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Fox News reporter and serial misinformer Todd Starnes failed to disclose that the source for his latest bogus religious liberty horror story is the vice president of sales at the publishing house promoting Starnes' latest book - a book that, conveniently enough, warns of growing "intolerance" against American Christians.
On March 29, Starnes reported that five-year-old Gabriella Perez had been rebuked by a teacher for trying to pray in her Oviedo, FL school lunchroom. The girl recounted the alleged episode in a YouTube video posted by her father, Marcos Perez. Starnes' report featured an original interview with Perez, who told Starnes that he had long had concerns about "issues and agendas we see in the culture war."
But on April 1, the Orlando Sentinel raised doubts about the credibility of Perez's story. According to the Sentinel's report, none of the staff who could have been at the cafeteria at the time of the incident recall witnessing the student being spoken to about prayer. The staff member who allegedly spoke to Gabriella Perez hasn't been identified, and the school has reiterated that it has no policy prohibiting students from praying.
The Sentinel also revealed that Marcos Perez is the vice president of sales at Charisma House, the publisher of Starnes' soon-to-be-published collection of religious liberty horror stories, God Less America: Real Stories from the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values (emphasis added):
School officials have not interviewed Gabriella, who was pulled from the school by her parents the day after the video was posted. The Perezes said they accelerated existing plans to home school her. Her father is vice president of sales at Charisma House, a Lake Mary-based Christian book publisher. The company is currently promoting the book "God Less America: Real Stories from the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values," by Fox News host Todd Starnes. Starnes reported on the lunch prayer controversy for Fox News Radio. Marcos Perez said he did the interview with Starnes because "I'm passionate about the cause." He seemed distressed by any notion of ulterior motives. Using his family to promote a book "would be egregious," he said. "I'm a father first, a VP of sales second."
As Right Wing Watch noted, Perez was recently featured in a press release promoting Starnes' book.
Starnes' report on the alleged incident now includes an editor's note disclosing Perez's employment at the top of the article:
Fox News used a misleading report from the anti-immigration Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) to accuse the Obama administration of "destabilizing the nation" by releasing undocumented immigrants with criminal backgrounds. In fact, data show that the Obama administration has met its enforcement mandate to prioritize the deportation of immigrants with criminal convictions, which has resulted in a substantial increase of such deportations.
Referring to gay people as "homosexual" is a practice that's quickly falling out of favor with major news outlets due the term's often pejorative connotation and frequent use by opponents of LGBT equality. But Fox News has yet to update its language when referring to gay and lesbian people.
On March 23, The New York Times published a piece exploring the often derogatory connotation of the term "homosexual." Writing for the Sunday Styles section, the Times' Jeremy Peters noted that experts increasingly view "homosexual" as an offensive and stigmatizing term, even if many people still see the term as relatively "innocuous" (emphasis added):
To most ears, it probably sounds inoffensive. A little outdated and clinical, perhaps, but innocuous enough: homosexual.
But that five-syllable word has never been more loaded, more deliberately used and, to the ears of many gays and lesbians, more pejorative.
" 'Homosexual' has the ring of 'colored' now, in the way your grandmother might have used that term, except that it hasn't been recuperated in the same way," said George Chauncey, a Yale professor of history and an author who studies gay and lesbian culture.
Consider the following phrases: homosexual community, homosexual activist, homosexual marriage. Substitute the word "gay" in any of those cases, and the terms suddenly become far less loaded, so that the ring of disapproval and judgment evaporates.
Some gay rights advocates have declared the term off limits. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or Glaad, has put "homosexual" on its list of offensive terms and in 2006 persuaded The Associated Press, whose stylebook is the widely used by many news organizations, to restrict use of the word.
George P. Lakoff, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, has looked at the way the term is used by those who try to portray gays and lesbians as deviant. What is most telling about substituting it for gay or lesbian are the images that homosexual tends to activate in the brain, he said.
"Gay doesn't use the word sex," he said. "Lesbian doesn't use the word sex. Homosexual does."
Peters highlighted use of the term by anti-gay figures like Rush Limbaugh, whose comments on the "homosexual" NFL prospect Michael Sam and the efforts of the "homosexual lobby" to defeat Arizona's anti-gay discrimination bill smack of contempt.
Use of the term is also pervasive at Fox News - and not just from the likes of the network's hate group mouthpiece Todd Starnes, who recently warned that "Christians are trading places with homosexuals" in the military. Just as the network insists on misgendering transgender subjects, Fox also has no qualms about regularly referring to gay men and lesbians by a term many of them shun.
Fox employees from Megyn Kelly to Sarah Palin continue to use the word "homosexual" to describe gays and lesbians. Fox Supreme Court reporter and pro-discrimination champion Shannon Bream teased a forthcoming segment on "homosexual adoption":
Fox's "Medical A-Team" member and anti-LGBT pop psychologist Keith Ablow uses the term "homosexual sex" while criticizing pro-gay advertisements.
And Fox's Bill O'Reilly was recently mocked for a segment in which he attacked the Girl Scouts for "leaning left," seizing in particular on the organization's employment of a spokesman who participated "in a punk rock band with homosexual overtones":
Guinness announced that it will not participate in the New York City St. Patrick's Day parade due to the parade's exclusion of LGBT groups, prompting outrage and calls for boycott from right-wing media figures.
Several right-wing media figures reacted with outrage on Twitter after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have permitted businesses and individuals to refuse to serve gay couples and individuals.
Fox News Radio reporter Todd Starnes effusively praised hate group spokesman Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (AFA) as "one of the most intelligent talk show hosts in the country." Fischer is notorious for making rabidly homophobic statements, including the claim that gay men caused the Holocaust.
During a February 24 appearance on American Family Radio's Focal Point with Bryan Fischer, Starnes and Fischer discussed a halted Federal Communications Commission (FCC) study that would have examined how well newsrooms are meeting the public's "critical information needs" on key public policy issues. Right-wing media hyped the study as an invasive survey that could lead to the federal government dictating news coverage.
While the FCC has backed off the study following public comment, Fischer said it "sounded" like the FCC is "reloading" and will proceed with the study anyway. In his discussion of the study, Fischer accused the Obama administration of trying to censor anti-gay views. Starnes agreed, suggesting that the Bible could soon be censored or outlawed. The Fox commentator praised Fischer's analysis of the FCC study as emblematic of why Fischer is "one of the most intelligent talk show hosts in the country":
Right-wing media figures, led by Fox News, have launched a campaign against the Girl Scouts accusing the group of indoctrinating young girls into liberal politics. The accusation has been propped up by misleading claims, ludicrous oversimplifications, and frequently repeated myths about the organization, which focuses on empowering girls.
