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- Publisher: Infinite Game Publishing
- Release Date: Sep 17, 2013
- Summary: MechWarrior Online is the first offiicially licensed free-to-play title in the MechWarrior franchise.
- Developer: Piranha Games
- Genre(s): First-Person Shooters
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Score distribution:
Positive: 3 out of 10
Mixed: 7 out of 10
Negative: 0 out of 10
Sep 14, 2014Nice gameplay and deep strategy for the latest incarnation of Mechwarrior. Too bad it lacks any kind of Single Player content.
Nov 4, 2013Slightly overpriced, but a more than worthy successor to one of PC gaming's greatest franchises that nails the important part: combat.
Sep 24, 2013Piranha has long promised that "community warfare" will address this lack of endgame, but that feature has been delayed so often that it's hard to be sure if it's ever coming out. It's a bit of a shame that there's so little reason to keep at MechWarrior Online. The matches themselves are fun–and as it is free-to-play, there's no barrier to entry–but without any form of metagame it's hard to stay engaged.
Oct 22, 2013MechWarrior Online does a pretty good job in balancing out the gameplay and gives you lots of BattleMechs, weapons and items to buy, but it's got only two game modes and it's definitely not that fun.
Sep 30, 2013When firing on all cylinders, MWO is an enjoyable sim-shooter, but for all the overheating energy weapons in the world, the current product still feels a little half-baked.
Sep 27, 2013If the game had made better use of its assets and given us a reason to care about more than the fleeting pleasures of customization and combat, it might be worth enduring the currency grind. As it is, like its strongest mechs, it runs out of power far too fast.
Sep 30, 2013At the core, MechWarrior Online delivers deep, fun tactical combat, serving it up with a fantastic visual experience. There are all sorts of nuances and tricks to discover that help set skilled players apart from newcomers. But all of that is squandered by an incomplete wrapping that's more focused on selling items than covering the basics. This is reinforced by the high price of some item shop 'Mechs.
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Positive: 280 out of 758
Mixed: 96 out of 758
Negative: 382 out of 758
Sep 17, 2013It's a F2P game you can play every night and enjoy with friends. It has classic Mech combat and at this moment I think the balance is theIt's a F2P game you can play every night and enjoy with friends. It has classic Mech combat and at this moment I think the balance is the best it's ever been since Closed Beta. The game is addicting and it's incredibly fun to design different Mechs. Between this and League of Legends all my competitive Multiplayer needs have been ruthlessly satisfied for many, many months. All the stuff that isn't in the game yet isn't a buzzkill to me like it appears to be for many others, and only gives me something to look forward to. Judging the game as it is currently though I figure if I am looking forward to sitting down for a couple hours on it nearly every day then it deserves a rating of ten in my book.… Expand
Sep 24, 2013MWO is a fun game at its core. The levels and mechs are beautiful and the controls are, once gotten used to, make sense and work well. PGIMWO is a fun game at its core. The levels and mechs are beautiful and the controls are, once gotten used to, make sense and work well. PGI has a relatively small team and what they've accomplished is nothing short of amazing.… Expand
Jan 15, 2015MWO is a very good experience. Mech are well designed and give a good experience of fighting in a huge robot. It is the only Mechwarrior gameMWO is a very good experience. Mech are well designed and give a good experience of fighting in a huge robot. It is the only Mechwarrior game I know that succeed to balance light vs heavy mech. In all other game, bigger is better (more armor, more weapons). In this game, having a light mech is not only fun (high speed, low figure easy to hide) but in the hand of the best player (not me :), it could be the very efficient.
The game make you really feel piloting a huge robot: I am often hidden behind a building or a hill. I generally try to show, shoot and go back hiding. Often, part of my mech is still behind the building firing, and half my weapon only shoot the building.
The game has slowly evolve (it is why I put only a 8). But now, it gets a lot of different maps and 4 different game mode (one where you have to assault a huge base, and you have 4 mechs to drop during the battle).
There is pretty much no bug now.… Expand
Sep 17, 2013Ok, my first vote was influenced by my anger at the bad release. This game could be great but at this state it is not more than a fill-inOk, my first vote was influenced by my anger at the bad release. This game could be great but at this state it is not more than a fill-in game.
1) graphic: not bad with directX11 perhaps better. We will see
2) mechdesign: great work from the lead designer alex iglesias
3) maps: insufficient and wrong scaled. you havent got the feeling of walking in a 12meter high mech.
4) ballance: ok, not perfect but ok
5) sound: nice
6) music: there is no background music
7) game modes: only 1 in 2 different variants
8) long time motivation: none, because there is only the same game mode
And now to the comment of Russ Bullock (one of the staff of PGI, the company that made this game) you can find here with a 10 point rating. What he desribes is a future vision of MWo. Not one of the features he desribes is in the game. Would they part of the game you would only find here 10/10 ratings. When will you see this features? Nobody knows. The Devs dont talk about that.
Resume: Wait a few month and perhaps it will be the perfect mech game. Now it is a nice fill-in game but not worth to pay real money for it.… Expand
Sep 17, 2013MechWarrior Online needs to be judged by the sum total of its parts. We can't use the "Beta" excuse anymore. That means the game's mechanics,MechWarrior Online needs to be judged by the sum total of its parts. We can't use the "Beta" excuse anymore. That means the game's mechanics, gameplay, development cycle and developer are all fair game.
MWO is a very good mechanical example of how the Cry Engine can be used to create a first person shooter. The concepts are extremely solid and the IP (BattleTech) is second to none.
MWO is not a very good game.
I say this because in order for there to be a game, there has to be a reason to play the game. Something to drive you. Unless dumping real money on paint schemes and custom one off mechs that are marginally useless is a gameplay mechanic, then we are left with shooting other mechs, which on the surface is great. Except once the shiny has worn off, you realize you are facing the same 3 mechs with the same 2 weapons over and over. Weapon balance is broken, hit detection is broken, features that were promised a year ago are now over the horizon, the communication in the forums is dead, unless you follow their very specific guidelines and say only nice things.
At the end of the day, I personally play games because they are fun. I had a lot of fun with MWO when I knew I was playing a beta that had a lot of polish yet to come. But over time, it became clear the developer doesn't quite understand what it has or where it wants to take it. The weapon balance is a perfect example, the weapons go through FOTM phases, as they nerf/change one weapon, another rises, and they have literally gone in a complete circle. What is good today, at launch, was good 1 year ago in beta, and is EXACTLY the same. The play style, the mechanics, none of it have changed for the better.
In the end, the game hasn't made any real progress in the last year mechanically. They have added more mechs and more maps (Some of which are just god awful, I am sorry, that is what $250k in man hours gets you? I am sorry to hear that..) but the mechs all play the same. It's a matter of finding the FOTM weapons and fitting them to the one you like the most. The matchmaker is a joke, there are no lobbies, no community warfare. I've watched dedicated unit after dedicated unit (Including mine) walk away rather than deal with this hot mess.
