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Did I mention that the A's are playing the Astros starting on Friday? They could use some Houston-style cooking, hopefully after they polish off the Boomstick.
Speaking of food, there is a great feature on MiLB.com about minor league foods. If you haven't had a chance to catch an MiLB game, you should. Not only do you find some unique foods, but it's a great way to spend a lazy afternoon knocking down some beers and seeing some organization's young talent. Or a no-hitter against the Ports, if you're me and go to Lancaster to catch them on Mothers' Day.
Someone else is also fond of Texas food:
@susanslusser I'm not sure what will be the death of me in Texas - the heat, or those prepackaged press box cookies— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) May 21, 2013
As far as yesterday's game is concerned, the A's could have done more:
"You get frustrated during the game at some of the opportunities when you leave some guys on," manager Bob Melvin said, "but we continued to fight through the at-bats the whole game; it was good."
The A's collected 15 hits, six for extra bases, beginning with Seth Smith's solo homer in the second inning. In the fifth, Coco Crisp, Yoenis Céspedes and Brandon Moss doubled to highlight a four-run rally.
Colon, however, did all that he could while he is still in his 30s:
Asked about any drop-off this year following Colon's suspension, Melvin said, "We've been monitoring that pretty closely, watching the velocity. Everything seems to be similar. So, no, he looks the same to me."
There wasn't a thought to let Colon pitch the eighth inning even though he needed 95 pitches to get through seven.
"He's 40," Melvin said, "and we want to try to get him through the season. Anything over 100 for me is starting to get a little uncomfortable. And to give us seven and just short of 100 is just terrific."
Cue "He's a man" jokes here starting Sunday
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Any sportsman will tell you that two dogs find more birds than one dog.
~ Er M. Shelley, Bird Dog Training Today and Tomorrow, 1921
It seems that hunters and field trialers have commonly had two dogs on the ground at the same time for a long, long time. And for good reasons. Not only is the whole thing more productive but it truly is the epitome in working pointing dogs. Finding a bird dog on point while another backs is a beautiful sight.
Even though the noun "brace" has many meanings—from clamp and support beam, to things medical, mathematical, musical and nautical—for us, the key definition is "a pair of like things." Hunting two or more bird dogs together is a brace.
Whether handled by the same or a different person, there are several considerations when bracing dogs. Chief among them is that not just any two dogs will make a good brace.
Good brace mates.
• The dogs should hunt independently yet be cognizant of what the other is doing so both can get in on any bird work.
• It's perfect if one dog ranges wider and one is closer so more ground is covered more thoroughly.
• Easy handling dogs are best. At a minimum, one should be an experienced, almost automatic dog.
• The dogs must back their brace mates on point.
Bad brace mates.
• Competitive dogs are difficult in a brace. Some dogs are even more competitive to a specific dog.
• Two young males braced together can become quite a kerfuffle.
• Some dogs pay more attention to the other dog than to their task.
• When the same dogs are hunted together frequently, one might depend on the other to find birds and is content to back.
Another consideration.
Two dogs will not only cover more ground but they'll usually do it at a faster pace than if run singly. They might tire more quickly—which then might require more dogs to hunt the same amount of time.
How to know what dogs brace well together? Try them!
Puppies can be born in any month, or course, but certain times of the year are preferable.
In the realm of field trial competition, the opportune season is winter, and the earlier the better. When competing as a derby (up to about two years of age), the theory is that those dogs have a maturity advantage over those born later.
Jerry and I don't compete at championship levels any more so timing isn't as crucial. It is ideal to have puppies old enough so they can be introduced to the grouse woods in their first year.
But there is much about breeding and timing of litters that is out of control of the breeders. The major issue is the heat cycle of the dam. Too, depending on the chosen sire of a litter, geography could be challenging and either chilled or frozen semen could be necessary.
2014 has been an anomaly for Jerry and me as, here it is mid August, and we have just whelped two litters. We're thrilled that both dams and all puppies are healthy and we're excited about the potential of the puppies. In addition, litters out of Northwoods Carly Simon by Blue Riptide and CH I'm Blue Gert by Northwoods Grits are now seven and five weeks of age, respectively, and are maturing very nicely into tiny dogs.
Jerry and I received horrific, heart-breaking news from North Dakota. During the morning of Saturday, August 9, Ridge Creek Cody and several other dogs drowned while on a conditioning run from a four-wheeler. Cody was owned by Larry Brutger of St. Cloud, Minnesota, and trained and handled by Shawn Kinkelaar on the horseback shooting dog circuit.
Nine other dogs perished including 6X CH/7X RU-CH Hot Topic, 2X CH Royal Rocks Mr. Thumper and Handsome Harry Hardcash.
Ridge Creek Cody was whelped in 2008 out of two grouse champions, Can't Go Wrong x Houston's Belle. Paul Hauge, Belle's owner, and Jerry were the brains behind the breeding. Jerry had competed against Can't Go Wrong on the grouse trial circuit and was extremely impressed with his fluid gait and extraordinary ability to find and point ruffed grouse. Too, Jerry campaigned Belle to all of her championships and knew her strengths.
We both remember the day Larry picked up Cody as an eight-week-old puppy. As little Cody romped around the kennel office, Larry talked of his plans for training and competition. That first year, Jerry took Cody to our camp in North Dakota and worked him on the vast prairies. Matt Eder further developed Cody but it was Shawn Kinkelaar who took on Cody and fully realized the dog's potential.
Cody was a 3X champion and one-time runner-up champion.
2014: Midwest Open Shooting Dog Championship
2012: National Amateur Pheasant Shooting Dog Championship
2011: Idaho Open Shooting Dog Championship
2011: All American Open Shooting Dog Championship (Runner-up)
In addition, Cody was the Bill Conlin Setter Shooting Dog Derby Award Winner (2009-2010) and placed third in the United States Quail Shooting Dog Futurity, a rare accomplishment for a setter.
Among trainers, handlers, judges and fellow competitors, all agreed that Cody had supreme athleticism—a skill level on par with Michael Jordan or LeBron James.
Cody had become an extremely popular sire and his progeny were just starting to be recognized. Jerry and I bred Northwoods Chardonnay (Blue Shaquille x Houston's Belle's Choice, 2009) to Cody in 2013. We've stayed in contact with most of the puppy buyers and trained five, even though the clients are near and far. It was a stellar litter.
• Piper: owned by Larry's friend Chuck Brandes, St. Cloud
• Willow: Gregg Knapp, Wisconsin
• Charlie: Bill Owen, California
• Zada: Tom Condon, Montana
• Stoeger : Drew Milles, Minnesota
• Mazie: Scott Harness, Minnesota
• Rae: David Larson, Minnesota
That Cody was a rare champion with desire and ability is obvious but when he stayed with Larry, he was a cool, calm house dog.
What a tragic loss—not only to the Brutger's and not only to the field trial world where a valiant competitor is respected but to the English setter world at large.
Our sympathies to Larry and his family. RIP Cody.
The Washington Post recently published an interesting story, "What our cats and dogs say about our politics," by Aaron Blake. Together with The Post's Graphics Editor Christopher Ingraham and data from the American Veterinary Medical Association, Blake discovered a remarkable similarity between dog vs. cat states and conservative vs. liberal states.
In other words, the dog vs. cat map of the country looks much like the red vs. blue map of the 2012 election.
In a related piece on Wonkblog, Roberto A. Ferdman and Ingraham (who also previously worked at the Brookings Institution and the Pew Research Center) extrapolate further:
"We all know there are only two types of people in the world: cat people and dog people. But data from market research firm Euromonitor suggest that these differences extend beyond individual preferences and to the realm of geopolitics: it turns out there are cat countries and dog countries, too."
I don't know the political leanings of many of our clients but, obviously, I do know that all are dog people. Further, a large percentage live with multiple numbers of dogs. While the initial intent was upland bird hunting, these dogs of our clients live, for the most of the year, as beloved pets.
Many thanks to my friend Jan Streiff for telling me about this story. She is a cat person but has grown quite fond of our dogs.
Jerry and I feel fortunate that for the vast majority of our 20 years of breeding, dams have gone into labor, whelped puppies and everything turns out fine. We've never lost a dam and very few puppies have died.
