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Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs QuittersOUHATEME Aug 25, 2013 4:45 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
Not disagreeing with you about the abundance of quitters, but what you propose a clan leader would have to take into account everyone's Internet, weather conditions, ie a storm knocking out power, plus countless other things is a bit much. Especially if it is a larger sized clan, not an issue for mine since I don't go over 10 members, but for the heavyweight clans with up to 100 members could be a different story. Curious to see how the clan v clan works as well as clan wars. I've never dashboarded I have backed out of games when my timing is too far off, doesn't happen often but it does happen.never gotten probation . Read enough people complaining about it , so couldn't even imagine what it would like like if a clan got 8 hours for a few members quitting . I agree with you there should be some sort of deterrent just not to the level your looking for. Of course I say this now once the game comes out and I get a chance to see how it works and how each affects the ranking /scoring system I may have a different point of view.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 25, 2013 3:17 PM (in response to OUHATEME)
yes it would be a nighmare for the larger clans and should be really. Each clan should be policing itself and its members on how they are playing the game to begin with. Interal policing though the clans themselves would have a greater effect then any probation system the developers would come up with. Especially if the punsihment earned effected the entire clan at once.
ie' you in a clan where 5 members constantly cause your team to default and loose ranks, points, score(whatever is used for ranking) you would want them out of the clan until they either stopped what they were doing and could prove it, or they got the problem fixed one way or another.
They would not really have to kick them out, just have noone else play with them in CvC until they stopped leaving mid match when they were dieing too much. Not something that hard to do for a clan really.
The right to change your view after release is always there, for it is your view and your right to change it regardless of what I or anyone else would think at that point.
I just thought if the punishment was clan wide and harsh to begin with maybe the clans would police themselves good enoiugh to keep it low compared to all the issues in BO2 LP because of solo players quitting when ever they didnt like how the game was going.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs QuittersLifeSong1 Aug 26, 2013 8:46 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
I think your punishments are a bit too strong. Quite a bit to be honest. I too believe there should be some punishment, but not the extent you are talking.
I highly doubt that Elite is going to give the clan leader the stats of which clan members are participating in the games, which ones left early, how often, scores, etc. If they did that, and only if they did that, would your system work. I can't know what my clan members are doing. I'd happily kick people if I knew they were doing lots of quitting (or at least talk to them) but I have no way of knowing who is doing that. And with 100 clan members, you don't get to play together with each of them very often. We have that issue today. They can't even tell us today who enlisted the clan in an operation, so forgive me if I don't have much faith in them adding in all sorts of other data like what you would need for true clan member management of that scale.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 26, 2013 8:48 PM (in response to LifeSong1)
It is extremely harsh for a reason to make clans police themselves better. But as you say unless elite gave enough information for the clan to do that it would not really be possible for the leader to really do this.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quittersradical_53 Aug 26, 2013 7:50 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
Your ideas sound nice, at least if there's a queue to fill the empty places some quitters may leave behind.
As long as clans can't run their own servers, on their own "boxes", they have to rely on all kinds of factors. In BO2 we had our whole team go "connection interrupted", both because of laggy servers but also due to Steam problems.
So for example a match of 6 vs 6 should have a queue of 2 per clan. If even that reserve isn't "enough" it's quite obvious they wanted to quit, resulting in a loss they've earned truthfully.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 26, 2013 8:54 PM (in response to radical_53)
And in game replacement que where players in teh wait could take the place of the quit members would be a good idea. As long as it was limited to just a couple of replacements per match and not a round robin thing where it would continue throughout the entire match.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quittersvims1990 Aug 26, 2013 9:50 PM (in response to trialstardragon)
Not going to lie TSD but I'm quite surprised you care about quitters. Is this the real TSD I'm speaking to?
In the past, I've been quite vocal about it but I do recall you being against the idea of punishing quitters and stating that in a way that quitting is fine in any situation.
Just out of curiousity, why the change of opinion?
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 26, 2013 9:33 PM (in response to vims1990)
I was against in bo2 LP because LP allows lone wolfs. Punishing lone wolfs has little effect on them ever. they dont care. Punishing an entire clan and making them deal with the quitter has a greater chance of having a major effect if the clan members and leader took it serious which is why the punishment must be serious and as harsh as the developers are willing to risk.
With CvC in ghosts it sounds like you cant just be a solo player in the playlist that you have to have other clan members in that list with you. meaning if one leaves that one that stayed and would get a default would be not so happy because of it and could report it back to teh clan leader.
Punsihment only works if everyone fears it, lone wolfs dont fear it much because they are a lone wolf and have little to fear or loose since they allready play by themself.
But if CvC disallows that lone wolfs will not be able to enter try and be the star and then leave the moment they are not. It would force it back on team play not individual play which is a key factor to being a lone wolf. The majority of lone wolfs dont give a damn about the team or what happens as long as they get their kills and streaks that is all that matters to them.
Plus remember I am teh devils advocate, in that other thread everyone was all about more no one defending against it. Each discussion needs both a positive and negative to balance it out. A pro and a con a for and an against for the full story or discussion to really have true meaning other than just a group of player complaing because it is not exactly how they want.
I welcome all that disagree with my idea and encourage them to come up with other ideas to make it better if possible or provide reasons why it should not be in at all.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quittersvims1990 Aug 26, 2013 9:56 PM (in response to trialstardragon)
I actually do like the idea.
To be honest I welcome anything that can encourage clans to stay in the match instead of leave because the opposing clan/team is better than them.
Considering that the clan I'm part of discourages quitting, I'd like to see a decent punishment system on clans that refuses to take a beating once in a while.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 26, 2013 10:28 PM (in response to vims1990)
Agreed, I dont really condone quitting just because it is getting rough. the only real time I quit is when the lag just makes the game unplayable and unfair becasue of bullet sponging and ruberbanding. But unless it is done on a clan wide scale it will have no more meaning than probation did in bo2.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs QuittersForestGump Aug 27, 2013 12:14 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
They don't need to do all of this probation stuff just after a match you should be able to write on the clans profile stuff and say that this clan leaves matches and give a rating of the clan based a point system and if your clan has a low rating that would mean that your clan leaves matches, cheats, dose not follow rules/regulations ect. With this system people would know not to play those clans. Even if people don't give a fare assesment there is alot of honest clans out there or they can implement something for this like mabe you can apeal and they can evaluate and give you your true rating.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 27, 2013 3:20 PM (in response to ForestGump)
putting it on a clans profile will mean very little not everyone will take the time to go to elite to view the profile of every clan they play with or against.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs QuittersTh3_St4lk3r Aug 27, 2013 12:49 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
Punishing quitters seems like a good idea, since this happens all the time in BO2, but there are a few reasons why this is probably not needed or could actually be a bad thing.
1) it seems solo rank Leauge from BO2 is gone in Ghosts, so it will be Clans/Parties against each other. Why would a clan member leave his party on purpose? And if he does, It's the clans fault for playing with him. And It ends the game faster, so the opponent team won't have a problem with that either. I have no idea about dashboarding though, at least on the XBone and PC with dedicated servers it shouldn't be a problem.
2) Unstable connection. I'm playing on PC and probably every 5th match one of our teammates gets kicked out of the BO2 (or even Steam) servers. The score loss is more than enough punishment already.
Concerning #2, I would really like to see a Re-Join feature in Clan vs Clan. A player should be able to re-enter a game he was kicked out of, as long as there are still some of his teammates in there. It really sucks to loose games because of TA/IWs shitty servers (sadly this is the #1 reason you loose matches in BO2)
As long as no randoms will be playing in Clan vs Clan, I don't see a reason to leave at all. As for the whole team leaving/dashboarding, they should get a loss, but that's probably enough.
