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Originally posted by grimal
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Well, the roles did technically exist in DnD but they did not resemble anything we see today. You had a tank, but he had a myraid of things he could do. Besides being an insane damage dealer, the warrior could do a number of other things too. You could specialise them to be great at spotting traps, or making potions, or whatever. Feats defined a class as much as class skills did.
Hell a caster wasn't even a real damage dealer early on anyway. They were pure utility until nearly 12-15 when they had the spells and feats to support serious throwdown. Before that a warrior was easily better for killing things. He didn't have to sleep a day after each fight either. Clerics were basically tanks as we know them now. Nigh unkillable, heavy plate wearing, smash your face kinda guys....that also happened to turn the undead and heal you. I imagine most fighter types leaned toward barbarians anyway, simply because they could rage while supreme cleaving their way through 50 enemies in a row. Thieves and Assasins were neat, but my favorite incarnation was the shadow dancer. Getting that positional backstab was a ton easier when you could walk into the trees shadow and OUT of his.
I'm rambling, and I'm sorry. The point is that DnD had a trinity. But it cared more for being awesome than adhering to that trinity...so class role was more or less defined by the player. Nothing prevented you from having a druid tank while his feral bear pet and two treants bashed things in. They even gave you a druid spell that specifically turned metal armors into wood and another that allowed the wood to retain a high armor class. A wizard could wear plate, suck down some mage armor and punch faces. Or he could stop time and cast 4 rounds worth of spells at once. Whatever. A cleric could really focus on stats that allowed him to cast more heals...or he could bloody str con it out like a warrior and beat things up and heal himself when things got rough.
That was the fun part. Each character in DnD was varied BEFORE you even considered multiclassing. Now a game has to include multiclassing just to barely touch the surface of the character depth DnD had for its core class.
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Building a group as a trinity was just a strategy adopted by the players to clear content faster. These were the power gamer types that existed even in the 70s and 80s. In DnD a lot of this depended on the GM if it was to be allowed.
Warhammer Fantasy Battle was a major factor in bringing the trinity to the forefront in gaming. In WFB the use of 3d minitures on a battlefield allowed defensive melee units to block the path of oposing melee units from taking out the magic and ranged units on the back lines. This is the earliest use of the term "tanking." Many of the tactics in WFB were copied from historical battle movements. Blame Ramseys of Egypt or Alexander the great for devising ancient battle strategy of stacking archers safely behind their melee units. The use of reserve troops could also be seen as a "healing" mechanic. As melee units were wounded or killed on the front lines the commander would bring in fresh troops from the back lines to relieve the wounded. Keeping a reserve is superior strategy than having everyone charge at once. Sure the Phonecians and Melachites didn't think the trinity was fair but who cares about them? They were conquered.
Bottom line here is the trinity is rooted in historical tactical battle strategy.
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The term Trinity changed from EQ1 to WoW, it originally was Healer/Tank/Slower (or Healer/Tank/CC, depending on the circumstance), because DPS was just "everyone else" used to fill out a group, and the only people I know of that called themselves "DPS" were rangers who were desperate to get in a group (when they weren't busy trying to convince you that they were really the tank).
It's also the oldest post I could find where the group class makeup was referred to as "Trinity". (although I didn't look terribly exhaustively)
Really, if you want to get down to it, it just refers to a way that people commonly build their group - form the group around XXX group roles (with whatever class or play style can fulfill that), and your group will have a good chance of succeeding. In EQ, a group with a healer/tank/slower (or healer/tank/cc) had a good chance of taking on pretty well all group content. In WoW, a group with a healer/tank/dps has a good chance of taking on pretty well all group content.
It doesn't really have to do with the taunt mechanic - it just so happened that there were 3 roles that, if actively defined and filled, happened to make the content easier (probably because most of the content was designed around those 3 roles).
By no means was that the only way to get through content. I can remember one infamous group of mages on my old EQ1 server that loved to go around, and they would 1-group older raid content with their pets. No tanks, no slowers, no healers - completely defying the "Trinity" concept. Groups in EQ1 commonly were unorthodox - especially when the server populations started to decline in the mid-00's.
Nothing special about the term trinity really - it's just that so much content across so many games have been designed with that in mind that most people can't wrap their heads around anything else.
Personally, I loved the older EQ1 stuff, where the trinity wasn't so well-defined. Classes were very diverse, and roles weren't cookie-cutter and had to share common cross-class abilities. I also really love the newer games, where the trinity goes out the window - it makes life more chaotic, and I find it fun when it doesn't just break down to zergitmoar and can keep some semblance of tactics involved in the game play.
DnD still had classes, and roles, but it wasn't necessarily a trinity. You had a live person who was DMing who could fill the role of "Artificial Intelligence" a whole lot better than any computer program can do, and can work around mechanics that go beyond just the pen-and-paper rules, so roles could be a whole lot more diverse, players can be a whole lot more creative, and the DM could compensate or tailor the encounter around their players. In a game, if you come across a locked chest and don't have a rogue - well, you just keep on walking. In a Pen-n-Paper game, maybe someone hacks the box open, or you decide to pick it up and carry it back to town, or maybe you fireball it and melt the lock off - or any number of infinite possibilities that players could come up with when they aren't constrained within the limits of an artificial game engine.
Originally posted by Greyface
yeah, agro (and by extension, trinity) was never mechanically enforced. The GM just sort of knew that the hulking warrior could take on more guys than the dude in a bath robe. It wasn't fun when people died, and it's not like the table top stuff was players vs GM or anything.
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Before WoW the 'trinity' actually was a quartet that included a crowd control class of some kind. A tank would NOT survive engaging multiple mobs at once and a CC class was essential in ensuring only one target was ever actively engaged in the battle. EQ1 and EQ2 (in the early days at least) both had this, but WoW did away with it and no MMO since has allowed CC to be that useful...