Fox News has spent the last several months championing anti-gay business owners who refuse to serve gay customers - depicting efforts to prevent discrimination as threats to religious liberty. Now, with several states debating bills that would legalize homophobic discrimination in business and employment, Fox News is now defending the extreme, anti-gay segregation policies it helped to create.
The push to legalize anti-gay discrimination first came to public attention on February 12, when the Kansas House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing individuals and businesses to refuse any services "related to, or related to the celebration of" any union - effectively allowing blanket protection for the denial of services to gay couples. After a storm of negative publicity, the State Senate has shelved the bill.
Similar bills have recently died in Idaho, South Dakota, and Tennessee, but the Arizona legislature has sent its own license to discriminate measure to Republican Gov. Jan Brewer's desk.
The wave of anti-gay segregation measures is the culmination of a concerted right-wing strategy, bolstered by Fox News, to cast anti-gay discrimination as an integral part of religious freedom.
Long before the public outcry over Kansas' license to discriminate bill, Fox threw its weight behind businesses whose owners refuse, ostensibly on religious grounds, to serve gay and lesbian couples - precisely the form of discrimination that conservative state legislators have sought to legalize.
As part of Fox's continued conflation of homophobia and Christianity, the network has repeatedly defended discrimination by anti-gay business owners as an essential part of religious liberty.
On December 10, Fox & Friends hosted Colorado baker Jack Phillips and his extremist Alliance Defending Freedom-affiliated attorney to discuss a court ruling that Phillips had violated the state's anti-discrimination law by refusing to serve a same-sex couple. The segment featured a graphic proclaiming "The Death Of Free Enterprise," while co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked Phillips why he thought he shouldn't have to discard his "personal religious beliefs just to make a buck."
Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers and Fox News Radio reporter Todd Starnes continued their feud over Kansas' anti-gay segregation bill, with Powers calling Starnes out for "lying" in his criticism of her opposition to the measure.
The feud between Starnes and Powers began on February 19 with a USA Today column in which Powers challenged supporters of a Kansas bill which would have allowed businesses to refuse to serve gay and lesbian couples on religious grounds. "Christians backing this bill," Powers charged, "are essentially arguing for homosexual Jim Crow laws." Powers' Fox colleagues Starnes and Erick Erickson swiftly criticized the column and defended the Kansas bill as an effort to protect religious liberty.
Starnes reignited the feud with a February 20 tweet alleging that Powers - an evangelical Christian who quoted religious opponents of the Kansas bill in her column -- showed an ignorance of Christianity:
Powers pushed back, accusing Starnes of lying:
Starnes continued to take umbrage at the comparison between Jim Crow laws and "license to discriminate" legislation, charging Powers with "smearing people" who supported the legislation and accusing his critics of "playing the race card":
Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers condemned a legislative push in Kansas to legalize religiously-motivated anti-gay business and employment discrimination, contradicting Fox News' pattern of defending anti-gay discrimination and sparking criticism from Powers' Fox News colleagues.
In a column for USA Today published on February 19, Powers blasted a Kansas bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse services to same-sex couples based on the owner's religious views. Since its passage by the state House of Representatives on February 12, the bill has been shelved by the Kansas Senate. Powers took issue with supporters of "homosexual Jim Crow laws" using Christianity to justify anti-gay bigotry - a common practice at Fox News (emphasis added):
Whether Christians have the legal right to discriminate should be a moot point because Christianity doesn't prohibit serving a gay couple getting married. Jesus calls his followers to be servants to all. Nor does the Bible call service to another an affirmation.
Christians backing this bill are essentially arguing for homosexual Jim Crow laws.
Christians serve unrepentant murderers through prison ministry. So why can't they provide a service for a same-sex marriage?
Some claim it's because marriage is so sacred. But double standards abound. Christian bakers don't interrogate wedding clients to make sure their behavior comports with the Bible. If they did, they'd be out of business. [Evangelical pastor Andy] Stanley said, "Jesus taught that if a person is divorced and gets remarried, it's adultery. So if (Christians) don't have a problem doing business with people getting remarried, why refuse to do business with gays and lesbians."
Maybe they should just ask themselves, "What would Jesus do?" I think he'd bake the cake.
Powers' Fox colleague Erick Erickson made clear that he wasn't a fan of her column, tweeting a link to a blog post that criticized her position and called the right to refuse service essential to "the common good." Erickson called the post "your must read of the day":
Right-wing media outlets and personalities attacked a Coca-Cola ad aired during the Super Bowl that featured members of different cultures singing "America the Beautiful" in several languages.
On January 28, President Obama gave his fifth State of the Union speech during which he addressed the urgent need to act on climate change. Conservative media pundits latched on to the cold winter weather in the area during his speech to laugh off global warming, despite the clear long-term warming trend.
Right-wing media figures condemned the weddings of 33 same-sex and opposite-sex couples at the 56th annual Grammy Awards, describing the ceremony as an attack on Christianity.
Fox News Radio reporter Todd Starnes equated New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with arch-segregationist Bull Connor, distorting recent remarks by Cuomo to falsely suggest that the Democratic governor wants to "politically segregate the state."
Speaking with a reporter on January 17, Cuomo decried right-wing politicians who have opposed his policies in support of LGBT equality, abortion rights, and gun safety. Characterizing the Republican Party as riven by a schism between moderates and conservatives, Cuomo said that dynamic was playing out in New York:
The Republican Party candidates are running against the SAFE Act -- it was voted for by moderate Republicans who run the Senate! Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that's who they are and they're the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that's not who New Yorkers are.
While Cuomo explicitly referred to "Republican Party candidates" and said in the same interview that it's "fine" for people to disagree with him, right-wing commentators instantly mischaracterized the governor's comments to claim that he wished to rid the state of all conservatives. Starnes, in a January 20 FoxNews.com column titled "Governor Andrew 'Bull Connor' Cuomo," reacted with characteristic hyperbole and misinformation:
Get out of New York!
That's the message Empire State Governor Andrew Cuomo is sending to pro-life, pro-gun, pro-traditional marriage conservatives.
Take that in for just a moment. New York's Democratic governor believes people who are pro-life are extremists. Extremists.
Donald Trump? Not welcome. Cardinal Dolan -- you're outta here, pal. Cuomo just can't have those kind of people living on the streets of New York City.
When did Governor Cuomo become Bull Connor -- trying to politically segregate the state?
What's he going to do next, unleash the dogs and turn the hoses on conservative boys and girls?
Even yours truly, could be forced find a new place to live. I live among the intolerant liberal people of Brooklyn. I'm also a card-carrying member of the National Rifle Association and an evangelical Christian.
