanted to finish this book for my agent, so I had that motivation pushing me along. But really, if anything, writing the outline actually got me EXCITED to write this time, because I loved the idea I'd come up with. It helped erase a lot of the doubts I'd initially been having about the story's potential, because after mapping it all out, I could see it laid out before me. Also, it gave me a pre-determined workload for each day. I knew what I needed to write in order to stay on track, and so I wrote it. In doing so, I finished on schedule.
2. Making Changes. The first thing I probably ever got wrong about outlining before was that doing so would restrict me from thinking freely, that it would rob me of the joy of the discovery and the mystery of writing without a guide. For some reason, I thought an outline had to be set in stone, when in reality, it was the opposite. The outline is a living, breathing thing. It can morph completely at your will. It is simply the brain's creative process in physical form. The outline I started with changed dramatically from the time I started it to when I penned the ending the other day. The mystery and thrill of discovery was fully intact. I added chapters, I changed character arcs and outcomes multiple times. The outline evolved as I went along. The only difference was I didn't waste HOURS upon HOURS writing a ton of prose first only to have to go back and delete and/or change it all because I decided to go a different direction. In fact, the outline made it easier for me to get the shape of the story I wanted the first time, and it probably shaved weeks off my original process. If I was having second thoughts about a chapter, I would change the outline instead, and then I would keep writing. If I did have to change something in a previous chapter, that was okay too. I changed it in the outline so I could see how it would all work first, and then I altered the manuscript. That way I still had a current version of my vision in front of me at all times, and I didn't get lost in my own maze, as I often would do when I would keep it all in my head.
3. Determining Length. Word count matters to me. It might not matter to you, and that's okay. But I'm a bit of a nut about it. Knowing the length of a story going in helps me a lot in regards to pacing. With the exception of my COLT COLTRANE books (which are closer to novellas, around 45-50K words each), I typically set out to write novels ranging between 80-90K. They can run a little longer than that, but to me, that's a perfect sweet spot for a long tale you can get lost in for a little while without losing months of your life. Knowing the length of a book also helps me with pacing. I can figure out how long each act needs to be and when to hit certain climactic beats. With an outline in hand, I am able to guesstimate an average chapter length (for me it's around 4K words) and then multiply that by the number of planned chapters to get an approximate book length. If I'm coming up short, I re-examine where I can develop sub-plots and add additional depth. For the first time with this outlined book, I managed to come only a few hundred words shy of reaching the 80K mark on a first draft. That almost never happens for me. Some authors overwrite the shit out of their first drafts. I'm a shirker. While I do still have more fleshing out to do, I have a feeling I won't be adding an additional 15K words in additional necessary plotting like I normally do.
So that covers the biggest pros of writing to an outline, but it wasn't all sunshine and roses in Anal Town (okay, that sounds wrong…). Let's talk about a few of the cons.
1. Emotional arcs. The outline helped TREMENDOUSLY with making sure the basic plot and structural stuff was in place, but in the course of trying to get all that nailed down to spec, I found I had spent less time developing the mood of the story and the characters' emotional stuff. In other books, I often spend so much time in a character's brain that I tend to have to play catch-up with the plot stuff on revisions. That's something I need to make sure I'm factoring in if I write an outline for my next novel (and I probably will).
2. Prose Yuck. When I'm writing by the seat of my pants, the creative process feels a lot more immersive and I often find my natural voice comes through a bit more. When writing to outline, I feel a bit like I'm sitting in a seat above the story, which makes my voice seem a tad more stilted. I also lose a certain lyrical rhythm because I am trying to remain conscious of sticking to other pre-planned factors. I'm probably going to have to do a LOT more line editing with this draft because of it.
All in all, though, I think these kinks can be worked out with more practice. The pros of having the confidence a reliable road map gets me is worth it. I actually find myself anxious to start planning my next novel now that I know I can write effectively to an outline. Who knows. Maybe you'll see more books from me in the future…


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Indiana's Attorney General says two of his biggest priorities for his next term will be cracking down on human trafficking and robocalls.
The General Assembly this year passed new penalties for human traffickers, but Zoeller says more needs to be done to prevent young people from turning to a life of prostitution.
"As we look at the reality of prostitution, and the young girls that are runaways in their early teens that become the next prostitutes, a lot of those women are more victims than they are criminals, so that is something that w e are going to continue to focus on," he says.
Zoeller says in Marion County alone, there are six active cases of human trafficking making their way through the court system. He says he will work with the new Department of Child Protective Services by providing new resources to them from his office. The Attorney General's office is already handling much of the appellate work previously litigated by the CPS.
Another one of Zoeller's priority for 2013, is putting a stop to illegal robocalls. Zoeller says a record number of complaints came through his office in 2012 regarding violations to Indiana's Do-Not-Call list.
Zoeller says his office received more than 21,000 telephone privacy complaints this year. He attributes most of those calls to overseas companies that use internet phone services to make computerized, recorded calls.
"I think we're losing ground, particularly in the area of VOIP, Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol that allows tens of thousands of robocalls to be made to the people of Indiana who are on our Do-Not-Call-List," he says.
Zoeller says earlier this year he tried to get the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the calls.
"The FCC, remarkably, considers it free speech," he says." I've told the ones who will listen that we do not consider it to be free speech."
Now, Zoeller wants to introduce stricter regulations in Indiana that would increase penalties on companies that send false information to caller-ID devices.
FCC officials could not be reached for comment.
Among other issues, Zoeller said he is also prepared to defend a constitutional ban on gay marriage should the state legislature pass such a measure. The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear two cases on gay marriage next year. They are expected to rule on the cases in the summer.