As a F2P shooter, to waste a weekend playing? Give it a shot. As a game you can throw yourself into? Not even close. Might be one day. I for one don't join the doom and gloom crowd, the game is a solid mechanical base for a game. I also won't jump in the bandwagon of all the guys giving it a 10, I recognized no less than 25 names as people associated with or closely aligned with PGI in the reviews that gave 10's. Just sad.… Expand
Sep 10, 2014The game itself is buggy sometimes warping and it desyncs alot. The ping-lag doesn't help. don't bother with this game it's unplayable. it'sThe game itself is buggy sometimes warping and it desyncs alot. The ping-lag doesn't help. don't bother with this game it's unplayable. it's way expensive too i see some people up to their necks in pay mechs posting good reviews to protect their baby's You only have to read everywhere else to find out about the companies bad practices and I can't blame the critics I've experienced the troubles myself with such bad balancing of weapons and bandaid after bandaid fixes it went from poor to outright ludicrous. 2 year they've been at this!? it's like a buggy demo, an arena with thing in the menu that always a WIP. oh and that menu UI thingy is a horrid clickfest.
worse still is the pricing you'll be paying full retail price games for the least amount of content and by virtue of the games multiple perk additions to your character you have to buy stuff to upgrade or you'll be using trials for so long and sand in your face for so long you'll hate the game. there's little tutorials to some controls but tactics, swim with the sharks and pay 2 winners in mechs vastly superior to what you can have for the first 50 matches. not a good F2P system at all.
overall it's really bad experience i'm going back to MW4 much more sorted out game with more lore in it to!… Expand
Apr 18, 2015MWO was supposed to be Mechwarrior 5 - when that failed for whatever reason they took the bones of a decent mechwarrior game and decided toMWO was supposed to be Mechwarrior 5 - when that failed for whatever reason they took the bones of a decent mechwarrior game and decided to prostitute them for whatever wampum they could get.
What this leaves behind is a game with two play modes:
Get randomly messed up by others for 15 minutes or 30 minutes.
While this wide variety of game types would have satisfied no one, the pay to win system is especially unwelcome, as the games economy allows you to grind forever for no real result - while paying actual dollars is the only way to get the things you need.
All that would've been forgivable - if I could have played a single player campaign like MW4 Mercs.
But as you've read what I have written so far, there's obviously nothing to forgive the crap job they've done of providing a fun Mechwarrior Game.
If you want to enjoy a game in the Battletech Universe I suggest torrenting one that was released before 2001.… Expand
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The 2015 Billboard Music Awards took over Las Vegas on Sunday (May 17), and while there were many winners, it was Taylor Swift's night.
The 2015 Billboard Music Awards took over Las Vegas on Sunday (May 17), and while there were many winners, it was Taylor Swift's night.
Choreographer Carson Dean proves a treadmill can be worked just as hard as the dancefloor in this amazing "Uptown Funk" dance routine.
In case you ever wanted to hear the characters of Family Guy belt out Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" -- and really, who wouldn't? -- here's your chance!
After explaining himself numerous timese, Kanye West has apologized for his ill-informed remarks about Beck during the 2015 Grammy Awards. On Thursday (Feb. 26), the mercurial rapper went on Twitter to say he's sorry for slandering the veteran rocker after he won Album of the Year for 'Morning Phase.'
If Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' song "Uptown Funk" doesn't make you want to shake your butt, then you need to check your pulse. The single is the No. 1 song in America and everybody is dancing to it including senior citizens. In a fun-filled viral video, senior citizens get down to Ronson's hit song.
Bruno Mars doesn't do anything halfway. He performed 'Uptown Funk' with Mark Ronson and got Ellen's entire audience involved. From choreography to backup vocals, the song turned the whole show into a party. He. Is. Just. So. Good!
Papa's got a brand new bag in the form of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. The dynamic duo brought the funk to 'Saturday Night Live' over the weekend and introduced Mystikal during an energetic set of 'Feel Right.'
From hangin' with the boys on the street, cat calls and perms, Bruno Mars makes this Mark Ronson produced hit "Uptown Funk" complete perfection. Do you LOVE this song as much as we do? Watch the retro video. The 1970's seem to fit Bruno Mars. So do the 1950's, 1960's, 1980's, 1990's and into 2000. I digress.
The 2013 MTV European Music Awards took place in Amsterdam (Nov. 10), with lots of American pop stars taking home the biggest honors of the night.
Tonight (Aug. 25) at the 2013 MTV VMAs, Taylor Swift graced the stage in a stunning gown to present the award for Best Male Video – and the winner was Bruno Mars with 'Locked Out of Heaven.'
You have been getting stoked for months. Your outfit is picked out, you go out to dinner, find a $32 parking spot and as you walk up to the concert venue, you quickly find out you have a fake ticket. DEVASTATING.
Bruno Mars has suffered a huge loss in his family. The singer-songwriter's mother, Bernadette Hernandez, passed away Saturday (June 1) of a brain aneurysm. She was 55 years old.


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Selena Gomez took a stage dive while performing in Virginia on her "Stars Dance" tour.
And no, it wasn't on purpose.
The 21-year-old pop star was in the middle of singing her single "Slow Down" when she sped up to the front of the stage and fell right off the edge (at around 3:20 into the clip).
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BOZEMAN, Mont. — Beartooth Capital is selling feel-good investment opportunities with a sporting, environmental bent.
It doesn't hurt that beautiful color photos of streams winding through tall grass, trout caught on a fly rod and vistas of blue mountains and green meadows are splashed across the firm's promotional material, which looks and reads like a travel brochure.
Beartooth Capital buys ranches, improves the properties in a variety of ways. then sells them. Investors share in the profits from the sales and other ventures the company conducts while it still owns the properties.
"It's a great way to make some money, and a fairly low-risk way to make money compared to the rest of the investment world," said Robert Keith, 37, a co-founder of Beartooth Capital. "Most of our investors are more heavily invested in riskier investments."
The results of the company's work can be seen on the Madison Spring Creek Ranch, which Beartooth bought two years ago. It lies a 45-minute drive west of Bozeman, in the valley just east of the Madison River.
By standing on a bridge over the spring-fed Darlington Ditch and looking upstream, a visitor sees a wide, shallow spring creek.
That's the adjoining landowner's place.
Look downstream and there's a sinuous creek with deep holes and riffles winding through cattails. That's the same stream modified by a Beartooth Capital contractor. The small waterway contains some beefy trout, some of which use the creek for spawning.
Nothing new
Keith noted that his company isn't doing anything new. Landowners have long restored habitat for wildlife, improved the sprinkler system to save water or updated the ranch house. The difference is that many of those owners probably don't intend to flip their property for a profit.
Working with local and national conservation groups and state and federal land management agencies, the company has also created conservation easements to ensure that landscapes are protected long after the ranch is sold.
Even after Beartooth Capital sells, their former properties are still producing benefits for wildlife, many of which carry over to the public realm, said Mike Mansfield, the ranch recreation manager for Beartooth. Stream restoration, for example, provides more spawning habitat for river fish. A conservation easement that ensures that elk calving grounds are never developed means generations of elk have a place.
Beartooth Capital also provides paid access to some of its properties – for activities like fishing, hunting and camping – through some of the local companies it has chosen to work with. So anglers can fish one of Beartooth Capital's restored streams for the same price they'd pay to cast on any other Montana private spring creek.
The Madison ranch is one of four that Beartooth Capital owns in Montana. The other three are in the Big Hole Valley, south of Whitehall and near Martinsdale, Mont. The company also owns ranches in California, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado — 20,000 acres in total have been purchased. On its ranches, Beartooth claims to have protected 13,000 acres with conservation easements and restored 35 miles of stream.
The company has also built or refurbished housing on the ranches that investors can use while enjoying the properties. The accommodations range from camping out in wall tents to custom-built cabins, restored bunkhouses and a lodge.