But some times things don't go exactly right. On the morning of Friday, July 11, we knew CH I'm Blue Gert was in early stages of whelping her litter by Northwoods Grits but we didn't see any contractions. We were concerned and, after a consultation with our vet, we brought Gert in. A cesarean section was necessary and six puppies—three females and three males—were delivered. But things were still tough. One male died within minutes of being born and the other two males died within 24 hours.
Thankfully, Gert pulled through surgery in good shape and is a model mother to her all-female, wiggly, vigorous litter. Two puppies are tri-color and one is orange-and-white.
Across the aisle, Northwoods Carly Simon is still busy caring for her large brood of eight puppies, now about four weeks old. They were quite precocious in terms of moving about the whelping nest so we removed the divider and opened the dog door to the outside. Within minutes, puppies had scampered out the door.
It is fairly difficult to tell puppies apart in this litter as all are tri-color and have evenly marked dark heads, like both their dam and sire, Blue Riptide.
At six weeks of age, the puppies are out of Northwoods Grits x Houston's Belle's Choice are the eldest and seem quite mature in comparison. They are completely weaned, eat dry dog food exclusively and drink water out of a big-dog water bucket.
When evening chores are finished, Jerry and I take them out for short walks in a pasture of buttercups and clover or play with them on freshly mown grass outside the kennel. They are at their roly-poly-cutest now, all round tummies and white furry bodies.
The standings for the national English setter awards for all field trial venues were recently announced in The American Field. It was nice to see every dog honored but especially gratifying for Jerry and me was the inclusion of dogs that we bred. In addition, one dog Paul Hauge bred out of his Houston and one dog of Sean Derrig's were honored.
2X CH Houston's Blue Diamond, owned and handled by Ross Leonard, won the John S. O'Neall, Jr., English Setter Amateur Shooting Dog Award. Placing fifth in the standings was CH/RU-CH Houston's Blackjack. He is owned by Frank LaNasa and Leroy Peterson, both of Minnesota, and handled by Frank.
For the fourth year in a row, Shadow Oak Bo won the John S. O'Neall, Sr., award in the open all-age category. Bo is the setter that famously won the National Championship in 2013 and 2014. Bo is owned by N.G. Houston and Dr. John Dorminy and campaigned by Robin Gates. Blackjack was high in that category also, listed seventh in point totals.
3X CH/RU-CH Ridge Creek Cody was the sixth highest point earner for the Elwin G Smith award. Cody is owned by Larry Brutger of St. Cloud, Minnesota, and handled on the circuit by pro Shawn Kinkelaar. Cody and Blackjack were littermates.
In addition, Sean Derrig had bred his dam Erin's Skydancer to Ridge Creek Cody in 2012. A male he kept, Erin's Hidden Shamrock, earned points in two derby categories.
Congratulations to dogs, owners and handlers. Perhaps, most especially, congratulations to Paul, who started it all with Houston more than 30 years ago.
John S. O'Neall, Jr., English Setter Amateur Shooting Dog Award
1st Houston's Blue Diamond
5th Houston's Blackjack
John S. O'Neall, Sr., English Setter All-Age Award
1st Shadow Oak Bo
7th Houston's Blackjack
Elwin G. Smith English Setter Open Shooting Dog Award
6th Ridge Creek Cody
Herman Smith English Setter Open All-age Derby Award
7th Erin's Hidden Shamrock
Bill Conlin English Setter Open Shooting Dog Derby Award
9th Erin's Hidden Shamrock
A lot has happened since my last update…
Northwoods Carly Simon whelped eight puppies in the early morning hours of June 24. Jerry and I were away but Dan was on hand to lend assistance as necessary. Much is even about the litter: four have body spots and four don't; all eight tiny heads are evenly marked; and sex distributions are even numbers (six females and two males). This litter is by Rodney Klimek's handsome male, Blue Riptide.
The puppies are healthy and growing fast. On average, they have tripled their weight in two weeks—from .53 lbs. to 1.6 lbs.
In the next run, the four puppies out of Houston's Belle's Choice by Northwoods Grits are 3½ weeks old. They are active enough that we've removed the sliding door from the whelping next so now they can tumble out into their kennel run. At four weeks of age, we'll begin offering dog food (moistened and softened in water) and start the weaning process. In the meantime, Choice is still doing all the work.
As I write this, I'm Blue Gert (owned by Dave and Rochel Moore), is in the early stages of whelping. Last night her temperature dropped below 99 degrees and she's showing signs of discomfort. This will be our second litter this year by Northwoods Grits.
Our pointer litter, Elhew G Force x Northwoods Prancer, turned eight weeks of age on June 30. Two are off to their new homes with the Fouts and Smythe families. We have the remaining two—a male we're raising and developing for Rick Snipes of Texas and a female we're keeping.
Puppy naming convention for 2014.
Many years ago, Jerry and I began a tradition of naming all puppies born in one year based on a theme. Not only did it provide some organization to our names, but it was easier to remember which litters where whelped when.
Some of our past themes include Beer and Wine, Cheeses, Rock Stars, Classic Cocktails, Luxury Cars. This year we've chosen the Periodic Table. Even though neither of us is a chemistry wizard, we like the concept of an orderly arrangement of all the elements. Plus, there are some cool words.
The first name for our orange-and-white female puppy whose orange is a very soft shade: Northwoods Platinum.
Friday is the Fourth of July holiday when our nation officially celebrates independence from Great Britain. From backyard to lakeshore to city-wide festivities, incredibly fabulous displays of fireworks will be part of the observance. While Jerry and I love a good show, we believe firmly that puppies and fireworks don't mix.
We have heard many tragic stories of young dogs that were badly frightened—or worse—by loud fireworks. Puppies have become so scared that they panic, run away and are lost or hit by a vehicle. Others have chewed out of crates, sometimes breaking teeth and scratching until their paws are bloody.
Even if your young dog has been exposed to gunfire, you still need to be careful. Here are two easy precautions.
• Put a crate in a protected, quiet place and put the puppy in it.
• Provide background noise such as a TV or radio.
If your young dog will be exposed to fireworks, consider these actions.
• Go about things normally during the fireworks. Act as though nothing special is going on.
• Don't comfort the dog or give it any attention. Don't look at the dog; don't talk to it; don't touch it.
• If your dog wants to be close to you, let it; but again, don't comfort it. Comfort will most likely reinforce the behavior and make things worse
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|Lars Doucet
--Begin Nitpick--
I largely agree with this article that Free2Play doesn't have to be a bad thing, and that Spry Fox, et al, are definitely among the Good Guys (TM) but I have to take issue with this:
"It always amuses me when people pine for the "good old days" of game development, when designers weren't concerned with base financial considerations. The arcade games that many of us grew up playing were explicitly and pain-stakingly designed to munch quarters every few minutes! "
Many concerns people have with Free2Play is *PRECISELY BECAUSE* of its similarity to the days of the arcade. I have no illusions about the "good old days."
--End Nitpick--
|GameViewPoint Developer
Pretty much agree with all in this article, especially the rose tinted glasses bit. I'm a child of the 80s I remember seeing amazing visuals displayed through flashy adverts and thinking "wow that looks great I have to play it!" and then of course you got it home loaded it up and it's 2 squares fighting over a circle (this is before pixel art was "cool"), the games business is just that, a business it's always been about making money first and foremost, but hopefully that's done in a fashion that entertains and inspires us.
The only issue with F2P I can see is that now is the time to use it, it's a way to make your app/game stand out from the crowd, but in 5 years time all games will be expected to be F2P. For me that's the more interesting debate, because then it really is about quality of the game and not price.
|Ken Williamson
The fact that you use taxation as a positive analogy for games says it all for me. Of course most things *can* be done in ethical ways. The point is it mostly won't be - and hasn't been so far.
If F2P made better games, I'd be all for it. But the design pressures of F2P to build systems that encourage spending compromises that outcome. Having worked on a title that changed to F2P mid-stream I've experienced the difference as a designer and it's night and day. I really think the rest is all just rhetoric from those who are thinking of money, not the games.