So with that said, WoW actually created the modern trinity.
Originally posted by asmkm22
Every campaign I've ever played in didn't have a bunch of idiot enemies that target the character with the most hit points and did the least damage unless the enemies actually had a low wisdom or intelligence.
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@OP - this whole topic is flawed. it's based on the premise that the trinity is tank/dps/healer. the trinity is tank/damage/healer. the term dps is the bi-product of the addon recount.
I think the prostitute mod corrupted your game files man. -elhefen
Originally posted by muffins89
The acronym dps has been around since Everquest, long before any addons were around.
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All developers did were add mechanics to replace DM's and the players decision to jump in front of other players and such.
The trinity existed in DnD, it was simply handled different.
Was the trinity then the exact same thing as the trinity of today? No. Players had to be creative with feats and all of that to keep attackers focused on them. All MMO developers did was simplify the tanking from DnD and turn it into a provoke or w/e it is called in your preffered game.
The concept and the goals are exactly the same, the only thing thats changed is the means.
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Sorry played D&D long before MMO's. Started in 82 and the trinity was strong in D&D you needed it that way.
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Classes specialize performance. A group of mixed classes will assume roles. The ones who can heal, will do so. The ones who can take damage and who need to be up close will do so. The ones who can DPS from ranged will do so.
Even without aggro mechanics (taunts and dumb mobs that lock onto the tank while getting killed) there are still roles, and they tend to parallel: Melee DPS, Ranged DPS, and Heals.
MMOs didn't invent the three. Early game systems established roles. Gamers figured out 3 was minimal.
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Originally posted by Alberel
Rogue or mage for CC was quite common in WoW Vanilla and BC. It was later that tanks became god-like eliminating the need for CC.
Originally posted by abottemiller
I've played D&D for most of my life, and I've played in campaigns and have DMed campaigns that were made up of a single class or only a couple of classes.
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Originally posted by waynejr2
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
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Physical blocking isn't the only way to replace the trinity with something more flexible and interesting, of course; there are many ways to do it. Hit location would be one way (dps the legs and it doesn't move); speed would be another (if it can't catch you, it can't hit you); proximity check would be a third (if you're standing close to someone in armour, they're deemed to be defending you so they take the hits aimed at you). There's lots you can do. I personally like physical blocking, but then I also like area of effect spells to damage friend and foe equally, so I'm probably a bit too traditional for most of today's MMO players.
Such narrow minded views. He is a very oldschool guy but his views don't even touch what technology is capable of NOW.
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Originally posted by grimal
Lets dicern between trinity and holy trinity.
Basicly the premise that goes wrong is that that there needs to be an aggro and a taunt mechanic.
That is what is needed for the speciffic variation of the trinity thats often best called the "holy trinity".
The trinity in it self is the mechanic of Support, Control and Damage.
The "holy trinity" is where controll have become all about agro, tanking and taunting. Support about reactive healing in the form of a whack a mole minigame. And damage about gearing up for max Dps.
That's the reason that its makes sense to use the terms "the trinity" and "the holy trinity" because the holy trinity is just a primitive fixed and limitted version of the trinity. And support includes alot more than reactive healing, controll alot more than taunts and tanking, and damage can have alot more variation involved than just dps.
The trinity itself exsisted way back in games history, and was fleshed clearly out in pen and paper roleplay from the start.
The name "the holy trinity" is fitting because it became a dogma in MMO gaming that it was really the best way to make combat, to a degree where developers lost sight of the basic foundation it was build upon and it looked like it was the only way. And a whole generation of gamers understood it as the only way a MMO gameplay could be. And they basicly equalised the holy trinity with the trinity itself.
Still too day people claim that old MMO games did have non trinity game play because there where more roles. But they fail to realise that not having the fixed "holy trinity" doesn't takes you away from the basic premise of having a trinity setup in form of damage, support and control.
MMO games is trinity games of control, support and damages, and that part is found in old school classic games as well.
read how to create a succesfull mmo before posting about GW2. And read tao of ArenaNet before talking about innovation in GW2
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Originally posted by endgame1
Same with EQ.. whether it was AD&D or EQ, there was no trinity so to speak.. There was many times our group kited Mobs or used other means of fighting besides tank and spank with heals.. I miss kiting, and wish MMO's today would go back to class roles of yesterday..
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Originally posted by ice-vortex
Seconded. 90% of the games I played in, the DM let people play what they wanted and tailored the combat to that mix. When I DM'd, I did the same thing. There must have been people who played more structured games, but I'm not sure that I ever met them.
If anything, old-school RPG's had a Holy Quadrilateral, not a trinity. Thieves were never considered a damage dealer -- they were needed to scout ahead, disarm traps, pick locks and sometimes pockets. Anyone who rolled a 1st or 2nd edition thief to put a hurtin' on things was an idiot. The class was more Bilbo Baggins than it was Ezio Auditore.
The word "tank" was never even used during old school table-top games -- unless it referred to that thing filled with sharks that you fell into when the thief failed his Detect Traps roll.
Originally posted by AlBQuirky
Tanks wore heavy armor, the best they could, because it did not impede any magical powers or movement based skills like other classes. Mages and rogues and druids could wear heavy armor, but they were penalised for doing so. Instead they got other skills or abilities to handle damage recieved. Warriors used heavy armor because the armor and potions were the only thing stopping them from a nasty death. They didnt have the avoidance or trickery of the rogues, or the magical defence of the sorceror, or the healing and magic of the druid. That is why they wore plate. Not because they were there to get beaten up instead of the squishier target. Clerics could also wear heavy armor and take a hit, but paid for it in damage capacity. They all had different strengths and weaknesses.
It would make no logical sense that someone would avoid attacking the obvious healer and go for the juggernaut instead. Which is why the whole principle of the trinity annoys some people. If your DM made it so everything went for the plate wearer and ignored the others while someone cast heals on the 'tank' every round, that would just be rediculous.


