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Going Home Again
Tobold is by no means the first person to point out that Warlords of Draenor's free level 90 character is a "doubling-down" on vertical progression. I mean, I don't see why anyone would claim that even vanilla WoW was anything other than vertical progression given how you couldn't grind your way to max level via the Westfall boars, South Park-style, but whatever. The thing that profoundly bothers me in these sort of debates though, is this sort of nonsense:
So we are being told that when the expansion comes out, World of Warcraft will be all about levels 90 to 100. You will play nearly exclusively on the new continent, maybe sometimes visit the capital cities for some features, but will have no reason whatsoever to enter over 90% of the zones of World of Warcraft. If by some server glitch the old zones ceased to exist, most players wouldn't even notice. I find that rather sad, so much wasted space and potential.
I literally cannot understand this line of reasoning. I understand what is attempting to be said here, but it seems so far removed from reality as to be unintelligible.
First of all, the post-Cataclysm world still exists. Even if we are going to assume that there will be a lot of brand new WoW players coming into the expansion – which we have no reason to believe there will be, at least in comparison to returning players – the fact remains that the world and all of its quests will still be there for that new player's alts, at a minimum. Assuming, of course, that this hypothetical new person even enjoys questing in the first place. And if they do, there is nothing stopping them from questing from level 1 to 100 while saving the instant 90 for some other purpose. Meanwhile, the returning veterans who quit in the middle of an expansion they presumably didn't like are being asked to… what? Spend a few dozen hours slogging through 2+ year old content to get to the stuff they were actually excited enough to resubscribe to see?
Secondly, how can the old content ever be considered "wasted?" All of those zones and quests have been utilized, extensively, by millions of players for years. How much more utilized does it need to be? And how? And why? Even in horizontal progression MMOs, where do you find people? Where the new things are. The odds of you finding someone running around the mid-level zones in Guild Wars 2 is approximately zero, unless there happens to be some kind of 2-week patch dragon dropping off a treasure chest every three hours. You're not going to find an EVE veteran mining Veldspar even if Veldspar remains a critical component of crafting spaceships.
Content obsoletes itself. That is not a problem, that's linear time working as intended. Novelty only ever decreases, at least in terms of crafted content. Hell, how long can you experience interest in even procedurally-generated content like in Minecraft? At a certain point, even the weirdest terrain formation is reduced to its constituent parts at a glance – it sure as hell isn't as impressive as the first time you laid eyes on your future mountain fortress location.
Time marches on. Just because you don't hang out at the playground or swing from monkey bars anymore does not mean they are now wasted content, even if no one else ever uses them again. They existed in a time and a place and served their purpose well. Is that not enough? Were you not entertained?
It always seems the greatest irony in MMOs are those players who wish for living, breathing virtual worlds that never change.
Warlords of Draenor BlizzCon Recap
Things can end up changing radically between BlizzCon and this new expansion's release date (remember Path of the Titans?), but here are a bunch of random things that caught my eye:
- Few to no daily quests at max level (source). While MoP ended up giving us hundreds of daily quests and triple-gating gear, it bears reminding that daily quests have been a Big Deal since Burning Crusade. Perhaps not on exactly the same scale, but still. I am not exactly sure what non-instanced endgame activities Blizzard plans on replacing dailies with, although I haven't heard much grumbling about the Timeless Isle so maybe that will suffice.
- Garrison as player housing (source). Personally, this sort of came across as more of a gimmick to me, but I became more intrigued when they mentioned that there will be multiple locations in which to place your Garrison. I enjoyed the farm quite a bit in MoP, so this will probably be fine. I like that you can invite people into your party so they can see your configuration/interact with your NPCs, but if you can't show off a trophy collection of some sort then it's kinda pointless IMO.
- Itemization revamp (source). This is huge to me and will have wide-reaching ramifications across the whole of the game. Hit, Expertise, Dodge, Parry, and Reforging all gone. More limited Enchanting and Gemming. Dynamically changing gear stats (!!). Just think about that for a second. One suit of gear will cover all of your paladin/shaman/druid/etc specs. Enchanting/Gemming will likely mess with things a bit, which is sad, but still that is a game-changing amount of gear reduction. The only question mark here is whether Spirit is going to be considered a primary stat for spec purposes. I imagine it'd have to be, because otherwise you would still need plate with Spirit on it.
- Free level 90 (source). I know a lot of MMO vets don't like this, but the grumbling is pretty silly at this point. Recruit-A-Friend gives a 300% bonus to XP gain and gives the referral toon free levels to hand out to alts. I used a Scroll of Resurrection to get a free level 80 almost two years ago. By the end of each expansion, the leveling curve is reduced by 30%. Heirlooms exist. I have heard people suggest Blizzard could have introduced a sidekicking system or dynamic leveling ala Guild Wars 2, but I never quite caught the explanation for why the hell it's better for a veteran to run through Stranglethorn Vale for the 10th time with his buddy instead of both of them having fun in current content. That new player can see as much old content as he/she wants on an alt. So… how is this not a win-win? Or would you have preferred Blizzard speeding up leveling even further in a way that cannot be avoided? Because that was the other real alternative here.
- Heroic raiding = Mythic raiding with 20 people only (source). This move actually makes a lot of sense on paper, and undoubtedly makes things easier for Blizzard's raid design team. The big downside, of course, is how it screws over every heroic 10m raiding guild in existence. While you could theoretically talk to other heroic 10m raiding guilds and buddy-up that way, I feel like heroic raiding likely takes more than just a little group chemistry to make happen. Then again, I suppose it's fair to ask how many guilds this would actually impact that weren't already downsizing from 25m mode for Ranking/Realm First purposes. Regardless, I think you should start selling your stock in 25m raids generally, if you have not yet done so.
There are also some other random quality of life-esque improvements like how heirlooms will be Account-wide (a clever solution to cross-realm mail), max-level normal dungeons will be making a return, and BGs will be getting a new scoreboard that highlights actual contribution to the fight rather than damage/healing whoring. Obviously a lot of this will be subject to change and refinement, but I am tentatively intrigued based on what we have seen thus far.
Well, let me specify that I am intrigued by the features and game changes, not this throwback to the most boring racial lore in the game. Oooo, orcs, doing tribal orcish things. We are supposedly going to be seeing "a lot" of paladin lore along with presumably some Naaru shenanigans, so I'm actually feeling pretty good about being Alliance for this upcoming expansion. So we'll see how it goes.
The WoW 5.4 Roundtable Summary
(Edit: MMO-Champ basically just posted the same goddamn thing. For the record, I wrote the below first, but since I schedule posts to go live at 7am the next day… FML. I want those 28 minutes back.)