It's only a matter of time before the governor's foot soldiers knock on my door and give this gun-toting, Bible-clinging, son-of-a-Baptist the heave ho.
Starnes' column is merely the latest example of his willingness to make baseless claims of anti-Christian persecution in order to justify his own bigoted views. As Fox's in-house mouthpiece for anti-gay hate groups, Starnes views every gain for LGBT equality as an assault on religious liberty. He has claimed that "Christians are trading places with homosexuals" since the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." He has defended anti-LGBT business discrimination, writing that non-discrimination protections are efforts to replace "God's law" with "man's law." When the Supreme Court struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Starnes tweeted, "Supreme Court overrules God" and predicted that it "[w]on't be long before they outlaw the Bible as hate speech."
Starnes' anti-Cuomo diatribe might be typical of his previous work, but equating the governor with Connor, the Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety who sanctioned brutal attacks against civil rights activists and presided over "the most segregated city in America," marks a deplorable low for a reporter whose history of race-baiting exposes his own ugly bigotry.
Right-wing media responded to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) admission that his administration caused a traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge as political payback with praise for the embattled governor and used Christie's response to pivot to criticisms of President Obama including invoking the phony Benghazi scandal.


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'Supernatural': Is this the best Castiel cosplay ever?Add to Favorites | Supernatural
San Diego Comic-Con 2014 is over. But the cosplay lives on, it seems.
The "Supernatural" fandom was still buzzing Sunday (July 27) night about one particularly good cosplayer, Keeleigh West, who goes by @BigBlackWings on Twitter. Not only did she do the trenchcoat and suit, but she also created a set of insanely beautiful ... well ... big black wings. We spotted her on Friday, July 25, when she posed for a picture for our Instagram.
We suspect she's going to have a lot of responding to do on Twitter once she returns home from San Diego.
What do you say, #SPNFamily? Is this the best Castiel cosplay of all time? Sound off in the comments below, or show us your cosplay on Twitter or Instagram!
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Make the box toploading, and use at least 3–4" of good insulation all around. Also, put in a drain to allow you to get rid of ice water melt, but put a valve or a p-trap type bend in it to prevent cold air from flowing down it. If you use a p-trap type seal, make sure it doesn't drain into the bilge, since it will cause an awful stench.
Volume depends on how much storage you need... how long do you typically go out for, and how much food that requires refrigeration do you normally carry.
To size it... buy a weekend's worth of food and take the supplies that need refrigeration and put them in a box. Add about 20% to the size for ice. A cube would be more efficient in terms of space but you'll have to make the shape depending on what space you have available on the boat.
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Recognition and Disappointment (1903-1905)
The Nobel Prize and Its Aftermath
MARIE WAS NOT REALLY NOMINATED for her first Nobel Prize. From the inception of the award in 1901, the Nobel Prizes have been made after a lengthy evaluation of the merits of nominees. In 1903 the French Academy of Sciences nominated Henri Becquerel and Pierre -- but not Marie -- Curie as candidates for the physics prize. If not for the intervention of a member of the nominating committee, Swedish mathematician Magnus Goesta Mittag-Leffler, Marie might have been denied recognition for her work. But Mittag-Leffler, an advocate of women scientists, wrote Pierre advising him of the situation. In his reply Pierre made clear that a Nobel Prize for research in radioactivity that failed to acknowledge Marie's pivotal role would be a travesty. Some strings were pulled, and a nomination of Marie Curie in 1902 was validated for 1903.
In December 1903, Becquerel and both Curies were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. The Curies' citation was carefully worded to avoid specific mention of their discovery of polonium and radium. Chemists on the nominating committee had insisted that the Curies might in the future deserve a Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of those elements. And there remained some doubts about the elements, which had been isolated only in invisibly small amounts. Thus their physics prize mentioned only their collaborative work on Becquerel rays.
THE CURIES FELT TOO ILL AND TOO BUSY to travel to Stockholm for the awards ceremony that December (besides, Pierre depised ceremonies and publicity). Nobel laureates, however, were required to present a lecture describing their work's importance. In June 1905 the Curies finally made the trip. Custom dictated that Pierre deliver the lecture, but he was careful to distinguish between Marie's independent work and their joint efforts. After surveying the science of radioactivity, he added a cautionary note. Radium, like other scientific and technological discoveries (such as Nobel's explosives), might prove very dangerous in the wrong hands, "and here we must ask ourselves if humanity can benefit by knowing the secrets of nature...or if this knowledge will not be harmful to the world." But he ended his talk optimistically.
"I am one of those who believe with Nobel that mankind will derive more good than harm from the new discoveries."--Pierre Curie, Award Address for 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics
Not surprisingly, the award brought changes in the Curies' lives. The prize money was very useful. They used some of it to cover the expenses of treating pitchblende, and they could hire a paid lab assistant for the first time. Pierre's scientific achievement was finally acknowledged in his native country with an appointment to a professorship at the Sorbonne. Yet it was only after Pierre rejected the first offer, which came without provisions for a lab, that the university dug up the necessary funds. Marie, for the first time in her career, would have both a title--chief of laboratory--and a university salary. "It was not without regret that we left the School of Physics," she recalled, "where we had known such happy work days, despite their attendant difficulties." Although Pierre began his new position in the fall of 1904, the lab was not actually completed until 1906. Marie remained sensitive to these slights against Pierre's dignity.
PUBLICITY TOOK A HEAVY TOLL on the Curies in the wake of their new international acclaim. Accustomed to working quietly and without distraction in their lab, they were now prey to journalists and photographers, who pursued them both at work and at home. Not even six-year-old Irène was safe from their prying eyes. Pierre found that the unwanted intrusions destroyed his productivity. Although he had published 25 papers between July 1898 and June 1904, he published nothing in the following two years. Even his election in July 1905 to the French Academy of Sciences, which had rejected his candidacy earlier, did little to improve his frame of mind.
"A whole year has passed since I was able to do any work, and I have not one moment to myself." --letter from Pierre Curie to physicist friend Georges Gouy, July 1905
Marie, too, complained about the loss of privacy. But having too much to do seemed to energize, not enervate, her. In December 1904, a month after their move to the Sorbonne, the Curies' younger daughter, Eve, was born. Although Marie took some time off from her professional commitments, she soon resumed both her research and her teaching at the teachers' training institute for women at Sèvres. While carefully rationing the time she would spend with journalists, she attempted to explain to the public what the new discoveries meant. She even found time for museums and concerts, where Pierre joined her without enthusiasm.
