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Buying Twitter Followers? Beware StatusPeople, The Service That Exposes Social Media's Black Market
Buying Twitter followers is cheap and easy. But a new app from StatusPeople that uncovers fakes can make it costly—very costly—to your digital reputation.
Late Sunday afternoon my friend @caronsue (2477 followers) posted a photo on Twitter displaying her StatusPeople "Faker Score," revealing that 96% of her followers are good, 3% inactive, and only 1% fake. While 2011 was the year of Klout, the popular service that calculates a user's online influence, this new tool could prove to be even more disruptive—and a blow to a user's credibility if they try to game their popularity in the digital space.
The main goal of StatusPeople's web app is to find out "how many fake followers you and your friends have." The company, which creates social-media management software, released the tool as a side project in July to shed light on a user's follower quality. While the makers emphasize on their site that their metrics aren't perfect (for example, they only analyze a sample of your followers and, moreover, it's possible for anyone to purchase Twitter followers for another user), there is no doubt that the results have the potential to humiliate anyone who pays money for subscribers—a dodgy practice that takes just a few minutes.
To further explain the "Dark World of Paid Followers," blogger Zach Bussey created a new Twitter profile this past weekend and started buying subscribers, amassing more than 26,000 new followers overnight. While quickly growing follower counts might cause Twitter envy at first glance, the majority of these purchased accounts were clearly spam accounts; as Bussey describes, "they sorta look real, but not really…most of
their usernames are a jumble of letters."
According to Fast Company's recent Social Media Road Map, it costs a mere $77 to buy 5,000 Twitter follower bots at buytwitterfollowers.org. Using usocial.net, a more substantial fee of $617 will get you 4,000 Facebook fan bots. Earlier this month, Facebook admitted it has 83 million fake accounts and dupes—so Twitter isn't the only platform plagued by imposters.
While not all fake online accounts are necessarily malicious, the social media black market is alive and well. Why now? Everyday people and businesses, wannabe (and real) celebrities and politicians, are scrambling to get Internet famous, overnight. It doesn't take a social media strategist to tell you that this get-famous-fast approach is doomed. Not only will these followers prove irrelevant when you're measuring meaningful conversation and fans, you'll likely be found out.
Do a quick Google search for "Mitt Romney Twitter Followers" and you'll find dozens of articles discussing how his follower numbers grew suspiciously. Security firm Barracuda Labs created an infographic based on its research breaking down Romney's newfound Twitter fame, sharing that one in four of Romney's new Twitter accounts had never sent a single tweet. No matter how the presidential candidate got these new followers, it doesn't look good from the outside (although his Faker Score is currently sitting pretty at just 12% of 839,719 followers).
On the topic of politicians allegedly buying followers, last month StatusPeople called out a UK-based politician for her recent surge in followers, claiming that 97 percent of her new subscribers were fakes, a story that made for a humiliating headline or two ("Louise Mensch
gains 40,000 'robot' Twitter followers," wrote The Telegraph). Mensch, an author and Conservative Party MP, tweeted that these additional accounts were spambots and that she needed a better filter (incidentally, according to The Telegraph, her 66,000 Twitter followers jumped to more than 105,000 in just a few hours).
The Internet has always excelled as a platform to afford people insta-fame, but the online audience is equally as keen to take this person down if they smell a rat in their digital midst. Within the first few weeks of StatusPeople's fake follower app launching, more than 30,000 people have signed up, demonstrating our collective desire to find out if a person's follower number is in fact the real deal.
To date, I've run a number of accounts through the service, and at first glance it appears that if your faker numbers are below 20 percent, you're doing OK. The more followers you have, the higher the fake percentage due to more exposure to spam bots. Interestingly,
from what I've seen on blogs and in my own experience, the folks with faker percentages hovering 30-40 percent and higher are most often people you've rarely heard about. In my case, I discovered some lesser-known bloggers and social media marketing types—who shall remain nameless—with some nasty faker scores. Bussey's findings were similar, using the tool to call out Senior VP of Shop.com @LorenRidinger—her 374,000 came out 81% fake—and rapper @ThatsShawtyLo, whose 203,000 followers came out 81% fake. In contrast, @fastcompany had 7 percent fakes (based on 539,806 followers) and I'm doing okay with 10% fakes (based on 73,034 followers).
Will StatusPeople's app put an end to digital fakers? Not likely, but it's certainly going to cause some serious Twitter shame, and make users think twice before buying followers. Consider yourself warned.
Read more about fake followers of Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Lady Gaga, and others.
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Lol so many people getting caught buying fake lately. I bought some Twitter followers from http://Wizish.com for my business website a few months ago lol we have over 20000 followers but no retweets or favorites. (I was open about it though. Even let the followers know) If you're going to buy fake just to give yourself a little boost then I recommend having a few thousand real followers first so you at least have SOME interaction. It's so obvious that you're buying fake if you don't.
Also do keep in mind that that may not necessarily be the ones buying them. Many of the smart people out there that know how to mass create the accounts and run the bots may just be testing their bots on it, you know?
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I only buy my followers at http://www.steadysocial.com these days. They're fast and good. My 2 cents.
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a great blog. Hope those websites that are selling twitter followers
would also give us PROS and CONS. There are lots of websites promise to
deliver high quality followers. But not all this websites does what it
says. So far http://socialmediacombo.com gives me the result I want.
Anyone buying so called "followers" is a bloody fool. All you would be buying are spam bot accounts. Someone is making a fortune out of all the monies that such people keep paying out to get their follower counts high. Fools and their monies are soon parted!
One thing is for sure, there are way many too bots on twitter that you don't even know who is who. What is the point in getting something to rank just because it's a number on somebody's site when those followers are not even human? Sooner or later Brother G will find out. Surely something will have to give...
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Great post, guys.
By the way, I came across a great service recently that claims to help you grow a targeted Twitter fan base by growing your followers organically, rather than buying them. A colleague of mine is using it and says they do a brilliant job. They are called www.TwitterConsult.com. Worth looking into.
I have tried 4 websites offering the same services as this one, but all of them failed to deliver what they advertised. Then, I tried my last one http://www.gilservices.com and was skeptical about this one too but I was able to talk to a representative on the phone and that gave me more confidence so I went ahead and ordered the gold package and more than what I ordered. I really recommend this company for Twitter followers services.
Also at the end of the day, what is the great impact of digital shame? I mean I have used social media since it came about and myself/the average Joe, would still just look at the followers amounts and trust them off that. Surely the majority of people wont care if they r real or fake? Just the few like us. Please correct me if you think im wrong.