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Rina was downgraded to a tropical storm this morning. Despite losing strength, Rina should not be taken lightly according to the AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center.
Torrential rain and a storm surge remain dangers to Mexico's state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula, including the popular resort cities of Cancun and Cozumel. Squalls will increase across eastern Quintana Roo into tonight as Rina approaches then moves along the Quintana Roo coast.
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The immediate coastline along and east of where Rina moves inland, which includes Cozumel Island, will be pounded with rough surf and a flooding storm surge of 1 to 3 feet above normal tide levels.
Rina is a relatively small system with its tropical storm-force winds extending only a few dozen miles away from its center. However, clusters of thunderstorms rotating about the center can bring gusty winds to inland areas of the Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba. These winds are still capable of causing power outages, as well as tree and property damage across eastern Quintana Roo.
Localized areas of northeastern Quintana Roo will be hit by more than 4 inches of rain. After Rina emerges back over water on Friday, the cold front bringing a dramatic drop in temperatures to Texas today will protect the United States from a direct hit. Tropical moisture, however, could still get pulled northward and lead to vacation-ruining downpours across South Florida and the Keys this weekend.
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Photo Stream would seem to use the most data. If you take a few photos to get it right, even the rejects are being uploaded to iCloud and Photo Stream. OTA updates and backups are WiFi only so they shouldn't be causing any of the extra data consumption. Who knows, maybe Siri does a lot of post-processing and communicating with Apple after the fact and that is driving up data use, it may be part of the reason the 4S gets shorter battery life.
Siri doubles iPhone 4S data consumption
According a report by network metrics firm Arieso, iPhone 4S users are consuming twice the amount of data than users of earlier iPhone models, and the reason is Siri. Siri is getting the blame for the huge increase in data consumption as it communicates with Apple's servers to provide its personal assistant features.
"Voice is the ultimate human interface," Arieso Chief Technology Officer Michael Flanagan said in an interview in London. "As you lower the barriers," consumers will use their smartphones' functions even more often, he said. Arieso, based in Atlanta, advises clients such as Vodafone Group Plc (VOD), Telefonica SA (TEF) and Nokia Siemens Networks Oy on how to manage wireless networks.
Data consumption remains a concern for those on restricted plans and on networks like AT&T that have historically suffered connectivity problems due to excessive load. Arieso claims to have measured one million subscribers across a single European network in both urban and rural areas to come up with its findings about Siri. We can understand a small increase in data with the additional functionality that Siri brings, however, it shouldn't be forgotten that iOS 5 was also released for other devices at the same time as the iPhone 4S was launched with Siri. iOS 5 brought a little extra service called iCloud too. We are sure a lot of this additional data usage could be explained by over the air updates, iTunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream and many other data intensive tasks available for iPads and earlier iPhone models and not just Siri on the iPhone 4S.
And if Siri is responsible for the spike, it will be interesting to see what if any decline results when the novelty wears off. How many times can you really ask how to hide a body, or have the pod bay doors opened?
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Nah there was some testing done and Siri is actually pretty data efficient. What I'm guessing is that people are excited to use their new iPhones and show it off to their friends so their data usage is high. I'm guessing when the initial appeal of Siri wears off (if they don't find a way to integrate it into their lives) then usage will level off.
Data efficiency is relative. It might be data efficient in the realm of speech processing, emulation, and transmission but that doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't use a lot of data for that purpose compared to other data services.
People love to bash the Blackberry but it is a very light user of data compared, carriers want to minimize the amount of data going over their networks. Increased data usage can't make carriers happy no matter what the cause, except for the fact they can charge overages for all the data usage.
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I can see how Siri would increase data usage by an attention grabbing amount. I have unlimited data, so it doesn't really matter to me, but I can see how others would get upset. (Custom iPad cases www.portenzo.com)
I'm pretty sure its all the iCloud users that is causing the major dent in doubling data usage.
While iCloud is a factor, I think it likely that the heaviest data users were the most likely to upgrade, so that the 4S has a much lower percentage of minimal users dragging the average down than does the 4. The 4S average rate may change as holiday purchases activate, but the 4 average data usage will drop even more as price sensitive users come on board after the latest round of price cuts. What would be interesting is a longitudinal study comparing the same users' data usage on the 4 vs the 4s.
I was just looking at my data consumption and noticed I went from a consistent 0.5gb per month (really consistent over the last couple of years) to 1.5gb in November and December. I did a lot of phone switching in the last couple of months (iPhone 4, Blackberry Torch 2, iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy S2 and back to the iPhone 4S) so I can't really say for certain it was the 4S. Weird.
This article is incorrect and should be updated. Did anyone fact check this claim before posting it?http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/11/how-data-heavy-is-siri-on-an-i...
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (Feb. 10) - The New Mexico State softball team picked up its first win over I-25 rival New Mexico on Sunday afternoon with a 3-0 win over the Lobos at the NM State Softball Complex.
The seven-inning battle started with a quick pace for the Aggies as sophomore right-hander Karysta Donisthorpe struck out the first two Lobos she faced in the circle. She finished the game with six strikeouts in her three complete innings for NM State. Combined, the four Aggie hurlers worked for 11 strikeouts on the day while walking just two.
"I truly believe that the strength of this team is our experience in pitching," head coach Kathy Rodolph said. "This team is one of the hardest working teams I have ever had and now in preseason, we are trying to figure out what our strengths and weaknesses are before we go into conference, because we expect to make another run for the WAC (Western Athletic Conference) title."
Though the teams stayed scoreless through the first two innings, senior Amber Olive was the first Aggie to record a hit, going 2-for-4 on the day with two runs, when she knocked a short bunt between the circle and the plate. Faulty pitches got the next two Aggies on base before a wild pitch was just what Olive needed to plate the first run.