EDIT: A disconnect ratio on their profile would be a good idea. Imho this is a way more important stat than any K/D or W/L.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quittersmwfan55 Aug 27, 2013 11:20 AM (in response to Th3_St4lk3r)
I don't see a reason to punish anyone. Not saying it is not a good idea. All I am saying is I don't think it is needed. From my understanding is that it will be based on a win system. So people leave, rage quit, get disconnected, have issues with lag, etc. the other team benefits. Easy win is the way I see it.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 27, 2013 3:11 PM (in response to mwfan55)
It should still be discouraged for it affects the rest of the team that they leave behind. So it does still have an effect on the other players in the match.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quittersmwfan55 Aug 27, 2013 8:41 PM (in response to trialstardragon)
trialstardragon wrote:
It should still be discouraged for it affects the rest of the team that they leave behind. So it does still have an effect on the other players in the match.
effect on what other players? if the clan is dysfunctional, what harm does it bring upon your clan? Non
I have read a lot of good points on both sides. But the bottom line is it's all about the win. So punishment or no punishment it should not affect anyone. Clan quits, the other clan wins. One or 2 clan members quit, that's their problem. No harm done to you.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 27, 2013 3:18 PM (in response to Th3_St4lk3r)
1) they would leave because they are loosing badly and will get upset and thus rage quit like happens all the time even in parties of friends. Something needs to be done to discouarge it as much as possible. Punsih the entire clan and make them not want to play with them even more until they prove they have changed.
2) irrelevant if a person has that bad of a conection they should not be playing games online where their sudden departure has an effect on other players. No excuses at all, 0 tolerance for it. either get the isp to fix it if is on their end or buy better equipment to fix it if on the players end. Score loss is not enough it must hurt them where they care the most which is stats.
#2 It is not the servers that are the problem since bo2 does not use servers other than for matchmaking itself. Once in the game it is the players and their connections that have the control over who stays or not based upon lag and connection, not some outside server.
DNF stats cause harassment of players and is not a good thing, some games may try and use it but would not be widely accepted by Cod players. But maybe it would work to some degree but it alone would not be enough to stop players. For some will still not care. even my own suggestion will not stop it completely I know this.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs QuittersRunAndGun1 Aug 27, 2013 11:57 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
People quit on BO2 all the time because BO2 is a piece of crap. It's had lag issues since day one and has NOT improved.
Unless you can prove someone has an excellent connection to a match, you can't possibly be able to judge them on whether or not their rage quit was justifiable or not. Ghosts on XB360 will still be P2P. So, if there is bad lag, people will quit matches. Until everyone is on playing on dedicated servers, you will really have no grounds for punishing people for quitting.
The beauty of the dedicated servers for XB1 is that people who quit won't affect the match. Nor will anyone's own connection affect other players. Dedicated servers will you give you an experience relative to your OWN connection. Make COD purely a team based game where selfish players are punished, then you have a point. Hackers should be punished. Boosters should be punished. Other then those situations you really have no basis for punishment.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 27, 2013 3:10 PM (in response to RunAndGun1)
Bo2 is not nearly as crap as some people claim. Just a lot of people expect things to be perfect in an imperfect world and it is not going to happen. MW2 was crap for me at times, WaW was crap for me at times, BO was crap for me at times. MW3 was crap for me at times. None of the so called better games was any better then BO2 connection wise in my memory and yes I played them all.
People quit because they dont like loosing, they dont like not being as good as they thought they were. They rage when the game is not playing how they feel it should becasue of their belief they are better than they really are. The quiting was not just do to lag like you want to make it sound like so much. It was peoples ego and not being able to handle loosing to someone else.
People quiting even on the X1 will still have effects for the team they are on and quit. it may not protect their stats anymore but it still causes the team to be down a player and at a disadvantage compared to the team not missing any players. Dedis will not do as you expect unless you live close to the dedi hub or have the choice of which dedi to play on. Which I dont really see Ghosts on the X1 doing. CoD is meant to be a team based game which is why I hope they do not let lone wolfs in CvC matches at all.
There is plenty for basis for punishing players that do not play in the spirit of the game and just **** around because they can becuase there is no punishment for it. Do any of the things that is done on a console game on pc and you would be kciked and banned from the server if it was rented.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs QuittersRunAndGun1 Aug 27, 2013 3:21 PM (in response to trialstardragon)
trialstardragon wrote:
Bo2 is not nearly as crap as some people claim.
People quit because they dont like loosing, they dont like not being as good as they thought they were. They rage when the game is not playing how they feel it should becasue of their belief they are better than they really are. The quiting was not just do to lag like you want to make it sound like so much. It was peoples ego and not being able to handle loosing to someone else.
BO2 is crap. That's my experience compared to previous COD titles. Every other COD was ten times better then BO2. BO2 has tiny maps, crappy matchmaking, horrible hit detection. All of these are worse then my experience with previous COD games.
Try saying "SOME people quit because they don't like losing." That would be more accurate. I don't mind losing as long as the game plays smoothly most of the time. I'm trying to have fun. But with tiny maps (BO2) you get only ONE playstyle which I refer to as "clusterfk". With crappy matchmaking (again BO2), you are matched up with people from all over the place, causing higher lag then had the match been made up of local players. And with horrible hit detection (hello BO2), you get imbalanced gameplay.
BO2 is THE worst FPS game I've EVER played. That's MY experience. I don't give a damn what your experience is. Dont' TELL me why I don't like BO2. Don't TELL me why I quit a match. If you want to know the TRUTH about someone else's experience besides your own. ASK THEM!
Stop telling me why "people quit". Speak for yourself and ONLY yourself. It's real simple.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs Quitterstrialstardragon Aug 27, 2013 5:56 PM (in response to RunAndGun1)
It is not some it is most people. Most of those that quit is because they cannot handle loosing or having their precious stats effected by the the deaths they feel were not fair.
BO2 is not crap. MW3 was just as bad if not worse at launch. BO was just as bad if not worse at launch. No game in this series has ever been perfect or good or anyone near it. You are wearing rose tinted glasses if you think otherwise.
Hit detection works in the game just as good as it did in mw2 or any other game that others try to claim was better. I had just as many hit detection problems in the so called great games of MW/WaW/MW2 as this game.
How about you stop trying tell me the game was so terrible when really it just did not play the way you wanted it too and never was going to either. You expected too much from the game and that is your fault not the games at all. So no the game itself was not crap. your view of it and your beleif of it that it was may be your personal feelings but that does not make it fact or true either.
Re: Clan Vs Clan Vs QuittersRunAndGun1 Aug 28, 2013 9:12 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
trialstardragon wrote:
It is not some it is most people. Most of those that quit is because they cannot handle loosing or having their precious stats effected by the the deaths they feel were not fair.
BO2 is not crap. MW3 was just as bad if not worse at launch. BO was just as bad if not worse at launch. No game in this series has ever been perfect or good or anyone near it. You are wearing rose tinted glasses if you think otherwise.
Hit detection works in the game just as good as it did in mw2 or any other game that others try to claim was better. I had just as many hit detection problems in the so called great games of MW/WaW/MW2 as this game.
How about you stop trying tell me the game was so terrible when really it just did not play the way you wanted it too and never was going to either. You expected too much from the game and that is your fault not the games at all. So no the game itself was not crap. your view of it and your beleif of it that it was may be your personal feelings but that does not make it fact or true either.