Just about anyone with huge amounts of followers especially celebrities have tons of fake followers. This can easily be observed by clicking on their 10 million + followers and scrolling through the list. You'll see tons of eggs and accounts with obvious phony twitter messages. The true test of a persons followers is when they post a status how many responses do they get. Usually this number is much lower and realistic. This is a much clearer example of how many "real" fans they have.
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I checked your score. 16% fake! Only 49% "good." You're just a big sham, Amber Mac!
Well, according to StatusPeople @barackobama has a 41% fake follower status. Conveniently not mentioned in the article.


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How about other input connection like CD-IN, AUX-IN, ... Not sure if your card has that, but my SB Live! Value has those inputs.
But I think making one yourself is much cheaper. All you need is a 4PDT or 3PDT relay and couple of male/female 3.5mm jack/plug.
Or go to walmart game/audio/video section and pick up a Video/audio selector box + 3 set of RCA to 3.5mm cables and call it a day.
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Matrix has a good point. If your sound card is PCI, it should have some sort of CD-ROM audio in, from the old days before audio came over the IDE cable. Perhaps you could hook in there?
oh well, I guess we're back to the source selector switch box then. the MK-1 accepts 3.5mm plugs and it's only $23
Yep...just go into the windows mixer and mute the one you aren't using at the time.
hmmm... that would get aggravating after a while. it would also be hard/dangerous to do while driving.
a physical selector switch would be much better (and safer) IMO
well my problem is i cant use a pci sound card as my case is about 6" x "8" x 2". I need an external sound card with an aux-in or cd-in. If i could find one i'd buy that before the selector. Muting the line that needs to be muted is done through the front end (in my case Road Runner)
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Energy is fundamental to any economy. When energy prices climb it impacts every corner of the economy, from the prices paid at retail shops to the costs of manufacturing goods sold in the shops. Higher energy costs drain money from the entire economy.
The best quote I have seen regarding the importance that energy plays in an economy was in Pravda (yes; that Pravda):
That brings us to Cap and Trade. Never in the history of humanity has a more idiotic plan been put forward and sold with bigger lies. Energy is the key stone to any and every economy, be it man power, animal power, wood or coal or nuclear. How else does one power industry that makes human life better (unless of course its making the bombs that end that human life, but that's a different topic). Never in history, with the exception of the Japanese self imposed isolation in the 1600s, did a government actively force its people away from economic activity and industry.
Even the Soviets never created such idiocy.
As pointed out before, Spain pushed to become the leader in 'green energy' several years ago and the results have been disastrous. Spain now has Europe's highest electrical utility rates and its highest unemployment rate (20%). Furthermore, Spain is close to becoming the EU's next Greece.
According to leaked Spanish government internal documents, the Green energy initiative Spain undertook is the primary cause for their economic distress.
Via Pajama Media:
But today's leaked document reveals that even the socialist Spanish government now acknowledges the ruinous effects of green economic policy.
Unsurprisingly for a governmental take on a flagship program, the report takes pains to minimize the extent of the economic harm. Yet despite the soft-pedaling, the document reveals exactly why electricity rates "necessarily skyrocketed" in Spain, as did the public debt needed to underwrite the disaster. This internal assessment preceded the Zapatero administration's recent acknowledgment that the "green economy" stunt must be abandoned, lest the experiment risk Spain becoming Greece.
The government report does not expressly confirm the highest-profile finding of the non-governmental report: that Spain's "green economy" program cost the country 2.2 jobs for every job "created" by the state. However, the figures published in the government document indicate they arrived at a job-loss number even worse than the 2.2 figure from the independent study.
This document is not a public report. Spanish media has referred to its existence in recent weeks though, while Bloomberg and the Washington Examiner have noted the impact: Spain is now forced to jettison its plans — Obama's model — for a "green economy." (emphasis added)
And the bizarre twist to this story is that Obama is pressuring Spain to cut its public debt. And the main driver for Spain debt problems is their Green Energy initiative. The same initiative that Obama (and Michigan's very own Jennifer Granholm aka "The Worst Governor in America") is modeling his energy policy on.
An item which has been covered widely, however, is that President Obama is now pressuring Spain to turn off its spigot of public debt in the name of averting a situation similar to that of Greece.
Also covered widely is Obama's promotion of the American Power Act — the legislation which would replicate Spain's current situation in the United States.
Put simply, Obama is currently promoting a policy in the U.S. which is based on a policy that he wishes to see Spain abandon. Welcome to Obamaland (emphasis added)
The Green Energy movement is a prescription for high deficits, economic contraction, high unemployment and inflation for years to come. And our government, lead by liberal academics, is myopically focused on copying Europe's failed policies.
Further reading @ MCT:
Michigan Liberals Are Calling For Increased Gas Taxes While State Passes Out Billions For Windmill Subsidies
Graholm is Bullish on Wind Power While China is Discovering "If there's no subsidy, there's no hope of a profit"
The Detroit Free Press Wants Its Hope And Change And It Wants It Now!
Going 'Green' Without Thinking Things Through
The Long Shadow Of The Progressives: Jimmy Carter And Energy


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On June 1st, 2010 - the Metatrader 5 platform has been released.
Traders can download platform at MetaQuotes official website: http://www.metatrader5.com/
Brokers that offer MT5:
MT5 ECN brokers
MT5 ECN brokers — still not many choices in 2012
Closer to the end of 2012, the MT5 platform introduction is still going quite slow. Several large Forex brokers have stopped offering MT5 for "demoing" and closed their MT5 promo pages. While the dominant majority of Forex brokers are still in the Demo testing stage.
Only a few Forex brokers this year finally switched to Live MT5, which is a great start, as Forex traders have been waiting for live MT5 platforms for a while. Yet, the broker choice with MT5 platforms today is not very high.
MT5 ECN brokers — what do we have in 2015?
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As we can see by 2015, the list of MT5 brokers still isn't growing as fast as one would expect. The transition of old MT4 users to MT5 proved to be slow. Will the new investors give preference to MT5? Time will show.
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The list of MT5 broker has been updated.
Thank you very much!
Alpari.co.uk (which redirects to alpari.com) only has MT5 in demo mode
Not at all. Double check with those offering Demo if they plan to offer live MT5 in the nearest future.
Any new MT5 brokers to try out?
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Mayzus dont have mt5 please update
It remains unknown.
Also, we've seen several brokers abandon MT5 platfrom after keeping it for a while in Demo mode. (All probably due to lack of interest among traders). On the other hand, there are now at least several new brokers who offer exclusively MT5 platform. So, the things are moving... Hopefully there will be more good news for MT5 in 2014.
We are now close the end of 2013 but the mt5 platform offered by brokers still relative low. Does this scenario going to change in 2014?
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Traded live with Alpari MT5, good service no complaints, only that dont offer the full variety of pairs.
Is any one has already use the mt5? How about it when you trading live account?