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Dragon Ball Online: Opening Cinematic Video
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Release this to western audiences already >.< . Sometimes if your a big enough fan of an IP or series you'll still play it no matter how bad it is :/ . This same company also works on Super Deformed Gundam Capsule Fighter Online, which is hugely popular in eastern Asia and i play it on a Taiwanese server. The game is a great pvp game IMO, I doubt this game will end up bad either.
Take my opinion with a grain of salt if you wish I will admit I'm a fan of anime in general like said Gundam series, and DBZ >.>
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Simply put i stopped reading at "Overpowered Hero class?" (okay no not really) if he knew what he was even really talking about then he wouldn't call it overpowered. IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING but that is no longer the case.
How could anyone call WoW unimaginable for what it has done? Yes it may be similar to say EQ to some extent but at its launch it was ingenuity, it was still rather unique. This just looks like some of the same old ranting of a typical MMO veteran, times can change; but i see all this WoW bashing as rather misguided. How can he say WoW has been engineered to be addictive (not that it can't be) ? That could be said for every other MMO. I can refer you to a friend who gained 40 pounds via runescape. Addiction usually indicates underlying problems, say abuse or relationship troubles.
Way to make it sound like a conspiracy, I think if you went on to a typical WoW player the most you'll be getting about change from him would be to bring something back like say World pvp, what is this face-lift bullshit hes blabbering on about?
Now on another note, it is also not blizzards fault that so many smaller companies decide to copy-paste their game into a bootleg style version and change its name (ala Alganon [sp?]) . They want easy money, and thats the sole reason why the industry is going down. No ingenuity on their part. Maybe blizz hasn't done anything groundbreaking recently, but players like their game to generally stay the same. IF WoW lost any of its major factors and the game made some sort of huge 180, then a huge chunk of the subscribers would cancel and ruin profits and thus ruining the game. I did say earlier times can change but it is not always necessary.
The fact that you need people for "so called heroic" dungeons is a factor of community. If you mean relationships the dude states it like its impossible to acquire them! The thing is the truth is absolutely on the contrary; friendships are inevitable in WoW. I'd also like to mention an example of an improvement to the "community problem" WoW faces..supposedly..Rated battlegrounds. You need to work together to win that at least. How could i also forget raids; if you want to excel at end-game pve you need a guild, and you need to work together. I feel the strongest aspect of community in WoW than i have in most other MMOs (the only other comparable I'd say is EvE or LotR).
Please give the ranting a res, there is no conspiracy going about, Blizzard is not the problem of the industry. Instead the blogger focused a little only on the real problem which is fucking farmville. You wanted to know what lack of ingenuity looked liked? Well it looks like farmville.
Guild Wars 2: Lead Content Designer Details Dynamic Events System
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Omg, I hope they manage to succesfully implement this. Reading this it sounds amazing.
Wouldn't WOW be good again if....
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Originally posted by pojung
Yes as you stated I was 13 at the time i started playing, but not necessarily raiding; I do believe once i entered high school i started raiding and by then had a basic understanding of simple algebra (which I think was enough to do well enough on a character in WoW :p). Although regardless; my experiences in PvE which went from MC, ZG, AQ 40/20, sadly BWL only up the second boss. I stopped raiding around the time Naxx 40 came out. Yes MC did last as little as 2 hours once the gear level increased and seen pugs reach up to majordomo by the time AQ was out (looking back now i think my server was pretty bad for PvE). As for your collective laughs in a 40 man raid, Ifound these to be limited to like 10-20 people in a raid; and it was disappointing, the friendly atmosphere of 5 mans and hell even the 20 mans back then were not as present in 40 mans for me, nor did i find this to be the case with the RL friends that accompanied me. Now concerning my statement on loot, i do like it that there is a greater accessibility to purples, but not that high end. Take BC for example, The best gear one could get at the end of the expansion were a few pieces of BT/Sunwell level gear, but limited to only a few if you only did a few pug raids and 5 man heroics. Getting badges for said gear was much more challenging and longer. The thing is that even these few pieces of Sunwell level gear and Zul'aman level gear was enough to make you competitive and help you keep up but not at the same level; not sure if you get what I'm trying to get across here, getting a little difficult to get into more detail.
Now looking at class homogeneity, I can yield to the point that raid composition was much more variegated back then which was a wonderful aspect of 40 man raids. But looking at a smaller group focus, this was just not the case. Once moonkin form was released, i was the happiest druid ever, the thought of having armor equal to that of a warrior and magic damage hopefully on par to that of a mage was great (plus just look at the critters! I still love them to this day). But trying to find groups as said spec was a nightmare, my DPS was mediocre, PvP was awkward. Now I understand the philosophy of durids was jack of all trades and master of none but the margin of difference to my counterparts was to great. The only reason i ever found myself into a raid was to give other casters the 3% crit bonus of moonkin aura back then or the generosity of my guild, and sometimes i had even less priority on rolls for caster items when up against mages. If i wanted to solo PvP i had to spec feral, if i wanted to do Hardcore PvE i had to spec resto. Also yes said specs were frequently present in raids, just not as prevalent either.
Beyond that i think we now delve into difference of opinion and gameplay preference.
Edit: Just not to double post but just curious, is anybody even really happy with the way AV is now? Old AV is one of the biggest things I miss from vanilla; the hour long battles, the epic idea of summoning giant elementals to fight by your side via the blood of your enemies, letting loose shredders and the windriders/gryphons, I think the closest they will ever get to simulating a taste of world pvp and realy epic battle in PvP was by old AV. I FUCKING HATE the new AV.
Wouldn't WOW be good again if....
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As someone that has played WoW since 05, I feel like its in a better position (PvE-wise) than it was back then. Also kiting kazzak from blasted lands to stormwind doesn't make it an encounter, it makes it a flaw with the game (technically speaking). Although what i really do miss is the huge world events like the AQ materials gathering and whatnot,and the World PvP. PvP now has become boring, annoying and repetitive. My focus after the first season of Arena in BC shifted from PvP to PvE. Hopefully cataclysm will change this with the reintroduction of the PvP ranking system again, after having failed to get two toons to rank 14 at the same time (-.- smart idea), and if world PvP becomes a bigger aspect than that shitty wintergrasp or the cata version of it then hopefully it will reignite some old flames.
Now, PvE-wise, WoW is in much better shape and aiming to get even better. Admit it, 40 man raids were clunky, LOOOOOOOOOONG. It took an hour and a half to get from Magmadar to Garr, and looking back at it now that was fucking horrible. Unless you just miss those for the idea of being an elitist jerk, then w/e screw you. I do think that BC had a better balance of being able to get higher end epics than WotLK now. Just because a toon is geared for pve now doesn't mean he is any good at all..