So there was a 5.4 Developer Roundtable released on Monday that I am going to sum up for you because, really, nobody should have to sit through those same 28 awkward minutes that I already threw in a hole. I mean, technically, it's even longer than 28 minutes because I actually paused and rewound the video to take some notes inbetween the cringes. Whenever Ion Hazzikostas talks, I get flashbacks of that one guy in raids – you know the one – where when he speaks, you just want to punch him in the throat and/or yourself in the ears. "Just… fucking say it and stop filling up space with your rhetorical flourishes, Christ!" And he's a raid leader. Those poor bastards.
Pay it forward, people, pay it forward.
0:00 – 12:25: Time in a hole.
12:26: Lead Encounter designs states that Wrath of the Lich King "arguably" had the best raiding environment at any point in the game. I concur.
15:27: Flex raiding has exceeded Blizzard's expectations. Out of the Flex raids, over 50% changed in raid size within the duration of the raid itself, e.g. people actually took advantage of the ability to gain/drop people on the fly. More interestingly, the devs stated that in the last week, more people did Flex raiding in NA/EU than did Scenarios. So either Scenarios aren't as popular as I thought, or Flex raiding is bringing in a lot of new raiding blood.
16:28: "Will there be more zones like the Timeless Isle in the next expansion?" Yes. Timeless Isle will serve as a general template for endgame open-world zones from now on, although there might be a little more structure with goals that evolve over the course of weeks. "We are moving away from the dailies that we done in the past." Also, more discoverable stuff as people level up.
17:40: "Can we expect any real solutions to (bag/bank) storage problems?" Inventory management is gameplay. But… possibly a toy closet. Also, heirlooms will be like pets/mounts somehow.
19:50: "Do you think you can do better to prevent stacking ranged damage in raiding?" Yes… but not really. The problem is fundamental design: all the fun raid mechanics like movement and target switching are naturally easier done at range. We are looking at ways to make melee more valuable and more fun to play.
21:16: "When will gnomes appear in cinematics?" Funny story: gnomes were not in the original WoW cinematic because they were not even in the game until the cinematic already had a storyboard and was in full production mode. Beyond that, there simply hasn't been a particularly good time to show them off; all the subsequent cinematics have been to develop bosses of the expansion.
22:20: "5.4.1?" Yes. Major feature of the patch is a rework of the Recruit-A-Friend system. Supposedly more of it will be done in-game instead of game/email/web interface switching. Also, the reward will be a token you can use to choose from a menu of old/brand new mounts/pets.
23:37 – ????: Drink heavily.
Don't say I never did anything for you.
More People Equals More Content
While I want to talk more about Hearthstone, I also did not want this particular tidbit about WoW proper to be consigned to Draft Hell:
The team size has increased 40% and another 40% increase is planned, which will hopefully allow for a new content patch every month, a new raid tier every three to five months, and an annual expansion.
Now, this was just unattributed MMO-Champ paraphrasing, coming from some Gamescom interview. I made an effort to try and see if this was an exact quote by watching a few of the Gamescom interviews myself, but didn't see it anywhere. The statement was, however, "confirmed" in a roundabout way by Nethaera's response to the thread asking the obvious question of "If more people = faster content now, why not back then?" Neth's response was basically that circumstances changing doesn't retroactively make older statements a lie.
That is all well and good, but I seem to distinctly remember Ghostcrawler or somebody saying that more people = more cooks in the kitchen, some problems can't solved throwing more money at it
for everything else there's Mastercard, and so on. So, after some digging, I dusted off this interview with Ghostcrawler from October 2010, on the eve of Cataclysm's release:
Slashdot: A lot of players, when they hear you talk about how you didn't have time to make a feature good, their question is, "Well, why can't you just go out and hire more people?"
Greg Street: Yeah. The mythical man-month.
Slashdot: Can you explain why you don't find that to be a viable solution?
Greg Street: The other example that gets used a lot is: if it takes a woman nine months to have a baby, then if you have two women, it'd only take four and a half! Our development process is hugely based on iteration and communication. It's more important — for, say, class design and item design — it's more important for me to have a small team that's totally in sync than to have a large team and have no idea what anyone else is working on. We would end up with Hunter talents working one way, the Priest would work a different way, and it wouldn't feel polished. It wouldn't feel good to players. Often, when we say, "We didn't have time," players say, "You shipped it before it was ready." That's not the way we look at it.
The way we look at it is: we are extremely critical of our own designs. We have very long lists of things we want to fix in the game. Some of these things have been around forever, and some of the things are new that we just added recently. If we waited until we addressed every single one of those things, we would never ship anything. It would be years and years before games came out, and that's just not realistic. That's not what players want; they're not going to wait six years for a new expansion. So, instead, we do what we can and we keep other things on the back burner. We've got Paths — this great idea. A dance studio — we're going to do it some day. Just not yet. We're saving it for the right time.
It is not quite the smoking gun that I remembered in my head, although perhaps I had a different interview in mind. Or maybe it never existed. Regardless, I still think it is a legitimate question to ask "what exactly changed here?" Are the Blizzard devs less concerned about additional people and faster content leading to less polish? Did Titan getting scrapped free up some additional talent? Or is it simply the case that losing 4.4 million subscribers between October 2010 and today puts things like polish vs actual content into prospective? Given how the status quo a year ago was 8 months without a content patch, I am assuming it's the latter.
The interesting thing will be to see how "monthly content updates" are integrated with the game overall. Guild Wars 2 has their events every 2 weeks, for example, but I believe GW2 has a much lower emphasis on gear, story, and… well, things one might traditionally associate with RPGs in general. I feel like the dozens of daily quest hubs thing isn't going to work a second time around for WoW, but neither can Blizzard really afford to hand out gear upgrades mid-tier. Or maybe they will, and simply de-emphasize the sort of full tier/BiS gear game they have crafted all these years.
Either way, WoW is definitely veering off into some uncharted territory here – at least, uncharted for as large an MMO as it still is. I am much more interested in how this particular change with shake out, as opposed to the much more mundane F2P possibility.
Guild Wars 2 is Fastest Selling Western MMO
During my futile hunt for Hearthstone Beta keys (c'mon Press™, don't fail me now), I stumbled upon this GameBreaker.tv article about Guild Wars 2 sales:
With over 3 million units sold in the first nine months of availability, Guild Wars 2 is the fastest selling MMO ever in the western market.
That's no small feat right there. Riding a wave of acclaim and accolades, Guild Wars 2 has set a high bar for quality, and it has earned them a spot in MMORPG history according to an official ArenaNet press release. 3 million units sold in the game's first nine months of availability puts it at the top of the record books in Europe and North America according to DFC Intelligence, a strategic market research and consulting firm focused on interactive entertainment.