As junior Celisha Walker came in to pitch for NM State, she worked two strikeouts in the Lobos half of the fourth and one in the fifth. The Aggie defense behind Walker helped keep the Lobos from more than five hits on the day and only allowed four batters to the plate in each of the middle two innings.
In the home half of the fifth, Conrad picked up her first hit of the day with a double down the left line. Olive followed that with her second single of the day before sophomore Kelsey Dodd smacked an RBI single through center field to open the path for Conrad to plate a run.
Next up for the Aggies, sophomore Tina Cisneros found the right spot on the left line to drill a single past third base, enough to bring Dodd around the bases for the third Aggie run of the day.
Conrad earned her second double of the game with a long shot on the right side, but was left stranded on base in the Aggie half of the sixth.
The Lobos made an attempt in the sixth with back-to-back singles to lead off their half of the inning and a sacrifice bunt to move the runners into scoring position, but Walker and the NM State infield were able to shut down the rally attempt before the Lobos could score.
NM State's Makayla McAdams and Alex Newman worked the final inning in the circle to shut down the Lobos and secure the 3-0 win for the Aggies.
"It will be a biggie for us, and like in all rivalry games you want to try to take care of business at home," Rodolph said of the upcoming rivalry game with UTEP on Tuesday. "We expect them to come here and battle us just like we will go down there and battle them. It will be a good one."
The Aggies are now 3-1 on the season and take a 1-0 lead in the Rio Grande Rivalry series. Next on the bill for NM State is the southern rivalry with the UTEP Miners on Tuesday, Feb. 12. First pitch is slated for 5:30 p.m. in Las Cruces and is set to be televised on AggieVision and ESPN3.com.


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iPhone 5 design images leaked, bigger screen with the same design as iPhone 4?
Another iPhone 5 rumor has surfaced overnight and again it is emanating from a Chinese site that claims to have some engineering diagrams of the iPhone 5.
The images resemble the current iPhone 4 with the exception of the screen. The screen appears larger and takes up most of the front face with an extremely slim bezel. The images do resemble a previous leak of the front panel which many claimed were fake.
We just got what appears to be mold engineering drawings for iPhone 5. These would be used by case designers to create plastic, TPU, aluminum, silicone and leather cases. A while back we hear rumors that iPhone 5 would have a curved back but these images show iPhone 5 with the same form factor as iPhone 4 but with an edge to edge screen.
It is certainly not unusual for case manufacturers to receive information in advance of a new Apple product launch. We have recently seen iPad 2 information leaked in a similar way and turn out to be accurate.
We don't know if this is real at this stage but the idea of a larger screen in a similar sized form factor is very appealing. There are a few more images after the break; take a look, then let us know what you think? Would you like a larger screen without a dramatic increase in the size of the device?
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I'm pretty sure designs are supposed to look like they've been PS'd as you know -- they're not real. How come no one ever says "Damn, those pics look like they were AuoCad'd!"?
you shouldnt really update till the iphone 6. I went from 3g to 4. I think if i was to get an iphone 5 it would be because of the A5 processor and if it has nfc.
Well, I'm not Gordon Gekko, so more speed means absolutely nothing to me, personally. I come from the generation who drove around seeking phone booths in the rain, only to find that there was no phone book attached to look up a number, and I got by just fine.
I've never used the front-facing camera... and I don't foresee me using it anytime soon. The only thing I think I really gained from the iPhone 4 was it's thinness. I'm not sorry I bought it, but I just didn't need it, and unless the iPhone 5 is the next revolution in mobile phones (which I doubt), I'll probably hold off this time around.
Still with the 'antenna problems requires a new design' crowd huh. I thought by now everyone realised antennagate was a massive fuss over a very common problem affecting most phones.
For Chrissakes, is it so hard to implement a tiny LED Indicator light in the top right corner so I'll know when I have an email, missed call, text message etc... It's mindboggling they didn't have one in the original iPhone, and still to this day don't have one. Apple, please implement one in iPhone 5.
Cmon guy. I certainly appreciate your suggestion in theory, but what purpose would that serve? I'd have to turn my phone over to see if I have missed activity. Who would do that? If i'm in a meeting, bar room, or my living room i'd have to place my phone down screen first to have the indiciator light serve it's purpose. Not practical or realistic.
Yes, that thought popped into my head as well, good thinking. However, i'm all in on the "ditch the home button" to make the screen bigger without changing the size of the device, party. Just a very tiny light (like on the blackberry torch) would make me a happy camper.
That would be perfect. One of my favorite things about my Nexus One is that the trackball (I know I'm in the minority here, but I love having a trackball) can glow different colors depending on what kind of notification I have (blue for mail, cyan for chat, green for SMS, etc). That would be easy to implement and really handy.
Ditching the Home button on the iPhone would make it impossible to use one handed so i doubt they will do that. The iPad on the other hand could work without a home button with those new mutli-touch gestures since you can't use it single handed as it is.
It would good if they at least implemented 3 finger gestures on the iPhone (when the Zoom mode is not on) for pulling up the multi-tasking bar, etc so we have a choice of how to operate it.
Well, it depends on whether you're talking about eliminating just the Home button or the entire Home button area. I'm all for eliminating just the button, and maybe narrowing the area. You have to reach down there with your thumb now, to push the button. It could easily be a swipe instead. Also, using gestures would allow for multiple functions—better than double and triple clicks.
You can eliminate the home button and replace it with a capacitive gesture area which can include an indicator LED. For examples of how that would work, please refer to the Palm Pixi/Pre (Plus/2).
@webvex, @erik: The problem with a gesture area though is I think it would be too easy to accidentally trigger actions. For one handed operation it would need to use single finger swipes, but it would be too easy to inadvertently stray from the screen to the gesture area or vice versa. I'm sure most Palm Pre users have probably learned to avoid it, but then the Palm Pre doesn't actually use the gesture area for much and it still has a button.