And the whole class system was horrible compared to now. What was the point of the bloody fucking balance tree for druids or the protection tree for paladins, survival tree for hunters and other specs, were not allowed to raid in most top end guilds in early WoW. If you were to ask to get an invite into a group as a balance druid, you would just get scoffed at, ignored, blacklisted and etc. The diversity WoW has nice in class specs is great. When I think of a paladin, I don't want to just think of a holy priest in plate and a shield, I also want to be reminded of a two-handed weapon wielding warrior of the light that face-rolls shit down.
But my point being, WoW as a whole I think is better, but PvP is seriously lacking the Oomph it once had that I held dear.
New to MMORPG's. Any Suggestions?
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Originally posted by Isaacc
I found myself in the same situation. Runescape is a great MMO to start off but its audience is relatively young (somewhere 10-13 ish I'd say). Also the world's most popular pay to play is World of Warcraft, its usually hard if you haven't heard its name been tossed around before. WoW is a great game to start off with a more mature audience.
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World of Warcraft is your best bet. Easy to start off in, great story, great mechanics, helpful yet critical community.
Edit: Just wanted to add on another note, a "real" MMO definition isn't set in stone you bitter old tards. EvE is a good game but the learning curve is haaaaaaaarsh, not a good place to start off in as a fresh mmo-goer.
Next MMO to cancel/close down
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short and sweet and we all know why..
Cryptic to announce new MMO in late summer
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god please let this be the Mecha MMO I've been praying for! And if its gundam, i will parade myself around miami naked with a golden V crest on my head.
Best F2P gaming company?
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Originally posted by stevo5566
You forgot Nexon dude, that imo is the best F2P company out right now. Good titles like Maplestory and dungeon fighters. I do believe they generally get involved within their game's communities so thats always good.
Former Players Poll. Are you resubbing for CAT ?
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[quote][i]Originally posted by Aguitha[/i] [b]Will CAT makes you resub to WOW ? [/b][/quote]
With the vast majority of the MMORPG.com community hating WoW for no good reason other than "its a theme park!" or "unbalanced class pvp!" or "i hate the race to endgame!" and i could go on. I fail to see the good sense in posting such polls here now, i bet if the people here actually read the posts by blizzards community team and devs, you can see the radical turn this game is taking on actually fixing the leveling process and actually making it a greatly enjoyable thing to do and not make the race to endgame as important. World of Warcraft is also an old game now, and they are going to re-balance the classes then by all means, stop being so god damn bitter about it. I really get tired of the old grizzled veterans from UO and EQ, yess i can say EQ was a good game, I've never tried UO but seriously? I know im beating a dead horse posting another hate on WoW haters thing but damn..all these negative posts.
/rage over
Also yes i will resubb, Cata looks very promising and following every leak and bit of info as well.
Avatar Producer Jon Landau "Very Interested" In Creating An Avatar MMO
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Making a MMO out of a well known IP is rather tricky at times, and the story of Avatar is rather linear too so I don't see how this will succeed very much unless they retcon the story a bit or base the MMO on when the humans first discover pandora.
New to MMO's
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I'd take that 75% employee loss with a grain of salt, rumors spread quite fast around MMO-goers. Although i could be wrong. But last i read, FE Was still doing rather well. But if you say a harsh learning curve is fine with you, then you can also give eve a shot. Although i must warn you, don't expect to just jump right into PvP, lvling your skills is time based( as in first lvl takes an hour, next level a day, last level a month to reach) and combat is rather slow paced, its all point and click. One more thing you can look into is Darkfall; although I'm not very familiar with it, i do believe it is a skill based MMO with FPS style game-play.
No 2nd classes....
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Kinda sucks, but I don't care as long as I get a necromancer as a class option.
New to MMO's
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I think you might enjoy Fallen Earth a lot. Its an FPS tied into a sandbox mmorpg with plenty of pve and pvp. As for someone just trying out MMOs, i would steer away from Eve unless your up for the very harsh learning curve it has to offer, and the slow paced combat (that right there killed it for me).
General: Community Spotlight: Why are Instances Bad?
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They simply take the World feel out of some mmos for me, i don't hate instances but their use should be limited. GW for example is instances everywhere! that game had absolutely no "massive" feeling in it for me. But consider say WoW, the territories aren't instances, only repeatable things such as dungeons and battlegrounds are. That didn't take away from the massive world feeling
Star Wars, who will not play it? Who will? and why?
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If this game's first and foremost audience are Star wars fans, I probably won't play it. I'm not very familiar with the series and never really interested me. The game-play has to be amazing, the world would need to be seamless and the story line needs to be immersive explaining a lot of facts, or I'd be so lost.
So.. What's up?
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I hear ya dude, there has been a lack of info for the past month and i thought they were opening the floodgates; I'm still wiaitng on a decent gameplay vid!
General: Blizzard to Integrate Battle.net and Facebook
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No dance studio we promised a few years back, but hey! your achievements in WoW will now show up on your facebook!
General Discussion « Guild Wars 2
I hope when they mean Seamless they really mean seamless, i hated the loading screens in GW, too many and too long.
TSW a zombie mmo?
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This game will definitely have zombies and plenty of them. This game will gather all of the superstitions from the past and present and mash them up. This game won't be a zombie MMO exclusively, but it certainly won't lack any. Heres hoping they also add in necromancer/necromantic spells you can learn.


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On November 20, 2013, Rizvi Springfield's Shaw became made international headlines as he became India's highest scorer (third highest all time score in the world) in an inter-school cricket match, scoring 546 runs in 367 minutes in his school's Harris Shield match against St Francis D'Assisi (Borivli).
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keepin the thread kickin... lets post up some wishlist pics......here is my contribution....
I don't have any recent pics of my TDI, get some up soon, but I've got a 1998 Jetta MK3 TDI. GT2056V from a Mercedes 3.0l CDI Bluetech, PP768, big front mount, and a straight through 3" exhaust.
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I like this thread. Here's my contribution.. I took the photo, but that's my pal David!
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Im in the market for a dead Jetta wagon.... HERES WHY!
Great Thread!!!
First off 3 pages and NO GreaseCar Bunny shots!!!
Secondly... watch for a thread on this cars build up.. coming soon to a vortex near you!
Just need to place orders for the pistons and rods I want then its off to the races (well garage but you get the idea)
The stuff from this car:
Air to Water
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and just about everything bar the holy floored shell will be going into this :-D
AWESOME!! Keep us posted!
Heres some pix of my 05 Jetta TDI that I just got done lowering with Eibach pro springs and put some 18'' MSR wheels on!
Im looking to do some work to it but not really sure what my limitations are as far as block, auto trans, axel strength are? Any insight from anyone that knows about the TDI's would be great!