Technically, it may have been 3 million by January 2013. Either way, this news was mildly intriguing, considering how distant from GW2's actual release it came.
Still, it got me curious about some other numbers and figures. For example, here is an article from VG247 parsing the latest financials that indicate GW2 box sales are down. Which… shouldn't exactly be surprising given that that is exactly what happens with any box game, right? Then there is the admittedly anecdotal Digital Dozen feature that NoizyGamer puts out every Tuesday, measuring the Xfire hours logged. The latest pretty much show a 50% decline from December, but it's still roughly half that of WoW today, hour-wise. So, it is probably safe to say that the game's population is doing alright and ArenaNet deserves the accolades for its legitimate record-breaking, even if the timing is a bit PR-ish.
I was trying to find numbers on how WoW did by comparison back in the day, but it turns out Blizzard doesn't like giving out those numbers. The best I could find was this old article from 2009, which stated Blizzard sold 8.9 million retail boxes to date in the US alone. As point of reference, MMOData.net (thank god they're back) shows that halfway through 2009 the Western numbers were steady at ~5.25 million subscribers. There is no way to know the breakdown between US vs Europe, or even whether the numbers are even intelligible given how it counts both box and expansion sales, but there it is.
Just for giggles though: the 2010 census states there were 205,794,364 Americans aged 18-64. A Pew article says 62% of American adults aged 18+ owned a desktop circa mid-2009. If we do a bit of rounding (a couple ten thousand) and assume that every desktop computer could run WoW (no possible way that's remotely accurate), we have a pool of 127.6 million potential MMOers of which WoW reached… 6.98% of. Back in 2009.
Take away the people whose computers couldn't handle WoW and then further reduce by those who have no interest in RPGs (let alone online ones) and then the people with PCs but no broadband and… well, you can start to see why market saturation is/was a legitimate concern.
Facepalm of the Day
@Zerde3 I still struggle to understand wanting lots of alts but not having to play them as much as a main. Isn't that the point of an alt?—
Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) June 29, 2013
I mean… is it really so crazy to imagine that after 2000+ hours playing the same class/spec that a person might just possibly want to try something different? And, you know, not have to spend the exact same (or similar) amount of hours getting that different experience to the same content you wanted to spice up in the first place? I wanted to experience a different endgame when I rolled my alts, not a different leveling/gearing experience.
Does he really think Blizzard wouldn't bank $1 million overnight by offering paid class changes?
It just boggles my mind. One of your stated goals is to make each class and spec feel unique, and then you become baffled that people want to play more than one. I don't get it. Is this a joke?
Server Merges Are Coming
Blizzard is calling them "Connected Realms," but it occurs to me that in the future, any MMO dev can simply call their server merges "connected realms" to bypass the negative stigma surrounding the term. "We're not merging, we're connecting! Which is like merging, except with a hashtag!"
On a different note, this quote from the Connected Realms FAQ is a nice follow-up to yesterday's post (emphasis mine):
Connected Realms also allow us to link populations in a way that's not disruptive to players, and that doesn't negatively impact players' sense of identity and character. Other alternatives such as merging realms would require us to force character name changes if there were conflicts, and could lead to confusion for returning players who'd log in to find their realm missing from the realm list. Some players also feel strong ties to their realm's name or history, and we don't want to erase that.
Let me ask you something, and get ready to have your mind blown. What is a realm's name or history if not the collection of people in it? What is the difference between Auchindoun-US, the shit-hole I played on for 4+ years, and something like Stormrage-US, one of the highest-populated servers in WoW?
The people. That's it. Auchindoun's Lower City looks exactly the same as Stormrage's Lower City. Arthas looks the same, the mobs look the same, the resource spawns are the same, the quests are the same, every single thing is the same.
While the speed of opening the AQ Gates or whether there was a server first heroic Lich King kill before the expansion comes out differs depending on the server, that is simply due to – again – the people. The AQ gates are open everywhere. Deathwing is dead everywhere. Garrosh will be a raid boss everywhere soon. Remove the people, and every single MMO server is the same.
This is why I cock an eyebrow at "dynamic" and "emergent" anything. EQN is going to have StoryBrick AI in there somewhere. Cool… but is that going to mean Server A has a completely different ecology than Server B? If not, we must have radically different definitions of what those words mean. Player ecologies differ between servers of course, sometimes radically, and make the server distinctions worthwhile. But servers differing on the development side? As far as I know, that hasn't happened yet.
Anyway: server merges in WoW. Given how my friends bailed out of Auchindoun and to a PvE server during the half-price sale a while back, there is literally nothing to go back to. Should I ever desire to. For Press™ reasons. That $25 a pop price though… jesus. The suits over there sure like making the decision easy.
WoW Down Another 600k to 7.7m
If the same thing happens every three months, does it still count as news? WoW is down to 7.7m from 8.3m, a loss of 600k subscribers, meaning we are back into pre-2007 territory.
One of the more interesting facts, personally, was the resolution to the possible Vivendi fiasco. You know, the whole situation in which Vivendi was in the process of raiding Activision Blizzard's big piles of cash, potentially bringing a company with several billion-dollar franchises to its knees for no game-related reason? Oh, didn't hear about that before MMO-Champ casually talked about the stock buy-back with no context? I might suggest expanding your blogroll with the illustrious Nosy Gamer (or NoizyGamer, apparently), who has been following this particular series of power-plays since at least July 10th. Things could have turned out incredibly bad for Blizzard, and I imagine that the vast majority of even blog-aware people would have not known about it until the fan hit the shit.
Incidentally, NoizyGamer has been keeping up The Digital Dozen feature – tracking the top 12 MMOs based on XFire numbers – every week since the start of 2012. XFire is XFire, but it's pretty much all we have left at this point, inbetween quarterly reports. There is also a bunch of EVE posts and talk about EVE bots, but nobody is perfect ¹.
Anyway, there it is. Kinda interesting (and scary) to read about all the Machiavellian schemes going on inside the gaming industry, and realizing that good game companies fail all the damn time despite producing legitimately good titles. Say what you want about WoW's current direction, but I don't think anyone wants Blizzard to fold because some stock-holder in Europe has a bad credit rating; we want it to fail for real reasons, like raiding is too hard/easy, LFD exists, or because Ghostcrawler was mean to somebody on Twitter.
¹ Just kidding, the stuff about bots is pretty cool.
Comfort & Fashion
There is a saying that goes "Never let comfort interfere with fashion." Perhaps it's less of a saying and more an ironic reminder of how absurd human beings can get in the pursuit of arbitrary, ephemeral trends. Why anyone thinks high heels should be a thing, for example, I have no idea. Sure, some jiggly-bits are at a higher incline than normal, but my eyes are always drawn down to the barely-recognizable compressed foot nodules at the end of the legs. Can't we have the fashion and the comfort? Let's just make it fashionable to wear comfortable sneakers and call it a day already.