Multi-touch gestures are less likely to be triggered unintentionally, but that requires two hands, which is why I think they could get rid of the button on the iPad, but not the iPhone.
How about a small Apple logo on the upper front right that is lit with a red LES when you get a email, txt or other notification?
I Like your idea.
I had a palm pre and can tell you with much certainty that the gesture area is not an issue. In fact, now that I have an EVO, I miss webOS and the gesture area altogether. I've always said the perfect phone would be apple-quality hardware with webOS. Think the iPhone minus the home button, replaced by the feature area. Dude, yes!
Surprisingly I dont miss the LED light from my blackberry and I really hope apple doesnt implement one. 1) if you're in a situation where you can't check to see if you have a new notification then why would you need the light to tell you to check it if you cant? I like the alert popups and statusbar notifications that I got through jailbreaking just fine.
I can understanding not needing a "message waiting" LED (I personally don't care if they do it or not), but I can't understand actively hoping they don't implement it. What's it to you if they do? It's not like it's going to be a problem for you if you don't need it.
It is if you came from a BlackBerry (like me) and actually hated the LED. If I was in the middle of something and I got a notification, that STUPID light would be blinking NONSTOP until I went and read the message... drove me BONKERS. The iPhone notification is much more welcome to me :D Now, if they gave us the option to turn it on/off, then win/win for everybody! Or maybe have it blink if you haven't acted on the notification, but turn off if you've hit either Cancel or Reply.
Amen. Although I would like a bigger screen too.
Yes. I'm waiting for 64. I may wait till iPhone 6 if they don't lol. I have 20 gigs of music and the rest leaves me with only 2 gigs left ( or a movie or two )
I'd like to see them keep the same design, but remove the home button (perhaps relocate the button to fit on top of the device, next to the sleep/wake button) and stretch out the screen border to border, and bring the screen down to square it off. Ditch the glass back, and go with that new metal they were testing, and add an LED indicator light. If this came true, consider it a total victory.
Dont you guys know that the antenna will be put inside??? Stop this nonsense! It is obviously fake! It lacks the great sense of design Apple has. It's some Photoshop crap... The new iPhone will be thinner, like the new iPad, and the outter antenna will be discontinued!
Im surprised you guys! Be more professional
Me too! I wouldn't be bothered if they put one on, so long as it was very small and not a mini Apple Logo like one of the posters above would like to see, hehe :)
Geez, no kidding. I'm on a 3G too and really, really looking forward to an upgrade.
My crazy bet: Apple ups the resolution by 40 pixels in each dimension (making it 1000x680). And, iOS still runs in 960x640, with a 20 pixel black border on all 4 sides, reserved for notifications. What side the notification appears on, depends on the orientation you're holding your phone in.
I'm skeptical of the edge-to-edge screen. It would make many case designs impossible, including the Apple Bumper, because they rely on at least a little bit of lip over the front of the case. I'm not saying no case could be designed without covering some of the screen, but I think it would be a lot harder. As it is, my fat finger sometimes has trouble reaching pixels in the edges and corners while in a case.
There is about a millimeter of extra space between the actual pixels and the screen cutout but, yeah, cases would be a little more tricky. Magnetic maybe, like the iPad 2? Or they could trim down the sides only where the screen is, but still have a full lip over the top and bottom areas.
I hope it's fake.
No way this thing is real. Apple may not have great PR but they do hear when a product design doesn't work. The edge to edge glass that was leaked was debunked as a Photoshop fake and I don't think they'll be sticking with this design.
Remember when the iPad 2 was going to be flat like the iPhone 4? Yeah, this is like that. The iPhone 5 is going to be slightly curved again like the iPad 2.
That rumor was half right, they just picked the wrong 3.5" iDevice to compare the new iPad too...
Considering that most people don't honestly notice the ppi change between the 4.3" Android devices and the 3.5" 4th gen iDevices, it's probably not going to be a problem.
I'm with most people on the notification improvement. It really is getting tiresome. As far as the design, I personally didn't like the flat back, especially wit the "sharp" edges. I could go for a more rounded backing. As for the bigger screen, it could be useful if we get to keep our Retina Display. If it reverts back to the 3GS pixelation and what not, I'm not really for it. All in all I don't want a necessarily BIGGER iPhone, but a bigger screen with the same tech specs (or just slightly larger to compensate) and a better notification system improvement and I'm for it!
IPhone 4S? Not a slam, but if this is real it looks like the differences between the 4 and 5 will mostly be under the hood. The hardware and feature set are so nice now, it's hard to imagine what real life improvements they could add that would have a retina display or FaceTime "wow" factor hardware wise. Maybe OS 5 will have all the "wow" factors the generation.
Don't like the design why not make the whole screen touch screen
I hope and pray they add a slightly bigger screen on the next iPhone; nothing too big, just a little bigger, without increasing the overall dimensions of the phone or adversely affecting its usability or the screen's ppi too much... I think 4 inches is the sweet spot, as 4.3 feels just a little too big (like on my old HD2), and the current 3.5 feels just a little too small and cramped, especially for my big hands. But 4 inches (like on my old Galaxy S/Vibrant) would be just right. And I'd also like to see them replace the glass back with aluminum, to make the phone a lot more durable.
Let me be the first to say this: the king is naked. This thing is dead ugly, the black screen contrasts very badly with the white bezel, and the home button is black?? The bezel on the sides is very thin, but is thick at the top and bottom, creating a terrible assimetric effect. The black iPhone 4 is much, much nicer looking than this. I very much doubt that Apple would launch a new iPhone looking like this, it looks like a bad Chinese rip off.
Did you also know that a conceptual CAD rendering will always contain the intended color scheme of a production product...
Though we don't even know that the Home button will end up still being a button on a new design instead of a capacitive surface.
this looks exactly like the 4th gen with a bigger screen. hopefully this one actually comes in white.