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Choose the best platform for yourself. I think more traders are using MT4 just like I used to be. If you think you can make more money with MT4 why bother to change to other kind of platform? But in March 2012 I tried MT5 and felt and still feel comfortable with it. I started trading using MT5 platform for cents account last May 2012 and after one month my achievement is beyond expectation...may be because I feel really comfortable with MT5. I am recommending RoboForex and its MT5... try to use demo for about one week to get familiar with the features but after that try the cents account. I am saying this because demo account will try to accomodate all the features of other kinds of account while the cents account will narrow the features to just MT5 cents account.
MT5 is excellent.
Vantage FX does not offer live accounts for MT5
ECN and STP are different, even when it comes to the cost of trade - you pay extra commission with ECN, but no commission with STP.
If a house doesn't have a dealing desk, then they are not market makers. They could be ECN or STP.
The best broker for me is not going to be the best broker for you for a number of reasons. I deposited $20,000 and I trade with limit orders on my ECN account.
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https://qtrade.de/cfd_forex_demokonto/ MetaTrader 5 for the demo also for the live konto.
mt5 uses fifo rule: first in first out. This eliminates any regular use of position hedging.
MT5 brokers does not allow hedging, is it so?
Thank you!
Alpari UK now offers MT5 on live accounts. See http://www.alpari.co.uk/en/cnews/show/id/3496/
Alpari UK have launched MT5 live acount. Can you update your list?
More info here http://www.alpari.co.uk/en/trading-platforms/metatrader5.html
Armada Markets doesn't offer MT5.
I must say that Armada Markets provides the best solution.
That's right. Roboforex now offers MT5 live.
i think roboforex is offering mt5 live trading, update it, if it is true. update others also, if they offer mt5 live trading.
Well there is disapointment for those who use volume in trading...Broker who has MT4 and MT5 doesnt offer/have same data on both platforms in terms of volume...such as Windsor brokers....I used to have Broco and in begining was fine then all of a sudden I couldnt login anymore even if Ireinstalled platform so I still have Broco but is using Metatrader server so no markets that are usualy available and offered by Broco...same is with Ibfx...Ibfx is connected to metatrader server...
The MT5 terminal is very similar to the MT4 terminal but packed with more features. Logically its a much better platform for both broker & trader, sure at the beginning there may have being bugs but hey what software doesn't have bugs at the beginning. My investigation shows that its a much more reliable system now than before & its only a matter of time for it to boom...
mt5 is easier and more logic than mt4 specially in ordering
Thank you!
Roboforex has launched their MT5 demo platform.
I don't have such information, sorry.
Input parameters:
does anyone who has S&P, FTSE100, and OIL on MT5?
MT5 is great. currently it is best
Listed. Thank you!
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anyway, i will stay with MT4 as long as possible.
Thank you. Where can I find the link to the MT5 platform page?
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Quinnipiac: "Christopher Christie gets decent grades from voters as he nears the end of his first year in office, with a 51 - 38 percent approval rating, higher than President Barack Obama or any other statewide leader, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today."
Obama's approval rating: 46% approve, 50% disapprove.
Democratic senator Bob Menendez, who's up for reelection in 2012, gets a 38% approve/41% disapprove rating. A conservative Christie recruit who could take down Menendez--think Ron Johnson with a Jersey accent--may impress conservatives more than all of the governor's YouTube clips. Okay, maybe not that much. But it would continue to wow them.


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Belgium can justify their outsiders tag and win the FIFA World Cup™ for the first time in Brazil, according to attacking midfielder Marouane Fellaini - who said he'll shave off his afro-style hair if they succeed. The 26-year-old put aside a difficult maiden season with Manchester United after a £27.5million transfer from Everton and scored with a superb header in the 2-1 win over Algeria on Monday.
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"Belgium are capable of winning the World Cup," Fellaini said. "If that proves the case I promise that I will shave my hair."
Fellaini, son of Moroccan parents whose father was a former professional goalkeeper, received rave reviews for his performance when he came on as a substitute against Algeria and with the Belgians trailing 1-0. His equalizer set the stage for Mertens to send Belgium to the top of Group H.
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Fellaini said he hadn't regarded the game against Algeria as a case of proving himself and that his attention is set firmly on helping his country towards their first FIFA World Cup™ title.
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I did predict ison would show the pull of gravitational pull in july July 2, 2013, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck the province Indonesian Deadly earthquake , Gansu, China The third consecutive strong to very strong earthquake in the Cook Strait Massive earthquake to the South Sandwich Islands http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpagestFilter::_decode_... An incoming comet that some scientists say could potentially become the "comet of the century" later this year has captivated skywatchers around the world As of mid-April, the comet was inside the orbit of Jupiter and closing on the sun ISON is streaking toward a dramatic rendezvous with the sun on Nov. 28, when the comet is set to skim just 800,000 miles (1.3 million km) above the solar surface. If the comet doesn't break apart or fizzle out beforehand, it could put on a spectacular show around this time, scientists say, perhaps blazing as brightly as the full moon. The new Gemini North images captured ISON from early February to early May of this year, when the comet ranged between 455 million to 360 million miles from the sun (730 million to 580 million km) — just inside the orbit of Jupiter. Most comets develop a tail when they're near the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, because at this distance the sun's warmth begins sublimating their water ice to gas, researchers said. But ISON already had a tail when it was roughly twice this distance from our star, indicating that some other material was sublimating out. ISON is now nearing the point where water should start gassing out, so the comet may soon bounce back from an activity drop that scientists have noticed over the last month. "The current decrease may be because this comet is coming close to the sun for the first time, and a volatile frosting of ice may be coming off revealing a less active layer beneath," Karen Meech of the University of Hawaii said in a statement. "It is just now getting close enough to the sun where water will erupt from the nucleus, revealing ISON's inner secrets." Meech and other scientists will be keeping a keen eye on ISON, as they hope its close solar approach will reveal new insights about comet composition and behavior. But they're not making many forecasts just yet. Comet ISON "could still become spectacularly bright as it gets very close to the sun," Meech said. But, she added, "I'd be remiss if I didn't add that it's still too early to predict what's going to happen with ISON since comets are notoriously unpredictable."


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When Marvel and DC characters conquer the casino hallon November 29, 2013 at 5:46 am
Popular characters from Marvel and DC are now making their way to casinos
Marvel and DC Comics have produced some of the most recognizable fictional characters in the world. The popularity of its heroes and villains, which spawns from comic books to animated TV series to blockbuster movies, have witnessed the unprecedented expansion of the Marvel and DC Comics universe through the years. Today, these characters are now featured on almost anything, from toys and clothing wear, to school merchandises and even gadgets – merchandises that are worshipped by some as precious collector items. And with its pervasive impact on world popular culture, it's no wonder why the well-loved characters of Marvel and DC Comics are now taking casino halls by storm.