All these thoughts came to mind when I spied the following WoW PTR Patch 5.4 notes:
- Shield Wall no longer requires a shield. If the Warrior does not have a shield equipped, it will show a visual of an equipped shield.
- Spell Reflection no longer requires a shield. If the Warrior does not have a shield equipped, it will show a visual of an equipped shield.
Way back in November of 2011, I mentioned the ridiculousness that is/was warrior gameplay. Obviously the ridiculousness extended all the way back to Day 1 of WoW's release, but in 2011 there were a number of changes going on that made it feel like Blizzard was finally turning a corner. Most every warrior ability was tied to a specific Stance up to that point, but suddenly those restrictions were evaporating. "You can cast Spell Reflection in Arms stance!" And we cheered. And then realized you still needed a shield, and we sullenly took one line out of our macros before continuing browsing mice on Amazon with 12+ buttons on the side.
I am 100% convinced that, up to this point, Blizzard has required a shield for Spell Reflection (and Shield Wall for that matter) simply out of "fashion," e.g. no legitimate gameplay reason. I mean, it's one thing to include abilities/functionality that requires a high skill cap, or even an honest desire for certain skills to not be usable outside of certain scenarios. It is quite another when there is basically no possible way to utilize a button on your hotbar without having to support it with in-game scripts. No, seriously, just walk yourself through the steps necessary to cast Spell Reflection, and then compare that duration with the typical window in which the ability is useful… while keeping in mind that every PvP warrior is expressly balanced around judicious use of said ability.
I can understand their likely thought process here. "How are you reflecting the spell if not with a shield? And don't even try to tell me you don't need a shield for Shield Wall – it's in the name!" Okay, yeah, it is. But the whole thing is one big, convoluted mess that creates an enormous gulf between even so-so warriors and their macro'd peers. You can make one button that handles the whole gear-swap/ability use process in a way that the default game never could. While "anyone" can copy/paste the macro, at some point you need to ask yourself why its necessary in the first place. Tradition? Fashion? Because it sure as hell isn't for gameplay reasons.
Virtual Realms: Height of Cynicism
Alright, maybe Virtual Realms were the unannounced feature of 5.4. Or the tutorial zone, aka Proving Grounds. But, no, probably Virtual Realms:
New Feature: Virtual Realms
- Virtual Realms are sets of realms that are fused together, and will behave exactly as if they were one cohesive realm. Players on the same Virtual Realm will be able to join guilds, access a single Auction House, join arena teams and raids, as well run dungeons or group up to complete quests.
- Players belonging to the same Virtual Realm will have a (#) symbol next to their name.
I guess they finally solved that otherwise insurmountable naming problem, amirite?
@ConnorElsom If it was truly that simple, don't you think we would have done so? One tiny example: what if someone has your name already?—
Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) January 06, 2013
Anyway, there are two (other) reasons this announcement is the height of cynicism:
1) Server Merges by any other name.
I get it, you get it, we all get it. Actually saying "server merges" is a sign of the apocalypse and bad PR besides. Grouping several low-pop servers together "virtually" is putting lipstick on the pig of 1.3+ million subscriber losses in the last quarter. At some point though, it's just sad. You aren't fooling anyone with that ridiculous comb-over. Just shave your head and get it over with.
2) Aren't you glad you just spent $12.50+ server transferring?
I read the comments on my earlier post, regarding how things "usually go on sale before they are obsoleted." For as jaded and dour as I can be under normal circumstances, I generally have some minimum level of faith in humanity. Obvious displays of naked greed are actions that can still genuinely surprise me, even if I distrust the "altruism" of corporations as a rule.
But, Jesus Christ, did Blizzard just take a huge shit on their playerbase.
@Yasko89 Generally speaking, WoW has been successful because players enjoy playing it, not because we gouge them. Players see through that.—
Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) January 06, 2013
There was a running joke in the PlanetSide 2 community regarding something similar: Item of the Day. Usually, the deals are 50% off the Station Cash (i.e. RMT) price of some garbage item or another, including items that are way cheaper to purchase with Certs. Every now and then though, some recently-released gun or something will pop up, prompting a lot of sales. People always joked that whenever something good snuck its way into the rotation, that meant it was getting nerfed by next week. And the shitty thing? It usually did.
The assumption got so pervasive and accurate that Higby, one of the PlanetSide 2 devs, actually stepped in and rolled back a planned nerf to one of the vehicle weapons that had just went on sale. He assured the community that these sales are planned out 30 days in advance, that the sale/nerf cycle was just coincidence, but who can you really believe when it comes to capitalistic incentives?
That question is not so rhetorical anymore. It was not an accident that Blizzard put server transfers on sale for the first time in their 8+ year history a mere week before announcing (free) server merges. Maybe they see some distinction insofar as players can choose where they go versus leaving it up to random chance. It's still absolute bullshit though, because how many people would have bought a server transfer if the sale was this week, or next week? QED.
I mean, this is a new low that even EA hasn't achieved, not for lack of trying.


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Organic Boy's Clothes for Summer
June 25, 2010 by Brenda
Filed under Babies & Toddlers, Family, Top Picks
Here are some summer essential boy's organic clothes which your cheeky little man should be wearing.
Short Sleeve Organic Cotton Baby Vest – available from Dam Tam. This stripey vest would look good as it is or dressed up, perfect for throwing on your son on a hot day. Available in sizes newborn to 2-3 years. Price is £5.99.
Pili Pala Organic Cotton Childrenswear – available from Babipur. We're loving these bold and funky designs. A chocolate brown and lime green stripey jumpsuit that's just sooo cool. 86% organic cotton and 14% recycled velour makes this super soft and very hardwearing. Great for playing in the garden, at the beach or just at home. This jumpsuit comes with an organic cotton drawstring gift bag which makes it a lovely gift and it's great for carrying shopping or colouring books. Available in ages 12 months through to 5 years. Price is now £32.39.
Cornish Blue Towelling Hoody – available from Beaming Baby in sizes 0-24 months for £17.60.
Pirate Jack Jeans Organic Eco-Denim – available from twigs 4 kids in sizes 3-6 years for £24.
Organic Short Sleeve Robot T-Shirt – available from Bibaloo in sizes 6-24 months for £18.
Cheeky Check Shirt – available from Frugi in sizes 2-6 years for £22.
Eco Friendly Applique Boy's Summer Tee – available from Makes A Change in size 2-3 years for £8.99.
Organic Cotton Greenius T-Shirt – available from mia bambina in sizes 0-24 months for £9.99.
Organic Denim Boys Dungarees – available from Organic for your Kids in sizes 2-4 years for £28.
