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1.Clan League Sign Up Proposition
Clan Eligibility
To sign up for CL5, each clan must meet the following criteria.
1-Must be eligible to be members of CD&F (Adhere to the 1 competitive clan rule)
2-Must have completed (enough wins for a decisive winner) 2 competitive clan wars of at least 40 games
3- Must have existed for 3 months
4- Must have at least 14 members
Player Eligibility
-If a player plays for a clan in a given phase, they are cup-tied for that phase and cannot play for another clan in that phase
-player can change clan after ending of first phase and before start of second phase, but will lost right to be in medal competition
-Any clan who have minimum number of players(14), can not release player until he find replacement for hem.
When you sign up,please provide next information:
1.Clan Name
2.First Contact
3.Second Contact
4.Preliminary list of 10 participating players
note: First Contact,Second Contact and preliminary list can be change at any time by a Clan Leader sending a PM to Qwert .
2.Competition Format
The Clan League are divided in two stage competition.
1. First Stage-Qualification Groups
2.Second Stage- Premier League, Second League,Third League
1. First Stage-Qualification Groups competition format follows the usual double round-robin format. Each clan plays every other clan in group twice, once at home and once away.Clans receive two points for a win,one point for a draw,and no points for a loss. There are 6 qualification Groups, with 6 or more clans in each group(depend on how many clans participate in competition).
Draw for each group its described in seeding section.
2. Second Stage- The Premier,Second and Third League competition format follows the usual double round-robin format. During the course of a season, each clan plays every other clan twice, once at home and once away,Clans receive two points for a win, one point for a draw, and no points for a loss. Clans are ranked by total points, with the highest-ranked Clan at the end of the season crowned champion.
Winner and Runner up,in each Qualification Group qualify for Premier League.
3rd and 4th place in each Qualification Group qualify for Second League.
5th and all bottom places in each Qualification Group qualify for Third League.
Premier and Second League have 12 Clans, and Third League can have over 12 clans.
Qualification and League competition Ranking
In bout stages Clans are ranked by this criteria
1.Total points
2.Game Difference
If points and game difference are equal between two or more Clans, the rules are:
1.tiebreakers between two clan are applied in the following order:
a)Head-to-head results.
b)head-to-head game difference
c)Most away wins for the entire season
d)Most away game wins for the entire season
2.If the tie is between more than two clans, tiebreak are applied in the following order::
a) head-to-head points
b) head-to-head game difference
c)head-to-head away game wins
d)Most away wins for the entire season
e)Most away games wins for the entire season
4.Game Creation Rules
Every game week, the clan's assigned representative must create games as per the agreed schedule and then complete the following tasks by 23:00 Sunday Evening CC Time.
1.Send PM with home games(maps,settings,players) to Competition Director responsible for that division
2.Post home games(maps,settings,players) in the divisional thread.
3.invite all home players
4.Send PM of the games to the opposing team contact
By 23:00 CC Time on Wednesday, the away clan should:
1.Send a PM with the chosen players to the Competition Director responsible for that division
2.Post away player list in the divisional thread
3.Invite the away players
If a clan repeats a map in the Qualification or League stage and the Director fails to realise this before the game starts then the game will not be repeated.
Late game creation
If by 23:00 Monday Evening the home games have not been created, the representative and their 2nd will be warned by the Division Director that they have only 24 hours left to create the games.
If by 23:00 Tuesday Evening this has still not been done then the Division Director will create 8 Random Map, Sunny, Escalating games and invite random players from the offending clan.
There can be no delays beyond this 48 hour period. By going with clan created games and not Division Director created games, the process should be less arduous for the directors.
If a clan repeatedly enters their games late then the clan directors reserve the right to remove the 48 hour grace period and create the random games immediately.
5.League Games,Qualification Games, Settings, Maps, & Players
Weekly-one week consist of two round, where one clan play 8 home games against one clan,and 8 away games against other clan. (very rare could happen once or twice in entire competition that clan play in one week 8 home games against one clan,and 8 home game against other clan,and vice verse)
Home Games
2 Doubles - Clan's Choice of Maps & Settings
3 Triples - Clan's Choice of Maps & Settings
3 Quadruples - Clan's Choice of Maps & Settings
No Freestyle
No Speed
No Manual
No trench Warfare
No round limits
All game need to be --automatic--sequenched-round lenght 24 hours
Escalating-no limit for use
No Spoils-no limit for use
Flat RAte-no limit for use
Chained-no limit for use
adjacent-no limit for use
Fog of war-no limit for use
Unlimited fort-no limit for use
nuclear-3 nukes per round allowed, but clans can negotiate more if they want for each round
NO Beta.
Clan's can use one map only once in Qualification Round and once in League Round.
Random maps can be used as many times as so desired and what ever map it turns out to be will not be counted towards the 1 map rule.
In one Qualification/League Week,one player can play maximum 6 game. One week consist of two round,this mean that every player can play 3 in one and 3 in other round.
There needs to be a minimum of 10 different players per round.
The following League winners will receive a medal
Premier League winner
Second League winner
Third League winner
Player Qualifications for Medals
For these qualification, games from Qualification Round and League Round are combined together.
Each player must have at least 1 win to qualify for a medal.
Each player must play a minimum of 14 games to qualify for a medal.
After entry list is completed, clans will be ranked according to CL4 results, and all the clans that havent participate in CL4 will be ranked bellow. After it, clans will be distributed in pots.
- first pot will be made from top 6 ranked clans
- second pot will be made from clans ranked between 7th and 12th place
- third pot will be made from clans ranked between 13th and 18th place
- fourth pot will be made from clans ranked between 19th and 24th place
- fifth pot will be made from clans ranked between 25th and 30th place
- sixth pot will be made from clans ranked between 31st and 36th place
(in case there are more then 36 team, seventh pot will be created, made from all the remaining clans)
After it, qualifying groups will be draw by officials. Qualifying groups will have one clan from every pot(unless there are more then 42 clans applied, then there will be more then one clan from 7th pot). First, top 6 clans will be placed into qualifying groups. A clan will be taken from first pot, then number of qualifying group will be taken from another pot. Clan will be put in group matching the number taken out. After top 6 clans are distributed to groups, same procedure will be repeated for rest of the pots, until all the clans are placed into groups.
Draw will be online in Live chat.
Schedule is slated for the Season to start by TBA. Approximate length of season will be up to 34 weeks.
Qualification and League schedule
round robin
possible schedule TBA
Qualification Stage
Week 1- round 1-round 2
Week 2-
Week 3- round 3-round 4
Week 4-
Week 5- round 5-round 6
Week 6-
Week 7- round 7-round 8
Week 8-
Week 9- round 9-round 10
Time need to be finished all games in Qualification Stage( guess)
Week 10-
Week 11-
Week 12-
League Stage
Week 13- round 1-round 2
Week 14-
Week 15- round 3-round 4
Week 16-
Week 17-round 5-round 6
Week 18-
Week 19-round 7-round 8
Week 20-
Week 21-round 9-round 10
Week 22-
Week 23-round 11-round 12
Week 24-
Week 25- round 13-round 14
Week 26-
Week 27-round 15-round 16
Week 28-
Week 29-round 17-round 18
Week 30-
Week 31-round 19-round 20
Week 32-
Week 33-round 21-round 22
Any deemed abuse should be brought to the attention of the League Directors immediately
The 12 hour FOW rule will not be enforced at all. If two clans wish to use it (as a gentleman's agreement) then this must be done in advance of the round in which they play one another (there will be no penalties for not using it nor will there be any enforcement of the gentleman's agreement by TO's or DD's if it is breached). Games will not be re-made and results will not be changed.
Timing out in Escalating and Nuclear games will not be tolerated by any players or clans that abuse this.
First offense of a team:The first time a team breaks this rule, the game will be considered forfeit and must be re-made by the clan for which it was a home map.
Second offense of a team (in the same game): the game will not be considered as a win for the offending clan for league purposes. If they do win, then the game will be declared a draw. In these circumstances, games may still count towards other statistics, such as ranking systems.
If a clan has been penalized (as above) for two offenses in one game, then commits a single further offense in any game in the same round the same penalty will apply: the game will not be considered as a win for the offending clan for league purposes. If they do win, then the game will be declared a draw. In these circumstances, games may still count towards other statistics, such as ranking systems.