In the past, casinos are known to be exclusive gentlemen's clubs where only wooden, felt-layered tables for poker, blackjacks and craps dominate the gaming floor. But thanks to the introduction of modern slot machines and the rise of Las Vegas-style casinos, the gambling arena has steadily transformed to a mammoth entertainment complex for old and young players alike. Today, many casinos are now donned with Hollywood and sports-themed gaming sections, as well as slots that feature themes including stories and characters from Marvel and DC Comics .
Marvel has been particularly successful in striking juicy deals with casino operators to incorporate their popular characters in slot reels. The entertainment giant teamed up with slot machine manufacturers WMS Gaming and International Game Technology (IGT) to mass produce Marvel-inspired slots for casinos all over the world. In the online front, Marvel collaborated with software gaming provider Playtech to develop similar slot apps for Internet users. Playtech then issues licenses to online platforms that will host Marvel-themed slots: BetFair Casino features the Iron Man, Incredible Hulk and Fantastic 4 titles, while Online Casinos Vegas offers the Thor, Spiderman and Wolverine games.
Meanwhile, DC Comics has partnered with the Amaya Gaming Group subsidiary Cryptologic to develop slot machines for Justice League superheroes like Superman , Batman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman. Compared to Marvel, however, DC Comics has been relatively less visible in both live and online casino. But with the impending withdrawal of Marvel (as well as Star Wars) characters in slots worldwide by its new owner Disney, DC Comics may well become the leading provider of fantasy content in casinos across the planet.
Marvel and DC Comics have brought their legions of fans from the comic book stand and the movie theatre to the casino hall. Its licensing deals with big time casino developers have not only raked in huge profits for both brands, but have also taken fandom for their beloved superheroes to a higher level. Indeed, being featured on poker rooms and slot machine reels reinforces the stature of Marvel and DC Comics characters as global pop icons.


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The Dam Fiasco at Bull Flat: A look back at the 1913-1914 Tumalo Project
Presented by Mike Berry
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One hundred years ago, land speculation and investment around Tumalo and Bull Flat were fueled by the promise of a dam and a new Tumalo Reservoir. The fiasco that followed cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, damaged reputations, and dashed dreams.
Join Mike Berry for a history of what went wrong and how it shaped the development of Central Oregon.
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On the last day of the Game Developers' Conference here in San Francisco, we managed to catch DICE's panel on how it sought to improve the Battlefield experience between 3 and 4 –by giving everything a realistic bent.
By Patrick Stafford on March 25, 2014 at 3:14 pm
It took six years for DICE to release Battlefield 3 after the previous iteration, so a gap of just two years before the release of Battlefield 4 caused some skepticism – but the company has sworn at GDC it made big leaps during that time.
During a talk on Friday morning, the last day of the conference, DICE lead artist Linnea Harrison said the company wanted to add a heightened sense of realism to the series in order to differentiate itself among the flooded FPS market.
This meant adding features to help new players, but also a significant amount of technical details – and internally, managing resources so the company didn't encounter a "crunch" period.
"We wanted to make everything believable," said Harrison. "That meant with the character animations, we wanted to have fewer instances of that uncanny valley feeling."
"We also felt the music needed to be much more organic and human – so less dubsteppy."
A big focus for DICE was environmental storytelling in this iteration. "We didn't want to tell small stories," said Harrison, but instead use the surroundings of a particular level to give hints of a much larger situation.
Abandoned cars were used as an example, to show how the level can present a narrative without ramming it down the player's throat.
But the more interesting discussion was on environmental effects – subtle changes made to help the player believe as though they were actually a part of the world. The new version of the Frostbite engine in the game helped in some regard, allowing trees and other elements to react more realistically, but the audio played a huge part as well.
The Battlefield audio team, which is well known for its work, used real warfare footage to emulate realistic firefights. Instead of having background characters fire bullets all at once, the designers had them shoot in unrecognisable patterns.
"That might seem like a subtle difference, but when you hear the ambient sounds it helps create the illusion of immersion for the player," said Harrison.
The team also used that real warfare footage, with Battlefield audio over the top, in order to test how realistic it sounded.
The environment played a large part in making the levels feel real, Harrison said. Artists used more realistic effects on cover, such as rocks, buildings and other materials to make them appear less constructed – such as using foliage in ways that would reflect the environment of the map. For instance, having some greenery appear more grown on the side facing the sun in that particular level.
The final element was improving destruction, Harrison said, which had been part of the series for a while. But ramping up some of the destruction on a micro level, such as when players are crouched behind cover, once again add to that sense of realism.
This applied to the huge, game-changing destruction events – such as a falling skyscraper or exploding dam. These were designed to not only create an immersive moment, but actively changed the battlefield itself.
"We're trying to make these really spectacular with big animations, and to actually change the way levels are played –we wanted to actively amend the gameplay area."
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There are also a couple more that I wanted to share but I couldn't get the videos to embed no matter how hard I tried. First there is this one. The sound isn't great on the video but the routine is excellent! And the second is one which I really enjoyed. I'm a huge fan of Steampunk fashion and also of Abney Park so this performance was perfect for me!
One thing I really like about boylesque versus burlesque with female dancers is that the boys seem to have more scope to do comedy or quirky routines. Don't get me wrong - I have seen some great comedy routines done by female dancers and if you like your men in high heels and a corset (goodness me!) then you can find that as well, but a lot of the boylesque routines I found myself enjoying the most were the more cheeky and funny ones rather than the ones that were designed to be sexy without the comedy aspect.
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U.S. stocks are pointed lower in pre-market action, as Wall
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with the cash-strapped nation still attempting to
negotiate a deal with private creditors
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backdrop, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is trading almost
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snap its winning streak
In earnings news, DuPont (DD - 49.35) reported fourth-quarter
income of $373 million, or 40 cents per share -- relatively flat
with the year-ago period. Excluding items, DD earned 35 cents in
the fourth quarter. Net sales increased 14% to $8.43 billion.
Analysts, on average, were anticipating an adjusted per-share
profit of 33 cents on revenue of $8.53 billion. At last check, DD
is trading just south of breakeven.
VMware, Inc. (VMW - 86.00) last night reported both
fourth-quarter and full-year earnings. For the quarter, VMW's
profit rose to $200 million, or 46 cents per share, a 67% jump over
last year's profit of $120 million, or 28 cents per share. On an
adjusted basis, VMW earned 62 cents per share, while revenue
climbed a year-over-year 27% to $1.06 billion. The quarterly
results just beat analysts' expectations for adjusted earnings of
60 cents per share on $1.05 billion in revenue. Earnings doubled
for fiscal 2011, arriving at $724 million, or $1.68 per share, with
revenue increasing 32% to $3.77 billion. Excluding items, the tech
concern banked a full-year profit of $2.17 per share. Looking
ahead, VMW sees fiscal first-quarter and full-year revenue to range
between $1.02 billion and $1.04 billion, and $4.48 billion and $4.6
billion, respectively, with analysts forecasting revenue of $1.02
billion and $4.51 billion, respectively. In pre-market trading, VMW
is pointed 5.2% higher.