"That's what I get fired up about," Keith said. "In the investment business, it's always about 'me, me, me. How can I get more money?' We're not only making money but we're also helping wildlife and local communities by hiring local people."
Beartooth Capital was created by Keith and fellow "enviropreneur" Robert Palmer in 2005. They came up with the name in honor of the Beartooth Mountains that rise just north of Keith's parents' ranch west of Cody. The Bozeman-based company now employs 12 people, not counting ranch managers.
Both partners were well versed in the investment and business world before setting up shop in Montana.
After graduating from Yale, Keith worked in investment firms in New York City and California before settling in Bozeman. He sees the southwest Montana town as the epicenter of conservation in the West, given the number of conservation groups that have headquarters or offices there.
"It's also the center of recreational pursuits in the West, especially fly-fishing," he said.
Palmer, 39, worked in real-estate investment as Keith's boss at Greenbridges, a company he founded, and had also spent time working in the conservation and education communities in Utah and Wyoming. Palmer is a graduate of Brown University and met Keith when they were both attending the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
"They seem to be genuinely interested in land conservation," said Jim Berkey of The Nature Conservancy, which worked with Beartooth Captial on a wetlands project in the Big Hole Valley. "They walk the talk when it comes to conservation."
The pitch
Clients who wander into Beartooth Capital's airy, brick-walled headquarters overlooking Main Street may receive a three-pronged pitch on why they should invest. The investments are low risk and less subject to the roller coaster ride of the stock market. Second, the restoration work does something good for the natural world.
"Why not make money in a way that feels better?" Keith asked.
Third, the investment is tangible — people can see the results of a stream that's been restored and repopulated by fish.
"The ranch still works perfectly for agriculture, but it has this whole other value," Keith said.
For some people, it's a place to fish with their grandchildren, relax in a cabin or go horseback riding.
"They can make a little money, enjoy it and the ranch becomes a part of who they are," Keith said.
Not everyone can be an investor, though. A $1 million minimum is required, although Keith said that's somewhat flexible.
"We're at the point where it's more fun and more strategic to get more people involved," he said. "The key in our case is that they are accredited and qualified, two important SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) hurdles."
That means the money you investment can't be your only or your last million.
Keith said he couldn't comment on the average return on investments. The two funds created by the company are now valued at more than $65 million.


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Everything you need to know about the New Official Guides, Part 3
I have now done every last one of the new quant problems in both new books—and there are some really neat ones! I've also got some interesting observations for you. (If you haven't yet read my earlier installments, start here.)
In this installment, I'll discuss my overall conclusions for quant and I'll also give you all of the problem numbers for the new problems in both the big OG and the smaller quant-only OG.
What's new in Quant?
Now that I've seen everything, I've been able to spot some trends across all of the added and dropped questions. For example, across both The Official Guide for GMAT® Review (aka the big book) and The Official Guide for GMAT® Quant Review (aka quant-only or the quant supplement), Linear Equation problems dropped by a count of 13. This is the differential: new questions minus dropped questions.
That's a pretty big number; the next closest categories, Inequalities and Rates & Work, dropped by 5 questions each. I'm not convinced that a drop of 5 is at all significant, but I decided that was a safe place to stop the "Hmm, that's interesting!" count.
Now, a caveat: there are sometimes judgment calls to make in classifying problems. Certain problems cross multiple content areas, so we do our best to pick the topic area that is most essential in solving that problem. But that 13 still stands out.
The biggest jump came from Formulas, with 10 added questions across both sources. This category includes sequences and functions; just straight translation or linear equations would go into those respective categories, not formulas. Positive & Negative questions jumped by 7, weighted average jumped by 6, and coordinate plane jumped by 5.
Given that Linear Equations dropped and Formulas jumped, could it be the case that they are going after somewhat more complex algebra now? That's certainly possible. I didn't feel as though the new formula questions were super hard though. It felt more as though they were testing whether you could follow directions. If I give you a weird formula with specific definitions and instructions, can you interpret correctly and manipulate accordingly?
If you think about it, work is a lot more like this than "Oh, here are two linear equations; can you solve for x?" So it makes sense that they would want to emphasize questions of a more practical nature.
GMAT Data Sufficiency Strategy: Test Cases
If you're going to do a great job on Data Sufficiency, then you've got to know how to Test Cases. This strategy will help you on countless DS problems.
Try this GMATPrep® problem from the free exams. Give yourself about 2 minutes. Go!
* "On the number line, if the number k is to the left of the number t, is the product kt to the right of t?
"(1) t < 0
"(2) k < 1"
If visualizing things helps you wrap your brain around the math (it certainly helps me), sketch out a number line:
k is somewhere to the left of t, but the two actual values could be anything. Both could be positive or both negative, or k could be negative and t positive. One of the two could even be zero.
The question asks whether kt is to the right of t. That is, is the product kt greater than t by itself?
There are a million possibilities for the values of k and t, so this question is what we call a theory question: are there certain characteristics of various numbers that would produce a consistent answer? Common characteristics tested on theory problems include positive, negative, zero, simple fractions, odds, evens, primes—basically, number properties.
"(1) t < 0
This problem appears to be testing positive and negative, since the statement specifies that one of the values must be negative. Test some real numbers, always making sure that t is negative.
Case #1:
|Valid case?
|Is kt > t?
|Valid: t < 0 and k < t
|2 > -1? Yes.
Testing Cases involves three consistent steps:
First, choose numbers to test in the problem
Second, make sure that you have selected a valid case. All of the givens must be true using your selected numbers.
Third, answer the question.
In this case, the answer is Yes. Now, your next strategy comes into play: try to prove the statement insufficient.
How? Ask yourself what numbers you could try that would give you the opposite answer. The first time, you got a Yes. Can you get a No?
Case #2:
|Valid case?
|Is kt > t?
|Invalid! k is not less than t!
Careful: this is where you might make a mistake. In trying to find the opposite case, you might try a mix of numbers that is invalid. Always make sure that you have a valid case before you actually try to answer the question. Discard case 2.
Case #3:
|Valid case?
|Is kt > t?
|Valid: t < 0 and k < t
|5 > -1? Yes.
Hmm. We got another Yes answer. What does this mean? If you can't come up with the opposite answer, see if you can understand why. According to this statement, t is always negative. Since k must be smaller than t, k will also always be negative.
The product kt, then, will be the product of two negative numbers, which is always positive. As a result, kt must always be larger than t, since kt is positive and t is negative.
Okay, statement (1) is sufficient. Cross off answers BCE and check out statement (2):
"(2) k < 1"
You know the drill. Test cases again!
Case #1:
|Valid case?
|Is kt > t?
|Valid: k < 1 and k < t
|0 > 1? No.
You've got a No answer. Try to find a Yes.
Case #2:
|Valid case?
|Is kt > t?
|Valid: k < 1 and k < t
|-1 > 1? No.
Hmm. I got another No. What needs to happen to make kt > t? Remember what happened when you were testing statement (1): try making them both negative!
In fact, when you're testing statement (2), see whether any of the cases you already tested for statement (1) are still valid for statement (2). If so, you can save yourself some work. Ideally, the below would be your path for statement (2), not what I first showed above:
"(2) k < 1"
Case #1:
|Valid case?
|Is kt > t?
|Valid: k < 1 and k < t
|Same case, still Yes.
All you have to do is make sure that the case is valid. If so, you've already done the math, so you know that the answer is the same (in this case, Yes).