If a clan have been penalized twice during the season then any single further offense in any game during the entire season will result in the same penalty will apply: the game will not be considered as a win for the offending clan for league purposes. If they do win, then the game will be declared a draw. In these circumstances, games may still count towards other statistics, such as ranking systems.
Timing-out, missing turns or dead beating in No Spoils or Flat Rate games will not be investigated, or result in any penalties.
Decisions of the League Directors and Division Director are final .
Clans submitting entry to the league are deemed to have agreed to the rules.
There is a no tolerance rule to insulting or bad behavior. Any issues brought to the League Director's attention will be dealt with harshly in conjunction with Clan Directors.
As there seems to be some discrepancy between CC time on this site and the time given by the [Time] function, one hour's grace will be given with all deadlines to ensure there is no unfair disadvantage.
Throwing games rule
each intentionally throwing games, is strictly prohibited. Those Clan who do so will be punished with deduction of 6 points from ranking table board.
This rule will be apply only if there are enough valid evidence to be acted upon them.
If there are any throwing games, they would need to be reported promptly for consideration.
10.Clan League 5 Directors
Responsible for competition - - Confirmed
Responsible for competition - angola - Confirmed
Responsible for competition - merch313 - Confirmed
Responsible for competition - Keefie - Confirmed
Responsible for competition - mcshanester29 - Confirmed
Responsible for competition -benga - Confirmed
Responsible for update of all competition results - qwert - Confirmed
These League are overseen by The CD Team>Official No1 Jetsetwilly<>Official No2 Bruceswar
Responsibilities of Clan League 5 Directors
Each Division Director will observe each division they are put in charge of (they will not be in charge of the division their clan is in).
Monitoring games and PM'ing a Clan's assigned representative if they make mistakes(e.g repeat maps, exceed 3 maps in one home or away batch or use fewer than 10 players per round)
Create games when clan assigned representative don't do that in the agreed time.
Create a schedule to fit dates for each round of games provided by the League Directors.
Maintain forum threads in the clan section "active challenges". The forum will include a schedule of rounds standings and results (to be updated by them).
Deal with any minor issues within the division and escalate major issues to the League Directors.

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What makes a PDF file print-perfect? Ideally, the application used to create the original layout should be true design software, such as InDesign or QuarkXPress. All too often, content creators use a product like Microsoft Word as a layout application. This is like baking a "mock" apple pie with Ritz Crackers and expecting it to taste exactly like a pie made with real apples. Word is not a graphic design application; it is a word processor! As anyone who has submitted (or received) a Word document for print output knows, the text in the document has a good chance of reflowing once the document is opened.
Microsoft Word obtains font metrics from the operating system based on the resolution/characteristics of the target output device, not from the device- and resolution-independent font metrics. So when you create a Word document with your desktop printer set up as the default, the text in the file is set up to output at that printer's resolution, usually 600 dpi. If you change the target output device to another printer with a different resolution (like your 2,400-dpi CTP engine), or even to the Adobe PDF/Distiller virtual printer, and the text flow is very likely to change, as well.
Content creators can avoid this problem simply by setting Distiller/Adobe PDF as the default printer on their computers. Every subsequent new Word document will be set up to Distiller's metrics. When a PDF file is created, the text will not change. "Won't the text reflow when I try to print the file to my printer?" you might wonder. Not if you open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat or Reader and print to the target printer from there! When it ships, Word 12 will allow users to directly export PDF files without going through a printer driver — a feature that should eventually alleviate some current headaches.
What every PDF should have
Simply using the proper design-oriented software doesn't guarantee print-perfect PDF files. Bad PDF files have been created from every application that can write PostScript or export PDF.
Although there is no such thing as a typical print project, there are characteristics common to a print-viable PDF file. These include:
Glyph glitches to avoid.
The only thing worse than a missing font is a missing or substituted individual character. Have you ever seen a character replaced by a rectangular box or an entirely different glyph than the one called for in a PDF file, even when the font is embedded? Even worse, the glyph might be correct when the file is viewed on screen, but substituted with another glyph in the output file. How does this happen?
Typically this results from differences in font types and font encoding, combined with differences in computer platforms. PDF files can contain three of the most common type of font formats: PostScript Type 1, TrueType and OpenType. When it comes to Latin-based languages (i.e., English) there are less than 128 commonly-used characters, which neatly fit into seven of the eight bits available in an ASCII format file. Most operating systems use the same character set for these 128 "low ASCII" characters, so any common character (a lower case "a," for example) will be the same no matter which application or OS writes out the file. The remaining 128 characters (that eighth bit), which generally are less common characters, are not necessarily encoded the same way on the Mac and Windows platform, and might be different depending upon the application writing or printing the file. This is the cause of much substitution of nonstandard characters like ligatures and fractions.
When a font is embedded in a PDF file, it should not matter that the file is printed from a computer running a different operating system than the one on which the PDF file was created; the embedded font is to be used for both preview and print. Font substitution at the RIP can happen, however, if a font of the same name but with different characteristics is resident at the RIP. (Adobe representatives have been heard to claim this will not happen on Adobe-based RIPs, though many in-the-trenches users report glyph substitution on output.) Subsetting fonts, in addition to making a PDF file smaller by only including the glyphs actually used in the layout, also renames fonts in the PDF file. So, if Helvetica is used in a document and the PDF file is created with font inclusion set to subset embedding, Helvetica will be included as something like EFGWXK+Helvetica. Theoretically, this means the RIP will not recognize that font and, therefore, will not use the RIP resident version of it for print. In prepress environments, fonts never should be resident on the RIP, especially for general commercial printers.
Subset fonts in PDF files are not without problems, either. Merging multiple PDF files with subset fonts can, on rare occasions, result in missing characters in the merged PDF file. Subsetting a font will rename it, as shown above, with a random generation of six alpha characters plus the base font name. Unfortunately, Acrobat will use the first version of a particular font name that it detects, creating a problem when two PDF files that happen to have the same six-character prefix are merged within Acrobat — only the glyphs used in the first merged file will be available for all of the other sections of the file. So if a new glyph is used in the subsequent PDF file merged into the first, it will not display or print, and a blank space will appear instead.
When it comes to editing text in a PDF file, Acrobat's built-in touch-up text tool is rudimentary, at best. The font must be loaded and available on the computer where the editing is taking place, making editing of a PDF file created on the Mac OS via a Windows PC virtually impossible. Conversely, Mac OS X offers the ability to load and use Windows TrueType as well as OpenType fonts. This is not to say it's easier to work with fonts on the Mac platform. In Windows 2000 and XP, fonts are found in only one location. On the Mac, as any user knows, fonts can be found just about anywhere and it's very easy to have duplicate fonts. To make matters worse, OS X includes Apple's new dfonts, which are simply the Mac version of the most commonly used fonts, like Helvetica and Times. When it comes to PDF creation, this variability can result in the wrong version of a font being embedded in a PDF file with the possible outcome of different spacing, kerning or even inclusion of a glyph that is entirely different from the one originally set in the page layout.
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When creating a high-resolution graphic for print output, the rule of thumb is to allow two image pixels per halftone dot on the press. So, for a project that is to print on an offset press at 150 lines per inch (lpi), a pixel-based image optimally should contain 300 pixels per linear inch (ppi) (a.k.a. dots per inch or dpi) of effective resolution. More resolution than that is unnecessary and only will slow the RIP process. For that reason, most PDF creation tools include a down sampling option. Unfortunately, in an attempt to make the file smaller, a user might toss out too much pixel data.
Sometimes this down sampling happens unintentionally, as when the "standard" Distiller job option setting supplied with the base Distiller application is used. This standard setting, by default, sets image down sampling to 150 dpi, roughly half of the optimal amount for the average offset print job. Tools that can be used to repurpose PDF files, such as the optimizer built into Acrobat 6 or 7, also can be set to down sample image data, which is fine for making soft proof versions of PDF files but not so good if those files with lower resolution images then are used for high-resolution printing. Photoshop and other applications (like Genuine Fractals) that offer sampling algorithms notwithstanding, once you strip pixels out of an image and make it a lower resolution file, there is no way to make it look as good as it did originally.