Texas Instruments (TXN - 33.19) reported a fourth-quarter profit
of $298 million, or 25 cents per share - down 68% from $942
million, or 78 cents per share, a year ago. Revenue, meanwhile,
dipped 3% to $3.42 billion. Analysts, on average, were calling for
a heftier per-share profit of 39 cents, though sales exceeded the
consensus forecast of $3.25 billion. Plus, as Chairman and CEO Rich
Templeton noted, "Revenue in the fourth quarter was higher than
expected across all our major product lines, reinforcing our belief
that we're at the bottom of this downturn." Going forward, TXN
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on sales of $3.02 billion to $3.28 billion. For comparison, Wall
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revenue of $3.23 billion. Ahead of the bell, TXN is set to open
with a 0.9% lead.
Finally, Western Digital (WDC - 34.71) said its fiscal
second-quarter profit fell 36% to $145 million, or 61 cents per
share, from last year's profit of $225 million, or 96 cents per
share. On an adjusted basis, WDC's earnings came in at $1.51 per
share. Revenue slipped 19% to $2 billion. Results for the
hard-drive maker topped predictions, as Wall Street was looking for
earnings of 71 cents per share on $1.84 billion in sales. For the
current quarter, WDC forecast an adjusted profit of $1.15 to $1.45
per share on sales of $2 billion to $2.15 billion. Analysts are
expecting a profit of 91 cents per share on sales of $2.05 billion.
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likely be consumed by the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC)
interest-rate decision and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's post-meeting
speech. Thursday's economic agenda heats up with reports on jobless
claims, durable goods, new home sales, and the Conference Board's
index of leading indicators. Finally, Friday wraps up with the
government's fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) estimate,
as well as the final Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan
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Market Statistics
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Overseas Trading
Stocks in Tokyo ended slightly higher today, with traders
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bondholders. Toyota Motor (TM) was a notable gainer, one day after
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manufacturing operations. Meanwhile, the European Union's decision
to block oil imports from Iran provided a tailwind for energy
stocks. However, equities trimmed their gains after the Bank of
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"the slowdown in overseas economies" as one catalyst behind the
move. By the close, Japan's Nikkei was up 0.2%. Markets in Hong
Kong, China, and South Korea remain closed for holiday.
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after euro-zone finance ministers rejected a restructuring offer
from Greek bondholders. Also stoking anxiety is a
Wall Street Journal
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country attempts to dig out from a 9 billion euro debt load that
matures in September 2013. At last look, the French CAC 40 is down
1.2%, the German DAX is off 1%, and London's FTSE 100 is 0.8%
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A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Xidi Village is known for its exquisite memorial gate. There were once a dozen gates, but they were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. The existing gate was left standing as a "bad example" to be criticized. There are several houses in the village with excellent examples of brick carving and an impressive Clan Temple with massive ginkgo columns and beams.
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New City's Lindsey Adao, who has been named Patriot League diver of the week for Army, did not pick up the sport until her sophomore year in high school. / Army Athletics
She has little time these days to think about how far she has come and how fast she has done it.
Lindsey Adao is far too busy for that.
The New City resident's days as a first-year cadet at West Point start at 5 a.m. and often don't end until 1 a.m. the next day.
Despite the grueling schedule, she's in the midst of an eye-opening season in which she has established herself as Army's best women's diver - with the potential to make her mark on a national scale.
It's a situation that becomes even more remarkable when considering how her diving career and decision to attend West Point came about.
A nationally ranked Level 10 gymnast, Adao gave diving a try just for fun over Labor Day weekend at Germonds Park in Clarkstown before the start of her sophomore year at Clarkstown North. She immediately decided to join the Clarkstown swimming and diving team and managed to place second in the 2003 Rockland County championships to Suffern's Nicole Jotso. She then set a Section 1 record for 11 dives with 484.90 points (a mark broken last month by Jotso) in winning her second straight sectional title her senior year.
"Gymnastics is completely the opposite mechanics you want in diving," Adao said.
Nevertheless, she was able to make a quick adjustment. And before long, she had to decide which sport to pursue in college.
"Nothing against gymnastics," she said, "but I had been doing it for years and years. I started when I was 3. Diving was fresh and new, and I liked it - and more colleges had diving."
Including Penn State, Virginia, Maryland and Connecticut, all of whom recruited Adao. But, to even her own surprise, she decided on Army.
"I didn't want to go somewhere and dive and only dive, and then be like, 'Now what?' " Adao said. "I loved West Point. You're training for something besides your sport. Your schedule is booked. In any sport here, you do all this other stuff. Diving doesn't come first. You have much more important stuff to do."
Adao, though, has been an important addition to the Black Knights' women's team. She was named Patriot League female diver of the week after winning both the 1- and 3-meter events against Lafayette. Her score of 277.35 in the 1-meter was her best point total of the season.
Another of Adao's most memorable moments this season came Nov. 30 when Army hosted Navy. Though Navy won, it was the first time she got to experience the rivalry - and she shared it with a contingent from Clarkstown.
"My mom and dad (Paul and Roberta), my brother (Jonathan) and (Clarkstown assistant coach) Fred Siegel were all there," she said. "I love being so close to home and seeing them in the stands."
Siegel, meanwhile, has enjoyed seeing Adao's rise in the sport.
"She's very focused and very dedicated to whatever she takes up," Siegel said. "I don't know the exact trick, but the main thing is she's very focused."
And these days - 30 years after women were first admitted as cadets at West Point (where they now make up about 15 percent of the population) - Adao is not focused only on diving.
"A lot of people think women don't belong here," she said. "I don't know how many don't and how many do, but I don't want to put our gender in any question. I want to work my hardest so no one questions females in the Army."