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TITE-FIT.. Σετ 8- χορδής ηλεκτρικής Κιθάρας, Ανοξείδωτες χορδές φτιαγμένες στο χέρι.
Nickel Plated Electric Guitar Strings on Round Core
Tite-Fit round-wound nickel-plated electric guitar strings are designed to be a great all-around string. They are available in a wide range of gauges. Based upon a round core, the construction techniques for the Tite-Fit electrics are very old. However, the core wire and wrap wire in DRs are the latest, most advanced and expensive metals available. For flexibility, for tone, for long life: for Rock, Blues, Heavy metal, Jazz. Tite-Fits are a wonderful all-around string.


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Versova Beach in India has undergone the world's largest beach cleanup. As a result, vulnerable turtle species not seen in decades return!
Lawyer Afroz Shah and his team of volunteers have been diligently cleaning up Versova beach in Mumbai for the past 2 years. The beach was so neglected that the litter across the 3km stretch of beach reached shin-deep. The United Nations noticed, naming the cleanup the world's largest and awarded Shah with the Champions of the Earth Award, as reported by India Today.
Recently, Shah and the residents of Versova beach have been rewarded with another unexpected prize – the arrival, after decades of absence, of the vulnerable Olive Ridley Turtle.
Two months ago, locals reported sightings of the turtles in the sand. "The moment we got that news I knew something big was going to happen," Shah told the Guardian. His anticipation was confirmed when some of his volunteers contacted him to say they had seen dozens of the baby turtles emerging from nests.
After calling the forest department, Shah went to the beach with 25 volunteers to guard the area while the tiny turtles made their journey across the sand and into the Arabian Sea. The volunteers spent the evening protecting the hatchlings from birds of prey and wild dogs "making sure not one hatchling suffered a death", Shah said.
The Olive Ridley turtle species are classified as vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. And, while the species have been sighted in other parts of India, they had not been seen on Versova beach in decades, due to acute pollution. "I had tears in my eyes when I saw them walking towards the ocean", Shah told the Guardian.
Shah and his volunteers not only continue to maintain the now pristine beach, but also teach sustainable waste practices to the villagers and people living in slums nearby. He estimates he and his team have cleared 13 million kg of filth from the beach over the past two years.
Positive ActionsStart your own beach, park or community cleanup! Or, join one of the many groups of people or events throughout the year that focus on just that, for example Clean Up Australia Day or Take 3. Ensure what you do pick up is disposed of responsibly. RecyclingNearYou.com.au is Australia's biggest recycling database, and will help you know exactly how to cleanup correctly.
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Many times when you visit a website, some audio or mp3 sound automatically starts playing, which is due to HTML5 audio player. That is pretty annoying, especially when you don't want any kind of distraction of or disturbance. Sometimes you're in office, doing some kind of research work and suddenly a loud advertisement sound start playing in a website you just opened. I personally hate this automatic playing feature that is being used by a lot of many websites. But as every problem has a solution, I figured out a way to stop these HTML5 audio player based audios. Now i'll discuss the procedure of stopping HTML5 audio player based audios in different browsers.
How to Stop Audios in Google Chrome
Follow this step by step procedure to stop HTML5 audio player based audio in Google chrome browser:
- Open your Google chrome browser
- Go to Menu and then Settings
- Go to Current Settings
- There will be a Notification header. The websites for which you've allowed automatic media playing are listed here.
- If you don't want any site to play HTML5 audio player based automatic audios then simply check the option of Do not allow any site to show notifications. You can also make exception such that allowing these automatic audios for some websites you want to block all others. That's all upto your choice.
How to Stop Audios in Mozilla Firefox
Follow this step by step procedure to stop HTML5 audio player based audio in your firefox browser:
- Open Main Menu and then choose Options
- Now select Contents
- Now you're given with the sites that are allowed to automatically play media. You can make your choices here.
- If you want to stop all of the automatic audio/video mess then just select Do not disturb me box. But this method will disable audio notifications for current session.
- For completely disabling HTML5 audio player based audios, Type "about:config" in address bar of Firefox and enter. Locate dom.webnotifications.enabled and alter it to False by double clicking. You're done!
What to Do upon Sudden Play of an Audio ?
Suppose you're working in you office and suddenly some audio started playing then obviously you don't have time to go into settings and follow above steps. You just want it to stop Right Now. Don't worry I have solution for this too. In this situation you have two options:
- Just press the mute button
It's the simplest and easiest way for stopping any kind of voice emerging from your system. But it will only disable speakers. Media will keep playing in background.
- Mute Tab option
This option is for disabling audio on a website by right clicking on Tab header and then selecting "Mute Tab". Pretty efficient way to disable all of the voice being played in website opened in this tab.


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Killer Cleavage
A 55-year-old woman in Saint Joseph, Michigan, has died, apparently after accidently shooting herself in the head with a gun she had been keeping in between her breasts, say police.
The director of the St. Joseph Public Safety Department, Mark Clapp, released a statement this week, telling the sad-yet-awkward story of Christina Bond, who, on the first day of the new year (2015), was "having trouble adjusting her bra holster, couldn't get it to fit the way she wanted it to. She was looking down at it and accidentally discharged the weapon." The moral of the story: don't keep your gun next to your boobs.


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Dior' Key Ring Pink Smooth and Grained Calfskin
Reference: 2CHKH181YWQ_H52E
The 'Dior' keyring is a playful accessory with a bold 'Dior' signature. The stitched logo charm pairs smooth and grained pink two-tone calfskin, for a three-dimensional effect. Topped with a palladium-finish split ring and carabiner, engraved with a 'Dior' signature, the luxe charm looks fresh when carrying keys and clipped to a belt loop or bag.
- Pink two-tone smooth and grained calfskin
- Palladium-finish split ring and carabiner clip with 'Dior' signature
- Dimensions: 10 x 3.2 x 0.5 cm
- Made in Italy