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Some PDF creation methods can convert a perfectly well made vector-based Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) graphic into a low-resolution bitmap image in the resultant PDF file. The PDFWriter printer driver, a tool no longer bundled with Adobe Acrobat products but still in circulation, writes PDF files in which EPS graphics are converted into low-res bitmaps. The best solution is to not use PDFWriter at all, especially if any EPS graphics are included in the original layout.
The Quartz-based "save as PDF" option that is available from every print dialog window in Mac OS X does the same thing to placed EPS graphics. In addition to converting vector-based EPS graphics to low-resolution bitmaps, the "save as PDF" option also converts the color space of those graphics to RGB. It is possible to tweak a Quartz filter through the ColorSync Utility to control some aspects of PDF creation via the "save as PDF" method, including converting RGB color back into CMYK. Duotones (Device N) and spot colors, however, will be lost and included only as RGB (or converted to the CMYK) colors — not as the original specified spot colors. While the "save as PDF" method is easy, once again, it is not a good way to create PDF files for print production.
A PDF file also can lose high-resolution image data when a Desktop Color Separation (DCS) file is placed into certain layout applications. DCS files are preseparated and include a channel for each color, process and/or spot, along with a low-resolution placeholder image. The high-res data from DCS image files placed in QuarkXPress (any version) will not be included in a resultant PDF file; rather, the low-resolution display image will be included. The same is true of Illustrator CS(2). From Word, we've seen just the additional channel's data included in a PDF file, and not the process color channels at all. PDF files exported from InDesign CS(2), on the other hand, will include the high-resolution data from placed DCS images. So if you must use the DCS format, build the page in InDesign.
EPS can prevent Word RGB woes
Here's another common PDF woe: Bitmap and vector objects aren't in the proper color space for output — specifically, color is in the RGB space, rather than process CMYK or spot. For color-managed workflows, this might be intentional, as ICC-tagged RGB images can be converted to CMYK in the RIP. Conversion to RGB, however, is a side effect of any number of PDF creation methods. As we already mentioned, using the "save as PDF" option from any print dialog on Mac OS X will result in all color converting to RGB, unless a special Quartz filter is used to convert color back to CMYK.
Microsoft Word is the most well-known RGB converting culprit. Color in Word is based on the RGB-based graphics model of the operating system, which is GDI under Windows. When a file is printed from Word (or any Office application), it uses the PostScript driver to generate color, which will be in the RGB color space, including text that should be black.
To avoid this RGB conversion from Word, include all graphics saved in the EPS format. The driver will not convert any color in EPS graphics to RGB. Rather, it will pass through unaltered — so process and spot color will remain as intended in a PDF file. To prevent black text from being included in a PDF file in the RGB color space, use the Adobe PDF driver that is installed along with Adobe Acrobat or Reader.
Commonly, graphics applications convert color as a part of the printing or PDF creation process. InDesign and QuarkXPress can convert RGB to CMYK on output, depending upon the selected output settings. Adobe CS2 includes what the company refers to as a "safe CMYK workflow." This allows RGB objects to convert to CMYK while leaving placed CMYK objects alone, preventing any additional color alteration of CMYK objects. When selecting options for CMYK conversion in the print or export PDF dialog boxes, select "preserve CMYK numbers" to cause RGB images to convert to CMYK based on the profile selected while leaving CMYK data untouched.
In QuarkXPress, conversion of RGB images to CMYK happens automatically when the print colors option is set to "composite CMYK." Depending on whether color management has been enabled, this can result in terrible or not-quite-terrible conversion of RGB images to CMYK. Device N colors also can be converted to a process equivalent during the PDF creation process, especially in PDF files created from QuarkXPress 6.x or lower. Device N colors include objects that are a mix of colors from more than one color space, like a spot-to-spot blend or a grayscale TIFF image assigned a spot color to make a "fake duotone." Prior to QuarkXPress 6, you had to have a special Xtension from Agfa, Creo or another vendor to prevent spot-colorized TIFF images from converting to process (although placed duotones saved in the EPS format pass through unchanged). QuarkXPress 6.x includes the Device N Print Color option, rendering those Xtensions unnecessary. In QuarkXPress 7, the Device N moniker was discarded in favor of the more comprehensive "process CMYK and spot" color option setup. When you export PDF files or print PostScript to Distiller, use Device N instead of "composite CMYK," and colorized TIFF images or spot blends will come through into the PDF file as expected.
Device RGB color can be converted to process easily using the "convert colors" option in Acrobat 7 Professional. Found on the prepress production toolbar, the option will convert color based on an ICC profile-based color space, and it can be set to convert "RGB black" text to a solid black instead of a process build. There are a number of third-party plug-ins that offer more extensive color conversion options, including Enfocus Pitstop Professional (www.enfocus.com), callas Software's pdfColorConvert (www.callassoftware.com), Quite Software's Quite a Box of Tricks (www.quite.com), and ARTS PDF's Crackerjack (www.artspdf.com).
Bleed and page size issues
Most graphics applications include an option to set a bleed amount in the PDF Export or Print dialog boxes. This is one area where the Export PDF method trumps the PostScript via Print Dialog method, as this is the only setting required to ensure that the PDF is created at the correct page size, including bleed. Creating a PDF by printing PostScript through the Print dialog requires the second step of selecting the correct printer driver and entering a physical page size that is large enough to accommodate the trim, bleed, and registration or slug information. This will set the media box for the resulting PDF file.
If the media box is set too small and bleed is cut off of the PDF file, it can be enlarged to accommodate bleed by changing the custom page size in Acrobat 7's "crop pages" dialog box, or with an Enfocus Pitstop Pro option. If there are bleed objects on the page, expanding the media box will reveal them. If no bleed amount was set within the original application, however, there will be nothing in the PDF to work with, so the bleed objects will have to be cloned or edited to fill the expanded page size — a daunting, but doable, task.
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If only content creators could simply follow a single recipe from an all-purpose PDF cookbook to crank out batch after batch of perfect PDF files. Unfortunately, we're dealing with too many different ingredients — but some simple rules apply to just about every process:
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Three simple rules
In Adobe CS2 applications, a graphic object is a source of transparency if any of the following applies:
Flat and unhappy
Transparency flattening can lead to many problems. Any text that touches a transparent object can be rasterized during the flattening process. In most RIPs, text is imaged at a higher resolution than raster objects (usually at the highest resolution of the output device). Rasterized text is especially unsightly when just a portion of a line is converted to bitmaps, while the rest of the line remains text and is imaged at a higher resolution.
Text also can be converted to outlines by the flattener, which can result in a thickening of the stroke making up the outline of each letter. If the user chooses the option to outline all text, every text object on the page will be outlined, whether or not it touches a transparent object. Even if this option is not selected, the flattener might outline the text that is involved with transparent objects anyway, making for a possible unsightly difference between the outlined characters and the rest of the normal text on the page.
Flattening also can break all objects involved in transparency into "atomic regions." Suppose there is a spot-colored vector object with a blend mode of "multiply" sitting on top of a bitmap image with a drop shadow beneath it, on top of a background of another spot color. When the vector object and the drop shadow are flattened, all of the objects involved likely will be broken into new objects or atomic regions that might be vector- or bitmap-based, depending on what it takes to render the transparency into something a PostScript device can digest.
For example, the flattener might use overprinting commands (supported in PostScript) to create transparent effects using opaque objects, especially when flattening a transparency that interacts with a spot color. In fact, in order to print or view a PDF file containing flattened transparent objects correctly, it is necessary to use software that supports overprinting. Without overprinting support, overprint objects will knock out whatever is beneath them. If you've ever used Acrobat or Reader to preview a PDF file and instead of seeing a soft drop shadow behind an image, you see a white box around a harsh black box instead, it probably was because overprint preview wasn't enabled. The same is true at print time — if the device doesn't support overprinting, objects that have been flattened and require overprint capabilities to render properly will knock out.