Forget it, trialstardragon. You are clearly so arrogant to the point of stupidity. BO1 was as bad at launch, but the lag issue was tackled within the first three months from release. BO2 however has remained a piece of garbage to this day, especially regarding lag.
"How about you stop trying tell me the game was so terrible when really it just did not play the way you wanted it too and never was going to either."
You don't get it. You arrogantly assume that because other people have a different experience then you that it's because the game "just did not play the way you wanted it too..." No. It doesn't play the way it's SUPPOSED to. BO2 should play the same for everyone. Lag can be adjusted whether the game is P2P or on dedicated servers.
Because lag has not been dealt with in BO2 players experience the game differently, instead of in a more balanced way. WIth BO1, the lag was tackled and the experience amongst players was more balanced. I could hear it in the comments by players during the game, and in posts in the forums. BO1's lag was improved. However, BO2's lag is still worse then any previous COD. Drift0r, who posts videos of his COD tips on YouTube, has said that his experience with BO2 has been fine. GOOD FOR HIM!! There's one vote.
Unfortunately, based on (actual) comments during the game and posts in the BO2 forums, it's clear that BO2 is the worst experience for MOST players then any previous COD - based on the fact that MORE people are complaining about BO2 (to this day) then previous COD games. You can find tons of videos on YouTube proving the poor performance of BO2. I'm happy for you that you've had a stellar experience with BO2. You're lucky. However, some of us have not been so lucky. I love the COD series. I'll probably keep following the series. Except I'll be more hesitant when Tryhard (aka Treyarch) comes out with their next COD.
So, go on, keep enjoying your version of BO2. In the meantime, I'll stick with the truth. The truth that BO2 offers lots of lag, poor hit detection (past COD is irrelevant), and crappy matchmaking (the worst ever) for SOME people. See, I'm willing to say "some" because - unlike you - I don't pretend to KNOW everyone COD player on the planet.


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Young drivers who agree to leave the car at home at night and in the early hours of the morning at weekends are to be offered lower insurance premiums under a new initiative.
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Between 9pm and 3am - the hours most associated with drinking and driving - 99 people were killed in crashes in 2006, or 27 per cent of all fatalities. Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays were the worst days of the week for crashes, accounting for 57 per cent of all deaths.
The new insurance policy is to be introduced by XS Direct Insurance, targeting young motorists who use their cars primarily to commute to and from work during the week.
The company claims young drivers can save up to €1,000 per annum on their premiums.
In an example given by the company, a 21-year-old male civil servant, on a provisional licence and living in Dublin, with a 1.3 litre Ford Fiesta will pay €1,658 a year with the new scheme. The policy carries an excess of up to €4,000, which means motorists would pay up to this amount from their own pockets in the event of any claim. While the policy is intended to discourage weekend and late-night driving, policy holders will, if necessary, be insured to drive at any time of the day or night. If the insured vehicle is driven more than 100 metres between 10pm and 6am on Friday and Saturday, the policy holder will be charged €50.
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"This scheme will have a positive impact on road safety, encouraging younger drivers to leave the car at home at these high-risk times and take a taxi or get a lift instead," said the MD of XS Direct Chris McCann.
This policy carries a high excess of €4,000 for male drivers and €2,000 for female drivers.

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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- Oklahoma was instrumental in spreading the spread offense throughout Big 12 country.
Norman was the proving ground for the Air Raid scheme Mike Leach took to Texas Tech and turned into the nation's most prolific passing game.
Since then the Sooners have faced plenty of spread offenses, but none quite like what they'll see Friday night at Tulsa.
"It's different than anything we've seen," Sooners linebacker Ryan Reynolds said.
The in-state matchup will feature two of the nation's top four offenses, with Oklahoma (3-0) featuring a more conventional approach and Tulsa using the frenetic no-huddle scheme offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn never got to use in his days at Arkansas.
It's appropriate the scheme will get its first major test on a Friday -- the night Malzahn perfected it while winning three Arkansas state high school titles.
"All of the motions they do, all the different alignments, everything they do is just a little bit different," Reynolds said. "And then they do no-huddle, trying to get us tired and worn out."
The Golden Hurricane (2-0) have averaged 559 yards -- the fourth-highest mark in the nation -- and last week gained 595 yards in a 55-47 shootout win against BYU. The problem has been a defense that's given up nearly as much -- 486 total yards and 184.5 on the ground per game. A fourth-quarter stand and five takeaways allowed Tulsa to overcome 694 yards allowed in a 55-47 victory against BYU last week.
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Tulsa quarterback Paul Smith, who threw for a career-best 454 yards and five touchdowns last week, called the Sooners' secondary "one of the best in the nation."
"They're very versatile and they do a lot of things they try to disguise, and we've got our hands full," Smith said.
Graham said he sees two main differences between this Sooners' offense and the team that beat Tulsa 31-15 in Norman two years ago -- a "dramatic improvement" at offensive line and wide receiver. He hasn't seen much drop-off at tailback despite an early exit to the NFL by Adrian Peterson, whose 41-yard run on fourth-and-1 put the Golden Hurricane away after they'd manage to stay within 17-15 until the final 3 1/2 minutes.
"We've got to get ready for another dogfight," Graham said.
Meanwhile, the Sooners are trying to keep from salivating about facing a Tulsa defense that seemed so porous a week earlier.
"It's all about matchups," Oklahoma tailback Chris Brown said. "They could have been playing mediocre against those guys and then we look at that like `OK, well if BYU got 600 yards, we're going to get 800 yards,' and it'll be a totally different story.
"We've got to focus on us and not worry about what other teams have done against them."


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I believe the majority of fans (who buy such) would prefer everything at once.
With the number of fans who cry poor-mouth at every announcement, I doubt it.
All-at-once is not helpful to retailers either. No shop wants dusty stock clogging the shelves, or one series overpowering other titles. Packaging can get very dated very quickly. For a series on DVD/Blu-Ray, they want something new and vibrant
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to promote on their "New Releases" shelves.
All-at-once releases would go on discount all-at-once, too, and then vanish from shelves all-at-once as other brand new releases demand shelf space.
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Here's our pick of stories from around the social web this week.
Digg reveals new look
Digg's on a six week sprint to reinvent itself and is documenting the process in a project they're calling Rethink Digg. The team involved are sharing everything from the design scribbles to early wireframes. Follow their progress on the Digg blog.
Actors turn Yelp reviews into dramatic monologues
Yes, we've seen celebrities reading tweets. If you've missed, check out last week's social round up for Kimmel's mean tweets series. Now we've got Yelp reviews immortalised in video.
Facebook launch 'Stories'
Facebook introduced Facebook Stories this week. It's a standalone site showcasing some of the more extraordinary ways people are using Facebook. If you want to contribute your story, you're able to do so via a dedicated Facebook app. Each month there will be a new theme launched to inspire and categorise content.
Viggle hits a million users
As it hits a seven figure user base, Viggle, the second screen loyalty app, has opened up the platform to allow developers to create custom experiences for Viggle users around the shows they watch. Features will include polls, stats, quizzes, cards, trivia and mood-o-meters.
According to Viggle's Chris Stephenson, "Opening the Viggle platform to networks, cable operators and producers allows our partners to optimize the in-show experience for Viggle users. Partners will benefit from the power of our rewards ecosystem while creating their own unique programming enhancements."
New Yorker mag hands over Instagram account to guest photographers
The iconic magazine is set to rotate ownership of its Instagram account to a roster of photographers who will be responsible for content creation for weeks at a time. Photographer Martin Schoeller is the first in a series of guests to take over the account and started his stint on Wednesday.