However I agree the model has potential, and opens opportunities for indies. This is perhaps the only positive argument for it. My prediction is it will become "one of" the ways games are funded, and by its nature will be applied to only particular types of games. *I* won't be playing those games because they don't interest me, but for those they do, it's a good thing. Just don't migrate the model over to the games I once loved and mess them up (as Blizzard did with WoW).
|The Le
The problem with "Free to play" is that it does indeed become a "pay to win" model. Tribes Ascend is a good example of a game where the most powerful and unbalanced weapons must be paid for.
And one would argue that Diablo 3 could become a "free to play" system if they really wanted to, where the entire game revolves around the Auction House where Blizzard makes money.
In both examples, game design suffers because the game itself is designed to make money off you in small increments.
|E McNeill
I think the comparison to advertising is apt. In fact, we could imagine a world in which IAP have been used forever and advertising was just being discovered; the terms could be transposed in this article without losing much meaning.
If we were just discovering advertising, I think some people would (quite rightly) describe it as a useful new option to bring content to your audience for free, without having to use those nasty in-app purchases. But the correct reaction would not be to decide that advertising was, itself, a good thing. Instead, it's a clear negative, which we might be willing to put up with if its trade-offs are palatable. Like all monetization, really.
So yes, you're right on almost all points, but the curmudgeons are also mostly right. Freemium is a useful new tool, but it's ugliness should not be glossed over.
|Jason VandenBerghe
Thanks, David, for another clear, insightful presentation of the facts. SING IT!
|Alexander Symington
I haven't played Realm of the Mad God, but the system described in the article sounds as if it functions more like charity within a pure free market than progressive taxation, with the extent and recipients of any 'redistribution' arbitrarily decided by individual players, rather than evenly apportioned by the 'state' (game developer). Perhaps not quite as cuddly an image, depending on your politics.
However, my main issue with this analogy is that it's describing an attempt to solve a problem that shouldn't exist. It's great that Spry Fox is thinking of ways to minimise the impact of pay-to-win through redistribution systems. But if we agree that players being able to imbalance a game to their advantage through in-app purchases is a bad thing, shouldn't making the effects of microtransactions purely cosmetic be the way to go? Dota 2 is the only major example of this that I know of, though, and has yet to be released.
Or we have the retail-style upfront fee business model (as well as that of better arcade games such as Street Fighter 2, in which players pay to lease the cabinet, not for incremental gameplay advantages). Yes, games using this model are elitist in the sense that non-paying players are locked-out of the entire gameplay system, and can only deliver free entertainment in the form of very limited demos. But such games are also elitist in the sense that they will always be better balanced than FTP equivalents which offer in-game advantages for external payment, and almost certainly more immersive. While bringing gaming to greater numbers of players is a noble goal, it's debatable whether these quality trade-offs are a price worth paying.
|Ken Williamson
Straight from the horse's mouth:
Q: It seems that it is currently easier to make money designing games with an Energy mechanic at their core. Do you believe all games will be designed in this manner moving forward? Will we see these kind of mechanics creeping into console titles? How do you feel about that?
A: Designing a successful freemium game is if anything more difficult than designing a traditional game. You really have to understand the play patterns of your users and cater to them much more closely. You need to make something fun but also wind in many more motivations. You need to balance the game for free-forever players and those who are happy to spend a lot of money to rise above other players. Thats a tough challenge in terms of balancing.
From: http://www.hookshotinc.com/in-defense-of-energy-csr-racings-avent
|Robert Boyd
As someone who is strongly against freemium, I was rather annoyed at how little insight this article gives.
Nobody is arguing that the old arcade model of monetization was good.
Nobody is arguing that advertisements are superior to freemium.
Nobody is arguing that freemium has to be evil - just that it encourages evil practices.
|TC Weidner
I have a problem with these types games because you basically build in inconveniences, and then charge to have these inconveniences removed. That doesnt quite sit right with me. If a dungeon finder is a good design choice, why make people pay for it? put it in your game. If leveling is such a grind that people will pay to speed it up and avoid it, then why is this grind in your game:
Call me old fashion, just allow me to pay a small fee, and allow me to just enjoy the game, and not have to worry about pulling out my credit card every time the designer has something in the game that annoys me. IT bothers me, because if the designer offers me the solution for the problem, he knows there is a problem there and chooses not to fix it.
Its just more of the age old marketing scheme of the world. Find a problem, or even create a problem, then sell the solution. From religion to widgets and now games, little changes.
|Steven An
Can someone just explain this to me: What was wrong with the old demo/shareware model? I give you a part of the game for free, and you can pay me incrementally more for more parts. Angry Birds uses this, as does Cut the Rope. This is also like the episodic model. Essentially, just splitting the game up into parts and letting me pay for it in parts rather than everything at once. What's wrong with this?
|Daniel Cook
I like to think of F2P as the simple difference between the developer making a product that is sold in a store (owned and controlled by some one else) and the developer owning their own store and deciding what to offer their customers.
Yes, it means that developers need to learn about scary skills like marketing and sales, but it also yields a much closer relationship between the developer and the player. You chop out the disinterested middleman. If you are a good, well intentioned developer (which you may not be), this should result in better games. It always weirds me out to hear developers arguing *against* developer empowerment.
The perverse incentives are a little overblown. The simple reality is that in the long term, players punish abusive F2P games by leaving or not spending money. The feedback cycle is quite tight and players tend to migrate to communities that are positive and responsible. (That's actually a huge benefit over retail models where a publisher can soak a player for $60 with a bad game and the player has zero meaningful response.) This is not some gulag country. Players have free choice and are growing into educated community members. In F2P, the developers are required by the business model to be obsessive about retention and community.
Some weak companies certainly think too short term, but the ones that will win in the end are those that take the long view. I want all my games to be around for 10 years. That shades everything and is a big reason why good F2P is radically different from arcade games of yore.
take care,
|Bob Johnson
I fear it. Yes I understand that F2P is just the business model, but it seems like a business model will influence the game design in the long run. And that the temptation will be there more than ever to milk consumers and to inconvenience them unless they pay up.
The $60 game was and is often too much for me. But if I wait 6 months the cost might only be $30. And the whole time I kind of know what I am getting or at least know what my maximum out of pocket cost is. The cost is more murky with F2P.
I also fear that F2P means more work. More work figuring out whether I should pay or not every few minutes or day, more work making sure my kids are locked out from accidental purchases, more work giving them permission or not to make a transaction, more work playing the game because I decided not to pay, more work figuring out what my ultimate cost might be, ...
I know none of this is an absolute. Still I think we need to see some examples of great AAA F2P games in the West for fears to disappear.
|David Edery
So many of these comments seem to revolve around the idea that f2p "encourages evil practices." It's hard for me to sympathize with that. We are absolutely *surrounded* by tempting things that are bad for us. Cigarettes. Fast food. The temptation to lie. The temptation to cheat. If your rule of thumb for engaging in something is "cannot tempt me to evil" then you better not walk outside your home, turn on your TV, or use the Internet.
Spry Fox has been making F2P games for a couple years now and we haven't yet turned into the devil. (Though I keep checking my scalp for horns...) It *is* possible to do f2p and do it "right."
I have more appreciation for comments that F2P forces you to make tradeoffs in game design. This is *absolutely true.* And if you want to avoid this, you can absolutely keep making games that you sell for 15 bucks or whatever. Except those markets have their own tradeoffs and devils. Want to sell a game for $15? Well, there are precious few places you can do it, and that makes you a slave to those platforms and their particular requirements and challenges. If I want to distribute a f2p game, there are dozens of non-trivial distribution channels for me to choose from in the US alone, not least of which is *my own website.* (A very large percentage of RotMG's traffic was direct to the RotMG website, just as one tangible example.)
Want to sell a game for 99cents? Well, now you have a few more options (still nowhere near the options a simple f2p game has, but more.) And if you want to make a relatively simple game, that's fine. But if you want to make something substantially more expensive (either to develop or to maintain on an ongoing basis) that 99cents from the 10% of people who don't choose to pirate the game (even though it only cost 99 cents!!!) isn't going to get you very far. Well, unless you're Angry Birds. Good luck becoming that.