Some users report seeing white, hairline-like artifacts at the edges of some atomic regions when they view a flattened PDF file in Acrobat or Reader. Turning off the "smooth line art" and "smooth images" option in the page display area of Acrobat's general preferences will cause the preview of these lines to disappear. It is important for prepress operators to see these, however, because they can predict where similar lines can appear in the actual printed piece when it's output through certain systems. It seems that, in some cases, InRIP trapping will create a "choke" or pull-back trap between the atomic regions, creating an actual gap between them. While turning off InRIP trapping typically eliminates this problem, you've then removed all trapping from the file. Note that it might be necessary to disable only "image to image" trapping, to eliminate this problem while still allowing the rest of the job to trap as it should.
Save the vector data
Optimally, transparency settings should be set to retain as much vector data as possible, because rasterization converts objects into uneditable fixed-resolution bitmaps and makes the file larger. Opening a PDF file with transparency into Photoshop will convert the entire file into a single, large bitmap image. Conversely, using the flattener in InDesign or Acrobat and setting the raster — vector slider all the way to the raster side will not rasterize the file into a single large image. Instead, it will break it into a bunch of atomic regions, the size and number of which will vary depending on the page contents.
A brighter day is coming. In time, the transparency problem will fade away as the industry gradually shifts from PostScript-based RIPs in favor of new platforms, such as Adobe's PDF Print Engine, that can render PDF files natively.


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Box Office Policies
- Ticket reservations will only be taken during regular box office hours.
- The UW-L Theatre box office accepts cash, check, MasterCard and Visa only. We do not accept UW-L's Tower Tender/Campus Cash.
- All tickets are the responsibility of the purchaser. All cancellations or ticket changes must be made at least 24 hours prior to the performance. The box office does not buy-back unused tickets or refund tickets.
- A valid UWL student ID is required to purchase tickets at the student rate. Only one student priced ticket may be purchased per ID.
- Seating is assigned unless otherwise indicated. In order to be seated with your friends/family, tickets must be purchased together.
- All tickets must either be charged to a MasterCard/Visa OR picked up 24 hours prior to showtime. Any unpaid reserved tickets will be released for resale.
- When ordering tickets by phone (785-8522), a MasterCard/Visa
number is required to hold tickets at the box office. These
tickets will be held for you until the performance. If you fail
to pick up your tickets, your credit card will still be charged.
- For sold out performances, a waiting list will begin one hour before each performance. Waiting list requests can only be made in-person (no phone calls, please).


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.NET Calendar Control is a control similar to Windows.Forms.MonthCalendar, but it adds support for multi-select. It provides a point and click interface for selecting holidays or special days. It previously extended MonthCalendar, but now it has a fixed size in all regions and handles all drawing internally. The assembly contains several small controls for building calendar interfaces. These parts are independent of each other, and are constructed with inheritance in mind.
1FCD-OpBSD (also known as Karma BSD) is a one-floppy OpenBSD MP3 player with functionality to mount NTFS, UDF (on DVD, CDROM, or external file), EXT2FS, NFS, MFS, and MSDOS file systems. It plays MP3 tracks, and can copy files from any disk to any disk. The software may be useful for the blind and it can also be used as a unique utility for copying files over a network (via NFS) or from any file system known to OpenBSD. USB sticks can be mounted as well. Static OpenBSD binaries can be made on other systems and used with Karma BSD.
This is a port of a recently announced 2D sound spatialization library to Linux/X11 platform. The resulting binary acts as a sound "filter" between a 44.1khz mono source and outputs 44.1khz stereo spatialized sound. The UI uses low-level Xlib calls and does not require any GUI toolkit. Examples are provided to play MP3 files through this filter controlling the sound source position.
2D/3D Horizontal Bar Graph for PHP provides a very easy way to embed dynamically generated horizontal bar graphs and charts into PHP applications and HTML Web pages. The graphing software is very easy to use, and it's possible to add professional quality real time graphing to Web pages and applications within minutes.
2D / 3D Pie Chart provides both a client and server side solution for the incorporation of pie charts into Web pages. It provides versatile components so that Web authors and Java developers can easily build and publish dynamic and interactive Pie Charts. It includes many configurable features and functions for both applet and servlet development, and the documentation and examples are designed to give both a full understanding of every feature and enable you to implement both the applet and servlet quickly and easily.
Web based software for the rapid creation of data handling interfaces.
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Midnight Lute to Stand for $25,000 in 2014
Hill 'n' Dale Farms said Nov. 4 Midnight Lute will stand the 2014 breeding season for a fee of $25,000 live foal, stands and nurses.
|Bob Baffert
|Rosie Napravnik
|Watson, Karl, Pegram, Michael E. and Weitman, Paul
|C. Kidder, J. K. Griggs & Linda Griggs
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Hill 'n' Dale Farms said Nov. 4 Midnight Lute will stand the 2014 breeding season for a fee of $25,000 live foal, stands and nurses.
Midnight Lucky more than made up for her lackluster fifth-place performance in the May 3 Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) when the Bob Baffert-trained filly unleashed a powerful 6 1/4-length victory in the May 25 Acorn Stakes.
Grade II winner Kauai Katie will stretch out to take on Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) also-rans Midnight Lucky and Close Hatches while those two turn back in distance in the $300,000 Acorn Stakes (gr. I) May 27 at Belmont.
Trainer Todd Pletcher said May 4 the four Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) participants from his barn, including winner Princess of Sylmar, "came out of the race well."
Dreaming of Julia is the freshest on the minds of most leading up to the Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) due to her extraordinary 21 3/4-length victory in the March 30 Gulfstream Park Oaks (gr. I).
Dreaming of Julia, the remarkable 21 3/4-length winner of the March 30 Gulfstream Oaks (gr. II), drew post 8 of 11 sophomore fillies and was installed the 3-1 favorite for the $1 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I).
Hall of Fame trainer on the works of Kentucky Oaks (gr.I) contender Midnight Lucky and potential Kentucky Derby (gr.I) contender Code West, as well as the gallop of Govenor Charlie. watch video
Trainer Bob Baffert sent out Kentucky Oaks hopeful Midnight Lucky and potential Kentucky Derby starter Code West together April 28 at Churchill Downs. He expects to make a call April 29 on his Derby starters.
Calumet Farm's Broken Spell was ruled out of the Kentucky Oaks the morning of April 23 by trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Trainer Bob Baffert said Fiftyshadesofhay will also not contend.
In search of his fifth Kentucky Derby (gr. I) victory, trainer D. Wayne Lukas sent out Oxbow for a five-furlong breeze Monday, April 22, at Churchill Downs.
Trainer Bob Baffert grabbed his fifth win in the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks when short-price favorite Midnight Lucky left the field behind on the far turn en route to an eight-length win March 24 in New Mexico.
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Name her Sandy after ROY Manny Sanders.
Pouncey would be a better cat name than a dog name.
When you let her outside to go to the bathroom, then all she does is immediately chase squirrels afterward, you could call her Whisenhunt (whiz & hunt).
Her nickname could be Whizzer, which would also be a tribute to former Steeler great (and later a Supreme Court Justice) Byron "Whizzer" White.
1.15 WR Mike Evans, Texas A&M
2.46 TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Washington
3.97c CB Philip Gaines, Rice
4.118 ILB Shayne Skov, Stanford
5.157 OT James Hurst, North Carolina
5.173c RB Jerrick McKinnon, Georgia Southern
6.192 CB Walt Aikens, Liberty
6.215c DE Deandre Coleman, California
7.230 NT Zack Kerr, Delaware
Thanks for all of the suggestions. We liked Polly (Polomalu) and we were inspired by that, but wanted something a little different and we decided on Malu. It seems fitting for her. She is actually in the first picture above with the pink color, I accidently mixed them up.
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I love dogs!!!!!! Especially puppies and little dogs!!!!
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Tulsa >Lodging > Park Inn Tulsa Airport
2201 North 77th East Avenue, Tulsa, OK | Directions 7411536.187397 -95.890532
Daily 24 Hours
Can't expect more for the price – I was traveling and my flight was delayed. I stayed here because a friend found SUPER CHEAP pices online. It is an OK hotel to spend the weekend, or just for a single night. You can get really cheap prices and specials online... but then again, do not expect any more than an OK hotel. It is not a 5 star stay.