Expect the Best Tee – available from Cool Green Attitude in sizes 9-16 years for £14.
Happy Go Lucky Organic Top – available from fabulous kids in sizes 2-6 years for £17.99.
Blue Wide Stripe Trousers – available from DaisychainBaby in sizes 0-18 months for £14.
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iOS 5.1 Reportedly Set For Release On March 9th
Profiles are in the process of being pushed through to numerous mobile carriers selling Apple's iPhone appear to suggest the rather delayed release for iOS 5.1 could finally be happening on 9th March.
Those running the iPhone 4S should finally see any lingering battery issues eradicated, but after the 5.0.1 release failed to amend the problem, we'll wait for the hands-on before drawing any solid conclusions.
Moreover, our main point of focus lies with the introduction of a bunch of new improvements for Siri.
Considering Aperture for iOS
Gabe Glick over at Macstories has a proposal: Aperture for iOS.
On the surface, it sounds like a pretty silly idea — Apple's high end camera app is really made for a desktop environment, and with the hassle required to get high quality photos onto iOS devices, there really isn't a point bringing Aperture over to a platform like the iPad.
But Glick, though he agrees with the naysayers to a certain extent, is willing to take the opposite position. He says that he thinks Aperture is coming to the iPad with the announcement (expected sometime this year) of the iPad 3.
Macroscalar Processors: The Next Big Thing in iOS Devices?
Apple's, nearly 1000 member strong, in-house processor design team is really working hard on speeding up Macs and iOS devices.
Patently Apple reports that Apple filed a trademark application for the term "Macroscalar" in the US and Hong Kong. The term concerns microprocessors found on computers, more specifically, it refers to a type of architecture for processors that Apple is developing.
Apple, as MacRumors points out, typically gets their trademarks first registered in countries like Trinidad and Tobago, and only after it releases a product does it apply for trademarks in countries like the US. And indeed, a trademark application for the term "Macroscalar" was filed in Trinidad and Tobago August last year.
What I Want From The Next iPad
The third addition to Apple's market-leading tablet series is, according to speculation, not too far away, with Chinese manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron said to be working around the clock to produce the numbers in time for a purported March release.
With the release apparently so nearly upon us, there's been much talk about what we should and shouldn't be expecting with the device, which we'll rather cautiously presume to be called the iPad 3.
But we don't have to cast our minds back too far to remember that as plausible and supposedly cast in stone something may seem, unless there is an official word, nothing is certain.
As such, I've put together a list of the key features I would personally like brought forth with the iPad 3.
iPad 3 To Debut In March On Back Of An Unusual Apple Event In February [REPORT]
If fresh reports from Japanese news site Macotakara are to be believed, then the much anticipated iPad 3 tablet will be released towards the end of March, making it pretty much twelve months since the launch of the iPad 2.
The blog is reporting that Apple will hold a media event sometime at the beginning of March to no doubt announce the new product and release the specifications and pricing models.
It seems as if Foxconn and Pegatron have begun production of the next generation tablet, with Foxconn picking up approximately 85% of the manufacturing load.


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Naughty Dog has stated that they refused suggestions to remove Ellie, the main female character in The Last Of Us from the game's box artwork.
The Last Of Us creative director Neil Druckmann confessed in a recent interview that there had been discussions about the prominence of Ellie on the cover of the game box and the possibility of pushing her to the back in favour of the male main character Joel.
The voice of Ellie, Ashley Johnson also weighed in on the conversation. She began, "I feel like they don't put women on the covers because they're afraid that it won't sell. It's all gamers really know - and I don't want to be sexist by any means - but I get the feeling, generally, that they think game's won't sell as well with a woman on the cover, compared to some badass dude on the front."
"I agree with what Ashley said," Druckmann added. "I believe there's a misconception that if you put a girl or a woman on the cover, the game will sell less. I know I've been in discussions where we've been asked to push Ellie to the back and everyone at Naughty Dog just flat-out refused."
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Anything relatively close to the Orpheum that stands out? We're open to about anything with great food and unpretentious.
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You will need:
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Mix together and cleanse the skin gently in a circular motion starting at the chin and up to the forehead. Rinse with warm water.
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The AHAs and vitamin C found in oranges have been clinically proven to prevent fine lines and decrease wrinkles.
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Blue Raider Network PersonnelAugust 23, 2008 ·
Chip Walters
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Chip Walters begins his 18th season in the booth for Middle Tennessee and his first as the "Voice of the Blue Raiders." Walters, who spent the previous six years as a color analyst for football, took over the play-by-play duties for football and men's basketball in April 2009.
Walters holds the third-longest tenure for Middle Tennessee broadcasters behind only the late Monte Hale and current women's basketball and baseball broadcaster Dick Palmer.
In addition to these duties, Walters hosts the Rick Stockstill and Kermit Davis television shows and radio shows, emcees various Blue Raider events, and is the host of the Two-Minute Drill on GoBlueRaiders.com. Walters also sells corporate sponsorships for Nelligan Sports Marketing.
Walters, who held the position of director of Public and Media Relations for the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration for six years, served as the marketing and promotions director at Middle Tennessee from 1993 to 2003. The Columbia, Tenn., native worked to expand Middle Tennessee's overall corporate sponsorship program while overseeing the entire Blue Raider Network, coaches television shows, and gameday publications.
Prior to working for Middle Tennessee, Walters worked several jobs in sports broadcasting including serving as sports director of the Tennessee Radio Network from 1986 to 1991. Walters called play-by-play for minor league baseball affiliate the Nashville Sounds and did freelance television work for WNAB and WSMV.
Dick Palmer
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Dick Palmer is in his 28th season of calling the play-by-play action of Middle Tennessee basketball. Palmer, a 1960 graduate of Middle Tennessee, has been broadcasting sporting events for the past 50 years and ended a 25-year run in 2005 of calling Blue Raider football.
From 1971 until his return to Murfreesboro, Palmer was the voice of the Memphis Blues Class AA baseball team, the Memphis Pros (later the Tams) in the American Basketball Association, and the Memphis Grizzlies in the World Football League.
Earlier, he worked in Jackson, TN, for nine years, broadcasting a wide range of high school sports, as well as Union University's basketball games.
Palmer, who co-hosted the first sports call-in show in Nashville during the mid-70s, was the studio host for Vol Network Football Broadcasts for five years and has called the TSSAA Basketball State Tournament on the Tennessee Sports Radio Network every year since 1982.
A little league baseball coach for over 40 years, Palmer has enjoyed a long career with Palmer Wholesale. Palmer and his wife DeLois have three sons, Richard, Mike, and Jon, and one granddaughter, Kaitlyn.