Life is all about how you tackle the tradeoffs and hard problems. This hard problem (f2p, that is) has some particularly amazing upsides if you're willing to set aside your fears and misconceptions for a moment. That's all I'm saying.
|Kevin Fishburne
Good discussion. What I'd really like to see is the "Ten Commandments of Free to Play", dissecting what are largely considered "good" and "evil" mechanisms for earning money using the business model. I'm struggling with this myself, as I'm absolutely against allowing it to imbalance gameplay or take advantage of people.
One idea I had is paying to have extra party members (which was mentioned in one of the comments). When one of them dies you have to pay again to create a new one. So a particularly unfortunate run-in could result in you having to pay $1 per casualty to repopulate the party. This could be avoided simply by joining up with real people and would encourage socialization rather than buying a large party and griefing the shit out of people with them.
I realize that F2P mechanisms would vary by game type and the whole "good" "evil" aspect is subjective, but it would be nice if someone took a stab at it for us white hats.
|Victor Perez
F2P = Marketing Tool.....
|Jeffery Wilson
As the Saying goes: You Get what you pay for!
That is my option of "free-to-play" games. Ive play about every free-to-play game online, to evaluate the features you get. And a single playsession of Skyrim is more enjoyable that all of them.
|Robert Boyd
Free-to-play obviously has some potential benefits for the developer:
1 - By removing the initial barrier to entry, you can get a lot more people playing your game.
2 - Ideally, people end up paying you an amount of money equal to the amount of enjoyment they get out of the game.
I'd love to read an article that talked about how developers could use the model in an honest way without resorting to the typical cheap tactics employed by most FTP games (like pay-to-win & pay-to-skip-grind). Surely there is a way to use the model in such a way that it doesn't harm the integrity of the game and it doesn't prey on the potential audience. Unfortunately, most articles on FTP ignore these issues.
|Keith Carpentier
The key thing any game needs to do in order to be "good" is give players interesting choices to make. Most F2P games fail terribly in this regard, but because they have been tremendously successful in terms of getting money out of people regardless, the same uninteresting choices continue to be developed over and over again. This revenue stream is going to dry up as players begin to expect more from F2P games, as players learn to demand interesting decision making over more ClickVille clones. There are interesting decisions to be made in F2P game design and Triple Town is a fantastic testament to this.
David and Daniel: kudos on your work to elevate the platform. As a F2P game designer myself, it is encouraging to see games like Triple Town sprouting up.
|Raymond Holmes
I think sometimes there is a knee jerk reaction to the idea of F2P, not the reality. There is the recent hoopla over CSR Racing. I played pretty much the whole game, in a week, and didn't spend a dime. I could have finished sooner if it didn't have an energy mechanic, but I probably would have gotten bored with the game sooner if the game play wasn't measured out to me. The energy mechanic made it feel good for me to pickup and put down the game, playing only when my energy was full for 10 minutes, and then getting back to work.
I could see all the mechanics with their hands out asking for money, but I ignored them, in the same way I don't run out and buy the newest gizmo because I saw an ad on TV. I didn't miss any part of this game, and although I could have spent money to speed things up, or improve my chances, I didn't have to, it's not required. It's almost never required in any F2P, and when it is, I can just decide not to play that game if it bugs me. I'm struggling to see the problem here, except that the developer didn't get any money from me, although CSR has been at the top of the iOS grossing chart for more than a week, so someone is paying. Looks like win/win to me.
|Jeremy Alessi
Unfortunately, the BIG game at hand (life) forces us to manipulate each other for the perception of value.
There was a great story I heard on NPR about a year and a half ago about a society that traded rocks as currency. The most fascinating part of the talk was how a large rock (worth a lot) actually fell off of a ship into the ocean and yet people still traded it amongst themselves without the rock actually being physically retrievable.
The right thing to do is be nice and help each achieve our dreams. The unfortunate truth however is somehow we must determine the order in which that happens. Capitalism, the perception of value, and manipulation in general seem to cause a single file line to the dream factory.
Some people are better than others at this game ... and they are probably on a top grossing list somewhere.
As for me, I'm still struggling to figure out how to simultaneously sleep at night and make money ... which could all probably just be reduced to sleep at night ;)


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Kenner, La.- Police arrested and charged 45-year-old Jose Garcia Barillas with one count of pornography involving juveniles in an ongoing internet investigation.
The investigation began when a Slidell Police Department detective, assigned to the FBI Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, was conducting an uncover internet operation in an effort to locate persons who possess, manufacture and distribute child pornography.
Using the internet, the detective was able to connect to a file sharing program with Barillas' computer located in Kenner, where the detective was able to discover a publicly shared file that depicted child sexual abuse.
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In "Snitch," Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson gives a subtle dramatic turn as a father whose son faces a stiff prison sentence after getting entangled with drug dealers.
The former pro-wrestler, who typically stars in special effects-heavy action films such as the upcoming "G.I. Joe" sequel, plays John Matthews, the owner of a trucking company whose son is arrested by federal agents after a ne'er do well pal sends him drugs through the mail.
The U.S. attorney (Susan Sarandon) is a stickler and tells Matthews that the only way his son will get a reduced sentence is if he rats on drug dealers.
Instead, Matthews comes up with a business proposal for a local dealer – and then, later, a cartel leader (Benjamin Bratt) – that involves using his trucks to transport money across the Mexican border.
"Snitch" is not the indictment of the federal government's laws for first time offenders that it aims to be. Nor is it a particularly realistic glimpse into the drug trade. But as a melodrama peppered with action sequences, it's not too bad.
The cast is able, especially Jon Bernthal as an ex-con, and there are a few notably tense scenes as Matthews gets in deeper with the cartel. But it's no "Traffic."
Scott Stewart's "Dark Skies" is a creepy alien abduction thriller that has some genuinely frightening sequences and a focus on character development that is rare for a picture of this type. But, ultimately, its runs out of steam.
In the film, a couple (Josh Hamilton and Keri Russell) and their two children are plagued by some strange goings-on in the wee hours of the night.
Several of the characters discover that they have sleepwalked and behaved strangely in their somnambulant states, household items are rearranged in strange patterns and one of the kids claims to be visited nightly by "the sandman."
Since this is a horror movie, one of the parents is a believer and the other remains skeptical, even after 800 birds smack into the side of their home.
On the one hand, "Dark Skies" covers pretty familiar ground for a horror movie: little children behaving strangely, bumps in the night, a visit to a specialist who studies otherworldly phenomena and so on.
On the other hand, the film benefits from some decent performances, a few truly scary scenes (Russell discovers an intruder in her son's bedroom) and some impressive photography (an overhead shot of one of the couple's sons riding his bicycle through a quiet suburban neighborhood at night is effectively eerie).
But the picture begins to fall apart as it churns towards its incomplete ending. And while the filmmakers are smart for leaving the extraterrestrial tormenters in the shadows for much of the movie, they are not as scary once they are fully revealed.
"Dark Skies" is better than most of its ilk, but I believe there is a better alien abduction movie out there somewhere.
Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone in Love" is the Iranian filmmaker's second picture set outside his homeland. His previous movie, "Certified Copy," was set in France and his latest takes place in Tokyo.
The film, which debuted at Cannes last year, is an intriguing brain teaser of a film that ultimately leads nowhere.
When we first meet Akiko (Rin Takanashi), a call girl, she is arguing with her jealous boyfriend via telephone and thinking up a way to get out of a night's work to meet up with her grandmother, who is visiting town for the day.
But her boss insists that she meet up with a high priority client, so she fails to meet her grandmother at the station. As she travels via taxi to her appointment, she listens to a series of messages from her grandmother that makes for the film's most emotionally satisfying scene.
Akiko spends her evening – and the following afternoon – with Takashi (Tadashi Okuno), an aging professor, for an encounter that has nothing to do with sex.
Much of the film's second half takes place in Takashi's apartment or car as the two idle the day away before eventually running into Akiko's mechanic boyfriend (Ryo Kase).
The film's first half feels as if it is building towards something. The rapport between the old man and the call girl is effective, despite the fact that it's difficult to understand why their "date" is taking place.
But the picture loses focus as it builds to its climax, during which there is a confrontation, of sorts.