Read more on the New Yorker blog.
Yammer gets live chat a la Facebook
Microsoft bought Yammer for $1.2 billion in June. Yammer's first new feature is a live chat option similar to Facebook.
Here's what they told The Next Web.
"This week, Yammer began letting a small set of their users try a new feature that allows people to see who is available and instantly start a private discussion with one or more users. Microsoft is committed to continuing the pace of innovation with Yammer, and the new feature reinforces this goal. Moving forward, Yammer will continue to deliver value to its customers while we work together to create great connected social experiences across Office."
Read more on The Verge.
Twitter celebrates Wiggins gold with nearly 1/4 million tweets
According to Starcom MediaVest's ECHOscreen, nearly 250,000 tweets were recorded during the Men's time trial – that's over 12,000 per minute documenting the run up to Bradley Wiggins winning Olympic gold. They released this handy infographic to tell the story in context with some of the other social Olympic milestones to date.
Read more on The Wall.
How Facebook users are reacting to the Olympics
Using data up until 1st August, Compass Labs put together some stats on who the most popular US athletes have been so far in terms of Facebook conversations.
All Facebook takes a closer look at how the social Olympics is playing out on Facebook so far.
John Goodman appears as Colonel Sanders
John Goodman's Funny or Die clip hit a million views in just two days this week. He plays Colonel Sanders musing on the recent 'guilty as charged' anti-gay comments from Dan Cathy, Chick-Fil-A President.
Despite the negative backlash, Chick-Fil-A have broken records in-store and exponentially increased engagement through their social channels suggesting there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Facebook report says 83 million profiles are fake
Facebook's latest report says 8.7% of profiles on the platform (on put in other terms – a number larger than entire population of Germany) aren't real. 46 million are duplicate profiles, spam profiles account for around 14 million and other 'user-missclasified' profiles include 'personal profiles for a business, organisation or non-human entity such as a pet'.
More on The Guardian.
YouTube streaming over four billion hours of video a month
This equates to over 456,000 years of content consumed each month on the platform. Some more eye poppers. 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube every month. 500 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook. Staggering stuff.
More on Social Times.
McAfee to launch Facebook social protect browser plug-in for photos
To help people protect their collections and stop drag-to-desktop downloads, McAfee and Intel are launching a browser based plug-in for Facebook pictures which automatically blurs your images to all except people authorised via the same plug-in.
The plug-in will launch on PC via Chrome, Firefox, IE with Mac and mobile versions arriving soon after.
Google acquires Wildfire
The industry convergence continues. Having failed to snag up Buddy Media back in June, Google has acquired Wildfire for a rumoured $250 million+.
An impressive exit from the successful startup, Wildfire will integrate into Google's growing display advertising repertoire and continue to build a powerful platform for managing digital media.
Read more at AllThingsD.
Xbox community gets streamed Mars landing
Microsoft have teamed up with NASA to provide exclusive content for their Xbox Live community. This weekend, you can stream the historic landing of the Mars Rover Curiosity straight from your Xbox dashboard. Those that fancy themselves as an astronaut can even have a go at landing the spacecraft using the free, Kinect powered, Mars Rover simulator.
More on Major Nelson.
Facebook launch 'save for later' feature
As documented by iMore on Tuesday, Facebook's adding a 'save for later' feature to allow you to save updates to a saved folder for review at a later date. The feature will be available on Facebook for mobile as well as the desktop version.
Twitter bans journo. Apologizes
No wrap up would be complete without a mention of #freeguyadams. Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief. His Twitter account was suspended after he criticised NBC's 2012 Olympics coverage and disclosed the email address of one of its execs. The ruckus that ensued under the #freeguyadams hashtag was finally resolved with his account being reinstated and a muted apology from Twitter.


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On July 3 the IRS announced a one-year delay of the employer mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act. But that doesn't mean you get to sit back and wait until next fall to figure out how you're going to deal with the new health care law.
The mandate only applies to businesses with 50 or more full-time employees. But regardless of the size of your workforce, if your company makes $500,000 or more in annual revenue, you are still required, by October 1 this year, to distribute written notice to all employees informing them of the existence of new state health-insurance exchanges. The notice must include the following: the services offered by the exchanges; the employee's potential eligibility to receive subsidized coverage on the exchange if employer-provided coverage is inadequate; and the fact that employees may lose any employer health-premium contributions if they opt to buy an individual policy instead. For more information on notice requirements -- plus model notices -- go the Department of Labor's website.
If you have employees who you expect to seek individual coverage through the exchanges, they will still be able to get it -- and qualify for subsidies. Although employers won't have to report the details of their health-insurance contributions until 2015, workers who go the exchanges to get coverage will have to fill out an application that includes questions about any benefits offered by their employer. Employers are asked to assist workers in completing these forms, but are not explicitly required to -- the federal exchanges will make random, spot checks to verify subsidy eligibility.
Notwithstanding assurances from the federal government, though, Mark Bailey, Sr., president of the Bailey Group, a benefits adviser to businesses in the St. Augustine, Florida, area, says, "We continue to be concerned that many of the state exchanges, including Florida's, will not be operational as of October 1." Bailey is advising clients with 50-plus employees who have already made benefit and contribution changes to be effective this January to stay the course -- and to use the delay in employer-mandate penalties to make sure that their plans meet affordability and minimum value requirements. Additionally, Bailey is urging clients with variable-hour workers to make sure they put in place effective tracking tools so that they don't get dinged for improper counting of full-time-equivalent employees come 2015. "The delay also allows us additional time to view the future impact of different measurement periods [for determining eligibility]," he says.
Premium increases for fully insured group plans are increasing as much as 20 percent for some of Bailey's clients. For employers seeing similar bumps, especially those with more than 100 employees, it might make sense to use this bonus year to shop aggressively among different carriers, and to size up alternatives, including partially self-funded plans.
Something else to consider: A wellness plan. Starting in 2014, employers will be able to vary premiums by up to 30 percent based on employee participation in qualifying wellness programs, and up to 50 percent based on tobacco use. In theory, this allows businesses to encourage better health habits, which will drive down overall healthcare costs over the long term. Certain businesses implementing new wellness programs could also qualify for a piece of the $200 million in grant money being offered by the Department of Health and Human Services to help create them, although -- surprise -- the agency has not yet finalized the application process.
Paul Ashley, an advisor at First Person, a benefits firm in Indiana, says, "The latitude given to employers for wellness incentives is a helpful tool that our clients welcome and will continue to leverage as long as fits into their overall strategy."
Stay tuned. Says Bailey: "We do believe that we will continue to see a significant amount of fluidity in the clarification of the law from the government." At this point, who's to argue with that?
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John Kerry was making his "beyond a reasonable doubt" case against Syria's Bashar Assad on Wednesday when he gave lawmakers a bit of faulty intelligence.
"Just today, before coming in here, I read an e-mail to me about a general, the minister of defense, former minister or assistant minister, I forget which, who has just defected and is now in Turkey," the secretary of state testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "And there are other defections that we are hearing about because of the potential that we might take action."
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Many of the people who attacked the author Hilary Mantel on Twitter yesterday made derogatory remarks about her appearance. This was unwittingly ironic, given that Mantel's speech to the London Review of Books concerned the objectification of women, and our media's obsession with looks.