Kelly Holcomb
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Kelly Holcomb, a 1994 graduate of MTSU, is beginning his second season as a member of the Blue Raider Network. A 15-year veteran of the NFL, Holcomb will serve as the color analyst for the Blue Raider Network during football season.
Holcomb was a member of the television announce team for the 2008 Blue Cross Bowl for Comcast, and also served on the as a commentator for the Music City Bowl Preview Show.
Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tenn., before signing with the Blue Raiders in 1991. A four-year starter for the Blue Raiders, Holcomb set nearly every passing record at MTSU before heading to the NFL.
In his career, Holcomb played for the Colts, Browns, Bills, Eagles, and Vikings. Holcomb owns one of the most memorable passing performances in NFL history when he threw for a record 429 yards in a Wild Card game against Pittsburgh.
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Football Pregame and Postgame Shows
Abraham and Hickey will host the Wendy's Countdown to Kickoff prior to each game while Palmer and Hickey will take care of the postgame.
Palmer and Hickey, both MT alums, are veterans of Blue Raider broadcasts with Palmer having nearly 30 years behind the microphone while Hickey is in his seventh season of work. The duo works together during basketball season as they bring the exciting action of Lady Raider basketball to fans across the midstate. Palmer also handles play-by-play for Blue Raider baseball. The veteran broadcaster has handled numerous assignments throughout the years, including MT football and men's basketball, minor league baseball with the Memphis Blues, ABA basketball with the Memphis Tams, and WFL football with the Memphis Southmen.
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Compressing Web Content with mod_gzip and mod_deflate
The mod_gzip module is available for both Apache 1.3.x and Apache 2.0.x.[3], and it can be compiled into Apache as a dynamic shared object (DSO) or as a static module. The compilation for a DSO is simple; from the uncompressed source directory, perform the following steps as root:
make APXS=/path/to/apxs make install APXS=/path/to/apxs /path/to/apachectl graceful
mod_gzip must be loaded last in the module list, as Apache 1.3.x processes content in module order, and compression is the final step performed before data is sent. mod_gzip installs itself in the httpd.conf file, but it is commented out.
A basic configuration for mod_gzip in the httpd.conf should include:
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime \ ^application/postscript$ mod_gzip_item_exclude mime \ ^application/x-javascript$ mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*$ mod_gzip_item_exclude file \ \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$
This allows PostScript files to be GZIP-encoded, while not compressing PDF files. PDF files should not be compressed; doing so leads to problems when attempting to display the files in Adobe Acrobat Reader. To be even more careful, you may want to exclude PDF files explicitly from being compressed:
mod_gzip_item_eclude mime ^application/pdf$
The mod_deflate module for Apache 2.0.x is included with the source for this server, which makes compiling it into the server rather simple:
./configure --enable-modules=all \ --enable-mods-shared=all --enable-deflate make make install
With mod_deflate for Apache 2.0.x, the GZIP encoding of documents can be enabled in one of two ways: explicit exclusion of files by extension or explicit inclusion of files by MIME type. These methods are specified in the httpd.conf file. Explicit exclusion looks like:
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE DeflateFilterNote ratio SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ \ no-gzip dont-vary SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \ \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ \ no-gzip dont-vary SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary
Explicit inclusion looks like:
DeflateFilterNote ratio AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/* AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/ms* \ application/vnd* application/postscript
In the explicit exclusion method, the same exclusions are present as in the mod_gzip file, namely images and PDF files.
If your site uses dynamic content—XSSI, CGI and the like—nothing special needs to be done to compress the output of these modules. As mod_gzip and mod_deflate process all outgoing content before it is placed on the wire, all content from Apache that matches either the MIME types or the file extensions mapped in the configuration directives is compressed.
The output from PHP, the most popular dynamic scripting language for Apache, also can be compressed in one of three possible ways: using the built-in output handler, ob_gzhandler; using the built-in ZLIB compression; or using one of the Apache compression modules. Configuring PHP's built-in compression is simply a matter of compiling PHP with the --with-zlib configure option and then reconfiguring the php.ini file.
Below is what the output buffer method looks like:
output_buffering = On output_handler = ob_gzhandler zlib.output_compression = Off
The ZLIB method uses:
output_buffering = Off output_handler = zlib.output_compression = On
The output buffer method produces marginally better compression, but both methods work. The output buffer, ob_gzhandler, also can be added on a script-by-script basis, if you do not want to enable compression across the entire site.
If you do not want to reconfigure PHP with ZLIB enabled, the Apache compression modules can compress the content generated by PHP. I have configured my server so that Apache modules handle all of the compression, and all pages are compressed in a consistent manner, regardless of their origin.
Can compressed content be cached? The answer is an unequivocal yes. With mod_gzip and mod_deflate, Apache sends the Vary header, indicating to caches that this object differs from other requests for the same object based on certain criteria—user-agent, character set and so on. When a compressed object is received by a cache, it notes that the server returned a Vary: Accept-Encoding response. This response indicates it was generated based on the request containing the Accept-Encoding: gzip header.
Caching compressed content can lead to a situation where a cache stores two copies of the same document, one compressed and one uncompressed. This is a design feature of HTTP 1.1, and it allows clients with and without the ability to receive compressed content to benefit from the performance enhancements gained from local proxy caches.
I had no idea you could do
I had no idea you could do this. Should come in handy as I don't have much bandwidth at the moment and am hosting a few large images and zips. Only concern would be extra CPU load.
Great article, thank you for
Great article, thank you for sharing.
Article about mod_deflate settings like on Amazon EC2 AMI
Nice Work!
A great and informative article!
Really helped me!!
It's really a great artical and really helped me. One question from myside is..
Is there anyway of copressing .tiff files by using mod_gzip??
Plz help me, if anyone has idea about the same.
Thanks in advance..
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I read your article.The things you have written sound very sincere and nice topics i am looking forward to its continuation.
Re: Compressing Web Content
good article summarizing the methods and benefits of compressing web pages. however, you should touch on the difficulty of using mod_gzip with mod_ssl under apache 1.3.x -- this is a cumbersome issue and there are only workaround solutions. one such is to use a mod_proxy frontend virtual server to buffer the ssl request, and a mod_gzip backend virtual server to handle the compression. more detail on this two stage approach is here:
i have implemented the above method on a few production servers and it does indeed work, with some caveats.
i believe that i read somewhere that apache 2.x had improved handling of the gzip/ssl pairing. not having played with 2.x i'm not in a position to say whether or not it actually works. perhaps someone could comment on this.
At what cost to the CPU
Great article! I enjoyed reading it and found it very informative. One question though...
What will this module do to my CPU? Will the load average on my box go through the roof everytime I need to send out a compressed webpage? I think this would have been a nice point to look at as part of your article.