"Like Someone in Love" features some lovely visuals and its mood – at least, during the first half – resonates. But its opaqueness may leave you scratching your head.
"Snitch" is playing at AMC Loews Fresh Meadows 7, while "Dark Skies" is screening at College Point Multiplex Cinemas and "Like Someone in Love" is at Manhattan's Sunshine Cinema.


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Children and young people in south Leeds will benefit from a range of new and exciting initiatives including cooking classes, dance classes, bike maintenance and training for young junior reporters as part of £100,000 that has been invested by the area committee.
Submissions were invited from the area committee as to what would best benefit the area, and over £300,000 of submissions were made. Out of these submissions, 13 projects have been approved, all of which will be put in place by 1st April.
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January 2008
Paris obsessed
I got a really cool birthday gift from some great friends. They all chipped in together and gave me a $500 Visa giftcard with instructions that it be used to go to Paris. And then I freaked out and walked around shocked for 30 minutes. And then I thanked them profusely. So, now begins the search for the perfect Paris books -- travel, art, history, food -- to use for research. Hopefully, I will be well-knowledged enough to take my journey next spring. I've been perusing Amazon and have come across some cool books.
Dude, no way! A NKOTB comeback?
Life just keeps getting weirder. One of my guilty pleasures, the Daily Blabber blog on iVillage, reports that teen sensation New Kids on the Block are reuniting. Insanity! Unfortunately, they were the popular band du jour when I was a teenager and I had a massive crush on Joey-with-the-girly-voice. Check it out for yourself.
The Pillars of the Earth
I have been in a total fog for the last few days because I got slightly obsessed with The Pillars of the Earth, the Ken Follett epic about cathedral building in the 12th century in England. It is so addictive and compelling. My paperback copy runs about 970 pages and I could not stop reading it. At first, I couldn't get into it; if you feel the same, keep going! You'll love this book. The characters are so well-drawn and interesting. The villains are so frightening that I would dread the chapters that focused on their latest plots. Read it! Now, I have to decide if I want to read the sequel A World Without End. Should I jump into it or read something else for a while? I still need to read A Breath of Snow and Ashes, the last in the Outlander series.
The big one
Ok, I know. Thirty is not old. But still, celebrating my 30th birthday feels WEIRD. I'm in my thirties now. Time to start stocking up on sunscreen and vitamins, I guess. I turned the big 3-0 on Wednesday and took a few days off work to relax and get ready for a party on Friday. My older sister Kathy came in from Virginia (even though she's pregnant and sleep-deprived) and my high-school buddy Laura drove over from Black Mountain (with her adorable baby James) and we celebrated with a couple dozen of my Knoxville friends.
Valuable use of time
I'm in a bit earlier than usual today because I am working on the Business and Preview sections. Sometimes on the earlier shifts, I have a lot of waiting on the front end and then I have to hurry to get things put together on deadline. There are a few online sources I go to often to, um, look like I am working. Check out these sites when you need to look busy, too, as they are very entertaining and can suck up lots of your time.
Aliens visit Texas
I heard a piece on NPR on my way into work today about a UFO sighting in Stephenville, Texas, a week ago, and I wonder, is it crazy to believe this story? Dozens of people reported the object to the local newspaper and some say that they saw U.S. fighter jets following it. The military denies the claim and says the residents likely saw the reflection of light off an airliner. Listening to the people talk about what they saw made me want to believe the tale. Here's the link to the NPR story. What do you think? Make believe or a visit from beyond?
Cashmere Mafia
I didn't feel like watching La Vie En Rose last night -- I was more in a mindless mood. I had two episodes of the new Darren Star show "Cashmere Mafia" in the TiVo so I watched those instead. I'm not sure whether I like the show or not. It was so much like "Sex & The City" (which I adore) and I found that off-putting. A major difference though is that you couldn't really make a parallel between the SATC foursome and the four women of CM. The characters' stories were very different from SATC. The themes were the same -- can women have it all, can a woman be successful and nice, does one area of a woman's life suffer when she is a mother and a careerwoman, etc. I liked the actresses well enough but overall it lacked something in production to keep it from being cutesy. Does that make sense? I read somewhere that Candace Bushnell has her own post-SATC show coming out soon. Are all the "fabulous women in New York" shows just trying to chase down the popularity of SATC? Would anyone watch a show about four working women in average America? I'd love to see something more realistic and relatable. What do you think?
What to read next?
My friends often ask me where I find ideas on what to read next. In addition to just wandering around bookstores and libraries, there are several Web site I go to for book news. I signed up for several publishing industry newsletters a couple of years ago but one of the best I've found is the beautifully designed and cutting edge Flavorpill Boldtype monthly review. I have gotten great recommendations from salon.com and they recently compiled a best of 2007 list. NPR is always on top of what is interesting and intelligent and for me, Oprah Winfrey's selections are alway right up my alley. Where do you find great ideas?
Major veg weekend
It's Sunday night and I am back at the NS after two days off of hardcore vegging out. On Friday, the bf and I went Goodwill furniture shopping. I am into the "wabi sabi" or "shabby chic" decorating thing, i.e., I am cheap, and I love a good deal. We went to the new Bearden Goodwill, because we figured that's where the upscale castoffs would be.
Cookbook author suing Seinfelds
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According to a memo from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, it appears Robins Air Force Base employees will not have to worry about returning from their New Years holiday to find they have been furloughed.
That seemed to be a possibility if Congress and President Barack Obama do not reach an agreement to stop automatic cuts that would slash 9.4 percent in military spending. The mandate would go into effect Jan. 2.
According to a story in the Air Force Times, Panetta states that even if the cuts go into effect, there would not have to be an immediate reaction.
I do not expect our day-to-day operations to change dramatically on or immediately after January 2, 2013, Panetta wrote. This means we will not be executing any immediate civilian personnel actions, such as furloughs, on that date. Should we have to operate under reduced funding levels for an extended period of time, we may have to consider furloughs or other actions in the future.
If furloughs are ordered, employees would get advance notice, he said. Furloughs would only be for civilian employees, as military members are exempted from the cuts.
Robins unit winsAFMC award
The 78th Force Support Squadron at Robins has been awarded the 2012 Air Force Materiel Command General Curtis E. LeMay Award for best large-category force support squadron.
According to a story in the Robins Rev-Up, the unit increased Morale, Welfare and Recreation funds by 60 percent, delivered more than $145,000 in Air Force Assistance Fund help and reduced the wait time for identification cards by 75 percent.
The award is named in honor of LeMay for his strong support of morale, wellness and recreation programs.
Tops in Blue coming to Warner Robins
The show will be held Jan. 12 at the Warner Robins Civic Center on Watson Boulevard next to City Hall. It begins at 7 p.m. and admission is free. The popular show usually draws a full house so get there early to ensure a seat.
The cast and technical crew is made up of almost 40 airmen who sing, dance and play music. They travel the world performing for military members and their families.
Wild hogs common at Robins Air Force Base
Feral hogs are becoming more of a problem at Robins Air Force Base.
According to a story in the Robins Rev-Up, wild hogs typically have remained in the swamp but are increasingly encroaching into populated areas. Natural resources manager Bob Sargent said the base has trapped and removed 16 hogs from around the golf course. He said hogs are attracted to areas that are irrigated because they like to forage in moist soil and wallow in soggy areas.
About a dozen people have permits to trap hogs on base, and 150 have been trapped this year.
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on Nov 16, 2012 at 2:47 pm
One wonders how he became a former police officer.
on Nov 16, 2012 at 8:02 pm
I'm surprised there aren't any post yet about how this shows that every police officer in the country is overpaid and corrupt and they should all be fired and replaced. C'mon people you are out there, you are slacking in the holiday season.
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I'll take the bait Me Too. Did you see the other story from this week about the SF cop that robbed a bank?
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DACULA -- Bomb squad and hazmat units responded to a suspected meth lab in Dacula Tuesday afternoon before determining the home contained "nothing hazardous," officials said.
Gwinnett County police investigators were serving a search warrant at the home at 2740 Fort Daniel Road when they discovered a small amount of methamphetamine and marijuana, spokesman Cpl. Edwin Ritter said. They also discovered "what they thought was an old meth lab" and summoned hazardous materials and explosives teams to the scene.