FLEAS!!!! – Yes, there were fleas!! A family member had passed in Tulsa and I had reserved 3 rooms a week ahead of time for a party of 12 at this hotel. We arrived at noon, the pool was too dirty to relax in so we just headed straight to the funeral for preparations. When we came back late afternoon, we discovered tiny little bugs... EVERYWHERE. They were really little, but observable only if you really paid attention. They were in all the 3 rooms, on the desks, sinks, drawers, pillows and sheets!!! They moved slowly, jumped, and popped when killed (much like fleas, or even lice??) we notified the front desk, and when they moved all of us into new rooms, there were also bugs in these rooms!! The lady at the front desk made us feel uncomfortable, like we had brought these critters in, but that makes no sense since they were also in the new rooms. Other than suggest we sleep in whatever room they switched us into, they couldn't do anything else for us but give us our money back!! So, tired, several states from our home, and paranoid that these bugs were on us, we had to search by ourselves for a new place to stay. When we finalized our leave, the front desk lady claimed (with attitude) that we were worried for nothing because they were just common outdoor clover mites. But if so, then why are these outdoor mites "inside" and as i recall from biology class, mites are microscopic.... so HORRIBLE experience for us. Also, when suggested that they call the exterminator... they took no action!!! unbelievable!!! unless you like to sleep with fleas, i would not recommend this hotel
Great hotel BUT.. – It's a great hotel but if any of you are looking to save some $$ then book it at goo.gl/FPxYD They have some of the best hotel deals on the web!
Great Hotel BUT... – It's a great hotel but if any of you are looking to save some $$ then book it at referer.us/8/GoodHotelDeals They usually have some pretty good deals on there!
Clean, comfortable accommodations and guaranteed customer satisfaction. – In Short
With more than 430 locations worldwide, the Radisson caters to business and leisure travelers by focusing on guest satisfaction. Rooms are equipped with large work desks, ergonomic chairs and two telephones; in-room high-speed Internet access is available for a fee. Other standard amenities include ASIRA bath products, cable TV with two premium channels, hair dryers and coffee makers.
Very disappointed – Rooms at this hotel were terrible. Not worth the $81 per night that they are charging.
- Stained carpets, furniture, and bedspreads (yuck!)
- Moldy floorboards in room and in bathroom
- Previous guests hair on the floor
- No shower curtain (even after request)
- Very dated decor
They did however have prompt shuttle service.
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For 400 days, Republicans have failed to offer a jobs agenda, voted to end the Medicare guarantee, and are once again threatening the payroll tax cut for middle class.
Democrats have a different path. Democrats remain focused on our immediate priorities:
- Extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans,
- Extending unemployment benefits for the millions of Americans who lost their jobs through no fault of their own,
- Ensuring tens of millions of seniors can continue to see the doctor of their choice under Medicare.
Democrats are committed to reigniting the American Dream and rebuilding the pillars of America that have made our economy strong: small businesses, entrepreneurs, and an all-inclusive and thriving middle class.
By the Numbers: GOP Do-Nothing No Jobs Agenda
400: Days Republicans have been in charge
0: GOP jobs agenda
2 million: Jobs potentially destroyed under GOP bills
31: Times House GOP have voted against taking up Democratic jobs legislation, including China currency legislation that would help create 1 million American jobs
3: Times House GOP have voted to end the Medicare guarantee and protect tax breaks for Big Oil, millionaires and corporations shipping jobs overseas
8: Times House GOP voted against urgent consideration of an extension of the payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans, including a bipartisan Senate compromise in December
229: Number of House Republicans that voted to reject the bipartisan Senate compromise, risking a $1,000 tax hike for the typical American family and jeopardizing 600,000 American jobs by sending it to a non- existent conference committee to die
14: Times GOP have voted against the President's American Jobs Act, or part of it
1.9 million: Number of jobs that the President's American Jobs Act is estimated to create
5: Times House GOP have brought our nation to the brink, creating economic uncertainty
1: Number of jobs bills from the President enacted, due to Democratic pressure
Republicans Say NO as Democrats Fight to Create Jobs and Strengthen the Economy
Republicans have voted at least 31 times against Democratic proposals or efforts to consider proposals - several of which are bipartisan - to create or protect American jobs. Republicans rejected urgent consideration of an extension of the payroll tax cut needed to stop a tax increase on 160 million working Americans and efforts to discourage corporations from shipping American jobs overseas - and voted NO on taking up: critical Make It In America initiatives, proposals to rebuild America, plans to strengthen American innovation, and efforts to level the playing field with China. These include:
- An American jobs effort to end government contracts rewarding corporations that ship American jobs overseas. [Vote 19]
- A measure to discourage outsourcing by denying the bill's pro-corporation election rules for companies that ship American jobs overseas and leveling the playing field for workers in union elections. [Vote 868]
- A measure that places a priority on keeping jobs in America, protecting the authority of the National Labor Relations Board to order an employer to maintain or restore jobs in the U.S. that would be otherwise outsourced to a foreign country. [Vote 710]
- Build America Bonds to Create Jobs Now Act - leveraging public dollars to strengthen the private sector, growing our economy by rebuilding America's schools, hospitals, and transit projects, supported by American businesses, the construction industry, mayors and governors. [Vote 38, Vote 30, Vote 189]
- American Jobs Matter Act - to give preference in federal contracts to U.S. manufacturers that create jobs here at home. [Vote 257]
- National Manufacturing Strategy Act, to demand a clear plan to help manufacturers compete, invest in innovation, and put Americans back to work, which passed the House in 2010 with overwhelming bipartisan support. [Vote 279, Vote 721]
- A measure to promote jobs and innovation at home, by prioritizing patent applications from entities that pledge to develop or manufacture their products and technologies in the United States. [Vote 490]
- Advanced Vehicle Manufacturing Technology Act to help ensure the cars of the future are built here in the U.S., by investing in a broad range of near-term and long-term vehicle technologies to improve fuel efficiency, support domestic research and manufacturing, and lead to greater consumer choice of vehicle technologies and fuels. [Vote 310]
- A measure to support American Manufacturers by giving priority to any company that uses materials made in America for the construction and renovation of school facilities. [Vote 693]
- A measure to protect at least 10,000 American manufacturing jobs and provide disaster relief to families and business owners: approving bipartisan disaster aid passed by the Senate without slashing Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loans that put people to work producing cleaner cars and investing in innovation. [Vote 715]
- Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act to provide our government with effective tools to address unfair currency manipulation by countries like China, which could help create 1 million American manufacturing jobs by leveling the international playing field for American workers and businesses. [Vote 9, Vote 199, Vote 780, Vote 821, Vote 854] This bipartisan bill has 230 co-sponsors including 63 Republicans, yet the Republican leadership has blocked it. Democrats have launched a process to force consideration of the measure; that petition has 178 of the 218 signatures needed.
- A measure to ensure that American materials, rather than those imported from abroad, are used in the construction of new or existing structures for coal ash storage. [Vote 792]
- A Make It In America measure that prohibits the Coast Guard from purchasing textiles or apparel that are not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States. [Vote 829]
- A measure requiring a vote on extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance before December 16, 2011. [Vote 870, Vote 889, Vote 902]
- A measure extending and expanding the payroll tax cut, unemployment insurance, and ensuring that seniors still get to see the doctor of their choice, paid for by asking 300,000 people making more than $1 million a year to pay their fair share.[ Vote 918, Vote 925]
- A measure expanding the payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans with a typical family getting a $1,500 tax cut, paid for by asking 300,000 people making more than $1 million a year to pay their fair share, while preventing insider trading by Members of Congress by enacting the STOCK Act. [Vote 922]
- The bipartisan Senate agreement extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans to avoid an imminent $1,000 tax increase for the typical family. [Vote 944, Vote 948]
- A measure for middle class families, directing the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction to eliminate subsidies for the five largest oil and gas companies and corporate jet owners, before gutting education initiatives that create jobs, spur growth, and invest in our future. [Vote 676]
- A measure to protect jobs for returning veterans by preventing incentives for small businesses to hire returning veterans from being swept away by GOP deregulatory efforts. [Vote 879]
- A measure to allow Congress to make job-creating investments, instead of automatically freezing funding for Pell Grants and education programs for students, job benefits for veterans and job training for all Americans, and life-saving health research. [Vote 31]
Time and Again, Republicans through their Brinkmanship have Manufactured Crises, Creating Economic Uncertainty
- Middle Class Tax Increase - At the end of 2011, House Republicans brought us to the brink of a tax increase on 160 million working Americans - even voting against a strongly bipartisan Senate compromise - only finally agreeing with the tax hike 8 days away.