And here is my other Diesel LOL
Here's my 2010 Golf TDI going around the SCCA track
I upgraded the tires and wheels later in the season.
Here's a friends mk4 leaving a smoke cloud
It was my first year in SCCA. This summer I picked up a ride with a subbie rs. Which makes a little sad that i wont be driving the TDI around the track.
from an autocross a couple of summers ago..
it was mostly stock back then. I have much better tires and brakes now, along with revo software. I had it on the track once last year, and will definitely be spending more time on the track this year.
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I think that there was an article about this bad bunny in GRM, no?
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Rootrider, how is the revo software? Has the dealer done any ecu flashes to yours? Mine has suffered from the notorious hiccup and has been given an updated firmware that helped. At my 20k, they did a second flash which didn't make a difference. I want to do the flash, but don't want the dealer to wipe it while they try to QA their ecu software on my car.
I'm scheduled to have my ecu flashed by the dealer next week.. and then we'll flash the latest revo revision onto the ecu and see how it goes.
I have a rather boring video of my car on the track a couple of weeks ago
it's quiet due to gopro's crappy audio, but then, all you're hearing is rain & tire noise.. the engine's fairly quiet.
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@rootrider the hiccup/shudder/hesitation that occurs around 1800 - 2000 RPM for a lot of folks (you're lucky if you never saw it). Hence the reflash you will get from the dealer and each one makes it better. Mine used to actually die on occasion before the first software update. Because of that, I'm hesitant to get the Revo Flash as I don't want to bench flash it every 6 months, especially if it costs me money every time.
BTW, how do you like your Direzza's in the rain? I've done a few HPDEs in the Rain and found them to be a tad slippery. Speaking of the lack of noise, people would laugh if I drove by all by myself as the TDI really doesn't make too much noise.
I love the stance with the STaSIS/Koni coilovers. That's next on my list.
Mine is the 6spd. I ran the Direzzas last year, but am going to give the RS3s a shot for street/hpde
Nice to see some TDI action here.
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I'm not sure what to make of this thread. The serve and volley game is a game of the Sampras style and makes Pete what he is, the greatest player of the 1990's. Sampras held serve by percentage more often than anyone in the 1990's and he didn't do it by staying at the baseline after serving.
That being written, Sampras obviously had a lot of great physical talent. The guy was a very smooth and quick movement with a very penetrating forehand, arguably the best forehand in tennis. If he didn't serve and volley I'm sure his backhand would have been different because he would have had to adapt to the baseline game.
I don't think Sampras had the greatest backhand but it was good in that it fit into his style of play, which was to often be used to slice and approach the net. Sampras' backhand was excellent for that purpose and for many other reasons.
If we assume Sampras just served (assuming his serve was the same type of serve) and also never followed it to the net, he would still control the point because that awesome serve (and second serve) would not allow his opponent to hit an offensive return. I think Sampras would be excellent if he didn't serve and volley.
Would it allow him to win as many Wimbledons? Maybe not but maybe he may have won a lot more clay court titles and maybe a French or two.
It's hard to imagine Sampras getting better if he changed his style considering the great results he actually had but I think he would have been a tremendous player. The man had a great will to win and he would have found a way if he played with a different style. The Newcombe comment about Sampras when the Aussies played against the United States was very impressive to me about Pete's will to win.
Now if his serve was average and he rarely volleyed, well you're removing one of the great weapons in the history of tennis and that has to hurt him. I think he would have compensated in other areas but it would be very hard to replace that serve in total. I think he would have still been a terrific player but it kind of nice to have a serve that erases mistakes. Agassi said that Pete can play lousy for 43 minutes, play well for a minute or two and win the set. That's because of the awesome serve.
His movement as always would be superb, you figure that he would even work harder to improve his stamina and you figure his backhand would be more of a drive from the backhand. I think he would still be excellent.
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Howdy, folks. Hope y'all have been enjoying the AO so far.
I just wanted to do some thread maintenance and hopefully expand and revise the current list a bit. Here's where we stand right now:
1. Ivanisevic
2. Karlovic
3. Sampras
4. Krajicek
5. Roddick
6. Stich
7. Becker
8. McEnroe
9. Rusedski
10. Edberg
Honorary mentions: Tilden, Vines, Kramer
So the roster remains the same as before. The million-$ question is which of the following names should be added to it.
These I believe should belong somewhere on the list or at least deserve an honorary mention:
I'm also willing to add these names or think a good case can be made for their inclusion:
Joachim Johansson
And I'm leaving out these names unless one can play a convincing devil's advocate (remember, we're trying to rank the best of the best): Borg, Denton, Sadri, Lendl, Leconte, Warner, Goellner, Rafter, Dent, Federer.
Of the old-timers I think Fraser may deserve an honorable mention. Doeg and Roche, not so much. I'm still undecided on Ashe, Dibley, Smith and Vijay Amritraj.
Maybe this post above by krosero could move this debate forward a little:
Do you guys agree? Feel free to weigh in on this and more.
And for the record, I've seen that a lot of you have put Sampras at or near the top. Let me say I don't actually disagree. Pete sure had a complete package, and if I had to pick one player to serve for that ultimate match I'd probably go with Sampras myself. I just think that, as a pure stand-alone shot, Goran's and Ivo's serve is better.
Now there are a few areas where Pete is superior, including his matchless 2nd serve and clutch (though I'd say the latter has more to do with his mental strength than his service mechanics per se). And there's the phenomenal amount of spin (topspin in particular) he put on his serves, which not only made the ball at the time of the return higher and heavier but also sometimes made it all but impossible to return. If you carefully observe some of Sampras' serves down the T on the ad side you can see the ball clearly moving away from the returner by as many as three feet
it hits the ground. Just imagine how demoralizing it must be, especially on a break point, for the returner to guess correctly where the serve is going but still be unable to make the slightest contact with the ball. That's what Sampras' opponents had to endure when he smacked cannonballs right on the center line onto the ad court. They knew it was coming but there was nothing they could do about it. Having said all that, I still think Goran's and Ivo's serve can bring more heat and do more damage as a stand-alone shot, and Sampras himself has admitted this (regarding Goran's).
Top notch post.
Just a few comments. Pancho Gonzalez deserves a bit more than an honorable mention since so many have considered his serve not just the best of his time but the greatest ever. He had a very smooth effortless motion that allowed him to serve as powerfully in the fifth set as he would in the first set.
John Newcombe's serve was clearly the best of his time and very comparable to Sampras' serve, both first and second although I would gave Sampras only a slight edge. Where he belongs, I don't know but it was a superb serve. Incidentally it was far superior to Edberg's serve. Newcombe's kick second serve was legendary and the power on his first serve was superior to Edberg's also.