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text: Celebrities Inspired by Marilyn Monroe Blonde Ambition: 12 Stars Inspired by Marilyn Monroe by Brittney Stephens 6/20/14 16 Reactions 56 Shares Print 0 31 25 0 0 Marilyn Monroe would have been 88 years old this month, and even though her life was cut short at the age of 36, her legacy and iconic style lives on. From movies and music to magazines and advertisements, Hollywood still manages to be inspired and influenced by Marilyn's glamorous life and epic beauty. In honor of what would have been Marilyn's birthday month, we're taking a look at 12 celebrities who have been inspired by the actress in their work and personal style, including Madonna, Mariah Carey, Michelle Williams, and even Rihanna. Scroll through to see them all now. 1 Madonna What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 One of the stars who has been influenced the most by Marilyn Monroe is Madonna — she struck a Marilyn-esque pose for the April 1991 cover of Vanity Fair and famously drew inspiration from an iconic scene in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for her "Material Girl" video. Madonna explained her love for the actress in an interview with Rolling Stone in 1987, saying, "I do feel something for Marilyn Monroe. A sympathy. Because in those days, you were really a slave to the whole Hollywood machinery, and unless you had the strength to pull yourself out of it, you were just trapped. I think she really didn't know what she was getting herself into and simply made herself vulnerable, and I feel a bond with that." Source: Vanity Fair 1 / 12 2 Scarlett Johansson What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scarlett Johansson has garnered many comparisons to Marilyn Monroe, namely for her curvy figure, blond hair, and full lips. Scarlett has addressed the similarities in multiple interviews, saying, "I love Marilyn Monroe. She's a very underrated actor," and, "I've always been curvy. But throw on an evening frock, and everyone is like: 'bombshell!'" Source: Getty / Vince Bucci 2 / 12 3 Michelle Williams What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Michelle Williams graced the October 2011 cover of Vogue and spoke to the magazine about her love for the actress and the decision to portray her in the film My Week With Marilyn. She talked about growing up with photos of Marilyn on her bedroom wall, saying, "I've always thought of her as that woman-child, not an icon, which is probably why I let myself approach the role." Michelle added, "Everybody has their own idea of who Marilyn was and what she means to them, but I think that if you go a little bit deeper, you're going to be surprised by what you find there." Source: Vogue 3 / 12 4 Mariah Carey What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mariah Carey channeled Marilyn for her "I Still Believe" and "Don't Forget About Us" music videos and paid over $600,000 for Marilyn's white baby grand piano in 1999, saying, "It was a piece of her childhood." She also named her daughter Monroe after the iconic actress. Source: Getty / FOX 4 / 12 5 Anna Nicole Smith What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 The late Anna Nicole Smith gained fame by modeling for Guess Jeans and Playboy and bared a striking resemblance to Marilyn Monroe. Anna Nicole was so inspired by the actress that she once told the press, "I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe." She also explained, "I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through." Sadly, both women died of drug overdoses — Marilyn at 36 and Anna Nicole at 39. 6 / 12 6 Lindsay Lohan What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lindsay Lohan has long cited Marilyn as one of her influences, and the actress even re-created one of Marilyn's most famous photo shoots, "The Last Sitting," for New York magazine in 2008. Lindsay also channeled Marilyn while posing for Playboy, saying, "Sex and sexuality are a part of nature, and I go along with nature. I think Marilyn Monroe said that, and I agree with her. Knowing your body and being in touch with your body is important because it gives you confidence, and in life, women need confidence." Source: NY Mag 6 / 12 7 Nicki Minaj What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nicki Minaj has said in various interviews that she's "obsessed with Marilyn Monroe." The rapper wrote a song titled "Marilyn Monroe" for her album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded that makes many references to the actress and includes a few of her famous quotes. 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Grants and Contracts for July 2011
Grants and Contracts for July 2011
The Research Foundation announces the following grants and contracts for July 2011. Award amounts are totals expected for the entire funding period. The list does not include supplements, modifications or other changes to existing grants or contracts. For awards that have more than one investigator, the first faculty member listed is the principal investigator.
JENIFER ALONZO, assistant professor of communication and theatre arts, and VICTORIA HILL, assistant research professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Climate Change Sea Level Rise Initiative Seed Grant"; Old Dominion University, $44,631.
LARRY ATKINSON, professor and eminent scholar of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Atlantic Advanced Offshore Wind Energy Consortium"; University of Delaware, $35,000. Also, "Development of an Integrated Extreme Wind, Wave, Current and Water Level Climatology to Support Standards-based Design of Offshore Wind Projects"; Virginia Tech, $39,500.
HELMUT BAUMGART, professor of electrical and computer engineering, "VMEC Summer Scholarship for Chelsea Powell"; University of Virginia, $13,800.
JOSEPH BRADLEY, principal researcher, engineering management, "Task Order 3"; Spatial Integrated Systems Inc., $22,888.
NIKOS CHRISOCHOIDES, professor of computer science, "3D Real-Time Physics-based Non-Rigid Registration for Image Guided Neurosurgery"; College of William and Mary, $139,211.
DENNIS DARBY, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Collaborative Research: Do Holocene Variations in Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Icebergs Drifting Through Denmark Strait Reflect Natural Cycles?"; National Science Foundation, $432,925.
JEAN DELAYEN, professor of physics, "JSA Fellowship - Subashini De Silva, 2011-12"; Jefferson Lab, $11,188.
TAL EZER, professor, and CYNTHIA JONES, professor and eminent scholar, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Research: Study of Physical and Biological Factors that Impact the Beluga's Population"; Kenai Peninsula Borough, $176,316.
RODGER HARVEY, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Collaborative Research: Best Synthesis: Integration and Modeling of Spatial-Temporal Variation in Vital Rates for Euphausiids in the Eastern Bering Sea: Implications for Demographics"; National Science Foundation, $145,683.
PATRICK HATCHER, Batten Endowed Chair in Physical Sciences, "Assistant Research Scientist in Air-Sea Flux"; College of William and Mary, $44,952.
DANICA HAYS, associate professor of counseling and human services, "ODU-NCSB Outpatient Counseling Clinic"; Norfolk Community Services Board, $67,175.
FANG HU, professor of mathematics and statistics, "Suppression of Instability Waves for Linear Aeroacoustics Computations in Time Domain - Part 2"; Ohio Aerospace Institute, $74,665.
CYNTHIA JONES, professor and eminent scholar of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Support of Facilities to Provide Finfish Ageing for Virginia Catches and Application of a Variety of Stock Assessment Analyses Including Adapt to Provide Management Advice"; Virginia Marine Resources Commission, $297,610. Also, with JASON SCHAFFLER, postdoctoral research associate, OEAS, "Virginia and Maryland Sea Turtle Research and Conservation Initiative"; Virginia Aquarium Foundation Inc., $108,136
RAVINDRA JOSHI, professor and eminent scholar of electrical and computer engineering, "Center of Excellence in Advanced Nanomaterials and Devices"; Norfolk State University, $50,000.
JOHN KLINCK, professor, and LARRY ATKINSON, professor and eminent scholar, ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Development of the National Offshore Wind Technology Center"; James Madison University, $100,000.
MARGIE MULHOLLAND, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Geo-Cape: Primary Productivity"; NASA, $25,369. Also, with EILEEN HOFMANN, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Response of Coastal Phytoplankton to Climate Change Variables: Taxonomic Diversity and Net Productivity of the Future Coastal Ocean"; NASA, $37,690.
PETER SEDWICK, associate professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, "Collaborative Research: Impact of Mesoscale Processes on Iron Supply and Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Ross Sea"; National Science Foundation, $325,834. Co-PIs are EILEEN HOFMANN, professor of OEAS; JOHN KLINCK, professor of OEAS; MICHAEL DINNIMAN, research scientist, OEAS; and DAN DICKERSON, associate professor of STEM education and professional studies.
LAUREL SHEPHERD, associate professor of nursing, "HRSA Advanced Education Nurse Traineeship"; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, $63,538.