This is gonna feel great after sticking with my 3GS for almost two years. At least I was opposed to the flat back but after playing with other's phones and going to the apple store I got use to it. It still can't beat the curve back feel but I wouldn't mind the flat.
Hopefully FaceTime goes over 3G or HSPA+ ...
I would be stoked if they released an iPhone 5 with a 720x1280 16:9 widescreen. And the best thing is, just like when the retina display was released, existing apps will work perfectly still, with black bars at the sides of the screen. I am a fan of the current design so if they keep it, i'll be happy but I won't mind an iPad 2 style back as well. But i'm waiting for the iPhone 6, because of the 2 year contract I have with my iPhone 4.
Just to clarify, regarding the gesture area discussion earlier, the palm pre+ has no button and the single touch gestures work extremely well. Used it for a year and now on Verizon iPhone. Needed the apps as well as good camera and great battery life. But from an os navigation standpoint, webOS kicks the crap out of iOS. And before you criticize, I also used a 3GS alongside the Pre and use my wife's iPod touch and iPad. I'm adept at using both systems. Give me some kind of test, and I'll get things done faster and with far fewer steps on the Pre. All this is to say, give iOS gesture control like webOS and you'll then have a magical device. Oh, it also has the led notifications in the gesture area as well. Lots of potential for iOS still.
Second that! I made a comment on that earlier about the perfect phone being apple-quality hardware with webOS and the gesture area. That would be a monster phone.
Keep the iPhone 4 design. It really is the best-looking phone around at the moment.
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A phenomenal and monumental French tapestry after a beautiful Rococo painting by celebrated painter François Boucher entitled 'La Fontaine d'Armour.' This remarkable woodland scene springs to life with lovely romantic figures surrounding a sculpted fountain. One of six tapestries known as Les Beaux Pastorales, this scene is often included in a series of six panels originally woven in Beauvais, France during the 18th century. This particular work is a reverse weaving of the original Beauvais design and bearing the same frame border and corner cartouches. Beautiful craftsmanship and condition.
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This album just dropped and I could not wait to hear it! A free download from two Hip-Hop legends who have their share of songs together, but never a full length album until now. Busta Rhymes and Q-tip deliver the album you've been waiting for with classics revised, beats and samples that take you back to the days of A Tribe Called Quest and Busta's old group Leaders of the New School. These vets show the new generation that consistently great beats, lyrics and flow is how you do Hip-Hop!
Oddisee- Beauty in All
Any producer would appreciate this album and not because it's filled with instrumentals, but because they can appreciate what went in to creating it. Oddisee took me back to college when I hung out with beat makers and cyphered all day. You will find the beauty in each track and love where it changes taking the listener on a musical journey.
Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
Chance has many nasally sounding flow changes and even sings (not bad) through his entire album. The music production samples are soulful hip-hop and upbeat with tracks that at times make you think you are really on an acid trip. His wild flow bounces around from Lil Wayne to Eminem and then back to him again. Although, Chance will be compared to the aforementioned rappers, Acid Rap is actually a breath of fresh air due to its creative innocence. Untouched by the opinions of music executives, leaves the creativity to Chance making the album consistent (if nothing else) and worth the free download.
Tinashe – Black Water
The only R&B artist and female to make the list, she hasn't blown up yet, but with a buzz as big as her talent she is doing all the right things to get noticed. Infectious and sexy, Tinashe does for new millennium R&B what Sade did in the 80's and Aaliyah did in the 90's with dreamy music, hard beats and light beautiful vocals. Black Water is one of this year's best mixtapes. I love the way this album makes me feel and I think you will too.
Pusha T- My Name is My Name
It would seem the most talented member of Clipse should have made a solo CD long ago, but don't worry your patience has paid off. My Name Is My Name brings you Pusha T's signature high energy yet laid back flow with vivid, rewind worthy lyrics. There are plenty of guest appearances boasting his respectable connections in the industry.
Danny Brown – Old
Representing Detroit, the young and talented Danny Brown brings you energy galore! He IS Midwest, showcasing his music range from the influence of J Dilla to Detroit House and I bounced and grooved through the entire CD. A flow that can at times be whimsical, wild and at other times under control he can flow through it all as a true Emcee should.
Kevin Gates- Stranger Than Fiction
I heard about Kevin Gates several years ago and now that the rest of the country is getting hip, he is poised to be next. His club ready hits and laid back flow is what the streets are buzzing about.
Prodigy & Alchemist – Albert Einstein
I would consider Alchemist the unofficial third member of Mobb Deep, having produced some of their hottest tracks. Together, Alchemists production and Prodigy's lyrics remain sensationally street gritty and timeless.
There is music for different types of Hip-Hop enthusiast on this list so start downloading, Happy Holidays and happy listening!
As we continue on…
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We're Bringing Jeter and Mattingly Figures - and Todd McFarlane!
Friday, June 20, 2008
As Major League Baseball heads to the Bronx this summer, fans prepare for a season's tribute to the final season at beloved Yankee Stadium. McFarlane Toys is no different; we plan to honor the pinstripes with a pair of All-Star figures for the last two captains of the New York Yankees: Derek Jeter in an all new pose, and Don Mattingly in New York's road grey uniform.
McFarlane's two exclusive figures have a limited production run of 6,000 figures of Jeter and 4,000 of Mattingly. The figures will cost $15 each, or $25 for the set of two. Both figures feature special All-Star packaging.
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News about Smog, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
How Do You Keep Your Kids Healthy in Smog-Choked China?
Teddy-bear face masks, dome-covered schools and other examples of protective parenting in some of the world's most polluted cities.
April 16, 2015, Thursday
MORE ON SMOG AND: Hazardous and Toxic Substances , Air Pollution , Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation , Xi Jinping , Beijing (China) , Shanghai (China) , China
Chinese Premier Vows Tougher Regulation on Air Pollution
Premier Li Keqiang acknowledged that there was a gap between the government's efforts and public ire about pervasive smog.