Now, try to find your opposite answer: can you get a No?
Case #2: Try something I couldn't try before. k could be positive or even 0…
|Valid case?
|Is kt > t?
|Valid: k < 1 and k < t
|0 > 1? No.
A Yes and a No add up to an insufficient answer. Eliminate answer (D).
The correct answer is (A).
Guess what? The technique can also work on some Problem Solving problems. Try it out on the following GMATPrep problem, then join me next week to discuss the answer:
* "For which of the following functions f is f(x) = f(1 – x) for all x?
"(A) f(x) = 1 – x
"(B) f(x) = 1 – x2
"(C) f(x) = x2 – (1 – x)2
"(D) f(x) = x2(1 – x)2
Key Takeaways: Test Cases on Data Sufficiency
(1) When DS asks you a "theory" question, test cases. Theory questions allow multiple possible scenarios, or cases. Your goal is to see whether the given information provides a consistent answer.
(2) Specifically, try to disprove the statement: if you can find one Yes and one No answer, then you're done with that statement. You know it's insufficient. If you keep trying different kinds of numbers but getting the same answer, see whether you can think through the theory to prove to yourself that the statement really does always work. (If you can't, but the numbers you try keep giving you one consistent answer, just go ahead and assume that the statement is sufficient. If you've made a mistake, you can learn from it later.)
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Avoiding the C-Trap in Data Sufficiency
Have you heard of the C-Trap? I'm not going to tell you what it is yet. Try this problem from GMATPrep® first and see whether you can avoid it
* "In a certain year, the difference between Mary's and Jim's annual salaries was twice the difference between Mary's and Kate's annual salaries. If Mary's annual salary was the highest of the 3 people, what was the average (arithmetic mean) annual salary of the 3 people that year?
"(1) Jim's annual salary was $30,000 that year.
"(2) Kate's annual salary was $40,000 that year."
I'm going to do something I normally never do at this point in an article: I'm going to tell you the correct answer. I'm not going to type the letter, though, so that your eye won't inadvertently catch it while you're still working on the problem. The correct answer is the second of the five data sufficiency answer choices.
How did you do? Did you pick that one? Or did you pick the trap answer, the third one?
Here's where the C-Trap gets its name: on some questions, using the two statements together will be sufficient to answer the question. The trap is that using just one statement alone will also get you there—so you can't pick answer (C), which says that neither statement alone works.
In the trickiest C-Traps, the two statements look almost the same (as they do in this problem), and the first one doesn't work. You're predisposed, then, to assume that the second statement, which seemingly supplies the "same" kind of information, also won't work. Therefore, you don't vet the second statement thoroughly enough before dismissing it—and you've just fallen into the trap.
How can you dig yourself out? First of all, just because two statements look similar, don't assume that they either both work or both don't. The test writers are really good at setting traps, so assume nothing.
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Save Time and Eliminate Frustration on DS: Draw It Out!
Some Data Sufficiency questions present you with scenarios: stories that could play out in various complicated ways, depending on the statements. How do you get through these with a minimum of time and fuss?
Try the below problem. (Copyright: me! I was inspired by an OG problem; I'll tell you which one at the end.)
* "During a week-long sale at a car dealership, the most number of cars sold on any one day was 12. If at least 2 cars were sold each day, was the average daily number of cars sold during that week more than 6?
"(1) During that week, the second smallest number of cars sold on any one day was 4.
"(2) During that week, the median number of cars sold was 10."
First, do you see why I described this as a "scenario" problem? All these different days… and some number of cars sold each day… and then they (I!) toss in average and median… and to top it all off, the problem asks for a range (more than 6). Sigh.
Okay, what do we do with this thing?
Because it's Data Sufficiency, start by establishing the givens. Because it's a scenario, Draw It Out.
Let's see. The "highest" day was 12, but it doesn't say which day of the week that was. So how can you draw this out?
Neither statement provides information about a specific day of the week, either. Rather, they provide information about the least number of sales and the median number of sales.
The use of median is interesting. How do you normally organize numbers when you're dealing with median?
Bingo! Try organizing the number of sales from smallest to largest. Draw out 7 slots (one for each day) and add the information given in the question stem:
Now, what about that question? It asks not for the average, but whether the average number of daily sales for the week is more than 6. Does that give you any ideas for an approach to take?
Because it's a yes/no question, you want to try to "prove" both yes and no for each statement. If you can show that a statement will give you both a yes and a no, then you know that statement is not sufficient. Try this out with statement 1
(1) During that week, the least number of cars sold on any one day was 4.
Draw out a version of the scenario that includes statement (1):
Can you find a way to make the average less than 6? Keep the first day at 2 and make the other days as small as possible:
The sum of the numbers is 34. The average is 34 / 7 = a little smaller than 5.
Can you also make the average greater than 6? Try making all the numbers as big as possible:
(Note: if you're not sure whether the smallest day could be 4—the wording is a little weird—err on the cautious side and make it 3.)
You may be able to eyeball that and tell it will be greater than 6. If not, calculate: the sum is 67, so the average is just under 10.
Statement (1) is not sufficient because the average might be greater than or less than 6. Cross off answers (A) and (D).
Now, move to statement (2):
(2) During that week, the median number of cars sold was 10.
Again, draw out the scenario (using only the second statement this time!).
Can you make the average less than 6? Test the smallest numbers you can. The three lowest days could each be 2. Then, the next three days could each be 10.
The sum is 6 + 30 + 12 = 48. The average is 48 / 7 = just under 7, but bigger than 6. The numbers cannot be made any smaller—you have to have a minimum of 2 a day. Once you hit the median of 10 in the middle slot, you have to have something greater than or equal to the median for the remaining slots to the right.
The smallest possible average is still bigger than 6, so this statement is sufficient to answer the question. The correct answer is (B).
Oh, and the OG question is DS #121 from OG13. If you think you've got the concept, test yourself on the OG problem.
Key Takeaway: Draw Out Scenarios
(1) Sometimes, these scenarios are so elaborate that people are paralyzed. Pretend your boss just asked you to figure this out. What would you do? You'd just start drawing out possibilities till you figured it out.
(2) On Yes/No DS questions, try to get a Yes answer and a No answer. As soon as you do that, you can label the statement Not Sufficient and move on.
(3) After a while, you might have to go back to your boss and say, "Sorry, I can't figure this out." (Translation: you might have to give up and guess.) There isn't a fantastic way to guess on this one, though I probably wouldn't guess (E). The statements don't look obviously helpful at first glance… which means probably at least one of them is!
How Would You Do On A Breaking Bad GMAT?
In honor of the final season of Breaking Bad, we decided to put together our ultimate Breaking Bad GMAT quiz. Those of you who fall in the overlapping section of the "Breaking Bad Fan" "GMAT student" Venn diagram should test your skills below… yo!
1. Data Sufficiency
Does x+4 = Walter White?
(1) x+4 is the danger
(2) x+4 is the one who knocks
A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) ALONE is not sufficient
B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) ALONE is not sufficient
C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient
D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient
E. Statement (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question asked, and additional data are needed
2. Discrete Quant
The front portion of Walter White's Roof is a 7 ' by 15' rectangle. If the diameter of a pizza is 22", what is the approximate area of the shaded region of this diagram?
A. 13,600 inches sq.
B. 14,740 inches sq.
C. 15,120 inches sq.
D. 15,500 inches sq.
E. 16,640 inches sq.
3. Critical Reasoning
Today, Walter White will cook 100 pounds of methamphetamine.