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July/August's "Name This Dish" Contest Winnerby Food Network Magazine in Food Network Magazine, September 11th, 2012
Each month, thousands of Food Network Magazine readers submit clever names for the back page's Name This Dish contest. Previous dishes include bite-sized cakes (winning name: "Swirly Temples"), a hot dog sandwich ("Triple Dog Dare") and even an egg tart ("Breakfast in Bread"). In the July/August 2012 issue, we asked you to dream up names for this hot dog sandwich (pictured above). Some of our favorites were:
Spuds and Stripes
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I heard a knock at my door, I walked to my door to find my best
friend jess smiling then yelled happy birthday and instantly
hugged me, she let go and game me a small bag, I looked at her,
she said "open it!" so I did, inside the bag was a card and
bracelet. I smiled back to jess; she said they're friendship
bracelets. She was wearing a matching bracelet to the one in the
bag, it was a surf bracelet, accept hers had a white dolphin on
it and mine had a small turtle, I said thanks and invited he
inside, she asked me if i was up for a game of COD so I took the
offer and screamed hell yes, I told her I was lucky to have a
friend like her, she laughed and yelled Die!! She was more into
the game than me. That was a surprise, suddenly I heard a knock
at the door to find bradie and Andy, Andy handed me a box and
pushed past me seeing the unused Xbox remote on the chair, he's
eyes glowed and he quickly got into the game. Bradie laughed and
said happy birthday bro, I said thanks. We all got inside and
went an sat sown, jess and Andy were
Playing Xbox and bradie and I were just talking about random stuff. Andy helped himself to my food. He brought out a pack of chicken chips and offered everyone some; his phone went off
so he went to another room to talk. He walked back in yelling at bradie saying that bradie left the shower going and bradie flooded out the bathroom. Andy and bradie instantly ran out the house and got in bradies car, they drove off flooring it. I and jess were just chilling; we started to talk about shoes. I have no idea how it started, but it just did. I guess being best friends we could
talk about anything and wouldn't care.
She brought up relationships. She looked like she was about to burst out with tears. I asked her what was wrong, she replied nothing, then why are you nearly crying I said, she said I don't want to talk about it, you can tell me anything jess, I stared into her eyes. She had tears running down her face. She started to explain that on Friday (2 days ago) she found out her boyfriend Alex had been cheating on her, at this stage tears were pouring out of her eyes, I looked back into her eyes, and I swear I could almost feel her pain. She was really hurt, I told her, there are plenty of guys out there, he's just not that one, and if he cheated obviously he is a dickhead. Because a girl as amazing as you comes once in a lifetime. When he realizes he gave up on you he will be crawling back on he's knees for you, and pay back is you can reject him. Jess stared into my eyes and smiled, I starred back, for about 1 minute i was lost in her eyes. I think she had the same thing going. We snapped out of it, I think we just had a moment i thought to myself. Could this mean... That we could
possibly be a perfect match, and destine for that to happen. She smiled at me. She rested her head on my shoulder like she always did, i was about to fall asleep, she was asleep, I thought to myself, what if we were a couple, that could wreck everything. I wouldn't want to take the risk. So I dozed off to sleep. (1 hour later) i woke up, it was 5pm, i woke jess up and asked her if she wanted to stay for dinner. She said sure, she got up and walked with me to the kitchen. I asked what she wanted to eat, she replied anything. I laughed and grabbed a recipe book out, she flipped through the pages until we found the perfect thing we both agreed on it was lasagna, we got the ingredients out and started cooking, she was being and idiot and imitation Gordon Ramsey, she started swearing and yelling, it was priceless. (10 minutes later) we had finished making the lasagna, we put it in the oven and walked back into the lounge room we were scrolling through channels, jess took the remote and put on SpongeBob; we were both 22 and still watched SpongeBob. I felt like a moron because i had seen like all the episodes, jess said that she had seen every episode. Since this episode
was old we put on channel v. A few hours later and the oven went off, our food was done. We walked up to get it out, jess grabbed a tea towel and opened the oven while I was setting up the table. Then suddenly I herd a scream, a scream someone would make as if they were hurt. I quickly turned around, jess had accidently touched the tray with half her hand. She quickly ran to the tap and turned the cold water on, a small amount of heat came off her hand when the cold water hit it. She kept her hand under the tap until she couldn't feel the burn. She gave me her hand to look at, it was red and there was a burn mark i told her there was a mark, she didn't care much about the marl though. She still was in a panic
Mode a bit, she told me she felt stupid, I said don't feel stupid it was an accident. I then pulled the tray out of the oven and served the food. Jess and I walked up to the table and started eating, we had finished dinner so we went back into the
Lounge room and sat on the couch, it was about 7pm now, i then asked jess if she would
Like to stay the night, she replied ok and smiled, there we sat on the couch flicking through channels, she said ' i wonder what ever happened to Andy and bradies bathroom and laughed. I also laughed and said they probably got in heaps of trouble for it though.
We finally found a show, big bang theory was on it wasn't the best but that was the best show on tv at the moment. We just were talking for a bit and jess was nearly falling asleep. She dozed off so i grabbed a blanket and put it over her, I had never thought I would develop feelings for her, and why at this time like thus exact time. I didn't want to say anything for now. So I walked up the stairs and grabbed a pillow and blanket and came down and slept down on the other couch.
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Sent by Alfred Russel Wallace, Pen-y-bryn, St Peter's Road, Croydon to James Croll [none given] on 19 July 1880.
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Irons, James Campbell. (1896). Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., etc. (with Memoir of His Life and Work). E. Stanford, London. [p. 358-359]
Transcriber: Smith, Charles Hyde
Transcription date: February 4, 2013
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Pen-y-bryn, St. Peter's Road, Croydon,
19th July 1880.
James Croll, Esq.
Dear Mr. Croll,--Many thanks for your interesting letter. The facts you mention are most curious and startling, and I shall look with great interest to Professor Geikie's detailed account of them. My chapter on "Glacial Epochs and Warm Polar Climates" has passed through the press some months back, and I am now near the end of my book. I can hardly venture to hope that my conclusions will satisfy you, but I may say here that they have been reached mainly by giving greater weight to your admirable views on ocean currents as affecting climate, than you seem to do yourself. I have endeavoured to show that a comparatively slight increase of the warm tropical waters carried to the Arctic regions, combined with somewhat less high land in those regions, would render glacial conditions impossible there, and this being done, there would necessarily result the state of climate that the Miocene Arctic vegetation showed did exist. I have further attempted to prove that the geological evidence shows that there was, during the greater part of the Secondary and Tertiary periods, such terrestrial conditions as would cause this great transference of equatorial heat northwards, and I have further argued, I hope soundly, that, such a condition of things existing, neither high eccentricity nor the changing phases of aphelion and perihelion would alter the general character of the climate, though it might affect the nature of the seasons. I also show that the changing phases of perihelion, etc., would only reverse the Polar glaciation when that glaciation was of small extent. When it was extensive and excessive, the change to winter in perihelion would not do away [[2]] [p. 359] with the Glacial epoch, but only cause a slight fluctuation of its southern limits.
This will enable you to form some idea of the nature of my argument, which I am sure you will weigh carefully when I have the pleasure of sending you a copy of the book, as I hope to do in a few months.--Believe me, yours very faithfully,
Alfred R. Wallace.
1. Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: Seventh of thirteen letters from Wallace to James Croll from the 1896 publication Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. With Memoir of his Life and Work by James Campbell Irons, after Croll's death in 1890.
This transcript originates from Charles H. Smith's The Alfred Russel Wallace Page website (http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/index1.htm): See http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S531A.htm
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Following quickly on the heels of last years Wii exclusive The Conduit, Conduit 2 is available now. Kitguru has received a video trailer which outlines some of the enemies you will be facing during gameplay. These include the Guardian, Siberian Wolf, Tearmite, Trust Assassin, and Scarab.
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I know I am usually the slut but tonight it's her. She is being a slut, yes slut, T as in Tomorrow, U as in Uterus, L as in Llama and S as in Sangria. That spells slut, but backwards and that's what she is being.
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I know I am usually the slut but tonight it's her. She is being a slut, yes slut, T as in Tomorrow, U as in Uterus, L as in Llama and S as in Sangria. That spells slut, but backwards and that's what she is being.
Preparing for wine wednesday. How would you feel about improvising and starting a white russian wednesday tomorrow instead? you know, shake things up a bit.
Tonights theme there is the 7 deadly sins. Greed, envy, sloth, gluttony, sluttiness, fellatio and vodka.
Day 8 of being sober: Sniffed an empty beer bottle at a restaurent and almost licked it. This is not working
he obviously didn't care that i was sleeping and dreaming about ellen degeneres knitting me a christmas sweater.
Everything that you guys said happened came back to me. like a tidal wave of regret.
It was her first time with a girl so I put on my tegan and Sara playlist to really get the full experience.
I drunk madeout with my mom last night. it's guna be an awkward breakfast.
Would it be a dick move to report the suite next-door for a noise violation? They're singing Bad Romance off-key and I'm not sure if I can allow that.
Soo I got blood taken today and when the doctor came back with the results she said "you aren't sick but the tests show that you are currently drunk..."
Lesbians. Lesbians everywhere.
We stayed in and smoked weed and watched Dreamgirls. We made each other's vaginal lips sing the songs. Mine was Beyonce, hers was Jamie Foxx. I think this is one of those times you're jealous you're not an awesome lesbian.
she went apple picking. why dont we do cute things like that? let's go to a pumpkin patch!
because we're not cute. we're sluts. and sluts don't go apple picking.
I need a good reason NOT to eat this entire jar of nutella right now
He kept yelling "osteoporosis" and threw milk at her because she broke her arm.
she screamed "my eye!" and it brought me a surge of bad memories. except she was yelling about a lemon.
I told him I don't date guys unless they play a musical instrument. So, he's here and he brought a kazoo.
I'm slowing backing away from her. I tried breaking up with her and it felt like I was clubbing baby seals.
You'd think me telling him that I'm a lesbian would make him realize that I don't want to hook up with him.
My life is a requiem composed in the key of fuck.
he sounded really stupid. it was like his puke had a stutter, too.
This girl just introduced herself as Queefer Sutherland. She's on a roller derby team. What. The. Fuck.
They were fighting, but then they bumped into the bong and it shattered. After that they just hugged and cried.
I'm seriously gonna die surrounded by a million cats and an unbroken hymen
Her face was so far in my boobs, I didn't think she'd make it out. She took it like a man. She's a real trooper.
Sunday was the 8 month anniversary when you shot me in the face...just an FYI.
It was either a cute kinda butch tomgirl or a really fem guy. Either way, I made out with it. Bisexuality, my best friend.
This freshman just ran out of her seat in a 200 person lecture, opened the emergency door and vommed everywhere. Then quietly went back to her seat. $2 Pitchers hit someone hard last night.
he threw up on me, hugged my legged and then started laughing. when i asked him why, he said "it's like the sour patch kids commercials."
Just wanted to remind you that you literally cut the underwear off a man.
apparently i was just sitting there with my shirt down holding my boobs saying "its ok. its all gonna be ok"
Housekeeping called in a homicide detective. Just spent an hour explaining that we had vigorous hotel vacation sex five times, even though I was having a heavy flow day. It'll definitely be what you call a memorable honeymoon.
This guy at the party just introduced himself to me as "the guy who sat behind you on a plane last year"
Heads up. We filled your kiddie pool with kool-aid and vodka. Things are about to get Out. Of. Hand. Quickly.
you were saying "i am the vodka queen!" and then in a different voice replying to yourself "all hail the vodka queen! you are so beautiful!"
when the police officer said he was gonna take a picture of the car accident, you asked if you should pose on the hood
It's only slutty when someone else does it. It's okay if it's us though
bad decision 37: pregaming the antique store
Thank you, bloody toiletpaper I found in the hamper. I was worried that today was going to be boring.
This went bad. Everyone is crying, i dont know why and I am really uncomfortable.
It's not my fault I help girls realize they're lesbians.
I really hope he dies in a tragic kegstand mishap
my mom took me to a gay bar and went on and on about all her good times at clubs... i now know where i get it
I'm too hungover to be in a fucking cow suit right now
We made a late night liquor run, made margaritas and bloody marys and then retreated to opposite sides of the house to drink them. Alone.
And just when I was about to fall asleep, he hit me in the face, and claimed he's a "violent sleeper".
I wouldn't accept the money so he folded the $20 bill into an origami puppy and left a note saying "Not blowjob money"
Someone changed my text signature to "Also, I think I might be gay" last night. Also, I think I might be gay
I asked my mom if I was the drunkest one in the room. With 8 days till I go back to school, I couldn't care less about being shitfaced at a baptism
A lesson I learned in the hospital....when you masturbate while attached to a heart monitor, it scares the nurses a lot.
I'm at the airport and there's a guy wearing all camoflash to go hunting .. Should I bump in to him and say woahh sorry didn't see you there?
Just saw actual Chinese people doing a Chinese firedrill. Good day.
theres a middle aged lesbian couple holding hands on the bus and a 17 or 18 year old christian girl visibly staring freaked out and audibly praying about it
So i just bought beer on a credit card, using a fake ID, while wearing my nametag from work. All 3 have different names on them. God i love my boobs.
Come in. Grab a controller and a beer. We've got some Madden to beat.
omigod im sitting here with ben and he and i both got that...chick you totally just mass texted that...
I get so lonely sometimes I set my phone's alarm to go off every 5 minutes or so and imagine people are texting me.
You got in a fight last night?
Yeah! Some dude in the bathroom...he was standing there and I notice he's got the same shirt as me on so I'm like...dude you should have called me, we look like idiots...he didn't say anything...so i got pissed and hit him...completely decimated and my hand was all bloody and covered with glass afterward...weird dude, never saw him again that night or since.