- Manufacturing a Default Crisis - Throughout the summer, Republicans in Washington engaged in brinksmanship with the debt limit in order to insist upon a far-right ideological agenda. This weakened our economy and led to Standard and Poor's downgrading the U.S. credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+. S&P highlighted, "The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable…. The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips." There was only one political party that was using the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said, "The negotiations that took place over the summer disrupted financial markets and probably the economy as well." [August 26]
- Destroying American Jobs/Playing Politics with Disaster Relief - In September, Republicans passed legislation that held essential disaster relief hostage, insisting on cuts that would have cost 10,000 good-paying American jobs by slashing Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loans to produce cleaner American cars - a cut opposed by both the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.
- FAA Shutdown - Republican intransigence resulted in a 13-day shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration that furloughed tens of thousands of construction workers and thousands of federal employees. House Republicans refused to reauthorize the FAA without including an anti-union provision that would make it harder for workers at airlines and railroads to unionize. Airline inspectors were forced to work without pay during the shutdown.
- CR - Republicans played politics last spring with the government funding bill - threatening a government shutdown that according to analysts at Goldman Sachs "could shave 0.2 percent off the growth of Gross Domestic Product for every week it continued." Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) stated "Our economy can't handle the instability that comes from the threat of a government shutdown."


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Topics in This Section
- Physician Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
- Theresa Brown, CRNP, OCN
- Barbara Cunningham, MSN, CRNP
- Donna Edmondson, MSN, CRNP, OCN
- Kristen Kreamer, CRNP, MSN, AOCN, APRN-BC
- Karon Martyn, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP
- Agnes Masny, RN, MPH, MSN, CRNP
- Ann Pellegrino, CRNP, MSN
- Susan Roethke, CRNP, MSN, AOCN, ANP-BC
- Barbara Rogers, CRNP, MN, AOCN, ANP-BC
- Sharon Schwartz, CRNP, MSN, WHCNP
- Jill Anne Seely, RN, MSN, CRNP
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First official day of Gamescom 2011 got into full swing today with members of the press circumnavigating the huge convention halls. The Sledgehammer Games crew arrived at the event and quickly became focused in on the objective at hand... Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Before heading to the business/press area, Co-founders Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey both decided we should stop by the Activision booth and say hello to the fans who were standing in line to play MW3.
Excitement was in the air and you could just feel it. It was great to hear the applause after the Hunter Killer level ended too. People are showing how genuinely impressed they are with this year's Call of Duty title and features surrounding the game. We're very excited!
From there we headed off to perform a full day's work of press interviews and playthroughs.
Press Demo Rooms
On our demo list was Spec Ops Survival mode on a never before seen map, Paris, as well as an all new mission mode. We had the opportunity to demo these with a variety of industry press ranging from hardcore Call of Duty community sites to some of the bigger names in the industry including 1up, Machinima, and Geoff Keighley from Gametrailers.
Overall, today was a great start to Gamescom 2011. Having the opportunity to be a part of all this, playing MW3 with members of the press while providing constructive insight into the specifics of the game has given us an absolutely fantastic feeling all around. We're all very thrilled about this game and with the big announcement of Dedicated Servers for PC, we know you'll enjoy this year's Modern Warfare experience!
Community Manager Guy Beahm with Call of Duty Military Advisor Hank Keirsey
August Hammer of the Month Contest - Picture #3 of 5
Written by Guy Beahm
Categories Culture, Modern Warfare 3
Today we woke up and had a nice breakfast at the hotel. After listening to Glen's stories involving some extremely unknown horror movies, we ventured off to Gamescom to get some hands-on Spec Ops training with the Activision production crew. Tomorrow is the official first day of the event.
Glen and Michael navigating Gamescom 2011 before it officially opens 8-17-2011
When we arrived to the convention, we actually became lost quite quickly. The vast size of Gamescom and its layout was almost overwhelming… in a good way. But we finally found our destination which was the Call of Duty booth and we were blown away. From a theater that accommodates 90+ fans, a Black Ops Million Dollar Tournament qualifier, and ultimately the showcasing of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Campaign and Spec Ops Survival Mode, the booth had it all!
Additionally, the Activision booth in general has a very strong presence this year. World of Warcraft is definitely ready!
After the convention we did some touring around Cologne. In the midst of Glen and Michael's constant bickering of one another, we decided that it was time for lunch. The restaurant we decided on had fantastic food as well as an amazing view of downtown Cologne.
But lunch only proved to be fuel for a nap. So that's what we did. After a few hours rest, Glen, Michael and I met with Activision EU Marketing and had a wonderful Italian dinner to cap off the night.
Between seeing the Call of Duty booth and today's experiences, it was another wonderful day of sightseeing and prepping for the big show that starts tomorrow.
Gamescom 2011, here we come!
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Written by Guy Beahm
Categories Culture, Modern Warfare 3
Hello Hammers,
Sledgehammer Games had a wonderful first day in Cologne, Germany. Being that Gamescom doesn't actually start until Wednesday, the crew decided to do some sightseeing today. So Glen, Michael, and I hopped on the train in Cologne and traveled alongside the infamous Rhine River to a little German town call Koblenz.
Train station in Cologne, Germany
During our trip to Koblenz, we were able to see quite a few attractions including historic castles and extravagant churches along the banks of the Rhine river.
Once we reached our destination in Koblenz, we navigated through the city and made our way to the Electoral Palace where beautiful gardens and landscaping were on display.
Glen in front of the Electoral Palace
But we didn't just stop there. We had heard about the sheer size of the fortress, Ehrenbreitstein alongside the east bank of the Rhine river so we had to see it for ourselves. Wow, what a fascinating place. Even the tram ride up to the fortress was an experience in itself.
Michael on the banks of the Rhine river
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress
Guy in front of the Ehrenbreitstein fortress
The fortress was absolutely amazing. From the architecture and layout of the land, it's hard to fathom how much energy was spent creating such a structure... it was truely breathtaking. We talked about the idea of how cool it would be if a MP map was built based upon the layout of the fortress. Hmm, ideas ideas.
Oh, and the view, well....
.... perfect.
Having the opportunity to hang out with Glen and Michael while experiencing today's events, I'd say it was an awesome day!
Written by Guy Beahm
Categories Culture, Modern Warfare 3
August Hammer of the Month | Gamescom Edition!
Sledgehammer Games is in Cologne, Germany this week for Gamescom 2011! We're looking forward to meeting everyone here while showcasing MW3 at the Activision booth. For the first time, fans will get some hands-on time with the all new Spec Ops Survival in never before seen locations, and some exciting new announcements that gamers have been asking for.
Throughout the week, we'll be updating our webpage with a daily recap of events including stories and pictures from Co-founders Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey as well as Community Manager Guy Beahm. Also included in these daily recaps are key steps to winning the August Hammer of the Month contest!
So without further ado, let's introduce the contest:
At the end of each Gamescom daily recap, there will be a random picture. Consider that picture just a small piece to the bigger puzzle. There will be five random pictures total with the last one being on Friday of this week. We're asking you to put these five pieces together to reveal one big picture. The first successful picture submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com becomes the August Hammer of the Month!
Winner receives the infamous Tool Box of Chaos! What's in the box you ask? You'll have to wait and see…
So make sure you're following us on Twitter to stay up to date on everything Sledgehammer Games including our daily recap of Gamescom all week.
Good luck!
Written by Guy Beahm
Categories Culture
"Hi Sledgehammer Games. Us folks here from Germany want to know if you guys are coming to Gamescom? WE WANT MW3!"
Timm N.
Dortmund, Germany
Hi Timm,
Sledgehammer Games will be at GamesCom 2011. Glen Schofield, Guy Beahm, and I will be there soon. Looking forward to enjoying a great show, and some good German beer. Perhaps not in that order ;)
Guy will be doing blog updates from the floor via sledgehammergames.com . For gamers wanting an inside look at the largest interactive games and entertainment show in Europe from a Sledgehammer Games development perspective, check back daily starting Monday.