FOTIOS SKOUZES, executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Institute for Space and Technology, "Research for the Stars Camp 2011"; National Space Grant Foundations, $2,500.
JOHN SOKOLOWSKI, executive director of the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, "IPA for Denis K. Scott"; Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office, $408,389.
JIN WANG, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, "Simons Foundation: Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians"; Simons Foundation, $35,000.
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Non-essential diplomats pulling out of EgyptJuly 4, 2013 at 6:22 a.m.
The supreme justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court has been sworn in as the nation's interim president, replacing the Islamist Mohammed Morsi who was ousted by the military.
The military moved to oust Morsi after millions of Egyptians took to the streets this week to demand his resignation.
Morsi is under house arrest at an undisclosed location.
Adly Mansour was sworn in Thursday at the Constitutional Court in a ceremony broadcast live on state television.
According to military decree, Mansour will serve as Egypt's interim leader until a new president is elected.
A date for that vote has yet to be set.
The Obama administration says it'll have to review the $1.5 billion in annual aid it gives to Egypt after its military ousted the country's first democratically elected leader.
The U.S. State Department is ordering all of its nonessential diplomats and their families to leave Egypt.
Muslim Brotherhood Officials ArrestedJuly 4, 2013 at 3:13 a.m.
A security official says the head of the Muslim Brotherhood political party and the Brotherhood's deputy chief have been arrested.
The security official said Saad el-Katatni, the head of the Freedom and Justice Party, and Rashad Bayoumi, one of two deputies of the Brotherhood's top leader were arrested early Thursday, in connection with an escape from prison during the 2011 uprising against autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
The arrest came hours after the head of the armed forces ousted Egypt's first democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi, of the Brotherhood, who is also wanted in the case. More than 30 Brotherhood members escaped from prison during in January 2011.
Assad Praises Egypt Revolt Against PresidentJuly 3, 2013 at 8:42 p.m.
Syria's embattled president on Wednesday praised Egypt's protests against their leader and said his overthrow by the military means the end of "political Islam."
President Bashar Assad, who is seeking to crush a revolt against his own rule, said Egyptians have discovered the "lies" of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He spoke in an interview with the state-run Al-Thawra newspaper to be printed in full Thursday. Excerpts were published Wednesday night on the Syrian presidency's Facebook page, coinciding with the Egyptian military's announcement of Morsi's ouster.
"What is happening in Egypt is the fall of so-called political Islam," Assad said. "This is the fate of anyone in the world who tries to use religion for political or factional interests."
Assad is facing an insurgency at home and has refused to step down, calling the revolt an international conspiracy carried out by Islamic extremists and fundamentalist groups such as the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, a branch of the Egyptian group with the same name to which Morsi belongs.
Earlier Wednesday, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi urged Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to step down in line with his people's wishes.
Al-Zoubi told reporters in Damascus that Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is a "terrorist" organization and a "U.S. tool."
Last month Morsi enraged Syrian officials by announcing he was severing ties with Damascus and closing its embassy in the Syrian capital.
Assad's father, the late President Hafez Assad, cracked down on a Muslim Brotherhood-led rebellion in the northern city of Hama in 1982. The Syrian forces, led by the president's brother and special forces from their minority Alawite sect, razed much of the city in a three-week air and ground attack, killing between 10,000 and 20,000 people.
"The ruling experience of the Muslim Brotherhood failed before it even started because it goes against the nature of people," Assad said in the interview, charging that the Brotherhood aimed to spread strife in the Arab world.
Egypt Leader's Office Calls Military Measures CoupJuly 3, 2013 at 4:02 p.m.
A statement on the Egyptian president's office's Twitter account has quoted Mohammed Morsi as calling military measures "a full coup."
The denouncement was posted shortly after the Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt's first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings. The military says it has replaced him with the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, called for early presidential election and suspended the Islamist-backed constitution.
Morsi was quoted as saying those measures "represent a full coup categorically rejected by all the free men of our nation."
Egypt Army Suspends Constitution, Calls Early VoteJuly 3, 2013 at 3:19 p.m.
Egypt's military has suspended the Islamist-backed constitution and called early elections.
The military also announced that embattled President Mohammed Morsi will be replaced.
Cheers erupted among millions of protesters nationwide who were demanding Morsi's ouster.
Troops Deploy Near Protest Sites, Morsi Aide Says Coup Is Under WayJuly 3, 2013 at 2:57 p.m.
A top adviser to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi says the country is seeing a military coup.
The military today moved to tighten its control of key institutions. It did so with the passing of a deadline it had set for Morsi to meet the demands of protesters calling for him to leave office. Just before the deadline arrived, Morsi vowed again not to step down. And he criticized the military for "taking only one side."
Troops backed with armored vehicles have been sent to the heart of Cairo. Meanwhile, a travel ban has been imposed on Morsi and his top allies, ahead of an almost certain push to remove the Islamist president.
Soon after the deadline passed, a military helicopter circled over the anti-Morsi crowds in Cairo's central Tahrir square -- which had become a sea of furiously waving Egyptian flags. The crowd chanted for Morsi to "leave." After nightfall, fireworks went off, and green lasers flashed over the crowd.
In the main squares of cities nationwide, millions of people turned out, again demanding Morsi's removal. It's the fourth day of the biggest anti-government rallies Egypt has seen -- even bigger than in the uprising that ousted his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
Earlier today, the head of the army met with a leading reform advocate, Mohammed ElBaradei, along with Egypt's top Muslim cleric and others. A spokesman for an opposition group says they met to discuss a political road map.
Pentagon: Hagel Calls Egyptian Defense MinisterJuly 3, 2013 at 12:52 p.m.
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has spoken to the Egyptian defense minister twice in the past week, including a call he made to Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Tuesday.
Pentagon press secretary George Little is refusing to release any details about the content of the calls. He says U.S. officials at various levels of government have been very clear that America remains committed to the democratic process in Egypt and hopes the tensions there can be resolved peacefully.
The disclosure came as Egypt's military moved to tighten control of key institutions in the country, ahead of an almost certain push to oust President Mohammed Morsi from office.
Little says the Pentagon did not disclose last week's call until now because of the sensitivities of the situation.
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Apple on Tuesday made it clear that it will no longer patch OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, when it again declined to offer a security update for the four-and-a-half-year-old operating system.
As Apple issued an update for Mavericks, or OS X 10.9, as well as for its two predecessors, Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7), Apple had nothing for Snow Leopard or its owners yesterday.
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Snow Leopard was also ignored in December, when Apple patched Safari 6 and 7 for newer editions of OS X, but did not update Safari 5.1.10, the most-current Apple browser for the OS.
Apple delivered the final security update for Snow Leopard in September 2013.
Traditionally, Apple has patched only the OS X editions designated as "n" and "n-1" -- where "n" is the newest -- and discarded support for "n-2" either before the launch of "n" or immediately after. Under that plan, Snow Leopard was "n-2" when Mountain Lion shipped in mid-2012, and by rights should have been retired around then.
But it wasn't. Instead, Apple continued to ship security updates for Snow Leopard, and with Tuesday's patches of Mountain Lion and Lion Tuesday, it now seems plain that Apple has shifted to supporting "n-2" as well as "n" and "n-1."
(In that scenario, Mavericks is now "n," Mountain Lion is "n-1" and Lion is "n-2.")
The change was probably due to Apple's accelerated development and release schedule for OS X, which now promises annual upgrades. The shorter span between editions meant that unless Apple extended its support lifecycle, Lion would have fallen off the list about two years after its July 2011 launch.
None of this would be noteworthy if Apple, like Microsoft and a host of other major software vendors, clearly spelled out its support policies. But Apple doesn't, leaving users to guess about when their operating systems will fall off support.
"Let's face it, Apple doesn't go out of their way to ensure users are aware when products are going end of life," said Andrew Storms, director of DevOps at security company CloudPassage, in a December interview.
To Apple, Snow Leopard increasingly looks like Windows XP does to Microsoft: an operating system that refuses to roll over and die. At the end of January, 19% of all Macs were running Snow Leopard, slightly more, in fact, than ran its successor, Lion, which accounted for 16%, and almost as much as Mountain Lion, whose user share plummeted once Mavericks arrived, according to Web analytics firm Net Applications.