Really helped me!!
It's really a great artical and really helped me. One question from myside is..
Is there anyway of copressing .tiff files by using mod_gzip??
Plz help me, if anyone has idea about the same.
Thanks in advance..
compressing .tiff files
To compress TIFF files, simply remove the following exlusion for images from the above example configuration:
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*$
Also, add the .tif file extension in the file inclusions:
mod_gzip_item_include file \.(tif)$
Please let me know if you add this because I'd like to test a browser implementation against it. Thanks.
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A journal can cut a wide swath. You can write about any and everything in your journal. From the price of tomatoes to your concerns about the daily bombing taking place in Israel, from how well your flowers grow to what predicament your business is in, there is a place for all in your journal.
We've already talked about using more than one type of journal at a time. And, there are some pretty compelling reasons for doing so. One of the most important reasons is for the sake of ease. Rather than looking back through your personal journal for information concerning your business it is much easier to simply maintain a business journal.
Whether you're keeping multiple journals or not there are 3 major journal modes of which you should be aware. By knowing what they are and how they work you will be better served by your journal – or journals.
To some, the perception of diary keeping or journal writing begins and ends with this mode. They think if you write in a journal it is all about you, you, you or me, me, me.
And there is some substance to what they think.
After all, whatever you write about in your journal is from your unique point of view.
What those folks may have failed to consider is the subtle, behind the scenes personal enhancement achieved though long term journal writing. That isn't even considering the fact that there are times when the personal enhancement is not so subtle and not so long term, but glaring and quickly achieved.
Take my friend, Sarah, as an example. She can name numerous ways her journal has been useful in seeing her through the hard times, allowing her to gain a measure of control and in her words, "saved my sanity." And recently, she decided to up the ante. She set a goal of losing 20 pounds in a few months. With hard work, and the benefits inherent in using her journal to work through the process she reached her goal and reports it was easier than any other time she had been in a weight loss quest. Further, she's decided to use the same techniques to go for another 20 pound loss. Yea, Sarah!
And yes, your journal can be your most powerful self-enhancement tool.
Community or Organization
This mode is all about how you relate in the world beyond your four walls. Of course, this mode is built on relationship, but it doesn't stop there. When using this mode your journal concerns will focus on your efforts as well as those of others with whom you're associated. It could be you belong to a service organization or some other type of club. It might be the community of people with whom you gather to worship or the non-profit organization you lead or serve within. And, you may be surprised to learn this mode also includes your job.
When using this mode within the pages of your journal you will be including more references to we, we, we than me, me, me. Your concerns will deal with the success and achievements of your community or organization.
Some of the items written about in this mode include the fund raising efforts of your club, the latest project your boss has assigned you and your team, ideas to build membership, service projects as well as information about the history or functions of your community or organization.
In this mode, you may find a better way to work through a process or you may find a solution to a problem which involves a change of attitude on your part.
Helping your Community or Organization grow is more easily achieved when your journal is part of the equation.
The reason Business has a mode of its own is because your business is a separate entity from you. And, as a business owner myself I know that can be a hard pill to swallow. Yet, the mode of business is best served by keeping that fundamental truth in mind.
While you should be growing as a person while you are growing your business there is a time to focus fully on the business as a body which has its own being. And, not unlike you a business will have good days and bad days. By using your journal as a tool to enhance your understanding of your business, you will also be using your journal as a tool to enhance your business. It doesn't matter if yours is a part-time or full-time business, taking time to write about it will aid your business in achieving more, more quickly.
Some of the things you can include when writing in the business mode are your goals for specific time frames such as annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily. Also write about actions taken and their importance. Include information concerning what it will take to improve your performance in the future.
By writing in your journal you can often discover ways to be flexible, to pivot in ways which will enhance your business beyond, beside or in spite of the plans you've already made.
And on a related note
Shhhh, don't tell anyone, but we've been busy around here preparing a brand new guided journal which will be just for business owners and professionals who are ready to take action, move ahead and up their game. It should be ready soon and, of course, I'll let you know when it is available.
Try this:
- When you next write in your journal be aware of which mode you are in.
- Take note (in your journal, of course) if what you are writing will enhance your personal life, your community or organization, or your business.


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The man accused of exposing himself to teenage girls on their way to school Thursday morning is in Mercer County Jail.
Justin Fay Moore, 23, of 8230 Drake Stateline Road, Burghill, was arraigned Friday on charges of indecent exposure and corruption of minors before District Justice Dennis M. Songer, Sharon.
Moore, who had turned himself in to Sharon police, failed to post $50,000 straight bond at his arraignment and was taken to Mercer County Jail.
Police said Moore exposed himself at about 7:15 a.m. to three girls walking near Linden Street and Jefferson Avenue and about a half hour later to two girls at Meek Street and Fourth Avenue.
Police quickly got a description and later used a description of the minivan and its license tag to locate the suspect and question him at his home.
Moore has a preliminary hearing set for 9:45 a.m. Sept. 27 before Songer.


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How Zynga Recruits, Screens and Keeps Great People
"Leaders of great companies that go from good to great start not with "where" but with "who." They start by getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats."
Colleen McCreary is a seasoned veteran with over a decade of experience in shaping and staffing some of the largest companies. She has a strong focus on creating a culture of creative people with a strong emphasis on keeping them well motivated and happy. Her manta, "If you don't like it, make it better for someone else" resonates within Zynga and is a significant factor why Zynga's games are so popular. She structured the entire diversity initiative for a university relations program for EA and also spent 7 years as a Microsoft senior technical recruiter. In her talk titled, "How to recruit, screen and keep great talent", Colleen walks through common issues companies have while they are growing and key issues that can make or break them.
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Allschwil, Switz...
In a movie I had seen an actress with such a dress and I loved it immediately. The teacher of our sewing class made the pattern for me and I went out to buy silk… I got a soft and really nice black silk fabric with which the whole anger started ;) The fabric was extremely slippery and difficult to cut, sew, handle that I started to hate this project. When I was done I wasn't sure about the result, but I wore it anyway and got a lot of compliments for it.
The pattern was easy but the fabric difficult to handle.
Feb 1, 2013, 05.32 PMby clementine75
This dress is so beautiful ! I love it !!
Feb 1, 2013, 05.39 PMby peipe
Thank you – Merci beaucoup!
Feb 1, 2013, 07.02 AMby MojoHollz
It looks great! I have wokred with a silk like that, such a pain! But the fabric is so gorgeous, your is fabulous! I bet it looked great on you :)
Feb 1, 2013, 07.49 AMby peipe
Thanks – I am glad hearing that others also had problems with that fabric. It looks great indeed, but I will probably never again use "slippery-silk". ;)
Jan 31, 2013, 09.46 PMby ariation
It's beautiful! Good job!