If we believe in free speech, then insult becomes unavoidable. But that does not mean that objectification and misogyny should go unchallenged. I felt it was particularly important to challenge people's language in this case, because Mantel's speech dealt directly with the problem of sexism in the media. I spent some time yesterday evening collecting examples, which I made into a Storify.
My conclusions? The recent phone hacking scandal and the subsequent Leveson Inquiry has given us an opportunity to scrutinise the press. The conclusion is usually that the media is shallow and nasty. However, I think these tweets, from ordinary members of the public, suggest that society can also be spiteful and sexist. Why blame the press, when they reflect the public?


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The Grilling that Brennan Deserves
As Washington's pundit class sees it, Defense Secretary-designee Chuck Hagel deserves a tough grilling over his hesitancy to go to war with Iran and his controversial detection of a pro-Israel lobby operating in the U.S. capital, but prospective CIA Director John Brennan should get only a few polite queries about his role helping to create and sustain Dick Cheney's "dark side."
During the upcoming confirmation hearings of these two nominees for President Barack Obama's national security team, we all may get a revealing look into the upside-down world of Washington's moral and geopolitical priorities, where too much skepticism about rushing to war is disqualifying and complicity in war crimes is okay, maybe even expected.
Still, there is at least a hope that Brennan's confirmation hearing might provide an opening for the Senate Intelligence Committee to force out the secret legal justifications and the operational procedures for the lethal drone program that has expanded under Obama, including successfully targeting for death U.S. citizen and al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.
Over the past few years, senior administration officials have praised the rigorous standards applied to these life-or-death decisions by Brennan and his counterterrorism team, but have refused to release the constitutional rationales for the President exerting these extraordinary powers or to explain exactly the methodology of selecting targets.
Presumably, some committee member will ask Brennan about such nitpicky things as constitutional due process and the Bill of Rights even if the panel will have to scurry into a classified session to hear the answers. But there is still a chance that Brennan or one of the senators will blurt something out, shedding light on one of the darkest corners of the ongoing war against al-Qaeda and other Islamic militants.
Yet, what hits closest to home for many of my Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) colleagues and me is Brennan's earlier role, under President George W. Bush and CIA Director George Tenet, in corrupting the CIA's analysis directorate into fabricating fraudulent intelligence to "justify" war on Iraq. From the perspective of CIA analysts who worked by a very different ethos, such treachery is truly unacceptable.
Brennan, as Tenet's chief of staff and then the CIA's Deputy Executive Director, had a front-row seat for all this. Former CIA colleagues who served with Brennan before and during the war with Iraq assert that there is absolutely no possibility that Brennan could have been unaware of the deliberate corruption of intelligence analysis.
Brennan's confirmation hearing, with the nominee under oath, might be the best opportunity to hear his explanation of what he did when he faced two conflicting allegiances – his career advancement on one side and his duty to the nation as an intelligence officer on the other.
Phony Intelligence
After a five-year investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the pre-Iraq-war "intelligence" was described by committee chair Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, as "uncorroborated, contradicted, or even non-existent."
Hagel, then a senator from Nebraska and a member of the committee, was one of two Republicans voting to approve the Senate report, making it bipartisan and presumably annoying some of his more partisan brethren who resisted admitting to the lies that President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney used to take the country to war.
Hagel also has co-chaired Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board, giving him even more insights into the challenges of rebuilding a professional intelligence service, one that puts a commitment to objective analysis over pleasing the boss. If only Brennan could show such a commitment.
A principal objection to Brennan's return to the CIA is that he has rarely displayed any rigorous discipline in his approach to the truth. One of his most famous deviations from reality was his gilding-the-lily presentation of Seal Team 6's killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Just hours after Osama bin Laden was killed, Brennan gave the press this rendition of what had happened and how bin Laden had died: "He was engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in. … Just thinking about that from a visual perspective: here is bin Laden … living in this million-dollar-plus compound … in an area that is far removed from the front … hiding behind women who were put in front of him as a shield. I think it really just speaks to just, to how false his narrative has been over the years."
Even giving Brennan the benefit of the doubt about the "fog of war" and such, his spin suggested not so much a lack of still-fuzzy details but an assembling of fake details, his own false narrative if you will. Brennan's account was more agit-prop than an attempt to tell the story straight.
It was not enough to let the facts speak for themselves – Americans were surely not going to be sympathetic to the man they blame for the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people – but Brennan still chose to further belittle bin Laden as a coward hiding behind one of his wives while seeking to save himself.
Later, White House spokesman Jay Carney clarified some of Brennan's inaccuracies. Bin Laden was not armed; he did not use one of his wives as a shield; and there was no firefight to speak of, only an initial exchange of gunfire between the U.S. commandos and one of bin Laden's couriers in an adjacent building.
There were other details that came out subsequently, including that bin Laden's 12-year-old daughter was in the room and watched as he was shot and killed, according to the London Guardian. Pakistani officials said bin Laden's daughter had been hit in the ankle moments before the American assault team reached the room where they found and killed her father, and she then passed out.
Given the recent sorry history of CIA directors participating in what amount to propaganda and disinformation campaigns aimed as much at the American people as any foreign enemy, a nominee for CIA director should not have a record of making stuff up or misleading the public.
Ducking Hard Truth
Another Brennan example of ducking hard truths was his claim in June 2011 that during the previous year, "there has not been a single collateral death" from CIA drone strikes in Pakistan. Far more credible reporting shows that there have been hundreds of people killed simply for being in the vicinity of an al-Qaeda or Taliban suspect.
Yet, some administration officials are so touchy on this point that they suggest that dissenters might be terrorist sympathizers. On Feb. 5, 2012, the New York Times' Scott Shane reported the following quote from an anonymous "senior American counterterrorism official":
"One must wonder why an effort that has so carefully gone after terrorists … has been subjected to so much misinformation. Let's be under no illusions – there are a number of elements who would like nothing more than to malign these efforts and help Al Qaeda succeed." So, raising tough questions means you're with the terrorists.
Brennan had similar problems with forthrightness when he was assigned to explain to a press conference on Jan. 8, 2010, how the infamous "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab almost downed an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.
Clearly, Brennan did not expect to be asked a real question, like what motivates an upper-class Muslim youth from Nigeria to do such a thing, but a tenacious 89-year-old Helen Thomas was still in the White House press corps and was one of the very few journalists (as distinct from the stenographers) willing to pose such questions.
Thomas asked why Abdulmuttalab did what he did, a question of human motivation that is rarely part of the Washington conversation.
Thomas: "And what is the motivation? We never hear what you find out on why."
Brennan: "Al Qaeda is an organization that is dedicated to murder and wanton slaughter of innocents. … They attract individuals like Mr. Abdulmuttalab and use them for these types of attacks. He was motivated by a sense of religious sort of drive. Unfortunately, al Qaeda has perverted Islam, and has corrupted the concept of Islam, so that he's (sic) able to attract these individuals. But al Qaeda has the agenda of destruction and death."
Thomas: "And you're saying it's because of religion?"
Brennan: "I'm saying it's because of an al Qaeda organization that used the banner of religion in a very perverse and corrupt way."
Thomas: "Why?"
Brennan: "I think this is a — long issue, but al Qaeda is just determined to carry out attacks here against the homeland."
Thomas: "But you haven't explained why."
The why would be the sort of question you might wish a CIA director would want answered – and answered honestly – since enemy motivation is a crucial element in winning a war or, more importantly, avoiding one.
Just Boilerplate
But all the American public gets is boilerplate about how al-Qaeda evildoers are perverting a religion and exploiting impressionable young men. Or, as Brennan suggests, some "militants" are just hard-wired for things like knocking down aircraft over Detroit with themselves on board.