If we use a common foe in Jimmy Connors as an example. Newcombe played Connors in the 1973 US Open quarters and did not lose his serve once. I'm not sure if Connors even had a break point and Newcombe served a ton of aces against a Connors who I believe was at his prime or near his prime. It was a typical serving exhibition by Newcombe. Connors had a lot of problems returning the great serve of Newcombe. Connors later was able to defeat Newcombe but Newcombe was no longer serious about his tennis anymore and was over the hill.
Now Edberg, while he had an excellent serve, really relied more on his super volley to win his service games. Edberg played Connors numerous times and according to the ITF website, they were tied at six matches apiece. That's besides the point. The reason I believe Connors was so successful against Edberg, despite the fact Connors was not in his prime anymore was that Connors was able to return Edberg's serve very well despite the fact Edberg was in his prime.
It's very clear to me that Newcombe had a much superior serve than Edberg.
Yes I know there are a lot of possible flaws to this logic but I have seen some of these matches and I believe these are the reasons behind it.
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Opener Kraigg Brathwaite celebrated his selection to the West Indies side for the tour of India with an unbeaten century here on the final day of second unofficial 'Test' between India 'A' and the West Indies 'A', which ended in a draw.
With the possibilities of an outright win for either team never even in the picture, it was a bizarre outburst from captain Kirk Edwards at the post-match press conference which took prominence on Saturday.
Edwards was unlucky to be given out leg-before for two; the ball appeared to have taken an inside edge.
Asked about being recalled to the West Indies side, he replied: "I cannot say I was confident of making the team; I have seen worse things happen to me over the last couple of years."
The 28-year-old also expressed no sympathy for those who weren't picked.
"My heart is a bit cold about feeling bad for people (who did not get selected). Sometimes, guys do not have to do much to get picked. Then, there are guys who really have to work hard to get picked. Whoever feels hard done by needs to suck it up," he added.
The Barbados batsman will make his international comeback after a gap of two years, when the West Indies tours India next month.
On eve of the match, Edwards had mentioned that he would rather "not have to play this series to get back into international cricket."
Brathwaite, meanwhile, was all business. He has now registered scores of 92, 34, 82 and 104 not out in the first two matches of this series, reason enough for his skipper to call him a "special cricketer."
There were no comeback stories from the India 'A' squad, with Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan hardly making an impact.
The teams will now travel to Hubli to play the final 'Test', another opportunity for the veterans to coax their way into the Indian team.
The scores:
West Indies 'A' — 1st innings: 406 in 121.5 overs.
India 'A' — 1st innings: 359 in 131.1 overs.
West Indies 'A' — 2nd innings: Kraigg Brathwaite (not out) 104 (247b, 15x4), Kieran Powell c Kaul b Zaheer 14 (47b, 2x4), Kirk Edwards lbw Bhatt 2 (3b), Narsingh Deonarine lbw b Bhatt 93 (142b, 13x4, 2x6), Assad Fudadin (not out) 3 (48b), Extras (b-2, lb-3, w-1, nb-1) 7; Total (for three wickets in 81 overs) 223.
Fall of wickets: 1-34 (Powell), 2-43 (Edwards), 3-187 (Deonarine).
India 'A' bowling: Zaheer Khan 13-4-27-1, Mohammed Shami 8-4-25-0, Parvez Rasool 27-10-39-0, Bhargav Bhatt 27-1-104-2, Abhishek Nayar 1-0-12-0, V.A. Jagadeesh 5-1-11-0.
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The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the United States rose nearly 12 cents during the past two weeks world crises heightened concerns in the oil market.
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U.S. consumer prices recorded their largest increase in six months in December as gasoline prices rebounded.
U.S. producer prices recorded their largest increase in six months in December as the cost of gasoline rebounded strongly.
Oil prices could go well under $80 a barrel if a deal is struck to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions, an expert says.
Roads could get icy again and gas prices have been ticking upward since last month, but that won't stop Americans from traveling this holiday season, AAA says.
At long last, true energy independence for the United States is within reach. But will it matter?
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A private technology security firm described in extraordinary detail efforts it blamed on a Chinese military unit to hack into 141 businesses, mostly inside the U.S., and steal commercial secrets. China denies the claim.
A look at the company, Mandiant, and why its report is significant:
--What is Mandiant?
Headquartered in Alexandria, Va., Mandiant was started in 2004 by Kevin Mandia, a retired Air Force officer who carved out a lucrative niche investigating computer crimes. Mandiant says it can detect and trace even quiet intrusions, such as the theft of employee passwords or trade secrets that a company otherwise might not be aware is happening.
Mandiant was most recently noted for its work in helping The New York Times trace an attack on its employees' computers to China, following a Times investigation into China's Premier Wen Jiabao. The newspaper publicly acknowledged Mandiant's role in the case.
--Are there other companies like Mandiant? Why not just call the FBI?
There are other companies that specialize in cybercrime response and forensics, including CrowdStrike, Kroll Advisory Solutions, and Stroz Friedberg in New York. Others specialize in establishing and testing a company's computer defenses and monitoring traffic to detect hackers or suspicious behavior.
Companies can be reluctant to call the FBI. Businesses don't want to hand over their most sensitive information -- including computers and proprietary data -- to the government and would rather maintain control of the investigation. Many companies are less concerned about tracing the origin of an attack than resuming business to make money. They also don't want their vulnerabilities discussed in a courtroom or leaked to news organizations or shareholders, which can happen if the government were involved. Companies like Mandiant have a big financial incentive -- and signed confidentiality promises -- to keep names of clients secret.
--What did Mandiant's report say? Why is it important?
Mandiant alleges that it has traced a massive hacking campaign on U.S. businesses to a drab, white 12-story office building outside Shanghai run by "Unit 61398" of the People's Liberation Army. The report contains some of the most extensive and detailed accusations on China's cybersnooping publicly available, including a timeline and details of malware used.
The U.S. government, including its intelligence agencies, almost certainly has similar and even more detailed information but it's regarded as highly classified. Being a private company, Mandiant doesn't have to keep its information secret, although it hasn't released the names of the companies attacked.
--Why did Mandiant publish its findings?
Mandiant says it was time to call out China for its systematic hacking and that releasing as many details as possible will help security professionals. It acknowledged in a statement that releasing the information was risky because it said the Chinese will change tactics now that some of its techniques are known. Mandiant also said it expects itself to be targeted, beyond what it described as an unsophisticated effort in April to trick some employees into installing malicious software disguised as a draft press release. "We expect reprisals from China as well as an onslaught of criticism," Mandiant wrote.