This argument is flawed primarily because:
A. Cooking methamphetamine presents a moral dilemma for Walter White.
B. Walter White has to prioritize the needs of his wife and children and be a better father.
C. Walter has already paid for his cancer treatment and no longer needs to cook methamphetamine.
D. There is a fly in the laboratory.
E. He was told not to cook that day and is obeying his instructions.
4. Critical Reasoning
Hank's collection of rocks includes over 400 different items. Hank's rock collection is clearly the most impressive in New Mexico.
This argument is flawed primarily because:
A. Rock collections are not judged by the total number of rocks but by the rarity of each item included.
B. Rock collections are not impressive to anyone.
C. Hank's rock collection is a metaphor and therefore cannot be judged against other rock collections.
D. Hank's wife stole most of the rocks and it is therefore ineligible for any superlatives.
E. They aren't rocks, they are minerals.
5. Discrete Quant
Walter Junior eats 3 eggs for breakfast every morning. Given that Walter Junior never misses breakfast, how many eggs does Walter Junior consume in March?
Answers are after the jump…
Giveaway Data Sufficiency Statements
Data sufficiency question are a strange animal that exists only in GMAT land. The newness of this question type creates high levels of anxiety because we don't know how to react when we see something new (How do you think you would react if you were standing face to face with a unicorn?). Once we get over this newness, data sufficiency questions all follow a specific morphology, and in my opinion actually contain less diversity than problem solving questions. There is always either a yes/no question (is ab even?) or value question (how many boys are in the class?), followed by two statements, and the five answer choice are always the same and in the same order. (If you are completely unfamiliar with data sufficiency questions take a look at an example here)
Because of this very confined structure, there are actually cases where the structure of question and statements can give you information regardless of the specifics of the problem. There are at least four instances where a specific form of the statement(s) will allow you to eliminate several responses without evaluating the full content of the problem.
1) A value statement for a yes/no question
If a statement provides a value for the sole variable in the question, it is definitely sufficient to answer any yes or no question.
For example:
Another Way to Solve Data Sufficiency Value Problems, The Goldilocks Method, & Finding a Number That's Just Right
One of the hardest parts about becoming an instructor with Manhattan GMAT was relearning how to solve GMAT questions. That sounds absurd, considering I had already scored a 780 on the GMAT when I applied to become an instructor, but it's true. During the interview process, I went through online and in-person classroom simulations with 99th percentile instructors playing students, testing my ability to explain a question using algebra instead of plugging numbers or using a rate chart instead of adding rates. Over the years, I've found that many of our instructors felt the same way: overwhelmed by how hard it is to go along with someone else's preferred method without skipping a beat. Ultimately, I realized that teaching the GMAT is a hundred times harder than taking the GMAT because every question has several valid ways of being solved.
Which leads to the problem of what solution is the BEST solution. Any student who has worked with me over the years has heard me say the following- I don't care what method you use to solve a problem. But I do care that you get great at that method. It's the reason why the Official Guide has an explanation for each quant problem and Manhattan has an OG Companion with different explanations, along with online video explanations that will sometimes differ from either of those methods. With so many different ways of solving a question, it's important to not get bogged down finding the best way to solve a problem, but instead focus on finding the fastest way from start to submit.
So with that said, over the next few months, I'd like to share a few methods that I personally use when solving a few different types of GMAT questions. Some of these methods might click for you, and I hope you practice them. Some of them won't and I hope you stick with a method that works better for you. So without further ado- let's take a look at a fairly straightforward GMATPrep problem and think about how you would attack this question:
A sum of $200,000 from a certain estate was divided among a spouse and three children. How much of the estate did the youngest child receive?
(1) The spouse received 1/2 of the sum from the estate, and the oldest child received 1/4 of the remainder.
(2) Each of the two younger children received $12,500 more than the oldest child and $62,500 less than the spouse.
The first two things that I notice about this problem is that it is a word problem, giving us a real-world scenario, and a value Data Sufficiency question, asking us to find a single value for the amount that the youngest child received. And if I wanted to set this up algebraically, I could assign variables (s = spouse, x, y, z = oldest, middle, youngest child), write out several equations (s + x + y + z = 200,000. (1) s = 1/2*200,000; x = 1/4 * (1/2*200,000); y + z = 75,000. (2) y = z; z = x + 12,500; z = s − 62,500), and eventually solve for z using Statement 2: the correct answer is (B). Different students at different levels of comfort with Data Sufficiency will be able to stop at different points after realizing that there either will or will not be a single variable in the equation that they've set up.
GMATPrep Data Sufficiency: Maria's Books
The other week, we discussed the overall process for Data Sufficiency. This week, we're going to test out the process using a GMATPrep question " and take a look at a couple of very common DS traps.
Set your timer for 2 minutes. and GO!
* A bookstore that sells used books sells each of its paperback books for a certain price and each of its hardcover books for a certain price. If Joe, Maria, and Paul all bought books in this store, how much did Maria pay for 1 paperback book and 1 hardcover book?
(1) Joe bought 2 paperback books and 3 hardcover books for $12.50.
(2) Paul bought 4 paperback books and 6 hardcover books for $25.00.
Note that I haven't listed the answer choices for you. Because DS answers are always the same, we should memorize them. If you don't have them memorized yet, look back at the How DS Works article linked in the first paragraph.
All right, let's tackle this problem.
Step 1: Read the Question Stem
The first sentence tells us that each paperback book sells for the same price and each hardcover book also sells for the same price (but possibly a different price than the paperback books).
The question asks how much Maria paid for 1 of each type of book. Is this a value or a yes/no question?
They're asking for a specific amount; this is a value question. We've also got lots of words; we're going to have to translate.
How Data Sufficiency Works
Let's just put it right out there: data sufficiency is bizarre. If you're just starting out, you're probably thinking, What is this thing? Even if you've been studying for a while, unless you really like math, you probably feel a little uncomfortable whenever a DS question pops up on the screen.
Why? Because we all realize that we could completely mess up a DS question and still get to one of the 5 answer choices, clueless that we've messed up. It's not like Problem Solving, where at least I know when I mess up because my answer isn't in the answer choices! (Actually, a lot of the time, we still get an answer that's in the answer choices even on PS but we persist in feeling that PS is more straightforward because the answers are real.)
What is DS?
The GMAT really isn't a math test. These tests are actually trying to test us on our executive reasoning skills " that is, how well we make decisions and prioritize when faced with too many things to do in too short a length of time.
Data Sufficiency questions test our ability to (quickly) analyze a collective set of data and figure out which pieces are needed to do the job. Imagine your boss dumping a bunch of stuff on you and saying, Hey, our client wants to know whether they should raise the price on this product. Can you answer that question from this data? If so, which pieces do we need to prove the case?
We do, of course, have to do some math " and sometimes that math is quite annoying. We usually don't, however, have to do as much as is necessary on the more normal quant questions (PS).
Breaking Down GMATPrep Weighted Average Problems #2
In an earlier post, we tackled a medium-level GMATPrep weighted average question; click here to read that article before reading this one. This week, we're trying a harder GMATPrep weighted average question in order to test whether you learned the concept as well as you thought you did. : )
As we discussed earlier, every weighted average problem I've seen (so far!) on GMATPrep is a Data Sufficiency question. This doesn't mean that they'll never give us a Problem Solving weighted average problem, but it does seem to be the case that the test-writers are more concerned with whether we understand how weighted averages work than with whether we can actually do the calculations. Last week, we focused on understanding how weighted averages work via writing some equations. We'll try to apply that understanding to our harder problem this week, along with a more efficient solution method.