There is almost no discussion about why so many people in the Muslim world object to U.S. policies so strongly that they are inclined to resist violently and even resort to suicide attacks. Perhaps, the U.S. and Western proclivity toward intervening in their affairs over many decades – propping up corrupt dictators and favoring Israel over the Palestinians – has left some Muslims looking for any way to strike back, even self-destructive acts of terror.
Maybe today, one of the reasons for the number of "militants" willing to attack Americans might have something to do with drones buzzing over Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and other locales – and with distant "pilots" getting clearance from Brennan and his associates to push some button and obliterate some unsuspecting target.
Despite the American people's legitimate right to know what's being done in their name, Brennan gets thin-skinned when criticized or asked tough questions. Four years ago, when President Obama was first considering Brennan to head the CIA, Brennan faced questions about what he did for the Bush/Cheney "dark side" and promptly withdrew his name. In a bitter letter, he blamed "strong criticism in some quarters, prompted by [his] previous service with the" CIA.
Yet, Brennan's 25-year career at the CIA would seem to be fair game in evaluating whether he should run the place. His former managers in CIA's analysis directorate tell me he was a bust as an analyst.
Instead, like former CIA Director (and more recently Defense Secretary) Robert Gates, Brennan's career zoomed upwards after he caught the attention of key White House officials – in Brennan's case, George Tenet who held the top intelligence advisory job under President Bill Clinton before he was made CIA deputy director and then director.
Of course, the tradeoff for that kind of advancement often is your integrity, both as an intelligence officer and as a public servant. Indeed, it's hard to conceive how someone could have flourished in the corrupt world of U.S. intelligence, especially since its descent into the post-9/11 "dark side," without selling out one's professionalism and morality.
Those who stood their ground and demonstrated integrity found themselves out on the street or marginalized as "soft on terror" – or maybe they were considered suspiciously finicky when it came to "quaint and obsolete" notions like the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Conventions and the rule of law.
But don't worry. Endorsing the nomination of Brennan on Wednesday, the editors of the Washington Post tell us that, although "the administration's current strategy of countering al-Qaeda in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia with drone strikes is unsustainable … the strikes are certainly legal under U.S. and international law … [even though they] are problematic, given the backlash they have caused in Pakistan."
Still, it might be nice if the American people could see the secret legal justifications underpinning Brennan's last four years as keeper of the "kill lists."
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He served under seven presidents and nine CIA directors while serving as a CIA analyst for 27 years, and now serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
This article was originally published at Consortium News.
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9 Responses to "The Grilling that Brennan Deserves"
Obama isn´t president but a Godfather, worse than Bush.
Great analysis and articulation by Ray McGovern. The celebrated accusation that the Taliban played "host to Osama bin Laden" and therefore guilty of terrorism is overstated.
First, we have learned that the Taliban kept Osama bin :Laden under virtual house arrest to contain who they characterized as "the guest who burned down the guesthouse" and in addition made numerous overtures to the Bush Administration to take custody of Osama bin Laden.
They were ignored at every turn. Next, we have also learned that during the summer of 2011 at a conference in Berlin, Indian Secretary Niaz Niak was advised by US officials that they would "attack Afghanistan before the snow flies in October", months prior to 9/11.
Some meticulous research has shown that the honest interpretation for jus ad bellum, or war, was regime change as negotiations with Taliban over the Trans-Afghan-Pipeline (TAP) contracts were floundering at best and seemed to be favoring the Brazilian firm Bridas.
One can only pray that one day a veteran CIA from VIPS will somehow get a shot at running the agency and revert to intelligence gathering versus the para-military organization it has become.
I don't understand the 'mixed messages' Pres Obama is sending by nominating Hagel for SecDef on the one hand and Brennan for CIA on the other. Are they going to play 'good cop/bad cop?'
Given a close haircut, dressed in black, with some jackboots, Brennan bears a striking resemblance to Heinrich Muller, head of the Gestapo.
Muller was never found after the war … maybe Brennan is his little boy.
With regard to the Intelligence Community, Ray McGovern is one of the best bloggers around; since he was an insider for many years and knows the ropes. As an analyst, McGovern had sifted through a great number of tips and reports; plus, he had many meetings with Brennan, in which they both sifted over the analyses and discussed them. He knows (and knew) Brennan well enough to give a fairly accurate and unbiased input into this nomination.
Brennan, I believe, is not the right candidate for the post of CIA Director. Why? His past (and current) decisions at his current position under both Bush '43 and Obama have placed the CIA's mission outside the Law. The past CIA Director Brennan's policies mostly resemble those of the late William C. Casey. who had served as CIA Director under the late President Ronald Reagan; and, we know what a disaster those policies created, both in Latin America and here at home.
This is nothing new FDR and is cohorts lied their way into war with Japan and Germany, LBJ gulf of Tonkin.The 7German submariners that were tortured then hung in an abandoned elevator shaft in the dead of night in 1940 when papers already processed for their release it goes on and on to this day.AS THEY SAY GOD BLESS AMERICA.
I would have thought asking-why, both about an opponent and oneself, was what-distinguished-men-from-Bren- –er– –from-the-animals. But then they sold a GWoT, and it turned out there were a lot of people who would be satisfied with downright juvenile answers to why -approaching no answer at all.
For why someone might whack emself to get at you, I wondered about Altruistic Punishment (AP). Punishing at cost to one's-self, with no chance of personally benefiting from 'conditioning' the opponent via that action, 'hence the attribution of altruism.' It's also contagious: once it's done to you, you tend to do it to others. So, where there isn't much of it, it would take time to 'spread' by imitation. But where it's prevalent, parasites (and humorists) would be interested in how to get it to misfire on the cheap. 'We' usually spend a lot to whack people while advertising some high motive or another, we're ostensibly 'punishing,' claiming the other started-it, then the Chinese get the contracts. I'll call that just such a misfire. And, since AP's contagious, we're spreading AP. Mark Bruzonsky said ~"what many are missing is that suicide bombing didn't exist as a phenomenon in the Middle East until the second Intifada." So it took time for it to snowball, it's obviously at cost to oneself, and the action itself makes personal benefit from it impossible. From Robert Pape, it's ~97% correlated with military occupation –so it's a 'punishment' (dd').
The Reward scenario would have been both parties allowing the other their rule-of-law, a defection from a side would be imposing Rules of Engagement, raids, arbitrary abduction, assassination etc. on the other instead. One reciprocal defection is just failing to cower properly. If just that costs the party life or limb, then, I reckon, that 'failure' was him expressing Altruistic Punishment. If he took his life to get at the occupying forces, it seems even less ambiguous.
The 'why' of it, in that case, is that we're leading-by-example (contagion); we'd be better off as forthright conquerors. One test of the idea: do 'we' get less retaliation without the for-your-own-good ('altruism') & you-started-it (punishing) pretexts, and by bothering openly to profit from it ourselves?
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"It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean," said Razak.
The flight, which had 239 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared March 8, and the more than two-week search had shown up empty until today.
Twenty-six nations worldwide have been scouring a wide area of ocean and land in Asia. The location of the plane is still unknown, but debris was spotted Monday by Australian and Chinese planes close to where multiple satellites have detected possible remains of the lost airliner, said CBS News.
The plane, on a routine flight to Beijing, has not been ruled out as mechanical or electrical failure, hijacking, sabotage or terrorism, according to investigators.
CBS News reports that officials have said the plane automatically sent a brief "ping" or signal event after other communication had shut down.