March 16, 2015, Monday
MORE ON SMOG AND: China , Air Pollution , Web-Original Programming , Li Keqiang , Documentary Films and Programs , National People's Congress (China) , Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Cutting Through India's Smog
Indians appear to be waking up to the dangers of dirty energy, but their current path remains self-destructive.
February 23, 2015, Monday
MORE ON SMOG AND: India , Air Pollution , Greenhouse Gas Emissions , Coal , Editorials , Carbon Dioxide , Respiratory Diseases
London, L.A., Beijing, Delhi, Nairobi... Is Smog an Inevitable Urban Growing Pain?
Does the urban climb from developing to developed economies have to be smoggy? So far, yes.
February 15, 2015, Sunday
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Dystopian Reality of China's Smog Captured in 'Airpocalypse' App
Airpocalypse, a sleek, color-coded app, provides weather conditions in Chinese cities, shows air quality measurements and, perhaps most important, "shares your excitement" on clear days and "feels your pain" on smoggy ones.
January 28, 2015, Wednesday
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Q. and A.: Chip Jacobs on Struggling With Smog in Los Angeles and Beijing
Chip Jacobs, a Los Angeles-based writer who co-wrote "Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles," discusses China's smog crisis.
December 4, 2014, Thursday
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New Smog Rules: Good But Later Than They Had to Be
The former E.P.A. administrator suggests the same standards years ago.
November 26, 2014, Wednesday
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Obama to Introduce Sweeping New Controls Aimed at Ozone
The regulation would be the latest in a series of E.P.A. controls on air pollution that wafts from smokestacks and tailpipes, and would probably set off a battle among all sides of the issue.
November 26, 2014, Wednesday
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The capital of China will take part in a company initiative that includes the collection of emissions data to predict smog buildup.
July 8, 2014, Tuesday
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How Climate Change Could Foil China's Smog-Fighting Efforts
China is spending a lot of money to address its air pollution problem, but some scientists say that may not produce the results the government expects.
July 2, 2014, Wednesday
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Pastors call for prayer, address evil in wake of school shooting
As many people turn to religion to explain what could lead to the shooting deaths of 27 people last week — the vast majority of them young children — local pastors and other religious leaders referenced the Newtown, Conn., shootings in their sermons this past weekend.
For some, the solution was prayer, but for others, a longer sermon was in order.
Wendell McGee, pastor at Morningside Presbyterian Church who also works at First Presbyterian Church, said Monday he witnessed some of both strategies. First Presbyterian Pastor Arnold Lovell stuck to prayer requests, McGee said, also evoking the story of John The Baptist crying out in the wilderness as a reaction to the evil in the world.
For his own flock, McGee said, the shootings were a large focus of his sermon. He said he preached awareness of evil and the importance of stopping evil — but also the importance of always refraining from fighting negativity with negativity.
"There has been evil and problems with us forever," he said. "And as Christians, we need to make sure there's no hate involved [in responding] and, forever, we need to be just seeking solutions to such problems."
Cameron Presbyterian Pastor Whitney Wilkinson — who is also a food columnist for The Herald — said her entire sermon on Sunday was devoted to the massacre, and that it was the most difficult sermon she has ever preached, admitting that she wept throughout.
She said she had originally planned to focus on a message to ancient Jewish slaves to keep their faith and celebrate despite their harsh surroundings, but knew she had to tweak that plan when she heard of Friday's tragedy. The original message, she said, actually translated fairly well — especially after she combined that Biblical passage with the imagery of Maya Angelou's poem, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Wilkinson said she encouraged her congregation to remain joyful, although such a horrific event is something that she couldn't find any way to explain when people in her congregation asked how it could have happened — and how a single person could inflict that much suffering.
"Maybe it was time to rise above all the hatred and fear," she said Monday. "... We're caged by the reality of evil in the world, and injustice, but we're still able to sing with God in our midst."
Ira Sutton, pastor at Cool Springs Baptist Church, said that this past Sunday he simply asked churchgoers to pray for the families and community in Newtown. However, he said, he gave a sermon the week before — in which he compared school shootings to a famous Biblical anecdote known as the Massacre of the Innocents — to illustrate the struggle between good and evil.
"I had actually shared in my main theme of my message that Christmas did not eliminate evil, Christmas did not eliminate suffering, but that what it did was it gave the eviction notice for evil and suffering," he said. "And I actually used two school shootings as an example of that and compared it to the passage in Matthew when Herod orders all baby boys under 2 years old to be killed. I said, 'You know, even on Christmas 2,000 years ago, we had this kind of thing going on ... and even when Jesus was born he didn't end pain and suffering, but he will one day.'"


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Yes, but WHY do people hate Jews
Quote from: TheAuthenticFan on November 22, 2012, 12:13:52 AM Yes, but WHY do people hate Jews It is a learning process that commences in childhood. I remember living in a Catholic neighborhood as a 6 - 10 year old, listening to some of my playmates talk about how Jews murdered Christ. Being non-Catholic they never became good friends of mine. Their mindset was so opposite of how I was being raised. These baffling experiences from my early childhood is the reason I have always looked upon Catholic theology with tremendous suspicion, and then later in life I discovered they have a teaching that "Roman Catholicism" is the "one true church", that is when it came together & made sense as to why I see a "superiority syndrome" among such groups.........that's it in a nutshell......the only way to deal with it is UR (Universal Reconciliation), that the crucified Christ came to save everybody, not just the "one true church"........mention that the next time you hear someone preaching their "hate & superiority", you'll baffle them into such an awkward position that they'll just think you are some kind of nut & they'll probably just leave you alone.
TAF - you've asked that question repeatedly and you have repeatedly recieved the same answers.If you are a christian, maybe you might consider "Why does the world hate Christians?"