I woke up naked on the bathroom floor. the tile grout marks on my boobs hurt, i mananged to use a roll toilet paper as a pillow. never again. did we eat salad?
i just wanna lock my vagina in a safe filled with bandaids and healthy things
I just found out that the liquid capacity of my breasts is 700ml each. I should not be left alone at home when drunk.
alcohol. turning childhood friends into awkward hookups since the dawn of civilization.
sometimes i wish i was a boob, they get to chill in soft and cuddly little cup things.
so,apparently a side effect from having sex on the beach is now i have a tanline shaped like your sister
She punched my vomit. In midair. Back into my mouth.
She went into the basement and sang to my cat for three hours....she actually has a beautiful voice....
Just saw a half naked, drunk, 6th grade math teacher throwing small children around to the Titanic soundtrack.
thanks for texting me "so many asians" at 1am...
hey as creepy as this sounds i still have your eyelashes on my desk
Ok. In one sink is a hairdrier. Still plugged in. The other is filled with broken glass. What do I do?!
my dad just said 'either you're lying about your plans tonight or you kids are really lame nowadays'. maybe we should nix the singles saturday slumber party and go to a bar.
You texted the wrong number but that's probably the best call you'll ever make.
Just walk-of-shame'd past fifteen little girls at summer camp. Take a good look girls, I am you in twelve years.
I hit a bug from across the room with my flip flop boomerang style. That awesome.
she just built a cabin out of hotdogs and cooked it in the microwave.
now she is shaking the plate and mumbling "this is what california must feel like"
She was so adorably desperate I didn't have the heart to tell her I wasn't a lesbian. So now She's making waffles, may switch teams over this.
She's like the pied piper of lesbians.
we all know badassery is carried on the XX chromosome
Peter invited his little brother to smoke with us and he is trying so hard to pretend he's done it before. When he saw the weed he was like "hell yeah!" and everyone got completely silent and just looked at him
im so poor im using the bottom of my laptop to heat my food.
an off duty cop drove behind me last night to make sure i didnt get a dui. i was blacked out drunk and on a pill of ecstacy. he knew this. i must be really pretty.
i never thought it was possible to fit gay, redneck and asian into the same sentence before i met you.
I am so hungover and cant move but craving a Wendys frosty so bad. I might have to watch 2 girls 1 cup just to settle the urge
how are you not completely traumatized after 8 years of friendship with me?
I was holding her hair back and when she quit puking she told me she's been saving her scissor virginity for me.
when i came out to my mom, it was over brunch. i was eating a banana. not exactly my smartest breakfast choice.
You're always adorable, but when you're drunk, you're like Chia Pet adorable.
I was so scared, I actually heard my grandmother's voice in my head saying if I get pregnant, then my vagina will fall off. And then I'm going to die.
She is going down in cock block history. He went in to kiss me and she threw her hand between our faces and yelled "DENIED!"
i think it would be like really awesome if scientist could genetically engineer manatees to be like the size of goldfish so i could have one in my fishbowl and be like FUCK YEAH TINY MANATEE
no seriously. she's even got the premier of the real L word on her calendar at work. that lesbian.
i hope not, i just know that at one point I was sitting on the bathroom floor eating bugles and crying because i had no one to show that it looked like I had witch nails when i stuck them on the ends of all ofmy fingers.
I told her I was horny and she said to forget it because she has vagina drama.
She was asian and in a relationship... my two weaknesses
Girls only wine night turned into a sloppy drunk lesbian orgy again


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You dodged one bullet, but not two lol...
LOL! Yup...seems that way.
And to the others...I hear what you're saying and completely agree. And although I did have the same idea, I never got started on it beyond a quick pencil sketch. Work has kept me quite busy this month. My little comment was half joke and half praise. :-)
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People diagnosed with cancer at younger ages are more likely to become more religious than their counterparts diagnosed at older ages, researchers including a Princeton research scholar have found.
Overall, the researchers found that people diagnosed with cancer experienced a one-time increase in religiosity, with the greater increase among those who experienced a diagnosis at a younger age, what's known as an "off-time diagnosis."
"Off-time diagnoses may also be related to increased religiosity because the meaning of having cancer may be different for those in middle adulthood compared to older adulthood," the researchers said. The results come from a review of surveys of more than 3,400 people conducted in 1994–95 and 2004-06.
The research, detailed in an article in the March issue of Social Science Research, was conducted by Michael McFarland, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton's Office of Population Research, Tetyana Pudrovska, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University; Scott Schieman, a professor at the University of Toronto; Christopher Ellison, a professor at the the University of Texas at San Antonio; and Alex Bierman, an assistant professor at the University of Calgary.
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McFarland, M., et al. March 2013. Does a cancer diagnosis influence religiosity? Integrating a life course perspective. Social Science Research. Vol. 42, Issue 2, pp. 311–20. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X1200244X


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We are an online English school hiring American/Native English teachers at the moment for part-time positions. We pay $8 an hour for Conversational/General one on one English classes, the price is higher for group classes. We pay more for Business English and TOEFL/IELTS. It would be a plus if you teach science classes to primary school students
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Opelousas Public Library has dogmatic, unskilled, uneducated and unprofessional leadership in Board President Estelle Perrault and library manager Angela Zachary.
On Saturday, Dec. 15, two adult men were seated at a table, reading extremely loud. One man was teaching the other to read. I asked assistant Karla to go over and ask them to lower their voices or move to another area of the library in the back. For some reason, Karla leaned over to library manager Angela and told her what I was requesting. Angela said, "They have been coming here every Saturday and doing this." My reply, "I'm not asking for their removal. This is a library, and voices should be low and quiet for others. I'm asking that you have them lower their voices or move to the back of the library. You also have an upstairs sitting area."
Angela became indignant and just sat there. I asked for Estelle Perrault's telephone number. Karla gave the number. Angela said, "You can't use the telephone." I said, "I will use this public telephone - you're only saying this because I'm calling Estelle about your attitude and behavior."
I called Perrault and explained what was transpiring. She responded, "I'll take care of it." I asked, "When?" Estelle replied, "I'll take care of it." Perrault took no action.
I called Opelousas Police requesting an officer to speak with the manager. Officer D. Zachary responded. He informed me that because no criminal action was occurring there was nothing he could do. If Angela called about a disruptive patron then he would take action. I said to him, "This makes no sense. You have a public library with other patrons being disruptive and a patron is making a complaint; you can't do anything. All U.S. libraries have a quiet etiquette policy."
What can be expected from Perrault and Zachary, who clearly are untrained in how to run a proper library? With Perrault condoning Zachary's behavior, Opelousas Library will continue to suffer in inferior service, product and environment for all its patrons.
Lena Anderson


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