Data drawn from the pings made it clear that the plane's last position was in the middle of the remote southern Indian Ocean, "far from any possible landing sites," officials told CNN news.
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Mayor of London talks property with Andrews
Andrews' team in Purley have welcomed an unexpected visitor to their office – The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
Mayor Johnson was in Purley to discuss plans to reinvigorate the local area, and stopped by Andrews' busy branch on Brighton Road to speak to both the Estate Agency and Letting & Management team.
Both branch manager Susan Gregory and lettings manager Bobbie Caller spoke with the Mayor about the property market, and what was happening in the local area.
Speaking about how sales properties were performing, Susan Gregory said that the current Open House Weekends were sparking a lot of interest: "We've had lots of properties taking part here in Purley, a number of which are offering one-off price reductions this September. It's definitely got people interested."
Susan adds: "The whole team were very excited to meet with The Mayor, and it was a pleasure to have the rare opportunity to speak with him as he met with several businesses nearby".
"The Mayor was very interested to learn more about local market conditions, and how rental properties are currently performing" said Bobbie Caller.
"We advised that the lettings market is currently very buoyant here in Purley, and that there is lots of demand for rental properties here".
Bobbie is a local lettings expert and knows Purley intimately, having just celebrated ten years working at the branch. The team at Purley provide sales and lettings advice to a range of customers, from first time buyers to buy to let investors and overseas landlords.
Andrews' Purley branch is part of the Andrews Group, which has over 80 Sales and Lettings branches across the South of England. The team at its busy Purley branch (which has been a fixture in the town for almost 40 years) have great knowledge of the local property market, and have identified a growing need for both sales and rental properties in the area, due to the good schooling and transport links in the area.
To find out more about the service that Andrews can offer in Purley, call the sales team on 020 8668 8131 or the lettings team on 020 2655 6292.
For press enquiries, contact Andrews PR Executive Ben Veal on 0117 946 1867.
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Andrews announce a record Turnover
19/08/2015. Property group Andrews is pleased to report 12 per cent rise in revenue, our highest ever turnover figure. Covering the year ending 31 December 2014, our turnover grew to £35.9m from £32.1m the year before. It was the sixth consecutive year of turnover growth.
Andrews Land and New Homes strengthens team with appointment of new manager
Leading property group Andrews has strengthened its Land & New Homes team with the appointment of James Read to the role of Land and Development Manager. He will be based at the company's Keynsham headquarters
New Andrews Estate Agency opening in Midsomer Norton
Last year we acquired Midsomer Norton-based Accredited Lettings and we're now pleased to announce the launch of an estate agency offering to sit alongside the existing lettings and management business.
Andrews adds additional strength to sector leading IT team
Barely six months after we bolstered our commitment to market-leading technology with the appointment of Will Newell as Head of IT, we've announced the appointment of Ben Allen to the role of Infrastructure Manager to add additional weight to the group's IT provision.
15/12/2013 We know that you're busy in the run-up to Christmas and there is a temptation to delay putting your property on the market until the New Year, but we also know that Christmas Day is one of the busiest days in the property buying calendar.
Andrews celebrates success at national awards
15/ 12/ 2014 Property group picks up four prestigious awards, including Silver in the Best Large Estate Agency for the second year running.
Andrews announces acquisition of Accredited Lettings
10/12/14 Andrews, the national property group with branches across the south of England has announced further expansion in its Lettings and Management business with the acquisition of Midsomer Norton based Accredited Lettings.
04/12/2014 We are getting lots of questions about the announcement yesterday to reform stamp duty, which means 98% of buyers will be better off.
Andrews welcomes new Lettings Manager to Battersea
Having started his career in property at another firm in 2008, Tomasz joins the business in Battersea at an incredibly busy time and is looking forward to the challenge ahead.
Andrews welcomes new Lettings Manager to Horley
Jason started his career in property over twenty years ago in the Horley office, and worked across a number of branches in the south east before moving on to other businesses in the property sector. He rejoined Andrews ten years ago and most recently held positions in South West London before making the move back to Horley to lead the lettings business for this high growth area.
How well do you really know your lettings agent
Chances are that unless you avidly keep up with all property related legislation, the introduction on October 1st of a mandatory redress system to which lettings agents must sign up, will have passed you by.
New head of IT underpins Andrews' commitment to sector-leading technology
Andrews has appointed a new Head of IT as a demonstration of its commitment to leading the field in its use of technology.
Demand for Andrews' services sees branch extending hours in Prestbury
Due to continuing success in the local area the Andrews branch in Prestbury – which was initially supported by the Cheltenham branch – will be extending its opening hours.
There'll be no summer holiday for the lettings market in Stroud
It is widely believed that the sales market slows over the summer months whilst people are busy with other pursuits. The lettings market, however, enjoys a boost at this time of year so if you've previously pondered a second income through becoming a part-time landlord, now might be the time to give it some further thought.
Andrews scores an awards hat trick
20/06/14: Andrews has won three nationals awards across two ceremonies held on Friday 20th June.
Don't blow the whistle on property this summer
12/06/14: Andrews has been preparing for a summer of sport and a buoyant property market by making its services available over extended hours and days to ensure that its customers have the most opportunities to score themselves their dream home.
New look and new service for Andrews Keynsham
13/06/14: Andrews will be showcasing its recently refurbished Keynsham branch on the 16th June and increasing its availability in order to meet customer demand.
New appointment to focus on growth at Andrews Property Services
28/05/14: Andrews and Partners is delighted to confirm the appointment of Joe Evans as Business Development Manager for its Property Services team.
Woodstock Homes, Picton Mews Development
12/06/14: Woodstock Homes' have been working with Andrews since the mid-1990s, and have built up an excellent working relationship over the years.
NEW Branch in Brockworth, Gloucestershire
21/05/14: Andrews creates its largest concentration of branches in the South West in Gloucestershire
21/05/14:Andrews is launching a brand new initiative called 'Match It!' to give lettings customers an unbeatable deal along with an incredible service
Marvellous May is set is to be the best yet for house sales in Bristol since 2004
Leading estate agent Andrews is predicting a cracking Easter and a record breaking May for property sales in Bristol.
Andrews and Partners increases its donation to charitable trust by 40 percent
Leading estate agency Andrews & Partners with branches across the south of England has increased its annual shareholder dividend by 40% (*) from its 2012/2013 revenue – giving a total of £552,000 to Andrews Charitable Trust (ACT).
Andrews grows in Gloucestershire
25/02/2014: National property group Andrews Estate Agents is opening a new sales and lettings branch in Quedgeley on 3rd March further to growing its presence in the county and creating new jobs.
National Estate Agents Andrews Christmas campaign success bodes well for a significant rise in January for house sales
23/01/2014: Last year Andrews noticed that the numbers of visitors to their website increased substantially on Christmas Day so they launched an initiative to raise awareness of this unique opportunity.
National Estate Agents Andrews predicts the busiest January in Oxfordshire for house sales in 7 years
21/01/2014: Home buyers hardly stopped for presents or turkey over Christmas as thousands searched for their dream home on Christmas Day 2013
National Estate Agents Andrews appoint Area Manager for London
10/01/2014: Andrews Estate Agents is delighted to confirm the appointment of Jeff Bathija as Area Manager for London.
This Christmas will be all about house hunting!
20/12/13: Leading estate agents Andrews knows that a new tradition is emerging at Christmas – house-hunting!