Let's start with a sample problem. Set your timer for 2 minutes. and GO!
* A contractor combined x tons of gravel mixture that contained 10 percent gravel G, by weight, with y tons of a mixture that contained 2 percent gravel G, by weight, to produce z tons of a mixture that was 5 percent gravel G, by weight. What is the value of x?
(1) y = 10
(2) z = 16
There are two kinds of gravel: 10% gravel and 2% gravel. These are our two sub-groups. When the two are combined (in some unknown " for now! " amounts), we get a 3rd kind:5% gravel. The number of tons of 10% gravel (x) and the number of tons of 2% gravel (y) will add up to the number of tons of 5% gravel (z), or x + y = z. We need to find the number of tons of 10% gravel used in the mixture.
The problem this week throws in a new wrinkle: we're not just trying to calculate a ratio this time. We have to have enough info to calculate the actual amount of 10% gravel used. Last week, we never had to worry about the actual number of employees. We'll have to keep that in mind to see how things might change.


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The content of this material is intended to advanced students of Spanish in the acquisition of language skills. It covers the structures used in popular soap operas created by Spanish speakers' scriptwriters, who made their masterpieces well-known not only for quality of their topics, but also for the richness and beauty of the language used in their work.
Based on such wonderful linguistic ...
Crate GX412S Angled Guitar Cabinet (200 Watts, 4x12 in.)
Works great, a little dings and scratches but it sounds great! Very clear sounding! Great treble and bass response.
This is just the cabinet...amp and cables are NOT included.
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The GX412S is a full sized cabinet, loaded with four 12 in. Crate drivers. It features 100 watt RMS handling, plywood construction, mono/stereo operation, slant front, metal grille, and fixed ...
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Miami - Musical instruments
Hammond organ T- series with bench and owner's playing guide.
Organ has built in two Leslie speaker.
It is in excellent shape and works grate.
Cash only and local pick up. To move it needs two strong people.
Call Joseph 773 322-8383
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Cape Coral :
North Port - Musical instruments
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Lakeland :
Davenport - Everything else
You'll have a choice of varied item I found in the closed of my guest room.
10 Gal fish tank and pump.
Sony Monitor Speakers
Fishing Rods
end tables.dresser, Sleigh Bed, small desk with chair, Fisher three way speakers.
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Orlando :
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2 Tickets for Sale ONLY *$400/ Each
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Lakeland :
Dundee - Sporting goods
Ex-Teacher, Public Speaker and Model has numerous slightly used or never been used Dress Jackets...Mediums, mainly 38's and 40's.
Solid colors: Dark Green, Violet, Black, Beige, Red, and a number of tweeds, ( brown, black, beige), and other patterns, ( navy, grey, brown, black.) $12 each.
Sharp! Like new. Non smoker, no cologne.
MANY pullover shirts, mostly Mediums, some large... long and ...
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Lakeland :
Mulberry - Clothing & accessories
I bought this new in 1978 and used the hell out of it for decades. I restarted my interest in tube amps early in the 21st century after giving them up for this amp so it has sit in my music room for a few years in the 2000s. It still works for the most part with these exceptions; the second channel is weak, the 4 button footswitch needs to be rewired as the ground has been broken making the ...
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Tampa Bay :
Riverview - Musical instruments
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Sanford - Musical instruments
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We are writing a design and art book about squares and would love to include this image. Unfortunately there is no fee - but each contributor will retain copyright, and will be creditted. The book will be published internationally.
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I love this shot, and I really like wooden blocks as well. I just started a group, check it out, maybe you could even join :-) flickr.com/groups/866384@N24/
hey...this is a great pic! i used it on my blog post about block writing. You can check it out at: procrastinatingwritersblog.com/2009/07/07/block-writing/.
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Illinois State Police District 20 Trooper Brad Williams was named the Law Officer of the Year today at the Quincy Exchange Club's 48th Annual Law Officer of the Year Award luncheon.
Illinois State Police District 20 Trooper Brad Williams was named the Law Officer of the Year today at the Quincy Exchange Club's 48th Annual Law Officer of the Year Award luncheon.
Knowledge of what the Quincy Department does on a daily basis is important. It is much more than writing up parking tickets, directing traffic and riding in the police car. These men and women put their life on the line everyday for us. But why do they do things the way they do?
Special Olympics-Illinois and local law enforcement will be holding a special fundraising event at Buffalo Wild Wings called Tip-A-Cop Night on Wednesday, February 5 from 5 to 9 p.m.
It was one of the most interesting classes I have ever taken and it is available for the public again. I am referring to the Quincy Police Department's 2014 Spring Citizen's Police Academy.
The Quincy Police Department has received several calls from residents about a possible phone scam.
The City of Quincy has been somewhat insulated from the problem of drive by shootings until last night. The Quincy Police Department is currently investigating two apparent drive by shootings that took place last night.
The Police and Fire Commissioners have announced that applications for Police Officer Testing are available on the City of Quincy Web Site.
Missouri and Illinois drivers, pat yourselves on the back when it comes to safe driving. The Missouri Highway Patrol and the Illinois State Police have released reports about how you did on the roads this past New Year's Holiday period.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, kicks off Project Red Ribbon. The campaign runs locally until January 1.
On Saturday, October 26, the Quincy Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted medications.


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This May, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will publish its first update since 2000; it is the DSM-5—the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It may not seem like a big deal to the layperson, but the new edit will forever change the definition of kinky sex and is likely to trigger a wave of political, legal, and pharmaceutical debates.
Previously, the DSM defined all "non-normative" sexual behavior (acts not solely focused on the genitals or breasts) as paraphilias (a.k.a. kinks), from foot fetishes to sexual sadists. According to Susan Wright, spokesperson for the advocacy group the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, the DSM-5 will differentiate between two kinds of kink: that which is happily enjoyed by healthy people who like kinky sex (paraphilias) and that which causes "distress" or "harm" to others (paraphilic disorders).
"The new language will have repercussions in psychiatry, in legal settings, and also in our understanding of what kinky sex is," says Wright, who saw original drafts of the proposed language. She hopes it will validate healthy people who enjoy kinky sex—and set them apart from the mentally ill.
"Kink is sometimes just about a power exchange or role play," she notes. Practitioners of BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism) and S&M play with intense sensations that cause extreme pleasure, not harm. These are usually consensual acts. "The people who do it nonconsensually," Wright says, "such as sexual sadists and psychopaths, or even someone in the kink community who steps over the line and goes too far, should be arrested."
The ultimate significance of this edition lies in its reach: Not only will the book help psychiatrists diagnose patients, it will also aid judges, lawyers, police, physicians, clinicians, and policy-makers. Misinterpretation by those outside the medical field, however, is a very real possibility, and a big deal, say, if you lose a custody battle, get evicted from your home, lose your job, or are simply reviled because of your sexual predilections. (It's not inconceivable, for example, that a parent's fondness for BDSM could be raised in a family-court child-custody battle and used against him or her as proof of being "unfit" or something.) But the DSM-5's new language, designed to clearly distinguish sexual fetishes from mental illnesses, could obviate these kinds of judgments. Remember: Social stigma around BDSM and kink has resulted in a tremendous amount of discrimination in the past. And the DSM defined homosexuality as deviant until 1973.