You can also follow us on Twitter to stay updated on the show:
Glen Schofield - http://twitter.com/glenschofield
Michael Condrey - http://twitter.com/michaelcondrey
See you next week, Timm!
- Michael
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This game sucked away 3 years of my life and made me a husk.
Well does that just imply he was acting the entire time? Because then his actions might actually be entirely accurate. Ninety percent of his lines totally do sound like he is holding a copy of the script.
"Whoa! This hall is dangerous!"
"Just a moment! I found something. It's a weapon. It's really powerful, especially against living things!"
"It's Forest! Oh, my god!"
And before anybody asks what talking about RE has to do with T'est;
Totally does.
This game sucked away 3 years of my life and made me a husk.
The best kind of husk.
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Del is joining C yo, peeps. And I'm making a millionth rendition of a new character.
So it could be a pretty rad point to jump in if you're new and don't want to end up over your head. It's the japanese-y/ninja-y/samurai-y one. Any class goes. The thread is kinda having a fresh start. :o
Edit; Just being told now that E has more room too. As in the sandy deserty theify one. So that is a thing...
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Calling bullshit on the new title, Ugarit is dead.
Shush you. Uga is better now.
So with the most pressing opening filled, here are some other openings that need or can have fillings:
Campaign G is the Chinese flavored party (although so is Longmen. Northern Izumo in general is NotChina). Campaign G is especially wuxia flavored with lots of Monks. Everybody was kung-fu fightan'.
Wu is one of the Three Kingdoms of Northern Izumo, a successor to the long-dead Huangdi Empire. Wu is home primarily to Humans and Lung Dragons, the latter of which are venerated by the former and who sometimes deign to intervene in Human politics. Wu's jungles and denser forests are also sometimes home to the monkey and ape like Vanara.
Martial arts are more common as a form of combat and popular entertainment in Wu than even in the rest of Northern Izumo, and many of Asul's greatest martial artists have been from Wu. As with the rest of Northern Izumo, alchemy is also quite important and advanced, and healers are more likely to be Alchemists than Clerics or even Wu Jen. Wu Jen are also quite common in Wu and Northern Izumo, and derive their power from pacts made with the Four Heavenly Kings.
The party, consisting primarily of Monks and Unarmed Fighters, although also a Crabfolk Samurai, are currently employed in the service to Yao, a T'ien Lung Dragon. T'ien Lung are the highest ranking and most powerful of all Lung Dragons and are seen by the people of Northern Izumo as somewhere between kings and gods - and far closer to the latter. Yao is a compassionate, Lawful Good, Dragon who has thus far tasked the party with helping a village under his watch with addressing some problems involving pirates and ghosts.
The party is mostly Monks, yeah, but we could still allow another, maybe, depending on their style. A Wu Jen would also be good, and an Alchemist would be really cool. Alchemists are basically mad scientists. Potions, transmutations, explosives, and fun stuff. Northern Izumo also has Internal Alchemists which are kind of like a odd half-way between Monk and Alchemist. Fun times. This party has one opening, but doesn't NEED it filled. So if you want to join this party, that's fine and cool, we have an opening, but the other parties all NEED players so unless you have literally zero interest in them, I'd prefer you join them.
Longmen, it is said, was built by Dragons at the dawn of time. The largest city on the surface of Asul, the Outer Walls of Longmen enclose an area larger than many kingdoms, an her inner walls enclose one of, if not the, largest and most densely populated cities on the surface of the world.
Longmen is the capital and a microcosm of the kingdom of Zhou. Ruled by the half-Human/half-Dragon Dragon Emperor and home of the Four Heavenly Kings who head the Draconic Bureaucracy, Zhou is a realm heavily influenced and in many ways manipulated by the Lung Dragons who view themselves as the patrons, protectors, and parents of Humanity, civilization, and peace in Izumo. Extremely bureaucratic and highly traditional, Zhou is in many ways a civilization that is slave to ritual, class, and bureaucracy and no where is this more apparent than in Longmen. Longmen itself is subdivided into three 'rings' according to social class. The First Ring being home to the 'poor' of the city and its lower class, although they still enjoy a high quality of living compared to elsewhere in the world. The Second Ring being the home of the middle class, and the Third Ring being the home of wealthy merchants, aristocrats, lined with waterways that house Yu Lung, the juvenile form of all Lung Dragons. Entry to the Third Ring by outsiders is forbidden without written permission. At the heart of the third ring and the very center of the city is Zicheng Palace, the massive estate of the Dragon Emperor, his brides and concubines, his children, and their countless servants. Entry to Zicheng by those not invited in writing is a crime punishable by death.
The campaign is taking place entirely in Longmen. Primarily within the Inner Walls/City Proper, but there likely will be some excursions to the towns and places Between the Walls. I didn't say too much of the plot int he blurb above because fo spoiler reasons. The campaign is opening with a bit of PVP, in fact, with the majority of the PCs working as hired bounty hunters of a sort for the city watch and attempting to bring down a local triad boss. The triad boss in question is one who Gaozi Lian, Reg's character, serves as a mistress and hired muscle for. She's the dragon. How shit goes down with that turning into the party and where things go from there are, obviously, spoilers.
The party currently has two, maybe three, openings. Possible classes are varied and almost anything can work. Longmen *needs* players. So don't be shy.
Drowthread? Drowthread! The Drowthread is a party of (currently) three Drow lasses on a meandering quest for glory, fame, and power.
The Drow are an evil racial offshoot of Elves with dark blue, gray, or black skin, white hair (although they often dye it), and possessed of extreme beauty and grace - even by Elven standards. Otherwise they're physically identical to Elves save for being a bit more fertile and having a higher birth rate.
Drow are decadent, racist, promiscuous, matriarchal, misandrist, superficial, cruel, sadistic and generally just evil and not very nice. Male Drow are at best second-class citizens, and at worse chattel slaves, with noble-born male Wizards being the sole exception. Non-Drow are sometimes permitted to live in ghettos on the fringes of Drow cities, but are most typically are found in Drow cities only as slaves - with slavery being the base upon which Drow civilization is built.
The Drow are an extremely paranoid people and assassination is the primary method of upwards social mobility. Most highborn Drow are so busy guarding from assassins that they rarely get to kill anyone, though. In essence, Drow society is held together by paranoia, hedonism, and fear of Goddess.
The Drow worship the cruel goddess Lolth, Queen of the Demonweb Pits. Lolth is cruel, sadistic, demanding, and unreasonable. Every Drow mother must sacrifice her third-born son to the Goddess, and beyond that her priestesses serve to provide Lolth the constant praise and offerings she demands. Lolth bears little love for the Drow, and their relationship is essentially such that she merely hates them less than she hates everyone else.
Drow society is essentially a constant struggle between the church and the various noble houses (who fight amongst themselves as well). It's an insane culture caught between an insane theocracy devoted to a demanding goddess, and a fickle and avaricious aristocracy.
The Drow live in the Underdark, a vast subterranean environment beneath the surface of the world. The Underdark is a series of caves and caverns, tunnels and vaults, which are poorly explored by surface folk, intermittently settled by natives, and home to all manner of strange and exotic creatures. The majority of Drow settlements are in the Middledark, the region of the Underdark 3-10 miles beneath the surface. The lower one goes in the Underdark, the more dangerous and alien things to get, with the Lowerdark (11+ miles below surface level) being home primarily to Illithids, Aboleths, Beholders, and various other aberrant horrors.
The party at the moment is a trio of Drow cousins from a minor noble house, Alsiif the Demonic Sorceress, Neitar Inthuul the Telepath, and Ryyna Fama the Aristocrat. They've cut ties with their former house and set out on their own as adventurers, hoping to build up the fame, fortune, connections, and holdings needed to start their own house, or, perhaps failing that, at least marry into one of the Great Houses.
For Goddess and Glory!
Race choice is obviously limited to female Drow. At the moment the party could use someone stealthy, so a Ninja would be ideal, but a Rogue may suffice. Something more Fighter-y is also fine. Also Ryyna is an NPC now because Fail left so there's that. Lots of options really :O
We need a good player who won't vanish. The party is open-ended and largely freeform so we need someone who can and will post often, as well. It's like Game of Thrones meets Blackadder meets Rush Limbaugh's paranoid delusions about feminism.