Feb 1, 2013, 07.47 AMby peipe
Thank you!
Jan 31, 2013, 09.35 PMby Mary Athey
Its lovely.and.i know what.you,mean about this type.of fabric. Its worth the effort though as.the dress.is fab x
Feb 1, 2013, 07.47 AMby peipe
Thank you – I think I've never been more relieved after I finished a project. During the process I even thought about throwing it away. This pattern is so much easier than the red dress you commented on too, but the fabric made the big difference.
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I normally heave a sigh of relief when I manage to finish a difficult item as well.the sence of achievement in finishing.though is great. I still.have some.half finished items though that I gave up.on!! Theres always another day to finish them lol x
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"Americans in Tuscany ..."
... the rest is the usual set: gorgeous man falls for an intelligent woman. But SEP gives them 10 hours to finally let them fall into each others arms. Hours of funny dialogues, passionate encounters and lots of Italian food! Kate Fleming at it's best.
The book suffers from quite a number of flaws: Unlikeable characters, not character development, either brutal or cheesy with no immediate effect on the story but just for the sake of it. The plot drags on and on with no real highlight and has a predictable end. Also, the frequently used IT terms got on my nerves. - It's an author's job to do research but I don't want to read about it in the finished book.
I liked the narration a lot and it definitely helped me to finish the book.
"nothing too exciting"
Well equipped young man and many, many women. There is not much more to say.
Interesting and highly entertaining interpretation of Shakespeare's play. No comparison to the lines we all had to read in school!
Richard Armitage's reading is phenomenal: Listening to him is a sensual experience.
"good but predictable"
The plot starts out quite well and having listened to "A Conflict of Interest" only recently I could easily get into the story or rather its setting. However, the characters remained mostly superficial and it was soon predictable who the bad guys were. As long as the plot was tightly woven with turns and twists this wouldn't be too bad, however, there was not much unforeseeable twisting and turning here.
Don't get me wrong: It is still an enjoyable listen, but Mitzner set the bar with "A Conflict of Interest" so high that I am actually disappointed. I'm missing depths and character development in this story, it seems as if the author was in a hurry to produce a sequel to his first hit.
As to the narration: It was no comparison to David LeDoux's excellent performance in "A Conflict of Interest." Collins performed rarely in favour of the story but more often he overdid it which made it strenuous to liste to.
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I enjoyed this one a lot, in fact I stopped early at red lights to make sure I could listen a bit longer! Some of the plot was foreseeable but there where many minor twists and turns that kept the book at a very good pace. It's not a thriller in the typical sense, but that's nice for a change, and you get more character development here. Looking forward to the next book from this author.
Excellent narration.
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I enjoyed the last instalment of the series even more than the first one. I skipped the second book due to the reviews here and which obviously is really not necessary to be read. Again, the narrative style of using two characters helps a lot to keep the - admittedly simple romantic story - interesting.
Narration is well done.
Thin plot, poor narration style and a weak narrator: I was happy when the book finally ended. Can't recommend this one.
"one of the better romance novels"
However, at times the female lead character got on my nerves, she did some childish things. That made him the more so a loveable hero though.
Narration is OK but not outstanding.
"highly recommendable"
Enjoyed this one a lot. The male point of view makes for a nice twist, gives more room to experiment.
Narration is excellent. - Looking forward the next book in the series.
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Juice fasting is a popular means of quick weight loss solution. Unfortunately, weight loss from fasting is not a long-term solution and most people gain weight back soon after returning to solid food. Rejoice by Natural Ways, is a liquid supplement used during a 48 hour fast. That means the dieter will intake nothing aside from Rejoice for two days. This could reduce metabolism enough to cause faster weight gain after the Rejoice fasting phase is over.
Natural Ways supports online ordering and offers contact information for consumers to ask questions about products and orders. The ingredients for Rejoice are not listed on the official website. We could not find the product for sale from other retailers.
List of Ingredients
Wild Berry Concentrate with Fibersol.
Product Features
We know from the picture of the product label that Natural Ways Rejoice is a berry concentrate. The product description lists Fibersol as an ingredient, but no other ingredients are listed. We can assume there is a long list of berry concentrates, which will cause a laxative effect. Fruit concentrates are commonly sold for detox, cleansing and fasting.
The trouble with fasting for weight loss or colon cleansing is the detrimental effect on metabolism and resulting hunger. The dieter suddenly stops eating food and consumes only a small portion of a berry concentrate a few times every day. The juice will cause increased bowel movements and diuretic effects and the scale will move down, but that effect is a moot point as the weight will return as soon as solid foods are consumed.
Fibersol is a source of fiber. Fiber is known to have appetite suppressing effects, which is likely why this ingredient is included in Rejoice. Fiber slows the digestive process causing food in the stomach to stay put until the fiber moves through the intestines. This is a great benefit of fiber, but it will not work if no food is consumed.
Rejoice likely contains high sugar content. Diabetics should not take a fasting product like Rejoice without reading the label and total carbohydrate content first. One shot of Rejoice could spike blood glucose levels causing illness or medical emergency for some diabetics. But, this is assuming there is sugar in the product.
Rejoice sells for $18.71.
- May increase bowel movements.
- Fasting is not a safe weight loss choice.
- Extreme hunger could result.
- Fiber will not curb hunger is food is not consumed.
Rejoice is just another berry concentrate used as a natural laxative. The dieter could easily consume a large quantity of apple juice and gain the same effect. There are likely healthy antioxidants in the berries, but that is not the main reason for including them in the formula.


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Dreamed up by four foodie friends, this self-styled 'part-time squatters' restaurant' is camped in Manze's old pie and mash shop on Islington's Chapel Market. Inside, the long dining room with its handsome Victorian tiling and low-hanging lights has generated quite a buzz with the 'kooksters' who pack its high-backed wooden booths to share stylish plates of seasonal game and fish over corkage-free BYO bottles of wine. The three-course menu (£30) changes weekly: on our visit, plump mussels came nicely accentuated by a sprightly leek and horseradish sauce, while tender venison haunch with redcurrant jus and triple-cooked chips provided a moreish combination of sweet and salt tones. To finish, an inspired, soufflé-like sponge with a marshmallow centre and a salted caramel was a plate-licking homage to the Mars bar. If you don't mind the offbeat, 'make do and mend' approach, there's much to applaud here.
Seagrass opens up Wednesday to Saturday evenings from 7pm taking over the premises of the old pie and mash shop, Manzes. It sits on the run down Chapel Market in Islington and is a wash away from anywhere you would expect to be sitting down for a three-course meal, but after all this is Islington. They operate only one menu, three courses for £30...
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