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The Daily Princetonian
A new BDSM and kink support group — known as Princetonians in the Nation's Service — has attracted nearly 30 members since its creation in January.
"Our written-down mission statement basically says that we're here to provide a safe space, a community and a social space for people who are kinky," the founder of PINS, who was granted anonymity due to the club's confidential status, said.
According to the founder, who is a junior, the rules of the group prohibit members from "outing" other members. The rules also require that members respect the kink identities of other members and reserve the right to eject other members from the group.
Alcohol sobriety is also strictly mandated by the club due to liability issues and concerns regarding consent.
PINS already has close to 30 members on its listserv, and about 10 members attend meetings regularly.
The club's founder said the membership is very diverse, stating that it consists of male, female, gay, straight and bisexual students of different racial backgrounds and class years, including graduate students.
Members other than the founder did not respond to requests for comment.
"It's because of the stigma that you have to be careful and you have to have confidentiality," the founder said, citing risks that are involved in exposing certain aspects of personal life, including future professional prospects and relationships with family members.
He added that "there needs to be a balance between visibility and anonymity," as the group intends to host lectures, panels and other events in the future, possibly in conjunction with the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Center on campus or the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education program. ...
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Mission Local
The Armory Community Center is poised to host public sports, art and educational events, as well as private functions, now that the city has granted a recreation permit allowing the owner of the landmark brick structure to expand its G-rated family fare.
The driver behind the project is Peter Acworth, owner of the historic Mission building and founder of Kink.com, an Internet company that produces BDSM-themed (dominant and submissive sexual role-playing and bondage) content for the web. Kink.com and the new events space will be kept separate, Andrew Harvill, director of TACC, was quick to explain.
"Peter wants to diversify," Harvill said. "He doesn't want to do only porn."
Work to transform a 40,000-square-foot drill court began at the start of this year. The space was previously available for use with day permits, which made it impossible to streamline a long-term events calendar with repeating events, such as the multi-night theater production that will open next month. The American Conservatory Theater will put on "Black Watch" from May 9 through June 9.
Kink.com staff said that company activities won't affect events at TACC, and that the two spaces will have different entries.
"We are working hard to show that this is not porn-related," said Harvill. The studio has been criticized by community members for the nature of its product. "We don't know how the neighbors are going to respond, but we want to work very closely with them," he said.
The first conversations, Harvill said, have been mostly positive, except for one person "who just didn't like Peter and what he does." Even some members of the Anarchist Book Fair, which was held at the armory last month, were skeptical of having their event at the BDSM headquarters. Harvill is considering proposing monthly meetings with neighbors to keep the lines of communication open. "If they weren't happy, we would consider it a failure," he said.
Neighbors did complain when Kink.com moved into the Armory building at 14th and Mission streets in 2007, but the relationship seems to have eased since then. "I think they have done a good job keeping the property clean outside and keeping it private. Those were the major concerns," said Roberto Hernandez, a longtime community organizer in the Mission who was one of the protesters in 2007.
Hernandez described this new venture as "great," emphasizing that the center will not be part of Kink.com and will have a separate entrance. The company's plan to offer reduced rates to nonprofit and neighborhood groups that want to rent the space will be excellent for the community, Hernandez said. ...
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New York Times
Sadomasochism, gay penguins and Captain Underpants. This is what passed for controversial in American literature in 2012, according to the American Library Association's annual list of "frequently challenged books," released on Monday.
The A.L.A.'s Office for Intellectual Freedom compiles reports on complaints filed with a library or school "requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness."
The office said it received 464 reports in 2012, up from 326 in 2011. The books on the most frequently challenged list are "Fifty Shades of Grey" by EL James; "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," by Sherman Alexie; "The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini; "Looking for Alaska," by John Green; "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls; "Beloved" by Toni Morrison; "Thirteen Reasons Why," by Jay Asher; the "Scary Stories" series by Alvin Schwartz; the "Captain Underpants" series by Dav Pilkey; and "And Tango Makes Three," a young-adult book about two male penguins at the Central Park zoo who became a couple, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.
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Once a week, Daily Intelligencer takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the Polyamorous Woman Color Coding Her Lovers: Female, 33, work at a charity, London, in an open relationship, heterosexual.
10 a.m. I update my Google calendar while I'm in the office, in between discussing fund-raising proposals for the mental health charity I work for. Now that I'm seeing three people, it's gotten more complicated. The calendar is color-coded for each person so I know at a glance when I'm free and whether I'm "over-doing" anyone. Biker Guy is blue. The One, Possibly is red. Weekly Fun is orange. Administration is the one part of my job I've always hated, but I've really improved since I started dating.
1 p.m. I meet Weekly Fun for my afternoon off. He's having a hard time with his current girlfriend, who has just broken up with her girlfriend. Her self-esteem has been knocked and he's trying to spend as much time with her as possible — hence the lunch date. I can't go without sex, even though I'm starting to feel like his counselor. We go to his house, which is down the road from mine, and start making out. I give him a blow job in his living room, with his large, possessive orange cat staring at me steadily from the floor. He pulls out before he comes in my mouth and the come falls onto the rug. We end up scooping it out with tissue.
6 p.m. I try to do a couple of more hours of work when I get back home, but my concentration is whacked. As usual, I end up going through OkCupid, to check my messages at first, and then just to see if there's anyone new. I don't understand the negativity around online dating. It seems to have more stigma than being polyamorous. I knew something was up when I saw lots of guys were labeling their profiles with "available" instead of "single." I'd found The One, Possibly that way. He seemed so upfront — like me, out of a difficult, unadventurous relationship, looking for something open-ended that just acknowledges it's human nature to get bored easily. I didn't expect to fall in love with him.
6:20 p.m. There's a new message from Tech Geek, with whom I've been pinging messages back and forth. Weirdly, I haven't got bored of the correspondence even though we've been in touch for a few weeks and canceled a couple of meetings.
8 p.m. It's my scheduled night off. It's been less packed than usual this week because Biker Guy is away on holiday with his girlfriend. I'm reading a book, listening to the podcast "Pedestrian Polyamory." I hate being one of those people who go on about poly — to me "poly" just a way of owning it before anyone else can say it's strange or wrong or pervy. Okay, it's definitely pervy, but in a good way.
11 p.m. I need this time off so much. But the OkCupid app pings again. I hold off looking for a few hours, but inevitably my eyes start wandering. ...
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OC Weekly
We're used to seeing women with bedazzled earrings, nose rings, eyebrow piercings and hoops, cheek piercings and hoops, lip piercings and hoops, tongue studs . . . you get the idea. But now a Huntington Beach wholesaler is hawking a new line of gold or bejeweled or otherwise colorful versions of its fastest-growing eye-catchers: Nipple clamps. Indeed, Sex Toy Distributing Co., which sells adult products of all types to sex shops around the country, reports the BDSM market for women is "booming," especially when it comes to such fetish mainstays as floggers, strap-ons and, yes, nipple clamps.
"Manufacturers have responded to rising nipple clamp sales with lines of alligator, tweezer and other popular styles that are as much a fashion adornment as they are sex accessories," reads a company statement. "Featuring colorful pinks, golds, purples and dangling beads, jewels and charms, these all-time favorites make a style statement that shoppers love." You can almost picture a woman jealously whispering to a friend in the supermarket checkout line about the dangling teat tightener visible under the lady checker's top. ...