Oxford's house boom continues with the early launch of 'Help to Buy'
29/11/2013: This summer's steady rise of the housing market will also continue to be felt into 2014 according to Andrews Estate Agents
Prestige property service launches in Oxford
29/11/2013: Luxury residential property services from Fine & Country are now available throughout Oxfordshire via established estate and lettings agency Andrews
Property Ombudsman supports Andrews regulatory training
07/03/2013: Andrews' 440-strong team of estate and letting agents has received in-depth training in Consumer Protection Regulation (CPR), which is extremely important given Government intention to repeal the Property Misdescriptions Act (PMA) in October 2013.
Estate and Lettings Agents raise funds for homeless
05/02/2013: Andrews estate and lettings agents have donated £15,734 to the Estate Agency Foundation, a charity dedicated to combatting the causes of homelessness.
18/12/2012: According to the latest statistics, things are looking-up for the property market on a nationwide scale. The biggest rise in house hunters for more than three years was recorded towards the end of 2012 and improving mortgage rates are also boosting confidence. If you're considering making your move in the New Year, may we suggest that you start putting those plans in place sooner rather than later? Allow us to explain why…
01/10/2012: Andrews is delighted to be re-launching their Camden Estate Agency branch in Bath to complete the coverage of the area.
Homes Draw Crowds as Andrews Opens Doors
24/09/12: Hundreds of house hunters too advantage of the first Andrews Estate Agents Autumn Open House Weekends which kicked off on Saturday.
Andrews Opens Doors on Best Deals
17/09/2012: Househunters will be able to get a quick and convenient snapshot of the best homes available when Andrews throws open the doors of houses currently for sale.
Business growth continues for the 'Property Geeks' with new client win
01/03/2012: The fast-growing property management company APS is celebrating the acquisition of a large new client, just months after re-launching publically.
The time is now for first time buyers to make the move
Are you, or do you know, a first time buyer? If so, don't miss out on the Stamp Duty savings currently available.
Andrews appoints retail and charity specialist as new company chairman
03/01/2012: Property group Andrews is pleased to announce the appointment of its new Company Chairman, Jim Glover.
Andrews keeps your money safe and joins SAFEagent
15/12/2011: Andrews Letting & Management has become the latest firm to join the nationwide SAFEagent campaign, aimed at protecting tenants' and landlords' money.
New property challenge for Surrey estate agent
29/11/11: Andrews Estate Agents is pleased to announce the appointment of Glen Durham, new Area Manager for the agencies' Surrey branches.
Mortgage business quality award win for Andrews
22/11/11: Andrews Financial Services has celebrated its second award win of the year from Legal & General, receiving special recognition for the quality of its business operations.
Andrews supports three worthy causes with new campaign
31/10/2011: Oxfam, ActionAid and the EAF all team up with Andrews for the festive season
'Property Geeks' launch new brand, services and website at national RESI event
16/09/2011: APS relaunched publically at RESI 2011, which took place at Wales' Celtic Manor in September.
Andrews celebrate Corporate Social Responsibility award win
Andrews has celebrated winning a prestigious honour at the 2011 Gloucestershire Citizen and Echo Business Awards.
September price reductions and open houses prove popular combination for Andrews customers
06/10/2011: Andrews Estate Agents has celebrated tremendous success with the agencies' September 'Look' campaign.
Andrews shortlisted as finalist in national Negotiator property awards
14/09/2011: Andrews has been shortlisted in a fantastic seven categories of The Negotiator Awards 2011, following a year of continued growth and success for the company.
Bristol agent takes property expertise to the next level
09/09/2011: One of Andrews' Bristol managers takes the next step up the career ladder, as the company has appointed a new Area Manager to oversee the agencies' nine busy branches in the city.
Surrey lettings expert celebrates 10 years at Andrews
The summer has proved to be a milestone for local lettings expert Bobbie Caller. As the lettings manager of Andrews Letting & Management in Purley, Bobbie has just celebrated 10 years with the company.
Award winning lettings service launches in Orpington
One lucky winner has won a cash prize of £100, opening the winning box to celebrate Andrews' lettings launching in Orpington.
Andrews named Legal and General 2011 Business Champion
Andrews Financial Services has celebrated winning a special award from Legal & General.
National award recognition for Andrews Lettings
Andrews Letting & Management has celebrated being named one of the UK's top letting agents at a prestigious awards ceremony in Central London.
Choose the right letting agent at popular landlord event in Bristol
Andrews Letting & Management will be on hand to answer your questions at the South West Landlord Expo 2011 – the biggest free event for landlords in the South West and the largest local authority organised event in the UK.
Andrews Chief Executive Michael Robson recognised as Business Charity Champion
Andrews Chief Executive recognised as Business Charity Champion
Two decades at Andrews for local lettings expert
A key member of staff has celebrated a double honour – 20 years at Andrews and being named the local representative for the leading professional body for the industry.
Ground breaking new website leads the way for property industry
Andrews & Partners officially launched its ground-breaking new website to the public on 16th March 2011 at a special event at Reading's Madejski Stadium.
Andrews Newbridge rocked during the Bath Half 2011, thanks to a super-charged set from up and coming band Hit or Miss.
Shout from the rooftops! Andrews' property story comes to Southville
Andrews was delighted to open a new Letting & Estate Agency branch in Bristol to cover the vibrant Southville area.
Mortgage Options joins forces with Andrews Estate Agents
Mortgage Options has set up a joint venture company with Andrews Estate Agents Ltd.
Triple award win for Andrews Estate Agents
Andrews Estate Agents has celebrated a hat trick of awards for its Marketing, Training and Fundraising at EAOTY 2010
A tribute to the grandfather of modern estate agency, Raymond Andrews
All at Andrews & Partners were saddened to hear of the passing of Raymond Andrews on 17th December 2010.
Promotion recognises a top talent at Andrews
After proving herself as Manager of one of the companies' busiest Letting branches, Emma Cox has been named as the Head of Andrews' Property Services division.
Lettings experts give advice at popular Landlord event
Andrews Letting & Management was on hand at the 2010 Gloucestershire Landlord Advisory Event, providing expert advice to those thinking of letting a property.


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Johannesburg - The ANC Youth League will fight an application to have it provisionally sequestrated over the R4 million debt it owes Gallagher Estate Convention Centre, a lawyer said on Monday.
"The ANCYL was given two weeks to file an opposing affidavit by the High Court in Johannesburg after it indicated over the weekend that it would oppose our application," said Phillip Patlansky, for Gallagher.
Atterbell Investments, trading as Gallagher Estate, said the ANCYL owed it more than R4 million for four events it held at the centre in June 2011. In April this year it asked the court to place the ANCYL under final liquidation or provisionally sequestrate it.
According to an affidavit by the convention centre's chief executive Adolf Venter, a default judgment was handed down on the matter in September 2011.
Patlansky said the ANCYL was ordered to file its opposing papers within 15 days, after which Gallagher Estate would have 10 days to file answering affidavits.
"The case was postponed without a date. Legal costs have been reserved," he said.
In March, another liquidation case against the league was settled out of court. High Court Judge Phillip Boruchowitz discharged a provisional liquidation order made in November last year.
The original liquidation order against the league was applied for by Bloemfontein events company Z2 Presentations, which had originally been tasked with running the ANCYL's 2008 national conference in the Free State. The conference left the company R15m out of pocket after the league did not pay its bill.
A hotel, trading as Palanquin Hospitality Management and based in Bloemfontein, claimed R1.5m from the ANCYL, lawyer Steven van Rensburg said during a new court application in January.
Palanquin, which is in liquidation, provided accommodation for the conference delegates.
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