Umbralume is a plane untouched by sunlight for over nine millennia. A plane of endless night ruled by and home to all manner of horrors.
Vampires rule over much of the plane, their Human subjects occupying a role that is a combination and midway point between that of vassal peasants and cattle livestock. Werewolves prey upon Humans by moonlight, both as loners and in packs, oft-times waking the next 'morning' unaware of their activities the past 'night'. The dead are restless in their graves, rising bodily or otherwise to plague the living. The sadistic Drow have long since risen up against their Elven cousins, slaughtering them all and claiming parts of the surface for themselves and their spider goddess; Lolth. All the while the scheming Devils and mortal servants of the Nine Hells plot the subjugation of all in the name of the Enemy, while the vile Demons of the Abyss threaten to corrupt and destroy all; living, dead, and those in-between.
And amidst it all, by moonlight and torchlight, faith and tenacity, luck and skill, the Humans of Umbralume try to do what they have always done - survive. Mobs of pitchfork and torch wielding peasants are aided by experienced and elite crusaders and slayers in their endeavors to keep Humanity from becoming someone's meal and maybe, just maybe, drive the night and all its horrors from Umbralume and live to see a sunrise.
And yet Humanity is assaulted from within as well as without. Necromancers seek to bend the dead to their own nefarious purposes, while mad stitchers and alchemists ply their arcane trades with little care or concern for consequence. Worst of all, there are those who consort willingly with Vampires and Fiends, in hopes of gaining power, pleasure, or perhaps, simply, a small measure of safety.
What a horrible night to have a curse.
Essentially Umbralume is a spooky plane with an aesthetic and tone that's a mashup of Gothic Horror, Gothic Culture/Gothpunk, and Tim Burton-esque aesthetics. Race at the moment is Human only, really. At the moment, the party could really use a Fighter, but a Barbarian or even possibly a Psychic Warrior are possibly acceptable. The party at the moment is Mishkala Trelaozigh, a Drider Assassin, Lucia, a Cleric, and Titian Sanzio, an Alchemist.
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Yeah... So apparently Del has backed out. Which means no more Wu Jen lady who's bitchy towards Yuan for C. :/
We need wanna those. On top of more people generally...
Yeah, we still do need members. Come on, people, it's fun! Even if you can't be a panda based on the fursona of a guy who didn't know the difference between China and Japan.
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I mean, we need like, new players, duderinos.
It's like the most free-form thread, were we can decide what to build, where to go, who to harras, who to cannabilise, who to hollow out and make into a spider pinyata for fun, who t- You get the picture. Tis a good thread.
Take dwarf fortress, add some rudimentary evil sexy wench graphics, plus more than a little grimdark glamrock than is probally neccisary, and you have a generalish idea.
A, B, and Longmen also need players still.


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Monday, April 23, 2012
No Blogger Left Behind
22 comments:
- Sonya @ Under the Desert Sky said...
Well, I'm glad you're back! :) I was beginning to wonder . . .
Wow, that's a lot of stress you're dealing with - I sure hope things start working out in your favor.
Livie says, "Hey, look at that goose with a ball!!" (She likes it, by the way!) And she likes "Alex," too.
- April 23, 2012 at 5:04 PM
- Ronda said...
Well, this certainly explains the cheese post!!! Thanks! As if you hadn't already been up to your neck in "lost" cheese!!! Wishing you a most tasty cheese very soon!
- April 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM
- rkbsnana said...
Well, all is well now that Moab has a new ball. Seriously, it does seem a struggle sometimes doesn't it? Hang in there.
- April 23, 2012 at 5:13 PM
- TexWisGirl said...
i know you must feel a bit like a wet rag, but you ARE making progress! fingers crossed on the home sale. i really hope you can get to farm living 100% of the time. and glad your girls are working, but i know that just stretches your time even more...
- April 23, 2012 at 5:28 PM
- Cindy said...
I will be praying for a quick sale!!
I know you are being pulled so many different directions. You hang in there you are doing a great job!!
Hugs and squeezes..Cindy from Rick-Rack and Gingham
- April 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM
- Jill said...
Oh girl, I so feel for you. You have got a huge load. Wish there was a way to help you out. I'll pray for a short sale and wish you luck. Don't forget to breath and eek out at least a few moments of your day to relax. It won't do you any good to burn yourself out.
- April 23, 2012 at 5:35 PM
- Jocelyn said...
I'm so glad you're back!
I am pulling for you on the sale of your house. What a beautiful thing it will be when you can close that book, huh?
- April 23, 2012 at 5:42 PM
- Candy C. said...
It's nice to have you back in Bloggerland! :)
I so hope the house sells soon for you so that you can start being a full-time country girl...
- April 23, 2012 at 6:01 PM
- Happier Than a Pig in Mud said...
Howdy! So nice to hear from you! Glad the roof's done, I'm sure there's a future post in there somewhere... So hope the house sells soon, I know that's very stressful. Just keep moving forward, everything will work out ok:@)
- April 23, 2012 at 7:10 PM
- Lori Skoog said...
Well, I don't know how you could fit more on your plate! There is no rule about blogging everyday...don't worry. Hopefully (one day at a time)everything will work out and you can move to the farm. Nice to have you back giving us an update.
- April 23, 2012 at 7:36 PM
- Randy said...
Wow and I thought I was busy. I hope that everything works out. Sending you positive thoughts.
- April 23, 2012 at 7:39 PM
- Chatty Crone said...
I hope and pray your house sells ASAP for you. I don;t know what all exactly is going on - but I am glad you are back. Stay with your friends who love you. sandie
- April 23, 2012 at 8:24 PM
- Chai Chai said...
I am really curious to know if the roofer who impressed you with his knowledge and supposed honesty worked out?
- April 23, 2012 at 8:54 PM
- Nancy J said...
We all hope for a sale that is OK with you, soon. The roofer is brave, and so are you working with renovations, in other office places, best of all, I love the blue jacket that look so warm and comforting. Favourite colour. Cheers from Jean
- April 24, 2012 at 2:53 AM
- Lisa @ Two Bears Farm said...
I am sending you all the house selling vibes I can muster! I truly hope it finds a buyer!
- April 24, 2012 at 6:39 AM
- DebH said...
Been missing you and wish I could help! I hate painting, but I would do it gladly for someone else. I also snorted on the idea of sitting down with the goats to tell them when to kid!!!! I got the same thing going on here with hectic and today is the day they are starting, BUT, I have a track meet to attend some 1 1/2 hrs away, work deadlines and bottle babies who like their schedule. I still love it though, but timing...its all in the timing!
- April 24, 2012 at 7:09 AM
- Ashling said...
So glad you did come back; I really enjoy your blog! Hang in, and remember to breathe!
- April 24, 2012 at 10:41 AM
- Coloring Outside the Lines said...
I hope the house does sale- and that everything will work out for you..all that stress is not good for a body- get you some vitamins and take some me time if you can. Moab cracks me up!
- April 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM
- Maura @ Lilac Lane Cottage said...
I'm glad you decided to keep going Michaele. I know how you feel though...sometimes life just get's in the way of blogging but then again sometimes blogging gets in the way of life. It's hard to find a balance when too much is going on. Good luck with the sale of your house...I remember well what it was like trying to sell our house nearly 3 years ago. And we had moved from the city to a small country town 9 months before we decided to move out INTO the country! All that cleaning and staging...oh my. It looks like a really cute house...hopefully the right people will come along soon. Love the photo of you and Alex :)
- April 24, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- Jennifer said...
Hugs... you have so much on your plate. I'm gonna say a prayer for you & the family tonight.
- April 24, 2012 at 9:06 PM
- Nancy said...
Take care of yourself, Michaele -- I wish I was there to help you...
- April 25, 2012 at 5:40 AM
- Buttons said...
Oh I do not know what to say but I love that you are such a strong woman. I admire your strength. You are doing the best you can and it will work out I am sure. Don't put so much pressure on the blogging thing people (like me) still love you and think about you. I am a terrible blogger person also sometimes life does get in the way. That is probably OK.Everyone is in the same boat at one time or another.
Take care B
- April 25, 2012 at 6:11 AM


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