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The Mac Weekly
On my way to work last weekend, I noticed a familiar sight. Stuck between the hands of a woman who sat across the aisle on the 84 bus, there was Fifty Shades of Grey, the incredibly popular erotic novel that includes sadomasochistic sex scenes. The Fifty Shades fever has died down for the most part. On slow days, gossip sites report on who is and is not in the talks for the movie, but the main artifact of the craze is the occasional book whipped out on public transportation.
While I have a personal vendetta against Fifty Shades of Grey because I believe it depicts an unhealthy coercive relationship and because the protagonist refers to her genitalia as "down there" the majority of the time, I am thankful at least that it has brought up discussion about BDSM in the mainstream. Even if you do not engage in the practices yourself, I think BDSM is a great mental location to examine consent, pleasure and sex positivity, even for the non-BDSM "vanilla" relationships.
So what is BDSM? The acronym itself is a complicated jumble of different types of play: B&D for bondage and discipline; D/s for Dominance and submission; S/M for sadism and masochism. Some relationships feature only parts of the acronym, while others (such as discipline with D/s) work off one another to a build an experience. Generally, there is at least one Dom and one sub, or a giver and a receiver of pain/punishment/et cetera. There could also be switches involved, who are people who enjoy both giving and receiving. Contrary to popular superstition, very few relationships are a Total Power Exchange (TPE, or 24/7), which would grant the Dom exclusive decision-making power over the sub in all aspects of their lives. Instead, enthusiasts play a "scene," which is a specific time frame that the partners involved agree to act through their particular form of BDSM.
Because of the nature of BDSM, consent and healthy relationships initially look different between Doms and subs. If they do not understand how anyone could derive pleasure from pain or punishment, some mistakenly read the consensual acts of a scene as violence, thus conflating abuse with BDSM. What these naysayers ignore is the culture of explicit consent in alt life that forms the core of healthy BDSM.
This culture gives way to the phrase Risk-Aware Consensual Kink (RACK). This does not refer to a formal set of guidelines but a ideology of consent. RACK values having an acute sensitivity of what is being done. It is not enough to stumble across an incident or a pleasurable time. You have to know what you are getting into (presumably with research), judge whether the costs involved are worth the gains, and then actively accept the conditions. While this meaning may be intuitive based on the words involved, it still bears examining closely since the process of negotiating a BDSM partnership is a very sex positive approach to founding a relationship. The purpose of RACK, after all, is to ensure that BDSM participants are aware that their sexual expression—kink—involves a level of risk, and they have decided that their pleasure is worth said risk if done consensually. ...
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The Atlantic
Miss Georgia is mad, so she grabs David by his face and starts pushing him.
He looks genuinely scared, and can only stammer a bit as Georgia presses him for an explanation. "Your travel plans got changed?" she suggests. "The dog ate your homework? Your grandma died?"
She slaps him around a bit, nothing too hard. David has only medium pain tolerance, and once she really lays into him, huge red splotches will appear on his bare back. Miss Georgia (who asked to use a pseudonym) isn't actually mad that David, a professorial 48-year-old with salt-and-pepper hair, failed to bring her a Sephora gift card as promised, or that he canceled his last session here at her independent Manhattan sex dungeon. That adds up to a $300 loss for her, true, but at least now she gets to have fun. David wants punishment and she's eager to deliver it, because being a dominatrix is Miss Georgia's dream job.
Georgia stands six feet tall without her size-10 shoes, hipless and muscular, yet overwhelmingly feminine. She's a purple belt in karate who wears Queen-sized stockings over her muscular thighs, drinks Powers on the rocks, and chases it with Stella Artois. Intelligent and enthusiastic, when she agrees with you, she says so four times fast: yeahyeahyeahyeah.
Georgia took a meandering path to her untraditional career. She graduated from college with a psychology degree in 2000 and moved to Seattle, where she started dabbling in the scene.
"I started out as a submissive. I knew I wanted to be spanked. I had never been spanked in my life, by my parents or anybody. It was just this drive that I had, so I went to a club that had a screening process," she says from inside her dungeon. "You had to go through an orientation period and learn certain rules, and then they would let you in and let you play."
Georgia had a relationship with a vanilla (non-kinky) partner that took her out of the lifestyle for three years. But when she moved back to New York six years ago (she's originally from Westchester-ish), she jumped right into the professional domination scene, finding a gig at a commercial dungeon in Midtown West.
In February 2008, a 67-year-old retired math professor named Richard Benjamin slipped into a coma at a dungeon called the Nutcracker Suite, causing then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to crack down on commercial BDSM houses. In one of those sweeps, six of Georgia's fellow dominatrices at the dungeon where she worked were arrested for offering sex to undercover cops.
Rather than risk a similar fate, Georgia turned entrepreneur. As an independent dominatrix, she requires letters of recommendation from other professionals and a pre-interview, precautions which have protected her from arrest so far. (While performing as a dominatrix is not illegal, she sometimes performs illegal activities involving anal penetration. But cops looking to make a quick bust are unlikely to go through these hoops, she says, and lack the acting skills to make it through an interview full of BDSM jargon.) Georgia is interested in building relationships with her clients, so she doesn't accept spur-of-the-moment appointments. This also helps her maintain a sense of normalcy. "A lot of people expect to call you up like you're sitting in your Spandex," she says. "But no—I'm in my jeans and about to go to a birthday party."
She makes more money, too: $250 per hour-long session versus the $60 she would pocket at the commercial dungeon after the house took its cut. Her business has few costs besides her $1,500 per month rent, and thus a fairly high profit margin. Her biggest expenses outside of room and board are the incidentals—she spends about $200 a month on paper towels. She even files taxes as an independent entertainment contractor, writing off dildos, taxi rides, and wigs, although she notes, "Dommes are always in danger of being audited." ...
Although a Total Power Exchange might satisfy Steve, psychologists debate whether such men suffer from mental disorders.
The American Psychological Association defines a mental disorder as a "clinically significant behavior" associated with "present distress, disability, or a significant increased risk of suffering." The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, a compendium of these disorders, is the text American psychologists use to diagnose patients.
When the DSM was first published in 1952, it included "sexual deviation"—a category that included transvestism, pedophilia, homosexuality, fetishism, and sexual sadism. The second edition included masochism. The all-encompassing term was changed to the less-pejorative "paraphilias" in the third edition. When the fifth edition comes out in May, people who practice BDSM and feel distress about it will have a "paraphilic disorder."
This distresses the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, an advocacy group which considers DSM revision a "key project." "We want to make sure that distress from society doesn't mean a mental disorder," says National Coalition of Sexual Freedom spokeswoman Susan Wright.
The DSM listed homosexuality as a sexual disorder until 1973, when extensive empirical evidence concluded that homosexuals performed no differently on psychological tests than their straight counterparts. Five different studies conducted on masochists since 1977 point to high functioning—measured by high educational level, income and occupational status—compared to the general population. Furthermore, other studies show there is no link between masochism and past abuse. Why should one atypical orientation be treated differently than another?
Charles Moser, a California researcher who asks exactly that, has emerged as the psychologist most active in advocating for BDSM's removal from the manual. In an article co-authored with Peggy Kleinplatz this year, he wrote: "The situation of the Paraphilias at present parallels that of homosexuality in the early 1970s. Without the support or political astuteness of those who fought for the removal of homosexuality, the Paraphilias continue to be listed in the DSM." ...
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