Mandiant has an obvious commercial interest in releasing the information, too. The company said its existing customers were already warned about and protected against the techniques it discovered, and it offered a free software tool to companies and organizations to detect suspicious activity. It puts Mandiant front-and-center at a critical time on a national debate about cybersecurity. Its founder testified earlier this month to the House Intelligence Committee on hacking threats. Last week, President Barack Obama signed an executive order aimed at improving government cooperation with industry, and Congress is weighing various legislative proposals on the matter.
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Chase Vallot just knew it was his day.
He felt good during the afternoon. His family was in the crowd. And he provided the means necessary for a Burlington Royals victory.
Vallot went 2-for-5 with a home run and three RBI to catapult Burlington past the Bluefield Blue Jays 9-6 in Appalachian League baseball Sunday night at Burlington Athletic Stadium.
Vallot's family from Louisiana — including his parents, sister, girlfriend, grandparents and great-grandmother — are in town this week to watch his games and celebrate his upcoming birthday. They hung out much of the day Sunday, and his parents even did his laundry.
"I got to sleep with them (over)night, spend the day with them," Vallot said. "It just made me feel good."
Trailing 6-4, Burlington (20-22) pulled ahead with a four-run seventh inning where all nine batters went to the plate. Two singles and a walk loaded the bases for Amalani Fukofuka, who walked to bring in a run.
Then Vallot sent a single through the left side, driving in a pair and giving Burlington its first lead of the night at 7-6.
"(Vallot) is battling the first-year catching load, … new league," Burlington manager Tommy Shields said. "He swung the bat very well (this game)."
Logan Moon wrapped up the inning with a sacrifice fly to left field.
Vallot homered to lead off the fourth, Burlington's first run of the day. The solo shot to left tied Vallot with Brandon Dulin for the team's lead with six home runs.
"Chase kind of woke us up a little bit with his home run," Shields said.
Burlington's Jose Martinez had an RBI single in the fourth. Burlington also pushed one more across in the eighth on an error. Outfielder Lane Adams, on a rehab assignment from Class AA Northwest Arkansas, went 2-for-3 with a walk and a two-RBI triple in the fifth.
Burlington pitchers registered eight walks, five from Julio Pinto. He also threw two wild pitches.
"I thought offensively, we swung the bats really well," Shields said. "Obviously, that saved us. We didn't pitch great. … The offense carried us, which was good."
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Shields came out to argue the call, but the run stayed on the board. The game also included a batter's interference call and a number of base-running mistakes.
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Fareham Newgate Lane North: major improvement scheme
Updated 27th May 2015
Improvement scheme for the northern section of Newgate Lane between Palmerston Drive and Tanners Lane in Fareham.
Updates and news
On Monday 20 April the new traffic lights on Newgate Lane outside the HMS Collingwood main gate will be switched on. See the Dyer and Butler Ltd website for details:
Following a review of the construction programme, this scheme is now set to be completed in July. Extra work on moving utility cables, additional drainage and adjusting the works programme to maintain traffic capacity during the working day has meant the works will need to carry on past the original estimated completion date and into July.
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The main contract work was awarded to Dyer and Butler Ltd, a south Hampshire company.
- work started end of May 2014 and will be completed in June 2015
- 30mph speed limit applies during the works
The contractor maintains the capacity of the existing road as much as possible from 6am to 7pm, seven days a week.
This means that work requiring traffic lane closures using traffic signal controls are done at night (7pm to 6am). Health and safety and operational reasons may mean that this is not always possible.
The County Council is committed to keeping road users informed of the intended traffic management programme and any unexpected changes to traffic routes. Information will be updated on this page, and sent to local media, and via the County Council Twitter page @Hantsconnect.
The contractor will ensure that all activities are communicated in good time to local residents and the travelling public. Electronic variable message signs will be placed on the approaches to Newgate Lane (A32 Gosport Road and B3385 Broom Way) to provide advance warning of any unexpected events that may impact on traffic flows.
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Provision of two lanes in each direction between points just north of the roundabout junction with Longfield Avenue, southwards to a point just north of the junction with Tanners Lane.
Enlargement of the roundabout junction with Longfield Avenue to provide two circulating lanes with two lane entries and exits on the Newgate Lane arms of the junction.
Changes to the existing roundabout junction with Speedfield Park, to provide two southbound ahead lanes and an extended left turn lane towards the retail parks.
Provision of a new signal controlled junction serving HMS Collingwood, to replace the existing Pelican crossing on Newgate Lane outside HMS Collingwood.
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Improving access towards the Solent Enterprise Zone at the former Daedalus site is also a key objective and the intention is that this scheme will be complemented by further improvements to the southern section of Newgate Lane and Peel Common roundabout.
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When a young man turns 18 years old, the government starts treating him like an adult.
He can buy cigarettes, get married and even enlist in the military.
But if that same 18-year-old can put a ball in a basket, he's unable to play in the NBA.
And the league is interested in adopting a new rule essentially requiring players to attend two years of college, a possibility that has several Clippers players frustrated.
"I think that's the dumbest idea ever," center DeAndre Jordan said. "For what? Why make those guys, those college phenoms, stay in college for two years? Some of our greatest players, Hall of Famers, Top 50 players are going to be guys who came out of high school. Why should we put an age limit on it?"
New NBA commissioner Adam Silver made it clear raising the age minimum from 19 to 20 is a top priority. He said an extra year would provide players with more maturity entering the league, making for a more competitive product.
The rule wouldn't force players to attend college, but it would force them to wait two years after graduating high school, allowing for players to play overseas or in the NBA's Developmental League. The rule could not take effect until the players and owners can opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement after the 2016-17 season.
Clippers coach Doc Rivers doesn't like the proposed changes.
"I just have a philosophical view about it, that guys should have a right to earn a living," the Clippers coach said. "I can go and fight in Iraq at 18, but I can't play in the NBA? That's silly to me."
Rivers left college after his junior season, and his son Austin left Duke after one season.
"Let's just be honest. The colleges want them to stay in college to help the colleges," Rivers said. "That's what it is at the end of the day."
Chris Paul, president of the NBA players' union, said he's also against raising the age limit, and like most players, feels the age restriction should be lifted.
"Every situation is different," said Paul, who left Wake Forest after two seasons. "… I knew I wasn't ready after my freshman year. But, that's not everybody's situation. I think you should have the option or opportunity to decide if you think you're ready. … If you feel like you're ready, it shouldn't be someone else's decision."
Just because Paul and Rivers believe players should be able to forgo college, it doesn't mean they don't see the value in going.
"You grow up in college, and to me, that's why college is so nice," Rivers said. "You have a chance to mature, live with no money and live in the dorms. I think the college experience is vital for us to grow up. That's what kids miss. I don't think it's the basketball part."