This Bible Verse, Genesis 16:12, to be Honest, in the Biblepredicts the Savage nature of the Arab Beast, and his hatred not only of Jews, but of all Mankind,This Verse is Relevant to the Heartless, evil, Criminal, Primitive, Violent nature of the Arabs, Look at what Arabs did on the 9/11 attacks, look what they continue to do,They are the Most Evil Race in the World, even God does NOT love them, there is No Humanity within themcompared to other Races, I'm sorry, but it's True, Look at the Irish or the Italians and compare them to Arabs
TheAuthenticFan - Scripture makes clear one thing: God sees what's in the hearts of men. Some Jews believed in the Messiah, some didn't. Attempting to generalize across a whole ethnic subgroup is going to inevitably prove unfruitful. The "Jews" as a whole didn't kill Jesus anymore than the Romans or anyone else. He was The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, to put our sinful natures to death and impart life.
Where I live, In New York City,A lot of Jewish kids and Teenagers wear the Yarmulke(Skullcap) you can tell they are Jewish,They would NEVER go to a Public School, like Newtown High School, inElmhurst,Queens, New York City, they would NEVER wear a Jewish Skullcap in a School like that and risk being killed by Arabs or Muslim Terrorists, or other Jew-hater Students, They have their Jewish Religious Schools


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Pros: the format is very simple, there is no need to show every columns, and full command with args
the first column is memory consumption %
the second column is pid
the third is just the command (without full arguments, most application's arguments are too long)
You can decide which application to kill then.
env LC_CTYPE=C
fixes a problem with bad bytes in /dev/urandom on Mac OS X
This is a simple command which makes electricsheep render directly to your background
Will work with filenames with spaces inside. Will not break in case of someone making directory that matches *.pm. And sorts from largest. Where largest is file size, not line count.
Changed wget to curl and it doesn't create a file anymore.
Substitute that 724349691704 with an UPC of a CD you have at hand, and (hopefully) this oneliner should return the $Artist - $Title, querying discogs.com.
Yes, I know, all that head/tail/grep crap can be improved with a single sed command, feel free to send "patches" :D
finger - gets logged in users
grep $(whoami) - greps only the current user (if there are more logged in)
head -n1 - just one line
awk '{print $2 " " $3}' - second and third word, seperated with a space (the users name)
OT: My first commandlinefu-command :)
Show the top file size in human readable form
Little faster alternative.
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where COMMIT
for instance:
where 1178c5950d321a8c5cd8294cd67535157e296554
where HEAD~5
The same command, but with a base64 filter, more forgiving for special characters than tr.
Checks the apache configuration syntax, if is OK then restart the service otherwise opens the configuration file with VIM on the line where the configuration fails.
create the "newer than" file by:
touch -t 201011151300 ./201011151300.txt
the format for the time is
this will dump a list of domains one per line into a text file
This Anti-TarBomb function makes it easy to unpack a .tar.gz without worrying about the possibility that it will "explode" in your current directory. I've usually always created a temporary folder in which I extracted the tarball first, but I got tired of having to reorganize the files afterwards. Just add this function to your .zshrc / .bashrc and use it like this;
atb arch1.tar.gz
and it will create a folder for the extracted files, if they aren't already in a single folder.
This only works for .tar.gz, but it's very easy to edit the function to suit your needs, if you want to extract .tgz, .tar.bz2 or just .tar.
More info about tarbombs at http://www.linfo.org/tarbomb.html
Tested in zsh and bash.
UPDATE: This function works for .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tgz, .tbz and .tar in zsh (not working in bash):
atb() { l=$(tar tf $1); if [ $(echo "$l" | wc -l) -eq $(echo "$l" | grep $(echo "$l" | head -n1) | wc -l) ]; then tar xf $1; else mkdir ${1%.t(ar.gz||ar.bz2||gz||bz||ar)} && tar xf $1 -C ${1%.t(ar.gz||ar.bz2||gz||bz||ar)}; fi ;}
UPDATE2: From the comments; bepaald came with a variant that works for .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tgz, .tbz and .tar in bash:
atb() {shopt -s extglob ; l=$(tar tf $1); if [ $(echo "$l" | wc -l) -eq $(echo "$l" | grep $(echo "$l" | head -n1) | wc -l) ]; then tar xf $1; else mkdir ${1%.t@(ar.gz|ar.bz2|gz|bz|ar)} && tar xf $1 -C ${1%.t@(ar.gz|ar.bz2|gz|bz|ar)}; fi ; shopt -u extglob}


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US-Canada border shooting suspects in custody
SUMAS, Wash. (AP) - Four people were in custody Wednesday after what officials described as a foiled drug smuggling run across Washington state's border with Canada.
Court documents unsealed Wednesday say American Border Patrol agents encountered two camouflaged men trying to smuggle 58 pounds of MDMA, or ecstasy, into the U.S. east of Sumas on Tuesday.
One, identified as Jeffrey Laviolette, was captured. Agents say the other, identified as Nathan Hall, fired a gunshot at them and ran. Hall was later arrested in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
Investigators also arrested a Bellingham woman, Kali Henifin, who they say planned on picking up the pair at the border, and her boyfriend, Ryan Lambert, who told officers that he was going to be paid $11,000 to drive the drugs to San Francisco, according to a federal complaint.
Lambert and Henifin told agents they were monitoring a police-scanner cell phone application when they heard news of the shooting and left the area, the document said.
The three defendants in U.S. custody have been charged with conspiracy and possession of MDMA with intent to distribute. They made initial appearances Wednesday in federal court in Seattle and were ordered detained pending further hearings.
Border Patrol agents said they encountered the two men carrying backpacks at 9:10 Tuesday in the Columbia Valley area, about five miles east of the highway border crossing at Sumas. The area is a known drug smuggling corridor.
A manhunt ensued with local and national law enforcement agents searching both sides of the border on the ground and by helicopter.
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