With Snow Leopard's retirement, 1 in 5 Macs are running an operating system that could be compromised because of unpatched vulnerabilities.
Snow Leopard users have given many reasons for hanging on, including some identical to those expressed by Windows XP customers: The OS still works fine for them; their Macs, while old, show no sign of quitting; and they dislike the path that Apple's taken with OS X's user interface (UI).


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What will J.K. Rowling's Next Book Be About?
|A political faerie story, like she once said. Tiny little faeries running for office.
5863 (15%)
|The Scottish Book. All about Scotland.
3270 (8%)
|Albus Severus and the Book They Said Would Never Happen
20853 (54%)
|I'm J.K. Rowling, and I'll tell you in comments.
8236 (21%)
|38222 votes in total
14047 Comments
Just checking! ;)
Hard as hell to get to this page by normal means… I finally had to erase 'page 1' from my saved link, & type in 'page 2' instead to get here!
Behave, poll page! Behave!
It is behaving
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Seriously folks, this is a goofy poll! 0.o
Sort stories would be nice, maybe cases of a 'Ministry Auror', or Case books of Arther Weasley from the Muggle Office.
PS i think Peeves is messing with this poll!
Hello phantom poll. ;)
Hello, crazy poll.
What the heck! Is this poll staying or is it going? slaps self on the forehead
Don't slap yourself Rhi!
Let's slap this poll!!
Slap Slap Slap Slap
Rhi, stick with the other one… this one is totally screwed up!
This poll is working for me.
Try bookmarking this page & coming back to it whenever you want to…
Phantom Poll rides again! ;)
I like how there are 246 Jo's.
Let's see if this will "take". ;)
Looks like they may have fixed this one at last… Let us just see….
Back again, yay!
Got ourselves the midnight showing for the 3D DH part 2.
Back to flurk here and there (old poll).
First time on this poll. I was about to go out of town when it first appeared and since it has been so wonky I haven't even tried to look at it until now.
Albus Severus would be awesome, but she did say she wouldn't… By the way, nice spin on the choices. :)
I just can't wait to get my hands on whatever Jo comes up with next, no matter what it is.
As long as Jo writes it, I'll read it. :)
Haven't we been told that 'Albus Severus and the Book That They Said Would Never Happen' isn't going to happen? Don't mean to be rude or anything but I reckon we should be a little more realistic. We have been told that there will be no more Potter books, sad as it is. I'm happy to read whatever she comes up with next. It can't beat Harry, because that's impossible, but she's such an incredible writer that whatever she writes will be perfect.
I really hope it's a prequel! :D
Whatever it is, I'm sure it's gonna be awesome!!
It is still working for me…
Aloha! ;)
It looks like this poll is getting over its shyness. ;)
I think her next book should be in the point of view of Snape or James. She already has a great plot going and I know I want to know how Hogwarts was like back then and how Harrys parents were and all the other great characters cough*cough* Snape :)
If she's going to do an origin story, I want the real dirt on how Hogwarts came to be. Not the romanticized stuff from "Hogwarts, A History". I want the dirt on the falling out between Slytherin and Gryffindor and what were the real relationships between the four Founders. Who was the main squeeze of whom. All that stuff!! ;)


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Reviews by chanokokoro:
4.24/5 rDev +2.7%
Poured from a 16.9 oz. bottle into an unbranded stemmed English style ale glass
Pours a very dark dirty motor oil brown, bordering on black, capped by a one and a half finger tan head. Above average tend, splotchy lacing here and there. Very inviting nose, cocoa powder and big roasted malt accents with some espresso undertones dominate. Opens with semisweet chocolate, toffee, and roasted malt, joined by whipped cream and espresso accents. Finishes with the perfect level of roastiness as the bittering hops join in. Smooth, creamy medium body. Consider me impressed, one of the better porters I've had the pleasure of drinking.
12-01-2013 22:38:36 | More by chanokokoro
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North Carolina
4.5/5 rDev +9%
My first Maine Beer Co. beer.Pours like a stout, nearly black with a one finger deep beige head that leaves a full ring of lace behind as it settles.Chocolate and nuts at first whiff,some roast and and a little drunken fruit,well rounded.Creamy and full feel with light carbonation.flavors of what a porter should be,roasty with some nuttiness,a little raw and earthy,and just enough caramel and brown sugar-like sweetness to round out everything nicely.I had high hops for this beer and it delivered and then some,kick ass.
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4.25/5 rDev +2.9%
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4.5/5 rDev +9%
05-19-2013 18:55:39 | More by woodchipper
New York
4/5 rDev -3.1%
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3.5/5 rDev -15.3%
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4/5 rDev -3.1%
07-21-2013 19:04:08 | More by SuomiHobbit
4.38/5 rDev +6.1%
I love this brewery; they've made consistently good beers.
This beer is black in color with a small orange/tan head. There's a little bit of lace.
Aroma of sweet chocolate and roasted malt/coffee.
The taste improves on the aroma. The chocolate is more bittersweet than sweet, and the coffee is much stronger than the aroma suggested. Strong dark coffee.
Very tasty. I don't think it's that heavy a beer, but it definitely a sipping beer. I will drink more of these.
11-07-2012 23:53:24 | More by lordofthewiens
4.25/5 rDev +2.9%
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4.5/5 rDev +9%
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4/5 rDev -3.1%
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4/5 rDev -3.1%
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4.25/5 rDev +2.9%
10-16-2012 06:05:39 | More by bishopdc0
3.81/5 rDev -7.7%
Pours a deep brown almost black color with appreciable tan head, thin tan collar, some tan swirls when agitated. Aroma is of coffee, roasted malt, some burnt earth. Taste is lighter malt that the nose lends to. Some coffee in the mid palate and a touch of char towards the end. Nice thick body and medium carbonation.
02-06-2014 06:29:23 | More by mverity
Rhode Island
4/5 rDev -3.1%
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New Hampshire
4.25/5 rDev +2.9%
07-20-2013 20:49:17 | More by JakerLou
New Jersey
4/5 rDev -3.1%
05-02-2014 02:15:31 | More by megamass
New Jersey
4.5/5 rDev +9%
03-04-2013 03:02:16 | More by lostandwandering
3.74/5 rDev -9.4%
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass.
Appearance: Black, with a thin beige head that lasted a long time. No lacing on the glass.
Smell: Roasted malts, some faint coffee notes and alcohol.
Mouthfeel/Taste: Smooth full bodied. Taste is of roasted malts, bitter hops, and some coffee in the background.
Overall: Not a huge fan of Porters personally, but I must give credit when due, and this is a great brew.
03-05-2014 20:04:42 | More by Cavanaghty
New Jersey
4/5 rDev -3.1%
09-10-2013 01:14:09 | More by ImFlyerThanYou
New York
4.2/5 rDev +1.7%
16 oz. bottle at fridge temp poured into a snifter. Bottled on 11/25/12 (about 2 months old).
Pours out pretty much opaque black with a nice full 2-3 fingers of creamy tan colored head. Keep some good retention with lots of spotty lacing sticking around.
Initially has a pretty chocolatey aroma, as it warms pine hops seem to take over. A bit of dry bakers cocoa. As it warms even further, the slightest bit of alcohol heft becomes noticeable.
Creamy dark chocolates, roasted almost charred malts, pine hops and maybe a hint of citrus are even keel with all the roasted malt flavors. Maybe a bit of oats. Finishes creamy wit a bit of a cocoa flavor and just a bit of hop bitterness.
Creamy, similar to that of an oatmeal stout. Medium bodied. Very smooth drinking.
A solid porter with a bit of welcomed extra hops. One of the better porters I've had, with a more fuller body than most. Well made.
01-30-2013 23:31:10 | More by dogfishandi
North Carolina
3.75/5 rDev -9.2%
04-21-2014 02:48:54 | More by Mantooth
4/5 rDev -3.1%
02-23-2013 22:49:18 | More by Hairrrrrrrr
New York
4.25/5 rDev +2.9%
05-03-2014 01:20:01 | More by butters_mcgee
King Titus from Maine Beer Company
92 out of 100 based on 913 ratings.